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Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:16:38 pm

Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:16:38 pm
In the office, sitting at my desk (obviously not working), eating dinner and enjoying my third employer-provided-beer before I head out for the evening.  Things are good.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 06:17:47 pm
Lusting over the new bikes, surfing for bling for her and, of course, keeping an eye on you lot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:18:56 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 06:17:47 pm
Lusting over the new bikes, surfing for bling for her and, of course, keeping an eye on you lot.

Quis custodiet custodiens?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 06:19:46 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:18:56 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 06:17:47 pm
Lusting over the new bikes, surfing for bling for her and, of course, keeping an eye on you lot.

Quis custodiet custodiens?



The Regulators natch...   ;) ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:20:45 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 06:19:46 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:18:56 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 06:17:47 pm
Lusting over the new bikes, surfing for bling for her and, of course, keeping an eye on you lot.

Quis custodiet custodiens?


The Regulators natch...   ;) ;D

Touché.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Che on 07 November, 2008, 06:21:40 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:18:56 pm

Quis custodiet custodiens?


Is that really clever, or just a mistake? My Latin is lacking.

Anyway, sitting at my desk, sorting out another application form, and waiting to pop off to the pub.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 07 November, 2008, 06:22:57 pm
Knitting a dalek.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:23:18 pm
Quote from: Che on 07 November, 2008, 06:21:40 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:18:56 pm

Quis custodiet custodiens?


Is that really clever, or just a mistake? My Latin is lacking.

Anyway, sitting at my desk, sorting out another application form, and waiting to pop off to the pub.

I'm not really in a state for proper Latin, so just copied it from the first reference that came up in a search.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: токамак on 07 November, 2008, 06:23:32 pm
Contemplating imminent fettle action.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Che on 07 November, 2008, 06:24:39 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:23:18 pm
I'm not really in a state for proper Latin, so just copied it from the first reference that came up in a search.

Aww... I was hoping for a subtle yet hilarious variation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:26:06 pm
Quote from: Che on 07 November, 2008, 06:24:39 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:23:18 pm
I'm not really in a state for proper Latin, so just copied it from the first reference that came up in a search.

Aww... I was hoping for a subtle yet hilarious variation.

After three bottles of Hobgonlin?  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rae on 07 November, 2008, 06:30:45 pm
Having a dump.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Che on 07 November, 2008, 06:31:46 pm
Nice. Andrij, still eating your dinner?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 07 November, 2008, 06:34:08 pm
Drinking a large gin and tonic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 07 November, 2008, 06:34:43 pm

Drinking Lager and ripping CD's
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: токамак on 07 November, 2008, 06:38:19 pm
...still contemplating...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 07 November, 2008, 06:41:50 pm
Still knitting, will this damn thing never be finished?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 07 November, 2008, 06:43:25 pm
Digesting my spag bol.

Yum.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 November, 2008, 06:48:08 pm
Quote from: rae on 07 November, 2008, 06:30:45 pm
Having a dump.

Will you not do that in my front room. I thought it was the dog, or Dez.

Posting to this thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hairyhippy on 07 November, 2008, 06:48:48 pm
Trying to get the hang of socks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Palinurus on 07 November, 2008, 06:53:27 pm
Having a cuppa and listening to Coltrane while the stew is cooking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Palinurus on 07 November, 2008, 06:54:34 pm
I would ordinarily be drinking beer but I haven't got any.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 07:12:46 pm
Quote from: hairyhippy on 07 November, 2008, 06:48:48 pm
Trying to get the hang of socks.



They're not that difficult.  Your feet go in the open end and you pull them up.  There you go - easy!   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 November, 2008, 07:15:57 pm
Waiting for our takeaway wearing my bathrobe and the woolly hat Mrs Wow made for me.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 07 November, 2008, 07:16:08 pm
Just got home, staring at the PC, about to drink the glass of white wine I've been handed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 07 November, 2008, 07:17:14 pm
Surfing the forum on my Blackberry and watching TV in the living room, while attempting to ease some discomfort with a wheat bag comforter (it's brilliant and was only £4 from Tesco)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 07:17:39 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 07 November, 2008, 07:15:57 pm
Waiting for our takeaway Woolly wearing my bathrobe and the woolly hat Mrs Wow made for me and a seductive smile.  :thumbsup:


FTFY!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 07 November, 2008, 07:19:05 pm
Procrastinating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 07 November, 2008, 07:19:34 pm
Grilling a pork chop and telling the cat she can't have any.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 07 November, 2008, 07:20:21 pm
Rioja now.

I'll do some cooking in a bit.

Probably.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 November, 2008, 07:24:02 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 07:17:39 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 07 November, 2008, 07:15:57 pm
Waiting for our takeaway Woolly wearing my bathrobe and the woolly hat Mrs Wow made for me and a seductive smile.  :thumbsup:


FTFY!  ;D
Are you daydreaming again, Reg?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 November, 2008, 07:26:55 pm
Setting up a chess problem for my 7.30 pupil to solve.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 07 November, 2008, 07:28:12 pm
Not telling, but I am looking forward to it.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 November, 2008, 07:29:05 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 07 November, 2008, 07:28:12 pm
Not telling, but I am looking forward to it.  :demon:

This early on a Friday? :D

I suppose you'll be finished in time for HIGNFY! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zipperhead on 07 November, 2008, 07:43:31 pm
But will he be able to type whilst enjoying it (the mysterious thing that is, not HIGNFY)

I'm taking a dump as well, I suppose Rae has finished his by now, if not he'll just be a husk of a person.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 07 November, 2008, 07:52:15 pm
I'm....no,no.Can't put that on a forum :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 07 November, 2008, 07:54:08 pm
Waiting on my flatmate to finish cooking so I can get in to the kitchen to cook my dinner. I'm starving!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 07 November, 2008, 07:56:58 pm
Nowt.  It's been a long week :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 07 November, 2008, 07:59:16 pm
Still drinking Rioja.

Still not cooking.

Wife will probably mention hunger soon.

Trying to postpone this event by acting as dj and playing her fave toons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 November, 2008, 10:45:36 pm
Whatever it is, it looks as though Alan and Toekneep are in it together... :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 November, 2008, 10:48:01 pm
Quote from: rae on 07 November, 2008, 06:30:45 pm
Having a dump.

You took a laptop into the bog?

I feel as if the forum has been sullied.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 07 November, 2008, 11:40:49 pm
Quote from: Clare on 07 November, 2008, 06:41:50 pm
Still knitting, will this damn thing never be finished?


finished (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10720.0) ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 07 November, 2008, 11:55:50 pm
Drinking a nice reisling while eating some salami topped with melted cheese and diced pepper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 07 November, 2008, 11:57:06 pm
Going to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 08 November, 2008, 07:34:00 am
Morning Alan all.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 08 November, 2008, 07:49:45 am
Looking outside at the leaves being blown off the trees.

Hoping Praying that the £38 I've just spent registering with Weightwatchers Online will make a difference when everything else has failed this year.

Emailing my scattered offspring with the weekly "news" from home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Analog Kid on 08 November, 2008, 07:52:57 am
Quote from: Gordy on 08 November, 2008, 07:49:45 am

Hoping Praying that the £38 I've just spent registering with Weightwatchers Online will make a difference when everything else has failed this year.


It's working - you've lost 38 pounds already

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 08 November, 2008, 12:26:06 pm
Recovering from a verbal attack by someone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 08 November, 2008, 12:27:38 pm
Just about to go and start work on the rolling disco again. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 November, 2008, 12:40:21 pm
Finances.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 November, 2008, 12:42:22 pm
Browsing YACF and several other sites in my dressing gown.    About to do something to eat before going out shopping for birthday presents...

Listening to my neighbor practising piano  (he's good!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 08 November, 2008, 01:07:21 pm
How come nobody has said posting on this thread, which is surely the only accurate answer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 08 November, 2008, 01:18:51 pm
Waiting for the rain to stop so I can take Kali out for a spin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FyPuNK on 08 November, 2008, 01:27:48 pm
At work, drinking me tea and answering this question.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 08 November, 2008, 01:36:50 pm
Eating lunch, pretending not to have a hangover, and wondering what suitable penance is for missing the last tube last night, not being able to stay over chez friend as anticipated, and stumbling in with friend at 2am, probably noisy and beery despite efforts to be quiet.  :-\

 I'm sure there are people here who can tell me.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 08 November, 2008, 01:52:26 pm
Quote from: Liz on 08 November, 2008, 01:36:50 pm
Eating lunch, pretending not to have a hangover, and wondering what suitable penance is for missing the last tube last night, not being able to stay over chez friend as anticipated, and stumbling in with friend at 2am, probably noisy and beery despite efforts to be quiet.  :-\

 I'm sure there are people here who can tell me.   ;D

I could tell you :-*

Oh yes, I am resting after cleaning my bedroom.  I am posting on this thread and wondering why JC isn't wearing his trousers :o  I am also staring out of the window watching the birds feeding and the wind blowing the clouds across the sky.  I am recovering from day one, week 3 of the push up challenge.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 08 November, 2008, 02:04:27 pm
Watching rugby, recovering from a club run this morning (3h30).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 08 November, 2008, 02:45:29 pm
Quote from: Liz on 08 November, 2008, 01:36:50 pm
Eating lunch, pretending not to have a hangover, and wondering what suitable penance is for missing the last tube last night, not being able to stay over chez friend as anticipated, and stumbling in with friend at 2am, probably noisy and beery despite efforts to be quiet.  :-\

 I'm sure there are people here who can tell me.   ;D

AFTERNOON LIZ. How's the hangover?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 08 November, 2008, 03:32:43 pm
What's that you type?  It's difficult to see while wearing these very dark glasses.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 08 November, 2008, 03:34:50 pm
Been for a little pootle with Pcolbeck junior. Now wasting time on here waiting for the inlaws to come round for a firework party.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Che on 08 November, 2008, 04:07:35 pm
Now: eating toast, goat's cheese and Serrano ham, and waiting for my brother.

Later: probably going to the fireworks at Ally Pally (there's a German bier festival there, too). Anybody else interested? Gimme a ring if you want to locate me up there.

o78l4 578 869
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 08 November, 2008, 04:27:20 pm
I'm getting ready to go to my friends' firework party.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 08 November, 2008, 06:40:46 pm
Waiting for my tea to cook, which may be interesting, since the timer I set... Erm, some time ago, seems to have stopped.  I have no idea how much longer it needs to cook. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 November, 2008, 06:42:24 pm
Cosy on the sofa drinking hot chocolate while Woolly watches Indiana Jones, and I watch the good bits only with half an eye...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 08 November, 2008, 06:45:00 pm
sofa + mrs mike, beer, crisps, you've been framed.  Lovely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 08 November, 2008, 06:45:16 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 08 November, 2008, 06:42:24 pm
Cosy on the sofa drinking hot chocolate while Woolly watches Indiana Jones, and I watch the good bits only with half an eye...
And who's good bits would that be? Wooly's or Indiana's?   :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 08 November, 2008, 06:47:59 pm
putting 'hardener' on my nails, while waiting for friends to come round
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobajobrob on 08 November, 2008, 06:49:46 pm
Dreaming about my lovely lady. I'm in love :) She's cooking dinner for me later :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 08 November, 2008, 06:53:26 pm
Playing cards with my son* and not watching strictly come dancing

*I've already won his pocket money for the next six weeks :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 08 November, 2008, 06:55:29 pm
Earning overtime and eating cherry bakewell tart. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 08 November, 2008, 07:03:12 pm
Just about to look up what time Quantum of Solace is on.  I've just got back from walking in the Peak District where I got sucked in a bog, so to speak.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 08 November, 2008, 07:33:48 pm
Quote from: Quisling on 08 November, 2008, 07:03:12 pm
Just about to look up what time Quantum of Solace is on.  I've just got back from walking in the Peak District where I got sucked in a bog, so to speak.


You are George Michael and ICMFP!

[Viz]

Fnarr, fnarr...


[/Viz]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jon P on 08 November, 2008, 07:44:58 pm
Quote from: Che on 07 November, 2008, 06:21:40 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:18:56 pm

Quis custodiet custodiens?


Is that really clever, or just a mistake? My Latin is lacking.

Anyway, sitting at my desk, sorting out another application form, and waiting to pop off to the pub.

Long time since I did any too, but so long as the right mood/tense is intended:

Quis custodiet custodiens - who'll keep an eye on the guard
Quis custodit custodiens - who's keeping an eye on the guard
Quis custodiat custodiens - who's supposed to be keeping an eye on the guard

Quote
... surfing for bling for her ...


Regulator, can I refer you to this site (http://www.colouredrocks.com), they do a male range too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 08 November, 2008, 07:52:31 pm
Quote from: Johnny Thin on 08 November, 2008, 07:44:58 pm
Quote from: Che on 07 November, 2008, 06:21:40 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:18:56 pm

Quis custodiet custodiens?


Is that really clever, or just a mistake? My Latin is lacking.

Anyway, sitting at my desk, sorting out another application form, and waiting to pop off to the pub.

Long time since I did any too, but so long as the right mood/tense is intended:

Quis custodiet custodiens - who'll keep an eye on the guard
Quis custodit custodiens - who's keeping an eye on the guard
Quis custodiat custodiens - who's supposed to be keeping an eye on the guard

Quote
... surfing for bling for her ...


Regulator, can I refer you to this site (http://www.colouredrocks.com), they do a male range too.


I work just down the road from Hatton Garden, and I still have contact there, thanks to my dad...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Che on 09 November, 2008, 12:03:08 am
The actual quote, from Juvinal, is "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 09 November, 2008, 12:06:35 am
I'm google image searching for pictures of Lauren Laverne, Roisin Murphy, kittens, puppies, anything to try and rid my mind of the YMCA images Chuffy posted (without warning) elsewhere this afternoon.  :-X 

He's a strange lad that one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 09 November, 2008, 12:09:44 am
Watching a Neil Young DVD (http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/1720214/Neil-Young-Heart-Of-Gold/Product.html) & drinking Atlas Nimbus (http://www.atlasbrewery.com/nimbus.htm) beer  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: goatpebble on 09 November, 2008, 12:40:43 am
I have washed up, sorted the re-cycling, hung up the laundry, and now I am very sleepy.

I am going to brush my teeth and go to bed.

Damn, I have just found three more glasses to wash!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Che on 09 November, 2008, 12:51:27 am
Wondering why I'm still involved in the prop 8 thread, which I'd promised myself not to get involved in in the first place.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 09 November, 2008, 01:06:57 am
Eating left-over pizza from 2 nights ago and trying hard to focus on the screen (large quantities of Late Red consumed earlier in the evening are not helping).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Analog Kid on 09 November, 2008, 05:12:28 am
Wondering what kind of sad git posts on a cycling forum at 5.11am on a sunday because yet again he can't sleep...

oh yeah....that'd be me then.

 :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 November, 2008, 05:18:15 am
Mrs Z appears to have contracted Miss Z's vomiting illness, so having failed to sleep on the sofa and having been told to bugger off by both Misses, I have been drinking tea and refitting the pawls in that slipping gear hub.

I also upgraded the forum software, which worked without Dez's intervention for once.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 09 November, 2008, 06:32:56 am
I'm just getting ready to set off for the Eureka 200. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: teethgrinder on 09 November, 2008, 06:45:24 am
Drinking tea and getting ready (by drinking even more tea) to ride another 200km to finish off my 600km Middle Road permnent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 09 November, 2008, 07:45:20 am
toast & marmite and a coffee before heading out for 50 miles with a mate.  Didnt quite make the 6.45 start to join the local cycling club.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mike r on 09 November, 2008, 08:16:19 am
I'm in a bus terminal in Buffalo NY waiting for a new driver. On my way from New York to Toronto, an almost 10 hour trip.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 09 November, 2008, 08:22:58 am
Drinking, trying to rehydrate.  I haven't even done the run yet.  Immodium to the rescue.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 09 November, 2008, 08:23:15 am
Turussa. I feel sorry for you. 10 hours - yukk. But according to a so called friend, Toronto is worth the journey as the women are easy (they must also be desparate, especially if they want to spend time with him, and having seen pictures of his fck buddy they are especially ugly too). So perhaps there are better reasons to go to Toronto.  My experience of Toronto is it has shops that sell some amazing boots. I quite liked the place as people kept paying me compliments :)  Have fun.

Back to topic. I'm drinking tea, watching the wonder years and easing tummy discomfort with a warm wheat bag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 November, 2008, 08:26:58 am
I'm trying to fend off a cat who really wants me to get up, feed him, and tidy up his litter tray, so he can "untidy" it. :-\

I sharp claw "patting" your face is hard to ignore. :)

I think I had better get up, do these things, and complete the installation of the cat flap, which should ameliorate this behaviour in future!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RogerT on 09 November, 2008, 08:29:42 am
Drinking Tea while being watched by Senior cat who is basking in the sun.

Trying to work up the enthusiasm to fit new brake levers and brake blocks to skip bike the 2nd as an attempt to persuade it to stop when I want it to.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 09 November, 2008, 11:43:58 am
Drinking even more tea :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 09 November, 2008, 11:45:28 am
Putting off tidying my home office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 09 November, 2008, 11:46:05 am
I should be writing papers but I'm not
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 09 November, 2008, 11:49:53 am
Trying to figure out what size ball bearings I am going to need to service the headset on a Longstaff before buying them. 5/32 or 3/16, that is the question. Taking it apart to find out is the least attractive option.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 09 November, 2008, 12:41:06 pm
Resizing some photos to fit in a frame.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 09 November, 2008, 12:49:32 pm
Drinking tea, and getting ready to go out to the garage and put *mudguards* on the Ribble - it's got mudguard eyes, so I don't know why I'm faffing around.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 09 November, 2008, 12:50:21 pm
I'm having some soup cream of asparagus :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 09 November, 2008, 01:02:03 pm
Learning how to calculate square roots of large numbers without using a calculator. I've sussed the square root algorithm method, now I'm trying to get my head around the Babylonian method.

It's fun! I <heart> maths!

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 09 November, 2008, 01:08:04 pm
Drinking coffee before braving the weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 November, 2008, 01:10:25 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 09 November, 2008, 11:49:53 am
Trying to figure out what size ball bearings I am going to need to service the headset on a Longstaff before buying them. 5/32 or 3/16, that is the question. Taking it apart to find out is the least attractive option.

5/32" is more common.  Annoying little things, especially if you decide to load a 1 1/8" headset with loose ones - it takes about a gazillion of them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 09 November, 2008, 02:07:25 pm
Drinking more tea and still trying to ease tummy discomfort.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 09 November, 2008, 02:13:58 pm
Ironing :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mike r on 09 November, 2008, 04:09:08 pm
Quote from: Elleigh (yes I'm back) on 09 November, 2008, 08:23:15 am
Turussa. I feel sorry for you. 10 hours - yukk. But according to a so called friend, Toronto is worth the journey as the women are easy (they would have to be desparate to want to spend time with him, having seen pictures of his fck buddy they are especially ugly too). So perhaps there are better reasons to go to Toronto.  My experience of Toronto is it has shops that sell some amazing boots. I quite liked the place as people kept paying me compliments :)  Have fun.

Back to topic. I'm drinking tea, watching the wonder years and easing tummy discomfort with a warm wheat bag.

I've already had an interesting experience with one... I prefer a challenge though. Toronto's a nice place especially around china town and little Italy and they have a MEC shop :). Feels tiny after New York.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 09 November, 2008, 04:40:40 pm
Sitting at the desk in the playroom, in the dark.  I lit a few candles in the living room when I got home but the rest of the house is dark and silent, just the sound of one of the dogs dreaming and moaning.  I ought to eat dinner but am not hungry, lunch might be a good idea as well.

Time to make a smoothie perhaps ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 November, 2008, 07:54:38 pm
Cosying up on the sofa after a nice long walk via the pub, where Woolly had a pint and I had a cup of tea. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 09 November, 2008, 08:26:35 pm
Drinking a smoothie :) and feeling crap.  I have to go to work tomorrow as well as I have an important meeting and I don't feel that ill that I can justify calling in sick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 09 November, 2008, 08:28:32 pm
Marking exam papers.  :sick:



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 09 November, 2008, 10:09:36 pm
Eating my way thru' a wholesale jar of sourdough pretzels.  :o

Totally addictive. I wish I'd never got a card for Costco.

J
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 09 November, 2008, 10:10:50 pm
sitting in a lab, waiting for results off an analyser
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rae on 09 November, 2008, 11:00:34 pm
Quote
You took a laptop into the bog?

I feel as if the forum has been sullied.   

I have gigabit ethernet in the bog, the laptop is often in there.   I do wash my hands before touching the keyboard after, ahem, using the bog paper.   

Mrs rae says this is (one of) my worst habits.  She despairs when she comes home and finds the laptop, still powered up next to the trap, with an empty coffee cup on the windowsill. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 November, 2008, 11:08:18 pm
Do you find that your posting rate increases with constipation, rae?

"I'll be back in a moment, dear! I'm just going to the blog!"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rae on 09 November, 2008, 11:22:03 pm
No, but I tend to spend more on the internet.....   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Analog Kid on 10 November, 2008, 04:45:30 am
Quote from: notquitelance on 09 November, 2008, 05:12:28 am
Wondering what kind of sad git posts on a cycling forum at 5.11am on a sunday because yet again he can't sleep...

oh yeah....that'd be me then.

 :hand:

for 'sunday' read 'monday' and for '5.11am' read '4.44am'

I am sooooo fed up of this.....

 :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 10 November, 2008, 10:17:07 am
Hoping the sandbags hold :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 November, 2008, 12:36:38 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 09 November, 2008, 11:49:53 am
Trying to figure out what size ball bearings I am going to need to service the headset on a Longstaff before buying them. 5/32 or 3/16, that is the question. Taking it apart to find out is the least attractive option.
Buy both and take the wrong ones back.

Sipping peppermint tea, wondering when I will have internet at home again and wishing someone would reply to my email.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 10 November, 2008, 01:00:42 pm
I'm glad that I am not the only one who takes the laptop into the bog. Although I do wireless, not Gigabit.

Having said that I've found a 17"er to be quite difficult to handle.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 November, 2008, 01:04:14 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 10 November, 2008, 01:00:42 pm


Having said that I've found a 17"er to be quite difficult to handle.




I've never found that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 November, 2008, 01:09:03 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 10 November, 2008, 01:04:14 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 10 November, 2008, 01:00:42 pm

Having said that I've found a 17"er to be quite difficult to handle.


I've never found that.

 :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 10 November, 2008, 01:21:43 pm
I am sitting watching the world go by, awaiting a delivery of Rebif (interferon).

I have been here since before 8am.

My Eee PC keeps me warm; I have a landline phone by my left foot and my mobile on a lanyard round my neck.

I have had short breaks for breakfast, a snack and the loo.

After I phoned the suppliers, they told me I should get my delivery between 1.30 and 2.30. David is out in the observatory, having been unavailable or asleep most of the time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 10 November, 2008, 01:27:58 pm
I'm wishing I was still in Dubrovnik.  A lovely, sunny place to be in November.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 10 November, 2008, 02:18:58 pm
I'm crying  :'(

Sweet tears though!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 10 November, 2008, 02:26:48 pm
I'm wondering why Elleigh is crying...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 10 November, 2008, 02:27:23 pm
re-writing proposals because no other muppet seems capable of doing it. Gaaah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 November, 2008, 02:28:46 pm
Sat in my jim jams and thick winter socks watching the river swell with the obscene amount of rain that insists on falling today.  Time to get the axe and chop some wood :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 10 November, 2008, 02:39:43 pm
Supposedly taking a week's holiday. Had hoped to for a bike ride but the view from my office window is this.

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn190/ianp_photo/image001.jpg)

Now, I like a good splooshy ride in the rain, but that's just a bit silly. So, I'm finishing some work that I didn't get around to last week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 10 November, 2008, 02:39:56 pm
Annie, it's a bit late in the day to build a park!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 10 November, 2008, 02:57:01 pm
Quietly steaming.

I've just been out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 10 November, 2008, 03:34:02 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 08 November, 2008, 01:07:21 pm
How come nobody has said posting on this thread, which is surely the only accurate answer.

Ahem.

Quote from: wowbagger on 07 November, 2008, 06:48:08 pm
Quote from: rae on 07 November, 2008, 06:30:45 pm
Having a dump.

Will you not do that in my front room. I thought it was the dog, or Dez.

Posting to this thread.



I appear to be reading the forum rather carefully.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 10 November, 2008, 04:10:57 pm
Quote from: nuttycyclist on 10 November, 2008, 03:34:02 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 08 November, 2008, 01:07:21 pm
How come nobody has said posting on this thread, which is surely the only accurate answer.

Ahem.

Quote from: wowbagger on 07 November, 2008, 06:48:08 pm
Quote from: rae on 07 November, 2008, 06:30:45 pm
Having a dump.

Will you not do that in my front room. I thought it was the dog, or Dez.

Posting to this thread.



I appear to be reading the forum rather carefully.
Oops, missed that. I did actually scan back through the thread before I posted but I obviously didn't look closely enough. Must do better.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 November, 2008, 04:15:23 pm
Quote from: JohnP on 10 November, 2008, 02:39:56 pm
Annie, it's a bit late in the day to build a park!

Spoil sport :'(

Tis for burning.  Still in my jim jams.  Still raining outside.  Dogs about to be fed and settled down for the evening and then dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 November, 2008, 04:24:43 pm
Just come in from a hard hour's work to which I manifestly did not cycle.

Only three more sessions with that school before Christmas!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 10 November, 2008, 04:25:40 pm
Going to sit in the kitchen and do my Welsh homework, with a big cup of tea anna cat :)

edit: bugger.  Lesson's just been cancelled :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 10 November, 2008, 04:28:15 pm
Eating popcorn and shaking my head at the dreary, dripping, dreadful weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 10 November, 2008, 05:08:17 pm
Eating a bag of Walkers French Fries while I wait for the plebs to finish work so I can run a full system backup before I go home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 10 November, 2008, 05:11:34 pm
Cooking dinner at my mother's house. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 10 November, 2008, 05:17:14 pm
Writing a chapter on 'Urban Insecurity' for a Handbook of Security Studies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 November, 2008, 05:57:21 pm
Sitting in an internet place reading the forum and thinking that for tea I will have veggie burger, baked potato, grilled mushrooms and baked beans. And being pleased that someone sent me a box of dark Hotel Chocolat for my birthday and it arrived today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 10 November, 2008, 06:02:40 pm
cooking the roast chicken for tonight and the curry for tomorrow night (beef & lentil, since you ask.  No I didnt use a packet sauce, I even grated the damn ginger). 

Both are big enough for 2 nights, so that's us done till Friday apart from the veggies.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 November, 2008, 06:08:42 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 10 November, 2008, 05:57:21 pm
Sitting in an internet place reading the forum and thinking that for tea I will have veggie burger, baked potato, grilled mushrooms and baked beans. And being pleased that someone sent me a box of dark Hotel Chocolat for my birthday and it arrived today.

Many happy returns :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 10 November, 2008, 06:40:45 pm
Cooking Mr R's tea...  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 November, 2008, 09:15:24 am
Quote from: annie on 10 November, 2008, 06:08:42 pm


Many happy returns :)

Thank you. It was last week. The chocolates are delicious though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Che on 11 November, 2008, 09:33:56 am
Feeling awfully tired, but remembering that the nice thing about getting in at a quarter to seven is going home early.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 11 November, 2008, 10:13:26 am
trying to stay awake.  Damn you, client who insisted on a 7.00 meeting.  Victoria is a long way from Cambridge at that time in the morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 11 November, 2008, 10:57:26 am
Quote from: mike on 11 November, 2008, 10:13:26 am
trying to stay awake.  Damn you, client who insisted on a 7.00 meeting.  Victoria is a long way from Cambridge at that time in the morning.


Perhaps Mr R could have taken your meeting and you could have done his early morning clinic.  It would have saved the two of you from travelling...  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 11 November, 2008, 11:27:18 am
Contemplating lighting the fire and putting away the turbo.  I can see a pile of ironing and a hoover ready for some action.  Sadly my attitude to housework has changed just lately and I find myself with neither the desire nor the inclination to put myself through any of those things on a Tuesday morning.  I have exercised for the day and walked the dogs.  I might just do something totally different and do one of the jobs on my long list, the list that is getting longer by the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 11 November, 2008, 11:43:25 am
Training people :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 11 November, 2008, 11:47:18 am
Avoiding work.

Wondering what to do with my life.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 11 November, 2008, 11:49:26 am
Pretending to work, whilst dreaming of Miss Emily's cuddles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Analog Kid on 11 November, 2008, 12:10:19 pm
Can't just fritter away the day doing nothing except posting on yACF trawling t'internet looking for a job so I'm off to a bike shop to buy some 'stuff' to do a bit of (minor) fettling on bike no1.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 11 November, 2008, 01:47:17 pm
actually working. :) Typing with one hand and holding a sleeping 3 month old with the other. 8) My job is the best!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cometworm on 11 November, 2008, 02:06:36 pm
sitting through what may be the most boring conference presentation in the history of mankind. Although at least the slides are legible, unlike the keynote speaker this morning.



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Really Ancien on 11 November, 2008, 02:12:36 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 11 November, 2008, 01:47:17 pm
actually working. :) Typing with one hand and holding a sleeping 3 month old with the other. 8) My job is the best!

Everyone say Ahhh!

Damon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 November, 2008, 11:18:22 pm
Packing for Edinburgh tomorrow... I think it might be a bit brrrr!  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: padbeat on 11 November, 2008, 11:24:04 pm
Playing poker on Facebook, practicing for the big game this weekend (£20 stake!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 11 November, 2008, 11:29:37 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 11 November, 2008, 11:18:22 pm
Packing for Edinburgh tomorrow... I think it might be a bit brrrr!  :o

It's going to be lovely and sunny though.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 November, 2008, 11:38:38 pm
I hope I get there before dark. I arrive at 1700. Any chance I'll still see the sun?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 11 November, 2008, 11:40:45 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 11 November, 2008, 11:38:38 pm
I hope I get there before dark. I arrive at 1700. Any chance I'll still see the sun?

You're coming to Edinburgh pet? How long for?

5pm it'll be dark...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 November, 2008, 11:43:31 pm
Thinking about going to bed. It's only laziness that's stopping me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 November, 2008, 11:45:58 pm
Yes quick trip to Edinburgh, arrive 1700, do an evening event, depart 0700 :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 11 November, 2008, 11:53:02 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 11 November, 2008, 11:45:58 pm
Yes quick trip to Edinburgh, arrive 1700, do an evening event, depart 0700 :(

Damn. You should fly up, fall 'ill', come to our local pub quiz, and fly home.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 12 November, 2008, 05:14:55 am
Trying to sleep
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 12 November, 2008, 05:39:43 am
Quote from: Valiant on 12 November, 2008, 05:14:55 am
Trying to sleep

Pah, trying to sleep? I'm sat at my desk eating marmalade on bread (coz the toaster is borked) having left the house at 4.15  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 November, 2008, 06:32:28 am
Drinking my first cup of coffee and debating whether or not to start the press-up challenge today or wait until next Monday...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 November, 2008, 04:14:49 pm
Fly up? I'm on the train. Cheaper, quicker and more pleasant. Though the wireless isn't working so I'm bored stiff. :(

Beautiful sunset!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 12 November, 2008, 04:17:15 pm
Apart from reading this
I have made 9 apple pies, 36 mince pies and 2 large fruit cakes :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 12 November, 2008, 04:18:06 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 12 November, 2008, 04:14:49 pm
Fly up? I'm on the train. Cheaper, quicker and more pleasant. Though the wireless isn't working so I'm bored stiff. :(

Beautiful sunset!

Whereabouts are you heading to tonight? If you're coming in to Waverley then depending on where you're going I might ride past you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 November, 2008, 04:26:28 pm
I'm wishing I hadn't swapped my PC for one that is, admittedly, quite dinky, but only very very slightly faster than the old one.

And I can't find the disks for the bookkeeping/payroll software.

*sigh*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 12 November, 2008, 04:36:34 pm
READIN ABOUT NARWHALS AND SHIT!

(http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/25/gallery/narwhals-540x380.jpg)

GOD DAMN THESE FUCKIN-A FISH ARE AWESOME!!!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 12 November, 2008, 04:37:12 pm
(http://www.travelandleisure.com/images/slideshows/narwhale-canada-200807-ss.jpg)

LIKE WHALES ONLY WITH MUTHERFUCKIN HORNS BABY HORNS!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 12 November, 2008, 04:37:26 pm
(http://www.stuffedark.com/images/narwhal2.jpg)

GONNA GET ME A BABY NARWHAL
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 12 November, 2008, 04:40:04 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 12 November, 2008, 04:36:34 pm
READIN ABOUT NARWHALS AND SHIT!

(http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/25/gallery/narwhals-540x380.jpg)

GOD DAMN THESE FUCKIN-A FISH ARE AWESOME!!!




[Pedant]

NARWHALS AREN'T FISH - THEY'RE FUCKING CETACEANS!

[/Pedant]

 :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 12 November, 2008, 04:41:41 pm
DON'T CARE IF THEYRE FUCKIN RODENTS THEY ROCK LIKE NOTHIN ELSE BABY!!!

(http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06arctic/background/plan/media/male_narwhals_600.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: токамак on 12 November, 2008, 04:42:37 pm
(http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ngifs/Narwhal_bw.GIF)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 12 November, 2008, 04:43:26 pm
Trying to understand the narwhal thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: токамак on 12 November, 2008, 04:46:05 pm
Understand this - the tusk is an incisor tooth that projects from the left side of the upper jaw and forms a left-handed helix!

:P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 12 November, 2008, 05:17:24 pm
Quote from: Liz on 12 November, 2008, 04:43:26 pm
Trying to understand the narwhal thing.

You are not alone.  I even read the boring link that started it all off.



ahem.  Let me try.

"Yooohooo, silly Unicorns.  Woo yeah."

How was that?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 12 November, 2008, 05:17:33 pm
Quote from: TOKaMaK on 12 November, 2008, 04:46:05 pm
Understand this - the tusk is an incisor tooth that projects from the left side of the upper jaw and forms a left-handed helix!

:P


Although the Natural History Museum has a narwhal tusk that spirals to the right... the only one so far discovered I believe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 12 November, 2008, 05:18:31 pm
Trust you to find a bent Narwhal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: токамак on 12 November, 2008, 05:20:31 pm
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 12 November, 2008, 05:28:21 pm
Discussing oil issues in rather complex transmission systems...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 November, 2008, 05:29:13 pm
Having a quick coffee before another teaching session and wondering what Indian takeway we should have this evening.

Mine's a duck tikka jalfrizi (sic).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 12 November, 2008, 05:30:22 pm
Changing into cycling shoes and getting ready to go to French class.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Really Ancien on 12 November, 2008, 05:30:31 pm
Thinking about starting a very short lived thread on Narwhals in popular music but deciding against it.
YouTube - B-52's Rock Lobster (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=szhJzX0UgDM)

Damon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 12 November, 2008, 05:31:14 pm
Quote from: Really Ancien on 12 November, 2008, 05:30:31 pm
Thinking about starting a very short lived thread on Narwhals in popular music but deciding against it.
YouTube - B-52's Rock Lobster (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=szhJzX0UgDM)

Damon.

Anything by Fish?

Wondering if I can escape shortly...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 12 November, 2008, 05:37:53 pm
Killing time before I go to the pub but then again that is also just killing time until Peli is back from foreign parts.

hmm how long can your backup be sitting at 98% before it finish ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 12 November, 2008, 06:01:06 pm
Awaiting a new toy, to be inherited from a housemate as soon as he's copied some files across from it:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/IMac_Bondi_Blue.jpg/180px-IMac_Bondi_Blue.jpg)

It's gonna get gentoo'd :D. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 November, 2008, 06:04:29 pm
Sitting in the car waiting for #2 son to finish his piano lesson.

Listening to iPod.

Working doing yACF on this laptop...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 12 November, 2008, 06:42:36 pm
Getting ready to go to Spinning class with my daughter.
Spinning as on a Schwinn machine,not a loom ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 12 November, 2008, 06:47:14 pm
Just avin me dinner prior to going to see the new Bond film  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 12 November, 2008, 06:54:09 pm
Finishing my skim through YACF, drinking a bottle of orchard fruits Jacques and about to fire up Fallout 3.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 12 November, 2008, 07:37:36 pm
Waiting for my parents to show up so I can take them out to dinner for their birthdays.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 November, 2008, 10:21:02 pm
Knackered, eating a bag of chips and wondering why I can't keep my big mouth shut. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 12 November, 2008, 10:22:14 pm
You wouldn't be able to eat your chips if you kept your mouth shut.

Hope that helps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 November, 2008, 10:25:07 pm
Digesting a superb curry bought for me by a methodist minister friend of mine and listening to Bach's Double Concerto.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 12 November, 2008, 10:26:28 pm
Trying to finish of a load of waffly padding in a quote for a customer who needs it by 9am tomorrow. I've done the pricing last week it's all the waffle that I hate doing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 November, 2008, 10:27:06 pm
That's true. Thanks Tony ;)

But I really should, you know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 12 November, 2008, 10:28:57 pm
Going to bed, good night all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 12 November, 2008, 10:32:54 pm
Doing the ironing, while asking annoying questions about "Desparate Housewives". There's a metric shitload of it. Ironing that is, not annoying questions - I have a limited number of them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 November, 2008, 10:36:09 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 12 November, 2008, 10:27:06 pm
That's true. Thanks Tony ;)

But I really should, you know.

When you opened your mouth, did you put your foot in it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 November, 2008, 10:53:26 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 12 November, 2008, 07:37:36 pm
Waiting for my parents to show up so I can take them out to dinner for their birthdays.

That's quite sweet.  You're a better child than I am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 12 November, 2008, 10:54:06 pm
Wondering why I don't enjoy the calming effects of my Steely Dan albums more often.

And feeling my engorged man-boobs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 November, 2008, 10:54:18 pm
Me?  I'm sitting here trying to get the motivation to do some ironing, and wondering if I'll get on the bike in the morning...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 13 November, 2008, 01:28:33 am
Quote from: Gandalf on 12 November, 2008, 06:47:14 pm
Just avin me dinner prior to going to see the new Bond film  :thumbsup:

What did you think of it?

I thought it was utter crap, and it was the first film in ages that there was a steady stream of people getting up and walking out of the cinema.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 November, 2008, 01:49:14 am
Quote from: pcolbeck on 12 November, 2008, 10:26:28 pm
Trying to finish of a load of waffly padding in a quote for a customer who needs it by 9am tomorrow. I've done the pricing last week it's all the waffle that I hate doing.

Right finished it and Emailed it to the sales guy. I'm off to bed now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 13 November, 2008, 06:53:53 am
I'm watching the OC while trying to decided whether to go to work. I think I will go to work, but work from the local campus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 November, 2008, 08:50:05 am
Waiting at Waverley for the Kings Cross train. It's quite warm today by Scottish standards. I didn't need my Mrs Wow-knitted hat and mittens. (They came in handy last night, though, when I walked back to the hotel in sleet...). Very toasty!   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 13 November, 2008, 08:54:30 am
idly browsing while I think about what the day may have in store.

Do I take a mortgage and buy my brother's half of our parents house? Do I make that my home? Do I sell my existing house? Do I rent our existing house to cover mortgage/ Do I do nothing and stay where I am? Do I get a headache just thinking about what I need to think about ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 November, 2008, 08:57:27 am
Waiting for the porridge to congeal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 November, 2008, 08:57:48 am
Sitting in my jim jams being lazy as tired from swimming.  The ironing is almost finished and then the dogs need to be exercised.  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 November, 2008, 09:00:00 am
Quote from: annie on 13 November, 2008, 08:57:48 am
Sitting in my jim jams being lazy as tired from swimming. spinning. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 13 November, 2008, 09:00:50 am
Quote from: alan on 13 November, 2008, 09:00:00 am
Quote from: annie on 13 November, 2008, 08:57:48 am
Sitting in my jim jams being lazy as tired from swimming. spinning. 

That's Mrs WOW.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 November, 2008, 09:01:01 am
Quote from: alan on 13 November, 2008, 09:00:00 am
Quote from: annie on 13 November, 2008, 08:57:48 am
Sitting in my jim jams being lazy as tired from swimming. spinning. 

 :o :-* have you been peeping?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 13 November, 2008, 09:28:43 am
Shaking. Bl**dy pressups.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 13 November, 2008, 09:34:38 am
Wondering when I might start doing the pressups thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 November, 2008, 09:40:03 am
Deciding that I will most certainly not get involved in doing pressups. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 13 November, 2008, 09:42:05 am
I just realised I have no meetings or calls at all today!!! 

Today, I will mostly be skiving, fettling or riding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 13 November, 2008, 10:03:16 am
Translating some Herodotus. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 13 November, 2008, 10:07:20 am
Quote from: Phil on 13 November, 2008, 10:03:16 am
Translating some Herodotus. 

Those gold digging ants in Book 3 102 - 105 are awesome.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 13 November, 2008, 10:18:31 am
Writing a conference paper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 November, 2008, 10:27:23 am
Having a snotty tissue thrown at me by a very cute toddler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 13 November, 2008, 10:33:39 am
Quote from: JohnP on 13 November, 2008, 10:07:20 am
Quote from: Phil on 13 November, 2008, 10:03:16 am
Translating some Herodotus. 

Those gold digging ants in Book 3 102 - 105 are awesome.

They are pretty cool.  I'm doing Book 9, the preparation for the Battle of Plataea, which is a tad dull in places. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 November, 2008, 01:27:57 pm
Discussing with a colleague about how the stuff on a flow chart doesn't flow, it ends up in a stagnant lagoon full of social work algae and fetidness.

It was a bad meeting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 13 November, 2008, 01:30:44 pm
Still writing a paper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 November, 2008, 01:39:15 pm
Still on a train... Almost at KX now, ears popping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 November, 2008, 02:08:24 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 13 November, 2008, 01:39:15 pm
Still on a train... Almost at KX now, ears popping.

LOL! That reminds me of when we were coming home from meeting the PM at #10 with my 86 Yr old Mum (Land Army presentation).

She is almost completely blind, so tends to be made jump easily, esp by loud noises. It was a hot day, and train was rammed, so all the windows were open. Whilst she was doing fine as long as I warned her when the next tunnel was coming ( for those who don't know, the train hoons along there at about 100, and the sequence of tunnels are LOUD) I didn't anticipate an oncoming train in the tunnel - and the noise was incredible. My poor old ma levitated a good couple of inches off the seat, still in a perfect seated position, eyes wide as dinner plates, and she grabbed hold of the woman sitting next to her.

My oh my how we laughed at her  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 13 November, 2008, 02:17:22 pm
Running off to do an event
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 13 November, 2008, 02:48:22 pm
Contemplating another cup of coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 November, 2008, 02:51:33 pm
I am considering that I have spent too much time on this forum of late. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 November, 2008, 06:44:34 pm
Recovering and breathing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 November, 2008, 07:01:40 pm
Quote from: annie on 13 November, 2008, 06:44:34 pm
breathing.

That's good ;)keep on keeping on :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 13 November, 2008, 07:32:56 pm
Contemplating buy Ugg boots and jumpers for my trip to Iceland - when it happens :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 13 November, 2008, 07:34:29 pm
Deciding whether to go camping this weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 13 November, 2008, 08:49:22 pm
Drinking lemsip.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Justin(e) on 13 November, 2008, 08:54:35 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 November, 2008, 06:18:56 pm
Quis custodiet custodiens?

I have come in late to this thread, so I've just started at the beginning.  Then I needed google to reference the above and found that three of the top five references to the afore mentioned latin were yacf.co.uk.

Ohh, and the top two for
Quote
PER ARDUA AD TABERNAM
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 November, 2008, 09:25:59 pm
I have no idea, daydreaming mainly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 13 November, 2008, 09:31:45 pm
Drinking tea in bed  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jon P on 13 November, 2008, 11:40:21 pm
Quote from: Che on 09 November, 2008, 12:03:08 am
The actual quote, from Juvinal, is "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

Thanks - I realised my post is rubbish!  Though isn't it Juvenal?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 14 November, 2008, 08:33:14 am
Sitting dozily at my desk, trying to find the energy to go down to the staff kitchen and make coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 14 November, 2008, 08:38:25 am
just finished first expresso of the day, done Wk1 Day2, catching up with fora and thinking of showering and going to work.  Got afternoon off anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 14 November, 2008, 08:47:10 am
Arranging a computer bench and an interview for new staff in Dec.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 November, 2008, 09:19:38 am
Swearing at a computer. Gee - what's new?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 November, 2008, 09:51:01 am
Awaiting BACON time ;D

Ten minutes to go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 14 November, 2008, 09:58:46 am
Trying very hard to get breakfast from my bowl into my mouth, it isn't really happening.  Arms belong to someone else this morning.  Whose idea was it to workout this morning anyway?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 14 November, 2008, 12:01:05 pm
I'm working from home, being distracted by facebook and amused by the utter bemusement that 'Dr Cureton to Dr Spencer in Consulting Room 3' caused at the hospital today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 14 November, 2008, 12:10:32 pm
Getting ready for a ride (testing out the Pootle #3 route) with Peli, it is our first ride together for a long while :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 November, 2008, 01:33:35 pm
Fighting off post-lunch food coma and trying not to waste too much more time playing on the Internet.





*amazed this thread has continued to grow*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CathH on 14 November, 2008, 01:35:42 pm
Gazing longingly out of the window wishing that I'd ridden in to work today and booked a half-day off.  It's so warm!  If this weather holds, I'll go out on Sunday.

Shouldn't have eaten those chips.


Zzzzzzzz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 14 November, 2008, 01:39:41 pm
Sitting on the loo :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 14 November, 2008, 01:54:51 pm
Browsing the forum on my works phone.  I'm just about to go to a meeting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 14 November, 2008, 01:57:52 pm
Wondering if I really need to go and pee, or if I can get away with waiting until I've finished my coffee.

Anyone else having a sloooooooooooooow day?? ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 14 November, 2008, 02:25:47 pm
Me.  I'm trying to avoid going into a meeting later by pretending to be extremely busy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 14 November, 2008, 02:29:29 pm
GillP,TKP & I are discussing chaintugs with regard to yeah or nay for the Lagster.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 14 November, 2008, 02:48:30 pm
Looking out of the window wondering how long the Police will have my road closed off due to an armed incident.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 14 November, 2008, 02:54:25 pm
Quote from: Gandalf on 14 November, 2008, 02:48:30 pm
Looking out of the window wondering how long the Police will have my road closed off due to an armed incident.

Well, the sooner you put that rifle down and surrender...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 14 November, 2008, 04:30:25 pm
SWMBO will have the right hump, the gas man was coming to sevice the boiler this afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 November, 2008, 05:20:39 pm
Sitting in the internet place sending annoyed messages to PlusNet who still haven't connected me, and wondering if I will ever have home broadband again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 14 November, 2008, 05:21:40 pm
Reviewing a paper/report drafted by a junior colleague...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 14 November, 2008, 05:23:17 pm
Loading up the iPod in readiness for this evenings' Critical Mass :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 14 November, 2008, 05:24:30 pm
Quote from: Phil on 14 November, 2008, 05:23:17 pm
Loading up the iPod in readiness for this evenings' Critical Mass :)


Don't forget "I want to ride my bicycle..."

I think Valiant will tell you the best thing to do is camp/glam up the music - it get's everyone going.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 14 November, 2008, 05:25:06 pm
Waiting for the massage oil to soak in before I head to the bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Malandro on 14 November, 2008, 05:27:54 pm
About to go to the pub with some of my colleagues who've just found out they are being made redundant.  Fortunately I survived.....for now!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 14 November, 2008, 07:10:39 pm
I just bought a knit dress and a long jumper from off the net :). I'm collecting nice things for my trip to Iceland when it happens.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 14 November, 2008, 07:12:33 pm
Getting my head around the Narwhal issue
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 14 November, 2008, 08:30:43 pm
sweating.  That was the worlds hottest green chicken curry..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 November, 2008, 08:31:29 pm
Quote from: mike on 14 November, 2008, 08:30:43 pm
sweating.  That was the worlds hottest green chicken curry..

Probably just as well we're not riding tomorrow  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 14 November, 2008, 08:49:17 pm
Not sleeping like I should be in preparation for tonight, and eating clementines.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 November, 2008, 08:57:30 pm
Contemplating having spent a rare and lovely Proper Day Off with Woolly: cycling, eating a proper cooked meal (out), and watching a film (The Kite Runner). :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 14 November, 2008, 08:58:32 pm
Fighting the desire to buy a Nixon D40
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 November, 2008, 08:59:20 pm
Planning a little ride for tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Analog Kid on 14 November, 2008, 09:03:05 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 14 November, 2008, 05:20:39 pm
Sitting in the internet place sending annoyed messages to PlusNet who still haven't connected me, and wondering if I will ever have home broadband again.

Kirst,

Don't worry about the broadband thing. When you finally admit defeat, give up and go back to a 56k dial up ('cos mobile broadband sure as hell won't work either - Sods Law) you'll find it a truly liberating experience. You'll wonder why you ever bothered chasing an 8Mb connection. Actually thats complete bollocks but I hope it made you feel better - albeit temporarily.


What am doing now? Surfing v     e      r    y        s   l     o      w     l     y....

 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 November, 2008, 11:06:13 pm
Just leaving for the FNRttC, after a brief bit of bike fettling.

Lots of overnight cycling to Brighton goodness! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 14 November, 2008, 11:11:12 pm
Fretting over my packing for a weekend away in a campervan, with Crystal Tips. Have I got everything? Who knows!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 November, 2008, 11:18:24 pm
Quote from: Elleigh (yes I'm back) on 14 November, 2008, 08:58:32 pm
Fighting the desire to buy a Nixon D40

I can offer a Ford D50 if you are interested.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 14 November, 2008, 11:42:33 pm
Watching the shuttle launch...

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 14 November, 2008, 11:58:42 pm
Resting after a bit of a bike clean-up,  including picking a really unpleasantly high number of tiny glass shards and bits of flint out of my tyres.  >:(

Bed in a bit I hope.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 15 November, 2008, 01:18:05 am
reading this stuff instead of going to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 15 November, 2008, 07:59:21 am
Getting ready to go to Longstaff's
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 15 November, 2008, 08:02:58 am
Waiting for my wife to come back off her night shift and planning where I'm cycling to while she's in bed :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 15 November, 2008, 09:10:11 am
Just made a creamy scrambled eggs and bacon breakfast for me and my daughter.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 15 November, 2008, 11:11:17 am
Drinking coffee and putting together the last few figures for a paper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 15 November, 2008, 02:27:45 pm
Doing some fine fettling on Kali, and then getting changed to go and have afternoon tea with Laura!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 15 November, 2008, 02:33:54 pm
I've just got back from a ride 27.6 miles and now having a cup of tea with 2 mince pies :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 15 November, 2008, 02:59:55 pm
Lying in bed recovering from the FNRttC (and reading yacf obviously!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 15 November, 2008, 03:44:37 pm
Watching the rugby and ironing (just having a break from that!).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 15 November, 2008, 03:54:14 pm
Practising photography and using the cats as a subject
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 15 November, 2008, 04:00:34 pm
Playing the new Gun'n'roses cd.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 November, 2008, 04:24:33 pm
Considering buying some new witchcraft books with spells to punish all of BT and Virgin for all eternity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 15 November, 2008, 05:28:09 pm
Reading the (hopefully) penultimate version of the thesis of one of my students.

Mine is a ristretto, in case you were asking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 15 November, 2008, 05:50:43 pm
Getting things organised for doing the YACF calendar/desktop background.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 15 November, 2008, 06:32:14 pm
Sitting in a souless ETAP hotel on the outskirts of Liege hoping my car isn't broken into and wishing I had researched alternatives a little harder. Still, at least there's wi-fi, I spose...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 15 November, 2008, 06:36:38 pm
relaxing after building a Super! Enhanced! Walk! In! run for the chickens. CLipped their wings as well (took a while to catch them - that will take practice.)

Finally finished up and got all the tools picked up. Used some off cuts to make the chickens a climbing frame (well, a tripod really with one leg much longer than the others).

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 15 November, 2008, 06:38:25 pm
having a cup of tea prior to gong to a party in the Dark Heart of the Forrrest.  Dressed as a wild boar.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 15 November, 2008, 07:56:38 pm
pairing socks

I hate this job  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 15 November, 2008, 10:12:11 pm
Don't then. Matched socks are as over rated as the transitory virtues of a perfect shave or a perfectly ironed shirt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 November, 2008, 10:17:23 pm
Remembering there's a mash waiting to be poured!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Analog Kid on 16 November, 2008, 03:53:44 am
Quote from: notquitelance on 10 November, 2008, 04:45:30 am
Quote from: notquitelance on 09 November, 2008, 05:12:28 am
Wondering what kind of sad git posts on a cycling forum at 5.11am on a sunday because yet again he can't sleep...

oh yeah....that'd be me then.

 :hand:

for 'sunday' read 'monday' and for '5.11am' read '4.44am'

I am sooooo fed up of this.....

 :(

Oh for crying out loud, this is getting ridiculous.

Grr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 16 November, 2008, 03:59:29 am
Quote from: notquitelance on 16 November, 2008, 03:53:44 am
Quote from: notquitelance on 10 November, 2008, 04:45:30 am
Quote from: notquitelance on 09 November, 2008, 05:12:28 am
Wondering what kind of sad git posts on a cycling forum at 5.11am on a sunday because yet again he can't sleep...

oh yeah....that'd be me then.

 :hand:

for 'sunday' read 'monday' and for '5.11am' read '4.44am'

I am sooooo fed up of this.....

 :(

Oh for crying out loud, this is getting ridiculous.

Grr.

I feel your pain.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 16 November, 2008, 07:36:50 am
Just reading this

news report about the fun and frolics down my road on Friday afternoon. Charming.  ::-) (http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/suttonnews/3849173.Reports_of_shooting_in_Sutton_Common_Road/ this[/url)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 November, 2008, 08:28:46 am
Lying under the lovely new duvet listening to Woolly getting ready for work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 16 November, 2008, 10:14:40 am

Getting ready for work  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 16 November, 2008, 10:50:35 am
Eating a huge bowl of oatibix, blueberries and linseed after a fantastic run around Alton Water.  It is official, I love mud.  Lots and lots of people out on MTB's.  I almost beat one of them going up a hill :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 November, 2008, 10:52:54 am
You are a hippopotamus AICMFP! :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 16 November, 2008, 10:54:46 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 16 November, 2008, 10:52:54 am
You are a hippopotamus AICMFP! :-*

Just a baby one if you please.  My trail shoes are now brown instead of blue.  My legs are blue instead of brown.  My smile however, says it all.  If more people played in the mud the world would be a much better place ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 16 November, 2008, 11:42:35 am
Quote from: annie on 16 November, 2008, 10:54:46 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 16 November, 2008, 10:52:54 am
You are a hippopotamus AICMFP! :-*

Just a baby one if you please.  My trail shoes are now brown instead of blue.  My legs are blue instead of brown.  My smile however, says it all.  If more people played in the mud the world would be a much better place ;)


"He'll gambol no more on the banks of the Nile,
Which Nasser is flooding next spring,
With hippopotamas in silken pyjamas
No more will he teach them to sing..."

(Flanders and Swan, The Hippopotamus Song) Do they mean you?  Although I don't think you have the figure to be a hippo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 16 November, 2008, 12:04:03 pm
Having Alan for lunch.





He's more succulent than I expected  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 16 November, 2008, 12:12:38 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 16 November, 2008, 11:42:35 am
Quote from: annie on 16 November, 2008, 10:54:46 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 16 November, 2008, 10:52:54 am
You are a hippopotamus AICMFP! :-*

Just a baby one if you please.  My trail shoes are now brown instead of blue.  My legs are blue instead of brown.  My smile however, says it all.  If more people played in the mud the world would be a much better place ;)


"He'll gambol no more on the banks of the Nile,
Which Nasser is flooding next spring,
With hippopotamas in silken pyjamas
No more will he teach them to sing..."

(Flanders and Swan, The Hippopotamus Song) Do they mean you?  Although I don't think you have the figure to be a hippo.

Jim jams ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 November, 2008, 12:13:02 pm
Still in bed. Now eating toast and catching up on work. Mmm, cosy fluffy new duvet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 16 November, 2008, 12:15:29 pm
Going to prepare a buttersquash soup, while watching Triple Cross on BBC2...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 November, 2008, 12:26:44 pm
Doing what I* have been doing for 80+ hours this week, working!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MercuryKev on 16 November, 2008, 01:55:21 pm
watching cyclocross in a belgian hotel. It's a crazy sport.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 16 November, 2008, 02:24:11 pm
Quote from: MercuryKev on 16 November, 2008, 01:55:21 pm
watching cyclocross in a belgian hotel. It's a crazy sport.

Is it like the F1 circus, are they in a Japanese hotel next week?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 16 November, 2008, 02:24:23 pm
Being silly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 16 November, 2008, 02:24:59 pm
Sulking because the photos I have taken look crap :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 November, 2008, 02:25:12 pm
Dozing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 November, 2008, 02:30:01 pm
I am being squeaked at by a dog who wants to be stroked but is too lazy to get off his cushion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 16 November, 2008, 09:41:40 pm
No longer proof-reading a thesis :thumbsup: and off to open a (half) bottle of desert wine O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 16 November, 2008, 09:45:49 pm
just entered the White Rose Challenge charidee sportif :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 November, 2008, 09:49:10 pm
Quote from: Bluebottle on 16 November, 2008, 09:41:40 pm
No longer proof-reading a thesis :thumbsup: and off to open a (half) bottle of desert wine O:-)

Sounds dry  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 16 November, 2008, 10:19:54 pm

No need to get Gobi.

You've got to worry about the thesis, mind ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2008, 10:31:11 pm
Wondering what to do for holidays next year. Wishing teleportation was an option. Having an internal fight with myself as to whether or not to have something else to drink after the bottle of white I've already had....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 November, 2008, 10:32:43 pm
Scratching my head at a peculiar communication I've received.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 16 November, 2008, 10:33:54 pm
And there is a lot of scratching going on, while I watch Top Gear on iplayer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2008, 10:40:28 pm
Yay! The bottle was not finished! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 November, 2008, 10:46:11 pm
Being distracted from my work by Woolly's guffawing laughter as he watches Top Gear on iplayer.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 November, 2008, 10:56:24 pm
Just settling down after a nocturnal pootle - my first round "the loop" for some time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2008, 11:04:15 pm
You've done a night time poo loop the loop?
:D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 November, 2008, 11:08:08 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2008, 11:04:15 pm
You've done a night time poo loop the loop?
:D

How very scatalogical! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 17 November, 2008, 10:38:10 am
Quote from: LE on 16 November, 2008, 02:24:59 pm
Sulking because the photos I have taken look crap :(
Post them on phototalk anyway and we'll try to make constructive comments and suggestions.
We can't help much if we don't see your pictures.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 17 November, 2008, 10:40:08 am
Getting angry because a useless colleague has complained about me again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 17 November, 2008, 10:41:33 am

nothing.............

I'm trying to mobilize energy enough to make me a cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 17 November, 2008, 11:02:07 am
conference call number 4 of 6 for the morning.  Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 November, 2008, 11:17:32 am
Just finished doing the payroll. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 17 November, 2008, 11:40:03 am
Just back from delivering the shopping to my neighbour's Granny and assessing the state of one of the cats, not good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 17 November, 2008, 12:10:46 pm
eating a sweet chilli prawn sandwich bought from a very attractive young lady with a mobile sandwich business.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 November, 2008, 12:25:23 pm
If a prawn sandwich is mobile, don't eat it! :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 November, 2008, 12:53:13 pm
crying into my lunch cos my science is all b0rked  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 17 November, 2008, 12:54:06 pm
Going to a divisional lunch... Bye.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 November, 2008, 06:56:14 pm
Feeling a fool... :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 17 November, 2008, 06:57:57 pm
The fool's not objecting?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 17 November, 2008, 07:02:04 pm
Feeling very, very angry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 17 November, 2008, 07:03:24 pm
Feeling sorry for Peli. And drinking a bottle of Sulwath, brought back from a wee holiday in Dumfries and Galloway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 17 November, 2008, 07:47:36 pm
Just returned from seeing Granny and speaking to the vet about the cat :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 18 November, 2008, 02:35:14 am
Winding down after a break, and wondering whether to have a beer in readiness for bed and then getting wound back up again when I get to work in the morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 18 November, 2008, 02:51:50 am
Drinking beer and planning the uglifying of my fixed gear pub/commuter.  It's going to be truly offensive and I'm really looking forward to showing it off in NSFW. :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 18 November, 2008, 02:57:38 am
Riding the A-Bike round the lounge to double check a few things before fettling.


But please don't tell Mrs Nutty, it's still got the muddy wheels from the off-road session.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 18 November, 2008, 04:37:29 am
Not sleeping!  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 18 November, 2008, 07:58:44 am
sitting in traffic jam in Belgium being amazed at the number of bikes
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 18 November, 2008, 08:13:04 am
On the bus on the way to work, feeling a little vulnerable and jaded (no don't iven think about commenting on me feeling jaded) after fighting off the attacks of someone who has decided that I'm stalking manipulative lier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 18 November, 2008, 09:57:02 am
Trying to get my head together through the pain.

And eating a butty. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 18 November, 2008, 09:58:57 am
trying not to think about eating.  Damn you, gravity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 18 November, 2008, 10:11:22 am
Whiling away the hours at Civils 2008 exhibition, in that Lunnon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 18 November, 2008, 10:34:59 am
Recovering for 10 minutes after a gym session, a dog walk, a massive floor mopping expedition and a long phone call with a vet.

Time to wash and then dash off again.  Perhaps 10 minutes was a little over enthusiastic, make that 2.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 November, 2008, 12:31:33 pm
Laughing at my pregnant colleague who has got to the "baby's eaten her brain" stage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 18 November, 2008, 02:12:21 pm
Teaching a BTEC IT group of 16 years olds. They've all just realised that they have only two weeks in which to get their assessed work completed so are working quietly ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hairyhippy on 18 November, 2008, 05:44:58 pm
Eating jaffa cakes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 18 November, 2008, 08:13:34 pm
sitting in an uber trendy hotel in Barcelona waiting for my colleague to finish a conference call so that we can eat!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 18 November, 2008, 09:24:21 pm
Waiting for sequence features to download so I can play with them.

Thinking of smarter ways to do the analysis I want to do.

And failing.

Feeling somewhat queasy after several days of heavy cataghhhh

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 18 November, 2008, 09:29:49 pm
Pretending not to watch a really dismal film called Infinite Justice.  'Straight to DVD' doesn't really go far enough.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 18 November, 2008, 09:35:01 pm
drinking fennel tea. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bikenerd on 18 November, 2008, 09:59:53 pm
Watching Flight of the Conchords and drinking Hook Norton Stout.

Ugh.  Now I'm washing up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 18 November, 2008, 10:05:24 pm
Just back from a spin on the fixie, to pick up a catalogue from the Cheery Chippy. Now watching reruns of QI on Dave.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 18 November, 2008, 10:06:06 pm
Deciding that the data analysis I'm doing is not really going very well, and I should go home, and do it tomorrow when I'm a bit more compos mentis.

It's one of those nights when it's got a bit late, so cycling for an hour is probably going to be a bit of a drag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 18 November, 2008, 10:18:42 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 18 November, 2008, 10:05:24 pm
Just back from a spin on the fixie, to pick up a catalogue from the Cheery Chippy. Now watching reruns of QI on Dave.

How do you watch what is listed on Dave?  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 18 November, 2008, 10:40:15 pm
Um, press the button on my Freeview remote control to get to channel 19.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 18 November, 2008, 11:01:23 pm
Quote from: Sergeant Pluck on 18 November, 2008, 10:18:42 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 18 November, 2008, 10:05:24 pm
Just back from a spin on the fixie, to pick up a catalogue from the Cheery Chippy. Now watching reruns of QI on Dave.

How do you watch what is listed on Dave?  ???

"my" freeview channel 12.  Or CatchUpTV.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 18 November, 2008, 11:04:59 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 18 November, 2008, 10:40:15 pm
Um, press the button on my Freeview remote control to get to channel 19.

Oh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 19 November, 2008, 04:12:25 am
Trying to sleep. Woke up and can't count enough sheep :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Maffie on 19 November, 2008, 08:31:44 am
Trying to feel human again, been feeling poorly sick so off work  :( so sat in PJs thinking I am turning into a couch potato
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 19 November, 2008, 12:44:03 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 19 November, 2008, 04:12:25 am
Trying to sleep. Woke up and can't count enough sheep :(
Oh no! I didn't know you were up in the night.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 19 November, 2008, 12:55:21 pm
Telling myself that I've had enough of this giant baked potato, and that I should stop eating now!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 19 November, 2008, 12:58:05 pm
Quote from: Ariadne on 19 November, 2008, 12:55:21 pm
Telling myself that I've had enough of this giant baked potato, and that I should stop eating now!
:hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 19 November, 2008, 01:00:09 pm
Ooof. that was good - but large. Full of spinach salad, so relatively healthy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 November, 2008, 01:02:26 pm
Not being felt by Elleigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 November, 2008, 01:04:00 pm
Wanting the pain to stop (not time to take more drugs yet :( )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 19 November, 2008, 01:26:01 pm
Repacking my lungs into my chest after a sunny but cold run round the park.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 21 November, 2008, 10:00:30 am
sitting outside and pulling myself together before going to an appointment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 21 November, 2008, 11:33:52 am
Waiting for Mrs. TKP to bid on a mobile phone on Ebay so that we can go shopping. I've told her not to bid until there are less than fifteen seconds left so she will have sweaty palms in a minute.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 21 November, 2008, 11:36:21 am
She won it, and held on until there were only nine seconds left. That's ma girl.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 November, 2008, 11:38:29 am
Nerves of steel, that lass! :-*

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 21 November, 2008, 11:43:24 am
I'm all a tremble  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 21 November, 2008, 11:43:38 am
Quote from: toekneep on 21 November, 2008, 11:36:21 am
She won it, and held on until there were only nine seconds left. That's ma girl.  :thumbsup:
So what sort of fixed is it then?Pictures needed :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 21 November, 2008, 11:44:07 am
Quote from: GillP on 21 November, 2008, 11:43:24 am
I'm all a tremble  :P

GWS ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 November, 2008, 11:46:28 am
Quote from: GillP on 21 November, 2008, 11:43:24 am
I'm all a tremble  :P

That's very forthright and open! Well done madam!   :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 November, 2008, 12:33:25 pm
Wondering why I only have £9 in the bank.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 21 November, 2008, 12:36:55 pm
Thinking Kirst's not going to be much fun in the pub tonight! I'll buy you a pint  :)

And telling myself that I really want to go to circuits. Yes, I do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 21 November, 2008, 01:16:56 pm
Feeling rather sore :( and a bit sick!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 21 November, 2008, 01:23:41 pm
Thinking of going home and trying to get up the motivation to do so.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 November, 2008, 03:18:36 pm
Trying to work out how to image one hard disc onto another, without a power supply splitter cable...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 21 November, 2008, 03:21:30 pm
drinking tea, about to go catch a horse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 November, 2008, 03:23:23 pm
Quote from: mike on 21 November, 2008, 03:21:30 pm
drinking tea, about to go catch a horse.

Careful with horses, they can be hard to shake off.

Thinking about tomorrow's lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 21 November, 2008, 03:26:13 pm
counting down to home time
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 November, 2008, 03:42:51 pm
Wondering where a particular letter is...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 21 November, 2008, 04:04:28 pm
about to storm out of work, go to a different office, and treat a colleague to a shovel and an ice cream (TM Mr Larrington)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 21 November, 2008, 04:44:40 pm
Counting down to home time. All my clients and prospective clients have been playing golf and/or boozing all day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 November, 2008, 04:49:19 pm
Watching that clock.  When it clicks over, I gotta run big style.  It's always tight getting to a particular train...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 21 November, 2008, 04:51:41 pm
Hoping Corvine remembers to bring me my hat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 November, 2008, 05:38:24 pm
Celebrrating the two week anniversary of this thread by drinking a second bottle of Black Sheep Ale.  (The first bottle was to celebrate some good business news.)  Did I ever mention I like my employer?  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 November, 2008, 07:29:19 pm
Twiddling my thumbs waiting for a disc clone to finish, so I can put the PC back together, so it works on Monday morning.

Actually, I'm watching Dr Who on TvCatchup, so it's not entirely wasted time!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CathH on 21 November, 2008, 08:18:05 pm
Huddling under a blanket waiting for my legs to warm up after a long, cold and wet ride home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 21 November, 2008, 10:54:14 pm
Huddling under the duvet trying to warm my icy toes.

On Woolly ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 November, 2008, 11:23:33 pm
Swearing profusely at Windows, some hours after I was planning on going home... >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 November, 2008, 01:58:43 am
...and now leaving work too sodding late. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 22 November, 2008, 02:01:58 am
Being ill, not being able to sleep, and feeling bad that I didn't make it along to the biggest collection of forummers Edinburgh has probably seen in one place at the same time :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 22 November, 2008, 03:05:23 am
Coping with pain ,d feeling a little scared.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 22 November, 2008, 04:22:29 am
Watching a really pretty girl sleep :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 22 November, 2008, 05:07:45 am
About to wash down some of my bikes that were flooded knee deep under the house in recent storms before doing an evening 50 km brevet (too hot/steamy to ride during the day).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 22 November, 2008, 12:13:47 pm
Quote from: kyuss on 22 November, 2008, 02:01:58 am
Being ill, not being able to sleep, and feeling bad that I didn't make it along to the biggest collection of forummers Edinburgh has probably seen in one place at the same time :(

You and me both.

But now I am sat at work, having just parcelled up a load of student assignments for next week and waiting to collect my daughter from a science masterclass..

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 22 November, 2008, 02:04:10 pm
Sitting on the sofa, watching the news and sharing cape gooseberries with my friend Linz, who brought them me as a gift. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 22 November, 2008, 02:09:17 pm
just finishing warm wholesome soup and fresh rolls after watching grandson #3 help his soccer team win 6-1 this morning.


It was devilishly cold on the touchline.

Just heard from grandson #2 who is in the front row by the touchline at Stamford Bridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 22 November, 2008, 02:13:19 pm
Just finished lunch and contemplating a short pootle to visit my mum. Mrs. TKP needs to try her legs out after being ill for a week so I get all the excuse I need for a short easy ride.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 22 November, 2008, 02:26:49 pm
Sitting in a sunny late afternoon square in Madrid, using the free wireless from a government ministry. I'm breaking my journey on the way back from Lisbon (where I have been a guest at Portugal's first academic conference on surveillance). Got an overnight train to Paris tonight, and then it's back up to Newcastle...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 22 November, 2008, 02:46:20 pm
listening to the rugby, having a cup of tea and my first mince pie of the year, just back from a 20 mile ride.  Am about to go and give the lawn its last mowing of 2008.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 22 November, 2008, 05:08:17 pm
I'm wondering how long it will take Marj to decide to have a Specialised Dolce she saw in Samway's in Derby this morning.

She asked if she should have it.
Is the Pope catholic! methinks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 22 November, 2008, 05:26:10 pm
Quote from: alan on 22 November, 2008, 05:08:17 pm
I'm wondering how long it will take Marj to decide to have a Specialised Dolce she saw in Samway's in Derby this morning.

She asked if she should have it.
Is the Pope catholic! methinks.

You two are as bad as each other  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 November, 2008, 05:29:35 pm
Quote from: mike on 22 November, 2008, 02:46:20 pm
listening to the rugby, having a cup of tea and my first mince pie of the year, just back from a 20 mile ride.  Am about to go and give the lawn its last mowing of 2008.

Haha - I did mine last week, which is just as well as it's covered in snow this week  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 22 November, 2008, 05:49:09 pm
Making pea and squash risotto  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 22 November, 2008, 06:01:33 pm
Quote from: GillP on 22 November, 2008, 05:26:10 pm
Quote from: alan on 22 November, 2008, 05:08:17 pm
I'm wondering how long it will take Marj to decide to have a Specialised Dolce she saw in Samway's in Derby this morning.

She asked if she should have it.
Is the Pope catholic! methinks.

You two are as bad as each other  ::-)

Now hold up a foot, he speaks with fork-tongue.  He wanted me to have it and I have said no we will wait, he seems hell bent on me having a bike for christmas.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 22 November, 2008, 06:02:46 pm
 :demon:
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 22 November, 2008, 06:05:58 pm
Quote from: Marj on 22 November, 2008, 06:01:33 pm
Quote from: GillP on 22 November, 2008, 05:26:10 pm
Quote from: alan on 22 November, 2008, 05:08:17 pm
I'm wondering how long it will take Marj to decide to have a Specialised Dolce she saw in Samway's in Derby this morning.

She asked if she should have it.
Is the Pope catholic! methinks.

You two are as bad as each other  ::-)

Now hold up a foot, he speaks with fork-tongue.  He wanted me to have it and I have said no we will wait, he seems hell bent on me having a bike for christmas.
Somehow I had a feeling that might be it. He's a bad boy  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 22 November, 2008, 06:08:30 pm
It's very often good to be bad :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 22 November, 2008, 06:49:58 pm
In the kitchen at a party, with a cuppa and the cat :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 November, 2008, 07:17:11 pm
Quote from: Elleigh on 22 November, 2008, 06:49:58 pm
In the kitchen at a party, with a cuppa and the cat :)

Wasn't that a song ? "you'll always find her in the kitchen at parties"

Have fun, don't give the cat too many nibbles & keep an eye open for chaps in shining armour  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 November, 2008, 07:18:32 pm
Last nights washing up (Yes I'm a slob)  :-[

Listening to Charles Mingus on the stereo..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 22 November, 2008, 07:22:50 pm
Thinking about going out for a curry.

*goes*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 22 November, 2008, 07:30:00 pm
Eating Bombay Mix and defrosting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 22 November, 2008, 07:36:39 pm
Waiting for Crystal Tips and AndyPandy to turn up and eat laksa
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 November, 2008, 07:39:34 pm
Watching England get hammered by South Africa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 22 November, 2008, 07:41:12 pm
Watching Merlin...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 22 November, 2008, 07:47:41 pm
wishing that wowbagger hadn't just reminded me of my appalling afternoon.

to be honest, I expected England to be demolished.

To be equally honest, I expected wow... to derive unseemly amounts of  pleasure from it. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 November, 2008, 07:49:37 pm
Not really. It's back to total Southern Hemisphere domination by the look of it which is disappointing to say the least.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 22 November, 2008, 07:51:17 pm
sadly I agree.  I've also gone back and added the smilie that I forgot originally.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Che on 22 November, 2008, 11:12:10 pm
Finishing a lesson on gravity, mass and weight, for a PGCE interview; drinking a glass of Leffe; and wondering whether or not I should stop reading PaOBI for a while ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Che on 22 November, 2008, 11:14:12 pm
... and realising that I really out to log miles before the batter in my cyclecomputer dies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 November, 2008, 05:17:45 pm
Thinking that this is the most uncomfortable internet place in Edinburgh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 24 November, 2008, 05:19:11 pm
Counting down the minutes till I can go to the Sheep Heid for a pint and then be one of them there murderous drunk cyclists.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 November, 2008, 05:26:44 pm
I can give you the addresses of some children if you feel like targeting your murderousness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 24 November, 2008, 05:42:07 pm
not even in jest Kirst. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 24 November, 2008, 05:52:00 pm
Getting ready to go out, when I'd really rather stay in...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 November, 2008, 05:57:20 pm
Quote from: Che on 22 November, 2008, 11:14:12 pm
... and realising that I really out to log miles before the batter in my cyclecomputer dies.

It's not 4 inches high then? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 24 November, 2008, 05:57:56 pm
Collating the photos for the incredibly tiresome amusing calendar that SWMBO insists on having every year and rapidly losing the will to live.

I'm sure the one of me asleep in the armchair with sweaty socks draped over my face by the odious offspring is going to be big hit  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 24 November, 2008, 05:59:50 pm
Putting the finishing touches to a document I've been working on since Thursday.  I've spent most of the weekend on it too  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 24 November, 2008, 06:00:42 pm
Quote from: Gandalf on 24 November, 2008, 05:57:56 pm
Collating the photos for the incredibly tiresome amusing calendar that SWMBO insists on having every year and rapidly losing the will to live.

I'm sure the one of me asleep in the armchair with sweaty socks draped over my face by the odious offspring is going to be big hit  ::-)

You are Victor Meldrew and ICMFP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 November, 2008, 06:02:08 pm
Thinking that if my elbow swells up much more I really won't be able to tell it from my arse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 24 November, 2008, 06:08:25 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 24 November, 2008, 06:00:42 pm
Quote from: Gandalf on 24 November, 2008, 05:57:56 pm
Collating the photos for the incredibly tiresome amusing calendar that SWMBO insists on having every year and rapidly losing the will to live.

I'm sure the one of me asleep in the armchair with sweaty socks draped over my face by the odious offspring is going to be big hit  ::-)

You are Victor Meldrew and ICMFP

Very droll.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 November, 2008, 07:40:27 pm
About to road test some tweaks to the Audax bike with a quick 40km in the Norfolk lanes - despite the frequent hail showers, near gale force NE wind, and temperature near freezing  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 November, 2008, 09:11:35 pm
Just finished what was driving me nuts (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10706.msg199579#msg199579) on Friday evening / Saturday morning.  This time it worked flawlessly, as planned, which surprised the hell out of me! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 25 November, 2008, 12:27:36 pm
Eating crusty rolls filled with cheese and beetroot and mayo and getting purple coloured mayo down my chin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 November, 2008, 12:29:38 pm
Classy!

Eating chocolate and giggling at anth's postings on the Evening News website today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 25 November, 2008, 12:53:59 pm
Hiding in the office downstairs, pretending to be doing work when I'm acutally posting on the forum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 25 November, 2008, 10:11:59 pm
Daydreaming after my yoga class.  Waiting for JC's school uniform to dry so that I may retire to my bed and reading Great Expectations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 November, 2008, 10:14:06 pm
Idling after having spent a while combing a reluctant dog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 25 November, 2008, 10:23:47 pm
Hating the internet and thinking about drawing a cartoon rabbit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 November, 2008, 12:24:50 am
Eating crackers with stilton & swaledale cheeses.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 26 November, 2008, 07:22:08 am
Trying to sleep since midnight :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 26 November, 2008, 08:42:57 am
Sitting on the station waiting for my train. Only another eight minutes now so I had better be packing this laptop away and making my way to the platform. Oh and waiting for my connection to come back so I can post this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 26 November, 2008, 08:55:14 am
Sitting in the League of Friends, drinking tea whilst waiting for an appointment and trying not to cry (I have no idea why I want to cry)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 26 November, 2008, 08:57:35 am
Telling myself I should start on a newsletter layout but knowing I'll give in and go for coffee first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 26 November, 2008, 09:03:59 am
Sitting in the office, being reminded (once again) how big a twat my boss is.

Contemplating the puncture I picked up on the way to work, having realised I don't have anything to repair it with...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 November, 2008, 09:05:10 am
Preparing to eat porridge. Why have my last two posts on here been food-orientated?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 26 November, 2008, 09:20:40 am
Waiting to go to the vets, and trying to prepare in a way which isn't obvious to Talisker, who'll entertain me with a game of hunt-the-cat if I give even the slightest suggestion that the V-E-T is involved.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 26 November, 2008, 10:00:07 am
Sitting on another station, waiting for another train. There may be one more boring post like this before the morning is out.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 November, 2008, 10:32:31 am
Quote from: TimO on 26 November, 2008, 09:20:40 am
Waiting to go to the vets, and trying to prepare in a way which isn't obvious to Talisker, who'll entertain me with a game of hunt-the-cat if I give even the slightest suggestion that the V-E-T is involved.

Convince him you're going to go visit a veteran, not a veterinarian.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 26 November, 2008, 10:52:03 am
Yet another station, but at least the waiting room is heated this week. Oh, and the sun is shining outside so things could be much worse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 26 November, 2008, 11:00:18 am
Waiting for another appointment
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 26 November, 2008, 11:22:52 am
Trying to get warm after an early start at the hospital and a very fast walk with the dogs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 26 November, 2008, 02:08:44 pm

Skyping with Swedish relatives and saving a bundle of cash  compared to phoning them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 26 November, 2008, 02:37:33 pm
Crossing the Forth Bridge

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 26 November, 2008, 05:24:31 pm
Recovering from my press ups and trying to decide what to cook for dinner as the butler has a night off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 26 November, 2008, 05:59:39 pm
Editing a paper
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 November, 2008, 01:56:01 am
Making flapjacks for Buhdda (apparently!)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/3062720924_ee7a61e0c9_o.jpg)

Toffee, dark choc, milk choc, white choc, strawberry, raspberry, banana, cherry!

There have to be eight choices, (apparently also!)

Trouble is they are all going to school and I won't get any of them.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cometworm on 27 November, 2008, 02:44:07 am
Not sleeping. Unfortunately.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 27 November, 2008, 07:03:19 am
Going to work when I wish I wasn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 27 November, 2008, 07:09:52 am
Looking out at a most beautiful, fluffy sky.  Pink, purple, brown, orange, grey and more pink :)  Thinking about making JC's packed lunch, wishing I had managed to sleep well and contemplating the day ahead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 27 November, 2008, 07:16:46 am
Just put out the recycling stuff

Now Brekkie

Looking forward to ride into work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 27 November, 2008, 07:58:42 am
Amazed at the social inadaquacy of someone who thinks it is not only ok to acuse someone of lying that they have cancer when they have, but also thinking it is ok to blaming them for causing them to make the accusation in the first place.

What an utter b@st@rd!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 27 November, 2008, 08:25:25 am
Wondering which of the many bug reports that have landed in my in tray overnight, for bits of _horribly_ involved code that I had _nothing_ to do with in the first place - honest guv, that I will deal with first.  Other people. GAH! :)


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 November, 2008, 08:26:56 am
Making porridge and thinking how lucky I am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 27 November, 2008, 08:30:52 am
Just seen Miss Dan the elder off to school. Wondering if Miss Dan the younger is now better, she's certainly more like herself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 28 November, 2008, 08:53:03 am
Taken a day off from my proper job so i can go on a school trip to the science museum. Excited.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 28 November, 2008, 09:05:57 am
Waiting for an appointment :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 28 November, 2008, 09:29:25 am
I'm cogitating.
I may disappear onto the black hole garage in search of a missing 16T cogitating
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 28 November, 2008, 09:30:27 am
Sitting in the lecture room just round the corner from Ariadne's office, waiting for deeply intellectual things to occur..

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 28 November, 2008, 09:31:12 am
Sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 28 November, 2008, 09:32:32 am
Quote from: MSeries on 28 November, 2008, 09:31:12 am
Sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time.

if you could put a tune to that lyric & expand it a little....... ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 November, 2008, 09:42:48 am
Nah.  That'd never work. </pop music expert>

Me?  Wondering what's happening and when my hand's gonna get chopped open...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rae on 28 November, 2008, 09:50:31 am
Having (another) dump.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 28 November, 2008, 09:51:17 am
Quote from: rae on 28 November, 2008, 09:50:31 am
Having (another) dump.

that's a good idea, back soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 28 November, 2008, 10:00:52 am
I'm recovering from my last appointment whilst waiting for someone who is coming to give me a bag of blood!  Apparently, having a blood iron level of 5.4 isn't good and dangerous when you are going to have an operation!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 November, 2008, 10:17:00 am
Waiting on hold while an SpR is bleeped.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 November, 2008, 12:36:56 pm
Wondering why Wowbagger didn't tell us he'd be modelling for the cover of the new Cycle magazine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 November, 2008, 12:38:01 pm
Waiting for someone to get back to me.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 28 November, 2008, 02:12:46 pm
I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway, lookin' for the love getaway
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 28 November, 2008, 02:22:08 pm
Quote from: MSeries on 28 November, 2008, 02:12:46 pm
I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway, lookin' for the love getaway
Drinking B52's at this hour?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 28 November, 2008, 03:00:41 pm
Smiling as MSeries seems to be happy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 November, 2008, 03:06:41 pm
I'm getting more annoyed as more of my time is wasted witing for a bloody sales rep!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 28 November, 2008, 03:11:16 pm
Quote from: Elleigh on 28 November, 2008, 03:00:41 pm
Smiling as MSeries seems to be happy

 ;)
 ;D
 ;D
 :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 28 November, 2008, 04:06:05 pm
My brain is frying - over semanticed

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 November, 2008, 04:49:50 pm
Trying to stay awake for another ten minutes or so, dealing with hurt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 12 December, 2008, 09:46:18 pm
Finishing off my third bottle of Jacques, while finishing off a mixtape for an American I don't know, which is taking A Long Time, 'cos I keep having to stop to listen to the choons.

And I've barely thought about how to sequence the selection yet...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 December, 2008, 09:52:41 pm
Watching rubbish telly while waiting for Woolly to come home with his best mate who's visiting from Dinamarca!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 12 December, 2008, 09:55:41 pm
Trying to resist getting into a flame war about ecotage. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 December, 2008, 09:58:17 pm
Watching The Abyss  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 12 December, 2008, 10:02:30 pm
Quote from: andygates on 12 December, 2008, 09:55:41 pm
Trying to resist getting into a flame war about ecotage. :-\

Hey, it's Friday night. And as a wise man once said - Friday night's alright for fighting...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 12 December, 2008, 10:26:49 pm
Trying to keep warm whilst watching Midsommer Murders. I have no idea why I'm watching Midsommer Murders though
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 12 December, 2008, 10:53:33 pm
Sitting curled up under a duvet with piles of tissues.

*sniff*

And secretly wanting a Pet Jungle Cat.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 12 December, 2008, 10:54:23 pm
Wondering why I'm doing all this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 12 December, 2008, 11:08:36 pm
Quote from: Ariadne on 12 December, 2008, 10:54:23 pm
Wondering why I'm doing all this.

You and me both.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 12 December, 2008, 11:15:57 pm
Checking my email from the lobby of the Mercure hotel in Copacabana... It is still rather warm and nice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 13 December, 2008, 09:45:55 am
Just by way of contrast - looking out at the cold rain - wanting to go out and ride.

Wondering what to have for breakfast cos we have no milk or bread. (Miss TC's response: Smarties it is then)

Listening/watching TMF (James Morrison & Nelly Furtado)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 December, 2008, 09:55:47 am
Waiting for the new freezer to be delivered.The man who now has my £ said "a.m."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 13 December, 2008, 09:58:32 am

spending time before going to work.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 13 December, 2008, 10:25:57 am
Waiting for my first student to turn up. In about 5 mins.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 13 December, 2008, 10:31:54 am
Leapng about because I found out two minutes ago that my employer has just started the Cyclescheme thingy... any bike from any local bike shop.

Bounce bounce bounce bounce!!!


SSSSSHHHHHH> Mr G wants to know what the noise is all about.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 December, 2008, 10:35:13 am
Quote from: Gordy on 13 December, 2008, 10:31:54 am
Leapng about because I found out two minutes ago that my employer has just started the Cyclescheme thingy... any bike from any local bike shop.

Bounce bounce bounce bounce!!!


SSSSSHHHHHH> Mr G wants to know what the noise is all about.

LUCKYLUCKY Gordy :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 13 December, 2008, 10:35:50 am
browsing the forum while waving adios to Mrs P as she sets out in the wind and rain to Morrisons to get something for my lunch.


btw I did offer to go instead or with but she rejected the offer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 December, 2008, 10:39:01 am
Listening to the electrician bemoaning the "chucked up" state of our new kitchen...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 13 December, 2008, 10:50:40 am
This (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12319.msg217972#msg217972)  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 December, 2008, 11:21:43 am
* chucks Charlotte another box of tissues (pink to match the room) and a bunch of grapes *

I'm off outside to split some caps logs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 December, 2008, 11:46:19 am
Quote from: peliroja on 13 December, 2008, 10:39:01 am
Listening to the electrician bemoaning the "chucked up" state of our new kitchen...

Are you sure he said "chucked up" & not something which rhymes but begins with the letter adjacent to g in the alphabet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 December, 2008, 02:28:41 pm
I just got in from doing some Christmas shopping, which I enjoyed less than usual, which took some doing, but the wind and continuous drizzle is just vile. :(

I'm being harassed by a cat who is starving to death, since he hasn't been given food for several hours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 December, 2008, 04:22:18 pm
Making marmalade.

Wondering weather to change the rear brake blocks on the Thorn.

Deciding that there's quite a bit of wear left in the existing ones.

Drinking coffee.

Deciding to adjust the brakes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 13 December, 2008, 04:23:47 pm
The fire is roaring (with 2 cats asleep in front of it), we're watching King Rat, eating tiffin cake, drinking tea.  Lovely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 December, 2008, 05:06:02 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 13 December, 2008, 04:22:18 pm

Wondering weather to change the rear brake blocks on the Thorn.

Pulling wowbagger...




up on his spelling of whether...  :D  ;)  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 December, 2008, 05:07:53 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 13 December, 2008, 05:06:02 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 13 December, 2008, 04:22:18 pm

Wondering weather to change the rear brake blocks on the Thorn.

Pulling wowbagger...




up on his spelling of whether...  :D  ;)  :-*

I'm sorry, I've a cold. :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 13 December, 2008, 05:16:51 pm
I'm triangulating the vector of interconnectedness of all things.

(Oh, OK then, I'm doing the ironing and browsing teh interwebs.  Close.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 13 December, 2008, 05:21:01 pm
I'm on YACF, drinking wine, listening to Jazz Record Requests on R3, laughing at Liverpool just managing a draw with the mighty Hull, and thinking about dinner  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 13 December, 2008, 05:24:32 pm
We've just gone out and bought a tree. I've put it up, put the lights on (only about 25% of the bulbs are blown) and the kids are now decorating it. Miss TC (17) is now wearing her fairy outfit we made for here when she was about 5
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 December, 2008, 06:16:47 pm
Quote from: clifftaylor on 13 December, 2008, 05:21:01 pm
I'm on YACF, drinking wine, listening to Jazz Record Requests on R3, laughing at Liverpool just managing a draw with the mighty Hull, and thinking about dinner  :P

Which thread serves wine then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 December, 2008, 06:21:46 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 13 December, 2008, 06:16:47 pm
Which thread serves wine then?

The Rant Thread. Plenty of whining there.

Yes, I know - it's cold... I'll need a coat...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 December, 2008, 07:45:19 pm
Watching X Factor.

Shurrup, I know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobajobrob on 14 December, 2008, 03:41:26 pm
Currently waking up from a blissful undisturbed 12 hour sleep, listening to music, cooking breakfast and doing some housework! Just broke a glass trying to carry washing and glasses at the same time. The cat's threatening to bite my leg off if I don't feed him.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 14 December, 2008, 04:12:33 pm
Watching Merlin and creating 37 blogs :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 14 December, 2008, 04:19:20 pm
Trying to pretend that if I just wait a bit longer to go out to the shops, it'll brighten up and the sun will shine. 

Now it's dark I probably need to accept that it's going to stay cold and wet, and just go...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 14 December, 2008, 04:19:53 pm
Wet? It's dry in the east
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 14 December, 2008, 04:20:54 pm
It was wet out here half an hour ago when I last looked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobajobrob on 14 December, 2008, 04:34:08 pm
I can't believe it's dark and I've only been up an hour and a half. Now settled down at the kitchen table with my laptop, a cup of tea and a cat on my lap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 14 December, 2008, 04:45:28 pm
Struggling to carry a heavy christmas tree (7' high and growing in a pot) upstairs  :-\  Then, sorting out music for a programme tomorrow and heading for an early night - only had a couple of hours sleep last night after doing a disco  ::-) for the church youth club party and being woken up at 2.30 am by daughter coming in from a party  ::-).

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 14 December, 2008, 07:27:38 pm
Blowing my nose.

In fact, I have mostly spent today blowing my nose.  How can one ordinary proboscis create so much sputum, mucus and germ-laden phlegm?

I feel disgusting  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 14 December, 2008, 07:29:17 pm
That's your brain, that is, fleeing the sinking ship.

I'm stir-frying some red cabbage to go with my roast Mystery Meat, and perving over Olympians in evening dresses. :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 14 December, 2008, 07:30:02 pm
Making mashed potato.  Lots of mashed potato.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 14 December, 2008, 07:32:59 pm
Putting off doing some suggested reading on procrastination.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 14 December, 2008, 07:39:13 pm
Just do it.

You'll feel better for it.
  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2008, 07:41:49 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 14 December, 2008, 07:27:38 pm
Blowing my nose.

In fact, I have mostly spent today blowing my nose.  How can one ordinary proboscis create so much sputum, mucus and germ-laden phlegm?

I feel disgusting  :(

Photos? We could have a competition.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 14 December, 2008, 07:43:54 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 14 December, 2008, 07:41:49 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 14 December, 2008, 07:27:38 pm
Blowing my nose.

In fact, I have mostly spent today blowing my nose.  How can one ordinary proboscis create so much sputum, mucus and germ-laden phlegm?

I feel disgusting  :(

Photos? We could have a competition.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Making supper here plz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2008, 07:46:40 pm
With reference to recent posts on another thread (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=11823.msg219030#msg219030), I think I am qualified to join the police force.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 December, 2008, 07:48:37 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 14 December, 2008, 07:41:49 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 14 December, 2008, 07:27:38 pm
Blowing my nose.

In fact, I have mostly spent today blowing my nose.  How can one ordinary proboscis create so much sputum, mucus and germ-laden phlegm?

I feel disgusting  :(

Photos? We could have a competition.

Now that's just Nasty  :sick:.

I've just collapsed in a chair in the lounge, having put away an indecently sized dinner (including Mince Pies and Custard - Oh my...) and I'm greeted by this notion.

Just..... NO! :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 December, 2008, 07:49:31 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 14 December, 2008, 07:27:38 pm
Blowing my nose.

In fact, I have mostly spent today blowing my nose.  How can one ordinary proboscis create so much sputum, mucus and germ-laden phlegm?

That's the Snot TARDIS that is. That's what happens when more snot comes out of your head than your head could have possibly contained. It is beyond our ken.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2008, 07:54:46 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 14 December, 2008, 07:49:31 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 14 December, 2008, 07:27:38 pm
Blowing my nose.

In fact, I have mostly spent today blowing my nose.  How can one ordinary proboscis create so much sputum, mucus and germ-laden phlegm?

That's the Snot TARDIS that is. That's what happens when more snot comes out of your head than your head could have possibly contained. It is beyond our ken.

But it's a feat that Boris manages every day! ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 14 December, 2008, 07:56:43 pm
Drinking wine. Listening to The Freak Zone on 6 Music. Letching at pics of Kelly Holmes from SPotY.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 14 December, 2008, 08:26:11 pm
Quote from: jurek on 14 December, 2008, 07:39:13 pm
Just do it.

You'll feel better for it.
  :thumbsup:

Yeah, OK. Just need to wait for everyone to stop posting on yACF for a bit  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 December, 2008, 08:29:00 pm
Pluck, just get on with it, lad!  >:(

 :P

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 14 December, 2008, 08:29:51 pm
Quote from: Sergeant Pluck on 14 December, 2008, 08:26:11 pm
Quote from: jurek on 14 December, 2008, 07:39:13 pm
Just do it.

You'll feel better for it.
  :thumbsup:

Yeah, OK. Just need to wait for everyone to stop posting on yACF for a bit  ::-)

I'll have a word, see if I can get them to stop awhile...  ;)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2008, 08:31:16 pm
I stopped.
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Post by: Jurek on 14 December, 2008, 08:32:10 pm
Me too.
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Post by: peliroja on 14 December, 2008, 08:33:58 pm
I've not.

Drinking tea, eating chocolates, and putting off writing my presentation for Wednesday.  ::-)
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Post by: Valiant on 15 December, 2008, 01:30:59 am
Creating 37 wordpress blogs and trying to revive my legs which are freezing and shut down :(
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Post by: Andrij on 15 December, 2008, 05:02:03 am
Clearing up after breakfast and packing the last few odds and ends before I head off to Heathrow and across the pond.
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Post by: LE on 15 December, 2008, 06:57:10 am
I'm being cold
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Post by: andygates on 15 December, 2008, 08:32:37 am
Smelling chloriney after a dark dip, and queueing up eight hours of Christmas music on shuffle to drive my cow-orkers insane.  Amazing what you find on the fileservers. O:-)
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Post by: clarion on 15 December, 2008, 08:53:20 am
Trying to wake up enough to do a passable impression of work...
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Post by: Wowbagger on 15 December, 2008, 08:56:12 am
Shortly to take the dog out. Cup of tea and tablet first.
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Post by: TimO on 15 December, 2008, 09:04:10 am
Just about to pop out to DPD to pick up (n+1). ;D :thumbsup:

(although I expect queues of people picking up Christmas deliveries...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 December, 2008, 09:12:46 am
Quote from: clarion on 15 December, 2008, 08:53:20 am
Trying to wake up enough to do a passable impression of work...

Got coffee.  Still not managed it... :-\
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Post by: peliroja on 15 December, 2008, 09:43:55 am
On train to Cambridge, listening to an inane conversatipn between two rubgy yahs in front of me, who spent the weekend at a "low key party, yah, and spending a K or so at the Westfield". They're now reading bits of The Telegraph to each other.

Will my day get better?
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Post by: Polar Bear on 15 December, 2008, 09:47:14 am
All depends upon whether you're going to spend it with their elder brothers and sisters or not.   

Hope not!  ;)
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Post by: LE on 15 December, 2008, 11:58:25 am
Having a cry because someone had 'a go at me' again this morning because they assumed something I said meant something they'd made up. :(
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Post by: Chris S on 15 December, 2008, 12:26:34 pm
* passes LE a hanky and offers a hug *

I'm watching The Fugitive - the Harrison Ford one...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 December, 2008, 01:00:34 pm
I wish I was watching The Fugitive but I'm drinking peppermint tea, trying to forget about the peanuts over there, and wondering what to do about a client's bed.
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Post by: Andrij on 16 December, 2008, 01:20:26 pm
Wondering how most Brits would cope with today's weather here in Cleveland: high temperature of -3C and a bit of snow.  No snow at the moment but it's -7C.  Now that's what I call winter!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: JohnP on 16 December, 2008, 01:26:22 pm
Giving praise for not living in Cleveland.

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Post by: Ariadne on 16 December, 2008, 01:33:02 pm
Yawning. I'm bored and want to go home.
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Post by: JohnP on 16 December, 2008, 01:44:10 pm
about to make an expresso then off to visit my conveyancing solicitor.
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Post by: ibrahim on 16 December, 2008, 01:50:59 pm
sitting here being off work with a cold
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Post by: peliroja on 16 December, 2008, 01:51:49 pm
Putting off finalising my presentation :(

Argh!
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Post by: FatBloke on 16 December, 2008, 01:53:31 pm
Gotta go and post Christmas cards. Was gonna go on bike but can't be arsed.
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Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2008, 01:54:31 pm
Just back from Thetford. Jeez, what a hole...  :sick:
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Post by: Salvatore on 16 December, 2008, 05:01:42 pm
Perusing a very interesting letter I've just received from the "Workforce Transformation Office".

Hmmmmm.
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Post by: bobajobrob on 16 December, 2008, 05:12:12 pm
I've just got the word "growler" in a game of scrabble. That's really made my day :)
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Post by: mike on 16 December, 2008, 05:16:09 pm
trying to get my inbox down to under 50, then I can go and chop logs. (that's not a euphemism.  I really do have to go and chop some logs.
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Post by: Really Ancien on 16 December, 2008, 07:21:52 pm
Filling in a questionnaire on the subjective attractiveness of pets, for the partner of my circuit training instructor who is doing a psychology degree.

Damon.
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Post by: Julian on 16 December, 2008, 07:34:22 pm
Wondering whether feeding the cat will cause him to head off to leave a little Hansel-and-Gretel trail of arsenuggets down the hallway.  Again.  :-\
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Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2008, 07:36:03 pm
Quote from: Liz on 16 December, 2008, 07:34:22 pm
Wondering whether feeding the cat will cause him to head off to leave a little Hansel-and-Gretel trail of arsenuggets down the hallway.  Again.  :-\

Meh. It's what cat flap locks are for. Come 19:30h, ours are Feral.
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Post by: Charlotte on 16 December, 2008, 07:52:22 pm
He's sooooo going out the front door as soon as he's finished his pâté de cheval...
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Post by: Dave on 16 December, 2008, 08:04:02 pm
Finishing a glass of wine (Spanish rose - OK, but not great) about to have a play on my new rollers.

You may hear the sound of someone falling off a set of rollers and breaking his collar bone in about five minutes...
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Post by: peliroja on 16 December, 2008, 08:13:44 pm
Stressing. :(
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Post by: LE on 16 December, 2008, 08:22:07 pm
:(  you'll be fine Peli

I'm watching cookery programmes and getting fat just watching the calories being cooked
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Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2008, 08:30:42 pm
Watching Bucket List.
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Post by: TimO on 16 December, 2008, 09:44:44 pm
Watching the last few minutes of "Horizon: Where's My Robot?" on TVCatchUp before I go home.
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Post by: Basil on 17 December, 2008, 07:41:02 am
Shaving and drinking coffee.  (Which is begining to work - I'm going to have to pop upstairs soon)
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Post by: LE on 17 December, 2008, 07:49:01 am
Coughing and it hurts because I've had some bits removed.
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Post by: peliroja on 17 December, 2008, 11:13:27 am
Gentle hugs to Elleigh.

I'm being relieved. My presentation is over!!!
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Post by: clarion on 17 December, 2008, 11:15:04 am
Well done.  Hope it was received well.

I'm looking for a document I need that someone's picked up by mistake in a bundle of other things.  Could be anywhere...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 17 December, 2008, 11:22:58 am
sniffing & snorting and avoiding going to work.
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Post by: LE on 17 December, 2008, 11:54:38 am
I've come home from hospital and I am sitting in the library at the local campus reading books for a paper - but I'm not working, honest. 

Oh and one of my colleagues has just brought me a cup of tea :)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 December, 2008, 11:02:20 pm
Doing Visio network diagrams for a tender document.
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Post by: Regulator on 17 December, 2008, 11:03:56 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 17 December, 2008, 11:02:20 pm
Doing Visio network diagrams for a tender document.

I love Visio.  A Microsoft programme that actually does what it is supposed to - and well.
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Post by: David Martin on 17 December, 2008, 11:39:00 pm
Having a well earned dram whilst relaxing after some initially frustrating fettling which eventually turned into an inspired and almost elegant solution.

..d
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Post by: peliroja on 17 December, 2008, 11:41:49 pm
About to warm my feet... :)
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Post by: andygates on 17 December, 2008, 11:42:48 pm
Drinking cup-a-soup and discussing weight training with a wannabe amazon.   ;D
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Post by: LE on 18 December, 2008, 01:28:36 am
Coughing which is hurting my tum
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Post by: bobajobrob on 18 December, 2008, 03:26:17 am
For the second time tonight, saturated with sweat a set of clothes whilst asleep. The housemate arrived back late and ordered pizza. Had a couple of slices of pizza (yum), now going back to bed.
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Post by: bomber on 18 December, 2008, 03:47:23 am
Doing coursework which half the bloody figures seem to be missing for >:(  ho hum
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Post by: TimO on 18 December, 2008, 07:04:37 am
Waiting to make sure Talisker doesn't throw up, just from being up and about, before I give him his Hyperthyroidism pill, and then see if he throws up after giving him his pill.

What a fun life I live. :-\ ;D
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Post by: Julian on 18 December, 2008, 02:47:32 pm
Eating pringles and feeling guilty about not doing housework.
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Post by: peliroja on 18 December, 2008, 02:48:43 pm
Stressing.  :-\
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Post by: Regulator on 18 December, 2008, 02:49:01 pm
Avoiding cleaning the kitchen....


...but in my defence I have cleaned the bathroom.
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Post by: LE on 18 December, 2008, 02:49:46 pm
Coughing
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Post by: Gandalf on 18 December, 2008, 03:19:44 pm
Listening to Matt Monro.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 December, 2008, 03:20:39 pm
Wanting to go to sleep, won't happen for another 4 1/2 hours at least :(
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Post by: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 03:23:34 pm
crossing the Tay Bridge
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Post by: Valiant on 18 December, 2008, 03:24:22 pm
Feeeling pooorly
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Post by: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 03:28:20 pm
Quote from: Valiant on 18 December, 2008, 03:24:22 pm
Feeeling pooorly
+1

 :sick:
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Post by: peliroja on 18 December, 2008, 03:28:34 pm
 8)Having a tea and biscuit break. Lordy, I am knackered today.

 :-* for Sammy and Elleigh's poorly bits.
 
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Post by: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 03:29:41 pm
At Leuchars. There are some fantastic frontal systems (clouds, not totty) on both sides, and a slowly sinking sunset.
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Post by: Ariadne on 18 December, 2008, 03:32:42 pm
Are you secretly a Red Arrow?
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Post by: alan on 18 December, 2008, 03:32:53 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 18 December, 2008, 03:28:34 pm
8)Having a tea and biscuit break. Lordy, I am knackered today.


 

Coincidentally,same here.
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Post by: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 03:52:53 pm
Just got a glimpse of the lights of Embra across the Forth from Kircaldy

 
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Post by: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 03:59:21 pm
Burntisland. Looks very damp on the other side of the water.

Tide is half in or out..

..d
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Post by: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 04:09:35 pm
Crossing the Forth Bridge
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Post by: Valiant on 18 December, 2008, 06:18:53 pm
Thinking about dinner
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Post by: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 06:22:43 pm
watching Casino Royale on the train
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Post by: LE on 18 December, 2008, 06:24:17 pm
Still coughing
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2008, 06:33:28 pm
I've just had some very fine rosbif, half price from the Co-op ( :thumbsup:) but I shall pass on afters because I'm off to my tai chi class in an hour and I understand that there are min-spies available.
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Post by: Valiant on 18 December, 2008, 06:35:09 pm
Defrosting chicken and so bored that even wikipedia is failing to interest me.
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Post by: peliroja on 18 December, 2008, 06:37:46 pm
Eating a tangerine and wondering...
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Post by: bikenerd on 18 December, 2008, 06:39:55 pm
Being secretly chuffed that I fixed a bug in my code that had myself and a colleague baffled for two days.
Being ashamed that I wrote that code in the first place.  :-[
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Post by: kyuss on 18 December, 2008, 06:50:24 pm
Cheque cleared (finally) from my last paying job so I'm contemplating the walk to Dominos pizza for a large Dominator (with the stuffed base) to make up for the fact I've been living on soup and bread for 2 weeks.
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Post by: bobajobrob on 18 December, 2008, 06:50:48 pm
Currently wearing winter bib tights and a thermal base layer under my clothes to keep warm.

Just finished writing my Christmas cards. Need to pop out and post them, but it's chucking it down with rain :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 December, 2008, 07:32:46 pm
Hastily ordering a Hotel Chocolat delivery as I completely forgot about a friend's Christmas present, ordering a pizza as I don't feel up to cooking, and running my tongue round my nasty tasting mouth to remove inhaler residue.
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Post by: Julian on 18 December, 2008, 08:16:00 pm
Waiting for cheesy leeky mushroomy pasta bake to finish cooking, and looking up "liquid cat poo" on the internet to work out what's wrong with the moggy.
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Post by: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 08:22:38 pm
finished casino royale. just passing sutton on trent which is near Newark
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Post by: delthebike on 18 December, 2008, 08:23:30 pm
Quote from: Liz on 18 December, 2008, 08:16:00 pm
looking up "liquid cat poo" on the internet to work out what's wrong with the moggy.
Oxo and milk experiment went well then!
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Post by: rower40 on 18 December, 2008, 08:26:51 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 08:22:38 pm
finished casino royale. just passing sutton on trent which is near Newark
[envy]
Wireless Broadband on the East Coast train FTW!
[/envy]
I'm watching nutters on Road Wars and grieving slightly. Our Rowing Club's Christmas Party has been cancelled due to the sudden and tragic loss of one of our veterans day-before-yesterday.  He was in a boat with 3 others when he collapsed.
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Post by: Kathy on 18 December, 2008, 08:28:14 pm
Drinking wine and having youtube wars. Tim is currently winning with the LOTR "Barbie Girl" dub, though "Kung-fu Fighting" was a close second.
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Post by: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 08:47:26 pm
Peterborough. Then just under an hour to Kings Cross.

If you happen to be at Kings Cross in an hours time, look for a fat bloke with a bike with four lidl panniers (two grey and two red...) Say Hi!

..d
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Post by: Charlotte on 18 December, 2008, 09:23:28 pm
Drinking tea, watching "Fat Teens in Love" and eating chocolate cake  :D
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Post by: mike on 18 December, 2008, 09:26:06 pm
drinking abalour, watching telly.
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Post by: peliroja on 18 December, 2008, 09:29:30 pm
About to go to bed. I'm exhausted this week.
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Post by: David Martin on 18 December, 2008, 11:48:34 pm
Now on my parents broadband wireless in sunny New Malden...

..d
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Post by: Andrij on 19 December, 2008, 01:15:32 pm
Killing time before I make a second trip to the optometrist.  The contacts they gave me Tuesday have messed up my near vision so they want to re-examine me.  :-\
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2008, 01:22:27 pm
I've just returned from a rather successful trip to the bank. On a whim I dropped in to a local jeweller's and purchased a very nice cameo brooch for my daughter's Christmas present. White on blue set in silver. Probably Wedgewood.
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Post by: peliroja on 19 December, 2008, 01:27:12 pm
Stressing.  >:(
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Post by: mike on 19 December, 2008, 01:34:22 pm
on a series of calls with the team, discussing their personal development plans.  I've just persuaded one of my guys to put 'get a bike, start to do audax' in as a target for next year :D
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Post by: LE on 19 December, 2008, 02:22:30 pm
Just woken up. Coughing lots. :(
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Post by: Bledlow on 19 December, 2008, 03:48:34 pm
Wondering whether to bother finishing that change request I've finally got all the bits together for, knowing that it can't be put live until January. Or should I just pack up for the day?
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Post by: andygates on 19 December, 2008, 03:53:06 pm
Watching. The. Clock.
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Post by: 2tyred2ride on 19 December, 2008, 04:22:04 pm
At home.

Looking for a new bike on the internet. ;)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 December, 2008, 05:32:10 pm
Trying to stuff my lungs back down my throat and wishing I didn't have to go out tonight, or shopping tomorrow.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2008, 05:51:46 pm
Eating ginger-bread christmas trees as constructed by daughter no. 2. She's a bit pissed off having not got a job she was interviewed for on Wednesday. Feedback was that she scored as well in everything as did the successful candidate except for writing a letter (job was in policy at the National Aids Trust). This was a timed exercise as part of the interview and she was unable to finish the letter because Microsoft Word crashed - on one of the NAT computers.
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Post by: JohnP on 19 December, 2008, 06:13:18 pm
listening to a Diana Krall cd and wondering what's happened to her recently.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 19 December, 2008, 07:41:56 pm
Waiting for the local anaesthetic used on me toe to remove my ingrowing toenail to wear off. Man he dug deep. Ibuprofen and Old Speckled Hen at the ready.

"Well, an injection will be an extra £10", he said. Feck, he could've said £50 and I'd've coughed up. Oh, that's what else I'm doing as I recover from man flu.
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Post by: peliroja on 19 December, 2008, 07:45:32 pm
Happy happy. Going home soon. My VC just now with the Director of Everything went well and I had all the answers. YippyDippy.

 :D

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Post by: toekneep on 19 December, 2008, 08:00:56 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 19 December, 2008, 07:41:56 pm
Waiting for the local anaesthetic used on me toe to remove my ingrowing toenail to wear off. Man he dug deep. Ibuprofen and Old Speckled Hen at the ready.

"Well, an injection will be an extra £10", he said. Feck, he could've said £50 and I'd've coughed up. Oh, that's what else I'm doing as I recover from man flu.

That'll make it throb.  ;)
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Post by: Dave on 19 December, 2008, 08:01:29 pm
Getting drunk. Woohoo :-\
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Post by: toekneep on 19 December, 2008, 08:03:52 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 19 December, 2008, 07:45:32 pm
Happy happy. Going home soon. My VC just now with the Director of Everything went well and I had all the answers. YippyDippy.

 :D



Many congratulations on winning the Victoria Cross Peli. It's the least you deserve.  ;D

Me, oh waiting for spag bol to cheer me up. We have just come back from a walk to the pub and I've trodden dog poo all through the house. Oops. (that will be the house that Mrs. TKP has spent most of the afternoon cleaning, double oops.)
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Post by: alan on 19 December, 2008, 08:10:07 pm
That's you in the sh*t dog house :demon:
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Post by: toekneep on 19 December, 2008, 08:12:10 pm
Quote from: alan on 19 December, 2008, 08:10:07 pm
That's you in the sh*t dog house :demon:

That's no way to talk about our house.
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Post by: Dave on 19 December, 2008, 08:59:05 pm
Am (not quite) drunk (enough), listening to Buffalo Tom at a volume designed to irritate the neighbours and contemplating going to bed 'cos I have got to be up at 5am so's I can get to tomorrow's ride in time.

It's a good job I've run out of paracetamol.
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Post by: Chris S on 19 December, 2008, 09:02:19 pm
Watching HIGNFY.

Nice opener from IH there...

Some fat petrolhead in the chair, this week  ::-).
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Post by: rower40 on 19 December, 2008, 09:30:57 pm
Almost, but not quite unable to type, due to laughter.  Channel 4; Peter Kay's Britain's Got An Extra Pop Factor And Then Some.  The ideal antidote to reality/talent TV - which I loathe.
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Post by: oncemore on 19 December, 2008, 09:37:38 pm
Won't watch HIGNFY when that >>>> is in the Chair (unless they've electrified it).
So been decorating the tree and now listening to Maiden - "Flash of the Blade".
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Post by: Kathy on 19 December, 2008, 10:00:00 pm
Sitting here with a ferret in my knickers. (she's had a bath and is drying off).

I'm regretting clipping her claws - they're all skritchy!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2008, 10:01:28 pm
Quote from: oncemore on 19 December, 2008, 09:37:38 pm
Won't watch HIGNFY when that >>>> is in the Chair (unless they've electrified it).
So been decorating the tree and now listening to Maiden - "Flash of the Blade".

I watched it but it definitely loses a lot when fecking Clarkson is there.
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Post by: toekneep on 19 December, 2008, 10:09:21 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 19 December, 2008, 09:30:57 pm
Almost, but not quite unable to type, due to laughter.  Channel 4; Peter Kay's Britain's Got An Extra Pop Factor And Then Some.  The ideal antidote to reality/talent TV - which I loathe.


Brilliant, the interview was just classic. I suspect I'm missing a lot having not watched any of the reality type shows but its still very funny.
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Post by: Andrij on 19 December, 2008, 10:24:30 pm
Drinking a beer and surfing the interwebs in preparation for supporting the US retail market this holiday season.
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Post by: TimO on 20 December, 2008, 11:55:41 am
Procrastinating over packing stuff to leave home for Christmas and the New Year.
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Post by: LE on 20 December, 2008, 12:13:04 pm
Still coughing, but at least my nose has stopped dripping :)
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Post by: David Martin on 20 December, 2008, 03:58:44 pm
Sitting on the train at Kings Cross, bartering for use of the power sockets..

..d
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Post by: Pneumant on 20 December, 2008, 04:08:32 pm
Just recovering from 2 hrs chrimbo shopping in Newbury, what a nightmare. Recovery plan is now in place:

1) Make cup of Earl Gray tea
2) Open bar of Cadburys Whole Nut
3) Put AC/DC - Back in Black on hifi at a moderately loud level
4) Consume 1 and 2
5) Browse the interweb

I feel much better now!
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Post by: Gus on 20 December, 2008, 04:21:00 pm

Preparing everything for tomorrows run in from family,
27 people to go bowling and then ending up in my flat for Glögg, cookies and plenty of Aebleskiver (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86bleskiver).
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Post by: Tom B on 20 December, 2008, 04:21:29 pm
Clinging to the forum to put off departure for seasonal family get-together :-[

But it's an energetic 7-mile ride, I usually enjoy myself more than I expect and when it's done that's it for all but the most desirable human contacts for a good week or so  :D
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Post by: RichForrest on 20 December, 2008, 04:38:49 pm
Looking around facebook working out how it's used properly!
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 20 December, 2008, 04:49:34 pm
Writing Christmas cards and getting ready to go out to play for a carol service in a remote Somerset country church.

N
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Post by: tonyh on 20 December, 2008, 04:56:13 pm

Building up the Guilt, by not writing Christmas Cards.

Planning a ride (to get tired enough to not care about the Guilt).
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Post by: woollypigs on 20 December, 2008, 05:09:13 pm
Printing out our just ordered tickets for the Pyrenees next year :)
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Post by: David Martin on 20 December, 2008, 06:16:21 pm
About to go and buy some horrible train food.
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Post by: tonycollinet on 20 December, 2008, 06:26:45 pm
Just given up trying to fix Miss TC's boyfriends computer. We've copied all his important files, dusted off and nuked from orbit (Fully destructive restore).

Now I'm waiting for kitchen access so I can cook tea.
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Post by: mike on 20 December, 2008, 06:28:38 pm
watching bugsy malone.  Love the last bit :D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 December, 2008, 06:43:22 pm
Listening to Mr Scruff and realising I bought the wrong CD (shoulda been the one with Get a Move On) doh!
Being a cat chaise lounge and sniffing the bacony goodness smells coming from the kitchen. :P
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Post by: peliroja on 20 December, 2008, 06:52:29 pm
Working. Trying to get a couple of projects abandoned by my boss into a reasonable state before I relax a bit...  :-\
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Post by: Jurek on 20 December, 2008, 06:57:43 pm
Listening to Kruder & Dorfmeister while the boiling of the rice does it's thing, just before dill and spring onion are introduced to it, followed by an over generous helping of chilli con carne.


MMMMmmmmmmmm.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 December, 2008, 07:19:42 pm
Moping because I'm too poorly to be at the theatre.
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Post by: David Martin on 20 December, 2008, 07:25:29 pm
crossing the border
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Post by: tonycollinet on 20 December, 2008, 07:27:10 pm
I'm gonna play halo now.
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Post by: Julian on 20 December, 2008, 07:37:28 pm
Wondering whether to turn the heating on.
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Post by: tonycollinet on 20 December, 2008, 07:38:31 pm
What - you mean it's been off?  :o
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Post by: Julian on 20 December, 2008, 07:39:52 pm
I don't generally get cold... :)
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Post by: border-rider on 20 December, 2008, 07:40:16 pm
Just set the turbo trainer up in the spider cellar.  Not used it :)

Fired up the woodburner and now very, very warm. Looking for a bottle of wine and thinking about doing a bit of work.
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Post by: RichForrest on 20 December, 2008, 07:41:34 pm
Currently drinking cider and wondering wether to go out on a diy200 tomorrow.
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Post by: RichForrest on 20 December, 2008, 07:42:46 pm
Quote from: Liz on 20 December, 2008, 07:39:52 pm
I don't generally get cold... :)

You wouldn't being one of the hotties on here  :-*  :D
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Post by: Julian on 20 December, 2008, 07:46:54 pm
Quote from: RichForrest on 20 December, 2008, 07:42:46 pm
Quote from: Liz on 20 December, 2008, 07:39:52 pm
I don't generally get cold... :)

You wouldn't being one of the hotties on here  :-*  :D

Oooh, ooh, a compliment!

*frames post*

:-*
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Post by: David Martin on 20 December, 2008, 08:52:53 pm
Sitting on a train at Waverley, hoping I haven't booked the drunk carriage.
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Post by: Regulator on 20 December, 2008, 08:53:35 pm
Wondering how I'll explain another new camera bag to Mr R....  :-\
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Post by: David Martin on 20 December, 2008, 08:57:55 pm
Rats .. might have to leave the bike and head to first class..
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Post by: Andrij on 20 December, 2008, 09:01:29 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 20 December, 2008, 08:53:35 pm
Wondering how I'll explain another new camera bag to Mr R....  :-\

Tell him "Easier to store than a new bike"?
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Post by: David Martin on 20 December, 2008, 10:00:42 pm
much quieter now - much of the ethanol evaporated on the fife coast.. Hearts vs Dundee match
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Post by: TimO on 20 December, 2008, 11:54:25 pm
Swearing, since I just realised that I somehow left my blood pressure and cholesterol pills at home, which is now a 400 miles round trip, at probably something close to ten hours of travel.

Hopefully I can convince the local A&E tomorrow to give me a prescription. :-\
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Post by: peliroja on 21 December, 2008, 12:31:03 am
Working, still...
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2008, 12:35:35 am
Having a disagreement with Mrs. Wow on Christmas present buying policy.
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Post by: woollypigs on 21 December, 2008, 12:37:25 am
You should let her buy them since you are going to deliver them all in a few days time :)
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Post by: nicknack on 21 December, 2008, 01:28:48 am
Eating a piece of toast.
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Post by: Aidan on 21 December, 2008, 06:44:48 am
lying in bed drinking coffee and contemplating going out and riding to York, then coming back the very scenic route, hopefully with a tailwind.
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Post by: Gus on 21 December, 2008, 08:09:15 am
eating breakfast and washing clothes............. boring
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Post by: LE on 21 December, 2008, 08:10:35 am
Lying in bed drinking tea. I'm still coughing but nowhere near as badly as the last few days.
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Post by: IanDG on 21 December, 2008, 08:38:57 am
waiting for it to get light, watching the weather and trying to decide between MTB or rollers - the weathers too bad for the road bike
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Post by: Ariadne on 21 December, 2008, 08:53:59 am
Getting ready to go to the gym - too windy for a bike, I think.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2008, 09:00:26 am
Having eaten porridge, will now pour the tea.
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Post by: mike on 21 December, 2008, 09:02:17 am
scrambled eggs on toast and big mug of tea, planning the route for a 60 miler - setting off in 30 minutes.
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Post by: JohnP on 21 December, 2008, 09:16:00 am
Ablutions completed, fresh clothes donned, first large mug of coffee downed, madam showering as we type.

Off downstairs to scramble some eggs with a pancetta then we are going to Hobby Craft to get some tree pressies for the 3x grandson.
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Post by: RogerT on 21 December, 2008, 09:23:02 am
About to make toast with Highland Marmalade ( present from a grateful Scotish Haulier ).

Then its out with Race Bike to do battle with the Fenland wind for a couple of hours  ;)
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Post by: tonycollinet on 21 December, 2008, 09:49:39 am
Breakfast et

Mug of coffee made.

Then out for a play with the wind - hopefully to return before the rain.
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Post by: FatBloke on 21 December, 2008, 10:41:57 am
Off to work in a minute!  :(
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Post by: Julian on 21 December, 2008, 10:43:33 am
Sitting waiting for Phil to arrive to continue building up a bike in the SEEKRIT BUNKER.  Then spending the rest of the day cleaning the flat and wrapping pressies.  :)
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Post by: Jurek on 21 December, 2008, 10:44:43 am
Just finished robustly hosing Kent (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12674.msg224541#msg224541) off the bike, each crevice having been returned to it's sparkly glory.

(The legs were done yesterday).
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Post by: bobajobrob on 21 December, 2008, 10:46:25 am
Just off to do a bit of last minute christmas shopping. I'm after some silk pyjamas for the girlfriend. Mmm silk pyjamas :)
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Post by: Hummers on 21 December, 2008, 10:47:53 am
Quote from: Liz on 21 December, 2008, 10:43:33 am
Sitting waiting for Phil to arrive to continue building up a bike in the SEEKRIT BUNKER.  Then spending the rest of the day cleaning the flat and wrapping pressies.  :)

You wrap up warm now as it's creepy cold out there.

I am putting off going through my bike bits baskets in the utlility room as I am fed up with things falling on my head everytime I try to get something down.

H
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2008, 10:50:57 am
Enjoying a cup of coffee and two slices of bread with home-made marmalade laced with a'bunadh. Sheer indulgence!
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Post by: Jezza on 21 December, 2008, 10:53:59 am
Just about to take my nephew ice skating.
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Post by: Ariadne on 21 December, 2008, 10:56:26 am
Ice skating! Lucky you, that sounds great.
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Post by: RichForrest on 21 December, 2008, 10:56:56 am
Sitting in a little chef at Bicester, drinking coffee.
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Post by: TimO on 21 December, 2008, 11:02:09 am
Just got back from picking up a prescription (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10706.msg224715#msg224715) from the chemists. :thumbsup:

Now I need to find some gubbings to wrap up my sister, brother-in-law, and their cats presents before I see them for Sunday lunch in a couple of hours time.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2008, 11:03:15 am
Quote from: TimO on 21 December, 2008, 11:02:09 am
Now I need to find some gubbings to wrap up my sister, brother-in-law, and their cats

Won't they object?
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Post by: Chris S on 21 December, 2008, 11:07:55 am
We have visitors.

But they are all watching some Strictly dancing type crap on TV (recorded from last night - we were all pissing it up then)  >:(

Bollocks to that shite - I've snuck away to browse the pages of yACF and update my AUK sub standing order.
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Post by: TimO on 21 December, 2008, 11:09:51 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 21 December, 2008, 11:03:15 am
Quote from: TimO on 21 December, 2008, 11:02:09 am
Now I need to find some gubbings to wrap up my sister, brother-in-law, and their cats

Won't they object?

That's what gaffer tape is for. ;D
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Post by: border-rider on 21 December, 2008, 11:10:22 am
Tidying up a bit before my niece pops round later  - but not too much cos she's a student (vet) ;)

Then I'll go for a run, and then do my VAT returns
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Post by: Hummers on 21 December, 2008, 11:15:52 am
Hane given up on trying to tidy the bits and bobs baskets and have poured the contents (small tinkly things and broken rear LEDs - you know, essentials) into one large basket.

This now lives in the garage and will, no doubt, be upset by one of my offsping and left scattered everywhere.

Have settled down to watch a recording of the 'Strictly dancing crap' around at Chris's house. Don't know where he's gone though - Mrs H reckons he's surfing porn.

H
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2008, 11:20:07 am
Bracing myself for a really unpleasant trip to crowded Waitrose.
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Post by: Chris S on 21 December, 2008, 11:20:45 am
Quote from: Hummers on 21 December, 2008, 11:15:52 am
Have settled down to watch a recording of the 'Strictly dancing crap' around at Chris's house. Don't know where he's gone though - Mrs H reckons he's surfing porn.

H

* pokes head out of spare room door *

"Oi, Hummers old bean - chuck us up that box of kleenex on the side there..."
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Post by: alan on 21 December, 2008, 12:40:10 pm
Sweating :o
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Post by: peliroja on 21 December, 2008, 12:51:53 pm
Writing a stern letter of complaint to our kitchen builders.  >:(
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Post by: RogerT on 21 December, 2008, 01:00:06 pm
Sitting in front of the computer, legs hurting after a 2 hour battle with the wind that seemed to defy the laws of physics and be constantly "on the nose". Well , this is Fenland, what else can you expect  ;D

Into the shower in a moment and then grated cheese and beetroot on toast for lunch, followed by taking the dog for a walk by the river.

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Post by: bobajobrob on 21 December, 2008, 01:00:36 pm
Just finished my christmas shopping :thumbsup:
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Post by: LE on 21 December, 2008, 01:47:55 pm
Feeling a little better than I have for a few days. I'm actually feeling cold, much makes a change. I've had a bit of a high temp for a few day days. Still dealing with a cough and a nose bleed.
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Post by: peliroja on 21 December, 2008, 01:55:08 pm
Quote from: LE on 21 December, 2008, 01:47:55 pm
Feeling a little better than I have for a few days. I'm actually feeling cold, much makes a change. I've had a bit of a high temp for a few day days. Still dealing with a cough and a nose bleed.
:-*
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Post by: LE on 21 December, 2008, 01:55:48 pm
Fank que
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Post by: JohnP on 21 December, 2008, 02:02:45 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 21 December, 2008, 10:50:57 am
Enjoying a cup of coffee and two slices of bread with home-made marmalade laced with a'bunadh. Sheer indulgence!

It's less than 2 hours since porridge !   
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Post by: peliroja on 21 December, 2008, 03:01:12 pm
Printing out our complaint letter! That only took me 2 hours ten minutes...  ::-) It was a long one...  >:(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 December, 2008, 03:03:07 pm
Shivering and sweating all at once.
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Post by: Julian on 21 December, 2008, 03:05:31 pm
Wondering how it is humanly possible that a mere 12 hours after thinking I'd got rid of a nasty cold, I have a sore throat and a chesty cough again.  This is a whole new set of germs.  >:(
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Post by: Dave on 21 December, 2008, 03:15:09 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 21 December, 2008, 03:01:12 pm
Printing out our complaint letter! That only took me 2 hours ten minutes...  ::-) It was a long one...  >:(

130 minutes, at - ooh - 10 pages a minute gives 1300 pages :o

You're not kidding that it's a long one :P

But then again, you do have plenty to complain about...
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Post by: woollypigs on 21 December, 2008, 04:29:57 pm
Yup there is a lot to complain about and we are not even writing a letter to the Notting Hill Housing Trust, just the builders who are fixing up the kitchen.

We got it all onto 3 pages and it is very good. So it is just the waiting game until we are back in the flat in the new year.
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Post by: LE on 21 December, 2008, 05:21:02 pm
Watching the place of my birth on Songs od Praise. I've just seen the tomb of one of my ansestors.
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Post by: Really Ancien on 21 December, 2008, 05:29:09 pm
Baking Mince Pies.

Damon.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 December, 2008, 10:31:28 pm
Watching the snooker.
Thinking it may be a late night.
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Post by: Chris S on 21 December, 2008, 10:32:53 pm
Chatting to my Sister about weight loss, on MSN.
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Post by: David Martin on 21 December, 2008, 10:37:51 pm
Wathcing the Day after Tomorrow on the tele. Glad I didn't waste time going to see it in the cinema

And coughing and feeling very fluey..

..d
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Post by: Bluebottle on 22 December, 2008, 10:57:02 pm
I is work avoiding.  I am halfway through writing a review of a manuscript for a journal that only seems to send me papers to reject.  Anyone want a polite hatchet job done?  It seems, in the words of the nation's favourite Canadian, "I'm your man."
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Post by: David Martin on 22 December, 2008, 10:58:30 pm
I am happy. I seem to have beaten the databases this year. Now to see if it actually works..

..d

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Post by: Bluebottle on 22 December, 2008, 11:08:22 pm
Oddly, I am only on the radar of one rag (and a rag I have never attempted to publish in).  Might use it as a tool to get myself on the editorial board.  The theory is that they will hopefully take offence and remove me from their lists for being a chancer...
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Post by: PaulF on 23 December, 2008, 11:35:45 am
Trying to write my CV.

From scratch :(

I seem to have deleted all the old copies  >:( and the backups ::-)
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Post by: mike on 23 December, 2008, 11:38:40 am
trying to remember who i've forgotten to get crap presents for, before I head for the offie to buy christmas lunch.
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Post by: clarion on 23 December, 2008, 11:39:06 am
Paul, you can't do worse than some of the crap I've been sifting through.  CV?  Drivelling ramble, more like.  Or else there's the one where you turn over to the second page to find that....there isn't one.  That's it.  Sorry.  Written communication skills?  No.  
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Post by: LE on 23 December, 2008, 11:48:22 am
Thinking about having a nice strong coffee.  I've been feeling very tearful so coffee may cheer me up.
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Post by: nicknack on 23 December, 2008, 11:52:39 am
I find chocolate and/or beer is better at that. But good luck anyway.  :-*
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Post by: LE on 23 December, 2008, 01:05:02 pm
I've just bought some chickens and some pigs for Oxfam with my back pay from my pay review and pay rise :)
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Post by: Charlotte on 23 December, 2008, 01:11:44 pm
LMAO at the idea of strapping an 80cc engine to a cheap-arsed BSO and going "off-roading".  Natural selection at its most brutally efficient.

:D
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Post by: Jacomus on 23 December, 2008, 01:12:23 pm
Just finished clearing up a spilt latte  :(
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Post by: peliroja on 23 December, 2008, 01:48:15 pm
Coming to terms with my recent encounter with a very scissor-happy hairdresser. :'(
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Post by: LE on 23 December, 2008, 01:55:56 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 23 December, 2008, 01:48:15 pm
Coming to terms with my recent encounter with a very scissor-happy hairdresser. :'(

Eeeek

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Post by: PaulF on 23 December, 2008, 01:59:27 pm
Ripping my birthday presents to iTunes
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2008, 02:12:55 pm
Having a bit of a rest after dealing with a toaster belching flames and doing my very best not to set the fire alarms at work off. (We had the fire brigade out yesterday for a false alarm, didn't really want them coming out cos I set the toaster on fire).  :-[
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Post by: bobajobrob on 23 December, 2008, 02:14:50 pm
Currently filling my back door. It now consists of 90% wood filler, 9% rotten wood and 1% wood rot hardener.
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Post by: LE on 23 December, 2008, 02:18:31 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2008, 02:12:55 pm
Having a bit of a rest after dealing with a toaster belching flames and doing my very best not to set the fire alarms at work off. (We had the fire brigade out yesterday for a false alarm, didn't really want them coming out cos I set the toaster on fire).  :-[

Eeeek
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Post by: woollypigs on 23 December, 2008, 02:43:11 pm
Waiting for my home made ice cream to "cook" in the freezer, yum yum ;)
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Post by: peliroja on 23 December, 2008, 03:37:51 pm
Waiting for my frozen feet to cook under a warm cat after a chilly ten mile blast (up Skipton Old Road).
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Post by: toekneep on 23 December, 2008, 03:44:35 pm
Wondering what on earth "Oi - I was reading that" is all about. I really should pay more attention instead of working. Slapped wrist for me.
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Post by: alan on 23 December, 2008, 03:57:45 pm
Eating mince pies,served by the angel named Emily
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Post by: woollypigs on 23 December, 2008, 04:45:29 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 23 December, 2008, 03:37:51 pm
Waiting for my frozen feet to cook under a warm cat after a chilly ten mile blast (up Skipton Old Road)
I did not know that I got a new nick name ???
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2008, 04:48:06 pm
Indulging in a little festive body-building (eating dates).
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Post by: Ariadne on 23 December, 2008, 04:49:21 pm
Ironing and watching Smokey and the Bandit
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Post by: Julian on 23 December, 2008, 04:52:14 pm
Thinking about finishing my wrapping, being very excited at seeing Phil's new bike, and deciding to become a libel lawyer.
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Post by: mike on 23 December, 2008, 04:56:23 pm
making mince pies, drinking tea.
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Post by: Chris S on 23 December, 2008, 04:58:28 pm
Downloading pr0n alternative christmas music.
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Post by: Jezza on 23 December, 2008, 05:01:42 pm
Sneezing, mostly.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2008, 05:03:01 pm
Listening to a news item which claims the current 'flu outbreak to be the biggest for 8 years.
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Post by: Julian on 23 December, 2008, 05:13:40 pm
'Flu?  Pah, 'flu's for wusses.

I went to the doctor this morning with my cold that will not go away and he says he's sending me for x-rays to check I haven't got TB, since I've got the right symptoms and I'm in a risk group.  Srsly.  ::-)

He did also say it was extremely unlikely that I have TB and that it's probably just a virus.  But I like to be sensationalist.
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Post by: JohnP on 23 December, 2008, 05:17:18 pm
You really don't want TB (but you probably know that already).  Seem to remember a news item a few days ago about it starting to make a come back in some London areas.  Really hope not.

Fingersd are crossed that you just have the same cold as me and it will be better in 2 - 3 weeks.

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Post by: alan on 23 December, 2008, 05:19:24 pm
Quote from: Liz on 23 December, 2008, 05:13:40 pm
sensational[/size]

UR :)
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Post by: Julian on 23 December, 2008, 05:20:24 pm
JohnP, I've had that cold for the last 2 - 3 weeks!

I'm fairly certain it's just a virus.  I think if it was the beginning of TB I'd be a lot, lot iller.  
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2008, 05:27:00 pm
Ceagebard
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Post by: bobajobrob on 23 December, 2008, 05:29:00 pm
I'm in a really fucking bad mood for no apparent reason.
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Post by: Julian on 23 December, 2008, 05:36:24 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 23 December, 2008, 05:27:00 pm
Ceagebard

Bless you.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2008, 05:57:16 pm
Quote from: Liz on 23 December, 2008, 05:36:24 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 23 December, 2008, 05:27:00 pm
Ceagebard

Bless you.

Thank you.

I was trying to type "Cleaning my keyboard" but I had removed the right hand side.

I can feel that the space bar is not back correctly. Excuse me a minute.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2008, 05:59:02 pm
No, still not right.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2008, 05:59:51 pm
I think that's better now. What a lot of human remains can reside beneath the keys.
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Post by: David Martin on 23 December, 2008, 06:39:17 pm
Just about warming up after standing on a hillside to take some pictures. Appearing in Phototalk any moment now..

..d
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Post by: peliroja on 23 December, 2008, 06:41:40 pm
Waiting for my tea and watching the cat wrap itself round my mum's head :)
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Post by: Chris S on 23 December, 2008, 07:13:56 pm
Trying to apply CPR to the fire, which seems to have had an infarction whilst we were having dinner  >:(.
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Post by: LE on 23 December, 2008, 07:15:26 pm
Trying to figure out why I have stomach ache. :(
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Post by: Chris S on 23 December, 2008, 07:17:01 pm
Quote from: LE on 23 December, 2008, 07:15:26 pm
Trying to figure out why I have stomach ache. :(

Not enough chocolate?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 23 December, 2008, 07:33:03 pm
:). I wish :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 23 December, 2008, 08:20:35 pm
I am listening to the Rad Mac Christmas special on the radio. They have announced that they are going to be playing only Christmas tunes.

I've stomached it for 17 minutes so far, but the lure of the razor blade is growing ever stronger...

And their guest is, inevitably, Noddy "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT'S CHRISSSSSSSTMASSSSSSSSSSSS" Holder :(

Time to fire up the CD player and crack open the Rioja, I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 23 December, 2008, 08:39:57 pm
Trying to shake off the black dog that has been my unwelcome companion for the past 36 hours >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 23 December, 2008, 08:41:29 pm
Caressing my new bike.  Mmm, pretty. 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2008, 08:42:43 pm
Being quite sad and listening to KC and The Sunshine Band on Last.fm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2008, 08:47:03 pm
More bodybuilding (eating chocolate).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 December, 2008, 09:19:23 pm
Black dog, begone!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2008, 09:24:24 pm
We've got a beautiful chestnut red one, but he's having a snooze.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 December, 2008, 09:25:40 pm
Watching Pirates of the Caribbean.

Yaaar!
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Post by: nicknack on 23 December, 2008, 11:50:18 pm
Going to bed.

Goodnight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 24 December, 2008, 12:57:53 am
eating
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pancho on 24 December, 2008, 01:29:22 am
Have bizarre cold that makes it painful to breathe and swallow. Hence reading the internet instead of catching some zzzs which is what I really want to do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 24 December, 2008, 01:49:11 am
Same here..

Much sympathy (and a slug of scotch)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 24 December, 2008, 07:47:27 am
Trying to ease a sore tummy. I think Brandy might be called for.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 24 December, 2008, 09:26:13 am
eating
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 December, 2008, 09:27:28 am
Producing astonishing quantities of snot  >:(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 24 December, 2008, 09:29:43 am
Quote from: alan on 23 December, 2008, 08:39:57 pm
Trying to shake off the black dog that has been my unwelcome companion for the past 36 hours >:(
:-* have one of these.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 December, 2008, 10:11:03 am
Not eating BACON - the people towards the front of the queueueueue have been there since Friday >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pancho on 24 December, 2008, 10:16:29 am
Both daughters have asked to do some additional maths.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 24 December, 2008, 11:53:30 am
Quote from: annie on 24 December, 2008, 09:29:43 am
Quote from: alan on 23 December, 2008, 08:39:57 pm
Trying to shake off the black dog that has been my unwelcome companion for the past 36 hours >:(
:-* have one of these.

Thanks.Helps muchly. :-* back atya
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 24 December, 2008, 11:54:32 am
Quote from: alan on 24 December, 2008, 11:53:30 am
Quote from: annie on 24 December, 2008, 09:29:43 am
Quote from: alan on 23 December, 2008, 08:39:57 pm
Trying to shake off the black dog that has been my unwelcome companion for the past 36 hours >:(
:-* have one of these.

Thanks.Helps muchly. :-* back atya

Just what I needed.

Would offer to give you a foot massage but tis a tad far for me to get there by lunch time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 24 December, 2008, 11:57:42 am
I would prefer to have a back-scrathing session :demon:

we could meet somewhere,mmmm ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 24 December, 2008, 11:57:51 am
I'm tracking Santa.  My friend's daughter is very very excited.


:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 24 December, 2008, 12:12:14 pm
Watching live red squirrels (http://www.rspb.org.uk/webcams/feeders/abernethyvideo.asp).  :D  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 24 December, 2008, 12:24:38 pm
Planning how I'm going to cook Bambi...
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Post by: Julian on 24 December, 2008, 12:27:10 pm
Still being ill.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 24 December, 2008, 12:32:16 pm
Office track stands and office yoga
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 24 December, 2008, 12:46:27 pm
I'm about to start Xmas Drinking.My unit count for the year is embarrasingly low.
It's too late to make up the lack of annual miles but I can attempt a reconciliation on pub-stops ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 24 December, 2008, 12:49:43 pm
Practising a Mass setting and a Buxtehude Toccata and Fugue for Midnight Mass.  O:-)

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 24 December, 2008, 01:09:07 pm
Quote from: alan on 24 December, 2008, 11:57:42 am
I would prefer to have a back-scrathing session :demon:

we could meet somewhere,mmmm ;)

Am just back from my 5 mile run and need to recover first.  This morning I managed an hour on the turbo.

Am taking it easy due to the start of this cough lurgy thing.

Give me an hour could you? :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 December, 2008, 02:34:35 pm
Being grateful for everything that's good in my life.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 December, 2008, 02:44:01 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 December, 2008, 02:34:35 pm
Being grateful for everything that's good in my life.
Aaaaah! :)

Digesting my Chinese lunch, being a cat bed, watching Miracle on 34th Street and waiting for Pingu to escape work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 24 December, 2008, 02:47:20 pm
I'm drinking tea and eating lovely chocolate that I've been sent :)
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Post by: nicknack on 24 December, 2008, 02:48:47 pm
Basking in a glow of smugness from just having given blood. And drinking cocoa. Well, actually it's Whittards Aztec Chilli drinking chocolate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 December, 2008, 02:53:41 pm
I'm hanging on the phone trying to get through to a Hospital Dept when I have far better things to be doing...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 24 December, 2008, 03:23:58 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 December, 2008, 02:34:35 pm
Being grateful for everything that's good in my life.

I'm searching for that feeling.Can't remember where I left it last time I used it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 24 December, 2008, 03:46:14 pm
Waiting for 16:00 when I can start the next batch job off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 24 December, 2008, 04:31:48 pm
Watching the Polar Express. Feeling a little tearful. :)
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Post by: numbnuts on 24 December, 2008, 04:39:41 pm
getting my dinner ready as I have to be out by 6.45 to go to Church it is the first mass of Christmas O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2008, 05:55:03 pm
Drinking tea and waiting for the dinner to cook. Mrs. Wow & Dez have, between them, made a steak & kidney pudding. It is steaming as I type.

All the shopping's done. Off to daughter's in the morning. Hunky-dory.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 24 December, 2008, 11:21:05 pm
Quote from: alan on 24 December, 2008, 03:23:58 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 December, 2008, 02:34:35 pm
Being grateful for everything that's good in my life.

I'm searching for that feeling.Can't remember where I left it last time I used it.

I've found it.

It's at Alder Hey children's hospital.I very nearly  :'( watching this & remembering our daughter being at risk when she was about 18 months old.
I realise that Marj & I have been very fortunate with our children & grandchildren.
There is nothing so distressing as children being so ill as this.

So that's four blessings of children
One for a mother
& one for Marj
That's a lot to be gratefull for :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 24 December, 2008, 11:31:08 pm
I'm tracking Santa on Norad's Tracking system.  Not long now before he will be in London :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 24 December, 2008, 11:33:21 pm
So am I - and I've just put my Santa's mince pie and glass of whiskey ready by the fireplace.


EDIT: and now the cat's eaten the pie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 December, 2008, 11:39:04 pm
Quote from: LE on 24 December, 2008, 11:31:08 pm
I'm tracking Santa on Norad's Tracking system.  Not long now before he will be in London :)

Ooh bugger - I'd better get to bed before he arrives, or he might not leave me any pressies in my stocking! :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 24 December, 2008, 11:39:33 pm
I think Santa would like a mince pie and a glass of Laphroaig right now.  I'll just go and sort it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2008, 11:41:30 pm
Thanks. That's very kind!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 24 December, 2008, 11:44:00 pm
He's in Senegal
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 24 December, 2008, 11:51:29 pm
Santa's in London.  He's 10 mins early :s
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 24 December, 2008, 11:56:35 pm
He's had the mince pie and whisky I left - I suspect he might like some more...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2008, 12:22:39 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 24 December, 2008, 11:56:35 pm
He's had the mince pie and whisky I left - I suspect he might like some more...

 ;D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 25 December, 2008, 12:40:13 am
Quote from: Basil W Brush on 25 December, 2008, 12:22:39 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 24 December, 2008, 11:56:35 pm
He's had the mince pie and whisky I left - I suspect he might like some more...

 ;D :thumbsup:

It's possible that 'Santa' has had enough now..  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 25 December, 2008, 12:53:00 am
Just enjoyed watching the Christmas Midnight Eucharist on BBC 1.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 25 December, 2008, 01:01:46 am
Reading comics, naughty-style, having discovered that there are whole CBR archives of really good old stuff out there.  Currently: Vertigo's The Losers.  Oh, and waiting for the breadmaker to go ping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 25 December, 2008, 01:22:28 am
Just filled the bowl.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 25 December, 2008, 02:14:19 am
TMI :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 25 December, 2008, 03:01:23 am
going to bed
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 25 December, 2008, 03:30:26 am
I'm sitting in a cafe in Palm Springs, having a coffee and kicking myself for losing my camera :(

I left my camera bag in the back of a car in the car hire place when we changed cars.  It was my posh DSLR, with extras - about £600 worth!  By the time I realised it was missing and we managed to get through to the car hire company (we were 200 miles away) the bag was no longer there. We'll have to see if the insurance company will cough up for it - but I doubt it...:'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 25 December, 2008, 03:39:45 am
At least your entire holiday wasn't on the camera already.

I'm sorry. That sucks! Take some comfort from the anticipated bemused looks on the face of 'Knock-Off Nigel' when he goes thru' the existing images on your camera!

Any road up. I thought Merkins were s'posed ter be honest peeps?

J
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 25 December, 2008, 06:48:16 am
Watching JC open his presents.

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Post by: LE on 25 December, 2008, 06:49:01 am
 :D
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Post by: Maffie on 25 December, 2008, 06:50:02 am
I've just had a nice relaxing bath and going to do breakfast soon, then will be getting ready to visit my folks
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 25 December, 2008, 06:53:58 am
Quote from: LE on 25 December, 2008, 06:49:01 am
:D
:-*

Sadly he has croup and is struggling.

I lit the fire which was a big mistake and is making him worse but I shall run a hot bath soon and stick him on the floor on a cushion.

Coffee is made, dogs are fed, candles are lit.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 25 December, 2008, 06:56:07 am
I hope you both GWS

Festive hugs to both of you

E x
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 25 December, 2008, 06:58:02 am
Quote from: LE on 25 December, 2008, 06:56:07 am
I hope you both GWS

Festive hugs to both of you

E x

Thank you.

You too.  Wrap up warm, eat and drink plenty and know that lots of people care :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 25 December, 2008, 07:04:57 am
I'm surfing whilst everyone else is in bed, because pictures of bikes on the screen seems to annoy all my significant others.  O:-)

I'm trying to fine a fast hub-geared machine - just like the Charge Mixer but with clearances for 'guards and rack mounts. I'm getting nowhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 25 December, 2008, 07:09:55 am
Drinking tea and watching Coronation Street while I wait for the pain killers to work :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bez on 25 December, 2008, 07:34:46 am
Getting ready to go out cycling for a couple of hours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 25 December, 2008, 07:40:09 am
Waiting for the tea to brew and enjoying what is likely to be the most peaceful ten minutes of the day.  ;)

I wanted to buy a track pump yesterday and Mrs. TKP wouldn't let me, making reference to Christmas presents and it not being a good time to buy something like that. There is nothing track pump shaped in the presents pile though. I'm a bit excited.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 25 December, 2008, 07:44:30 am
I'm watching Emmerdale, while drinking tea.  They pain killers have now started to work :)

I've just had a call from Australia to wish me a Happy Christmas :) :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2008, 08:09:50 am
Eating porridge, waiting for the tea to brew and then taking the tandem for a quick blast along the sea front and taking the dog to the park, although those two might be transposed.

At 11 we need to collect GAP (Great Aunt Phyllis to the uninitiated) and then off to Daughter Ellen's for the day. Internet connections and crochet / knitting have been banned. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 25 December, 2008, 08:36:58 am
Quote from: annie on 25 December, 2008, 06:48:16 am
Watching JC open his presents.


Gold, Frankincense and Myrhh again?   ::-)

Oh no, wrong JC! 

IGMC    ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2008, 08:39:26 am
Quote from: Gordy on 25 December, 2008, 07:04:57 am
I'm surfing whilst everyone else is in bed, because pictures of bikes on the screen seems to annoy all my significant others.  O:-)

I'm trying to fine a fast hub-geared machine - just like the Charge Mixer but with clearances for 'guards and rack mounts. I'm getting nowhere.

Van Nicholas do a Ti Rohloff which looks lovely. http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes/touring/product/amazon-rohloff-08-30871

It's called the Amazon. I think you can even buy books there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 25 December, 2008, 08:59:13 am
Drinking a mug of coffee and getting ready to play for Mass.

Hope you feel better soon, Elleigh  :-*

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 25 December, 2008, 09:02:42 am
I have that festive spirit within & without me.

I am feeling the joy of having enough to eat & drink & a family to share it with :thumbsup:

I am counting blessings
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 25 December, 2008, 09:27:42 am
Drinking tea and getting ready to head off (on bikes, hurray!) to Crystal Tips' house: santa has left all our presents there. I hope!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 25 December, 2008, 09:46:32 am
I am doing the chief go-for thing in the kitchen.Acting on instructions from MWMBO
I go for this
Fetch that
Carry the thingy
Sort the do da's
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 25 December, 2008, 10:09:17 am
Quote from: FatBloke on 25 December, 2008, 08:36:58 am
Quote from: annie on 25 December, 2008, 06:48:16 am
Watching JC open his presents.


Gold, Frankincense and Myrhh again?   ::-)

Oh no, wrong JC! 

IGMC    ;D ;D ;D
:o :-*

JC is wearing a new hoodie and has taken refuge in his bedroom.  Meanwhile.... the dogs having been walked and are munching on their bones.  I am washed and dressed and looking forward to putting my new jim jams back on after lunch.



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 25 December, 2008, 10:12:01 am
Their own bones,whilst they still draw breath & have a pulse :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2008, 10:14:45 am
Back from dog walk, tandem ride abandoned due to lack of time. Must now get ready to bugger off for the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 25 December, 2008, 10:15:39 am
Watching "our" squirrel go through the commando course to raid the bird feeders.Tis quite entertaining.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: vorsprung on 25 December, 2008, 10:25:20 am
uploading video of lily describing her xmas pressies to youtube

it's taking a while, i guess everyone else is doing the same thing...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 25 December, 2008, 12:17:33 pm
Feeling the man-love for Magus Samuelsson. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 December, 2008, 01:56:47 pm
Warming up after a twelve mile very, very hilly blast. First two miles with mum cycling, Woolly cycling/walking, and sister running. Now waiting for the shower before we go out to see an old friend who's not well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 25 December, 2008, 02:09:36 pm
Quote from: andygates on 25 December, 2008, 12:17:33 pm
Feeling the man-love for Magus Samuelsson. :thumbsup:
Not that big wuss with the bleached moustache!?

Oh....erm....<leaves>  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 25 December, 2008, 03:43:26 pm
Putting on my new jim jams.... they are so very soft.  Bed socks at the ready. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 25 December, 2008, 04:13:25 pm
Letting the roast duck settle, while Naomi-chan goes for a quick run to work off some of the calories. Thinking of opening another bottle . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bez on 25 December, 2008, 04:40:30 pm
Still drinking....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2008, 05:58:58 pm
urrrp!   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 25 December, 2008, 06:07:02 pm

relaxing after 2 days of binge eating
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 25 December, 2008, 07:14:16 pm
Stirring the custard and feeding scraps of venison to the cat. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 25 December, 2008, 07:17:28 pm
The family have all gone and Alan is on the sofa snoring  :hand: please, having trouble hearing the tv
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 25 December, 2008, 07:19:09 pm
cheese, port, dates, blackadder christmas special with robbie coltraine.   Heaven.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 25 December, 2008, 09:18:03 pm
Feeling extraordinarily lucky. 

*warm fuzzies to all*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 25 December, 2008, 09:20:00 pm
Putting a programme together for tomorrow morning.  Up at 4.45 again  ???

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 25 December, 2008, 09:55:47 pm
Feeling an ickle bit poorly but not too much.  Recharging my camera battery and setting fire to a tulip.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 25 December, 2008, 10:03:38 pm
GWS Annie  :-*

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 25 December, 2008, 10:15:58 pm
Just hooverd and washed my kitchen floor. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 25 December, 2008, 10:50:21 pm
Posting as Woolly after a wonderful day's cycling, walking, eating, reading, tv-watching, gossiping, and being merry.  :thumbsup:

Peli
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 25 December, 2008, 11:07:41 pm
Finding out what happened at the family gathering, as I spent the day alone at home in isolation / quarantine.

 :(

Matthew
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 25 December, 2008, 11:59:58 pm
Poor you.  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 26 December, 2008, 01:00:07 am
Just finished locking up the station, going to get my head down for a bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 26 December, 2008, 02:32:48 am
Been reading a Wii manual on teh dunny!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 26 December, 2008, 09:43:44 am
Quote from: Jaded on 26 December, 2008, 02:32:48 am
Been reading a Wii manual on teh dunny!  :thumbsup:

I didn't know that Wii produce a manual for toilets!

Or that one was necessary.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 26 December, 2008, 09:46:22 am
Eating breakfast after my turbo session.  Trying to decide if I should go out for a run. Thinking about buying a new camera. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 26 December, 2008, 09:54:30 am
Getting ready for the 20 odd* friends that will be descending upon us from about 14:00 onwards!

* ALL of my friends are odd.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 26 December, 2008, 10:10:00 am
Waiting for the Young People of the house to get up. We're off to my parents this morning, and there's a lot of snoozing still going on.

I plan to ride there on the tandem, taking Daughter's young man with me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 26 December, 2008, 10:26:49 am
Watching Mrs and Misses Dan dance to selections from Now n+1  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 26 December, 2008, 10:34:05 am
Sitting in bed, drinking tea, surfing the web and thinking about making a list of all the things I need to do, I never seem to get past the thinking about it stage.

What I should be doing is my physio exercises.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 26 December, 2008, 10:35:40 am
Quote from: Clare on 26 December, 2008, 10:34:05 am
Sitting in bed, drinking tea, surfing the web and thinking about making a list of all the things I need to do, I never seem to get past the thinking about it stage.

That's what I am doing too. On my list are change the garage light switch, clean my bike, change my bike lamp, true the wheels I started to make.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 26 December, 2008, 11:04:23 am
Feeling relieved after doing a *huge* pile of dishes from last night's dinner. Six basins of hot soapy water later, it's done.

It was worth it - we had a great night. Bit foggy headed but not too bad!

Ooh, and I keep playing with my powerball and my arms are tired!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 26 December, 2008, 12:21:55 pm
We recently purchsed a new tube for Henry the vacuum cleaner, so I'm going to treat myself and do some  hoovering vacuuming.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 26 December, 2008, 12:37:04 pm
Settling down with food & drink to watch Stoke City beat ManU  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 26 December, 2008, 12:40:37 pm
Just waiting for the last run of samples to come off an analyser so that I can tidy up and head home, on-call now till tomorrow morning

edit: someone has just left another couple of samples - another 1/2 hour before I get home for lunch  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 26 December, 2008, 12:54:10 pm
It's 5.45 a.m. in Phoenix and, after having fallen asleep at 5.30 p.m. yesterday, I'm awake and feeling a lot better - the cold seems to have subsided somewhat.  I'm waiting for Mr R to wake up, so we can go and get some breakfast and hit the road.  It's off to the Grand Canyon today, via Montezuma's Castle National Monument and Sedona.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 26 December, 2008, 01:15:34 pm
Quote from: clifftaylor on 26 December, 2008, 12:21:55 pm
We recently purchsed a new tube for Henry the vacuum cleaner, so I'm going to treat myself and do some  hoovering vacuuming.  :thumbsup:
That's more like it!! Suckee suckee £13.73+VAT  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 December, 2008, 02:34:29 pm
Hiding away from the fumes of the smoker in the house... Uncle. He's not allowed to smoke indoors, but even the smell on his clothes sets me wheezing :( 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 26 December, 2008, 03:18:36 pm
Quote from: FatBloke on 26 December, 2008, 09:43:44 am
I didn't know that Wii produce a manual for toilets!

Or that one was necessary.   ;D
You've not been to Japan, then.  ;D

 Toto Toilets (http://tototoilets.net/)

BTW - the ones that talk to you are quite disconcerting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 26 December, 2008, 05:38:33 pm
Just got to work.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 26 December, 2008, 05:40:59 pm
Watching 'Deal or No Deal'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 26 December, 2008, 05:45:22 pm
Wondering how people can watch Deal or no deal?

Just open the feckin' boxes and put another show on, five minutes max!  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 26 December, 2008, 05:47:09 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 26 December, 2008, 05:45:22 pm
Wondering how people can watch Deal or no deal?

Just open the feckin' boxes and put another show on, five minutes max!  ::-)

Cos we play the odds, calculating the ratios as the show progresses.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peanut on 26 December, 2008, 05:48:54 pm
Quote from: rae on 07 November, 2008, 06:30:45 pm
Having a dump.

you are taking a pony n trap whilst on the PC ? :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 26 December, 2008, 05:49:23 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 26 December, 2008, 05:47:09 pm
Cos we play the odds, calculating the ratios as the show progresses.
Six minutes then.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 26 December, 2008, 05:49:57 pm
Quote from: alan on 26 December, 2008, 12:37:04 pm
Settling down with food & drink to watch Stoke City beat ManU  ;D

Yeah, about that :D

That said, Rotherham 1-0 Port Vale was :(

Back to the topic of the thread:

1 Feeling fat

2 Feeling sorry for myself

3 Just finishing the first bottle of cider of the evening

4 Contemplating whether I'm actually going to do anything tonight, or am I just going to pee another evening up the wall ::-)

5 Contemplating whether buying the replacement for a bike I haven't sold yet was a sensible thing to do...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peanut on 26 December, 2008, 05:50:37 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 07 November, 2008, 07:26:55 pm
Setting up a chess problem for my 7.30 pupil to solve.

well lets have it then  ::-)  or was it my move !...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 26 December, 2008, 06:03:25 pm
Finished a 'call' and about to head home for my tea  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 December, 2008, 06:11:21 pm
Drinking a pint of Woodfordes Wherry and planning next year's Audax schedule.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 26 December, 2008, 06:59:59 pm
Feeling very happy indeed after a most wonderful afternoon in the company of BentMikey, his Mum and MIL.  Sad to see them leave though.

I now feel warm, happy and ready to snuggle up on the sofa in my jim jams.

A very happy pixie.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 26 December, 2008, 09:05:20 pm
Wishing that all my guests would pack up and go home!   :-\ :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 26 December, 2008, 11:53:22 pm
Being sneaky.

My family of dullards have a number of bottles of spirits (or spurts if you have the misfortune of being in Norfolk as I do right now) and I'm just about to pour myself a massive tubmbler of all of them! (each one only has about 1" taken off the top) The reason being that they'd think I was a piss head1 if I took my required volume from only one source - so I'm gunna have to mix 'em up!

*Gets all SAS in the kitchen without waking anyone up*

1 Yes. I know  :P

Edit: As I had to do this in the dark, I have a problem. I seem to have included vinegar in my concoction and judging by the viscosity - extra virgin olive oil too!

Oh well - bottoms up!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 December, 2008, 12:13:41 am
Shall we be very quiet in the morning?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 27 December, 2008, 12:17:18 am
Quote from: clarion on 27 December, 2008, 12:13:41 am
Shall we be very quiet in the morning?

*feels sick*

Please do!

*Goes to bed*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 December, 2008, 12:19:46 am
Methinks Bobb will shortly be engaged in a face to face discussion with Mr A Shanks  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 December, 2008, 12:22:02 am
Playing backgammon on the internoodle while listening to a Youtube of Jimmy Page 1957.  (He wants to go into biological research when he grows up)



Oh, and eating peanuts.  I was going to get a last drink, but bobb has sort of put me off that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 December, 2008, 12:24:25 am
Losing at scrabble to Butterfly.  Oh well. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 December, 2008, 12:25:50 am
Is it Strip Scrabble?

And if not, why not?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 December, 2008, 12:27:55 am
No

And because Our Kid is in the room.

Tho it'd be just as well that Butterfly were winning if we were playing, because she feels the cold a lot more than me ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 December, 2008, 12:30:35 am
Ah.   Sorry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 27 December, 2008, 12:31:52 am
escaping from the appalling movie on ITV that my lovely bride of 39 years insisted on watching.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 27 December, 2008, 12:32:48 am
... and trying to purge the imprint of clarion losing at strip scrabble.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Fi on 27 December, 2008, 12:33:50 am
You're missing the two Ronnies on BBC2!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 27 December, 2008, 12:34:14 am
I KNOW  !!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ABlipInContinuity on 27 December, 2008, 12:37:02 am
Watching "A History of Violence" (Film 4) whilst my beloved sleeps.
Agonising over which cycling shoes to buy, predominantly for commuting, but also kicking roadie hide!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Fi on 27 December, 2008, 12:38:26 am
Quote from: JohnP on 27 December, 2008, 12:34:14 am
I KNOW  !!!!

I'd offer to record it for you if I knew how to work the damn thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 December, 2008, 12:39:34 am
So, it's "goodnight" from me.............................
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 27 December, 2008, 07:14:26 am
Just taken the watch tea in bed. Sorting out the crewing for next tour....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 27 December, 2008, 08:46:06 am
Lying in bed, watching the sun come up and planning a ride for today. Sunshine, east wind and around freezing all day, should be lovely.

Over to Wowbagger, let the innuendo commence.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 27 December, 2008, 12:49:03 pm
Just taken the dog for a walk on the Common.  Lovely crisp frost underfoot :)

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 27 December, 2008, 02:04:41 pm
Not feeling very well. And also a little emotional as a rather spiteful person laid into me on Christmas Day and said some very ungrateful things about the gifts I bought them and their kids. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RichForrest on 27 December, 2008, 02:08:31 pm
Hope you feel better soon LE, If it was me I'd tell them where to stick the presents if they don't like them.
Hope your upcoming birthday is better (same day as my daughters :))

Rich.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 27 December, 2008, 02:17:42 pm
Getting the bike ready to ride in the morning.  Wishing I hadn't had more chocolate :sick:  About to get into my jim jams and settle down in front of the fire.

Elleigh, remember the saying about the dog?

Well just do the business and walk away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 27 December, 2008, 02:23:02 pm
Cleaned bike for tomorrow's Skog fest. Some lubrication still needed.

Now munching homemade-by-me sausage rolls and watching Dr. Strangelove on TV.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2008, 02:27:06 pm
I've just finished lunch, which was disaster bread, smoked salmon, the smelliest brie in the world and some fruit.

The disaster bread was cooked on Christmas Eve. Our bread maker is rather old and its paddle has lost a lot of the non-stick. When the loaf was finished, I turned the bucket upside down and shook. It was stuck more firmly than usual and instead of the loaf coming out whole, the top burst open and all the flake, which had detached itself from the crust, fell out leaving a hollow crust behind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 27 December, 2008, 02:38:38 pm
Rode into to town to turn a gift voucher into goods or services, attempted to have a mooch for a bargain but fled in terror after an hour due to the crowds resembling a fatal stampede at a rock festival.

Now in a quieter part of town and about to go and find food and coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 December, 2008, 03:21:16 pm
Just back from town (?  ::-) ) were I went to get a few essential pro-things.  Crikey, it's cold.
Arrived home to find #1 son at the wood pile chopping wood.  Good oh.   :thumbsup:
Lent him a hand by geting in the way a lot and giving lots of unhelpful advice. 

Now then, tonight's meal.  Turkey and what?  I'll make a start in a minute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Maffie on 27 December, 2008, 03:21:52 pm
Just had a walk to wollies and got books and CDs and choccies etc etc.... many a great bargain
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 27 December, 2008, 04:25:46 pm
Wishing I hadn't fallen asleep (again) as I now feel dreadful and am going to lie down again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 December, 2008, 05:11:12 pm
Just about to boil a bunny.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 27 December, 2008, 07:03:20 pm
Waiting for our sons to return from their Liverpool shopping trip (yes they are most definitely mad) and enjoying the smell of curry emanating from the kitchen. Its turkey curry, we just happened to have some left over meat in the fridge so I thought, curry, why not, its traditional. Oh, and sipping a glass of Pinot Grigio and listening to The Dixie Chicks while I wait. Its all the better for a ride around the Arctic circle Fylde countryside earlier today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 27 December, 2008, 07:17:33 pm
Turning leftovers into game soup, and fettling Nero back into road mode.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 27 December, 2008, 07:18:17 pm
listening to the wireless. Just finished my first wheel build and modified another front lamp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 27 December, 2008, 08:40:52 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 27 December, 2008, 05:11:12 pm
Just about to boil a bunny.

Hmmmm.  Is that what you were doing in the woods?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 27 December, 2008, 08:53:22 pm
Watching a programme about University Challenge.

Coming from a very working class background, University Challenge was my only exposure to University as a child. I watched avidly and it was the single thing that allowed a working class girl the belief that there was something better out there than working in the EverReady Battery factory. Unfortunately the programme ended in 1987. I was due to go up in 1988. Still I was the first female member of my family and only the second member of my family to go to University. The first to graduate with a First Class and the first to research a doctorate. So I have a lot to thank the programme for. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 27 December, 2008, 09:09:08 pm
Go Elleigh!  :thumbsup:

I'm panicking about tomorrow's route and weather and trying in vain to come up with a nice alternative...  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2008, 09:13:53 pm
Recovering after a game of Scrabble.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 27 December, 2008, 09:25:51 pm
Trying to inveigle my family into a game of scrabble on Facebook, since Clarion is watching a film on his computer with superstoker so can't finish the current game.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 27 December, 2008, 09:27:29 pm
you have just reintroduced that dreadfull image from last night ....


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 27 December, 2008, 10:54:43 pm
Trying to push back the boundaries of ignorance whilst simultaneously and unrelatedly discovering I really don't get shakespeare.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 December, 2008, 12:44:41 am
Just been getting 205 on Wii ten pin bowling.  :thumbsup:

Only the second time I've played it...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 December, 2008, 09:03:57 am
Eating porridge and preparing for a cold ride to my brother's place.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 28 December, 2008, 09:08:50 am
Dreading my birthday

:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 28 December, 2008, 09:32:16 am
sitting on the bog with a poorly tummy  :o :sick: :hand: :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 28 December, 2008, 12:19:01 pm
Quote from: LE on 28 December, 2008, 09:08:50 am
Dreading my birthday

:(

Poor you  :(, when is it and why are you dreading it?

Mine's tomorrow and I'm looking forward to it  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 28 December, 2008, 12:52:00 pm
Have a lovely Birthday Gill, you share a birthday with my Uncle. I'm looking forward to taking him a card, some chocolates and out to lunch. Are you doing anything nice tomorrow?

I'm not looking forward to my birthday as I'm worried that a spiteful ex will try and do something to spoil my day, so I think I'm going into hiding until it is all over. I was going away, but I can't travel due to some treatment I have to have, so I've put my travel date back to the end of the month.  Perhaps - should postpone my birthday to then.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 December, 2008, 01:12:11 pm
Eating a toasted cheese and  Marmite sandwich.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 28 December, 2008, 01:18:33 pm
Travelling Northwards at 125mph.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 December, 2008, 01:27:33 pm
Now afters. A quarter of a Terry's Chocolate Orange, what Santa brought me for Christmas.

Yum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 28 December, 2008, 01:36:20 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 28 December, 2008, 01:12:11 pm
Eating a toasted cheese and  Marmite sandwich.

I think you have just christened lunch.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 December, 2008, 03:10:24 pm
Quote from: simonp on 28 December, 2008, 01:18:33 pm
Travelling Northwards at 125mph.


Shouldn't you be keeping your eyes on the road then? :o (or are you a black cab driver? ;) ) ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 28 December, 2008, 05:03:05 pm
Quote from: LE on 28 December, 2008, 12:52:00 pm
Have a lovely Birthday Gill, you share a birthday with my Uncle. I'm looking forward to taking him a card, some chocolates and out to lunch. Are you doing anything nice tomorrow?

I'm not looking forward to my birthday as I'm worried that a spiteful ex will try and do something to spoil my day, so I think I'm going into hiding until it is all over. I was going away, but I can't travel due to some treatment I have to have, so I've put my travel date back to the end of the month.  Perhaps - should postpone my birthday to then.   

Thanks Ellie, hope yours isn't as bad as you expect it to be. No plans for tomorrow, both boys home and we are eating out tomorrow night, maybe a short cycle ride to test out the new gear I will be acquiring  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 December, 2008, 05:10:11 pm
Running a bath. I'm going to see The Lost Soul Band tonight. I'd rather be home in bed though as I still have a touch of lurgy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 December, 2008, 06:48:51 pm
Being sleepy and getting ready to eat great pile of pasta :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 28 December, 2008, 07:25:22 pm
working.  Off to london tomorrow, oh deepest of deep joy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 December, 2008, 08:58:36 pm
Suffering from post ride comedown (I assume) and feeling utterly crap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 28 December, 2008, 09:21:03 pm
Smoking a licquorice pipe
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 28 December, 2008, 09:22:25 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 28 December, 2008, 08:58:36 pm
Suffering from post ride comedown (I assume) and feeling utterly crap.

Well you should be feeling amazing cos yet again you were the source of a great days cycling  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 28 December, 2008, 09:24:52 pm
Coughing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 December, 2008, 09:31:01 pm
Quote from: annie on 28 December, 2008, 09:24:52 pm
Coughing

*Feeling rather guilty*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 28 December, 2008, 09:31:41 pm

Watching NFL
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 28 December, 2008, 09:32:30 pm
Quote from: BentMikey on 28 December, 2008, 09:31:01 pm
Quote from: annie on 28 December, 2008, 09:24:52 pm
Coughing

*Feeling rather guilty*

No, no, no.. I am a big girl.  Tis coming into the warmth that triggered it off.  Wouldn't change a thing about today. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 December, 2008, 09:41:50 pm
Eating mince pies & drinking tea  :P

I decided to go the long way back from lunch at my parents, but forgot I'd left my fully charged headtorch at home. So 33 Km on some darkish roads with my front lights at half charge. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 December, 2008, 09:45:10 pm
Quote from: LE on 28 December, 2008, 12:52:00 pm
I'm not looking forward to my birthday as I'm worried that a spiteful ex will try and do something to spoil my day, so I think I'm going into hiding until it is all over. I was going away, but I can't travel due to some treatment I have to have, so I've put my travel date back to the end of the month.  Perhaps - should postpone my birthday to then.   

Can you book into a nice hotel (or spa) near enough to get to the hospital?  Treat yourself to some pampering, and keep the mobile turned off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 December, 2008, 10:42:27 pm
Painting planets for Miss Z's orrery.

I'm quite proud of Jupiter (the two halves need pushing together properly when the paint is finished)

(http://www.peeble.com/jupiter.jpg)

Should I paint Uranus next?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 December, 2008, 11:48:49 pm
Feeling pleased because I had a great time seeing The Lost Soul Band tonight, had a quick chat with percussionist Gav who I used to be friendly with,  and said hi to Sandy and was very impressed he remembered my name given I've not seen him since about 1994.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 December, 2008, 12:57:13 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 28 December, 2008, 10:42:27 pm
Painting planets for Miss Z's orrery.

I'm quite proud of Jupiter (the two halves need pushing together properly when the paint is finished)

(http://www.peeble.com/jupiter.jpg)

Should I paint Uranus next?  ;)

I think your lavender still life <fnerk> is much more impressive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2008, 01:21:34 am
I'm about to shut down the computer and go to bed. Goodnight all you insomniacs and other perverts! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 December, 2008, 12:08:22 pm
Recovering from a three mile very hilly run with my sis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 29 December, 2008, 12:20:28 pm
Just back from the hospital and feeling a little sore.

I'm now settling down to what 'Black Beard' that I taped. Yarhh me Jim lad. Splice the main sails.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 December, 2008, 12:26:59 pm
Hugs to elleigh's sore bits :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 29 December, 2008, 12:31:54 pm
My mum's just called to say she is going to fetch my uncle. It's his birthday today, he's 80 today. They will pick me up on the way back to go somewhere for lunch. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2008, 01:22:07 pm
Happy birthday, LE's Uncle!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 29 December, 2008, 01:24:34 pm
Panting for breath and shaking having just gone back to the hundred push up challenge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 29 December, 2008, 01:31:03 pm
Wondering who the green yacf jersey clad cyclist that Ms Weasel saw from the bus in Putney Heath is.

Clue:  Not me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 29 December, 2008, 01:44:46 pm
Greenbank maybe?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2008, 01:48:02 pm
Twas my thought.  It wasn't me, certainly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 29 December, 2008, 01:59:58 pm
It's not me because I am at work (boo)

And because I'm currently far too fat for my optimistic purchase of an L sized jersey.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 29 December, 2008, 02:00:32 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 29 December, 2008, 01:31:03 pm
Wondering who the green yacf jersey clad cyclist that Ms Weasel saw from the bus in Putney Heath is.

Clue:  Not me.
I haz a green yacf jersey or two.  But it weren't me.  I've been in Cambridge, now back in Derby.  And my only cycling has been to/from the bus stop on my Rowing-Club-Coloured brompton.  Due to the fact that I'm making inroads into the EU Snot Mountain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 29 December, 2008, 02:01:02 pm
beaming, sweating and modelling, after just returning from the gym by bike.

wasn't me in the green jersey in Putney Heath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 29 December, 2008, 02:48:39 pm
About to fit some new forks to the fixed. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 29 December, 2008, 03:11:46 pm
Not me. I don't have a yacf jersey, and I still haven't been out on my bike yet (DIY100 tomorrow though).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 29 December, 2008, 03:14:05 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 29 December, 2008, 01:31:03 pm
Wondering who the green yacf jersey clad cyclist that Ms Weasel saw from the bus in Putney Heath is.

Clue:  Not me.

[Puts hand up nervously] Round about lunchtime today?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 29 December, 2008, 03:38:25 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 29 December, 2008, 03:14:05 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 29 December, 2008, 01:31:03 pm
Wondering who the green yacf jersey clad cyclist that Ms Weasel saw from the bus in Putney Heath is.

Clue:  Not me.

[Puts hand up nervously] Round about lunchtime today?

Yep!

<Ticks PaulF off list of yacf member i-spy book*>

*it took far too long to remember what that was called, all for that one, weak throwaway gag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 December, 2008, 06:21:04 pm
Regretting wearing my black knee boots last night as they have ripped the skin of both my heels. Ouchy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bez on 29 December, 2008, 08:37:08 pm
Listening to Folkwaves (Radio Derby) on t'internet. Great programme.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 29 December, 2008, 08:53:10 pm
Going to my bed, don't feel quite right.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 29 December, 2008, 09:10:31 pm
GWS Annie

I'm writing to my cousin, but feeling a little sore.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 29 December, 2008, 09:14:02 pm
Playing scrabble on facebook with my dad. :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2008, 09:35:41 pm
Bodybuilding (chocolate gingers).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2008, 10:01:51 pm
*Kisses Kirst's feet better, and wishes GWS to Annie*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 29 December, 2008, 10:14:33 pm
enjoying a glass of Tobermory after watching the appalling display by our Olympians on "... Millionaire" this evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 December, 2008, 10:32:49 pm
Wiping Clarion's slavers off my feet, and scanning old photos and howling with laughter at some of them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 December, 2008, 10:53:44 pm
Watching, astounded at the truly unbelievable speed at which #1 Daughter can type on a laptop keyboard  :o.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 29 December, 2008, 10:55:00 pm
Trying to work out why some really nifty code I wrote three years ago is now broken.

And with a deadline looming. I need more tea/coffee/fattening foodstuffs.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2008, 11:28:45 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 29 December, 2008, 10:55:00 pm
Trying to work out why some really nifty code I wrote three years ago is now broken.

And with a deadline looming. I need more tea/coffee/fattening foodstuffs.

..d

Millennium bug?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 30 December, 2008, 10:43:33 am
Building up to taking the cat to the vet. She will probably not be coming back. Everyone is a little bit upset at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 December, 2008, 11:04:17 am
Waiting for an answer on a customer service line... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 30 December, 2008, 11:07:21 am
Quote from: Kirst on 29 December, 2008, 06:21:04 pm
Regretting wearing my black knee boots last night as they have ripped the skin of both my heels. Ouchy.

That'll serve you right for dressing up to go to the chippy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 30 December, 2008, 11:13:40 am
2nd breakfast
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 December, 2008, 12:13:01 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 30 December, 2008, 11:07:21 am

That'll serve you right for dressing up to go to the chippy!

Cheeky! I went to see The Lost Soul Band at the Picture House (because the Liquid Rooms burnt down). I recommend everyone goes to see them tonight in Glasgow at King Tut's.  I don't wear proper shoes very often, I tend to stick to trainers, and those boots are quite stiff leather and the skin on my feet is quite soft - apart from the places where now there is no skin, just raw weeping patches.  :sick: Ouch. Sore.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 30 December, 2008, 01:49:47 pm
Waiting for the RAC :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 30 December, 2008, 05:40:13 pm
Jeez, you are one unlucky girl!!   What did you do wrong in a past life??
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 30 December, 2008, 05:47:22 pm
I was pondering the same thought :( 

A very nice man from the AA rescued me :).  The car is now moving again, thank goodness. So I'm currently warming myself by the fire and drinking a large cup of tea :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 30 December, 2008, 05:50:04 pm
Sat in my jim jams waiting for dinner.

My cheeks are glowing and I am ravenous. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2008, 05:53:31 pm
Thinking about having my final shower of the year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 30 December, 2008, 05:53:41 pm
Drinking tea and listening to Dixie Chicks but feeling sorry for myself. Don't you just hate mouth ulcers? Three of the buggers at the moment.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 30 December, 2008, 08:02:53 pm
Sat in the lounge with the family, full of Pizza and Wine - having a larf  :thumbsup:.

#1 Daughter & partner return to Londonton tomorrow :(. So begins the return to the usual routine. It's been a good holiday.

What I can remember of it (http://www.ivy-house.org.uk/images/whistle.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 30 December, 2008, 09:28:26 pm
Stuffed on Woolly's homemade ice cream (wow is all I'll say). About to finish my book (Pat Barker's Still Life - excellent).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2008, 10:51:02 pm
Thinking about that having-eaten-too-much feeling and trying to remember the last time I was not aware of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: keepontriking on 30 December, 2008, 11:06:27 pm
Just finished watching the Bourne Ultimatum on DVD and picked a plaster off the finger I cut when slicing this bread this morning.
Its still oozing red stuff. So its off to find something to sort it.

Oh look there's the whisky bottle  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cometworm on 31 December, 2008, 12:32:55 am
Failing miserably to get to sleep. Even the more obscure financial blogs in my RSS feed aren't doing the job.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RichForrest on 31 December, 2008, 12:56:57 am
Quote from: annie on 30 December, 2008, 05:50:04 pm
Sat in my jim jams waiting for dinner.

My cheeks are glowing and I am ravenous. 

Not got that saddle sorted yet then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geraldc on 31 December, 2008, 04:35:50 am
Watching TV in Hong Kong, trying to get the energy together to run some errands. Slept funny a couple of nights ago so have a stiff neck, so can't be bothered to go out for NYE, so instead I'm planning to hit the supermarket and get as much junk food as I can and watch the fireworks on TV.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:39:39 am
Quote from: RichForrest on 31 December, 2008, 12:56:57 am
Quote from: annie on 30 December, 2008, 05:50:04 pm
Sat in my jim jams waiting for dinner.

My cheeks are glowing and I am ravenous. 

Not got that saddle sorted yet then?

Tut, tut.  Not the ones below. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 31 December, 2008, 08:46:46 am
Waiting for the Doctor to ring me back.

I haz a poorly elbow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:48:21 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 31 December, 2008, 08:46:46 am
Waiting for the Doctor to ring me back.

I haz a poorly elbow.

Ouch.  I hope you get seen promptish.  Shall I send some grapes?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 31 December, 2008, 08:48:36 am
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:39:39 am
Quote from: RichForrest on 31 December, 2008, 12:56:57 am
Quote from: annie on 30 December, 2008, 05:50:04 pm
Sat in my jim jams waiting for dinner.

My cheeks are glowing and I am ravenous. 

Not got that saddle sorted yet then?

Tut, tut.  Not the ones below. ;)

Quite peachy though.  ;)  LOL!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 31 December, 2008, 08:48:51 am
GWS Tim :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:51:47 am
Quote from: BentMikey on 31 December, 2008, 08:48:36 am
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:39:39 am
Quote from: RichForrest on 31 December, 2008, 12:56:57 am
Quote from: annie on 30 December, 2008, 05:50:04 pm
Sat in my jim jams waiting for dinner.

My cheeks are glowing and I am ravenous. 

Not got that saddle sorted yet then?

Tut, tut.  Not the ones below. ;)

Quite peachy though.  ;)  LOL!

Did you see? :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 31 December, 2008, 09:18:33 am
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:48:21 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 31 December, 2008, 08:46:46 am
Waiting for the Doctor to ring me back.

I haz a poorly elbow.

Ouch.  I hope you get seen promptish.  Shall I send some grapes?

Being seen at 1020, having been triaged over the phone.

Yes plz send grapes.

And thanks LE too for the GWS.

Today's words are "olecranon bursa" 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 31 December, 2008, 09:21:58 am
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:51:47 am
Quote from: BentMikey on 31 December, 2008, 08:48:36 am
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:39:39 am
Quote from: RichForrest on 31 December, 2008, 12:56:57 am
Quote from: annie on 30 December, 2008, 05:50:04 pm
Sat in my jim jams waiting for dinner.

My cheeks are glowing and I am ravenous. 

Not got that saddle sorted yet then?

Tut, tut.  Not the ones below. ;)

Quite peachy though.  ;)  LOL!

Did you see? :o

LOL yeah.  But only in your Assos, so I've no idea if they were glowing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 31 December, 2008, 11:05:39 am
Quote from: BentMikey on 31 December, 2008, 09:21:58 am
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:51:47 am
Quote from: BentMikey on 31 December, 2008, 08:48:36 am
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:39:39 am
Quote from: RichForrest on 31 December, 2008, 12:56:57 am
Quote from: annie on 30 December, 2008, 05:50:04 pm
Sat in my jim jams waiting for dinner.

My cheeks are glowing and I am ravenous. 

Not got that saddle sorted yet then?

Tut, tut.  Not the ones below. ;)

Quite peachy though.  ;)  LOL!

Did you see? :o

LOL yeah.  But only in your Assos, so I've no idea if they were glowing.

Assos cheeks.Nice phrase dontyathink :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 11:42:46 am
Quote from: alan on 31 December, 2008, 11:05:39 am
Quote from: BentMikey on 31 December, 2008, 09:21:58 am
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:51:47 am
Quote from: BentMikey on 31 December, 2008, 08:48:36 am
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 08:39:39 am
Quote from: RichForrest on 31 December, 2008, 12:56:57 am
Quote from: annie on 30 December, 2008, 05:50:04 pm
Sat in my jim jams waiting for dinner.

My cheeks are glowing and I am ravenous. 

Not got that saddle sorted yet then?

Tut, tut.  Not the ones below. ;)

Quite peachy though.  ;)  LOL!

Did you see? :o

LOL yeah.  But only in your Assos, so I've no idea if they were glowing.

Assos cheeks.Nice phrase dontyathink :demon:

Perhaps a new forum name?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 31 December, 2008, 12:25:26 pm

stiff leg deadlifts

bent over rows

reverse flyes


yes I am on my own in the office again
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 December, 2008, 12:27:51 pm
Wondering whether to confess to a Terrible Crime.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: onb on 31 December, 2008, 12:28:22 pm
Watching some vintage Led Zepplin on tv.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 31 December, 2008, 12:29:56 pm
I'm back from the hospital. I'm havin lunch with my friend Linz and her daughter Abs and then we are going to the rescue centre to see about getting Abs a cat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 31 December, 2008, 12:32:01 pm
Quote from: LE on 31 December, 2008, 12:29:56 pm
I'm back from the hospital. I'm havin lunch with my friend Linz and her daughter Abs and then we are going to the rescue centre to see about getting Abs a cat.

Sounds great.  I'm stuck in front of a pc typing up some paperwork and popping into yacf too often...  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 12:33:47 pm
Waiting for the floor to dry, dog number 3 just walked in with mud and then proceeded to do a merry dance, after I had finished washing the floor.

The fire is getting going.  The ironing is waiting in a pile but I have better things to be doing with my time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 31 December, 2008, 12:33:58 pm
Wearing my new YACF buff indoors in a pirate style whilst at the PC.Marj says I look about as much use as tits onna fish :o
No change there then ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 31 December, 2008, 12:40:25 pm
Quote from: alan on 31 December, 2008, 12:33:58 pm
Wearing my new YACF buff indoors in a pirate style whilst at the PC.Marj says I look about as much use as tits onna fish :o
No change there then ::-)

Bugger.  I've been doing that since I got mine  8)

Almost forgot to take it off for bed last night  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 31 December, 2008, 12:45:35 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 31 December, 2008, 12:27:51 pm
Wondering whether to confess to a Terrible Crime.
G'wan g'wan g'wan whatdidyoudo?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 December, 2008, 02:00:18 pm
Corruption in a public office, M le Maire? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 December, 2008, 02:07:36 pm
Wishing the ironing fairy would pay a visit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 31 December, 2008, 02:11:10 pm
Looking at cats. Abs wants them all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 31 December, 2008, 04:14:06 pm
Deciding on a beverage with which to begin today's festivities.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 31 December, 2008, 04:31:58 pm
Worrying about my sister. A lot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 December, 2008, 04:36:30 pm
Wishing I hadn't forgotten my (non yacf) buff which I will need for the cold tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 December, 2008, 04:53:10 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 31 December, 2008, 04:31:58 pm
Worrying about my sister. A lot.

Oh no!

Am running a bath so as to be clean for the new year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 31 December, 2008, 07:20:54 pm
Eyeing up the bottle of wine that's sitting on the worktop.

Debating whether to post a new topic on here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 31 December, 2008, 07:27:08 pm
I am revving up the alchometer.Starting with Asti Spumanti(a.k.a. Tarts Wine in Pocklington).
We need a boozy,smiling smiley for later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 31 December, 2008, 07:31:32 pm
Waiting for my Salmon en croute to finish cooking. Mmmmm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 31 December, 2008, 07:41:11 pm
Dressing as a pirate and charging the batteries of two soundsystems :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 31 December, 2008, 07:42:25 pm
Fighting off the need to sleep. I'm getting old. :s
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2008, 07:49:56 pm
 I finished work at one, got home had some chicken soup & went to bed.  I've just got up.  Going to have a quiet night. -2 and foggy here so I'm wrapped up in a fleecy tracksuit with the heating  on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 December, 2008, 09:38:51 pm
Waiting for Mrs Brush to get in.
Lamb casserole ready.  Wine uncorked.  Lads gone out to local party. TV thrown into garden.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:46:53 pm
I'm wasting my life. I think I ought to find something useful to do prior to midnight. Any suggestions?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 09:49:07 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:46:53 pm
I'm wasting my life. I think I ought to find something useful to do prior to midnight. Any suggestions?



Shall we play a game?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 December, 2008, 09:49:49 pm
I'm playing Scrabble online with someone in the same room... :-\ ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:50:38 pm
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 09:49:07 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:46:53 pm
I'm wasting my life. I think I ought to find something useful to do prior to midnight. Any suggestions?



Shall we play a game?


Yes. What do you have in mind?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:52:03 pm
Hide and seek, is it?

Ready or not, I'm coming! :o

(listens for the titters)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 09:52:47 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:52:03 pm
Hide and seek, is it?

Ready or not, I'm coming! :o

(listens for the titters)

Ohhh I say.

*runs off to hide*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:53:17 pm
Behind the sofa!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 09:54:20 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:53:17 pm
Behind the sofa!

No, not at all warm.  Try again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:54:50 pm
Downstairs bog?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 09:55:31 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:54:50 pm
Downstairs bog?

That's my favourite place but not this time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 09:55:58 pm
I'll give you a little clue....

pixies can fit into tiny places :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:56:22 pm
Underneath the bed that collapsed when Mrs. Wow and I were in it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:56:50 pm
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 09:55:58 pm
I'll give you a little clue....

pixies can fit into tiny places :)

In your jim-jams?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 09:58:27 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:56:22 pm
Underneath the bed that collapsed when Mrs. Wow and I were in it?

That's a cavernous place and probably full of fluff and demons, maybe the reason for my nightmares of late.

Not in my jim jams, no.

Try again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 31 December, 2008, 09:58:49 pm
Just had a Pedigree over dinner and then a Tangle Foot after dinner and I'm now about to crack open a Golden Champion from Badger brewery.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:59:20 pm
So I'm searching for Annie who has already taken her jim-jams off.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:00:07 pm
Do you have a cupboard under the stairs?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 31 December, 2008, 10:00:39 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:59:20 pm
So I'm searching for Annie who has already taken her jim-jams off.  :thumbsup:
Try the kitchen. In a cupboard where the clingfilm and marmite are kept.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:01:25 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 31 December, 2008, 10:00:39 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:59:20 pm
So I'm searching for Annie who has already taken her jim-jams off.  :thumbsup:
Try the kitchen. In a cupboard where the clingfilm and marmite are kept.

Good thinking, Del.

In a cupboard where the clingfilm and marmite are kept?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:02:24 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:00:07 pm
Do you have a cupboard under the stairs?

Yes, it is small and houses the electrical bits and bobs.  No I am not in it.  I am still in my jim jams, not hiding in them but in them.

The place I am hiding is










not very comfortable and is dark but quite warm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:02:52 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 31 December, 2008, 10:00:39 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:59:20 pm
So I'm searching for Annie who has already taken her jim-jams off.  :thumbsup:
Try the kitchen. In a cupboard where the clingfilm and marmite are kept.

Have you been peeping?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:03:40 pm
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:02:52 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 31 December, 2008, 10:00:39 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:59:20 pm
So I'm searching for Annie who has already taken her jim-jams off.  :thumbsup:
Try the kitchen. In a cupboard where the clingfilm and marmite are kept.

Have you been peeping?

Who, me?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:04:32 pm
The airing cupboard!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 31 December, 2008, 10:04:45 pm
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:02:52 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 31 December, 2008, 10:00:39 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 09:59:20 pm
So I'm searching for Annie who has already taken her jim-jams off.  :thumbsup:
Try the kitchen. In a cupboard where the clingfilm and marmite are kept.

Have you been peeping?
Have I won or are you accusing me of rifling through your drawers!  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:06:17 pm
Sotto voce: I didn't think she wore any...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 31 December, 2008, 10:10:25 pm
I always assume only one answer to the OP Q. Sitting here typing this because I am a sad (as in sorrowful) old person with nothing else - never mind better - to do on New Year's Eve.
Looking forward to sleeping pills and kip - as bloody usual.
Second worst night for a retired drunk after Xmas Eve.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:10:57 pm
On the middle shelf of the airing cupboard :thumbsup:

No Del you haven't won.  Clingfilm and marmite on a Thursday, I ask you?

Mr WB, you are in for a really tough time on Saturday.   :demon:

Time for you two to hide now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:12:20 pm
OK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 31 December, 2008, 10:14:38 pm
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:10:57 pm
No Del you haven't won.  Clingfilm and marmite on a Thursday, I ask you?
Good job it's Wednesday then!  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:15:35 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 31 December, 2008, 10:14:38 pm
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:10:57 pm
No Del you haven't won.  Clingfilm and marmite on a Thursday, I ask you?
Good job it's Wednesday then!  :-*

Oh heck.  I was sure it was Thursday last time I looked.  It has been a strange day.  Lots of weird things happening.  I even brushed my hair for the first and last time this year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:15:53 pm
I thought that but I thought that Del might already have cycled into Thursday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:22:48 pm
Coming ready or not..... are you in the vegetable basket?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:23:09 pm
No.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:24:04 pm
Are you dressed in red and up the chimney again?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:29:10 pm
That would be ridiculous. Try again. By the way, I think Del has cheated and gone for a bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:31:10 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:29:10 pm
That would be ridiculous. Try again. By the way, I think Del has cheated and gone for a bike ride.

Well you do ridiculous amazingly well. 

So if you are not in the vegetable basket nor up the chimney I guess you might be in the broom cupboard or in the map cupboard?

Del will be in trouble if he has.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:32:08 pm
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:31:10 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:29:10 pm
That would be ridiculous. Try again. By the way, I think Del has cheated and gone for a bike ride.

Well you do ridiculous amazingly well. 

So if you are not in the vegetable basket nor up the chimney I guess you might be in the broom cupboard or in the map cupboard?

Del will be in trouble if he has.

No and no.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 31 December, 2008, 10:32:16 pm
Drinking a massive cup of tea. I love tea :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:33:32 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:32:08 pm
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:31:10 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:29:10 pm
That would be ridiculous. Try again. By the way, I think Del has cheated and gone for a bike ride.

Well you do ridiculous amazingly well. 

So if you are not in the vegetable basket nor up the chimney I guess you might be in the broom cupboard or in the map cupboard?

Del will be in trouble if he has.

No and no.

In dad's knitting bag?

Can I have a clue please?

Edit:  I know where you are but I am not going to tell, you have to guess. O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:34:22 pm
Have a really big think and you might find me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:35:00 pm
I'm in Del's saddlebag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:35:41 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:35:00 pm
I'm in Del's saddlebag.

Bloody hell, that's one big bag then.

Stop being silly.  I know you are in the Granny Annexe and so do you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:36:42 pm
How did you know that?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:37:16 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:36:42 pm
How did you know that?

Because I am wearing magic jim jams.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 31 December, 2008, 10:38:53 pm
Quote from: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:37:16 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:36:42 pm
How did you know that?

Because I am wearing magic jim jams.
...over marmite and clingfilm.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:39:27 pm
That gives you an unfair advantage I would have thought. Do the Olympic committee know about them, or were they designed by Frenchie?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2008, 10:40:50 pm
Anyway, I must take some time out now. I've got to make a loaf for tomorrow and prepare a load of batter for our Yorkshire pud.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 10:42:18 pm
Not after 9pm Del. ;)

It is a secret you know, just between the three of us.

Off now and make your loaf.  I have a date with a yoga mat and a candle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 31 December, 2008, 10:50:08 pm
I'm drinking whisky macs, which are disgusting, but traditional.

I'm also surfing and agonising about which bike to buy with my Cyclescheme thingy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 31 December, 2008, 11:20:39 pm
Watching the cat snuggle under the fleece rug on my mum's lap. Aww.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 12:01:32 am
Celebrating surviving another year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 01 January, 2009, 01:27:34 am
It's New Year...I'm counting my blessings
Marj
Emily
 Claire
Simon
 Kira
Mum
Stepfather
Health
Home
Food
Drink
Bikes
Job
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 01 January, 2009, 01:40:17 am
Chillin'


Man
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 08:47:41 am
I've had my porridge, I'm sipping my tea, when it's cool enough I'll have my tablet, then I'll sweep the kitchen floor and make a suet pudding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 01 January, 2009, 08:52:15 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 08:47:41 am
I've had my porridge, I'm sipping my tea, when it's cool enough I'll have my tablet, then I'll sweep the kitchen floor and make a suet pudding.

I'd use suet and flour, it's likely to taste better. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 01 January, 2009, 08:55:55 am
Quote from: TimO on 01 January, 2009, 08:52:15 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 08:47:41 am
I've had my porridge, I'm sipping my tea, when it's cool enough I'll have my tablet, then I'll sweep the kitchen floor and make a suet pudding.

I'd use suet and flour, it's likely to taste better. ;D
How is he sweeping up when he has a mixing bowl in his hands?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 01 January, 2009, 09:48:32 am
Quote from: delthebike on 01 January, 2009, 08:55:55 am
Quote from: TimO on 01 January, 2009, 08:52:15 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 08:47:41 am
I've had my porridge, I'm sipping my tea, when it's cool enough I'll have my tablet, then I'll sweep the kitchen floor and make a suet pudding.

I'd use suet and flour, it's likely to taste better. ;D
How is he sweeping up when he has a mixing bowl in his hands?  ;)

I was enjoying my breakfast right up until the moment I read that :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 01 January, 2009, 10:12:05 am
Just finishing an unusually late brekkie and I'm about to instal the Mortirolo DVD for the turbo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 01 January, 2009, 10:15:48 am
I have swept and washed the floor and am contemplating jumping in the shower.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 01 January, 2009, 10:17:52 am
I am going for a shower, then it's off to work - I've just had the first call out of 2009
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 01 January, 2009, 10:18:18 am
I'm drinking tea, wearing a hair mask to moisturise my hair and a face mask to moisturise my getting old skin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 10:25:56 am
I have swept the kitchen floor, put together a suet pud, mixed the Yorkshire pud, Jan has prepared a load of veg. The washing machine is going, the dish washer is going, and we are off for a walk later - a nice bit of bracing sea wall.

I am also wondering: should I buy a new bike?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 01 January, 2009, 10:27:13 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 10:25:56 am
I am also wondering: should I buy a new bike?

 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 10:28:55 am
Well, I resolved not to in 2008 and I didn't. I am now free of that resolution.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 01 January, 2009, 10:30:45 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 10:28:55 am
Well, I resolved not to in 2008 and I didn't. I am now free of that resolution.

Go on, just do it.  I am going to and so should you.  Will you be able to 'off road' with me?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 01 January, 2009, 10:31:18 am
Do they sell bikes at your local sea wall?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 01 January, 2009, 10:32:13 am
Quote from: alan on 01 January, 2009, 10:31:18 am
Do they sell bikes at your local sea wall?

Remember that he is in Southend and anything goes.... ??? 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 10:34:22 am
I could get an off-road bike... I'm more tempted by a light single speed for my normal runs from home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 01 January, 2009, 10:56:54 am
Getting warm :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 01 January, 2009, 11:03:58 am
Just got back from a visit to the stables I used to ride at aged 11-19. One horse, Carrie-Ann, a Dales, still remains. Lovely mare. We chatted to her owner, a good friend, for over an hour. Then went for tea with a family friend who's not so well, baffling woolly with thick Lancs accents. Now having tea and warming up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 11:05:11 am
Reet gradely!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 01 January, 2009, 11:46:05 am
I am at work trying to decode a load of strategic key priorities...........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 01 January, 2009, 12:09:51 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 10:28:55 am
Well, I resolved not to in 2008 and I didn't. I am now free of that resolution.

I initially read that as 2009, and assumed that you had broken the resolution after less than a day. :-[

I don't need to buy a new one yet, I've got a self assembly Kaffenback in bits in my living room, waiting for me to get back home and build it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 01 January, 2009, 12:12:36 pm
Just got home from New years party, I need to relax
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 01 January, 2009, 12:42:28 pm
I've just had some lovely vegetable soup and some gorgeous fresh seeded loaf.

I'm now going to take some photos :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 01 January, 2009, 12:52:26 pm
Eating drop scones and am about to snuggle up with a book.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 01 January, 2009, 01:01:06 pm
Drinking my smoothie.  Watching the fire crackle and dance.  About to get to work on some photograph.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 01 January, 2009, 01:27:09 pm
sitting in a very cold office doing some year end data archiving and file resizing ready for the plebs to return tomorrow.

working my way through a usb stick of about 1200 mp3 tracks.

working my way through a fresh pack of plain choccie digestives.

getting ready to ride home to complete my first ride of the year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 01 January, 2009, 01:46:23 pm
I'm writing a couple of new year cards to people I haven't seen for a while and wanted to wish a happy new year.

I'm watching Pollyanna and getting ready to go out to post some letters and deliver some cards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 01 January, 2009, 01:56:59 pm
Watching Dr. Who at the proms and playing with my Indy LEGO, with lovley Peli reading a book next to me not understanding what a flat 2 by 4 is  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 January, 2009, 01:59:10 pm
Sitting in front of my PC, eating flapjack and trying to wiggle my toes back to life.   Just got in from a gentle pootle, 4 laps of Sefton Park then down to the promenade at Otterspool and followed the Mersey back into town.

My water is still off, so I've bought some mineral water to make coffee and I may need to decamp to my parents for a shower!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 01 January, 2009, 02:13:45 pm
Cleaning the crap encrusted components on my audax bike, ready to fit onto a new frame. Pics tomorrow  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 01 January, 2009, 02:54:21 pm
Updating album artwork in Itunes.
Playing World of War on the Wii when it is my turn.
Making sure the wood burner is with wood ( fnarr fnarr ).

Basically relaxing.  I shall pop out soon and ensure the MonstaThorn is fit for a ride to work on the 'morrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 January, 2009, 03:06:42 pm
Just been checking the outside pipe work on my balcony.  A ruptured joint  :(

And the building contractor who is supposed to do our repairs has buggered off and it's unlikely the managing agent will be able to deal with it until tomorrow.   >:(   Luckily it's still freezing.  If it defrosts my downstairs neighbour is going to have a shower in his kitchen .....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 01 January, 2009, 03:57:54 pm
Defosting by the fire with Salam the cat. I'm also thinking of having egg on toast for my tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 01 January, 2009, 04:35:46 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 01 January, 2009, 01:56:59 pm
Watching Dr. Who at the proms and playing with my Indy LEGO, with lovley Peli reading a book next to me not understanding what a flat 2 by 4 is  ::-)
Finished :)
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_I2koBEIwO7s/SVzqkvGALhI/AAAAAAAAERk/3tOMHZo5t8A/s400/DSC03581.JPG)

Isn't Peli the bestest girlfriend ever ? Lego for xmas and for new year :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 01 January, 2009, 04:44:19 pm
Defrosting with a brew after a hike on the high moors...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 January, 2009, 04:50:28 pm
Trying to decide when/where to go on hollyday.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 01 January, 2009, 06:57:49 pm
Celebrating my ninja central heating fettling skillz.

House was cold this morning, digital thermostat had a blank display. Hmm. Fitted new batteries, no joy. Found over ride switch, got house tolerably warm. Looked up replacement stats on interweb, saw pricer, felt unwell. Turned off heating, went to Science Museum.

Got home, dissected digital thermostat with trusty Opinel. Found corroded battery contact. Cleaned. Reassembled. The thermostat, she lives, for I am a fettling god. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 01 January, 2009, 07:12:30 pm
Just enjoying one of the beers I got for Christmas. 

Sadly SWMBO has gone into one because she's twigged that it is 14%. 

I wouldn't mind but it's only a piddly little bottle and I am only having the one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 01 January, 2009, 07:19:52 pm
Trying to convince Marj that I do not want any Xmas Pudding & brandy cream.

there may an element of untruth in this post
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pancho on 01 January, 2009, 07:23:39 pm
I've arrived home. Am tidying up and making a list of jobs to do in the garden over the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 01 January, 2009, 07:24:49 pm
Nothing.  Going to sit by the fire and reflect before nodding off and trying to resist the temptation to open the box of chocolates I found in my drawers. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 January, 2009, 07:29:29 pm
Quote from: annie on 01 January, 2009, 07:24:49 pm
Nothing.  Going to sit by the fire and reflect before nodding off and trying to resist the temptation to open the box of chocolates I found in my drawers. 

Must...   resist...





Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 01 January, 2009, 07:31:14 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 January, 2009, 07:29:29 pm
Quote from: annie on 01 January, 2009, 07:24:49 pm
Nothing.  Going to sit by the fire and reflect before nodding off and trying to resist the temptation to open the box of chocolates I found in my drawers. 

Must...   resist...









A chocolote box.  I love them.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 07:32:39 pm
I've just booked a week in Devon at the place recommended by Peli & Woolly last May. We're going in April and provided I get in, we should get the rail tickets for £15 per person each way (Southend - Totnes).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 01 January, 2009, 07:34:42 pm
Marvelling at the mental image conjured up by Annie's last post.

A double-entendre (intentional or not) is a marvellous thing... ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 01 January, 2009, 07:35:21 pm
Looking in my draws (or is it drawers ;) ) hoping to also find chocolate.

Drinking tea and watching East Enders.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 01 January, 2009, 07:35:37 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 January, 2009, 07:29:29 pm
Quote from: annie on 01 January, 2009, 07:24:49 pm
Nothing.  Going to sit by the fire and reflect before nodding off and trying to resist the temptation to open the box of chocolates I found in my drawers. 

Must...   resist...






Quote from: GruB on 01 January, 2009, 07:31:14 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 January, 2009, 07:29:29 pm
Quote from: annie on 01 January, 2009, 07:24:49 pm
Nothing.  Going to sit by the fire and reflect before nodding off and trying to resist the temptation to open the box of chocolates I found in my drawers. 

Must...   resist...









A chocolote box.  I love them.   :thumbsup:

Never have I had such difficulty doing this...... :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 01 January, 2009, 07:38:12 pm
Well if you can't beat them, join them.

*stretches waistband of underpants*

No, no chocolates there.

Back to cooking the spaghetti carbonara for me then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 07:40:02 pm
Quote from: spesh on 01 January, 2009, 07:34:42 pm
A double-entendre (intentional or not) is a marvellous thing... ;D

A man walked into a bar and asked the barmaid for a double entendre, so she gave him one. (I'm sure this joke has appeared elsewhere on this forum as well as in lots of other places, but there might be someone who hasn't heard it before).

What flavour are the chocolates that you keep in your drawers, m'dear? Do they have pink inside?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 January, 2009, 07:44:43 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 07:40:02 pm
What flavour are the chocolates that you keep in your drawers, m'dear? Do they have pink inside?

You're made of much tougher stuff than me, WB.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 07:49:13 pm
Bobb, of this parish, was stunned into silence at the pub on the Essex Christmas Pootle the other day at a perfectly innocent conversation between Annie and myself regarding the possibility of licking custard off my spotted dick. I really couldn't understand what it was that flummoxed him so.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 01 January, 2009, 07:50:16 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 07:49:13 pm
Bobb, of this parish, was stunned into silence at the pub on the Essex Christmas Pootle the other day at a perfectly innocent conversation between Annie and myself regarding the possibility of licking custard off my spotted dick. I really couldn't understand what it was that flummoxed him so.
P'raps it was his turn?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 01 January, 2009, 07:53:32 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 07:49:13 pm
perfectly innocent conversation between Annie and myself

No such thing.
You'll be telling us next that you are Santa Claus :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 07:54:02 pm
I understand, Del, that you and Annie were spooning at the time, each helping yourself to her dollops of fruit crumble?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 01 January, 2009, 07:56:30 pm
If you organise that orgy ride again I will come even if I have to crawl naked over broken glass to get there providing Annie comes too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 07:58:26 pm
Even I would think twice about baring all when the temperature is as low as it was on Tuesday. I suspect that you might order sausage and end up with chipolata.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 01 January, 2009, 08:23:41 pm
Flipping nora.

That remark was totally innocent.  I think I make more mistakes when I am tired.  I have just picked myself up off the floor after laughing, coughing, choking and then doing it all over again.

The chocolates in question are in my bottom drawer, not mine as such but the spare ones that house all the presents, goodies and things time has forgotten.

Honestly chaps...... haven't laughed this much since Tuesday.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 January, 2009, 08:38:06 pm
Annie is obviously a lady of many qualities , I've just been admiring the photos she posted of herself, in frilly knickers and with a teddy and whip.  Then I come over here and find her causing more mayhem... ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 01 January, 2009, 09:36:30 pm
Being very disappointed at the expensive meal we just had at the Alma Inn. The meat dishes were (I'm told) all good. The vegetarian penne alla arrabiata (only veggie dish on the menu) was flabby, overcooked and tasteless. My sis and I ate less than half of our meals. We complained and still had to pay (were given a paltry 10 quid gift voucher in compensation). Not recommended at all. Grr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 January, 2009, 09:50:08 pm
EDIT: <rant>

I know how you feel - it's been a soapbox of mine for years.  Deserve much better than that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 01 January, 2009, 11:40:18 pm
I have just returned from next door.  Glass of wine later, rosy cheeks and thoughts of finding my jim jams.  Might just go with the socks for a change. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2009, 11:50:38 pm
Has a moment's reverie contemplating Annie in socks and no jim-jams. :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 02 January, 2009, 09:00:55 am
Waiting for mrs. W to get ready so that we can walk the dog. Was going to go on the bike but will do that later today as it is very icy at the moment
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:02:36 am
Eating breakfast.  Contemplating going for a little pootle later, or a run, or a walk.

Just found a tin of Quality Street :-\  I have lost 2lbs this week so I could just have a couple.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 02 January, 2009, 09:04:10 am
Quote from: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:02:36 am
Eating breakfast.  Contemplating going for a little pootle later, or a run, or a walk.

Just found a tin of Quality Street :-\  I have lost 2lbs this week so I could just have a couple.

Naughty Annie!!!  Rest time for Annie.

Chocolates, always yes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:07:12 am
Quote from: BentMikey on 02 January, 2009, 09:04:10 am
Quote from: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:02:36 am
Eating breakfast.  Contemplating going for a little pootle later, or a run, or a walk.

Just found a tin of Quality Street :-\  I have lost 2lbs this week so I could just have a couple.

Naughty Annie!!!  Rest time for Annie.

Chocolates, always yes.

I can hear your voice in my head and you speak wisely.  So I will just walk with the dogs today and cycle tomorrow then :-\


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bazzerp on 02 January, 2009, 09:17:24 am
At work, looking out of the window....

Just joined bikejournal.com (http://www.BikeJournal.com) as a yACF member
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 02 January, 2009, 09:19:13 am
Quote from: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:07:12 am
I can hear your voice in my head and you speak wisely.  So I will just walk with the dogs today and cycle tomorrow then :-\

That's only 80% as naughty, LOL!  Seriously, I reckon you need at least a week off, with an afternoon nap every day, no gym, no running, no swimming, no cycling, and at most shorter slowish walks with the dog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:20:45 am
Quote from: BentMikey on 02 January, 2009, 09:19:13 am
Quote from: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:07:12 am
I can hear your voice in my head and you speak wisely.  So I will just walk with the dogs today and cycle tomorrow then :-\

That's only 80% as naughty, LOL!  Seriously, I reckon you need at least a week off, with an afternoon nap every day, no gym, no running, no swimming, no cycling, and at most shorter slowish walks with the dog.

Yeh but.... :-[

You might be right.  I promise to slow down an ickle bit.  I am still waking up feeling exhausted.  Yesterday I missed my nap but shall grab a couple of hours later on. :-*

The same goes for you by the way.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 January, 2009, 10:16:00 am
It's warmed up in Liverpool, so the ice plug in the burst pipe on my balcony gave way.  Instant fountain for me, ruined ceiling for the flat below (hopefully not..)

I've cut a 700 x 23 inner tube, ran it down the main drain and then fixed it over the burst pipe with an arno strap.  It's useful being a cyclist and having bodging bits to hand  ;D

Hopefully this will hold until a plumber can get here tomorrow.  There are at least 6 leaks in the complex, I can see one flat with water cascading down it's windows from the flat above  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 02 January, 2009, 01:10:11 pm
Heck Andrew, hope you manage to get it sorted very soon.  What an awful start to the new year.

I am just back from a very brisk walk, 6-7 miles.  Quite mild considering the time of year.

Need to eat now and then take a dip.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 02 January, 2009, 01:30:36 pm
Sat reading ACF - nursing a roilling gut. No ride for me today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 02 January, 2009, 02:12:26 pm
Recovering. :s
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 02 January, 2009, 02:24:40 pm
Quote from: tonycollinet on 02 January, 2009, 01:30:36 pm
Sat reading Y ACF - nursing a roilling gut. No ride for me today.

Same here plus I am acting in a consultancy capacity for Marj as she makes a Bread & Butter pudding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 02 January, 2009, 02:25:11 pm
Quote from: LE on 02 January, 2009, 02:12:26 pm
Recovering. :s

Oh dear.  Take it easy both of you. :-* :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 January, 2009, 02:34:07 pm
Waiting for a pizza to heat up, can't do any proper cooking.  A pile of washing up in the sink (no change there)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 02 January, 2009, 03:18:04 pm
On the train back from ooop north, hoping that the kitchen is fininally finished, not something I would bet on though.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 02 January, 2009, 03:30:47 pm
Drinking tea and eating Malt Loaf and enjoying the post ride glow. More tea Gromit? Yes please.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 02 January, 2009, 03:44:05 pm
Quote from: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:20:45 am
Yeh but.... :-[

You might be right.  I promise to slow down an ickle bit.  I am still waking up feeling exhausted.  Yesterday I missed my nap but shall grab a couple of hours later on. :-*

The same goes for you by the way.

Good girl!!  I've been excellent this week, done very little.  The most exercise I got was a brief walk in the park to fly Johan's glider, and then back home again.  Just woken up from an afternoon nap, and I feel much better.

Just remember, all that extra rest is only going to make you stronger, not weaker!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 02 January, 2009, 03:50:24 pm
About to hop onto the fixer to go and fettle with Dad's computer. But currently listening to my new Seasick Steve CD.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 02 January, 2009, 03:50:41 pm
Quote from: BentMikey on 02 January, 2009, 03:44:05 pm
Quote from: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:20:45 am
Yeh but.... :-[

You might be right.  I promise to slow down an ickle bit.  I am still waking up feeling exhausted.  Yesterday I missed my nap but shall grab a couple of hours later on. :-*

The same goes for you by the way.

Good girl!!  I've been excellent this week, done very little.  The most exercise I got was a brief walk in the park to fly Johan's glider, and then back home again.  Just woken up from an afternoon nap, and I feel much better.

Just remember, all that extra rest is only going to make you stronger, not weaker!!

I am off to the sofa right now.  Just a 6 mile walk with the dogs today.

Cycling tomorrow so must get some rest in now.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 02 January, 2009, 03:52:23 pm
shivering Brrrrrrr it's cold in here
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 02 January, 2009, 06:35:12 pm
Attempting to make rings out of the steam from my coffee.  It's chilly in here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 02 January, 2009, 07:21:14 pm
Drinking beer and listening to Deep Purple - Made in Japan. The sort of thing every sensible 55 year should be doing.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 02 January, 2009, 08:34:10 pm
Cracking nuts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 02 January, 2009, 08:53:26 pm
Listening to choonz, posting on here and getting drunk.

Wolf Blass Yellow Label Chardonnay is v v nice. Pity you only get three glasses out of a bottle. Still, there's some Pinot Grigio chilling in the fridge...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 02 January, 2009, 09:01:44 pm
Quote from: annie on 02 January, 2009, 03:50:41 pm
I am off to the sofa right now.  Just a 6 mile walk with the dogs today.

Cycling tomorrow so must get some rest in now.




Tut tut!!  Don't you think you shouldn't be cycling/running/swimming/gyming tomorrow, or Sunday either?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:03:13 pm
Quote from: BentMikey on 02 January, 2009, 09:01:44 pm
Quote from: annie on 02 January, 2009, 03:50:41 pm
I am off to the sofa right now.  Just a 6 mile walk with the dogs today.

Cycling tomorrow so must get some rest in now.



I didn't make it to the sofa :-\ sorry.

I will be fine tomorrow.  Sunday is a rest day so just a little walk with the dogs.  Am I allowed to run on Monday?
Tut tut!!  Don't you think you shouldn't be cycling/running/swimming/gyming tomorrow, or Sunday either?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RogerT on 02 January, 2009, 09:05:09 pm
Trying to appear interested in the 9th episode of Friends..( that will teach me to buy the complete boxed set for a Christmas present for mrs T )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chipster on 02 January, 2009, 09:21:05 pm
Surfing the web whilst someone is watching Celeb Bigbrother  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 02 January, 2009, 09:21:53 pm
LIstening to the wireless. Kid Creole and the coconuts are on now
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 02 January, 2009, 09:27:59 pm
Trying to look interested in celeb Big Brother.

Is that Letoyal Jackson?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 02 January, 2009, 09:28:43 pm
Or even Letoya Jackson. Whoops
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 02 January, 2009, 09:29:04 pm
Quote from: LE on 02 January, 2009, 09:27:59 pm
Trying to look interested in celeb Big Brother.

Is that Letoyal Jackson?
yes it is. Mrs MSeries keeps telling me who is going in. honestly
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 January, 2009, 09:36:42 pm
Quote from: LE on 02 January, 2009, 08:34:10 pm
Cracking nuts.

Why thank you - but how do you know? :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LEE on 02 January, 2009, 09:44:05 pm
downing a 2000 vintage Gigondas.

'nuf said?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 January, 2009, 09:51:00 pm
Watching Celeb BB, wondering who 2 of them are, thinking that Tommy Sheridan is actually very attractive apart from being bright orange, and thinking that LaToya is actually Michael in a wig.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 02 January, 2009, 09:52:34 pm
Coughing.

*coughs*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 02 January, 2009, 09:54:33 pm
<---- agrees with Kirst
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 January, 2009, 09:54:47 pm
Warming up after a 16 mile starlit pootle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 02 January, 2009, 09:58:25 pm
Looking for the TV remote control I will attempt to distill it from the children tomorrow if it doesn't emerge of it's own free will.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Noodley on 02 January, 2009, 10:02:08 pm
Just finished watching Paul Merton show about Morecambe and Wise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 02 January, 2009, 10:09:56 pm
Waxing my stick.

Surf was flat on NYD but it's going to be beautiful tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 January, 2009, 10:21:55 pm
Drinking some Maker's Mark (http://www.makersmark.com/) while researching how to partition drives and create a bootable USB stick.  As I'm having a drink now I will NOT actually attempt any of the above geekery until tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 January, 2009, 10:23:32 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 02 January, 2009, 10:21:55 pm
Drinking some Maker's Mark (http://www.makersmark.com/) while researching how to partition drives and create a bootable USB stick.  As I'm having a drink now I will NOT actually attempt any of the above geekery until tomorrow.

Gwan gwan gwan gwan gwan!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 02 January, 2009, 10:24:07 pm
Quote from: annie on 02 January, 2009, 09:03:13 pm
I will be fine tomorrow.  Sunday is a rest day so just a little walk with the dogs.  Am I allowed to run on Monday?

Well it's up to you, but I wouldn't with that cough.  If it were audible on here, I think you'd have a lot more people than just me telling you to rest, and lots of horrified comments!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 02 January, 2009, 10:36:45 pm
Scoffing After Eight mints.This is part of the determined effort to eat all the festive-season stuff(pudding,cake,pies etc) before bedtime on Sunday so that my sensible eating to lose weight thing starts on Monday without distractions.

That's my story & I'm sticking with it ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 January, 2009, 10:39:15 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 02 January, 2009, 10:23:32 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 02 January, 2009, 10:21:55 pm
Drinking some Maker's Mark (http://www.makersmark.com/) while researching how to partition drives and create a bootable USB stick.  As I'm having a drink now I will NOT actually attempt any of the above geekery until tomorrow.

Gwan gwan gwan gwan gwan!

OK, but let me have a go on your computer first.  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 January, 2009, 10:43:35 pm
Listening to Miles Davis, drinking Rioja, eating Manchengo,  trying to read "Descent into Chaos" by Ahmed Rashid and thinking that I _really_ need to do some tidying and dusting!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 03 January, 2009, 12:08:35 am
Filling in a fire report on this computer........dull stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 January, 2009, 12:54:28 am
Not falling asleep.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 03 January, 2009, 06:46:14 am
Hardly slept a wink.  Looking at the screen.  Needing to get dressed and eat.  It is very cold and icy outside. 


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2009, 06:56:23 am
Off somewhere out of reach of the computer. Things would be different if this were rae's house... ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 03 January, 2009, 07:41:15 am
Jsut about to have some porridge
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 03 January, 2009, 07:59:12 am
About to get on the bike and head for Kent.

Boy! It looks cold out there!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 03 January, 2009, 08:05:10 am
second coffee before getting on a bike and heading to cambridge for more coffee with little brother.  Extra-warm pants for me, plz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 03 January, 2009, 12:11:29 pm
We are taking down the Christmas tree & putting away the other decorations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 January, 2009, 03:33:45 pm
Watching Doctor Who At The Proms which the digibox somehow recorded all by itself. It's the most surreal thing I've ever seen, but quite good too. Dancing Cybermen!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 03 January, 2009, 04:43:34 pm
giggling at Kirst's RANt about about checkout shelves

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 03 January, 2009, 04:51:32 pm
Relaxing with tea and a Chorley cake after a lovely walk along the Ribble estuary.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 03 January, 2009, 05:04:25 pm
Telling OpenStreetMap that the roads and tracks I was riding on do exist.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 January, 2009, 05:18:06 pm
Waiting to find out who the new Doctor is, without any chocolate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 January, 2009, 05:19:29 pm
but you've got virtual chocolate now.

Feeling really thirsty but am being a cat bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 03 January, 2009, 05:22:43 pm
Feeling a bit enlurgied.  I managed to catch a mild cold/flu over Christmas, and mostly it's just been a slightly rough throat, bit of a cough, and runny nose.   After spending five hours driving across the country today, I've got a bit of a headache now, so I'm mostly just sitting here watching the idiot box, and occasionally being troubled by the cat, who is making sure I'm still here, and not about to bugger off and leave him somewhere strange for two weeks again. ;D

(I suspect I also mildly smell of my brothers dog, which is probably a big no-no as far as Talisker is concerned!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 03 January, 2009, 06:06:57 pm
Wondering how I am going to get through the weekend with a broken tooth, only did it a few minutes ago and it's starting to ache  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 03 January, 2009, 06:14:22 pm
Eek Marj. That's awful. Can you go to A&E if it get too painful. Surely they should be able to perscribe some painkillers to tide you over until you can get to the dentist. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 03 January, 2009, 06:17:24 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 03 January, 2009, 05:18:06 pm
Waiting to find out who the new Doctor is, without any chocolate.
It's Matt Smith, but with no chocolate..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 03 January, 2009, 06:43:01 pm
Quote from: LE on 03 January, 2009, 06:14:22 pm
Eek Marj. That's awful. Can you go to A&E if it get too painful. Surely they should be able to perscribe some painkillers to tide you over until you can get to the dentist. 

I don't think they would prescribe any more painkillers than I am taking at the moment as I have a trapped nerve in my neck and I'm on Tramadol and Co-codamol, just need the head removing the cure both problems.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 03 January, 2009, 06:56:26 pm
Not good then :(  - hope you get well soon Marj.

Hugs. E
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 January, 2009, 06:58:02 pm
Ouch, sorry to hear that, Marj. Can you see an emergency dentist? Have a Google around your area, there must be one. I hope it gets sorted soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 January, 2009, 07:52:45 pm
Sitting in a FREEZING house in Brum.  I've just got back.  The house has had two weeks worth of cooling whilst I've been away and although the central heating is now on full bore and all the radiators are red hot, it's refusing to warm up in here.

*goes to the pub*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 January, 2009, 08:05:24 pm
Putting the finishing touches to our tea that's been cooked in the oven!!!! And writing a long to-do list... Dentist, doctor, letters to write, etc. At least I ticked off 'get hair cut' while up north...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 03 January, 2009, 08:13:02 pm
Sivering. My friend Linz has just left. I'm going to have a cup of tea to see if it will warm me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 03 January, 2009, 08:18:15 pm
2 pizza's eaten (with extra chillies).

2 shots as warm up.  Good old slippery nipples  :thumbsup:

On second pint  :thumbsup:



but now singstar is at full volume on playstation  :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 03 January, 2009, 10:44:03 pm
Watching "The Untouchables" on Film 4. We're just at the homage to "The Battleship Potemkin" bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 04 January, 2009, 12:45:32 am
Posting on the forum for the first time ever using a mobile phone coz its free for the next 5 days. And its bloody slow! Woo hoo!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jezza on 04 January, 2009, 12:52:07 am
In bed, trying to find synaptic on the eee PC to get youtube working. I should go to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 04 January, 2009, 12:54:10 am
Quote from: Zoidburg on 04 January, 2009, 12:45:32 am
Posting on the forum for the first time ever using a mobile phone coz its free for the next 5 days. And its bloody slow! Woo hoo!

What's the address for using mobiles? I tried to do it recently but got nowhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 04 January, 2009, 01:22:11 am
Converting loadsa films and music videos for me new iPod :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 04 January, 2009, 02:08:20 am
I've just ordered me a new GPS

Woo Hoo.

Off to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 04 January, 2009, 07:31:29 am
Trying to get warm. I'm a tad cold.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 04 January, 2009, 08:21:11 am
Quote from: Ariadne on 04 January, 2009, 12:54:10 am

What's the address for using mobiles? I tried to do it recently but got nowhere.

Try this  (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?;wap2) or in plain text:

http*://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?;wap2

but delete the '*' I'm sure that there must be a way to display urls as text ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 04 January, 2009, 08:28:50 am
I have just trimmed all of my nails.  Now eating a banana as haven't got any oatibix although in my dream last night I did the shopping so was a little surprised when I went to the shelf and found it was bare.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 04 January, 2009, 08:47:09 am
Just had porridge and now drinking tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 04 January, 2009, 08:50:54 am
Just read back over my posts on this tread. Gosh I'm boring :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 04 January, 2009, 08:53:06 am
Quote from: LE on 04 January, 2009, 08:50:54 am
Just read back over my posts on this tread. Gosh I'm boring :(

Not at all.   :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 04 January, 2009, 09:06:12 am
Quote from: PaulF on 04 January, 2009, 08:21:11 am
...but delete the '*' I'm sure that there must be a way to display urls as text ???

Yes, insert something meaningless like a set of unused colo(u)r tags into part of the URL that the Board software uses to identify an URL (probably the start of the URL, ie the http:// bit).

http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?;wap2

ie : ht[color=blue][/color]tp://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?;wap2

Getting back vaguely onto topic, I've done the important first of the morning things, ie pilled the cat, fed the cat, checked YACF. ;D

Time for a coffee, then bath, shave, breakfast, and actually start the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 04 January, 2009, 09:08:07 am
It works! I haven't worked out to post yet but just being able to read it is great - thanks!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 04 January, 2009, 09:09:59 am
:D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 04 January, 2009, 09:11:08 am
You can use the same technique to get around anti-swearing filters on some boards.

Not that I would ever do such a thing. ;D :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RogerT on 04 January, 2009, 09:33:25 am
Drinking tea, trying to decide whether to go out on the bike, currently -2 with a westerly wind of 1.8 M/S.

I rather feel that this may be a stay home and veg sort of day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 04 January, 2009, 09:36:52 am
Putting on my leather gloves and about to head out of the door, not on the bike today, time to rest and be a bit of a slob.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 04 January, 2009, 09:37:28 am
Or you can insert CODE tags:

Code: [Select]
http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?;wap2
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 04 January, 2009, 09:39:02 am
Or this:

http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?;wap2 (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?;wap2)

using URL tags to explicitly specify both the link and the text to display.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 12:02:27 pm
Making tea while trying not to wake Woolly, and wondering why I couldn't sleep at all last night (probably worrying about work).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 04 January, 2009, 12:08:46 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 12:02:27 pm
Making tea while trying not to wake Woolly, and wondering why I couldn't sleep at all last night (probably worrying about work).

Give that lazy bugger a boot out of bed from me!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: epa611 on 04 January, 2009, 12:12:59 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 12:02:27 pm
Making tea while trying not to wake Woolly, and wondering why I couldn't sleep at all last night (probably worrying about work).

Why not just go back to bed with a nice warm Wooly ???

You know it makes sense ;)

 :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 04 January, 2009, 12:13:09 pm
Getting ready to go to China tomorrow!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 12:15:57 pm
:) Mike, I will let him sleep a bit longer, seeing as I kept him awake all night faffing, and he had a very long day at work yesterday.

Join him in the warmth... Hmm, tempting, but I think he'd kick me out ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 January, 2009, 12:20:55 pm
Oh yes, that's much faster to load :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 04 January, 2009, 12:47:24 pm
Defrosting, drinking, Irish Whiskey and tea, and watching December Boys.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 04 January, 2009, 12:59:47 pm
Contemplating doing some knitting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 04 January, 2009, 01:09:48 pm
Warming up after a club run.  There was SNO. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 January, 2009, 01:37:47 pm
About to do the work I was going to do on Wednesday or Friday but didn't due to the fact that  have had the lurgey and been on the sofa under a blanket for 5 days.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 January, 2009, 04:45:19 pm
Just been for lunch with some friends. My feet are freezing. Discussing my brothers Ubuntu network issues over Google Talk and dreading going back to work tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 04 January, 2009, 05:06:34 pm
I'm knitting. :s
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 04 January, 2009, 06:01:59 pm
Knit me a dashing hat?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 04 January, 2009, 06:04:33 pm
I've knit myself a rather dashing hat with a knitted rose on the side. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 04 January, 2009, 06:05:39 pm
A knitted rose might be a bit too dashing for my tastes ::-)

I am open to ear flaps though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 06:06:27 pm
Feeling sick having read an email describing the Israeli assault on Gaza from a student in Palestine I'm communicating with at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 04 January, 2009, 06:07:06 pm
Just trying pen & ink drawing for the first time in over 20 years.   Now reduced to using the very bottom section of my vari focals.  An free standing illuminated magnifier may be called for soon.  I hate getting old !!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 04 January, 2009, 06:08:26 pm
peli - your post and mine crossed.  Your's makes mine look a bit winging.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 04 January, 2009, 06:16:49 pm
Eeek Peli. That's awful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 04 January, 2009, 06:17:30 pm
Checking a weeks worth of e-mails, while trying to stay awake long enough to get back in the right time zone, after a twelve hour flight from Tokyo.

Mrs B has done the e-mail bit, & gone out for a run in the freezing dark. Ah well.

[Edit]
Ah. Just checked back & seen what's been going on. Yup. Nasty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 06:30:44 pm
Quote from: LE on 04 January, 2009, 06:16:49 pm
Eeek Peli. That's awful.
It was the photo of a Palestinian child who'd been buried alive that got me. I had to stop at that one, couldn't read any further.  >:(


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 04 January, 2009, 06:34:37 pm
Oh, sorry to hear that Peli.

Can you do something to take your mind of it all?  I suggest chocolate, a cuddle and snuggling up under a warm blankie with your good man and a DVD.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 04 January, 2009, 06:38:37 pm
cuddling a dvd sounds a bit perverted to me - but I'll go along with the chocie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 06:40:57 pm
To be honest, I don't want to take my mind off it all. I think it should be on all of our minds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 04 January, 2009, 06:44:03 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 06:40:57 pm
To be honest, I don't want to take my mind off it all. I think it should be on all of our minds.

It is on my mind but I am trying hard to concentrate on other things at the same time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 04 January, 2009, 06:56:36 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 06:30:44 pm

It was the photo of a Palestinian child who'd been buried alive



TMI to prevent a little :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 06:57:32 pm
Sorry, Alan.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 04 January, 2009, 07:04:11 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 06:57:32 pm
Sorry, Alan.  :-\

Tis ok
It puts one's own "problems" into perspective
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 January, 2009, 08:04:27 pm
Copy stuff from some old archive DVDs to my laptop - something I should have done months ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 04 January, 2009, 09:18:45 pm
Waiting for the house to warm up.

When I got home it was 6 deg C in here.  Now up to 8.5.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 04 January, 2009, 11:14:40 pm
Thawing out in front of the fire after attacking a borked boiler.  I don't do boilers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 January, 2009, 11:28:16 pm
Finally thinking about going to bed after spending the past few hours tackling work that's piled up... Dreading tomorrow!  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 04 January, 2009, 11:30:12 pm
Drinking the last of my beer and smoking the last of my baccy before giving it all up in the morning. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 January, 2009, 11:50:19 pm
More body-building (stilton & crackers).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 05 January, 2009, 12:52:55 am
Going to bed.

All 'Prog Rocked' out!

J
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 05 January, 2009, 12:57:08 am
Only 3 cans and a bottle of cider to go. Hic! (Thank f**k I'm freelance)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 05 January, 2009, 01:02:50 am
I'll raise a glass to that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 05 January, 2009, 02:41:24 am
Okay, fridge is now empty of alcoholic beverages, remaining tobacco has been soaked under the tap and binned. Wish me luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 05 January, 2009, 06:16:01 am
Waiting to board my flight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 05 January, 2009, 06:56:38 am
Quote from: kyuss on 05 January, 2009, 02:41:24 am
Okay, fridge is now empty of alcoholic beverages, remaining tobacco has been soaked under the tap and binned. Wish me luck.

Good luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 05 January, 2009, 11:29:53 am
Quote from: kyuss on 05 January, 2009, 02:41:24 am
Okay, fridge is now empty of alcoholic beverages, remaining tobacco has been soaked under the tap and binned. Wish me luck.

Good luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2009, 11:30:59 am
Warming my hands after a v. cold walk with the dog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 05 January, 2009, 11:31:45 am
Trying to warm up.  I have frozen feet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 05 January, 2009, 11:32:28 am
Quote from: kyuss on 05 January, 2009, 02:41:24 am
Okay, fridge is now empty of alcoholic beverages, remaining tobacco has been soaked under the tap and binned. Wish me luck.

Good Luck :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 05 January, 2009, 11:39:13 am
The alcohol part was relatively easy. All I did was top persuade myself that I am actively training for racing etc and that alcohol would adversely affect that. It provides a convenient excuse when out "I can't, I'm training" which is far more socially acceptable than "I'm a self righteous teetotaller".

As for smoking, I've never been able to give that up.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 January, 2009, 11:39:58 am
Feeling very ill. I think I might have caught this horrid flu  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ed_o_brain on 05 January, 2009, 11:42:11 am
thinking about jacking in my job and trying my luck contracting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 05 January, 2009, 11:45:10 am
Quote from: peliroja on 05 January, 2009, 11:39:58 am
Feeling very ill. I think I might have caught this horrid flu  :'(

Snuggles  :-* :-*

I am putting away the christmas tree and associated decorations, spring cleaning, ironing, writing a shopping list, sorting out the garage and cycling stuff that needs to be sold or given away.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 January, 2009, 11:45:19 am
Watching it snow, instead of reading this unbelievably dull document.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2009, 11:47:02 am
Quote from: peliroja on 05 January, 2009, 11:39:58 am
Feeling very ill. I think I might have caught this horrid flu  :'(

Poor old you! I'm trying to send healthy vibes in your direction.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 05 January, 2009, 01:00:11 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 05 January, 2009, 11:39:58 am
Feeling very ill. I think I might have caught this horrid flu  :'(

Eeek  I hope you feel better soon

Hugs E
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 January, 2009, 01:39:47 pm
Thanks Annie, WB and LE. I have just bought some echinecia (sp?) so hopefully that will batter the bugs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 05 January, 2009, 01:43:39 pm
Sitting back, enjoying the lack of sun in my eyes after building a "curtain" using 3 archive boxes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 05 January, 2009, 04:29:17 pm
Watching a database restore :yawn:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 05 January, 2009, 04:31:04 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 05 January, 2009, 04:29:17 pm
Watching a database restore :yawn:

ditto
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 05 January, 2009, 04:58:08 pm
About to resort to some super strong pain relief.  I have two options at home, paracetamol and morphine. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 05 January, 2009, 05:02:51 pm
watching a new copy of server install
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 05 January, 2009, 05:08:37 pm
Quote from: annie on 05 January, 2009, 04:58:08 pm
About to resort to some super strong pain relief.  I have two options at home, paracetamol and morphine. :-\

:(  GWS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2009, 05:14:18 pm
Negotiating the possibility of some more work. :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 05 January, 2009, 05:16:32 pm
Thinking about tomorrow, 20mins from now, when I will be supping beer with Woolypigs :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 05 January, 2009, 05:23:45 pm
Waiting for the plane to take me home to arrive :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 05 January, 2009, 05:26:22 pm
Looking at a nice bike on Ebay and wondering how I could possibly collect it from London if I bid and won  ;)

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 05 January, 2009, 07:09:22 pm
Defrosting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 05 January, 2009, 07:09:37 pm
Feeling pleased with myself because I just replaced the inner tube in my back wheel without any help.

Now, this may not seem like such a big achievement, but for me who usually lets TKP get his hands dirty , it is major  ::-)

I am hoping to go cycling with the local ladies CTC group and felt it would be a pretty poor show if I couldn't do my own maintenance. My back tyre had a slow puncture so while TKP is away I wheeled my bike into the kitchen and had a go.

In the process I : -

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 05 January, 2009, 07:50:34 pm
Brains & beauty :thumbsup:

That TKP fellla is a lucky bloke  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 January, 2009, 08:48:21 pm
Well done Gill! I must admit that I now let Woolly do all the bike fettling, which I used to do all by myself before. I don't really enjoy it, so I'm quite happy to let him get his hands dirty  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2009, 08:51:13 pm
Quote from: alan on 05 January, 2009, 07:50:34 pm
Brains & beauty :thumbsup:

That TKP fellla is a lucky bloke  ;)

Yes, not many blokes have brains and beauty...

Well done Gill!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2009, 08:52:26 pm
Trying to write a letter to a bloke we knew at college whose wife, whom we also knew, has just died. No idea what to say.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 January, 2009, 08:56:02 pm
Write about your memories of his wife, or one particular memory which stands out. That's the sort of thing I'd like to read in that position.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 05 January, 2009, 09:23:25 pm
Quote from: GillP on 05 January, 2009, 07:09:37 pm
Feeling pleased with myself because I just replaced the inner tube in my back wheel without any help.

Now, this may not seem like such a big achievement, but for me who usually lets TKP get his hands dirty , it is major  ::-)

I am hoping to go cycling with the local ladies CTC group and felt it would be a pretty poor show if I couldn't do my own maintenance. My back tyre had a slow puncture so while TKP is away I wheeled my bike into the kitchen and had a go.

In the process I : -

  • broke a nail  :-\
  • discovered just how dirty my bike is  :o
  • found that I either can't use tyre levers properly or mine are useless  ???

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 05 January, 2009, 09:24:39 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 05 January, 2009, 08:52:26 pm
Trying to write a letter to a bloke we knew at college whose wife, whom we also knew, has just died. No idea what to say.

 :(

+1 what Peli said
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 05 January, 2009, 09:25:34 pm
Thinking of chocolate.  I'm now dieting furiously, so chocolate is a massive no no.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 05 January, 2009, 09:33:02 pm
Quote from: LE on 05 January, 2009, 09:25:34 pm
Thinking of chocolate.  I'm now dieting furiously, so chocolate is a massive no no.

Don't worry, I'll eat it for you.   My diet starts after weigh in on Wednesday  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 05 January, 2009, 09:34:24 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 05 January, 2009, 09:33:02 pm
Quote from: LE on 05 January, 2009, 09:25:34 pm
Thinking of chocolate.  I'm now dieting furiously, so chocolate is a massive no no.

Don't worry, I'll eat it for you.   My diet starts after weigh in on Wednesday  ;D
You're so kind :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 05 January, 2009, 09:35:31 pm
Quote from: LE on 05 January, 2009, 09:34:24 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 05 January, 2009, 09:33:02 pm
Quote from: LE on 05 January, 2009, 09:25:34 pm
Thinking of chocolate.  I'm now dieting furiously, so chocolate is a massive no no.

Don't worry, I'll eat it for you.   My diet starts after weigh in on Wednesday  ;D
You're so kind :)

My pleasure  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 05 January, 2009, 09:43:54 pm
Sitting nekkid in front of the PC recovering from doing 40 push-ups.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 January, 2009, 09:46:22 pm
That sweat glistening on your pecs is rather alluring.

Oh - didn't you know you'd left the webcam on? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tom B on 05 January, 2009, 09:55:09 pm
Quote
Thinking of chocolate.  I'm now dieting furiously, so chocolate is a massive no no

So we'll think of you when we eat chocolate and that will help you get to a place where you can eat it to your heart's content  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 05 January, 2009, 09:56:09 pm
Licking my lips and salivating at the thought of chocolate.

Going to go and meditate for half an hour before retiring to my bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 January, 2009, 09:56:42 pm
Watching Celeb BB and a) admiring Tommy Sheridan's oratory skills, b) laughing at LaToya's face while Tommy criticises Bush and Cheyney, and c) laughing at Tommy dancing to LaToya's singing. And pissing myself laughing at the glamour model having no talent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 05 January, 2009, 10:09:54 pm
Quote from: clarion on 05 January, 2009, 09:46:22 pm
That sweat glistening on your pecs is rather alluring.

Oh - didn't you know you'd left the webcam on? ;)

Damnit, Pumpé!  I told you that address was for your eyes only.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 05 January, 2009, 10:10:36 pm
Eating After Eights and coughing. Damn this cold.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 January, 2009, 10:57:32 pm
Sitting waiting for the bacon sandwich that son is making on our arrival home after winning the pub quiz (yet again)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 06 January, 2009, 02:55:51 pm
Trying to get warm. Is it too early for a whisky?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 06 January, 2009, 03:04:16 pm
Quote from: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 06 January, 2009, 02:55:51 pm
Trying to get warm. Is it too early for a whisky?

No, a very wise man once said to me "somewhere in the world it's always after six o'clock"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 06 January, 2009, 03:22:36 pm
Contemplating the meaning of life!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 06 January, 2009, 03:27:37 pm
Just  been outbid on the bike I want on fleabay.............wondering whether I should bid any more  :-\

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 January, 2009, 03:32:35 pm
Quote from: diapason on 06 January, 2009, 03:27:37 pm
Just  been outbid on the bike I want on fleabay.............wondering whether I should bid any more  :-\

N

Snipe. It's the only way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 January, 2009, 07:28:48 pm
Wondering whether to put the heating on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 06 January, 2009, 09:58:08 pm
Wondering where my chocolate has gone?  It was there this morning but alas all that remains is the wrapper.  I think I may need to have words with JC in the morning. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 January, 2009, 10:05:23 pm
Going to bed - the house is too cold, I can't be arsed to get more wood in for the wood-burner, and it'd be daft to put the heating on now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2009, 10:59:00 pm
Making three bacon rolls.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2009, 11:10:29 pm
Eating bacon rolls.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2009, 11:17:23 pm
Licking the plate and wondering where the washing up fairy is hiding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 06 January, 2009, 11:18:16 pm
Thinking I should be going to bed. It's hard to get used to going to work every day after a longish holiday...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2009, 11:20:19 pm
Sniffing my shoe.

It is fine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2009, 11:21:00 pm
Quote from: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2009, 11:17:23 pm
Licking the plate and wondering where the washing up fairy is hiding.

In the green and white plastic bottle?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 06 January, 2009, 11:23:08 pm
Watching Never Mind the Buzzcocks on Dave
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2009, 11:39:18 pm
Wondering idly if the Very Norty Man that caused a spent rocket to land on the church roof at approximately 12:15am on 1st January will ever be brought to justice...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2009, 11:40:40 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 06 January, 2009, 11:39:18 pm
Wondering idly if the Very Norty Man that caused a spent rocket to land on the church roof at approximately 12:15am on 1st January will ever be brought to justice...

I think the standard response is to bomb his mosque and kill his children.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 07 January, 2009, 12:39:08 am
Pouring a nightcap of Penderyn (http://www.welsh-whisky.co.uk/home.html) :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 January, 2009, 12:50:26 am
Waiting for my daughter to arrive. She is stuck on a train somewhere between Stratford and Prittlewell.

Edit: broken down train at Gidea Park.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 08 January, 2009, 12:45:04 pm
Just been helping to put the covers on our football pitch. If Saturday's match is on it will be the groundsman's 100th match in a row with no calling offs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 January, 2009, 12:50:17 pm
Headdesking.
   Vicious cycle of bike thefts - Edinburgh Evening News
 (http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/latestnews/Vicious-cycle-of-bike-thefts.4855020.jp)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 08 January, 2009, 01:03:33 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 08 January, 2009, 12:50:17 pm
Headdesking.
   Vicious cycle of bike thefts - Edinburgh Evening News
 (http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/latestnews/Vicious-cycle-of-bike-thefts.4855020.jp)

Leave it, 'e ain't wurf it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 08 January, 2009, 02:03:06 pm
Trying to procrastinate testing some PDF writing code.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 08 January, 2009, 02:18:18 pm
just back from a work do with a rather lovely view of shanghai:

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/IMG_0733b.jpg)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 January, 2009, 03:01:13 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 08 January, 2009, 12:50:17 pm
Headdesking.
   Vicious cycle of bike thefts - Edinburgh Evening News
 (http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/latestnews/Vicious-cycle-of-bike-thefts.4855020.jp)

Quote from: Evening News
Officers will stop and check cyclists who arouse suspicion by ... failing to wear a helmet in a bid to catch thieves red-handed.

Head -> Desk
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 08 January, 2009, 03:23:44 pm
If any police officer pulls me over for failing to wear a helmet, their Chief Constable is going to get one helluva snotty letter.

I'm clearly a bicycle thief, since I wear cycling clothes, carry a pannier, and several hundred pounds worth of bike lights, just so I look the part. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 08 January, 2009, 03:36:19 pm
Quote from: clarion on 08 January, 2009, 03:01:13 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 08 January, 2009, 12:50:17 pm
Headdesking.
   Vicious cycle of bike thefts - Edinburgh Evening News
 (http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/latestnews/Vicious-cycle-of-bike-thefts.4855020.jp)

Quote from: Evening News
Officers will stop and check cyclists who arouse suspicion by ... failing to wear a helmet in a bid to catch thieves red-handed.

Head -> Desk


I think you get nicked for applying police officers' heads to desks...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 08 January, 2009, 03:52:13 pm
Looking at a box that arrived only a couple of minutes ago.  It is from Thorntons :P nom nom nom.  I shall wait until tomorrow to open it though as I am trying to be good.

Another parcel of chocolate arrived whilst I was out, I have opened it and I am considering myself to be one lucky pixie.  Thank you, you know who you are :-*

Anyone fancy a chocolate, jim jam party?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 January, 2009, 03:54:58 pm
Quote from: annie on 08 January, 2009, 03:52:13 pm
Anyone fancy a chocolate, jim jam party?

(Grabs car keys, heads east ;D)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 08 January, 2009, 07:16:02 pm
Currently I'm going ouch and rubbing my finger where I've just managed to put a blister on it when using a very small drill bit to slightly enlarge some holes in a board.  Stupid stupid stupid.  Not that there was an easy alternative available... :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 January, 2009, 08:03:22 pm
Basking in the glow of a big compliment (about my meeting chairing skills) from Big Boss, about to eat chocolate cake and watch a film. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 08 January, 2009, 08:05:23 pm
And yes she is gloating :)

Well done that girl  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 08 January, 2009, 09:07:55 pm
Well done, Peli!

I'm running about packing stuff for circuits tomorrow, unpacking stuff from spinning today. Well, I was, now I'm sitting here. Tired!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 09 January, 2009, 12:02:39 am

relaxing after an evenings work
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2009, 09:03:17 am
I've taken delivery of a faulty new thermometer (the minimum marker was in the alcohol bulb when it arrived this morning) :-\, I've emailed Brannan who have already replied and said that they will despatch a better quality thermometer than I paid for, and now it's time to make breakfast. Porridge, tea, bread & marmalade, anyone?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 09 January, 2009, 09:08:46 am
Finding my way around the forum
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 09 January, 2009, 09:10:02 am
Hello Linz!

And thanks for the offer, wowbagger, but I've had my weetabix. Cup of tea would be good, though!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 January, 2009, 09:12:22 am
I'll take a cup of tea as well thanks. :thumbsup:

Are you applying n+1 to thermometers now Wow?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 09 January, 2009, 09:17:35 am
Quote from: Ariadne on 09 January, 2009, 09:10:02 am
Hello Linz!


Hi Ariadne.  I'm a friend of Elleigh's she told me this place was friendly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 09 January, 2009, 09:55:30 am
It certainly is  :)

Welcome to YACF, Linz  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 09 January, 2009, 09:58:29 am
Hi Linz and welcome.   Any friend of LE is most welcome here.   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 January, 2009, 10:01:21 am
Quote from: Charlotte on 09 January, 2009, 09:55:30 am
It certainly is  :)

Welcome to YACF, Linz  :D

Have a quiet word Auntie C - someone should warn her about Hummers... you know... just to be safe...

Hello Linz  :thumbsup:

*waves *
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 09 January, 2009, 10:04:00 am
I'm having a cup of coffee :P then I'm going shopping by bike car :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 09 January, 2009, 11:15:53 am
I'm trying to make sneaking phone calls at work

Thanks for the lovely welcome.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 09 January, 2009, 11:19:08 am
Welcome Linz!

Nigel
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 09 January, 2009, 04:17:24 pm
L.O. Linz & welcome.
It can be a bit of a madhouse,but don't fret about it...we'll soon drag you down to our level :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 January, 2009, 04:20:57 pm
Ay up Linz!  Yeah, it's pretty friendly hereabouts
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 09 January, 2009, 05:04:32 pm
Risk assesment...cogitating.
New client.
Local job:fairly straightforward.
Could be approx £15,000.
Not a lot of money as job-values go.
But a lot of £ to lose if it goes pear-shaped.
Client isa builder.
Builder's often not the the most expedient payers.
You never get the retention monies anyway.
Once got taken for K28 by a builder.











I might spend the time( & less money) doing Lejog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 January, 2009, 05:33:16 pm
I've just forced PERL5 to install Scalar::Util so that SSL would work, so SSL POP3 would work, so my email reflector programme would work...

All somehow buggered up by updating Python.  I wonder what else has gone castors up, and I haven't noticed yet. :-\

I haven't yet managed to get around to what I wanted to do today...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 10 January, 2009, 09:09:57 am
trying to relight the boiler so I can get the central heating going  :(

edit: after several unsuccessful atempts over the past 3/4 hour I have finally succeeded  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 10 January, 2009, 09:29:03 am
Eating a croissant with Nutella.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 10 January, 2009, 09:31:27 am
Deciding if I should go back to bed.  

Have been unwell for the past ten to twelve days (have not ridden at all this year).  I've barely slept this week - managed six hours last night which was a great improvement.  I woke up sometime after five then got up after about half an hour of trying to get back to sleep.

So I'm quite tired now and can't decide if I should stay up and go to bed at a normal hour or try and get some more sleep now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 January, 2009, 12:12:14 pm
1) reeling at the amount of money I've just spent in Peckhams - as I went round it appeared to me I'd spent about £30 but their prices are so extortionate it came to £50. I won't be back in there for a while.
2) Going back to bed. I was as tired when I woke up as I was when I went to bed. I only got up cos I had to go to the post office.
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Post by: David Martin on 10 January, 2009, 03:37:49 pm
Relaxing after making aluminium lined holes in some steps to hold a portable wheelchair ramp.

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Post by: peliroja on 10 January, 2009, 03:43:43 pm
Suffering from toothache :(
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Post by: numbnuts on 10 January, 2009, 03:50:06 pm
Shivering I'm cold Brrrrrrr
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Post by: valkyrie on 10 January, 2009, 03:57:31 pm
Filling out Audax entry forms and SAEs. Now got 8 envelopes sitting ready to post, for a total of 11 events. I hate doing the paperwork so I'm feeling a bit smug now it's done 8)
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Post by: Quisling on 10 January, 2009, 03:57:57 pm
Eating a hot homemade bread roll filled with applewood smoked cheddar gently melting, and homemade Christmas chutney.

I had to reward myself after completing the construction of the new double wooden compost bin in the cold.  
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Post by: simonp on 10 January, 2009, 04:22:59 pm
Digesting an omlette and some mushrooms.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 January, 2009, 04:29:05 pm
Wondering why I've been dreaming about Gethin Jones and Steve Jones, watching the Diary of Anne Frank, and making sugo.
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Post by: Greenbank on 10 January, 2009, 04:32:55 pm
Watching men watching football.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 January, 2009, 11:06:07 pm
I've just got in from the ballet. The last act was way too long.
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Post by: Aidan on 11 January, 2009, 06:50:16 am
sitting in bed having just eaten porridge :thumbsup: listening to the wind :hand: and thinking about dragging myself out into it soon to get to the start of the goodbye yorkshire christmas pudding. i've worked out I can stay in bed for another 15 mins before I HAVE to get up ;D
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Post by: Ariadne on 11 January, 2009, 09:07:07 am
Wondering about going out on my bike in the wind. And feeling astonished at Valkyrie's efficiency - I only ever do one at a time, but maybe I should be more forward-thinking...
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 January, 2009, 09:09:00 am
I'm going to have to relight the microwave under the porridge because it hasn't finished yet, and pour some tea soon. Mrs. Wow is still aslumber.
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Post by: peliroja on 11 January, 2009, 10:02:49 am
Trying to pluck up the courage to get out of my toasty warm bed into a freezing kitchen for a brew...
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Post by: Polar Bear on 11 January, 2009, 10:11:40 am
Surfing here, instead of writing up a report, instead of enjoying my buffday  :(
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Post by: PaulF on 11 January, 2009, 10:36:48 am
Waiting for everyone to board so I can fly to NY
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Post by: IanDG on 11 January, 2009, 11:15:22 am
Happy Birthday PB  :thumbsup:

Just done a roller session and entered km to bikejournal. Enjoying coffee and daughter's freshly baked flapjack. mmmmmmmmmmmmm  :P
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Post by: peliroja on 11 January, 2009, 11:16:49 am
Eating cheese and garlic on toast, and about to bake a banana and chocolate cake. :)
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Post by: Bluebottle on 11 January, 2009, 11:18:46 am
Looking for distraction instead of marking lab reports. :-\
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Post by: clifftaylor on 11 January, 2009, 11:36:20 am
Making tea during a break in the installation of a loft ladder at Taylor Towers.
(Going OK thus far, full report scanty details to follow, or not.....)
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Post by: Chris S on 11 January, 2009, 11:47:36 am
Ripping some movies and converting some podcasts for the iPod - in preparation for at least 15 hours of train journeys this week.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 January, 2009, 12:16:01 pm
Wishing some people would fuck right off.
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Post by: woollypigs on 11 January, 2009, 12:18:46 pm
Having a cup off tea in the sun in Acton Park with a slice of chocolate cake ;)
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Post by: annie on 11 January, 2009, 12:19:49 pm
Installing software onto JC's computer.

Applying an ice-pack to my right eye, I caught it on a sticky out object.

Feeling tired and wanting to lie down.

Tidying up the office, it's a mess.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 11 January, 2009, 12:20:47 pm
Thinking about what to have for lunch.

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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 11 January, 2009, 07:16:17 pm
Fire reports...... :-[
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Post by: peliroja on 11 January, 2009, 07:24:10 pm
Digesting the just-baked banana and choc chip cake :)
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 11 January, 2009, 07:26:51 pm
More reports......no sign of cake >:(
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Post by: Charlotte on 11 January, 2009, 07:36:38 pm
Watching the fantasy cheese-fest film that is Krull and waiting for an inordinate quantity of carrot and parsnip mash to settle in my tummy.

Om nom nom  :)
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Post by: Polar Bear on 11 January, 2009, 07:42:39 pm
Quote from: windy on 11 January, 2009, 11:15:22 am
Happy Birthday PB  :thumbsup:

Just done a roller session and entered km to bikejournal. Enjoying coffee and daughter's freshly baked flapjack. mmmmmmmmmmmmm  :P

Cheers mate.  Any of that flapjack left?   :)
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Post by: peliroja on 11 January, 2009, 08:57:04 pm
Recovering from 40 mins on the turbo to burn off that banana choc cake (or part of it) :)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 13 January, 2009, 06:42:31 am
Watching that prize right-wing twat "Gaunty" on Sky News, going on about how Heathrow needs a third runway  ::-)
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Post by: Polar Bear on 13 January, 2009, 07:11:24 am
Catching up on YACF before breakfast.
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Post by: Chris S on 13 January, 2009, 01:26:11 pm
Watching the countryside whiz past my train. Just passed Castle Cary.
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Post by: annie on 13 January, 2009, 01:28:02 pm
Recovering.  Arms and hands shaking and weak.  Both shoulders are burning.  I walked for over half a mile carrying far too much weight, even my top lip was trembling.
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Post by: Regulator on 13 January, 2009, 01:28:53 pm
Quote from: annie on 13 January, 2009, 01:28:02 pm
Recovering.  Arms and hands shaking and weak.  Both shoulders are burning.  I walked for over half a mile carrying far too much weight, even my top lip was trembling.


I know.... Christmas and New Year can be a bugger on the diet, eh...  ;) ;D
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Post by: Ariadne on 13 January, 2009, 01:29:04 pm
procrastinating when I should be working...
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Post by: annie on 13 January, 2009, 01:30:44 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 13 January, 2009, 01:28:53 pm
Quote from: annie on 13 January, 2009, 01:28:02 pm
Recovering.  Arms and hands shaking and weak.  Both shoulders are burning.  I walked for over half a mile carrying far too much weight, even my top lip was trembling.


I know.... Christmas and New Year can be a bugger on the diet, eh...  ;) ;D

Now look 'ere.  I know I have gorged on far too much chocolate and cake but...... actually I think I need two new arms please and someone to come and do my ironing. 
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Post by: JohnP on 13 January, 2009, 01:56:20 pm
Quote from: annie on 13 January, 2009, 01:28:02 pm
Recovering.  Arms and hands shaking and weak.  Both shoulders are burning.  I walked for over half a mile carrying far too much weight, even my top lip was trembling.

My wife does the trembly top lip thing when she hopes to persuad me to carry a parcel for her.  Fails then.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 January, 2009, 02:20:47 pm
Wishing a bloke from Abacus Healthcare would email me the quote he promised me last week because I can't order something without it and it all needs to be done in the next week. I am quite cross.
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Post by: Valiant on 13 January, 2009, 03:12:47 pm
Trying not to scream out in pain :(
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Post by: alan on 13 January, 2009, 03:17:08 pm
Having a break,while waiting for info via e-mail, from reading drawings,BOQ's,specifications etc from 0800 this morning.
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Post by: mike on 13 January, 2009, 03:53:06 pm
finishing off a 24 hour day with some (not) surprisingly ineffective client phone calls.  Hong Kong and Shanghai look closer together on the map, I thought a day trip would be easy. 

Right, 2 more calls and I'm in the bar.
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Post by: Charlotte on 13 January, 2009, 05:04:07 pm
I'm in bed.  Where I have been since six o'clock last night.

Feeling bloody atrocious.

:(
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 13 January, 2009, 05:06:00 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 13 January, 2009, 05:04:07 pm
I'm in bed.  Where I have been since six o'clock last night.

Feeling bloody atrocious.

:(

My sympathies - this is my first 'good' day since the new year.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 January, 2009, 08:21:12 pm
Thinking about pastry.
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Post by: David Martin on 13 January, 2009, 08:40:20 pm
Looking for new wheels for winter.

..d
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Post by: peliroja on 13 January, 2009, 08:44:43 pm
Working.
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Post by: Butterfly on 13 January, 2009, 08:46:35 pm
Me too :).
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Post by: Andrew Br on 13 January, 2009, 08:49:40 pm
And me.
Nearly finished though  :thumbsup:

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Post by: gordon taylor on 13 January, 2009, 09:00:22 pm
Surfing bike things instead of getting work prepared for tomorrow. Again.
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Post by: JohnP on 13 January, 2009, 09:06:51 pm
Just about to dial in to the office system.
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Post by: TimO on 13 January, 2009, 09:23:01 pm
Pulling my hair out over some VHDL code which won't reliably compile into a working FPGA every time...

Arse, enough of this, I'm going home so I can have some tea, or supper, or possibly breakfast at this rate. :-\
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Post by: simonp on 13 January, 2009, 09:58:35 pm
Am relaxing in post-swimming glow (I did 550m, 10% more than last week) and thinking about eating something.
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Post by: alan on 13 January, 2009, 10:06:01 pm
Considering changing the sprocket on the Langster to go from 63 to 67" for Saturday's ride.
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 13 January, 2009, 10:16:17 pm
Racing with a warwickeshire lad on Tune association!
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Post by: annie on 13 January, 2009, 10:20:42 pm
Sitting down, drinking chai tea and daydreaming after yoga and meditation.  I ought to go to bed really.  The babysitter and JC had a feast and watched some horrible movie so I should clean up the pots but they can wait until the morning.

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Post by: alan on 18 January, 2009, 04:05:23 pm
Dusting off & reviewing previously made plans to do E2E.
Marj is researching ideas & costs for a holiday in Italy.
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Post by: Greenbank on 18 January, 2009, 04:06:35 pm
Sitting down in front of Sky Sports with a can of lager after a gentle 75km around London.
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Post by: simonp on 18 January, 2009, 04:22:31 pm
Transcoding a video clip so I can edit it before uploading a close overtake to youtube.
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Post by: simonp on 19 January, 2009, 01:16:19 am
Enjoying this:

BBC SPORT | Scotland | Highlights: Aberdeen v Celtic (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/7836747.stm)
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Post by: Valiant on 19 January, 2009, 01:29:26 am
Trying to google chlorpromazine
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Post by: alan on 19 January, 2009, 03:12:45 am
Wishing that I hadn't gone to bed early & woke up after only 4 hours.It's unlikely that I will get back to sleep again as I normally don't sleep for more than 6 hours anyway.
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Post by: GruB on 19 January, 2009, 05:45:34 am
Normal routine for a weekday.  Tried to log onto work and found my Checkpoint security expired yesterday.  Time to take the laptop in to have it reconfigured / scanned etc.

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Post by: David Martin on 19 January, 2009, 08:08:48 am
Feeling somewhat rough with congestion and a headache. Just finishing off a cup of tea before heading out the door to the lab..

..d
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Post by: JohnP on 19 January, 2009, 09:32:21 am
Trying to decide between staying @home in Tee & Trackies or get dressed and go to work.  If the sun comes out in next 30 mins then it will be a no brainer.
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Post by: Naggers on 19 January, 2009, 11:02:54 am
been in Manchester all weekend and got today off to go to Liverpool v Everton this evening so sitting in bed on g/f's laptop while she's snoozzing.

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Post by: clarion on 19 January, 2009, 11:05:27 am
Staring at a bunch of figures that don't add up.. :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 January, 2009, 01:06:46 pm
Drying my buff, gloves, trainers and socks on the office radiator. Bloody sleet. There's no call for it.
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Post by: Jezza on 19 January, 2009, 01:13:23 pm
Trying to transcribe an interview for an article with an Eastern European cheese factory director who sounds like he's got a mouthful of cheddar.

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Post by: alan on 19 January, 2009, 02:29:11 pm
Planning a JoGLe ride :thumbsup:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 January, 2009, 04:25:44 pm
Trying to find a removal company to move a very heavy specialist bath tomorrow, following on from last week's saga of getting it uninstalled. *hits head against wall*
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Post by: Julian on 19 January, 2009, 05:09:03 pm
Drinking coffee and getting ready to go to a seminar.
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Post by: mike on 19 January, 2009, 05:14:44 pm
trying to understand a contract.  Do lawyers get paid by the word?
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Post by: delthebike on 19 January, 2009, 05:18:26 pm
Quote from: mike on 19 January, 2009, 05:14:44 pm
trying to understand a contract.  Do lawyers get paid by the word?
By the syllable and extra for lack of full stops.  :P
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 January, 2009, 05:20:13 pm
Thanking the goddess for Broughton Removals.
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Post by: peliroja on 19 January, 2009, 07:55:59 pm
Not working. For a while, at least.
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Post by: oncemore on 19 January, 2009, 08:38:41 pm
Idly skimming here....and listening to Curtis Eller ("where IS John Wilkes Booth when we need him...") and reflecting that yes there is "always sugar for the horses..."
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Post by: simonp on 19 January, 2009, 08:41:42 pm
Recovering from spinning out 64" at 42.3kph.  :P  :o
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Post by: Greenbank on 19 January, 2009, 08:46:32 pm
Quote from: simonp on 19 January, 2009, 08:41:42 pm
Recovering from spinning out 64" at 42.3kph.  :P  :o

Good work! It'll come though, you don't need to rush it. (57.8kph on the Severn Across on 71.4" is still my best sadly.)

<cue up Messrs FWN, MV, jwo et al>
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Post by: Greenbank on 22 January, 2009, 10:59:13 am
Put new grips on my badminton racquets as the old ones were disintegrating.
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Post by: TimO on 22 January, 2009, 02:09:52 pm
Trying to develop an algorithm for a simple star tracker.
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Post by: numbnuts on 22 January, 2009, 02:12:40 pm
I've just woken up and now having a cup of tea and two mince pies
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Post by: Regulator on 22 January, 2009, 02:14:02 pm
I've just been to Sainsbury's and I'm having a cup of coffee before settling down for a couple of hours in the company of Ms Croft and the Underworld.
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Post by: annie on 22 January, 2009, 02:16:57 pm
Holding on to my sides and recovering after watching a DVD, kindly sent by Auntie C and Liz.  I will never be the same again. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 22 January, 2009, 02:18:19 pm
Quote from: annie on 22 January, 2009, 02:16:57 pm
Holding on to my sides and recovering after watching a DVD, kindly sent by Auntie C and Liz.  I will never be the same again. :)


One shudders to think why your side hurt after watching a DVD sent by those two ladies?  Were you retching that much at the filth on your screen and now questioning your sexuality?   ;)
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Post by: annie on 22 January, 2009, 02:19:59 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 22 January, 2009, 02:18:19 pm
Quote from: annie on 22 January, 2009, 02:16:57 pm
Holding on to my sides and recovering after watching a DVD, kindly sent by Auntie C and Liz.  I will never be the same again. :)


One shudders to think why your side hurt after watching a DVD sent by those two ladies?  Were you retching that much at the filth on your screen and now questioning your sexuality?   ;)

Darling, I already know my sexuality :-*

There's nothing wrong with a bit of butter and a pear.
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 23 January, 2009, 10:54:23 am
I've just been cutting some kindling.
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Post by: Regulator on 23 January, 2009, 11:59:10 am
Thinking about getting dressed and going to the supermarket for some lunch items.
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Post by: peliroja on 23 January, 2009, 12:00:06 pm
Working on getting rid of this cold-y feeling which is plaguing me...  :'(
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Post by: annie on 23 January, 2009, 12:29:12 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 23 January, 2009, 12:00:06 pm
Working on getting rid of this cold-y feeling which is plaguing me...  :'(

Oh no, you have my sympathy.  Wrap up warm, eat chocolate, think nice thoughts. :-*

I am waiting for the phone to ring whilst watching the horizontal rain.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 January, 2009, 12:47:14 pm
Boning up on the latest releases in the Cisco WAAS range of wide are application accelerators so I can specify products for a couple of customers.
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Post by: David Martin on 23 January, 2009, 02:46:15 pm
Trying to deal with a headache and get on with doing some analysis. Instead of procrastinating on here.
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Post by: mike on 23 January, 2009, 02:50:27 pm
trying to get a picture of the woodpecker that keeps visiting the birdfeeder outside my office window.

it's all good work-avoidance.
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Post by: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 02:59:41 pm
procrastinating ;D
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Post by: alan on 23 January, 2009, 03:22:21 pm
Loading the bike with the stuff I'll be taking on JoGle to see if it will fit into a Carradice Camper Longflap & Ortlieb barbag.
Plan B, yet to be tested, is the Ortlieb barbag with two small Ortlieb rear panniers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 03:35:23 pm
Quote from: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 02:59:41 pm
procrastinating ;D

Still busy with this.  Might take a while.  I believe in doing the job properly ;)
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Post by: Chris S on 23 January, 2009, 03:57:24 pm
I was going to go on the Turbo - but the weather has cleared, and I've just had a rather brain-melting 2 hour phone conference, so I might go and thrash the fixie up Hungry Hill a few times  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 04:00:47 pm
Quote from: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 03:35:23 pm
Quote from: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 02:59:41 pm
procrastinating ;D

Still busy with this.  Might take a while.  I believe in doing the job properly ;)

leaving it for a bit.  ICBA doing it now.
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Post by: peliroja on 23 January, 2009, 04:08:21 pm
Quote from: annie on 23 January, 2009, 12:29:12 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 23 January, 2009, 12:00:06 pm
Working on getting rid of this cold-y feeling which is plaguing me...  :'(

Oh no, you have my sympathy.  Wrap up warm, eat chocolate, think nice thoughts. :-*

I am waiting for the phone to ring whilst watching the horizontal rain.
Thanks Annie.

I'm now wrapped up in bed, working, and praying that this horrible hot/coldness, icy feeling in the back of the throat and general weakness isn't the start of the flu. I cannot, cannot, cannot afford to be ill until the event is over.  >:(
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Post by: Naggers on 23 January, 2009, 04:22:17 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 23 January, 2009, 04:08:21 pm

I'm now wrapped up in bed, working, and praying that this horrible hot/coldness, icy feeling in the back of the throat and general weakness isn't the start of the flu. I cannot, cannot, cannot afford to be ill until the event is over.  >:(

<HUG>

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Post by: peliroja on 23 January, 2009, 04:23:07 pm
Thanks, Naggers.  :-*
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 23 January, 2009, 04:24:47 pm
GWS Peli

I was dusting but I have been sending surreal vids to Mrs. Surreal at work. She needs cheering up......nothing singing cats won't sort out.
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Post by: Naggers on 23 January, 2009, 04:28:07 pm
I've just come from the Bike shop having cancelled n+1.
Now at work, doing important things on here and stuffing my face with Tuna Mayo in fresh crusty bread  :P


edit. Just got a bloomin' job to go on  :(

 
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Post by: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 04:29:44 pm
Cancelled n+1?  How sad :(
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Post by: rower40 on 23 January, 2009, 04:31:29 pm
Quote from: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 04:00:47 pm
Quote from: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 03:35:23 pm
Quote from: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 02:59:41 pm
procrastinating ;D

Still busy with this.  Might take a while.  I believe in doing the job properly ;)
leaving it for a bit.  ICBA doing it now.

That was on my "To-Do" list, but I haven't got round to it yet.

Watching new DVD purchases.  Dr Who 4th series, "The Colour of Magic", and "Dark Crystal".  Prompted to buy the latter by the DVD extra documentary about the making of "Labyrinth", one of my favourite films of ever.

Thinking healing thoughts to all forummers who are under the weather.
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Post by: Naggers on 23 January, 2009, 04:37:40 pm
Quote from: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 04:29:44 pm
Cancelled n+1?  How sad :(

It's not all bad.

I've actually ordered n+1 from three places and only cancelled two of them  :thumbsup:

More news next week hopefully  8)
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Post by: clarion on 23 January, 2009, 04:38:54 pm
That's a bit of a relief. :)
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Post by: Naggers on 23 January, 2009, 04:39:54 pm
Quote from: Naggers on 23 January, 2009, 04:28:07 pm

edit. Just got a bloomin' job to go on  :(


Sorted over the phone  8) Signalling Centre Operative failure  ;D

Back to the Tuna sandwiches.



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Post by: peliroja on 24 January, 2009, 11:02:41 am
Working.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 January, 2009, 02:58:19 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 January, 2009, 11:02:41 am
Working.  :(
Still.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 January, 2009, 03:12:44 pm
Psychologically preparing myself for an evening of "Burnsian japes" with bpoab, Ariadne and Kyuss. *fear*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 January, 2009, 03:18:21 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 24 January, 2009, 03:12:44 pm
Psychologically preparing myself for an evening of "Burnsian japes" with bpoab, Ariadne and Kyuss. *fear*

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/MrBurns.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_supper)

Excellent!

;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 January, 2009, 03:41:21 pm
Also, I am selling some of my hatred of Jodie Marsh on ebay. A friend of mine sold her hatred of Bono and made a fortune. I don't know if there is as much of a demand for second-hand loathing of Marsh though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 January, 2009, 03:42:42 pm
Just got back from t'pubbe. When you're on the wagon, one can get quite a buzz out of a couple of pints <hic>  :D.

Time for a nap  :thumbsup:.
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Post by: peliroja on 24 January, 2009, 10:21:33 pm
Just watched a film, and about to start work again.
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Post by: Julian on 24 January, 2009, 10:24:08 pm
Curling up in a warm living room with Charlotte and Annie and a laptop each.

Such geekery.

:D
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Post by: peliroja on 25 January, 2009, 11:58:09 am
Just got up, having food, and about to start work again.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 25 January, 2009, 01:27:07 pm
Annie and I are taking our t-shirts off and Charlotte has the camera.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 January, 2009, 01:29:26 pm
I am about to slice up Seville oranges... :thumbsup:
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Post by: Charlotte on 25 January, 2009, 01:32:31 pm
Quote from: Liz on 25 January, 2009, 01:27:07 pm
Annie and I are taking our t-shirts off and Charlotte has the camera.

I think I've died and gone to heaven  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 25 January, 2009, 02:00:43 pm
Working out how to play the Bagpuss theme tune on a semi-acoustic mandolin
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 25 January, 2009, 02:30:46 pm
Wishing I was chez Charlotte's  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 25 January, 2009, 03:11:03 pm
Drinking a cup of Marj's tea.Tastes like nectar.And eating Green & Blacks dark chocolate.A lovely post-ride r&r :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 January, 2009, 03:14:18 pm
Drinking a cup of tea after my run, and sitting down to start work again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 January, 2009, 04:29:56 pm
Getting hungry and lusting after the pan of nutty noodles we'll be having later...  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 25 January, 2009, 04:43:08 pm
Drinking tea, listening to the rather splendid stuff that they're playing on XFM at the moment and watching Liz working.

I love work.  I could watch people doing it all day  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 25 January, 2009, 04:43:43 pm
Just dismantled and cleaned the mogs electric litter tray, and faced the bottom bracket on my current n+1 Kaffenback kit.   I'm about to empty and refill the dishwasher, and fill the washing machine, and then think about where I can put the mogs water fountain.

All this whilst listening to an Internet 80s radio station!  "Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters..." ;D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 January, 2009, 04:48:52 pm
Just IMing a colleague and realising that the person I was talking about was sitting right next to them. Great.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 25 January, 2009, 04:54:50 pm
Still working.

*mutter*

*day of rest*

*grumble*
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Post by: andygates on 25 January, 2009, 04:56:57 pm
Painting the front door - the inside has been needing doing since I moved in, and the brown wood-filler just made it look like a dirty protest.  Now it's blinding white and smelly...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 25 January, 2009, 04:57:14 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 25 January, 2009, 04:48:52 pm
Just IMing a colleague and realising that the person I was talking about was sitting right next to them. Great.

there is still a place for phone conversations p2p
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 25 January, 2009, 04:57:37 pm
During my (somewhat essential) housework, I've just found a box of brandy liqueurs I was given at Christmas and had forgotten about, an audio cable I've been looking for, and the fleecy hat I would have worn on the Annie-versary ride if I'd found it when I was looking for it, and if it had been cold. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 25 January, 2009, 05:21:09 pm
Just finishing at work, just a handover to the night shift to do and then I'm off..... ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 January, 2009, 05:59:30 pm
Sitting very still having just knackered my back/neck jumping about, and in a lot of pain. Roadrunner has just arrived and I'm not being the best host :(

And I keep being told not to move. Which is hard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 25 January, 2009, 06:01:22 pm
Eating a locally caught haggis !
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Post by: smiles on 25 January, 2009, 06:03:08 pm
Just about to watch an episode of Startrek Voyager with my son Harry !!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 25 January, 2009, 06:40:32 pm
Watching Peter Gabriel's Secret World Live (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Peter-Gabriel-Secret-World-Live/dp/B00008W42Z/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1232908692&sr=8-11) DVD wot Mrs S got me for me burfday  :D.

Awesome show - which includes the definitive version of In your Eyes  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 January, 2009, 09:04:27 pm
Putting off the ironing :-\
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Post by: peliroja on 25 January, 2009, 11:19:31 pm
Lying on the sofa in agony :(

Bugger bugger bugger. Such bad timing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 26 January, 2009, 07:58:33 am
Being crushed on a seer train can't ride in because I need a suit today and some barsteard stole the one I keep at the office
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 26 January, 2009, 10:37:20 am
Gotta cold, so feeling like poo.....
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Post by: Chris S on 26 January, 2009, 10:48:32 am
Eating porridge
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 January, 2009, 12:44:17 pm
Quote from: clarion on 25 January, 2009, 09:04:27 pm
Putting off the ironing :-\

I realised when I was about to get dressed this morning that I did no ironing either. I'm a bit crumpled looking today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 26 January, 2009, 12:55:25 pm
I am ironing.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 January, 2009, 02:13:26 pm
I did iron three shirts last night, but there's more to do yet... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 January, 2009, 08:49:49 pm
Do you wear a jacket over them? Cos if so, you only need to do the fronts.

I'm wondering if I can afford £350 to hire The Rowantree at The Caves - Edinburgh  (http://www.thecavesedinburgh.com) for a birthday party at the end of the year, and thinking probably not.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 26 January, 2009, 08:55:29 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 26 January, 2009, 08:49:49 pm
, you only need to do the fronts.

 ;D ;D

I used to do exactly this when I had to iron my shirts 'cause Marj buggered off to hospital for 6 months following an RTA.

I had to sit in management meetings in very hot weather with no a/c in the office.

When I visited Marj in the evenings & took my suit jacket off she found it very amusing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 26 January, 2009, 09:04:03 pm
I am now imaging the partition of the drive I have spent all weekend (and this evening) rebuilding.

Next time it buggers up, it should be the work of a couple of hours to get back to this state.

Hurrah for PING.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 26 January, 2009, 09:25:35 pm
on the train back home after a day in london seeing clients & a team meeting and dinner in Belgos for 20. 

Quite a good day; my boss was over and was v cheerful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 January, 2009, 09:30:53 pm
Wasting time looking for laptop diagnostic stuff. Can't believe it's 2130 already, bloody knackered pooters are timesuckers.
Didn't find anything useful anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 January, 2009, 09:42:26 pm
I've just spent a couple of hours murdering a few dead Germans. I'm finding it difficult adjusting to a different type of keyboard now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 26 January, 2009, 09:45:09 pm
Lying down with pillows under both legs, tum gurgling away.  Watching 'Why Are Thin People Not Fat."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 January, 2009, 09:59:29 pm
Quote from: annie on 26 January, 2009, 09:45:09 pm
Lying down with pillows under both legs, tum gurgling away.  Watching 'Why Are Thin People Not Fat."

Oh bum, I forgot that was on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 26 January, 2009, 10:02:21 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 26 January, 2009, 09:59:29 pm
Quote from: annie on 26 January, 2009, 09:45:09 pm
Lying down with pillows under both legs, tum gurgling away.  Watching 'Why Are Thin People Not Fat."

Oh bum, I forgot that was on.

It was very interesting, can you watch it on iPlayer?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 January, 2009, 10:13:51 pm
Probably, if I could be bothered re-installing it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 January, 2009, 08:51:07 am
Thawing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 January, 2009, 08:53:32 am
About to take dog to park.
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 27 January, 2009, 09:16:42 am
Just had some porridge. Put apples, figs and spices in then cream and honey to finish. Gorgeous day for a ride down here, shame that I have got the stupid flu shizzle....... >:(
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Post by: peliroja on 27 January, 2009, 09:16:54 am
Taking my tablets. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: smiles on 28 January, 2009, 09:21:44 pm
Watching Startrek Voyager again !!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 January, 2009, 09:31:46 pm
Getting ready to watch The High Life and do the ironing. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 January, 2009, 09:38:40 pm
Wondering why I'm still hungry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 28 January, 2009, 09:57:18 pm
resting tired limbs after climbing. Did my first 6b without redpointing for about a year or so.. Chuffed.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tom B on 28 January, 2009, 10:14:14 pm
Quote
Wondering why I'm still hungry

Having a nice beer and wondering if Kirst would like the bean&veg stew I made earlier, if it were
possible to teleport it to her  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 28 January, 2009, 10:17:53 pm
Playing on Twitter and wondering why
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 January, 2009, 10:26:38 pm
Laughing at Brotherhood of Man dancing on youtube and thinking how much the blonde one looks like Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 January, 2009, 10:35:15 pm
Just unwrapped some Aircraft Carictures (http://www.caricatureaircraftpictures.com/) which I ordered last month.

Very chuffed with them. :thumbsup:  Now I need to get some frames so i can hang them up.

(http://www.caricatureaircraftpictures.com/prints/fighters%20&%20attack/Sopwith_Camel_70_RFC.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 28 January, 2009, 10:35:24 pm
Just had a really good ride back from a seminar, cleaned up the cat vom, had a hot shower and stuffing myself with home made bread and peanut butter.  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 29 January, 2009, 08:30:53 am
Worry about a friend, she having a tough time atm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 30 January, 2009, 12:58:02 pm
Just put a soapdish up in the bathroom....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 30 January, 2009, 03:30:34 pm
procrastinating, before wandering off to give a seminar.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 30 January, 2009, 03:34:57 pm
Just finished a conference call with Cisco and a PCT. Going to make a cuppa then I have to try and ring the police re some security work they may want us to do on their LAN.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2009, 04:00:38 pm
Feeling very sad about the frothing homophobes on the Edinburgh Evening News website.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 30 January, 2009, 04:50:14 pm
devouring a cheese and chilli sauce sandwich.  Yum yum yum
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 30 January, 2009, 05:02:45 pm
Just got back from shopping, Tescos had some Nakd bars for once.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 30 January, 2009, 05:06:54 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 30 January, 2009, 04:00:38 pm
Feeling very sad about the frothing homophobes on the Edinburgh Evening News website.

You and BPOAB seem to be giving them what for.  I think JKM needs his meds...  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 30 January, 2009, 05:36:08 pm
Feeling relaxed after a looooong soak in the bath with the water as hot as could be withstood.Various bits are all wrinkled a la prune :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2009, 07:05:54 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 30 January, 2009, 05:06:54 pm

You and BPOAB seem to be giving them what for.  I think JKM needs his meds...  ;)
I've just been accused of homophobia.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 30 January, 2009, 07:39:28 pm
Eating anything & everything in the frig that's not out of date & not nailed down. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 30 January, 2009, 07:46:58 pm
Trying to resist the second helping of pizza so I can have it later and therefore won't be jealous of TKP who WILL be able to wait  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 30 January, 2009, 07:50:59 pm
Quote from: GillP on 30 January, 2009, 07:46:58 pm
Trying to resist the second helping of pizza so I can have it later and therefore won't be jealous of TKP who WILL be able to wait  ::-)

Gwagwangwan,you know you want to.Have it now & his piece too :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 30 January, 2009, 07:51:50 pm
Quote from: alan on 30 January, 2009, 07:39:28 pm
Eating anything & everything in the frig that's not out of date & not nailed down. ;D

We had a frig but we didn't know what it was or what to do with it.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 30 January, 2009, 07:52:35 pm
Quote from: alan on 30 January, 2009, 07:50:59 pm
Quote from: GillP on 30 January, 2009, 07:46:58 pm
Trying to resist the second helping of pizza so I can have it later and therefore won't be jealous of TKP who WILL be able to wait  ::-)

Gwagwangwan,you know you want to.Have it now & his piece too :demon:

You are a VERY bad influence  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 30 January, 2009, 07:56:02 pm
Quote from: GillP on 30 January, 2009, 07:52:35 pm
Quote from: alan on 30 January, 2009, 07:50:59 pm
Quote from: GillP on 30 January, 2009, 07:46:58 pm
Trying to resist the second helping of pizza so I can have it later and therefore won't be jealous of TKP who WILL be able to wait  ::-)

Gwagwangwan,you know you want to.Have it now & his piece too :demon:

You are a VERY bad influence  :-*

Iam a bit like a cream cake...naughty but nice O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 30 January, 2009, 07:57:16 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 30 January, 2009, 07:51:50 pm
Quote from: alan on 30 January, 2009, 07:39:28 pm
Eating anything & everything in the frig that's not out of date & not nailed down. ;D

We had a frig but we didn't know what it was or what to do with it.  ;D

ad a "d" to it & keep food in it 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 30 January, 2009, 08:41:37 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 30 January, 2009, 07:07:36 pm
Crying, stressing, about to explode.

I think I need a cup of tea.  >:( >:( >:(

are you feeling any better yet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 30 January, 2009, 09:25:18 pm
Sorting stuff out......you know stuff type stuff. It needs doing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 30 January, 2009, 09:27:34 pm
Quote from: LE on 30 January, 2009, 08:41:37 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 30 January, 2009, 07:07:36 pm
Crying, stressing, about to explode.

I think I need a cup of tea.  >:( >:( >:(

are you feeling any better yet?
Yes. I had a major strop, tears and tea. Then a hug from Woolly in a Utilikilt and all is much better.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 31 January, 2009, 10:27:15 am
Quote from: peliroja on 30 January, 2009, 09:27:34 pm
Quote from: LE on 30 January, 2009, 08:41:37 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 30 January, 2009, 07:07:36 pm
Crying, stressing, about to explode.

I think I need a cup of tea.  >:( >:( >:(

are you feeling any better yet?
Yes. I had a major strop, tears and tea. Then a hug from Woolly in a Utilikilt and all is much better.  :)

Big hugs
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 January, 2009, 04:37:04 pm
Trying to find a not entirely soulless party venue in Edinburgh for a reasonable price ie not the Caves at £350.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 31 January, 2009, 05:19:21 pm
Back in bed
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 01 February, 2009, 08:29:10 pm
Trying to fix some code urgently right now in response to a reviewers comments.Then I have a set of comments to distill into action points. And a grant app and a paper to review. But first I am going to put the kids to bed. I might get fed up and get on the rollers.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 01 February, 2009, 08:30:51 pm
Playing with my new laptop. It's fab.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 01 February, 2009, 08:32:13 pm
Listening to the Forum on the World Service whilst tweaking programme documents.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 02 February, 2009, 07:37:43 am
Listening to Radio 4 and trying to decide whether to ride to work or work from home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 February, 2009, 07:48:30 am
Watching the snow fall and settling down for a day of working at home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: groucho on 03 February, 2009, 08:45:08 am
Just eaten my packed lunch!

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Post by: cometworm on 03 February, 2009, 09:41:55 am
Skiving.
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Post by: andygates on 03 February, 2009, 09:50:10 am
Coming down from a snowy-commute adrenaline high with the aid of biscuits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 03 February, 2009, 09:53:45 am
Waiting for the horizontal sleet to ease off a bit so I can ride to the lbs, seven miles away, to get a couple of brake cables for fettling my fixed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 03 February, 2009, 09:55:41 am
Swearing profusely at Micro$not's SQL Server Reporting Services 2008  >:(

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 February, 2009, 09:57:16 am
Cursing the twunt in emergency social work services who has written a case note relating to a phone call from the police about a client who the department holds guardianship for - but written it in my client's electronic file, not the client whom the note actually relates to. Because they're an out of hours service, I can't contact him to get him to remove it, and I have no idea which client it relates to. I've notified systems admin who are as delighted by it as me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 03 February, 2009, 10:33:37 am
I'm enjoying a cup of of tea, having just got home after presenting the Breakfast Show on our community radio station 10Radio: community radio for the 10 Parish area (http://www.10radio.org)

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bez on 03 February, 2009, 10:53:41 am
Quote from: Chris S on 03 February, 2009, 09:55:41 am
Swearing profusely at Micro$not's SQL Server Reporting Services 2008  >:(

I had the dubious pleasure of being able to swear at various MS SQL Server versions starting with 4.21 and ending with SQL Server 2000. After that I moved away from in depth technical issues but have found plenty of other IT work related things to swear at  :).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 03 February, 2009, 10:58:37 am
Quote from: diapason on 03 February, 2009, 10:33:37 am
I'm enjoying a cup of of tea, having just got home after presenting the Breakfast Show on our community radio station 10Radio: community radio for the 10 Parish area (http://www.10radio.org)

N

Are you Smashie or Nicey?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 03 February, 2009, 11:06:03 am
Just going back up the hill on the bikes with the boys, sled, wife and dog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 03 February, 2009, 11:07:18 am
Quote from: GruB on 03 February, 2009, 11:06:03 am
Just going back up the hill on the bikes with the boys, sled, wife and dog.

Get to work you lazy bugger!  Report to your nearest station if need be...


 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 February, 2009, 11:11:49 am
Wishing:

a) My hand didn't hurt

b) I had a mountain bike

c) I could go out & play.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 03 February, 2009, 11:36:42 am
Quote from: clarion on 03 February, 2009, 11:11:49 am
Wishing:

a) My hand didn't hurt

b) I had a mountain bike

c) I could go out & play.

Being glad that
a)mine doesn't  but my right shoulder & elbow remain very painfull)
b) I do but my right shoulder & elbow remain very painfull)
c) I could but  but my right shoulder & elbow remain very painfull)

we could do an injury-swap just to relieve the monotony
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 February, 2009, 11:44:07 am
;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 03 February, 2009, 12:18:14 pm
Watching the snow fall and trying (and failing) to reconcile myself to a week of commuting by car.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 03 February, 2009, 01:58:19 pm
Blasting out requiem for a dream soundtrack in the office. Everyone is so chilled out it's great
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 03 February, 2009, 01:58:50 pm
crisis management.

Again.

god bless customers looking for a discount...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 03 February, 2009, 02:43:10 pm
I've just got back from a walk in the snow slush and now having a cup of tea and 2 mince pies :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 03 February, 2009, 02:43:40 pm
Just had a bath after a four hour ride in the snow......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 February, 2009, 02:48:17 pm
Feeling a bit woozy after a visit to a house filled with smoke. Not tobacco smoke. How long till the munchies hit?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 03 February, 2009, 02:58:21 pm
I quite often visit houses full of smoke......then we put the fire out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 03 February, 2009, 03:07:23 pm
Quote from: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 03 February, 2009, 02:58:21 pm
I quite often visit houses full of smoke......then we put the fire out.

yet another form of crisis managemant

Respect :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 04 February, 2009, 03:07:08 pm
drinking tea, answering emails and listening to the cricket from Jamaica wishing I was there.  Or anywhere warm, really...


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 04 February, 2009, 04:25:52 pm
Listening to Barak Obama talking sense..
Are you listening Gordon Brown.

U.S failed executives will be taken to task more so than lottery winning U.K. failed executives who are still getting massive compensation & allowing bonus payments to the workforce of failed companies all with taxpayers money >:(

Perhaps this should be in Rant.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 04 February, 2009, 06:28:48 pm
At work, sitting at my desk and causing IT Guru nightmares- using the PC whilst eating a plate of 'Snack food of the Gods' - Beans on Toast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 February, 2009, 09:59:25 pm
Wondering if the Vodka Lounge at Revolution would be a good place to have a party. They want a £200 deposit but refund it if the bar takings are over £1500. It's a dilemma.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 05 February, 2009, 08:56:02 am
I'm contemplating whether or not I'm sufficiently recovered from flu and chronic diarrhoea to have something to eat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: groucho on 05 February, 2009, 09:23:22 am
Watching the 'thaw'!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 05 February, 2009, 10:12:50 am
Quote from: Kirst on 04 February, 2009, 09:59:25 pm
Wondering if the Vodka Lounge at Revolution would be a good place to have a party. They want a £200 deposit but refund it if the bar takings are over £1500. It's a dilemma.

I feel like a right killjoy saying this, but £1500?  That seems an awful lot of money to wee up the wall, even collectively  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 February, 2009, 10:18:57 am
Wondering whether a thread exists in which to describe the following bit of oddballery:

I was examining an Item in Sainsbury's the other day.  On the back of said Item was a sticker, which read something along the lines of "This Item has a security tag.  Please remove it before putting in the microwave".

Sound advice, perhaps, if the Item is a piece of microwave-friendly cookware, but who would buy 28 Weeks Later on DVD, take it home and think "Noes, I shall not yet place this Item in my DVD player.  I need to defrost it first." ???

Oh, er, um...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: groucho on 05 February, 2009, 10:53:55 am
Quote from: groucho on 05 February, 2009, 09:23:22 am
Watching the 'thaw'!

Oopps watching the 'unthaw' now!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 February, 2009, 01:10:15 pm
Quote from: Gandalf on 05 February, 2009, 10:12:50 am


I feel like a right killjoy saying this, but £1500?  That seems an awful lot of money to wee up the wall, even collectively  :o

That's what I thought too, even allowing for their ridiculous bar prices. I might invite all of you. They'll end up giving me more than my deposit back!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 05 February, 2009, 01:51:15 pm
Quote from: Gandalf on 05 February, 2009, 10:12:50 am
Quote from: Kirst on 04 February, 2009, 09:59:25 pm
Wondering if the Vodka Lounge at Revolution would be a good place to have a party. They want a £200 deposit but refund it if the bar takings are over £1500. It's a dilemma.

I feel like a right killjoy saying this, but £1500?  That seems an awful lot of money to wee up the wall, even collectively  :o

Doesn't sound a lot for a group of weggie hens out on a Friday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 06 February, 2009, 08:55:07 am
Thawing.  Watching the landscape turn white. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 06 February, 2009, 10:38:49 am
Working from the back bedroom looking at the snow falling  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 06 February, 2009, 11:38:26 am
Paying a heavy price for failing to check that my DSLR wasn't set to shoot in RAW prior to lending it to snap happy -won't allow- anything to be deleted-SWMBO. 

I feel a strange affinity with those unsung heroes of the Horse of the Year Show, the ones with buckets and shovels  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 February, 2009, 11:41:30 am
Putting off procrastination for a bit longer.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 February, 2009, 04:36:38 pm
Heading off to the office bar...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 February, 2009, 05:53:15 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 06 February, 2009, 04:36:38 pm
Heading off to the office bar...

Having killed two black sheep (http://www.blacksheepbrewery.co.uk/) I'm eyeing up a third...
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 06 February, 2009, 10:22:36 pm
Being quite bored in the Emirates lounge in Dubai waiting for my onward flight at 03.45.  ::Yawn::
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 February, 2009, 10:27:07 pm
I'm most of the way through a bottle of Pitfield Stock Ale. It's very strong, about 10% I think. I won't have another beer this evening.

I rather envy Andrij and his black sheep. At least you can have the satisfaction of quantity there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 07 February, 2009, 08:19:33 am
Killing time due to my own stupidity. We are going out with the local club today and they leave at 9.30am from Garstang, some 35 minutes drive from here. For some inexplicable reason I managed to calculate that we would need to leave here at 8.15am. So the alarm was set for 6.45am, and by 8.05am we were just about ready. That is when Mrs. TKP said, "why are we leaving at 8.15 when it takes 35 minutes and we don't need to be there until 9.30?". Good point Mrs. TKP. So now we have half an hour to kill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2009, 08:42:56 am
I'm getting ready for a Saturday Commute. I'm off to spend an hour with the G & T in Shoebury..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 07 February, 2009, 08:45:13 am
Dawdling.  Finished the housework and ironing and eaten my breakfast. 

Time to jump in the bath and head off to the hospital to visit a friend.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 07 February, 2009, 09:23:51 am
Poring over a local map to see which route to ride out later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 February, 2009, 11:25:35 am
Scowling at the weather. I was just about to walk into town but it's snowing again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 07 February, 2009, 11:29:09 am
Waiting for Ibuprofen too take effect on my arm so that I can start my local ride.
Glad I DNS'd the Sunrise Express ride last night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 07 February, 2009, 11:47:31 am
Debating whether to go into town for lunch.   I have to go into town to post a 'ner ner de ner ner!!' letter to a debt collection agency and a parcel to a member of the forum. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 February, 2009, 01:30:33 pm
Sweating gently after clearing our entire road of hard-packed snow and sheet ice, making it passable again.  Did any of the neighbours help?  Nope, they just did their own drives  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 07 February, 2009, 01:36:42 pm
Watching 633 Squadron and debugging a Stored Procedure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 07 February, 2009, 03:21:17 pm
Drinking a cuppa and getting warm by the fire, having recently returned from the local club run, although due to my tardiness we did the B and a half ride cos I couldn't quite keep up the pace!  ::-)

They were very nice and encouraging but on a day like today it didn't seem fair to ask them to wait at the junctions for me so we left them at Inglewhite and met them at the cafe stop. A couple of miles into the return journey when I was tucked nicely into the pack I looked at TKP and realised something was missing.  :o He had managed to leave his helmet at the cafe stop so we left them and went back to collect it. Just as well really because my legs were useless on the way back  :-[

I will go again though, with skinny tyres and no luggage and a lot of determination  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 07 February, 2009, 05:54:51 pm
Sitting in a hotel in Hyderabad feeling ver', ver' tired having not slept in the last two days (my normal trick for dealing with jet lag, so not complaining in the slightest)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 February, 2009, 06:32:49 pm
Just got in from an hour's moonlight sledging with Miss Z.  No-one else there, polished ice (although no faster than yesterday when it was hard packed snow).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 February, 2009, 06:36:47 pm
Stopped working for an hour while we have some home-made carrot & coriander soup with cheese on toast.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 07 February, 2009, 06:46:04 pm
cooking tea for me and son (rest of family not here) and whilst everyone is away I'm making the most of it by listening to Barber of Seville, with volume nob at 11
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 07 February, 2009, 06:52:51 pm
We are about to go and order an Indian takeaway and wait for it in the pub.  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 07 February, 2009, 07:08:38 pm
Browsing the forum whilst a big pot of chorizo, butterbean & potato stew bubbles away making the room smell nice.  :P

Listening to Suzanne Vega,  checking the photo's I took from the top of Liverpool's Anglican cathedral. It was the first time I'd been to the top of the tower despite living here all my life.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 07 February, 2009, 07:20:33 pm
Waiting for Crystal Tips and AndyPandy, who are coming here for tea. Looking forward to it! Dinner smells delicious.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 07 February, 2009, 09:14:29 pm
Sitting in the offic, on my day off, earning some overtime and serioulsy wondering if I will managed to stay awake until 4.00 a.m. because I got out of bed at 9:00 this morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2009, 09:18:19 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 07 February, 2009, 09:14:29 pm
Sitting in the offic, on my day off, earning some overtime and serioulsy wondering if I will managed to stay awake until 4.00 a.m. because I got out of bed at 9:00 this morning.

<ubiquitous road sign>
Think! Don't cycle tired!
</ubiquitous road sign>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 February, 2009, 09:35:17 pm
Wondering why I'm not in t'bath...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 07 February, 2009, 10:50:58 pm
Just out of the bath. A nice hot soak following 30 mins on the rollers in the garage. Full gloves, freezing feet, and the rest of me too warm to worry about. Working out the aches in my legs from the spinning yesterday. It worked too!

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 08 February, 2009, 03:44:52 am
Calling it a day and going home- Night y'all :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 08 February, 2009, 09:26:16 am
Sitting in the lounge fully togged up for some cold cycling and feeling a bit of a prat because we are ten minutes early (Mrs. TKP is going on an organised girly ride). I will have the option of doing as much or as little as I like and heading for home and warmth but if the forecast if right she will end up cycling in the snow.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 February, 2009, 09:56:50 am
Quote from: toekneep on 08 February, 2009, 09:26:16 am
and feeling a bit of a prat

You did this yesterday IIRC :o
Is there some sort of NVQ or CTC award which requires such persitence :demon:
Yuo'll be telling me next that it's an age thing ;)

Quote from: toekneep on 08 February, 2009, 09:26:16 am
but if the forecast if right she will end up cycling in the snow.  :demon:
True grit that woman,true grit  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 08 February, 2009, 10:36:27 am
I've just got back from church O:-) and now having a cup of tea :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 08 February, 2009, 10:41:01 am
Just off to work now.   :-\ :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 February, 2009, 01:42:20 pm
Doing an excellent imitation of a lounge lizard digesting a delicious Sunday dinner.
Regards
Billy Bunter ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 February, 2009, 01:57:45 pm
On the turbo for twenty mins after a half hour run to Putney and back to pick up some bits and bobs for the event.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 08 February, 2009, 03:35:50 pm
Enjoying that post ride feeling. 25 miles and at a pace I can more than cope with and I have met some more cycling ladeeez and had a nice sociable ride and tea stop  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 08 February, 2009, 03:47:13 pm
Watching a minor blizzard develop outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 08 February, 2009, 03:52:13 pm
Watching Wales v Scotland on the TV - of course  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 08 February, 2009, 04:44:27 pm
Fettling...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 08 February, 2009, 04:52:06 pm
cake, tea and moonraker! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 08 February, 2009, 05:32:31 pm
Wallowing in my own crapulence.

It is Sunday evening, and therefore the Rogerzilla roast has just been consumed with a bottle of plonk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 08 February, 2009, 05:42:07 pm
Am fullt stuffed and about to go to bed after a fine Hyderabadi biryani.  A fine end to a manic day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 February, 2009, 05:45:00 pm
Having booked a load of train tickets and hotels, I'm now off to the bath to try and boil this cold out of me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 08 February, 2009, 05:46:29 pm
Hoping that this might get me the day off :thumbsup:

Snow could turn to ice | Stoke & Staffordshire news (http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Breaking-News-Snow-lead-icy-conditions/article-680461-detail/article.html)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 08 February, 2009, 06:44:45 pm
Just looking through the leaflets & stuff I got at the Triathlon Show today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 February, 2009, 06:58:55 pm
Cooling down after my bath. Chuffin' eck it was hot! I have to be really careful not to stand up too quick now, lest I pass out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 08 February, 2009, 08:45:06 pm
Watching James Taylor.  Interested to know what Triathlon's Gandalf might be considering.  Wondering why I am still hungry despite feeding my face.  Thinking about sorting out the washing but not doing anything about it.

Making plans for my future.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 09 February, 2009, 11:38:48 am
Quote from: annie on 08 February, 2009, 08:45:06 pm
Making plans for my future.



I have always wanted one of those.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 09 February, 2009, 03:43:16 pm
procrastinating building a database into which to parse Mass Spec search results.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 February, 2009, 04:30:44 pm
Blowing my nose, and coughing. A lot.  ::-).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 10 February, 2009, 10:57:32 am
Scouring the house for any more Ibuprofen.  Sore throat isn't bad enough to make the move on up to Codeine.  So slightly guilty about not going to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 10 February, 2009, 11:36:13 am
Taking an 'onsite backup' copy of MSO SB 2007 prior to sending the originals out to one of our reps (probably never to be seen again).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 February, 2009, 11:37:12 am
Dripping on the chair after an 45 mins of intervals on the turbo.  Watching the river rise and waiting for the council to let me know if they are going to issue sandbags.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 February, 2009, 11:44:22 am
Snoozing intermittently. Getting up at 7 a.m. to make porridge for a commuting daughter is taking its toll.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 February, 2009, 11:50:35 am
Crossing my fingers for Annie and all who live in flood areas.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 10 February, 2009, 11:51:22 am
Feeling very outside the YACF community
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 10 February, 2009, 11:55:12 am
Looking out of the team window and getting depressed by the grimness of this bit of South London
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 10 February, 2009, 12:30:25 pm
Quote from: annie on 08 February, 2009, 08:45:06 pm
Watching James Taylor.  Interested to know what Triathlon's Gandalf might be considering.  Wondering why I am still hungry despite feeding my face.  Thinking about sorting out the washing but not doing anything about it.

Making plans for my future.




None specifically, at least not until I get my swimming sorted out.  I'm going to start lessons on a Saturday afternoon.  £12 for an hour doesn't seem unreasonable.

I am doing a short Duathlon in April though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 10 February, 2009, 12:46:29 pm
Thinking about LE who is not outside, and Annie who is dripping enough already.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 February, 2009, 12:49:12 pm
Just finished a sandwich at my desk and watching the wind farm bt the river. Its a lovely sunny day in Liverpool, we've had no storms here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 February, 2009, 12:50:26 pm
Still in bed, fighting the snotty phlegm demon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 10 February, 2009, 12:56:30 pm
Taking a coffee break during the annual meeting with my accountant
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 February, 2009, 01:13:12 pm
Hoping that our favourite Pixie can float (and that she doesn't need too!)

Feeling sad because LE is down again :-(         How are the plans for your visits to Canada & Iceland coming along  Elleigh ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 10 February, 2009, 04:11:11 pm
Quote from: LE on 10 February, 2009, 11:51:22 am
Feeling very outside the YACF community
Me too. We should get together LE and chunter about the rest of them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 10 February, 2009, 05:20:33 pm
Quote from: LE on 10 February, 2009, 11:51:22 am
Feeling very outside the YACF community

Why's that, Elleigh?

*sending hugs*

*and chocolate*

:D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 10 February, 2009, 05:24:26 pm
Annoyed, because the report I hoped to finish before lunch, then just after lunch, is still growing.

When you check data to see if their are other anomalies, it's very annoying when you find there are, and you have to search for more, and then write the lot up. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 February, 2009, 06:28:51 pm
Sending hugs to LE and ChrisS.

I can float for a short while but hypothermia might mean I am less able to do so than normal.

The road is even more flooded, I had to go out in the 4 x 4.  Tomorrow could be interesting.  My other friend who lives in an old farmhouse opposite is now moving stuff upstairs.

I am going to put my bikes in my bedroom, can't let them get wet. :)

I look forward to hearing all about the Duathlon, Gandalf.

 :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 February, 2009, 06:33:31 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 10 February, 2009, 12:46:29 pm
Thinking about LE who is not outside, and Annie who is dripping enough already.

Ermmmm, dripping you say?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 10 February, 2009, 07:03:58 pm
Trying to find enough enthusiasm to get on the bike :either  a proper ride or at least use the turbo or rollers.
We seem to be out of stock of enthusiasm :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 February, 2009, 07:40:23 pm
Quote from: alan on 10 February, 2009, 07:03:58 pm
Trying to find enough enthusiasm to get on the bike :either  a proper ride or at least use the turbo or rollers.
We seem to be out of stock of enthusiasm :(

I have oodles of enthusiasm and can send it your way if you like, I can  bounce it right over?

How about you report back in just over an hour to inform us of your progress on the bike, be it rollers or turbo.  Aim for 20 mins and anything else will be a bonus.  If you do I could send you something for your efforts. O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 10 February, 2009, 09:08:35 pm
Quote from: annie on 10 February, 2009, 07:40:23 pm
If you do I could send you something for your efforts. O:-)

Now that's what I call an incentive.
I am bouncing with anticipation ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 February, 2009, 09:10:39 pm
Quote from: alan on 10 February, 2009, 09:08:35 pm
Quote from: annie on 10 February, 2009, 07:40:23 pm
If you do I could send you something for your efforts. O:-)

Now that's what I call an incentive.
I am bouncing with anticipation ;)

You did it then!  What would you like as a reward?   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 10 February, 2009, 09:13:03 pm
Being a shy & introverted type of bloke I think we need to discuss further in a more inimate place :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 February, 2009, 09:23:16 pm
I don't think anyone will hear us here, whisper if you wish. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 10 February, 2009, 09:26:07 pm
I'm not listening......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 February, 2009, 09:36:29 pm
Alan, do you like butterscotch Angel Delight?  I have an idea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 10 February, 2009, 09:37:45 pm
* whistles nonchalantly*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 February, 2009, 09:40:19 pm
Installing Debian on my NSLU2 NAS box. I borked it somehow a couple of months ago (power surge corrupted the OS I think as it wouldn't boot) and have been meaning to fix it for ages. Unfortunately as the NSLU2 has a tiny wee slow processor and you have to do the install over the Internet this is taking several hours of watching the progress bar.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 10 February, 2009, 09:46:48 pm
Quote from: annie on 10 February, 2009, 09:36:29 pm
Alan, do you like butterscotch Angel Delight?  I have an idea.

The delight I get from the Angel in my life has nowt to do with butterscotch  O:-)

Unfortunately I do not like the foodstuff to which you refer but I like the way your idea may be developing :demon:

We need to be discreet Annie: Mr. Collinet knows where I live,as do other forum members some of whom also know my wife socially ;D.They do not appear to be posting here but may well be watching ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 February, 2009, 09:49:03 pm
I can be discreet :)  What say we talk in code?  Don't worry about the Angel Delight, I kind of got a little bored whilst waiting and scoffed the lot O:-)  So I now have to go back to Plan A.

Plan A involves a candle and oil, it shouldn't be too painful...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 10 February, 2009, 09:51:09 pm
*chokes - tries to stifle it - topples slowly onto the floor*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 10 February, 2009, 09:57:51 pm
Quote from: annie on 10 February, 2009, 09:49:03 pm
it shouldn't be too painful...

Indeed not,well it wasn't last time anyway.Which of us will go first this time? :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 10 February, 2009, 10:01:43 pm
Quote from: alan on 10 February, 2009, 09:57:51 pm
Quote from: annie on 10 February, 2009, 09:49:03 pm
it shouldn't be too painful...

Indeed not,well it wasn't last time anyway.Which of us will go first this time? :demon:

How could I forget last time?  Must try not to involve the nurse this time though.  Let's toss a coin.... I say tails
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 10 February, 2009, 10:11:28 pm
We are hijacking this thread.We should get a room somewhere.I'll bring my tail with me 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 10 February, 2009, 10:37:37 pm
Sending more virtual chocs Elleighs way from another YACF wastelander.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 11 February, 2009, 08:51:41 am
Quote from: annie on 10 February, 2009, 06:33:31 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 10 February, 2009, 12:46:29 pm
Thinking about LE who is not outside, and Annie who is dripping enough already.

Ermmmm, dripping you say?

May I refer the lovely Lady to the quote she made some time before-

Quote from: annie on 10 February, 2009, 11:37:12 am
Dripping on the chair after an 45 mins of intervals on the turbo.  Watching the river rise and waiting for the council to let me know if they are going to issue sandbags.

 ;) :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 11 February, 2009, 08:55:19 am
Preparing for my 3 hour interview session this afternoon.

Lordy, the Anti-Money Laundering stuff is boring....  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 11 February, 2009, 09:00:43 am
Quote from: Regulator on 11 February, 2009, 08:55:19 am
, the Anti-Money Laundering stuff is boring....  :-\

Actually I found it interesting when discussing it yesterday with my accountant.Not that it is an issue relevant to my business ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 11 February, 2009, 10:20:34 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 11 February, 2009, 08:51:41 am
Quote from: annie on 10 February, 2009, 06:33:31 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 10 February, 2009, 12:46:29 pm
Thinking about LE who is not outside, and Annie who is dripping enough already.

Ermmmm, dripping you say?

May I refer the lovely Lady to the quote she made some time before-

Quote from: annie on 10 February, 2009, 11:37:12 am
Dripping on the chair after an 45 mins of intervals on the turbo.  Watching the river rise and waiting for the council to let me know if they are going to issue sandbags.

 ;) :-*

Aha, of course. ;)

Right now I am eating my breakfast, after a 2 hour gym session, before heading out with the dogs.  I feel 10 years younger, it is great. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 11 February, 2009, 10:21:59 am
Cursing.There is no Ibuprofen in the cupboard :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jezza on 11 February, 2009, 11:33:18 am
What did she do to you?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 11 February, 2009, 11:33:43 am
Quote from: Jezza on 11 February, 2009, 11:33:18 am
What did she do to you?

Me??  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 11 February, 2009, 07:18:32 pm
Nursing some sore calf muscles. Who had the stupid idea to go running silly distances this morning. Oh, that would be me....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: teethgrinder on 11 February, 2009, 07:26:00 pm
Quote from: annie on 11 February, 2009, 10:20:34 am

Right now I am eating my breakfast, after a 2 hour gym session, before heading out with the dogs.  I feel 10 years younger, it is great. :)

If that were true every time you said it, you'd feel about 6 years old by now.
Wanna Jelly Baby little girl?* ;D



*I know, it sounds suspicious. ::-) ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 11 February, 2009, 08:04:29 pm
Quote from: teethgrinder on 11 February, 2009, 07:26:00 pm
Quote from: annie on 11 February, 2009, 10:20:34 am

Right now I am eating my breakfast, after a 2 hour gym session, before heading out with the dogs.  I feel 10 years younger, it is great. :)

If that were true every time you said it, you'd feel about 6 years old by now.
Wanna Jelly Baby little girl?* ;D



*I know, it sounds suspicious. ::-) ;D

Ohh yes please :-*

I haven't had any for ages, I will save the black ones until the end. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: teethgrinder on 11 February, 2009, 08:22:31 pm
Quote from: annie on 11 February, 2009, 08:04:29 pm
Quote from: teethgrinder on 11 February, 2009, 07:26:00 pm
Quote from: annie on 11 February, 2009, 10:20:34 am

Right now I am eating my breakfast, after a 2 hour gym session, before heading out with the dogs.  I feel 10 years younger, it is great. :)

If that were true every time you said it, you'd feel about 6 years old by now.
Wanna Jelly Baby little girl?* ;D



*I know, it sounds suspicious. ::-) ;D

Ohh yes please :-*

I haven't had any for ages, I will save the black ones until the end. ;)

Have you been a good girl?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 11 February, 2009, 08:24:44 pm
Quote from: teethgrinder on 11 February, 2009, 08:22:31 pm
Quote from: annie on 11 February, 2009, 08:04:29 pm
Quote from: teethgrinder on 11 February, 2009, 07:26:00 pm
Quote from: annie on 11 February, 2009, 10:20:34 am

Right now I am eating my breakfast, after a 2 hour gym session, before heading out with the dogs.  I feel 10 years younger, it is great. :)

If that were true every time you said it, you'd feel about 6 years old by now.
Wanna Jelly Baby little girl?* ;D



*I know, it sounds suspicious. ::-) ;D

Ohh yes please :-*

I haven't had any for ages, I will save the black ones until the end. ;)

Have you been a good girl?

But of course, well apart from a few naughty words between 3-4pm and some thoughts that might be considered less than healthy.  Does that count??
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: teethgrinder on 11 February, 2009, 08:49:45 pm
Quote from: annie on 11 February, 2009, 08:24:44 pm
Quote from: teethgrinder on 11 February, 2009, 08:22:31 pm
Have you been a good girl?

But of course...


I'm sooo dissapointed in you Annie :(

Report to Charlotte, Zipperhead, Hummers and Regulator for some servere naughtiness, this instant!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 11 February, 2009, 08:54:11 pm
Quote from: teethgrinder on 11 February, 2009, 08:49:45 pm
Quote from: annie on 11 February, 2009, 08:24:44 pm
Quote from: teethgrinder on 11 February, 2009, 08:22:31 pm
Have you been a good girl?

But of course...


I'm sooo dissapointed in you Annie :(

Report to Charlotte, Zipperhead, Hummers and Regulator for some servere naughtiness, this instant!

My day just got even better ;)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2009, 09:05:57 pm
I've just dropped Charlotte & Liz at Maidstone Station having spent a lovely day in their, and Simon L3's company, debating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 11 February, 2009, 09:10:51 pm
WATCHIN NARWHALS ON THE TEE VEE!!

THEY GOT HORNS, DUDE.  YEEHAAH.

[/redneck]

(Is this what it's all about?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 11 February, 2009, 09:16:05 pm
damn, you beat me to it!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 11 February, 2009, 09:20:07 pm
Relaxing after a gentle (120W or so for 40 mins with 15 mins warm up and 5 cool down) turbo session, and trying to decide what Hummers would make of the fact that my physiotherapist cupped me yesterday.

Best go have a bath now.  The cupping has left me rather sore.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 11 February, 2009, 09:24:20 pm
enough information already!!

(my turbo session was somewhat more strenuous - 2 x 20mins at 280W   :o )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 11 February, 2009, 09:35:10 pm
Quote from: mike on 11 February, 2009, 09:24:20 pm
enough information already!!

(my turbo session was somewhat more strenuous - 2 x 20mins at 280W   :o )

I've done those at about 200W in the past.  280W is well out my league.  I'm being gentle at the moment to build back up and hopefully not bugger my knee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 February, 2009, 09:38:34 pm
Wondering why no one's done my ironing. ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RogerT on 11 February, 2009, 09:43:46 pm
Smiling about a text I just got from my daughter telling me that her 3 month scan "went great". 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 11 February, 2009, 09:53:26 pm
Quote from: simonp on 11 February, 2009, 09:35:10 pm
Quote from: mike on 11 February, 2009, 09:24:20 pm
enough information already!!

(my turbo session was somewhat more strenuous - 2 x 20mins at 280W   :o )

I've done those at about 200W in the past.  280W is well out my league.  I'm being gentle at the moment to build back up and hopefully not bugger my knee.


but as we found out, 280W at over 100kgs isnt as quick up hills as your 200W... ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 11 February, 2009, 11:48:08 pm
Quote from: mike on 11 February, 2009, 09:53:26 pm
Quote from: simonp on 11 February, 2009, 09:35:10 pm
Quote from: mike on 11 February, 2009, 09:24:20 pm
enough information already!!

(my turbo session was somewhat more strenuous - 2 x 20mins at 280W   :o )

I've done those at about 200W in the past.  280W is well out my league.  I'm being gentle at the moment to build back up and hopefully not bugger my knee.


but as we found out, 280W at over 100kgs isnt as quick up hills as your 200W... ;D

I did the power to weight ratio calc and based on those numbers (and conveniently ignoring bike weight), we come out about the same.

I need to lose some weight!  ;D

I felt quite pushed at the start of our hilly ride tbh, and less so towards the end.  I suspect doing lots of audax has trained endurance much more than power.  I'm hoping to do a bit more work on power this year.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 12 February, 2009, 09:02:07 am
Quote from: RogerT on 11 February, 2009, 09:43:46 pm
Smiling about a text I just got from my daughter telling me that her 3 month scan "went great". 
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 12 February, 2009, 09:12:30 am
Slowly drying out after a blast and a half riding in through the snow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 12 February, 2009, 09:16:06 am
Correction of a PhD dissertation/report draft...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 February, 2009, 09:50:59 am
Trying to work out if I need Serializable isolation for this database, or can I get away with Repeatable-Read?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 12 February, 2009, 09:53:13 am
Worrying about how my interview yesterday went.  Too many open and untargetted questions for my liking....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 12 February, 2009, 10:16:09 am
Hiding O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 12 February, 2009, 11:07:02 am
Quote from: annie on 12 February, 2009, 10:16:09 am
Hiding O:-)

I can see you...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: epa611 on 12 February, 2009, 11:20:36 am
Feeling sorry for myself -D&V here :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 12 February, 2009, 11:23:30 am
Quote from: David Martin on 12 February, 2009, 11:07:02 am
Quote from: annie on 12 February, 2009, 10:16:09 am
Hiding O:-)

I can see you...

Ohh :o  I got into the tiniest of places and had to wait there for a whole fifteen minutes.  Finally they went and I crawled out.  All squidged and numb. :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 12 February, 2009, 11:24:08 am
Quote from: epa611 on 12 February, 2009, 11:20:36 am
Feeling sorry for myself -D&V here :'(

You have my sympathies.  Rest, fluids and more rest.  Keep your friends far away and your toilet close by.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: epa611 on 12 February, 2009, 11:34:39 am
Quote from: annie on 12 February, 2009, 11:24:08 am
Quote from: epa611 on 12 February, 2009, 11:20:36 am
Feeling sorry for myself -D&V here :'(

You have my sympathies. Rest, fluids and more rest.  Keep your friends far away and your toilet close by.

Doing just that  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 12 February, 2009, 01:34:56 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 12 February, 2009, 09:53:13 am
my interview yesterday 

Coincidently,Marj & I discussed that a few minutes ago
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 12 February, 2009, 01:35:29 pm
Trying to summon up the enthusiasm to get on with it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 12 February, 2009, 01:37:20 pm
Just finished lunch.  Still starving.  Managed an 8 mile hill climb on the turbo.  Will make do with a glass of water instead.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RichForrest on 12 February, 2009, 01:39:20 pm
Finishing a risk assessment for the Cancer Research ride.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 February, 2009, 02:02:59 pm
Being congratulated by many people for an "outstanding" event, and worrying about how to deal with my new boss who didn't help or show any interest in it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 12 February, 2009, 02:06:27 pm
Setting up i-player to watch whilst I iron......simple pleasures eh..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 12 February, 2009, 02:37:29 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 12 February, 2009, 02:02:59 pm
Being congratulated by many people for an "outstanding" event, and worrying about how to deal with my new boss who didn't help or show any interest in it.

Is this the event that you have stressedover for a while Peli?

If so, well done because you obviously got it right. Also, if it is, now is the time to accept that you have been stressing too much over it. Sit back and take a chill pill or two. Relax sweetie. That is an order.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 February, 2009, 02:59:36 pm
OK. I'll try. Now at the airport waiting for my very delayed flight. :( Thick snow here.

I've been running around so much that my muscles are aching like crazy. I am totally wasted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 12 February, 2009, 03:05:22 pm
congratulations Peli, now go and have a gin!!


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2009, 03:11:28 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 12 February, 2009, 02:59:36 pm
OK. I'll try. Now at the airport waiting for my very delayed flight. :( Thick snow here.

I don't know why but I thought you were in Egypt...

I'm about to start one of the most unpleasant of domestic chores: unblocking the outside drain, which I fear is full of congealed grease and will necessitate me sticking my hand down into the revolting mess in order to extract fist fulls of slimy white goo.  :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 12 February, 2009, 03:23:27 pm
Teaching histograms to two reluctant teenagers in an after-school detention.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 12 February, 2009, 03:48:08 pm
Well done Peli.  Treat yourself to something nice tonight ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 12 February, 2009, 03:49:54 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 12 February, 2009, 02:02:59 pm
Being congratulated by many people for an "outstanding" event

Excellent  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2009, 04:09:12 pm
I've just destroyed an ecosystem.

There were rat-tailed maggots. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat-tailed_maggot) Big ones, over an inch long... :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 12 February, 2009, 04:12:38 pm
I'm fettling the new folder (a Dahon Vitesse D7HG), trying to think up a good excuse for when Mr R gets home  :-[, and trying to think of a name for the new machine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2009, 04:14:07 pm
Jehoshaphat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 12 February, 2009, 04:22:59 pm
At work, just about to tackle todays Guardian crossword. Any assistance will be most welcome !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 February, 2009, 04:44:31 pm
On the plane, and delayed due to bad weather both ends.

And stressing about my new boss being a bitch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2009, 04:53:45 pm
Quote from: Dinamo on 12 February, 2009, 04:22:59 pm
At work, just about to tackle todays Guardian crossword. Any assistance will be most welcome !

Call out the clues then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2009, 04:59:01 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 12 February, 2009, 03:11:28 pm
I'm about to start one of the most unpleasant of domestic chores: unblocking the outside drain, which I fear is full of congealed grease and will necessitate me sticking my hand down into the revolting mess in order to extract fist fulls of slimy white goo.  :-X

I've completed the said task and in spite of a thorough shower, my left hand still has a very unpleasant whiff of drain gunge about it. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bez on 12 February, 2009, 10:35:31 pm
Not doing it now but just back from the Battersea Beer Festival.

A great late afternoon/ evening. Some very good beer and met up with some old friends.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 February, 2009, 10:44:45 pm
Mrs S is away. There's thick SNO outside. Only one thing for it.

Break out the Whisky and the Westerns.

Glenmorangie and Pale Rider tonight  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 12 February, 2009, 10:47:04 pm
Feeling peckish.  Watching the snow.  Wondering if I should go to bed and wake up in an hour or so, or stay up and watch a movie.  Toast and honey with a cup of Chai sound just about right.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 12 February, 2009, 10:48:37 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 12 February, 2009, 10:44:45 pm
Mrs S is away. There's thick SNO outside. Only one thing for it.

Break out the Whisky and the Westerns.

Glenmorangie and Pale Rider tonight  :thumbsup:.

Philistine.  Everybody knows you serve Laphroaig with Pale Rider   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 February, 2009, 10:51:22 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 12 February, 2009, 10:48:37 pm
Philistine.  Everybody knows you serve Laphroaig with Pale Rider   ;D

Hmm... I was saving that for The Unforgiven. Now Shhh...!! Clint has just represented, and is ridin' into town...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 12 February, 2009, 10:53:58 pm
Decompressing after mainlining the entire run of the Invisibles comics.  Woah.   ;D :-\ 8) :o :sick: O:-)  :hand: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 February, 2009, 09:50:23 am
Waiting.  Still.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 13 February, 2009, 09:53:52 am
Me too. To find out whether I still have a job...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 February, 2009, 10:27:06 am
Oh dear. Hope it turns out OK, Tim.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 February, 2009, 10:29:21 am
Running errands for Mrs. Wow and then taking dog to park.

Come on TimC! (sorry, just couldn't resist...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 February, 2009, 10:36:02 am
Sitting.  About to go to the supermarket.  Contemplative and quiet, makes a change :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 13 February, 2009, 10:43:18 am
Quote from: annie on 13 February, 2009, 10:36:02 am
Sitting.  About to go to the supermarket.  Contemplative and quiet, makes a change :)

have you ever heards the phrase 'Contemplating ones navel'?

If so, you need Maltesers ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 February, 2009, 10:46:27 am
Coughing.  And trying not to :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 February, 2009, 10:52:57 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 13 February, 2009, 10:43:18 am
Quote from: annie on 13 February, 2009, 10:36:02 am
Sitting.  About to go to the supermarket.  Contemplative and quiet, makes a change :)

have you ever heards the phrase 'Contemplating ones navel'?

If so, you need Maltesers ;)

Funny you should mention that, I was talking about this with Nutkin last night.

Maltesers it is then... a big bag, a blankie, a movie and an afternoon of sheer indulgence and jim jams. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 13 February, 2009, 10:55:54 am


How about one of those new Hot Chocolate drinks into which you add Maltesers as well?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 February, 2009, 11:10:33 am
Worrying.  About TimC's job.  About the pile of work I'm wading through.  About Butterfly.  And about another thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 February, 2009, 12:19:54 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 13 February, 2009, 10:55:54 am


How about one of those new Hot Chocolate drinks into which you add Maltesers as well?

I have just the thing, G & B's Hot Chocolate.  I have to wait for the Maltesers to reach a certain temp..... cold, then the fun can begin.  I have a hot water bottle, complete with cashmere cover, cashmere bed socks and my favourite in the whole wide world jim jams.  I won't wear them til after 1pm though.

All chores done and dusted.  Shopping put away.  Dogs asleep.  Shutters closed, door locked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 13 February, 2009, 12:43:35 pm
Drooling over my new frame
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 13 February, 2009, 01:05:49 pm
Feeling stunned by the news in Office :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 February, 2009, 01:08:55 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 13 February, 2009, 01:05:49 pm
Feeling stunned by the news in Office :'(

I know.  I am walking round in a daze.  Perhaps we ought to organise a ride, named after him, or some such like? 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 February, 2009, 02:53:53 pm
Trying not to fall asleep at my desk.  Don't know if I can take another two hours.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 13 February, 2009, 02:57:18 pm
Waiting for a table and chairs. Tis a 1950/60's Ercol set. Have put modern stuff in loft. Will palm off on first child to leave home....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 13 February, 2009, 03:05:28 pm
The great procrastinator (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12368.0) has just hit the submit button to do an MSc.

If this happens, boy are y'all gonna suffer like dogs  :)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 13 February, 2009, 03:06:25 pm
Quote from: Sergeant Pluck on 13 February, 2009, 03:05:28 pm
The great procrastinator (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12368.0) has just hit the submit button to do an MSc.

If this happens, boy are y'all gonna suffer like dogs  :)

Excellent. OU?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 13 February, 2009, 03:10:31 pm
Imperial.

Gulp.

The application itself is quite involved really. The OU does a good job of making applications straightforward and accessible to all, I'll give them that.

My OU course should finish in a month or so.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 13 February, 2009, 03:12:05 pm
Watching the tide roll away
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 February, 2009, 03:24:44 pm
Trying not to fall asleep.  Chilli on the stove.  Drinking lots and lots of water. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 February, 2009, 03:25:43 pm
Conversely, I've been trying to fall asleep but the dog keeps pestering me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 February, 2009, 03:39:17 pm
Feeling whacked with a bad headache, and watching crap telly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 February, 2009, 08:16:34 pm
Watching The Unforgiven (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10706.msg274453#msg274453) tonight. Time for Whisky.

"Ned, remember the guy I shot in the mouth... and his teeth came out the back of his head?"

Pretty much unbeatable for fireside chat openers...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 13 February, 2009, 10:16:02 pm
Being miserable and wishing for good news from a Neurologist that might ease the 13 year old Hangover. Other than that I'm arranging to buy bikes that I'll probably not ride for ages yet due to aforementioned miserable outlook.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 13 February, 2009, 10:20:25 pm
cooking for 50  ::-)

the charity Mrs Mike volunteers for had the genius idea of a valentines night fundraiser 'do'.  So it'll be cottage pie & peas for 100 then a rubbish disco tomorrow tomorrow night. Oh Joy. 

Our job, as well as turning up and getting pissed, is cooking half the food. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 February, 2009, 10:42:47 pm
I'm about to consume some calories and then go to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 February, 2009, 10:46:01 pm
Erm... crying I've got something in my eye.

Having one of those "Real men don't cry" upbringings makes life quite hard sometimes  ::-).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 13 February, 2009, 10:57:28 pm
Still thinking about Rob.

Probably will be for some time yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 14 February, 2009, 07:15:21 am
Quote from: Jaded on 13 February, 2009, 10:57:28 pm
Still thinking about Rob.

Probably will be for some time yet.
Me too.

Thought about him all night in fact.  It is a very strange feeling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 14 February, 2009, 07:36:57 am
Just written a red card.

About to wrap a huge bar of toblerone.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 14 February, 2009, 07:40:19 am
Going to a Donkey Benefit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 14 February, 2009, 08:16:26 am
What? Right now?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 February, 2009, 08:19:46 am
Just off out for the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 14 February, 2009, 08:26:13 am
Off out for a short ride - before getting on with some DIY. Oh yes - and I've got to have a hair cut today as well.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 14 February, 2009, 08:34:42 am
Popping out with MiniQ to get her some spectacles....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LE on 14 February, 2009, 08:47:01 am
I had to get some new glasses the other day too. I was told that glasses are very sexy atm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 February, 2009, 09:37:36 am
Quote from: LE on 14 February, 2009, 08:47:01 am
I had to get some new glasses the other day too. I was told that glasses are very sexy atm

You don't need glasses for that Elleigh  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 14 February, 2009, 09:40:10 am

fettled with my bikes and enjoying the clear blue sky +sunshine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 February, 2009, 11:06:26 am
Quote from: LE on 14 February, 2009, 08:47:01 am
I had to get some new glasses the other day too. I was told that glasses are very sexy atm

Smart women in glasses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s-u3ZN_YXs).  :thumbsup:

Actually, smart women. :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 14 February, 2009, 11:21:56 am
Atm? They is timeless sexy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 February, 2009, 11:28:29 am
Drinking coffee, reading this place, anything other than get back out into the garden to continue digging the new veg plots in the garden.
Really, really must get out there soon so that Mrs Basil will see lots of progress when she returns from her shopping trip to Lampeter.  (Especialy as she promised to pick up vast quantities of "Old Speckled Hen" for the match tonight.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 14 February, 2009, 12:19:52 pm
Trying to add funds to a PS3 store account. Do they not want the money?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ibrahim on 14 February, 2009, 04:50:41 pm
right now I'm trying to think what it actually is that I'm doing right now, apart from reading a bit of this thread, that is...

oh, yeah, i'm wasting time in front of the computer all day because I'm chicken and don't want to go ride my bike while I have a cold.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 14 February, 2009, 04:56:28 pm
Feeling lost confused angry sad I dunno.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 February, 2009, 10:54:18 pm
Watching Summertime, a David Lean film with Katharine Hepburn. She's so great.
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Post by: annie on 14 February, 2009, 11:06:08 pm
Sitting, wondering why I am not hungry.  Massaging my thighs, they hurt.
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Post by: mike on 14 February, 2009, 11:19:45 pm
cleaning blood off my arm. 

Softshell jackets: more soft than shell.

Bah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 February, 2009, 11:23:44 pm
Oh dear, Mike. Sounds painful.

I'm thinking about life, and how fragile it is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 14 February, 2009, 11:26:05 pm
Are you ok Mike?
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Post by: mike on 14 February, 2009, 11:28:07 pm
yes, just a bit scraped :)

Whiskey is helping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 15 February, 2009, 12:36:51 pm
Enjoying the aroma emenating from the kitchen: Marj is doing a roast chicken dinner :)

Opening a bottle of wine  :)
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Post by: Gandalf on 15 February, 2009, 01:58:27 pm
Feeling guilty following a cake incident.
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Post by: alan on 15 February, 2009, 02:03:03 pm
Eating strawberries & cream.

I think we I need a fat-git emoticon
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 15 February, 2009, 02:58:26 pm
Sitting in a lab waiting for more samples to arrive  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 15 February, 2009, 03:01:30 pm
Trying to consume a recovery drink, REGO, a banana and some milk.  It might make a reappearance :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 15 February, 2009, 04:34:57 pm
Altering my JoGLe route
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Post by: clarion on 15 February, 2009, 05:33:56 pm
Thinking of an easy way to fettle my fixie, wondering where my Bagman is, and whether I ought to buy a new one, and building up the courage to commute on it...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 15 February, 2009, 05:37:42 pm
You'll need wheels at least on that Bagman if you wish to commute on it ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 15 February, 2009, 05:44:04 pm
Having a Belgian Bun break before returning to assembling the Kaffenback.  I've been procrastinating over finishing it for a while, but Sid (the SingleSpeed Pompino) is really really really in need of some major maintenance, using it for my normal 25 mile round trip commute is probably a bad idea.  It's only a matter of time before something permanently breaks, and it'll leave me somewhere in the middle, with a 6 mile walk to home/work. :-\

Hmm, I just realised I'll need a name to go with Alice the Brompton, Bob the Bob, and Sid the Singlespeed.   Thinks...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 15 February, 2009, 05:48:54 pm
Quote from: TimO on 15 February, 2009, 05:44:04 pm
Having a Belgian Bun break before returning to assembling the Kaffenback.  I've been procrastinating over finishing it for a while, but Sid (the SingleSpeed Pompino) is really really really in need of some major maintenance, using it for my normal 25 mile round trip commute is probably a bad idea.  It's only a matter of time before something permanently breaks, and it'll leave me somewhere in the middle, with a 6 mile walk to home/work. :-\

Hmm, I just realised I'll need a name to go with Alice the Brompton, Bob the Bob, and Sid the Singlespeed.   Thinks...

Camilla, Kiki?  Will think of more after some food.
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Post by: peliroja on 16 February, 2009, 01:23:32 pm
Relaxing, and about to have some lunch.
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Post by: Maffie on 16 February, 2009, 01:24:48 pm
Sitting here witha headache and pondering life and whether to sell a bike
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 16 February, 2009, 01:25:28 pm
Buying a groupset for my new bike :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulR on 16 February, 2009, 01:33:19 pm
Nothing novel - sitting at my desk thinking that I will get into serious trouble if I don't get on with some work, trying to think of reasons why it would make sense to buy a 2007 Kona Smoke for only £100, trying not to think how nice it would be to go for a bike ride and wondering how long it will be before I'm hungry again after my late second breakfast of toasted panini with bacon, sausage, egg, mushrooms and brown sauce.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 16 February, 2009, 01:39:02 pm
Just unpacked my pannier from a shopping trip to Sainsburys, courgette cake later  :D
Now changed and ready to go out for a nice 20 mile around the town ride  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 16 February, 2009, 02:17:15 pm
Trying to find a Cycle shop around South Ken that actually has brake blocks in stock.  Cycle Surgery on Kensington High Street doesn't have any V-Brake blocks in stock, since people "are wearing them out fast in this weather".  Yeah, since nobody expects bad weather in the winter in the UK. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 February, 2009, 05:10:03 pm
wondering why I'm still here
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jezza on 16 February, 2009, 05:14:37 pm
Suffering from some bizarre tropical disease, I reckon. Large itchy boil on leg, tremor in left arm, tension headache and general lassitude.

Since this kind of crap happens to me on a regular basis I shall do nothing at all about it. Bet I'll be fine tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 16 February, 2009, 10:28:35 pm
Quote from: Jezza on 16 February, 2009, 05:14:37 pm
Suffering from some bizarre tropical disease, I reckon. Large itchy boil on leg, tremor in left arm, tension headache and general lassitude.

Since this kind of crap happens to me on a regular basis I shall do nothing at all about it. Bet I'll be fine tomorrow.

Ohhh, sounds nasty.

I am winding down.  8 hours driving today :-\

A delightful hour in the company of Fuzzy and family and a super sized bag of my favourite chocolates..... Maltesers, thank you :-*

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 17 February, 2009, 10:18:50 am
Filling in data audit returns. As interesting as it sounds.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 17 February, 2009, 10:40:55 am
Waiting a) for some filler to dry on the bog walls and b) for Screwfix to show up, so I can dodge out for a ride.

Someone from Freecycle actually showed up as well!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jezza on 17 February, 2009, 11:07:58 am
Quote from: annie on 16 February, 2009, 10:28:35 pm
Quote from: Jezza on 16 February, 2009, 05:14:37 pm
Suffering from some bizarre tropical disease, I reckon. Large itchy boil on leg, tremor in left arm, tension headache and general lassitude.

Since this kind of crap happens to me on a regular basis I shall do nothing at all about it. Bet I'll be fine tomorrow.

Ohhh, sounds nasty.

I am winding down.  8 hours driving today :-\

A delightful hour in the company of Fuzzy and family and a super sized bag of my favourite chocolates..... Maltesers, thank you :-*



I'm fine again  ;D 
Hope all is OK with you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 17 February, 2009, 12:13:34 pm
Quote from: Jezza on 17 February, 2009, 11:07:58 am
Quote from: annie on 16 February, 2009, 10:28:35 pm
Quote from: Jezza on 16 February, 2009, 05:14:37 pm
Suffering from some bizarre tropical disease, I reckon. Large itchy boil on leg, tremor in left arm, tension headache and general lassitude.

Since this kind of crap happens to me on a regular basis I shall do nothing at all about it. Bet I'll be fine tomorrow.

Ohhh, sounds nasty.

I am winding down.  8 hours driving today :-\

A delightful hour in the company of Fuzzy and family and a super sized bag of my favourite chocolates..... Maltesers, thank you :-*



I'm fine again  ;D 
Hope all is OK with you.

Eating a banana and having a quick break.  Took JC to buy some jeans and other bits and bobs.  Car cleaned and light repaired.  Am wading through the mess that is JC's bedroom, glad I had my tetanus shot.  Then off to tackle the accounts and write a very snotty email.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 17 February, 2009, 12:33:34 pm
Quote from: annie on 16 February, 2009, 10:28:35 pm
I am winding down.  8 hours driving today :-\

A delightful hour in the company of Fuzzy and family and a super sized bag of my favourite chocolates..... Maltesers, thank you :-*



Yes! I had an ickle tea drinking Malteser pixie snuggled up against my lounge radiator last evening. Twas heaven ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 17 February, 2009, 01:03:45 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 17 February, 2009, 12:33:34 pm
Quote from: annie on 16 February, 2009, 10:28:35 pm
I am winding down.  8 hours driving today :-\

A delightful hour in the company of Fuzzy and family and a super sized bag of my favourite chocolates..... Maltesers, thank you :-*



Yes! I had an ickle tea drinking Malteser pixie snuggled up against my lounge radiator last evening. Twas heaven ;D

 :-*  I will be back for more you know.  I thoroughly recommend Fuzzy's place, he makes a fantastic cup of tea and has the most adorable pussy cat people, not to mention a wonderful family.

 :-* :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 February, 2009, 10:14:33 pm
Watching this and laughing. YouTube - Pet Shop Boys What Have I Done To Deserve This Live Brits 1988 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8nN7Ecrj7E)

I just watched tonight's Brit awards and the Pet Shop Boys got a long service award or some such, and I was so delighted to see that 20 years on Chris Lowe still looks ridiculous on stage. I remember the 1988 performance and the big discussion topic the next day being "what the hell was Chris Lowe wearing?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 18 February, 2009, 10:17:17 pm
Trying to hold my dinner in my stomach for a bit longer.

Needing to go to bed and trying not to laugh at Wow's escapade on the train home to Southend.  Who ever heard of a guard's door falling off?   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 19 February, 2009, 07:57:50 am
I've got up a little early today, since I intend to cycle the Kaffenback (n+1) on my commute, mainly so I know it works on the WARTY!  Inevitably things may well come loose, need adjustment, or rattle, so I need to make sure I've got a few more tools than normal.

The front brake did judder a bit last night when I briefly tried it, but I'm hoping that just needs a bit of bedding in.  The front light will probably need it's pointing adjusted too, but that'll have to wait until this evening.  I think the gears are adjusted alright, but I've never used combined brake and gear levers before, so I expect to change gears every time I need to stop. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 February, 2009, 12:23:54 pm
If anybody asks, I didn't just try looking through the yellow cellophane from a slightly melted toffee Quality Street to turn the world yellow and get toffee stuck in my hair.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 February, 2009, 12:26:09 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 19 February, 2009, 12:23:54 pm
If anybody asks, I didn't just try looking through the yellow cellophane from a slightly melted toffee Quality Street to turn the world yellow and get toffee stuck in my hair.

So your hair is sticky for another reason?

There's Something About Kirst... ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 19 February, 2009, 01:34:58 pm
Wondering how much ibruprofen I can safely take.  :(

Meh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 February, 2009, 01:54:36 pm
I'm on hold... :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 19 February, 2009, 01:56:09 pm
Typing this.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 February, 2009, 01:56:29 pm
And now I'm typing this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 19 February, 2009, 01:56:55 pm
The present is so fleeting is it not ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 February, 2009, 01:58:50 pm
I have just made a loaf and 24 mince pies and now having a up of tea with a mince pie  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 19 February, 2009, 02:16:00 pm
I'm re-reading a mailshot from my GP Practice inviting me to help research in to Erectile Dysfunction.

I've now got two things to worry about - blockages when peeing in public and a lack of stiffies.


I didn't realise either was a problem until yesterday. I'm OK on the first one although standing at the checkout queue in Morrisons may not have been the ideal place to  test it out.  The second will have to wait until I get home this evening to be tested - SWMBO has been put on standby.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 February, 2009, 02:20:11 pm
<wallace>
Prevaricating about the bush
</wallace>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 February, 2009, 04:55:58 pm
Recovering after a long & difficult meeting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 19 February, 2009, 05:06:24 pm
Feeling reassured by a few positive meetings today... People are listening to me!  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 February, 2009, 05:07:17 pm
Thinking about food.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 19 February, 2009, 05:10:07 pm
Sneezing again.  Bollocks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 February, 2009, 05:10:28 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 19 February, 2009, 05:06:24 pm
Feeling reassured by a few positive meetings today... People are listening to me!  :)

At last!  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 February, 2009, 05:11:02 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 19 February, 2009, 05:10:07 pm
Sneezing again.  Bollocks.

That must be uncomfortable in the nasal passages.  I find snot unpleasant enough ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 19 February, 2009, 05:18:01 pm
Still cursing not having Mr Shovel with me when I saw Ant and Dec earlier outside the UTV studios (TalkSport maybe?).

( Although I did have a Pro Kennex 787 Badminton racquet with me, and it would have done a fair amount of damage, I didn't want to snap it as I was just off to play. )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 19 February, 2009, 11:06:24 pm
Thinking about my bed.  JC has a friend staying over, doesn't happen very often.  They are both in JC's bed.  Mr A made them some popcorn, covered in butter and sugar.  Cue much giggling and noise from above.  The room was littered with popcorn, the bed was full of sugar and popcorn, even the shelves, books and under the bed was covered in popcorn.  They said they didn't know how it got there.  I hoovered the bed and gave JC 'the look', they are still giggling and my bedroom is next door.  It might be a very long night.

I want them to have fun but I also need my sleep.  I think that midnight will be a reasonable time for them to turn down the noise.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 February, 2009, 11:09:57 pm
Cursing the rail companies and their weekend maintenance schedule.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 19 February, 2009, 11:11:28 pm
Considering changing my name to "Hazel Dormouse"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 20 February, 2009, 08:02:50 am
switched modem so I could get on the internet again
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 20 February, 2009, 08:08:47 am
Looking for the enthusiasm needed to do some work.If I don't find it soon it won't be worh bothering with because today is POETS day
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 20 February, 2009, 08:09:07 am
Thinking about doing stuff but not actually doing much at all.  After being rudely awaken by the boys at 2.40am I am not a very wide awake Pixie this morning.  Waiting for the surgery to open so I can make an appointment for Mr A who has injured is leg and is in agony.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 20 February, 2009, 04:14:01 pm
Fixing window frames.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 06:58:36 pm
Standing in the fecking Apple store in Fecking Bluewater whilst Dez tries to find out what's wrong with his Fecking Apple Computer.

This place is a nightmare.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 February, 2009, 07:07:24 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 06:58:36 pm
Standing in the fecking Apple store in Fecking Bluewater whilst Dez tries to find out what's wrong with his Fecking Apple Computer.

This place is a nightmare.

Wowbagger. Is to Big Retail what Mother Theresa was to Debbie Does Dallas  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 08:00:49 pm
I'm now in Lakeside. Dez's motherboard is on the blink. He has an 8.40 appointment. This is tedious.

I think Lakeside is actually worse than Bluewater. Bluewater has a kind of macabre theatrical appeal - it reminds me of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, being set in a chalk pit. Lakeside is just an appalling prospect.

Who (what?) is Debbie Does Dallas?

While I'm here ... What's an Essex Girl's favourite wine? "I wanna go to Lakeside!" Doesn't lend itself very well to being written down, does it...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 08:17:34 pm
Still in the Apple store in Fecking Lakesdie.
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Post by: fuzzy on 20 February, 2009, 08:19:08 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 08:00:49 pm

Who (what?) is Debbie Does Dallas?


Legendary 80's 'Gentlemens Entertainement' video.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 20 February, 2009, 08:26:49 pm
Sniffing, feeling very poorly and sorry for myself.  :-\

Early night for me, I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 08:28:06 pm
Oh dear! GWS, P.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 20 February, 2009, 08:29:30 pm
charging batteries for my GPS and planning a route for tomorrow as determined by wind direction
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 08:32:11 pm
Still in the Apple shop in Lakesdie, counting own to Dez's appointment at the tech support dept, which modestly calls itself "Genius".

I wonder how much these wizards of technology get paid for their extraordinary skills?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 20 February, 2009, 08:57:37 pm
Biting my lip or is it supposed to be a tongue?  Just lifted JC into his bed, he can hardly move.

Mr A is off to his.  I have the downstairs to myself :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 09:55:17 pm
Quote from: annie on 20 February, 2009, 08:57:37 pm
Biting my lip or is it supposed to be a tongue?  Just lifted JC into his bed, he can hardly move.

Mr A is off to his.  I have the downstairs to myself :)

Party!?  :D

We are at home at last. Dez is minus his computer, which needs a new motherboard and for which he will have to wait 5 days.

I can therefore mock him.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 20 February, 2009, 10:05:32 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 20 February, 2009, 08:19:08 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 08:00:49 pm

Who (what?) is Debbie Does Dallas?


Legendary 80's 'Gentlemens Entertainement' video.

a friend of mines kid was conceived in front of that.  He was (allegedly) rather too pi$$ed to perform and was encouraged into action by a VHS.  We didnt find out till they got divorced a couple of years ago and she told everyone.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 20 February, 2009, 10:20:00 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 09:55:17 pm
Quote from: annie on 20 February, 2009, 08:57:37 pm
Biting my lip or is it supposed to be a tongue?  Just lifted JC into his bed, he can hardly move.

Mr A is off to his.  I have the downstairs to myself :)

Party!?  :D

We are at home at last. Dez is minus his computer, which needs a new motherboard and for which he will have to wait 5 days.

I can therefore mock him.

It won't be much of a party, I am in jim jams, one slipper and sat in the dark.  About to phone the hospital. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 February, 2009, 10:36:06 pm
Quote from: mike on 20 February, 2009, 10:05:32 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 20 February, 2009, 08:19:08 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 20 February, 2009, 08:00:49 pm

Who (what?) is Debbie Does Dallas?


Legendary 80's 'Gentlemens Entertainement' video.

a friend of mines kid was conceived in front of that.  He was (allegedly) rather too pi$$ed to perform and was encouraged into action by a VHS.  We didnt find out till they got divorced a couple of years ago and she told everyone.




Excellent!

My mention of said media delight may or may not have anything to do with the possibility that I may or may not be married to someone of the same name (hint: not Dallas or Does).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 21 February, 2009, 04:36:10 pm
Discovering the different meanings of various symbols that look alike, such as º and ° & - and −  Isn't formatting fun?......

And getting annoyed by having three different papers that have to be referenced by "Yang et al. 2003".  Hmm, time for Yang et al. 2003a, Yang et al. 2003b and Yang et al. 2003c.  Nice & confusing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 21 February, 2009, 05:13:35 pm
Looking forward to a nice cup of tea after washing two very dirty bikes. I am ashamed of how bad they were. Our drive now boasts a considerable amount of the Fylde coast's farming debris. We get no reward for performing the valuable service of scooping up all the crap from the roads and bringing it home with us. Still, better on the drive than on the bikes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jezza on 21 February, 2009, 05:49:50 pm
Looking at the sunset.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/3297249211_61ee7cb725_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3368/3298065136_b2b81222c3_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3516/3298064930_d1e3e145b4_o.jpg)
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Post by: GruB on 21 February, 2009, 05:59:38 pm
playing with my new job pda.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 February, 2009, 07:51:59 pm
Troll-baiting on another forum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 February, 2009, 10:42:51 pm
Feeling decidedly knackered and about to go to bed.

Hope to take the dog for a long walk tomorrow morning and then get a few more miles in on one or other bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 22 February, 2009, 08:55:52 am
Simmering the porridge before returning to bed with two bowls of it.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 February, 2009, 08:56:35 am
I'm eating my porridge already.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 February, 2009, 09:00:31 am
Next it's the bread & marmalade (both home-made, of course).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 22 February, 2009, 09:01:26 am
Just taking a quick break after walking the dogs, washing the floor and doing the ironing.  Next I have to tackle the playroom and then jump in the bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 February, 2009, 09:10:35 am
The dog has just dropped a ball* into my lap. I think he wants his walk.

*one for throwing.

It's now found its way onto the mouse mat.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 22 February, 2009, 09:17:27 am
Anticipating tea and toast and leisurely ride to the pub for a lunch time pint later. Mind you, it might more of a battle with the elements listening to the wind outside and looking at the looming black clouds.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 22 February, 2009, 09:18:13 am
Pootling on t'internet and watching the Andrew Marr show with a large mug of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 22 February, 2009, 10:37:06 am
I've just got back from  O:-) and now having coffee and toast :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 22 February, 2009, 10:46:51 am
Home from a pilates class I go to with a friend

And nervous about posting on here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 February, 2009, 12:17:03 pm
Trying to decide whether to go to the gym, or a body-balance class, or just stay here and catch up on telly I recorded during the week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 22 February, 2009, 12:21:11 pm
Just home after playing the organ for Mass  Wishing I could go for a ride this afternoon, but the bike still lacks several vital bits, which, I hope, the postie will bring tomorrow. Thinking it's about time for lunch and wondering why Linz is worried about posting.

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 22 February, 2009, 12:47:41 pm
Printing out lesson plans for a cycle patrol instructors course I am teaching from tomorrow in Kenilworth.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 28 February, 2009, 12:14:30 am
Taking a few minutes to unwind after getting back from ikea  :sick:
However, I've spent about half of the last four hours listening to old Bike Shows on podcast  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 28 February, 2009, 12:33:54 am
Surfing via my phone. Pondering the future.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 28 February, 2009, 12:49:10 am
Enjoying Bowmore with ice, listening to radio 7 and playing with my GPS with the free maps  :thumbsup:
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Post by: nicknack on 28 February, 2009, 12:49:17 am
Chillin'

Man
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Post by: andygates on 28 February, 2009, 12:07:54 pm
Mourning the demise of my foul, disintegrating, noble leather jacket.
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Post by: Adrian on 28 February, 2009, 12:13:03 pm
Will it get a decent burial?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 28 February, 2009, 12:17:33 pm
Viking funeral!
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Post by: Adrian on 28 February, 2009, 12:44:26 pm
I hope that you are going to give fair warning to those downwind
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Post by: Jezza on 28 February, 2009, 01:09:56 pm
Practising the lost art of handwriting with an old Parker fountain pen I found in the drawer. 

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/101/288669381_6db9f65122_o.jpg)

Picture for illustration purposes only. Sharp-eyed viewers will note the pen is actually a Sheaffer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 28 February, 2009, 02:55:31 pm
I've just got back from a 31.1 mile ride now I'm having toast and a cup of tea :P
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Post by: annie on 28 February, 2009, 06:41:16 pm
Aching.
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Post by: David Martin on 28 February, 2009, 08:35:08 pm
feeling very tired and drinking a cold cobra. About to go and do the washing up and fettle a large tin of gingerbread for the club reliability run tomorrow.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 28 February, 2009, 08:41:52 pm
Cooking a bolognese for three teenagers
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 28 February, 2009, 08:47:40 pm
At work now, but have spent a lot of the day dealing with a poorly son. He is in hospital now but so far the tests have shown nothing too serious. I will go back up there in the morning...
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Post by: annie on 28 February, 2009, 10:08:10 pm
Quote from: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 28 February, 2009, 08:47:40 pm
At work now, but have spent a lot of the day dealing with a poorly son. He is in hospital now but so far the tests have shown nothing too serious. I will go back up there in the morning...
I do hope that all is ok, thinking of you.
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Post by: alan on 28 February, 2009, 10:11:52 pm
Quote from: annie on 28 February, 2009, 06:41:16 pm
Aching.

This is an internet transmitted contagion :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 01 March, 2009, 10:06:25 pm
Smacking my lips in satisfaction after troughing on a particularly LARGE pizza with many extra bits and half a jar of olives I had in the fridge!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 01 March, 2009, 10:37:52 pm
Thinking about a friend of mine who is not well at the moment
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Post by: Jaded on 01 March, 2009, 10:42:13 pm
Preparing a presentation for next week.  :-\
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Post by: annie on 02 March, 2009, 06:11:31 am
Getting ready to leave for Milton Keynes.  Yawn.
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Post by: Aidan on 02 March, 2009, 06:48:04 am
sitting on the bog at tibshelf services :hand: ;D  :o
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Post by: Jaded on 02 March, 2009, 07:14:33 am
Still doing my presentation!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: alan on 02 March, 2009, 09:22:21 am
Quote from: Aidan on 02 March, 2009, 06:48:04 am
sitting on the bog at tibshelf services :hand: ;D  :o

TMI
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Post by: TimO on 02 March, 2009, 11:55:36 am
Hunting for a replacement PC, since the heat problem I had with my old one last week seems to have killed something.  I've replaced a dead fan, but it's still randomly turning itself off with "Thermal Events". >:(

Insight seem to think that the best time to do upgrade work on their website is Monday mornings, because no one would want to buy anything then, would they. :-\
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Post by: numbnuts on 02 March, 2009, 01:00:08 pm
I'm having my lunch mushroom soup  :P
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Post by: Jules on 02 March, 2009, 01:04:42 pm
Eating little pasta stars in a broth. Trying to convince my youngest he wants to come to the allotment with me as I ran out of time trying to dig it all yesterday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 02 March, 2009, 01:14:08 pm
Just finishing off a bowl of porridge and trying to persuade myself that I don't need another cup of coffee before resuming work....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jezza on 02 March, 2009, 04:20:15 pm
Recovering after a session on the rowing machine.

I'm very out of condition  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 02 March, 2009, 04:22:30 pm
Eating leftover gingerbread (wot I made) after yesterdays reliability ride.

And drinking coffee.

And procrastinating writing a perl XML parsing script
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 March, 2009, 05:08:37 pm
Reviewing some of the rather scary safety issues with mixing Schuko plugs & sockets with UK and IEC connectors.  Sparky electrocution loveliness (not).

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/shocking.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 02 March, 2009, 09:04:18 pm
A nice Shiraz, Brie, Kabanos sausages. About to watch Mad Dog and Glory on DVD while scoffing, drinking and smoking myself to death.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 02 March, 2009, 09:18:30 pm
Nothing.  Just recovering after my journey and wondering if I might be getting the flu. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 March, 2009, 09:23:23 pm
Quote from: LinzWakeley on 01 March, 2009, 10:37:52 pm
Thinking about a friend of mine who is not well at the moment

Hope your friend is feeling better soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 06 March, 2009, 06:38:01 pm
Sitting in the office tucking in to a plate of fish and chips, with a chip butty waiting in the wings :)
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Post by: peliroja on 06 March, 2009, 06:51:38 pm
Eyeing up the bright green poison cake Woolly just made...
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Post by: mike on 06 March, 2009, 06:56:49 pm
recovering after a days walk among the snowy hills in Cumbria with Mrs mike.  We cant decide whose turn it is to drive* so we're heading back to the pub at the end of the road again  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: 


* its hers but she doesnt want to.  I've been busy rehydrating with beer ;D
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Post by: Polar Bear on 06 March, 2009, 07:04:13 pm
Listening to The Archers...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 March, 2009, 07:21:59 pm
Eating a sliver of delicious poison cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 06 March, 2009, 07:24:20 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 06 March, 2009, 07:21:59 pm
Eating a sliver of delicious poison cake.

Been nice knowing you Peli ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 March, 2009, 07:25:06 pm
Having a medicinal whisky (bloody throat/ nasal cavity symptoms have come on in the past couple of hours), waiting for the tea to cook and Charlotte & Liz to arrive at Southend Vic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 06 March, 2009, 07:37:02 pm
Killing ten minutes utilll we go to the re opening of the pub a couple of miles away. Will have to drive though so no boozing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 March, 2009, 07:38:38 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 06 March, 2009, 07:37:02 pm
Killing ten minutes utilll we go to the re opening of the pub a couple of miles away. Will have to drive though so no boozing.

Is this the one whose demise you were mourning a couple of weeks ago?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 06 March, 2009, 07:53:59 pm
Waiting for an XP "recovery" back to the factory settings (which isn't true, because it should have blown away Vista, which is why I did it!), and eating a bag of Walkers Builder's Breakfast flavoured crisps, which are curiously tasty!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: keepontriking on 06 March, 2009, 08:21:27 pm
Working out the beer list for my local Social Club.

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Post by: Jaded on 06 March, 2009, 08:35:50 pm
Preparing my stuff, for tomorrow I may become a Randoneé or whatever it is called.
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Post by: delthebike on 06 March, 2009, 08:42:55 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 06 March, 2009, 07:25:06 pm
waiting for the tea to cook and Charlotte & Liz to arrive at Southend Vic.
Pennies at the Priory perchance?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 06 March, 2009, 08:44:30 pm
Folding washing.  Wondering why Mr A has gone to bed at 8pm, yet again.  Packing the car for my early start in the morning.  Trying to decide which jim jams to take, so many difficult decisions.  Munching on some yummy scrumptious goodies received in the post today, you know who you are, thank you so much :-*
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Post by: peliroja on 06 March, 2009, 08:47:50 pm
Pondering whether I should invest the time, £££ and effort in a Brooks.  :-\
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Post by: andrewc on 06 March, 2009, 09:03:22 pm
Sipping whiskey, girding my loins to start cooking tea,  looking at Google maps and wondering if I am mad for planning a short camping trip tomorrow*

* Probably train from Liverpool to Lancaster, then a gentle ride to Dent where there are a couple of nice campsites and a very good pub!

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Post by: alan on 06 March, 2009, 09:06:23 pm
I've just been talking to my Mum:she's in Auckland N.Z. & the ship is Borked ::-)
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Post by: munkeh on 06 March, 2009, 09:45:41 pm
hello all.. not been on here for ages.. sorry.

Playing eve online (EVE Online - a massive multiplayer online roleplaying space game - MMORPG (http://www.eve-online.com) )

Veh good.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 March, 2009, 09:52:24 pm
Listening to depeche mode in a darkened room.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 March, 2009, 12:05:07 am
I've just tucked C & L up in bed and will shortly be going myself. I have taken Charlotte's suet pudding virginity, although it was with a vegetable rather than meat variety. Annie will arrive in the morning and there will be Porridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 07 March, 2009, 12:17:56 am
Listening to Deep Purple - Made in Japan - Remastered. Haven't listened to that all the way through since i was at university - so about 1983

On spotify.

Huge Big Grin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 07 March, 2009, 12:32:31 am
Quote from: munkeh on 06 March, 2009, 09:45:41 pm
hello all.. not been on here for ages.. sorry.

Playing eve online (EVE Online - a massive multiplayer online roleplaying space game - MMORPG (http://www.eve-online.com) )

Veh good.


I played that for a while.  Somewhere in Minmatar space I have a character with a battleship and other assorted stuff, account not currently active though.  I just didn't have the time to commit to it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 07 March, 2009, 06:13:33 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 07 March, 2009, 12:05:07 am
I've just tucked C & L up in bed and will shortly be going myself. I have taken Charlotte's suet pudding virginity, although it was with a vegetable rather than meat variety. Annie will arrive in the morning and there will be Porridge.

I am up but not dressed.  Just sorting out the dogs and then will be heading off to the depths of Essex and beyond.  Aiming to leave by 7am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 07 March, 2009, 06:47:41 am
Eating toast with marmite and drinking strong coffee whilst recovering from driving 950 miles in 30 hours to go to a family funeral in Inverness. I'm glad we went.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 07 March, 2009, 07:03:01 am

Washing clothes, packing for holiday and listening to Seasick Steve.
I need to get me some breakfast............
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 07 March, 2009, 07:52:15 am
just reading all you peeps who don't seem able to sleep - OR have places to go and things to do.
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Post by: TimO on 07 March, 2009, 08:22:28 am
Just got dragged out of the bed by the cat. He was so insistent about it, that I thought it must be gone nine.  Normally he only starts becoming a real nuisance after about 8-30, when he really needs his breakfast.  He still hasn't really worked out that the first thing I'll do, is give him his pill.  Nobody said cats are smart. ;D
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 07 March, 2009, 11:29:15 am
Quote from: TimO on 07 March, 2009, 08:22:28 am
Just got dragged out of the bed by the cat.

How big is this cat?
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 07 March, 2009, 11:29:56 am
Preparing to go into the loft and sort out some books. I may be some time.....
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Post by: fuzzy on 07 March, 2009, 12:25:00 pm
Sitting at the desk contemplating the next 15 1/2 hours of a 16 hour shift :-\
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Post by: David Martin on 07 March, 2009, 12:33:03 pm
sitting down with a cup of tea after lunch contemplating a run to the dump in 20 mins.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 07 March, 2009, 12:40:54 pm
Quote from: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 07 March, 2009, 11:29:15 am
Quote from: TimO on 07 March, 2009, 08:22:28 am
Just got dragged out of the bed by the cat.

How big is this cat?

He has been eating rather well recently, and he has been putting some weight on. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 07 March, 2009, 02:09:25 pm
just got back from my ride 27.7 miles and now having tea and toast :P
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Post by: peliroja on 08 March, 2009, 11:31:13 am
Eating a potato waffle and feeling tired.
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Post by: nuovo_record on 08 March, 2009, 11:36:12 am
cooking sunday roasties before we go swimming and then i go to 5aside....OH should be back from her weekend away by then
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Post by: fuzzy on 08 March, 2009, 11:58:08 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 07 March, 2009, 12:25:00 pm
Sitting at the desk contemplating the next 15 1/2 hours of a 16 hour shift :-\

Sitting back at the desk 7 hours after finishing the 16 hour shift. Give me a nudge when I nod off please.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 March, 2009, 05:52:27 pm
Sitting in my tent, after a cold and windy days riding,looking at the evening light on the light dusting of snow on the hills and waiting for dinner to cook. 8-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 08 March, 2009, 06:10:44 pm
reading this sucking 4 tic tac's
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 March, 2009, 06:41:42 pm
Just got out of a really hot bath and biding my time before ploughing my way through indecent amounts of Sunday dinner. Some weather showed up whilst I was in the bath - at first I though I heard water running in an "Aaargh, something's leaking!" kind of way - but then realised it was hail on the window  :).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 March, 2009, 06:52:34 pm
Marvelling about being able to breathe through my nose without making a gurgling sound.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 08 March, 2009, 07:44:19 pm
Hope you are ok Simon?

Me, am just wondering what I am doing and haven't got a clue. ::-)   I may require therapy though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 March, 2009, 07:55:45 pm
Quote from: annie on 08 March, 2009, 07:44:19 pm
Hope you are ok Simon?

Me, am just wondering what I am doing and haven't got a clue. ::-)   I may require therapy though.

Oh, just an annoying cold.  Worst I've been with it for years I think.

I had CBT once.  Don't think it worked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2009, 08:02:15 pm
I've got a rotten cold and am wondering about whisky therapy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 08 March, 2009, 08:06:02 pm
Oh dear.  I wonder what Nurse Annie might suggest.  Lots of things to make you both hot and sweaty perhaps?

I think I just need to hang upside down for a while.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 08 March, 2009, 08:58:12 pm
I've got hot and sweaty just imagining it. :demon:



... and YES I know where the naughty step is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2009, 09:03:11 pm
I'm actually having a soothing ale - a "Wainwright" from the Theakston brewery. It states on the label "Celebrating the Lake District's most beloved author" which is a bit of a tall order when the competition includes Beatrix Potter, William Wordsworth and Arthur Ransome.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 08 March, 2009, 09:04:33 pm
Quote from: JohnP on 08 March, 2009, 08:58:12 pm
I've got hot and sweaty just imagining it. :demon:



... and YES I know where the naughty step is.
One minute for every year ::-)

Don't  be thinking about chatting whilst you sit.  No pulling faces either.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LEL on 08 March, 2009, 09:14:25 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 08 March, 2009, 09:03:11 pm
I'm actually having a soothing ale - a "Wainwright" from the Theakston brewery. It states on the label "Celebrating the Lake District's most beloved author" which is a bit of a tall order when the competition includes Beatrix Potter, William Wordsworth and Arthur Ransome.

Ditto.  Can't say its  my favourite bottled beer, but twill do for the mo.

and I have just recruited two more LEL volunteers - Yippeee!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 08 March, 2009, 09:33:24 pm
MSNing my brother, who has just registered here on YACF.  (He wanted to read some of the stuff in "Vroom" that I'd told him about.)

Deferring the ironing even further into next week.

Contemplating doing some tidying-up.  But trying to find excuses not to.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 09 March, 2009, 05:56:26 am
Just got back from a call. Paperwork done so off for a shave and a shower....
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Post by: TimO on 09 March, 2009, 07:14:00 am
Up early, worrying about the cat, and waiting for the Vet to open. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 09 March, 2009, 11:47:31 am
Trying not to fall asleep.  Been to the gym and to see the surgeon, JC was amazing.

Now getting ready to go away this afternoon.  I am not sure I can face anymore driving, I really don't feel right at all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 09 March, 2009, 11:57:48 am
Housework, packing up some bike bags I've sold to go to the post, getting ready for a programme this afternoon.

I could use a couple of skivvies to follow one teenager around to clear up after her:  a one-girl demolition squad  ::-) :'(

N
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 09 March, 2009, 12:02:45 pm
Quote from: diapason on 09 March, 2009, 11:57:48 am
I could use a couple of skivvies to follow one teenager around to clear up after her:  a one-girl demolition squad  ::-) :'(

My daughter hasn't been cooking in your house, has she? Can't have done too much wrong with their home  education when a 12 yo can make a lemon merringue pie from raw ingredients unsupervised..

..d

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 March, 2009, 07:33:08 pm
Drinking Wine.

Watching "Life of Brian".

Laughing. A lot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 09 March, 2009, 07:59:52 pm
Feeling clean.  Breathing easily.

Thinking about dialing in and doing a bit more work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 09 March, 2009, 11:41:08 pm
Playing with DMVPNS on Cisco routers. I have an 5 routers emulated on this PC at the moment (running the real Cisco OS) it's got both my CPUs pegged at 100% but it works. In the morning I will get redundant DMVPNs working :) I need a life ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 10 March, 2009, 07:43:40 am
Waiting for the wholesaler network to start work at 0800hrs so that I can add £ to B.O.Q.'s.
Need an emoticon for impatient frustration
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 10 March, 2009, 09:30:33 am
Being messed about by finance stuff. Coming close to a RANT....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 March, 2009, 03:16:42 am
A surfeit of post-infection mucus has caused me to be wide awake. I am about to drink tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 12 March, 2009, 03:26:01 am
Craving sushi/sashami. I've only eaten a bowl of soup today (and a couple of pints) and although I'm about to go to bed I'm starving and can't seem to get raw fish and rice out my head.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 12 March, 2009, 05:07:25 am
Wishing I was asleep
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 12 March, 2009, 08:08:56 am
Trying to lift my leg, it is a bit borked at the hip.  Eating breakfast.  Calming down after a serious chat with JC.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 12 March, 2009, 08:25:05 am
Waiting patiently for the morning management meeting so that I can then eat toast and drink tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Riggers on 12 March, 2009, 08:27:27 am
Thinking about doing some invoicing, but watching the blasted seagulls wheeling around outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 12 March, 2009, 08:36:56 am
I may have had too much coffee. 
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Post by: JohnP on 12 March, 2009, 08:52:02 am
not sure there is too much coffee but I've just had a second ristretto of the morning ad haven't even got to work yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 12 March, 2009, 08:57:30 am
Eating toast (1 with peanut butter, 1 with Marmite).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 March, 2009, 08:59:23 am
I've had my oats (ooer!) and I'll soon be enjoying a nice cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 12 March, 2009, 11:07:52 am
Cussing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 12 March, 2009, 04:40:55 pm
Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 12 March, 2009, 05:07:25 am
Wishing I was asleep

You are, this is all some weird cheese and drug induced dream..... :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 12 March, 2009, 08:32:10 pm
Waiting for Paracetamol to do their job. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 March, 2009, 10:51:48 pm
Quote from: annie on 12 March, 2009, 08:32:10 pm
Waiting for Paracetamol to do their job. 

Can I rub anything?

I'm feeling a bit of a warm post-tai chi glow. We learned two new moves today: Creep Low like a Snake and Golden Cock stands on one leg. Not many more to learn now and we've completed the set.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 March, 2009, 06:46:35 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 12 March, 2009, 10:51:48 pm
Quote from: annie on 12 March, 2009, 08:32:10 pm
Waiting for Paracetamol to do their job. 

Can I rub anything?

I'm feeling a bit of a warm post-tai chi glow. We learned two new moves today: Creep Low like a Snake and Golden Cock stands on one leg. Not many more to learn now and we've completed the set.

Thank you.  There's a bump on my head and a very sore thigh :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 March, 2009, 03:33:58 pm
I've just finished reading, and acting upon emails.  Now I can start doing some actual productive work. :o :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 March, 2009, 03:37:26 pm
Finally finished writing letters, answering emails, making phone calls.  All chores completed, dogs walked, wormed and fed.  2 more entry forms completed for audaxes. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 March, 2009, 03:39:34 pm
Spending way too much time playing around on the internet.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 March, 2009, 03:44:58 pm
Snuggling down with Woolly on the sofa in recovery positions. Both sicky.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 March, 2009, 03:50:12 pm
GWS, both.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 13 March, 2009, 03:51:51 pm
feeling ill, not looking forward to my ride home up the hill, hoping I perk up in the next hour :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: токамак on 13 March, 2009, 03:56:00 pm
Twitching and fidgeting in my chair waiting for knocking-off time so I can cycle home and get on with some minor fettling in preparation for this weekends cycling!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 13 March, 2009, 04:19:19 pm
Just finished arranging everything I'm taking with me on tonight's FNRttC.

In order of weight.

Starting with the heaviest on the left.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 March, 2009, 04:22:55 pm
Quote from: jurek on 13 March, 2009, 04:19:19 pm
Just finished arranging everything I'm taking with me on tonight's FNRttC.

In order of weight.

Starting with the heaviest on the left.

Nope, no evidence of OCD here...  ::-)

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 13 March, 2009, 04:28:54 pm
Just realising that taking a Friday afternoon off work and then spending nearly 2 hours logged in to office network is pointless.

The netspresso at home is better than the vending fluid in the office so there is one advantage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 13 March, 2009, 04:35:05 pm
Giving my back a rest after only an hours fettling. If it wasn't for the workstand it would be much worse, bending seems to be the one thing it just can't cope with.

Still, nothing a nice cup of tea and a sit down won't cure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 13 March, 2009, 04:41:45 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 March, 2009, 04:22:55 pm


Nope, no evidence of OCD here...  ::-)

 ;D

WHAT???

You mean it should be lightest on the left?  :o :o :o
 ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 13 March, 2009, 04:44:34 pm
Quote from: jurek on 13 March, 2009, 04:41:45 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 March, 2009, 04:22:55 pm


Nope, no evidence of OCD here...  ::-)

 ;D

WHAT???

You mean it should be lightest on the left?  :o :o :o
 ;D
And there's me worried that filling my saddlebag alphabetically was OTT!  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 March, 2009, 04:51:11 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 13 March, 2009, 04:35:05 pm
, bending seems to be the one thing it just can't cope with.

Can you have a flex-stem surgically implanted into a glass back?
I suspect a massage by a female accountant or similar might help ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 13 March, 2009, 06:09:01 pm
Just finished putting new bars and wheels on my Langster and getting my road bike ready for tonight. In a few minutes I shall consume my pre FNRTTC dinner of fish and chips and then I shall go and get my kit ready. I shall lay it out in colour order, black things on the left, middle, and right.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 March, 2009, 06:11:35 pm
Digging into Linux Round Robin real-time scheduling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 March, 2009, 06:44:19 pm
Searching for more Paracetamol.  Angry that JC's computer is borked, yet again.  Clothes organised for tomorrow, in no particular order but in a nice little pile on the spare bed waiting to drape my body in the wee small hours. 

Also off to get a bucket for Mr A who feels tender in the tum and in danger of doing a face down in the porcelain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 March, 2009, 06:55:43 pm
Wondering if anyone else has the propensity for losing Cateye bike computers as frequently as I do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 13 March, 2009, 07:26:56 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 13 March, 2009, 06:55:43 pm
Wondering if anyone else has the propensity for losing Cateye bike computers as frequently as I do.

I saw one or possibly two, on your desk, amongst the piles of bits and bobs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 13 March, 2009, 07:33:28 pm
Quote from: annie on 13 March, 2009, 07:26:56 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 13 March, 2009, 06:55:43 pm
Wondering if anyone else has the propensity for losing Cateye bike computers as frequently as I do.
I saw one or possibly two, on your desk, amongst the piles of bits and bobs.
I suspect another has been left on a wall somewhere or other.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 13 March, 2009, 07:55:43 pm
Eating Cheddars and thinking about the best martial arts for zombie defense. 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 March, 2009, 08:10:22 pm
Cutting a malt loaf & Mars bar into small pieces that will fit into a Topeak tri-bag so that I can eat awheel on tomorrows Awards ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 13 March, 2009, 08:30:30 pm
Quote from: alan on 13 March, 2009, 08:10:22 pm
Cutting a malt loaf & Mars bar into small pieces that will fit into a Topeak tri-bag so that I can eat awheel on tomorrows Awards ride

Double portions I hope  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 March, 2009, 08:37:24 pm
Actually I did have you in mind when I was cutting the malt loaf ;)
If Iwas single & you weren't married you could have my last Rolo ;D
There's enough for the three of us to avoid the bonk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 March, 2009, 08:47:50 pm
Quote from: annie on 13 March, 2009, 07:26:56 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 13 March, 2009, 06:55:43 pm
Wondering if anyone else has the propensity for losing Cateye bike computers as frequently as I do.

I saw one or possibly two, on your desk, amongst the piles of bits and bobs.

I have those two. One of those is for the Thorn solo machine and the other is for the Mercian. It's the one for the tandem which is absent. I recorded today's mileage with the Garmin. I think it's been stolen by the Cateye faerie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 13 March, 2009, 08:53:33 pm
Trying to decide if I should open the pack of Soreen bars that I just bought. Never had them before but was seduced by the name.  Would a bottle of 2001 Rioja go with Soreen bars ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 March, 2009, 09:22:34 pm
Quote from: JohnP on 13 March, 2009, 08:53:33 pm
Soreen bars ?

Are they small malt loafs then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 13 March, 2009, 11:50:46 pm
Drinking Horlicks and wondering why, after a week like I've just had, I'm unable to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 14 March, 2009, 12:22:55 am
Regretting ordering supplies from Wiggle on Thursday that turned up today so that meant I could install them for tomorrow's 200.  I should have been in bed at 10 at the latest as I knackered from a helluva fortnight anyway. 
Damn Wiggle being so efficient.
Damn tyre exploding causing the mudguard to blow off.
Damn SKS mudguards for being so fiddly to fit.  Once you get the idea they are simple and precise though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 14 March, 2009, 06:26:00 am
Eating porridge in preparation for today's ride.  Damn this ungodly hour.

*yawns*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 14 March, 2009, 06:37:45 am
Quote from: mike on 12 March, 2009, 08:36:56 am
I may have had too much coffee. 


No such thing, dear boy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 14 March, 2009, 06:48:34 am
Quote from: Deano on 14 March, 2009, 06:26:00 am
Eating porridge in preparation for today's ride.  Damn this ungodly hour.

*yawns*

same here
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 14 March, 2009, 07:12:10 am
Quote from: alan on 14 March, 2009, 06:48:34 am
Quote from: Deano on 14 March, 2009, 06:26:00 am
Eating porridge in preparation for today's ride.  Damn this ungodly hour.

*yawns*

same here

I haven't got as far as breakfast yet but I have been checking the weather forecast - SUNSHINE!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 March, 2009, 07:20:52 am
I'm in preparation mode too.

Tea and tablet needed. Water bottles, pump tyres...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 14 March, 2009, 07:49:46 am
Reformatting my hard disc and re-installing OS X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 14 March, 2009, 09:26:25 am
Quote from: alan on 13 March, 2009, 09:22:34 pm
Quote from: JohnP on 13 March, 2009, 08:53:33 pm
Soreen bars ?

Are they small malt loafs then?

Resisted the temptation last night - the Soreen lost out to a really nice Rioja.

Packet says "a moist, fruity cereal bar with raisins, rice, malt, oats and wheat."

Just opened one (in the interests of science): initial malt loaf smell pops out of the packet. Softer than many other bars, really fruity and good taste of malt.

I'll have to eat the rest of this bar before the "best before" date - like now while the porridge is preparing.  Follow it with a Ristretto and I should be "hot to trot".  A gentle 7 miles on old railway track should get me to Cafe Rouge just in time for a coffee and croissant. Return in time to lunch on stuffed mushrooms and then veg out in front of tv while Italy trash Wales followed by Ireland v Scotland.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuovo_record on 14 March, 2009, 09:57:03 am
flippin housework
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 March, 2009, 12:21:18 pm
sofa-bound with a PD James, ready to ride out the rest of this cold. Woolly out for the count drugged up in bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 14 March, 2009, 12:28:57 pm
Just got back from a very hilly and very windy ride :thumbsup:

Am drinking horlicks and going for a shower in a minute.

Then I've got a SERIOUS fettling list to get on with and some taming of my little finger to do!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 March, 2009, 01:21:14 pm
Eating yet more artichokes and wondering why I've been craving them so much lately, whilst playing Celebdaq and hoping the weather stays dry as I have rugby tickets for this afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 14 March, 2009, 02:01:17 pm
Just having a lunch break from my gardening duties.

One of my Bamboos has clambered out of its pram again and my Banana is looking very manky after the cold weather earlier this year. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 14 March, 2009, 03:11:48 pm
Avoiding eye contact with the pile of marking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 14 March, 2009, 04:17:36 pm
Have just replaced the speedo on my Galaxy, and about to go out for a ride - first for nearly 3 weeks.  Hopefully knee will be ok and so will lungs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pneumant on 14 March, 2009, 04:44:32 pm
Having a cuppa  :) Just done a relaxing 2.5 hrs and 80 miles on the motorbike, stopped at the community cafe in Pewsey for a cuppa & cake  :thumbsup:, then on through lovely Wessex passing Avebury & back up Snap Hill. Bloomin' windy though - glad I was'nt cycling today  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 14 March, 2009, 07:42:04 pm
Looking for a missing shoe.

Anyone know where it is?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 March, 2009, 08:09:53 pm
Quote from: nutkin on 14 March, 2009, 07:42:04 pm
Anyone know where it is?

Over there behind the cupboard ----->

* Snigger - I love hiding things *
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dave on 14 March, 2009, 08:12:42 pm
Getting drunk.

Argentinian Malbec - not great, but it's all there is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marco Stefano on 14 March, 2009, 08:26:08 pm
Working out where to get my 18 month-old Dinotte light fixed - it suddenly developed a mind of its own as I came home on Wed. Apologies to all in front of me that evening, I was not in control of my lighting.

It appears that this is not an uncommon problem with this light...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 March, 2009, 08:32:15 pm
Hiding in my office from a house full of teenagers. #2 Son is having a "gathering" to celebrate his 16th. They are cooking Pizzas in a "how hot can you take?" challenge (There are many chillis in the kitchen) and playing X-Box and Wii games in the lounge. The girls sure can shriek  ;D.

Mrs S and yours truly made one rule. No booze. We counted the wine bottles in the rack  :thumbsup:.

We are mostly hiding now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 14 March, 2009, 09:42:26 pm
Working on a PPT to be presented on my behalf in Oz next week, sat on the sofa...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 March, 2009, 10:59:56 pm
Quote from: nutkin on 14 March, 2009, 07:42:04 pm
Looking for a missing shoe.

Anyone know where it is?

Actually, it's behind the television. You threw it at the image of Gordon Brown after too many G & Ts last night. ;)

I'm off to evacuate and ablute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 14 March, 2009, 11:02:28 pm
Drinking one last glass of wine at the end of a great evening that followed on from an even better day on the bikes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 14 March, 2009, 11:56:24 pm
Quote from: Frenchie on 14 March, 2009, 09:42:26 pm
Working on a PPT to be presented on my behalf in Oz next week, sat on the sofa...

Just finished and sent it off to my colleagues in the UK and US of A! Yeah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 15 March, 2009, 12:12:08 am
reading various cycling touring sites and trying to figure out what tent to go for.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 15 March, 2009, 12:38:25 am
Grimacing, taking pain relief and about to remove Arabella's lady skirt thingie, take that as you will.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 15 March, 2009, 01:54:45 am
Whoo hoo! Partying!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 15 March, 2009, 01:55:55 am
And I found the shoe!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 15 March, 2009, 07:50:59 am
Quote from: nutkin on 15 March, 2009, 01:55:55 am
And I found the shoe!

... it must have been in your bed. ;D

I've just given the cat his pills, fed him, topped up his water, and cleared out the litter tray.  Who says cats are easy to look after. :-\

He's now sitting in the hallway, watching me wander past, even though I told him he should get out, and enjoy the sun!

I got a cup of coffee, and am about to jump in the bath before having a day of housework and doing other "stuff".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 15 March, 2009, 08:10:13 am
Wondering whether to go and "run" the Stafford half marathon. I suppose I should just add it to the vast collection of things I've failed at this weekend.

I paid £15 to enter and £95 for shoes several months ago.

I feel fat and stupid this morning.  :-[

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 15 March, 2009, 08:34:05 am
Waiting for my daughter to decide what she is going to wear while putting the bikes into the car so that we can go and meet Elleigh
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 15 March, 2009, 08:36:39 am
Waiting for the washing machine cycle to finish so that I can hang the stuff out on the line before going for a ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 15 March, 2009, 08:44:08 am
Abs has decided on black leggings, black and white tee-shirt, pink tutu and pink kicker boots.  Perfect attire for a 6 year old.  She wants me to call Elleigh to make sure that they are not going to be wearing the same thing??? 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 15 March, 2009, 08:47:41 am
Quote from: LinzWakeley on 15 March, 2009, 08:44:08 am
Abs has decided on black leggings, black and white tee-shirt, pink tutu and pink kicker boots.  Perfect attire for a 6 year old.  She wants me to call Elleigh to make sure that they are not going to be wearing the same thing??? 

I'm not sure about the black legging and black and white t-shirt, but it wouldn't surprise me if Elleigh is wearing a pink tutu and kicker boots...  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 15 March, 2009, 08:57:58 am
Quote from: Regulator on 15 March, 2009, 08:47:41 am
Quote from: LinzWakeley on 15 March, 2009, 08:44:08 am
Abs has decided on black leggings, black and white tee-shirt, pink tutu and pink kicker boots.  Perfect attire for a 6 year old.  She wants me to call Elleigh to make sure that they are not going to be wearing the same thing??? 

I'm not sure about the black legging and black and white t-shirt, but it wouldn't surprise me if Elleigh is wearing a pink tutu and kicker boots...  ;D

Kicker boots - E?  Have you ever seen her boot collection? 

Mind you she did wear Ugg boots recently (she claimed it was a concession to fashion - but I think it was more likely a concession to comfort)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 March, 2009, 09:13:02 am
Waking up with a second cup of coffee and catching up on the news and gossip whilst washing my cycling kit and feeding son1 as he has a swimming gala today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 15 March, 2009, 09:16:53 am
Sitting at a conference in cycle gear ready to ride home afterwards. Bit dehydrated and weary after last nights disco. I really can't keep up with the students two nights in a row.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 March, 2009, 09:17:41 am
Still hiding from teenagers. Had to step over several sleeping forms to get to the kitchen this morning.

I slept well though - having deployed the Randonneur Grade earplugs (the young'uns could have totalled the place and I wouldn't have heard).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 March, 2009, 10:01:04 am
Quote from: Regulator on 15 March, 2009, 08:36:39 am
Waiting for the washing machine cycle to finish so that I can hang the stuff out on the line before going for a ride.

Did you buy it from Graham Obree?

For my part, I've just been chortling into my tea.

Younger daughter to older son: "Chocolate for breakfast?! Were you brought up or dragged up?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 15 March, 2009, 10:01:50 am
Nursing a hangover, having been woken up by the phone ringing. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 March, 2009, 10:07:18 am
Quote from: nutkin on 15 March, 2009, 10:01:50 am
Nursing a hangover, having been woken up by the phone ringing. :(

"Ah! That's where I left my shoe - on the cocktail cabinet! Why does it taste of angostura bitters?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 15 March, 2009, 02:13:43 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 15 March, 2009, 08:10:13 am
Wondering whether to go and "run" the Stafford half marathon. I suppose I should just add it to the vast collection of things I've failed at this weekend.

I paid £15 to enter and £95 for shoes several months ago.

I feel fat and stupid this morning.  :-[



Well I did the run, in 2 hours 45 minutes... finishing with all the comedy turns and old women with huuuuuuuge bums.  :-[

I'm going for a bath now, assuming I can get up the stairs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 March, 2009, 02:16:19 pm
Lounge is now a teenager free zone - getting ready to watch the rugby whilst doing some work on the laptop.

Beer is on standby to help with the work  :).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 15 March, 2009, 02:18:23 pm
Realizing I've spent nearly six hours working out how to format GPS maps *just so* and thinking I need some air...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 15 March, 2009, 02:22:22 pm
making some soup for lunch and getting excited about the rugby.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 March, 2009, 02:38:48 pm
I'm going to fettle the UberBike and the TCR as next week looks like a fast week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 15 March, 2009, 02:45:11 pm
having tea and toast :P after my 31 mile ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 15 March, 2009, 02:58:28 pm
Composing a green ink letter to Cross Country Trains.

Where to start stop?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 March, 2009, 04:26:21 pm
Congratulating Gordy on his run (nutter!), waiting for the bread dough to rise, and getting to the end of my (excellent) PD James. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 15 March, 2009, 04:29:23 pm
About to tuck into an early tea:roast beef with yorkshire puds & spuds & veg.Sinc I got back from yesterday's Awards ride I have eaten  almost  continuosly & still feel hungry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 15 March, 2009, 05:23:43 pm
Taking a short break from spring cleaning to "Live in Gdansk", and drinking a can of Red Bull.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 15 March, 2009, 05:49:07 pm
Chomping through a big bag of salted cashews and still feeling ravenous.

Protein, I must have protein!

*looks sideways at the cat*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 15 March, 2009, 06:04:46 pm
Quote from: Liz on 15 March, 2009, 05:49:07 pm
Chomping through a big bag of salted cashews and still feeling ravenous.

Protein, I must have protein!

*looks sideways at the cat*

You and me both, can I have the legs?  Only kidding Montezuma.

Unable to eat my dinner despite being hungry, what is that all about?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 15 March, 2009, 06:13:20 pm
Getting ready to roast a chicken for dinner and smiling a bit,
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 March, 2009, 06:16:42 pm
Just put the soup on to cook, which we'll have with homebaked bread. Settling back to my book now. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jezza on 15 March, 2009, 07:24:17 pm
Roasting a pheasant, as it happens.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 15 March, 2009, 07:30:28 pm
Contemplating roast beef and all the trimmings. It smells delicious. Dinner time has just been announced as eightish, which means that it must be time to open a bottle of less than £4 plonk before the government have their evil way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 March, 2009, 07:50:41 pm
Feeling completely knackered. Lovely 19-mile ride to my brother's this morning, then a monstrous blow-out which included 2 helpings of Sussex Pond Pudding :o, beer, wine, a walk this afternoon, and then a very laboured 15 miles home again. It's many hours since I've eaten and I still don't want food ... yet.

Marvellous day. Marvellous weekend. I'll close my eyes in a tick - I may be some time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 16 March, 2009, 07:41:25 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 15 March, 2009, 07:50:41 pm

 2 helpings of Sussex Pond Pudding


You lucky man. It is a long time since I made one of those.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 16 March, 2009, 09:23:29 am
Eating, yet again.  Managed to cycle up to the gym, rather gingerly I must admit.  A close encounter with a van door but otherwise uneventful.

Going out to BSE for the day.  Lots of lattes and cake and shopping.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 16 March, 2009, 10:33:36 am
Waiting in for builders! Supposed to have been here at 9am. Of course, his mobile is switched off, and a voicemail message hasn't been replied to.

I wouldn't mind, but it my nephew's mate!

I have to go out, and you know what's bound to happen  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 16 March, 2009, 10:59:43 am
Recovering from a lovely bike ride yesterday. My legs ache :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 16 March, 2009, 11:02:46 am
I've been cleaning two bikes!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 16 March, 2009, 03:09:11 pm
Recovering from a trip to BSE and Waitrose.  Now gardening but taking 5 mins out to rest my hands, is hard work weeding between hundreds of tiny bricks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 March, 2009, 10:18:03 pm
I've just consumed some calories and am washing them down with coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 17 March, 2009, 06:42:45 am
Watching that right-wing bigot "Gaunty" ranting on $ky News.  One day he'll utter "send 'em all home" and they'll have to sack him  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 17 March, 2009, 07:00:18 am
Having a brief rest.  Just finished the ironing and have cleaned downstairs.  Trying to wake JC  ::-)  Wondering if I can sit on the bike and about to load the car with the garden waste from yesterday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 17 March, 2009, 07:07:52 am
regretting starting up Instant Messenger so early.  The buggers have been waiting for me, 4 of them have pounced and are asking questions I really cant be arsed to answer.  Going to be a looooong day..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 17 March, 2009, 07:10:20 am
Drinking coffee and preparing inwardly for another day in the NHS  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 17 March, 2009, 07:23:19 am
I have a day off as the class I work with are off to Wales for a couple of days.  None of the other classes need me, so I suggested I take some time off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 March, 2009, 07:37:07 am
I've just eaten my oats and will soon drink tea and have some fruit juice. It's a lovely day and my afternoon school doesn't want me today (Monty Python Dead Chicken scene).

Do I go for a solo ride this afternoon or do we go on the tandem? There's plenty of time for 30 miles in daylight, and should get nearer 40 in if we try. Mrs. Wow's choice. She's in bed, and the Worker doesn't leave until the 8.15 train.

Also thinking about sending the rim back to Thorns.
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Post by: annie on 17 March, 2009, 07:54:28 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 17 March, 2009, 07:37:07 am
I've just eaten my oats and will soon drink tea and have some fruit juice. It's a lovely day and my afternoon school doesn't want me today (Monty Python Dead Chicken scene).

Do I go for a solo ride this afternoon or do we go on the tandem? There's plenty of time for 30 miles in daylight, and should get nearer 40 in if we try. Mrs. Wow's choice. She's in bed, and the Worker doesn't leave until the 8.15 train.

Also thinking about sending the rim back to Thorns.

Sounds perfect.

I am just about to send JC off on the mini bus.

The dogs will be walked and then the bike will be used.  If I am careful I think I could squeeze out 30 miles.

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Post by: JohnP on 17 March, 2009, 08:01:59 am
Just finished weekly treat breakfast - single fried egg on a slice of toast - now enjoying a fine expresso before I hit the shower.

Have dutifully delivered a cup of Yorkshire tea to SWMBO although I suspect she will pass out snooze for 30 mins and wake to find it cold.  One day I may wake her up when I make the tea but it's worked OK for 39 years so far.
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Post by: TheLurker on 17 March, 2009, 08:46:40 am
Still calming down after run in with idiot van driver on the way in this AM.
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Post by: David Martin on 17 March, 2009, 11:33:24 pm
I've just removed an 8 speed campag hub (maybe veloce) from a wheel and replaced it with a Miche RC2 9/10 speed one. Now I can take clinchers on the club run on the lighter bike..
Pleased that it only took a couple of hours to dismantle and rebuild the wheel.
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Post by: annie on 18 March, 2009, 07:31:25 am
Wondering why Hummers was in my dream. :-\
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 March, 2009, 07:50:48 am
I've just put my pyjamas in the drawer marked "pyjamas" and opened the curtain to let the sun in, and I made sure he wiped his feet.

Actually, that's a lie. I don't wear pyjamas. I have put some bicycle related tools in the cupboard and had my breakfast.

Except for my cup of tea.

Which I will now rectify.
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Post by: toekneep on 18 March, 2009, 07:58:16 am
Is the cupboard marked, "bicycle related tools"?  ;D

I'm having a little break between breakfast and starting work, such is the life of the home worker.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 18 March, 2009, 07:59:27 am
Deciding not to get involved in some threads in P&OI, loading up Andy G's latest OSM file, the Garmin Munky version, and just about to have breakfast.

Cheers Andy.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: nutkin on 18 March, 2009, 08:05:32 am
Listening to a station announcement telling all passengers to take care due to wet and slippery conditions.

We have cloudless blue skies and its warm...
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Post by: JohnP on 18 March, 2009, 08:12:19 am
enjoying a mug of dark coffee after a bowl of porridge with banana.  SWMBO made an extra effort this morning and got to the shower first so I may yet go for a 2nd coffee before thinking of riding to work.
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Post by: Regulator on 18 March, 2009, 08:42:00 am
Finishing off a large pot of coffee and thinking about what to have for breakfast (fresh fruit salad or cereal) before nipping out to buy a copy of the Grauniad to see what jobs are on offer.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 18 March, 2009, 08:50:25 am
Eating breakfast at feering on the a12, en route to sizewell.
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Post by: peliroja on 18 March, 2009, 08:54:23 am
Being astounded that my (short) ride to work on my new Brooks was entirely pain free! I need to tweak the position a bit. I am still putting too much pressure on bits that don't like to be under pressure.  :o
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Post by: andrewc on 18 March, 2009, 09:09:09 am
Pretending to be paying attention on a conference call with Pune and drinking lukewarm coffee....
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Post by: annie on 18 March, 2009, 10:04:46 am
Eating breakfast.  Wondering if Wow has had a knock on the head with his references to jim jams n all that nonsense.

Wearing a thick jumper and a hat as I am now freezing cold after my run.  Mr A locked  me out so I had to climb over the gate at the side.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 18 March, 2009, 12:13:40 pm
I tried locking Mrs P out once but she got back in as well.  Can't anybody take a hint these days ?  ;D
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Post by: PaulF on 18 March, 2009, 03:21:23 pm
Just finioshed laughing at a colleague. He was on a conference call getting more and more frustrated because noone was listening to him. Finally he said "oh my phones on mute". :D
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Post by: clarion on 18 March, 2009, 03:24:17 pm
I think his phone was on 'dunce' ;D
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Post by: Zoidburg on 18 March, 2009, 03:31:03 pm
Just spent 4 hours doing a job application form, which while not huge still presented a bit of an obstacle to a dyslexic, supposedly it was supposed to be available online, was it tits as like, the link just took you back to the job description.

City Council IT section - You are pants. >:(

Do you know how much of a struugle it is to fill forms out by hand to a standard that ensures that they do not just get binned as unreadble?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 March, 2009, 07:06:19 pm
Sitting in a nice pub, trying to stay sober while I await the arrival of a lovely woman.
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Post by: TimO on 21 March, 2009, 06:08:03 am
Running a bath, and generally getting ready to leave for the Mad March WARTY.

Just checked the temperature, and bugger it's a bit nippy out there, LHR is only one degree above freezing.  Gatwick and Biggin Hill, are below. Brrrr!
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Post by: gordon taylor on 21 March, 2009, 07:12:13 am
Sitting with a coffee, waiting for the post.
This could go on all morning.
This is because an elderly Aunt in the Highlands of Scotland is trying to send me money by registered post.
I've had four phone calls about it this week already.
I hope it arrives so I can calm her down.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 21 March, 2009, 07:22:16 am
Eating a bowl of crunchy, nutty stuff before I get WARTY.

Major disaster thobut - no coffee in the house. I shall have to have words. And a cappuccino at Liverpool Street.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 March, 2009, 07:39:04 am
More WARTY preparation here.

Currently drinking tea.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 21 March, 2009, 10:35:19 am
Eating an egg banjo at the warty coffee stop.
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Post by: Gus on 21 March, 2009, 10:45:13 am
running back up on the music on the pc
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 23 March, 2009, 11:20:32 am
Bleeding.....
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 23 March, 2009, 11:21:04 am
Profusely.....
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Post by: annie on 23 March, 2009, 11:52:19 am
Quote from: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 23 March, 2009, 11:21:04 am
Profusely.....

Heck Jasper.  Hospital??
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 23 March, 2009, 12:10:16 pm
It is not too bad. Although there is a stuck pig at the window with his kids saying "There you go boys, that is how a pro does it".......
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Post by: Jaded on 23 March, 2009, 12:19:21 pm
Ordering stuff.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: JohnP on 23 March, 2009, 12:30:31 pm
alphabetically or numerically?
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Post by: Jaded on 23 March, 2009, 01:42:31 pm
financially and post-officially.
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Post by: fuzzy on 23 March, 2009, 01:46:51 pm
Formulating another Cunning Plan.
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Post by: Adrian on 23 March, 2009, 06:50:15 pm
Quote from: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 23 March, 2009, 12:10:16 pm
It is not too bad. Although there is a stuck pig at the window with his kids saying "There you go boys, that is how a pro does it".......

Anyone else just a little concerned that Jasper hasn't posted anything since this?
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 March, 2009, 08:13:31 pm
Googling girls' comics from the 70s and 80s to see if I can find a story I remember.
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Post by: TimO on 23 March, 2009, 09:58:52 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 23 March, 2009, 06:50:15 pm
Quote from: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 23 March, 2009, 12:10:16 pm
It is not too bad. Although there is a stuck pig at the window with his kids saying "There you go boys, that is how a pro does it".......

Anyone else just a little concerned that Jasper hasn't posted anything since this?

Well, he was last active an hour and a half after he posted, so I suspect he's just gone off somewhere and is doing things unrelated to yacf.  This is apparently possible, but I'm not sure I believe it. ;D

I really ought to bugger off home.
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 25 March, 2009, 09:30:16 am
Still breathing and stuff......
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Post by: Gus on 25 March, 2009, 10:39:20 am

Just got home from work, now it's time for lunch and 1/2 hour on my back. (http://bestsmileys.com/sleeping/6.gif)
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Post by: Salvatore on 25 March, 2009, 02:03:25 pm
Watching Dwars Door Vlaanderen (http://fr.justin.tv/hoarau_tvhd) . It looks very wet and cold in Belgium today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 25 March, 2009, 03:53:11 pm
posting from iPod.can hardly see a thing. Unable to reply to pm's. All 3 computers are sick. May be gone for some time.
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Post by: JohnP on 25 March, 2009, 03:58:07 pm
listening to appalling music while being held on the dhl techie help line
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Post by: clarion on 25 March, 2009, 04:01:37 pm
Wondering why stupid things keep happening today that I need to deal with.
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Post by: PaulF on 25 March, 2009, 07:12:10 pm
Quote from: annie on 25 March, 2009, 03:53:11 pm
posting from iPod.can hardly see a thing. Unable to reply to pm's. All 3 computers are sick. May be gone for some time.

I assume you mean iPhone or an iPod Touch? If so use this url:
Code: [Select]
http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?;wap2
PMs etc will work fine :)
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Post by: GruB on 25 March, 2009, 07:16:21 pm
Watching the World Track Champs on the BBC.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 March, 2009, 08:13:08 pm
Just in that happy state of anticipation before taking my first sip from a glass containing Thomas Hardy Ale.

Edit: it's OK, but a 2007 so is probably a bit young. I think I'll wait until next year before trying another. I buy a couple ever few montsh when we are in Waitrose and I've got quite a few 2007 bottles, and some 2008.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 March, 2009, 02:12:52 pm
Wondering how I managed to acquire the two partially-healed cuts at top-of-sock level on my left leg.

I am beginning to think that there might actually be a monster under the bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 March, 2009, 02:27:19 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 27 March, 2009, 02:12:52 pm
Wondering how I managed to acquire the two partially-healed cuts at top-of-sock level on my left leg.

I am beginning to think that there might actually be a monster under the bed.

Look out, there's a monster coming! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HeEFxgktVg)
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Post by: Gus on 27 March, 2009, 06:47:30 pm

watching track world champ's on tv
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Post by: peliroja on 27 March, 2009, 08:41:13 pm
Cooking rice and beans in coconut milk and waiting for a friend I've not seen for 4 years to arrive to stay the night :)
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Post by: Andrew Br on 27 March, 2009, 08:47:55 pm
Putting my new tyres on my new wheels  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Aidan on 27 March, 2009, 08:48:48 pm
running an anti virus check and practising my guitar. thinking about getting stuff ready for tomorrows ride and listening to Mrs Aidan having a trip down memory lane on youtube, hectors house, parsley, camberwick green, mary mungo and midge, bill and ben etc etc etc
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Post by: Julian on 27 March, 2009, 09:18:03 pm
Digesting.

And intermittently giggling about an earlier phone call.  ;D
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Post by: mike on 27 March, 2009, 10:16:12 pm
wishing i could have a drink.

Roll on, easter.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 28 March, 2009, 03:49:32 am
Making hot chocolate because I can't sleep.

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Post by: alan on 28 March, 2009, 04:44:49 am
Not long since arrived home from doing a late late shift on a job in the sunny resort of Ellesmere Port.
I have missed the moment to catch some sleep & will probably not bother now till bed timr tonight.
Making a mug of horlicks  & eating grapes
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Post by: keepontriking on 28 March, 2009, 09:17:07 am
Just about to load a firkin of beer on the cycle-trailer to trundle over to the Earth Hour event this evening - then on the way back collecting 100 sausages from the local butcher for the hot pot (this afternoon's fettling job)
Whitchurch Earth Hour (http://www.whitchurchearthhour.org.uk/)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jane on 28 March, 2009, 01:36:43 pm
Completing end of term assessment grids on my class (teaching in the 21st century is such fun), planning next weeks teaching while glancing out of the window at the weather and thinking I might have made the right decision about which day to stay at home and work this weekend and which day to go out on the bike. (Wind, rain and cold hail showers at the moment).
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Post by: Tom B on 28 March, 2009, 01:47:22 pm
Just finished making buckwheat and tomato stew.
Time to read for a bit before going to meet girlfriend

Wet and windy here too  ;)
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Post by: Marco Stefano on 28 March, 2009, 02:02:20 pm
Just got the call to go and fettle son's BMX; latest round of part-swapping involves... the frame. I have to lock my bike tools up now, they are just destroyed by 13 year-old boys.

Just a 5 minute job, then. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 28 March, 2009, 05:43:10 pm
I'm cooking a huge pot of spaghetti bolognese for four teenagers who are camping in the field at the bottom of my garden. I don't know who they are, but I found them starting to pitch a tent right in the middle of the common when I was out with the dogs. One of the girls is wearing a skirt and pumps; they were surrounded by all their kit in bin bags  ::-)

I offered them my field for the night, because they can light a fire there and it is bloody freezing. I hope they survive!

It's nice to have a chance to repay a tiny smidgen of the hospitality given to me by complete strangers on my travels.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 28 March, 2009, 06:02:40 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 28 March, 2009, 05:43:10 pm
I'm cooking a huge pot of spaghetti bolognese for four teenagers who are camping in the field at the bottom of my garden. I don't know who they are, but I found them starting to pitch a tent right in the middle of the common when I was out with the dogs. One of the girls is wearing a skirt and pumps; they were surrounded by all their kit in bin bags  ::-)

I offered them my field for the night, because they can light a fire there and it is bloody freezing. I hope they survive!

It's nice to have a chance to repay a tiny smidgen of the hospitality given to me by complete strangers on my travels.



Yer big softy Gordy. That's a really nice thing to do and hopefully it will teach them that being nice to people is actually a good thing.
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Post by: alan on 28 March, 2009, 06:30:44 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 28 March, 2009, 05:43:10 pm
I'm cooking a huge pot of spaghetti bolognese for four teenagers who are camping in the field at the bottom of my garden. I don't know who they are, but I found them starting to pitch a tent right in the middle of the common when I was out with the dogs. One of the girls is wearing a skirt and pumps; they were surrounded by all their kit in bin bags  ::-)

I offered them my field for the night,

YEAH,  RIGHT ::-)

I see you found something to do while the wife is away ;)

Those of us who know where you live also know of the reputation enjoyed by the Common & the Downs. :demon:
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Post by: alan on 28 March, 2009, 06:37:31 pm
I think I am creating medical science.Every bone & muscle in my body either aches or is causing pain.I have had less than 6 hrs sleep in 48 hours & think rigor mortis has set in to a not-yet dead body although my brain died about midday today.
This working for a living is less fun than I remember it ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 28 March, 2009, 07:20:58 pm
Campers update: they are lovely but useless. Two (male) media college students with two drippy, vegetarian girls in tow. One of the girls turns out to be the half-sister of an ex-pupil of mine. They have decided, on that basis alone, that I'm not a pervy axe murderer.

I've had to light a fire for them and drive one lad to the supermarket for beer.

Nevertheless, it is great to see young people in the outdoors and getting new experiences.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: geraldc on 29 March, 2009, 10:28:41 am
Wandering round the house, putting all the clocks forward by an hour, whilst listening to Abba at ear splitting volumes.
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Post by: TimO on 29 March, 2009, 10:29:00 am
Quote from: Gordy on 28 March, 2009, 05:43:10 pm
...I offered them my field for the night, because they can light a fire there and it is bloody freezing. I hope they survive! ...

So, how did they get on, or are you chipping them out as we speak?

I just looked at work's weather station, and it got down to 2°C last night (South Ken), but it tends to over read, and depending on how far away from me you are, it may well have been a lot colder.
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Post by: TimO on 29 March, 2009, 10:32:09 am
Damn, I just looked at my own post, got briefly confused by it, and then realised that I need to go around and change all the clocks.  Faffing BST!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 29 March, 2009, 04:02:40 pm
Quote from: TimO on 29 March, 2009, 10:29:00 am
Quote from: Gordy on 28 March, 2009, 05:43:10 pm
...I offered them my field for the night, because they can light a fire there and it is bloody freezing. I hope they survive! ...

So, how did they get on, or are you chipping them out as we speak?

I just looked at work's weather station, and it got down to 2°C last night (South Ken), but it tends to over read, and depending on how far away from me you are, it may well have been a lot colder.

The campers survived, but came into the house this morning for tea and toast and weetabix. They were chilled through; the garden thermometer showed -1.8 at one point and the car was frosted over.

Anyway. I had an emergency call from my daughter who was trying to get to Heathrow, but the trains were ALL borked. So I left the campers alone in the house, eating breakfast and am just back from a 300-mile dash to Heathrow. That wan't part of the hospitality karma plan.  ::-)

They've washed up, and left a fiver and a nice thank-you note on the kitchen table.  O:-)

Sorry to hijack the thread a little. Right now I'm slugging wine and ignoring the dogs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 29 March, 2009, 04:54:35 pm
Just out of the bath.  Have been next door, eaten cake and drunk tea.  Sorted out clothes for the charity shop and done little else.  Bike still not cleaned and won't be today.  Off to the sofa now.
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Post by: Chris S on 29 March, 2009, 06:48:51 pm
In the bath, though sadly no connection with Annie's post.
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Post by: Chris N on 29 March, 2009, 06:56:58 pm
Drinking beer, contemplating my slightly sunburnt hooter and wondering if it's time to start cooking dinner.
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Post by: peliroja on 29 March, 2009, 07:02:10 pm
I am cooking mushroom dahl and feeling £250 lighter (we just booked another holiday ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 March, 2009, 07:31:45 pm
I've opened a beer and I'm sat here, enjoying my sore legs from the overnight ride and contemplating the report I'm going to write for our local football club on the visitor experience.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 March, 2009, 08:42:01 pm
Quote from: geraldc on 29 March, 2009, 10:28:41 am
Wandering round the house, putting all the clocks forward by an hour, whilst listening to Abba at ear splitting volumes.

Shit Gerald, you know how to have a Good Time don't you?  ;D  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 29 March, 2009, 09:18:29 pm
Quote from: geraldc on 29 March, 2009, 10:28:41 am
Wandering round the house, putting all the clocks forward by an hour, whilst listening to Abba at ear splitting volumes.

I rather like a bit of Abba when bombing along on the bike in traffic!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 March, 2009, 11:29:15 pm
Watching Hot Fuzz, and laughing. A lot.

Anything from the shop?
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Post by: kyuss on 04 April, 2009, 04:10:45 pm
This afternoon/evening I shall mostly be polishing a crank to a mirror finish.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 05 April, 2009, 01:13:15 am
Whiling away half an hour before I go into work to start some testing. Probably finish about 0800
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Post by: GillP on 05 April, 2009, 08:45:06 am
Waiting for the bacon to cook  :)
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Post by: toekneep on 05 April, 2009, 08:46:01 am
Salivating.  ;D
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Post by: numbnuts on 05 April, 2009, 10:45:57 am
I've just got back from Church it is Palm Sunday  O:-) and now having a coffee
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 05 April, 2009, 12:34:52 pm
Wanting to ride my bike, probably because I can't.

Tired and thinking about putting my feet up for half an hour to watch an old movie and be generally lazy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 April, 2009, 12:38:18 pm
Just arrived back from dog walking and about to prepare for a ride. Picnic lunch, I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 05 April, 2009, 01:13:28 pm
Feeling hungover.

Still, compared to how I felt at 0630 when I woke up the first time, I feel great.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 April, 2009, 02:00:40 pm
Having a coffee and sticky bun break, whilst watching Fred Dibnah on Beeb 2.
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Post by: LinzWakeley on 05 April, 2009, 06:18:30 pm
Drinking very nice pot of vanilla coffee with my friend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 05 April, 2009, 06:22:18 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 05 April, 2009, 08:46:01 am
Salivating.  ;D

I believe that it's now legal between consenting adults in a private place ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 05 April, 2009, 06:24:41 pm
I am wondering why I fell asleep for two hours this afternoon despite having no sleep debt.I have also found it difficult to satisfy an almost continuous thirst despite drinking large quantities of water.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 05 April, 2009, 06:25:00 pm
Waiting for my back to start seizing up after spending most of the lovely day digging the garden in preparation for the turf I'll lay soon. Things were not helped by the ludicrous number of roots and bramble/ivy creepers we came across. Nearly finished though. Another morning's solo effort should see the job done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 06 April, 2009, 10:04:26 pm
Listening to Bach (Well-tempered clavier), drinking red-wine and hacking up some code (Tcl in case anyone is _that_ interested) to help Mrs O. in her volunteer duties.

On balance, a quite nice way to spend an evening (if you're an aging geek who's still a little bit nostalgic about all-night programming sessions that is...).

If only
and

then it would be a fairly perfect evening (for a night off the cycling that is).

:)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 07 April, 2009, 07:21:16 am
Sitting in the hotel cafe resting my feet having spent the morning walking rounf The Peak and waterfront on Hon Kong Island then walking half the length of the shoping 'paradise' that is Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui 8) More yomping to be had later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 07 April, 2009, 09:56:36 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 07 April, 2009, 07:21:16 am
Sitting in the hotel cafe resting my feet having spent the morning walking rounf The Peak and waterfront on Hon Kong Island then walking half the length of the shoping 'paradise' that is Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui 8) More yomping to be had later.

That sounds like great fun.

I have just come downstairs for a rest.  JC has a friend staying and they allowed me into 'their gang' to watch a movie amd scoff popcorn, in his bedroom.  Thanks JC.  Transporter 3 and popcorn, what a happy Pixie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 April, 2009, 09:59:22 pm
I'm not paying attention in a Friends of the Earth local group meeting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 07 April, 2009, 10:23:08 pm
Reading my way through the manual for my new camera. By heck, there's a lot of stuff in it.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 07 April, 2009, 11:05:20 pm
looking through my old slide collection (I stopped doing slides about 20 yr ago when prints became more practical to show pics of the kids to people - I took a film into a photographers to be developed today, saw a viewer on a shelf and bought it) having great fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 07 April, 2009, 11:22:20 pm
Just put the media PC back together after a rather unsatisfactory investigation into why TV programmes jump every minute.  The original problem's gone away - but I don't really know why - and so has ITV :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 April, 2009, 12:01:16 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 07 April, 2009, 09:59:22 pm
I'm not paying attention in a Friends of the Earth local group meeting.
It'll all be your fault if the planet is destroyed, you know.

I'm lying on my back on the sofa thinking I should go to bed. And wondering if I need to get the boiler repair man back cos it's been making funny noises since he fettled it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 April, 2009, 12:01:53 am
I'm still putting off doing the ironing.  Which is silly really.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 08 April, 2009, 12:03:31 am
No it isn't, go to bed instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 08 April, 2009, 12:26:53 am
Been to a football match with three kids. Not cheap!

Now preparing the maps for a 126 mile relay run.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 08 April, 2009, 01:58:55 am
Going to bed.  I've been playing Call of Duty World of War on the Wii. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 08 April, 2009, 09:36:29 am
Feet up time again in Hong Kong. Just got back from more yomping. This time after a ferry ride to Lan Tau Island where we visited a BIG Buddha, the nearby Temple and to a tea garden where I saw tea trees and bought some tea harvested from them. We then enjoyed a cable car ride back to the tube terminal. Achey feets are good :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 08 April, 2009, 10:09:53 pm
Just finished colouring the (boiled) eggs for Easter morning tea at work - they look lovely - 38 in 7 different colours! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 09 April, 2009, 01:01:46 am
Cross matching 3 xls files of Customer Reference data to find the differences/errors/ommissions.

Just mailed it to myself @work then off to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 April, 2009, 01:04:51 am
Filling in daft facebook surveys while I try to find the motivation to go to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 09 April, 2009, 01:20:02 am
Still awake after a Starlets gig.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 April, 2009, 04:50:53 pm
Watching From Russia With Love.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 11 April, 2009, 04:52:28 pm
Relaxing.  Just took the boys to Swindon to the Cinema to see Monsters vs Aliens.  Okay I suppose.  Their choice.
Knackered now.  Home, relaxing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 11 April, 2009, 05:15:55 pm
Trying to find a bike on which I might be tempted to spend a grand or so... doesn't seem to be anything that I haven't already tried and know that I don't really want. Just jaded, I guess.
Except a folder and I'm still not quite convinced about them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris N on 12 April, 2009, 07:39:05 am
Tucked up in sleeping bag, in my tent, in a field, brewing coffee and cooking a bacon sandwich.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 12 April, 2009, 07:47:55 am
Coffee before a pootle on my TCR.  This is my first ride since I have been poorly.  Bring it on.  Then I'll have a bacon breakfast at the cafe once the gang have completed their swimming training.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 12 April, 2009, 08:24:46 am
Not impressed.  Two tired boys refused to go swimming training.  Mrs G has gone off anyway as she has a committment to others.  She is not impressed either.  No pootle for me.  No bacon breakfast.  Ride postponed to this arvo, maybe.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 12 April, 2009, 10:40:45 am
I've just got back from church O:-) and now having a coffee, later I will go for a ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 12 April, 2009, 11:10:37 am

Laundry  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jezzasnr on 12 April, 2009, 11:25:49 am
out in the garden to check veg plot progress, baked chocolate fudge cake with DLP, all veg prep done, so sat listening to Nitin, waiting for sis in law, nephew & niece to arrive.
Coffee time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 12 April, 2009, 11:31:47 am
Enjoying the sunshine. I've just fitted cleats to two pairs of Shimano sandals and replaced the cleats on my shoes with new ones. Now we have no choice but to pootle off to a nice country pub and sit in the garden sipping beer*. Shame.


*In the interests of equipment testing of course.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 12 April, 2009, 11:34:53 am
HAve been doing a little fettling and am now having a quick coffee then off for a ride for a few hours, planning to be back to wanth the last hour and a half of Paris- Roubaix
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 12 April, 2009, 12:11:09 pm
Feeling glad that the latest bout of painting is over. I loathe painting! I got one of those Dulux PaintPod thingies and it does make it easier, but it has clogged up a couple of times and that doesn't help. Ceiling painting is the worst and my neck is feeling the effects.

Loads more to do as well  :(

Sod it, it's the garden this afternoon...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 12 April, 2009, 01:17:01 pm
Drinking vanilla coffee with my friend.  She says I only come around for the coffee!!  Abi (my daughter) stealing all my friends soft toys.  Abs has her wrapped around her little finger  ;) .  My friend is trying to persuade the cat not to bring all the bread back inside that we have put it out for the birds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 April, 2009, 01:50:05 pm
Wondering how long my supplies of Ibuprofen and Lemsip will last; should I move on to the stockpiles of codeine and codydramol?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 12 April, 2009, 01:52:35 pm
I might get dressed and ride out to find somewhere open for food.

If I can be arsed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 12 April, 2009, 02:29:36 pm
I've just got in from my ride 31.2 miles and now having tea and two mince pies :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jezza on 12 April, 2009, 02:55:46 pm
Wondering what new bike I should buy for my birthday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 12 April, 2009, 02:58:04 pm
Quote from: Jezza on 12 April, 2009, 02:55:46 pm
Wondering what new bike I should buy for my birthday.

Happy birthday - for when every it is.  I hope you find something nice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 April, 2009, 03:04:57 pm
Walking along the thames path to hammersmith bridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jezza on 12 April, 2009, 03:29:17 pm
Quote from: LinzWakeley on 12 April, 2009, 02:58:04 pm
Quote from: Jezza on 12 April, 2009, 02:55:46 pm
Wondering what new bike I should buy for my birthday.

Happy birthday - for when every it is.  I hope you find something nice.

Thanks Linz. It's today. And I'm sitting here looking at bikes. :)

I think I'll go for the Genesis Day 2. Or maybe the Trek 7.6 Fx. Or perhaps the Ridgeback Flight 4. Or that slinky looking Bianchi (http://www.evanscycles.com/products/bianchi/camaleonte-4-2009-sport-bike-ec016979)... che bella   8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 12 April, 2009, 05:19:58 pm
Checking what you lot are doing while I am using the business centre in the Southampton Hilton ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 14 April, 2009, 03:50:25 pm
Studying my Things-To-Do list, and wondering how to move "Procrastinating" higher up than its current (first place) position.

Reading all my old posts on here, and basking in the glory of my wit and wisdom.

Revelling in the ability to swallow without pain, for the first time in 5 days (tonsillitis is starting to fade), and therefore...

...Eating proper food at last.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 14 April, 2009, 04:40:38 pm
Celebrating being able to and having completed my expenses. I would have ranted about the ineptness of our support desk in India but was too stressed. The incredibly helpful Anthony in Maryland sorted it for me (once he'd finished beating his head on his desk on hearing what the helldesk had done).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 April, 2009, 04:50:00 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 14 April, 2009, 03:50:25 pm
Studying my Things-To-Do list, and wondering how to move "Procrastinating" higher up than its current (first place) position.


Procrastination is the one thing that should never be put off til some time later.  I you must procrastinate, do it now!  :thumbsup:  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 April, 2009, 06:06:46 pm
Sniffing myself and trying to work out if I have absorbed the disgusting smell from the dirtiest flat in the world I was in this afternoon, or whether I just still have the smell in my nostrils and I'm actually as fragrant as always.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 15 April, 2009, 12:06:42 am
Listening to the rain attacking the windows and trying to remember if I put the MG hood up when I got home from work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 15 April, 2009, 09:29:51 am
I am enjoying the mist and rain after three months of relentless Brazilian sunshine. Seriously.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: annie on 16 April, 2009, 10:19:00 pm
Eating yoghurt coated brazil nuts. Thinking about buttocks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 16 April, 2009, 11:01:25 pm
Glowing with pride after making my first cake since I was about 9 years old.

Also thinking about buttocks and annie (the combination just seemed natural).

sigh

OK OK I know where the step is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 16 April, 2009, 11:06:14 pm
Ah yes, Annie's buttocks!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 17 April, 2009, 07:35:02 am
Not thinking about buttocks.

Having a tea in Leeds station, just read about a hit and run (hit being a cyclist) in Keighley. :(

Feeling tired from having shared a bed with my sister last night. She wriggles. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 17 April, 2009, 08:27:07 am
I am having a bit of a sulk knowing that if PlanA was still in place I would be en-route ( arriving in Inverness in 8 minutes) to John O'Groats.
I have to attend a meeting in Stoke this morning & have absolutely no enthusiasm for it or anything else,even a weekend at the cabin in Wales as suggested by Marj.
I hope no-one puts up any obstacles to PlanB otherwise we will discover if I can get away with murder on a plea of crime-of-passion for abortive cycling rides >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 17 April, 2009, 08:42:35 am
Quote from: peliroja on 17 April, 2009, 07:35:02 am
Keighley. :(

Feeling tired from having shared a bed with my sister last night. She wriggles. :(

I reckon I deserve a medal for not replying to that comment
 :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 17 April, 2009, 09:20:19 am
Just woken my 15 year old nephew up.  He's been staying for a few days and I have to take him to London today, to put him on a train to Salisbury...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Snazzaroo1845 on 17 April, 2009, 03:31:15 pm
Watching the old series of Red Dwarf on the internet and thinking:

'I just don't get what's funny about the new series!'   :-\

It's ok though!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 18 April, 2009, 09:17:47 am
Eating a kipper for brekko. About to do a small bit of fettling before meeting TT and Simon of Leg Bandage to investigate Scout huts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 18 April, 2009, 09:42:22 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 18 April, 2009, 09:17:47 am
Eating a kipper for brekko. About to do a small bit of fettling before meeting TT and Simon of Leg Bandage to investigate Scout huts.

And I'm just about to go round to the scout hut to discuss the St George's day dinner, oh and to get nagged about the asset register.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 18 April, 2009, 10:06:35 am
Finishing off yet another job application...  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 April, 2009, 04:51:02 pm
Killing time at the office before catching my train to Kidderminster.  This is made all the more difficult because 1) I am nervous, and 2) it's the end of the day on Friday so the free office bar is now open.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 April, 2009, 05:56:31 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 April, 2009, 04:51:02 pm
Killing time at the office before catching my train to Kidderminster.  This is made all the more difficult because 1) I am nervous, and 2) it's the end of the day on Friday so the free office bar is now open.  :(

Bah!  I broke down and grabbed a beer, but only a small one (330ml).  I know I shouldn't drink before a ride, but I feel a bit calmer now.  Will make sure to have plenty of water tonight as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 24 April, 2009, 05:57:44 pm
I've too have to resist the temptation of a cheeky beer on the train to Kiddy. Bah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 24 April, 2009, 06:26:20 pm
Just getting everything ready for MSeries' Hilly Pennine Ride tomorrow. Lots of food might be a good idea me thinks. I really should not have looked at that profile on Tracklogs.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 April, 2009, 07:40:02 pm
Have a lovely time, toekneep! Say hello to my neck of the woods from us :)

We're off to Liphook for a cheap n cheerful camping trip. And Woolly's organised a birthday treat for me tomorrow! I'm sure there'll be photos ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 24 April, 2009, 08:03:44 pm
I will greet your neck of the woods if I have any breath to do it with.  ;D

Have a great birthday Peli.

Back on topic, I am currently not having a beer or glass of wine. I'm beginning to think I might be in danger of taking this cycling lark too seriously.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 24 April, 2009, 08:14:39 pm
I am taking stuff out of the already-packed-three-weeks-ago panniers to reduce JoGLE luggage weight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 24 April, 2009, 10:55:16 pm
Wondering if Spandau Ballet were ever that good anyway and whether they should have bothered reforming for a comeback?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 24 April, 2009, 11:39:09 pm
rather stupidly logged in to work to have another go at a report writer problem I left unfinished.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 24 April, 2009, 11:40:35 pm
Just getting ready to go and climb Snowdon tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 24 April, 2009, 11:42:21 pm
Quote from: SpaceBadger on 24 April, 2009, 10:55:16 pm
Wondering if Spandau Ballet were ever that good anyway and whether they should have bothered reforming for a comeback?

Are they the dirge on in the background of Jonathon Woss on BBC1 at the moment?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 April, 2009, 12:03:42 am
Watching Yusuf Islam on Jools and thinking I like what I heard of his stuff on Radio 2 the other week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 25 April, 2009, 12:09:04 am
Getting ready to go and start preparing the route slip for the 200/400 we're running in October (if you're going to be in Brisbane Australia first weekend of October please consider it)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 25 April, 2009, 05:55:03 am
Planning a route from Caen to Lyons so that I can go and visit my daughter at the end of May.

The internet is wonderful, y'know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 25 April, 2009, 06:07:33 am
Is your family planning world domination via strategic domociles?
Family in Scotland
Son in NZ
Daughter in France
Mrs Gordy near to Gods Country ;)
You trotting all over the globe willynilly whenever.

And that's the ones we know about :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 25 April, 2009, 06:44:06 am
Quote from: alan on 25 April, 2009, 06:07:33 am
Is your family planning world domination via strategic domociles?


Er, Yes!

But one daughter lives in Stafford, the slacker.


(BTW, the other daughter who lives in Lyon is at university there only until June. I was hoping to cruise out in the summer, but she'll be back in Birmingham... which isn't quite the same for a bike tour destination.)  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 25 April, 2009, 07:38:54 am
Just finished breakfast and loading everything into the car. Should be in Mytholmroyd by about 9am ready for our ride. The sun is out but the breeze is brisk. I'm really looking forward to today's ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 April, 2009, 08:27:30 am
Just made a pot of tea. About to pour it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: thing1 on 25 April, 2009, 02:23:38 pm
Contemplating popping downstairs to the wine bar. (http://www.wenjin.com.cn/en/restaurants_winebar.html) Or just get an early night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 25 April, 2009, 02:38:43 pm
Working. In this instance, feeding the baby :D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 25 April, 2009, 03:21:31 pm
I am going to take myself,the book I am currently reading(Six Wives:The Queens of Henry VIII by Richard Starkey ((is he,I wonder,related to Ringo Starr?)) & a bottle of Grolsch off to the swinging seat in the garden & have a boozy read in the sun :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 25 April, 2009, 03:29:52 pm
Putting off sitting down to referee 3 stultifyingly boring scientific papers that are a week overdue :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 25 April, 2009, 04:54:52 pm
Cooking a beef stew for a St.George's day dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 25 April, 2009, 06:08:05 pm
Quote from: nuttycyclist on 24 April, 2009, 11:42:21 pm
Quote from: SpaceBadger on 24 April, 2009, 10:55:16 pm
Wondering if Spandau Ballet were ever that good anyway and whether they should have bothered reforming for a comeback?

Are they the dirge on in the background of Jonathon Woss on BBC1 at the moment?


Unfortunately, yes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 25 April, 2009, 06:37:19 pm
Munching crunching on the apricot & almond flapjacks I made burnt earlier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 25 April, 2009, 06:41:37 pm
I confess to a soft spot for some Spandau Ballet songs, namely "I'll Fly For You", "Only When You Leave", "Through The Barricades" and, if it hadn't been so overplayed, "Gold".

Some of their earlier stuff is awful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 April, 2009, 06:42:19 pm
Sitting in a pub in deepest Hampshire getting ready to head back to our tent after a wonderful day!!! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 25 April, 2009, 06:53:20 pm
Recovering from the pummelling my Windcheetah gave my ...err... lower spine on a quick pootle to Holme Pierrepont and back.
Uploading GPS tracklog onto computer, and gawping in shame at how slow I am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 April, 2009, 08:25:55 pm
About to go for a much needed, richly-deserved, solar-heated scalding hot shower. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 April, 2009, 08:41:04 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 April, 2009, 06:41:37 pm
I confess to a soft spot for some Spandau Ballet songs, namely "I'll Fly For You", "Only When You Leave", "Through The Barricades" and, if it hadn't been so overplayed, "Gold".

Some of their earlier stuff is awful.

What do you expect from five blokes with teatowels on their heads?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 25 April, 2009, 08:58:39 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 April, 2009, 06:41:37 pm
I confess to a soft spot for some Spandau Ballet songs, namely "I'll Fly For You", "Only When You Leave", "Through The Barricades" and, if it hadn't been so overplayed, "Gold".

Some of their earlier stuff is awful.

I went through an 80s nostalgia hit on Spotify after seeing that last night.  I stumbled across some really really awful stuff though.  :sick:

I typed in 80s as the search term.  Here's the top 10 by popularity:

1. Bette Davis Eyes  :sick:
2. Don't Stop Belevin' :sick:
3. Flashdance... What a feeling  :sick:
4. Take My Breath Away :sick:
5. Heat of the Moment :sick:
6. Eye of the Tiger.  *finally*
7. Flashdance... What a feeling  *again!* :sick:
8. Sweet Child O' Mine hmmmm...
9. Love Hurts  :sick:
10. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.  :sick:

It almost managed to kill off my nostalgia trip working through that disaster.

I worked my way a lot further down the list, even listening to the first few bars of "I Think We're Alone Now"  :-[

However I found some good synth pop so it was just about a positive experience in the whole.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 April, 2009, 09:18:17 pm
Quote from: simonp on 25 April, 2009, 08:58:39 pm

I worked my way a lot further down the list, even listening to the first few bars of "I Think We're Alone Now"  :-[

Did you do the funny Tiffany hand actions?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 25 April, 2009, 11:14:41 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 25 April, 2009, 09:18:17 pm
Quote from: simonp on 25 April, 2009, 08:58:39 pm

I worked my way a lot further down the list, even listening to the first few bars of "I Think We're Alone Now"  :-[

Did you do the funny Tiffany hand actions?

I'd have to ask someone to show me how first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 26 April, 2009, 08:49:29 am
Got up too late to make it to the club run today, so settling down in front of the London Marathon on TV instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Moloko on 26 April, 2009, 11:05:02 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 April, 2009, 06:41:37 pm
I confess to a soft spot for some Spandau Ballet songs

You don't say?

(http://www.peeble.com/cheesy.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 26 April, 2009, 06:27:58 pm
Quote from: nutkin on 25 April, 2009, 06:37:19 pm
Munching crunching on the apricot & almond flapjacks I made burnt earlier.


::-)  How on earth did you manage to BURN flapjacks?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 26 April, 2009, 06:29:12 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 25 April, 2009, 06:42:19 pm
Sitting in a pub in deepest Hampshire getting ready to head back to our tent after a wonderful day!!! :)

I hope you are having a good weekend.  E says happy birthday and Abi has sung happy birthday to you and wants to know if you want a kitten for your birthday?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 27 April, 2009, 07:59:46 pm
Quote from: LinzWakeley on 26 April, 2009, 06:27:58 pm
::-)  How on earth did you manage to BURN flapjacks?

The last time I made flapjacks, they weren't strictly speaking burnt, but they were rather dark brown, and somewhat firmer than they should be (ie you could have hammered nails in with them). ;D

I tried to palm them off on others who I was on a ride with, but sensibly most of them declined.  I think I used the remainder to repair a wall.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 27 April, 2009, 08:30:24 pm
Guitar practise- 12 bar blues :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 29 April, 2009, 10:44:00 pm
Watching one 18G disc dd onto another 18G disc, and wondering how long this is going to take.  The data sheet states the data transfer rate as being 68-88MB/s, but I suspect that's a maximum rate, and not sustained.  If it was sustained it would have taken less than ten minutes, and it's been going for over an hour.

Ideally I'd leave it going, but the box seems to get rather hot with two discs running in it, so I'd prefer to take the discs out and power it off, rather than leave it running like that all night.

Ho hum, I wasn't planning on leaving early, and I need to bring my bike up to the lab and repair a fairy visitation from this morning anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 29 April, 2009, 10:50:08 pm
Quote from: LinzWakeley on 26 April, 2009, 06:27:58 pm
Quote from: nutkin on 25 April, 2009, 06:37:19 pm
Munching crunching on the apricot & almond flapjacks I made burnt earlier.


::-)  How on earth did you manage to BURN flapjacks?

Easy. Lend me your kitchen and I'll show you.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 April, 2009, 10:55:49 pm
Quote from: TimO on 27 April, 2009, 07:59:46 pm

The last time I made flapjacks, they weren't strictly speaking burnt, but they were rather dark brown, and somewhat firmer than they should be (ie you could have hammered nails in with them). ;D

I tried to palm them off on others who I was on a ride with, but sensibly most of them declined.  I think I used the remainder to repair a wall.

If he wasn't dead I'd recommend you got to know my grandad, who once used condensed milk to stick tiles to the fireplace.

I am thinking about the co-efficient of friction. I remember learning about it and a formula related to it in first year biokinetics and I was trying to tell my student about it today - for some reason they don't learn it any more. All I could tell her was "it's to do with how slidey the floor is and if it's icy you need to keep your walking sticks closer to you and make sure you put them down flat."

She was very impressed with my teaching skills!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 29 April, 2009, 10:58:19 pm
I know we are drifting OT here but my Grandad used to stick fireplace tiles back with egg white. Should we consider making this thread sticky?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 April, 2009, 11:07:42 pm
Quote from: nutkin on 29 April, 2009, 10:50:08 pm
Quote from: LinzWakeley on 26 April, 2009, 06:27:58 pm
Quote from: nutkin on 25 April, 2009, 06:37:19 pm
Munching crunching on the apricot & almond flapjacks I made burnt earlier.


::-)  How on earth did you manage to BURN flapjacks?

Easy. Lend me your kitchen and I'll show you.  ;D

I might get into trouble for saying this, but Mrs. Wow knows how to burn flapjack.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 29 April, 2009, 11:54:06 pm
I'm sitting on the sleeper watching The Last Samaurai on DVD (impulse purchase in Tescos). My headphones do't make enugh noise so I am sat with my hands over my ears..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 30 April, 2009, 12:43:14 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 29 April, 2009, 11:54:06 pm
I'm sitting on the sleeper watching The Last Samaurai on DVD (impulse purchase in Tescos). My headphones do't make enugh noise so I am sat with my hands over my ears..


I like that film.

Complying with time consuming, pain in the arse but necesary bureaucratic requirements.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 30 April, 2009, 12:44:49 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 29 April, 2009, 10:55:49 pm

If he wasn't dead I'd recommend you got to know my grandad, who once used condensed milk to stick tiles to the fireplace.


I got a detention at school for sticking my French homework to the wall with semolina & jam. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 30 April, 2009, 12:46:01 pm
I'm thinking that I should really have a shower, shave and get dressed.

I'm supposed to be meeting up with David M later - and I'm sure he doesn't want to see me in my dressing gown...  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 30 April, 2009, 12:52:18 pm
Drinking coffee and thinking I should really get a cv/portfolio together and start applying for jobs. This freelance lark isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially since graphic design budgets are first to go in these hard times.

Off out on the bike in a bit to pick up some film that's getting developed. Quite excited to see how my first foray into medium format has turned out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 30 April, 2009, 02:52:35 pm
Quote from: kyuss on 30 April, 2009, 12:52:18 pm
Off out on the bike in a bit to pick up some film that's getting developed. Quite excited to see how my first foray into medium format has turned out.

So how was it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 April, 2009, 03:21:19 pm
waiting for the rain to stop  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 30 April, 2009, 06:29:09 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 30 April, 2009, 02:52:35 pm
Quote from: kyuss on 30 April, 2009, 12:52:18 pm
Off out on the bike in a bit to pick up some film that's getting developed. Quite excited to see how my first foray into medium format has turned out.

So how was it?

Not bad at all (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=18267.msg327668;topicseen#msg327668). I'm quite chuffed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 30 April, 2009, 09:50:04 pm
Listening to In Our Time, with Melvyn Bragg and guests discussing the Vacuum of Space and what's in it. Ded gud it is too.  Go and get the mp3.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 30 April, 2009, 09:53:25 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 30 April, 2009, 09:50:04 pm
Listening to In Our Time,

Eh?

So'm I  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 30 April, 2009, 10:41:41 pm
Watching Two Pints and a Packet of Crisps for the first time in ages on BBC3. It isn't as good as it used to be. Shame.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 May, 2009, 10:07:32 am
Impatiently waiting for my dynohub wheel to arrive from SJS Cycles.  According to ParcelFarce it arrived at the London Central Depot at 05:51 today and they expect to deliver it today as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 01 May, 2009, 11:58:52 am
Getting ready to do playground duty.  At least it is sunny!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 01 May, 2009, 04:07:52 pm
Quote from: SpaceBadger on 30 April, 2009, 10:41:41 pm
Watching Two Pints and a Packet of Crisps for the first time in ages on BBC3. It isn't as good as it used to be. Shame.

They should have eaten the aligator and left us with Johnnie.  It needs him.  Just like Gaz needs Dirty Donna to bounce off.

Shame but may just have reached the end of the line.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 01 May, 2009, 04:55:59 pm
Repairing servers with cable ties, the generic repair aid.  Isn't it good to know that this countries space program is held together by cable ties. ;D

(...actually, we do use cable ties in space hardware, as long as they're space qualified, so that the plasticisers don't out gas).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 01 May, 2009, 07:11:18 pm
Sitting outside Euston Station, waiting for the train...
Sitting at a table, waiting for the rain.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 01 May, 2009, 07:39:39 pm
Surfing, drinking beer, eating chocolate, waiting for the chicken curry to cook, planning next week's diet and exercise regime.  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 01 May, 2009, 07:47:07 pm
Setting up my workstand ready to put a second layer of bar tape on my bike...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 May, 2009, 08:04:06 pm
Listening to my mum complain about my brother and wonder whether she was right to tell him she wants him to move out.

I think she should have done it months ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 May, 2009, 12:20:01 am
Looking at the moon. It's only a half moon but last night and tonight it's been very bright. I would even go so far as to say it's a braw, bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ed_o_brain on 02 May, 2009, 12:23:29 am
Quote from: Kirst on 02 May, 2009, 12:20:01 am
Looking at the moon. It's only a half moon but last night and tonight it's been very bright. I would even go so far as to say it's a braw, bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht.

I've been out looking at it.
It indeed a very crisp moon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 03 May, 2009, 10:00:12 am
On Friday night when I was cycling home it was a perfect first quarter moon.  Bright, and shining through a big gap in the thin cloud covering.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 03 May, 2009, 10:49:19 am
Waking up, stretching and getting ready for the 5 Boroughs Ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 May, 2009, 10:52:10 am
Hand-washing some lycra.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 03 May, 2009, 10:53:54 am
Quote from: PaulF on 03 May, 2009, 10:49:19 am
Waking up, stretching and getting ready for the 5 Boroughs Ride

if you see my mate Ollie, say hi from me! He's got my number..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 03 May, 2009, 10:55:38 am
Considering whether to take Ting Tong to get her wheels nicely trued before the Reach Fair Ride tomorrow... perhaps combined with a nice pub lunch somewhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ed_o_brain on 03 May, 2009, 12:51:44 pm

Listening to some nice music whilst reflecting on the events of the last few days whilst finishing off some cleaning.

In a few minutes hopefully I will be getting ready to cycle to Barnsley.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 03 May, 2009, 01:06:05 pm
Musing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 May, 2009, 05:45:09 pm
Preparing a WARTY.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 May, 2009, 02:27:47 am
Watching old kids' tv on youtube - Paperplay, Little Blue, Hickory House etc. And I've found a mangled American version of the intro to Storybook International. Sing along - in Russia I am Ivan, in Sweden I am Jaaaaaaan, in Germany I'm Johan, in England I am John...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 May, 2009, 07:11:52 am
Soon to be off to the station for the High Easter 100.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 04 May, 2009, 08:01:24 am

Trying to replace the music in my mp3 player
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 04 May, 2009, 08:38:07 am
Wondering whether to go on the Reach Fair Ride.

It's a bit chilly outside and I am slightly hungover, after spending yesterday afternoon at the Elm Tree.... :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 04 May, 2009, 08:39:58 am
and all those scary big hills between cambridge and reach - there must be 4 or 5 meters of climbing.. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 04 May, 2009, 08:41:09 am
Quote from: mike on 04 May, 2009, 08:39:58 am
and all those scary big hills between cambridge and reach - there must be 4 or 5 meters of climbing.. ;D


 :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 04 May, 2009, 08:41:46 am
Making bacon and egg rolls.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rapples on 04 May, 2009, 09:13:02 am
Wasting too much time on here when I have the grass to cut  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 04 May, 2009, 11:40:36 am
Just finished trimming 2 front hedges at late mother's house. Makes it a tad more attractive on the housing market. If current "buyer" drops out then it's off the market and away from the estate agent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 04 May, 2009, 12:31:10 pm
Feeling crap, as when I was assembling some kitchen bar stools on Saturday, I over-exerted myself and felt something in my lower rib cage go twang. Ouch, that'll hurt, I thought. Actually, on Saturday evening and yesterday all was well. However, a 6-7-mile walk, and a 25-mile round trip to the (excellent) Long Itchington beer festival yesterday has really screwed me up.

Ibuprofen just aren't enough.

Ouch!  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 04 May, 2009, 10:31:48 pm
I just filled the dish washer, and in the process opened a plastic container that had a few days ago been used to hold Taliskers prawns, between meals.

Peeyow...<fx: holds nose>

A few days at room temperature didn't exactly improve things. (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/sick.gif)

It'll certainly be a test of the efficiency of a dish washer to remove smells.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 May, 2009, 10:33:06 pm
Wondering how someone can get around the Severn Across 400km audax in 16.5 hours  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 04 May, 2009, 10:36:41 pm
Just set the video to record Inside Sport on BBC1 at 10.45 tonight. Mark Cavendish is on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 13 May, 2009, 09:53:26 pm
Just eating the last of the 2008 Christmas Puddings. Mmmmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 14 May, 2009, 10:54:23 am
Wondering WTF the Detective Inspector is talking about and what planet he is on ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 14 May, 2009, 11:17:03 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 14 May, 2009, 10:54:23 am
Wondering WTF the Detective Inspector is talking about and what planet he is on ::-)

Perhaps if you listened to him properly instead of mucking about on here, you might understand more...  ;) :P ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 14 May, 2009, 01:29:50 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 14 May, 2009, 11:17:03 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 14 May, 2009, 10:54:23 am
Wondering WTF the Detective Inspector is talking about and what planet he is on ::-)

Perhaps if you listened to him properly instead of mucking about on here, you might understand more...  ;) :P ;D

I think that is my problem- I listen too closely to what he is saying. I often wonder if he understands himself. his brain is moving far faster than his mouth can cope with and his thinking is out of this Galaxy, let alone out of the box ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 May, 2009, 01:34:37 pm
Continuing my week-long attempt to cough up a lung (or both).  We are not amused.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 14 May, 2009, 01:36:15 pm
Eating lunch and getting ready to go shopping.  I need new bike shoes!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 14 May, 2009, 09:37:19 pm
Watching the (recorded) Martin Clunes thing on islands.
I think this is the first programme on ITV that I've bothered to watch since they lost the F1.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 May, 2009, 01:27:25 am
Not sleeping, for no good reason.  :(

And to make things worse, don't feel healthy enough for a late night bike ride.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 16 May, 2009, 05:51:55 pm
Nomming tea and cake and wondering how the BCM riders are doing. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 May, 2009, 05:59:13 pm
Drinking beer. Transposing the Raid Essex 200 to GPS. Failing to work out the the route from Bradwell on Sea.

Also thinking about the BCM riders (though with less feeling than Liz because I'm a softee and haven't ridden it, whereas she iz hardcore innit).

Wondering what's for dinner.

*checks*

Lasagne.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 16 May, 2009, 06:07:31 pm
Trying to summarise the European Commission's Guidelines on Impact Assessment in a form I can understand :(

Listening to Radcliffe & Maconie on the iPlayer :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 16 May, 2009, 06:17:13 pm
Waiting for pizza to cook. Drinking rum and pineapple. Off to gig as soon as I've finished eating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 May, 2009, 07:59:59 pm
Building another dynohub wheel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 16 May, 2009, 08:11:25 pm
Hiding behind the computer with the headphones on loud, avoiding Peli +1 chatting about the Euro.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 May, 2009, 03:24:25 am
Marvelling at how easily a building can go up in flames, along with how such conflagrations* are 'handled' by the London Fire Brigade in Newham.

NB: I had nothing to do with said fire.  The first appliance passed me as I was cycling home — the building in question is just a few blocks from my flat.

*a very difficult word to type when your pissed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 17 May, 2009, 03:31:24 am
Wondering why the forum is so dead at certain times of the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 May, 2009, 03:39:12 am
Quote from: nuttycyclist on 17 May, 2009, 03:31:24 am
Wondering why the forum is so dead at certain times of the day.

Simple: sensible (and/or sober) people sleep at normal times.  Like I'm about to do.


Meaning sleep, not suddenly sober up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 17 May, 2009, 03:48:10 am
Sensible and/or sober people are asleep?

I'd better start drinking then in case I'm accused of not being sensible.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 17 May, 2009, 08:57:46 am
Listening to my stomach gurgling and wondering why Andrij was cycling with flu...?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 17 May, 2009, 11:30:06 am
Having a coffee break from wheel building.
I'm changing a worn-out rear rim.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 17 May, 2009, 02:08:01 pm
Not having got up to go and do the East Riding 200 cos of tonsilitis :( I'm sitting here practising scales and chord progressions on my new guitar, still feel like crap tho, despite painkillers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 17 May, 2009, 02:10:18 pm
Chillin.  Watching TV, surfing, watching the Giro, reading a magazine.  Just chillin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 17 May, 2009, 02:36:06 pm
Sitting on a train.  Thinking about the bcm riders and wishing i was there.  Much more kudos doing it on a bad year.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 17 May, 2009, 05:43:54 pm
sucking














4 tic tacs
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 17 May, 2009, 06:07:33 pm
Cooking lasagne having just said goodbye to a good friend who was down for a weekend of Eurovision, culinary and Pride and Prejudice-related silliness. Sorry, Woolly. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 17 May, 2009, 07:58:50 pm
Just about to fix the creak on my Brooks
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 May, 2009, 08:13:19 pm
Running a bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 17 May, 2009, 08:28:48 pm
Burning a CD

What I didn't check is the speed so it is taking the longest time possible to burn it.

Hurryuphurryuphurryuphurryup...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 May, 2009, 08:35:03 pm
Replying to this thread - obviously.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 20 May, 2009, 08:02:51 pm
Relaxing in the pub after playing in an orchestra for the first time!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marco Stefano on 20 May, 2009, 08:28:52 pm
Relaxing after driving back to sunny Ely from Chester. Fun with works TomTom as I think it needs the mapping updated; I went (virtually speaking) through a lake and ploughed fields when negotiating some of the newer bypasses... You can see it thinking, 'Oh shit, where am I?'.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 May, 2009, 09:29:19 pm
Getting incredibly %$£@#ing frustrated trying to get an embedded FIFO memory block to work on a ProASIC FPGA with Actel's Libero sodding Project Manager.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/ffffk.gif) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/pc_thud.gif)

I think it's time to go home. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 21 May, 2009, 09:54:14 pm
Watching Coupling on DVD. The one with the Reservoir Dogs homage when the guys are on their way to a funeral.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx0yCo9Rv8k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx0yCo9Rv8k)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 21 May, 2009, 09:58:17 pm
Does your bird make you watch that stuff?  You should be watching Man DVDs like Dirty Harry, and sending her to bed early with some chick lit  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 21 May, 2009, 10:00:29 pm
Nah. Home alone tonight. Coupling is quality TV comedy. Have you seen the "porn buddy" episode?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 21 May, 2009, 10:06:27 pm
Is this "porn buddy" as in the Profanisaurus definition, i.e. your pornographic executor, whose responsibility is to locate and destroy all your embarrassing grumble in the event of your untimely death?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 21 May, 2009, 10:07:21 pm
That's the one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNPQavXwUf0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNPQavXwUf0)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 21 May, 2009, 10:11:35 pm
Reading about the numerical accuracy of radial basis functions, why?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 21 May, 2009, 10:25:40 pm
Trying on my new Rapha gear.  Feeling very comfy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 May, 2009, 03:45:04 pm
Sitting in the sun reading a funny book and trying not to think about work :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Treewheeler on 25 May, 2009, 04:06:39 pm
abbywinters.com (http://www.abbywinters.com)
 Heh heh heh...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 25 May, 2009, 04:10:30 pm
Just come back from a late lunch in the pub.  I shall do some minor sewing jobs on one of my suits then settle down with a good book...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 25 May, 2009, 04:14:18 pm
Currently in the eating phase of Post Audax Syndrome1.

------------------
1 Sleep. Wake. Eat. Sleep. Wake. Eat. Repeat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 25 May, 2009, 04:16:57 pm
Scanning for viruses.  Infected work laptop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 May, 2009, 10:28:16 pm
Lounging naked, on a hotel bed in San Francisco......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Welsh Man on 25 May, 2009, 11:04:43 pm
Being bored !!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 25 May, 2009, 11:10:11 pm
Trying to make my new, supposedly shit hot code1, actually work.

1. Half the size and several times faster in worst-case performance of what it will replace once I get it working (assuming I /can/ get it working of course!).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 26 May, 2009, 12:35:49 am
A bit pissed. Eating a piece of toast, Thinking I really should go to bed since the alarm goes off at 6.50.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 27 May, 2009, 12:05:08 am
Collecting stuff together for the recycling collection tomorrow, and listening to VERY LOUD MUSIC.  (Neighbour is away!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 27 May, 2009, 12:40:16 am
Hmm.  Now I'm listening to VERY LOUD CHARLOTTE DISCUSSING THE WNBR ON THE RADIO.  Ah the joys of shuffle.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 27 May, 2009, 12:42:10 am
That Abby winters link will need a NWS warning.

I am buying yet another mixer, I seem to have grown an addiction to collecting Soundcrafts lol
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 27 May, 2009, 01:02:54 am
Eating oatcakes with blue stilton, still listening to loud music (Kinobe right now) and thinking about buying a bigger amp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 27 May, 2009, 01:07:09 am
Quote from: Valiant on 27 May, 2009, 12:42:10 am
That Abby winters link will need a NWS warning.

I am buying yet another mixer, I seem to have grown an addiction to collecting Soundcrafts lol

I ignored it until you said that.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 27 May, 2009, 05:57:10 pm
Hoovering the sofa after an unfortunate slip when opening my sherbet Double Dip  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 27 May, 2009, 06:05:19 pm
70mph

On my way to La Guardia
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 27 May, 2009, 08:25:19 pm
Watching the tennis replay on the red button.

Stopping coding now as the beer intake is too high.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 May, 2009, 09:06:08 pm
Just out of the shower after 30 minutes light spinning on the turbo. Wow - turbo-ing may be as dull as watching paint dry (I know this as I used to have a job watching paint dry) but it sure rinses the dregs of an audax out of the leg muscles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 27 May, 2009, 09:08:52 pm
Failing to find any joy in the 100 press-ups challenge  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 27 May, 2009, 10:14:34 pm
Marking exam papers.  Was there football on TV this evening?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 27 May, 2009, 10:21:18 pm
Quote from: Bluebottle on 27 May, 2009, 10:14:34 pm
Marking exam papers.  Was there football on TV this evening?

Yes. It was crap. You didn't miss anything.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 May, 2009, 07:36:38 am
There are some things a chap should just _not_ do when he is all alone in a hotel room in a foreign city noted for it's liberal attitudes. Watch porn, cavort with TS hookers, that sort of thing.......

But what sort of debauched pervert finds himself at 11 at night, clad only in his boxers, covered in dirt, dismantling a filthy touring bike so it will fit back into it's case......?

Yours truly....

It's OK though, I don't think I got any oil on the carpet...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 29 May, 2009, 08:35:11 pm
Plahying with new iPhone and slot getting bettter at the typing ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 29 May, 2009, 08:43:13 pm
Trying to stop tweaking my map style...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: unipaul on 29 May, 2009, 09:41:45 pm
Adding a few minor lanes in Somerset to OSM.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: redshift on 29 May, 2009, 10:29:24 pm
er...
Bleeding, it would appear.  :-[

It would appear that this evening's Aikido session has resulted in a small haematoma between the first and second knuckles  on my left hand.  No pain, just steadily turning purple.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 29 May, 2009, 10:39:04 pm
Finally, finally finished writing a technical document to cover the VHDL code I just wrote.  Now I can forget about it and get on with something else next week.

... until I read the document again, and realise all the ways I can improve it, after not thinking about it for a few days ...

Ah well, theoretically this particular problem is done and dusted!

Weekend time now. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 30 May, 2009, 07:40:51 am
Reading the forum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 30 May, 2009, 04:17:46 pm
Heading to Copenhagen on the train after three days lovely cycling from Aalborg.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 30 May, 2009, 04:19:30 pm
Just back from a ride  :thumbsup:.

Eating a Liquorice Allsort.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 30 May, 2009, 04:22:05 pm
Just about to put the trailer on the bike and go to the shops, and found that I had a slow Fairy visitation overnight.  Bugger.

At least it happened today, rather than tomorrow morning when I'm due to leave the house very early, and it would be a major hassle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 30 May, 2009, 04:24:56 pm
About to go and enjoy the sun and watch some bike racing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 May, 2009, 07:44:41 pm
Eating chocolate and drinking Reisling.   :o

Blimey!  I've just had to check down the front of my shorts. 
S'OK.  I'm still a bloke.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 30 May, 2009, 07:47:24 pm
Just enjoying my curry and chips.  I am home alone.  I have been out today for a 35 mile ride and helped a novice with their PC installation and saw Mrs G in a very skimpy bikini at her girlfriend's house.  I have been playing Call of Duty as I'm home alone too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 30 May, 2009, 08:37:01 pm
wondering how to get blue paint out of my hair.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 30 May, 2009, 08:41:02 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 30 May, 2009, 08:37:01 pm
wondering how to get blue paint out of my hair.

Easier to paint the rest of it blue.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 May, 2009, 11:05:01 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 30 May, 2009, 08:37:01 pm
wondering how to get blue paint out of my hair.
Just keep washing it and combing it and it'll come out eventually.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 31 May, 2009, 12:20:59 am
Quote from: Kirst on 30 May, 2009, 11:05:01 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 30 May, 2009, 08:37:01 pm
wondering how to get blue paint out of my hair.
Just keep washing it and combing it and it'll come out eventually.

There speaks the voice of ecperience.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 May, 2009, 12:22:52 am
 :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2009, 12:33:36 am
I'm listening to this:

YouTube - Emmylou Harris &quot;Goodbye&quot; live w Daniel Lanois 1995 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h0dCd9V1dM&feature=related)

And crying into my beer.  Like you're meant to when Emmylou sings...

I saw her duet this live wth Steve Earle one time, he said that he thought that could never write a better song.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 31 May, 2009, 12:36:37 am
Cooking dinner

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 May, 2009, 12:43:58 am
Listening to Ummagumma.  Prolly a bit too loud.  :demon:

Hang on,
A Saucerful Of Secrets?  Too loud?  Oxymoron?

Sorry neighours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 31 May, 2009, 05:52:08 am
Getting up to go out for a ride Eastward (of London).

Cat fed, now it's my turn. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 31 May, 2009, 06:23:03 am
Breakfasting before the same ^^^^ ride  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 31 May, 2009, 06:31:19 am
LOL, only the best people...

I'm now hunting for stuff, including a sheet of directions to Greenwich, since I am currently without GPS.  Route finding without a GPS, how quaint. ;D

I think it's going to be a hot one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 31 May, 2009, 06:33:05 am
Ride into the sun, man.

Into the sun.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 31 May, 2009, 09:14:16 am
Eating toast and chuckling at basils post-
Quote from: Basil on 30 May, 2009, 07:44:41 pm
Eating chocolate and drinking Reisling.   :o

Blimey!  I've just had to check down the front of my shorts. 
S'OK.  I'm still a bloke.

 ;D

POTD?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 31 May, 2009, 12:24:54 pm
Sitting up in bed in a very nice B&B on Wolfe Island in Ontario, where we are just buying a house into which we'll be moving in September when I finally start my new job and our new life. I wish we could move right now!

Right, off for a run (no bike with me this time...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 31 May, 2009, 01:56:50 pm
Watching the tennis and recovering from yesterday's 200.  Legs not too sore so maybe torq recovery works. :)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 31 May, 2009, 01:59:39 pm
Just put my tent up  :thumbsup:.

Only in the back garden - for an airing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 31 May, 2009, 02:07:15 pm
Just returned from a local 'support the troops' fun day (morning for me). RA Motorcycle Display Team, Parachute Team, Hurricane fly past, various Veterans groups presented and inspected, Merlin engine complete with prop on a trailer run up with amazing noise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 31 May, 2009, 02:07:27 pm
Sitting in front of the puter eating my Sunday lunch of sausages, mushy peas, mint sauce and tomato sauce.

Wife's away - I can eat what I damn well like.

And listening to Einstuerzende Neubauten.  ;D

And a glass of Weston's vintage cider.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 31 May, 2009, 03:34:25 pm
Recovering from cutting the grass with a cold cider.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 31 May, 2009, 03:44:45 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 31 May, 2009, 03:34:25 pm
Recovering from cutting the grass with a cold cider.



That must have been tricky.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 31 May, 2009, 05:26:52 pm
Relaxing after a super 36 mile pootle along the coast to the north of Copenhagen. Hot hot hot and great to see SO MANY cyclists about!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 31 May, 2009, 08:30:21 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 31 May, 2009, 05:26:52 pm
Relaxing after a super 36 mile pootle along the coast to the north of Copenhagen. Hot hot hot and great to see SO MANY cyclists about!

 :thumbsup:  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 31 May, 2009, 08:33:47 pm
In the garden with BEER and pistachios, editing a video Liz made from the back of her bike of me riding my penny :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 June, 2009, 03:53:48 pm
Being slightly distracted from work by Murray vs Gonzales. 'Kin 'ell  :o That Gonzales always looks so motivated. Bit like Agassi.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 02 June, 2009, 04:19:40 pm
Wearing the IT department Fun Police hat, telling people off and not adding to my music collection, oh no. O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 02 June, 2009, 04:31:55 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 30 May, 2009, 11:05:01 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 30 May, 2009, 08:37:01 pm
wondering how to get blue paint out of my hair.
Just keep washing it and combing it and it'll come out eventually.

Scissors

That's 3" gone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 03 June, 2009, 12:22:48 am
Chilling out post-late shift.

Beer and dim sum for the win, nomnomnom...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 03 June, 2009, 02:07:15 am
Waiting for a free gate at La Guardia
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 03 June, 2009, 07:16:01 pm
Watching round 3 of the Tour Series race on ITV4.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 06 June, 2009, 06:46:27 pm
Gathering stuff together ready for the off on Thursday.   Three weeks of cycling, camping and relaxing on Orkney playing with the dSLR too.

I might even learn how to post piccies when I get back  :o   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 06 June, 2009, 06:49:26 pm
Wondering why flickr uploader doesn't work.  Trying to add my pictures of the JoGLE I did last year.  Grr mumble, etc.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 06 June, 2009, 06:55:24 pm
Off to Sainsbury's to use their loose change thing. I'm hoping I've enough copper to buy some dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 June, 2009, 10:05:59 pm
Wondering what I should do with August.

Apart from Mrs. Wow's mother's 80th birthday, we have no cycling holiday planned.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 June, 2009, 11:19:48 pm
Wishing I was retired ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 07 June, 2009, 09:38:24 am
trying to find somewhere decent for breakfast near kings cross
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 07 June, 2009, 09:47:26 am
I'm feeling sorry for myself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 June, 2009, 02:34:23 pm
Swearing at the oven ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 08 June, 2009, 02:44:49 pm
Getting very very bored, I’m house/dog sitting until Friday and there is nothing to do here, been out for a ride well it was a town ride and it was horrible,  tidied around cleaned the car and now pissed off roll on Friday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Itit Wifan-Ammer on 18 June, 2009, 08:16:47 am
In early, sitting at my desk refuelling with a chocolate chip muffin and a strawberry Yazoo. Cycling; it's not exercise - it's how I get to work  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 18 June, 2009, 08:20:45 am
suited & booted, in reception at some swanky offices in London (not ours), stealing their WiFi before meetings start at 9.   

Ooh yes please, I'd love a coffee, thankyou :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 18 June, 2009, 09:37:27 am
I am going to get the Longstaff ready to ride to Stafford to meet David.
This will be it's first ride since it arrived at Lands End 3 weeks ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 June, 2009, 01:32:56 pm
Sniffing kerosene from the Red Arrows
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 20 June, 2009, 02:19:11 pm
having a rest after my bike ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 20 June, 2009, 02:26:18 pm
Waiting for the rain to pass so  I can go and finish cutting bushes down >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 20 June, 2009, 02:35:42 pm
Been sitting on the porch drinking coffee and watching the sunrise with my hubby.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 20 June, 2009, 04:04:48 pm
Doing a Dr. Bike at a school in NW London. Free food, bouncy castle and a fire truck \o/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 20 June, 2009, 04:21:55 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 20 June, 2009, 04:04:48 pm
Doing a Dr. Bike at a school in NW London. Free food, bouncy castle and a fire truck \o/

Just back from helping out on an LCC stand at Twickenham's "Family Fun Day" as part of Bike Week

Getting dressed up nice to go out to the Courtauld Institute of Art's summer alumni party (non nom, glug glug)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 21 June, 2009, 01:02:50 am
Trying to avoid singstar  :sick: :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 21 June, 2009, 07:24:17 am
Wondering if I'm tired or ill.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 21 June, 2009, 09:26:15 am
Poor Gordy :-*
I'm playing with my new netbook on the kitchen table whilst Clarion has breakfast and staggers around the kitchen :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tom B on 21 June, 2009, 10:29:19 am
About to record four shows of University Challenge.
The presenter has just come up behind me and shouted (jokingly), 'Tom, stop looking at bike porn (http://www.singularcycles.com/index.htm)'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LinzWakeley on 21 June, 2009, 06:56:00 pm
Wow that's sooooo cool.

I'm p'd off with some guy who taunted my mate, treated her like crap and is now disrespecting her memory.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jezza on 21 June, 2009, 10:18:50 pm
Reading about conditions in Black Beach Prison and wondering how Simon Mann is getting on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 23 June, 2009, 08:57:22 am
Quote from: Tom B on 21 June, 2009, 10:29:19 am
About to record four shows of University Challenge.
The presenter has just come up behind me and shouted (jokingly), 'Tom, stop looking at bike porn (http://www.singularcycles.com/index.htm)'

Hmm. The Peregrine frame is almost exactly what I am looking for to build up my icebike for winter in Canada...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 23 June, 2009, 09:04:15 am
waiting for 9.30 to take my car  :o for it's MOT
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 23 June, 2009, 09:05:31 am
good luck, might see you there - mine's due in at 10.30! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 27 June, 2009, 09:45:40 am
Sitting, nervously, thinking....why oh why did I agree to FLY to Turkey on holiday? I don't like 'planes, I don't like abroard and I don't like sitting on a tour coach for 12 days.
And how many tranqs can I take and still be allowed through Security Control at 5 a.m. tomorrow....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 27 June, 2009, 10:04:36 am
Just about to start packing up our offices. The movers come in Monday...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: keepontriking on 27 June, 2009, 12:58:17 pm
Deep Brommie fettling this morning, have just put a pasty in the oven, then working out how to paint all the bollards where in live with pretty designs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 June, 2009, 02:14:07 pm
Getting ready to head out to a park to bake in the lovely sunshine.  45-60 minutes per side should do nicely.  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 27 June, 2009, 02:29:35 pm
Wiping tears from my eyes as a result of listening to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lML2N4xB9GU) having stumbled across it after reading this (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=20728.msg370250#msg370250)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 27 June, 2009, 02:56:17 pm
We are getting ready for a party
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 June, 2009, 03:00:32 pm
About to start looking for swimming trunks and towel. High tide is at 3.56 in Southend this afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 27 June, 2009, 03:13:54 pm
Wheezing and suffering in this disgustingly hot weather.

TV has died again - we never get reception when it's hot.

Managed to hang the washing out. In two phases.


Wondering whether to DNS tomorrow's Audax  :-\



ROLL ON WINTER  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 27 June, 2009, 03:23:38 pm
I've just had a shower after my ride today and now sitting here with a nice cup of tea  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 27 June, 2009, 03:34:37 pm
Woo Hoo!

It's just started raining lovely big plops of rain.    I've brought the washing in and am now collapsed wheezing.  In a minute I'll hang it to dry indoors (the cycling kit was already dry other than the rain drops).

Once done, and recovered, I'm heading out for a ride in the rain  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 27 June, 2009, 05:18:38 pm
Went out.  Sun came out.  Half an hour later I'm back home and heading for a cold shower.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 27 June, 2009, 05:24:35 pm
Quote from: nuttycyclist on 27 June, 2009, 05:18:38 pm
Went out.  Sun came out.  Half an hour later I'm back home and heading for a cold shower.
Getting warmer next week Nutty!    8)

FWIW I was sweating my bollox off at work yesterday. No bloody air-con in the building!  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 27 June, 2009, 05:42:11 pm
Cursing my recent shopping trip.   Phoned Grafham Water to buy a turbo.  They hadn't got the one I wanted but "Rutland" have.  Drove 75 miles to Rutland Water and they hadn't got the one I wanted.  They had a slightly different spec unit that they sold me at the same price.  Before buying I stressed that I wanted a remore resistance adjuster and they insisted it had one.  Drove 75 miles back home again and NO remote adjuster.  Resistance increases as cadence increases.  Not easy for low cadence high resistance training.  Not easy for high cadence low resistance training.

Grafham are taking it back but it's another 90 mile round trip.

Turbo is £40 cheaper than Evans @Hendon but that is only a 40 mile round trip - or 200 miles less than Rutland + Grafham.  Wasted petrol approx £26.  So I guess I'm still making a saving but ...

at least we enjoyed our walk around Rutland Water (not all of it).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 June, 2009, 12:21:59 am
Not sleeping  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 29 June, 2009, 12:58:45 am
Working :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 29 June, 2009, 01:00:43 am
Cooking dinner, enjoying dome wine
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 June, 2009, 01:03:02 am
Quote from: PaulF on 29 June, 2009, 01:00:43 am
Cooking dinner, enjoying dome wine

More wine into the chef than the food, is seems.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 29 June, 2009, 01:05:59 am
Dome could be the vineyard :)

but it's not :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 29 June, 2009, 01:17:28 am
Well altering a partion on an XP/ubuntu dual boot machine.

Decided that it would be easier to have Ubuntu on a seperate drive instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 29 June, 2009, 07:03:39 am
Getting ready to take my two elder kids to school for the first time in England. They've been reared and educated in Hungary till now (they are 9 & 6), so I hope it's not too much of a culture shock.

What's also a factor is that the poor mites had finished the school year in Hungary and now I inflict this on them!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 29 June, 2009, 07:33:16 am
waiting for a train to Ljubjlana with a hangover.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 29 June, 2009, 08:31:31 am
Nice place

I go there quite often, and I love it :)

Plenty more hangover opportunities in the offing...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 29 June, 2009, 10:26:33 am
I'm melting a few kids today, they take to the sun like vampires. And the heat ain't going to help either. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 29 June, 2009, 10:45:17 am
Waiting to board a flight to Toronto
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 29 June, 2009, 10:23:26 pm
Watching Andy Murray trying to get into the Wimbledon quarter-finals. Still.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 29 June, 2009, 11:01:44 pm
^ not now you're not.


Amazing match.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 29 June, 2009, 11:07:46 pm
Well I was mouse slug and snail hunting in the garden, whilst also wondering why Mrs Nutty had been so long at the neighbours.  I knew there was a likelihood that wimbuldin would be on, but it's been dark for ages here in Southend and we're not that much further east.

Then she wandered home and asked for a hand.  I've been indoors for just a few minutes, but although all the doors and windows are open there's no breeze so it's baking hot in there.

I'm now back out in the garden wheezing for breath and trying to cool back down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 29 June, 2009, 11:16:17 pm
Quote from: nuttycyclist on 29 June, 2009, 11:07:46 pm
Well I was mouse slug and snail hunting in the garden, whilst also wondering why Mrs Nutty had been so long at the neighbours.  I knew there was a likelihood that wimbuldin would be on, but it's been dark for ages here in Southend and we're not that much further east.

Then she wandered home and asked for a hand.  I've been indoors for just a few minutes, but although all the doors and windows are open there's no breeze so it's baking hot in there.

I'm now back out in the garden wheezing for breath and trying to cool back down.

Not only have they built a roof but they got Billie from DIY SOS to fit a set of lights for them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 30 June, 2009, 12:04:40 am
Quote from: JohnP on 29 June, 2009, 11:16:17 pm
...
Not only have they built a roof but they got Billie from DIY SOS to fit a set of lights for them.

So when it's dark and the roof is closed they have a constant shower of water dripping over the pitch?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 30 June, 2009, 12:55:40 am
Quote from: nuttycyclist on 29 June, 2009, 11:07:46 pm
...
I've been indoors for just a few minutes, but although all the doors and windows are open there's no breeze so it's baking hot in there.

I'm now back out in the garden wheezing for breath and trying to cool back down.

The mist has descended.  It's starting to cool down.    I'm tempted to go back indoors...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 30 June, 2009, 01:09:55 am
Fixing a leaking tube and it was leaking around the patches

Playing with ubuntu games such as a pacman clone
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 June, 2009, 12:33:17 pm
I've washed the car, had some lunch and now being lazy  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 30 June, 2009, 02:14:41 pm
In to the office at 6 am; swapped a couple of users desks around; tidied up their pc cabling; went home for breakfast; back to work at 11 am; coffee and think; home for 2 hour lunch in garden with wife; back at work now right through until after 5pm; month end tonight so log in from home at about 11pm for half an hour.

ALL GO.

Just finished 2nd bidon of NUUN.  Trip to feeding station is scheduled.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 01 July, 2009, 12:05:28 am
Going to bed as it's July o'clock.

pinch, punch, first of the month and no returns!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 01 July, 2009, 12:54:17 am
Well I was watching a film, but then (as always happens) the atmospheric conditions kicked in and I'm now watching a blank screen with "no signal" written in the middle of it.

Roll on autumn when I can watch a film to the finish again.  >:(



And I hate to think what'll happen when they turn analogue off.  Digital TV is gonna be so crap I'm gonna be in this state every night - unless I go out cycling instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 01 July, 2009, 01:04:26 am
Quote from: nuttycyclist on 01 July, 2009, 12:54:17 am
Well I was watching a film, but then (as always happens) the atmospheric conditions kicked in and I'm now watching a blank screen with "no signal" written in the middle of it.

Roll on autumn when I can watch a film to the finish again.  >:(



And I hate to think what'll happen when they turn analogue off.  Digital TV is gonna be so crap I'm gonna be in this state every night - unless I go out cycling instead.

Other way for us - as winter kicks in we progressively lose TV channels, until only BBC1 is left.  Right now we have zillions :)

but the digital is better than analogue.  That goes first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 04 July, 2009, 04:32:12 pm
Listening to the theme of the opening credits as the TdF coverage begins on ITV4. Feeling excited!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 11 July, 2009, 11:58:59 am
Going out to litter pick along the lanes where I live.


(Mr Angry)
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Post by: peliroja on 11 July, 2009, 12:01:26 pm
Reviewing and revising a eulogy.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 July, 2009, 09:37:34 pm
Watching Lars and the Real Girl.
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Post by: SpaceBadger on 11 July, 2009, 10:00:57 pm
Writing a packing list for l'Etape.
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Post by: woollypigs on 11 July, 2009, 10:13:54 pm
Waiting for Peli to bake a cake :)
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Post by: peliroja on 11 July, 2009, 10:24:55 pm
It's in the oven.
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Post by: woollypigs on 11 July, 2009, 10:26:01 pm
\o/
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Post by: Butterfly on 11 July, 2009, 10:33:36 pm
Working out how fast we can get to Peli and Woolly's ;D
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Post by: RJ on 11 July, 2009, 10:39:35 pm
Baking flapjack
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Post by: peliroja on 11 July, 2009, 10:40:15 pm
Beetroot chocolate cake will be ready in Parson's Green at precisely 23:05. :)
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Post by: Butterfly on 11 July, 2009, 10:41:48 pm
mmmm, sounds yummy :P
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Post by: RJ on 11 July, 2009, 10:47:47 pm
Beats flapjack ...
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Post by: Butterfly on 11 July, 2009, 10:49:19 pm
Dunno - Flapjack lasts better. Cake first then flapjack? It the sensible way :D.
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Post by: peliroja on 11 July, 2009, 10:52:26 pm
There is a lot of veggie shepherd's pie with goats' cheese mash left too. I've had a cooking/baking day.  :-[
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Post by: Butterfly on 11 July, 2009, 10:55:55 pm
It sounds lovely :D. Are you ok? I bake like that when I'm stressed :-[.
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Post by: peliroja on 11 July, 2009, 10:59:23 pm
Not great. We lost a very close friend on Tuesday, who was like an adopted grandmother.  :(
Baking is good therapy. My Mum (if she's reading this) knows this as I baked lasagne and banana bread when I was up home recently. Stress does have its upsides.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 July, 2009, 11:30:20 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 11 July, 2009, 10:52:26 pm
There is a lot of veggie shepherd's pie with goats' cheese mash left too. I've had a cooking/baking day.  :-[
Is that the Delia one? It's delicious.
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Post by: woollypigs on 11 July, 2009, 11:44:52 pm
numnunumnumnumnumnumnumnum
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 July, 2009, 11:49:13 pm
I've been drowning dog fleas.
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Post by: TimO on 12 July, 2009, 07:42:15 am
Just realising that I went out on a ride yesterday, a Saturday not a Sunday, so today isn't Monday, and I don't need to be into work for another 26 hours or so. ;D

Talisker doesn't mind, he got his Breakfast earlier than he would have otherwise!
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Post by: fuzzy on 12 July, 2009, 08:11:04 am
Getting ready for day two of a cycle patrol course I am running :thumbsup:
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Post by: mike on 12 July, 2009, 08:31:13 am
Big Breakfast, trying to banish vestigal hangover before I have to go out and destroy little brother on a 70 mile loop...
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Post by: Andrij on 12 July, 2009, 08:41:22 am
Eating brekkie before I head out to spend the day reconnoitring next week's ride.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2009, 09:27:01 am
About to eat some breakfast, having got up too late to join the CTC ride to one of my favourite pubs (Compasses, Littley Green).

Slightly achy after yesterday's ride. Just need a gentle pootle today. High tide's at 1522, so an afternoon swim seems appropriate.
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Post by: Domestique on 12 July, 2009, 10:29:13 am
Finished packing and loading up the bikes, about to make up a few sandwich's for later on tonight to add to our veggie selection we already have ready.
Then, a bit later this afternoon, its into Southend for the train to manningtree and a gentle ride into Harwich for the ferry.
Tommorow mornin we will be in the Hoek  :D
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Post by: perpetual dan on 13 July, 2009, 12:43:37 pm
Lunchtime.
Then to tackle the carefully arranged piles of papers to deal with "when I have time". My desk needs to be clear by the end of tomorrow for builders and some of those stacks of paper have been collecting for a couple of years ... better get started!
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 14 July, 2009, 11:56:02 am
Reflecting on my second (car-bound) RTA. The first was a 29 years ago when I was a tosser of a young driver.

This one was the other bloke's fault - honest! He was in the lane to turn left onto the motorway, but changed his mind and cut in front of me in the right-hand lane. Indicating right not being an acceptable tactic given his positioning.

No major damage, though me knee aches a bit. All handled in a very civilised way with he & his wife apologising. Thanks go to the two witnesses who stopped to give details.

Must get on Google Earth to print out the road layout to draw my version of events on now. AFAIC, it's clearly his fault, but we'll see what he puts on the claim form...
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Post by: numbnuts on 14 July, 2009, 12:45:54 pm
eating an apple :P
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Post by: nuttycyclist on 14 July, 2009, 12:57:01 pm
Got the week off work.  Nothing planned so am lying on the sofa wondering whether to plant the plants that are currently in the kitchen.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 July, 2009, 09:12:33 pm
I've been making a lemon cake for a team lunch on Thursday, and I've made the lemon curd to sandwich the layers together with. I made triple quantities of lemon curd and a batch of scones to use up some of the excess. I've decanted most of the lemon curd into another bowl and I'm eating the rest, still warm, and making nommy noises.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 July, 2009, 05:37:05 pm
I ought to get out of my suit.

Mrs. Wow and I have been to Essex Uni today to see our younger son's MA graduation. He slouches with the best of them.

An honorary doctorate was conferred upon Ivor Crewe, who with a name like that probably should have had a career as an engine driver rather than a university vice-chancellor. The intro speech was by Prof Anthony "It's a really bad night for Labour" King. They were really cock-a-hoop that Essex is considered to be the top politics department amongst British universities according to some league table or other, and that their economics dept. was 3rd.
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Post by: fuzzy on 17 July, 2009, 11:45:51 am
Just finished the housework and am now contemplating web site setting up and small business naming.
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Post by: PaulF on 17 July, 2009, 12:27:35 pm
Just dropped wife and son at airport and now stuck in traffic on the way back to Manhattan
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Post by: Regulator on 17 July, 2009, 12:32:56 pm
Watching the most spectacular storm overhead.

We've got thunder, lightening and torrential rain... :thumbsup:
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Post by: Andrij on 17 July, 2009, 12:52:34 pm
Watching the clock.   ::-)

As quitting time is still around four hours away this not not a good thing to be doing.  :(
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Post by: clarion on 17 July, 2009, 01:01:00 pm
Waiting for the bank website to grind its way to the next page... >:(
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Post by: Basil on 17 July, 2009, 01:09:13 pm
Wondering if I'm going to miss my connection in Swansea.
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Post by: Andrij on 17 July, 2009, 05:06:21 pm
Rejoicing in the arrival of BEER o'clock.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Valiant on 17 July, 2009, 05:14:22 pm
Fook all, bored outta my head looking for stuff to do. Just about to go in the bath though.
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Post by: Chris S on 17 July, 2009, 05:19:25 pm
For the umpteenth time today - listening to thunder.
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Post by: TimO on 17 July, 2009, 05:29:51 pm
Just half cleared my desk, and put the PC back together.  I can now see the second monitor, which is a good thing, but I do need to deal with the "other side of the desk" <shudder>

Still, downloading a few BBC programmes for watching later, and it's nice to have access to my email again, rather than having to do things via webmail on a spare PC in the lab.
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Post by: Adrian on 17 July, 2009, 06:43:50 pm
just loaded the car and wishing I had one of those racks the pro teams use
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Post by: peliroja on 17 July, 2009, 08:02:12 pm
Being serenaded.

Woolly has had two tins of beans today.  :-X
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Post by: toekneep on 17 July, 2009, 08:03:18 pm
 :sick:
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Post by: geoff on 17 July, 2009, 08:44:25 pm
Catching up on Ashes, Open and Tour. Go James! Go Tom!, Go Bradley!
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Post by: oncemore on 17 July, 2009, 08:50:58 pm
Listening to Mississippi (?sp) Fred McDowell and feeling happy cos going to see the daughter tomorrow (tho' not happy about her jetting to New York next week).

Never quite understand those who claim to be pleased when their kids leave home - I still miss mine dreadfully.
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Post by: bloomers100 on 17 July, 2009, 08:55:16 pm
just used audacity program to make a couple of ringtones for my phone  :thumbsup:
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Post by: toekneep on 17 July, 2009, 08:55:43 pm
I am in a post chilli burger-potato in garlic and paprika-home grown courgettes fried in butter-half a bottle of red, stupor. Zzzzzzzz
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Post by: Wowbagger on 17 July, 2009, 11:08:57 pm
Dez & I drove to Bradford & back today to collect Ebay sofas. 12-hour round trip in hired van. I'm now recovering and thinking about tomorrow's ride.
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Post by: TimO on 18 July, 2009, 05:41:36 am
Up, far too early for this (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=18939.msg386042#msg386042), since I'll be at Liverpool Street at 8am, so I'll be leaving Croydon at 7am, so need to be up 6am-ish.  Actually all 15 minutes earlier, so I don't actually arrive exactly as the train leaves !
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Post by: GillP on 18 July, 2009, 08:41:57 am
Waiting to go to Leyland for a very special visit to Hewitts  :)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 July, 2009, 02:43:06 pm
Developing an addiction to Edinburgh Zoo Penguin Cam (http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/EZPenguinCam.html)
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Post by: peliroja on 18 July, 2009, 02:44:05 pm
Feeling annoyed I'm not out riding, but busy with work, and feeling generally overwhelmed by the past week.
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Post by: simonp on 18 July, 2009, 02:44:21 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 18 July, 2009, 02:43:06 pm
Developing an addiction to Edinburgh Zoo Penguin Cam (http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/EZPenguinCam.html)

Whew, doesn't work on my Ubuntu box.  Hopefully I'll have forgotten by the time I get to a Windows PC.

I should be preparing for LEL.  I'm procrastinating.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 July, 2009, 03:22:18 pm
Two of them are chasing each other round and round, in and out of shot, like some bizarre penguin Benny Hill impression. I could spend all day at the zoo watching the penguins anyway; being able to do it from the comfort of my own sofa is dangerously addictive. I'm supposed to be going to the flicks tonight, but this is much more entertaining.
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Post by: Mike r on 18 July, 2009, 03:57:19 pm
eating everything within arms reach after a fast ride along the river. :)
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Post by: kyuss on 18 July, 2009, 05:23:21 pm
About to head to the shops on the bike now that it's stopped raining for 5 minutes.
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Post by: Zoidburg on 19 July, 2009, 02:05:53 am
Sat in the conservatory watching and listening to the mother of all rain storms on the glass.

I am somewhat sleep deprived though and in the hyper stage before I suddenly zonk out for 12 hours so these things may take on more meaning than they really have when I am thinking straight.
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Post by: Valiant on 19 July, 2009, 02:24:39 am
lying her unable to sleep watching videos on how to rollerblade
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Post by: TimO on 19 July, 2009, 06:44:47 am
Just got up, so feeding Talisker, and digging out a route to Monument, so I can go on Andrij's Thames Path Meander (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=20770.0), which should be fun.  I like wandering along the Thames, it's quite surprising what you can find.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2009, 08:38:32 am
Recovering from last night's garlic chilli chicken masala.  :-[
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Post by: alan on 19 July, 2009, 10:47:56 am
Contemplating the list if things I need to take to Thorne next weekend.
Item 1)  Cake for MSeries.
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Post by: peliroja on 19 July, 2009, 01:01:46 pm
Just packed the bikes off with Dave to the Pyrenees. Hopefully we will be reunited with them on Tuesday.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2009, 01:08:04 pm
We've just got back from Priory Park after having emptied the dog.

It's the BHF London-Southend Bike Ride. Lots of cyclists on an assortment of bikes. Almost wish I'd done it now.
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Post by: peliroja on 19 July, 2009, 09:03:31 pm
Just got back from a lovely afternoon involving bikes, the Original Woolly, two cute children, My Little Ponies, Wagamama's and ice cream.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 19 July, 2009, 09:04:18 pm
Going to bed.

Night night everyone.
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Post by: simonp on 19 July, 2009, 09:05:40 pm
Dissecting the LEL route through Gainsborough.  Routesheet doesn't match satellite imagery of the roads in the area, and track seems to differ from routesheet.  Track's version looks shorter...
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Post by: PaulF on 19 July, 2009, 09:06:08 pm
Waiting for my flight to Jo'burg to leave.
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Post by: Deano on 20 July, 2009, 06:32:40 pm
Quote from: alan on 19 July, 2009, 10:47:56 am
Contemplating the list if things I need to take to Thorne next weekend.
Item 1)  Cake for MSeries.

I wouldn't advertise that, else you'll have them all asking for it.

(Get him to drop some off for me at Middleton Tyas)
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Post by: alan on 20 July, 2009, 06:41:21 pm
Quote from: Deano on 20 July, 2009, 06:32:40 pm
Quote from: alan on 19 July, 2009, 10:47:56 am
Contemplating the list if things I need to take to Thorne next weekend.
Item 1)  Cake for MSeries.

I wouldn't advertise that, else you'll have them all asking for it.

(Get him to drop some off for me at Middleton Tyas)

Arrangements have been made for the cake to be available JIT for his arrival at the control.Sorted 8)
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Post by: GillP on 20 July, 2009, 07:40:11 pm
Quote from: alan on 20 July, 2009, 06:41:21 pm
Quote from: Deano on 20 July, 2009, 06:32:40 pm
Quote from: alan on 19 July, 2009, 10:47:56 am
Contemplating the list if things I need to take to Thorne next weekend.
Item 1)  Cake for MSeries.

I wouldn't advertise that, else you'll have them all asking for it.

(Get him to drop some off for me at Middleton Tyas)

Arrangements have been made for the cake to be available JIT for his arrival at the control.Sorted 8)

Could I put  in an order for cake for the Trough ride weekend pleeez  ;D
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Post by: alan on 20 July, 2009, 08:20:08 pm
Quote from: GillP on 20 July, 2009, 07:40:11 pm
Quote from: alan on 20 July, 2009, 06:41:21 pm
Quote from: Deano on 20 July, 2009, 06:32:40 pm
Quote from: alan on 19 July, 2009, 10:47:56 am
Contemplating the list if things I need to take to Thorne next weekend.
Item 1)  Cake for MSeries.

I wouldn't advertise that, else you'll have them all asking for it.

(Get him to drop some off for me at Middleton Tyas)

Arrangements have been made for the cake to be available JIT for his arrival at the control.Sorted 8)

Could I put  in an order for cake for the Trough ride weekend pleeez  ;D

I will pass on your request to my Boss ;)
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Post by: MSeries on 21 July, 2009, 10:05:58 pm
Quote from: alan on 19 July, 2009, 10:47:56 am
Contemplating the list if things I need to take to Thorne next weekend.
Item 1)  Cake for MSeries.
:thumbsup:

Thank you.

(Just saw this after seeing it in the Trough thread)

 
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Post by: andygates on 21 July, 2009, 10:11:04 pm
Ranting about Amazon, Kindles and my lack of cake.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 July, 2009, 10:19:28 pm
Revising for a Cisco exam tomorrow.
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Post by: alan on 22 July, 2009, 09:10:06 am
I am going to walk  :o down the road to get a paper.Normally go onna bike:fixed or geared depending on what legs say to brain.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 22 July, 2009, 09:29:39 am
Going to Stratford for a ride and lunch with the Tricycle Association.

Bye!
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Post by: alan on 24 July, 2009, 12:14:09 pm
Taking big breaths in.
Marj is baking.
The aroma emenating from the kitchen is mouthwateringly marvellous.Tis enough to encourage an LEL entry  ;)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 July, 2009, 02:25:03 pm
Watching an humongous thunderstorm.
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Post by: border-rider on 24 July, 2009, 02:31:38 pm
Bleeding profusely from a small nick on my right earlobe, and failing totally to stem the flow.

I have no idea what I cut it on, and the cat isn't looking guilty... ???

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Post by: starkj73 on 24 July, 2009, 02:32:08 pm
At work listening to a great big noisy Russian fighter practising the display routine for Sunderland air show.

They go up, down...





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Post by: Maffie on 24 July, 2009, 02:36:00 pm
hmmm internet window shopping........
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Post by: fuzzy on 24 July, 2009, 02:39:07 pm
Quote from: starkj73 on 24 July, 2009, 02:32:08 pm
At work listening to a great big noisy Russian fighter practising the display routine for Sunderland air show.

They go up, down...







Hmmmm- Chest rumbling fast jet noise :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 24 July, 2009, 02:48:12 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 24 July, 2009, 02:31:38 pm
...the cat isn't looking guilty... ???

They never do.  Cats have no sense of guilt or shame.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 July, 2009, 03:43:57 pm
Quote from: clarion on 24 July, 2009, 02:48:12 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 24 July, 2009, 02:31:38 pm
...the cat isn't looking guilty... ???

They never do.  Cats have no sense of guilt or shame.

But they make up for it with an overdeveloped sense of embarrassment when they do something that blows their feline cool.
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Post by: MSeries on 24 July, 2009, 03:46:00 pm
i think Pegotty show guilt.
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Post by: alan on 24 July, 2009, 04:25:14 pm
"Testing" LEL cake ;D
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Post by: her_welshness on 24 July, 2009, 04:56:41 pm
Waiting for the redundancy notifications to come through. Oh happy days.
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Post by: alan on 24 July, 2009, 09:29:06 pm
"Testing" TroughCake ;D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 July, 2009, 11:23:03 pm
Revising again. I failed the exam by about 3%. Resit on tuesday :(
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Post by: gordon taylor on 25 July, 2009, 06:31:11 am
Chores   :-\

Washing out, washing on, sort socks, tidy kitchen, dishwasher, recycling, feed dogs, feed goats...

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Post by: alan on 25 July, 2009, 11:10:49 am
Loading the car with camping gear,box of spares for the nutters riders & a pannier containing clothes et al in readiness for tomorrow morning's departure for Thorne.
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Post by: numbnuts on 25 July, 2009, 04:41:38 pm
I've just had a shower after my hilly ride 47.2 miles and now drinking a cup of tea and feeling totally worn out, I think I'm getting too old for all this riding  :(
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Post by: peliroja on 25 July, 2009, 07:15:57 pm
You would not believe what we're doing! We're up high at 2407m at the Neouvielle lakes, camping wild on a narrow grassy terrace, staring in wonder at the majestic Pic de Neouvielle and the gently rippling lake in the evening sunshine. These occasions are what the word "awesome" was invented for. :)
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Post by: PaulF on 25 July, 2009, 07:32:49 pm
<Mundane>Checking the baseball scores</mundane>
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Post by: woollypigs on 25 July, 2009, 07:37:10 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 25 July, 2009, 07:15:57 pm
You would not believe what we're doing! We're up high at 2407m at the Neouvielle lakes, camping wild on a narrow grassy terrace, staring in wonder at the majestic Pic de Neouvielle and the gently rippling lake in the evening sunshine. These occasions are what the word "awesome" was invented for. :)
give and take a few google meters 42.849514, 0.098941 - Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.849514,+0.098941)
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Post by: peliroja on 25 July, 2009, 09:39:13 pm
Now having watched the sunset over the Soum de Nere and Massif Ardiden, are admiring the stars. Wow!
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Post by: JohnP on 25 July, 2009, 09:46:15 pm
Years ago I was taught that envy was a sin ... but I hope you are having a great time and I wish I was there.
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Post by: Basil on 25 July, 2009, 11:28:49 pm
Trying to catch up with yACF after just returning from our epic 7 day walk on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. 
#2 son and I are burping contentedly after Mrs. B's stupendous "recovery stew" and are now cuddling the bottles of Speckled Hen provided with it.  :-*
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Post by: TimO on 25 July, 2009, 11:34:00 pm
Just watched the Mount Ventoux stage of the TdF, and I'm knackered.  It shouldn't be possible to get sympathetic exhaustion watching them climb that mountain. ;D

Damned impressive race today though.
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Post by: GruB on 25 July, 2009, 11:56:59 pm
Just logging off to go to bed.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2009, 04:27:47 pm
Mostly sleeping.
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Post by: clarion on 27 July, 2009, 04:32:39 pm
Me too, but I'm at my desk using the power of caffeine in the handy form of tea to stave off the torpor...
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2009, 04:37:06 pm
I think I'm recovering from a weekend of good cycling, good company, and an unwanted but self-inflicted heavy fall.
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Post by: fuzzy on 27 July, 2009, 05:15:43 pm
Nothing serious I hope WB :o
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Post by: Andrij on 27 July, 2009, 07:09:32 pm
Sorting through 180 pictures from the Norfolk weekend.  I may be some time...
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Post by: Basil on 27 July, 2009, 07:14:31 pm
Eating curry made by #1 son.  nom!
We're ready for giving everyone a thrashing in the pub quiz tonight.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2009, 07:17:00 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 27 July, 2009, 05:15:43 pm
Nothing serious I hope WB :o

Gentle Norfolk mini-tour - this weekend (24-26 July) (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=21732.msg392271#msg392271) refers. ;)
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Post by: peliroja on 27 July, 2009, 10:28:47 pm
Relaxing after another wonderful Les Sorbiers meal, and wondering if my legs will allow me to tackle the Tourmalet AND go horse-riding tomorrow...
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Post by: bomber on 28 July, 2009, 09:07:13 am
Sat using the airport Wifi in Hong Kng waiting for my flight to Aukland ;D
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Post by: Butterfly on 28 July, 2009, 09:07:58 am
Quote from: bomber on 28 July, 2009, 09:07:13 am
Sat using the airport Wifi in Hong Kng waiting for my flight to Aukland ;D
Cool, have fun :D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 28 July, 2009, 09:16:56 am
we've had my boss and his family to stay for the weekend.  They're lovely Swiss folk, and really are very nice but if they could Just Go now, that'd be perfect.  Enough cheerfulness, I want to be grumpy now.

they're currently "enjoying" toast & Marmite (I've told them it's traditional English fare :))

Off to the station in a couple of hours.  Not sure what to do with them till then..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 09:27:02 am
ITYM Auckland.  Best to know where you're headed for. ;D

AUKland would seem to be on the road somewhere between London & Edinburgh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2009, 09:36:37 am
Quote from: mike on 28 July, 2009, 09:16:56 am
we've had my boss and his family to stay for the weekend.  They're lovely Swiss folk, and really are very nice but if they could Just Go now, that'd be perfect.  Enough cheerfulness, I want to be grumpy now.

they're currently "enjoying" toast & Marmite (I've told them it's traditional English fare :))

Off to the station in a couple of hours.  Not sure what to do with them till then..

Bike ride? What about a short trip to the highest point in Essex to admire the view over Cambridge?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 July, 2009, 09:41:10 am
Just getting my Assos on to tackle the Tourmalet, then promenading a cheval up the La Glere valley! Woolly's asleep :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 July, 2009, 10:51:36 am
Watching the AA men taking away Mr Patel's Merc Van-With-Windows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 28 July, 2009, 11:13:39 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 27 July, 2009, 07:17:00 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 27 July, 2009, 05:15:43 pm
Nothing serious I hope WB :o

Gentle Norfolk mini-tour - this weekend (24-26 July) (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=21732.msg392271#msg392271) refers. ;)

Good- not too serious. At least the only spectators were friends. Nothing worse than going arse over tit in front of a crown of strangers ;)

GWS WB.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 11:49:24 am
Looking for a new car  ;D

Either 1-2 yo Merc E280cdi or E320cdi Estate.  We're going to buy a caravan as well (Bailey Senator S6)  :o

That'll be our holidays for the next decade taken cafe of then....  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 11:52:43 am
What yo ureally need is an 04 Toyota Avensis estate ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 11:54:36 am
Quote from: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 11:52:43 am
What yo ureally need is an 04 Toyota Avensis estate ;)

The Senator is too heavy for the Avensis - we really like this van, but it is quite heavy hence the need for a bigger vehicle.  I'll still use my Smart ForTwo for day to day stuff ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 28 July, 2009, 11:59:02 am
Quote from: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 11:49:24 am
We're going to buy a caravan as well (Bailey Senator S6)  :o

Please don't!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 12:03:47 pm
Quote from: robbarker on 28 July, 2009, 11:59:02 am
Quote from: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 11:49:24 am
We're going to buy a caravan as well (Bailey Senator S6)  :o

Please don't!

I know, I know :-[

But we both quite fancy one and don't fancy a motorhome.  I promise to drive it with care and only travel in the wee small hours of the morning - does that help ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 28 July, 2009, 12:06:37 pm
Quote from: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 12:03:47 pm
I promise to drive it with care and only travel in the wee small hours of the morning - does that help ;)

It's a deal!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 12:19:31 pm
Quote from: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 11:54:36 am
Quote from: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 11:52:43 am
What yo ureally need is an 04 Toyota Avensis estate ;)

The Senator is too heavy for the Avensis - we really like this van, but it is quite heavy hence the need for a bigger vehicle.  I'll still use my Smart ForTwo for day to day stuff ;D

Ah well.  I tried... :-\

If it's any help, there's loads of room in the Avensis for comfortable tent camping, should you reconsider the madness of caravan buying ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 28 July, 2009, 12:32:30 pm
Quote from: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 12:19:31 pm
Quote from: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 11:54:36 am
Quote from: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 11:52:43 am
What yo ureally need is an 04 Toyota Avensis estate ;)

The Senator is too heavy for the Avensis - we really like this van, but it is quite heavy hence the need for a bigger vehicle.  I'll still use my Smart ForTwo for day to day stuff ;D

Ah well.  I tried... :-\

If it's any help, there's loads of room in the Avensis for comfortable tent camping, should you reconsider the madness of caravan buying ;D

having friends with a caravan can be handy for breakfast-time tea & chat dontya find? ;)
The awning can also be handy for socialising with one's cycling friends dotyaknow when attending cycling rallies in Yorkshire & Suffolk  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 12:36:32 pm
Quote from: alan on 28 July, 2009, 12:32:30 pm
Quote from: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 12:19:31 pm
Quote from: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 11:54:36 am
Quote from: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 11:52:43 am
What yo ureally need is an 04 Toyota Avensis estate ;)

The Senator is too heavy for the Avensis - we really like this van, but it is quite heavy hence the need for a bigger vehicle.  I'll still use my Smart ForTwo for day to day stuff ;D

Ah well.  I tried... :-\

If it's any help, there's loads of room in the Avensis for comfortable tent camping, should you reconsider the madness of caravan buying ;D

having friends with a caravan can be handy for breakfast-time tea & chat dontya find? ;)
The awning can also be handy for socialising with one's cycling friends dotyaknow when attending cycling rallies in Yorkshire & Suffolk  :thumbsup:

Hint taken.  yacf cafe at York rally next year?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 12:39:48 pm
Quote from: alan on 28 July, 2009, 12:32:30 pm
having friends with a caravan can be handy for breakfast-time tea & chat dontya find? ;)
The awning can also be handy for socialising with one's cycling friends dotyaknow when attending cycling rallies in Yorkshire & Suffolk  :thumbsup:

;) ;D  Would you mind not getting in my way and distracting me with FACTS when I'm trying to sell my car? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 28 July, 2009, 04:15:17 pm
Quote from: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 12:36:32 pm
Quote from: alan on 28 July, 2009, 12:32:30 pm
Quote from: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 12:19:31 pm
Quote from: epa611 on 28 July, 2009, 11:54:36 am
Quote from: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 11:52:43 am
What yo ureally need is an 04 Toyota Avensis estate ;)

The Senator is too heavy for the Avensis - we really like this van, but it is quite heavy hence the need for a bigger vehicle.  I'll still use my Smart ForTwo for day to day stuff ;D

Ah well.  I tried... :-\

If it's any help, there's loads of room in the Avensis for comfortable tent camping, should you reconsider the madness of caravan buying ;D

having friends with a caravan can be handy for breakfast-time tea & chat dontya find? ;)
The awning can also be handy for socialising with one's cycling friends dotyaknow when attending cycling rallies in Yorkshire & Suffolk  :thumbsup:

Hint taken.  yacf cafe at York rally next year?

I imagine so.We have used our yacf cafe caravan at York for the past five years.Including this year in addition to booking a B&B for the Saturday night.don't ask  ::-).
It serves admirably as a reference point for yacf cake-testing meetings :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 28 July, 2009, 04:16:47 pm
Quote from: clarion on 28 July, 2009, 12:39:48 pm
Quote from: alan on 28 July, 2009, 12:32:30 pm
having friends with a caravan can be handy for breakfast-time tea & chat dontya find? ;)
The awning can also be handy for socialising with one's cycling friends dotyaknow when attending cycling rallies in Yorkshire & Suffolk  :thumbsup:

;) ;D  Would you mind not getting in my way and distracting me with FACTS when I'm trying to sell my car? ;D

OOOPs,sorry.
I have made a note to avoid distracting you untill Mildenhall ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 03 August, 2009, 10:41:44 pm
Marj & I are going into the city to watch RR & JC to pass thru' on their LeJoG attempt
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 08 August, 2009, 01:38:57 am
Planning my most foolish ride ever biggest challenge so far on two wheels. My first imperial century :o which has stretched to 110 miles plus I've just discovered that my destination/turn round point is a ski resort*  ::-). Wish I hadn't googled it now...


*OK It's not Alp d'Huez but....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 08 August, 2009, 08:00:39 am
a final coffee before my brother gets here, then we're off out for a couple of hours.  He wants 'hilly', so it's my '1000m of climbing in 60k' loop - who said Cambridge was flat??

Stupidly, I went jogging for an hour last night and my legs are completely bu**ered, and brother is 25kg lighter than me.  Could be a challenging ride!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 08 August, 2009, 08:13:33 am
Quote from: PaulF on 08 August, 2009, 01:38:57 am
Planning my most foolish ride ever biggest challenge so far on two wheels. My first imperial century :o which has stretched to 110 miles plus I've just discovered that my destination/turn round point is a ski resort*  ::-). Wish I hadn't googled it now...


*OK It's not Alp d'Huez but....

Good luck Paul. Gill and I did our first imperial about two months ago and I'm still buzzing from having done it. I feel another one coming on soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 August, 2009, 07:12:23 pm
Sitting in the King's Arms in Llandysul thinking "Bugger me, that was a long way to ride for a pint."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 August, 2009, 07:20:15 pm
Quote from: Basil on 08 August, 2009, 07:12:23 pm
Sitting in the King's Arms in Llandysul thinking "Bugger me, that was a long way to ride for a pint."


Excellent.  Enjoy the pint.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 August, 2009, 08:21:50 pm
Wondering why my neck,wrists,palms & ar$e ache.It was only 110 km FCOL :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andyoxon on 08 August, 2009, 08:24:51 pm
Watching the Proms...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 08 August, 2009, 08:45:22 pm
Listening to White Rabbit (throw the grapefruit NOW, Hunter!) and desperately convincing myself that really I need a Brompton and not THIS

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110422131434&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT


Small prize for first to ID the grapefruit reference!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 08 August, 2009, 10:09:20 pm
Ironing.  Lots and Lots of Ironing. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 August, 2009, 11:39:30 pm
Still feeling icky and angry after Wagamama Putney served me chicken dumplings not vegetable ones. I ate half of one before realising. I've been veggie for 19 years.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 08 August, 2009, 11:51:16 pm
Rehydrating after my ride.

Sam Adams Boston Ale I'm reliably informed is isotonic :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 08 August, 2009, 11:52:11 pm
Quote from: oncemore on 08 August, 2009, 08:45:22 pm

Small prize for first to ID the grapefruit reference!!

Muhamed Ali once told Hunter S Thompson "Eat lots of grapefruit its good for you" ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 09 August, 2009, 03:13:58 am
Quote from: peliroja on 08 August, 2009, 11:39:30 pm
Still feeling icky and angry after Wagamama Putney served me chicken dumplings not vegetable ones. I ate half of one before realising. I've been veggie for 19 years.

Poor you!

I'm trying not to think of a friend who I've developed the hits for lol. Ah to be a teen again
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 09 August, 2009, 10:13:59 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 08 August, 2009, 11:52:11 pm
Quote from: oncemore on 08 August, 2009, 08:45:22 pm

Small prize for first to ID the grapefruit reference!!

Muhamed Ali once told Hunter S Thompson "Eat lots of grapefruit its good for you" ?

'Fraid not! Think "Fear and Loathing...."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 09 August, 2009, 10:28:59 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 08 August, 2009, 11:52:11 pm
Muhamed Ali once told Hunter S Thompson "Eat lots of grapefruit its good for you" ?
Muhammad Ali wasn't taking statins!   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 August, 2009, 10:47:10 am
Sorting out the best cycling route into Foyles, since as usual at weekends, the Underground is buggered with closures.  It's probably healthier for me to cycle in, and the other customers will just have to live with hot and sweaty cyclist. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 09 August, 2009, 01:46:28 pm
Going to the beach.  8) 8)

A look at my profile will show what an arduous journey this is!  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 09 August, 2009, 01:56:29 pm
Just got in from riding,guitar practise now.  Back out riding later :thumbsup:

I live 10 miles from the coast and the local main road is solid queued traffic.  Wild horses wouldn't drag me there today, not sure I'd go if it was at the end of the street either, all the sunday ice cream, lager and fish n chip fuckwits, no thanks ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 09 August, 2009, 02:54:40 pm
8am: Stamping about the house doing "chores" and breaking mugs.

11am: Reeling from my wife shouting "OK, OK, bugger off."

<Pause for lunch>  

Now - strapping a tent and luggage onto a trike that has no racks or braze-ons.

<Happy skipping noises>


Mrs Gordy is an angel.



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 August, 2009, 03:01:57 pm
Just sorting out a couple more days of my tour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 09 August, 2009, 03:27:56 pm

5 am : going to work

noon : finished working

5 past noon: on bike riding.

4 pm : home sweating and smelling like an old goat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 August, 2009, 04:11:45 pm
I have just de-ivy'd the garage. Hot, sweaty work. Now sitting in the garden with a cuppa, catching up with the virtual world.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 August, 2009, 04:13:34 pm
Eating cheese and onion on toast and contemplating Important Stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 09 August, 2009, 04:14:29 pm
Earl Grey and home made date slice  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 August, 2009, 04:33:32 pm
Having just finished painting the gate, I'm about to prep a casserole. 
While that's in the oven, I'll pop out for a "Very Hilly Silly" of, ooh let's see, all of 7 miles.  Just to stop the legs seizing up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 August, 2009, 04:35:03 pm
Watching one of the cats playing with a mouse.

Hehe - I can't believe it's lasted this long - almost fifteen minutes. They usually eat them within five.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 August, 2009, 04:51:10 pm
Attempting to book a holiday in Normandy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 09 August, 2009, 04:56:06 pm
Trying to knit a fly.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 August, 2009, 04:58:41 pm
Quote from: Clare on 09 August, 2009, 04:56:06 pm
Trying to knit a fly.


Mrs wowbagger may be able to help, as she can knit such things as cupcakes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 August, 2009, 07:24:53 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 09 August, 2009, 04:58:41 pm
Quote from: Clare on 09 August, 2009, 04:56:06 pm
Trying to knit a fly.

Mrs wowbagger may be able to help, as she can knit such things as cupcakes...

Mrs Wowbagger is Nelly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_and_Nelly_in..._SkylArk) and ICMFP. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 August, 2009, 10:50:02 pm
Off to bed. Yawn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 09 August, 2009, 11:51:23 pm
Eating late night dirty pizza with a slightly drunkted Liz  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 11 August, 2009, 08:08:24 pm
Quote from: oncemore on 08 August, 2009, 08:45:22 pm
Listening to White Rabbit (throw the grapefruit NOW, Hunter!)

.........

Small prize for first to ID the grapefruit reference!!

Shame - no winners.

Isn't Spotify wonderful - biggest juke box ever - and free!

The Donnas and The Ramones queuing....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 15 August, 2009, 04:17:40 am
Getting up, far too early. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adam on 15 August, 2009, 04:22:17 am
Ditto!!  ;D

It's odd how the mind works.  I suddenly woke up and remembered I hadn't marked on the maps the names of the roads for a slight diversion required for today's ride.  Which is why I'm on the PC.

Don't worry Tim - it's all written down now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 15 August, 2009, 04:37:58 am
Looking for new frames
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 15 August, 2009, 09:25:48 am
Sitting on the X75 bus between Newton Stewart and Carlisle via all the towns and villages which used to be on the A75 but are now bypassed. Now approaching Castle Douglas.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 15 August, 2009, 05:24:48 pm
Trying to think of people I know who like toffee. I don't, and I have quite a bit of it. Any takers?

(it should have been fudge, but the sugar got too hot) :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 15 August, 2009, 08:06:22 pm
Opening a bottle of red wine :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 August, 2009, 08:13:58 pm
Quote from: alan on 15 August, 2009, 08:06:22 pm
Opening a bottle of red wine :)

Just a large one for me please...  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 15 August, 2009, 08:57:45 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 15 August, 2009, 08:13:58 pm
Quote from: alan on 15 August, 2009, 08:06:22 pm
Opening a bottle of red wine :)

Just a large one for me please...  :)

Would you prefer a straw with the bottle or a pint glass. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 15 August, 2009, 08:59:43 pm
Contemplating a bottle of red wine with the Indian take-away that is about to be delivered.  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 August, 2009, 09:00:52 pm
Quote from: alan on 15 August, 2009, 08:57:45 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 15 August, 2009, 08:13:58 pm
Quote from: alan on 15 August, 2009, 08:06:22 pm
Opening a bottle of red wine :)

Just a large one for me please...  :)

Would you prefer a straw with the bottle or a pint glass. ;)

Just knock the neck off on the kitchen top and pass it over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 15 August, 2009, 09:04:50 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 15 August, 2009, 08:59:43 pm
Contemplating
:o
JustFlamingDoIt :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 15 August, 2009, 10:01:22 pm
Watching the tennis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 15 August, 2009, 10:05:07 pm
Quote from: alan on 15 August, 2009, 09:04:50 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 15 August, 2009, 08:59:43 pm
Contemplating
:o
JustFlamingDoIt :demon:

We did, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 15 August, 2009, 11:13:23 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 15 August, 2009, 10:05:07 pm
Quote from: alan on 15 August, 2009, 09:04:50 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 15 August, 2009, 08:59:43 pm
Contemplating
:o
JustFlamingDoIt :demon:

We did, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Welsh Man on 15 August, 2009, 11:36:36 pm
I'm a touch pissed , so off to bed for me !!!!!


 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 17 August, 2009, 12:50:40 pm
 I am wondering if I am capable of riding the Mildenhall 100km audax on fixed  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 August, 2009, 03:04:04 pm
Quote from: alan on 17 August, 2009, 12:50:40 pm
I am wondering if I am capable of riding the Mildenhall 100km audax on fixed  :o

Pffft - one hundred... come and do the 300 - we'll help you round if you need it, and we'll get you pissed afterwards too, so you won't remember a thing  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 17 August, 2009, 06:13:14 pm
Scoffing jam roly poly pudding & custard(proper cyclists custard) & red wine ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 17 August, 2009, 06:16:18 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 17 August, 2009, 03:04:04 pm
Quote from: alan on 17 August, 2009, 12:50:40 pm
I am wondering if I am capable of riding the Mildenhall 100km audax on fixed  :o

Pffft - one hundred... come and do the 300 - we'll help you round if you need it, and we'll get you pissed afterwards too, so you won't remember a thing  :thumbsup:.

I fell off my chair & hurt myself laughing at the notion of me doing a 300km audax atm..
I doubt that I could do 300km in 3 days right now.However that will change: I have a hot date in 2013
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 18 August, 2009, 05:00:49 am
Eating brekkie before I resume packing for a cycling holiday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 18 August, 2009, 05:31:51 am
Tring to cool down without waking her up by freezing her to death.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 20 August, 2009, 05:15:22 pm
Thanks to spending the last 12 years carefully teaching Mrs Mike that I'm rubbish at shopping, I've been parked at a harbour-front bar in crete with firm instructions to the barman not to let my glass run empty before she's done.

And the beer is cold and there are tanned lovelies *everywhere*.  Damn, I hope she's having fun too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 21 August, 2009, 07:55:14 am
In an Internet Cafe in Truro, waiting for a bus.  Have just stumbled off the Sleeper from London.  Ok, so a 14.5 hour journey from Derby to a remote village on the North Cornwall Coast is excessive in this day-and-age, but the sheer novelty of getting the bulk of the journey done while asleep is worth it.

And the Newquay to Padstow bus is likely to be a double-decker.  So at last I'll be able to see the views - higher than the hedgerows.  Like switching from recumbent to conventional in the rest of the country.

And my Brompton-spotting count is +1.  A green one alighted the sleeper day coaches at Truro.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 21 August, 2009, 08:13:45 pm
Quote from: nutkin on 15 August, 2009, 05:24:48 pm
Trying to think of people I know who like toffee. I don't, and I have quite a bit of it. Any takers?

(it should have been fudge, but the sugar got too hot) :-[

I loves toffeeeeeeeeeee :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 August, 2009, 09:25:01 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 21 August, 2009, 08:13:45 pm
Quote from: nutkin on 15 August, 2009, 05:24:48 pm
Trying to think of people I know who like toffee. I don't, and I have quite a bit of it. Any takers?

(it should have been fudge, but the sugar got too hot) :-[

I loves toffeeeeeeeeeee :)

Too late, she's gone off to fur'n parts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 22 August, 2009, 08:32:57 pm
Just broke my fast and feeling like I'm going to explode despite only having half a plate of chickpea salad and two samosas.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 August, 2009, 09:05:33 pm
Glass of wine in the deep evening gloom of the garden. 
It's too dark to do any more. 
Beautifull still night, no stars, the occasional sound from the domestic beasts in nearby fields and reading YACF.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 23 August, 2009, 03:56:35 pm
Sharing lots of hugs &  :-* with grand-daughter.She has just got back from a 3 week holiday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 26 August, 2009, 07:38:14 pm
Just got in from a day in dat dere Lundun filiming in a bar for Rogue Traders. Lots of waiting and BBC1 style slapstick. I was one of the lucky ones by all accounts - at least I got a kitchen out of the bastards we were nailing - Rock Solid Kitchens, in case you want to know.

I stuck to the margins with the pantomime stuff and I'm not sure I'll feature too much on the final version. We'll see. Bit of a waste of a day, all in all...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 August, 2009, 10:15:45 pm
Watching Shooting Stars.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 26 August, 2009, 10:19:23 pm
Listening to the rain and going over to watch 4OD online.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 August, 2009, 11:14:13 pm
New bike, new bike, new bike!!! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 26 August, 2009, 11:16:56 pm
Making turkey burgers with blue goo on my hair.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 August, 2009, 07:51:35 am
Quote from: andygates on 26 August, 2009, 11:16:56 pm
Making turkey burgers with blue goo on my hair.  :)

You are Bernard Matthews' wife, and ICMFP.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CommuteTooFar on 27 August, 2009, 02:23:08 pm
At the moment I am copying files from my Windows box to my Mac Box.  An hour the Mac claims. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 27 August, 2009, 02:32:59 pm
Making  bubbles in water and sticking bits of rubber on where the bubbles come out. What fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 27 August, 2009, 02:34:30 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 27 August, 2009, 02:32:59 pm
Making  bubbles in water and sticking bits of rubber on where the bubbles come out. What fun.

I fart in the bath too, but the condom thing is new to me.

I'm impressed.  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 27 August, 2009, 02:48:54 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 27 August, 2009, 02:34:30 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 27 August, 2009, 02:32:59 pm
Making  bubbles in water and sticking bits of rubber on where the bubbles come out. What fun.

I fart in the bath too, but the condom thing is new to me.

I'm impressed.  :o

  ;D  ;D

Quote from: toekneep on 27 August, 2009, 02:32:59 pm
Making  bubbles in water and sticking bits of rubber on where the bubbles come out. What fun.
You  can get a Blue Peter badge for that dontyaknow ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 27 August, 2009, 02:50:00 pm
Quote from: alan on 27 August, 2009, 02:48:54 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 27 August, 2009, 02:34:30 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 27 August, 2009, 02:32:59 pm
Making  bubbles in water and sticking bits of rubber on where the bubbles come out. What fun.

I fart in the bath too, but the condom thing is new to me.

I'm impressed.  :o

  ;D  ;D

Quote from: toekneep on 27 August, 2009, 02:32:59 pm
Making  bubbles in water and sticking bits of rubber on where the bubbles come out. What fun.
You  can get a Blue Peter badge for that dontyaknow ;D

All the holes are fixed now and I'm bored. Anyone got a pin?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 27 August, 2009, 02:52:17 pm
Is that to open the glue tube so that you can start glue sniffing :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CommuteTooFar on 27 August, 2009, 03:41:34 pm
Quote from: CommuteTooFar on 27 August, 2009, 02:23:08 pm
At the moment I am copying files from my Windows box to my Mac Box.  An hour the Mac claims. 

It lied but it has finished now.  I have the test data, I am going to make a kernel panic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 27 August, 2009, 04:47:20 pm
watching Shooting Stars on iPlayer.

working from home's great :D
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Post by: oncemore on 27 August, 2009, 07:49:57 pm
3/5th of a mile in 10 seconds....GO!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 28 August, 2009, 03:15:10 pm
I am contemplating writing up my E2E diary in Ride Reports.Problem being,it's 21 pages long & I am by nature a lazy sod :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 28 August, 2009, 05:06:41 pm
supping a beaker of Bovril and then going home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 August, 2009, 05:08:27 pm
On a train to Wales with a Woolly and two Long Haul Truckers :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 28 August, 2009, 05:10:25 pm
Quote from: alan on 28 August, 2009, 03:15:10 pm
I am contemplating writing up my E2E diary in Ride Reports.Problem being,it's 21 pages long & I am by nature a lazy sod :-\
I'm a big lazy sod and learned quickly to write something like that in electronic form, because copy an paste is your best friend when lazy ;)  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 28 August, 2009, 05:11:23 pm
getitng ready to ride to Oban
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Post by: αdαmsκι on 28 August, 2009, 06:25:46 pm
Making veggie curry for tomorrows dinner. At the same time, there's a pot of chutney simmering away in a bid to reduce the glut of apples and plums. Now I need to get rid of some of the blackberries that I got yesterday. And NO :hand: I am not making another crumble because there freezer is already full of crumble from the apple & plum glut!


Quote from: peliroja on 28 August, 2009, 05:08:27 pm
On a train to Wales with a Woolly and two Long Haul Truckers :)
Have a super time away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 29 August, 2009, 12:02:04 am
Watching the Kaiser Chiefs on BBC3.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 August, 2009, 11:54:05 am
Playing about at th Centre for Alternative Energy :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 29 August, 2009, 11:55:42 am
Quote from: peliroja on 29 August, 2009, 11:54:05 am
Playing about at th Centre for Alternative Energy :)
:thumbsup: Good choice. You are about three miles from where I used to live, Corris that is. I hope the weather picks up for you, that is a rather wet part of the country I'm afraid. It's always worth popping around to the coast as it is often fine there when it's raining in Machynlleth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 29 August, 2009, 12:46:47 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 29 August, 2009, 11:54:05 am
Playing about at th Centre for Alternative Energy :)

You are cycling where I did all my early hill climbing training  ::-)

Isn't it a fab part of the world (weather permitting)? Our youngest did a season working at  CAT.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: longers on 29 August, 2009, 02:14:20 pm
Eating leftover mackerel and rice before tossing a coin to see whether I do the housework or go and fettle my new this morning second hand bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 29 August, 2009, 03:36:27 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 29 August, 2009, 11:54:05 am
Playing about at th Centre for Alternative Energy :)

They are due a legacy from my late Mother's will. You've reminded me that we really need to get on that solicitor's case.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 02 September, 2009, 07:29:54 pm
Waiting for breakdown recovery.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 September, 2009, 07:44:36 pm
Making a pie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 02 September, 2009, 08:00:32 pm
Digesting a somewhat delayed Sunday roast. It was very nice and worth waiting for. Sunday was fun too!  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 02 September, 2009, 08:03:08 pm
Finishing off all the food in the (holiday) house.  Fridge being switched off tomorrow when I leave, so Everything Must Go!

Including CAKE. :thumbsup:

Then washing-up and sweeping/hoovering the kitchen in a while. :(

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 September, 2009, 08:15:16 pm
You keep cake in the fridge?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 September, 2009, 08:16:49 pm
Doing the accounts with Mrs S (not a euphemism) and listening to Band of Horses, whilst the rain rattles on the Conservatory roof. Drinking wine ( a prerequisite when doing the accounts ).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 02 September, 2009, 08:17:10 pm
Going to see 2lvis Memphis
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 September, 2009, 08:47:50 pm
Thinking about consuming some food.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 02 September, 2009, 09:46:39 pm
Checking emails, after wishing my older daughter a happy b'day and enjoying some smoked trout served on a fresh baguette with some Cornish butter and some rocket salad...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 September, 2009, 11:22:36 pm
Drying off after cycling home directly into the wind driven rain. :-\

<mutter>I commute because I enjoy cycling... I commute because I enjoy cycling...</mutter> ;D

It did knock about 1.5 mph off of my normal average speed, so clearly 'orrible weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 September, 2009, 11:41:04 pm
Have just finished fettling a bike in the kitchen, now feeling guilty about the 2 days washing up in the sink, so I'm assuaging the guilt with a wee malt  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 03 September, 2009, 05:06:34 am
I'm "walking in Memphis"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 03 September, 2009, 05:27:52 am
Manufacturing Coving
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 03 September, 2009, 08:03:17 am
Quote from: clarion on 02 September, 2009, 08:15:16 pm
You keep cake in the fridge?
Troop Cake.  Crushed digestive biscuits, mixed with butter, treacle, lots of mixed fruit, cocoa powder, then topped with a thick layer of melted chocolate.  The fridge helps keep the chocolate from going too sticky.

Now; disposing of the 3 dead mice that last night's trap-setting enticed into a spring-assisted early demise.  The noise of one of the traps going off woke me during "Farming Today" - i.e. before 6am.  Now hoping that I can squeeze all my belongings into the rucksack before walking 1/4 mile for the first bus - 0955 (!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 03 September, 2009, 01:13:40 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 03 September, 2009, 05:06:34 am
I'm "walking in Memphis"

With your feet 10 feet over Beale?

We had a good few days in Memphis. The Graceland experience is a must, even if it is seriously over commercialised.

Keep your eyes (and ears) open when in the Beale area. Bands do impromptue sessions in the park.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 03 September, 2009, 05:42:20 pm
Planning and packing for my DIY 200k tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 03 September, 2009, 05:47:30 pm
Packing, eh? 

 ::-)

Some people can do audax.  Some just think they can.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 03 September, 2009, 06:29:39 pm
Waiting for Mr R to cook my birthday tea.

We're having lamb steaks, roast veg and mashed potato, with a very nice low alcohol rose wine from M&S*.




*It's part of their 'Lower' range.  Only £1.96** per 500ml bottle and still 9.5% ABV...



**Yep - that's right... only £1.96 per bottle!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 03 September, 2009, 06:31:10 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 03 September, 2009, 06:29:39 pm
Waiting for Mr R to cook my birthday tea.

We're having lamb steaks, roast veg and mashed potato, with a very nice low alcohol rose wine from M&S*.




*It's part of their 'Lower' range.  Only £1.96** per 500ml bottle and still 9.5% ABV...



**Yep - that's right... only £1.96 per bottle!!!!

Penbwlydd Hapus Regulator!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 03 September, 2009, 06:34:27 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 03 September, 2009, 06:31:10 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 03 September, 2009, 06:29:39 pm
Waiting for Mr R to cook my birthday tea.

We're having lamb steaks, roast veg and mashed potato, with a very nice low alcohol rose wine from M&S*.




*It's part of their 'Lower' range.  Only £1.96** per 500ml bottle and still 9.5% ABV...



**Yep - that's right... only £1.96 per bottle!!!!

Penbwlydd Hapus Regulator!

Thank you sweetie!   :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 September, 2009, 09:08:08 pm
Happy day, Reggie!

I'm currently procrastinating, when I should be writing my 'Self Assessment'.  :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 September, 2009, 11:49:31 pm
Halfway through. Phew! At least I've got something to build on now.

Now, dodo. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz   O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 September, 2009, 06:57:31 am
Wondering if my back pain will ever go away.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 04 September, 2009, 07:19:10 am
getting ready for my 7.30 call.  Good job we dont use the video calling on Skype or my client in Australia would see me in my stripy dressing gown.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 04 September, 2009, 07:20:58 am
Off to pick up a parcel from the Sorting Office, not sure which one of several deliveries it is, but hopefully the geekiest, with shiny new toy. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 04 September, 2009, 07:36:08 am
Going to work  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 04 September, 2009, 09:18:21 am
Quote from: clifftaylor on 04 September, 2009, 07:36:08 am
Going to work  :'(

At work :'( :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 September, 2009, 09:20:37 am
Quote from: mike on 04 September, 2009, 07:19:10 am
getting ready for my 7.30 call.  Good job we dont use the video calling on Skype or my client in Australia would see me in my stripy dressing gown.
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 04 September, 2009, 09:09:29 pm
Watching French TV...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 September, 2009, 09:30:48 pm
Quote from: Frenchie on 04 September, 2009, 09:09:29 pm
Watching French TV...

Bad luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 04 September, 2009, 09:36:42 pm
Looking forward to going on MY choice of hols tomorrow - a week in a caravan at Barmouth.

Herself's choice was a coach tour of Turkey in July - just about hit the "OK I suppose" category from my perspective. But I guess the wife will feel the same about Wales!

And the new Brompton is packed ready! Who cares if it rains....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 September, 2009, 09:40:21 pm
A coach tour? *shivers*  :-X

I take my hat off to you for surviving it! Enjoy Barmouth. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 04 September, 2009, 09:46:03 pm
Quote from: Basil on 04 September, 2009, 09:30:48 pm
Quote from: Frenchie on 04 September, 2009, 09:09:29 pm
Watching French TV...

Bad luck.

Pretty good, compared to the other available channels tonight!  ;)

Planning to watch Spinal Tap on ITV4 later on though...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 04 September, 2009, 10:33:50 pm
Correcting a paper it's taken about 5 years to write (don't ask).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 04 September, 2009, 10:34:35 pm
LIstening to the wireless and drinking Leffe
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 04 September, 2009, 11:09:42 pm
Leaving for HPC and the start of the FNRttC to Whitstable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 September, 2009, 01:06:22 am
Waiting for Woolly to come to bed before he wakes me up. If you get me, 'bro.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 September, 2009, 11:05:24 am
Eating my 2nd breakfast in Eric's cafe in Tremadog  :-P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 05 September, 2009, 02:19:50 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 05 September, 2009, 11:05:24 am
Eating my 2nd breakfast in Eric's cafe in Tremadog  :-P

Eric's cafe, I know it well. I interrupted Chris Bonnington (when the loos used to be outside) whilst he was er,... tucking it away. Well it was his own fault for not locking the door.  ;D

I have just loaded the panniers, tent and front bag onto the bike just to check everything is OK. Departure day is five days, fourteen hours and counting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: keepontriking on 05 September, 2009, 03:41:36 pm
Changing a blow out on back wheel of Bike Friday (bead away from casing); a rear puncture on the Roberts and a new rear gear cable too.

And putting yet another new piece of felt on top of the rotten wood that makes up the old shed roof.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 September, 2009, 05:40:34 pm
Trying to keep from crying.......

I'm having a beer in "The Lion" at Tudweliog, there is a big metal slide and a set of swings in the beer garden.  Same ones I played on every summer as a child after a day on the beach...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 September, 2009, 06:18:05 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 05 September, 2009, 02:19:50 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 05 September, 2009, 11:05:24 am
Eating my 2nd breakfast in Eric's cafe in Tremadog  :-P

Eric's cafe, I know it well. I interrupted Chris Bonnington (when the loos used to be outside) whilst he was er,... tucking it away. Well it was his own fault for not locking the door.  ;D

Tree Mud Rock. :) I know it well.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 September, 2009, 06:30:48 pm
Eric's is for sale if anybody fancies going into business.... have to make sure the photo collection is included though.. esp the one of him basejumping off the Nebo TV mast !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 September, 2009, 07:54:50 pm
Waiting for a curry to be delivered. :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 06 September, 2009, 08:31:18 am
Quote from: peliroja on 05 September, 2009, 06:18:05 pm
Tree Mud Rock. :) I know it well.  :thumbsup:

Is that a variation on Rock Paper Scissors ?

;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 September, 2009, 09:49:21 pm
Currently I'm contemplating the amount of travelling I'll be doing over the next two months. Croatia (but holiday so doesn't really count), Scotland, Netherlands, France, Germany... I'd better start taking my vitamins.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 06 September, 2009, 09:54:54 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 06 September, 2009, 09:49:21 pm
Currently I'm contemplating the amount of travelling I'll be doing over the next two months. Croatia (but holiday so doesn't really count), Scotland, Netherlands, France, Germany... I'd better start taking my vitamins.  :-\

Take your running shoes. There's nothing better to enjoy work travel than getting your trainers to go and see the place(s) before breakfast! It can be good for one's health too!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 06 September, 2009, 09:56:03 pm
Surfing on YACF.

Wondering why riding sports bikes, enjoying riding at pace and wearing "racing kit" make me a bad person too...  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 September, 2009, 09:56:32 pm
Good idea, Frenchie. Some of the hotels have pools so I'll try to get some swimming done, too!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 08 September, 2009, 01:01:22 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 05 September, 2009, 11:05:24 am
Eating my 2nd breakfast in Eric's cafe in Tremadog  :-P

Eric's Cafe!

Many a happy and needed meal eaten in there. I cut my leading teeth accross the road on 'Chrsitmas Curry' :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 08 September, 2009, 01:24:21 pm
Laughing- we have a job applicant whose previous experience is as a fettler. A pro!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 September, 2009, 06:50:39 pm
Packing for Croatia!  :D

Looks like I'll need my cag!  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 September, 2009, 06:51:52 pm
Packing for Cornwall.   ;D

What's a cag?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 September, 2009, 06:54:48 pm
A Kagoul.

I think this word was introduced in the 1970s to replace "anorak".

I remember my wife's great aunt May getting hold of the wrong end of the stick and referring to a kagoul as a "goolie".

There were stifled titters - my in-laws tend to be a pretty straight-laced bunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 September, 2009, 06:58:45 pm
Cag was probably one of my first words, growing up as I did walking toddling being carried in the back-pack  ;D up many a mizzly Lakeland fell.  ;) 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 September, 2009, 07:03:38 pm
Ah, google returns a non-sexual gay male online community, and a cheap anorak-in-a-bag.    :thumbsup:

Oh, and a myriad of different spellings   :D

I'll be packing my 'cag' too; that is, my cag of the waterproof jacket variety  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 September, 2009, 07:05:08 pm
It seems the rain will follow us all the way from Dubrovnik to Split...  :-\

Oh well!

Have fun in Cornwall, PB!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 September, 2009, 07:08:03 pm
Will do.  You enjoy rain-running in Croatia  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 09 September, 2009, 10:54:17 am
Sitting by the Thames at Richmond during a break on an e bay investigators course.     
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 September, 2009, 12:39:23 pm
On a train to Gawick having knackered our backs lugging heavy camping gear and bikes to Victoria
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 09 September, 2009, 12:49:24 pm
Eating baked beans in tomatoe sauce that have been chilled in the fridge since last night.yummy :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 September, 2009, 01:12:13 pm
Panicking hugely as Easyjet won't take our bikes the way we've packed them... Woolly on urgent mission to the North Terminal for bike boxes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 01:20:23 pm
They were happy to take a bike that was packed with less cardboard 2 years ago but not any more. At south terminal now hope they got boxes that fit my big bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 September, 2009, 01:33:03 pm
Backing up the discs on my office PC, since there were some warnings from the disc SMART drivers when I booted it up, and it only went into Windows with a bit of prodding.

Copying the entire contents off onto one of the servers seems like a very good idea when you get something like that!

...of course, it is going to take seven hours to complete. :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 09 September, 2009, 01:34:12 pm
Worrying a little bit on behalf of Woolly and Peli. I don't think I could handle that sort of stress. Hope it works out OK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 01:36:13 pm
On the bus back to south terminal. Got boxes, fecking same size as the ones I got from the bike shop and I dought if mine can fit cause of the racks etc. And the reason for why I packed the bikes up as we did. Pictures to follow for sure.

Stay tuned for date on peli and woolly saga to Croatia, will they manage or have a nice holiday at home with a some riding around in the south of England .....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 September, 2009, 01:42:02 pm
This is why I steer clear of aeroplanes (amongst other reasons).

Best of luck you two!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 September, 2009, 01:46:27 pm
Fingers crossed!  Blimmin EasyJet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 02:15:27 pm
Bike boxed in check in  queue only 15 late to our planned time. So now the odds looks like we can use our passport on our holiday, stay tuned.  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 September, 2009, 02:17:29 pm
Good stuff.  Hope you didn't have to do any more dismantling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 09 September, 2009, 02:24:08 pm
Phew, please don't do that to us again. I'm going to have to go and have a lie down now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 02:56:01 pm
We made security an only peli beeped and the good news is that I can pull my belt in one notch extra. Now waiting for a gate number.

And now relax, it's holiday  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 September, 2009, 02:56:39 pm
I've always used the big CTC plastic bags with pipelagging or bubblewrap on the frame when flying with Easyjet. Only problem was coming back from Geneva when they insisted I take the front wheel off.  Hope all is now OK and that you have a good holiday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 03:05:30 pm
And a pint of Stella, while peli is shopping, boy did I need a drink after this.  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Naggers on 09 September, 2009, 03:10:12 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 03:05:30 pm
And a pint of Stella, while peli is shopping, boy did I need a drink after this.  

Peli shopping?!!  :o

Have a great holiday  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 September, 2009, 03:12:58 pm
Quote from: Naggers on 09 September, 2009, 03:10:12 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 03:05:30 pm
And a pint of Stella, while peli is shopping, boy did I need a drink after this.  

Peli shopping?!!  :o

Have a great holiday  :thumbsup:


Yeah, looking for a posh frock with matching handbag and heels.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 03:31:56 pm
She was getting a sporty overtheshoulderboulderholder ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 09 September, 2009, 04:08:22 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 03:31:56 pm
She was getting a sporty overtheshoulderboulderholder ;)

This thread is nothing etc.

:D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 06:57:42 pm
Landed, got stamped found the hold luggage but have only seen the bikes but not found them
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 September, 2009, 08:12:22 pm
Sitting in a state of "I should just go to bed..." after a 7 hour day working, followed by a 200 mile non-stop drive home from Bristol.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 September, 2009, 10:41:28 pm
Cosy in tent at "Camping Kate" s of Dubrovnik having scoffed a delicious and cheap meal over the road - carbonara for Woolly that he waxed on about, and mushies pizza for me. Phew! The airport business was stressful but Woolly and I work together well as a team, aka I refrained from having a ginger moment and instead charmed the left luggage chap into lending us reams of parcel tape and sharp things ;) 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 10 September, 2009, 11:22:44 am
Taking advantage of the benefits of the recently acquired laptop & working on the patio in the sunshine.Working in the loose sense of the word.The mobile is with me so I am available ;)
This is the calm before the storm of having to achieve 5 days work between midday Friday & 1700 hrs Sunday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bigsybaby on 10 September, 2009, 12:41:46 pm
I am making bread and I am just waiting for the dough to rise.

Then I'll wack it in the oven.

Then while its still piping hot I will put lashings of butter on and consume.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 10 September, 2009, 06:55:51 pm
Sitting by our tent on a lovely little campsite a gnat's twitch away from the beautiful sea. The coastal road from Dubrovnik to Split may be busy, but the views and situations are worth it.
I do need a cup of tea , however. Hopefully we'll be able to buy gas in the morning.
Night all!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 September, 2009, 07:12:38 pm
Well done for your airport triumph! Looking forward to the pictures and ride report.

I shall finish my cup of coffee and then cycle to my tai chi class, where I shall carry some tigers to some mountains.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 10 September, 2009, 09:36:11 pm
Quote from: Naggers on 09 September, 2009, 03:10:12 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 09 September, 2009, 03:05:30 pm
And a pint of Stella, while peli is shopping, boy did I need a drink after this.  

Peli shopping?!!  :o


More weight in the paniers...  ::-)

No!?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 11 September, 2009, 07:13:31 am
having woken up at ungodly-o'clock and got the early train full of surprisingly chatty commuters, am suited and booted in a cafe on regent street *early* for my 7.30 meeting.  That'll show the bastards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 September, 2009, 10:13:52 am
In Bosnia! Made good progress this am so we're rewarding ourselves with an early lunch :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 September, 2009, 02:54:33 pm
Made it, a fifty mile day in baking heat, lots of lumps, and lorries hurtling by... Worth it for this beautiful clear blue sea and mountains I'm looking at right now. Now having an ice cream while Woolly finds us a campsite :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 September, 2009, 07:30:10 pm
Woolly did find a campsite... Five miles on. We swam in a beautiful sea after a yummy meal of stodge, looking at the sunset!
Now hopefully the night gusts will dry our clothes!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 September, 2009, 07:38:36 pm
Playing with an energy monitor I borrowed from the library.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 11 September, 2009, 07:39:36 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 11 September, 2009, 07:30:10 pm
Now hopefully the night gusts will dry our clothes!

This is a pleasant pine-scented breeze you are talking about?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 September, 2009, 06:37:08 am
The night gusts kept us awake badly last night.
Yaaawn, morning all...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 September, 2009, 06:38:20 am
Well you shouldn't have given Woolly that curry...  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 12 September, 2009, 06:40:35 am
Despairing about my weight, again.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 September, 2009, 06:44:50 am
Quote from: Gordy on 12 September, 2009, 06:40:35 am
Despairing about my weight, again.  :-[

I put on a lot of weight during and since my August tour. I'm back up to 17½ stone, which is very annoying. I put it down to appetite increase during the tour staying with me when I've stopped cycling 50-odd mpd.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 12 September, 2009, 07:07:21 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 12 September, 2009, 06:44:50 am
Quote from: Gordy on 12 September, 2009, 06:40:35 am
Despairing about my weight, again.  :-[

I put on a lot of weight during and since my August tour. I'm back up to 17½ stone, which is very annoying. I put it down to appetite increase during the tour staying with me when I've stopped cycling 50-odd mpd.

That's my weight too - 17st 7.6 lbs this morning.
I was 15 st 4 last Christmas and have cycled 5000 miles since then.
I just eat too much, like an addict.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 September, 2009, 09:09:59 am
Eating breakfast and watching Jonathan Creek on DVD.

(£17.99 for all four seasons from Play.  Bargain.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 September, 2009, 10:30:04 am
In a warm drizzle in Makarska, waiting for Woolly to buy FOOOOOD :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 12 September, 2009, 10:53:25 am
Glad to hear it is all going well!  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 12 September, 2009, 12:54:59 pm
Just finished checking our 200 route.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 12 September, 2009, 01:13:56 pm
Making plum jam!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 12 September, 2009, 04:55:04 pm
Messing about with strange french dynamo that mounts like a kick stand, the dyno is actualy inside a drum shaped like the bouncing bomb and drives directly inline from the surface of the tyre.

Brand name "Soubitez" ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 September, 2009, 05:32:10 pm
Sounds like a Bottom Bracket Dynamo.  Soubitez do (or did) make them.  They've generally fallen out of favour, even though I found that they generally have better traction than bottle type dynamos, they did tend to suffer rather badly from water and road muck being thrown right into them, and eventually killing the mechanism.  I think the availability of decent hub dynamos have killed the bottom bracket market.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 12 September, 2009, 05:35:44 pm
I thought the same as well, I am usually quite good at reverse engineering stuff in my head just looking at it.

It is intresting though, a google reveals it's not that old a bit of kit, I don't have a rear brake on the fixed at the mo so it could work from the top if I bolt it to the empty bridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 12 September, 2009, 05:39:01 pm


I put on a lot of weight during and since my August tour. I'm back up to 17½ stone, which is very annoying. I put it down to appetite increase during the tour staying with me when I've stopped cycling 50-odd mpd.
[/quote]

That's my weight too - 17st 7.6 lbs this morning.
I was 15 st 4 last Christmas and have cycled 5000 miles since then.
I just eat too much, like an addict.
[/quote]

Just taken a fruit cake out of the freezer, I take it you don't want a piece ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 12 September, 2009, 05:41:18 pm
Quote from: Zoidburg on 12 September, 2009, 05:35:44 pm
It is intresting though, a google reveals it's not that old a bit of kit, I don't have a rear brake on the fixed at the mo so it could work from the top if I bolt it to the empty bridge.

I had one in 1982 or so.  The Soubitez was (IIRC) an imitation of the slightly more substantial Sanyo Dynapower  - which I had 1980-82. The Soubitez didn't last long (salt) and it slipped like buggery.  I went back to a bottle dynamo.

Mounting it on the brake bridge sounds like a much better plan than under the BB
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 September, 2009, 05:52:45 pm
I wondered about fitting one to a front rack, with a cut out in the mudguard for the dynamo 'wheel' to operate through, and providing some protection from the elements.  I never got around to doing it, but the dynamo is still around here somewhere.  It may well be a Soubitez one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robbo6 on 12 September, 2009, 05:57:56 pm
I had one mounted above the brake bridge. Point to note, in wet weather it sprays water over the back of the knees and thighs, so a cover of some kind is useful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 12 September, 2009, 06:21:41 pm
I'm feeling my thighs and wondering how the hell I'm going to "crap dance" all night at a wedding do tonight
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 12 September, 2009, 07:09:03 pm
After a lovely week in Barmouth (big wind, very little rain and 3 glorious sunny days - morning rides on the Brompton each day), back in the inner city and thinking......HOW do I get enough money to MOVE there?

Answer of course is I can't. Sad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 September, 2009, 07:15:04 pm
Quote from: Malcolm Volio on 12 September, 2009, 05:41:18 pm
Quote from: Zoidburg on 12 September, 2009, 05:35:44 pm
It is intresting though, a google reveals it's not that old a bit of kit, I don't have a rear brake on the fixed at the mo so it could work from the top if I bolt it to the empty bridge.

I had one in 1982 or so.  The Soubitez was (IIRC) an imitation of the slightly more substantial Sanyo Dynapower  - which I had 1980-82. The Soubitez didn't last long (salt) and it slipped like buggery.  I went back to a bottle dynamo.

Mounting it on the brake bridge sounds like a much better plan than under the BB

I was going to say I had a Dynapower (with a cool DIY job so I could switch it on while riding with a gear lever behind the seat tube :thumbsup: ).  The Soubitez did have a poor rep for water ingress.  And were known to slip, so a lot of people put a rubber surface on it.  My Sanyo was excellent. :smug:

Quote from: TimO on 12 September, 2009, 05:52:45 pm
I wondered about fitting one to a front rack, with a cut out in the mudguard for the dynamo 'wheel' to operate through, and providing some protection from the elements.  I never got around to doing it, but the dynamo is still around here somewhere.  It may well be a Soubitez one.

Seen a couple like that.  I thought about it, but it would have been awkward with my bar bag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 12 September, 2009, 07:26:48 pm
Having a rest from a puncture-fixing and tyre-swapping extravaganza.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 September, 2009, 07:29:21 pm
Just back at the tent after a big meal (Woolly ate a mixed grill for two people...) And realised the wedding we've just witnessed in town has joined us on the campsite :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 September, 2009, 07:04:52 am
Preparing, and about to leave for the Foulness WARTY (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=19914.0).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 September, 2009, 07:49:49 am
Working.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 13 September, 2009, 11:21:12 am
Not doing a DIY 200.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 September, 2009, 11:38:02 am
Quote from: Greenbank on 13 September, 2009, 11:21:12 am
Not doing a DIY 200.

Oversleep?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 13 September, 2009, 12:02:32 pm
Preparing the route sheet for our 200/400
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 13 September, 2009, 05:47:08 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 13 September, 2009, 11:38:02 am
Quote from: Greenbank on 13 September, 2009, 11:21:12 am
Not doing a DIY 200.

Oversleep?

Tired (late night last night), OU Maths Assignment to do, stuff to do round house, etc.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 September, 2009, 06:04:00 pm
Waiting for the kitchen floor to dry, and wondering what's best for getting bike muck off the lino :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 September, 2009, 06:58:09 pm
Quote from: clarion on 13 September, 2009, 06:04:00 pm
Waiting for the kitchen floor to dry, and wondering what's best for getting bike muck off the lino :-\

WD40
lemon juice
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 September, 2009, 07:20:03 pm
Ta.  I'd tried mopping it with extra Milton, which helped...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 September, 2009, 07:23:25 pm
Sitting in the kitchen, watching the young'uns making dinner.

C'mon you lot - I'm hungry!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 13 September, 2009, 07:34:00 pm
Quote from: clarion on 13 September, 2009, 07:20:03 pm
Ta.  I'd tried mopping it with extra Milton, which helped...
Some of the ecover cream cleaner might help, too. :) :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 13 September, 2009, 07:37:51 pm
Cooking: Duck, garlic and mushroom sauce... The steamed broccoli and cauliflower are ready! Bon appetit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 September, 2009, 07:39:51 pm
In our tent in Trogir... What a magical place!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rusky on 13 September, 2009, 08:12:27 pm
Scanning in a 16 page manual for a cooker as I can't find an electronic version online
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 September, 2009, 01:48:55 pm
Survived a humungous storm las night with minimal dampness. However, we were eaten alive by mosquitos, and I've broken a tooth this morning eating an incongruous doughnut. Bugger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 14 September, 2009, 01:54:01 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 14 September, 2009, 01:48:55 pm
Survived a humungous storm las night with minimal dampness. However, we were eaten alive by mosquitos, and I've broken a tooth this morning eating an incongruous doughnut. Bugger.

  :)

Um wrong smiley.

I meant:

 :(

Hope it doesn't prevent you enjoying the remaining days away!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 14 September, 2009, 04:40:45 pm
Trying to work out how to space the bannister spindles on a staircase.  The distance means I can't space them the same as the other bannister's spindles and have the same space at the posts.  Should I reduce the overall spacing or keep it the same but leave smaller gaps at the ends?

I've finished finding out that I bought the wrong nails for the joist hangers I am using. They are 2 cm longer than the tables specify which hopefully is an error in the right direction as the shop is 50 miles away and only had one size anyway.  Going to take a lot of hammering in though :(

These are all quite normal problems..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rusky on 14 September, 2009, 06:02:22 pm
Quote from: asterix on 14 September, 2009, 04:40:45 pm
Trying to work out how to space the bannister spindles on a staircase.  The distance means I can't space them the same as the other bannister's spindles and have the same space at the posts.  Should I reduce the overall spacing or keep it the same but leave smaller gaps at the ends?

I've finished finding out that I bought the wrong nails for the joist hangers I am using. They are 2 cm longer than the tables specify which hopefully is an error in the right direction as the shop is 50 miles away and only had one size anyway.  Going to take a lot of hammering in though :(

These are all quite normal problems..

 I've always wondered about spindle spacing which is mine is still sheeted over!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 14 September, 2009, 07:04:38 pm
Stealing my mother's keyboard to type stupid remarks on her forum  :demon:



Note to self: Log out when you go out.... Doh!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 September, 2009, 11:07:07 pm
Having fettled a bike, I've given myself a haircut and also given the pelt a good going over with the clippers.  Now relaxing with a late beer  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 September, 2009, 11:58:29 pm
We're fighting with an interminable form for The Bastards, the bastards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 September, 2009, 05:39:21 am
Enduring a massive storm with huge winds battering our little Blacks Octane, river running thru tent,  staying warm and dry on our downmats while other tents around us decamp to the loo block...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 18 September, 2009, 10:00:34 pm
Sitting in my mate Tommy's house in Den Haag, Netherlands having attended the Dutch Police bike training day in Amsterdam and then had dinner at a beach resteraunt at Den Haag. Life could be worse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 20 September, 2009, 06:13:28 pm
Sitting in my hotel room listening to Classic FM and missing Woolly, having packed him safely onto the 17:00 from Edinburgh Waverley to Kings Cross.

 :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 September, 2009, 09:05:20 pm
Sitting in my little tent on a Wiltshire campsite, sipping Bowmore from my flask and listening to what I think is a badger rootling around in a nearby thicket. Earlier on I saw a fine looking fox as well.  Hope my breakfast bangers are safe!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 September, 2009, 07:22:04 am
It's a beautiful morning, looking over mist wreathed fields, sipping a brew and cooking a fry up :-P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 September, 2009, 08:51:38 am
Defending my food stash from a very purry 3 legged Manx cat !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rdaviesb on 21 September, 2009, 08:57:30 am
Wondering why they've slowed this Pendolino train down from 125mph, to protect the facial features of a trespasser on the line.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 September, 2009, 09:04:22 am
Quote from: andrewc on 21 September, 2009, 08:51:38 am
Defending my food stash from a very purry 3 legged Manx cat !

LOL, if you're short a leg and a tail, you've got to do everything you can to get some noms.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 21 September, 2009, 09:11:16 am
Just finished burying our guinea pig Aero who died last night
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 21 September, 2009, 12:29:17 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 21 September, 2009, 09:11:16 am
Just finished burying our guinea pig Aero who died last night
  You realise there's a good days eatin' on one of those don't you?

Sorry I felt a bad taste (Pun not intended) moment there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 September, 2009, 04:04:47 pm
Sitting on the train having my seat back constantly kicked by the brat behind me.
Yes, I've spoken politely to mum.
Stupid, thick, idiot cow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 21 September, 2009, 04:14:04 pm
Looking round Mystic Seaport with my son :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 21 September, 2009, 04:16:35 pm
Sitting at my desk, nursing my "return to work" headache waiting for 1630 to roll around.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 September, 2009, 04:27:40 pm
Having a Bloody Good Larf at "spEak You're bRanes (http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/)"  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 21 September, 2009, 05:35:26 pm
Communicating with GillP via text :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 21 September, 2009, 06:21:50 pm
Feeling drained and knackered after a not very productive or useful day of meetings. And being criticised. And now have to go out and socialise in the name of work.

Need sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 21 September, 2009, 08:00:55 pm
Quote from: Pedaldog on 21 September, 2009, 12:29:17 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 21 September, 2009, 09:11:16 am
Just finished burying our guinea pig Aero who died last night
  You realise there's a good days eatin' on one of those don't you?

Sorry I felt a bad taste (Pun not intended) moment there.

Not on this one there wasn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 21 September, 2009, 09:33:55 pm
Rewarding myself with beer for filling in my tax return.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 21 September, 2009, 10:18:20 pm
Just back from dinner. Wasn't too bad after all. It was in fact great fun, delicious authentic Italian food cooked by an eccentric Italian with a Scottish accent. Il Positano in Edinburgh - recommended!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 21 September, 2009, 10:33:22 pm
Drinking tea and vicariously shopping for bikes for a colleague (anyone sees a 48cm frame going cheap, let me know...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 21 September, 2009, 10:37:36 pm
Trying to pour my brain back through my earhole after our Welsh lesson
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 September, 2009, 10:42:41 pm
Chatting on Facebook about Cisco stuff with two friends, one in Bermuda and one in a hotel in London. Finally I am getting why people use Facebook.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 21 September, 2009, 11:04:46 pm
Waiting for my car's battery to charge.

What a total PITA.

The battery is wedged under the window sill at the rear of the engine compartment.  Getting access to the positive terminal to remove the connector is a total pain.  Refitting the battery once charged will be similarly annoying.

Think it's the alternator.  Can't be arsed to fix it myself, so trip the the garage once the battery is charged and refitted (with much swearing).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jane Smart on 21 September, 2009, 11:07:06 pm
Playing world of warcraft in between surfing the net and posting on here :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 22 September, 2009, 09:02:58 am
Sitting in the hotel lobby eavesdropping on a Spanish conversation and contemplating another hard long day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 September, 2009, 01:57:03 pm
Enjoying my 2nd pint at the Crown and Trumpet in Broadway. The steak and chips wasn't bad either...
So far my ride back to Liverpool from the camping weekend has gone well, though my route from Alston Barnes to Boirton on the Water was tougher than I expected, I ended up putting the tent up in the dark!.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 22 September, 2009, 02:00:45 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 22 September, 2009, 01:57:03 pm
Enjoying my 2nd pint at the Crown and Trumpet in Broadway. The steak and chips wasn't bad either...
So far my ride back to Liverpool from the camping weekend has gone well, though my route from Alston Barnes to Boirton on the Water was tougher than I expected, I ended up putting the tent up in the dark!.

Did your route take you down Snow Hill into Broadway?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 22 September, 2009, 05:31:47 pm
on train back to the smoke sipping free tea in first class (it was cheaper than standard class!) And looking forward to getting home to woolly :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rdaviesb on 22 September, 2009, 06:26:36 pm
Twice in two days. Another idiot on the line just outside Wigan North Western station who deserves a bit of a fright from a Pendolino. I just want to get home........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 22 September, 2009, 06:36:14 pm
People watching in first class. Feeling rather scruffy and not caring in the slightest. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 22 September, 2009, 06:45:36 pm
Quote from: Pedaldog on 21 September, 2009, 12:29:17 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 21 September, 2009, 09:11:16 am
Just finished burying our guinea pig Aero who died last night
  You realise there's a good days eatin' on one of those don't you?

Clearly you've never eaten guinea pig if that's your opinion!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 September, 2009, 07:20:10 pm
Yes, down Snowshill , past the Manor (I remember the Samurai armour from a childhood visit) to Broadway.  I'm now slightly past Pershore, I had planned to stop at Alfrick, but the sky was looking dark and this campsite was handy so had an early finish. Too close to the M5 though, earplugs tonight!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 22 September, 2009, 07:48:50 pm
Wondering whether I'll find a decent job in Edinburgh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 September, 2009, 08:28:20 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 22 September, 2009, 07:20:10 pm
Yes, down Snowshill , past the Manor (I remember the Samurai armour from a childhood visit) to Broadway. 

Its a good descent! I got 48mph on there two weeks ago on my DIY 200km.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 22 September, 2009, 11:07:05 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 22 September, 2009, 07:20:10 pm
Yes, down Snowshill , past the Manor (I remember the Samurai armour from a childhood visit) to Broadway.  I'm now slightly past Pershore, I had planned to stop at Alfrick, but the sky was looking dark and this campsite was handy so had an early finish. Too close to the M5 though, earplugs tonight!

Unfortuneatley(sp) I had to grovel up it en route to Stroud.You were discussed this evening as we dined with the TKP's. Only kind words were spoken :)
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Post by: Charlotte on 23 September, 2009, 03:26:41 am
Sitting in Dubai airport wondering which of the three time zones I have available to choose from will make sense to my tired little brain.

Oh - and can someone please tell me why the hell is is that when there is abunduant free and nommy grub to be had, I don't fancy eating it?

Meh...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 September, 2009, 05:53:37 am
Quote from: Charlotte on 23 September, 2009, 03:26:41 am
Oh - and can someone please tell me why the hell is is that when there is abunduant free and nommy grub to be had, I don't fancy eating it?

You haven't been cycling enough?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 23 September, 2009, 08:20:22 am
*checks expanding waistline*

Uh-huh  :-[

Now I'm back in the sodding terminal building again because the lovely spangly double-decker hairyplane is b0rked.  Something about the hinges on the flaps, the driver said.

I've just nommed my way through a breakfast of lightly stewed figs, dates and apricots, accompanied by herby cheese balls, olives and yoghurt. Washed down with what I think may have been prune juice, but I'm not altogether sure.

*parp*

:smug:
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Post by: Adrian on 23 September, 2009, 08:23:30 am
Quote from: Charlotte on 23 September, 2009, 08:20:22 am

Something about the hinges on the flaps, the driver said.


Sounds important enough to warrant a second look
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Post by: clarion on 23 September, 2009, 09:34:18 am
They could get replacement hinges from Robert Dyas.  Be rayt. ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 23 September, 2009, 10:53:38 am
Perusing the Bike to Work scheme leaflet at Manchester Airport as I wait for my meeting.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 23 September, 2009, 10:57:33 am
Quote from: Jaded on 23 September, 2009, 10:53:38 am
Perusing the Bike to Work scheme leaflet at Manchester Airport as I wait for my meeting.

Did you get the train there ?  ;) ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 September, 2009, 11:09:04 am
Trying desperately to stay awake and write up my notes from yesterday's meetings.  I would normally work from home today (and therefore be able to take a quick nap) but due to being short-staffed I have to be at my desk.  It's so bad that I've already had a can of Red Bull.  I think I may have to pop some ProPlus after lunch.  :(
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Post by: andygates on 23 September, 2009, 11:11:28 am
Printing off a local-area map from Walking-Papers.org to do lazy paper mapping for OSM at lunchtime...
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Post by: CommuteTooFar on 23 September, 2009, 12:29:26 pm
Using three computers at once

Mac Mini One with kernel panics.
Mac Mini Two running  GDB attached to Mac Mini One
PC displaying documentation for GDB (and reading YACF)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 September, 2009, 03:45:59 pm
About to get stuck into paying some invoices, but just handed out payslips and having a bizarre conversation about kosher food.

Strange.  When I was young, folk would have known something about kosher (however inaccurate), but not halal.  Now, it's the other way round
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 September, 2009, 07:23:23 pm
Quote from: Chocolatebike on 23 September, 2009, 10:57:33 am
Quote from: Jaded on 23 September, 2009, 10:53:38 am
Perusing the Bike to Work scheme leaflet at Manchester Airport as I wait for my meeting.

Did you get the train there ?  ;) ;D



I did.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Andrew Br on 23 September, 2009, 07:45:50 pm
 :thumbsup:

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Post by: Jaded on 23 September, 2009, 08:05:00 pm
I'm sat here on the train on the way back, wondering if there is a connection between me only getting one free biscuit from the trolley (which is stuffed full of biscuits, and the coach is nearly empty) and the fact that the trolley person can hardly squeeze down the aisle.
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Post by: rusky on 23 September, 2009, 08:08:46 pm
I'm getting the bits together to fit my new Carradice panniers to the bike!
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Post by: Andrij on 25 September, 2009, 01:01:08 pm
Enjoying lunch on the company tab in Paris. Spent the entire train journey down in the buffet BAR.  *HIC*
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Post by: alan on 25 September, 2009, 03:52:28 pm
I am invoking the POETS-day policy 8)
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Post by: andrewc on 25 September, 2009, 08:29:58 pm
Slumping in front of my monitor slurping tea after getting home a few hours ago.  What a lovely trip!  Gorgeous countryside and I didn't need the waterproofs once. Slept with the tent door open every night.  No mechanicals or visitations, my neck was playing up a bit though.

I like this GPS routing malarkey, but will need to spend more time looking at contour lines next time, I routed myself over some horrendously hilly bits near Knightwick and had to make an emergency diversion via the A44 and B4214!

I also let the batteries in the Etrex run out and lost Andy's maps and my uploaded POI files? Must read the manual properly!
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Post by: IanDG on 25 September, 2009, 08:34:54 pm
listening to the Oyster Band (ride) and cooking a mushroom stroganoff (and drinking beer)
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Post by: SandyV on 26 September, 2009, 06:07:33 am
sneezing constantly from the dust storm - second one this week - the first one was supposedly a one in 1,000 year event!
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Post by: gordon taylor on 26 September, 2009, 08:48:22 am
Making two mugs of tea and feeling thankful that today isn't a work day,  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rusky on 26 September, 2009, 08:53:07 am
Quote from: Gordy on 26 September, 2009, 08:48:22 am
Making two mugs of tea and feeling thankful that today isn't a work day,  :thumbsup:
+1 to that!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 September, 2009, 08:58:57 am
Enjoying my first lie in in several weeks. This travelling lark is knackering.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 September, 2009, 09:03:25 am
Recovering after our younger daughter came to breakfast.

Actually she came last night but spent a good deal of it in front of the television. This morning, breakfast was a stressful affair, which is isn't meant to be. She has now gone for her driving lesson.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 September, 2009, 11:33:40 pm
Waiting for 2 large round chocolate cakes to cook and cool so that I can chop out bits and stick other bits together them cover 'em in further chocolate and then transform the resulting large chocolately creation into an eighth birthday cake in the form of a figure-of-eight (geddit!) racetrack by the simple addition of ready-roll icing, something (writing icing?  tic tacs?  I haven't thought through all the details yet) to look vaguely like road markings and some M&S chocolate racing cars.  The boy wanted a bit green square cake with tents made out of icing and a bike on it - but I don't think my sugarcrafting skills are up to making a bike, and I couldn't find his old playmobil bike, and wasn't convinced that I could make a convincing campsite out of cake and sugar anyway... And also looking at the books and various plastic stuff that need wrapping up for party bags whilst contemplating whether we can fit a birthday_bike ride into tomorrow as well as a laser-questing party and visit to a currently rather unwell granparent.

I'm probably ahead of schedule though.  Traditionally I wouldn't even have the cake in the oven by this time of night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 September, 2009, 11:34:44 pm
Basking in the glow of winning another item on ebay that I really wanted, but really cheap. :)
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Post by: JohnP on 27 September, 2009, 12:16:41 am
just finished ordering a spare battery and a couple of 4Gb CF cards for my nice new Olympus E-520.
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Post by: Jaded on 27 September, 2009, 12:31:23 am
Adapting my image gallery to get it ready for displaying uploaded photos automatically.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 27 September, 2009, 01:01:02 am
just got in from a gig. Eating cold pizza.
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Post by: peliroja on 27 September, 2009, 11:07:13 am
Working. Performance reviews, interview feedback, catch up from all the work I've missed this week as I've been travelling, and then I'll get down to my normal work. :)
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Post by: toekneep on 27 September, 2009, 01:21:16 pm
We removed the straps and foam bits from our helmets and gave them a wash. I've just spent about half an hour putting it back together again. Got it right at the third attempt I think.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 27 September, 2009, 01:34:03 pm
Booking flights to Rotterdam (work), ticking off a few things from my to-do list (work), and feeling absolutely knackered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 27 September, 2009, 01:45:43 pm
Just looking at the photos from our tour and YACF camping weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 27 September, 2009, 01:47:31 pm
Thinking that toekneep's Sunday is far more exciting than hers, and planning to eat some cheese on toast with garlic  :o in an attempt to balance this out. ;)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 September, 2009, 01:58:55 pm
Preparing to make a blackberry & apple pie and blackberry & apple muffins.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 27 September, 2009, 02:02:27 pm
Deciding if I should call hellymdic to see if i can go round and raid her spares for curly bars to cut down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 September, 2009, 02:21:21 pm
I've just enjoyed a lunch of smoked salmon & cold sausages. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 27 September, 2009, 02:27:48 pm
trying to decide which chair to fall asleep in.  My usual afternoon nap venue has a cat on it and I'm tempted by the sofa. 


Decisions, decisions.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 27 September, 2009, 02:40:33 pm
Getting bored by the second, I’m away house/doggie sitting, but one of the dogs is not well, so can’t go out for very long just went out for a quick 10 mile ride, I just hope the dog doesn’t die on me well it is very old.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robbo6 on 27 September, 2009, 04:06:46 pm
Waiting for a phone call to know whether it's safe to go back to France yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 September, 2009, 04:11:04 pm
I don't think we're at war with them any more, so it's probably ok.

I'm eating muffins. Lovely delicious blackberry & apple muffins.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robbo6 on 27 September, 2009, 04:21:14 pm
No, but they're making a TV film in Chateau Robbo, so I found something to do in England to keep out of the way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rusky on 27 September, 2009, 04:47:24 pm
I've just finished cleaning my bike, although it really needs a strip down to get rid of the accumulation of dirt from the drive train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 27 September, 2009, 05:35:42 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 27 September, 2009, 02:21:21 pm
I've just enjoyed a lunch of smoked salmon & cold sausages. :thumbsup:

surf & turf ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 September, 2009, 09:47:24 pm
Celebrating the fact that the German word for "toothpicks" is "tandenstokers". Well, according to the Oral B packet it is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gruff on 27 September, 2009, 09:50:55 pm
Quote from: rusky on 27 September, 2009, 04:47:24 pm
I've just finished cleaning my bike, although it really needs a strip down to get rid of the accumulation of dirt from the drive train.

I call that a "protective coating", and leave it well alone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 28 September, 2009, 01:36:12 pm
Butchering a presentation I'm giving on Wednesday so that I've got a fighting chance of not being cut off in mid flow ...
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Post by: TimC on 30 September, 2009, 01:53:39 am
Sitting in a hotel room in Sydney, waiting for my body to agree with my brain that it's tired and should bloody well be asleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 01 October, 2009, 10:38:59 am
Waiting for a phone interview.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 02 October, 2009, 12:17:44 am
And?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 02 October, 2009, 02:07:34 am
Ranting and fustration at not being ablee to thread some wheels and I'm checking to see if I've f*cked up (can't see how, but possible) or I fu*ked up the hub measuring (also possible, but can't seee how)

Arrrghhhhhhh it so annoying I can't get to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 02 October, 2009, 02:13:35 am
Schmoking a fag
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 02 October, 2009, 05:40:15 am
not sleeping
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 02 October, 2009, 05:51:07 am
Panic marking.  ::-)
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Post by: andygates on 02 October, 2009, 07:42:40 am
Porridge!  With cranberries and toasted almonds. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 02 October, 2009, 08:11:11 am
scrambled egg with a pinch of turmeric and a couple of rashers of grilled bacon, washed down with a double expresso.

should keep me going 'till I get to work at about 10:00
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 October, 2009, 09:22:42 am
Being pigged off & frustrated
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 02 October, 2009, 09:45:47 am
Quote from: Adrian on 02 October, 2009, 12:17:44 am
And?
It wasn't entirley flawless, but who knows what they're after or what they other people are like ??? Phone interviews are weird, IMO. Anyhow, I'll find out today if I'm to get a "proper" interview from the or not....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 October, 2009, 01:28:43 pm
Wishing I was still in bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 02 October, 2009, 02:00:43 pm
waiting to go home, I've been away house/doggie sitting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 02 October, 2009, 02:01:31 pm
Quote from: clarion on 02 October, 2009, 09:22:42 am
Being pigged off & frustrated

+1
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 02 October, 2009, 03:01:00 pm
Quote from: clarion on 02 October, 2009, 09:22:42 am
Being pigged off & frustrated
+1 while trying to retain some semblance of balance and calm in the face of Microsft's appalling fuckwittery with the Office 2007 interface.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 03 October, 2009, 11:01:39 am
Sitting at the 250km control waiting for riders. Horrible weather 36 and windy (Spring?) Meant 4 packed at 200 inc VeloYellow and Little Wheels and Big.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 03 October, 2009, 11:03:12 am
PS 8pm and still 27!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 03 October, 2009, 11:37:57 am
Getting ready to go diving for the first time since '93. Though it looks cold and very wet here in Denmark and that is without even looking at the sea yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 03 October, 2009, 11:45:59 am
Just about to pootle into Marlborough for an eye test.
I feel some prescription Oakleys coming on.
Not sure which ones yet, but I am tired of looking like a train spotter with my current geek glasses.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Martin109 on 03 October, 2009, 11:54:08 am
Waiting for my next counselling patient to arrive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 03 October, 2009, 12:07:12 pm
Sitting outside Tesco in Cambridge refuelling at the halfway point of my DIY Audax. Hoping the Forerunner will get enough charge in it to record the rest of the ride.

Might have to use the tribars a lot more on the way back, sodding wind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 October, 2009, 10:11:54 pm
Working. As ever, on a Saturday evening at the moment. Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 03 October, 2009, 10:37:50 pm
Just coming to the end of Lord of the Rings with my boys.
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Post by: epa611 on 03 October, 2009, 11:12:17 pm
Playing with my new iPhone 3GS 32gb :thumbsup:

Fabulous so far. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gaseous Clay on 04 October, 2009, 10:14:06 am
Drinking tea after having donated a pint of my blood.

I love tea!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 04 October, 2009, 10:16:22 am
Making porridge.

(Sunday porridge has syrup in it, weekday porridge has salt!)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 October, 2009, 11:30:12 am
Contemplating my trip to Delft tomorrow. And wishing I could just stop travelling for a bit!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 04 October, 2009, 11:31:50 am
Deeply, deeply regretting giving the dogs our leftover BEAN SOUP for their breakfast.   :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rusky on 04 October, 2009, 11:32:12 am
Errr, trying to softmod my Wii!
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Post by: mike on 04 October, 2009, 03:24:16 pm
watching the Arc.  Amazing horse, quite incredible finish.
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Post by: border-rider on 04 October, 2009, 03:28:15 pm
yes- stunning

Quite a galumphing style, but what a turn of speed, and a determination to not get blocked.

edit: just watched the replay, and the jockey was holding him back most of the race :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 October, 2009, 04:33:43 pm
Dealing with a massive leak from the upstairs flat's toilet into our toilet. Not pleasant.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 October, 2009, 05:02:04 pm
But luckily, the father of the upstairs tenant is a plumber, and has sorted it.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 04 October, 2009, 07:01:36 pm
Relaxing after a lovely day of cycling and socialising. Sipping a glass of wine to accompany the sun dried tomatoes and smelling lamb roasting in the oven. It doesn't get much better than this. (Unless of course you are veggie, in which case substitute something else for the lamb). (Or T total, in which case ...... oh bugger, why did I even start this post.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 05 October, 2009, 09:49:48 am
Listening to a builder dig gert big holes outside the back of my house to see if there's anything he can lay a foundation on. We suspect there might not be...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 October, 2009, 09:55:04 am
Quote from: toekneep on 04 October, 2009, 07:01:36 pm
Relaxing after a lovely day of cycling and socialising. Sipping a glass of wine to accompany the sun dried tomatoes and smelling lamb roasting in the oven. It doesn't get much better than this. (Unless of course you are veggie, in which case substitute something else for the lamb). (Or T total, in which case ...... oh bugger, why did I even start this post.)
Oh, I really love sun dried tomatoes... ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alexb on 05 October, 2009, 06:27:55 pm
Looking at eggshells with a laser beam whilst simultaneously surfing the web and drying bits of whalebone by means of high pressure and liquid carbon dioxide (the lab stinks).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 October, 2009, 08:28:01 pm
In the bath in a curiously quaint hotel room in Delft old town. It used to be a bakery, and to get to my room involves weaving inside and outside the building's archways, and climbing an outside set of what look like fire escape steps. Weird, but quirky. Right next to the canal, and old church. Shouldve brought earplugs...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jellied on 05 October, 2009, 10:02:29 pm
Feeling stressed - which is very rare for me.

In Paris for work, took the Brompton for the first time for a giggile but got a puncture leaving the house. Got to Paris to discover it flat again but found a fellow folder owner on the concourse with a pump.

Survved Paris tor traffic to find the hotel is more scarey than ever before. Dody looking youths everywhere.

Hide in bar and meet my boss who announces he's under a discplinary hearing. come home after not eating and find more dodgy people hanging around hotel.

tea was a twix and crips from vending from machine. not a good start to the week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 October, 2009, 10:19:42 pm
Oh dear jellied. My tea was a boiled sweet from the plane, which was so small I found myself pedalling. The plane, not the sweet.

Business travel. Glamorous? Hmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 05 October, 2009, 10:29:08 pm
The old church, or the new church in Delft, Peli?  The new church I think is from the 1600s, LOL!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 05 October, 2009, 10:32:50 pm
Scowling at my Brompton, which got a rear-wheel flat today at work; but since it's now past the Witching Hour (22:00 for fettling) I'm just preparing my running kit for tomorrow's wallow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 October, 2009, 10:58:22 pm
Not sure if old old or old new church. It's bloody noisy, that's all I know. As are the clodding fat lumps on the room above me who will get the sharp side of my tongue in a minute. Growl.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 08 October, 2009, 09:16:45 am
I've been dragged into a 2 day pitch to a new client.  It starts in about an hour, I only got involved yesterday. The team have done an awful job preparing for it, our proposal is woeful, our presentations are indescribably dull and a friend of the client has pretty much told me we're just there to make up the numbers.  Our CEO and COO have both flown in for it, not realising how bad it's going to be (their time would have been much more useful 2 weeks ago actually putting together the proposal) and I expect they'll do all the talking, leaving me almost nothing to say except talk about the weather.

I'm trying to treat it as 2 days away from email, except I'll have to deal with all of that outside working time or over the weekend.  I've just been told we've got a formal dinner with the client tonight too, so I cant even go to the gym.  I might try and swerve that, can I catch swine flu in 7 hours?


what is the bloody point?  They'd better have nice coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 October, 2009, 09:26:59 am
Oh, poor Mike. That sounds terrible.

I am doing this right now: trying to stay awake. I am getting old. All this business travel is not for me.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 October, 2009, 10:49:02 am
Restoring five files from a backup tape and then repeating the exercise, for different months, thirty times.  Or rather thirty times if the tapes from December 2004 and April 2005 haven't been eaten by rats.

I am ready to kill someone >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 October, 2009, 10:50:47 am
About to do a bunch of data entry.  Why am I doing this? ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 October, 2009, 11:12:16 am
Eating toast and marmalade  :thumbsup:

Mmmm... second breakfast...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 08 October, 2009, 06:36:47 pm
Quote from: mike on 08 October, 2009, 09:16:45 am

what is the bloody point?  They'd better have nice coffee.

update: the coffee is awful but the clients are nice (and one of them's really cute :D). 

It could be worse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: docsquid on 08 October, 2009, 06:40:58 pm
Reading a forum about keeping chickens and wondering if we are doing the right thing keeping them at the woods and not at home.  But Mr DS won't consider having them at home unless we are on holiday, or one of the chickens is poorly.

*worried*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 October, 2009, 07:56:26 pm
Quote from: docsquid on 08 October, 2009, 06:40:58 pm
Reading a forum about keeping chickens and wondering if we are doing the right thing keeping them at the woods and not at home.  But Mr DS won't consider having them at home unless we are on holiday, or one of the chickens is poorly.

*worried*

Aren't chickens "woodland" birds?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 08 October, 2009, 08:03:01 pm
Only got home a short time ago.  Family are at swimming training. I have lit the fire and I am now having my cold tea in front of the laptop, at the dinner table with BBC News 24 on.  Catching up on events.  I have lit the fire too so it is all snug when the wet gang get home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 October, 2009, 09:29:18 am
Being amazed at how busy the forum has been.  I was away from the Interwebs for one evening and now I'll have to spend all day here at the office catching up!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 09 October, 2009, 10:38:21 pm
Quote from: mike on 08 October, 2009, 06:36:47 pm
Quote from: mike on 08 October, 2009, 09:16:45 am

what is the bloody point?  They'd better have nice coffee.

update: the coffee is awful but the clients are nice (and one of them's really cute :D). 

It could be worse.

update again.  The other companies must have been awful, we might actually win the work...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 October, 2009, 10:55:16 pm
Quote from: mike on 09 October, 2009, 10:38:21 pm
update again.  The other companies must have been awful, we might actually win the work...

...and the cute client? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 10 October, 2009, 01:31:47 am
Listening to 'Les Nuits' by Nighmares on Wax.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 10 October, 2009, 06:18:16 am
Awake.  Damn dawn phenomenon.  The curse of diabetics.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 10 October, 2009, 06:19:14 am
me too.  Not the diabetic bit, but having got up at 5.30 every day last week my body decided I should enjoy the same today.  Joy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonyh on 10 October, 2009, 06:38:26 am

Trying to raise motivation for a short ride. And wondering why this is "difficult".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 10 October, 2009, 07:35:46 am
Misty, damp, but now bright.  No excuses Tony.  Weather is going to be lovely.  Perhaps wait for a bit as the weather forecast is bright.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 10 October, 2009, 07:37:23 am
Quote from: mike on 10 October, 2009, 06:19:14 am
me too.  Not the diabetic bit, but having got up at 5.30 every day last week my body decided I should enjoy the same today.  Joy.

I must admit, I am the same and it does not help.  Neither does trying to get amorous with one's partner when they are still trying to sleep.  A terrible Saturday is how that turns out.  Much safer to just get up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 October, 2009, 11:32:02 pm
I'm celebrating pomp & privilege. I'm drinking House of Commons whisky out of a Girton College whisky glass. Must go and fettle the duck island in my moat...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 10 October, 2009, 11:33:04 pm
Commons, darling?

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 October, 2009, 11:33:46 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 10 October, 2009, 11:33:04 pm
Commons, darling?

 ;)


Sorry, m'dear. It's the best I can do at the moment... ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 10 October, 2009, 11:54:40 pm
What am I doing? Waving. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 October, 2009, 12:36:53 am
Listening to some trance stuff, reflecting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 October, 2009, 01:30:34 am
Quote from: peliroja on 10 October, 2009, 11:54:40 pm
What am I doing? Waving. :)

Not drowning then? 
Good.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 11 October, 2009, 01:34:20 am
Noticing that Basil has just got back from the pub.

Waiting for basil to sit on his phone and ring me again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 October, 2009, 01:36:56 am
Quote from: Zoidburg on 11 October, 2009, 01:34:20 am
Noticing that Basil has just got back from the pub.

Waiting for basil to sit on the phone and ring me again.

Oh bugger, I didn't do that again did I Zoiders?  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 11 October, 2009, 01:41:46 am
Quote from: Basil on 11 October, 2009, 01:36:56 am
Quote from: Zoidburg on 11 October, 2009, 01:34:20 am
Noticing that Basil has just got back from the pub.

Waiting for basil to sit on the phone and ring me again.

Oh bugger, I didn't do that again did I Zoiders?  :-[
I was joking you silly bugger ;D

I thought it was quite funny at the time, eves dropping on the secret world of the middle aged.

 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 October, 2009, 01:51:21 am
Actually, I've been riding around the environs of Bournville for the last hour.  All the roads closed at 1 am 'cos of a half marathon on Sunday.  It passes through my area twice in different directions, so the whole area is closed off. 
There are already stewards on all the junctions, but they must have instructions to let bikes through 'cos everywhere I go they move the barriers to one side and wAve me through.   :thumbsup:
Gonna have another cup of coffee andc go out again in a mnute.  This is fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 October, 2009, 01:53:34 am
Quote from: Zoidburg

I thought it was quite funny at the time, eves dropping on the secret world of the middle aged.

 ::-)

Middle Aged?


I remember Middle Aged
 :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 11 October, 2009, 02:00:40 am
Quote from: Basil on 11 October, 2009, 01:53:34 am
Quote from: Zoidburg

I thought it was quite funny at the time, eves dropping on the secret world of the middle aged.

 ::-)

Middle Aged?


I remember Middle Aged
 :-[
The middle ages?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 11 October, 2009, 09:45:48 am
What am I doing?

Cursing my lurgy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 October, 2009, 09:54:47 pm
I'm hoping.

Should be fettling.

Well, should be sleeping, really, but fettling would do.

But I'm busy hoping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 October, 2009, 04:14:27 pm
Waiting for my Eurostar at Gare du Nord, and ruing my lack of sleep. The room was too big. It kept echoing and freaked me out all night!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 13 October, 2009, 05:39:32 pm
Waiting for a backup to complete so I can take the tape off site (well, home with me actually).  Sun is still out, sky is still blue, car hood is still down - hope I get out before the leather gets too damp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 October, 2009, 05:45:55 pm
I'm thinking..
mmm,perhaps that last post was a bit out of order ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 October, 2009, 06:19:19 pm
Giving my air guitar a right good thrashing (U2 silent karaoke) whist emptying & the restocking the dishwasher.Every man should have one
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 13 October, 2009, 06:30:35 pm
I am about to undergo DIY surgery :o
Actualy MIY: Marj It Yourelf as it were.
Then I can go from air guitar to real guitar once the steel splint in the end of my thumb is removed.It's a toss up between fainting &  :sick:
 ::-)

addendum. I've bottled it. I have found  a plectrum :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 18 October, 2009, 06:16:23 pm
Waiting for it to get dark so that I can road-test my new Cyo light on the front of the Brompton.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 18 October, 2009, 06:33:03 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 18 October, 2009, 06:16:23 pm
Waiting for it to get dark so that I can road-test my new Cyo light on the front of the Brompton.


I am doing the same wait ref my dyno-hub & Basta "pilot" light :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 18 October, 2009, 06:35:17 pm
Watching Jenson Button win the F1 championship
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 October, 2009, 06:36:47 pm
Well, it's dark now.  What are you waiting for?
Come on you two.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 18 October, 2009, 08:31:50 pm
Quote from: Basil on 18 October, 2009, 06:36:47 pm
Well, it's dark now.  What are you waiting for?
Come on you two.   

Goto "have you been out today"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 19 October, 2009, 02:36:22 pm
Supervising a group of 16 year olds taking "Key skills in Computing"

 Few of them want to be doing Key Skills in Computing :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 19 October, 2009, 07:29:51 pm
Revising for my Number Theory and Mathematical Logic exam tomorrow. Well, doing everything I can except that, until sense kicks in in about 30 minutes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 19 October, 2009, 10:58:05 pm
Unpeeling an Orange.  Stem's a bit stubborn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 19 October, 2009, 11:25:07 pm
Correcting doggerel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 October, 2009, 08:35:56 am
My face and lips are sore after the weekends ride...

Chafe Ease is very soothing......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 20 October, 2009, 09:22:49 am
Quote from: Deano on 19 October, 2009, 10:58:05 pm
Unpeeling an Orange.  Stem's a bit stubborn.
Would that be a friut or a bike then? :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 October, 2009, 10:42:48 pm
swearing!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 20 October, 2009, 10:45:30 pm
Quote from: alan on 20 October, 2009, 09:22:49 am
Quote from: Deano on 19 October, 2009, 10:58:05 pm
Unpeeling an Orange.  Stem's a bit stubborn.
Would that be a friut or a bike then? :demon:

Tsk.  What do you think?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 22 October, 2009, 04:24:37 pm
Making loadsa food :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 October, 2009, 07:49:54 pm
Digesting.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 October, 2009, 08:27:13 pm
Just worked out my route back from this (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=24908.0) tomorrow, and about to cycle home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 22 October, 2009, 08:58:28 pm
Trying to  navigate the labyrinth of on-line booking for cheapest  train travel,Stoke/Euston return.

There is actually on olde worlde milepost in the village high street that says
LONDON
120 miles.
So that would be 120 miles & approx 400 metres from front door to wherever the smoke begins.
 5 months ago I would have seen that as do-able in a day.DON'T THINK SO NOW :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 23 October, 2009, 12:11:45 pm
I made two Executive unilateral decisions this morning in consideration of the fact that it is Friday..

1) It's a dress-down day. No shave & jeans/t-shirt for work
2) It's POETS day : work will cease at 1300hrs.

Now I am browsing my JoGLE diary & marvelling ,not for the first time, at the fact that from JoG to Edinburgh is very nearly a third of the total mileage.
At the same time my thoughts are being loosely organised into a plan to ride C2C soonest.
Male multi-tasking ,whatever next ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 23 October, 2009, 12:22:09 pm
Recovering the wifi driver on my lappy which disappeared last night when I undocked. Done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 24 October, 2009, 12:12:53 pm
I am sat in an Iveco van in Wales with 7 other cops waiting for disorder so I can justify my pay.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 24 October, 2009, 02:04:55 pm
I am just about to examine a non-functioning light fitting with a neon screwdriver. If you never hear from me again, you will be able to guess why.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 24 October, 2009, 03:16:51 pm
Coughing.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 October, 2009, 03:58:02 pm
About to have a cup of tea sitting by the canal in the sun in Manchester. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 24 October, 2009, 05:51:17 pm
Sitting quietly wondering why my legs hurt so much after just a 46mile ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 24 October, 2009, 06:24:19 pm
Trying to recover my good humour, having spent some time going to B&Q to get a new light switch, replaced the old one, checked the wiring in the rose and in the pendant all to no avail.

Eventually found the problem, the other switch downstairs was neither on nor off, so the upstairs one was never going to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 24 October, 2009, 06:26:27 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 24 October, 2009, 06:24:19 pm
Trying to recover my good humour, having spent some time going to B&Q to get a new light switch, replaced the old one, checked the wiring in the rose and in the pendant all to no avail.

Eventually found the problem, the other switch downstairs was neither on nor off, so the upstairs one was never going to work.

There is nothing more irritating than an indecisive light switch.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 24 October, 2009, 06:29:08 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 24 October, 2009, 06:26:27 pm
  ;D

Oh, I don't know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 24 October, 2009, 06:34:40 pm
Downloading Ubuntu. Vista may well be on borrowed time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 October, 2009, 06:39:50 pm
Watching last week's Come Dine With Me and rolling my eyes at the pretentious wankers, and cursing AVG which won't download properly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: valkyrie on 24 October, 2009, 06:40:09 pm
Sweating profusely after an hour on the turbo trainer. Need to cool down for 5 minutes before I shower, otherwise it's pointless :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 October, 2009, 07:03:37 pm
Hiding down this end of the room from Mrs. B and Mrs. B snr who are settling down to Strictly GetMeOuttaHere
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 24 October, 2009, 07:05:06 pm
Quote from: Basil on 24 October, 2009, 07:03:37 pm
Hiding down this end of the room from Mrs. B and Mrs. B snr who are settling down to Strictly GetMeOuttaHere

What do you want to talk about Basil?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 October, 2009, 07:15:44 pm
Oh sorry Tony, I went to make a coffee.
Well, difficult to concentrate on chatting, too much irritating stuff flowing from the other end of the room to hold a rational conversation.
I'll probably bugger off to my on-line backgammon league and give someone a stuffing.  :demon: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 24 October, 2009, 07:26:09 pm
I shall concentrate on the food (smelling good) and drink (disappearing fast) in that case. Enjoy your backgammon.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 24 October, 2009, 07:58:34 pm
What a coincidence..we've just had gammon for tea with egg,chips & mushrooms :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 24 October, 2009, 09:00:55 pm
I am giving serious consideration to how I can regain the habit I had a couple of years ago of riding two evenings in the week & at least once at the weekend.
I need to force a schedule onto myself that will have least chance of interuption by work & other issues.
This will be the first step towards being ready for LEL 2013 :o

I know the underlying problem is ... boredom. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 October, 2009, 09:25:39 pm
Watching X-Factor and wishing they'd do a goth anthem week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 24 October, 2009, 09:32:52 pm
Squeaky out-of-tune teens stumbling through Severina?  The horror, the horror.

I'm just digesting faggots.  Mmm, faggots.  In rich westcountry sauce.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 24 October, 2009, 09:33:12 pm
Digging through some old photos...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 24 October, 2009, 09:37:55 pm
Quote from: andygates on 24 October, 2009, 09:32:52 pm
Squeaky out-of-tune teens stumbling through Severina?  The horror, the horror.

I'm just digesting faggots.  Mmm, faggots.  In rich westcountry sauce.

Clotted cream?


I'm just recovering from monster portions of apple and blackberry crumble, and having spent a considerable while making a small amount of rosehip jelly.  Fiddly job - I won't be rushing to do that again, though the result tastes jolly good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 October, 2009, 09:57:17 pm
Quote from: Quisling on 24 October, 2009, 09:37:55 pm
having spent a considerable while making a small amount of rosehip jelly.  Fiddly job - I won't be rushing to do that again, though the result tastes jolly good.

Isn't it just cook, mash, strain, boil, pot?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 26 October, 2009, 08:32:11 am
Getting ready for work an hour earlier than I normally would be. ;D

Gotta love the BST to GMT transition. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 October, 2009, 04:22:25 pm
Feeling utterly knackered after a weekend in Manchester, and not having had my usual at-least-one-full-day-sleeping on the weekend.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 26 October, 2009, 04:38:51 pm
97.8 mph.
Seriously winding up the motons on the M5, as even the BMWs disappear in our wake.
99.3 mph now.
Oh I like GPS.  And trains.
Bah.  We're stopping at Tiverton Parkway, so they're overtaking us back again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 October, 2009, 06:52:50 pm
Waiting for our veggie lasagne to cook  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 27 October, 2009, 06:19:16 pm
Trying to do some work, whilst laying in front of the open fire and with a G&T at my side. Mmmmmmmm gin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 27 October, 2009, 09:54:44 pm
eating birthday cake!    ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 27 October, 2009, 09:55:39 pm
Having another Lemsip, in between sneezes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 27 October, 2009, 10:13:06 pm
Quote from: mike on 27 October, 2009, 09:54:44 pm
eating birthday cake!    ;D ;D
Either you are a slow eater or it is a big cake *)

*) so there is room for the candles
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 28 October, 2009, 03:57:40 am
Quote from: woollypigs on 27 October, 2009, 10:13:06 pm
Quote from: mike on 27 October, 2009, 09:54:44 pm
eating birthday cake!    ;D ;D
Either you are a slow eater or it is a big cake *)

*) so there is room for the candles

both - and I had 2 cakes..

(where's the fat bastard smilie?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 October, 2009, 10:29:26 am
Happy belated birthday, Mike!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 October, 2009, 10:31:24 am
Many happy returns, Mike!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 28 October, 2009, 01:58:29 pm
I am trying to work up the enthusiasm needed to leave home/office at 1600 hrs to drive to Liverpool to start site work at 1800 hrs,leave site when the job is done(typically not before 2200 hrs & usually midnight)
This after spending the morning & early afternoon doing the normal site survey,do estimates & quotes & all the other normal routine.
Followed by being on site next morning,if not needed  in the office, at 0800 hrs on a different L'pool site.
At least weekends have been normal 8 hr day shifts.
This has been the routine for 6 weeks & I'm getting to be disillusioned with capitalism ::-)
I am also permenantly tired & now know I am losing weight.That's not  8) .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 October, 2009, 03:04:17 pm
Lying in bed, off sick and enlurgied, just starting to watch the extended version of the Lord of the Rings.  I'm not sure how long it'll take me, but it's probably about 1½ hours per DVD over 6 DVDs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 October, 2009, 03:08:40 pm
Quote from: TimO on 28 October, 2009, 03:04:17 pm
Lying in bed, off sick and enlurgied, just starting to watch the extended version of the Lord of the Rings.  I'm not sure how long it'll take me, but it's probably about 1½ hours per DVD over 6 DVDs.

Bet you fall asleep before they reach Rivendell  ;D.

Get well soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 October, 2009, 03:13:50 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 28 October, 2009, 03:08:40 pm
Bet you fall asleep before they reach Rivendell  ;D.

Quite possible.  I've watched two entire series of Futurama, but probably only saw about half of the episodes on average. ;D
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/sleeping.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 October, 2009, 05:02:35 pm
Watching three men on the roof opposite performing a striptease for our, erm, benefit.  ::-)  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 28 October, 2009, 05:03:35 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 28 October, 2009, 05:02:35 pm
Watching three men on the roof opposite performing a striptease for our, erm, benefit.  ::-)  :sick:

This thread is useless without pictures video!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 29 October, 2009, 01:44:30 pm
Looking for brake cables. The brake cable snapped this morning just as I was approaching the new not-a-roundabout madness at Westminster Bridge Road by Waterloo. Luckily it was just the rear, will probably just drop by the LBS on the way in to work tomorrow morning...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 29 October, 2009, 01:50:31 pm
wondering why our IT team think it's funny that our entire company email system is going to be down for an hour.   

Theres a time and a place for similey faces in emails, and telling 2,000 people that comms are down for an hour probably isnt one of them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 29 October, 2009, 01:56:36 pm
Eating cake before going to a meeting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 29 October, 2009, 02:02:29 pm
About to get up, so I can go on a noms hunt to Sainsburys.

(I'm off ill, I'm allowed to get up at 2pm!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 29 October, 2009, 02:14:44 pm
Quote from: mike on 29 October, 2009, 01:50:31 pm
wondering why our IT team think it's funny that our entire company email system is going to be down for an hour.   

Theres a time and a place for similey faces in emails, and telling 2,000 people that comms are down for an hour probably isnt one of them.

"Please come to the office to collect your P45. :)"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 October, 2009, 02:41:25 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 29 October, 2009, 02:14:44 pm
Quote from: mike on 29 October, 2009, 01:50:31 pm
wondering why our IT team think it's funny that our entire company email system is going to be down for an hour.   

Theres a time and a place for similey faces in emails, and telling 2,000 people that comms are down for an hour probably isnt one of them.

"Please come to the office to collect your P45. :)"

That needs to be in Comic Sans for the full effect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adam on 29 October, 2009, 08:31:45 pm
I'm desperately typing up a response to a document that Sustrans have produced for Central Beds Council.  

Basically they've looked at every location within each settlement in the county which might generate cycle traffic, and designated routes to link them all up.   I only got a copy of the 280 page document today, and tomorrow 5 pm is the closing date for responses.

They seem to like using words like “this route could cross the fields to reach …”.  

Grrr.........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 29 October, 2009, 08:35:13 pm
Eyeing up octave mandolins on eBay.  Ought to be working really...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 29 October, 2009, 08:38:38 pm
Just finished refereeing a thoroughly dispiriting paper about trains.

I know the authors so I was having to be reasonably polite....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 30 October, 2009, 12:06:28 pm
Waiting for the storm after this morning's calm which allowed me to travel to Wallasey,a 90 minute journey each way,spend two hours on site sorting out my soldiers et al & arrive back home at 1130hrs.
I cannot remember when things went so well
Kiss-of-death deleted ::-)

I reckon a call on the mobile from one of the MrAngry/Unreasonable/Knownothing suits will come sometime in the afternoon
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 October, 2009, 03:52:02 pm
Eating couscous, pondering pedal-vehicle purchases and trying to summon the energy to go collect the monkey_minor from nursery so we can all go to a 'family get together'.  Monkey_major has already been collected by a Granny, Aunty and brace of cousins and is off causing mayhem having fun with them already.  Monkey_minor is likely to be very cross if I go to collect him with a pushchair instead of his dad picking him up on the bike, but it will mean that we all get home early enough to catch a stupidly expensive bus to Granny's so he may forgive me since buses, grandparents and cousins are all officially very exciting when you're 2.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 30 October, 2009, 03:59:16 pm
Nursing a sore forehead as the local anaesthetic from the biopsy I had this morning wears off.  Ow.  Is it wine time  yet ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 October, 2009, 04:00:47 pm
A head biopsy sounds like a serious business, Mal. You're OK, I hope?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 30 October, 2009, 04:06:38 pm
Absolutely nothing serious, no, but thanks for the concern Wow. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 30 October, 2009, 04:46:47 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 30 October, 2009, 03:59:16 pm
Nursing a sore forehead as the local anaesthetic from the biopsy I had this morning wears off.  Ow.  Is it wine time  yet ?

Lunch time onwards = wine time
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 30 October, 2009, 05:03:43 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 30 October, 2009, 03:59:16 pm
Nursing a sore forehead as the local anaesthetic from the biopsy I had this morning wears off.  Ow.  Is it wine time  yet ?

A very wise man once told me that "It's always after 6 o'clock somewhere in the world"

A valuable piece of advice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 30 October, 2009, 05:08:55 pm
Alan, Paul - Thank you :)

(hic)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 30 October, 2009, 06:43:09 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 30 October, 2009, 05:03:43 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 30 October, 2009, 03:59:16 pm
Nursing a sore forehead as the local anaesthetic from the biopsy I had this morning wears off.  Ow.  Is it wine time  yet ?

A very wise man once told me that "It's always after 6 o'clock somewhere in the world"

A valuable piece of advice.
Reminds me of the old Naval tradition of the sun having to be over the yardarm.  Our local Naval Base (yes, I do live 30 miles from the sea) has been so arranged that the sun rises over the yardarm when viewed from the officers' mess.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 30 October, 2009, 08:06:59 pm
Watching track cycling on Freesat Red Button - thanks to Mrs S for finding out it was on  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 30 October, 2009, 08:12:40 pm
good call

It's on Freeview too :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 30 October, 2009, 08:59:54 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 30 October, 2009, 08:12:40 pm
good call

It's on Freeview too :)

Quote
Friday 30 October
1900-2300, BBC Red Button/online (not on Freeview after 2130);
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 31 October, 2009, 09:28:27 am
On train down to the Isle of Wight. It's a bit foggy out there!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 31 October, 2009, 10:55:08 am
Cooling down after sorting out the boot of the Mondeo.
I use it as a mobile store for fixings & the like.After 6 weeks of frantic activity(open boot,throw stuff in/drag stuff out : rummagae around,do not tidy ) I was no longer sure what is in there & what needs replacing.
It was difficult to close the boot lid & having tidied it up & thrown away all the junk it is now half empty.
It is a rather warm day her & an hour or so of picking up & putting down plus sorting the stock in the garage has created a  glow of perspiration.

Next on the agenda is a bit of experimenting with a Barley saddlebag versus rack pack on the Langster.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 31 October, 2009, 11:22:44 am
Thinking about having a shower, getting dressed and going shopping.

Whether any of these three things actually happen is debatable...  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 October, 2009, 12:29:17 pm
Have finished ironing for the next week. Just read an interesting trip report on Syria & Lebanon http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=RrzKj&page_id=122051&v=2G (http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=RrzKj&page_id=122051&v=2G)

About to start fettling, there's a puncture to fixon one bike, a rubbing brake to adjust on another and then I can start on the MTB build...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 October, 2009, 04:35:31 pm
Making parkin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 31 October, 2009, 04:40:47 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 31 October, 2009, 04:35:31 pm
Making parkin.

Don't be silly - girls can't park.  ;D

Ooh look - you found my coat...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 October, 2009, 06:20:19 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 31 October, 2009, 04:40:47 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 31 October, 2009, 04:35:31 pm
Making parkin.

Don't be silly - girls can't park.  ;D

Ooh look - you found my coat...

 :o :o

It'll be a wooden one, with brass handles!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 31 October, 2009, 06:23:02 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 31 October, 2009, 06:20:19 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 31 October, 2009, 04:40:47 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 31 October, 2009, 04:35:31 pm
Making parkin.

Don't be silly - girls can't park.  ;D

Ooh look - you found my coat...

 :o :o

It'll be a wooden one, with brass handles!

Ah she's got to find me first. Oh... hang on, someone at the door...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 31 October, 2009, 06:24:43 pm
Just wandered from Battery Park to the Rockerfeller centre via the hudson river park. Nice walk. Now back in my hotel at the south end of Queens.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 31 October, 2009, 07:33:21 pm
About to eat dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 31 October, 2009, 08:08:14 pm
Worrying that I have a stress fracture. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 October, 2009, 08:08:50 pm
I'm on my way to Chris S's to batter him with my wooden spoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 October, 2009, 08:10:28 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 31 October, 2009, 08:08:50 pm
I'm on my way to Chris S's to batter him with my wooden spoon.

Is this a new variation of toad-in-the-hole?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 31 October, 2009, 08:12:01 pm
Make sure to take your spurtle as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 October, 2009, 08:12:56 pm
Spoon up the arse?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 31 October, 2009, 08:42:42 pm
Watching people play pool. Trying to understand why it's popular...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 31 October, 2009, 08:48:00 pm
Listening to Ian MacMillan front a programme on Radio 4 all about Ken Campbell :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 31 October, 2009, 10:32:51 pm
In the tent in Cowes, Isle of Wight, feeling rather knackered and hoping this flu-ey feeling is not the, er, flu. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 31 October, 2009, 10:47:09 pm
Hoping it isn't flu Peli. Otherwise celebrating the phenomenal  success of the GB team at the World Cup Manchester.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 October, 2009, 11:09:24 pm
Fingers crossed Peli.  There are a lot of viruses around right now.  Hope it's going to pass soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 October, 2009, 11:15:40 pm
Going to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 October, 2009, 11:22:22 pm
I'm about to find some cheese and biscuits. Then eat them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 01 November, 2009, 07:27:00 am
Jut 'avin me breakfast, prior to dropping off son at Heathrow for a trip to Barcelona.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 01 November, 2009, 07:51:21 am
In tent, reasonably dry. Outside, reasonably wet. Daring the drippy weak spots to try it on...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 01 November, 2009, 10:48:28 am
Listening to the wind and rain and feeling it was wise to have got the miles in yesterday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 01 November, 2009, 01:32:39 pm
Feeling  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 01 November, 2009, 01:46:18 pm
Quote from: alan on 01 November, 2009, 01:32:39 pm
Feeling  :smug:

Any particular reason?

I'm about to pour a cup of tea and settle down to the World Track Cup on BBC2. Pub later.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 01 November, 2009, 01:58:11 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 01 November, 2009, 01:46:18 pm
Quote from: alan on 01 November, 2009, 01:32:39 pm
Feeling  :smug:

Any particular reason?

I'm about to pour a cup of tea and settle down to the World Track Cup on BBC2. Pub later.  :thumbsup:

See " Have you been out today"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 01 November, 2009, 03:22:04 pm
packing tent and panniers for a short cycle camping tour next week
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 01 November, 2009, 03:32:45 pm
Tidying.  It's taking weeks!  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 01 November, 2009, 03:37:03 pm
En route back to London, ready to unpack panniers and dry out all our sopping wet stuff!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 November, 2009, 03:37:45 pm
Drinking a rubbish latte somewhere on the M4.
Carmarthen to Reading has to be the most boring drive ever.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 November, 2009, 01:52:46 am
I've just returned home after a little nocturnal political campaigning. 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 05 November, 2009, 03:24:15 am
Watching the World Series.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 05 November, 2009, 07:36:30 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 05 November, 2009, 01:52:46 am
I've just returned home after a little nocturnal political campaigning. 8)

Is it just me or does this come across as some form of naughtiness?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 November, 2009, 09:22:46 am
Quote from: Still Adrian on 05 November, 2009, 07:36:30 am
Quote from: wowbagger on 05 November, 2009, 01:52:46 am
I've just returned home after a little nocturnal political campaigning. 8)

Is it just me or does this come across as some form of naughtiness?

Some might think so.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 05 November, 2009, 03:34:18 pm
Getting my mind into relax mode so that I can pay attention to the things I have neglected for the past few weeks...Marj,cycling,acquiring a new fixed ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 05 November, 2009, 04:51:20 pm
Quote from: alan on 05 November, 2009, 03:34:18 pm
Getting my mind into relax mode so that I can pay attention to the things I have neglected for the past few weeks...Marj,cycling,acquiring a new fixed ;D


I think you were very sensible to put Marj first on your list of neglected things....  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 November, 2009, 04:59:57 pm
Quote from: alan on 05 November, 2009, 03:34:18 pm
Getting my mind into relax mode so that I can pay attention to the things I have neglected for the past few weeks...Marj,cycling, Marj, acquiring a new fixed, Marj ;D

revised your priorities for you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 November, 2009, 05:00:26 pm
Cake.

O my.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CommuteTooFar on 05 November, 2009, 05:00:50 pm
I'm getting dressed to go home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Riggers on 05 November, 2009, 05:01:53 pm
I'm still at work and waiting for someone to turn up at 6 to collect a CD.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 05 November, 2009, 05:54:57 pm
Quote from: Regulator (a.k.a. DUG) on 05 November, 2009, 04:51:20 pm
Quote from: alan on 05 November, 2009, 03:34:18 pm
Getting my mind into relax mode so that I can pay attention to the things I have neglected for the past few weeks...Marj,cycling,acquiring a new fixed ;D


I think you were very sensible to put Marj first on your list of neglected things....  ;D

Quote from: clarion on 05 November, 2009, 04:59:57 pm
Quote from: alan on 05 November, 2009, 03:34:18 pm
Getting my mind into relax mode so that I can pay attention to the things I have neglected for the past few weeks...Marj,cycling, Marj, acquiring a new fixed, Marj ;D

revised your priorities for you.

Thanks boys you are my heroes ;) ;) ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 05 November, 2009, 05:58:02 pm
Quote from: Basil on 01 November, 2009, 03:37:45 pm
Drinking a rubbish latte somewhere on the M4.
Carmarthen to Reading has to be the most boring drive ever.
 

Ranks with Swansea-Slough, which I did yesterday.  And then back to Newport.  What a lot of M4.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Riggers on 05 November, 2009, 06:08:25 pm
And a load of bollards too!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: unipaul on 05 November, 2009, 06:40:32 pm
Getting ready to go to the Sticklepath fireshow on a tandem with my 3 year old. Should be fun!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 November, 2009, 07:46:11 pm
Quote from: Marj on 05 November, 2009, 05:54:57 pm
Quote from: Regulator (a.k.a. DUG) on 05 November, 2009, 04:51:20 pm
Quote from: alan on 05 November, 2009, 03:34:18 pm
Getting my mind into relax mode so that I can pay attention to the things I have neglected for the past few weeks...Marj,cycling,acquiring a new fixed ;D


I think you were very sensible to put Marj first on your list of neglected things....  ;D

Quote from: clarion on 05 November, 2009, 04:59:57 pm
Quote from: alan on 05 November, 2009, 03:34:18 pm
Getting my mind into relax mode so that I can pay attention to the things I have neglected for the past few weeks...Marj,cycling, Marj, acquiring a new fixed, Marj ;D

revised your priorities for you.

Thanks boys you are my heroes ;) ;) ;)

:-*

We do expect cake though... ;)

:-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 05 November, 2009, 08:27:19 pm
Clarion my friend,you are cheap :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 05 November, 2009, 09:03:45 pm
Enjoying a post-fireworks beer.
We, and a hundred others, stood on top of the nearest hill and took in the fireworks across Brighton. With chips. Lovely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 05 November, 2009, 09:09:48 pm
Just finished 2 banana cakes and 2 date loaves for tomorrow's 400 and made an extra one for work today (it's already Friday here)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 November, 2009, 09:20:47 pm
Doh.  After reading that I only just realised that it's firework night.  That would explain the various pops and bangs in the distance that I can hear! :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 06 November, 2009, 06:49:35 am
rejoicing that the client told me our meeting was cancelled *before* I got on the train to London. 

Working from home today!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 November, 2009, 09:29:54 am
Quote from: alan on 05 November, 2009, 08:27:19 pm
Clarion my friend,you are cheap :demon:

You think I should ask for two slices of cake? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 06 November, 2009, 01:57:06 pm
Quote from: clarion on 06 November, 2009, 09:29:54 am
Quote from: alan on 05 November, 2009, 08:27:19 pm
Clarion my friend,you are cheap :demon:

You think I should ask for two slices of cake? ;)

 I wouldn't get out of bed for less than a whole one  :smug:

be carefull how you reply to this:excluding a reference to beds would be adviseable ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 06 November, 2009, 02:55:29 pm
I am trying to invoke the Company's POETS-DAY policy but things  known as clients keep preventing it from happening.
I may have to adjourn to the Rant Thread soon..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 November, 2009, 04:35:22 pm
I am dictating this post in this thread!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 06 November, 2009, 04:47:33 pm

Trying to figure how my new camera works  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 06 November, 2009, 06:47:07 pm
Quote from: Gus on 06 November, 2009, 04:47:33 pm

Trying to figure how my new camera works  :-[

Point?
Click?

 Hope that helps.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 06 November, 2009, 06:53:09 pm
remove lens cap:that will certainly help :demon: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 06 November, 2009, 07:19:05 pm
Quote from: unipaul on 05 November, 2009, 06:40:32 pm
Getting ready to go to the Sticklepath fireshow on a tandem with my 3 year old. Should be fun!

Would you be a resident of Barnstaple then?  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 06 November, 2009, 07:19:56 pm
Quote from: alan on 06 November, 2009, 06:53:09 pm
remove lens cap:that will certainly help :demon: ;D

Have figured it now, thanks guys.  ;D

so now I'm taking pictures with my Nikon D90  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 06 November, 2009, 07:20:45 pm
About to watch the France 2 news & eat a pizza.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 November, 2009, 08:42:16 pm
Drying off and warming up after a quick visit to the Bishop's Park fireworks. Which we couldn't see, as we were cheapskates and tried to watch from the bridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 06 November, 2009, 11:06:34 pm
Just uploaded a couple of pics to flickr. Can't believe it took me an hour to shoot them.

Things are much harder when you cannot see what you are doing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 07 November, 2009, 07:59:52 am
Sitting in an unheated (7C) hangar listening to the rain and preparing to load my van when it stops (or even if it doesn't). After which it's 1200 km back to York for the winter.  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 07 November, 2009, 09:26:57 am
Waiting for riders at the 240 control of a 400
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 07 November, 2009, 11:23:47 am
Goggling at the British Army WW1 records online.
Wondering what the hell my church elder, straight-laced, teetotal (Ha!) grandfather had done to get 14 days "FP No 2" (field punishment) in Baghdad in October 1918. "Conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline" apparently.

Good on you, Grandpa!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 November, 2009, 01:51:04 pm
Faffing. Working. Faffing. Trying to get ready to go out.

Faffing.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 07 November, 2009, 02:51:59 pm
Listening to Radio 5 Live: We don't have Murdoch TV so am listening to the England v Australia match. After 12 minutes, the Aussies have woken up, but England have got a good grip of this friendly!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 07 November, 2009, 03:37:55 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 07 November, 2009, 01:51:04 pm
Faffing. ...

Snap, I was going to go into town to visit F&T and Foyles, but it's a bit late for that now, so I'll limit myself to hitching the trailer up, and doing a weekend shop in Sainsburys.  I'll do the other two tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 07 November, 2009, 07:49:00 pm
Drinking a goblet of wine, having just eaten rather a lot of red-cooked pork.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 07 November, 2009, 08:07:32 pm
Just about to pop out to test my new Lumicycle LED4 light.  We were out last night at a friend's that live about 3 miles away.  I promised their son that I would find some books he might like to read and then drop them in sometime.  Now seems a great time as it is not raining and I have a new light to play with.  :thumbsup:
(http://ts1.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1110925386192&id=5d129b038c10ccef860110b310cea728&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ekac.org%2fsearchlight.sm.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 07 November, 2009, 08:09:03 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 07 November, 2009, 07:49:00 pm
Drinking a goblet of wine, having just eaten rather a lot of red-cooked pork.   :thumbsup:
You are Lord Byron AICMFP.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 07 November, 2009, 08:15:17 pm
Quote from: Zoidburg on 07 November, 2009, 08:09:03 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 07 November, 2009, 07:49:00 pm
Drinking a goblet of wine, having just eaten rather a lot of red-cooked pork.   :thumbsup:
You are Lord Byron AICMFP.
I nearly said 'glass' but that would be a lie as said receptacle is not made of glass, so goblet it has to be.
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 07 November, 2009, 08:24:27 pm
Quote from: Zoidburg on 07 November, 2009, 08:09:03 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 07 November, 2009, 07:49:00 pm
Drinking a goblet of wine, having just eaten rather a lot of red-cooked pork.   :thumbsup:
You are Lord Byron AICMFP.
I've just mentioned this to MrsC -- she assumes you're referring to Byron's lesser known Chinese period!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 November, 2009, 08:26:24 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 07 November, 2009, 08:15:17 pm
Quote from: Zoidburg on 07 November, 2009, 08:09:03 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 07 November, 2009, 07:49:00 pm
Drinking a goblet of wine, having just eaten rather a lot of red-cooked pork.   :thumbsup:
You are Lord Byron AICMFP.
I nearly said 'glass' but that would be a lie as said receptacle is not made of glass, so goblet it has to be.
 ;D


or mug? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 07 November, 2009, 08:28:37 pm
Quote from: clarion on 07 November, 2009, 08:26:24 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 07 November, 2009, 08:15:17 pm
I nearly said 'glass' but that would be a lie as said receptacle is not made of glass, so goblet it has to be.
 ;D
or mug? ;D
At least that would mean I wouldn't have to go downstairs to get a refill quite so often!
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 07 November, 2009, 08:35:38 pm
The height of class.  A decent Bordeaux in a chipped enamel pint mug.

Good man.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 November, 2009, 08:39:11 pm
Listening to choonz from Camberwick Green, Trumpton & Chigley :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 November, 2009, 09:03:26 pm
Quote from: clarion on 07 November, 2009, 08:39:11 pm
Listening to choonz from Camberwick Green, Trumpton & Chigley :thumbsup:

 :thumbsup:

Watching X Factor movie week and really hoping someone sings something from This Is Spinal Tap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 November, 2009, 05:35:08 am
Failing to understand why,having had lots of exercise yesterday & red wine last night,my body clock has woken me up so bl**dy early :(

Perhaps not enough exercise wine?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 08 November, 2009, 05:43:57 am
Still not asleep.

Redundancy and my now evicted selfish bitch of a neighbour having managed to invert my sleeping patterns.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 November, 2009, 06:02:16 am
^^^^
Maybe now may be a good time do some night riding Zoids?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 08 November, 2009, 11:21:38 am
Quote from: TimO on 07 November, 2009, 03:37:55 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 07 November, 2009, 01:51:04 pm
Faffing. ...

Snap, I was going to go into town to visit F&T and Foyles, but it's a bit late for that now, so I'll limit myself to hitching the trailer up, and doing a weekend shop in Sainsburys.  I'll do the other two tomorrow.

...but of course I forgot about the remembrance day stuff.  I'll go in later, which of course requires ... More faffing. :-\

In the meantime, eating breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 November, 2009, 11:34:53 am
We are getting an indoor barbecue-type meal ready:my daughter,S-I-L & CentreoftheUniverse are coming round soon to spend the pm vegging-out watching Stoke thrash Hull :-\  & then Man U lose to Chelsea :demon:,all compliments of Sky :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marco Stefano on 08 November, 2009, 12:01:13 pm
Fighting off some sort of lurgy, being slightly breathless, and slightly headachey.

And not cycling or sculling.  Bugger.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: seventytwo on 08 November, 2009, 12:01:52 pm
Passing the 25 minutes til I need to get a bus to my parents.  

It's actually quicker to cycle the 13 miles to their house than the combination of public transport that I usually opt for, but with stuff to bring back and having to use a rucksack for it doesn't make for such a pleasant ride really, especially crossing the centre of Coventry to get there.  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 November, 2009, 12:07:29 pm
Just going to knock back the bread...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 November, 2009, 12:40:57 pm
Having a cup of tea while watching Strictly on iPlayer.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 November, 2009, 04:51:37 pm
About to ease yesterday's audax out of my legs with a long soak in the bath. Lets see...

Beer - Check.
Copy of Arrivee to read - Check
Glasses - Check

Back in a few hours  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 08 November, 2009, 04:55:30 pm
I did that last night (but without the glasses and with an attendant squeaky cat) :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 November, 2009, 04:55:40 pm
I am perusing the AUK calendar to identify  a programme of suitable rides to gradually bulild up to  being able to do a 200km audax for mid-2010.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 08 November, 2009, 04:58:01 pm
and me :)

I must admit that I stupidly piled in and struggled round one yesterday despite having done f'all on the bike for an age.

It went OK.  100 k next Saturday...and then I need to plan some more rides.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 November, 2009, 05:06:40 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 08 November, 2009, 12:07:29 pm
Just going to knock back the bread...
Sitting back and rubbing my gut which is full of pumpkin and ginger soup, and the bread  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 November, 2009, 06:57:54 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 08 November, 2009, 04:58:01 pm
and me :)

I must admit that I stupidly piled in and struggled round one yesterday despite having done f'all on the bike for an age.

It went OK.  100 k next Saturday...and then I need to plan some more rides.

Yesterday's 40km was the longest ride I've done since TKP's Trough of Bowland in mid-August ::-) I am working my way up to 100km over the next few weekends
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 08 November, 2009, 06:59:49 pm
good stuff :)

See you on PBP - seriously.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 November, 2009, 07:04:35 pm
I have mixed feelings about PBP :-\ & yet am really keen to do LEL.Can't explain it.
Perhaps we need to adjourn this to the Audax & Physclo Cyclo board  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 08 November, 2009, 07:18:59 pm
Quote from: alan on 08 November, 2009, 07:04:35 pm
I have mixed feelings about PBP :-\ & yet am really keen to do LEL.Can't explain it.
Perhaps we need to adjourn this to the Audax & Physclo Cyclo board  ;D

Before you adjourn it may I suggest that it might be because you are mentally unstable at the moment.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 08 November, 2009, 07:44:37 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 08 November, 2009, 07:18:59 pm
Quote from: alan on 08 November, 2009, 07:04:35 pm
I have mixed feelings about PBP :-\ & yet am really keen to do LEL.Can't explain it.
Perhaps we need to adjourn this to the Audax & Physclo Cyclo board  ;D

Before you adjourn it may I suggest that it might be because you are mentally unstable at the moment.  ;D

What ever do you mean by mentally unstable at the moment  :o
You know what he's like Tony
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 08 November, 2009, 07:53:25 pm
Quote from: Marj on 08 November, 2009, 07:44:37 pm

What ever do you mean by mentally unstable at the moment  :o
You know what he's like Tony
Mentally unstable all the time? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 November, 2009, 07:57:37 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 08 November, 2009, 07:18:59 pm
Quote from: alan on 08 November, 2009, 07:04:35 pm
I have mixed feelings about PBP :-\ & yet am really keen to do LEL.Can't explain it.
Perhaps we need to adjourn this to the Audax & Physclo Cyclo board  ;D

Before you adjourn it may I suggest that it might be because you are mentally unstable at the moment.  ;D

you don't have to be mad to post here...but it helps
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 November, 2009, 07:59:56 pm
Ripping CDs to my new Zen.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 08 November, 2009, 08:00:10 pm
Watching rugby league 4 nation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 November, 2009, 08:28:23 pm
Quote from: alan on 08 November, 2009, 07:57:37 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 08 November, 2009, 07:18:59 pm
Quote from: alan on 08 November, 2009, 07:04:35 pm
I have mixed feelings about PBP :-\ & yet am really keen to do LEL.Can't explain it.
Perhaps we need to adjourn this to the Audax & Physclo Cyclo board  ;D

Before you adjourn it may I suggest that it might be because you are mentally unstable at the moment.  ;D

you don't have to be mad to post here ride Audax ...but it helps

FTFY  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: alan on 08 November, 2009, 08:37:21 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 08 November, 2009, 08:28:23 pm
Quote from: alan on 08 November, 2009, 07:57:37 pm
Quote from: toekneep on 08 November, 2009, 07:18:59 pm
Quote from: alan on 08 November, 2009, 07:04:35 pm
I have mixed feelings about PBP :-\ & yet am really keen to do LEL.Can't explain it.
Perhaps we need to adjourn this to the Audax & Physclo Cyclo board  ;D

Before you adjourn it may I suggest that it might be because you are mentally unstable at the moment.  ;D

you don't have to be mad to post here ride Audax ...but it helps

FTFY  :thumbsup:
;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 08 November, 2009, 09:03:42 pm
Preparing a presentation on an action research project.  Rather too woolly and sociological, with a lack of controls and 'hard' science, but hey, I have to do it for part of the course.

Death by powerpoint!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 08 November, 2009, 09:09:32 pm
Quote from: RJ on 04 September, 2009, 10:33:50 pm
Correcting a paper it's taken about 5 years to write (don't ask).

Working out what's wrong with the GIS data ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 November, 2009, 11:24:08 am
Mrs. Wow and I have just been out with the dog. We met Justine, whom I first encountered here Southend to Burnley and back, August. (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=19962.msg410822#msg410822), merging from Churchill Gardens with a troupe of art students.

She teaches for two days a week in the college annexe less than 200 yards from our house and have made tentative arrangements for her to bring her bike one day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 12 November, 2009, 09:52:03 pm
This evening I have mostly been reminiscing with an old schoolfriend of Wowbagger about audaxing and mutual audax aquaintances of the early 1990s. Earlier in the week we had cause to exchange information about a particular narrow-guage railway line in the GDR.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 November, 2009, 09:54:30 pm
Contemplating how to deal with having no hot water...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 12 November, 2009, 09:57:57 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 12 November, 2009, 09:54:30 pm
Contemplating how to deal with having no hot water...

Oh arse  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 November, 2009, 09:59:50 pm
Looking at the box this frame came in and wondering how to get it into the little recycling box as tomorrow's bin day.  They don't like bulk cardboard anymore, but I might just take a flier and stick it out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 12 November, 2009, 10:04:02 pm
Quote from: RJ on 08 November, 2009, 09:09:32 pm
Quote from: RJ on 04 September, 2009, 10:33:50 pm
Correcting a paper it's taken about 5 years to write (don't ask).

Working out what's wrong with the GIS data ...

It was stacked like a club sandwich  :-\  Summary stats re-done (what did we do before spreadsheets??).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 12 November, 2009, 10:19:25 pm
Installing SuSE 11.2 on a friends PC.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 12 November, 2009, 10:52:45 pm
Surfing, drinking whisky and avoiding marking. Again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 November, 2009, 12:15:19 am
Same thing I've been doing all week: having swine flu  :sick:

As the weekend approaches, I'm expecting it to conspire with my Stupid Lungs and require negotiating some sort of hideous, possibly drunk-infested, out-of-hours emergency medical service :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 13 November, 2009, 03:26:17 am
Being awake at stupid o'clock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 November, 2009, 09:51:47 pm
Truing a wheel, listening to the Goldberg Variations (Chen Pi-Hsien), drinking red wine, wishing I hadn't eaten those Habanero crisps earlier...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 13 November, 2009, 10:18:09 pm
Checking movie times before putting my brain in a jar and going to see 2012 tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 November, 2009, 12:08:48 am
Waiting for Butterfly to come home, listening to UFO on Youtube, and sorting books.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 15 November, 2009, 12:16:30 am
Waiting for a curry to be delivered
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 15 November, 2009, 06:23:09 am
Getting ready to be at the tip for 8.00 when it opens.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 15 November, 2009, 09:29:55 am
Quote from: PaulF on 15 November, 2009, 12:16:30 am
Waiting for a curry to be delivered

+1

in my surprisingly nice hotel dining room waiting for my tandoori chicken lunch, feeling slightly spaced out after a flight to Delhi with no sleep. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 November, 2009, 09:47:17 am
Tidying up the house as Mrs G has been on a girl's weekend and us boys have not done much.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 15 November, 2009, 10:01:19 am
Quote from: mike on 15 November, 2009, 09:29:55 am
Quote from: PaulF on 15 November, 2009, 12:16:30 am
Waiting for a curry to be delivered

+1

in my surprisingly nice hotel dining room waiting for my tandoori chicken lunch, feeling slightly spaced out after a flight to Delhi with no sleep. 

update - blimey, that was spicy   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: epa611 on 15 November, 2009, 10:19:51 am
Sitting in Taipei Airport waiting for my flight back to Glasgow to depart.

It's a long flight with a stop in Bangkok and Amsterdam :(

However, free wifi, so I can surf and Skype Mrs epa :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 November, 2009, 10:20:02 am
Quote from: mike on 15 November, 2009, 10:01:19 am
Quote from: mike on 15 November, 2009, 09:29:55 am
Quote from: PaulF on 15 November, 2009, 12:16:30 am
Waiting for a curry to be delivered

+1

in my surprisingly nice hotel dining room waiting for my tandoori chicken lunch, feeling slightly spaced out after a flight to Delhi with no sleep. 

update - blimey, that was spicy   :o

 ;D

<total_recall>
Get ready for a surprise!
</total_recall>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 15 November, 2009, 10:22:12 am
Digging about in a remote server.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 November, 2009, 11:18:37 am
contemplating a ride...shall I,shall I not?
which bike:geared or fixed?
now or later?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 November, 2009, 01:29:03 pm
Yes, whichever requires no fettling, and now.  HTH!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 15 November, 2009, 01:33:40 pm
Constructing an Awards Ceremony presentation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 15 November, 2009, 01:42:25 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 08 November, 2009, 04:58:01 pm
It went OK.  100 k next Saturday...and then I need to plan some more rides.

I seem to be off all week if you can skive one of the days..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 November, 2009, 01:47:26 pm
Fettling.  Major clean.  Bottom bracket removed and cleaned, now onto bike.  Have done my first chain rotation into white spirit Jar A.

Also in-between, running the Dyson over the lounge room floor / furniture and washing bed clothes.  THAT will impress her.  :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 15 November, 2009, 04:04:50 pm
Quote from: mike on 15 November, 2009, 10:01:19 am
Quote from: mike on 15 November, 2009, 09:29:55 am
Quote from: PaulF on 15 November, 2009, 12:16:30 am
Waiting for a curry to be delivered

+1

in my surprisingly nice hotel dining room waiting for my tandoori chicken lunch, feeling slightly spaced out after a flight to Delhi with no sleep. 

update - blimey, that was spicy   :o

As was mine! Spicy food is rare in NYC

Now cooling down after this morning's ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 November, 2009, 05:25:34 pm
Quote from: Grub on 15 November, 2009, 01:47:26 pm
Fettling.  Major clean.  Bottom bracket removed and cleaned, now onto bike.  Have done my first chain rotation into white spirit Jar A.

Also in-between, running the Dyson over the lounge room floor / furniture and washing bed clothes.  THAT will impress her.  :thumbsup: ;D

Yes, but what will Mrs. Grub say when she finds out? :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 November, 2009, 06:24:52 pm
In her inimitable way, she failed to mention my hard work.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 November, 2009, 11:43:25 pm
I have just poured myself a generous measure of A'bunadh 59.3% cask strength single malt. I'm going to get rid of this bloody cold if it kills me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 16 November, 2009, 07:37:49 am
Boiling eggs. Nomnomnom...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 16 November, 2009, 08:24:05 am
Sitting here, fuming.  Due to all my running around yesterday I did not test ride after installing the new chain - my first of the rotation phase.  It would appear my rear cassette cannot take another chain ( this is the third I have tried on it ).  I did not get more than 500m from home when the skipping was so bad that I gave up and came home.  I have rung the boss and apologised for my stupidity.  He understands  ;D
New cassette ordered from Wiggle.
Must get the old chain out now and clean it and put it back on for tomorrow, with a suitable test ride this afternoon.

Having not had any breakfast and the bread maker being broken, and having just read Andy's post above - eggs seem like a grand idea  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 November, 2009, 09:03:23 am
Gently lurking around the house, fiddling about ineffectively with general tidying/cleaning and occasionally going to the window in the hope of spotting large van containing my new washing machine.

An a.m. delivery has been promised.  I've got a meeting at work at 2.  I wonder what my chances are?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 18 November, 2009, 09:50:36 am
Quote from: Basil on 18 November, 2009, 09:03:23 am
An a.m. delivery has been promised.  I've got a meeting at work at 2.  I wonder what my chances are?

Have you not found the postcard left behind the bins at 05:00am?  ;D

I'm on a train to Liverpool. It's a few minutes late, but so what, I am getting some work done and it is warm and comfortable and not the M6
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 November, 2009, 11:29:37 am
Gosh, that went well.
They even agreed to take away all the packaging with no grumbling.

After a few stressful moments during my re-plumbing, I've now got it washing the first of the heap of clothes that's been growing in my spare room.

I'll get this load hung up to dry and then I s'pose I'd better wander off to work.  :(

Edit:  While I'm waiting, I'll prolly sit down and read the Installation Booklet and the Instruction Manual.  ::-)  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 18 November, 2009, 12:19:33 pm
Still suffering mildly from last night/this mornings drinking. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 November, 2009, 02:29:37 pm
I'm taste-testing Christmas Pudding & fresh cream.....Not sure:might need a second opinion test ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 18 November, 2009, 03:29:51 pm
Waiting for the Department to tell us whether we have any Health Orals for next week.  If so, it will be a late night tonight and an early morning tomorrow...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 19 November, 2009, 12:25:07 am
Trying to id3 tag with album art all my 25000+ songs. Was going very well until I found out that the program didn't save it to id3 tag but just to its own db, so I'm doing it pretty much by hand.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 19 November, 2009, 02:25:41 am
watching monkeys run about on the roofs of the slums in front of the hotel. This is a mindblowing place.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 20 November, 2009, 11:12:22 pm
Just spent 2h45 assembling a Playmobile farm house ahead of Little G's third birthday: Phew!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 November, 2009, 12:13:39 am
In the "Swan" in Wood St, Liverpool.  Earlier was classical at the Philharmonic Hall, now it's heavy rock and real ale..

Swapping rude texts with a lady friend...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 November, 2009, 12:22:29 am
Thinking back 46 years to the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 22 November, 2009, 12:38:22 am
I was en route from Tonbridge to Welwyn that day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 22 November, 2009, 03:31:06 pm
Waiting for the dust to settle a bit.
(I've just been sanding, next its vacuum and wipe down.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 22 November, 2009, 04:39:41 pm
Going for a swim.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 22 November, 2009, 04:42:42 pm
Just back from errands and Wagamama with Woolly. Now baking a cake.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gaseous Clay on 22 November, 2009, 04:44:32 pm
Trying to remove the image of Bridget, in a bikini, doing lengths, that sprang involuntarily into my head  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 22 November, 2009, 05:29:34 pm
Just got home from seeing UP with the  boys.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 22 November, 2009, 05:48:55 pm
Smelling the cake that Peli just cooked, ouch still to hot to touch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 22 November, 2009, 05:52:11 pm
Recovering with a little ironing after 35 *very* wet & windy miles earlier this pm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 November, 2009, 05:54:14 pm
Quote from: jogler on 18 November, 2009, 02:29:37 pm
I'm taste-testing Christmas Pudding & fresh cream.....Not sure:might need a second opinion test ;)

we are having an action replay :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 22 November, 2009, 06:08:16 pm
Just come back from G's b'day party which was a... suc-cess!! Everybody's happy; kids are excited and probably tired; parents (well, I, for sure) are knackered!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 22 November, 2009, 07:12:15 pm
... astonished that 90% of the teachers who taught me at the little village primary school I attended back in the late 80s are still there!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 22 November, 2009, 07:15:05 pm
Making sushi and listening to C. playing Frank Turner songs on the guitar.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 November, 2009, 09:18:28 pm
Sitting in BAFTA relaxing after the awards ceremony.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 November, 2009, 10:34:37 pm
Relaxing after a Radox bath. Ahh. Lovely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 November, 2009, 11:31:05 pm
I just spent an hour on the phone to my younger son. The conversations were wide-ranging as ever, but he told me that in a recent poker game his straight flush beat his opponent's four of a kind (A2345♣ to 5555).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 25 November, 2009, 07:53:41 am
I hope there were 2 packs of cards. Otherwise there were five 5s.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 25 November, 2009, 08:16:51 am
Sitting at home browsing the web - should be on the ferry to Ullapool heading towards Glasgow for my eldest's 21st, but today's sailings are cancelled due to adverse weather conditions. What a bummer :(

(have tickets to see 'The Answer' at Glasgow ABC for tomorrow night too - hope tomorrows sailing goes)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 November, 2009, 03:28:04 pm
Basking in the glow of a very positive performance review. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 November, 2009, 03:53:03 pm
making custard with the centre of the universe(a.k.a. grand-daughter) so that we can scoff the rolly polly jam tart while there is no-one else in the house :demon: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 25 November, 2009, 07:48:01 pm
About to join a conference call for work, in which I will discover more detail on why I'm not getting paid this month, and quite possibly next month.

The half bottle of Red with dinner should help...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 25 November, 2009, 07:57:48 pm
Just started a 4TByte RAID6 build, which won't finish until about 4am, so I think it's time to go home rather than wait for it to end!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 November, 2009, 08:03:18 pm
Writing an important and very tricky email. But I keep getting (deliberately) distracted by 1. this forum and 2. new email.  :-[

We're also waiting for a Sainsbug's delivery. Hungry!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 November, 2009, 06:05:47 am
Wondering when we'll get 48hrs without rain. *sigh*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 26 November, 2009, 02:50:30 pm
Just opened up a failed 400GByte disc drive to see what it looked like.  Amazingly simple designs these days, but I was also surprised at how much dust was in the dust filter in the corner.  It was black with dirt, which may explain why the drive failed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 26 November, 2009, 03:03:19 pm
Avoiding work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 26 November, 2009, 05:06:17 pm
At the vets with Bea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 November, 2009, 05:13:18 pm
Puttting a tech-washed & reproofed jacket in the tumble dry on a low heat cycle
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 27 November, 2009, 07:00:08 pm
Just returned from Sainsburys with my (microwavable) supper.  Given it's a FNRttC Friday, normally I would have taken the day off, and had a relaxing slob at home, but I "needed" to be in for a telecon at 5pm.  My colleague actually got around to telling me that wouldn't be happening at 5.05, since most of the other "attendees" are on the other side of the pond and wouldn't be around due to some festivities they're involved in. >:(

Ho hum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 27 November, 2009, 07:01:50 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 25 November, 2009, 03:28:04 pm
Basking in the glow of a very positive performance review. :)

All this despite your lack of team spirit at dispiriting team building events?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 27 November, 2009, 07:16:20 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 25 November, 2009, 03:28:04 pm
Basking in the glow of a very positive performance review. :)

 :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 November, 2009, 07:59:24 pm
Watching Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for the first time  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 27 November, 2009, 08:19:00 pm

Fitting the SQR system to my new Carradice bag
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 November, 2009, 01:03:47 pm
I am "cleaning" the mixing bowl after SWMBO has mixed the Xmas pudding.Unfortunetely the bowl is only approx. 20 litres but does need the use of spatular to scoop up all the mix.Yummy yummy in my tummy ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 November, 2009, 01:18:11 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 27 November, 2009, 07:01:50 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 25 November, 2009, 03:28:04 pm
Basking in the glow of a very positive performance review. :)

All this despite your lack of team spirit at dispiriting team building events?  ;)
Quite. Though my single "development area" was to "work on my visibility".  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 28 November, 2009, 02:31:00 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 28 November, 2009, 01:18:11 pm

 Though my single "development area" was to "work on my visibility".  ::-)


So long as that is not to decrease it
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 29 November, 2009, 11:29:35 am
Glaring at the lovely winter sunsihine over a mountain of books that MUST BE MARKED.

Phooey.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 November, 2009, 11:39:30 am
Creeping around the house as quietly as possible.
Mrs B is still asleep, which is almost unheard of at this time.

#1 son has been banned radio.  #2 son pushed his m/c onto the road before starting up to get to work.

Still she sleeps. 

There'll be all hell to pay when she wakes upand realises she's missed her swimming session at Llanysul baths, but I'll take that.  That girl really needs some rest.  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 November, 2009, 11:42:45 am
Drinking proper coffee and thinking about brunch after a very lazy morning. Was a stressful week last week and next week will be the same.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 November, 2009, 11:43:02 am
Sitting here knowing I have to go to the shop but not wanting to because I'm in such pain after yesterday I'm not sure I can even get dressed!  :-\
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 29 November, 2009, 12:00:37 pm
Watching Strictly taped from last night.  Yes, sad isn't it ?
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 November, 2009, 12:02:54 pm
Not really, I just watched X Factor.
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Post by: woollypigs on 29 November, 2009, 12:06:56 pm
Just waking up in bed after 12 hours sleeping next to my wonderfull girl. Not often we get to sleep in and just lazy around in bed together, me and Peli.
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Post by: clarion on 29 November, 2009, 12:08:30 pm
Just been listening to The Now Show, with Mitch Benn's genius song 'The Pope Wants Vicars', where he rhymes Vicars/quick as/knickers and Thomas Aquinas/Scared of vaginas.

Now ISIHAC.
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Post by: TimO on 29 November, 2009, 01:05:38 pm
Just listening to Absolute Classic Rock whilst the bath fills, then I switch to BBC iPlayer and watch "Defying Gravity" on BBC iPlayer.  I missed it last night whilst being zonked from the FNRttC.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 December, 2009, 07:52:38 pm
Sitting on the sofa kicking my legs in a Cossack-style while Alan Carr on R2 plays Boney M's Rasputin, and giggling to myself.
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Post by: woollypigs on 05 December, 2009, 07:57:25 pm
Sipping a nice glass of whisky while surfing the net. While Peli and mum are distracted by that dancing program.
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Post by: clarion on 05 December, 2009, 08:05:23 pm
Watching Monty Python  The Holy Grail on my PC with Superstoker, while browsing the forum on Butterfly's laptop.  She's had to go out :(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 December, 2009, 08:08:59 pm
I'm just out of the shower and reacting to my cocktail of anti-flu-and-punymonia jabs I had yesterday. I've got dee-p red bruises on each arm and I feel a bit feverish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 December, 2009, 10:32:24 pm
Well, not right now, but a wee bit earlier, I was watching Hair, which I got on DVD yesterday.  It's a while since I've seen it, but I know it quite well, and I still :'( every time.  Well, almost...
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Post by: mike on 06 December, 2009, 10:39:46 pm
sneezing. 
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Post by: goatpebble on 06 December, 2009, 10:41:28 pm
Investigating a bottomless cardboard box, in the hope that I will find some cable ties.

So far the only success is a beautifully designed bracket for a light that I cannot find...
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Post by: woollypigs on 06 December, 2009, 10:48:54 pm
Quote from: mike on 06 December, 2009, 10:39:46 pm
sneezing. 
bless you
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Post by: simonp on 07 December, 2009, 02:15:09 am
Sleep. FAIL.
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Post by: TimO on 11 December, 2009, 05:18:14 pm
Utterly gobsmacked after finding out that I guy I shared an office with up until a couple of months ago, has just been sent down for 18 months for assault.

He did this, and was presumably arrested for it, whilst he was working here, but never mentioned it to anyone (as far as I know).

It's amazing, and somewhat worrying that people have these secrets going on, and we don't always know anything about it.
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Post by: grayo59 on 11 December, 2009, 06:30:55 pm
Eating scrummy fish and chips and drinking my second large glass of red wine after a long day at work outside in the cold! Bliss ...

I mean my work day was outside in the cold ... I am eating my F&C etc in the warm in front of the computer ...
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Post by: rogerzilla on 12 December, 2009, 02:27:10 pm
Having a sit down and a cup of tea after (a) cleaning all the windows and (b) giving the oven its annual (sorry!) pre-Christmas clean.

I also found time to cut up the orange cellophane from a Jaffa Cakes box and stick it inside the glass panels of the porch light.  That should tone down the CFL glare and make it look a bit more seasonal.
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Post by: PaulF on 12 December, 2009, 02:31:05 pm
Waiting for Amtrak to fix the train so I can get home.
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Post by: hatler on 12 December, 2009, 03:14:27 pm
Home ?  Amtrak ?

Have they built an under-Atlantic service without telling us Brits about it ?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 December, 2009, 03:17:30 pm
Periodically snoozing to catch up with all the sleep I didn't get at Shenfield Station in the wee small hours of this morning, whilst similarly awaiting the arrival of my sister, my younger son and his gf.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 12 December, 2009, 03:24:00 pm
My 'other' home sadly. Still. Thia time next week I'll be back for good :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 December, 2009, 03:26:04 pm
I've just been out to check that my sis can get her car into our garage, which has a superfluous guinea pig hutch in it.

I can't help noticing that today there is a gentle NE breeze, which blows the fragrance from Southend's sewage works directly back into the town.
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Post by: jogler on 12 December, 2009, 03:38:35 pm
Digesting a fine meal consumed at the Coach & Horses in Fenny Bentley(nr. Ashbourne).It was so good that,before we left, I booked our Company Xmas meal there for Tuesday 22nd December :smug:

since we had only two courses there we shall now have Xmas pudding & cream,followed by mince pies & something alcyfrolic at homw :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 12 December, 2009, 09:54:56 pm
Singularly failing to resist eating all of the Pontefract Cakes I singularly failed to resist buying on my visit to Witham's new sweetshop earlier.   :-\ nomnomnom  ;D
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Post by: peliroja on 12 December, 2009, 10:51:34 pm
Suffering from a terrible chocolate hangover having consumed a large amount of cake comprised mainly of Green + Blacks... Owww, pain... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 13 December, 2009, 12:32:13 am
Listening to my daughter who is in full-on rabbit mode, having consumed too much wine. I, of course, am sensibly sober(ish). Mrs n is doing very well at responding with suitable stuff to keep her going. Class entertainment.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 December, 2009, 12:56:31 am
Treating my sore throat (typical - I get over one lurgy only to come down with another) with medicinal chocolate.
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Post by: Oaky on 13 December, 2009, 01:14:39 am
Quote from: Oaky on 12 December, 2009, 09:54:56 pm
Singularly failing to resist eating all of the Pontefract Cakes I singularly failed to resist buying on my visit to Witham's new sweetshop earlier.   :-\ nomnomnom  ;D

On the other hand, I'm now patting myself on the back over my self control in opening neither the Madeira (http://www.iankitching.me.uk/humour/hippo/madeira.html) nor the Port (that we purchased today for Christmas visitors).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 December, 2009, 03:00:38 am
Still drinking. Guess we'll have to stop some time Sunday evening... Glad I've taken Monday off. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 13 December, 2009, 04:45:56 am
I need a drink.
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Post by: Andrij on 13 December, 2009, 04:54:44 am
Plenty still left here in Brizzle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 13 December, 2009, 05:56:58 am
Fo shizzle? Where's Brizzle ma nizzle?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 December, 2009, 06:02:28 am
I'm tipsy and have just got home.
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Post by: mr endon on 13 December, 2009, 06:49:38 am
Maundering around, jet-lagged, wondering whether it's too early to get Beckettian on Anthea's newborn thread.
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Post by: Andrij on 13 December, 2009, 01:35:07 pm
Brizzle = Bristol
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Post by: Moloko on 13 December, 2009, 01:55:06 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 12 December, 2009, 02:27:10 pm


I also found time to cut up the orange cellophane from a Jaffa Cakes box and stick it inside the glass panels of the porch light.  That should tone down the CFL glare and make it look a bit more seasonal.

C'mon! That's got to be worth at least 20 points (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27465.0) on its own!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kcass on 13 December, 2009, 02:25:38 pm
Waiting for the right moment to say 'You'll be OK for a couple of hours on your own while I go out for a little ride won't you girls?'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 December, 2009, 09:16:48 pm
Watching Mars Attacks. I always forget just how many stars are in this movie  :thumbsup:.

Annette Bening: "How dare you drink in front of me?!"
Jack Nicholson: "You're an adult, just cope."

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Moloko on 13 December, 2009, 09:38:11 pm
Waiting for the Grim Reaper.


I've just ate four lovely yogurts that were dated use by Nov 29th.
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Post by: robbo6 on 14 December, 2009, 02:43:54 pm
Taking abreak from fettling the oil lamps Mme. R has decreed will decorate the house this Xmas.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 December, 2009, 02:54:59 pm
Slowly freezing to DETH >:(
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Post by: numbnuts on 14 December, 2009, 03:11:13 pm
I've been doing Christmas cards
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 14 December, 2009, 04:10:52 pm
rtying to figure out how the Hell to spend some credit on my Dongle so I don't lose the balance in short time!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 December, 2009, 08:30:59 pm
Listening to
Beatles For Sale:the Beatles
With The Beatles:the Beatles
The Difinitive Collection:Four Tops

on my new Sony VA10 SR51MF/S.

I have taken a loooong time deciding which laptop to have.Santa said to have this one today.

The CD's are to replace albums stolen some years ago when we were burgled.I only need "Please Pleas Me" to have a complete Beatles collection again.I see that Beatles albums are,finally,no longer top dollar in the shops.Down to £9 each now:they used to be £16-ish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 December, 2009, 11:46:08 pm
Trying to remember cycling home from the pub.  Riding a fixed for only the second time in my life.  :o
It must have gone OK I s'pose.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jaded on 14 December, 2009, 11:48:11 pm
Posting on this forum. init.
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Post by: TheLurker on 15 December, 2009, 09:06:06 am
Polishing off a bowl of porridge... waiting for a build to complete.  Hells's teeth my machine is dog slow today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: 1gear on 15 December, 2009, 10:07:16 am
This thread is like facebook!
Im sat in the photography room, listening to Thin Lizzys Live and Dabgerous albmum. Just been told to turn it down because its too loud, playing through headphones aswell.
Waiting for the computer to load up
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 16 December, 2009, 09:02:55 pm
Bought a new Garmin SatNav for the car today (not a cue for abuse from anybody thanks).  USBd it to the PC and registered with Garmin.  I'm entitled to a free initial map update via download - "click here to start".

Now What are you doing right now?

I'm sitting here amazed that the estimated time is 46:24:30 hours  -  NEARLY TWO DAYS !!!!!!

Please accept this post as my contribution to this thread through to Saturday morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2009, 09:11:45 pm
Watching "Per un pugno di dollari" (A Fistful of Dollars).

I was 4 when this film was made  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 December, 2009, 09:34:10 pm
Rebuilding this laptop.  Getting the USB drivers to work is always a bit of a challenge.  Wireless isn't working yet either, so it's plugged into the router.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 18 December, 2009, 09:41:37 pm
Researching WAN emulation software and delay and jitter baselining tools. And the other eye is watching All Murray on the telly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 December, 2009, 09:42:06 pm
Quote from: Ja ded on 14 December, 2009, 11:48:11 pm
Posting on this forum. init.
I got into awful trouble a few years ago at work when they were doing a time and motion study and we had to fill in on a bit of paper what we were doing every 15 minutes, and every 15 minutes I put "filling in this paper."

I'm trying to cheer myself up by looking at Amtico floors and thinking about bathroom tiles and wondering what colour to go for this time. I think I might go for a nice rich turquoise on one wall and keep the rest white/silver.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 18 December, 2009, 09:57:13 pm
Having just made a hyooge veggie biriyani, I am mostly farting like a locomotive.  :)
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Post by: andrewc on 18 December, 2009, 10:14:37 pm
Quote from: andygates on 18 December, 2009, 09:57:13 pm
Having just made a hyooge veggie biriyani, I am mostly farting like a locomotive.  :)

Think of the environment!  All that methane  ;D

Digesting lamb & couscous, drinking red wine, listening to jazz, trying not to let the pile of ironing in the corner catch my eye.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 18 December, 2009, 10:59:30 pm
How is this different from normal, Andy?
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Post by: peliroja on 19 December, 2009, 12:47:55 am
Just back from a meal at a colleague's place, and feeling thankful that Woolly and I are rather, shall we say, unusual. It's the best way to be.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: scott on 19 December, 2009, 03:12:28 am
Quote from: peliroja on 19 December, 2009, 12:47:55 am
Just back from a meal at a colleague's place, and feeling thankful that Woolly and I are rather, shall we say, unusual. It's the best way to be.

Maybe we should move over there. I get that same feeling a lot around here. Except for the being invited places part, but no surprise there, since I lack  your social graces and make Andy smell like roses in comparison.  ;D
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Post by: scott on 19 December, 2009, 03:15:36 am
Oh, and I'm looking out at several inches of snow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 19 December, 2009, 04:47:55 am
Attempting to resuurect Master Manotea's laptop on his return from college. As ususal.
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Post by: jogler on 19 December, 2009, 05:05:32 am
Drinking Horlicks as I read the forum in bed,My body clock alarm,set for 6 hrs max.,has gone off  ::-)
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Post by: Aidan on 19 December, 2009, 06:58:01 am
waiting for Mrs Aidan to decide whether its safe to drive the 22 miles to work, because the council didn't grit the roads last night ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 December, 2009, 08:02:54 am
Quote from: Wendy on 18 December, 2009, 10:59:30 pm
How is this different from normal, Andy?

It's not always biriyani!  ;D
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 19 December, 2009, 08:18:42 am
I'm reading young Mr 1gear's continued rant against pottery in the Arts & Entertainment section.  I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.  But mostly I'm doing the former  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 December, 2009, 08:50:36 am
Watching a Barn Owl quarter the snow covered field opposite, as feathery flakes of snow continue to fall.
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Post by: Gandalf on 19 December, 2009, 09:44:28 am
Wrapping up SWMBO's Christmas presents.  No doubt I'll get a bollocking for non compliance with using entirely old paper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 19 December, 2009, 10:07:10 am
Quote from: Chris S on 19 December, 2009, 08:50:36 am
Watching a Barn Owl quarter the snow covered field opposite, as feathery flakes of snow continue to fall.

Cool !  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 19 December, 2009, 10:27:43 am
Just got back from an epic £220 trip to Sainsbury's  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 December, 2009, 10:30:23 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 19 December, 2009, 10:27:43 am
Just got back from an epic £220 trip to Sainsbury's  :o

Next time take the bike rather than hiring a stretch humvee-limo.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 19 December, 2009, 10:38:27 am
I've had enough coffee to stimulate me to brave the Christmas munters in Marlborough.
I have to collect both wheels from the LBS and get the new Bon Jovi album.  Not much to do but as I have not really go anything for Mrs G yet, I may look in Monsoon too.  That will surprise her.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Moloko on 19 December, 2009, 11:01:27 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 19 December, 2009, 10:27:43 am
Just got back from an epic £220 trip to Sainsbury's  :o

Dodgy stuff! You was only £10 away from getting a fat-tongue BJ off Jamie Oliver, courtesy
of the Sainsbury's customer loyalty scheme.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 19 December, 2009, 11:15:38 am
Trying to get warm. That is the first time we have ever gone out for a ride and come home because we just couldn't get warm. After ten miles it was obvious that we were going to stay cold and uncomfortable so we turned tail and now we are hoping that tea and a mince pie might help to thaw us out. Brrrr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 December, 2009, 11:32:58 am
Writing Christmas cards. ;D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 December, 2009, 12:43:03 pm
Shivering. Soon I'll be showering and then shopping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 19 December, 2009, 01:12:37 pm
eating lunch - banana and honey croissants mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 December, 2009, 01:53:03 pm
Taking a break from shopping, reading "Macho Sluts" in a coffee shop and peoplewatching...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 19 December, 2009, 02:00:42 pm
Wondering where I put the bright yellow car battery charger.  Danged thing has to be around here somewhere. ??? >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 19 December, 2009, 02:03:06 pm
Coughing. And enjoying the quiet that means tinyun (small charge with chicken pox) has gone back to sleep :).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 19 December, 2009, 06:30:48 pm
Quote from: Dicky Mo on 19 December, 2009, 11:01:27 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 19 December, 2009, 10:27:43 am
Just got back from an epic £220 trip to Sainsbury's  :o

Dodgy stuff! You was only £10 away from getting a fat-tongue BJ off Jamie Oliver, courtesy
of the Sainsbury's customer loyalty scheme.

I think for trolleys over £200 you should be allowed a free swing at Mr Oliver's eminently punchable physiognomy.  No knuckle dusters or baseball bats, obviously; they start from £300.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jellied on 19 December, 2009, 06:42:34 pm
Sitting smugly at home after starting the ball rolling on the cyclescheme for my new bike. Although slighly miffed that my little Zen MP3 has not in fact "got better" and is just as shagged as ever.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 December, 2009, 06:47:47 pm
I am trying to avoid the conclusion that not riding tomorrow's Whitegate audax is the sensible decision considering the temperature & likely icey road conditions :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 December, 2009, 06:58:50 pm
Watching Take That on telly and thinking I'd like to do Jason Orange on my new bathroom floor when I get it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2009, 10:36:38 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 19 December, 2009, 06:58:50 pm
Watching Take That on telly and thinking I'd like to do Jason Orange on my new bathroom floor when I get it.

Isn't that a powerful defoliant which Denis Thatcher used to sell, the Americans dropped all over Vietnam & Laos and now still causes deformities two generations later? :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2009, 10:44:49 pm
Being amused by the dog, who is totally infatuated by the liver cake which Dez has just cooked and is now cooling on a wire cake tray.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 19 December, 2009, 10:46:36 pm
just back from seeing la boheme in cambridge - Cambridge Philharmonic Society (http://www.cam-phil.org.uk/) .  Absolutely stunning, I cant understand why they only do one performance.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 20 December, 2009, 03:19:34 am
Bored and sitting at home pissed off with myself as I couldn't get the car started to go to a friends christmas party that I was looking forward to going to.  Now after half an hour on the phone to the AA to be told it would be over 2 hours to get someone out to me.

So have fucked sleep patterns and now got fuck all to do.  So have batterys on charge and tomorrow morning will either play with a motorbike to get the electrics sorted and preped to get it back on the road.  Should work on the Ducati to get that back on the road just need some sheet steel to remake a few bits t get the bike back on the road.  Might even wash the mountain bike and tinker a little once its washed. Thinking of going to brighton in the morning deliver cards and gifts.  Going back via a friends in merton to twiddle his bike and then eat some cake.

What a shitty pointless life.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 20 December, 2009, 08:54:37 am
Quote from: Lynx on 20 December, 2009, 03:19:34 am
So have batterys on charge and tomorrow morning will either play with a motorbike to get the electrics sorted and preped to get it back on the road.  Should work on the Ducati to get that back on the road just need some sheet steel to remake a few bits t get the bike back on the road.  Might even wash the mountain bike and tinker a little once its washed. Thinking of going to brighton in the morning deliver cards and gifts.  Going back via a friends in merton to twiddle his bike and then eat some cake.

What a shitty pointless life.
Sounds like an ideal Man Weekend to me  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 10:06:13 am
Quote from: jogler on 19 December, 2009, 06:47:47 pm
I am trying to avoid the conclusion that not riding tomorrow's Whitegate audax is the sensible decision considering the temperature & likely icey road conditions :-\

Consoling myself with the thought that not riding was the right decision but disappointed that several weeks of build-up mileage/training has gone to waste :(
I will take up the organisers option to do it as a Perm sometime in the future.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 20 December, 2009, 10:10:03 am
Quote from: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 10:06:13 am
Quote from: jogler on 19 December, 2009, 06:47:47 pm
I am trying to avoid the conclusion that not riding tomorrow's Whitegate audax is the sensible decision considering the temperature & likely icey road conditions :-\

Consoling myself with the thought that not riding was the right decision but disappointed that several weeks of build-up mileage/training has gone to waste :(
I will take up the organisers option to do it as a Perm sometime in the future.
The mileage/training hasn't gone to waste.  You will not suddenly become fat and lethargic just because you didn't ride today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 10:17:56 am
It's an anti-climax thing,I'll be reet after a brief sulk ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 20 December, 2009, 10:22:32 am
Quote from: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 10:17:56 am
It's an anti-climax thing,I'll be reet after a brief sulk ;)
I know, just don't get obsessive about it. It's not healthy. Winter is a time to do less cycling and rest or switch to other forms of training to keep your interest. I do more/varied gym work. FWIW I haven't been on a bike since Tuesday and it'll be Tuesday at the earliest before I get out again, though I can't imagine much more ice will have gone by then since temperatures are not getting above zero Celcius.

Might do some stuff on my Swiss Ball this afternoon
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 10:26:59 am
I reckon that I'll have to make more use of the turbo & rollers.At least I now have a laptop which I can take into the garage to watch/listen to  a video/music to combat the boredom.I have even considered doing spinning classes again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 20 December, 2009, 10:29:24 am
I've been doing spinning classes in the gym for the last four weeks. In the New Year I'll switch to power training for two months
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 10:30:57 am
SWMBO remarked last night that buying a Swiss ball is likely to happen here because she is using one at physio & the guru has recommended one.
Our local Tesco sells 'em.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 20 December, 2009, 11:22:30 am
Coffee then fettling the refitted Hope hub with Mavic CXP23 rim onto the Etape.
Not sure if I'll be going to work tomorrow as the roads are atrocious with ice.  But at least I'll be ready.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 20 December, 2009, 12:16:49 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 10:30:57 am
SWMBO remarked last night that buying a Swiss ball is likely to happen here because she is using one at physio & the guru has recommended one.
Our local Tesco sells 'em.

The tesco ones are dirt cheap and pretty good.  I think I got mine for under a fiver a year or so back.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 20 December, 2009, 12:19:45 pm
I'm eating an apple
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Post by: gordon taylor on 20 December, 2009, 12:20:17 pm
Warming up after a glorious wee shopping trip to town on the trike.
Some patches on our lanes are sheet ice.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 20 December, 2009, 02:14:05 pm
Still trying to get out and fettle.  We have guests coming and I keep being given JOBS to do !!
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Post by: Adam on 20 December, 2009, 03:32:32 pm
Clearing snow off the driveway and the pavements outside & going shopping.  I'm exhausted.
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Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 04:09:43 pm
I'm going to re-visit the bottle of red wine that I didn't finish last night :)
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Post by: FatBloke on 20 December, 2009, 04:12:05 pm
Fiddling with my annual erection!!   :-\
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Post by: citoyen on 20 December, 2009, 04:15:47 pm
Having gritted the drive to avoid being sued by a broken-legged postman/milkman, I am now about to go into the loft to try to find the Baby Jesus...

Quote from: FatBloke on 20 December, 2009, 04:12:05 pm
Fiddling with my annual erection!!   :-\

Are you planning to stick it up some poor fairy's bum? ;)

d.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 20 December, 2009, 04:38:27 pm
Quote from: nuttycyclist on 20 December, 2009, 12:16:49 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 10:30:57 am
SWMBO remarked last night that buying a Swiss ball is likely to happen here because she is using one at physio & the guru has recommended one.
Our local Tesco sells 'em.

The tesco ones are dirt cheap and pretty good.  I think I got mine for under a fiver a year or so back.

Might pop over to one tomorrow.  Need a ball to play with.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 20 December, 2009, 04:41:20 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 20 December, 2009, 08:54:37 am
Quote from: Lynx on 20 December, 2009, 03:19:34 am
So have batterys on charge and tomorrow morning will either play with a motorbike to get the electrics sorted and preped to get it back on the road.  Should work on the Ducati to get that back on the road just need some sheet steel to remake a few bits t get the bike back on the road.  Might even wash the mountain bike and tinker a little once its washed. Thinking of going to brighton in the morning deliver cards and gifts.  Going back via a friends in merton to twiddle his bike and then eat some cake.

What a shitty pointless life.
Sounds like an ideal Man Weekend to me  :thumbsup:

None done in the end.  But the car battery is still charging, fing halfords battery charger that doesn't charge.
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Post by: Marj on 20 December, 2009, 04:44:34 pm
Just finished wrapping all the presents, now making shepherds pie.
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Post by: Moloko on 20 December, 2009, 05:45:41 pm
Quote from: citizen smudge on 20 December, 2009, 04:15:47 pm

I am now about to go into the loft to try to find the Baby Jesus...


Why go up there when you can more easily go into your kitchen (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8422437.stm).
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Post by: Marj on 20 December, 2009, 05:55:45 pm
Quote from: Dicky Mo on 20 December, 2009, 05:45:41 pm
Quote from: citizen smudge on 20 December, 2009, 04:15:47 pm

I am now about to go into the loft to try to find the Baby Jesus...


Why go up there when you can more easily go into your kitchen (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8422437.stm).

Does that mean I have Jesus gently steaming in the kitchen  ;D
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Post by: Butterfly on 20 December, 2009, 05:58:17 pm
Waiting for the electricity to come back on so that I can have a go at getting proper internet not this very slow mobile broadband effort. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 December, 2009, 08:11:52 pm
Reading yacf instead of working on my presentation for tomorrow.  It's not easy to get excited about "Challenges facing the GB Energy Industry".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 08:19:39 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 20 December, 2009, 08:11:52 pm
Reading yacf instead of working on my presentation for tomorrow.  It's not easy to get excited about "Challenges facing the GB Energy Industry".

perhaps Butterfly could contribute some contemporary/pertinent comment?
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Post by: border-rider on 20 December, 2009, 09:30:05 pm
Ripping countless CDs to .flac
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Post by: rogerzilla on 20 December, 2009, 09:32:17 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 20 December, 2009, 08:11:52 pm
Reading yacf instead of working on my presentation for tomorrow.  It's not easy to get excited about "Challenges facing the GB Energy Industry".
Get Wowbagger to write it for you.  They'll remember that one  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 December, 2009, 09:35:26 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 20 December, 2009, 09:32:17 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 20 December, 2009, 08:11:52 pm
Reading yacf instead of working on my presentation for tomorrow.  It's not easy to get excited about "Challenges facing the GB Energy Industry".
Get Wowbagger to write it for you.  They'll remember that one  ;D

Perhaps I could just get Monbiot to stand in for me.  ;)
 
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Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 10:01:37 pm
Just been browsing the Islabikes website.My grandaughter has a birthday mid January & may ask for a new bike.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 December, 2009, 10:11:56 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 20 December, 2009, 09:32:17 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 20 December, 2009, 08:11:52 pm
Reading yacf instead of working on my presentation for tomorrow.  It's not easy to get excited about "Challenges facing the GB Energy Industry".
Get Wowbagger to write it for you.  They'll remember that one  ;D
This is sounding similar to my son's PhD thesis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 10:34:25 pm
eating cornflakes with hot milk topped with demerara sugar & evaporated milk :thumbsup:
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Post by: TimO on 22 December, 2009, 12:06:34 pm
Recovering after taking the cat to the cattery for his Christmas Holidays.  It's not as though the drive was relaxing, and it wasn't helped that the engine cut out for no apparent reason in Epsom.

I rang the AA and got given an estimated 6 hour wait for someone to come out. :o

Luckily a chap helped me push the car into a bus-stop layby, and when we tried the engine it started, which was odd since I'd already had two extended engine starting sessions. :-\

Bikes are so much better.  I could have walked home from there (10 miles or so) in less time than that, or gone to the nearest station, and possibly been home in a fraction of the time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 December, 2009, 04:36:43 pm
Getting my act togthether after falling asleep on the sofa, after eating a 3 course pub lunch in the Coach & Horses,Fenny Bentley near Ashbourne.The food there is very good & they keep a good Guiness.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 22 December, 2009, 04:44:54 pm
Going to peel some potatoes to go with tonight's haggis.
We have a neep shortage, though.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 22 December, 2009, 05:07:07 pm
Quote from: TimO on 22 December, 2009, 12:06:34 pm
Recovering after taking the cat to the cattery for his Christmas Holidays.  It's not as though the drive was relaxing, and it wasn't helped that the engine cut out for no apparent reason in Epsom.

I rang the AA and got given an estimated 6 hour wait for someone to come out. :o

Luckily a chap helped me push the car into a bus-stop layby, and when we tried the engine it started, which was odd since I'd already had two extended engine starting sessions. :-\



I have highlighted the reason.


Epsom is the BErmuda Triangle of Surrey....  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2009, 12:44:30 pm
I'm about to go to Waitrose.

I may be some time...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 December, 2009, 12:51:51 pm
Working.  :-\

And eating a spoonful of Nutella, so all is better.  :D
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Post by: Aidan on 24 December, 2009, 12:57:11 pm
Still working too. Just told all my branches they can go at 3.00pm instead of 5.00pm so I'm mr popular  :thumbsup: ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 24 December, 2009, 01:25:42 pm
Wrapping.
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Post by: delthebike on 24 December, 2009, 01:31:46 pm
Digesting a superb piece of dog fish and chips.
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Post by: spesh on 24 December, 2009, 02:09:55 pm
Thinking that I ought to be packing for the trip to my parents' place, rather than indulging in displacement activity on here. ;D
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Post by: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 02:11:18 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 24 December, 2009, 01:31:46 pm
Digesting a superb piece of dog, fish and chips.
Eats shoots and leaves
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Post by: mike on 24 December, 2009, 06:16:13 pm
watching Shrek 2 with a box of quality street and a cup of tea.  Lovely.
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Post by: woollypigs on 24 December, 2009, 06:32:38 pm
waiting for the cake that Peli have just put in the oven to be ready :)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 December, 2009, 07:42:21 pm
Hiding from EastEnders, in the dining room, with a glass of Bailey's and the laptop.
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Post by: Zoidburg on 24 December, 2009, 07:43:48 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 24 December, 2009, 07:42:21 pm
Hiding from EastEnders, in the dining room, with a glass of Bailey's and the laptop.
Hmmmmm...it's creamy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 24 December, 2009, 07:47:30 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 24 December, 2009, 07:42:21 pm
with a glass of Bailey's

Well, that's enough ammo for about a year of piss-taking  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 07:47:54 pm
thinking of giving up long distance cycling and taking up railway modelling again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 24 December, 2009, 07:50:20 pm
Quote from: Vankhead on 24 December, 2009, 07:47:30 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 24 December, 2009, 07:42:21 pm
with a glass of Bailey's

Well, that's enough ammo for about a year of piss-taking  ;D

I did just say to my wife that it was a drink for girls and gentlemen of an alternative sexual orientation  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 24 December, 2009, 07:50:39 pm
Quote from: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 07:47:54 pm
thinking of giving up long distance cycling and taking up railway modelling again.
But would you find the same level of pervery rich and interesting debate on a model railway forum?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 24 December, 2009, 07:53:49 pm
So you'll be watching James May tomorrow evening, then?
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Post by: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 07:57:41 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 24 December, 2009, 07:53:49 pm
So you'll be watching James May tomorrow evening, then?
Probably. I used to Railway Model in my teens. Now I have no car I could use the garage for a layout. I like making things (don't tell 1gear) especially things that move.

Used to make radio controlled model boats with my Dad and we have a hull of a stern trawler that we built years ago that I'd really like to complete some day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 December, 2009, 07:59:23 pm
Quote from: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 07:47:54 pm
thinking of giving up long distance cycling and taking up railway modelling again.

how much drinking do you have to do to get into that state so early in the Festivities ;D

actually I can relate to the model railway thing  some years ago my neighbour & I planned to build one layout occupying the entire loft space of our adjacent semi.We both moved house &  he still has ALL my track,carriages,rolling stock,locos etc etc( & my extensive collection of Railway Modeller magazines).

If you pack in cycling can I have first dibs on the Hewitt & the Dolan :demon: ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2009, 08:06:42 pm
Digesting an enormous meal consisting, amongst other things, of venison burgers and suet pudding & syrup, accompanied by sherry, beer, coffee and port.
Quote from: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 07:47:54 pm
thinking of giving up long distance cycling and taking up railway modelling again.
Contemplating the luscious image of MSeries on the catwalk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 08:07:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 December, 2009, 07:59:23 pm

If you pack in cycling can I have first dibs on the Hewitt & the Dolan :demon: ;D
I'll need the Dolan for commuting but you can have first dibs on the Hewitt and the Merckx.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 24 December, 2009, 08:20:11 pm
Quote from: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 08:07:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 December, 2009, 07:59:23 pm

If you pack in cycling can I have first dibs on the Hewitt & the Dolan :demon: ;D
I'll need the Dolan Nolan for commuting but you can have first dibs on the Hewitt and the Merckx.
FTFY.  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 09:00:19 pm
Quote from: eck on 24 December, 2009, 08:20:11 pm
Quote from: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 08:07:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 December, 2009, 07:59:23 pm

If you pack in cycling can I have first dibs on the Hewitt & the Dolan :demon: ;D
I'll need the Dolan Nolan for commuting but you can have first dibs on the Hewitt and the Merckx.
FTFY.  O:-)
If I had the Nolan I don't think I'd want to leave the house to go to work. I think I would definitely give up long distance cycling too. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 December, 2009, 09:12:38 pm
Digesting a nice slice of peanut butter and chocolate cake. :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2009, 09:14:08 pm
Listening to a particularly slushy brass band arrangement of "Stille Nacht" and wishing Dez would play a Mozart symphony instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 December, 2009, 11:53:05 pm
Trying to learn to play Cowgirl In The Sand.  -  No not the Crazy Horse version, great though it is.  The accoustic Four Way Street version.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2009, 08:02:33 am
Enjoying a breakfast of coffee and mince pies before I head out to enjoy London's empty streets.

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Post by: IanDG on 25 December, 2009, 08:29:01 am
Browsing the web, drinking coffee and waiting for e veryone to wake up so that I can open presents
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 25 December, 2009, 08:47:55 am
Digging out my speedos.   :o
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Post by: oncemore on 25 December, 2009, 09:07:55 am
Nice cuppa tea, couple of roll-ups, waiting for the family to emerge .... whereupon it will be traditional (in THIS house!) kippers for breakfast!

Have a nice day!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 December, 2009, 09:19:51 am
Eating brioche and hot chocolate for breakfast (although dearly_beloved decided on toast, and littly wanted shreddies - all the more brioche for eldest CrinklyCub and me :)) and then I shall drink the coffee that the eldest just made me.  Only instant - but he is only 8 and has to start somwhere.  The boys slept in til about half seven and then occupied themselves with unwrapping stockings fro  Santa.  Apparently it's very impressive that Santa knew they needed bath sponges.  And littly was particularly impressed with his orange, and being allowed to eat chocolate in his pyjamas before breakfast!
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Post by: Gandalf on 25 December, 2009, 10:05:51 am
Just off to church.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2009, 10:09:19 am
About to give in to the dog's demands that we go to the park.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 25 December, 2009, 10:14:48 am
Reflecting on the fact that I have a lot to be grateful for, and however shitty life can seem on a day to day basis there are many, many, many people who have it worse than me by a factor of a million. 

Today IS the day to remember and be thankful for that
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 25 December, 2009, 12:09:24 pm
Getting ready to visit daughter and 3 grandsons to cheer myself up.   Yesterday was my younger brother's funeral - fantastic turnout for him considering the snow across the country, wonderfull words spoken by one of his friends. 
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 25 December, 2009, 12:13:49 pm
Just chilling out on here for a few minutes after playing the organ for five services over the past 24 hours.

N
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Post by: geoff on 25 December, 2009, 12:17:56 pm
Wishing all of you a happy Christmas!!
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Post by: peliroja on 25 December, 2009, 07:57:44 pm
Relaxing after half a day out cycling, and waiting for the spuds to roast.
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Post by: Basil on 27 December, 2009, 12:35:24 pm
Listening to the cricket.
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Post by: Domestique on 27 December, 2009, 12:43:18 pm
Half heartedly looking at Eastenders and the laptop
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Post by: peliroja on 27 December, 2009, 12:45:37 pm
Wondering whether to go out for a ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 27 December, 2009, 12:46:09 pm
Quote from: Domestique on 27 December, 2009, 12:43:18 pm
Half heartedly looking at Eastenders and the laptop
I'm thinking the laptop is more interesting to look at.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 27 December, 2009, 01:21:03 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 27 December, 2009, 12:46:09 pm
Quote from: Domestique on 27 December, 2009, 12:43:18 pm
Half heartedly looking at Eastenders and the laptop
I'm thinking the laptop is more interesting to look at.
even if it's switched off  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 27 December, 2009, 01:33:51 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 27 December, 2009, 12:45:37 pm
Wondering whether to go out for a ride.
That's it, I'm going out!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 December, 2009, 01:37:12 pm
I'm uploading albums of childrens songs onto an iPod.

Takes ages...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2009, 01:40:13 pm
I'm about to go to Waitrose. I wonder if it's changed at all since Christmas Eve?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 27 December, 2009, 03:20:02 pm
We're a bit sad and deflated. Daughter departed back to London and son to his flat here in Nottingham.

We do miss them. Each and every time they "go" seems just a little more definitive and final.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2009, 06:45:51 pm
Enjoying a pre-prandial amontillado prior to tucking into shepherd's pie followed y suet pudding & syrup. There may be port & stilton to finish. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: coll_coll on 27 December, 2009, 11:39:18 pm
Starting to watch American Flyers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Flyers) on BBC1, whisky in hand
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 27 December, 2009, 11:41:22 pm
Quote from: coll_coll on 27 December, 2009, 11:39:18 pm
Starting to watch American Flyers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Flyers) on BBC1, whisky in hand
By christ that is a crappy gas piper he is tootling round on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 28 December, 2009, 05:50:24 am
Trying the hot-water+whisky thing to ease a cough that's kept me awake for most of the night.

I might be ill.

Yug.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 December, 2009, 10:51:41 am
Mrs. Wow and I have prepared enormous quantities of lamb stew, only for a significant proportion of our guests to drop out with illness.

Son-in-law has the squits, as affected younger daughter on Christmas Day.

Nephew, who is a Dr. in A & E, appears to have affected his ma & bro with swine flu.

So there are now just 6 of us for industrial quantities of stew & dumplings, which will be enjoyed after a lovely sea wall walk.

At least the weather is perfect: little wind (here at least - could be breezy on the mud flats), frosty and sunny.

So we are awaiting the arrival of not so many guests as we had hoped.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gaseous Clay on 28 December, 2009, 11:09:09 am
Wasting time until we have to go and visit relatives in an hour or so.

And thinking how i would much rather go for a ride now that the frost has gone, get home and sit listening to music while sipping a large glass of single malt in front of the wood burning stove. 

Arse!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 29 December, 2009, 11:31:56 am
Sitting in my parents dining room, browsing the net, and watching the box, looking for something novel to watch.  Currently on "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain", which is a good enough film, but I saw it quite recently, so don't really need a repeat.

I need a bicycle here, but it's also tipping down, so it's not really currently pleasant cycling weather anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 December, 2009, 11:47:24 am
Wondering now long this temperature,runny nose & cracking headache is going to last for :(
I feel really crappy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 29 December, 2009, 11:47:55 am
working :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 December, 2009, 12:00:28 pm
Wondering what to do today, given the crappy weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2009, 12:03:46 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 29 December, 2009, 12:00:28 pm
Wondering what to do today, given the crappy weather.

I spy, with my little eye, something begging beginning with ... G! :thumbsup:

(Does dyslexia begin with G?  :-[)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 December, 2009, 12:55:11 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 29 December, 2009, 12:03:46 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 29 December, 2009, 12:00:28 pm
Wondering what to do today, given the crappy weather.

I spy, with my little eye, something begging beginning with ... G! :thumbsup:

(Does dyslexia begin with G?  :-[)
G? You've lost me.

C? Now, C is for CAKE, which is what I'm aiming for, once I get going...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 29 December, 2009, 01:00:17 pm
Surfing and listening to The Likely Lads via iPlayer.   I should be working on a project report.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 December, 2009, 02:07:36 pm
Setting up an LDAP server, and fixing bugs. Dammit, I know how to have a good time  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2009, 02:46:47 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 29 December, 2009, 12:55:11 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 29 December, 2009, 12:03:46 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 29 December, 2009, 12:00:28 pm
Wondering what to do today, given the crappy weather.

I spy, with my little eye, something begging beginning with ... G! :thumbsup:

(Does dyslexia begin with G?  :-[)
G? You've lost me.

C? Now, C is for CAKE, which is what I'm aiming for, once I get going...

It was Garmin, the most obvious cycling-related item on my desk.

I haven't got the stomach for cake. Or, perhaps I've got a stomach which is the produce of too much cake, and beer, and turkey, and pudding etc.
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Post by: peliroja on 29 December, 2009, 02:58:41 pm
Oh I see!
I am getting beetroot all over the keyboard.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2009, 11:04:39 pm
I've just recovered from a sneezing fit and am celebrating wit a cup of coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 December, 2009, 07:24:43 pm
Quote from: jogler on 29 December, 2009, 11:47:24 am
Wondering now long this temperature,runny nose & cracking headache is going to last for :(
I feel really crappy

This lurgy is not improving so I am wondering if a comment in the Rant thread might frighten it away
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 December, 2009, 07:48:53 pm
Trying to work out the calorie and nutritional content of a Delia vegetarian shepherd's pie on fitday.com, and waiting to hear bad news. My friend's been called into hospital to say goodbye to her dad, who has been ill for a while with nobody knows what and has taken a sudden deterioration.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 30 December, 2009, 07:51:14 pm
That's very sad news, Kirst.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 December, 2009, 07:55:28 pm
It's awful. He went into hospital in August and they couldn't work out what was wrong with him, and he's just got worse and worse. He got home for a few days in September but ended up going straight back in, and when I spoke to my friend last night, she said she'd noticed a massive deterioration in him yesterday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 January, 2010, 03:08:42 pm
He's still with us, but still very ill.

Meanwhile, I am hoping for an invitation to  this party (http://news.scotsman.com/news/Tunnock39s-120th-birthday-party-that39ll.5950459.jp).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 01 January, 2010, 03:12:13 pm
Wallpapering the spare bedroom at Taylor Towers :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 01 January, 2010, 03:12:53 pm
Sitting here wondering if I can be bothered to get dressed today. ATM it's looking unlikely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 January, 2010, 03:32:48 pm
I have no intention of getting dressed today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 January, 2010, 03:40:09 pm
Kirst's flat, five minutes ago.  New Year party still going on.

(http://www.whataboutclients.com/archives/bach_orgy.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2010, 03:56:19 pm
Just about to wash the blood off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 January, 2010, 06:07:50 pm
If that's Kirst in the bottom RH corner, she'll catch a chill...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 02 January, 2010, 12:58:56 am
Planning a pootle to Chislehurst tomorrow.  I've hardly touched the bike in two months, this will be fun. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 January, 2010, 09:46:12 am
Considering a very minor (400 metres) ride on the trike to fetch a paper.My almost-man-flue symptons are less severe this morning :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 02 January, 2010, 09:52:59 am
Writing letters to relatives who don't do email.

I love writing letters and should do more.  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 January, 2010, 11:01:56 am
We are taking down the Xmas decorations this morning
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 02 January, 2010, 11:07:44 am
browsing the web whilst waiting for all startups, calibrations and QC's to finish so that I can get started on the work I've got to do  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 02 January, 2010, 11:37:20 am
waiting for a few VAT rate chages to complete, then a sysbak then home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 January, 2010, 06:10:36 pm
Waiting for the house to warm up.  I've been back several hours, and the radiators are hot, but the house still feels nippy.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/cold2.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 02 January, 2010, 07:31:41 pm
Watching Take Me Out (http://www.itv.com/entertainment/takemeout/default.aspx) :-[. My excuse - I saw a number of the episodes when I was in The Netherlands and I'm curious to see what the British version is like. Conclusion after 10 minutes - it's crap and not the same without Eddy Zoëy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 02 January, 2010, 07:37:55 pm
Making spiced roasted butternut squash soup. Nomnomnom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 02 January, 2010, 08:43:57 pm
Wondering how I'll ever manage again without an afternoon nap.

Mmmmm holidays.
Mmmmm afternoon naps...

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 January, 2010, 09:31:45 pm
Drinking Grolsch
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 03 January, 2010, 10:46:47 am
Ordering a VAR lever after failing to put new tyres on my bike ready for commuting tomorrow. I have snapped the tip of yet another Soma tyre lever  ::-) and am already on my third inner tube after putting nice fresh holes into the first two just as I was easing the tyre back on (yes with levers, I have no thumb strength).

And I'm only only the front wheel still.

*sits in a corner and weeps*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2010, 10:51:31 am
Reading about what Pippa is doing and thinking she could borrow mine if she were a bit closer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 January, 2010, 10:52:48 am
Waiting for ruddy Curry's to answer... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 January, 2010, 10:54:28 am
Now noticing that Pippa needs help & a VAR lever, and that we have both we can drop round. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 January, 2010, 11:15:27 am
Just taken last year's wall planner off the office wall & put the 2010 planner up.Also added the known important dates to the new planner
Thorne audax
YACF North Allerton ride
Snow Drop Express
Radway audax
 ;)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 03 January, 2010, 01:59:57 pm
Ploughing through the CD collection and ripping it to a portable drive.  I've just ordered a new second HD for the Media PC

I started just doing the stuff I really wanted, but I figured I might as well bite the bullet and do the lot now.  It's a trivial job.  Mostly.

Geez -  we (between us) have some junk :)

About 2 m still to go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 03 January, 2010, 02:04:06 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 03 January, 2010, 01:59:57 pm


About 2 m still to go.

A row of CDs 2 metres long ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 03 January, 2010, 02:05:52 pm
yep.  Nearly there ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2010, 02:09:55 pm
Planning rides. I've come up with an absolute belter for May.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 03 January, 2010, 02:44:38 pm
I have just un-Christmassed the house (apart from the pine needles all over the hall floor).    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 03 January, 2010, 02:50:37 pm
Quote from: FatBloke on 03 January, 2010, 02:44:38 pm
I have just un-Christmassed the house (apart from the pine needles all over the hall floor).    :thumbsup:
We've done all that. Drapered up and everything. Scraped the snow off the paths, wiped my bike frame. Now lounging around on my back with my feet on my Swiss ball checking the FA Cup scores. Don't want Man Utd v Leeds to be a tie, it'll be bedlam on my way home for the replay in Leeds, my bus goes past the ground and even if I ride the roads are v v busy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 January, 2010, 03:02:08 pm
Bike ridden, cake scoffed , tea drunk, shower showered. Now hair to be dried and more cake to be scoffed.

Then pre-work panic.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 January, 2010, 03:09:48 pm
Wondering what would happen if I added limoncello to raspberry vodka, and being glad tomorrow's still a public holiday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2010, 03:13:50 pm
Quote from: FatBloke on 03 January, 2010, 02:44:38 pm
I have just un-Christmassed the house (apart from the pine needles all over the hall floor).    :thumbsup:

We didn't bother to Christmas ours in the first place, thereby saving effort.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 January, 2010, 03:14:14 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2010, 03:13:50 pm
Quote from: FatBloke on 03 January, 2010, 02:44:38 pm
I have just un-Christmassed the house (apart from the pine needles all over the hall floor).    :thumbsup:

We didn't bother to Christmas ours in the first place, thereby saving effort.
Ditto.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 03 January, 2010, 03:44:03 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 03 January, 2010, 03:14:14 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2010, 03:13:50 pm
Quote from: FatBloke on 03 January, 2010, 02:44:38 pm
I have just un-Christmassed the house (apart from the pine needles all over the hall floor).    :thumbsup:

We didn't bother to Christmas ours in the first place, thereby saving effort.
Ditto.  :thumbsup:

Likewise, although that's more to do with there being only me and the cat to appreciate it, and he'd "appreciate" it by climbing / hanging from anything he could possibly wreck. ;D

I'm having a post Sainsburys shopping, coffee and cookie break (these are actually USAian style cookies, otherwise it would be a coffee and biscuit break).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 03 January, 2010, 04:39:08 pm
Putting off ironing my first shirts for a fortnight by thinking about what to order at the curry house tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 03 January, 2010, 07:18:36 pm
Removing xmas decorations, cooking dinner, looking forward (not) to Autoclave training at t'ospital tomorrow. Are prions fully deaded during cooking??  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 03 January, 2010, 07:21:41 pm
Planning my contigency 200 for January. A very very dull out and back to Scotch Corner Services or Barton Truck Stop. Wondering how I can find out which bridges over the A1(M) are not there now and if any new ones have been provided.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rdaviesb on 03 January, 2010, 07:23:19 pm
Defrosting my feet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 03 January, 2010, 07:29:21 pm
Quote from: rdaviesb on 03 January, 2010, 07:23:19 pm
Defrosting my feet.
Been anywhere nice?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rdaviesb on 03 January, 2010, 07:51:49 pm
Nah - just in the garden rebuilding rotten bits of the shed. Back on the fixed down the A584 on Tuesday  ;D - hand tendons are now operating as they were designed to! I won't say what other side effects the steroids had though.  :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 January, 2010, 08:01:52 pm
Worrying about the boys.  They rang me to tell me they were walking home an hour and a half ago.
Normally takes 1 hour 15 max. 
They'll be OK.  Snow and ice takes longer.  They've both got phones and they'll tell me off if I phone them.  ::-)

Fridge curry is simmering gently.  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Moloko on 03 January, 2010, 08:09:14 pm
Quote from: Basil on 03 January, 2010, 08:01:52 pm
Worrying about the boys.  They rang me to tell me they were walking home an hour and a half ago.
Normally takes 1 hour 15 max. 


At least they haven't had a three-day lock in. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/8438314.stm)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 January, 2010, 08:15:47 pm
Quote from: Dicky Mo on 03 January, 2010, 08:09:14 pm
Quote from: Basil on 03 January, 2010, 08:01:52 pm
Worrying about the boys.  They rang me to tell me they were walking home an hour and a half ago.
Normally takes 1 hour 15 max. 


At least they haven't had a three-day lock in. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/8438314.stm)

 ;D

Just had a phone call instructing me to put "vast quantities of rice on". 
They're just on Top Corner.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 03 January, 2010, 08:23:04 pm
About to ride home, shall I try and guess how cold it will be?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 05 January, 2010, 05:43:00 pm
Making alternative travel arrangements for tomorrow's trip to Glasgow.  I was going to travel from King's Cross up the Eact Coast Mainline (super-cheap tickets) but service is looking crappe and the train is terminating in Edinburgh.  (Yes, Embra is nice, and I'll be there Thursday, but need to be in Glasgow Wednesday).  At least Virgin's Pendolinos are better than the usual rolling stock here in the UK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 05 January, 2010, 06:02:10 pm
I is munching a jacket tater and that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 06:29:56 pm
Quote from: Basil on 03 January, 2010, 08:01:52 pm
Fridge curry is simmering gently.  :P

We are doing a Fridge Curry too. It's got turkey in it.

At least they haven't had a three-day lock in. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/8438314.stm)
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It wasn't like that when Mrs. Wow and I went up there on the tandem! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 06 January, 2010, 06:50:55 am
I'm about to walk to work - I may be some time  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 06 January, 2010, 10:33:48 am
Doing some boring household chores while listening to Sandy Denny.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 06 January, 2010, 12:37:59 pm
Sitting on the sofa with a mug of hot lemonade, a mug of cup a soup and a doorstep of homemade bread, watching the children over the road clearing the snow off every car in the street to escalate the snowball fight :D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 January, 2010, 12:39:46 pm
*jealous*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 06 January, 2010, 08:07:57 pm
Getting changed out of my cycling kit, and back into my "normal" clothes, so I can get the tube and tram home.  When I got on my bike, I found that the front brake block has just worn down enough that a hard application of the brake makes the cartridge holder hit the rim.  Since that way leads towards (i) poor braking and (ii) a rapidly knackered rim, I've retraced my tracks.

So, changing into and back out of cycling clothes, plus walking to the bike sheds, unlocking and locking the bike, mounting and unmounting the lights etc all for nowt.  Bah. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 January, 2010, 08:52:24 pm
Ah poo. :(

Lesson: Carry spare brake blocks. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 06 January, 2010, 09:40:38 pm
Quote from: clarion on 06 January, 2010, 08:52:24 pm
Ah poo. :(

Lesson: Carry spare brake blocks. ;)

I've got spare blocks, but for the Kaffenback, and I was on the Pompino.

Lesson: Carry the correct brake blocks.

On the plus side, I've never seen the Tube or Trams so empty.  There was no problem getting a seat.  I was almost by myself in the carriage on the tube.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 January, 2010, 10:15:30 pm
Ah.  Yes, that was my mistake.  I've carried canti blocks with me everywhere.  Even on the road bike, when I needed a block for a sidepull :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 07 January, 2010, 02:50:00 am
Feel;oig iosed/

*removes gloves*

Feeling pissed.

The first attempt would probably have been amusing/apt if anyone could have decoded it.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 07 January, 2010, 06:18:56 am
Making a helmet cover out of a binbag and sticky tape.  ::-)

God, it's cold out there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 07 January, 2010, 09:05:32 am
I've now got two entire sets of blocks, non-cartridge type, since I'm not sure what type is on the bike.  I've also got a spare brake cable to replace the one I used on Tuesday morning, since sods law dictates that I may need to replace the cable when buggering about with the brakes.

Of course, since the bike is at work, it's Tram and Tube in this morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 January, 2010, 02:40:41 pm
Enjoying the scenery and free wi-fi on the journey back down to London.  The best I can say about the weather at the moment is 'variable'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 09 January, 2010, 03:08:19 pm
Procrastinating, whilst attempting to write a database export report (non-trivial) and nursing a painful back.

..d

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 09 January, 2010, 03:25:54 pm
Thawing out after tidying the freezer.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 January, 2010, 03:33:45 pm
Wondering if the birds would like the seeds from the butternut squash I've just made into soup.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2010, 03:34:47 pm
Preparing for the dreaded tax return and wondering if I received a P60 last year and, if I did, where it is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 09 January, 2010, 03:36:31 pm
Putting off preparing for the dreaded tax return and wondering if I received a P60 last year and, if I did, where it is.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 09 January, 2010, 03:41:32 pm
Just rubbed some minty arse lard onto my, once again, clean shaved bonce.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 January, 2010, 03:46:28 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 09 January, 2010, 03:41:32 pm
Just rubbed some minty arse lard onto my, once again, clean shaved bonce.

Will you be wearing lycra shorts on your head?  <confused> ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 09 January, 2010, 03:49:46 pm
Quote from: TimO on 09 January, 2010, 03:46:28 pm
Will you be wearing lycra shorts on your head?  <confused> ???
How do you put yours on?  ???

Being antiseptic it helps the newly exposed skin to fight off the spots. It only needs a couple of days to weather in and I won't need to apply it any more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2010, 04:16:28 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2010, 03:34:47 pm
Preparing for the dreaded tax return and wondering if I received a P60 last year and, if I did, where it is.

Celebrating the end of the P60 search with a glass of red.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 January, 2010, 06:06:10 pm
Sitting in a pub while Woolly has a work-related meeting. We've been cycling today, in the snow, including one deflation-related incident. Brrr. Looking forward to getting home as it's cold in this pub, and they don't serve hot drinks! :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 09 January, 2010, 06:11:14 pm
Killing time until I go out for dinner with my lovely wife. Taking advantage of "buy one, get one free" from the Specials board at a local hostelry. Nom, nom, nom.... oh and maybe a bit of slurp, slurp, slurp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2010, 06:13:01 pm
I'm into my 3rd glass of red, waiting for the lamb stew to be ready. It's a freezer job, the original having been made on 28th December.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 January, 2010, 06:48:13 pm
Googling chimney balloons and wondering how to get my arms up there to measure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2010, 06:58:35 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 09 January, 2010, 06:48:13 pm
Googling chimney balloons and wondering how to get my arms up there to measure.

Is this still to find out whether your coccyx is broken? :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 09 January, 2010, 07:01:53 pm
Cooking cottage pie, drinking *beer*, not going out  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 January, 2010, 07:22:54 pm
scoffing Maltesers.They are not fattening,right?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 January, 2010, 07:45:38 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2010, 06:58:35 pm


Is this still to find out whether your coccyx is broken? :o
How verreh dare you?

It's to stop all the heat going straight up my chimney instead of staying here and warming me.

Quote from: jogler on 09 January, 2010, 07:22:54 pm
scoffing Maltesers.They are not fattening,right?
They're the lighter way to enjoy chocolate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 January, 2010, 07:54:32 pm
ther's a lot of enjoyment going on here then:360g according to the info on the box :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 09 January, 2010, 09:06:10 pm
just back from the Panto in Cambridge with some friends!

absolutely fantastic, best one I've ever been to by miles.  Recommend to anyone who can borrow a child for the evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 09 January, 2010, 10:02:20 pm
Wondering if my Sunday riding mate seriously expects me to turn up at the riverside caff in the morning. And nervously concluding that as an ex-GB Decathlete he does not understand the word "quit" and yes, YES he does!

I sourced him a bargain price Spesh mtb just before Xmas and this is how he repays me!!

So I've swopped to a shorter seat post on the Proflex 856 so I can at least get my feet down as I fall off...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 January, 2010, 11:12:15 pm
I am pleased to say that the life expectancy of MY  bread & butter pudding is extremely limited.


Having "seconds"  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 09 January, 2010, 11:13:18 pm
Quote from: mike on 09 January, 2010, 09:06:10 pm
just back from the Panto in Cambridge with some friends!
oh no you haven't
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 January, 2010, 12:00:21 am
I've spent a happy evening reading through old WARTY threads. It makes you long for the warm weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 January, 2010, 01:17:29 am
Sipping Laphroaig, reading you lot while listening to Trout Mask Replica.



I'm not wondering why the hell I'm sipping Laphroaig or reading YACF.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 January, 2010, 04:29:37 pm
Cleaning up the blood that's all over my desk  ::-).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 January, 2010, 06:07:35 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 11 January, 2010, 04:29:37 pm
Cleaning up the blood that's all over my desk  ::-).


Whose? :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 January, 2010, 06:17:56 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 11 January, 2010, 06:07:35 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 11 January, 2010, 04:29:37 pm
Cleaning up the blood that's all over my desk  ::-).


Whose? :o

Mine :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: 1gear on 12 January, 2010, 12:20:20 am
Just finishing off my cup of coffee before bed.
Had some malted milks to dunk in it today. Not a good dunker i think, no time to relax when you dunk, have to be in and out quickly. They are a strong biscuit though.
Custard creams got eaten yesterday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geraldc on 12 January, 2010, 12:55:17 am
Sitting in a restaurant in Hong Kong airport. Flight has been delayed due to bad weather in Europe. Am abusing the free coffee refills the restaurant offers, so am now totally wired.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 January, 2010, 05:52:26 pm
Chilling...after spending the last 11 hours reading drawings,specifications,finishing scedules & collating costs & quotations.I expect the rest of the week will be tha same.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 12 January, 2010, 07:47:14 pm
relaxing after 2 hours of yoga and 1,5 hours of boxing practice  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 January, 2010, 08:36:05 pm
Making chickpea, coriander and chilli soup and wondering where my wooden pestle is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 12 January, 2010, 09:48:08 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 09 January, 2010, 06:48:13 pm
Googling chimney balloons and wondering how to get my arms up there to measure.

Try lying on your back with your head in the grate and looking up there with a torch - you should be able to get a "close enough" measurement from visual inspection. Good idea to wear safety goggles if you do that though.

The real fun comes when you try to fit the bugger.  :-\

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 January, 2010, 10:03:01 pm
Oh, I can't measure things visually, I have no spatial perception at all. I'd order one 3 miles by half an inch, or something equally stupid. I'll think about it at the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 January, 2010, 10:04:55 pm
this then >...............................................................< could be ten inches :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 12 January, 2010, 10:13:54 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 12 January, 2010, 10:03:01 pm
Oh, I can't measure things visually, I have no spatial perception at all. I'd order one 3 miles by half an inch, or something equally stupid. I'll think about it at the weekend.

Yebbut in my experience chimney balloons only come in small, medium and large, so you only need an approximate measurement anyway.

Having said that, I did manage to end up with one that is far too big for my tiny chimney.  Still does the job, though.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 January, 2010, 02:41:10 pm
Quote from: jogler link=10706.msg520879#msg520879 date=1263318746
Chilling...after spending the last 11 hours reading drawings,specifications,finishing scedules & collating costs & quotations.I expect the rest of the week will be tha same.


taking a break (from an action replay of yesterday),first today which began at 0700 hrs.



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 January, 2010, 03:30:09 pm
Wondering if I should tell someone that there is an error in the sum £11,556.00 IN MY FAVOUR ;D
It's a dilema.........
should I tell him?
will he spot it himself?
if he does can I get away with pleading ignorance?

that's a lorra lorra bikes & holidaying

this is the worrying aspect of doing an enormous amount of figure work under time pressure: you end up with scrambled brain
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 January, 2010, 05:23:59 pm
I decided to do the honest thing & surrender the £K11.5
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 January, 2010, 05:44:29 pm
Quote from: jogler on 13 January, 2010, 03:30:09 pm
Wondering if I should tell someone that there is an error in the sum £11,556.00 IN MY FAVOUR ;D

Quote from: jogler on 13 January, 2010, 05:23:59 pm
I decided to do the honest thing & surrender the £K11.5

I assume the remaining £56 was kept as a processing fee.  ;)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 January, 2010, 05:30:23 pm
Patiently (for the moment) waiting for a colleague to finish a report so I can circulate all the documents for next week's meeting.  In theory I should already be on my bike and heading home...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 21 January, 2010, 10:41:52 pm
In SFO airport waiting for my delayed flight. It's had to refuel in Oakland en route to San Francisco... Why on earth would this happen? It's a short hop from Oakland to SFO.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 21 January, 2010, 11:28:23 pm
Getting home from the pub. It was quiz night and even though we didn't enter, we'd have won easily I reckon. Definitely opening a can of whup-ass  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 21 January, 2010, 11:35:29 pm
Wondering why the waiting staff in Virgin Upper Class lounge completely ignore me, but fuss around others. I think it's because I don't look like I should be in here. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 January, 2010, 11:36:02 pm
Are all the other passengers men?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 January, 2010, 11:39:03 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 21 January, 2010, 11:35:29 pm
Wondering why the waiting staff in Virgin Upper Class lounge completely ignore me, but fuss around others. I think it's because I don't look like I should be in here. :(

Th'art too good for'em lass.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 January, 2010, 08:00:27 am
Not going to work.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 22 January, 2010, 08:17:41 am
On the train realising why I prefer to cycle to work
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 January, 2010, 08:25:01 am
Hitting the "reload" button frequently.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 January, 2010, 08:26:54 am
Waiting for something I don't know if it'll happen.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 22 January, 2010, 09:19:13 am
Feeling my legs response to the first midweek hilly club run of 2010 and waiting for the coffee to cool down enough to drink.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 January, 2010, 02:58:33 pm
I am enjoying one of the few benefits of being self-employed...writing my own salary & expenses cheques :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 22 January, 2010, 06:00:35 pm
Drawing a bath for my lovely husband, who has hurt his back. Poor thing. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 January, 2010, 08:17:24 pm
in oils or some other medium?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 22 January, 2010, 08:23:17 pm
In pastels ;-) although there were a few oils thrown in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 23 January, 2010, 10:31:56 am
Following the exploits of cyclists via Twitter. The last 3 were from:

Dean Downing, Swarm_Catcher*, George Hincapie.

*now in Pangbourne
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 January, 2010, 10:40:15 am
Eating "Second Breakfast"
An hour & half wood chopping has completely used up the first one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 23 January, 2010, 11:47:51 am
Being a sleepy head.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 23 January, 2010, 01:56:41 pm
Waiting for the footy to start (Yeovil v Exeter - what passes for a local derby and, I am told, the first time Exeter have ever played at Huish Park).

Not that I really care about the football.  I need to go to the tip and it's just down the road from the ground.  I have to wait for the traffic to settle down and for the crowd to be safely out of the way!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 January, 2010, 02:40:51 pm
Yoevil/crowd /football.Some mistake surely :demon:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 23 January, 2010, 02:52:58 pm
Average attendance this season is 4380.

Source: http://itv.stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/attend.html
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 23 January, 2010, 03:09:45 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 23 January, 2010, 02:52:58 pm
Source: http://itv.stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/attend.html

So how come Colchester United's highest attendance is greater than the capacity of their ground? Or have I misread the table?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 23 January, 2010, 03:12:50 pm
The capacity figure may be out of date, or inaccurate given that lower league clubs still have terraces (the all-seater requirement only applies to Premiership clubs).

[EDIT] Soccerbase has the ground capacity at 10083: www.soccerbase.com - The Internet Soccer Database (http://www.soccerbase.com/grounds2.sd?groundid=1269)

The game as against Norwich: www.soccerbase.com - The Internet Soccer Database (http://www.soccerbase.com/results3.sd?gameid=609122)

Colchester had beaten them 1-7 in the opening game of the season. Norwich responded by stealing their manager (Paul Lambert).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 23 January, 2010, 06:34:21 pm
Waiting for curry to arrive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 23 January, 2010, 06:36:40 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 23 January, 2010, 06:34:21 pm
Waiting for curry to arrive.
Waiting to go out and get curry!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 23 January, 2010, 07:46:27 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 23 January, 2010, 06:36:40 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 23 January, 2010, 06:34:21 pm
Waiting for curry to arrive.
Waiting to go out and get curry!

Digesting my curry.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 23 January, 2010, 07:59:37 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 23 January, 2010, 07:46:27 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 23 January, 2010, 06:36:40 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 23 January, 2010, 06:34:21 pm
Waiting for curry to arrive.
Waiting to go out and get curry!

Digesting my curry.  ;D
Ditto!

('twas huge -- it is not like MrsC to leave food!)  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 23 January, 2010, 08:04:26 pm
Drinking Belinis and watching Colin Firth. A menopausal woman's dream evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 23 January, 2010, 08:44:24 pm
Sitting here wondering what the hell one does with a free evening  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2010, 08:50:57 pm
Quote from: Salvatore on 23 January, 2010, 03:09:45 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 23 January, 2010, 02:52:58 pm
Source: http://itv.stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/attend.html

So how come Colchester United's highest attendance is greater than the capacity of their ground? Or have I misread the table?

Colchester have recently moved to a new ground. Their old ground, Layer Road, was, I think (could well be wrong) the smallest in the Football League. I don't know how many it held, but I don't know how many the new ground holds either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 January, 2010, 09:47:06 pm
Quote from: Deborah on 23 January, 2010, 08:04:26 pm
Drinking Belinis and watching Colin Firth. A menopausal woman's dream evening.

Wouldn't you rather have Colin Firth watching you? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 23 January, 2010, 10:03:41 pm
just nipped in from the garage, where I am adding some extra magnets to the Reelight SL500s in an effort to make them more effective, to see if the missus has stopped watching casuality and to make another cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 January, 2010, 10:36:53 pm
Watching Season 1 of South Park on DVD.  Oh my god, they killed Kenny (several times), the bastards. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 23 January, 2010, 10:40:28 pm
Quote from: TimO on 23 January, 2010, 10:36:53 pm
Watching Season 1 of South Park on DVD.  Oh my god, they killed Kenny (several times), the bastards. ;D

I lost interest after Kenny died
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 23 January, 2010, 10:44:45 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2010, 08:50:57 pm
Quote from: Salvatore on 23 January, 2010, 03:09:45 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 23 January, 2010, 02:52:58 pm
Source: http://itv.stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/attend.html

So how come Colchester United's highest attendance is greater than the capacity of their ground? Or have I misread the table?

Colchester have recently moved to a new ground. Their old ground, Layer Road, was, I think (could well be wrong) the smallest in the Football League. I don't know how many it held, but I don't know how many the new ground holds either.

Wikipedia:
Quote
Colchester United formed in 1937 and took over Layer Road from the recently defunct Colchester Town. That remained their home until 2008. At its closure, the ground had a capacity of 6,340, though it had previously been much higher, with a record attendance of 19,072.

In 2000, Colchester announced plans to move to a new 10,000 capacity all-seater community stadium at Cuckoo Farm, which were given the go-ahead by Colchester Borough Council on November 13 2006. Construction of the stadium, funded by the club but owned by the local council, started in June 2007, and the stadium opened at the start of the 2008–09 season. Colchester's biggest attendance at the stadium of 10,064 was set at a League One match against Norwich City on 16 January 2010.

So there we have it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 23 January, 2010, 10:48:57 pm
About to head down and help out the support team at the finish of the Audax Alpine Classic.  Have just heard from VeloYellow who is riding the Alpine Classic Extreme 250 which is being run for the first time.  He is just leaving Omeo which is 110km and has finished one of the 2 big climbs.  He's at 5.5 hours so is doing well, hardest climbs to come though and it is forecast to be 36 today!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 January, 2010, 12:28:07 pm
Steeling myself to ring my mum and tell her her sister's husband's niece died last year - I've just found out via facebook. Then I have to ring my dad and tell him his ex-wife's sister's husband's niece died last year.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 January, 2010, 06:30:04 pm
Sitting in a pub waiting for son to get knocked out of his poker league game. 
The git's just got through to the final table. 
I'm driving.  How long can I make one pint last?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 January, 2010, 06:37:08 pm
Quote from: Basil on 24 January, 2010, 06:30:04 pm
Sitting in a pub waiting for son to get knocked out of his poker league game. 
The git's just got through to the final table. 
I'm driving.  How long can I make one pint last?

You need a tandem.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 24 January, 2010, 06:57:34 pm
Finishing off last nights presseco (sp?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 24 January, 2010, 07:02:39 pm
Prosecco. Just checked!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 January, 2010, 11:16:53 pm
Reading up as much as I can on the 'issue' that I think I need to fix tomorrow, and collecting together everything I can think of that might help.  Although maybe a lump hammer/a borrow of Mr. L's shovel plus 10 minutes of 'channeling' Charlotte at her finest would be as useful to me in the long term...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 January, 2010, 10:26:40 am
Sitting in Carmarthen station, waiting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 January, 2010, 10:42:12 am
Homeward Bound?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 25 January, 2010, 11:49:45 am
I wish I was..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 January, 2010, 11:51:43 am
got a ticket for your destination?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 25 January, 2010, 12:01:04 pm
Working on my posture to ease the aches in my back from inappropriate use of ladders at the weekend.
And trying to rewrite a bunch of shell scripts to reprocess the data in a different way.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 25 January, 2010, 12:02:23 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 25 January, 2010, 12:01:04 pm
inappropriate use of ladders

The mind boggles.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Snakehips on 25 January, 2010, 12:05:20 pm
I am warming my frozen hands on a cup of coffee , having just been outside and got them wet. It is surprisingly hostile out there at the moment

Snake

 My Library  (http://www.yudu.com/library/6690/Snakehips-s-Library)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 25 January, 2010, 01:43:54 pm
Quote from: citizen smudge on 25 January, 2010, 12:02:23 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 25 January, 2010, 12:01:04 pm
inappropriate use of ladders

The mind boggles.

d.


The ladder in question is a class 1  2 piece 5.5m extending ladder with 21 rungs per section. Overall it weighs something north of 45 kilos. Moving this by oneself with much swinging, lifting etc is not really a sensible idea with a dodgy back.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 25 January, 2010, 03:52:52 pm
Ah. I thought you might mean something like this:

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k170/smutchin/ladder.jpg)

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Moloko on 25 January, 2010, 03:55:13 pm
 :o ;D


Is that some of the Chinese State Circus earning a bit of pin money?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 26 January, 2010, 01:42:45 am
Smiling and humming like a loon lol
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 26 January, 2010, 07:57:57 pm
Ripping a DVD's audio and then encoding it to MP3.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 January, 2010, 08:40:19 pm
Sweating profusely after doing 5000m on the rowing machine. Now it's bathtime!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 January, 2010, 08:48:10 am
Counting my blessings.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 January, 2010, 08:54:57 am
Digesting my breakfast and waiting for Mrs. Wow to disappear off to her yoga class. The it will be dog walking time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 27 January, 2010, 11:25:30 pm
I'm a little drunk to be honest. How utterly terrible. It's a school night after all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 28 January, 2010, 03:03:41 pm
Scoffing Haribo that I just discovered in the package from Wiggle that also contained my Hope Vision 1 light.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 January, 2010, 09:25:38 pm
Quote from: Deborah on 27 January, 2010, 11:25:30 pm
I'm a little drunk to be honest. How utterly terrible. It's a school night after all.

...and that's where you failed.  We have a reputation to uphold here.  Do it over, but this time use twice as much. ;D

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/5shots.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Moloko on 28 January, 2010, 09:27:57 pm
Quote from: TimO on 28 January, 2010, 09:25:38 pm


(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/5shots.gif)

Blackadder: Ahhh, Bobb-b.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 28 January, 2010, 10:16:36 pm
Perhaps Bobb would like to offer Deborah some private drinking lessons?

Mu ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 29 January, 2010, 09:29:10 am
I promise to try harder in the future. Who's Bobb? Will Mr Deborah become jealous? He's known to make the odd challenge to duals. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 29 January, 2010, 09:48:38 pm
Packing for skiing tomorrow whilst Jurek fixes a p*nct*r* on my fixie  :D

who got the bum deal there then?   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 29 January, 2010, 09:51:20 pm
If you're off skiing, why does the puncture need fixing?  Surely it can wait until you get back1.

Footnote 1: Why avoid doing today, what you can procrastinate tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 29 January, 2010, 09:55:56 pm
So it is ready for the commute to work on wednesday.

And now, I get to be a lazy ar5e I don't have to do it when I get home late on Tuesday  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2010, 10:15:46 pm
Drinking red wine, exchanging random Life of Brian quotes with my bro on google talk, and wondering if they still sell Topics.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: longers on 29 January, 2010, 10:23:00 pm
I'm thinking about work and how to be doing something different in a few years time. Not keen on a physical job and winter commutes for ever. I'd move house but this might be more fun and easier in some ways.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 30 January, 2010, 01:13:21 pm
I'm working. Again. Roll on 12 February when this is (mainly) all over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 30 January, 2010, 02:00:33 pm
I just set my wheat pillow on fire! Oops.  :-[

I have a bad neck and shoulders, so was using it to release tension... but nuked it for too long.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2010, 08:06:09 pm
I've done that before. It stunk.

I'm wondering if I should put some ice on my sore Achilles and thinking I probably should but I can't be bothered getting up to get some.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Redlight on 30 January, 2010, 09:29:19 pm
Sorting out my kit for tomorrow's Hell of the Ashdown and wondering how many layers I'm going to need.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 30 January, 2010, 09:54:56 pm
Just finished scaring the cat (really - poor thing was very alarmed) by singing with Mrs Z.    Not too much alcohol involved, but some dubious mp3 backing tracks.  The trouble with duets is I keep accidentally trying to sing her notes and getting in all sorts of trouble  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 31 January, 2010, 04:39:10 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 30 January, 2010, 09:54:56 pm
Just finished scaring the cat (really - poor thing was very alarmed) by singing with Mrs Z.    Not too much alcohol involved, but some dubious mp3 backing tracks.  The trouble with duets is I keep accidentally trying to sing her notes and getting in all sorts of trouble  :-[

Closing all my windows, just in case the sound travels.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 31 January, 2010, 04:42:00 pm
Doing the Saturday's Child thing.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 31 January, 2010, 04:47:44 pm
Listening to the football commentary on R5 Live. Who would be a Gunner?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 January, 2010, 04:49:35 pm
Perusing the guvmint information about the 'Home Access' computer scheme.

And wondering what I think of it.  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 01 February, 2010, 09:28:17 pm
Trying to work out how an algorithm could be massively parallelised on a GPU. The prime sieving is best done on the host CPU but do I farm off:
a) the Jacobi/Lengendre symbol calculations for Quadratic Reciprocity?
b) the Montgomery Multiplication pre-calculations (I need a modular inversion function)
c) the Shanks Baby-Steps-Giant-Steps algorithm? That would rock!
d) an implementation of Silver-Pohlig-Hellman and the Chinese Remainder Theorem. Hmm.

And does the NVidia CUDA platform implement 64-bit integer arithmetic as badly as it claims to? All I ask is for a fast 64-bit mulmod.

I don't really mind if I have to use the naive algorithm if it uses less ALUs and offers greater throughput.

My brian hurts and I wish I had a quick NVidia graphics card in my machine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 01 February, 2010, 10:08:27 pm
Going to bed.  Night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 01 February, 2010, 10:37:03 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 01 February, 2010, 09:28:17 pm
....

My brian hurts and I wish I had a quick NVidia graphics card in my machine.

Never mind your brain, after reading all that techno-Babbage-speak, I think mine's just exploded...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 February, 2010, 09:21:53 pm
Off to watch Groundhog Day
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 02 February, 2010, 10:15:30 pm
Celebrating Mrs Mikes birthday :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 February, 2010, 09:26:30 am
Happy birthday Mrs Mike! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 04 February, 2010, 09:47:30 pm
I just downgraded some software I use on one of our servers to let people change their passwords with a specially crafted email sent to them.  I wrote it on a Linux box where it works fine, but I needed it on a somewhat ancient Solaris 8 box, which I don't have time the upgrade to something more modern.

It mostly involved convincing the email server to accept an email from the webserver.  Lots of bodging and slightly horrible tweaks to the configuration have cured it (mostly).

I'll have to go through the code carefully tomorrow, since things which have the ability to bugger around with passwords need to be written very very paranoidly, and not let anything leak which it shouldn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 04 February, 2010, 10:18:38 pm
Finishing off some cold mashed potatoes with dill & spring onions chased with a small glass of Malbec
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 February, 2010, 12:11:49 am
Rolling a fag.

Bugger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 February, 2010, 12:22:03 am
Finishing work for the night, and warming the bed. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 February, 2010, 08:06:35 am
Preparing to go cycling! :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 February, 2010, 04:29:18 pm
Work, work, work, work, working. Bugger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 February, 2010, 10:14:59 pm
Recovering from 123km of pedaling
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 06 February, 2010, 10:16:21 pm
Wondring why there's no beer left.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 February, 2010, 02:56:12 pm
Waiting for my flight to Zurich. Tired. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 07 February, 2010, 03:20:53 pm
The first part of my first MST209 assignment. Luckily the tutorial helped jog my memory for integration by parts and by substitution.

More importantly, I'm doing it at least one day before the 11th hour!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 07 February, 2010, 03:25:51 pm
Just setting off to the village hall to set up for tonight's Take Art (http://www.takeart.org/whatson/details.php?view=show&id=2396) concert.  I have a car full of PA, lights and bar!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 07 February, 2010, 11:38:10 pm
I just fettled a couple of brand new Marathon Supremes onto the Kaffenback, which I should have done last weekend, after the WARTY, and avoided a second puncture from the slit which caused the fairy to visit just outside Braintree on that ride.

Talisker was seriously unimpressed by me letting 100psi or so of pressure out of two tyres, some damned big cat appeared to be hissing at him!

On the plus side I enjoyed listening to a medley of the last week's Radio 4 podcasts on the Squeezeboxen.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 12 February, 2010, 04:20:05 pm
Sitting in the Warburg Institute translating chucks of  Evelyn Sandberg- Vavala's "La Croce Dipinta Italiana" and wondering whether its a good time to leap on the bike and ride home yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 February, 2010, 04:38:11 pm
I have just been asked to adjust all the pig valuation figures for the whole financial year.
10 months x 11 herds x 4 ages.
Doesn't he know it's 4:30 Friday???
 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rdaviesb on 12 February, 2010, 04:53:34 pm
About to sink my second pint of Black Sheep bitter. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 12 February, 2010, 04:56:07 pm
Wasting time 'til I can go home...

..via Waitrose, where I shall purchase a nice bottle of wine and some nice fish for my tea (Mr R is out on the piss with the other staff from the alcohol abuse service tonight).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 February, 2010, 05:03:07 pm
I have just added another day to my E2E diary in Ride Report:now I am going to eat & afterwards I am going to draw up my audax rides list from now to the end of the calendar in the current issue of Arrivee.
Oh, & Mrs. Jogler has a holiday she wants to sort out.Three IIRC. The Lizard Peninsula.The Scillies & Italy.
Best get the tandem fettled then ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2010, 05:21:48 pm
Recovering from a shower.
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Post by: peliroja on 13 February, 2010, 07:05:15 pm
Pinging an old friend on Facebook and realising that my life is actually quite brilliant.  :thumbsup:

Just need to get rid of this flu and stop working so hard.  ;)
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Post by: Deborah on 13 February, 2010, 08:15:34 pm
Working and drinking wine.  Not the best combination.   However, as Mr Deborah has stopped snoring (due to a combination of getting up early to see the Vancouver Olympics opening ceremony and then a bike ride before breakfast), I'm going to put the work away and start Valentines' celebrations.   ;)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 February, 2010, 08:30:23 pm
Watching the opening ceremony of the winter Olympics. Currently a glaikit-faced yokel is tumbling through the air above CGI wheat prairies while someone sings Both Sides Now.

Oh, it was Joni Mitchell herself.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 13 February, 2010, 10:22:04 pm
Just finished trying to play show tunes (well, the chords, it's a piano book) on guitar.  Obviously they're not written in "guitar" keys, so this involves lots of barre chords to play E-flats and the like.  My left hand hurts.
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Post by: andygates on 13 February, 2010, 10:45:38 pm
Watching the olympics and wondering how to get a go at skellybob.   :demon:
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Post by: SpaceBadger on 14 February, 2010, 08:07:54 am
Wrapping up very warmly in preparation for the club run.
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Post by: TimO on 14 February, 2010, 09:44:15 am
Lying in bed watching The Trap Door (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395413/) on DVD.

Quality children's TV, Oh Globbits. ;D
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Post by: border-rider on 14 February, 2010, 09:49:26 am
"Don't you open that trap door !"

A  firm favourite from the time when I was a postgrad student :)
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Post by: Jules on 21 February, 2010, 09:38:16 am
Sitting on the computer writing training materials for a course I'm running tomorrow.

(having decided not to go out on a 100km reliability trial on account that it's peeing down here in Londonton)
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Post by: peliroja on 21 February, 2010, 03:26:24 pm
Planning my week ahead, involving working out when we can get away on short cycle tours, and trying to ignore Spen666.
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Post by: jogler on 21 February, 2010, 03:33:49 pm
Working out a route from London to the milepost 500 metres down the road that says "London 125 miles"
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 February, 2010, 04:07:39 pm
Thinking about how to deal with the raspberry vodka someone gave me for Christmas. It has to be kept refrigerated, so has to be stored horizontally, but the seal on it is so poor it constantly drips. I think I'm going to have to drink quite a lot more of it.
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Post by: mike on 21 February, 2010, 05:16:43 pm
Starting to go through the 1,500 emails I got while I was on holiday, so when the phone starts ringing tomorrow morning I sound like I know what I'm talking about.

Kirst, can I borrow some of that Vodka?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 February, 2010, 05:21:41 pm
Thinking about changing my rather damp socks. If I think about it for long enough it won't be necessary.
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Post by: peliroja on 21 February, 2010, 05:22:14 pm
Clicking 'send' on a request for a month's unpaid leave in October, so we can go cycle camping to Australia and NZ... Keep everything crossed for us!  
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 February, 2010, 06:26:23 pm
Cooking chops, listening to the Eroica on radio 3 and allowing my feet to dry my socks.

Who says blokes can't multitask?
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Post by: toekneep on 21 February, 2010, 06:35:40 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 21 February, 2010, 06:26:23 pm
Cooking chops, listening to the Eroica on radio 3 and allowing my feet to dry my socks.

Who says blokes can't multitask?

.... and posting on the "What are you doing right now" thread on here at the same time. Very impressive WB.  ;D
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Post by: Frenchie on 21 February, 2010, 06:36:22 pm
(French) crepes!!  :P
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Post by: toekneep on 21 February, 2010, 06:37:36 pm
Quote from: Frenchie on 21 February, 2010, 06:36:22 pm
(French) crepes!!  :P

But you are five days too late Frenchie.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 February, 2010, 07:45:59 am
Wondering if I can afford to move to a bigger flat, and thinking maybe in a year.
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Post by: woollypigs on 22 February, 2010, 08:02:29 am
Quote from: Kirst on 22 February, 2010, 07:45:59 am
Wondering if I can afford to move to a bigger flat, and thinking maybe in a year.
ah n+1 on the cards :)
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Post by: woollypigs on 22 February, 2010, 08:06:13 am
Getting ready for a very wet day in London, really get to test out my dhb Wickham eVENT Waterproof Cycling Jacket.
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Post by: αdαmsκι on 22 February, 2010, 08:42:09 am
I'm currently sat in my office and I'm trying to find the energy, or probably more accurately the motivation, to get off my butt and head off to the showers. I fear today is going to be a looooooong day.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 February, 2010, 08:43:09 am
Eating porridge and hoping the man comes soon to mend the boiler.
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Post by: Jacomus on 22 February, 2010, 10:12:01 am
Wondering WTF I'm doing still stuck in this office.
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Post by: peliroja on 22 February, 2010, 12:19:10 pm
At work and feeling ROPEY :(
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Post by: clarion on 22 February, 2010, 12:25:14 pm
At work and had enough.  Too much to catch up on.
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 22 February, 2010, 12:41:51 pm
Sat in the living room with SUNGLASSES on and really getting very pissed off with long term symptoms.  Waiting to hear when brother can get out of hospital  after I 999'd for him last Thursday! 
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Post by: Basil on 22 February, 2010, 01:00:15 pm
Eating an amazingly cheap but good lunch in the Cadbury club in Bournville.
Nom nom nom apple crumble next.
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Post by: jogler on 22 February, 2010, 01:03:04 pm
^^^^
do they have Death by Chocolate on the pudding menu? ;D
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Post by: Basil on 22 February, 2010, 01:38:25 pm
No chocolate whatsoever.  Not surprising, really.
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Post by: SpaceBadger on 23 February, 2010, 07:01:39 am
Listening to the radio, making the most of being up early due to my malfunctioning smoke alarm.
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Post by: spesh on 23 February, 2010, 08:34:02 am
Contemplating a second breakfast, having been up three hours already courtesy of a borked body clock.
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Post by: peliroja on 23 February, 2010, 09:24:08 am
Fuming, angry, upset and shaking after a horrible altercation with a driver this morning (who barged out from a side road when I had right of way, and proceeded to verbally abuse me for the next ten minutes).

 
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Post by: clarion on 23 February, 2010, 09:51:57 am
Bully.  What's the point of picking on a woman (or anyone) like that?  Git.  Too many @rseholes on the road.  I've really noticed it the last couple of days, having been pretty much off the bike for a couple of weeks.  Left hooks aplenty, changing lane abruptly without looking, and, yes, barging out of sideroads.  I've not lost count of the E-stops on a ride before.  And I'm deliberately not reacting, gesturing or swearing, and riding with my eyes a long way ahead, not taking the marginal gaps.  Still I get them.  It's not something about me attracting them, it's that attitude out on the road.

I haven't had anyone berating me like that, though, probably because I'm bigger than you, Peli, and bullies are almost always cowards.





Apologies for Rant. 
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Post by: Wendy on 23 February, 2010, 09:53:08 am
Shame, poor Peli.  That's no fun at all.

Quote from: clarion on 23 February, 2010, 09:51:57 am
bullies are almost always cowards.

Too right mate.  Cameras are great at making them shrink back down to their willy size, IME.
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Post by: peliroja on 23 February, 2010, 11:49:25 am
Feeling slightly better, but not looking forward to the cycle home.  :'(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 February, 2010, 09:09:13 am
Looking at this website Silversaurus - Distinctive Jewellery (http://www.silversaurus.co.uk/) and wishing I was rich.

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Post by: RJ on 26 February, 2010, 12:47:29 pm
Trying to upload files to a ScholarOne site ...
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Post by: tiermat on 26 February, 2010, 12:53:42 pm
Fixing PKI issues :(
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Post by: Aidan on 26 February, 2010, 01:02:20 pm
Working ;D

Actually I've got more to do in the next 4 hours than I can possibly fit in, so why am I on here? ;D


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Post by: jogler on 26 February, 2010, 03:01:19 pm
Perusing the AUK calendar to decide which rides I shall enter for the next couple of months.
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Post by: cyclone on 26 February, 2010, 03:05:00 pm
trying to eat soup (without burning my mouth) before jumping in the car to get towards the KVR and beat the traffic for the rugby tonight.... :-\
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Post by: andygates on 26 February, 2010, 03:16:47 pm
Clock...


...watching.
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Post by: SteveC on 26 February, 2010, 07:18:21 pm
Waiting for the rugby to start

Really waiting for half time as that's when we've agreed to open the beer

S
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Post by: redshift on 26 February, 2010, 07:21:53 pm
Recording University Challenge.  No, I'm not telling...
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 February, 2010, 07:27:02 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 26 February, 2010, 07:18:21 pm
Waiting for the rugby to start

Really waiting for half time as that's when we've agreed to open the beer

S

I didn't know they were playing tonight. Hmm... must watch some of that. But it will probably depress me. Wales will have to improve hugely on their last two games to stand a chance on what seemed to me to be a very effective French side against the Irish a couple of weeks ago.
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Post by: Chris N on 26 February, 2010, 07:43:37 pm
Lying in my new tent waiting for my macaroni cheese to cook, drinking green tea and looking at the stars. Ace.
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Post by: TimO on 26 February, 2010, 08:43:49 pm
Watching Time Bandits and eating my supper.  I'll do some packing for the FNRttC in a minute, and then work out how and where I need to be tomorrow lunchtime.
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Post by: Chris S on 26 February, 2010, 09:24:23 pm
Watching Mastercrafts. My Grandad was the village Blacksmith. My Ma is feeling a bit low today (she's 87 and not well) and was looking forward to hearing the "ring of the anvil".

I hope one day to have Grandad's anvil in my house as a prized ornament.
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Post by: SandyV on 27 February, 2010, 02:01:16 am
Taking a well-deserved lunch break.  This morning I have been in a veritable housework frenzy - cleaning, tidying, washing, ironing, washing up, cleaning both ovens and baking a cake!  Feeling very  :smug:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 February, 2010, 02:02:25 am
Not sleeping, which I should be doing. Fretting too much. Early start and riding in the morning.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 27 February, 2010, 02:48:27 am
Tired and can't sleep as my mind is running around ever decreasing circles.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 February, 2010, 09:42:51 pm
I'm just off out to see some people who are up some trees, some men in blue uniforms and some other men with chain saws. I'm not intending to get arrested.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 February, 2010, 10:47:38 am
Emailing The Rowantree at The Caves (http://www.thecavesedinburgh.com/rowantree.htm) to see if I can book it for my 40th birthday party later this year.
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Post by: Moloko on 28 February, 2010, 10:50:08 am
Quote from: redshift on 26 February, 2010, 07:21:53 pm
Recording University Challenge.  No, I'm not telling...

C'mon...  C'mon...  I'll have to hurry you.
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Post by: Butterfly on 28 February, 2010, 11:01:37 am
Quote from: Kirst on 28 February, 2010, 10:47:38 am
Emailing The Rowantree at The Caves (http://www.thecavesedinburgh.com/rowantree.htm) to see if I can book it for my 40th birthday party later this year.
Why don't you come to Mildenhall Rally in August and we can celebrate yours and mine as well :D.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 February, 2010, 11:40:08 am
Why don't we do both?

Correction. Why don't you do both and I'll pass on the rally? I hate camping!
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Post by: Bluebottle on 28 February, 2010, 11:46:35 am
Just finished proof-reading another thesis.  Just one left to examine now (although there will be another one on the way!)
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Post by: Deborah on 28 February, 2010, 11:53:54 am
Reading.  I'm acting as a critical reader for a colleague's who is about to submit their PhD.
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Post by: Chris S on 28 February, 2010, 11:56:10 am
Fixing a friend's laptop.
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Post by: peliroja on 28 February, 2010, 01:01:43 pm
Ditching and switching from HSBC!
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Post by: Jurek on 28 February, 2010, 02:51:11 pm
Having just returned indoors from hosing off all the Skog of Suffolk that was acquired by my bike yesterday, I note that it has stopped raining.

Marvellous.
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Post by: MSeries on 03 March, 2010, 11:25:09 am
Going back in time using music as my vehicle. Listening to something that I haven't heard since about 1982 when I played it to dearth. Not many words but its so familiar.
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Post by: toekneep on 03 March, 2010, 11:29:31 am
Quote from: peliroja on 28 February, 2010, 01:01:43 pm
Ditching and switching from HSBC!
BTDTGTTS

Turns out Santandar are just as bad in their own way. Despite ticking or not ticking every box to confirm that we don't want junk mail we get one or two pieces of rubbish from them every week.
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Post by: clarion on 03 March, 2010, 11:31:05 am
Cooperative is the way to go.  Expensive charges, but good support, and you know more about how your money is being used.
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Post by: Moloko on 03 March, 2010, 11:32:15 am
Quote from: Chris S on 28 February, 2010, 11:56:10 am
Fixing a friend's laptop.

Looks like a success.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 March, 2010, 06:09:54 pm
Watching Lucas Brunelle videos with the kids  ;D

"You shouldn't really ride a bike like that, should you, Daddy?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JonBuoy on 07 March, 2010, 06:33:20 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 07 March, 2010, 06:09:54 pm
Watching Lucas Brunelle videos with the kids  ;D

"You shouldn't really ride a bike like that, should you, Daddy?"

Welcome to the jungle.   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 07 March, 2010, 06:34:12 pm
Quote from: JonBuoy on 07 March, 2010, 06:33:20 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 07 March, 2010, 06:09:54 pm
Watching Lucas Brunelle videos with the kids  ;D

"You shouldn't really ride a bike like that, should you, Daddy?"

Welcome to the jungle.   :)

The one where they're riding on the ice is brilliant.
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Post by: jellied on 09 March, 2010, 01:32:43 pm
having lunch after meeting the very pleasant Mr Tiermat
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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 March, 2010, 09:56:52 pm
Just finished cleaning up wall-to-wall vomit.  Miss Z the younger starts crying and has puked all over her bed, pillow and self.  Bath Miss Z, chuck puke-sodden stuff into washing machine, change bed, get Miss Z dressed again, she pukes all over herself again, this time including the carpet.

Throw newly puke-sodden stuff out onto patio for the night, find spare pillow, bath Miss Z again, clean carpet as well as I can (it will still need the ministrations of a Vax at the weekend), re-dress Miss Z for the third time tonight, thankfully she now seems OK.

Then the rabbit savaged me when I took it back to its run and I am bleeding.  Should have fed it to the cats.
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Post by: Basil on 12 March, 2010, 10:31:16 pm
Having a relaxing glass after coming back from the little theatre we found above the pub where we had after ride drinkies on the Brooks Factory tour and ride.

Rather lovely.  Bit surprised to find that I knew one of the cast.  I had no idea.
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Post by: TimO on 14 March, 2010, 08:53:42 am
Quote from: Basil on 12 March, 2010, 10:31:16 pm
Rather lovely.  Bit surprised to find that I knew one of the cast.  I had no idea.

You are a Luvvy and ICMFP. ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 March, 2010, 08:55:42 am
I've just put an enormous joint of pork in our brand-new oven. It smells all wrong at the moment - something bout the newness of the cooker. The sell should wear off soon and the pork will be ready to eat at about 1 p.m.
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Post by: peliroja on 14 March, 2010, 04:01:49 pm
Just back from launderette and a short pootle to Bishop's Park. Machine is broken at the moment. Sooo nice to have Woolly around for a full weekend. :)
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Post by: TimO on 14 March, 2010, 04:34:51 pm
At work, reading through a proposal document, and writing another part of the proposal.

Don't you just love unpaid overtime. :-\
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Post by: Deborah on 14 March, 2010, 07:12:26 pm
I'm enjoying being spoiled on Mother's (to be) Day. I had some beautiful flowers. We went for a family pootle and then went to the cinema to see Alice in Wonderland.
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Post by: Chris S on 14 March, 2010, 07:20:28 pm
About to eat dinner, as cooked for Mother's Day by #2 Son. Judging by the aromas eminating from the kitchen, I'm going to need all of the 3900 kcals that Livestrong says I've got left today.
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Post by: MSeries on 14 March, 2010, 07:24:45 pm
Failing to resist picking the scab on my elbow
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Post by: jogler on 16 March, 2010, 12:17:48 pm
Upto  a few minutes ago I was working via the laptop,outside on the patio table with the sun warming my back.Lovely.
Alfresco "paperwork".One of the joys of working from home :thumbsup:
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Post by: numbnuts on 16 March, 2010, 02:21:27 pm
feeling ill.....
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Post by: rdaviesb on 16 March, 2010, 06:27:32 pm
On a train from Brum to home in sunny Lancashire. OK. Maybe not sunny.
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Post by: Deborah on 16 March, 2010, 07:29:23 pm
Getting annoyed with facebook.  It won't show me my messages  :-\
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Post by: jogler on 16 March, 2010, 08:02:20 pm
Watching Chelsea v Inter,eating pizza & drinking Grolsch.
Male multi-tasking?no problem ;D
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Post by: peliroja on 17 March, 2010, 01:50:35 pm
On my way to Zurich for two days. And eating maltesers. :)
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Post by: Charlotte on 17 March, 2010, 01:53:43 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 17 March, 2010, 01:50:35 pm
And eating maltesers. :)

*puts on best hungry-face*

:D
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Post by: numbnuts on 17 March, 2010, 02:03:32 pm
I've just made some scones and I'm going to have two with a cup of tea  :P
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Post by: nicknack on 17 March, 2010, 02:14:20 pm
Trying to remember what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Post by: Chris S on 17 March, 2010, 03:49:07 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 17 March, 2010, 02:03:32 pm
I've just made some scones and I'm going to have two with a cup of tea  :P

Feeling better today then?  :thumbsup:
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Post by: numbnuts on 17 March, 2010, 04:33:53 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 17 March, 2010, 03:49:07 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 17 March, 2010, 02:03:32 pm
I've just made some scones and I'm going to have two with a cup of tea  :P

Feeling better today then?  :thumbsup:

 ;D yes thanks
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Post by: Regulator on 17 March, 2010, 05:03:49 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 17 March, 2010, 02:03:32 pm
I've just made some scones and I'm going to have two with a cup of tea  :P

I'll PM you my address - ½ dozen by post will be most welcome!   :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 17 March, 2010, 05:35:02 pm
sitting in a hotel room after a long and very hard day, chillin for a bit before getting the Brommie out of the car and going for an explore of the area.

God bless Bromptons and all who sail in them!!!!!
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Post by: Deborah on 17 March, 2010, 06:44:09 pm
I have just finished concocting a bananananana and caramel loaf cake from things I found in the cupboard.
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Post by: peliroja on 17 March, 2010, 07:09:52 pm
Sitting in a hotel room wondering if I can be bothered to go and eat in a restaurant alone as the damn place doesn't do room service... Grr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 17 March, 2010, 07:24:05 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 17 March, 2010, 07:09:52 pm
Sitting in a hotel room wondering if I can be bothered to go and eat in a restaurant alone as the damn place doesn't do room service... Grr.

I can email you some bananana and caramel loaf cake.
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Post by: Jurek on 17 March, 2010, 07:30:03 pm
Quote from: Deborah on 17 March, 2010, 07:24:05 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 17 March, 2010, 07:09:52 pm
Sitting in a hotel room wondering if I can be bothered to go and eat in a restaurant alone as the damn place doesn't do room service... Grr.

I can email you some bananana and caramel loaf cake.

I used to work with someone who faxed over some plain paper to the other office as the other office had run out of A4.......

True story.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 March, 2010, 07:51:19 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 17 March, 2010, 07:09:52 pm
Sitting in a hotel room wondering if I can be bothered to go and eat in a restaurant alone as the damn place doesn't do room service... Grr.
Take a book.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 17 March, 2010, 08:05:39 pm
I pleaded nicely to the receptionist and she's just delivered a steaming pile of Japanese nommy stuff.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: David Martin on 17 March, 2010, 11:28:18 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 March, 2010, 07:51:19 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 17 March, 2010, 07:09:52 pm
Sitting in a hotel room wondering if I can be bothered to go and eat in a restaurant alone as the damn place doesn't do room service... Grr.
Take a book.

Hvordan gaa det med deg i Geilo?
(How was it in Geilo?)

Right now? Just finished tonights fettling for a web based view on the data we have accumulated to try to piece together the various fragments of the potato genome.

Better spuds on the horizon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 18 March, 2010, 10:37:45 am
Supervising the making of a vast stock of jigsaws by a croaky and hot Miss Dan the Younger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 18 March, 2010, 10:49:06 am
Waiting for the top brass from the Department of Health to turn up...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 March, 2010, 11:10:01 am
Psyching myself up for a Rowing and Turbo session. It's a lovely day outside, and I should go out for a ride, but I need to be near the phone today for work.
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Post by: cyclone on 18 March, 2010, 11:19:33 am
Summoning the energy to write a motor vehicle application of number assignment, when all I can think about is finishing off the stealth Mercian for Saturdays 200....(not here >:()
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Post by: wooliferkins on 18 March, 2010, 12:49:36 pm
At my desk in the warehouse waiting for couriers/lunch.  Oh the excitement of buying lunch from the Co-Op
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Post by: TimO on 18 March, 2010, 01:34:25 pm
I'm about to spend half an hour doing data validation, since it'll be more fun than the three hours of meetings I've got after that.

Validation is soul sucking tedium.  This tells you how much fun the meetings are going to be.

Peli, I totally relate to that, I hate going into restaurants at hotels by myself.

Room service isn't a lot better, but at least you can watch the TV (assuming it has English language channels) or DVDs on a laptop!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 18 March, 2010, 03:54:04 pm
Feeling utterly exhausted after leading a day-long meeting... And two more hours to go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 18 March, 2010, 04:07:00 pm
Starting jobhunting having received an email outlining the "restructuring" of the company I work for  :(

At 53 I fear my age will be against me (even if discrimination on the basis of age is illegal).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 21 March, 2010, 02:59:28 pm
Having a rest between gardening and taking Miss Z out on her bike.

The other Miss Z is watching The Sound Of Music on DVD.  It's the bit where Ralf the telegram boy is in the summerhouse with the eldest daughter (16 going on 17).  Stay away from him love!  He's a Nazi!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 21 March, 2010, 03:01:07 pm
Quote from: rafletcher on 18 March, 2010, 04:07:00 pm
Starting jobhunting having received an email outlining the "restructuring" of the company I work for  :(

At 53 I fear my age will be against me (even if discrimination on the basis of age is illegal).
The general advice is to do a CV without your age or DOB.  They might be able to work it out from the employment dates, but  they probably won't be arsed.  Then you can dazzle them at interview.

The ageism law has no practical effect - I'm assuming I'll be made redundant at about 50 (if I even make it that far) and will never go back to a Proper Job again after that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 21 March, 2010, 03:05:00 pm
I have just finished reading and commenting on a report for a colleague.  Now it is time to play a little before my holiday is over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 21 March, 2010, 03:33:04 pm
Just back from two laps of Richmond Park on the heavy Surly, and I burned off some roadies up Bastard Hill.  :smug:

Then was dragged to South Park by Woolly to inspect a chocolate-coloured working cocker spaniel as part of his 'can-we-have-a-woofy' campaign.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 21 March, 2010, 03:45:29 pm
Quote from: rafletcher on 18 March, 2010, 04:07:00 pm
Starting jobhunting having received an email outlining the "restructuring" of the company I work for  :(

At 53 I fear my age will be against me (even if discrimination on the basis of age is illegal).

As Roger said, don't actually put your age or your date of birth on your CV.   Obviously they can work it out by your experience to the nearest couple of years, but, it's less of an immediate 'bin' job that way.

I don't mention my disability either.   I usually take folk aback when I walk into the room.  Can work for me, can work against.   Better to be in the room than in the bin ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 21 March, 2010, 03:47:56 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 21 March, 2010, 03:33:04 pm
Just back from two laps of Richmond Park on the heavy Surly, and I burned off some roadies up Bastard Hill.  :smug:

Then was dragged to South Park by Woolly to inspect a chocolate-coloured working cocker spaniel as part of his 'can-we-have-a-woofy' campaign.  ::-)

One of MrDeborah's daughters is mounting a similar campaign.  Are you going to give in and have a woofy?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 21 March, 2010, 03:57:05 pm
Renewing car insurance.

What an almighty PITA.  Why do they go through the charade of offering a renewal at £200 more than you can get by going to a price comparison website ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 21 March, 2010, 04:34:15 pm
I am going to get up from the chair in a minute and close the windows which have been open all day  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 22 March, 2010, 11:46:08 am
Quote from: peliroja on 21 March, 2010, 03:33:04 pm
Then was dragged to South Park by Woolly to inspect a chocolate-coloured working cocker spaniel as part of his 'can-we-have-a-woofy' campaign.  ::-)

Is this as opposed to inspecting a faulty cocker spaniel?

Just think - a Woolly with a woofy  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 22 March, 2010, 12:23:53 pm
I'm eating an apple
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 22 March, 2010, 12:56:34 pm
Deciding whether to work on the materials for the training course that I'm supposed to be giving on Thursday in Bristol or on sorting out the data migration for (yet) another high priority project or whether just to give the whole thing up as a bad job and quit...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 22 March, 2010, 02:00:01 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 22 March, 2010, 11:46:08 am
Quote from: peliroja on 21 March, 2010, 03:33:04 pm
Then was dragged to South Park by Woolly to inspect a chocolate-coloured working cocker spaniel as part of his 'can-we-have-a-woofy' campaign.  ::-)

Is this as opposed to inspecting a faulty cocker spaniel?

Just think - a Woolly with a woofy  :D

A Woolly Woofter?   :-\




 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 22 March, 2010, 03:58:13 pm
Just printed, signed, scanned and emailed my contract extension back to the outsourcing peeps.

I still haz a job...

On the flip side, it's only a two month extension, the project team's shrunk down to the bare minimum that can do the job, the shift pattern I'm having to work puts me in weekend purdah during even-numbered months and it's totally borked my body clock, but apart from that, everything's peachy...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 22 March, 2010, 04:53:18 pm
Hiding from the brat my son has brought home from school. Loud, obnoxious and spoilt just start to describe him. If I hadn't interevened, he'd still be on the Wii now letting the others watch him show how brilliant he is at Mario Kart.

Roll on 5.30 - fast - please!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 26 March, 2010, 06:30:18 pm
Stood in a corner at victoria, watching everyone else get on trains while i wait for my bike to be allowed on. Yawn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 March, 2010, 10:00:12 pm
I'm absolutely not looking at the penises on Embarrassing Bodies, and anyone who says I am can't prove it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 27 March, 2010, 10:02:19 am
Trying to sort out several thousand pounds of fraudulent activity on my current account. Shit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 27 March, 2010, 12:23:24 pm
I hope you get it sorted Peliroja. Fraud hurts as much on an emotional level as it does on a fiscal level.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 27 March, 2010, 12:26:14 pm
I'm waiting me MrDeborah to come back from the airport after diposition daughter no2 on a plane. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 27 March, 2010, 12:31:44 pm
Contemplating whether it's too early to have a beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 27 March, 2010, 12:33:46 pm
Having a beer  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 March, 2010, 01:00:19 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 27 March, 2010, 12:33:46 pm
Having a beer  ;D

Two minutes two Seconds. It took you TWO MINUTES TWO SECONDS to decide?  :o

What took you so long?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 27 March, 2010, 05:50:30 pm
Making apricot & almond flapjacks to take with me on the Man Of Kent 200 tomorrow.  :P

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 27 March, 2010, 05:55:27 pm
Installing updates to autodock and downloading chimera.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 27 March, 2010, 06:06:56 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 27 March, 2010, 10:02:19 am
Trying to sort out several thousand pounds of fraudulent activity on my current account. Shit.

Ar$e. I hope you get it all sorted relatively quickly, and without too much faff. 

Hang on a minute, weren't you recently ditching HSBC? Is this with them or another account?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 27 March, 2010, 06:11:54 pm
Quote from: αdαmsκι on 27 March, 2010, 06:06:56 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 27 March, 2010, 10:02:19 am
Trying to sort out several thousand pounds of fraudulent activity on my current account. Shit.

Ar$e. I hope you get it all sorted relatively quickly, and without too much faff. 

Hang on a minute, weren't you recently ditching HSBC? Is this with them or another account?
Thanks Adamski. It's not nice at all.

The recent fraud was on my current account with another well-known High Street bank. It recently happened to me on my credit card (with the same bank). Very frustrating.

My email address and debit card details were used to set up online accounts in my name, and large transactions took place in quick succession to the Carphone Warehouse, O2 and some shoe company I've never heard of. Scary.  The bank didn't alert me, either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spen666 on 28 March, 2010, 03:54:52 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 27 March, 2010, 06:11:54 pm
Quote from: αdαmsκι on 27 March, 2010, 06:06:56 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 27 March, 2010, 10:02:19 am
Trying to sort out several thousand pounds of fraudulent activity on my current account. Shit.

Ar$e. I hope you get it all sorted relatively quickly, and without too much faff. 

Hang on a minute, weren't you recently ditching HSBC? Is this with them or another account?
Thanks Adamski. It's not nice at all.

The recent fraud was on my current account with another well-known High Street bank. It recently happened to me on my credit card (with the same bank). Very frustrating.

My email address and debit card details were used to set up online accounts in my name, and large transactions took place in quick succession to the Carphone Warehouse, O2 and some shoe company I've never heard of. Scary.  The bank didn't alert me, either.


Peli,

I'm sorry to hear of this. Must be awful for you.

I wish there was some way to help you
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 28 March, 2010, 08:15:50 pm
Wishing we had hot running water - only 8 days without so far - I must be getting soft! And heating would be good....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 March, 2010, 08:34:15 pm
Relaxing. Worked all day yesterday and a bit today. Thought I had to be at Manchester Uni tomorrow at 8:45 for the Next Generation Internet Symposium but have just checked and I don't need to be there until midday - hurrah !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 March, 2010, 08:39:53 pm
Listening to #2 Son playing the theme to Up on the piano.

Dammit - even the music makes me well up. Big girl's blouse...  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 March, 2010, 10:25:40 am
Quote from: spen666 on 28 March, 2010, 03:54:52 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 27 March, 2010, 06:11:54 pm
Quote from: αdαmsκι on 27 March, 2010, 06:06:56 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 27 March, 2010, 10:02:19 am
Trying to sort out several thousand pounds of fraudulent activity on my current account. Shit.

Ar$e. I hope you get it all sorted relatively quickly, and without too much faff. 

Hang on a minute, weren't you recently ditching HSBC? Is this with them or another account?
Thanks Adamski. It's not nice at all.

The recent fraud was on my current account with another well-known High Street bank. It recently happened to me on my credit card (with the same bank). Very frustrating.

My email address and debit card details were used to set up online accounts in my name, and large transactions took place in quick succession to the Carphone Warehouse, O2 and some shoe company I've never heard of. Scary.  The bank didn't alert me, either.


Peli,

I'm sorry to hear of this. Must be awful for you.

I wish there was some way to help you
Thanks, Spen. Yes, it's made rather a large hole in our finances and affected me more than I had thought emotionally, too. Not nice at all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 08:01:20 pm
Trying to buy Reading Festival tickets
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Analog Kid on 29 March, 2010, 09:52:56 pm
Wondering how our ginger cat and me and Mrs NQL will actually cope when our 14 year old black & white moggy that we've all been with with for almost 13 years succumbs to the illness that we now know that he has.

We're going to have to make the decision that every pet owner faces at some point, I just wish it was months or years away instead of days.

 :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 29 March, 2010, 09:53:29 pm
Quote from: notquitelance on 29 March, 2010, 09:52:56 pm
Wondering how our ginger cat and me and Mrs NQL will actually cope when our 14 year old black & white moggy that we've all been with with for almost 13 years succumbs to the illness that we now know that he has.

We're going to have to make the decision that every pet owner faces at some point, I just wish it was months or years away instead of days.

 :(
:'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 09:58:15 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 08:01:20 pm
Trying to buy Reading Festival tickets

Failed. Someone is not happy as apparently everyone else got their's
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 March, 2010, 10:02:38 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 09:58:15 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 08:01:20 pm
Trying to buy Reading Festival tickets

Failed. Someone is not happy as apparently everyone else got their's

Never mind. It'll rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 10:09:29 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 29 March, 2010, 10:02:38 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 09:58:15 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 08:01:20 pm
Trying to buy Reading Festival tickets

Failed. Someone is not happy as apparently everyone else got their's

Never mind. It'll rain.

Nice try thanks but it didn't cheer him up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 March, 2010, 10:10:28 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 10:09:29 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 29 March, 2010, 10:02:38 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 09:58:15 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 08:01:20 pm
Trying to buy Reading Festival tickets

Failed. Someone is not happy as apparently everyone else got their's

Never mind. It'll rain.

Nice try thanks but it didn't cheer him up.

Drat. The Bands are all shite. Will that work?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 10:42:20 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 29 March, 2010, 10:10:28 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 10:09:29 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 29 March, 2010, 10:02:38 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 09:58:15 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 08:01:20 pm
Trying to buy Reading Festival tickets

Failed. Someone is not happy as apparently everyone else got their's

Never mind. It'll rain.

Nice try thanks but it didn't cheer him up.

Drat. The Bands are all shite. Will that work?

Tried that, apparently I know little about such matters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 March, 2010, 10:56:11 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 10:42:20 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 29 March, 2010, 10:10:28 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 10:09:29 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 29 March, 2010, 10:02:38 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 09:58:15 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 29 March, 2010, 08:01:20 pm
Trying to buy Reading Festival tickets

Failed. Someone is not happy as apparently everyone else got their's

Never mind. It'll rain.

Nice try thanks but it didn't cheer him up.

Drat. The Bands are all shite. Will that work?

Tried that, apparently I know little about such matters.

All I can suggest is you buy tickets for the V Festival in Chelmsford, then play the Middle Age card when the truth reveals itself: "Reading? Damn... I thought you said Chelmsford..."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 March, 2010, 10:57:27 pm
Working.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 29 March, 2010, 11:32:06 pm
Just finished and emailed a report that I've been trying to get my head around for 27 months

I suddenly realised last week what the key to the problem was, and then it was actually quite easy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 30 March, 2010, 04:42:39 am
Not sleeping.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 30 March, 2010, 04:53:52 am
Waiting to lodge my passport renewal application. Pity I have no trips planned.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 30 March, 2010, 05:46:21 am
Digesting a rather excellent lunchtime curry from a strange little muslim restaurant in one of Singapore's historical quarters.

I had quail eggs  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 30 March, 2010, 08:59:36 pm
Just finished writing my CV.

Wondering whether it will be a CLM to submit an internal job application to another department a week before my annual appraisal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 30 March, 2010, 09:06:07 pm
Packing for a flight to New Zealand which leaves 48 hours from now.

 :smug:  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 30 March, 2010, 09:13:01 pm
Waiting for an orbit's worth of data to load so I can validate it, then that'll be nine orbits done, with four more to finish tomorrow.

Data validation is tedious... (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/yawn.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 01 April, 2010, 01:41:43 pm
Sitting shivering in a house of chaos as new boiler fitted - 1600 quid to be cold....I DO hope it'll work SOON.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 01 April, 2010, 01:52:48 pm
It's pretty mild down here in the smoke, around 9°C, I don't need the heating on.

I'm busy doing spring cleaning, two bin bags of rubbish out so far, and two loads of the washing machine done.

I've just had my lunch, so it's time to do a quick bit of shopping before I go back to the cleaning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 April, 2010, 01:53:11 pm
Realising that I've missed the doctor's, where my repeat prescription is, and they are now closed until Tuesday morning. We have changed our reservation to Sunday's train. I need methotrexate!

Thank god the chemist has some sense. He said he will lend me 20 tablets. Dez will be able to give him the prescription on Tuesday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 01 April, 2010, 01:54:06 pm
Just about to go and fettle the bike for the Arrow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rdaviesb on 01 April, 2010, 01:57:35 pm
Listening to various workmen knock seven bells out of the house. Roof is off; windows being repaired. Sorted Mrs rdb's birthday present as well.  O:-)
Title: Tomorrow
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 April, 2010, 09:06:57 am
Sitting in A and E hoping to get a steroid injection.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 April, 2010, 10:05:22 am
Waiting for my steroid injection to take effect. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 02 April, 2010, 10:48:59 am
I'm having blood <looks for a vampire emoticon>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 02 April, 2010, 11:47:50 am
Sitting in a sales office wondering how long it is until it's time to go home again.  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 02 April, 2010, 11:54:21 am
drinking a coffee and watching the rain  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: slowfen on 02 April, 2010, 12:05:32 pm

procrastinating :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 April, 2010, 12:06:45 pm
Wondering how many hot cross buns are too many, and if I should put the freshly made scones in the freezer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 April, 2010, 12:07:59 pm
Still waiting for the steroids to kick in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 02 April, 2010, 12:28:51 pm
eating grapes and contemplating going and fixing the slow punct*re I picked up this morning
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 April, 2010, 02:43:38 pm
Just cleaned out the garage, having failed to find the Shimano dynohub plug which must have vanished into the fourth dimension.  Or it's in the bottom of my big tool box, which is the same thing really.

About to fit a 52T chainring to the Fuji, adjust the cones on the S3X (not quite right out of the box) and tweak the chainline if I can get an extra thin washer underneath the sprocket - it's splined, so this is Reasonably Safe.

The sun has come out so I may even be able to ride it later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 02 April, 2010, 03:47:51 pm
Waiting for half past four when I will leap - well, stagger - to my ancient VW Passat* and RLF for the safe haven of gnome where I have a skip waiting for me and am going to spend the weekend joyously throwing SH1TE into it.

This skip may contain bikes or traces of bikes . . .

You have been warned

luv'n'stuff

J

*Primary transport has been claimed by SWMBO, Mrs Torslanda - she of the horned helmet and heavy metal breastplate - on the grounds of limiting its mileage and running costs. The VW being capable of over 50mpg which is significant when your commute is nearly 80 miles a day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 April, 2010, 01:21:51 am
Waiting for banananananana and chocolate cake to finish cooking, and trying to decide between chocolate topping or lemon icing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 03 April, 2010, 07:12:10 am
just started another ftp session to archive 16Gb of old sales invoices.  then only current year to go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 03 April, 2010, 09:37:03 pm
waiting for flapjack to cook while i decide how to get to hailsham tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 04 April, 2010, 07:20:06 am
Looking at rainy clouds scudding briskly across the sky and wondering if today was a good idea. I think it's going to be hard work riding into that north west wind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 04 April, 2010, 11:42:01 am
Lying in my warm, comfortable bed, eating hot buttered toast and drinking tea... and wishing I was out there in the cold wind and rain doing a long, hard bike ride! ;D

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 April, 2010, 11:18:47 am
Working
al fresco
on the patio
in the sun
life's a beach
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 April, 2010, 11:35:54 am
Nagging my boy to get his shoes, jumper, slapstrap for the flappy trouser leg and gloves on so we can go for a ride  :thumbsup:  Unfortunately he's been playing WoW this morning and is struggling with the mental gear change!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: daeno on 08 April, 2010, 12:04:31 pm
Waiting for my pasta water to boil. Lunch is Linguini al'pesto.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 08 April, 2010, 03:34:45 pm
Drinking a pint of Brains in Cardiff after I ran away from the tourist trap that is the Cardiff bay. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 08 April, 2010, 03:43:56 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 08 April, 2010, 03:34:45 pm
Drinking a pint of Brains in Cardiff after I ran away from the tourist trap that is the Cardiff bay. 

Watch out for the rift!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 08 April, 2010, 04:06:25 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 08 April, 2010, 03:43:56 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 08 April, 2010, 03:34:45 pm
Drinking a pint of Brains in Cardiff after I ran away from the tourist trap that is the Cardiff bay. 

Watch out for the rift!!!
I did look out for but couldn't see it for the tourist or the memorial wall for tourchwood.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 April, 2010, 05:14:17 pm
In sunny Cardiff waiting for Woolly to buy Burger King before we train it to Abergavenny for our mini tour. Yippeeeee!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Riggers on 08 April, 2010, 05:16:11 pm
Drink too many Brains and it won't be Torchwood but Touchcloth methinks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 April, 2010, 06:16:38 pm
Planning a C2C. My planning tends to be along the lines of.....
shall we?
yes
when ?
determine date to the nearest millenium
job done :thumbsup:
all that needs doing now is the pedalling :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 08 April, 2010, 06:20:11 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 08 April, 2010, 05:14:17 pm
In sunny Cardiff waiting for Woolly to buy Burger King before we train it to Abergavenny for our mini tour. Yippeeeee!


You've got great weather :)

Tewdric and I were playing on the approaches to the Gospel Pass today, and then had lunch near Abergavenny.  Marvellous views :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 April, 2010, 08:04:28 pm
Now camped at Abergavenny. All well, except Woolly's forgotten his Exped Downmat. Uh-oh...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 April, 2010, 01:46:13 pm
Having a wonderful day!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 09 April, 2010, 02:00:20 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 09 April, 2010, 01:46:13 pm
Having a wonderful day!!!
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 April, 2010, 05:52:43 pm
At Fforest Fields campsite, all pitched, and waiting for Woolly to get washed before cooking pasta for dindin. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 09 April, 2010, 06:42:44 pm
Near Hundred House ?

Did you do the Gospel Pass today then ?

Grand weather if so :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 09 April, 2010, 06:53:37 pm
laughing at scousers:
Ladies' Day fashions at Aintree Racecourse in pictures - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionpicturegalleries/7571883/Ladies-Day-fashions-at-Aintree-Racecourse-in-pictures.html)

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Post by: peliroja on 09 April, 2010, 07:11:55 pm
MV: yes, and it was glorious! Only 30 odd miles, but enough for these two out-of-condition tourers. :)
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Post by: border-rider on 09 April, 2010, 07:13:48 pm
I just looked at your route.  Erm - quite hilly :)

Not only the Pass, but the lumpy lanes over from Hay to Hundred House   :o

I bet the views were ace today though.  We got as far as Llanvihangel Crucorney yesterday and that was nice enough
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Post by: andrewc on 09 April, 2010, 10:21:18 pm
Quote from: mike on 09 April, 2010, 06:53:37 pm
laughing at scousers:
Ladies' Day fashions at Aintree Racecourse in pictures - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionpicturegalleries/7571883/Ladies-Day-fashions-at-Aintree-Racecourse-in-pictures.html)


I've made a few comments today about some of the ladies attending Aintree.  And there were plenty of them around town on my walk home from work, with their attendant gentlemen....  far too much orange flesh on display, even for an old letch like me.. And I'm having a quiet night in because getting served will be impossible tonight.

But that Telegraph photo shoot is just "let's laugh at the ugly proles" ,  and it made me a bit angry... >:(
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Post by: andrewc on 09 April, 2010, 10:24:33 pm
Listening to Anouar Brahem playing Astrakhan Cafe, digesting rice & sea bass, drinking an indifferent white (M&S Pecorino, don't bother) and about to sit in the comfy chair with a book...
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Post by: Deborah on 09 April, 2010, 11:13:21 pm
Watching the Rocky Horror picture Show on Film4. MrDeborah has suggested I dress up to watch but I've declined his invitation.
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 09 April, 2010, 11:18:21 pm
Quote from: mike on 09 April, 2010, 06:53:37 pm
laughing at scousers:
Ladies' Day fashions at Aintree Racecourse in pictures - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionpicturegalleries/7571883/Ladies-Day-fashions-at-Aintree-Racecourse-in-pictures.html)

Grim  ;D

That shot of the red shoes and the Smirnoff Ice bottle is not a bad pic though.

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Post by: Pippa on 09 April, 2010, 11:25:45 pm
Packing. So I can swap 2 wheels for 2 planks this weekend for the last of the ski season.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 09 April, 2010, 11:36:15 pm
Plotting tomorrow's route to Great Budworth and back.
I know one way there but it would be good to try some new lanes.

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Post by: nuttycyclist on 09 April, 2010, 11:55:51 pm
Making up a song* about insomnia and looking at the beautiful Mrs Nutty who is fast asleep.


In the same way that Terry Pratchett often talked about Dwarf songs only having the word "Gold" in the lyrics, I thought that a song about insomnia would be easy.
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Post by: Aidan on 10 April, 2010, 06:25:25 am
eating breakfast, ready to chase the sun to Spurn Point  :thumbsup:
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Post by: peliroja on 10 April, 2010, 08:08:45 am
Arising from slumber in our little tent and getting ready for a hard day's cycling! :)
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 10 April, 2010, 11:28:09 am
Looking at the sunny weather and contemplating a wlak down to the river to feed ducks.
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Post by: jogler on 10 April, 2010, 11:38:43 am
failing to find the enthusiasm for a bike ride.The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
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Post by: Deano on 10 April, 2010, 01:06:26 pm
Deciding what nags to back in the National.
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Post by: GruB on 10 April, 2010, 01:28:01 pm
Just put the bets on for the National, on here while eating porridge and then back out into the garden in the sunshine to help with the pruning of  bushes.
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Post by: SteveC on 10 April, 2010, 02:04:42 pm
Catching five minutes in the middle of the lawn fettling.
Front lawn done before lunch.
Back lawn now mown.
Still need to strim the bits the mower can't manage.
Go round the edges with the edging shears and a spade to tidy them up.
Probably get the ordinary shears out for the last few unreachable bits.

S
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Post by: GruB on 10 April, 2010, 04:50:16 pm
Celebrating as I backed the National winner.  £47.31 to me thank you very much.  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 10 April, 2010, 06:40:16 pm
Sitting in a YHA waiting for fooood after a gruelling, hilly, hot and wonderful day's cycling. Now in Goodrich.

Oh and I fell off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 April, 2010, 07:06:46 pm
Fell off?  You're OK, I hope? 

*obligatory question about bike*
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Post by: Kim on 10 April, 2010, 07:41:52 pm
Listening to Natalya attempting to operate a computer through the unreliable voodoo that is Dragon NaturallySpeaking (her arm's playing up again).  She has discovered that the transcription accuracy is greatly improved if she adopts a permanent Pat Simmons impression.  I'm being good and trying not to laugh (or ask her what the time is).
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 10 April, 2010, 07:44:55 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 10 April, 2010, 06:40:16 pm
Sitting in a YHA waiting for fooood after a gruelling, hilly, hot and wonderful day's cycling. Now in Goodrich.

Oh and I fell off.

Noes!  Hope you're ok.  Go see the castle, it's a great one.
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Post by: Deano on 10 April, 2010, 07:45:55 pm
Quote from: Grub on 10 April, 2010, 04:50:16 pm
Celebrating as I backed the National winner.  £47.31 to me thank you very much.  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

GIT.

I'm not sure mine bothered to finish :-\
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Post by: GruB on 10 April, 2010, 08:13:08 pm
Quote from: Deano on 10 April, 2010, 07:45:55 pm
Quote from: Grub on 10 April, 2010, 04:50:16 pm
Celebrating as I backed the National winner.  £47.31 to me thank you very much.  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

GIT.

I'm not sure mine bothered to finish :-\

It cost me £24 to cover all the family picked horses so I was well pleased to get it back and then some  ;D
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Post by: Deano on 10 April, 2010, 08:46:05 pm
No need to rub it in ;D
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Post by: SandyV on 11 April, 2010, 03:35:05 am
Just waved off the riders from the 300 control of a 400. 4500m climbing so far, vicious headwind and a 4pm start. Result - not happy riders!
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Post by: gordon taylor on 11 April, 2010, 07:00:14 am
Wondering how to tell Mrs G that I've somehow booked a helibiking (helicopter up mountain, bike down) birthday trip for Thursday.
Never mind, she'll be at work, 20,000 km away.


 ;D    :smug:
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Post by: mike on 11 April, 2010, 07:23:41 am
Quote from: Gordy on 11 April, 2010, 07:00:14 am
Wondering how to tell Mrs G that I've somehow booked a helibiking (helicopter up mountain, bike down) birthday trip for Thursday. Never mind, she'll be at work, 20,000 km away.


 ;D    :smug:

awesome!!  Lots of photos, please!

I'm up early to go for a 4 hour swimming lesson.  Seems a shame, given the beautiful weather outside but I darent cycle the 15 miles to it in case I'm too tired to get home..
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Post by: GillP on 11 April, 2010, 09:28:19 am
Waiting to cycle to Scorton en mass for tea and cake :)
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Post by: JohnP on 11 April, 2010, 09:55:36 am
sadly - I'm watching Supersport race from valencia.
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Post by: peliroja on 11 April, 2010, 11:39:26 am
En route to Gloucester after a big brekky at the YHA. Bad night due to stag party around a camp fire behind our tent until four am... But all well.

Apart from a bad neck after my crash yesterday (skidded on deep gravel - bike and me are mainly OK).:)
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Post by: Deborah on 11 April, 2010, 11:52:57 am
Glad to hear you are mainly ok after your off, Peliroja.

I've pootled to the park and doing a few laps. I'm hiding from caffeine come down at home.
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Post by: jogler on 11 April, 2010, 12:06:24 pm
Quote from: jogler on 10 April, 2010, 11:38:43 am
failing to find the enthusiasm for a bike ride.The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

having an action replay:or is it an inaction replay?
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Post by: woollypigs on 11 April, 2010, 12:25:03 pm
YAPL*) boy I love cycle touring.

*) yet another pub lunch
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Post by: TimO on 11 April, 2010, 12:35:06 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 11 April, 2010, 12:25:03 pm
YAPL*) boy I love cycle touring.

*) yet another pub lunch

Are you sure you don't just love pub lunches? ;D
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Post by: SpaceBadger on 11 April, 2010, 12:44:24 pm
Heading to the pub to watch Paris-Roubaix unfold on a beeeeeg TV screen  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Gus on 11 April, 2010, 01:02:28 pm
watching Paris - Roubaix  ;D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 April, 2010, 01:17:44 pm
Feeling pleasantly replete after a rather delicious 'veggie breakfast tray' from Melton's Too (http://www.meltonstoo.co.uk/).  And vaguely contemplating whether we should go out for a bimble about.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 April, 2010, 05:17:43 pm
Waiting (on comfy sofas in a pub near the station) for our train from Gloucester back home. We are both knackered from more miles than our shell-shocked bodies are used to, sunshine and hill. A brilliant three days. Work tomorrow will be fun! Yawn.
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Post by: jogler on 14 April, 2010, 03:31:30 pm
sitting at my desk feeling like a bloated pig after eating one of them business-type lunches.no cycling this afternoon.
feeling  ;D &  :sick: &  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 14 April, 2010, 03:46:33 pm
watching "Brabantse pijl" on danish television  :thumbsup:
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Post by: delthebike on 14 April, 2010, 03:48:44 pm
Quote from: Gus on 14 April, 2010, 03:46:33 pm
watching "Brabantse pijl" on danish television  :thumbsup:
Googling the above
 Brabantse Pijl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabantse_Pijl)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 14 April, 2010, 04:05:18 pm
replying to this thread.
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Post by: SpaceBadger on 17 April, 2010, 04:11:50 pm
Just finished washing my car, and then decided that I'd clean my bike chain cleaner  :o

 :hand: Think carefully folks if you're thinking of cleaning your chain cleaner. It's ain't nice in there!  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 17 April, 2010, 07:03:21 pm
Heading off to one of the pubs in the village for our anniversary dinner  :D

Seven years...

S
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Post by: Deborah on 17 April, 2010, 09:38:04 pm
Eating toast and drinking tea.
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Post by: andrewc on 17 April, 2010, 11:05:44 pm
Inna pub, drinking BEER (Salopian Lemon Dream, rather good), watching people out of the pub window...
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Post by: citoyen on 18 April, 2010, 10:14:59 am
Watching a U12s rugby tournament in which my son is playing. Wishing I was out on my bike on such a glorious spring morning instead. Oh the joys of being a parent...
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Post by: Julian on 18 April, 2010, 12:42:51 pm
At work >:(
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Post by: Deborah on 18 April, 2010, 01:04:46 pm
:-( Julian. I'm working too.
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Post by: woollypigs on 18 April, 2010, 01:06:01 pm
Having an early breakfast for once ;)
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Post by: jogler on 18 April, 2010, 04:31:19 pm
Quote from: Julian on 18 April, 2010, 12:42:51 pm
At work >:(

Quote from: Deborah on 18 April, 2010, 01:04:46 pm
:-( Julian. I'm working too.

onna Sunday? :o

I do hope you ladies are well rewarded for your efforts
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Post by: Polar Bear on 18 April, 2010, 04:33:51 pm
Been out for a spin this morning but I'm chained to my computer for the rest of the day now. 
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Post by: numbnuts on 18 April, 2010, 04:36:34 pm
waiting for my curry to get hot  :P
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Post by: citoyen on 18 April, 2010, 04:57:14 pm
Rugby turned out good -they won four games then lost by one try in the final - to a team they'd beaten by one try in an earlier round, so honours even, really. Still would have liked to be out on my bike though.

Now vegging out, thinking about making tea..
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Post by: border-rider on 18 April, 2010, 05:05:15 pm
Loading Mapsource UK base maps & contours onto the Garmin

I've got the thing to talk to my Linux box, now so once this is done I can do routes using gmapspedometer or somesuch directly  - and never have to use the awful Garmin Windows software again :)
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Post by: Domestique on 18 April, 2010, 05:06:29 pm
watching deal or no deal, looks like an all blue round   
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Post by: peliroja on 18 April, 2010, 05:41:15 pm
Feeling very annoyed at my continued sore throat (over 7 days now).  >:(
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Post by: Deborah on 18 April, 2010, 05:45:33 pm
Get well soon Vicky.
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Post by: Julian on 18 April, 2010, 05:48:57 pm
Quote from: Deborah on 18 April, 2010, 01:04:46 pm
Quote from: Julian on 18 April, 2010, 12:42:51 pm
At work >:(


:-( Julian. I'm working too.

Mutual misery.  I'm nearly done now though.  :)

Quote from: jogler on 18 April, 2010, 04:31:19 pm
onna Sunday? :o

I do hope you ladies are well rewarded for your efforts

Some weeks I have a light workload, some weeks it's stupid-busy.

This is a stupid-busy one.  I don't mind the odd weekend-working bit given that it's an occasional-crisis-thing rather than every week.

ETA:  That doesn't mean I wouldn't rather be doing something else!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 19 April, 2010, 06:56:43 pm
Sitting on a train somewhere between Doncaster and Peterborough, bored and probably won't be home before 22:30. Not much elbow room for typing either!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 19 April, 2010, 07:31:58 pm
sitting digesting birthday cake, and wearing the Covent Garden bathrobe that my ever so lovely wife has bought me as a birthday pressie. :)

I've longed for one of these bathrobes for about 15 years .  they are extremely luxurious  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 20 April, 2010, 01:54:01 pm
[APART FROM TYPING...] Drinking tea while jamming on mandolin to a Scots harp duo called Sileas, and waiting till time to go to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 20 April, 2010, 01:57:44 pm
Watching the Conservative election manifesto launch on BBC Parliament...

Someone pass me the razor blades.  :sick:
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Post by: Butterfly on 20 April, 2010, 02:32:01 pm
Being glad that I'm not with Tony or Greg ;D. Otherwise looking at the hoovered room and wondering if mowing the lawn is a step too far.
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Post by: jogler on 20 April, 2010, 02:33:42 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 20 April, 2010, 02:32:01 pm
Being glad that I'm not with Tony or Greg ;D. Otherwise looking at the hoovered room and wondering if mowing the lawn is a step too far.

go for it,you'll be o.k..Mrs.Jogler did ours yesterday & she's fine ;D
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Post by: Butterfly on 20 April, 2010, 10:51:59 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 April, 2010, 02:33:42 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 20 April, 2010, 02:32:01 pm
Being glad that I'm not with Tony or Greg ;D. Otherwise looking at the hoovered room and wondering if mowing the lawn is a step too far.

go for it,you'll be o.k..Mrs.Jogler did ours yesterday & she's fine ;D
I did :thumbsup: And the neighbour took pity on my efforts with the world's least effective strimmer and lent me her petrol mower :).
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Post by: Deborah on 21 April, 2010, 07:14:46 pm
Recovering from presenting at a conference, which is something I hate. It makes me so tired. I think I'm going to bed.
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Post by: Pippa on 21 April, 2010, 08:30:56 pm
Painting my toenails.
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Post by: JohnP on 21 April, 2010, 08:43:41 pm
Working through over 200 pictures from last Saturday's Under 10 football match.   Dump the obvious bad shots; PS levels and a bit of cropping; then a disk for each team's manager and a small selection to upload to club web site.  Sometimes wish I didn't have 2 footie mad grandsons, but it gets me out of the house and helped justify a new dslr and long lenses.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 22 April, 2010, 06:11:58 pm
Just about to start work again
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Post by: TimO on 22 April, 2010, 08:12:23 pm
I suspect I'm just about to start swearing a lot.

I was just going to get changed, pack up, and leave work and we had some sort of power fluctuation.

The lights went out for a second or so, the air con stopped and restarted.  My desktop PC died, but rebooted almost immediately.

The main server is of course doing bugger all. Arse arse arse.
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Post by: peliroja on 22 April, 2010, 08:13:56 pm
Eating my bodyweight in vegetables and about to finish watching a German film.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 22 April, 2010, 09:01:48 pm
Just finished work for tonight, well except for a bit of reading.  I'm going to make myself a nice decaf tea and watch some TV
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Post by: PaulF on 22 April, 2010, 09:05:04 pm
Avoiding the alleged debate on TV
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Post by: TimO on 22 April, 2010, 09:14:18 pm
I was half intending to watch the debate, but with things going wrong with servers, and having to eat my tea here (which I wasn't intending), I'd probably want to throttle them if I watched it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 23 April, 2010, 02:22:50 pm
At the Jerusalem Tavern, waiting for drinking chums to arrive. They're on a St George's day pub crawl, thought I'd join them on my lunch break. It took me 5 mins to get here from the last pub, but I reckon I'll be drunk by the time they get here.

Bike definitely quickest way to get around London.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 April, 2010, 03:09:11 pm
Quote from: citizen smudge on 23 April, 2010, 02:22:50 pm
At the Jerusalem Tavern ...

Oh good pub, good beer. :thumbsup:
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Post by: citoyen on 23 April, 2010, 03:41:17 pm
Yep, the pubs on the crawl route are all GBG-listed, so beer quality pretty much guaranteed.  :thumbsup:

Unfortunately, I had to get back to the office before they turned up.  :(

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 April, 2010, 10:40:08 am
Trying to imagine what could possibly be better than spending a sunny Saturday morning in a laundromat. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 24 April, 2010, 11:07:39 am
Quote from: Andrij on 24 April, 2010, 10:40:08 am
Trying to imagine what could possibly be better than spending a sunny Saturday morning in a laundromat. :(

Wearing just pants?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 24 April, 2010, 11:12:24 am
In a "Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be Nick Kamen" kind of way?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 24 April, 2010, 11:20:32 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 24 April, 2010, 11:12:24 am
In a "Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be Nick Kamen" kind of way?

That sort of thing. Obviously photos are required
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 April, 2010, 12:53:15 pm
*recalls British usage of word 'pants'*
*googles 'Nick Kamen'*

Well.  That would be one way to get everyone to vacate the premises.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 24 April, 2010, 01:39:13 pm
I'm having a (luxury) cup of Lady Grey tea.  I'm only allowed the amount of caffeine in two cups of tea a day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 April, 2010, 01:59:14 pm
Feeling knackered from work, and unable to get out on the bike. Ho hum.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 April, 2010, 02:34:44 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 April, 2010, 01:59:14 pm
Feeling knackered from work, and unable to get out on the bike. Ho hum.  :(

coincidentally,that's exactly how I feel today after a VERY active Friday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 April, 2010, 02:37:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 April, 2010, 02:34:44 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 April, 2010, 01:59:14 pm
Feeling knackered from work, and unable to get out on the bike. Ho hum.  :(

coincidentally,that's exactly how I feel today after a VERY active Friday
Unless we're out cycle camping, I find getting myself motivated to cycle really hard these days. I blame work, and the fact that Woolly works weekends (not his fault).

Off back to the sofa I go...  :(

Shame you're not nearer, jogler, or we could motivate each other!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 April, 2010, 03:24:44 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 April, 2010, 02:37:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 April, 2010, 02:34:44 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 April, 2010, 01:59:14 pm
Feeling knackered from work, and unable to get out on the bike. Ho hum.  :(

coincidentally,that's exactly how I feel today after a VERY active Friday
Unless we're out cycle camping, I find getting myself motivated to cycle really hard these days. I blame work, and the fact that Woolly works weekends (not his fault).

Off back to the sofa I go...  :(

Shame you're not nearer, jogler, or we could motivate each other!
I too find that my get-up-&-go has gone.
Yes it is a pity we are not closer:you could motivate me into riding that fixed bike you motivated me into buying after trying yours on the Pie Run.

edit:I am getting square corners on my backside from sitting in front of the oglebox watching the Sky Sports channel ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 24 April, 2010, 03:26:27 pm

reading Yehuda Moon, I missed it from 1/1 until now
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 April, 2010, 03:28:50 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 April, 2010, 03:24:44 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 April, 2010, 02:37:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 April, 2010, 02:34:44 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 April, 2010, 01:59:14 pm
Feeling knackered from work, and unable to get out on the bike. Ho hum.  :(

coincidentally,that's exactly how I feel today after a VERY active Friday
Unless we're out cycle camping, I find getting myself motivated to cycle really hard these days. I blame work, and the fact that Woolly works weekends (not his fault).

Off back to the sofa I go...  :(

Shame you're not nearer, jogler, or we could motivate each other!
I too find that my get-up-&-go has gone.
Yes it is a pity we are not closer:you could motivate me into riding that fixed bike you motivated me into buying after trying yours on the Pie Run.

edit:I am getting square corners on my backside from sitting in front of the oglebox watching the Sky Sports channel ::-)
And you could motivate me into getting my fixed bike back on the road again, or at least putting some pedals on the poor sod, and pumping his tyres.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 26 April, 2010, 01:08:42 pm
Quote from: TimO on 23 April, 2010, 03:09:11 pm
Quote from: citizen smudge on 23 April, 2010, 02:22:50 pm
At the Jerusalem Tavern ...

Oh good pub, good beer. :thumbsup:

Too much of the St Peter's grapefruit one gives me wicked hiccups though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 April, 2010, 12:23:53 pm
Coughing enough almost to turn myself inside-out >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 28 April, 2010, 12:52:03 pm
Writing labels on over 100 sample bags and laughing at the pathetic amount of material that I've been given to analysis - you really think that's enough material?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 April, 2010, 12:56:00 pm
Trying hard not to buy an Ellis Briggs
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 28 April, 2010, 01:49:31 pm
Waiting for ferry from airport to Toronto
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 28 April, 2010, 02:07:42 pm
having a cup of coffee and a deserved rest.

No work today after finding the toilet cistern had parted company with the rawlplugs in the wall behind it, "stretched" the inlet thread and deposited water on the carpet.  Luckily nothing had gone through the carpet and floor and below were fine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 28 April, 2010, 02:08:30 pm
Quote from: clarion on 28 April, 2010, 12:56:00 pm
Trying hard not to buy an Ellis Briggs

Don't try too hard - I need the vicaroious pleasure of seeing pics of your bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 28 April, 2010, 02:12:10 pm
Eating a veggie delite from subway  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 April, 2010, 05:02:20 pm
Quote from: JohnP on 28 April, 2010, 02:08:30 pm
Quote from: clarion on 28 April, 2010, 12:56:00 pm
Trying hard not to buy an Ellis Briggs

Don't try too hard - I need the vicaroious pleasure of seeing pics of your bike.

Someone got a bargain for £115 while I was out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 April, 2010, 10:09:10 pm
Recompiling the kernel on our main server, so I can get gdb to work, so that I can work out why a simple bit of code is segfaulting...

I've only been in work 14 hours, so is it wise to install a new kernel at this point. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 30 April, 2010, 11:20:42 pm
Watching Mark Knopfler Plays Avo Session (2007?) recorded earlier this week on SkyArt1. Now playing some old stuff: Brothers in Arms. Superb.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 01 May, 2010, 12:17:05 am
Cursing MapSource for crashing for the 3rd time while plotting the same journey from Dunkirque to Usingen avoiding main roads.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 01 May, 2010, 02:16:06 am
Sorting photos and not sleeping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 01 May, 2010, 06:32:40 am
up at six to go swimming for an hour before the weekend starts.

Apparently this is wrong!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 01 May, 2010, 06:50:55 am
remotely logged in to work to run post month end transaction archiving - about 1 hour then a ride in to swap tapes.  Probably my last time as I'm on retirement run down and days off & holidays have been arranged to coincide with month ends.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 May, 2010, 10:31:05 am
Quote from: mike on 01 May, 2010, 06:32:40 am
up at six to go swimming for an hour before the weekend starts.

Apparently this is wrong!

You are correct, that is wrong.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 01 May, 2010, 10:32:38 am
Off for a couple of laps of Richmond Park in my new shoes, then to have a coffee with my French cousin whom I've not seen since she was a tiny baby (she's now 21)!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 May, 2010, 11:20:26 am
Packing for 10 days in Cornwall.I have less bother knowing what to pack for cyling than what to include in the way of formal wear ::-)
Decided to take the Trek.
Mrs. jogler is taking her mtb :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 May, 2010, 02:00:31 pm
Waiting for a woman to phone me so I can get the keys to my temporary flat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 May, 2010, 02:39:02 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 01 May, 2010, 02:00:31 pm
Waiting for a woman to phone me so I can get the keys to my temporary flat.
sounds like a secret assignation :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 01 May, 2010, 04:20:50 pm
At St Pancras waiting to have a drink with my French cousin whom I've not seen for about 19 years! Bike parking at this station is pants.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 01 May, 2010, 06:37:05 pm
Watching Avatar on DVD with Mrs G and Son2 whilst eating banana with walnuts and no added sugar custard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 May, 2010, 06:38:25 pm
Not watching Dr. Who.
Can't avoid hearing it, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 May, 2010, 09:21:23 pm
Getting increasingly P'd off at Bikely.
What else can I use for international mapping that might show elevations? Bikehike is wonderful, but it's only for the UK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 01 May, 2010, 09:37:54 pm
Quote from: boab on 01 May, 2010, 09:21:23 pm
Getting increasingly P'd off at Bikely.
What else can I use for international mapping that might show elevations? Bikehike is wonderful, but it's only for the UK.

toporoute (http://www.toporoute.com/cgi-bin/bicycle.cgi/)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 01 May, 2010, 09:40:48 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 01 May, 2010, 04:20:50 pm
At St Pancras waiting to have a drink with my French cousin whom I've not seen for about 19 years! Bike parking at this station is pants.
Home having spent a great afternoon speaking French (it's still mostly there!) and catching up with my cousin. And about to order takeaway... nom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 01 May, 2010, 09:44:25 pm
Just eaten a huge plate of pasta and contemplating going back to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 01 May, 2010, 09:47:21 pm
just back from the pub, watching x-men on film 4.

Halle Berry FTW!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 May, 2010, 09:52:28 pm
Waiting for the snooker to finish on BBC2 and I'm in a Rock n Roll Band to start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 01 May, 2010, 11:17:24 pm
Snuggling on the sofa with MrD whilst watching boy films (Tokyo Dift)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 01 May, 2010, 11:21:22 pm
Developing film, drinking wine, browsing the web
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 02 May, 2010, 09:11:34 am
Wondering how many places I'm losing in the bikejournal league table by lying in my warm, dry bed instead of being out there in the cold, wet rain. Looking out of the window, I can't help thinking I really ought to be out there on my bike. Still, staying in bed with my wife has its merits...

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 02 May, 2010, 09:32:50 am
Quote from: citizen smudge on 02 May, 2010, 09:11:34 am
Still, staying in bed with my wife has its merits...

Not if you are posting on here it doesn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 02 May, 2010, 09:55:46 am
Having to put my feet up. :-(  It doesn't come natural to me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 02 May, 2010, 10:45:16 am
Quote from: Adrian on 02 May, 2010, 09:32:50 am
Quote from: citizen smudge on 02 May, 2010, 09:11:34 am
Still, staying in bed with my wife has its merits...

Not if you are posting on here it doesn't.

I've been awake since 7. ;)

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 02 May, 2010, 10:47:42 am
2 weeks worth of ironing :(

But then I'm ready to ride in case the rain stops.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 02 May, 2010, 10:52:43 am
Trying to get out off the bed for the second time today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 02 May, 2010, 11:05:06 am
Looking out at the rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kevinp on 02 May, 2010, 11:40:32 am
studying for the open university :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 May, 2010, 11:45:15 am
Buzzing after 3 espresso's , thinking that I must get dressed and fix the puncture on the Thorn and wondering what I'm going to do for the next 2 weeks off work.  A bike tour somewhere..... :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 02 May, 2010, 11:48:49 am
watching the rain  :( but it's good for the garden so I'm told
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 02 May, 2010, 11:49:28 am
Doing puzzles with Little G. after a nice, windy, morning ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 May, 2010, 11:52:06 am
Still in bed. Norty me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 02 May, 2010, 11:54:45 am
Mrs Mike has been experimenting with baking, so I'm eating scones, foccaccia and sourdough bread.  All good, except the foccaccia is a bit overcooked (havent dared say that out loud ;D)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 May, 2010, 12:04:04 pm
Quote from: eck on 01 May, 2010, 09:37:54 pm
Quote from: boab on 01 May, 2010, 09:21:23 pm
Getting increasingly P'd off at Bikely.
What else can I use for international mapping that might show elevations? Bikehike is wonderful, but it's only for the UK.

toporoute (http://www.toporoute.com/cgi-bin/bicycle.cgi/)

...or GPSies (http://www.gpsies.com/).

Although the Elevation details aren't as detailed as I'd like (but neither is it with Bikely).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 May, 2010, 12:05:45 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 02 May, 2010, 10:47:42 am
2 weeks worth of ironing :(

I don't think I've used my Iron since I moved into this house, two years ago. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 02 May, 2010, 12:48:49 pm
Feeling smug 'cos I cut the grass just before the rain came.

And

Going out to fettle more bikes in the garage as soon as I've finished this coffee.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 May, 2010, 03:53:25 pm
Quote from: eck on 01 May, 2010, 09:37:54 pm
Quote from: boab on 01 May, 2010, 09:21:23 pm
Getting increasingly P'd off at Bikely.
What else can I use for international mapping that might show elevations? Bikehike is wonderful, but it's only for the UK.

toporoute (http://www.toporoute.com/cgi-bin/bicycle.cgi/)

(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/getElevationPlotcgi.png)

Thanks!

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 May, 2010, 06:34:00 pm
Wallowing in my own crapulence as usual for this time of the weekend.  Watching Mrs Z and Miss Z the elder play tennis on the Wii.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 May, 2010, 06:40:15 pm
Hiding upstairs. Downstairs is populated by many teenagers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 May, 2010, 07:29:13 pm
You got an infestation?  Oh dear.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 May, 2010, 08:23:04 pm
Digesting a blunge-up & adjourning to the bar( imagine an emoticon for a fat-git cyclist) ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rdaviesb on 03 May, 2010, 08:47:28 pm
Drinking beer. And I'm going to have a least two more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 May, 2010, 09:34:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 02 May, 2010, 08:23:04 pm
Digesting a blunge-up & adjourning to the bar( imagine an emoticon for a fat-git cyclist) ;D

action replay ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 May, 2010, 11:46:32 am
Trying very hard not to  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 May, 2010, 10:25:58 pm
Quote from: jogler on 03 May, 2010, 09:34:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 02 May, 2010, 08:23:04 pm
Digesting a blunge-up & adjourning to the bar( imagine an emoticon for a fat-git cyclist) ;D

action replay ;D

I think I'm getting the hang of this action replay thing....a few more days evenings practice should do it
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 04 May, 2010, 10:29:54 pm
Sitting in a hospital bed, buggers are keeping me overnight for ob's, and playing with my Dongle!!! :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 May, 2010, 10:31:50 pm
 :( to hear that PedalDog.  Hope you at least have a cute night nurse to distract you, if you get bored with your dongle!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 May, 2010, 10:32:13 pm
Hope you're OK
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 04 May, 2010, 10:41:47 pm
Just a bit of a belt and braces job with regard to the T.I.A. thing again. Should be out after I see the Consultant around 11am.  Worst is the battery on this laptop is on it's way to empty so I'll sign off now,
See Y'all soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 05 May, 2010, 09:42:41 am
At a public planning meeting - a bit boring
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 05 May, 2010, 06:18:09 pm
I'm Free!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 05 May, 2010, 08:23:25 pm
I'm supposed to be working for a deadline on Friday. Instead I am posting on here  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 May, 2010, 09:12:16 pm
Quote from: Pedaldog on 05 May, 2010, 06:18:09 pm
I'm Free!

you are Roger Daltry AICMFP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 05 May, 2010, 09:51:01 pm
Quote from: Pedaldog on 05 May, 2010, 06:18:09 pm
I'm Free!

You are Mr Humphries AICMFP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 05 May, 2010, 09:54:20 pm
I was thinking about that same excellent vocal performance by Mr Daltrey as I wrote that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 May, 2010, 09:55:12 pm
Glad you're OK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGa70tVYVKo)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 May, 2010, 12:20:32 am
Quote from: Pedaldog on 05 May, 2010, 06:18:09 pm
I'm Free!

Huzzah!  Did you tunnel out, or did someone smuggle in a file innacake?

I am melting chocolate to put on top of the chocolate cakes wot I baked earlier.  And considering whether to next make bananananana cake, banananananana and chocolate cake, orange and lemon cake or to stop baking....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 06 May, 2010, 12:51:43 am
Nanny Ogg would be proud of you!  Are you putting any "Herbs an stuff innit?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 May, 2010, 01:08:13 am
I don't think that a recipe from the Lancre Witch's special book would be entirely appropriate for taking to a WARTY ride.  It could all go 'orribly wrong....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 May, 2010, 04:04:22 am
Writing up patient notes whilst grieving for the rest break that will never happen tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 06 May, 2010, 04:44:18 am
Wondering why my body decided to wake me up at this time.  On the plus side, I've had a chance to catch up on threads which I didn't read yesterday, because I was busy.

I'll nod of in a minute, so I can wake up late for work. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 May, 2010, 09:55:01 am
Feeling very woozy after having a blood test. Not rushing into work for the time being.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 06 May, 2010, 10:20:18 am
Last time I had a blood test I found chocolate was a good restorative.  Hope you feel perkier soon Peli.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 06 May, 2010, 12:15:13 pm
Wondering if I should've registered to vote, but deciding, on balance, I did the right thing...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 06 May, 2010, 01:08:02 pm
Quote from: Pedaldog on 05 May, 2010, 06:18:09 pm
I'm Free!

Free of what, exactly?   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 May, 2010, 03:45:52 pm
Quote from: Julian on 06 May, 2010, 10:20:18 am
Last time I had a blood test I found chocolate was a good restorative.  Hope you feel perkier soon Peli.
Thanks J. He took a LOT of blood, as my doctor is unsure what's wrong with me.  :-\ Woolly came with. He's a love.  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 May, 2010, 05:00:20 pm
I think you can complain if you want to.  Hope that your evening is ok - look after yourself.

I am about to pack up and go home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 06 May, 2010, 05:47:48 pm
Invigilating an exam. It's better than working ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 May, 2010, 06:25:12 pm
Enjoying a pint in a nice Hampstead pub, being amused by the conversations around me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 06 May, 2010, 08:43:01 pm
Popping some corn for tonight's entertainment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 06 May, 2010, 10:06:14 pm
Fretting about computer stuff that I have no clue about!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 06 May, 2010, 10:24:51 pm
Waiting for MrsC to get back from the count (she's got to deliver her box - she's not staying all night)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 May, 2010, 01:26:21 am
Just ordered my dinner so I have something to nom and drink while I watch this 'lectiobn gubbins.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 May, 2010, 11:12:04 am
Giving up hope, non-ironically.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 07 May, 2010, 09:55:52 pm
Sitting in The Tontine Inn, Melverley, Staffs. Digesting gammon, egg & chips, drinking beer.  With all the election hoo ha I didn't get out of the flat till 2. Train  to Chester then 40ish miles through lovely country lanes to a campsite I stayed at last year.   First long day out of the year in fact.:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 08 May, 2010, 07:51:03 am
Going out to pick litter from a mile-long stretch of country lane.

I may be some time  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 08 May, 2010, 08:36:48 am
Looking out of my window. Not believing that it's the weekend and it's raining. Again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 May, 2010, 09:21:20 am
Working.  >:(

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 08 May, 2010, 09:37:43 am
Mopping up the blood. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 May, 2010, 09:46:33 am
Not what I need to be doing.   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 May, 2010, 09:54:54 am
Quote from: Polar Bear on 08 May, 2010, 09:46:33 am
Not what I need to be doing.   :-\

<wallace>
Ah... prevaricating about the bush...
</wallace>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 08 May, 2010, 10:04:30 am
Taking advantage of mrs_o's attendance of the May WARTY to order N+1.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 08 May, 2010, 10:05:35 am
Contemplating a few gentle laps of Richmond Park having DNS'd the ToTT on account of lurgydom...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 May, 2010, 10:24:44 am
Quote from: Oaky on 08 May, 2010, 10:04:30 am
Taking advantage of mrs_o's attendance of the May WARTY to order N+1.  :demon:

Don't ask me why but my brain immediately interpreted that as you ordering another mrs_o.  I then wandered off into mail order brides, etc., etc., etc.    :o   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 08 May, 2010, 10:31:03 am
Quote from: Polar Bear on 08 May, 2010, 10:24:44 am
Quote from: Oaky on 08 May, 2010, 10:04:30 am
Taking advantage of mrs_o's attendance of the May WARTY to order N+1.  :demon:

Don't ask me why but my brain immediately interpreted that as you ordering another mrs_o.  I then wandered off into mail order brides, etc., etc., etc.    :o   :D

LOL
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 08 May, 2010, 10:42:19 am
Playing silly buggers with my Tacx Fortius software, trying to get the Real Life Video to work under Windows 7.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 08 May, 2010, 02:19:41 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 08 May, 2010, 07:51:03 am
Going out to pick litter from a mile-long stretch of country lane.

I may be some time  ::-)

Feeling smug  :smug: and annoyed at the same time.  >:(

(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/gordon1314/IMG_2812.jpg)


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 08 May, 2010, 05:19:53 pm
Feeling very cold.
(I've just put the fire on downstairs for MrsC, but I am not putting the central heating back on!  >:( >:( >:(

S

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 08 May, 2010, 06:54:04 pm
Still mopping up the blud. :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 May, 2010, 06:55:20 pm
Whose?   Have you Nutty'd?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 08 May, 2010, 06:59:00 pm
Fell over my feet this morning on a run.  Gravel down nearly to the bone on the kneecap in great gouges.  I've fallen off my feet twice now.  Need a helmet for WALKING.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 08 May, 2010, 07:24:20 pm
Quote from: andygates on 08 May, 2010, 06:59:00 pm
Fell over my feet this morning on a run.  Gravel down nearly to the bone on the kneecap in great gouges.  I've fallen off my feet twice now.  Need a helmet for WALKING.
That won't help your knees!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 May, 2010, 08:56:24 pm
Quote from: jogler on 03 May, 2010, 09:34:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 02 May, 2010, 08:23:04 pm
Digesting a blunge-up & adjourning to the bar( imagine an emoticon for a fat-git cyclist) ;D

action replay ;D

another action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 08 May, 2010, 09:01:13 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 08 May, 2010, 07:24:20 pm
Quote from: andygates on 08 May, 2010, 06:59:00 pm
Fell over my feet this morning on a run.  Gravel down nearly to the bone on the kneecap in great gouges.  I've fallen off my feet twice now.  Need a helmet for WALKING.
That won't help your knees!

[vizzini]
HA! My point exactly! You walked into my trap!
[/vizzini]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 08 May, 2010, 09:04:00 pm
Watching Peli sleeping on the sofa, quite entertaining :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 May, 2010, 09:05:17 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 08 May, 2010, 09:04:00 pm
Watching Peli sleeping on the sofa, quite entertaining :)

Pics needed :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 May, 2010, 01:59:55 pm
Sitting in a field somewhere south of Leominster, admiring the view over to Wales. Eating fruited teacakes with Cheddar cheese.  Shaping up to be a good tour.  Got to be in Exeter for lunchtime on Saturday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 09 May, 2010, 02:03:30 pm
Watching my wife planting things in our garden.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 May, 2010, 03:03:27 pm
Sitting in my bathroom-less flat using the internet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 May, 2010, 04:06:50 pm
Drinking _BEER_ outside a pub in Staplow .....;-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 09 May, 2010, 05:57:09 pm
Watching smok rise over Dundee as something has gone up in lots of flames.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4592418308_d36d03b782_b.jpg
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 09 May, 2010, 06:11:35 pm
Listening to Chelsea winning the Premiership  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 May, 2010, 06:18:15 pm
Quote from: clifftaylor on 09 May, 2010, 06:11:35 pm
Listening to Chelsea winning the Premiership  :thumbsup:
Hiding at home because Chelsea won the Premiership, because the roads around here are soon to be full of Chelsea fans.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 May, 2010, 06:37:36 pm
boozing :thumbsup:
in Cornwall :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 May, 2010, 06:39:52 pm
Making refried beans and rice, as we've nothing left in the cupboards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 09 May, 2010, 06:47:00 pm
Typing this post, sat here at my computer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 09 May, 2010, 07:11:12 pm
Me too
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 09 May, 2010, 07:12:29 pm
Looking at the weather for the week ahead (continuing pretty cold, with more or less northerly winds) and wondering if that sunny week we had during April was the last we'll see for a while.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 May, 2010, 07:23:32 pm
Giving Kylie Minogue one, doggy-style.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 May, 2010, 07:33:37 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 09 May, 2010, 07:23:32 pm
Giving Kylie Minogue one, doggy-style.

Ah, so that's what you've named your doll.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 09 May, 2010, 07:36:23 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 09 May, 2010, 07:33:37 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 09 May, 2010, 07:23:32 pm
Giving Kylie Minogue one, doggy-style.

Ah, so that's what you've named your doll.


Nah, thats what his poodles called
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 May, 2010, 08:19:58 pm
I'll have you know that it's a bull terrier.

(Warning: this link is NSFW)

b3ta.com board (http://www.b3ta.com/board/10039433)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 May, 2010, 08:30:51 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 May, 2010, 08:56:24 pm
Quote from: jogler on 03 May, 2010, 09:34:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 02 May, 2010, 08:23:04 pm
Digesting a blunge-up & adjourning to the bar( imagine an emoticon for a fat-git cyclist) ;D

action replay ;D

another action replay

yet another action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 May, 2010, 11:56:55 pm
Thinking that the room service menu is getting very boring already, and praying that I don't get stuck here by the ash.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 10 May, 2010, 10:20:37 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 09 May, 2010, 11:56:55 pm
Thinking that the room service menu is getting very boring already, and praying that I don't get stuck here by the ash.

Good luck with the ash cloud.  

I feel your pain re: hotel menus.  I once ended up in a hotel for a week that had one vegetarian option.  I was teaching in the middle of no where, thus hotel was a fancy gastro pub in the middle of no where.  Vegetarian menu was a patoto cake on spinach with a poached egg on top.  It got boring after the second day.  I ended up sneaking out to the paper shop next door and buying cheese sandwhiches.  They kept asking me why I wasn't coming down to dinner!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 May, 2010, 11:11:17 am
Sitting in the sunshine at the top of hackpen Hill, admiring the views and wondering whether to carry on via road to Marlborough or follow the Ridgeway to Avebury.

Waves to all the people at work.....8-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 11 May, 2010, 05:53:53 pm
Counting down the minutes until I finish work so I can go out and ride my bike...

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 11 May, 2010, 06:34:34 pm
sitting in a crappy hotel in Glasgow working on my notes for a really sticky review, and possibly disciplinary , I've got to give tomorrow.

Have set myself a target to get notes finished so I can go for a walk before it gets dark
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 May, 2010, 08:34:18 pm
Quote from: jogler on 09 May, 2010, 08:30:51 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 May, 2010, 08:56:24 pm
Quote from: jogler on 03 May, 2010, 09:34:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 02 May, 2010, 08:23:04 pm
Digesting a blunge-up & adjourning to the bar( imagine an emoticon for a fat-git cyclist) ;D

action replay ;D

another action replay

yet another action replay

yet another yet another action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 12 May, 2010, 08:10:36 am
Eating breakfast, listening to Radio 4 which is making me depressed :-(

WTF is with the cold weather?  There was frost on my tent last night!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 12 May, 2010, 10:23:51 am
I'm reading the current issue of Cycle, Apr/may, which has just arrived.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 May, 2010, 09:19:53 pm
Enjoying that "nice to have a holiday but it's nice to be home again" feeling
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 12 May, 2010, 09:23:35 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 12 May, 2010, 08:10:36 am
Eating breakfast, listening to Radio 4 which is making me depressed :-(

WTF is with the cold weather?  There was frost on my tent last night!

I've had blue gaz freeze at whitsun bank holiday before now - in England!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 May, 2010, 07:37:06 pm
I am round at my friend's using his internet, and as he is feeling blue about a nasty email he got from his ex bloke, I am consoling him by letting him rest his head on my bosom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 13 May, 2010, 07:40:35 pm
After the last post I must confess that I am thinking about a vast expanse of bosom at this exact moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 May, 2010, 08:28:07 pm
And he won't even appreciate Kirst's bosom properly!

Damn, no jealous icon on this phone ;-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 May, 2010, 12:02:12 am
I'm just deciding that I really don't understand how the time delay of this ADC varies with the decimation setting. :-\ ???

It's getting far too late to continue trying to work out what's going on though, so it's definitely time to go home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: redshift on 14 May, 2010, 01:09:53 am
Winding down after a 13-hour day setting up and recording Frank Skinner's show for TX on Friday.

Quote from: TimO on 14 May, 2010, 12:02:12 am
I'm just deciding that I really don't understand how the time delay of this ADC varies with the decimation setting. :-\ ???

Is that how it varies, i.e. what particular form of squiggly line you get if you draw a graph of it, or why it's varying i.e. 'I don't understand, it shouldn't do that at all...?   ;D 

If it's the latter, it sounds like your day was similar to mine (albeit for very different reasons!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 14 May, 2010, 01:17:20 am
Sipping Fino whilst reading the Spring copy of Arrivee magazine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 May, 2010, 02:09:12 am
Quote from: redshift on 14 May, 2010, 01:09:53 am
Quote from: TimO on 14 May, 2010, 12:02:12 am
I'm just deciding that I really don't understand how the time delay of this ADC varies with the decimation setting. :-\ ???
Is that how it varies, i.e. what particular form of squiggly line you get if you draw a graph of it, or why it's varying i.e. 'I don't understand, it shouldn't do that at all...?   ;D 
If it's the latter, it sounds like your day was similar to mine (albeit for very different reasons!)

A bit of each, I expected the delay between the analogue input and the digital output to be largely a linear function of decimation (in effect the sampling rate), but actually it's extremely non-linear, and the plot goes up and down... :-\

I don't understand what's going on inside the device (at a guess possibly some sort of variable CIC filter followed by another simple FIR filter), and the data sheet is no use at all.

Rather bizarrely this means I'm going to have to do a load of experimentation to determine the characteristics of a device which should be purely deterministic.

You should have gotten the odd laugh out of Frank Skinner, whereas I've just got a lot of head scratching out of Texas Instruments.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: redshift on 14 May, 2010, 09:32:18 am
Quote from: TimO on 14 May, 2010, 02:09:12 am
You should have gotten the odd laugh out of Frank Skinner, whereas I've just got a lot of head scratching out of Texas Instruments.

We did get some very odd laughs, but unfortunately they won't make the cut, even for a show that goes out at 2200.   

My prognosis guess is that your device is slightly b0rked.   ;)

[anecdote]
Mr Shifty once sat a practical exam at the Beeb, where he had to work out certain characteristics of a black box amplifier/filter circuit.  He completed the set very quickly and decided, since the results looked a little odd, to do a second set, only to find that it gave unexpectedly different results.  At this point he wrote on the paper "This device is broken" and gave his reasons and his estimate of what was wrong. 

For that paper he received 100%.   ;D
[/anecdote]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 14 May, 2010, 11:47:18 pm
Right now I am bring kept awake by MiniQ's remarkable snoring two bedrooms away. I thought it was the cat downstairs until I investigated. Also have a lot of other stuff on my mind at the moment which isn't helping me to nod off either :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 14 May, 2010, 11:52:55 pm
I have recently discovered earplugs to be very helpful in that regard (courtesy of a flight maybe with TimC) They work wonders for preventing the chickens from waking me up and TODM from stopping me getting to sleep.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 May, 2010, 07:55:57 am
Digesting breakfast in Exeter YHA .....burp....

Tour over, so a quick wander around the city and train home at lunchtime.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 15 May, 2010, 10:30:12 am
Sorting the shed out. I'm getting organised.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 15 May, 2010, 11:33:46 am
waiting for news from the CTC AGM
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 15 May, 2010, 12:43:51 pm
I bought four shirts this morning, and now have enough bits of plastic, cardboard, paper and clip-type things to build a greenhouse :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 15 May, 2010, 01:07:42 pm
Quote from: Quisling on 14 May, 2010, 11:47:18 pm
Right now I am bring kept awake by MiniQ's remarkable snoring two bedrooms away. I thought it was the cat downstairs until I investigated. Also have a lot of other stuff on my mind at the moment which isn't helping me to nod off either :-(

*considers size of cat you could hear snoring downstairs*

Off for a ride to pass the time whilst waiting for the puff of smoke - or perhaps a tweet or two - from Loughborough.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 May, 2010, 02:51:16 pm
Making pasta on the campsite while listening to a woodpecker and generally being caaalm. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 15 May, 2010, 03:21:44 pm
sitting in the CTC AGM. We've been here an hour and three quarters and we're at motion 3. We're never going to get out. I should have brought some cans of pimms. They improve AGMs no end. There have so far been 2 pauses whilst they sort out procedure that they should already have accounted for ::-). At least there are lots of friendly faces :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 15 May, 2010, 03:37:07 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 15 May, 2010, 03:21:44 pm
sitting in the CTC AGM.
I've just seen a picture of you to the right of TGlite, nee superstoker.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 15 May, 2010, 04:06:36 pm
Having a cup of coffee and a rockcake at the cafe on boxhill and only feeling slightly guilty for not being in Wales on the BCM. I'd be flogging up the last climbs before Dolgellau about now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 May, 2010, 04:43:33 pm
D.S.P.-ing.
dreaming/scheming/planning.
Lejog?
C2C?

On a tandem,with a grandaughter :thumbsup:
it's her idea 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 15 May, 2010, 11:38:12 pm
Sitting next to a blistering hot fire, front VERY warm back brrr. It has been years since I have enjoyed sitting next to a fire. The nice owner of the campsite gave us an extra bag of wood, hours of fun ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 16 May, 2010, 06:56:35 am
Getting ready to take two colleagues out for a 50-mile run. They've never done ten before, so this is a big thing. We're on the Tissington and High Peak Trail (out and back, unfortunately) because neither woman will even consider riding on a road.

Oh well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 May, 2010, 07:44:51 am
Eating a bowl of bran flakes, the last from the packet, so it's a bit like swallowing sand.

In half an hour I'll be out and off to meet the CTC Sunday RUn at Wickford, 11 miles away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 May, 2010, 09:28:42 am
Feeling bloated and tired after attending a very expensive wedding at Fulham Palace yesterday.  I think it's the first time I've ever been plastered on champagne and nothing else :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 16 May, 2010, 10:20:36 am
Having a cup of tea before resuming peparing breakfast for 20 people.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 16 May, 2010, 11:23:44 am
Watching Amir Khan fight the American on ITV.  Good fight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 May, 2010, 11:44:48 am
Surfing the web to find a decent caravan site near to Bangor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 20 May, 2010, 10:56:14 am
Taking ten minutes out to enjoy a damn fine cup of coffee (http://www.unionroasted.com/Discover/rwanda_maraba.htm) and wondering why I've been drinking an inferior brew for the last week.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 May, 2010, 11:04:42 am
About to hit the compile button on Visual Studio, and nip along the landing for a dump  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 20 May, 2010, 11:07:37 am
I'm having a coffee break
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 May, 2010, 02:42:26 pm
It's not that long since I had,as I do now, a crisis of conscience(sp).These things occurr once in a decade normaly.This is the second one is a year.

I could make a financial killing as a result of a client's error.
A client who is a repeat client.
The individual concerned could lose more than £'s if the facts subsequently come to light.

So,right now I am asking myself..WTF should I decide.
I'm going to go for a ride while cogitating this issue.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 20 May, 2010, 05:57:08 pm
Only one answer to that!!


I'm having a pint in the dog and gun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 21 May, 2010, 01:12:13 pm
Mopping up after a sudden and unseasonal storm. Lucky only 2 windows were open. The horizontal rain did reach an impressive distance before I managed to close them!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 21 May, 2010, 01:40:18 pm
Coughing up nuggets of purest green.
 :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 21 May, 2010, 02:45:36 pm
Submitting a paper to a journal. Or rather, waiting for the files to upload.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 May, 2010, 03:28:39 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 16 May, 2010, 09:28:42 am
Feeling bloated and tired after attending a very expensive wedding at Fulham Palace yesterday.  I think it's the first time I've ever been plastered on champagne and nothing else :)
I was very very drunk on just champagne at a wedding in France a few years ago and the next day I felt worse than I have ever felt in my whole life, but my skin looked amazing. Champagne hangovers - make you want to die, but you're a healthy looking corpse!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 21 May, 2010, 03:56:25 pm
Trying to get back into the work groove after spending an extended lunchtime basking in the sun outside a local hosrtrly... hortslery... pub.

My head hurts.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 May, 2010, 04:13:54 pm
I just had a "play" with today's Google home page.

Excellent. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 21 May, 2010, 04:16:11 pm
TimO : you have just ruined my afternoon, THANK YOU !! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 21 May, 2010, 07:27:57 pm
Jsut arrived home from work, hauling a lot of work that I need to do over the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 21 May, 2010, 07:33:10 pm
Quote from: TimO on 21 May, 2010, 04:13:54 pm
I just had a "play" with today's Google home page.

Excellent. :thumbsup:

Me too.  It's fabulous!   8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 21 May, 2010, 07:35:04 pm
Making way for a curry
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 21 May, 2010, 07:39:05 pm
Relaxing and feeling not a day over 32. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 May, 2010, 07:41:54 pm
Preparing a "team effort" dinner. Mrs. Wow prepared the veg, Dez & I are cooking it. The dog's going to eat it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 21 May, 2010, 08:00:35 pm
typing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 May, 2010, 08:09:30 pm
Relaxing with a beer in the garden after a 170 mile drive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 21 May, 2010, 08:15:21 pm
Nibbling bits of gammon to put the salt back in that I lost on the evening loop.

It's rather muggy and thick out there tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 21 May, 2010, 08:53:13 pm
Pondering the fact that today I formally became a people manager for the first time. Two direct reports to begin with.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 May, 2010, 08:59:41 pm
Relaxing with another beer in the garden.  Mrs B isn't back from aquafit yet.  If she doesn't get back soon, I'm going to be mortaled. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 May, 2010, 09:10:12 pm
I'll join you if you don't mind.

Ringwood "Old Thumper" - currently on special offer from Waitrose.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 May, 2010, 09:27:08 pm
Old Speckled Hen. 
But she's back.  Bearing samosas.
Hurrah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 May, 2010, 09:41:15 pm
Giving up on getting Cyclic Timers to start up with Salvo.

I'm going to go and get my bike up to the lab and change the chain ring over, which I've been carrying around in my pannier for a couple of weeks!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 21 May, 2010, 10:18:41 pm
Working out my unlogged miles to estimate my "true" position in the bikejournal league table - I only log rides individually in bikejournal if they are of meaningful distance. Short rides are logged in bulk at the end of the month.

So far this month, it seems I've accumulated about 98km of such rides, which is worth about 200 league places.  :thumbsup:

Not that I'm competitive about it. Oh no.  ;)

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 May, 2010, 11:47:02 am
Drinking cognac while enjoying the sunshine and warm weather in Cheltenham.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 23 May, 2010, 05:44:26 am
Drinking tea, watching the rising sun crawl up the brickwork outside before I get myself down to CSG and Whitstable  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 May, 2010, 08:46:21 am
Drinking tea, listening to that piece of music by Eric Coates (can't remember its name but was used a lot by Monty Python*) and wondering why I keep receiving random emails from acquaintances wanting me to be their "friend" on facebook. I haven't got a facebook account. Go away!

*just been told: The Knightsbridge March
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 23 May, 2010, 12:59:44 pm
Having taken a big home-made sausage and egg butty as a surprise for woolly mid-training sesh, am observing the lobsters-to-be in Gladstone Park.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geraldc on 23 May, 2010, 01:06:36 pm
about to drive my dad to Heathrow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 23 May, 2010, 01:10:03 pm
Sitting at home nursing my still sore cracked ribs after my off last Sunday.    :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 23 May, 2010, 01:21:05 pm
Waiting to stop sweating so that I can, usefully, have a shower.
This morning's 5-a-side was hot.

After that I'll put the washing machine on: 95% of the contents are sports related- football and cycling.
I think that I'm pleased about that  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 May, 2010, 02:41:34 pm
I'm sitting in a shady spot in the garden, sipping beer, contemplating a snooze, and listening to Chaffinches and a Wren.

Just got back from a 35km bimble on the bike, and it's too hot to do anything except veg. And snooze.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 May, 2010, 04:18:42 pm
Having "one for the road" before heading back to London. 

Not looking forward to two hours on a train and another hour on the tube.  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 23 May, 2010, 04:19:56 pm
Listening to Mr Blackbird who's in a very chirpy mood.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 23 May, 2010, 04:27:28 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 23 May, 2010, 02:41:34 pm
I'm sitting in a shady spot in the garden, sipping beer, contemplating a snooze, and listening to Chaffinches and a Wren.

That sounds like a plan :)


Quote
... it's too hot to do anything except veg. And snooze.

:)

I knew there was a good reason not to cut the grass this afternoon
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 23 May, 2010, 04:29:07 pm
I'm flicking between reading about prisoner's rights, being disturbed by the chav neighbour in the garden with the sunburned breasts  :sick: and trying to keep cool. 

Oh, and being distracted in here...   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 May, 2010, 04:43:02 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 23 May, 2010, 04:18:42 pm
Having "one for the road" before heading back to London. 

Not looking forward to two hours on a train and another hour on the tube.  :sick:

You should have cycled back. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 23 May, 2010, 06:25:38 pm
I've just finished reading a book on punctuation and about to start reading a book on grammar. I am preparing for a writing retreat that I am attending tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 May, 2010, 08:48:18 pm
Considering going out for a ride.  It's been too hot until now!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 23 May, 2010, 08:53:39 pm
Having a lovely cup of tea with my two friends. 

Not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 23 May, 2010, 09:40:40 pm
More beer and pills!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 May, 2010, 08:20:10 am
Sins- so far today gluttony, avarice, lust, sloth, pride, envy. Coming up later- commandments I will break.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 May, 2010, 08:26:03 am
Working out how much it will cost to pimp my Dave Yates, Purple Aero rims, purple hubs etc etc
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 May, 2010, 08:27:28 am
Wondering why anyone would want to do that to a perfectly innocent bicycle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 24 May, 2010, 11:26:29 am
I am writing at a writing retreat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 24 May, 2010, 11:27:32 am
I'm killing time before my interview in an hour...  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 May, 2010, 11:27:49 am
Melting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 May, 2010, 11:28:45 am
Just returned from a walk in the woods. Dog has flaked out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Riggers on 24 May, 2010, 11:29:52 am
Looking at all the rubbish that's been written thus far!

I'll get my light-weight summer coat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 May, 2010, 08:03:45 pm
Possibly the most sweaty-and-covered-in-bits I've ever been. Two laps of Richmond Park, and no longer a vegetarian.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 24 May, 2010, 08:06:45 pm
I think you can be forgiven - those bugs are suicidal out there!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Martin109 on 24 May, 2010, 08:07:56 pm
I'm waiting for the first moussaka I've ever cooked to be ready!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 May, 2010, 11:37:38 pm
Waiting up for Woolly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 24 May, 2010, 11:39:47 pm
Been to Welsh class; now catching up on 2 episodes of Ashes to Ashes
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 25 May, 2010, 12:10:26 am
Scored a load of turf from my local Homebase for £1 a roll to eliminate a redundent flowerbed. Thankfully the bed just needed a final going over before laying the turf and watering it in. Floodlit gardening is all very well; hopefully it will look OK in the morning when I can get a proper look at my handiwork.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 25 May, 2010, 12:21:15 am
What could possibly go wrong ?

:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nuttycyclist on 25 May, 2010, 12:31:09 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 25 May, 2010, 12:21:15 am
What could possibly go wrong ?

:)

That's what I always say... before reaching for the first aid kit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 May, 2010, 10:43:42 am
Feeling like death warmed up due to hardly any sleep and Night Nurse after effects.  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 25 May, 2010, 10:50:23 am
Quote from: peliroja on 24 May, 2010, 08:03:45 pm
Possibly the most sweaty-and-covered-in-bits I've ever been. Two laps of Richmond Park, and no longer a vegetarian.
I can't believe bobb missed this. Come on, where are you?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 25 May, 2010, 11:36:04 am
Sat in the council offices reporting a road defect and lodging my claim for wheel repairs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 May, 2010, 11:11:06 pm
Having a long conversation with ebay tech support.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2010, 11:13:47 pm
Eating cheese, considering coffee and thinking that I ought to empty the dishwasher, hang up the laundry and go to bed.  Work tomorrow, early start :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 26 May, 2010, 08:45:24 am
Just finished work, eating a little brunch and then I need some sleep  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 26 May, 2010, 01:32:37 pm
Right now, I am coming to the end of 3 hours of radio interviews (starting at 6am!) with CBC local radio stations across Canada on security and surveillance at the G8/G20 summits next month.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 May, 2010, 01:38:23 pm
Thinking I should have gone to the toilet before trying to get through to HMRC... :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 26 May, 2010, 01:43:51 pm
S'okay Clarion, you've got time to go to the toilet and possibly have a quick shower before they answer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 May, 2010, 01:48:28 pm
Yes.  I think so.  I've just been making a matchstick model of the Eiffel Tower...

Still waiting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 26 May, 2010, 01:48:42 pm
Putting off going downstairs to the gym and sitting on the exercise bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 May, 2010, 02:05:55 pm
I've just had my late lunch
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 May, 2010, 02:14:58 pm
Finishing off a massive bowl of noodley leftovers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 May, 2010, 03:17:32 pm
Wondering what kind of a massive tw@ is driving around with a pair of St George's Cross flags attached to his motor-car.  The World Cup doesn't start for another couple of weeks and St George's Day was more than a month ago.

Perhaps this should go in the Super-Twat thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 26 May, 2010, 03:31:20 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 May, 2010, 03:17:32 pm
Wondering what kind of a massive tw@ is driving around with a pair of St George's Cross flags attached to his motor-car.

Perhaps it's part of some mass experiment into the effects of patriotism on attitudes to fuel consumption.

I mean, these are the same numpties who complain every time petrol prices go up, aren't they?

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 26 May, 2010, 03:46:41 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 May, 2010, 03:17:32 pm
Wondering what kind of a massive tw@ is driving around with a pair of St George's Cross flags attached to his motor-car.  The World Cup doesn't start for another couple of weeks and St George's Day was more than a month ago.

Perhaps this should go in the Super-Twat thread.

I bet all flags have 'Daily Mail' on them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 26 May, 2010, 03:47:56 pm
I am all of a  :o  at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 26 May, 2010, 05:02:52 pm
Quote from: Deborah on 26 May, 2010, 03:47:56 pm
I am all of a  :o  at the moment.

In a good, 'When Harry Met Sally' way?  Or a bad way?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 26 May, 2010, 08:28:20 pm
Oooh definitely a good way  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 May, 2010, 03:05:37 pm
Posting this from my new HTC Desire phone. Very neat!

...and then resorting to using the laptop to correct the mistakes!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 May, 2010, 03:07:54 pm
Quote from: Deborah on 26 May, 2010, 08:28:20 pm
Oooh definitely a good way  :thumbsup:

This thread is useless without sound effects.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 28 May, 2010, 03:13:27 pm
Quote from: TimO on 28 May, 2010, 03:05:37 pm
Posting this from my new HTC Desire phone. Very neat!

...and then resorting to using the laptop to correct the mistakes!
Gawping with incomprehension at my new HTC Tattoo phone.  I have no idea what it can do for me or how to make it do it.
(Secretly pleased at making "Kyle's Mum's a B**ch" the default ring tone.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 28 May, 2010, 04:53:35 pm
Trying to persuade my children that 'hell yeah!' is what they should be saying when I parade in my new frock.

Currently I'm getting 'whatever, mother'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 May, 2010, 04:54:14 pm
putting off cleaning the loo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 May, 2010, 05:18:11 pm
Just back from a short trip to the swings. About to eat dahl and rice in front of Blackadder.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 29 May, 2010, 05:21:51 pm
Realising that my list of things done today only includes:

Shower
Read two books
Eat
Write one letter
Read yacf

 :-[

I am home alone, lazy and tired...

This evening I might extend myself by watching a DVD and drinking the only two bottles of beer in the house.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 29 May, 2010, 05:38:48 pm
Cooking bangers and mash (except I could get only new potatoes so maybe I won't mash them), also I have one egg which I might fry.  It's a very long time since I ate a fried egg. 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 29 May, 2010, 05:59:44 pm
Looking after four dogs, there's my three....well I say my three but they were all unsolicited aquisitions.  Trouble I have a dog called Bob and the one I'm minding overnight is also a Bob...bloody chaos I tell you.

Update;  Despite being less than half his size Bob 2 is now trying to hump Bob 1... much cartoon style skidding on laminate flooring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gandalf on 29 May, 2010, 06:06:40 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 29 May, 2010, 05:21:51 pm
Realising that my list of things done today only includes:

Shower
Read two books
Eat
Write one letter
Read yacf

 :-[

I am home alone, lazy and tired...

This evening I might extend myself by watching a DVD and drinking the only two bottles of beer in the house.



Beer, DVD.....I'ts a tough job but someone's got to do it.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 29 May, 2010, 06:07:40 pm
Working, sat at the kitchen table.
Mrs G has a friend over and they are chatting.
Son1 is playing Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii.
Son2 is playing the piano.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 29 May, 2010, 06:54:34 pm
Pd off with one particular gobsh*te
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 30 May, 2010, 11:46:00 am
Enjoying a coffee having just got back from a 4.5 mile walk with Mrs G and the dog along the Kennet and Avon Canal and surrounding fields.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 30 May, 2010, 01:44:25 pm
Procrastinating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 30 May, 2010, 01:49:43 pm
Looking at the lawn and psyching myself up to mow it.  I have still got that Pendulum / AD/DC / Guns N' Roses playlist so that will help.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: keepontriking on 30 May, 2010, 02:23:59 pm
Organising a bar at a pub with no beer.

SAVE THE RAILWAY (http://www.savetherailwayhotel.org.uk/)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 May, 2010, 07:16:32 pm
Enjoying a ploughmans, washed down with cidre, after a off-roading for the first time in ages.  What I really want is a tub of ice cream, but I'm trying to be sensible.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 30 May, 2010, 07:39:08 pm
Adora Belle Dearheart brandishing a whip.  No that's not what I am doing but .... oh dear me. ;) :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 30 May, 2010, 09:11:56 pm
Waiting for my ride back to MrD's house. I can't drive. I've drunk too much.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 30 May, 2010, 09:12:46 pm
Resting my tired legs. Korma simmering on the cooker.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 30 May, 2010, 09:19:55 pm
Trying to sort trains, bike reservations and ferries for my trip to Shetland.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Speshact on 30 May, 2010, 09:21:23 pm
recovering from an afternoon spent trying to thread elastic through tent poles.

I have some understanding now of the complexity that BP face in trying to stop oil gushing out of a pipe.

However, I was successful and in place of two broken tents I have one working tent and a pile of spare parts!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 30 May, 2010, 10:07:43 pm
Feeking overtly sentimental and telling MrD how lovely he is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 30 May, 2010, 10:09:06 pm
Qnd feeling a bit tipsy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 30 May, 2010, 10:11:09 pm
Am about to eat some ice cream and then start lacing the flower rim.

Wish me luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 30 May, 2010, 10:14:16 pm
Quote from: Deborah on 30 May, 2010, 10:07:43 pm
Feeking overtly sentimental and telling MrD how lovely he is.
Let's hope that's the typo I initially thought it was  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 30 May, 2010, 11:04:52 pm
Eating fish pie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 May, 2010, 12:05:51 am
Noticing that barakta is stalking me on YACF  *waves*  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 31 May, 2010, 01:20:45 am
Well just finished lacing the front wheel with a single twist spoke configuration.  Now to do the rear.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 31 May, 2010, 02:42:22 am
Trying to cure my borked bodyclock-induced insomia with some decent single malt...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 31 May, 2010, 05:30:10 am
Wondering why I always have to get up so early.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deborah on 31 May, 2010, 09:10:28 am
Rather pleased that 12 teenagers have asked if I can take them on a bike ride in a couple ok weekends. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 31 May, 2010, 09:29:10 am
watching old TdF videos on YouTube.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 09:32:12 am
cogitating..
go for a ride?done that
fettle tandem brakes?done that
both?
neither?
look for a seasonal caravan pitch near York?
start sorting for next weekends Scotland adventure?
cash in my Lottery jackpot winning ticket?
decisions,decisions ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 31 May, 2010, 09:37:42 am
Quote from: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 09:32:12 am
cogitating..
go for a ride?
fettle tandem brakes?
both?
neither?
look for a seasonal caravan pitch near York?
start sorting for next weekends Scotland adventure?
cash in my Lottery jackpot winning ticket?
decisions,decisions ::-)
I AM going to go for a ride and it will involve crossing the Pennines and going through the Peak District National Park, just might not be as far as I'd planned. Views will be crap today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 09:38:24 am
Quote from: Deborah on 31 May, 2010, 09:10:28 am
Rather pleased that 12 teenagers have asked if I can take them on a bike rides in a couple ok weekends. :)

I was flattered that my oldest g.d. wanted to spend enough time with me doing an E2E on the tandemShe has just spent the weekend with my youngest g.d. & now I am expecting a declaration of interest from her also.
fingers crossed ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 31 May, 2010, 09:47:05 am
Quote from: Mr Nesbitt on 31 May, 2010, 09:37:42 am
Quote from: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 09:32:12 am
cogitating..
go for a ride?
fettle tandem brakes?
both?
neither?
look for a seasonal caravan pitch near York?
start sorting for next weekends Scotland adventure?
cash in my Lottery jackpot winning ticket?
decisions,decisions ::-)
I AM going to go for a ride and it will involve crossing the Pennines and going through the Peak District National Park, just might not be as far as I'd planned. Views will be crap today.

I was going to ride down to the Surrey Hills but I've procrastinated my time away so off to Richmond Park a.k.a. "The Gym" for hour or so.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 31 May, 2010, 09:56:57 am
Switching off Jeremy Kyle as it's making me feel inadequate
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 31 May, 2010, 10:25:45 am
Working at the kitchen table on a Public Holiday  ::-) when I am not getting paid.
Son1 is playing the Wii and Son2 is playing the piano.
I am also watching some Duel of the Antique hunters on BBC1.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 31 May, 2010, 10:30:43 am
Considering logistics of tandem-collection.
O My.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 31 May, 2010, 10:33:03 am
Quote from: boab on 31 May, 2010, 10:30:43 am
Considering logistics of tandem-collection.
O My.
Cool :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 31 May, 2010, 10:34:14 am
Quote from: boab on 31 May, 2010, 10:30:43 am
Considering logistics of tandem-collection.
O My.

So you've got it?

Hope to see some pictures soon!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 31 May, 2010, 10:44:34 am
Quote from: dasmoth on 31 May, 2010, 10:34:14 am
Quote from: boab on 31 May, 2010, 10:30:43 am
Considering logistics of tandem-collection.
O My.

So you've got it?

Hope to see some pictures soon!  :thumbsup:
Pick up Tuesday afternoon.

No2Son is thrilled... (and so he should be, as he's stumping up half the funding!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 31 May, 2010, 10:57:03 am
building pressure up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 May, 2010, 11:03:55 am
Quote from: boab on 31 May, 2010, 10:30:43 am
Considering logistics of tandem-collection.
O My.

Yay! :D :D :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 11:05:18 am
Quote from: boab on 31 May, 2010, 10:30:43 am
Considering logistics of tandem-collection.
O My.

From where to where?approx.Don't be precise on the infonet
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 31 May, 2010, 11:09:22 am
Quote from: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 11:05:18 am
Quote from: boab on 31 May, 2010, 10:30:43 am
Considering logistics of tandem-collection.
O My.

From where to where?approx.Don't be precise on the infonet
We will be meeting at Norwich Station, handing over what americans would refer to as the college fund, and riding home.
:little dance:
Actually we could do with some tips for getting out of Norwich, I'll ask fidgetbuzz...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 11:13:43 am
Quote from: boab on 31 May, 2010, 11:09:22 am
Quote from: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 11:05:18 am
Quote from: boab on 31 May, 2010, 10:30:43 am
Considering logistics of tandem-collection.
O My.

From where to where?approx.Don't be precise on the infonet
We will be meeting at Norwich Station, handing over what americans would refer to as the college fund, and riding home.
:little dance:
Actually we could do with some tips for getting out of Norwich, I'll ask fidgetbuzz...


without delay :demon:
I see you are sorted with collection :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 May, 2010, 11:17:43 am
I'm trying to fit things to a 26x1 1/4 wheel.  It would fit my Rudge...

EDIT: Need a 26" Presta valved tube :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jane on 31 May, 2010, 02:52:56 pm
Breaking another chain tool- for f***s sake what is wrong with me?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 May, 2010, 02:53:25 pm
Admin note: I have split out some posts from this topic and removed them, since they were following up from a "flounce".  I have also PMed the people who might be able to do something about the original complaint.  

Roger
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 31 May, 2010, 02:54:05 pm
Trying to stop working and get out for a walk. It is a Bank Holiday, after all.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 31 May, 2010, 02:54:33 pm
Watching 'Mary Poppins'  :)

Lots of happy memories of me mam singing the songs to us from this film  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 31 May, 2010, 02:55:24 pm
Quote from: jane on 31 May, 2010, 02:52:56 pm
Breaking another chain tool- for f***s sake what is wrong with me?

You've been eating too much spinach and don't know your own strength?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 31 May, 2010, 02:57:02 pm
Pro


Cras


Tin


Ating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 31 May, 2010, 02:58:13 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 31 May, 2010, 02:57:02 pm
Pro


Cras


Tin


Ating.


I'm hoping to get around to that in a while.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: redshift on 31 May, 2010, 03:06:54 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 31 May, 2010, 02:54:05 pm
Trying to stop working and get out for a walk. It is a Bank Holiday, after all.  ::-)
Working here too. Coronation St doesn't stop for Bank Holidays.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 May, 2010, 04:53:50 pm
Trying to ride my uni cycle.  Over 12 months now and still utter, utter fail.
Is it 'cos I is old?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 31 May, 2010, 05:21:39 pm
Someone has offered me a job! :o 

It's crewing a yacht delivery, moving a bit of a wreck historic sailing craft from SW France to the West Country.  First part of the job is to get it fit for sea.

Now I have to decide whether or not to take the offer. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 May, 2010, 05:56:25 pm
Sitting in the garden, willing the sun to stop going down 'cos I don't want the day to end. (I have to spend the best part of Tuesday driving to Brum)
Spending a fortune trying to keep up with Yacf on a payg mobile.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 06:20:20 pm
Quote from: asterix on 31 May, 2010, 05:21:39 pm
Someone has offered me a job! :o 

It's crewing a yacht delivery, moving a bit of a wreck historic sailing craft from SW France to the West Country.  First part of the job is to get it fit for sea.

Now I have to decide whether or not to take the offer. :-\

to Charlestown?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 31 May, 2010, 06:22:49 pm
Off to see Pendulum at the Oasis in Swindon.  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 31 May, 2010, 06:24:03 pm
Relaxing after a quick 20 miles in Richmond Park. Boring, but at least I kind of enjoyed being on the Enigma.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 31 May, 2010, 06:24:43 pm
Thinking about getting out of bed, only thinking tho..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adam on 31 May, 2010, 06:32:19 pm
I've got the opposite thought.  :P

A bit knackered after 50 odd hilly miles today following up over 100 on Saturday, so I'm thinking about going to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 31 May, 2010, 06:35:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 06:20:20 pm
Quote from: asterix on 31 May, 2010, 05:21:39 pm
Someone has offered me a job! :o 

It's crewing a yacht delivery, moving a bit of a wreck historic sailing craft from SW France to the West Country.  First part of the job is to get it fit for sea.

Now I have to decide whether or not to take the offer. :-\

to Charlestown?

Well I assumed they meant Devon but now you mention it..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 31 May, 2010, 09:03:04 pm
Using a tube cutter to cut pipes. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 31 May, 2010, 09:33:26 pm
Quote from: Kim on 31 May, 2010, 12:05:51 am
Noticing that barakta is stalking me on YACF  *waves*  ;)

*waves back* [/stalking]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 June, 2010, 09:47:32 am
Looking out at the rain..getting ready for a funeral (family friend)... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 01 June, 2010, 11:14:55 am
Cooking something special for tonight as we'll have friends round.
I'm feeling the pressure, but have played safe with chicken in the slowcooker.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 01 June, 2010, 01:28:14 pm
Trying not to succumb to my post-lunch sleepiness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 June, 2010, 03:10:01 pm
Wishing it was time to go home.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 01 June, 2010, 03:15:57 pm
trying not to shout at my boss on a conference call. 

he seems to forget I'm not seven.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 June, 2010, 07:04:21 pm
On the train home from that London. Knackered. Hungry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 June, 2010, 07:40:58 am
At Paddington an an ungodly hour for a day at Oxford University. Not had a proper cup of tea yet, so grumpy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 June, 2010, 07:57:21 am
starting to do breakfast for Mrs. jogler,eldest grand-daughter & myself
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 02 June, 2010, 07:59:24 am
Heading to Northampton to watch my son compete in a tree-climbing competition.

I hope there's space on the train for my bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 02 June, 2010, 11:05:15 am
Cleaning the bike for the Raid Pyrenean. Going ok despite the Park tools chain cleaner being slightly knackered.  I'm putting it back together after my tea break.  The bike not the chain cleaner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 June, 2010, 03:18:28 pm
Tossing it off on here when I should be crunching numbers & writing up a spec. & quotation. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 June, 2010, 03:24:17 pm
Watching PMQ. Just seen our new MP ask a hurried question. Not about hunting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 June, 2010, 05:22:26 pm
Reeling from just having held something worth 20 million quid!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 02 June, 2010, 05:29:33 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 02 June, 2010, 05:22:26 pm
Reeling from just having held something worth 20 million quid!

No bicycle is worth that much.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 June, 2010, 05:33:49 pm
It was a beautiful 800 year old rare book!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 June, 2010, 05:36:22 pm
cycle related?
 :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 02 June, 2010, 06:22:05 pm
Sitting in the sun waiting for the delicate sound of primary school guitar playing to finish so I can take my son home by bike
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 June, 2010, 06:22:42 pm
Nope, about the birds, bees and beasties!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulR on 02 June, 2010, 06:30:08 pm
Thinking I really ought to log off and ride home.  Hoping that I will feel brighter and less fragile in the morning.  Feeling particularly cockle-warmed by a very small gesture by a friend that, on the face of it, involved no more than typing three short words but that has really cheered me up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 June, 2010, 06:35:23 pm
Eating a chocolate berry ball by the Gorgeous Chocolate Heart Company. Wow. Delicious.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: vistaed on 02 June, 2010, 06:48:41 pm
Killing time until we go to a friends house to eat food. I'm really hungry and there is nothing the house to snack on!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: keepontriking on 02 June, 2010, 08:37:57 pm
Designing a bicycle bollard...
WAHT A LOADA BOLLARDS (http://www.whitchurchbollards.org.uk/)

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Post by: pixieannie on 02 June, 2010, 08:41:09 pm
Sat in my jim jams on my very red blankie, waiting for pain relief gel to start working on my backside.
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Post by: jogler on 02 June, 2010, 08:45:15 pm
Sorting my bike & bits in readiness for Saturday's Potter for Tea audax.
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Post by: clarion on 02 June, 2010, 08:51:33 pm
Distracted by thoughts of pixie backside.
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Post by: pixieannie on 02 June, 2010, 08:59:21 pm
Quote from: clarion on 02 June, 2010, 08:51:33 pm
Distracted by thoughts of pixie backside.

Strange that we should both be distracted by the same thing 8)
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Post by: clarion on 02 June, 2010, 09:17:32 pm
If there's anything I can do to help...
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Post by: spesh on 02 June, 2010, 11:22:18 pm
Wondering if it was a good idea to drink an entire bottle of Roc de Lussac (a very nice Bordeaux) on a school night. I'm meant to be back on shift at 7am tomorrow...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 03 June, 2010, 12:17:27 am
Thinking about an old school friend who I buried today (heart attack).

I hadn't seen him for quite a while and now I'll not see him again.

Truely my loss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 03 June, 2010, 12:33:05 am
Commiserations, dude.  :(

I'm hoping that I don't don't have to see any of my friends commited to the void for a long time yet.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 03 June, 2010, 02:29:09 am
Trying to decide if it's worth going to bed - I'm meant to be getting up in two hours to start a long ride.
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Post by: GruB on 03 June, 2010, 06:09:21 am
Working at the kitchen table.
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Post by: Aidan on 03 June, 2010, 06:51:07 am
just getting ready to go out. Got an early meeting sorted so I can finish a bit early and get a decent ride in this afternoon/evening :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 03 June, 2010, 08:41:49 am
Sitting at my desk in a spookily quiet and deserted huge school, hoping that the little darlings who promised to come in for holiday maths revision actually turn up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 03 June, 2010, 08:46:48 am
Quote from: Grub on 03 June, 2010, 06:09:21 am
Working at the kitchen table.
?? Shouldn't you be out and about apprehending villains ? ;)

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Post by: PaulF on 03 June, 2010, 10:15:08 am
Admiring the view at Coombe Gibbet
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Post by: jogler on 03 June, 2010, 11:06:01 am
Just finished getting last weekends mud & cowshit off the Trek ready for this weekends road crap respray :-\ of the Scottish vatiety
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Post by: cyclone on 03 June, 2010, 11:10:24 am
Sitting summoning the enthusiasm to mark Btec work when I could be riding and getting burnt! ;D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 June, 2010, 12:52:36 pm
Baking bread, making chocolate and bananananna cake and trying to decide of Arabella will want cream of asparagus or veg soup at the 700km point.

Maybe I'll make both.  I've got 2 flasks, and tea can be bought in a cafe :)
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Post by: jogler on 03 June, 2010, 02:10:38 pm
wondering how difficult it might be to masquerade as Arabella & be at the right place at the right time
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Post by: gordon taylor on 03 June, 2010, 03:08:30 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 03 June, 2010, 08:41:49 am
Sitting at my desk in a spookily quiet and deserted huge school, hoping that the little darlings who promised to come in for holiday maths revision actually turn up.

They all turned up! But all those suntanned shoulders and skimpy summer dresses made it hard to concentrate.

Teenagers are good fun, you know.. and some of them are super-bright.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pippa on 03 June, 2010, 03:14:09 pm
Planning a LEJOG  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 03 June, 2010, 03:26:03 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 03 June, 2010, 03:14:09 pm
Planning a LEJOG  :thumbsup:

Ooh 'citing. I am too (not right this minute mind), but for spring/summer next year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 03 June, 2010, 03:38:52 pm
Recovering from a 67 mile ride this morning. My longest ride of the year
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Post by: peliroja on 03 June, 2010, 03:49:14 pm
Just heard our Buster (16 year old family moggie) is at the vet with a lump in his tum. :( Keep fingers crossed for him.
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Post by: peliroja on 03 June, 2010, 04:26:07 pm
Not good news. Bye bye, lovely Buster. :'(
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Post by: TimO on 03 June, 2010, 04:32:46 pm
Oh, that's rotten Peli. :(
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Post by: jogler on 03 June, 2010, 04:35:38 pm
Packing a bag
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Post by: Oaky on 03 June, 2010, 04:52:57 pm
Eating a huge slice of yummy lemon cake.Tediously carbo-loading ahead of the weekend ;)
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Post by: mike on 03 June, 2010, 04:54:01 pm
my boss just announced he's coming for lunch tomorrow.  I'm about to hoover the office for the first time in 2010.

edit - and mow the lawn.

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Post by: Oaky on 03 June, 2010, 05:21:47 pm
You have a lawn in the office?
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Post by: Kim on 03 June, 2010, 05:29:05 pm
Being mildly dizzy and disoriented after the pressure in my right ear finally decided to equalise a couple of minutes ago.  I can hear again!
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Post by: αdαmsκι on 03 June, 2010, 05:37:07 pm
Watching google maps go slow as I sort out an entry for a 300 km DIY audax ride.
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Post by: mike on 03 June, 2010, 05:38:18 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 03 June, 2010, 05:21:47 pm
You have a lawn in the office?

it's either that or I've got to hoover the garden..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 03 June, 2010, 05:41:36 pm
I'm wondering why YACF has 7 pages on the killings and CC has 26
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Post by: Chris S on 03 June, 2010, 05:45:13 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 03 June, 2010, 05:41:36 pm
I'm wondering why YACF has 7 pages on the killings and CC has 26

Maybe we ride more and post less here?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 03 June, 2010, 05:46:15 pm
Sounds reasonable.  That ratio of pages is roughly the same as the ratio of members (within a moderate allowance for error).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 June, 2010, 05:48:51 pm
Quote from: TimO on 03 June, 2010, 04:32:46 pm
Oh, that's rotten Peli. :(
Yes, he was a right little character. RIP puss.  :(
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Post by: pixieannie on 03 June, 2010, 06:23:03 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 03 June, 2010, 05:48:51 pm
Quote from: TimO on 03 June, 2010, 04:32:46 pm
Oh, that's rotten Peli. :(
Yes, he was a right little character. RIP puss.  :(
Huggles x
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Post by: TimO on 03 June, 2010, 06:46:02 pm
I'm very amused that when playing one of my Spotify playlists, I found that they'll no longer let me play the Scissor Sisters track "I Can't Decide", because they won't let that album (Ta-dah) be bought from them in the UK.

This in turn led me to (i) spending £4-52 on Amazon to buy the album, and (ii) looking Scissor Sisters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor_Sisters) up on Wikipedia and finding out the origin of their name (Not Safe to look up that bit in work), and thence onto reading information about sex in Bonobo monkeys!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 03 June, 2010, 06:50:26 pm
Feeling far too round, but very happy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 June, 2010, 08:36:36 pm
Listening to TripleM Sydney, remembering a fantastic Xmas is Aus and enjoying the weather sat in the beer garden of The Black Horse at Iver Heath, which apparently used to be Sid James's local, hence the pub sign.

(http://www.pub-explorer.com/bucks/photos/blackhorseiverheath.jpg)
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Post by: mike on 04 June, 2010, 08:21:07 pm
kneading naan bread.
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Post by: Pippa on 04 June, 2010, 10:04:57 pm
Just been watching a massive, unexpected firework display from my balcony. I know the dinner I made was nomnomnom but the fireworks were a bit excessive  ;)

Jurek then pointed out they were for the naming ceremony for this boat (http://www.greenwich.co.uk/news/seabourn-sojourn-will-sail-from-greenwich/) which is parked up at the end of my road  ::-)
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Post by: Gus on 05 June, 2010, 09:27:46 am

Just seen +6500 women starting in a women only sportive, so in an hour I'll go see them finish it too.
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Post by: Jaded on 05 June, 2010, 10:24:32 am
Sitting in a cafe in Bournemouth having breakfast. Spoiled somewhat by the tossers in cars treating the road like their personal racetrack.
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Post by: citoyen on 05 June, 2010, 10:39:17 am
Down the road from Jaded in Poole, waiting for Kwik-Fit to recharge my sitcom, also watching people driving like utter knobs. Is this a local thing?  Bloody idiots.

When Kwik-Fit are done, I'll be going ape.

Days out at Go Ape - activities for friends, families, stags, hens, team building  (http://www.goape.co.uk/)

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 05 June, 2010, 10:40:59 am
Sitcom? Sodding iPhone autocorrect... I meant aircon.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 June, 2010, 11:47:10 am
Quote from: citizen smudge on 05 June, 2010, 10:40:59 am
Sitcom? Sodding iPhone autocorrect... I meant aircon.

LOL, I wondered what you were on about!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 June, 2010, 03:50:24 pm
Feeling smug now I've replaced my manky holey bar tape :)
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Post by: peliroja on 05 June, 2010, 04:26:35 pm
Having a lovely cream tea at Hampton Court after a lovely pootle with Woolly, who's off this weekend.
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Post by: closetleftie on 05 June, 2010, 04:32:17 pm
Sitting in a operating theatre where we're just about to finish an old boy's hip replacement, and wishing I was eating cream cakes at Hampton Court after a lovely pootle!


(Actually, with the weather the way it is up here in the Dales, I'd rather be at Bolton Abbey or suchlike...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 05 June, 2010, 07:52:01 pm
there's crap on the telly so I'm here
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Post by: peliroja on 05 June, 2010, 07:59:29 pm
Quote from: cl0setleftie on 05 June, 2010, 04:32:17 pm
(Actually, with the weather the way it is up here in the Dales, I'd rather be at Bolton Abbey or suchlike...)
Given the choice, we'd have preferred Bolton Abbey, too!
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Post by: Jurek on 05 June, 2010, 09:00:36 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 05 June, 2010, 07:52:01 pm
there's crap on the telly so I'm here
There's no telly here, and I'm staaaaarvin' so, about to get busy in the kitchen with the courgettes, parsley, mascarpone, parmesan, garlic & pasta.

Nom  :)
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 05 June, 2010, 09:07:36 pm
a'm 'avin a cuppa, listening to a cuckoo outside. That and the bleedin' grasshoppers.
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Post by: Butterfly on 05 June, 2010, 09:11:55 pm
Going to see if the honey ice cream has decided to set yet.
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Post by: TimO on 05 June, 2010, 09:22:05 pm
Watching the latest Dr Who episode, courtesy of iPlayer.

... and burping after scoffing some cheesy, garlicy bread.
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Post by: citoyen on 05 June, 2010, 09:33:55 pm
Sitting outside, finishing the wine, and watching some huge flying insect buzz about - don't know what it is but it's big enough to see from 20m away.  :o

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 05 June, 2010, 09:39:33 pm
Quote from: citizen smudge on 05 June, 2010, 09:33:55 pm
Sitting outside, finishing the wine, and watching some huge flying insect buzz about - don't know what it is but it's big enough to see from 20m away.  :o

d.
I belive it may be a helicopter that is just far away.
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Post by: Butterfly on 05 June, 2010, 09:56:01 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 05 June, 2010, 09:11:55 pm
Going to see if the honey ice cream has decided to set yet.
Nope.
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Post by: Manotea on 05 June, 2010, 10:03:31 pm
Sitting outside the last info on the rural south after phoning home to say I've had a great day but will miss my last train home!
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Post by: Frenchie on 05 June, 2010, 10:09:00 pm
Watching Eric Clapton (and friends!) Crossroads Chicago 2007 on SkyArts1. So far, very good.
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Post by: citoyen on 05 June, 2010, 11:02:41 pm
Quote from: Zoidburg on 05 June, 2010, 09:39:33 pm
I belive it may be a helicopter that is just far away.

 ;D

Either that or a stag beetle.

d.
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Post by: Oaky on 05 June, 2010, 11:12:46 pm
resting and glowing
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 June, 2010, 11:31:46 pm
Watching I'm In A Rock 'n' Roll Band and shouting at the telly because of the stupidity of the opinions expressed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 06 June, 2010, 10:08:31 am
Just getting JC some breakfast and then taking him to Stowe Fest.  I might be able to hop on the MTB for an hour tonight but Mummy duties come first this weekend.
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Post by: andrewc on 06 June, 2010, 10:30:43 am
Friday nights washing up... ::-)
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Post by: numbnuts on 06 June, 2010, 10:32:15 am
just got back from church  O:-) and now having a coffee
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Post by: gordon taylor on 06 June, 2010, 10:34:12 am
Staring at a pile of marking that is going to take six hours today.

 :(
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Post by: peliroja on 06 June, 2010, 11:19:19 am
Listening to the boom of the Polo in the Park loudspeakers and contemplating a further spot of spring cleaning.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 June, 2010, 01:48:11 pm
Being surprised that the electrician who didn't turn up on Wednesday turned up at 1pm today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 06 June, 2010, 02:32:59 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 06 June, 2010, 01:48:11 pm
Being surprised that the electrician who didn't turn up on Wednesday turned up at 1pm today.
better late than never....
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Post by: Chris S on 06 June, 2010, 02:50:17 pm
Listening to thunder. Itt's about to kick off again outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 June, 2010, 04:03:03 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 06 June, 2010, 02:32:59 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 06 June, 2010, 01:48:11 pm
Being surprised that the electrician who didn't turn up on Wednesday turned up at 1pm today.
better late than never....
I wasn't bothered that they hadn't turned up on Wednesday. It's all part of the bathroom work and I knew they'd come some time this week. I was just surprised (and had to make a quick detour into the bedroom to put a bra on  :-[ ).
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Post by: Pippa on 06 June, 2010, 06:12:46 pm
Sitting in my hotel room in Berlin writing a report on retinal tears and retinal detachment for tomorrow. I saw lots of photos and videos about these today. It involved needles in eyes :sick:
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Post by: clarion on 06 June, 2010, 08:18:17 pm
Eek!  *Squeamish about eyes*
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Post by: pixieannie on 06 June, 2010, 08:24:09 pm
Emptying shoes, wringing out clothes, drying off bike.
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Post by: Jaded on 07 June, 2010, 09:50:33 pm
Waiting for a plane. Only 1:15 late. At least the cackling hen party type girls have gone to Gatwick.
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Post by: jogler on 08 June, 2010, 08:42:55 pm
Enjoying the afterglow of a very hot bath,waitng for the prune-effect on my skin to dissipate,posting on here & watching the Dauphine Libere on Eurosport UK.

IMO that's impressive multi-tasking for a bloke ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 June, 2010, 08:46:04 pm
Trying to muster the enthusiasm to wash the dishes and prepare tomorrow's lunch.
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Post by: eck on 08 June, 2010, 08:46:38 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 June, 2010, 08:42:55 pm
Enjoying the afterglow of a very hot bath,waitng for the prune-effect on my skin to dissipate,posting on here & watching the Dauphine Libere on Eurosport UK.

IMO that's impressive multi-tasking for a bloke ;D
Bet you couldn't do all that, and eat a bridie at the same time.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 June, 2010, 08:46:46 pm
Feeling low. I should have left the country when I had the chance (job offer, new life in Oz). Now it's too late, and I'll have to spend the rest of my days watching this country dying, and wondering about what might have been.
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Post by: mike on 08 June, 2010, 08:47:08 pm
Building vegetable cages to keep the bastard pigeons off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 08 June, 2010, 08:47:53 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 08 June, 2010, 08:46:46 pm
Feeling low. I should have left the country when I had the chance (job offer, new life in Oz). Now it's too late, and I'll have to spend the rest of my days watching this country dying, and wondering about what might have been.

Cheer up, you could be in Norfolk!   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 June, 2010, 08:51:15 pm
Quote from: mike on 08 June, 2010, 08:47:53 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 08 June, 2010, 08:46:46 pm
Feeling low. I should have left the country when I had the chance (job offer, new life in Oz). Now it's too late, and I'll have to spend the rest of my days watching this country dying, and wondering about what might have been.

Cheer up, you could be in Norfolk!   

LOL! Yeah, right.

* looks out of window *

Awwwww.... CRAP!  >:(
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Post by: jogler on 08 June, 2010, 09:40:31 pm
Quote from: eck on 08 June, 2010, 08:46:38 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 June, 2010, 08:42:55 pm
Enjoying the afterglow of a very hot bath,waitng for the prune-effect on my skin to dissipate,posting on here & watching the Dauphine Libere on Eurosport UK.

IMO that's impressive multi-tasking for a bloke ;D
Bet you couldn't do all that, and eat a bridie at the same time.  :demon:

Quote from: eck on 08 June, 2010, 08:46:38 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 June, 2010, 08:42:55 pm
Enjoying the afterglow of a very hot bath,waitng for the prune-effect on my skin to dissipate,posting on here & watching the Dauphine Libere on Eurosport UK.

IMO that's impressive multi-tasking for a bloke ;D
Bet you couldn't do all that, and eat a bridie at the same time.  :demon:

I wouldn't.Those bridies are deserving of exclusive attention  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2010, 09:33:23 am
Contemplating going for a ride but I seem to have lost something.....enthusiasm :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 09 June, 2010, 09:37:48 am
Quote from: jogler on 09 June, 2010, 09:33:23 am
Contemplating going for a ride but I seem to have lost something.....enthusiasm :(

go on. You'll be glad you did.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2010, 09:42:20 am
You are absolutely right,I know, but I need a tangible raison d'etre.

I have actually discovered that a vets. Wednesday  Wheelers ride starts from the village approx 9 a.m. but missed it this morning due to work interrupting my recession based semi-retirement.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2010, 10:02:52 am
Righto,it's started to rain.That's good.
I can try out my recently purchased Sealskinz calf length waterproof & thermal sox.
So I'm setting off,in the rain(I must be losing my marbles ::-)) to Don Amott's at Hilton.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 09 June, 2010, 01:19:37 pm
Partaking of the free "American Hot" pizza that's just been delivered to the office by the very nice PR people from Pizza Express. They've surpassed themselves this time - they brought in enough pizzas for pretty much everyone who wanted to have a whole one each.

I guess that answers the question I was just asking myself a few minutes ago about what to have for lunch.  :thumbsup:

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 June, 2010, 01:30:06 pm
Wondering why that program unilaterally decided that the order in PLYRX101591624001 is a duplicate when quite plainly it isn't ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 June, 2010, 10:44:32 pm
Trying to get to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 June, 2010, 09:49:56 am
Sulking & doing my Mr. Angry thing >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 June, 2010, 06:26:22 pm
Watching Dolly Parton in concert that I recorded the other night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 10 June, 2010, 06:27:49 pm
Waiting for Mrs Aidan to get home so I can give her a hug
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 June, 2010, 06:34:31 pm
Awwww.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 10 June, 2010, 06:38:07 pm
Standing in a queue to get on a plane that's 6 hours late

This means I'll miss the connection in Dubai and therefore the meeting in Seoul I was meant to be at on Saturday

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 10 June, 2010, 06:42:22 pm
Bad scene - keep calm, Phil. Commiserations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 10 June, 2010, 06:54:56 pm
No point being other than Zen-like, Dave

It's more of an issue for the rest of my meeting, cos I'm the Secretary ;)

I get a day to look round Dubai too

Better on the way out than home too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rapples on 10 June, 2010, 07:01:10 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 10 June, 2010, 06:38:07 pm
Standing in a queue to get on a plane that's 6 hours late

This means I'll miss the connection in Dubai and therefore the meeting in Seoul I was meant to be at on Saturday

Nice to know you're doing your bit for the environment though  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 June, 2010, 10:56:02 am
Washing carb parts and radiators in the dishwasher.

One of the joys of being alone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 11 June, 2010, 01:28:57 pm
Drinking another cup of coffee before cleaning the bikes ready for the Cyclone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 June, 2010, 01:52:01 pm
About to post some photos off to family members
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 11 June, 2010, 01:54:30 pm
Testing the accessibility of an e-learning course  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 11 June, 2010, 01:57:25 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 11 June, 2010, 01:52:01 pm
About to post some photos off to family members

Blackmail?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 June, 2010, 02:00:02 pm
Fighting with three different budgeting tools for one budget. Grrr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 11 June, 2010, 02:01:45 pm
waiting for my nail varnish to dry.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 11 June, 2010, 02:03:36 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 11 June, 2010, 02:00:02 pm
Fighting with three different budgeting tools for one budget. Grrr.

Not a very nice way to describe your colleagues...  :o



 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 13 June, 2010, 01:04:40 am
Drinking Peroni at WT's because martin had a birthday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 13 June, 2010, 06:16:06 am
At the 510km control awaiting the final 2 riders 1 of whom is VeloYellow. Tough 600 headwinds all the way round and temp down to minus 1 last night!  Exceptional for Queensland even in winter!  Forecast is for return to normal tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 June, 2010, 07:11:32 am
Eating breakfast in bed
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Post by: toekneep on 13 June, 2010, 07:52:21 am
Just about to have breakfast (not in bed) and then get ready for a local charity ride. Looks like we might get a bit damp.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 13 June, 2010, 04:10:46 pm
Watching it rain, it's proper monsoon who turned on the tap/when will the tornado hit us? wazzing it down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 13 June, 2010, 04:14:34 pm
At my son's birthday party. Hopefully the bouncy castle and games will exhaust the 17 six year olds!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 13 June, 2010, 04:17:48 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 13 June, 2010, 04:14:34 pm
At my son's birthday party. Hopefully the bouncy castle and games will exhaust the 17 six year olds!
Can I come along? I missed Woolly do.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 June, 2010, 04:44:08 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 13 June, 2010, 04:14:34 pm
At my son's birthday party. Hopefully the bouncy castle and games will exhaust the 17 six year olds!

It worked better on the adults at Woolly's do, most of the 18+ bouncers were exhausted within a very short time!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 June, 2010, 05:01:41 pm
Procrastinating.  Both bikes need fettling, including sorting out a tube on the M+ shod bike.  :-\
 
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Post by: jogler on 13 June, 2010, 08:25:27 pm
Perusing the audax calendar.I want to maintain my recently acquired momentum
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 June, 2010, 10:28:46 pm
On another forum, someone is prone to recurrent abcesses, and she has been goaded/bribed/cajoled into taking photos of her bursting her latest one, so I am looking at the photos with a little bit of boak and a lot of satisfaction.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 June, 2010, 10:48:03 pm
Being slightly pissed.

Cycling 500km over the weekend, not eating much on Monday, then hitting pretty much a whole bottle of Blossom Hill plonk  :facepalm:.

I'll sleep well tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MSeries on 14 June, 2010, 10:50:20 pm
Looking at pictures of Halifax bombers and my uncle taken during WWII
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 15 June, 2010, 11:56:50 am
Griinning and sad at the same time!
Just swapped an old (1981) Suzuki GSX 750 SE, which is the same year and model as my first Ever brand new motorbike was, for a silly little Chinese Dax copy of 110cc and with the Intention of doing a "Survival Dax" job on it in the future. Need to lend it to brother to practice and pass his test on forst though.
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 15 June, 2010, 09:56:30 pm
Fuming like crazy now as I tried to sort out the insurance for the Little Monkey bike and, as it is such a new model, half the insurance companies won't recognise the model.  I go tthe forst quote at £263-00 for the year and have managed to find one on the same conditions for £110-00! I will be sorting that out tomorrow!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 16 June, 2010, 03:23:43 pm
Wondering if I should spend £99 on a pair of Sidi Terra's... They'd normally cost £150 and my current Sidi's are showing signs of wear. If I have two pairs the usage will be spread across two pairs of shoes, so they'll last twice as long, right?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 June, 2010, 03:52:18 pm
Contemplating whether to be a gude boy and wait until 4 before shutting down Babbage Central, or just nipping downstairs for a fag first, by which time I'll have switched on the foopball and it'll be too late to do any more work until TWFKAML summons me to the Pubbe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 17 June, 2010, 09:05:12 am
Waiting to go to the bloody (it will be!) dentist. Penultimate tooth to go.

Aaaarrrgggghhhhhh....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 June, 2010, 01:45:47 pm
Watching the Peterborough round of the Tour Series on ITV 4
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Post by: peliroja on 17 June, 2010, 01:47:23 pm
About to check our Down Under Fund to see if it might extend to 12 months off to travel the world...  ;) Before we get too wrinkly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 June, 2010, 01:49:11 pm
Having heped my daughter put her socks on, we are now off fo a walk.
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Post by: pixieannie on 17 June, 2010, 08:33:20 pm
Sitting in my jim jams with cotton wool on my very sore eyes, damned hay fever.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 June, 2010, 09:57:10 pm
eating a cheese and pickle sarnie, drinking ginger and something cordial, reading the forum and replying with one-handed tyoing.  and considering the baking of a cake.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 17 June, 2010, 10:02:48 pm
Having finished most of the cake in the house (with the help of Pluck) I have now worked my way onto ice cream.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 17 June, 2010, 10:05:09 pm
Listening to Dhafer Youseff with the volume turned up LOUD !   Drinking white wine,  trying to decide which way to vote in a strike ballot....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 June, 2010, 10:25:10 pm
Using iPlayer to listen to last night's Radio 2 Ian McMillan show about football chants.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 17 June, 2010, 11:23:53 pm
Wondering just how much damage I've done to myself after drinking a (Plastic) bottle of Dr Pepper!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 18 June, 2010, 07:42:57 am
Trying to get motivated to get some work done. Its last day before two weeks holidays and I've already seriously wound down ;D   I've got loads to do, but have been procrastinating for the last hour :thumbsup:


I really must do something
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 18 June, 2010, 08:14:52 am
Quote from: Pedaldog on 17 June, 2010, 11:23:53 pm
Wondering just how much damage I've done to myself after drinking a (Plastic) bottle of Dr Pepper!

What's the worst that can happen?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 18 June, 2010, 08:30:33 am
Same as oncemore, but I don't think it will be bloody. Its the final part of root canal work, all the excavation having already been done, and stuff put in it with a temporary filling. 

Not feeling in very good nick, as I'm on antibiotics and anti-inflammatories from where I fell and whacked my elbow, which objected violently to such mistreatment, and I've got a fingernail which is in the process of dropping off after being whacked with a sledgehammer...

Maybe I should just curl up in a ball and go to sleep, might be safer...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 18 June, 2010, 08:37:16 am
Drinking coffee and enjoying the internet.
Also, waiting for the electrician to come and replace the old wire and ceramic block fusebox, which may deny me these basic human rights little pleasures for part of the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 June, 2010, 09:39:22 am
Packing a caravan & car with bikes & stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 June, 2010, 09:40:26 am
Being tortured by Exchange Server 2003  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 June, 2010, 09:45:08 am
Waiting for mrs. jogler to return from the bakery so that I cnl lash a trike to the roof rack of the car.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 18 June, 2010, 12:07:37 pm
Waiting for Jane.  I rejoined the gym today and did an easy half hour weight session after my MTB ride.  My legs are a bit wobbly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 June, 2010, 01:16:58 pm
Not watching the Germany - Serbia match on the BBC web site, nor reading the Grauniad's minute by minute commentary, honest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 18 June, 2010, 01:47:18 pm
Bugger all, seeing as my project could well be cancelled by the happy-clappy HMG next Friday. I'll coast it till I hear one way or another, thank you very much.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 18 June, 2010, 01:50:20 pm
Waiting for my nail varnish to dry. Being pretty rubbish as a GURL, I can't manage not to smudge it unless I do nothing for half an hour or so ::-). Typing is about all I can manage :-[.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 18 June, 2010, 02:05:32 pm
Carbo-loading before catching some sleep in preparation for tonight's Northern edition of the FNRttC.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 18 June, 2010, 02:59:16 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 18 June, 2010, 01:50:20 pm
Waiting for my nail varnish to dry. Being pretty rubbish as a GURL, I can't manage not to smudge it unless I do nothing for half an hour or so ::-). Typing is about all I can manage :-[.

I must do the same as off out tonight.  I put some of those funny things between my toes and although it is uncomfortable it works a treat. 
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Post by: clarion on 18 June, 2010, 03:00:33 pm
:o I forgot to do mine! :o
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Post by: pixieannie on 18 June, 2010, 03:05:48 pm
Quote from: clarion on 18 June, 2010, 03:00:33 pm
:o I forgot to do mine! :o

Red, makes you faster. :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 18 June, 2010, 10:22:36 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 18 June, 2010, 09:40:26 am
Being tortured by Exchange Server 2003  >:(

That's what Microsoft software is for. ;D

I'm busy procrastinating, but I need to replace the brake blocks on the Kaffenback, and dig out some camping cooking stuff for the Solstice WARTY tomorrow, as well as put some stuff on charge, and quickly bung some clothes in for a wash.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 June, 2010, 10:31:11 pm
Watching Stevie Winwood and Eric Clapton on BBC 4.

Considering a bit of Air Guitar.

Eatiing a bowl of Shreddies whilst filling out audax entry forms.

Ahhh... the wonders of Middle Age  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 June, 2010, 11:45:04 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 18 June, 2010, 01:50:20 pm
Waiting for my nail varnish to dry. Being pretty rubbish as a GURL, I can't manage not to smudge it unless I do nothing for half an hour or so ::-). Typing is about all I can manage :-[.
I gave up on nail varnish about a zillion yrs ago. Invariably it got smudged before it dried, and if not, working in a lab made it chip almost the next day. And there's nothing quite as bogging as chipped nail polish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 June, 2010, 11:10:58 am
Crusty piercings are pretty boufing. I can't wear nail polish on my fingernails because I'm allergic to it and it brings my face out in a rash if I touch my face, but my toenails are usually groovy colours.

I'm feeling relieved - I knocked my nose stud out in the shower and it nearly went down the plughole but I managed to get it in time. It's platinum set with a diamond so it would have been an expensive loss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 19 June, 2010, 12:54:44 pm
Getting ready to go out for a family lunch at my favourite restaurant. Exciting!

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 19 June, 2010, 10:02:32 pm
Desperately trying to find the remote control for my hi-fi to change radio station. Stephen Nolan's programme has just started on Radio 5.  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 19 June, 2010, 10:13:17 pm
Listening to music in a field :D
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Post by: pixieannie on 19 June, 2010, 10:36:59 pm
Sewing whilst sat in bed.  Must remember to pick up all the pins this time though.
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 20 June, 2010, 03:33:49 am
Looking for a new bedroom mirror as this one makes me look fat!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AndyH on 20 June, 2010, 04:35:28 am
Wondering whether to go back to bed for an hour or eat a pasta ready meal - 200k at 8AM
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 June, 2010, 10:50:14 am
Sitting in a 6th Form College refectory drooling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 June, 2010, 10:52:54 am
Quote from: Jaded on 23 June, 2010, 10:50:14 am
Sitting in a 6th Form College refectory drooling.

:)

What about the food?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 June, 2010, 11:14:16 am
I'm sat here admiring the exceedingly short
cakes.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 23 June, 2010, 01:14:42 pm
not a lot  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 23 June, 2010, 04:06:37 pm
. . . looking forward to an early dart from work @ 16.30.

Teh Manglement TM haz agreeded dat I can haz cheeezeeburger skiddley daddle cuz I wuz a gud boys 'n ansred teh fonez whilst everyone else wuz watching those overpaid pufters patriotically cheering the national side to lose a result
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 23 June, 2010, 04:10:55 pm
Incidentally. This is not a recipe for success . . .

Mobile Broadband + Laptop + P C Projector (Attempted Streaming/Live Video) = Jerky/Frozen Bioscope with a 96" picture.

Waste of space. QED.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 23 June, 2010, 09:57:47 pm
Sitting in bed knitting a tea cosy. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 23 June, 2010, 10:52:09 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 23 June, 2010, 09:57:47 pm
Sitting in bed knitting a tea cosy. :)
The needles are less likely to get lost than the pins I suppose ;D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 June, 2010, 10:53:13 pm
Watching "Falling Down" (cracking film) and considering my future.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 June, 2010, 10:53:39 pm
Going to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 23 June, 2010, 10:54:55 pm
Waiting for my bosses to get home so I can go home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 23 June, 2010, 11:08:05 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 23 June, 2010, 09:57:47 pm
Sitting in bed knitting a tea cosy. :)

Better than sitting in a tea cosy knitting a bed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 23 June, 2010, 11:09:53 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 23 June, 2010, 10:53:13 pm
Watching "Falling Down" (cracking film) and considering my future.

That's probably a bad combination.  PUT THE LIGHT ANTI-TANK WEAPON DOWN!  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 23 June, 2010, 11:31:20 pm
Waiting for Woolly to come to bed while chasing a moth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 24 June, 2010, 03:20:50 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 23 June, 2010, 10:52:09 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 23 June, 2010, 09:57:47 pm
Sitting in bed knitting a tea cosy. :)
The needles are less likely to get lost than the pins I suppose ;D.

I woke up in a tangled mess.  6 balls of wool and two needsles, plus the earphones for my iphone and the charger.  Quite a mess, quite uncomfortable and so very typical of me.  All is now well and order has been restored to my bedroom, until the next time. 

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Post by: peliroja on 24 June, 2010, 04:39:33 pm
Trying to unravel a massive mess.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 24 June, 2010, 04:53:16 pm
Sitting on the eurostar waitring for the bar to open. And working out how to make peace with my software development team.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 June, 2010, 05:35:03 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 24 June, 2010, 04:53:16 pm
Sitting on the eurostar waitring for the bar to open. And working out how to make peace with my software development team.

Uh oh... 1st rule of managing a team of developers - Never upset the talent  :thumbsup: :smug:

Developers... prima donnas  ::-)

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr endon on 24 June, 2010, 06:01:38 pm
I'm not sure I believe this thread.
Nearly 4,500 posts and nary a wank.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 24 June, 2010, 06:34:30 pm
Sorting out a tatty hockey goalkeeping kit for tomorrow evening's grudge match.
I need gaffa tape and some braces. I bought a new box today for £1.99; I didn't fancy the mouldy one in the borrowed kit bag.  :-X

Because I've played once before, I'm an expert... according to my nervous, roped-in colleagues today.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 June, 2010, 07:33:55 pm
Sweating.
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Post by: mike on 24 June, 2010, 07:46:43 pm
getting ready to go to Yoga
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 June, 2010, 08:09:10 pm
Cooling down by means of a lovely G&T (as per my DunRun recipe).
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 June, 2010, 08:21:28 pm
deciding between a bath or a shower
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 24 June, 2010, 08:44:49 pm
Quote from: mr endon on 24 June, 2010, 06:01:38 pm
I'm not sure I believe this thread.
Nearly 4,500 posts and nary a wank.


It's not that exciting to read ::-).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 June, 2010, 11:13:56 pm
Knowing I should go to bed but getting sucked into watching Highlander because it's the best 80s film about immortals with Sean Connery and a Queen soundtrack ever.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 25 June, 2010, 09:32:26 am
Quote from: Kirst on 24 June, 2010, 11:13:56 pm
Knowing I should go to bed but getting sucked into watching Highlander because it's the best 80s film about immortals with Sean Connery and a Queen soundtrack ever.

There can be only one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: redshift on 25 June, 2010, 09:39:10 am
Girding my loins for another day making the Kyle show.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 25 June, 2010, 02:21:03 pm
sitting on the grass with a cold weissbeer and a laptop reading my favorite forum  :thumbsup:

Summer has finally decided to come to Denmark. :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Martin109 on 25 June, 2010, 02:28:58 pm
I can just picture you, Gus, having had the pleasure of visiting Køge myself! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 25 June, 2010, 02:43:33 pm
Trying to put together an action research report. As ahard scientist, action research does not come easy..

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 25 June, 2010, 03:34:57 pm
Trying to recover data from a corrupted VirtualBox VHD
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Post by: mike on 25 June, 2010, 04:17:53 pm
Drinking stella on the eurostar. Turning up pissed to management conference For The Win!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 June, 2010, 10:00:43 am
Waiting for a m.c.w. storeage tank to drain down
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 26 June, 2010, 02:10:57 pm
Drooling over the new bike and feeling a little jaded after last night.  Oh my, oh my.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 June, 2010, 02:23:20 pm
Badly lacking any kind of motivation to do anything at all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 June, 2010, 02:28:26 pm
Gradually gathering stuff for a 3-night camping trip. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 June, 2010, 02:32:01 pm
Going back to bed. Can't get myself going.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 June, 2010, 02:32:46 pm
I was sunbathing, but it became too hot for me so I had to come inside now having a cup of tea
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 26 June, 2010, 02:34:20 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 25 June, 2010, 09:32:26 am
Quote from: Kirst on 24 June, 2010, 11:13:56 pm
Knowing I should go to bed but getting sucked into watching Highlander because it's the best 80s film about immortals with Sean Connery and a Queen soundtrack ever.

There can be only one.

Alas, there were several...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 June, 2010, 02:44:24 pm
Walking around Liverpool and thinking that I should really be wearing a sun hat.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 26 June, 2010, 02:52:29 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 26 June, 2010, 02:32:01 pm
Going back to bed. Can't get myself going.

Hope you feel better very soon
x
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 June, 2010, 08:15:12 pm
Planning a C2C:Whitehaven to Sunderland.
Camping.
Doing it on the tandem with g.d. in the forthcoming 6-week school holidays.
The unresolved consideration is panniers or a trailer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 26 June, 2010, 08:17:36 pm
taking a break to catch up on those last minute internet thingies, i.e. email, PM stuff, arranging cake with the Pingu's etc., before getting back to packing and sorting for the three week cycle-camping trip to Shetland.

Been looking at Google Street View to whet the appetite!!   :thumbsup:  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 June, 2010, 09:22:45 pm
Watching Kylie Minogue on TV, at Glastonbury - singing with the Scissor Sisters.

Oh My...! Nice outfit  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 26 June, 2010, 10:15:16 pm
Trying to get some sleep ahead of leaving the house at midnight for a flipping bike ride of all things. Too hot to sleep though.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 June, 2010, 10:54:42 am
Hiding from the sun after spending 2.5 hours in it painting the side garage door.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 27 June, 2010, 11:15:01 am
Preparing for a family BBQ tonight - and youngest son's girlfriend is officially coming to "meet the family." I have a list of instructions about what I've to wear and what I've not to say.

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 June, 2010, 11:30:34 am
Quote from: Gordy on 27 June, 2010, 11:15:01 am
Preparing for a family BBQ tonight - and youngest son's girlfriend is officially coming to "meet the family." I have a list of instructions about what I've to wear and what I've not to say.

 ;D

Would you like a copy of the "Approval & Acceptance" syllabus I used when my offspring were bringing friends home for introduction. :demon:
I also have an" Embarrising Father" prospectus ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 27 June, 2010, 11:46:11 am
Back from a truly horrid ride in Richmond Park. Aside from the dangerous road surface and numpty cyclists on the London Bikeathon, the drivers seemed to be on a mission to kill me, or at the very least heap vicious verbal abuse upon me. Need to get out of London for good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 June, 2010, 11:51:21 am
yomming down cherry cobblestone cake. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adam on 27 June, 2010, 02:46:37 pm
Just getting ready to go out for a bike ride - the roads seem very quiet for some reason.  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 27 June, 2010, 04:18:43 pm
Thinking how hot it is.  I was considering going out for a bimble, but having done Sainsburys and back with the trailer, which is all of 1½ mies, I'm a horrible sweaty mess.

There's a lot to be said for night rides, it was a lot cooler on Saturday morning!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 27 June, 2010, 07:16:06 pm
Trying not to collapse in the heat.  Spent all day helping out at the Ipswich Street Fayre, hundreds of people came along, a wonderful day.  Rode back from Halfpenny Home on the Pashley with my basket strapped to the rack with an old leather belt.  I probably only cycled along at about 5 miles an hour, what with all the glasses in my basket and the heat.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 27 June, 2010, 07:30:03 pm
Back from Crawley Folk Festival and trying to unmunge my SD card so I can see the photos I took.  Photorec FTW.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 27 June, 2010, 07:35:29 pm
Trying to cool down after nearly ten hours outside, with the Doctor, a COLD beer and some numnum that Peli knocked up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 June, 2010, 02:49:34 pm
Watching the road racing on Eurosport
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 28 June, 2010, 02:50:49 pm
Having watched it for real yesterday we are now watching it on the telly. Can't get enough of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 28 June, 2010, 08:53:01 pm
Listening to Charlotte, who is teaching JC some new tunes for his guitar.  What a fine teacher she is and a damned fine guitar player to boot.  I am wondering why I ate cream as I feel quite  :sick: now.  Just going to pack my camping stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 June, 2010, 10:49:54 am
I'm having a struggle coming to terms with the fact that my body can't cash the cheques that my mind writes  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 29 June, 2010, 11:30:41 am
Quote from: jogler on 29 June, 2010, 10:49:54 am
I'm having a struggle coming to terms with the fact that my body can't cash the cheques that my mind writes  :-\

Due to recent cheques written by my mind, my body now has an unauthorised overdraft. I need to deposit some funds before next weekend, or I could be getting a stern letter from the bank...

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 29 June, 2010, 02:55:22 pm
Trying to resist the urge to buy ITEMS OF PATISSERIE to go with my next coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 29 June, 2010, 03:29:45 pm
Having waited while sql 2k8 installed I'm now waiting and waiting and waiting for vs 2010 to complete its install.  Dear God but I'm glad this machine has got a ginormous HDD. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 June, 2010, 04:04:58 pm
Watching the closing stage (5km to go) of Paris-Roubaix.
Cancellara going like a train with 2' 34" to the chasing group
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 June, 2010, 09:26:13 pm
I am about to deliver the coup de grace to the cherry cobblestone cake. :)
 One less cake for Mildenhall :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 June, 2010, 10:07:09 pm
Putting together a playlist for my birthday party on my mp3 player.

We have Queen, Shaky, Huey Lewis & the News, Simply Red, Scissor Sisters, Shamen, Rolling Stones, Freddie Mercury, Rod Stewart, Slade, Tina Turner, Take That, Sugababes, Robbie Williams, Wham!, more Wham!, quite a bit more Wham!, George Michael, Voice of the Beehive, Stevie Wonder, Aretha, James Brown, Martha & the Vandellas, Jackie Wilson, Freda Payne, Hot Chocolate, Marvin Gaye, Dionne Warwick, Ashford & Simpson, Chaka Khan, LaBelle, Barry White, Beyonce, Diana Ross, Roy Orbison, Duran Duran, UB40, A-ha, Tom Jones, Robert Palmer, Billy Idol, David Bowie, Beastie Boys, Clash, Kinks, Undertones, Eddie Cochran, Aerosmith/RunDMC, T-Rex, Blow Monkeys, Bauhaus, Cult, Cure, Fiction Factory, Bluebells, Erasure, Blancmange, Simple Minds, Pointer Sisters, Sister Sledge, Iggy Pop, Billy Ocean, Little Eva, one song from the Jungle Book, Sisters of Mercy, the Damned, House of Love, Depeche Mode, Frankie, Odyssey, Terence Trent D'Arby, 5ive Star, Cameo, Communards, Dead or Alive, Yazz, Jam, Heaven 17, Men Without Hats, Human League, Osmonds, Monkees, Don McLean, Sweet, Mud, Roxy Music, Blondie, Banananananramama, Fine Young Cannibals, Rick Astley, Cyndi Lauper, TAFKAP, Dexy's, Mel n Kim, Nena, Bad Manners, Los Lobos, King, Elvis, ABC, Jackson Five, Michael Jackson, Matthew Wilder, Doctor & the Medics, Jermaine Stewart, Kelly Marie, Gloria Gaynor, Carl Douglas, Village People, Hipsway, Goldfrapp, Girls Aloud, Whitney Houston, INXS, Billy Joel, Elton John AND Kiki Dee, Elvis Costello, 5ive, Culture Club, Bee Gees, ABBA, ABC, Madonna, Alison Moyet, Dolly Parton, John Paul Young, the Timewarp, the Goombay Dance Band, Lulu, Soft Cell, Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel, the Killers, the Libertines, and Boney M.

I think that's probably enough.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 29 June, 2010, 10:13:26 pm
one song from the Jungle Book :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 June, 2010, 10:15:39 pm
Bugger, no Love Shack.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 June, 2010, 02:37:05 pm
Watching Fleche Wallone on Eurosport UK :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 June, 2010, 03:30:00 pm
I've just got in from a little ride and I'm knacked I think I'm getting too old for this cycling  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 June, 2010, 03:49:25 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 30 June, 2010, 03:30:00 pm
I've just got in from a little ride and I'm knacked I think I'm getting too old for this cycling  :'(

I too sometimes have this feeling.I just need to avoid defeat untill after the next LEL ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 30 June, 2010, 03:54:09 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 29 June, 2010, 10:07:09 pm
Bauhaus ... Erasure ... one song from the Jungle Book ... Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel

...

I think that's probably eclectic enough.

;)

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 30 June, 2010, 03:55:10 pm
Quote from: jogler on 30 June, 2010, 02:37:05 pm
Watching Fleche Wallone on Eurosport UK :)

Ooh, thanks. I was just watching Berdych beat Federer, but think I'll change channels if there's cycling on.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 30 June, 2010, 03:58:36 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 29 June, 2010, 10:15:39 pm
Bugger, no Love Shack.

bobb's place is that way -->
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 02 July, 2010, 08:56:40 pm
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4755208643_519cc09bf7.jpg)

Been left holding the baby. He's not happy about it.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JJ on 02 July, 2010, 09:05:07 pm
Stick him in the trailor and take him for a spin.  By the time you get to the pub he'l be asleep. O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 July, 2010, 09:08:02 pm
Eating the most delicious breaded mushrooms wot I just made. A faff, but just yummy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 02 July, 2010, 10:24:20 pm
Waiting for Zomig to kick in and take effect.  Sick, sick, sick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 July, 2010, 10:34:28 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 02 July, 2010, 10:24:20 pm
Waiting for Zomig to kick in and take effect.  Sick, sick, sick.

Huggles Pixiechick.  Hope you feel better soon

 :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 July, 2010, 10:45:59 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 02 July, 2010, 10:24:20 pm
Waiting for Zomig to kick in and take effect.  Sick, sick, sick.

<Googles>

Ah, Migraines.  Bugger.  Not something I've ever had problems with, luckily.

Have a bouncy Tigger hug.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/hug3.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 July, 2010, 02:04:57 pm
Recovering after 46 hot and hilly miles on the Enigma. I quite enjoyed it, actually. First ride over 20 miles on that bike for about 12 months.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 July, 2010, 05:28:57 pm
I've been doing grand-daddy things, like taking a shopping list from my daughter and whizzing round Waitrose buying baby-related stuff.

Takes me back...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 03 July, 2010, 07:05:18 pm
Applying savlon to road rash.

No bikes involved, I just failed to notice the pothole in the road while I was running this evening, twisted my ankle and landed knee and hand first.  Muppet.

Mrs Mike just passed me a glass of painkiller so all should be blurred shortly. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kathy on 03 July, 2010, 07:10:29 pm
Drinking beer in the sun on the banks of the Thames.  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 03 July, 2010, 07:26:57 pm
Feeling great.
I spent time in two busy towns today, both with pedestrianised streets full of cheery people - plus flower displays, market stalls, dancers and singers.

This is a wonderful place to live, you know.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 July, 2010, 07:28:44 pm
 No sunny cycling for me.  :( My knee has been borked for the last 2 weeks.  I'm hoping the physio can magic it better in time for the Dun Run..

A metric ton of ironing instead.... >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 03 July, 2010, 08:22:23 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 03 July, 2010, 07:28:44 pm
No sunny cycling for me.  :( My knee has been borked for the last 2 weeks.  I'm hoping the physio can magic it better in time for the Dun Run..

A metric ton of ironing instead.... >:(

Make sure you rest, that's an order ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 July, 2010, 08:58:11 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 03 July, 2010, 08:22:23 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 03 July, 2010, 07:28:44 pm
No sunny cycling for me.  :( My knee has been borked for the last 2 weeks.  I'm hoping the physio can magic it better in time for the Dun Run..

A metric ton of ironing instead.... >:(

Make sure you rest, that's an order ;)

Yes Miss Pixie  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 July, 2010, 10:37:28 pm
Waiting for the washing machine to finish, so I can hang my clothes up to dry before I go to bed and therefore have something that isn't jeans to wear tomorrow when I get up at silly o'clock and go out and get lost on the way towards Garsdale for a ride.  Particularly important, since 'they' reckon it's going to persist it down....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 03 July, 2010, 11:19:59 pm
Watching Heima - a film by Sigur Ros, and succoming to the soporific power of wine and music.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 03 July, 2010, 11:31:35 pm
Watching Con Air. Tis fab it is  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 July, 2010, 11:33:17 pm
melting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 July, 2010, 11:35:55 pm
Peed off at train prices being so high. I want to go home to meet the kitten, but can't get a return (in two weeks' time) under 120GBP.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rhys W on 03 July, 2010, 11:41:49 pm
Playing bits of Pixies songs, after watching loudQUIETloud and putting on a vinyl copy of Surfer Rosa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 04 July, 2010, 05:07:10 am
Having a mind and body argument. The mind says, eat breakfast you will need it later and the body says  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 July, 2010, 06:29:05 am
Quote from: peliroja on 03 July, 2010, 11:35:55 pm
Peed off at train prices being so high. I want to go home to meet the kitten, but can't get a return (in two weeks' time) under 120GBP.  >:(

As in home up north?  If you don't need to take a bike, it might be worth looking at the megabus site to see how close they go. megabus.com - Find us (http://www.megabus.com/uk/stops/)

I got from York to St Pancras for 9 quid, booking a couple of days in advance.  That was half bus and half train - not a bad journey and dirt cheap.

I, meanwhile, am faffing on the interwebs whilst listening to the younger cub singing Old McDonald, and very vaguley getting ready to go out and see how much of this  (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=york&daddr=cattal+to:Moss+Hill+Ln+to:New+Rd+to:Gallabar+Ln+to:Grafton+Ln+to:ripon+to:Unknown+road+to:Bridge+St%2FA684+to:Unknown+road+to:Unknown+road+to:Hawes,+North+Yorkshire,+UK+to:A684+to:Garsdale+Railway+Station&hl=en&geocode=FUZUNwMdUnzv_ynxZZjhQMN4SDHR5FSKiat0Rw%3BFVGyNwMdqd_r_ylD7dfEYEl5SDHwBG3tnvkMBQ%3BFZdmOAMdAlPs_w%3BFTyrOAMdvAfs_w%3BFR7aOAMdoEfr_w%3BFaj9OAMdEhzr_w%3BFZwXOgMdDL7o_ynVJI_JKQB8SDFPZKYeTyu0MQ%3BFWOtOwMdnMTo_w%3BFaJfPAMdjrfn_w%3BFePYPAMdf5Li_w%3BFcTEPAMdrDzg_w%3BFTKcPAMd64Te_ymBpiBpxxt8SDF_Yr3N5weL-g%3BFdb8PAMdFr_c_w%3BFcbgPAMdfoLc_ynnW-CrU298SDEQbZ0SzEv71A&mra=ls&via=2,3,4,5,7,10,12&dirflg=w&sll=54.175297,-1.983032&sspn=0.778081,2.469177&ie=UTF8&ll=54.141523,-1.705627&spn=0.778716,2.469177&z=9)I can get done.  Probably ought to get moving...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 July, 2010, 09:05:52 pm
Shelling pistachio nuts
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 July, 2010, 09:39:19 pm
eating pistachio nuts :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 04 July, 2010, 09:48:36 pm
Sitting on my bed, wishing I hadn't consumed ice-cream and jelly at the birthday party, for I now feel a little queasy in my tummy.  I'm watching the clouds saunter by my bedroom window, rain looks like a possibility here in Suffolk, if it does rain I shall be running outside in my jim jams to cool down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 July, 2010, 09:52:03 pm
eating the last slice:'cause it's a door-step slice ;) of boiled fruit cake.It's the crust slice :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 July, 2010, 09:54:39 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 04 July, 2010, 09:48:36 pm
Sitting on my bed, wishing I hadn't consumed ice-cream and jelly at the birthday party, for I now feel a little queasy in my tummy.  I'm watching the clouds saunter by my bedroom window, rain looks like a possibility here in Suffolk, if it does rain I shall be running outside in my jim jams to cool down.

I'd have thought that, now that you've acquired a taste for it, it would have been skinny-dipping in the Gipping every evening before kipping. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 July, 2010, 10:11:10 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 04 July, 2010, 09:48:36 pm
Sitting on my bed, wishing I hadn't consumed ice-cream and jelly at the birthday party, for I now feel a little queasy in my tummy.  I'm watching the clouds saunter by my bedroom window, rain looks like a possibility here in Suffolk, if it does rain I shall be running outside in my jim jams to cool down.

Why get your jim jams wet.....just dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsQo_cXouuc&feature=related)   :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 July, 2010, 11:54:03 pm
Tutting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 05 July, 2010, 12:23:51 am
Farting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 July, 2010, 09:09:26 am
fainting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 05 July, 2010, 09:11:45 am
Quote from: jogler on 05 July, 2010, 09:09:26 am
fainting

Will you require CPR?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 July, 2010, 09:13:41 am
YES PLEASE
& be prepared  for several relapses please ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 July, 2010, 12:00:54 pm
Giving thanks for the fact that it was The Boss who buggered up the system login procedure, thereby stopping anyone from working this morning, rather than me :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 05 July, 2010, 03:16:53 pm
Quote from: jogler on 05 July, 2010, 09:13:41 am
YES PLEASE
& be prepared  for several relapses please ;)

Might be sweet 'cake-kisses' :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 05 July, 2010, 03:20:21 pm
Watching Le Tour on ITV4  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 05 July, 2010, 03:48:37 pm
Keeping a sneaky eye on the Tour on the ITV website while trying to make it look like I'm working...

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 July, 2010, 04:00:09 pm
Going home for BEER & the Tour :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MercuryKev on 05 July, 2010, 10:46:45 pm
lying in a tent in a field Tomintoul. today i discovered that you shouldn't try cycle up the lecht from cock bridge with 17Kg Panniers. it's just too hard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 05 July, 2010, 11:28:00 pm
Quote from: MercuryKev on 05 July, 2010, 10:46:45 pm
lying in a tent in a field Tomintoul. today i discovered that you shouldn't try cycle up the lecht from cock bridge with 17Kg Panniers. it's just too hard.

I was born not far from Tomintoul, a wee bit to the north and east in Banffshire.  Beautiful area (and many, many good distilleries).  Hope you're having fun - you should be ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 July, 2010, 12:43:30 pm
Mrs. Wow and I are in Maidstone visiting daughter and grand daughter. I like it. It is good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 09 July, 2010, 01:00:48 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 09 July, 2010, 12:43:30 pm
I like it. It is good.

I presume you mean visiting the granddaughter is good, rather than Maidstone is good. Maidstone is not good. Maidstone is 'orrible.

Congrats on the grandparent thing, btw.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 09 July, 2010, 01:54:43 pm
resting, just got back from kayaking on the River Hamble  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 July, 2010, 10:40:36 am
Sorting & packing bikes & caravan for a week in the Lake District.
C2C here I come ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 10 July, 2010, 12:10:44 pm
browsing the complicated world of camera bags.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 10 July, 2010, 12:11:04 pm
Waiting at control 5 (2d0 kms) for the last 2 riders. One more after this (311 kms) and I can go home. Twas a good idea to have our place as the finish for the 400. Hope they don't wake me when they get in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 10 July, 2010, 02:55:03 pm
Off to the Marlborough Jazz Festival.

Marlborough Jazz Festival (http://www.marlboroughjazz.co.uk/)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 July, 2010, 03:41:10 pm
Giving the Ribble a good clean and polish.  In this heat it's sweaty work, but I'd rather have this then cold and damp!

One problem with taking a bike apart to give it a clean is one can find things which need repairing and/or replacing.  :-\
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 July, 2010, 03:55:45 pm
Replacing spokes on my Orbit's rear wheel.

I wish I had some spare rim tape :(

EDIT: Found some! :)

Didn't need it after all.

But the wheel has a new spoke, the reference one refitted, and is a lot rounder than before. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 July, 2010, 06:18:48 pm
Sitting in the garden wondering whether to get another glass of wine or, as it's stopped raining, get the mower out.
 
Both, I s'pose.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 July, 2010, 07:15:39 pm
I finally cleaned my grungy stylus and am now listening to Thelonius playing at the Blackhawk... :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 10 July, 2010, 11:18:31 pm
Atishoooo!
But the kitten is cute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 July, 2010, 04:35:17 pm
En route back down south via Yorkshire after a great weekend. No cycling, just a couple of runs with sis. Sounds like I did right to avoid the heat down south. Weather here was slightly warm with a lovely cool breeze.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geraldc on 11 July, 2010, 04:48:01 pm
Recovering from shifting junk out of the basement all morning. Still, it got me out of a trip to ikea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 11 July, 2010, 04:49:45 pm
Fitting a woodburning stove to the chimney liner my son installed yesterday.
It is heavy and dusty work. Cough.
Are we allowed to do this stuff these days?

 ;D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 July, 2010, 06:00:58 pm
Eye balling Blencarha & Skiddaw & checking the C2C route thru' Threkeld  on an O.S. map
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 July, 2010, 10:19:37 pm
Trying to decide which one of these (http://www.vollers-corsets.com/corsets/overbust-corsets) I want most.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 12 July, 2010, 03:08:28 am
Drinking champagne by my brother in laws pool in California :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 12 July, 2010, 06:50:56 am
Still recovering after yesterday's Southern MTB XC round at Bordon, my first proper XC race since I packed it in regular racing around 5 years ago. Just got up and discovered that my knee has decided to get sore during the night. Might be the product of the 2 offs I had on lap 2  :-[. Fantastic course, blummin' hot though!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 12 July, 2010, 10:09:30 am
Drying off after running in the rain.  Refreshing, invigorating, fun and in great company, followed by a weights n mat session in my living room.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 12 July, 2010, 10:44:41 am
"Creating" my work activity sheet for last week.

Fiction is such a challenge, don't you know...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 July, 2010, 04:26:08 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 11 July, 2010, 10:19:37 pm
Trying to decide which one of these (http://www.vollers-corsets.com/corsets/overbust-corsets) I want most.

All of them...

Oh, you mean the corsets rather than their "contents"... :-[ ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 July, 2010, 08:57:51 pm
Perusing O.S. outdoor leisure maps 4 & 5
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 12 July, 2010, 09:22:13 pm
Sitting at the wrong end of a very slow mobile broadband connection (in a tiny village somewhere in the Blackdown Hills) hoping that the cold that started off as fevereish and wrecked a good deal of the holiday plans is finally going.

And trying to read 'Why E=mc2' which makes 'A brief History of Time' seem rather lightweight.

 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 July, 2010, 09:36:26 pm
Getting up, as it's time to go to bed. Work utterly knackered me as usual.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2010, 09:43:01 pm
I've just finished Proofiding a Brooks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 12 July, 2010, 10:16:33 pm
Cutting up bunting and about to head for bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 12 July, 2010, 10:25:21 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2010, 09:43:01 pm
I've just finished Proofiding a Brooks.

That reminds me. Thanks WB
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 12 July, 2010, 10:39:57 pm
Wondering if I should take Jurek's bike out for a spin, given it is sitting 1m from me and he is not here to stop me  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 12 July, 2010, 10:42:55 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 12 July, 2010, 10:39:57 pm
Wondering if I should take Jurek's bike out for a spin, given it is sitting 1m from me and he is not here to stop me  :demon:

 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

EDIT - Oh, sod it! Go on then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 July, 2010, 10:44:33 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 12 July, 2010, 10:39:57 pm
Wondering if I should take Jurek's bike out for a spin, given it is sitting 1m from me and he is not here to stop me  :demon:

Find some mud first.  :demon:
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 12 July, 2010, 11:02:38 pm
Bastids!

The pair of you.  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2010, 11:07:20 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 12 July, 2010, 11:02:38 pm
Bastids!

The pair of you.  :-*

I think a nice rack and some panniers would enhance it tremendously.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frenchie on 12 July, 2010, 11:09:31 pm
About to go for dinner with colleagues at the conference I am attending.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 12 July, 2010, 11:10:15 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2010, 11:07:20 pm
I think a nice rack and some panniers would enhance it tremendously.

I haz those. Just need a drill to make some holes in the frame...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2010, 11:11:01 pm
I have just restored my beloved and newly-repaired Brooks Flyer to its rightful place atop my Thorn Raven Sport Tour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 13 July, 2010, 07:09:31 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2010, 11:07:20 pm

I think a nice rack and some panniers would enhance it tremendously.

If you were to add some concrete ballast to the seatsatays and chainstays, I'm sure Jurek would like that, maybe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 13 July, 2010, 08:14:14 am
Mudguards? And a sticky out flag to the right?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 July, 2010, 09:54:04 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2010, 11:07:20 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 12 July, 2010, 11:02:38 pm
Bastids!

The pair of you.  :-*

I think a nice rack and some panniers would enhance it tremendously.

Just the one rack?  How's he to attach his front panniers?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 13 July, 2010, 10:24:25 am
I am making notes...... (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4789167595_8bffc0d9d7_b.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 July, 2010, 10:25:13 am
Don't tell him, Pike!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 13 July, 2010, 10:26:33 am
Quote from: clarion on 13 July, 2010, 10:25:13 am
Don't tell him, Pike!

Neither of them are involved.

So far.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 July, 2010, 02:09:52 pm
Cringing at the thought of having to be at work for another three hours.  I just want to go home.  :(
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 July, 2010, 02:13:51 pm
Drinking tea and then disappearing for an eye appointment followed by my penultimate teaching session until 14th September.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 18 July, 2010, 02:51:05 pm
Prevaricating over a job application (and getting quite anxious about it because I really, really, really want the job) and wondering if I can get away with breaking for an hour to watch the Tour, or if my wife use it as an excuse to give me domestic chores...

I'm also thinking that it's too nice to be indoors and really what I want to do is go out on my bike.  :-\

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 July, 2010, 06:02:14 pm
Ironing and watching Grease.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 18 July, 2010, 06:03:56 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 18 July, 2010, 06:02:14 pm
Ironing and watching Grease.
Quick!

Ring kirst and see if she burns her ear.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 18 July, 2010, 06:35:49 pm
Lying down watching Dirty Harry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 18 July, 2010, 08:46:01 pm
Sitting on the patio at the bottom of the garden with my laptop and some very cold white wine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 18 July, 2010, 10:49:26 pm
Sitting in Endinbra!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 July, 2010, 03:34:38 am
About to go empty the dishwasher and hang up a load of laundry.  Might as well take advantage of the fact that the stupid_bloody_cough has woken me up at stupid o'clock....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 19 July, 2010, 03:41:22 am
Waiting for the barbecue  to warm up
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 19 July, 2010, 04:08:56 am
Drinking wine and thinking about selling my Kinesis to fund the purchase of a Genesis Equilibrium 2011 frameset.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 19 July, 2010, 09:28:50 am
Celebrating having got up and out today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 July, 2010, 11:23:59 am
waiting for the tide to rise a bit before going kayaking
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 11:47:38 am
Thinking about a tour.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 01:52:28 pm
Eating, rather more than I ought to be.  Went out on the MTB and had to take a detour due to a fallen tree.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 July, 2010, 02:16:48 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 01:52:28 pm
Eating, rather more than I ought to be.  Went out on the MTB and had to take a detour due to a fallen tree.

Too big to bunny hop?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:29:49 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 19 July, 2010, 02:16:48 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 01:52:28 pm
Eating, rather more than I ought to be.  Went out on the MTB and had to take a detour due to a fallen tree.

Too big to bunny hop?
It was almost as tall as my bedroom window and just as wide as the length of a little bus, not a big one but a sort of medium sized one.  I ended up going through spikey, stinging things but it was fun.

I am just sniggering.  I went up to the post office to post Rich's cleat cover and met an elderly gentleman in his mobility scooter.  He's a very pleasant chap and always smiling.  He said that he wanted to follow me so he could watch my bottom but it was tricky to get the scooter up the ramp.  I think he made my day, I almost choked on my ice-cream.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:34:05 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:29:49 pm
but it was tricky to get the scooter up the ramp.

That's one I haven't heard before! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:35:44 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:34:05 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:29:49 pm
but it was tricky to get the scooter up the ramp.

That's one I haven't heard before! :thumbsup:
How can you turn something so benign into smut, so easily? 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 July, 2010, 04:37:12 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 19 July, 2010, 11:23:59 am
waiting for the tide to rise a bit before going kayaking
just got back it was lovely on the Hamble, sometime I think it is better than cycling  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:38:12 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:35:44 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:34:05 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:29:49 pm
but it was tricky to get the scooter up the ramp.

That's one I haven't heard before! :thumbsup:
How can you turn something so benign into smut, so easily? 

A combination of natural talent, years of practice and the company I keep.  O:-) :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:39:47 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:38:12 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:35:44 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:34:05 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:29:49 pm
but it was tricky to get the scooter up the ramp.

That's one I haven't heard before! :thumbsup:
How can you turn something so benign into smut, so easily? 

A combination of natural talent, years of practice and the company I keep.  O:-) :-*

Hmmmm. Whoops, I missed a comma... so I'll add one now, just for you.

I have some good news.  Do you want to know what it is?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:40:40 pm
Yes yes yes yes yes!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:42:12 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:40:40 pm
Yes yes yes yes yes!

I might be going on my hollibobs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:43:05 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:42:12 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:40:40 pm
Yes yes yes yes yes!

I might be going on my hollibobs.

The hollibobs I think you might be going on?  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:45:06 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:43:05 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 04:42:12 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 04:40:40 pm
Yes yes yes yes yes!

I might be going on my hollibobs.

The hollibobs I think you might be going on?  :D

Yes.  Just waiting for Mr P to check some dates.  Ooooooo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 July, 2010, 07:58:37 pm
I am looking at the Very Large Mountain of shopping that a nice man in a van just delivered, and trying to summon the enthusiasm for putting it all away.

Forum+cuppa seems much more tempting....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 19 July, 2010, 08:09:42 pm
Sitting in a square in Colmar, contemplating tomorrow's ride into the Vosges (possibly over the Grand Ballon D'Alsace).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 08:23:17 pm
Listening to a prom and wondering why I didn't take a bit more notice of Rachmaninov when I was younger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 19 July, 2010, 08:24:36 pm
Thinking about drilling holes in my skull to relieve the pressure in my sinuses....  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 July, 2010, 08:25:45 pm
Thinking Carte D'Or vanilla icecream is very plasticky.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 08:26:20 pm
Quote from: Regulator (a.k.a. DUG) on 19 July, 2010, 08:24:36 pm
Thinking about drilling holes in my skulls to relieve the pressure in my sinuses....  :sick:

You are Zaphod Beeblebrox and I claim my £5 £15.  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 19 July, 2010, 08:27:20 pm
Writing a list, a very long list.  Looking for cycling sandals and sleeping bits and bobs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 19 July, 2010, 08:27:40 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 08:26:20 pm
Quote from: Regulator (a.k.a. DUG) on 19 July, 2010, 08:24:36 pm
Thinking about drilling holes in my skulls to relieve the pressure in my sinuses....  :sick:

You are Zaphod Beeblebrox and I claim my £5 £15.  :-*

Damn!  I wondered whether anyone would spot the typo before I corrected it.

I've got a bit of a fever at the moment and I'm very woollyheaded....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 July, 2010, 08:28:32 pm
Quote from: Regulator (a.k.a. DUG) on 19 July, 2010, 08:24:36 pm
Thinking about drilling holes in my skulls to relieve the pressure in my sinuses....  :sick:

I've heard you called a few things but never two faced....!

Quality alcohol in moderate amounts....it won't cure you, but you'll feel better.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 19 July, 2010, 08:31:34 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 19 July, 2010, 08:25:45 pm
Thinking Carte D'Or vanilla icecream is very plasticky.
Is that an other way to say that the box is empty :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 July, 2010, 10:20:21 pm
I am trying to resist the temptation to have supper before bedtime.
It's a habit I have avoided for the last couple of weeks & think it is a contributing factor in shedding a bit of weight.
I find it more difficult to cope with feeling hungry than I did with nicotine withdrawal when I stopped smoking :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 19 July, 2010, 10:39:06 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 July, 2010, 08:23:17 pm
Listening to a prom and wondering why I didn't take a bit more notice of Rachmaninov when I was younger.

Rachmaninov makes me think of Brief Encounter. Emotionally overwrought in a way that only the great Russian composers could manage (see also Tchaikovsky), but quite magnificent. Perfect soundtrack to that film.

Edit: just checked the listings and seen that it's his Piano Concerto No.2 that's playing tonight, which is indeed the one that's in Brief Encounter. Pretty much the best thing he ever did.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 July, 2010, 10:55:16 pm
Looking out across the sea loch - perfect stillness in perfect silence.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 July, 2010, 05:15:43 pm
Well, I just booked the cat into prison the cattery for next weekend, so I don't have to worry about him getting his nosh and daily pill whilst I'm on the Dun Run, and the car is booked in for it's (several months overdue) MOT.

I've got to get home early today and (i) put the battery on charge so I can actually drive the car & (ii) try and fit the new wing mirror.

Fitting the mirror shouldn't be too painful, and worse case scenario, I can't get the door panel back on.  That would be annoying, but I'm pretty sure it isn't a MOT failure, which the missing mirror may be!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 20 July, 2010, 05:59:48 pm
I just set up a Samba PDC with an LDAP backend (and NSS LDAP integration, both needed).  Now I have to train our inexperienced IT staff enough about the maintenance of all of this so that they can set up both the replica LDAP server and the Samba BDCs.

This is stuff I'm not supposed to be dirtying my hands with at this point in my career, but my new employers are rather under-resourced in IT terms.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 July, 2010, 06:01:49 pm
I'm making a roast chicken dinner, and hoping my children are playing sensibly out in the street.  I can't hear any screams.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 20 July, 2010, 06:04:39 pm
I haven't got a clue.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 July, 2010, 06:20:32 pm
Struggling to stay awake,not hhaving had a decent night's sleep for 4 days.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 July, 2010, 06:24:32 pm
Just got in from work. It's bucketing down and I'm slightly damp.  Espresso machine almost ready for a shot of caffeine...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2010, 06:29:41 pm
I'm just about to do a short tour of the Southend Seafront Cycle Farcilities and have a swim, since high tide is 8.33p.m. at Southend Pier. Then, eat spag bol.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 20 July, 2010, 06:29:51 pm
Sitting at work waiting for the end-of-year talent show to start and listening to waves of hysterical teenagers in a fluster over costumes and make-up. I think it'll be a long night...

Mrs G is ill at home so I'm not popular anywhere tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 July, 2010, 06:48:32 pm
Looking out over an expanse of freshly strimmed grass, wondering if the sunset will be good tonight.

Too early to tell.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 20 July, 2010, 07:35:19 pm
Listening to JC playing the guitar.  Mr PixieAnnie's brother is here and is an awesome guitarist.

I have numb fingers on my left hand and fear they will never recover.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 July, 2010, 07:55:52 pm
juggling...diary dates: to accommodate ride commitments,g.d. holidays,hospital appointments,a C2C ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 July, 2010, 07:56:25 pm
Watching the Crimson Permanent Assurance with TGL. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 20 July, 2010, 08:07:08 pm
Just finished watching the Tour highlights and savouring all the zillions of brilliant memories of having ridden those cols. Will be very weird not having my Pyrenees fix this year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 20 July, 2010, 08:12:52 pm
Ms Weasel and I have just test ridden tandem and trailer with most of the dun-run camping kit on board.

Verdict: "Cocked, locked and ready to rock"  "It'll do"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 July, 2010, 08:17:12 pm
Hiding from flies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2010, 08:18:05 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2010, 06:29:41 pm
I'm just about to do a short tour of the Southend Seafront Cycle Farcilities and have a swim, since high tide is 8.33p.m. at Southend Pier. Then, eat spag bol.

Done that. Now beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 20 July, 2010, 08:18:14 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 20 July, 2010, 08:17:12 pm
Hiding from flies.

They've told me that they can see you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 20 July, 2010, 08:21:49 pm
A quick fettle before a ginger bike commute tomorrow.  Also, preening in my awesome new hat. :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 July, 2010, 08:48:21 pm
Quote from: andygates on 20 July, 2010, 08:21:49 pm
A quick fettle before a ginger bike commute tomorrow.  Also, preening in my awesome new hat. :smug:

You can't post a comment like that without a picture Andy!  Your public wantz it....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 July, 2010, 08:52:33 pm
Bobb! I think we've identified the thief!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 July, 2010, 10:53:30 pm
Taking a short break from bathroom cleaning.  We are to be visited by a selection of the Barrovian relatives and half of Denmark the mother-in-common-laws nearest and dearest who are arriving from Denmark this weekend, and experience tells me that it is in my interests for the house to be relatively presentable when they get here, or they will heap yet more crap onto the teetering piles of crap and we could end up with a critical mass situation.  As far as I know we only have one extra body staying here, and the rest are B&Bing or caravaning.  I, meanwhile, shall be on a tandem on my way to Dunwich  ;D

Plus, in two and a bit weeks time, some very good friends are voluntarily coming to stay in our house and look after the cats and the kids for a week whilst me and dearly_beloved bugger off on hollibobs.  Since they are very organised and tidy people it seems a bit mean to not at least try to restore some semblance of normality to the matchbox, which has never quite recovered from the year I naffed off up north to do a PGCE.  6 years ago.

Housework is so frightfully dull, isn't it?  And please tell me that small boys learn to aim, eventually....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2010, 10:55:06 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 July, 2010, 10:53:30 pm
And please tell me that small boys learn to aim, eventually....

We just about start getting the hang of it when the alcohol kicks in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 July, 2010, 12:18:14 pm
licking the mixing bowl,spatula & spoon after my kitchen godess has baked a chocolate cake :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 21 July, 2010, 01:05:00 pm
eating an apple  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 21 July, 2010, 02:04:30 pm
Eating nuts and berries and popping cherries.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 July, 2010, 02:05:50 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 21 July, 2010, 02:04:30 pm
Eating nuts and berries and popping cherries.

Working on a Pr0n film set again, Jaded?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 July, 2010, 05:39:17 pm
Feeling  :smug:
I can comfortably wear a pair of trousers that have been too small round the waist for 2 years. ;D
In fact I feel very very  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 21 July, 2010, 06:27:12 pm
Finishing these Jammie Dodgers. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 July, 2010, 06:35:47 pm
swatting flies
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 July, 2010, 06:57:23 pm
yours or someone else's?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 July, 2010, 07:05:34 pm
Listening to the Proms and debating whether or not to succumb to food coma.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 July, 2010, 10:00:31 pm
I just put the charged up battery back in the car, and checked that it would start and so forth, so I can take it for it's MOT tomorrow morning.

In the process of doing that, I found that one of the wiper blades completely dismantled itself.  A trivial thing to change, if Halfords were open, which they're not now. >:(

I also had a brief brain fart where I thought that the courtesy light switch had failed, since I couldn't get the light to go out.

Of course, closing the doors helps make this happen. (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/doh2.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 July, 2010, 10:13:09 pm
Would I be right in thinking that you don't like car-fettling as much as you like bike-fettling?  I just get that impression.....  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 July, 2010, 02:53:59 pm
Listening to thunder and rain, and enjoying the "rain after a long dry spell" aroma that is wafting into the window. Sure beats the smell of manure -  thank goodness for a change in wind direction!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 July, 2010, 05:01:04 pm
Quote from: TimO on 21 July, 2010, 10:00:31 pm
In the process of doing that, I found that one of the wiper blades completely dismantled itself.  A trivial thing to change, if Halfords were open, which they're not now. >:(

...two new wiper blades and a bulb (somewhere in the rear, although I thought that they were all OK when I checked last night) cost me £10 on top of £100 for a service and MOT, which wasn't too bad.

I just got my ears lowered hair cut, and forgot to pick up a prescription from my GPs. (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/doh3.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 22 July, 2010, 06:41:38 pm
Baking cakes, again. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 July, 2010, 06:54:19 pm
Eating the Chorley Cakes I bought for the Dun Run, very nice with a bit of goats cheese...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 22 July, 2010, 07:16:33 pm
Packing for a tour and completely failing to find my sunspecs and a blue top.

My ability to lose things drives me nuts.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 22 July, 2010, 07:44:12 pm
Loading a couple of Dun Run GPS tracks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 July, 2010, 09:17:49 pm
Watching Undercover Boss. I really like it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 22 July, 2010, 09:33:31 pm
Just finished icing a chocolate cake and now watching It Shouldn't Happen at a Vets
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 July, 2010, 09:37:14 pm
Cooking veggie hot dog sausages and animating bits of bike whilst catching up on here.  Way to multi-task.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wobbly John on 22 July, 2010, 09:43:24 pm
Having a break from topping & tailing  a carrier bag full of french beans, from the allotment, before freezing them. Cooking beetroot at the same time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 July, 2010, 12:41:43 am
Swearing at Moviemaker and wishing I'd borrowed the Mini DV cam and a firewire cable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 23 July, 2010, 12:59:53 am
Doing the scouts accounts
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 July, 2010, 02:24:55 am
I have done battle with moviemaker and Youtube, and (finally) won!  So right now, I'm thinking I should go to bed :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 23 July, 2010, 03:03:08 pm
Gutting the trout I caugtht half-an-hour ago and putting into the smoker to have with some pasta and salad in a bit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 July, 2010, 10:41:03 pm
Waiting for more Mille Cymru riders to arrive.
I'm supposed to be sleeping 'cos I'm on the 2 am shift .  Oh well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 July, 2010, 10:56:46 pm
Waiting for more Mille Cymru riders to arrive.  I'm supposed to be sleeping as I'm on the 2 am shift .  Hey ho.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 24 July, 2010, 02:20:37 am
Drinking when I should be sleeping prior to the Dun Run  ::-)

I WILL go to bed SOON!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 July, 2010, 02:23:58 am
Attempting to mate a lanyard with my new cheapo camera.  This is proving to be surprisingly difficult.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 24 July, 2010, 07:16:10 am
Eating toast with honey from 2 villages south of here, blackberry and apple jelly and plum jam from 1 village westward, and blackberry jam from 3 villages west, all bought on my commute. Need to stop and check out the honey in a couple of other villages too, as well as the other jams, and pickles and chuntneys if I am wearing my brave trousers. My commute is lovely at this time of year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 24 July, 2010, 09:14:38 am
Doing a bicycle maintenance course on a farm in the middle of east London with chickens, cats, goats, donkeys, rabbits, ferrets etc roaming around us.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 July, 2010, 09:17:51 am
Listening to a very loud, annoyed, and insistent cat, who is demanding to be let out.

I "trapped" Talisker with the promise of his breakfast, which he's only half eaten now, and he's really not impressed that I won't let him go for a wander.  He's going to be even less impressed in half an hour when I get the cat basket out!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 July, 2010, 09:26:12 am
Just had 1st breakfast, (blueberries & yoghurt) , wondering how to get superglue off my fingers! I bought a 4AA battery holder from Maplin for the Hope and had to glue a rubber washer to the back to make it a tight fit.

Got to put some trousers on & get the bike out for a final fettling!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 July, 2010, 09:52:24 am
Farting. A lot.

You have no idea how much wind a potato, leek and cheese pie generates.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 24 July, 2010, 09:56:03 am
Waiting for my bread to rise.   A phone call will be made very shortly, to ask for yet more flour and more yeast and a soft fluffy bed in which to lie down and float off to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 July, 2010, 09:57:35 am
I've just had a telephone conversation with my grand-daughter. She didn't say a lot but snuffled a bit. I spoke to my daughter too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 July, 2010, 10:03:11 am
Attempting to get up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 July, 2010, 10:09:30 am
I've just dropped the big piece of wood I was using to prop a door open on my big toe  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 July, 2010, 10:42:49 am
Now I'm feeling guilty over putting Talisker into the cattery, but since I'll be gone for a couple of nights, it's not healthy for him to miss several doses of his medicine, so I have to do it. :(

He of course probably doesn't care, and had curled up to sleep off being carted around on a bike trailer.  At least it amuses the staff at the cattery, Talisker is apparently the only cat ever delivered by bicycle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 July, 2010, 10:45:27 am
Quote from: TimO on 24 July, 2010, 10:42:49 am
Now I'm feeling guilty over putting Talisker into the cattery, but since I'll be gone for a couple of nights, it's not healthy for him to miss several doses of his medicine, so I have to do it. :(

He of course probably doesn't care, and had curled up to sleep off being carted around on a bike trailer.  At least it amuses the staff at the cattery, Talisker is apparently the only cat ever delivered by bicycle

Well no doubt he has a reputation amongst his colleagues as the dead-cool rocket-science cycling cat.

I'm sure someone can make a poster soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 July, 2010, 10:49:09 am
He'll hold court, regaling the other moggies with tales of your adventures and basking in the reflected glory.  

Then, 30 seconds before you arrive, he'll roll in the dust so that he looks pathetic and bedraggled, and sit by the door staring out with a guilt-inducing expression that perfectly combines pathos, indignation and accusation.  And then you'll buy him prawns to say sorry and his cunning plan will have succeeded - mwaahaaahaaahaaaa haaaa!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 25 July, 2010, 04:59:56 am
Sitting in a hall (with Basil), poking people with a sharp stick every 15 mins. :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 25 July, 2010, 08:08:22 am
Admired Hummer's crack; sitting in West End cafe, waiting for him to turn up & astound the natives :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 25 July, 2010, 09:03:38 am
Sat here wishing I was sat near Hummers in Wales.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 25 July, 2010, 09:57:54 am
Says if you hurry he'll wait :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 July, 2010, 10:07:39 am
Thinking I should grab some shuteye. 
Too tired to slee.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 25 July, 2010, 10:27:05 am
Quote from: iddu on 25 July, 2010, 09:57:54 am
Says if you hurry he'll wait :-*

I don't know why I am torturing myself even thinking about how much I am missing out on.
The number of increasing DNFers is making it worse as it must be hard and I am now sat here wondering if I could have made it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 July, 2010, 05:25:07 pm
Running a bath, watching Oliver!, singing along, and eating bread and peanut butter to quell my hormonal carb cravings before dinner. It's a fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine life.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 July, 2010, 05:30:26 pm
Just noticed the bread is mouldy, so I therefore need to make some cake.

Kirst's chocolate beetroot cake, in fact.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 25 July, 2010, 05:44:02 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 25 July, 2010, 05:25:07 pm
Running a bath, watching Oliver!, singing along, and eating bread and peanut butter to quell my hormonal carb cravings before dinner.

How long was your metabolism torturing you before you chanced upon that combination?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 25 July, 2010, 06:16:43 pm
waiting for my pasta to cook  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 July, 2010, 06:20:43 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 25 July, 2010, 05:30:26 pm
Just noticed the bread is mouldy, so I therefore need to make some cake.

Kirst's chocolate beetroot cake, in fact.  :thumbsup:
I even made pink buttercream for the filling.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 26 July, 2010, 08:29:39 am
Sorting rescue home. Wondering if some karmic force allows parts of your body to break only when rescue is possible. Usually there's no one to call- I just MTFU. Today I called my mummy and she is on her way. I feel 12...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 26 July, 2010, 09:27:25 am
Quote from: boab on 26 July, 2010, 08:29:39 am
Sorting rescue home. Wondering if some karmic force allows parts of your body to break only when rescue is possible. Usually there's no one to call- I just MTFU. Today I called my mummy and she is on her way. I feel 12...

Oh heck.  Hugs.  Can I do anything to help?

I am awake, more than that I wouldn't like to say.  Car emptied.  Dogs fed n watered but not yet walked.  Gym calls but I am not answering today.  Better sort food for the young JC and begin washing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 July, 2010, 09:31:38 am
Sometimes we just need a bit more help.  It's not a failure.  It just means you've stretched yourself further than most people would even bother trying.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wobbly John on 26 July, 2010, 09:38:45 am
You got my number BOAB (although I would'nt always be able to escape immediately to rescue damsels in distress).  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 26 July, 2010, 10:38:55 am
Morning coffee, at my parents' place. I'm being about for my Dad while my Mum has a couple of days off doing stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 July, 2010, 10:48:49 am
Quote from: itsbruce on 25 July, 2010, 05:44:02 pm


How long was your metabolism torturing you before you chanced upon that combination?
I wanted crisps but couldn't be bothered going out for any. I was wishing someone would shove 14 packets of Walkers smoky bacon through the letterbox and then fuck off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 July, 2010, 10:50:36 am
Working Alternating between reading ride reports of the Mille Cymru 1000km audax, and the Dunwich Dynamo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 27 July, 2010, 02:24:27 am
Grinning insanely after another 1am ride in Shorts and T-Shirt on the Lifan "Dax" monkey bike.  My mister bits have nearly stopped rattling after an earlier ride on the XBR 500 "Thumper".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 27 July, 2010, 03:54:25 am
Acting as lifeguard for my son and niece.

Not quite BSywatch
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 27 July, 2010, 08:07:48 am
Quote from: Pedaldog on 27 July, 2010, 02:24:27 am
Grinning insanely after another 1am ride in Shorts and T-Shirt on the Lifan "Dax" monkey bike.

Nice! That sounds like my idea of fun. I had to pop out to the garage at about 11.30 last night. It was still and mild out, and a light, fine rain was falling. I was overcome with the desire to go out for a ride... But had to be up early this morning so thought better of it and went to bed.  :-\

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 July, 2010, 09:27:53 am
Trying to work out if I have any item of clothing I can wear that doesn't hurt my sunburn :(

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 27 July, 2010, 10:36:04 am
After the talk of banjos in the Dunwich Dynamo thread, I'm watching this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hilldodger on 27 July, 2010, 10:39:51 am
Talking to British Cycling about a cycling history exhibition featuring the early stars of the sport to travel around the country next year and up to the Olympics :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wobbly John on 27 July, 2010, 11:17:14 am
Quote from: Hilldodger on 27 July, 2010, 10:39:51 am
Talking to British Cycling about a cycling history exhibition featuring the early stars of the sport to travel around the country next year and up to the Olympics :smug:

That sounds great Roger.

Perhaps Ely Museum will lend you their boneshaker that is reputed to have won the first proper organised cycle race.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hilldodger on 27 July, 2010, 12:15:04 pm
Quote from: Wobbly John on 27 July, 2010, 11:17:14 am
Quote from: Hilldodger on 27 July, 2010, 10:39:51 am
Talking to British Cycling about a cycling history exhibition featuring the early stars of the sport to travel around the country next year and up to the Olympics :smug:

That sounds great Roger.

Perhaps Ely Museum will lend you their boneshaker that is reputed to have won the first proper organised cycle race.

Is that East Anglian for give ;)

I was reading about that a while ago, a French type person belives that there had been other races earlier in the day and that a French type person won the first ever race.

All complete horse sh*t in my opinion :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 27 July, 2010, 01:03:29 pm
I am finally on the net at home  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 27 July, 2010, 01:13:20 pm
EATING.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 July, 2010, 01:54:20 pm
Wondering where it all went wrong (on multiple levels....)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 July, 2010, 06:53:39 am
Sitting in my tent, in a sunny field, eating breakfast :-)

Mildly annoyed as I appear to have left both my specs and waterbottles at last nights campsite :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 July, 2010, 09:44:15 am
On the ferry to Stornoway to see windy and give his knee a workout. The ferry is about to leave - a little late.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 July, 2010, 10:01:12 am
Having a practical experience of the saying..
"some days you are a hammer:some days you are a nail"  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 July, 2010, 01:43:14 pm
Digesting lunch and enjoying my 2nd pint at the Ferry Inn, Reedham.   Gorgeous day.

Big wave to Team Slow and all the other Dun Runners.

8-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 July, 2010, 07:35:27 pm
My old very very cheap DVD player has started playing silly buggers, so I popped down to Argos and bought a fairly cheap Toshiba one, which was trivially easily "hacked"[1] to make it multi-region.

It seems to work fine.

Footnote [1] : If opening the tray and punching in five numbers is a hack!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 31 July, 2010, 03:28:18 pm
Sheep dog trials
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 July, 2010, 10:03:56 pm
Back home, stuffed with pizza, drinking wine..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 August, 2010, 01:46:20 pm
Eating the fruit cake that I forgot to take to Deano's KTTR ride ::-)
AIUI capital punishment is not practised on this forum
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 01 August, 2010, 02:52:27 pm
Actually just getting out of bed!!! I am a Fat Lazy Git!
I was actually being a gentleman and havig Butterfly's hangover for her to save the day!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 August, 2010, 04:19:05 pm
Sitting down after assembling a sofa-bed, a table and a set of shelves. I now have no fingernails, and a sore back. I need to take the cardboard down to the recycling bin but I want a little rest first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 01 August, 2010, 05:01:04 pm
Planning a route for a 4 day tour in Holland. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 01 August, 2010, 06:57:02 pm
I just watched Hugh Fearnsley-Whitingsall (or however he spells it) send a crab on it's way by jamming a screwdriver in it's eye socket and then wriggling it about to scramble it's brain.

 :o

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 02 August, 2010, 07:26:56 am
Winding up heavily armed militia members on a US disaster preperation forum.

 :demon:

Right now they cant decide if I am a Nazi or a one of the filthy Reds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 02 August, 2010, 12:28:11 pm
Waiting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 02 August, 2010, 01:01:42 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 August, 2010, 01:46:20 pm
Eating the fruit cake that I forgot to take to Deano's KTTR ride ::-)
AIUI capital punishment is not practised on this forum

GIT.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 02 August, 2010, 01:06:07 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 August, 2010, 01:46:20 pm
Eating the fruit cake that I forgot to take to Deano's KTTR ride ::-)
AIUI capital punishment is not practised on this forum

Don't give us that old baloney. We know you ate it all in the car on the way up on Friday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 August, 2010, 01:11:48 pm
Mrs. jogler says she will bake another cake so that it can be shared with some folk with whom I am doing a 200km on 14th August :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 02 August, 2010, 01:17:24 pm
Unpacking new Shimano brakes and levers ready to freshen up the Scott sub20.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 August, 2010, 01:25:49 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 August, 2010, 01:46:20 pm
Eating the fruit cake that I forgot to take to Deano's KTTR ride ::-)


more of the same :demon: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 02 August, 2010, 01:29:30 pm
Still waiting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 August, 2010, 01:40:52 pm
still.....
Quote from: jogler on 02 August, 2010, 01:25:49 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 August, 2010, 01:46:20 pm
Eating the fruit cake that I forgot to take to Deano's KTTR ride ::-)


more of the same :demon: ;D

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 August, 2010, 01:44:13 pm
watching my two grandaughters getting ready (via webcam) to go for a ride with my son 8)
They are both wearing a yacf KoM shirt
they are magic :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 August, 2010, 02:00:09 pm
Quote from: jogler on 02 August, 2010, 01:44:13 pm
watching my two grandaughters getting ready (via webcam) to go for a ride with my son 8)
They are both wearing a yacf KoM shirt
they are magic :thumbsup:

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 August, 2010, 03:53:23 pm
Watching the Tour of Poland on Eurosport
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 02 August, 2010, 09:23:16 pm
Listening to "Are Friends Electric?".  Very sad song.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 August, 2010, 09:35:54 pm
Wandering into the back garden every half hour to see if Talisker will reappear.

He was a little off colour this morning, and not eating much.  Normally he'll be waiting for me to get home, but he hasn't appeared yet, which is a little worrying.

Cats have a nasty habit of going off and finding somewhere to feel ill in, which is fine if they get better, but not so much if they don't. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 August, 2010, 09:58:29 pm
One of ours has a habit of disappearing randomly to make you worry as payback whenever we go away - is Talisker that sneaky?

Hope he turns up soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 August, 2010, 09:59:56 pm
I'm drinking coffee and then I'm off for a nocturnal pootle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 August, 2010, 10:04:26 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 02 August, 2010, 09:58:29 pm
One of ours has a habit of disappearing randomly to make you worry as payback whenever we go away - is Talisker that sneaky?

Hope he turns up soon.

He's not that sneaky, but I think he's eaten something which has upset his appetite.  He's just appeared, but barely touched his water and milk, and turned down a webox chew and some squeezy cheese, which is essentially unheard of.

He's not really his normal bouncy and chatty self, so I'm keeping him in tonight, and will see what he's like in the morning.  If he's not eating then, I'll ring up the vet.

He's not happy at being kept in, but isn't really being as annoyed as he can be, so he's clearly not his normal self.

A couple of times previously he's done this, and ended up on a drip to rehydrate him, after which he starts eating. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 August, 2010, 01:18:40 pm
Listening to my boys singing about jelly whilst eating jelly and making up new verses to the wibble wobble song.  I think it's quite cute.  Dearly_Beloved, who is working from home because he is full of snot, is clearly less entertained.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 August, 2010, 04:17:12 pm
watching the Tour of Poland
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 August, 2010, 07:07:21 pm
Eating Pan Catalan... how can something so simple be so delicious?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 04 August, 2010, 08:32:04 pm
Cake and wine.  Wine and cake.  Cine and wake.  Wace and Kine.  Dum de dum de dum.  Very good.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 August, 2010, 08:48:20 pm
Sitting, watching cloud shapes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 August, 2010, 08:57:37 pm
Quote from: Basil on 04 August, 2010, 08:48:20 pm
Sitting, watching cloud shapes.

*peers out the window*

There's one that looks a bit like a roadkill T-rex to the south west...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 August, 2010, 09:47:41 pm
Feeling very garlicky.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 04 August, 2010, 09:48:36 pm
Trying to decide whether it's suitable to use the word "wankpanzer" in a green ink letter to the council.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 04 August, 2010, 10:00:48 pm
Working while the family are watching TV in the front room.
Trying to reduce the stress that is waiting for me tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 August, 2010, 10:55:19 pm
Pondering toast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 04 August, 2010, 11:22:40 pm
Perusing 1900s strongman history, after catching the giggles in the gym and having a Barbell Incident due to the moustache.

Clearly I need a leopardskin loincloth.

Equally clearly, Edna Tempest is a babe. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 04 August, 2010, 11:25:26 pm
You been at the Lorem Ipsum again Mr Gates?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 04 August, 2010, 11:33:26 pm
I drink deeply at that font most nights. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 05 August, 2010, 01:55:11 am
Not sleeping :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 05 August, 2010, 09:18:36 am
waiting for my washing to finish so I can hang it outside
and then wait in for the boiler repair man
and then if there is any time left over go for a little bike ride to the shops
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 August, 2010, 11:12:06 am
Inspired by one CrinklyLion I am baking a birthday cake for my Grandad. 

Finding baking ingredients in the kitchen cupboard.

Throwing them away 'cos they're two years out of date.

Just about to go to the corner shop.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 August, 2010, 11:30:09 am
For burfday cake I always use Auntie Kirstie's Infallible Chocolate Cake recipe - the first cake I successfully made.  It's not ideal cyclist cake, as it's a bit crumbly for pannier transportation.  I can find the recipe for that one if you want?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 August, 2010, 11:33:24 am
It's OK Crinkly, I dug out the Old Faithful chocolate cake recipe I used to use for the kids' birthday cakes, when they would still eat my cooking.

But thanks for the offer.

It has ganache on it  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 August, 2010, 11:41:11 am
I quite like making burfday cakes
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs106.ash2/38614_419624306838_551606838_4475112_6364291_n.jpg)

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs238.snc4/39249_419624316838_551606838_4475113_5163819_n.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 August, 2010, 12:08:52 pm
About to nip out to the Post Office.

* hears thunder *

Arse  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 05 August, 2010, 12:20:23 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 05 August, 2010, 12:08:52 pm
* hears thunder *

Arse  >:(

Next time go easy on the curried sprouts. ;)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 August, 2010, 01:53:24 pm
Packing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 05 August, 2010, 02:21:22 pm
Recovering from having spent 45 minutes on the phone trying to organise car insurance. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 August, 2010, 02:22:42 pm
Just sending a DVD of photos off to Butterfly & Clarion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 05 August, 2010, 02:27:46 pm
Slowly roasting.  Unfortunately the meat in question is me.  The building's cooling system isn't.  :(
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 August, 2010, 03:00:36 pm
licking the bowl;the one with the chocolate cake mix :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 August, 2010, 03:27:30 pm
Waiting for a whole bunch of reports to run.  My login is needed on this PC, so I can't logon to my own and get on with my work :(

May go see if the kettle is still working... :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 August, 2010, 03:36:17 pm
Wondering what to say/not to say when meeting someone described as having the morals of bobb but with none of his smooth-talking sophistication.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 August, 2010, 03:40:01 pm
Reinforcing my stiff upper lip. 

Later I shall be putting tents into panniers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 August, 2010, 03:40:34 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 09 August, 2010, 03:36:17 pm
Wondering what to say/not to say when meeting someone described as having the morals of bobb but with none of his smooth-talking sophistication.

"Go away before I call the police."  ???
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 10 August, 2010, 08:44:22 am
Bar Roma, Bagni di Lucca. Latte Macchiato, Corno con crema and a quick read of La Gazzetta dello Sport
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 August, 2010, 06:44:30 pm
I have just washed my cycling kit 'cause mrs. jogler is off to a Witches Inquisition  meeting after giving me deinstructions from the domestic enginneering manual:the chapter on white-goods
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JJ on 10 August, 2010, 07:32:12 pm
Compulsory coprporate security training  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 August, 2010, 10:58:33 pm
Scoffing buttered fruit cake & mini sausage rolls
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 12 August, 2010, 10:49:36 am
Waiting for the new GPS maps to download.
Which may take some time! (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=36198.msg691738#msg691738)
You'd think with a 2352.2 Mbyte download they'd provide some sort of progress indicator!

S

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 12 August, 2010, 03:11:02 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 12 August, 2010, 10:49:36 am
Waiting for the new GPS maps to download.
Which may take some time! (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=36198.msg691738#msg691738)
You'd think with a 2352.2 Mbyte download they'd provide some sort of progress indicator!

S

Good news.  There is a progress indicator.
Bad news. It's about a third of the way there!

but at least I've been to the pub for lunch in the mean time!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 12 August, 2010, 07:23:29 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 12 August, 2010, 03:11:02 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 12 August, 2010, 10:49:36 am
Waiting for the new GPS maps to download.
Which may take some time! (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=36198.msg691738#msg691738)
You'd think with a 2352.2 Mbyte download they'd provide some sort of progress indicator!

S

Good news.  There is a progress indicator.
Bad news. It's about a third of the way there!

but at least I've been to the pub for lunch in the mean time!
Still waiting -- now about 2/3 done!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 12 August, 2010, 11:50:53 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 12 August, 2010, 07:23:29 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 12 August, 2010, 03:11:02 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 12 August, 2010, 10:49:36 am
Waiting for the new GPS maps to download.
Which may take some time! (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=36198.msg691738#msg691738)
You'd think with a 2352.2 Mbyte download they'd provide some sort of progress indicator!

S

Good news.  There is a progress indicator.
Bad news. It's about a third of the way there!

but at least I've been to the pub for lunch in the mean time!
Still waiting -- now about 2/3 done!
The progress monitor now says it's complete, but I'm still waiting...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 13 August, 2010, 09:54:20 am
Drinking coffee and reading yacf while four children play unsupervised upstairs. I can still hear noise so the mischief can't be that bad ... can it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 August, 2010, 10:53:19 am
If it goes quiet there maybe a need to do a recce ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 August, 2010, 12:36:16 pm
Waiting for it to stop raining so I can go for a fag :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 August, 2010, 12:46:47 pm
Waiting for a train. In Doncaster.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 August, 2010, 12:51:07 pm
Quote from: jogler on 06 August, 2010, 03:00:36 pm
licking the bowl;the one with the chocolate cake mix :)

an action replay :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 August, 2010, 02:17:16 pm
Sorting me & bike & stuff for what for me is a "significant" ride tomorrow.
It's outcome will have an influence on the direction my cycling hobby takes thereafter
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 13 August, 2010, 02:21:04 pm
ordering a couple of spare batteries for my Nikon D90 and D3000 and a Hahnel multi charger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 August, 2010, 02:24:37 pm
eating cake
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 13 August, 2010, 02:28:04 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 13 August, 2010, 12:46:47 pm
Waiting for a train. In Doncaster.

I've done that. Fun isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 August, 2010, 03:30:33 pm
Listening to Elbow's "Perfect Weather to Fly" as the thunder crashes outside and the rain heaves down  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 August, 2010, 07:45:35 pm
Quote from: jogler on 13 August, 2010, 02:24:37 pm
eating cake

action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 August, 2010, 07:58:05 pm
Imbibing.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 August, 2010, 09:07:35 pm
Wincing and shuffling and waiting for cocodamol to kick in. I hurt my back nearly two weeks ago when I was putting together self-assembly furniture without any help. The troubles of a single girl! Anyway, it isn't getting any better, so today I've started to take painkillers for it and I'm going for a sports massage next week so see if that helps. I should find my mefenamic acid to take down any inflammation rather than the cocodamol but I was in a hurry. It's lumbar/sacral pain and I just can't get comfy.

I will try cocktailing the cocodamol with red wine and see if that helps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 August, 2010, 10:05:44 pm
Trying to tidy the house, partly so Peli, Woolly, the Things (and anyone else who turns up) have somewhere to sit when they stop in for tea on the Pootle tomorrow.

It's going to be tolerable, but not tidy by a long way.  This is mainly because it's about two years overdue. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 August, 2010, 10:10:49 pm
I had to do several-years-overdue-tidying last week, prior to naffing off on holiday and abandoning the kids with some (tidy) friends staying in our house to look after them.  It's a bit better than it was, but still a long way off the majority of the world's definition of tidy.  But housework is so incredibly dull.....

Now I am contemplating trying to organise my rackpack ready to go for a big bike ride tomorrow.  I don't know where anything is.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 August, 2010, 10:18:38 pm
I've managed to fill the wheelie bin up, and it was only emptied this morning. :o
(...and I'm well on the way to having enough to fill it again, once it's been emptied.  I may have to fire the car up and take a load to the recycling centre, the first time I'll have used the car since 2nd January).

The scary thing is, it doesn't actually look very tidy, and yet it's a vast improvement.  On the plus side, it's now possible to walk from the front door to the living room without requiring an ability to contort around obstacles!  Talisker is confused, because the cat obstacle course has partially disappeared and he can move about at ground level.

Another couple of hours chucking stuff out, and I'll be done for now, but I need to keep the momentum going, or you'll see one of those TV programmes about a mad cat man, whose house is full of bin bags of rubbish in Croydon...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 August, 2010, 10:22:36 pm
Quote from: TimO on 13 August, 2010, 10:18:38 pm
I've managed to fill the wheelie bin up, and it was only emptied this morning. :o
(...and I'm well on the way to having enough to fill it again, once it's been emptied.  I may have to fire the car up and take a load to the recycling centre, the first time I'll have used the car since 2nd January).

The scary thing is, it doesn't actually look very tidy, and yet it's a vast improvement.  On the plus side, it's now possible to walk from the front door to the living room without requiring an ability to contort around obstacles!  Talisker is confused, because he cat obstacle course has partially disappeared and he can move about at ground level.

Another couple of hours chucking stuff out, and I'll be done for now, but I need to keep the momentum going, or you'll see one of those TV programmes about a mad cat man, whose house is full of bin bags of rubbish in Croydon...

You are my long lost twin brother AICM5£ !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 August, 2010, 11:20:09 pm
Don't waste time tidying on our account (you should see the state of our place)! See you tomorrow. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 August, 2010, 11:26:51 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 13 August, 2010, 11:20:09 pm
Don't waste time tidying on our account (you should see the state of our place)! See you tomorrow. :)

I saw your place at Woolly's birthday party.  Trust me, mine is far worse!

(Untidyness one-upmanship! ;D)

I am finding all sorts of things (and the loosing them again!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 August, 2010, 11:29:53 pm
Cramming overnight things, plenty of alternative clothing and BSO-fettling kit into panniers for a pootle round Rutland Water tomorrow, while half asleep from huge doses of antihistamines.  The random insect bite on my ankle appears to be less swollen, but is still itching like a bastard (no sign of infection so far, thankfully).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 August, 2010, 11:59:47 pm
I just found some Apple logo stickers that came with my iPod.

I've stuck one on my Asus Eee PC, and the other on the Dyson.

Is that an iVac or an iDyson (I Die Son!) ? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 August, 2010, 12:01:11 am
My bin has (or had, think it fell off in the last house move) a "Designed for Windows XP" sticker.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 14 August, 2010, 12:07:51 am
My tool case has an Apple logo sticker on it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 14 August, 2010, 12:11:40 am
Quote from: Kim on 13 August, 2010, 11:29:53 pm
Cramming overnight things, plenty of alternative clothing and BSO-fettling kit into panniers for a pootle round Rutland Water tomorrow, while half asleep from huge doses of antihistamines.  The random insect bite on my ankle appears to be less swollen, but is still itching like a bastard (no sign of infection so far, thankfully).
Had anyone from my Rowing Club been competing at Peterborough Regatta tomorrow, I'd've biked from here to there, which involves a hemicircumnavigation of Rutland Water.  Where will you be going?  Can I contra-rotate in the hope of meeting up?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 August, 2010, 12:11:52 am
In a previous job we had a Windows NT sticker on a fairly large Vaxen!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 August, 2010, 01:23:00 pm
Toasted teacake, tea and lashings of ginger beer at a tea shoppe in kirkby lonsdale, while random strangers admire valencia and I admire random strangers' well behaved small children  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wobbly John on 14 August, 2010, 02:45:32 pm
As the weather is tooo changeable for a nice bike ride, and the allotment is tooo sticky to work on, We are working in the Kitchen.

Made raspberry (from the allotment) jam - delicious on the newly made bread.  :smug:
We use the microwave to make jam - much easier than a pan.

Just had salad for dinner with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, red onion, green pepper, new potatoes from the allotment.  :P

Just on computer to look for redcurrant jam recipes. I think I'm going to need more jars if I go and pick the rest of them.

Next week the plums should be ready so more jam, chutney and probably wine to make.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 August, 2010, 03:40:53 pm
And now I'm in Sedbergh, contemplating the a684 to Garsdale...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 14 August, 2010, 05:29:43 pm
Creating GPX file for my 200k event next month (which will also hopefully be used to auto-generate the routesheet).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 14 August, 2010, 05:44:58 pm
Getting ready to go and see the Traction engines parade through town
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 August, 2010, 05:46:09 pm
Settling down for a 2 hour wait for a train at garsdale-just missed one. Other than that, what a bloody marvelous day out on the bike that was!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 14 August, 2010, 05:48:22 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 14 August, 2010, 05:46:09 pm
Settling down for a 2 hour wait for a train at garsdale-just missed one. Other than that, what a bloody marvelous day out on the bike that was!

report and photos would be good!  hope the wait passes quickly, I cant imagine theres a lot to do there
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 14 August, 2010, 06:00:10 pm
just packed for 2 weeks holiday, I am all ways impressed with the amount
of luggage there can be fitted into 2 rear panniers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 August, 2010, 08:24:34 pm
Wondering how good a carbon fork is after the wheel's been made to go pringle-shaped
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 14 August, 2010, 08:26:32 pm
oooh

Depends how it happened...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 August, 2010, 08:34:42 pm
See the HBKH thread :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 14 August, 2010, 09:28:35 pm
Eating half a scotch egg and half a pork pie and drinking wine out of a tumbler as all the wine glasses have been packed away whilst our extension is built. Oh and listening to the combines in the fields around the village desperately working before it rains again. I think tonight we will have the sound of grain driers to lull us to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 August, 2010, 09:40:44 pm
Hehe - luckily a stiff easterly has picked up here, so east facing windows (towards next-door farmer's grain driers) will be closed tonight.

I find the low "bvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv" drone quite soothing...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 August, 2010, 10:45:35 pm
Quote from: Aidan on 14 August, 2010, 05:48:22 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 14 August, 2010, 05:46:09 pm
Settling down for a 2 hour wait for a train at garsdale-just missed one. Other than that, what a bloody marvelous day out on the bike that was!

report and photos would be good!  hope the wait passes quickly, I cant imagine theres a lot to do there

I is home :)  Photos were a bit of a non-starter due to my not-so-smartphone running out of battery, so it was switched off apart from for emergency google-mappery for most of the ride, but a ride report might happen :) 

It's a bit lumpy between Arnside and Garsdale, isn't it?  Apparently that was about 36 miles, with a bit over 3000 foot of up and 2000 and something feet of down.  That's a lot of Millenium Bridges....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 August, 2010, 11:58:08 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 14 August, 2010, 12:11:40 am
Had anyone from my Rowing Club been competing at Peterborough Regatta tomorrow, I'd've biked from here to there, which involves a hemicircumnavigation of Rutland Water.  Where will you be going?  Can I contra-rotate in the hope of meeting up?

Ah, didn't spot this until just now.  Ended up circumnavigating in a clockwise direction, skipping the peninsula entirely, so 25km for those who turned up by car, and double that for me.  We were very much playing it by ear though, as one friend hadn't ridden a bike for about 5 years (and frankly, respect to anyone who doesn't cycle for completing a ride of that distance in those weather conditions), so even though we'd have been quicker walking, it was still a success.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 15 August, 2010, 06:34:18 am
Time to roll on vacation, the panniers are packed and the bike are ready, see you all in a couple of weeks.  :D :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 15 August, 2010, 06:47:29 am
Stuffing my face in prep for a recce of the Hauxton 200 route with simonp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 15 August, 2010, 07:07:36 am
Waking up wondering which is louder: the herd of lowing cows in the farmyard, or mummy-in-laws snoring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 15 August, 2010, 07:58:09 am
Just got up, fed and pilled Talisker, and made a cup of coffee (for me!)

It looks like all of Talisker's home automation needs cleaning, the litter tray, the water fountain, and his cat flap.  Once I've bathed and had my breakfast all of that is top of the list of things to do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 15 August, 2010, 08:35:10 am
Quote from: Kim on 14 August, 2010, 11:58:08 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 14 August, 2010, 12:11:40 am
Had anyone from my Rowing Club been competing at Peterborough Regatta tomorrow, I'd've biked from here to there, which involves a hemicircumnavigation of Rutland Water.  Where will you be going?  Can I contra-rotate in the hope of meeting up?

Ah, didn't spot this until just now.  Ended up circumnavigating in a clockwise direction, skipping the peninsula entirely, so 25km for those who turned up by car, and double that for me.  We were very much playing it by ear though, as one friend hadn't ridden a bike for about 5 years (and frankly, respect to anyone who doesn't cycle for completing a ride of that distance in those weather conditions), so even though we'd have been quicker walking, it was still a success.

To my shame, I had a sofa day yesterday, after taking the trailer to the supermarket and re-stocking freezer, fridge, larder, fruit-bowl and belly.  :-[
Off to the Rowing Club now, to polish that water surface, making it nice and flat for the proper athletes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 15 August, 2010, 09:37:38 am
Eating Tesco microwave shepherd's pie, drinking tea, logging Bikejournal miles, and running a bath.  Soon I shall be reading a trashy novel in bed  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 15 August, 2010, 06:11:07 pm
Breathing a sigh of relief having broken and then mended the phone socket.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 15 August, 2010, 07:18:32 pm
Just got home after spending all day on the train from Alnmouth.  Would have been slightly earlier but the train hit something on the line near Wootton Bassett which caused a full brake application (apparently it broke one of the air pipes).  The train crew managed to fix it and we limped to Swindon.  I did see a big cloud of dust just before the brakes went on, so it was probably the local inbreds putting concrete blocks on the line.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 August, 2010, 08:02:52 pm
Just been perusing the Permenants list on the audax website & wondering if a RRTY can be done via rides from this list?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 15 August, 2010, 08:08:57 pm
Celebrating after getting tickets from Crewe to Aviemore for £20.80 for later in the month!
Standard fare is about £110. Unfortunately it involves the first train out of Crewe (05:57) and the last train out of Glasgow, but I'll go and see the M-I-L during my seven hour changeover.  ;D

I could have gone first class for £40, but that involved several tight changes and the Transpennine Express.
I prefer Virgin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 15 August, 2010, 09:32:46 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 15 August, 2010, 08:08:57 pm
Celebrating...go and see the M-I-L during my seven hour changeover.  ;D

Does.  Not.  Compute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 15 August, 2010, 09:51:45 pm
LOL, some of us are lucky enough to have very nice MILs.   :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 August, 2010, 12:11:46 am
Waiting for Woolly to get in so I can go to sleep without being woken. Yawn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 August, 2010, 12:14:02 am
Quote from: peliroja on 16 August, 2010, 12:11:46 am
Waiting for Woolly to get in so I can go to sleep without being woken. Yawn.

Heh!  Young people  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 16 August, 2010, 11:07:51 pm
Sipping some 14yo Longrow.  Mmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 17 August, 2010, 02:04:02 pm
I've just made a coffee cake  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 18 August, 2010, 02:28:27 am
Griining in the knoledge that my witness to TWO attacks by the same two Chav junkies will mean sombeody gets a punishment for one or both events!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 18 August, 2010, 05:47:18 am
Starting work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 18 August, 2010, 10:12:02 am
Winding myself up for a big pile of proof reading.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 18 August, 2010, 04:42:56 pm
Lying in bed feeling sorry for myself.  A Coronation tuna and spring onion roll from the deli yesterday has had "side effects". At least in such a small flat it's not far to the bathroom..........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 18 August, 2010, 04:49:43 pm
Just about to go onto the library desk for the last hour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 August, 2010, 07:36:53 pm
Tingling. My forearms and legs are covered in nettle stings and scratches.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 August, 2010, 07:42:14 pm
Listening to last week's Bach prom - Brandenburg Concerto no 1. This was one of my set works for O level music in 1970.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 19 August, 2010, 01:09:39 pm
At home being enlurgied, and falling asleep watching Futurama DVDs.

(and annoying the Mayor (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=36988.msg698279#msg698279) by finding YouTube Monty Python clips...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 August, 2010, 02:59:11 pm
I am sitting in the second telephone queueing system in rapid succession... ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 August, 2010, 06:51:33 pm
Watching automation scripts test an application. It's kinda weird.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 19 August, 2010, 07:00:41 pm
@Kirst - ouchy!!!
@TimO - GWS

I'm currently sat in Uig youth hostel on Skye with a cup of tea admiring the fantastic view, the blue sky and, if I'm being honest the fit lady warden as well ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 19 August, 2010, 09:36:42 pm
Consuming Vegemite on toast, following a Rather Large Meal.

Must be as a result of tampering with Those Welsh Hills earlier today :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 19 August, 2010, 10:48:23 pm
Going to bed. I have to do an interview at 0800 so have to get up at 0600 :'(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 20 August, 2010, 08:32:20 am
Sitting on a train :). It left at 6.15, giving me the chance to discover that Waterloo Bridge is rather lovely at 5.30am :D. Who'd have guessed?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 20 August, 2010, 08:34:39 am
I hear that the sunset there is fine, also ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 August, 2010, 10:39:06 am
I reckon Butterfly is too young to remember that song :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 20 August, 2010, 10:44:27 am
Quote from: jogler on 20 August, 2010, 10:39:06 am
I reckon Butterfly is too young to remember that song :D

I was only 4 at the time ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 August, 2010, 10:45:17 am
Clock watching til 12, when I can jump in my motor and head off back up north.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 August, 2010, 02:03:41 pm
At Pantyffynnon waiting for the loo to become clear so I can play Snakes on a Train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 20 August, 2010, 02:28:29 pm
Struggling to cope with the temporary lifestyle change: my daughter (25) + boyfriend + all their worldly goods are living with us for three weeks until their flat is Leeds becomes available. Our house resembles the inside of a Parcelforce warehouse.

 :hand:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 August, 2010, 02:36:52 pm
best go for a 3 week bike ride then ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 August, 2010, 03:57:08 pm
Quote from: TimO on 19 August, 2010, 01:09:39 pm
At home being enlurgied, and falling asleep watching Futurama DVDs.

Still lurgied, but just mild grottiness, and I have a good supply of DVDs to get me through the weekend (most of the entire sets of Sapphire & Steel, Heroes, and The Tomorrow People as well as Transporter 3 and Dead Snow).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: vorsprung on 20 August, 2010, 04:06:27 pm
listening to "tam lin" by fairport and trying to write a computer program
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 August, 2010, 04:08:00 pm
Quote from: vorsprung on 20 August, 2010, 04:06:27 pm
listening to "tam lin" by fairport and trying to write a computer program

that's insired me to put "Matty Groves" on the Cd player,on repeat
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 20 August, 2010, 06:57:26 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 August, 2010, 04:08:00 pm
Quote from: vorsprung on 20 August, 2010, 04:06:27 pm
listening to "tam lin" by fairport and trying to write a computer program

that's insired me to put "Matty Groves" on the Cd player,on repeat
Just checking to see how many versions of that I have on this computer.....

....machine says 4!  I'm sure it was more than that
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 August, 2010, 10:02:43 pm
Playing Monkey Island (Launch of the Screaming Narwhal) cos there's nowt on telly, and thinking i should have started it earlier in the week, then I could have got more of it completed b4 Pingu gets home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: toekneep on 21 August, 2010, 07:22:13 am
Thinking that last pint was probably a bad idea the night before a hilly ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 August, 2010, 07:32:50 am
Watching the cub sleep while catching up a bit on here :) and drinking B&B instant coffee in bed.

TimO, hope your weekend of dvd-age is good and you feel miles better soon.

toekneep, hope that the head isn't too fuzzy. A few hills and a bit of a breeze will doubtless clear it :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 August, 2010, 07:41:40 am
Planning a RRTY strategy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 August, 2010, 07:42:58 am
& getting ready to go to Westcountry Recumbents in Melbourne,Derbyshire.
Title: Waydrn
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 August, 2010, 08:21:27 am
Lying in someone else's bed and thinking about getting up and going to eat their breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 21 August, 2010, 08:26:34 am
Wowbagger, you are Goldilocks AICMFP.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clandy on 21 August, 2010, 08:26:38 am
Waiting for three rolls of FP4+ to dry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 21 August, 2010, 10:01:09 am
I'M ON THE TRAIN. NO, I CAN'T HEAR YOU I'M ON THE TRAIN. YEAH YEAH, I'LL SEE YOU INNA BIT BUT I DIDN'T QUITE CATCH THAT I'M ON THE  TRAIN.
Have I posted this in the wrong thread?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 21 August, 2010, 01:22:25 pm
Watching the rain.
Doing the ironing - please don't phone me up, as my Irish ancestry comes out and I burn my ear.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 21 August, 2010, 02:10:59 pm
sitting in the sun by the swimming pool in bagni di lucca trying to lose my cyclists tan
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 August, 2010, 03:51:27 pm
taste-testing mrs. jogler's chocolate cake
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 21 August, 2010, 03:53:14 pm
Our smaller kitten has realised that my lap is a comfy place for a purry doze, so I'm being a catstand at the moment :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 21 August, 2010, 04:51:31 pm
Sitting in the sun outside a pub in north Beds after about 45 miles on the first leg of our tour northwards. Lovely to cycle with Naggers for part of our route today :)

We're staking out opportunities for wild camping this evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 21 August, 2010, 04:52:31 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 21 August, 2010, 04:51:31 pm
Sitting in the sun outside a pub in north Beds

 :o

Obviously much better weather than here then.  It's only just stopped raining, and it rained most of yesterday too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 August, 2010, 04:59:31 pm
Sitting in the sun watching pingu fix up his post hbkh bike so we can hopefully go for a pooter tomorrow. There is also some cider involved.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 21 August, 2010, 05:01:27 pm
Just got back from a kids birthday party  :sick: and now having a nice cup of tea
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 August, 2010, 06:01:44 pm
Getting ready to wine and dine Mrs S. Good grief, where did 28 years go? Time flies when you're having fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 August, 2010, 09:03:42 pm
Quote from: jogler on 21 August, 2010, 07:41:40 am
Planning a RRTY strategy.


Tis done
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: redshift on 22 August, 2010, 12:10:00 am
Not sleeping.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 August, 2010, 07:12:15 am
Pre-ride fuelling.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 22 August, 2010, 07:35:56 am
eating toast after wasting 90 minutes trying to work out why my x360 has suddenly decided not to play friends with my pc.
Title: Waydrn
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2010, 08:51:42 am
About to in for a train. Today we will have four generations together.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 August, 2010, 08:56:20 am
Equivocating..
shall I get up or stay in bed  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 22 August, 2010, 09:34:44 am
Sitting in a field brewing a cuppa, 20miles done.
Title: Mornington
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2010, 09:51:23 am
Waiting for a train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 22 August, 2010, 09:58:25 am
Ripping CDs to put on to my phone before I head up to the allotment for a few hours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 August, 2010, 01:36:27 pm
On a train from Carnforth to Leeds, on my way home sans cub. Just been through Bentham, now in Giggleswick. Looking out the window at beautiful roads and lovely-looking lanes and idyllic weather. So, who's based around here and going to organise a forum ride? I'll make the  cake!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 August, 2010, 02:47:01 pm
Just finished cleaning the chain and sprockets on the 'bent, and having a break before cleaning off the remaining traces of Rutland and giving everything a thorough once-over.  I may replace one of the grips, which seems to have been eaten by a train or something.  Lots of riding next week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 August, 2010, 04:33:44 pm
Making sure there are plenty of toilet rolls in the loos, in preparation for the brown pencil of doom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 August, 2010, 06:06:49 pm
Picking at the scabs that have formed from last weeks tumble.
Title: Stuff
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2010, 07:26:19 pm
Froling beer in the car at Stalybridge station.
Title: Stuff
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2010, 07:28:27 pm
Correction: drinking beer in the bar at  Stalybridge station.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 22 August, 2010, 07:29:26 pm
i-phone?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 22 August, 2010, 07:30:45 pm
Could someone please define the verb "to frol"?  I assume it's not directly connected to this place (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frol).

Is it fun?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 22 August, 2010, 07:31:24 pm
working - browsing the web whilst the chemistry analyser chugs away and does its stuff
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 22 August, 2010, 07:33:35 pm
wondering why my toe hurts.  It was sore on my run but I'm not sure why..
Title: Stuff
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2010, 07:37:30 pm
To Adrian: no I, just a phone.
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: Jaded on 22 August, 2010, 07:58:53 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2010, 07:37:30 pm
To Adrian: no I, just a phone.

You can tell that 'cos wb's post has the phone icon, the iPhone doesn't leave that.

Sent from my iPhone.  ;D
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: Adrian on 22 August, 2010, 08:08:26 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 22 August, 2010, 07:58:53 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2010, 07:37:30 pm
To Adrian: no I, just a phone.

You can tell that 'cos wb's post has the phone icon, the iPhone doesn't leave that.

Sent from my iPhone.  ;D

So those little pictures mean something. Thanks.
Title: Stuff
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2010, 08:32:46 pm
Now on a train which is about to pass through Edale.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 August, 2010, 08:43:51 pm
I'm about to
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: TimO on 22 August, 2010, 11:07:54 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 22 August, 2010, 07:58:53 pm
You can tell that 'cos wb's post has the phone icon, the iPhone doesn't leave that.

I don't know about the iPhone, but with Android you can tell it to not use the Mobile pages.  I suspect if you're are using those pages you get the phone icon on posts, otherwise you don't.

I've configured my phone not to use the mobile web pages, because generally I find them more irritating than the "normal" ones.
Title: Waydrn
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2010, 11:16:04 pm
Sitting in the garden in North Lincs at 11 pm, eating toasted muffins with marmite and drinking tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 23 August, 2010, 01:59:06 am
Regretting the Red Bull. Yes, I stayed awake driving from The North back dahn saaf but now what am I supposed to do?
*twiddles thumbs*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 23 August, 2010, 09:54:05 am
Feeling sorry for myself.  I'd be a good before shot for a cold medication ad though!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cyclone on 23 August, 2010, 10:17:34 am
GWS!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 23 August, 2010, 06:40:28 pm
Taking the family to the circus.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 August, 2010, 09:29:41 pm
Standing outside the pub.  My team don't allow me in during the 2000s music round.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clandy on 23 August, 2010, 09:34:18 pm
Fine tuning the Ubuntu install on the laptop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 23 August, 2010, 11:31:28 pm
Scanning holiday snaps. Having dropped my E510 in July (still away being assessed at insurers) I went on holiday armed with an Olympus OM10, Rollei B35, and Holga 120N. I have now developed and scanned about 10 out of 16 rolls of film - examples

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4893838319_6aeb466fd7.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4913557323_4a54154f94.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adam on 24 August, 2010, 07:10:36 am
Just about to wake the children. My daughter's got to pick up her GCSE results today.  :o

Then we're off to Cadbury World.  :thumbsup:
Title: Waydrn
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 August, 2010, 09:15:07 am
We are in that irritating limbo state in which we've got less than an hour before we need leave for the train.
Title: Waydrn
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 August, 2010, 09:48:15 am
That's now down to 20 minutes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 August, 2010, 10:55:38 am
Wishing I'd been on popmaster today, and got the first questions, because I got 27 points, which is more than both contestants combined. I wouldn't have got the 3 Roxette hits though. Also, avoiding doing the ironing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 August, 2010, 12:37:16 pm
Languishing in the constant parental state: guilt.
Neither of the No1children have achieved their academic potential. Doubtless this is, in some way, my fault, and is one of the many ways in which I have fucked them up. Ah well. There's always re sits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 24 August, 2010, 12:42:16 pm
Watching the rain  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 26 August, 2010, 05:43:45 am
Getting my stuff together to get myself across Londres and then on a train from Kings X to Scotland  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GillP on 26 August, 2010, 08:20:51 am
Quote from: Jurek on 26 August, 2010, 05:43:45 am
Getting my stuff together to get myself across Londres and then on a train from Kings X to Scotland  :)

Yay, enjoy the weekend with Pippa. She is a star  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 26 August, 2010, 08:46:26 am
Servicing our central heating system. It is full of black sludge and the fancy Y valve seems knackered. Some new bits have already arrived by FedEx today so I'm about to get stuck in.

I'm so pleased that a) I drew a wiring diagram sixteen years ago when we installed it and b) that the amazing Mrs G could actually find that diagram last night!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 26 August, 2010, 08:50:06 am
Getting ready to go to the Monmouthshire Show

Could be muddy....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 August, 2010, 11:34:53 am
Packing bikes,caravan & camping kit for Mildenhall so that there is the minimum to-do in the morning.
mrs. joigler is away to stock up on victuals
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 26 August, 2010, 11:50:31 am
Quote from: Gordy on 26 August, 2010, 08:46:26 am
Servicing our central heating system. It is full of black sludge and the fancy Y valve seems knackered. Some new bits have already arrived by FedEx today so I'm about to get stuck in.

I'm so pleased that a) I drew a wiring diagram sixteen years ago when we installed it and b) that the amazing Mrs G could actually find that diagram last night!

OMG. It might be working!!!!!!
OMG. There might be no leaks!!!!!!

That's not like Gordy plumbing usually.!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 August, 2010, 11:53:37 am
I'm thinking should I go out for a ride and get wet or stay at home and get bored decisions decisions
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: giropaul on 26 August, 2010, 11:54:46 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 26 August, 2010, 08:50:06 am
Getting ready to go to the Monmouthshire Show

Could be muddy....

Can we assume that you'll get best in class?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 August, 2010, 02:03:15 pm
Quote from: jogler on 22 August, 2010, 06:06:49 pm
Picking at the scabs that have formed from last weeks tumble.

action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 26 August, 2010, 02:05:56 pm
Quote from: jogler on 26 August, 2010, 02:03:15 pm
Quote from: jogler on 22 August, 2010, 06:06:49 pm
Picking at the scabs that have formed from last weeks tumble.

action replay
Nice scab it was too :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 August, 2010, 02:23:42 pm
There's still some left :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 August, 2010, 02:24:54 pm
Cogitating:
shave or grow a beard. :-\
It's at that scruffy stage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 August, 2010, 02:32:59 pm
Quote from: jogler on 26 August, 2010, 02:24:54 pm
Cogitating:
shave or grow a beard. :-\
It's at that scruffy stage.

Grow the beard!  :thumbsup:

*says he, who will be shaving off his before going on mini-holibobs tomorrow*
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 August, 2010, 02:36:39 pm
Dripping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 August, 2010, 02:43:24 pm
Contemplating baking.  How many cakes will an average YACF camp consume in 3 days at Mildenhall, do you think?

(wonders if she has a bigger bag....)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 August, 2010, 03:06:23 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 August, 2010, 02:43:24 pm
Contemplating baking.  How many cakes will an average YACF camp consume in 3 days at Mildenhall, do you think?

(wonders if she has a bigger bag....)

if you build it..they will come
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 August, 2010, 03:40:34 pm
Good point.

I is baking.  It makes me happy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 August, 2010, 03:47:07 pm
It makes many others happy also :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 26 August, 2010, 04:08:08 pm
trying my hardest not to get very, very annoyed with work >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 August, 2010, 04:19:59 pm
Contemplating beer, to celebrate the end of an error, and the start of another :)

Note to self, try to stay relatively sober, boy, you have an interview at 9am tomorrow.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 August, 2010, 05:12:42 pm
Dripping.
 
Again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 26 August, 2010, 09:29:56 pm
Quote from: Giropaul on 26 August, 2010, 11:54:46 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 26 August, 2010, 08:50:06 am
Getting ready to go to the Monmouthshire Show

Could be muddy....

Can we assume that you'll get best in class?

:)

My father-in-law was wearing a Members Enclosure badge, which has a dangly ribbon.  Someone asked him which class he'd won a rosette in.

My word it was muddy.  But very enjoyable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 August, 2010, 10:34:29 pm
Quote from: jogler on 26 August, 2010, 02:24:54 pm
Cogitating:
shave or grow a beard. :-\
It's at that scruffy stage.

One takes more time; the other, more effort.

Grow, baby, grow!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 August, 2010, 11:27:03 pm
Contemplating the possibility of a Coffee Cake, baking thereof.

I've got a couple of chocolate and banananananana, and a big traybake of a  :o new recipe  :o fruit-and-spice-and-lemon one.  But I need to wait for the washing machine to finish, so I could bake a batch of coffee cake whilst I'm waiting....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 26 August, 2010, 11:43:34 pm
More beard!

I'm working.  Terrible, I know, but there's been a big pile-up and that triggers our Major Incident Plan, part of which is that the nerd with the Black Spot dials in and ticks a hundred boxes to ensure everything's working.  Don't want the x-ray system to be sulking when the flying spatula gets in. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 August, 2010, 01:41:39 am
Waiting for coffee cake to cool down.

I have a kitchen full of cake :)

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs375.snc4/45810_427099896838_551606838_4648824_6973705_n.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 August, 2010, 02:19:23 am
'celebrating' the fact that's it's now a year since I had a full nights sleep.
I have not learned to love being wide awake at 2am or indeed at 4am.
Roll on morning. Shame I may get to see every minute between now and then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 27 August, 2010, 02:23:12 am
Drinking wine and looking forward to seeing what my tattooist has come up with for my sleeve tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 August, 2010, 02:54:06 am
boab - that's a bit grim, sleep deprivation is really not nice.  Hope you manage to catch a few more zzzs.  Look after yourself - and make your kids look after you too - I mean, they ought to be good for summat!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 27 August, 2010, 04:32:50 am
Bollocks. Just woken up and feel like I've had a couple of espressos.  Going to go downstairs and ...er... switch on the espresso machine
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 August, 2010, 06:03:20 pm
Waiting for a train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 August, 2010, 08:13:03 pm
Sitting in a pub with the Cadbury guys, telling them that you'll come up with the answer to the wheat consumption question.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: giropaul on 27 August, 2010, 08:22:17 pm
Quote from: boab on 27 August, 2010, 02:19:23 am
'celebrating' the fact that's it's now a year since I had a full nights sleep.
I have not learned to love being wide awake at 2am or indeed at 4am.
Roll on morning. Shame I may get to see every minute between now and then.

Drugs - that's my solution (from the doctor of course). The "over the counter" stuff doesn't do it for me, but it might for some. For me, they stop the "I can't get to sleep/not getting to sleep is stressing me/that is stopping me going to sleep" cycle.

Mind you, if you don't feel knackered on what you get, then I'm not sure it's doing any harm as long as you don't worry about it.

I definitely find that if I do wake in the night I need to get up, have a warm drink, watch some crappy tele, preferably get a bit chilly, and then enjoy crawling into my warm bed - usually does the trick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 27 August, 2010, 10:53:52 pm
Breathing easy after the mother of all cramps in my calf. It came on in an instant whilst watching TV and I couldn't stretch it out as my calf and ankle were locked completely solid. Easily the most painful cramp ever. So much so that I even started to feel light headed and sick.  :o

I'll be feeling that one tomorrow!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 August, 2010, 08:14:00 am
Having a quick browse before I ride to the station to get a train to Lancaster.   A couple of days ride around the south lakes area planned.

Windy & sky looking grey though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 August, 2010, 11:48:22 am
Sitting in the restaurant of Commonleys Farm in Oxfordshire waiting for a cheese baguette. With a cat.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/with-a-cat.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 August, 2010, 12:48:53 pm
Drinking Thwaites Wainwright in the Albion at Arnside. It's raining outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 August, 2010, 02:15:58 pm
Leisurely thinking about packing my panniers and getting ready to cycle to Keighley for our train back to London. But first, time for tea and more cake.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 August, 2010, 06:47:18 pm
At Leeds station waiting for our train. About a dozen transport police here, obviously expecting some sport.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 29 August, 2010, 07:25:21 am
Quote from: peliroja on 28 August, 2010, 06:47:18 pm
At Leeds station waiting for our train. About a dozen transport police here, obviously expecting some sport.
Reading/Leeds festival perchance?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 August, 2010, 08:22:50 am
Lying in a tent.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 29 August, 2010, 08:25:51 am
Packing to go to Holland.  Weather report shows 30kmh headwind and rain for tomorrow! joy  tuesday and wednesday look much better though
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 29 August, 2010, 10:14:20 am
Quote from: SpaceBadger on 27 August, 2010, 10:53:52 pm
Breathing easy after the mother of all cramps in my calf. It came on in an instant whilst watching TV and I couldn't stretch it out as my calf and ankle were locked completely solid. ...

Ouch.  I don't get cramp very often, but I had a very painful one yesterday at breakfast after the FNRttC.  Luckily for me, standing up and massaging the leg cured it.  It sounds like your cramp is in a whole different country of pain however.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 29 August, 2010, 11:06:43 am
Quote from: TimO on 29 August, 2010, 10:14:20 am

Ouch.  I don't get cramp very often, but I had a very painful one yesterday at breakfast after the FNRttC.  Luckily for me, standing up and massaging the leg cured it.  It sounds like your cramp is in a whole different country of pain however.

I got that as well. In my case I am going to say that not carrying a bottle and only drinking coffee is not the world's most sensible strategy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 August, 2010, 11:12:40 am
sitting at the side of a very steep singletrack road in the south lakes, eating nuts and admiring the view.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 August, 2010, 01:04:58 pm
Scratching my midge bites.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 29 August, 2010, 01:06:41 pm
trying to get through the 24 pages of new topics this forum have created while being on vacation
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 29 August, 2010, 02:06:48 pm
Procrastinating painting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 29 August, 2010, 02:26:41 pm
Having woman trouble :-/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 August, 2010, 02:41:05 pm
Sitting in the rain
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ibrahim on 29 August, 2010, 02:53:04 pm
watching 'bowling for columbine'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 August, 2010, 03:36:01 pm
Having a break from a Spooks-fest. Eating beans on toast in a living room which has a distinct damp tent smell. On account of the damp tent hanging in it. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 August, 2010, 03:38:35 pm
Sitting the sun
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 August, 2010, 04:17:27 pm
See my sig line.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 29 August, 2010, 04:31:35 pm
I have just finished pimping my bike shed.
I have decluttered.  Chucked shit away.
Swept it.
Put 2 x Park Tool big hooks on the rear wall for 2 x MTBS.
I have then moved things around to make them safer, durable and accessible.
I finished it off with a liberal coating of wood treatment on all the surfaces.
The outside was done the other week by Mrs G.

Looks well good.  Just have to go and put everything back in it now.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 29 August, 2010, 04:36:31 pm
Trying to book train tickets and cursing the East Coast website >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 29 August, 2010, 04:37:37 pm
Now?  Digesting Whitby fish and chips  :D

In ten minutes I shall be in bed.  :)

In four hours I will be at work.  :(
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Post by: Jaded on 29 August, 2010, 05:43:35 pm
Sitting in the wind
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Post by: peliroja on 29 August, 2010, 06:09:30 pm
About to order the curry we were craving last night (but couldn't get as we arrived home too late and knackered).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 29 August, 2010, 07:00:04 pm
Eating. Lots. I under estimated today's club run at just shy of 90 lumpy miles. The banana I carried, 800ml of High 5, the same again in plain water, and piece of (tasteless and most probably sugar-less, too) cake I consumed at the cafe stop didn't suffice and I slowed dramatically at the end. Thankfullly I was only 5 miles from home when the bad stuff happened.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 30 August, 2010, 02:01:48 am
Lying in the cold
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Post by: andrewc on 30 August, 2010, 07:30:21 am
Lying in my tent in a field near Levens, listening to the drone of traffic on the A590. Drinking mint tea and trying to warm up,  there was a clear sky last night and it was a bit cold.
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Post by: DrMekon on 30 August, 2010, 08:43:33 am
Watching the peerless Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions with my 4 year old. Science + poo jokes + talking cactus = pure win.
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Post by: andrewc on 30 August, 2010, 11:57:19 am
In a tea room in Kirby Lonsdale and feeling a bit scruffy for the place  :-)
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Post by: Andrij on 30 August, 2010, 12:09:41 pm
Fettling.  So far no cursing, but still lots to do...
 
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Post by: andrewc on 30 August, 2010, 12:10:49 pm
Blimey, a fork to eat my flapjack and the plate has swirls of raspberry sauce on it!  Nice coffee as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 30 August, 2010, 01:05:06 pm
Sitting on a ferry at Hook of Holland waiting to be transported back to Blighty after 9 weeks and 7300 km of touring and audaxing in foreign parts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 30 August, 2010, 06:49:29 pm
Watching our rabbit grazing six inches from our bamboozled small cat, who can't work out why he is Not Bovvered.  The big cat (a known wild rabbit killer) has already got fed up of being stalked and has gone to sit on the wall, where the rabbit can't climb after him.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 August, 2010, 07:42:43 pm
Watching the Vuelta (recorded earlier) and enjoying a cheeky glass of wine
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 30 August, 2010, 07:51:50 pm
Trying to work out where the <bleep> the mounting hardware for the tandem's "new" front rack has got to.

Edit: Can it be a pingfuckit if it hasn't actually gone ping?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clandy on 30 August, 2010, 07:56:28 pm
Watching the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 August, 2010, 08:04:55 pm
Eating delicious pie.
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Post by: itsbruce on 30 August, 2010, 08:46:05 pm
Chatting to a former landlady of mine on Facebook.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 August, 2010, 10:38:49 am
Just cut the hedge, and the power cable for the hedge trimmer with it!!!!

So then fixed the cable and finished the job!

Time for coffee me thinks :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 31 August, 2010, 10:48:06 am
recovering from a swimming lesson.  92 meter lengths are bloody hard work, but it's nicer than being indoors!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 31 August, 2010, 08:16:36 pm
Watching Ray Mears - and feeling a wee bit inadequate, in a Hunter Gatherer kind of way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 August, 2010, 09:44:22 pm
^^^^^^
don't fret it,
it's all done with studio sets,trick photography,CGI etc etc & they slum it in 5* hotels when doing the pre-production planning.
That's what I have convinced myself of & I'm sticking with it ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 August, 2010, 09:56:07 pm
Quote from: jogler on 26 August, 2010, 02:03:15 pm
Quote from: jogler on 22 August, 2010, 06:06:49 pm
Picking at the scabs that have formed from last weeks tumble.

action replay

just peeled off the last bit of scab
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 September, 2010, 03:33:31 pm
Feeling relieved that tomorrow's session at the University is of the 'drop-in' variety.  Therefore tomorrow's day off will not be ruined.  So that's a phone call ticked off my 'to-do' list for today.

Every time I tick one of these items off, I feel about 3lbs lighter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 September, 2010, 05:53:22 pm
Waiting for callbacks from stoopid suppliers who aren't giving me the answers that I need and are making my life difficult. Wanting to go home.  Wishing it was still the holidays :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 September, 2010, 06:08:34 pm
Waiting for the gorgeous young girl from the deli to bring her bike round to my flat. She's in severe need of a good fettling  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 01 September, 2010, 11:21:28 pm
Packing away the sewing machine after a plus-fours-from-charity-shop-trousers adventure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 September, 2010, 11:26:02 pm
Putting stuff in panniers for another few days' touring. I'm beginning to get complacent about this, so I'm worried about forgetting something vital.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 01 September, 2010, 11:34:58 pm
Waiting for my bosses to get home so I can go home. I hope ths hour means that there is good news, not sorrows drowning :-\.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 September, 2010, 12:03:33 am
Just made another dent in the Mildenhall/BiCon dirty laundry mountain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 September, 2010, 11:16:30 am
Sitting at the dentist waiting for emergency repair.
H & S tip: dried cherries may contain stones, and if they do, you may bite on them, and if you do, it may cause your teeth to break.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 02 September, 2010, 11:38:56 am
Playing with a PowerMac G4 that somehow stumbled into my possession yesterday. I have no idea why I want or need it, but it’s fills a nostalgic hole, and reminds me of many happily drowsy days spent designing resolutely dull journal covers. Noisy little buggar, I’ll say, not sure how I slept so well through that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 September, 2010, 12:15:06 pm
Pondering the feasibility/sanity of a 3 country, 3 week, 2,500km cycling trip in 2012.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 02 September, 2010, 12:16:38 pm
putting photos from my little trip to Holland on Crazyguy
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Post by: SandyV on 02 September, 2010, 01:25:37 pm
Wondering whether I've over catered for Saturday's very hilly 200. 8 banana cakes and 6 fruit cakes plus bacon and egg slice, meat and salad rolls, pasta salad and potato salad as well as flapjack, bananas and biscuits (and sandwich makings just in case). But there are 4 controls and 25 riders so there probably won't be much left over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 September, 2010, 08:04:39 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 29 June, 2010, 10:07:09 pm
Putting together a playlist for my birthday party on my mp3 player.

We have Queen, Shaky, Huey Lewis & the News, Simply Red, Scissor Sisters, Shamen, Rolling Stones, Freddie Mercury, Rod Stewart, Slade, Tina Turner, Take That, Sugababes, Robbie Williams, Wham!, more Wham!, quite a bit more Wham!, George Michael, Voice of the Beehive, Stevie Wonder, Aretha, James Brown, Martha & the Vandellas, Jackie Wilson, Freda Payne, Hot Chocolate, Marvin Gaye, Dionne Warwick, Ashford & Simpson, Chaka Khan, LaBelle, Barry White, Beyonce, Diana Ross, Roy Orbison, Duran Duran, UB40, A-ha, Tom Jones, Robert Palmer, Billy Idol, David Bowie, Beastie Boys, Clash, Kinks, Undertones, Eddie Cochran, Aerosmith/RunDMC, T-Rex, Blow Monkeys, Bauhaus, Cult, Cure, Fiction Factory, Bluebells, Erasure, Blancmange, Simple Minds, Pointer Sisters, Sister Sledge, Iggy Pop, Billy Ocean, Little Eva, one song from the Jungle Book, Sisters of Mercy, the Damned, House of Love, Depeche Mode, Frankie, Odyssey, Terence Trent D'Arby, 5ive Star, Cameo, Communards, Dead or Alive, Yazz, Jam, Heaven 17, Men Without Hats, Human League, Osmonds, Monkees, Don McLean, Sweet, Mud, Roxy Music, Blondie, Banananananramama, Fine Young Cannibals, Rick Astley, Cyndi Lauper, TAFKAP, Dexy's, Mel n Kim, Nena, Bad Manners, Los Lobos, King, Elvis, ABC, Jackson Five, Michael Jackson, Matthew Wilder, Doctor & the Medics, Jermaine Stewart, Kelly Marie, Gloria Gaynor, Carl Douglas, Village People, Hipsway, Goldfrapp, Girls Aloud, Whitney Houston, INXS, Billy Joel, Elton John AND Kiki Dee, Elvis Costello, 5ive, Culture Club, Bee Gees, ABBA, ABC, Madonna, Alison Moyet, Dolly Parton, John Paul Young, the Timewarp, the Goombay Dance Band, Lulu, Soft Cell, Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel, the Killers, the Libertines, and Boney M.

I think that's probably enough.

Do you think the Paul Nicholas classic, Dancing With The Captain is a step too far?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 02 September, 2010, 08:38:44 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 02 September, 2010, 08:04:39 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 29 June, 2010, 10:07:09 pm
Putting together a playlist for my birthday party on my mp3 player.

We have Queen, Shaky, Huey Lewis & the News, Simply Red, Scissor Sisters, Shamen, Rolling Stones, Freddie Mercury, Rod Stewart, Slade, Tina Turner, Take That, Sugababes, Robbie Williams, Wham!, more Wham!, quite a bit more Wham!, George Michael, Voice of the Beehive, Stevie Wonder, Aretha, James Brown, Martha & the Vandellas, Jackie Wilson, Freda Payne, Hot Chocolate, Marvin Gaye, Dionne Warwick, Ashford & Simpson, Chaka Khan, LaBelle, Barry White, Beyonce, Diana Ross, Roy Orbison, Duran Duran, UB40, A-ha, Tom Jones, Robert Palmer, Billy Idol, David Bowie, Beastie Boys, Clash, Kinks, Undertones, Eddie Cochran, Aerosmith/RunDMC, T-Rex, Blow Monkeys, Bauhaus, Cult, Cure, Fiction Factory, Bluebells, Erasure, Blancmange, Simple Minds, Pointer Sisters, Sister Sledge, Iggy Pop, Billy Ocean, Little Eva, one song from the Jungle Book, Sisters of Mercy, the Damned, House of Love, Depeche Mode, Frankie, Odyssey, Terence Trent D'Arby, 5ive Star, Cameo, Communards, Dead or Alive, Yazz, Jam, Heaven 17, Men Without Hats, Human League, Osmonds, Monkees, Don McLean, Sweet, Mud, Roxy Music, Blondie, Banananananramama, Fine Young Cannibals, Rick Astley, Cyndi Lauper, TAFKAP, Dexy's, Mel n Kim, Nena, Bad Manners, Los Lobos, King, Elvis, ABC, Jackson Five, Michael Jackson, Matthew Wilder, Doctor & the Medics, Jermaine Stewart, Kelly Marie, Gloria Gaynor, Carl Douglas, Village People, Hipsway, Goldfrapp, Girls Aloud, Whitney Houston, INXS, Billy Joel, Elton John AND Kiki Dee, Elvis Costello, 5ive, Culture Club, Bee Gees, ABBA, ABC, Madonna, Alison Moyet, Dolly Parton, John Paul Young, the Timewarp, the Goombay Dance Band, Lulu, Soft Cell, Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel, the Killers, the Libertines, and Boney M.

I think that's probably enough.

Do you think the Paul Nicholas classic, Dancing With The Captain is a step too far?

That should at least ensure something for everyone ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 September, 2010, 09:39:50 pm
I thought it was 80s?  Paul Nicholas was a flash in the pan in 1976.

Punk happened. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 02 September, 2010, 09:44:15 pm
Quote from: clarion on 02 September, 2010, 09:39:50 pm
I thought it was 80s?  Paul Nicholas was a flash in the pan in 1976.

Punk happened. ;D

And post-punk.  I retract my previous comment - or at least until Kirst plays something by The Fall  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 September, 2010, 11:20:32 am
Quote from: RJ on 02 September, 2010, 09:44:15 pm
Quote from: clarion on 02 September, 2010, 09:39:50 pm
I thought it was 80s?  Paul Nicholas was a flash in the pan in 1976.

Punk happened. ;D

And post-punk.  I retract my previous comment - or at least until Kirst plays something by The Fall  ;)

-ah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 03 September, 2010, 11:24:44 am
I'm at work, trying to pretend I'll know what I'm doing on Monday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 September, 2010, 09:32:29 pm
Preparing to spend a night in a tent that's tall enough to stand up in,for the first time in over ten years.
It's made of cotton & has that marvellous aroma reminiscent of Scout camps.There are camp beds & sleeping bags in there for two 57 yr. young grandparents & a G.d..
If mrs. jogler is comfortable this could well be our accommodation next year for a holiday on the Isles of Scilly.
Unfortunately it's not suitable for cycle camping:when packed the bag is approx 60cm dia. & 90cm long & 20-ish kg :o

camping in the back garden feels guiltily childish in a  8) way
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 September, 2010, 09:39:17 pm
Camping in the back garden is brilliant.  Don't forget, if you get scared, you can always go back inside ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 September, 2010, 09:43:44 pm
I reckon severalxGrolsch will see off the scaries ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 September, 2010, 09:46:30 pm
akchurly(sp) the rather low air temp. is the thing most likely to force one of us indoors. Selective night wear will be the secret of success.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 September, 2010, 09:49:27 pm
Gotta huddle together for warmth in those kinda arctic conditions, you know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 03 September, 2010, 09:51:33 pm
Quote from: jogler on 03 September, 2010, 09:46:30 pm
akchurly(sp) the rather low air temp. is the thing most likely to force one of us indoors. Selective night wear will be the secret of success.
Merino Long johns, long sleeved merino vest and fleece trousers and top. And merino socks. And a wooly hat. And a merino buff. That should do it :thumbsup:. You might need a fleece blanket though. Watch out for the static. 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 September, 2010, 09:53:35 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 03 September, 2010, 09:51:33 pm
Quote from: jogler on 03 September, 2010, 09:46:30 pm
akchurly(sp) the rather low air temp. is the thing most likely to force one of us indoors. Selective night wear will be the secret of success.
Merino Long johns, long sleeved merino vest and fleece trousers and top. And merino socks. And a wooly hat. And a merino buff. That should do it :thumbsup:. You might need a fleece blanket though. Watch out for the static. 8)

Ignore her.

Quote from: clarion on 03 September, 2010, 09:49:27 pm
Gotta huddle together for warmth in those kinda arctic conditions, you know.

Srsly.  It's the only answer.

This is True.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 September, 2010, 10:31:07 pm
A Karrimor thermal vest & tracksters with a Buffalo 6 fleece/pertex shirt on standby.One buff round the neck.headwear to another buff or thermal bandana or fleece hat.All this due to the "iffy" characteristics of a very very old sleeping bag.
The ladies have the benefit of the recently purchased winter bags.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 03 September, 2010, 10:37:04 pm
Waiting for an ambulance in kinlochewe. Don't panic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 03 September, 2010, 10:39:32 pm
Quote from: clarion on 03 September, 2010, 09:53:35 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 03 September, 2010, 09:51:33 pm
Quote from: jogler on 03 September, 2010, 09:46:30 pm
akchurly(sp) the rather low air temp. is the thing most likely to force one of us indoors. Selective night wear will be the secret of success.
Merino Long johns, long sleeved merino vest and fleece trousers and top. And merino socks. And a wooly hat. And a merino buff. That should do it :thumbsup:. You might need a fleece blanket though. Watch out for the static. 8)

Ignore her.

Quote from: clarion on 03 September, 2010, 09:49:27 pm
Gotta huddle together for warmth in those kinda arctic conditions, you know.

Srsly.  It's the only answer.

This is True.
These two suggestions are not mutually exclusive :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 04 September, 2010, 05:26:24 am
Checking nervously that all is well with family abroad:

BBC News - Strong earthquake rocks New Zealand's South Island (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11183685)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 September, 2010, 06:31:54 am
Quote from: Gordy on 04 September, 2010, 05:26:24 am
Checking nervously that all is well with family abroad:

BBC News - Strong earthquake rocks New Zealand's South
Island (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11183685)
Ours are just enjoying it
Quote from: little sister
Kewl! Earthquake! No power and BoomBoomShakeTheRoom!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 04 September, 2010, 08:18:48 am
Up early for a non-night ride Saturday morning, checking the status of the FNRttC Martlets ride (http://www.cyclechat.net/topic/66002-friday-night-ride-to-the-coast-in-aid-of-martlets-hospice-3rd-september-2010/), and looking at twitters from that (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23fnrttc).  They seem to be doing OK, no one has reported any disasters, and people are obviously arriving in Brighton already. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 04 September, 2010, 09:41:49 am
Having a cup of coffee at the box hill servery whilst enjoying the autumnal sunshine.

There's a definate feel of 'end of summer' about; best get out and enjoy this good weather whilst its lasts.

Hope we are not in for another long cold winter...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 04 September, 2010, 03:21:03 pm
I'm at Burghley Horse Trials. There's so much young clunge about I'm looking out for bobb.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 04 September, 2010, 03:37:52 pm
Picking damsons from our tree

42 lbs so far; going back out in a mo for the other 20-odd
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 September, 2010, 04:40:44 pm
Sitting in the extended flysheet of our tent making plans to use this tent,assuming mrs.jogler's physio issues can cope with the needs of camping again.
I find the prospect of camping again,which I prefere to caravanning,exciting in a childish sort of way ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 September, 2010, 04:42:12 pm
Strimming some paths through the wild bit of our garden.
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Post by: Manotea on 04 September, 2010, 05:09:55 pm
Listening to Master Manotea wetting himself laughing at Dad's Army on the telly in the room next door.

Makes a nice change from having him moping about distraught about his latest haircut wot went wrong!

Anyway, it's nice to know the youth of today appreciate the classics!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 September, 2010, 05:26:28 pm
Having a drink overlooking the Old Course, 30 odd mile pootle in East Neuk of Fife enjoyed today. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 04 September, 2010, 05:33:46 pm
We went Sloe picking so we can make Sloe Gin  ;D ;D
We got about 6 lbs worth.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Sloe_berry.jpg/800px-Sloe_berry.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 September, 2010, 07:15:46 pm
Quote from: Grub on 04 September, 2010, 05:33:46 pm
We went Sloe picking so we can make Sloe Gin  ;D ;D
We got about 6 lbs worth.

It's too early- you're supposed to wait till after the first frost
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 04 September, 2010, 08:39:26 pm
Quote from: boab on 04 September, 2010, 07:15:46 pm
Quote from: Grub on 04 September, 2010, 05:33:46 pm
We went Sloe picking so we can make Sloe Gin  ;D ;D
We got about 6 lbs worth.

It's too early- you're supposed to wait till after the first frost

Traditionally yes.  But then God made freezers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 September, 2010, 08:59:42 pm
Resting.

Tomorrow I will be a Yorkie munchin', wolf whistlin', truck driving removal man. Where's me overalls Mrs S?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 September, 2010, 09:32:00 pm
In tent after a wonderful day in and around St Andrews. Weird but good to be back (not been here since I graduated eight years ago!).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 September, 2010, 07:51:36 am
I just got up to feed and pill Talisker, and looking out it's a fine morning.  I was seriously tempted to got out for an early cycle, possibly around the route we used on the Peli & Woolly Pootle recently, but my bike really needs it's drive chain replacing.

I've been avoiding doing it for a while now, and it's probably close to a thousand miles over the point where I should have changed the chain and block, so it's gone past annoying to just starting to become dangerous (since the chain is jumping when I'm pulling away at junctions).

Ho hum, I really need to get my stable of bikes working.  I've got bits for the Kaffenback and Brompton, so will be working on both shortly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 05 September, 2010, 09:32:20 am
Taking son2 to the first football match of the season.
I will be back later to answer questions from the news.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 September, 2010, 11:05:25 am
Not riding the New Forest On/Off Shore   :(
Lying in bed with knee compressed and iced and minions making beverages. It's indulgent, but I'd rather be riding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 05 September, 2010, 12:06:04 pm
Quote from: boab on 05 September, 2010, 11:05:25 am
Not riding the New Forest On/Off Shore   :(
Lying in bed with knee compressed and iced and minions making beverages. It's indulgent, but I'd rather be riding.

Commiserations.  I was in that state just a few days ago.  Get better and get back on the bike :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 September, 2010, 04:14:44 pm
I'm sitting in #1 daughter's lounge, drinking tea, having just finished moving her stuff in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 05 September, 2010, 04:18:18 pm
I'm looking for a Lancaster.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 05 September, 2010, 06:23:43 pm
Being sat on by Miss Dan the Younger, having spent the day at Herstmonceux with Miss Dan the Elder.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 September, 2010, 06:46:22 pm
In my nice hotel preparing for a hard week's work in Scotland!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 05 September, 2010, 06:56:43 pm
Staring with horror at the pile of stuff I'm supposed to "prepare" before work tomorrow.
Pizza and beer looks far more likely at this time of the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 September, 2010, 08:10:19 pm
Feeling a tad self conscious about the puddle that's forming around me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 06 September, 2010, 08:33:31 pm
Quote from: Basil on 06 September, 2010, 08:10:19 pm
Feeling a tad self conscious about the puddle that's forming around me.
It can happen in your more advanced years.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 September, 2010, 08:35:41 pm
Quote from: Basil on 06 September, 2010, 08:10:19 pm
Feeling a tad self conscious about the puddle that's forming around me.

It's not a problem when in one's local ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 September, 2010, 08:37:28 pm
Feeling very disappointed at the Thai meal I've just eaten. Sweet and sour tofu, but the sauce just tasted like honey and nothing more. Bleurgh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 September, 2010, 08:49:01 pm
Heh.  You two have given me an idea.
I don't need to use the Gents tonight.
No one would spot the difference.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 06 September, 2010, 08:55:33 pm
Quote from: Basil on 06 September, 2010, 08:49:01 pm
Heh.  You two have given me an idea.
I don't need to use the Gents tonight.
No one would spot the difference.
This hinges on your local smelling of wee.

If yours doesn't I can recommend a few in Burlsem.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 06 September, 2010, 09:20:53 pm
Watching in something close to amazement as Google Picasa ploughs through my photos recognising faces. Old & recent, full sun & shadow, bearded or clean-shaven - it's astonishingly good. Seeing what free face recognition software can do gives an inkling of what Big Brother can achieve with CCTV & mega resouces.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 September, 2010, 11:24:48 am
Feeling incredibly tired.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 07 September, 2010, 11:26:35 am
Feeling incredibly hungry.

34 minutes to go until lunch...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 07 September, 2010, 01:32:15 pm
I have just sent an article on Tamworth cycling club to the local paper (Tamworth Herald) which I'm sure will be shortened to just a few lines & I've set up a Tamworth cycling club facebook group.  Now for a very late breakfast & off for a walk with my new rucksack, this being redundant is very hard work you know  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 September, 2010, 10:29:53 am
I'm on my fifth call to the council to sort out a simple matter.  Now it's a complaint as well, and I am less kindly disposed towards helping them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 September, 2010, 10:34:21 am
Now on hold... ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 September, 2010, 07:25:33 pm
Wondering if I should have another go at fettling the Ribble's rear mech so I can cycle to work tomorrow or leave it for the weekend and use the Tube and BorisBike instead.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 September, 2010, 09:11:41 pm
Thinking that I really must organise an internet connection down here. 
This phone is pants!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 September, 2010, 01:13:27 am
I've just shot down (using an elastic-band-and-fingers catapult and molex connector cover ammunition) and captured the Enormous Hairy Spider that's been tormenting us for the last 24 hours, since barakta ignored my specific instructions not to let it escape by letting it escape.  It is, as Steve Irwin would say, a bit feisty.  I've evicted it to the road outside, a reasonable distance from our house, and left it to take its chances with the rats and the taxis.

We can sleep soundly once more.  So I'm off to bed.   :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 September, 2010, 04:55:02 am
Not sleeping.  >:(
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 10 September, 2010, 05:54:19 am
Working.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 September, 2010, 08:42:13 am
Quote from: Kim on 10 September, 2010, 01:13:27 am
I've just shot down (using an elastic-band-and-fingers catapult and molex connector cover ammunition) and captured the Enormous Hairy Spider that's been tormenting us for the last 24 hours, since barakta ignored my specific instructions not to let it escape by letting it escape.  It is, as Steve Irwin would say, a bit feisty.  I've evicted it to the road outside, a reasonable distance from our house, and left it to take its chances with the rats and the taxis.

We can sleep soundly once more.  So I'm off to bed.   :smug:

I hope that, in true Steve Irwin style, you prodded it with a big stick till you pissed it off...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 10 September, 2010, 11:00:39 am
Getting hacked off with everything.  Who do I punch in the throat first, minions managers or ministers?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 September, 2010, 11:02:12 am
In some CTHD bullet-time slo-mo move, you could try doing all three together?

Wires are available...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 September, 2010, 11:04:11 am
Of course, what I'm doing right now isn't the finance stuff I normally do cause Friday's a quiet day & I can do it uninterrupted.  No.  I'm on the phones because of staff illness :(

At least I get to go to the bank later, which means bike & cafe...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 10 September, 2010, 11:07:54 am
Its my day off. And yet I feel guilty about having the day off. This feeling will fade in about 10 minutes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 September, 2010, 11:15:50 am
Sitting in a cafe in Lampeter passing time before a dental appointment.  I'm shitting myself.  I have a thing about dentists.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 September, 2010, 11:19:31 am
Quote from: Basil on 10 September, 2010, 11:15:50 am
I have a thing about dentists.


So why are you worried?  Afraid you might not be able to control yourself, and will start making flirtatious yet incomprehensible remarks while they are exploring your cavity?

Actually, I used to manage a dental service.  I got my teeth done free by the students.  Young, attractive students....

*reverie*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 12:46:03 pm
Quote from: Basil on 10 September, 2010, 11:15:50 am
Sitting in a cafe in Lampeter passing time before a dental appointment.  I'm shitting myself.  I have a thing about dentists.


Me too.
I have to have gas to be unconcious.
All the best
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 12:46:59 pm
Frettin.Clock watching.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 September, 2010, 12:58:21 pm
Syncing the backups disk with the backup backups disk.

Does anyone here back up their data less than once per day?  You're all going to die!  You see, sometimes the disk fairy comes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 01:38:47 pm
Quote from: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 12:46:59 pm
Frettin.Clock watching.

Can't do this all afternoon.
Of to the garage fettle some new stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 September, 2010, 02:40:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 01:38:47 pm
Quote from: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 12:46:59 pm
Frettin.Clock watching.

Can't do this all afternoon.
Of to the garage fettle some new stuff.
Haven't you got some cake to be eating?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 10 September, 2010, 02:46:54 pm
I've just made some scones  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 September, 2010, 03:48:39 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 10 September, 2010, 02:46:54 pm
I've just made some scones  :P

Bung us one over then - I'm starving.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 September, 2010, 03:56:24 pm
Fruit, plain or cheese?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 September, 2010, 03:58:45 pm
Quote from: clarion on 10 September, 2010, 03:56:24 pm
Fruit, plain or cheese?

Yes, please!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 04:44:37 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 10 September, 2010, 02:40:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 01:38:47 pm
Quote from: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 12:46:59 pm
Frettin.Clock watching.

Can't do this all afternoon.
Of to the garage fettle some new stuff.
Haven't you got some cake to be eating?

no,it's all been eaten.

Less frettin now & no need to watch the clock.My rock has returned home
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 10 September, 2010, 05:33:59 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 10 September, 2010, 02:40:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 01:38:47 pm
Quote from: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 12:46:59 pm
Frettin.Clock watching.

Can't do this all afternoon.
Of to the garage fettle some new stuff.
Haven't you got some cake to be eating?

The cake making person was in hospital today having 4 spinal nerve blocks done, I nearly got off the theatre table and legged it but they calmed me down enough to do it. Now him in doors is cooking pizza and wedges, it's that or beans on toast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 11 September, 2010, 02:20:20 am
Best wishes Marj. I trust it all went well?

I'm at a control on top of a hill (of course, its Audax). Waiting for the 2 who decided a 230 was preferable to a 200.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 September, 2010, 09:49:46 am
Quote from: Marj on 10 September, 2010, 05:33:59 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 10 September, 2010, 02:40:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 01:38:47 pm
Quote from: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 12:46:59 pm
Frettin.Clock watching.

Can't do this all afternoon.
Of to the garage fettle some new stuff.
Haven't you got some cake to be eating?

The cake making person was in hospital today having 4 spinal nerve blocks done, I nearly got off the theatre table and legged it but they calmed me down enough to do it. Now him in doors is cooking pizza and wedges, it's that or beans on toast.

or a pig-out at the Queens.It's near enough to go on a bike :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 September, 2010, 10:21:26 am
Trying, and still failing, to ride my unicycle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 September, 2010, 01:34:28 pm
Hangover.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 11 September, 2010, 02:27:53 pm
Quote from: SandyV on 11 September, 2010, 02:20:20 am
Best wishes Marj. I trust it all went well?

I'm at a control on top of a hill (of course, its Audax). Waiting for the 2 who decided a 230 was preferable to a 200.

Thanks Sandy, a little fragile today, just got back from the pub, no cooking today, yayyyyyy  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 September, 2010, 02:58:15 pm
Quote from: jogler on 11 September, 2010, 09:49:46 am


or a pig-out at the Queens.It's near enough to go on a bike :demon:

job done :thumbsup:
mrs. jogler made me do it ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 11 September, 2010, 05:34:48 pm
Engaged in a discussion with Buffy as to why it is generally considered a bad idea for cats to sit on, or walk over a computer keyboard.

Considering how long it has taken to write this, i appear to be losing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Genosse Brymbo on 12 September, 2010, 04:51:35 am
Making myself a cup of cocoa after being woken by my neighbour's new water feature.  Sounds disconcertingly like a toilet cistern filling and overflowing.   Grrrrrrrrrr. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 September, 2010, 09:35:04 am
Quote from: Kim on 10 September, 2010, 12:58:21 pm
Does anyone here back up their data less than once per day?  You're all going to die!  You see, sometimes the disk fairy comes...

Yes, since we backup onto 1TBytes metal cased Firewire discs, which are damned heavy to carry home on my bike (our technique for off-site backups!)

I rely on RAID6 and a lot of praying. :o :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 12 September, 2010, 08:40:36 pm
Just finishing off the last Jaffa Cake!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 September, 2010, 09:05:57 pm
Having just finished my dinner (afters was apple & blackberry  :thumbsup:) I'm having my second glass of Spanish red. The dog is throwing an old rag at me trying to provoke a biffy-bitey game.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 12 September, 2010, 10:41:21 pm
A glass of red and finding out what happened on the M23 this evening. It took us 2 1/2 hours to get from Redhill to East Grinstead, but some poor sod's not getting home at all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 September, 2010, 11:48:19 am
Sitting in Bold St coffee killing time before I get a train to Chester. The bike is propped up outside.
Very good coffee and scrummy bacon butties...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 September, 2010, 12:30:55 pm
feeling  :smug: .I've just got up Ash Bank bank all the way up without stopping:without needing my granny ring & bottom two sprockets:without needing a shovel to re-insert my heart & lungs.
My previous best required all the gears,two stops & resuccitation at the top ::-)
For me,this is a significant indicator of hill-climbing progress.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 September, 2010, 04:01:28 pm
Going through co-codamol like candy.  :-\
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 September, 2010, 09:20:27 pm
Lying in my tent, pitched near the Wrekin, looking up at the stars.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 September, 2010, 11:03:23 pm
Starting to grow my hair and beard back.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 September, 2010, 07:57:28 am
Eating breakfast and listening to the rain outside :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 September, 2010, 08:16:24 am
It's wet and windy down here too, if that's any consolation...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 September, 2010, 09:39:50 am
Prevaricating and procrastinating when I should be taking advantage of the fact that I'm in work on my day off to actuallly cross one of the more irritating things off the to do list.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 September, 2010, 09:41:15 am
Having the piano tuned.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 September, 2010, 09:48:09 am
Is that a yoofhernism? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 September, 2010, 10:07:29 am
And the meters read! Never had both at once before.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 September, 2010, 07:47:50 am
Sitting in my tent drinking tea. It was a clear, dry night so I slept with the tent open. Now it's clouding over again.  I was hoping the sun would dry the tent before I packed up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 September, 2010, 10:45:09 am
Taking part in a teleconference.  The only people I can understand are the others who dialled in.  As for those who are physically at the meeting... I can understand (just about) one person, the others are too quiet and/or too far away from the mic(s).  Having been in the room once before I'll add that the acoustics are absolutely horrible for teleconferences.  :(

Hopefully I'll be done by 11:30, and might even retain some of my sanity.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 September, 2010, 10:46:38 am
Data wrangling.  Again.



And eating cake!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 15 September, 2010, 10:48:18 am
Drinking tea and wondering if the plaster in the finished extension (extension number 1) is dry enough to mist coat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 15 September, 2010, 12:27:25 pm
Getting ready for a Half Man Half Biscuit gig tonight. Now shall I wear the Dukla Prague away shirt or the Honved shirt? Must remember to dig out the Joy Division oven gloves and the Dickie Davies eyes hoodie... Oh, and to take the tickets!

They don't do many gigs, so this is my last one for 2010.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 15 September, 2010, 12:28:50 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 15 September, 2010, 12:27:25 pm
Getting ready for a Half Man Half Biscuit gig tonight.

Jealous. Enjoy!

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 15 September, 2010, 12:30:36 pm
It's at the Robin2 in Bilston, and they were excellent there last time. Just their sort of venue. Real ale & a carvery beforehand. The unholy trinity?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 15 September, 2010, 12:32:29 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 15 September, 2010, 12:30:36 pm
It's at the Robin2 in Bilston, and they were excellent there last time. Just their sort of venue. Real ale & a carvery beforehand. The unholy trinity?

Sounds like the recipe for a truly brilliant night out.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 September, 2010, 01:00:33 pm
Running away to mangle data in another site.  My brain aches. 


(and eating a chocolate and beetroot brownie)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 15 September, 2010, 01:53:04 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 15 September, 2010, 01:00:33 pm
Running away to mangle data in another site.  My brain aches. 

Crinkles, I hesitate to criticise, but I think you're missing the point of running away.
Running away to join the circus, yes. Running away to elope, yes. Running away with your bike and an unsuitable man, yes. Running away to mangle data? No.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 September, 2010, 01:55:52 pm
Depends where the cake is located.  If it's close to the data mangle, then I feel IMHO it is appropriate to run away there (so long as the 'running' is metaphorical and, in fact, uses a bike). ;)

btw, John Major ran away from the circus to become an accountant.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 September, 2010, 01:57:18 pm
& then he joined the circus again ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 September, 2010, 04:21:03 pm
Sitting at Gare du Nord awaiting my Eurostar after eight hours (yes, eight) of solid meetings. Annoyingly, in English, as there was one non-French speaker in the room.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 15 September, 2010, 07:13:47 pm
i have just ordered this jersey Renault/Elf/Cycles Gitane Retro Jersey - Short Sleeve - Prendas Ciclismo (http://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ID=1839) . dont really need it but i want it  ;) :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 September, 2010, 07:19:57 pm
Quote from: clarion on 15 September, 2010, 01:55:52 pm
Depends where the cake is located. 
It was in my pannier, of course!  And then in my belly, 'cos I ated it all....

Quote from: clarion on 15 September, 2010, 01:55:52 pm
(so long as the 'running' is metaphorical and, in fact, uses a bike). ;)
naturally :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: newtoncap on 15 September, 2010, 07:47:46 pm
Watching Tour of Britain highlights on ITV4  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 September, 2010, 08:29:08 pm
About to get a big hug :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 15 September, 2010, 08:31:46 pm
Avoiding marking, for the millionth time...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 September, 2010, 08:36:21 pm
Just finished off pudding.
The meal tonight was a wonderfully scrumptious totally home-made affair.  Beef and sweet potato pie in fab pastry. 
The pudding was made from fresh apples from Mrs G's boss' tree in the garden and was called Eve's Pudding.  Basically this is apple with cake on top.  As I was home late we walked the dog along the canal before it got dark.  Mrs G then remembered about the ripe ( very ) blackberries and we picked a whole stack.
These were added to the bowl with the pudding and it was totally awesome.

I wish I could cook.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 September, 2010, 08:47:20 pm
Fighting with temptation.I think it's going to be a losing battle for me.The life expectancy of a dark chocolate Bounty bar is normally counted in single-digit minutes chez jogler's.
It's been sitting there for half an hour.Yelling at me..
"Eat me,eat me"

I am weakening
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 September, 2010, 08:49:18 pm
After too many Bountys.

(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSq9lbwBvD_oIPe76SsUU4nFi5RQD8xZX-mTx8wTA79DfJ_Pu0&t=1&usg=__uIel5vdkvh1pXhZI6ATzPOBMtMU=)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 15 September, 2010, 08:50:34 pm
Actually managing to keep food in me. Which is in stark contrast to 18 hours ago......  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 September, 2010, 08:53:41 pm
Quote from: Grub on 15 September, 2010, 08:49:18 pm
After too many Bountys.

(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSq9lbwBvD_oIPe76SsUU4nFi5RQD8xZX-mTx8wTA79DfJ_Pu0&t=1&usg=__uIel5vdkvh1pXhZI6ATzPOBMtMU=)

No,that's them Twix bars ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 September, 2010, 08:53:55 pm
Quote from: Grub on 15 September, 2010, 08:36:21 pm


I wish I could cook.
I went to see a client today who lived with his mother his whole life until she died a few years ago, and now his sister comes in every day to cook for him. I'm referring him for healthy living cookery lessons, and my student who is on placement with me for 2 months is going to work with him to do some cooking too (although she can't cook either so I might have to teach her first). The cookery group is for adults aged 45-64 - if you're eligible, I could refer you too.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 September, 2010, 08:56:35 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 September, 2010, 08:53:41 pm
Quote from: Grub on 15 September, 2010, 08:49:18 pm
After too many Bountys.

(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSq9lbwBvD_oIPe76SsUU4nFi5RQD8xZX-mTx8wTA79DfJ_Pu0&t=1&usg=__uIel5vdkvh1pXhZI6ATzPOBMtMU=)

No,that's them Twix bars ;D

You can get them in a 94 calorie version now.  Twix tio or some such twaddle.  Careful packaging and marketing.  The small print says 'Per biscuit' or something similar. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 September, 2010, 08:58:12 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 15 September, 2010, 08:53:55 pm
Quote from: Grub on 15 September, 2010, 08:36:21 pm


I wish I could cook.
I went to see a client today who lived with his mother his whole life until she died a few years ago, and now his sister comes in every day to cook for him. I'm referring him for healthy living cookery lessons, and my student who is on placement with me for 2 months is going to work with him to do some cooking too (although she can't cook either so I might have to teach her first). The cookery group is for adults aged 45-64 - if you're eligible, I could refer you too.  ;)

I not eligible.  Thanks anyway.  We have a compromise.  She cooks.  She does it well.  She finds it easy.
I wash up.  I do it well.  I find it easy.  I was conditioned by a child by my mother.
Shame the conditioning was for washing up and not cooking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 September, 2010, 09:02:25 pm
It's probably a bit far away anyway!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 September, 2010, 09:03:36 pm
Jogler has not replied as he is too busy sucking on that Bounty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 September, 2010, 01:10:30 am
Yup
jogler 1.
Bounty Bar o
result :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 16 September, 2010, 06:08:37 am
Yay for you  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
It deserved it.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 16 September, 2010, 10:13:23 am
Quote from: citoyen on 15 September, 2010, 12:32:29 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 15 September, 2010, 12:30:36 pm
It's at the Robin2 in Bilston, and they were excellent there last time. Just their sort of venue. Real ale & a carvery beforehand. The unholy trinity?

Sounds like the recipe for a truly brilliant night out.

d.


I have a headache...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 September, 2010, 12:40:23 pm
Spending compensation. A new bike? A plane ticket? A lot of clothes? An awful lot of cake?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 16 September, 2010, 10:40:59 pm
A bike made of cake?

Meanwhile, I'm wondering why there's only one wine bottle in the recycling I've just put out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 17 September, 2010, 07:43:41 am
Right, time to start packing my camping kit prior to cycling to Paddington and a quick trip to Reading to knock some distance off of the Andover YACF Camp commute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 17 September, 2010, 12:18:47 pm
There's bubble wrap everywhere, as The Boy has just packed and left for Uni.

I'm walking up and down on the Bubble Wrap.

Class   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 September, 2010, 12:22:20 pm
You kept The Boy in bubblewrap? :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 September, 2010, 12:30:04 pm
Coughing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 17 September, 2010, 12:36:29 pm
Practising snoring and farting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 17 September, 2010, 12:36:42 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 September, 2010, 12:22:20 pm
You kept The Boy in bubblewrap? :o

Yes.  

But I've managed to 'phone him only once every half hour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 September, 2010, 12:38:19 pm
Mine's registered at University (I thought that would never happen), but he's still living at home (ish - you know what 19yo kids are like).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 17 September, 2010, 12:40:07 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 September, 2010, 12:38:19 pm
Mine's registered at University (I thought that would never happen), but he's still living at home (ish - you know what 19yo kids are like).
Oh, yes.  I don't know yet if I'll miss running a hotel.  I'll let you know what it's like   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Welsh Man on 17 September, 2010, 12:41:06 pm
About to have lunch then I have to paint the shed !

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 17 September, 2010, 12:42:17 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 September, 2010, 12:38:19 pm
Mine's registered at University (I thought that would never happen), but he's still living at home (ish - you know what 19yo kids are like).

My two student offspring are still in bed...

But to answer the question, waiting for an eBayer to come and collect my Ford Galaxy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 17 September, 2010, 02:10:21 pm
Eating the last wasabi peanut and trying to resist shiny-shopping. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 17 September, 2010, 02:15:25 pm
about to put the bike in the car so I can ride home from 'afternoon tea' with the MIL. 

as Mrs Mike said "if you come with me you can do 40 miles of headwind training on the way home, you weirdo"  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 17 September, 2010, 02:19:48 pm
Just been "firm" with an estate agent :)

Probably go for a run in a mo, since it's sunny.  That won't help for tomorrow's audax, but what the hell
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 September, 2010, 02:29:18 pm
About to leave home to go to Derby rail  station to catch a train to York. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 September, 2010, 02:33:04 pm
Enjoy Derby :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 17 September, 2010, 06:55:05 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 17 September, 2010, 12:18:47 pm
There's bubble wrap everywhere, as The Boy has just packed and left for Uni.

I'm walking up and down on the Bubble Wrap.

Class   ;D

Not a new form of entertainment... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzevl0Hw79g) :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 September, 2010, 08:39:51 am
Sitting inna tent just outside Chichester and looking at my map, wondering where to ride today. Tea has been drunk and cake has been eaten...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 September, 2010, 10:53:02 am
Lying in the tent that I have erected so that piccies can be taken to send to Crinkly Lion
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 September, 2010, 10:56:40 am
& now I have adjourned to sit in the sun on the patio to drink coffee & eat biscuits.The biscuits need to be eaten quickly before I put any weight on.
A bit like speeding to the petrol station before you run out of fuel ;D

mrs. jogler has been floating about taking piccies of a tent.There may photographic eveidence of the diminishing contents of her biscuit tin :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 September, 2010, 11:10:17 am
Indeed, once you've eaten all the cake it isn't there to tempt you into eating it and make you fat any more.

Today I am mostly doing laundry.  Lots and lots of laundry....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 21 September, 2010, 12:11:30 pm
I am using my 15 years of state funded education to cut things out, with scissors. I really need a new job.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 September, 2010, 12:20:07 pm
Quote from: boab on 21 September, 2010, 12:11:30 pm
I really need a new job.

Me too.  Shall we run away and join the circus?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 September, 2010, 12:51:45 pm
Quote from: boab on 21 September, 2010, 12:11:30 pm
I am using my 15 years of state funded education to cut things out, with scissors. I really need a new job.

It's OK, you'll be doing finger-painting this afternoon :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 September, 2010, 12:54:49 pm
Worrying about tiling the shower. Its all marked out and preped I now just need to stick the tiles on. Not tiled for 10 years so am a bit apprehensive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 21 September, 2010, 01:04:04 pm
Downloading album cover art from the interweb and using photoshop to optimise it for itunes, so as to fill in the gaps/correct mistakes in my itunes library. So far this morning, I've collected 60 album covers to add to itunes.

(It's a slow morning at work and I'm even up to date with all my admin.)

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 21 September, 2010, 11:29:51 pm
Kept awake by annoying coldish-lurgy.

Perhaps I should try planning some rides for next year to take my mind off it...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 21 September, 2010, 11:40:20 pm
That's Basillurgy, that is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 21 September, 2010, 11:51:41 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 21 September, 2010, 11:40:20 pm
That's Basillurgy, that is.

It had crossed my mind.  But I suspect it may be something I picked up a few days earlier, I was already feeling pretty grotty on Sunday evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 September, 2010, 11:52:05 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 21 September, 2010, 11:29:51 pm
Kept awake by annoying coldish-lurgy.

Quote from: Jaded on 21 September, 2010, 11:40:20 pm
That's Basillurgy, that is.

Oops. Sorry about that.
Remember who you were sitting next to at the meal on Saturday night?  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 September, 2010, 12:09:12 am
Heh Heh.
So far, I've got Rogerzilla and Dasmoth.  I expect Emily will be in the chain there.

Any more?  :demon: :demon: :demon:


Edit:  I'm planning on turning up at the Tunnel Ride with typhoid.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 September, 2010, 12:14:43 am
Hang on, I thought it was my lurgy?  Or at least barakta's BiCon lurgy...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 22 September, 2010, 12:19:06 am
I suppose I could have both, battling it out for control over my bronchi.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 September, 2010, 12:22:53 am
Well Basil was blaming me for giving it to him the week before... I think there may be a royalties issue.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 September, 2010, 12:26:30 am
Yep, that true. 
Perhaps we should keep track of the YACF lurgy.  It will be passed round from forum ride to forum ride.  Audax to audax. 
Lets see how long it takes us to get it back to barakta.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 22 September, 2010, 12:35:24 am
Quote from: Basil on 22 September, 2010, 12:26:30 am
Lets see how long it takes us to get it back to barakta.  :)

Meep!

I *still* have the sodding lurgy  :'(

It's gone all post-viral and fatiguey on me, am sleeping 2-3 hours every night after work and blessing my drop to 4 day weeks so I can sleep on Wednesdays as well as weekends.

So no, am not having it back!  I have freshers turning up next week with their flu-germs so will have a whole NEW strain of vile germiness to infect the YACF contingent with via Kim.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 22 September, 2010, 12:54:29 am
Ow, GWS barakta.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 September, 2010, 02:01:55 am
I've just realised how odd I am that I just gave my bike a loving once-over with a baby wipe and fitted it's new spoke reflectors .. at 2am  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 September, 2010, 08:04:15 am
If this lurgy includes a raw throat, runny nose and cough then it may have claimed another victim :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 22 September, 2010, 08:13:05 am
digesting a bacon and black pudding sandwich.  'Yum' doesnt even begin to describe how good it was.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 September, 2010, 08:34:52 am
Quote from: Feline on 22 September, 2010, 02:01:55 am
I've just realised how odd I am that I just gave my bike a loving once-over with a baby wipe and fitted it's new spoke reflectors .. at 2am  ;D

That's not at all odd.It's natural maternalism; a24/7 emotion ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 September, 2010, 09:19:07 am
I haven't got either of the lurgies, per se, but I have finally caved and started the course of antibiotics I was prescribed for a chest infection which was threatening before we went on holiday in August.  My breathing is even shitter than normal, and it's hard to creep up quietly to zoom past the ATGNIs if you're coughing up phlegm on the way :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 22 September, 2010, 09:30:23 am
Feeling rough with a touch of Mrs Dan's lurgy and being woken up lots by Miss Dan the Younger, while I provide tea and squash for the carpet fitters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 22 September, 2010, 10:55:20 am
Psyching myself up for my new tattoos this afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 22 September, 2010, 10:56:14 am
Putting off going home and walking up the 13 flights of stairs to the flat. I'm on the Schindler Lifts fitness plan while the lift is being replaced.  1.5 weeks down, 3 to go ... maybe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 September, 2010, 11:07:04 am
Putting a 3-pice suite & dining table in THE GARAGE
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 September, 2010, 11:11:26 am
Quote from: jogler on 22 September, 2010, 11:07:04 am
Putting a 3-pice suite & dining table in THE GARAGE

So from today, all fettling will take place in the house?  :thumbsup:
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 22 September, 2010, 11:55:25 am
Quote from: kyuss on 22 September, 2010, 10:55:20 am
Psyching myself up for my new tattoos this afternoon.

What are you getting?

The carpet fitters have just laid it out on the drive in front of the garage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 22 September, 2010, 12:04:45 pm
Quote from: perpetual dan on 22 September, 2010, 11:55:25 am
What are you getting?

I'm keeping it old school. Two swallows, one on the inside of each forearm. One with a rose for my mum, the other with a piston for my dad. They will eventually become full sleeves. Looking forward to seeing what the tattooist has come up with.

I can't wait, though I'm not hugely looking forward to the 3 hours of pain. The mind is willing but the body weak.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 September, 2010, 12:07:19 pm
Working out a 'change control' timetable for 2011-12.  *yawn*
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 September, 2010, 02:57:50 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 22 September, 2010, 11:11:26 am
Quote from: jogler on 22 September, 2010, 11:07:04 am
Putting a 3-pice suite & dining table in THE GARAGE

So from today, all fettling will take place in the house?  :thumbsup:
 

We have are having a cream coloured new carpet ::-)
I think in-door fettling would be too expensive.Divorce lawyers take an arm & a leg AIUI.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 22 September, 2010, 03:08:52 pm
A PDR. Ticka the boxes!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 September, 2010, 03:50:32 pm
Sitting in The Olde Smugglers Arms In Alfriston with a pint of Doom Bar.  Someone has just ordered a skimmed milk latte, the barman looked a bit nonplussed.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 September, 2010, 03:55:07 pm
Waiting for a server to be racked and stacked so that I can do the config on same.

4 5 hours driving only to find that the server was sent on a plain old overnight rather than a pre-10, so hadn't actually arrived by the time I did.  I should have just shoved it in the back of the car :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 22 September, 2010, 04:14:27 pm
Taking afternoon tea and cakes on our lawn in the welcome sunshine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 September, 2010, 04:34:08 pm
Having a cuppa amongst the motor cyclists in Abergavenny
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 September, 2010, 07:12:25 pm
It's  mutant YACF Deth Flu...

We are all DOOOOOOMED.....!!!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 September, 2010, 07:15:43 pm
What I want to know is how you managed to contage half the Crinkly gang when we weren't even there?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 22 September, 2010, 07:19:52 pm
Perhaps Basil's avatar is lurgified  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 September, 2010, 07:34:29 pm
(Back on topic ;) )

I'm snotting my way back from Sheffield on a train to Cheltenham. So that's a metric bucket-load of people infected.

Atisshhhhoooooo!

Splat.

Oooops, sorry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 22 September, 2010, 07:49:55 pm
Our carpet is all in, very stripey.  ;D
The shop was closed, but the walk there and back was enough that I went to bed after.

I hope you've got through the pain OK kyuss - I never found it too bad, but its different for different people.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 September, 2010, 08:03:09 pm
Tonights campsite at Polegate was £12. Decent showers At least.  Full of pork chop, rice and red wine. Sitting outside and everything Is soaking with dew......

Still coughing, was it sitting next to Kim or chatting to Basil ?
Title: Re: What are you doing?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 September, 2010, 08:35:23 pm
I've just read this article (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2010/sep/22/cliches-politics-mind-your-language).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 September, 2010, 08:58:06 pm
Right now is an expression that has been doing the rounds for years.  Equally irritating, and seen frequently used on this forum right now, is the overuse of the word 'multiple', as in 'there are multiple ways of doing this'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 September, 2010, 08:59:36 pm
That may be so, but its usage by current politicians is an affectation, an attempt to make them appear strong and decisive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 September, 2010, 09:01:31 pm
Problem is, multiple people are taken in by that affectation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 September, 2010, 09:02:50 pm
Korta is not a word.

No athaletes are going to Delhi.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 22 September, 2010, 09:06:17 pm
The next person/organisation/charity/celeb to publish "An Open Letter To..." is going to have a letter containing a squashed turd posted to them in reply.

How did this filthy left pondism infiltrate UK culture?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 September, 2010, 09:07:19 pm
You see it in multiple places, right now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 September, 2010, 09:18:52 pm
Quote from: Zoidburg on 22 September, 2010, 09:06:17 pm
The next person/organisation/charity/celeb to publish "An Open Letter To..." is going to have a letter containing a squashed turd posted to them in reply.

How did this filthy left pondism infiltrate UK culture?

Since when is An Open Letter... North American?  (BTW, which bit: Canada or USA  :P)  Many of the Epistles in the Bible were 'open letters', so was J'accuse.

In my view, they seem to me more common on the European side of the pond than over there.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 22 September, 2010, 09:36:15 pm
Well it's strange that in all my 32 years I never recall "open letters" popping up in the UK media until the yanks started using the term mawkishly post 9/11.

It's the Princess Di bollocks all over again.

Make a statement, adress the public whatever.

No Open Letters please, it's made up guff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 September, 2010, 09:44:23 pm
There have been open letters in British newspapers going back decades.  The Thunderer was the traditional home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zoidburg on 22 September, 2010, 09:48:23 pm
They fell from use though.

The only people you see publishing them seem to be self important arses making a mawkish point about how much they care.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 22 September, 2010, 11:15:09 pm
Quote from: perpetual dan on 22 September, 2010, 07:49:55 pm
I hope you've got through the pain OK kyuss - I never found it too bad, but its different for different people.


Aye it was easy. Well, bloody painful at times, but not as bad as I remember from last time.  I'm dead chuffed with them too. :D I'll get some pics up tomorrow (do we have a 'show us your ink' thread?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 September, 2010, 11:20:27 pm
Dunking Rich Tea biscuits into my Horlicks while lying in bed :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 September, 2010, 11:22:14 pm
Thinking about all the open letters.

C is one, and G.

Not O though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 23 September, 2010, 08:57:37 am
Watching kids tv. We're all down with the lurgy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 September, 2010, 09:06:37 am
Lying in bed, with full sinuses and Bea cuddled up and relaxed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 23 September, 2010, 09:24:51 am
Quote from: Jaded on 22 September, 2010, 11:22:14 pm
Thinking about all the open letters.

C is one, and G.

Not O though.

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robbo6 on 23 September, 2010, 09:29:13 am
What about e?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 September, 2010, 02:19:30 pm
I seem to have gotten over my bit of lurgy.  Over Sunday, Monday and Tuesday I felt a bit rough, runny noise, dry lips etc.  I cheated a bit and used the Tram/Tube to commute for those two days, but yesterday started cycle commuting again.  Today there doesn't seem to be any obvious symptoms of whatever it was.  I think my blood sugar is still running a bit high (which is often an indicator of illness), but grottynesswise I feel pretty much OK.

It could have been random Basil-Barakta disease, but if it was, it was pretty rapidly contagious.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 23 September, 2010, 02:24:14 pm
Quote from: TimO on 23 September, 2010, 02:19:30 pm
It could have been random Basil-Barakta disease, but if it was, it was pretty rapidly contagious.

Perhaps we should be asking: who was on the camping trip and hasn't felt a touch lurgified this week?

(My lungs seem to have settled quite a bit over the last few hours, so hoping I'll be back on the bike by the weekend)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 September, 2010, 03:47:07 pm
Sitting in a pub In Rye, no dolphins in sight, of whatever persuasion (YACF point to whoever gets the reference)
It's cool and damp, thankfully the KimFlu doesn't seem to be affecting me too badly....
Title: Irrelevant geek question
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 September, 2010, 04:55:38 pm
Which football team's name consists entirely of open letters?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 September, 2010, 04:58:13 pm
Hull
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 September, 2010, 05:01:39 pm
Allegedly working.  

But with the day I've had (somewhat challenging) on top of the week/month/etc etc I've had, I'm struggling a little to achieve much.  And the drumkit and electric guitar down the corridor are fairly distracting.  And the external DVD drive that one of my colleagues has left whirring away just next to my desk has got just the right incredibly irritating frequency of tick to make me want to throw blunt objects out through the (closed) window and sharp objects at everything else.  So I think I shall depart, deliver cake to the Bike Rescue and possibly attack a few broken bikes with random tools until they come apart (the bikes, not the tools.  Hopefully...) then go home to see my birthday boy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 23 September, 2010, 05:06:22 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 23 September, 2010, 02:24:14 pm
Quote from: TimO on 23 September, 2010, 02:19:30 pm
It could have been random Basil-Barakta disease, but if it was, it was pretty rapidly contagious.

Perhaps we should be asking: who was on the camping trip and hasn't felt a touch lurgified this week?

ME!  I'm as fit as a fit thing.  I'm sitting in Bangor, listening to the RAIN, quaffing well-travelled apple juice that survived being in my pannier as I took the Happy Vertical People Transporter Train to the top of Snowdon for the first helping of this weekend's recumbent SteamPr0n.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 September, 2010, 05:15:58 pm
Doing a spectacular job of not writing the implementation/use guidelines for our revised time management/tracking system.  It goes live 1 October, so I've got plenty of time, right?  :-\
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 September, 2010, 05:43:29 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 23 September, 2010, 04:58:13 pm
Hull

More correctly, Hull City
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 September, 2010, 05:43:37 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 23 September, 2010, 05:15:58 pm
Doing a spectacular job of not writing the implementation/use guidelines for our revised time management/tracking system.  It goes live 1 October, so I've got plenty of time, right?  :-\

You could always revise the time management guidelines to guarantee you had enough time. ;D

eg redefine September to have 60 days or something similar!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 23 September, 2010, 08:20:26 pm
At work listening to the neighbourhood children practicing the piano and contemplating suggesting that a violin would be a good Christmas present for the 3 year old ;D


Quote from: dasmoth on 23 September, 2010, 02:24:14 pm
Quote from: TimO on 23 September, 2010, 02:19:30 pm
It could have been random Basil-Barakta disease, but if it was, it was pretty rapidly contagious.

Perhaps we should be asking: who was on the camping trip and hasn't felt a touch lurgified this week?

Me! Shockingly healthy so far ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 September, 2010, 08:33:11 pm
I've got quite enough ick for both of us :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 23 September, 2010, 08:58:46 pm
I hope you don't get it. I'm 5 days into it and I feel very shit.  It's a chest cold, so I'll be off the bike until at least next monday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 23 September, 2010, 10:21:16 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 23 September, 2010, 02:24:14 pm
Perhaps we should be asking: who was on the camping trip and hasn't felt a touch lurgified this week?
Me. I got a miracle knee cure instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 September, 2010, 10:32:10 pm
Was it Hummers' special cream?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 September, 2010, 10:52:46 pm
Watching the national rail live departures/arrival pages and twitter, taking bets on whether Charlotte's actually going to make it to Mordor...  It's not looking good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 September, 2010, 10:56:26 pm
Quote from: clarion on 23 September, 2010, 10:32:10 pm
Was it Hummers' special cream?

* Swallows mouthful of sick *

Hmm... thanks for that mental image  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 September, 2010, 09:54:31 am
Quote from: Chris S on 23 September, 2010, 10:56:26 pm
Quote from: clarion on 23 September, 2010, 10:32:10 pm
Was it Hummers' special cream?

* Swallows mouthful of sick *
Yeah, it was a lot like that for me, too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 September, 2010, 01:35:03 pm
Eating rather good fish'n'chips at the Brittania Inn, Dungeness.   Right next to the power station.....

What a strange place!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 September, 2010, 09:59:13 pm
Feeling annoyed that I've done my back in four days before a long-haul flight and two months on the bike.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 September, 2010, 11:03:14 pm
Procrastinating and footling on the interwebs when I should be making a birthday cake, sorting out party bags and wrapping up a pass the parcel.

And now I've just realised that I forgot to get get pass the parel stuff....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 25 September, 2010, 01:07:19 am
Just finishing packing for our trip to Oz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 25 September, 2010, 04:03:40 am
Not sleeping. Putting a washing on. Emtying the bins. Sorting socks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 25 September, 2010, 04:05:49 am
Having brekky and heading to airport in a minute. To pick someone up unfortunately.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 September, 2010, 08:43:10 am
Wondering where best to get spokes for TGL's bike that he was supposed to be riding today.  And missing Butterfly, who has had to go off on the ride without us :( :( :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 25 September, 2010, 08:54:03 am
Eating a fried egg sandwich before driving the 9 miles to Weight Watchers. Not sure why I am fat.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 25 September, 2010, 09:04:00 am
Quote from: essexian on 25 September, 2010, 08:54:03 am
Eating a fried egg sandwich before driving the 9 miles to Weight Watchers. Not sure why I am fat.  :facepalm:

LOL!   ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: +paul on 25 September, 2010, 02:41:50 pm
Playing on the Groves bandstand with the Chester Wind Band in the glorious autumn sun!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 September, 2010, 02:44:54 pm
Eating bean stew before continuing with our major flat-cleaning and packing!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 September, 2010, 03:39:44 pm
Not doing the dishes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 September, 2010, 04:04:26 pm
On the train back from London at the end of my holiday :-(

It's a glorious day outside, I've got a good book and a bottle of Spitfire....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 September, 2010, 06:37:11 pm
Having just managed to finish cutting the lawn before the sun goes down, I am currently sitting in the garden, fellating a bottle of Old Speckled Hen.
Title: Stuff
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 September, 2010, 07:38:59 pm
Sitting in a cold park in St Albans waiting for Reginald D Hunter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 25 September, 2010, 07:41:00 pm
I didn't know you were into the cottaging scene, Wow.
Title: Stuff
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 September, 2010, 07:54:20 pm
When you're cottaging at least part of you is warm.
Title: Someone should tell Wowbagger
Post by: Rapples on 25 September, 2010, 08:00:21 pm
He's doing it again ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 September, 2010, 08:15:12 pm
About to start the next stint of flat cleaning and packing... I must have chucked away (into the charity bin) about 2/3 of my clothes so far.
Title: Stuff
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 September, 2010, 12:36:20 am
On the penultimate train to Southend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 September, 2010, 08:52:32 am
I'm wondering how wise or otherwise it it to go for a short,easy ride with an "iffy" left leg that wouldn't co-operate earlier this morning when the starting gun for a 200km ride went off.
Kill or cure?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 September, 2010, 02:31:38 pm
Hiding with the photocopier. Fondling warm paper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 28 September, 2010, 08:29:15 pm
Going to bed with a hot toddy.

Blearcccchhhhh. Sneeeeeze.

 :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 September, 2010, 09:22:21 pm
Watching a replay of Milibland's speech.  Losing interest fast.  At least he's not as patronising as Cameron or, for that matter, Bliar (who started far too many sentences with "Look...").
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 September, 2010, 09:34:21 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 28 September, 2010, 08:29:15 pm
Going to bed with a hot toddy.

Blearcccchhhhh. Sneeeeeze.

 :(

a Night Nurse could be good for you.
Or hot Totty?
 ;D
GWS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 September, 2010, 09:36:18 pm
Making sloe gin.

Have bought too much gin, so now i have to decide if i should use some of the damsons for the damson jam to make damson gin.

What does the panel think?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 September, 2010, 09:41:02 pm
i think that whatever you decide you can't go wrong.
Have a G&T while deciding
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 28 September, 2010, 09:48:05 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 28 September, 2010, 09:36:18 pm
Making sloe gin.

Have bought too much gin, so now i have to decide if i should use some of the damsons for the damson jam to make damson gin.

What does the panel think?

Damson Gin - can I have first taster please, please  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 September, 2010, 09:56:00 pm
I love jam but I don't like gin, but I doubt you're going to send me any of whatever you make anyway, so don't let that influence you.

*contender for most pointless post of the year award*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 September, 2010, 09:58:56 pm
Well, the jam will be ready when I'm next in Edinburgh. The gin won't.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 September, 2010, 10:03:46 pm
Feeling £320 lighter after fighting online with a Qantas excess luggage purchase. £320*3 legs of journey = ouchy.

But yay for our biiig holiday tomorrow!  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 September, 2010, 10:06:04 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 28 September, 2010, 10:03:46 pm
Feeling £320 lighter after fighting online with a Qantas excess luggage purchase. £320*3 legs of journey = ouchy.

 :o

Lordy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 28 September, 2010, 10:11:38 pm
Yup especially when they said nothing about it all when we booked the tickets.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 28 September, 2010, 10:15:07 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 28 September, 2010, 09:56:00 pm
I love jam but I don't like gin, but I doubt you're going to send me any of whatever you make anyway, so don't let that influence you.

*contender for most pointless post of the year award*

Vodka's a good alternative to gin for homemade fruity drinkahol concoctions (blaeberry vodka is particularly good and is an amazing almost-black-but actually-purple sort of colour).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 September, 2010, 01:19:38 am
Jam finally made and all the sticky red stuff cleaned up.

15 jars of damson jam, no damson gin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 29 September, 2010, 09:54:21 am
Sitting on my sofa enlurgied, and thinking that I should really eat some breakfast, but not having much appetite for it.

I hate being off ill. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 29 September, 2010, 10:48:16 am
In airport waiting for gate after an annoying taxi ride to airport.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 29 September, 2010, 11:11:22 am
Sitting around at my internship waiting for VLC to install, so that I can rip some videos of news reports from DVDs and upload them to YouTube.

An entirely futile exercise, as they won't give a mere intern the password for their YouTube account.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 29 September, 2010, 12:02:08 pm
Lookin' for a job....

Just been made a victim of Mr Cameron's cuts...  So I, who have taken countless people out of fuel poverty, and brought large amounts of wonga into my employers coffers, get the chop while useless fucking bankers continue to rip us off.  its all made worse by the fact that upon redundancy I have to face the fact that my mortgage endowment policy which is due in august 2011 has underperformed appallingly, caused by incompetent wankers/bankers again....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rdaviesb on 29 September, 2010, 01:07:57 pm
Second commute of the day, this time down the West Coast Mainline to the sarf. Dahon safely stowed behind my seat. Please tell me its not raining?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 29 September, 2010, 08:16:55 pm
babysitting and listening to Allan Sherman on my ipod.
 :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 30 September, 2010, 08:06:08 am
Making myself late for work, rooting for D.Millar.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 September, 2010, 08:32:00 am
About to go for the last bike ride of the month.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 September, 2010, 08:49:13 am
On the phone, on hold, to the helplessdesk.  Wish me luck....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 30 September, 2010, 03:46:12 pm
Not sleeping.  Want to be sleeping.  Was up all night.  Will be up all night tonight.

But no.

Instead I am listening to someone up the road who is using Petrol.  Powered.  Hedge trimmers.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 30 September, 2010, 03:54:11 pm
Home early and already in bed with lemsips and whisky. Feeling awful and wondering if I'll be able to speak at all in my "big" presentation tomorrow.

Ug. I haz someone's lurgy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 September, 2010, 03:56:12 pm
Having serious thoughts about going back to bed :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 September, 2010, 07:37:40 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 30 September, 2010, 03:54:11 pm
Home early and already in bed with lemsips and whisky. Feeling awful and wondering if I'll be able to speak at all in my "big" presentation tomorrow.

Ug. I haz someone's lurgy.

Don't feel obliged to come over at the weekend,those bits are not needed in a hurry:stay at home getting well.
It'll be best for both of us ;D
GWS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 30 September, 2010, 08:13:31 pm
Listening to the small child I'm babysitting making more noise than I thought possible.

So much for doing work tonight  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 30 September, 2010, 08:21:19 pm
Just done & filed my company accounts, VAT return & corporation tax return, and paid the lot - all  online

t'internet is a wondrous thing.  Did it all in a couple of hours, without moving my arse from the chair.

A glass of wine may be called for;  I'll drink to the profession of amateur accountancy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 September, 2010, 08:23:31 pm
Contemplating getting off my lazy &rse to
1) do the dishes
2) go for a ride to test my recently fettled lighting configuration
 :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 30 September, 2010, 08:24:12 pm
Malfunctioning
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 September, 2010, 08:25:37 pm
Today is the last day of my Company's financial year so will soon have to a "MV"

Edit: In truth I shall delegate same
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 30 September, 2010, 09:08:27 pm
Quote from: jogler on 30 September, 2010, 07:37:40 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 30 September, 2010, 03:54:11 pm
Home early and already in bed with lemsips and whisky. Feeling awful and wondering if I'll be able to speak at all in my "big" presentation tomorrow.

Ug. I haz someone's lurgy.

Don't feel obliged to come over at the weekend,those bits are not needed in a hurry:stay at home getting well.
It'll be best for both of us ;D
GWS

Thanks. I'll see how it goes. Several hot toddies have had a positive effect so far.

I could leave the stuff on your doorstep in a bath of Miltons and phone from a safe distance?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 September, 2010, 09:12:07 pm
Or you could get one of the several hot totties to come across .
IYSWIM ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 30 September, 2010, 09:15:27 pm
Making chutney.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 30 September, 2010, 09:18:35 pm
Mrs MV is working late, so the kittens and I have a nice fire going, and we're watching Alien Resurrection with a bottle or so of Kingstone's 1503 Tudor Ale
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 30 September, 2010, 09:29:41 pm
Kid has finally gone to sleep.  Have managed to get through the first part of the work I was doing but now stuck on parts two and three - the bits I should be finding easy.  Argh.

Actually, it's worse than just "work": I'm not actually employed at the moment, but if I do this stuff well, I could be at the end of it, and off Jobseekers Allowance.  I am stressing myself out something rotten over it, as you might imagine; living off benefits sucks major hairy... things.  Let's say "yetis".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 September, 2010, 09:45:15 pm
I'm forcing myself to eat the Smoky Bacon crisps that mrs. jogler brought into the house this morning.
This is necessary to avoid them being un-eaten when the BestBefore date arrives
I shall sacrifice myself on the alter of food consumption.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 September, 2010, 10:53:42 pm
Trying to install a new printer. It's been "installing software" for roughly an eon. I think I'll go to bed and leave it to it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 October, 2010, 09:17:13 am
Re-tagging 12000+ MP3s and looking after a particularly poorly little dragon :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 October, 2010, 09:19:42 am
Quote from: tiermat on 01 October, 2010, 09:17:13 am
Re-tagging 12000+ MP3s and looking after a particularly poorly little dragon :(

Aww, bless her.  Give her a hug from me. 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 01 October, 2010, 10:22:55 am
Drinking coffee in attempt to wake up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 October, 2010, 11:03:37 am
Wearing the badge of grandfatherhood - a splodge of baby vom on an otherwise clean shirt. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 October, 2010, 11:06:29 am
You've not yet learned that the uniform of fatherhood/grandfatherhood includes a teatowel or terry draped over one shoulder?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 01 October, 2010, 03:27:01 pm
being distracted by ridiculously cute narwhals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc&feature=player_embedded)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 01 October, 2010, 03:42:00 pm
reading YACF 'cos they've made me redundant and I really don't give a flying fuck right now....  might get back to some work next week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 October, 2010, 01:39:22 pm
Making soup and listening to Aretha.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 October, 2010, 01:41:52 pm
Quote from: tajasel on 01 October, 2010, 03:27:01 pm
being distracted by ridiculously cute narwhals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc&feature=player_embedded)
That needs to be in the best video clips ever thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 03 October, 2010, 02:28:18 pm
Avoiding marking. Three hours done, five to go...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 October, 2010, 02:36:19 pm
Thinking that it's probably a good thing that Tiermat and TLD didn't come to York for a bike ride with EldestCub and me today.  Although obviously it would be preferable for TLD to not be poorly, it isn't very good bike-riding weather out there today!

And trying to decide if I should get on my bike and go out in the rain to the pool for a swim.  It's really rather soggy out there....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 October, 2010, 02:37:55 pm
Catching up with client case work from the Wednesday law clinic.  Thankfully it si raining or I'd be out on the bike instead.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 October, 2010, 02:49:21 pm
Making cake and listening to Aretha.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 03 October, 2010, 03:52:57 pm
Sinking to the screeching and hair-pulling level of RAGE at No2Daughter over her refusal to do her homework because she is the laziest scummiest child on the planet. Funny how she understands well enough when 'ou' starts the sentence that ends 'les gateaux'.

I hate children.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 October, 2010, 04:00:09 pm
Quote from: boab on 03 October, 2010, 03:52:57 pm
Sinking to the screeching and hair-pulling level of RAGE at No2Daughter over her refusal to do her homework because she is the laziest scummiest child on the planet. Funny how she understands well enough when 'ou' starts the sentence that ends 'les gateaux'.

I hate children.

Sometimes they don't get a lot better when they are adults.

We had a flying visit from youngest daughter this morning, coming to help herself to some crockery and stuff for when she moves into her new place in a couple of weeks. No problem with her taking the stuff - some of it was already hers and we've got too much anyway - but the totally ungracious and self-centred attitude she showed throughout left us open-mouthed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 03 October, 2010, 05:10:09 pm
Just fixed a puncture that delayed the final letdown until after I reached home.  Now editing yesterday's youth footie match pics while keeping in touch with the Ryder Cup.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 October, 2010, 05:21:04 pm
I've just been reproofing two Goretex jackets. My cycling jacket is easy - just a single skin. My walking jacket is a different beast all together and I think I must have put it away wet or something, because I kept on rinsing but the eater went a horrible brown colour for ages afterwards. I reckon it was full of mildew spores.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 October, 2010, 06:50:12 pm
I'm just checking some of our incoming component deliveries.  Eight resistors, total cost £55.  Three transistors, total cost £1650. :o

Space qualified components are ridiculously expensive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 05 October, 2010, 07:02:19 pm
Just finished baking my 9 in x 3 in chocolate / orange / hazelnut cake. Its even got some of my home made honey bread in it's contents. Should be cool enough to transport in my pannier bag to take to my little girls and boy by bicycle in ten minutes  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 07 October, 2010, 04:47:44 pm
Contemplating taking up golf but there is a snag.Only one:but it is a big one :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 07 October, 2010, 05:21:39 pm
Sitting at euston station wondering why i booked the 19.07 train when i finished work at half four.... oh i remember... didn't want to have to sell the wife to afford a peak rate ticket. 87 quid for 130 miles peak time. I am not laughing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 07 October, 2010, 05:50:51 pm
Quote from: jogler on 07 October, 2010, 04:47:44 pm
Contemplating taking up golf but there is a snag.Only one:but it is a big one :-\

Still not old enough?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 07 October, 2010, 05:57:49 pm
^^^^
It's times like this when I wonder why I like you *;D
The snag is I don't like golf(a good walk spoiled) but my experience is that an awfull lot of business takes place on the 19th hole.
I suppose I could try the Masons :-\

*yeah,yeah;it's your charm,you silver tongued devil
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 07 October, 2010, 09:29:54 pm
Wondering how the bottle of Glenlivet that arrived with my brother at tea time is nearky empty.
One of us must be pisssed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 07 October, 2010, 09:31:09 pm
posting on the 'have you been out today' thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 07 October, 2010, 09:33:01 pm
watching a bloody great spider walk across my bedroom floor  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Blade on 07 October, 2010, 10:40:11 pm
Mrs Blade is away for the night, telling lots of headteachers what to do.

So, I'm home alone ,wasting my evening on the computer,drinking ouzo and eating dried fruit :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 October, 2010, 11:57:12 pm
Eating cheddar cheese and savoury biscuits, and drinking coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 08 October, 2010, 12:01:06 am
Working on an EU project proposal, so I can go and play at the new house tomorrow rather than working :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 08 October, 2010, 12:07:07 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 07 October, 2010, 11:57:12 pm
Eating cheddar cheese and savoury biscuits, and drinking coffee.

So you will either not sleep or have vivid dreams?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 October, 2010, 12:15:56 am
Quote from: Adrian on 08 October, 2010, 12:07:07 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 07 October, 2010, 11:57:12 pm
Eating cheddar cheese and savoury biscuits, and drinking coffee.

So you will either not sleep or have vivid dreams?

Perhaps I should go for a bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 October, 2010, 12:27:38 am
Quote from: Kirst on 03 October, 2010, 01:41:52 pm
Quote from: tajasel on 01 October, 2010, 03:27:01 pm
being distracted by ridiculously cute narwhals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc&feature=player_embedded)
That needs to be in the best video clips ever thread.

This one is better


    YouTube
        - Baby Baboon
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVAXJm_kjno)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 October, 2010, 12:29:47 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 08 October, 2010, 12:15:56 am
Perhaps I should go for a bike ride.

I was just thinking that in a semi-serious way.  My body seems to have spent the day wanting to go into hibernation though, so that's bound to be a bad idea.

I'm utterly sick of this low-level lurgy crap.  It's been bloody weeks now, and every time I get on a bike I feel like my legs are made of lead for the first 5km, get through the ride mostly okay then collapse with exhaustion afterwards.  And that's before the ear and lung problems, which are becoming increasingly boring.

Pestilence sucks, I'm going to re-train as War or something.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 08 October, 2010, 04:00:54 am
Just woken up having fallen asleep on the sofa and considering going to bed.

Route checked the anfractous today er yesterday.

I wonder if these two facts are related?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 08 October, 2010, 07:19:23 am
Having been distracted by work over breakfast and getting on a later train than normal, am wondering how people cope with these sardine conditions every day.

Back to the 6.28 next week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 08 October, 2010, 07:47:27 am
 on the train having a caonversation on Facebook with my wife. Who is sitting next to me!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robbo6 on 08 October, 2010, 12:24:07 pm
Wondering why this pasta tastes of soap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 October, 2010, 12:53:49 pm
Pouring a latte down my chin.
Mouth and lips totally numb after visit to dentist.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 October, 2010, 08:42:50 pm
Drinking red wine and digesting a chicken curry, my lips are still tingling.  Wishing that this bloody phlegmy cough would go away. I don't like to here bubbling when I breathe...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 October, 2010, 08:46:54 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 08 October, 2010, 08:42:50 pm
I don't like to here bubbling when I breathe...

 ;D

mind you,I was always glad of the sound when on the S.S. Mohegan at 30 metres on the Manacles Reef ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 08 October, 2010, 09:33:23 pm
Enjoying a small(ish) helping of Vacherin Mont d'Or with a glass of McGuigan Black Label Cabernet Merlot.

nom nom - must get another lump and glass.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 October, 2010, 10:57:05 pm
Eating chestnuts whilst listening to Beethoven's 3rd piano concerto.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 October, 2010, 11:06:38 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 October, 2010, 08:46:54 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 08 October, 2010, 08:42:50 pm
I don't like to here bubbling when I breathe...

 ;D

mind you,I was always glad of the sound when on the S.S. Mohegan at 30 metres on the Manacles Reef ;)

I've been manacled once or twice myself in the past.. :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 09 October, 2010, 10:42:21 am
watching kids tv with a poorly miss dan the younger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 October, 2010, 05:52:25 am
Wondering if I should get up and take more drugs. On balance, I think yes.

Shame there's no amphetamines in the house, ibuprofen it'll have to be then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 10 October, 2010, 06:54:42 am
Installing AlienBBC whilst the kids are playing nicely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 10 October, 2010, 02:18:19 pm
Feeling sore in a variety of places, and very tired.  Looking at the mountain of crap.  Waiting for the Gaggia to warm up so that I might make some kind of stimulating beverage, but tempted just to go back to bed.

Here's the thing: going to the gym on Friday and rowing 5000m, running 4km, doing 25 push ups and 40 sit ups would probably be ok.

Going out the next day and riding with the tri club, on the front, in hilly Essex hills, and then doing the extra loop with Iron Man Ivan - and on fixed - not so much.  Going for a "gentle" swim afterwards seemed like a good idea at the time too.

Ow.

Edit: and perhaps I need a new avatar.  Something a bit more decrepit.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 October, 2010, 08:28:35 pm
eating cake & snorting drinking Coke
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 October, 2010, 08:29:13 pm
Waiting for a man to bring me curry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 October, 2010, 08:40:11 pm
A man in particular, or would any man do?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 October, 2010, 08:43:48 pm
The curry man. I'm still waiting. I might phone again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 October, 2010, 09:01:28 pm
I'd bring you some, especially if I were to be rewarded with parkin.  Thing is, it may be a mite cold if I did... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 10 October, 2010, 09:25:41 pm
 Vaguely paying attention to HhGttG (it being 42 day* and all) whilst trying to figure out why my netbook is denying me the latest version of Ubuntu :(

* 10/10/10 = 42 in base2 binary.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 10 October, 2010, 09:26:59 pm
Thinking about having a bath.  I've not had a bath since, umm, probably last weekend!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 October, 2010, 06:11:51 pm
Feeling cruddy post flu jab and failing to get anything useful done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 October, 2010, 07:33:50 pm
Texting the colleague to whom I am giving baking lessons. This week, we're doing jam tarts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 12 October, 2010, 11:01:08 am
Chair dancing to Chaka Khan whilst deceiving myself that I am downloading a lecture.
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Post by: clarion on 12 October, 2010, 12:15:28 pm
Chaka Khan
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Post by: clarion on 12 October, 2010, 12:15:46 pm
Chaka Khan...
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Post by: clarion on 12 October, 2010, 12:16:20 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 12 October, 2010, 11:01:08 am
Chair dancing to Chaka Khan whilst deceiving myself that I am downloading a lecture.

I feel for you ;D
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Post by: LindaG on 12 October, 2010, 12:18:08 pm
 ;D   ;D    ;D

Clarion?

I think I love you ...
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Post by: clarion on 12 October, 2010, 01:16:28 pm
:-*

I managed to resist for a whole hour before I caved in. ;D
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Post by: LindaG on 12 October, 2010, 01:27:12 pm
Quote from: clarion on 12 October, 2010, 01:16:28 pm
:-*

I managed to resist for a whole hour before I caved in. ;D

Bless you lad! 
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Post by: clarion on 12 October, 2010, 02:37:06 pm
Confession: I love Chaka Khan.  She's brilliant and very very sexy

I love her cameo in the Blues Brothers.
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Post by: LindaG on 12 October, 2010, 02:47:44 pm
Quote from: clarion on 12 October, 2010, 02:37:06 pm
Confession: I love Chaka Khan.  She's brilliant and very very sexy

I love her cameo in the Blues Brothers.

I'm sure there's no-one loves her better than you, Clarion.
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Post by: clarion on 12 October, 2010, 03:25:40 pm
Sweet Thing :-*
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Post by: rogerzilla on 13 October, 2010, 06:37:21 pm
Selling Mrs Z's car  :thumbsup:

£1,250 more (and more than twice as much) than the cheeky dealer offered us as trade in.  I have never traded in a car in my life.
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Post by: tiermat on 13 October, 2010, 06:43:28 pm
Waiting for not one, but two agencies to ring me back regarding jobs....

Had telephone interviews today, no idea how they went, as I loath telephone interviews so spent most of the time panicking!
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Post by: Chris S on 13 October, 2010, 06:51:15 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 13 October, 2010, 06:43:28 pm
Waiting for not one, but two agencies to ring me back regarding jobs....

Had telephone interviews today, no idea how they went, as I loath telephone interviews so spent most of the time panicking!

Good Luck!

Last telephone interview I had was in 1991 - and it went like this:

Interviewer: "Do you know PVCS?"
Me: "Yes."
Interviewer: "How do you make a branch?"
Me: <boring technical answer deleted but suffice to say, it was correct>
Interviewer: "See you Monday."

I suspect things are somewhat different these days, and with another 1500 IT contractors about to hit The Bench from Lloyds, I guess it isn't going to get any easier  :(.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 October, 2010, 06:54:55 pm
Fingers and toes crossed for you Tiermat!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 October, 2010, 07:02:21 pm
Waiting for Mary to arrive so I can teach her how to make jam tarts.
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Post by: Butterfly on 13 October, 2010, 07:19:18 pm
That sounds like fun Kirst :).
I'm babysitting, watching Miners being rescued and contemplating setting fire to the house so that the neighbours no longer have a piano ::-).
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Post by: andrewc on 13 October, 2010, 07:54:57 pm
Sitting in my flat thinking that it's a bit on the cool side, though the thermometer says 17C. Time to dig a jumper out.
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Post by: Adrian on 13 October, 2010, 08:05:28 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 13 October, 2010, 06:37:21 pm
Selling Mrs Z's car  :thumbsup:

£1,250 more (and more than twice as much) than the cheeky dealer offered us as trade in.  I have never traded in a car in my life.

Me neither, but I've never bought or sold one.
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Post by: Greenbank on 13 October, 2010, 08:10:01 pm
Not revising for Friday's exam.
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Post by: L CC on 14 October, 2010, 04:38:33 am
Not sleeping, again.
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Post by: LindaG on 14 October, 2010, 09:15:37 am
Quote from: tiermat on 13 October, 2010, 06:43:28 pm
Waiting for not one, but two agencies to ring me back regarding jobs....

Had telephone interviews today, no idea how they went, as I loath telephone interviews so spent most of the time panicking!

Good luck!
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Post by: jogler on 14 October, 2010, 07:13:17 pm
Giving my air guitar a thorough thrashing.......Ghost Riders In the Sky.In the style of Duanne Eddie
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Post by: Jaded on 14 October, 2010, 07:58:23 pm
Quote from: clarion on 10 October, 2010, 09:01:28 pm
I'd bring you some, especially if I were to be rewarded with parkin.  Thing is, it may be a mite cold if I did... :(


Ladies, remember.

Parkin is Yorkshire for shagging. 
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 October, 2010, 08:17:27 pm
I have parkin in my kitchen cupboard.
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Post by: essexian on 14 October, 2010, 08:22:55 pm
Wondering what it is going to take to get back in the wife and her mums good books....

Why? Took them out to lunch, went to pay and discovered I did not have my debt card or any cash with me...they ended up paying.

Posting this from the garage.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 14 October, 2010, 08:36:28 pm
 ;D
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Post by: BrianI on 14 October, 2010, 09:06:19 pm
Playing with my Tibetan Singing Bowl!   :thumbsup:  (Which isn't a Tibetan version of The Singing Kettle), but a small copper bowl which when struck with a wooden rod, makes a nice melodious sound if the rim is continually stroked in a circular fashion with the same rod.   :)
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Post by: Deano on 14 October, 2010, 09:08:53 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 14 October, 2010, 09:06:19 pm
Playing with my Tibetan Singing Bowl!   :thumbsup:  (Which isn't a Tibetan version of The Singing Kettle), but a small copper bowl which when struck with a wooden rod, makes a nice melodious sound if the rim is continually stroked in a circular fashion with the same rod.   :)

I saw the Wilderness of Manitoba using those as instruments during a gig - they made a quite marvellous sound.
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Post by: mike on 14 October, 2010, 09:16:25 pm
 
Quote from: BrianI on 14 October, 2010, 09:06:19 pm
Playing with my Tibetan Singing Bowl!   :thumbsup:  (Which isn't a Tibetan version of The Singing Kettle), but a small copper bowl which when struck with a wooden rod, makes a nice melodious sound if the rim is continually stroked in a circular fashion with the same rod.   :)


do you have an extra brain?
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Post by: Kim on 14 October, 2010, 09:21:27 pm
Trying not to lean on anything.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 14 October, 2010, 09:25:19 pm
Crawling the walls wading through over-complicated Particulars of Claim and Witness Statements.
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Post by: Chris S on 14 October, 2010, 09:34:23 pm
Moping.

If I was pissed, I would be maudlin.

Sobriety doesn't have a great deal going for it, TBH.
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Post by: clarion on 14 October, 2010, 09:41:13 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 14 October, 2010, 07:58:23 pm
Quote from: clarion on 10 October, 2010, 09:01:28 pm
I'd bring you some, especially if I were to be rewarded with parkin.  Thing is, it may be a mite cold if I did... :(


Ladies, remember.

Parkin is Yorkshire for shagging. 

I like parkin any time day or night.  I like it best at the kitchen table, but you could find me having it anywhere.  Even outside - I'm not fussy.  It's particularly good when camping, but you have to watch out because it can get rather messy & sticky in your tent.
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Post by: Basil on 14 October, 2010, 10:12:50 pm
Eating.  Frantically.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 October, 2010, 10:29:57 pm
Quote from: Deano on 14 October, 2010, 09:08:53 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 14 October, 2010, 09:06:19 pm
Playing with my Tibetan Singing Bowl!   :thumbsup:  (Which isn't a Tibetan version of The Singing Kettle), but a small copper bowl which when struck with a wooden rod, makes a nice melodious sound if the rim is continually stroked in a circular fashion with the same rod.   :)

I saw the Wilderness of Manitoba using those as instruments during a gig - they made a quite marvellous sound.

I have a teacher friend who uses one as her 'time to shut up and listen' signal to the smalls in her class.  If they are very very good they are sometimes allowed a turn too.
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Post by: Greenbank on 15 October, 2010, 09:30:29 am
Having a coffee before going in to a 3 hour exam that covers half of a second year maths course.

Mmm, I love the smell of pure maths in the morning.

Will have a beer in my hand at 1.05pm hopefully.
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Post by: clarion on 15 October, 2010, 09:37:21 am
Good luck.
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Post by: Greenbank on 15 October, 2010, 02:03:22 pm
Hmm. General consensus is that the paper was at the tough end of the scale.

Definitely passed, just hope that my exam grade is enough to match my coursework grade (the course result is the lower of the two).

Find out on December 17th (at which point I'll be bumped up to a Diploma in Maths, only half a third year to go, spread over two years, before that becomes a Bachelors).
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 October, 2010, 06:32:30 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 October, 2010, 09:41:13 pm

I like parkin any time day or night.  I like it best at the kitchen table, but you could find me having it anywhere.  Even outside - I'm not fussy.  It's particularly good when camping, but you have to watch out because it can get rather messy & sticky in your tent.
I had parkin with five men and a woman at lunchtime. It didn't take long.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 16 October, 2010, 05:24:04 am
Watching the online Dubai departures board.

"Not yet departed" 

Come on Mrs G.  :-*
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Post by: JohnP on 16 October, 2010, 08:09:23 am
Getting ready to go a photograph 2 youth league football matches.  Tomorrow we have a county cup match.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 October, 2010, 12:59:16 pm
Sitting in considerable pain from my left leg and ankle, still amused by the paltry amount the Norwich Union Pension calculator reckoned I'll be getting from the vast fortune I've squandered with them over the past 15 years.

Will go to A & E after lunch to check for deep vein thrombosis. I don't think that an arthritic attack in the ankle is meant to make the calf swell up.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 October, 2010, 03:00:39 pm
Go now. If you're not already there.

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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 October, 2010, 08:53:00 pm
I'm back. I'm glad I had lunch first as it took 5 hours and I would have starved to death before I'd been seen otherwise.

I don't think they thought I was a terribly critical case because lots of people came and went while I was waiting.

The doc I saw thought it might be DVT and I was given two injections of clexane, told to come back tomorrow evening for another two and I will be telephoned on Monday for a scan.

The ingredients are all there for DVT to be honest. I reckon the arthritic attack has restricted the blood flow through my left leg. My pulse rate is stupidly low. I measured it three times this morning at 46, 46 and 44. It was 60 when I was in A & E.

I have just eaten a rather good pork chop with veg and a fairy cake made by Mrs. Wow's own fair hand. There's some superior Lancashire parkin in the oven as I type.
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Post by: Basil on 17 October, 2010, 01:53:09 am
Stroking a pussy.
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Post by: jogler on 17 October, 2010, 06:08:21 am
Eating porridge
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Post by: JohnP on 17 October, 2010, 08:48:56 am
Just watched the MotoGP from Phillip Island.

No results in case anybody is still waiting to watch it.
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Post by: Clandy on 17 October, 2010, 10:33:53 am
Building a 'kin' 'normous IKEA wardrobe.
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Post by: Wendy on 17 October, 2010, 07:03:49 pm
Quote from: Clandy on 17 October, 2010, 10:33:53 am
Building a 'kin' 'normous IKEA wardrobe.

Oooh, nice one!  I love building IKEA stuff.  Built our Pax Malm a few months ago, it's a super purchase and we're very chuffed with it.  2.00 x 2.36m in black/brown with a mirror.
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Post by: Clandy on 17 October, 2010, 07:17:58 pm
I only went along to keep her company. Then saw this bargain (http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80183944)…  ::-)
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Post by: Wendy on 17 October, 2010, 07:21:16 pm
LOL!  I do love going to IKEA too, even if you get snagged on things you decide you do need after all.  My proudest moment this summer holidays was shopping my partner into submission at IKEA.  That's a rare event.   ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 17 October, 2010, 07:21:36 pm
Just about to go back to A & E for another clexane injection.
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Post by: Chris S on 17 October, 2010, 07:30:33 pm
Digesting a roast dinner.Mmmm....

And I have tomorrow off - so it's Pseudo Saturday  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jurek on 17 October, 2010, 07:39:02 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 17 October, 2010, 07:21:36 pm
Just about to go back to A & E for another clexane injection.

That sounds like not the best way of spending a Sunday evening.
Commiseration.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 October, 2010, 07:43:43 pm
Googling the internet for goth wigs.
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Post by: valkyrie on 17 October, 2010, 07:45:51 pm
Stuffing the brevet cards from my audax into envelopes to send back to all those that finished. Praise be to envelopes that don't require licking.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 October, 2010, 04:02:46 pm
My DVT scan came back with a good result. Also, the arthritic swelling in my foot is receding and the foot now merely feels as though it has been crushed, rather than feeling as though it was on fire. At least I can get it in a shoe again.

Back on the bike tomorrow.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 18 October, 2010, 04:07:31 pm
Retrieving the playlist I made for my pregnant friend Jenny.  The one I didn't get round to burning onto a disc.

Except she's no longer pregnant. 

Welcome beautiful Alice.   :)

Hopefully she'll like it anyway.
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Post by: clarion on 18 October, 2010, 04:14:14 pm
Much improved news, Wow :)
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Post by: eck on 18 October, 2010, 04:19:19 pm
Quote from: valkyrie on 17 October, 2010, 07:45:51 pm
Stuffing the brevet cards from my audax into envelopes to send back to all those that finished. Praise be to envelopes that don't require licking.
And, for those that do, Sellotape is your friend. You know how I know this.  ;)
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Post by: Greenbank on 18 October, 2010, 04:20:43 pm
Pritt-Stick(TM). No faffing with Sellotape(TM), works on envelopes that require sticking and those that don't.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 October, 2010, 10:21:45 pm
Faffing and procrastinating.

And browsing camping kit websites.

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Post by: Butterfly on 18 October, 2010, 10:24:52 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 18 October, 2010, 10:21:45 pm
Faffing and procrastinating.

And browsing camping kit websites.


That sounds like fun :D.
I'm listening to Mitch Benn on youtube - it started with his new song about the BBC and then I got sidetracked ;D.
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Post by: JT on 18 October, 2010, 11:19:07 pm
Tinkering with a client's website, listening to Philip Glass and occasionally stroking the sleeping cat beside me just to make him "chirrup" and start purring.
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Post by: geraldc on 18 October, 2010, 11:26:33 pm
Sorting out 3 large crates of cables.  Currently on SCSI and Parallel port leads...
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Post by: JohnP on 18 October, 2010, 11:37:16 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 18 October, 2010, 04:02:46 pm
My DVT scan came back with a good result. Also, the arthritic swelling in my foot is receding and the foot now merely feels as though it has been crushed, rather than feeling as though it was on fire. At least I can get it in a shoe again.

Back on the bike tomorrow.  :thumbsup:

Seriously GOOD news.  Hope it continues to improve and you get back to your normal daily mileage.
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Post by: Kim on 18 October, 2010, 11:56:56 pm
Quote from: geraldc on 18 October, 2010, 11:26:33 pm
Parallel port leads...

Those things breed.  We must have chucked a couple of dozen when we moved to London, and I still keep finding them!

The no-printers-that-can't-speak-postscript-over-ethernet rule makes them extra pointless.
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Post by: andrewc on 19 October, 2010, 12:03:44 am
Good news Mr Bagger  :thumbsup:   
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Post by: L CC on 19 October, 2010, 12:18:44 am
Waiting for the Christmas cake to finish cooking.
The smell is pretty unbearable for someone on a crash detox kickstart weightloss diet thingymajig.

:trying not to drool:
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Post by: Andrij on 19 October, 2010, 03:27:38 am
1) not sleeping
2) swearing at the intertubes because any radio stream I want to listen to either sounds garbled or keeps cutting out.

 
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Post by: simonp on 19 October, 2010, 08:45:54 pm
Watching KT Tunstall's stage crew do their thing. 13 minutes til KT time.
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Post by: TimO on 19 October, 2010, 09:16:42 pm
Attempting about the dozenth Windows install of the day.

If this one fails as well (on recent experience this seems likely!) I'll keeping on going tomorrow before I give in, send the box off to our support bods, and order a new one.

That way I'll get the OS installed eventually, but get a working box in a couple of days so I can do what I need to do with it.  The older one will probably be returned eventually, but I'm not expecting it to be particularly fast!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 October, 2010, 09:20:33 pm
Gathering together the information required to fill in a tax return and at the same time suffering an arse ache.
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Post by: mike on 19 October, 2010, 09:50:02 pm
Sitting on the train home, more pissed than I expected. Taxi home from the station, then a ride in to get the car tomorrow - excellent.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 October, 2010, 11:17:27 pm
Feeling grumpy, and I don't even know why.  And I still feel grumpy after having made two different sorts of cake.

grump grump grump.

Maybe I should go and clean my bike.  It's utterly revoltingly filthy, and cleaning my bike often cheers me up.
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Post by: simonp on 19 October, 2010, 11:20:56 pm
Quote from: simonp on 19 October, 2010, 08:45:54 pm
Watching KT Tunstall's stage crew do their thing. 13 minutes til KT time.

Awesome.
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Post by: JohnP on 20 October, 2010, 01:01:35 am
wondering why the hell I'm sitting here telling you all what I'm doing.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 20 October, 2010, 01:25:34 am
wondering why I was so upset with a working bike that I had to improve it.
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Post by: clarion on 20 October, 2010, 09:33:24 am
Quote from: simonp on 19 October, 2010, 11:20:56 pm
Quote from: simonp on 19 October, 2010, 08:45:54 pm
Watching KT Tunstall's stage crew do their thing. 13 minutes til KT time.

Awesome.

She is brilliant.  And I'm not at all surprised that she's awesome live.

Does she build up all those layered tracks from scratch live, too?  I saw her do it on a vid of Later...
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Post by: simonp on 20 October, 2010, 11:40:40 am
Quote from: clarion on 20 October, 2010, 09:33:24 am
Quote from: simonp on 19 October, 2010, 11:20:56 pm
Quote from: simonp on 19 October, 2010, 08:45:54 pm
Watching KT Tunstall's stage crew do their thing. 13 minutes til KT time.

Awesome.

She is brilliant.  And I'm not at all surprised that she's awesome live.

Does she build up all those layered tracks from scratch live, too?  I saw her do it on a vid of Later...

Yes, she did Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, and a few other songs featured "Wee Bastard".  There was a technical hitch at the start of one song she did solo, with drum machine and keyboard, but she had an Emergency Joke prepared for the occasion.  There was a cover version of "A Little Respect" in the encore, which was brilliant.  The (not entirely) new band are really good, particularly Charlotte Hatherley (complete with red hair) on guitar.

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Post by: clarion on 20 October, 2010, 11:52:05 am
Charlotte Hatherley?  Of Ash?  Wow.

I thought she was working with Natasha Khan/Bat for Lashes these days.  Maybe she's diversifying her portfolio. ;D
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Post by: simonp on 20 October, 2010, 12:03:51 pm
Quote from: clarion on 20 October, 2010, 11:52:05 am
Charlotte Hatherley?  Of Ash?  Wow.

I thought she was working with Natasha Khan/Bat for Lashes these days.  Maybe she's diversifying her portfolio. ;D

That's the one.
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Post by: Aidan on 20 October, 2010, 12:34:52 pm
I;m sitting looking wistfully out of the window at the cold sunshine and wishing I was out there :-[

Instead I'm sitting writing a planning paper for a complete revamp of our business next year, which , believe or not, is rather complicated.

I'd rather be on my bike
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 October, 2010, 01:01:52 pm
Waiting for an XP install to finish.  Considering going to the staffroom and liberating yet another slice from the cake mountain, and making another cuppa.  Feeling slightly (are you ready for this Kim, it's a shocker) nippy whenever I wander away from the radiator that this pooter is next to despite the fact that I am wearding a cardi.  Wondering if I'll ever get the last of the crud off my hands that I got on my hands whilst cleaning the bike (because it was still covered in Burnby mud from Saturday) yesterday.

And looking out the window, thinking I'd rather be on my bike.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 20 October, 2010, 01:02:57 pm
Just back in from a bracing trip to Banbury & back (even saw the cross!!!). Worked briefly with a colleague in a job as doomed as mine, wondering why we are helping our, a-hem, superiors feather their nests so they have a job after next March when we won't. Luckily, the sum total of our cooperation was bugger all, so chew on that boss!
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Post by: Deano on 20 October, 2010, 01:10:18 pm
Composing a ranty e-mail to Parcelforce, who've had a parcel of mine for more than a week, without telling me about it, then when I found out they had it and e-mailed them about it, they had the gall to tell me I should have been contacted within a week about it.  Useless gits.
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Post by: TimO on 20 October, 2010, 04:25:11 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 October, 2010, 01:01:52 pm
Waiting for an XP install to finish. ....

I spent all yesterday doing this, with an intransigent machine that steadfastly refused to install XP (or 2000 for that matter).  I gave up at 12-30 last night, since it was getting silly late.

Thankfully I solved the problem today, and it's just finished installing. :thumbsup:

That does mean however, that I now need to spend several hours installing updates, anti-virus software, Office, PuTTY, Daemon Tools, a whole mass of drivers, and the actual software that all of this was needed for! (GRMON).

... and anything else which occurs to me as I'm doing it. :-\
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Post by: Andrij on 20 October, 2010, 07:24:21 pm
Quote from: TimO on 20 October, 2010, 04:25:11 pm
That does mean however, that I now need to spend several hours installing updates, anti-virus software, Office, PuTTY, Daemon Tools, a whole mass of drivers, and the actual software that all of this was needed for! (GRMON).

... and anything else which occurs to me as I'm doing it. :-\

I initially misread that as mass driver and began contemplating excuses to visit you at work.  :D
 
 
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Post by: jogler on 20 October, 2010, 07:30:00 pm
In preperation for Sunday's Random Tandem ride I'm sitting in the lounge doing something mega-nerdy :-[

my daughter insists that my grand daughter:who will be OIC from the stoker's saddle:wears a magic hat when cycling so I feel obliged to do likewise contrary to my normal practice.
Therefore I am wearing a h*l*e* indoors & looking like a shoe-in for the NerdoftheYear award:thus hpoing that my neck muscles develop sufficiently to avoid neck ache on Sunday
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Post by: Kim on 20 October, 2010, 07:35:02 pm
Eating supernoodles out of a titanium mug.  For science.
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Post by: barakta on 20 October, 2010, 08:51:18 pm
Quote from: TimO on 20 October, 2010, 04:25:11 pm
That does mean however, that I now need to spend several hours installing updates, anti-virus software, Office, PuTTY, Daemon Tools, a whole mass of drivers, and the actual software that all of this was needed for! (GRMON).

... and anything else which occurs to me as I'm doing it. :-\

Do you know about Ninite Easy PC Setup - Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once (http://ninite.com/) it makes a single installer for a lot of the useful windows crap that you need.  I use it all the time at work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 October, 2010, 09:00:42 pm
Quote from: barakta on 20 October, 2010, 08:51:18 pm
Do you know about Ninite Easy PC Setup - Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once (http://ninite.com/) it makes a single installer for a lot of the useful windows crap that you need.  I use it all the time at work.

Cheers, that looks like an interesting beastie, which will at least let me install some of the junk in one go (Firefox, Gimp, Notepad++, PuTTY, ImgBurn, Acroread, WinSCP & VLC at a quick glance).

I've just started to reinstall Windows, yet again...

The only way I've got of installing XP to machines (generally) is a network install from the College's servers, which has caused me all sorts of issues.  An install CD would be so much easier, but we aren't allowed to have useful things like that. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 20 October, 2010, 10:13:06 pm
Dithering. Go to work or stay in bed? I do know that the world won't stop if I don't go in.  And I shouldn't share this cough with colleagues. But.  But.  Maybe go in at lunchtime?  Or just stay in bed?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 20 October, 2010, 10:30:09 pm
Quote from: TimO on 20 October, 2010, 09:00:42 pm
Cheers, that looks like an interesting beastie, which will at least let me install some of the junk in one go (Firefox, Gimp, Notepad++, PuTTY, ImgBurn, Acroread, WinSCP & VLC at a quick glance).

Indeed.  I tend to add Paint.net, The Gimp, OO and the usual MSN bollocks cos if I don't stuff those on the box the students install all manner of crap - and I need to give them admin privs for installing whatever 'assistive software' they need too.

Quote
The only way I've got of installing XP to machines (generally) is a network install from the College's servers, which has caused me all sorts of issues.  An install CD would be so much easier, but we aren't allowed to have useful things like that. :-\

Oh I don't have anything useful like a Win XP CD either, I can do system restores from system partition on the Acers but haven't managed to work out how the Sony image restore thing works (instructions are fail).   Until recently we had no wireless at work and the wired network is MAC address locked and took my work box offline which wasn't viable - so I was carting laptops home on foot and doing the Windows Updates etc from home.  I also don't have enough legal licences for the office 2003 CD which finally showed up after a year only 20 licences for Office 2007 which sucks and only turned up after 18 months and a reissue of one of the CDs. Although I may be back to bringing them home, the wireless is unreliable, disconnects all the time and the throughput now studes are on site is worse than dialup :(

I have about 40 laptops  which I'm responsible for they're not even standard ones that the uni has or Dilbert-the-IT bloke would give me copies of the default image with stuff sorted on it.  I'm slowly convincing my boss that if AV-technical team of 15-20 people can't run a laptop loan system cos it's too complicated, annoying, timeconsuming then I shouldn't have to do it as 10% of my job either.  Students are going to have to get used to the idea of having their own computer for uni, and a backup option (and please please backups of their data!) for when theirs fails.  I don't see Disabled Students' Allowances funding computers for much longer either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 October, 2010, 11:11:25 pm
I've been using Acronis to backup and recover machine images, which works fine most of the time, but on this occasion the machine was originally supplied with 2000, but we want to put XP on it now.  It's the upgrading process which is causing the pain.

Luckily, for things like MS Office, we have global MS licenses, so we can just install it as many times as we want on work PCs (and home ones for staff as well!)

Even though we are now knee deep in Undergraduates, luckily IC has such a big pipe to the Internet that it's not noticeably slower than it was during the summer.

Our Wireless net is however equally as bad as yours sounds, if I want to install an app on my phone from the Android market, using WiFi, I have to go out of the lab and stand in the corridor.  Through some exceptional trick it works fine in the corridor, but is absolutely useless in our office and lab space. :-\

I've probably got a similar number of machines which I'm not so much responsible for as to blame for, when things don't work!  I've even got some machines which still use DOS 3.3, and which I need to keep working for a few more years yet!

Just for additional fun, I'm going to have to reinstall Windows on a DSO tomorrow, since it's started crashing at random, which looks like it's a software rather than hardware issue.  I get nervous trying to reinstall everything on a £20000 box!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 October, 2010, 03:46:41 am
Baking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 23 October, 2010, 03:55:13 am
what ya baking?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 October, 2010, 03:58:19 am
St Clements cake, and chocolate fridge cake with cherries, apricots, sultanas and dried cranberries in it.  Although the latter isn't so much baking as melting and mixing :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 23 October, 2010, 04:20:46 am
Need a tester?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 23 October, 2010, 07:01:08 am
Starting the day by making tea for Mrs G, who's in bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 October, 2010, 07:11:09 am
Cooking breakfast prior to catching the 8.08 train.

Soggy Suffolk beckons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 23 October, 2010, 07:11:20 am
Re-reading the papers for CTC Council later today, whilst browsing here and gulping down a large cafetiere of coffee to wake me up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 23 October, 2010, 07:12:32 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 23 October, 2010, 07:11:09 am
Cooking breakfast prior to catching the 8.08 train.

Soggy Suffolk beckons.

It is very soggy up this way Wow.  I'd suggest you bring a wetsuit and some fins*







*If you were born in Suffolk, you could just use your web feet.   ;) ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JT on 23 October, 2010, 07:41:05 am
Loading up some routes on my Garmin for today's (wet n windy) CTC ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 23 October, 2010, 10:01:37 am
Working.
My lab skillz are very rusty.
 Still, who doesn't love counting sperm?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 23 October, 2010, 11:22:30 am
Having a Nice Cup Of TeaTM.  Post - funeral.  Which was post night-shift.  Bed in a minute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 23 October, 2010, 12:12:49 pm
Playing with an iPad in the Apple store while I wait for my friends to turn up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 October, 2010, 02:02:20 pm
On a X-country train, going through Derby station.

*waves in the general direction of jogler and Marj*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 October, 2010, 02:44:29 pm
We are waving back as you pass thru' Uttoxeter station.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 October, 2010, 03:29:57 pm
Looking at rain. 
I was just about to go out on the four pannier big shop when it started to rain.  Now wondering whether it's worth waiting a while.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 October, 2010, 03:37:03 pm
I'm looking at that rain too.  Suspect I brought it back from Kent with me.

It's going to get CrinklyLion on her way over here, I'm sure...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 October, 2010, 03:58:02 pm
I'm sat in my living room, surprisingly un-tired after last nights FNRttC.  I'll probably flake out at some point, and pour a mug of coffee into my lap, or something equally disastrous, but at the moment I'm awake and alert.

Talisker is prowling around in the back garden, having been let out quite a few hours later than usual!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 October, 2010, 04:01:12 pm
yacf needs lerts
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 October, 2010, 04:09:14 pm
Quote from: jogler on 23 October, 2010, 04:01:12 pm
yacf needs lerts

Quote from: TimO on 23 October, 2010, 03:58:02 pm
... I'm awake and a lert. ...

That's me! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 October, 2010, 08:03:33 am
Having breakfast at Tebay Services.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 October, 2010, 08:37:59 am
Sitting on a pendolino, awaiting departure from Mordor. And hoping that the guard remembers that he needs to let my bike off when we get there. Slightly shockingly he was friendly and helpful, which is the first time I've found a railway person who smiled in Mordor. Lucky for me that he was looking out of the carriage being surprised about the busyness of the service and I got his attention, as there was zero platform staff that I could ask to open the magic door...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 24 October, 2010, 08:52:58 am
Best of luck there Crinkles.   See you soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 October, 2010, 09:54:26 am
Apologies to anyone  else travelling with virgin trains today, I think I got their full quota of helpful cheerfulness for the day. Wish me luck for the journey home, there might be none left for me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 October, 2010, 11:29:25 am
Cleaning Trojans from a rellie's laptop. I had to dust off and nuke the site from orbit (ie: Alt-F10, System Restore) as windows was unbootable.

*sigh*

I keep telling 'em, "If you aren't expecting a delivery from UPS, why open an email attachment that says it's from UPS?".

Edit: Vista restored. Ye Gods! Look at all this junk software this thing ships with. Now to spend the next hour uninstalling crap  >:(.

*wanders towards rant thread*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 October, 2010, 11:51:04 am
Quote from: Chris S on 24 October, 2010, 11:29:25 am
... I keep telling 'em, "If you aren't expecting a delivery from UPS, why open an email attachment that says it's from UPS?". ...

Not using Lookout Outlook probably helps with those sort of issues.  Having said that, even with Thunderbird I wouldn't open that sort of email, but I'm not averse to checking some emails which may be relevant (and I do fairly often get semi-random emails about orders, which I didn't make, but which I do need to read).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 24 October, 2010, 12:26:23 pm
Quote from: TimO on 24 October, 2010, 11:51:04 am
Quote from: Chris S on 24 October, 2010, 11:29:25 am
... I keep telling 'em, "If you aren't expecting a delivery from UPS, why open an email attachment that says it's from UPS?". ...

Not using Lookout Outlook probably helps with those sort of issues.

Not really. The attachment is, invariably, an .exe (or an .exe pretending to be a .zip). The user still has to choose to double click it to run it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 October, 2010, 12:56:51 pm
No, it depends exactly on the vulnerability, there have been some where merely reading the email is enough.  Generally those sorts of vulnerabilities are patched pretty rapidly because they are so dangerous, but they have occurred.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 24 October, 2010, 01:09:05 pm
Quote from: TimO on 24 October, 2010, 12:56:51 pm
No, it depends exactly on the vulnerability, there have been some where merely reading the email is enough.

There is no vulnerability with these emails. That's why I said it doesn't matter what mail reader is used. These attachments rely on people following the instructions:

"
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office.
"

The attachment is a zip file that contains an .exe file (not a report) probably with an embedded icon that makes it look like a 'report' rather than an exe. Double clicking runs the exe that infects the machine with the payload.

Older viruses did try and get things run by embedding javascript/Active-X in the message and relying on the preview pane to execute this code (with the aim of running arbitrary binaries) but most of those vulnerabilities were patched years ago. Because of that they now simply just try and make people run the things directly.

I downloaded the .zip from one of the emails and ran a virus scan:-

Scan type:  Manual Scan
Event:  Risk Found!
Risk: Trojan.FakeAV!gen18
File:  C:\data\v\UPS_Document_5357.zip>>UPS_Document_5357.exe
Location:  C:\data\v
Action taken:  Cleaned by Deletion
Date found: 24 October 2010  13:11:21

Details at: Trojan.FakeAV | Symantec (http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-101013-3606-99)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 October, 2010, 01:18:12 pm
Tea and biscuit in Inverness.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 24 October, 2010, 01:42:48 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 24 October, 2010, 11:29:25 am
Cleaning Trojans from a rellie's laptop...

That makes at least 2 of us wasting a sunny Sunday doing this same infuriating task. At least I've managed to roll back to a system restore point which looks clean so far. Just 100Mb+ of Windows updates to do now...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 October, 2010, 07:39:22 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 24 October, 2010, 08:03:33 am
Having breakfast at Tebay Services.


Quote from: Jaded on 24 October, 2010, 01:18:12 pm
Tea and biscuit in Inverness.

 :thumbsup:

5hrs 13mins  :o that's some pedalling Jaded
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 October, 2010, 08:08:55 pm
Back in Derby on a XC train again, on my way back to York after a lovely day of  tandem-ing.

*waves in the general direction of jogler and Marj again*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 October, 2010, 08:46:09 pm
& we wave back again as I scoff a fresh fruit salad & fresh cream :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 24 October, 2010, 09:36:28 pm
Booking some Austrian train tickets and trying not to laugh at the word "fahrt".

They ain't as cheap as the UK...there isn't the 90% discount for booking off-peak and in advance.  They do give a small discount for two people travelling together though - it was €68.40 rather than €80.40 for two separate fares.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 October, 2010, 11:41:07 pm
sleepy near Ullapool.

Moonlit night, chilly, lovely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 25 October, 2010, 10:59:51 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 24 October, 2010, 11:41:07 pm
sleepy near Ullapool.

Moonlit night, chilly, lovely.

Lovely post, Jaded.

Almost haiku.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 26 October, 2010, 10:35:37 am
Having a lovely coffee at a 'Paul' cafe in London.

Managed to resist the tasty pastries too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 October, 2010, 11:11:47 am
Burning receipts and catching up on paperwork that I have neglected for the last 2 months....

Also looking out of the window and wishing it to stop raining :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 October, 2010, 11:24:41 am
Whereas I'm looking out the window, and thinking at least it's raining.  We have various fambly visitors and on Sunday I made the socially acceptable decision to not leave with the EldestCub today to go camping, so we're setting off tomorrow and only having 2 nights away instead.  Had the weather been lovely today that would have been quite galling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 27 October, 2010, 10:13:25 am
I am doing a jigsaw. For purely professional reasons of course. The online script needs tidying up but the basics are there.

Gigsaw | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5119671567/)

Apologies if this measn nothing to most of you - some will understand and appreciate..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 27 October, 2010, 11:35:53 am
You work in DNA profiling?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 27 October, 2010, 11:40:32 am
Trying to remember the IDE password so that I can get my work desktop machine to boot.

Hmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 October, 2010, 11:43:39 am
On a train for a flying visit to Aberdeen. It is sunny!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 October, 2010, 11:51:17 am
On a train.   En route to aunt's funeral tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 October, 2010, 12:00:58 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 27 October, 2010, 11:43:39 am
On a train for a flying visit to Aberdeen. It is sunny!

Shouldn't you be on a plane for a flying visit?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 October, 2010, 12:04:37 pm
I'd be on a plane for a training visit, surely?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 27 October, 2010, 12:13:09 pm
Adding to the post count of this thread cuz it winds some people up something shocking . . .

 . . . allegedly
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 October, 2010, 01:42:49 pm
does it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 27 October, 2010, 01:43:18 pm
How very odd.  Why's that then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 27 October, 2010, 01:47:20 pm
I'm going through a bin bag full of old calculators to see if I can get any to work with cheapo ASDA batteries.

So far, the "fix" rate is about 50%   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 October, 2010, 01:58:56 pm
Cogitating....do I use the Trek or the Longstaff for the winter months of audax riding.One has mudgaurds:the other doesn't but can be fitted with a rear Raceblade clipped to the chain stays. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 27 October, 2010, 02:02:42 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 27 October, 2010, 01:43:18 pm
How very odd.  Why's that then?

Quote from: jogler on 27 October, 2010, 01:42:49 pm
does it?

See the 'Ignore' thread . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 October, 2010, 02:03:03 pm
Quote from: jogler on 27 October, 2010, 01:58:56 pm
Cogitating....do I use the Trek or the Longstaff for the winter months of audax riding.One has mudgaurds:the other doesn't but can be fitted with a rear Raceblade clipped to the chain stays. :-\

Mudguards, without a doubt. Mudguards every time for me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 27 October, 2010, 02:05:47 pm
Posting in the "What are you doing right now?" thread...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 27 October, 2010, 02:07:09 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 27 October, 2010, 11:35:53 am
You work in DNA profiling?

Not quite. Bioinformatics. It is a teaching tool to explain to undergrads how one obtains the sequence of DNA in one of the new next generation sequencers that can spit out 160 million reads of about 30-100 letters. Piecing them all together into coherent sentences/chapters/genomes is part of what we do.

That is the basic model with a read error rate of 2.5%. You can see in the read nearest the camera that there are three positions (of the 21) which don't match the consensus alignment in the column above.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 27 October, 2010, 02:10:17 pm
Thank you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 October, 2010, 02:22:06 pm
Quote from: torslanda on 27 October, 2010, 02:02:42 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 27 October, 2010, 01:43:18 pm
How very odd.  Why's that then?

Quote from: jogler on 27 October, 2010, 01:42:49 pm
does it?

See the 'Ignore' thread . . .

I thought the thread title was a command or instruction so I ...ignored it ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 October, 2010, 02:24:32 pm
But you didn't ignore it if you complied, did you? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 October, 2010, 02:25:03 pm
Perfecting my plans for World Domination1 and waiting for an idiot luser to return the very simple form I sent him about three hours ago.

1 - Just find a world that's into that kind of thing, then chain it to the floor and walk up and down on it in high heels.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 27 October, 2010, 02:48:34 pm
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

What you do in the privacy of your own home . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 27 October, 2010, 04:31:34 pm
Getting ready to go to work for another night shift.

I was wondering why I was so knackered this week and haven't had time to ride my bike at all, then I realised I am working 69 hours of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 October, 2010, 06:12:18 pm
Quote from: Feline on 27 October, 2010, 04:31:34 pm
Getting ready to go to work for another night shift.

I was wondering why I was so knackered this week and haven't had time to ride my bike at all, then I realised I am working 69 hours of it.

What a position to be in!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 October, 2010, 06:15:18 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 27 October, 2010, 01:47:20 pm
I'm going through a bin bag full of old calculators to see if I can get any to work with cheapo ASDA batteries.

So far, the "fix" rate is about 50%   :thumbsup:
Is this part of David Cameron's Big Society plans?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 27 October, 2010, 06:20:18 pm
Quote from: Feline on 27 October, 2010, 04:31:34 pm
Getting ready to go to work for another night shift.



Snap!  Have a good one Feline  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 October, 2010, 06:24:41 pm
Feeling slightly annoyed . Some nice cufflinks turned up in the post, made from old silver coins linked by a fine chain. Threaded one through my cuffs very smart. Threaded the next one and the piece of silver soldered onto one of the coins snapped.  Back to the maker  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 27 October, 2010, 06:25:35 pm
On hold, waiting to report a faulty boiler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: longers on 27 October, 2010, 10:07:11 pm
Waiting up while my freezer defrosts. Hopefully I've put the last bowl of water in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 27 October, 2010, 10:10:15 pm
Trying to work out how much I owe HMRC as a result of being made redundant last year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: longers on 27 October, 2010, 11:28:10 pm
Have you done it yet Oaky? Sounds like a crap deal though.

I'm still defrosting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 27 October, 2010, 11:36:45 pm
Bagging up Plaster.
Over the night shift will probably bag over 80 tonnes of the stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 27 October, 2010, 11:41:56 pm
Quote from: longers on 27 October, 2010, 11:28:10 pm
Have you done it yet Oaky? Sounds like a crap deal though.

Tax return is done, apart from one section where I need my P11D details for my partial last year from the employer who let me go.

Being made redundant wasn't too bad (with hindsight).  I'd got nearly 12 years service and so got a decent payout.  I had the summer and Christmas off, and started work (contracting initially, permanent again now) about 4 months after finishing.  It was quite scary at the time though.

Quote
I'm still defrosting.

Self or supper?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 October, 2010, 12:17:52 am
Listening to the wind and the rain.

It is very soothing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 October, 2010, 01:33:35 am
Baking coffee cake and making fridge cake.  In not insignificant quantities.  To add to the chocolate and bananannanana cake and the St Clements cake in the freezer.

I do hope that those Friday Night Riders are peckish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robbo6 on 28 October, 2010, 10:46:33 pm
Waiting for the barley and rye porridge to finish boiling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 28 October, 2010, 11:22:09 pm
Quote from: Bouthrey Bridge on 28 October, 2010, 10:46:33 pm
Waiting for the barley and rye porridge to finish boiling.

Is that the shortcut to getting one's Barley to have the traditional weathered look without 20 years of rainy CTC rides?

I hope it was a traditional Barley and not the Super-C version.  Those clippy plastic buckles will shed plasticisers and just ruin the flavour of the rye porridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 October, 2010, 11:23:31 pm
I'm looking at a bike on Gumtree that looks nice because its pink  ;D Wilson 531 Competition Bike Full Shimano 105 groupset REDUCED Bikes, & Bicycles for Sale Clifton Bristol (http://bristol.gumtree.com/bristol/34/67601334.html)

I was actually looking for a really cheap racing bike to stick on a turbo trainer rather than something nice to ride on the road though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 28 October, 2010, 11:25:58 pm
That's a nice bike :)

Good wheels too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 28 October, 2010, 11:29:36 pm
Waiting for the medication to say hello to my headache...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 28 October, 2010, 11:55:18 pm
Hoping that my upgrade luck holds out and enjoying a glass of red before I fly home.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 October, 2010, 10:21:32 am
Dez and I are drinking coffee at Reading services.
Title: Re: Now
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 October, 2010, 10:23:34 am
Dez and I are drinking coffee extortionately priced beverages that vaguely resemble coffee at Reading services.

Fixed that for you WoW.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 October, 2010, 10:32:27 am
Perhaps that should be Reading disservices.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dez on 29 October, 2010, 10:33:18 am
The coffee isn't actually bad. The bacon rolls were pretty good too.

You were right about the pricing though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 29 October, 2010, 10:42:01 am
Just be thankful you stopped there, and not Membury ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 29 October, 2010, 10:46:11 am
Playing with Anquet software and OS 1:50000 Lake District.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 October, 2010, 11:07:58 am
In the Borough of Swindon. Moving swiftly on...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 29 October, 2010, 06:02:47 pm
Waiting for No1daughter to come out of work.
Quite why I have agreed to be taxi when she's a) staying at her dad's b) perfectly capable of walking 2 miles from the next village where the later bus stops and c) unconcerned I'm really tired and today involved medical procedures for me, is a mystery answered only by the statement: parent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 October, 2010, 07:31:36 pm
Sitting in my local in Llandysul while Mrs. B is at yoga. 
It wasn't open a fortnight ago.  That didn't strike me as odd as pubs do that round here whenever they like.  So I was surprised to find strange faces behind the bar when Mrs. B dropped me off.
Seems the previous tenant and family have done a moonlight flit.
Oh well, the ale is much better. 
I like new people.  They try harder.
This works with curry houses as well, I find.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 29 October, 2010, 08:06:16 pm
Packing a weekend bag for a trip to Blackpool to see the lights on Saturday evening and then a day in the Lake District on Sunday.  Stopping over near Tadcaster on Sunday before home on Monday.


Sadly I shall be driving - hopefully with the hood down - in the company of another 12 or so MGs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 29 October, 2010, 09:45:46 pm
Which MG do you have John?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 October, 2010, 09:57:29 pm
I appear to have inadvertently entered a DIY 200 audax for tomorrow. I must try not to visit the audax website after a couple of glasses of wine  ::-).

There is a good chance I will inadvertently enter another ride for Sunday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 October, 2010, 11:31:24 pm
Listening to a right hooley going on outside.

55mph winds this morning, sounds like about the same just now.

Marvellous.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 30 October, 2010, 12:45:55 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 29 October, 2010, 09:45:46 pm
Which MG do you have John?

sadly it's a Chinese TF 135 that I bought in Aug 2009 just after assembly restarted at Longbridge.  It's my 3rd 'modern' MG F/TF following earlier B & BGT.

This is actually my previous TF helping me share another two of my hobbies  

(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h245/Sprinter955/Highlander%202006/DSCF0703.jpg)

(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h245/Sprinter955/Pyrennees%202005/DSCF0317064Medium.jpg)
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 October, 2010, 10:00:09 am
Mrs. Wow and I are currently on the former of two trains which between them will conduct us to Colchester. We will be awheel with AH and UJ. At present the weather is perfect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 30 October, 2010, 10:41:43 am
On tram to third ( or is it fourth?) circle of he'll (IKEA)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 October, 2010, 02:32:59 pm
Not being smelly and sleep-deprived somewhere in the vicinity of York.  Wondering what to do that doesn't involve knee stress.  Worryingly, housework may win.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 October, 2010, 02:41:26 pm
I was going to take a wander into town and go and spend the last of my burfday munney on more fleece or gear or something. But now I'm becoming more CBA, and the cat thinks I should remain her bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 30 October, 2010, 03:05:26 pm
Switching on the tv in the hope that I can veg out in front of a a WWII film... always seems to be one on a saturday afternoon
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 30 October, 2010, 03:06:28 pm
And lo... Battle of Britain  (more4 +1)

Ideal for my purposes  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 30 October, 2010, 03:42:30 pm
Recovering after more hours spent aboard the Trek yesterday than the paltry mileage (70 in total) warranted.  But I was with a convert to the cycling bug, who was poorly-equipped, so we pottered from Derby to Lincoln in 9.5 hours.  Getting her tyres from 10 to 40 psi (sadly, we'd already covered 40 miles) was the revelation and turning point.

Now ironing, watching Dr Who (2nd series - Tennent & Piper), waiting for the washing machine to finish, then preparing smart clothes for Club Dinner tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 October, 2010, 06:00:42 pm
Experience the joys of moving my music collection (in iTunes) from my external drive to a new internal drive drive #2.  Once I get his sorted the extHD can finally be used for it's original intended purpose — backup.  Should also cut down on a bit on my electricity consumption, not having the extHD plugged in all the time.

While this is going on, I'm also enjoying a rather nice single malt.  :thumbsup:
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 October, 2010, 07:03:43 pm
Packing for a 200k eat-a-thon audax tomorrow. My first venture into the world of DIYbyGPS- powered by dyno-hub. Eco-tastic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 30 October, 2010, 07:09:52 pm
watching strictly come dancing !!! :hand: starting to get a thing for older women  :thumbsup: NOT anne widecombe btw
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 30 October, 2010, 10:49:39 pm
crapping around online trying to avoid  watching and of "strictly" (and, apparently it'll be followed by "X-factor") that mrs_o is watching.  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 October, 2010, 11:22:46 pm
Still sorting out the digital music library.  I've almost finished a bottle of scotch (it was mostly empty when I started) — hope I finish this job before I need to reach for a fresh bottle...
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 30 October, 2010, 11:49:37 pm
Sitting on the sofa surrounded by cats, having just got in from a very pleasant concert, witting for MrsC to phone in following her college reunion (or she might not!).
And wondering whether the other beer would be a good idea or not
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 October, 2010, 12:02:13 am
I've discovered and am working through a quantity of unwatched How I Met Your Mother episodes that were lurking in a murky corner of my filesystem.  Awesome.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 31 October, 2010, 12:02:50 am
Just finished a whole packet of burnt sugar chewy caramels. They are near oodate, and our local shop is selling them at £1.50 for 6 packets! They are lush.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 31 October, 2010, 12:11:48 am
MrsC has just phoned in and she's having a whale of a time!
I have opened the other beer and have just put the Elgar cello concerto on
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 October, 2010, 02:00:49 pm
Watching the Tyne/Tees football derby on Sky Sports 1.My team team are winning atm :smug:

half time : three-nil. :thumbsup:

full time : 5-1. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 31 October, 2010, 07:43:38 pm
Just finished decanting the 2009 vintage sloe gin and laying up the 2010 ambrosia.   It was a very good sloe harvest this morning.

7 bottles of sloe gin and two bottles of damson gin for consumption this year!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 October, 2010, 07:48:09 pm
Quote from: jogler on 31 October, 2010, 02:00:49 pm
Watching the Tyne/Tees football derby on Sky Sports 1.My team team are winning atm :smug:

half time : three-nil. :thumbsup:

full time : 5-1. ;D

I believe that you will find that the River Tees has not moved north. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 October, 2010, 07:53:13 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 October, 2010, 07:48:09 pm
Quote from: jogler on 31 October, 2010, 02:00:49 pm
Watching the Tyne/Tees football derby on Sky Sports 1.My team team are winning atm :smug:

half time : three-nil. :thumbsup:

full time : 5-1. ;D

I believe that you will find that the River Tees has not moved north. ;)

Sunderland has been moved south.Have you not heard? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 October, 2010, 07:57:45 pm
Quote from: jogler on 31 October, 2010, 07:53:13 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 October, 2010, 07:48:09 pm
Quote from: jogler on 31 October, 2010, 02:00:49 pm
Watching the Tyne/Tees football derby on Sky Sports 1.My team team are winning atm :smug:

half time : three-nil. :thumbsup:

full time : 5-1. ;D

I believe that you will find that the River Tees has not moved north. ;)

Sunderland has been moved south.Have you not heard? ;D

At college we had a folk-style crooner who accompanied himself on the acoustic guitar. His name was Les Keating. I recall him once referring to Soonderland as the "deep sooth".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 October, 2010, 08:07:21 pm
IME some natives of Newcastle regard the land south of the Tyne as another country ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 31 October, 2010, 08:18:16 pm
Eating tomorrow's lunch. ::-)

What good is exercise in helping bring down one's weight if one gets even hungrier and ends up eating more?  ???
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 October, 2010, 08:20:32 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 31 October, 2010, 08:18:16 pm
Eating tomorrow's lunch. ::-)

What good is exercise in helping bring down one's weight if one gets even hungrier and ends up eating more?  ???
 

You become a fit bastard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 31 October, 2010, 08:27:28 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 October, 2010, 08:20:32 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 31 October, 2010, 08:18:16 pm
Eating tomorrow's lunch. ::-)

What good is exercise in helping bring down one's weight if one gets even hungrier and ends up eating more?  ???
 

You become a fit bastard.

Well, some would argue I'm half way there.  ;)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 01 November, 2010, 09:57:24 am
Just finished spraying almost a whole can of Febreze onto the material surfaces in the car I bought on Saturday. I noticed the bloke who sold it had a BO problem, but I didn't appreciate that it would permeate into the car quite so much. Yuck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 November, 2010, 05:10:41 pm
I have a rule about cars that smell.

My driving instructor was a heavy smoker, and while he had the sense not to smoke in the car, the nicotine deposits on the steering wheel meant that you had to wash your hands in swarfega after a lesson.

The stripping down and soaking in the sink of Fiat Of The Apocalypse's dashboard, to remove the lingering stench of mouldy banananas, has already been documented in some thread or other.

Actual smoking is right out.  Even if the car's leathery enough that the upholstery doesn't forever stink of smoke, you'll never get the last of the ash out of the various crevices.

My parents had a car with mouldy footwells (leaking heater matrix).  That got pretty minging after a while.

Sulphuric acid.... not so bad actually.  Don't ask how I know this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 November, 2010, 05:53:50 pm
Getting ready to head over to the gym for a spin class.

Still sitting at my desk writing reports, and probably will be for at least the next hour.  >:(
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 November, 2010, 05:56:01 pm
Having a nice glass of wine, getting some pumpkin soup ready for Crusty getting home.   :)

edited to add:  whilst listening to 6music.  What a great way to spend an autumn evening   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 November, 2010, 06:04:00 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 01 November, 2010, 09:57:24 am
Just finished spraying almost a whole can of Febreze onto the material surfaces in the car I bought on Saturday. I noticed the bloke who sold it had a BO problem, but I didn't appreciate that it would permeate into the car quite so much. Yuck!

Get a proper valet.  The stench will invade your nostrils forever!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 November, 2010, 06:04:42 pm
Searching for handset only deals instead of preparing for business accounts workshop on Thursday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 November, 2010, 05:54:54 pm
Waiting for the last deployed package to finish installing on the last laptop so I can finally put it away and go home........

...and trying to work out how to get to Whitby on Friday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 03 November, 2010, 06:54:45 pm
Writing the first page in my new "food diary."

 O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 November, 2010, 07:05:45 pm
Listening to barakta expressing her hatred of computers in ways the rant thread could never do justice to.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 04 November, 2010, 03:41:56 pm
I'm putting together a parts kit for a QM (Qualification Model), and have managed to find two types of component so far, out of forty eight. :o

I've come to the conclusion that some time in the near future, in the vast amounts of free time I've got, I need to rewrite the database (currently done with a god-awful MS Excel bodge), and do a parts inventory.

For a system which currently probably holds several tens of thousands of pounds worth of components, and can have several million pounds worth in it when a big build is underway, it's rather pants. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 November, 2010, 03:45:27 pm
I'm planning a trip to Waitrose.

Mrs. Wow has been out of service all day due to migrainous circumstances. Dez has gone to a council meeting where I wouldn't be surprised if he gets arrested. We normally entertain my Aged Aunt on a Thursday and I need to buy food to prepare for dinner. I'm contemplating sausages on account of their simplicity. Of course, I could just wave a white flag and go to the chip shop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 04 November, 2010, 03:49:08 pm
having a pint while I wait for Mrs Mike who texted me twice to say she'd be here for 3.30 then realised she meant 4.30.

could be worse, there's beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 04 November, 2010, 08:14:26 pm
Sitting here wondering why I have got gout again. I don't drink or anything bad so I do wish it would leave me alone as it hurts when I walk.... but not when I cycle!

Now, I wonder if I can cycle from my office to the loo on my folder or will the wife moan about tyre marks on her carpet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 05 November, 2010, 11:08:45 am
Ficticiously creating an account of my last month's activities at work. Seeing as I am so badly managed and have done bugger all, it's a bit of a challenge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 05 November, 2010, 11:15:50 am
Quote from: essexian on 04 November, 2010, 08:14:26 pm
Sitting here wondering why I have got gout again. I don't drink or anything bad so I do wish it would leave me alone as it hurts when I walk.... but not when I cycle!


Me too.

Although I think it is from getting dehydrated whilst batting about London on a folder on Wednesday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 05 November, 2010, 11:19:38 am
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 05 November, 2010, 11:08:45 am
Ficticiously creating an account of my last month's activities at work. Seeing as I am so badly managed and have done bugger all, it's a bit of a challenge.

Heh

In a previous life I dedicated a little time to a random number generating program that assigned convincing hours to assorted job numbers, with appropriate weighting factors.  Time well spent :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 November, 2010, 08:46:01 pm
Sitting in front of a roaring fire, eating dips and crisps and olives and waiting for the rayburn to warm up enough to cook pizza, looking out the window at the beautiful view of whitby harbour with 3 of my favourite chaps whilst the eldest cub eats fish  and chips from the Magpie in the kitchen and the smallest cub sleeps upstairs. Considering a glass of wine or a nice cup of  tea, not necessarily in that order.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 05 November, 2010, 09:43:58 pm
Wondering how on earth I can be 'ready' already for an Audaux that starts in 10 hours.

Something must be missing!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 06 November, 2010, 11:25:28 am
Sitting under the 'Big Merino' at Goulburn NSW waiting for 11 more riders to arrive so I can head for Canberra and bed. 315kms of 400. Cold and windy and nearly 1030pm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 06 November, 2010, 01:07:07 pm
I'm digging around in my Corsa, trying to find some bit of wiring that I can use to snaffle 12v to power the GPS from.  Vauxhall have done a very good job of (i) hiding most of the wiring well away & (ii) making it very hard to dismantle the facia and stand any chance of finding any of the wiring.

I may have found the wires that would go to the cigarette lighter if one was fitted.  They are however taped back against a bit of the structure which is behind another bit of the dash's structure.  Bugger bugger bugger.

The book of fairy tales isn't helping out much either, not surprisingly.

There may be some more loud swearing from the vicinity of Croydon. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 06 November, 2010, 01:35:42 pm
Only 2 to come now. 1hr 15 to control close.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 November, 2010, 07:06:20 pm
Listening to 'bang bang bang' from the firework display. Feeling warm & happy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 07 November, 2010, 12:07:20 am
Half-watching Bladerunner while doing other things.  After all this time, it's still one of the most stylish films ever made, but it has an even stranger impact now; futurism and chic now mix strongly with nostalgia.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 November, 2010, 12:43:24 am
Worrying that I just used "M6" to mean "busy motorway with lots of annoying roadworks" in a simile instead of "M25".  Help, I'm going native!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 November, 2010, 11:07:49 am
Quote from: Kim on 07 November, 2010, 12:43:24 am
Worrying that I just used "M6" to mean "busy motorway with lots of annoying roadworks" in a simile instead of "M25".  Help, I'm going native!

Always use M25 for motorway similes.  You should know that M6 means something else, as explained here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw#ISO_metric_screw_thread).  ;)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 07 November, 2010, 01:13:43 pm
Sitting in bed eating macaroni cheese and drinking industrial quantities of tea in a bid to warm up after this morning's ride.

I think I'm starting to get some feeling back in my toes...

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 07 November, 2010, 01:27:18 pm
Pressing 'pay now'. There's always something....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 November, 2010, 05:40:03 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 November, 2010, 12:43:24 am
Worrying that I just used "M6" to mean "busy motorway with lots of annoying roadworks" in a simile instead of "M25".  Help, I'm going native!

Brian Redhead's 'Friends of the M6' existed before the M25 was built.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 07 November, 2010, 09:20:24 pm
What is slightly more horrifying is how Poms use "native" as a pejorative.  Tut tut!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 07 November, 2010, 09:22:33 pm
Been giving the corners of the carpets at the old house a #1 cut.

It's the best way to remove evidence of cat damage :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 08 November, 2010, 10:11:47 am
Quote from: Kim on 07 November, 2010, 12:43:24 am
Worrying that I just used "M6" to mean "busy motorway with lots of annoying roadworks" in a simile instead of "M25".  Help, I'm going native!

Next you'll be saying "It's like New St Station here", to mean a very busy place. Once that situation is reached, it's irreversible.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 08 November, 2010, 09:38:27 pm
Ordering two fake turds for the girls' Christmas presents - a "long" one and a "round" one.  They're going to keep turning up all over the house, on the TV, on the cooker, on the toilet rim...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 November, 2010, 09:28:18 pm
online shopping for groceries.  Which, as you can imagine, fills me with joy.

Wednesday.  It's the day that just keeps on giving  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 November, 2010, 09:55:06 pm
Getting sorted to go for a ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 November, 2010, 10:01:14 pm
See, that sounds like much more fun.  Enjoy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 November, 2010, 11:08:20 pm
Chilling for a bit after painting the ceiling. Last night I laid some self levelling floor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 November, 2010, 12:27:17 am
Hurrah hurray - the shopping it is done!  I've no idea if I've bought everything I need, but I don't care even if it means that we'll have nothing to eat but olives, weetabix and noodles.  Food shopping (and all that other housewifely stuff) is just so DULL!

(and I remembered lots of cake ingredients, so that's alright)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 November, 2010, 03:13:28 am
Just about to  take Miss Jaded to the coach for her school French exchange.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 November, 2010, 07:31:31 am
Eating breakfast, mainly so that I can take my heavy-duty pain killers.  My back was fine when I woke up but now it's ouch, Ouch, OUCH!  :'(
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 11 November, 2010, 07:54:05 am
Sat here in the office trying to muster enough determination to actually start work, bearing in mind that a third of us are being made redundant, and my 40+ year working career, almost certainly has only 4 months to go before it shudders to a halt.  Thats a big life change to contemplate.  Yep, I think I need to do some more contemplating.  Only the second time in my life I've been made redundant, and the prospect of a proper job is not high in April 2011, for a 59 year old...   Still, maybe it will be O.K. to spend some of the redundancy money on a cost efficient mode of transport to get me through the thin times ahead....  Ah, the Moulton website again.... TSR27, I think!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 November, 2010, 10:08:00 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 08 November, 2010, 09:38:27 pm
Ordering two fake turds for the girls' Christmas presents - a "long" one and a "round" one.  They're going to keep turning up all over the house, on the TV, on the cooker, on the toilet rim...

Why not just place an order with Flatus?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 11 November, 2010, 11:31:44 pm
Emptying suit jacket pockets of accumulated Post-Its (for reasons too tedious to mention right now).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 November, 2010, 11:32:52 pm
Bemoaning the slip in standards on lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com (http://lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 11 November, 2010, 11:46:52 pm
I'm busy being annoyed that the data re-merging program which I thought was working fine, isn't.

Bugger. >:(

It's too late to think straight enough for subtle error debugging, so sod this for a game, I'm off home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 11 November, 2010, 11:56:35 pm
Sitting here with a candle as we have had a power cut. No power for the last 30 minutes. Using laptop and slaved to mobile phone for internet access. Its sloooooow as the phone signal is crap as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jane on 12 November, 2010, 09:01:09 am
Exiled from my classroom for the day to sit at this laptop, reading through and reviewing policies (Religious Education is the one I am dreading).  And putting it off- have already posted to YACF more times this morning than I usually do in a month!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 November, 2010, 09:18:18 am
I'd be procrastinating as well, but I'd find other things to do first. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 November, 2010, 11:02:19 am
Wondering if it's too early to head out to find some lunch. :-\
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 November, 2010, 11:07:20 am
Quote from: Andrij on 12 November, 2010, 11:02:19 am
Wondering if it's too early to head out to find some lunch. :-\
 

Second breakfast.  :)

Then you can always have a late lunch later.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 November, 2010, 11:10:14 am
Quote from: Basil on 12 November, 2010, 11:07:20 am
Quote from: Andrij on 12 November, 2010, 11:02:19 am
Wondering if it's too early to head out to find some lunch. :-\
 

Second breakfast.  :)

Then you can always have a late lunch later.  :thumbsup:

Still involves heading out.  All I have to hand is a bananananana, which I will eat now in the hope that it will allow me to wait another hour or so before hunting down some proper food.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 November, 2010, 01:07:42 pm
Scanning bits of paper.  On the slowest scanner in the history of scanners.  Oh, the excitement, I might get to click OK in a minute....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 November, 2010, 03:30:21 pm
Waiting for darkness....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 November, 2010, 03:49:44 pm
Quote from: jogler on 12 November, 2010, 03:30:21 pm
Waiting for darkness....

Erm...

*runs to kitchen, grabs garlic and wooden stake *
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 November, 2010, 03:57:54 pm
^^^^
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si_Co on 12 November, 2010, 04:00:58 pm
Quote from: jogler on 12 November, 2010, 03:30:21 pm
Waiting for darkness....

I assume wiggle have delivered a new toy. Let there be light!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 November, 2010, 04:04:45 pm
You catch on quick...you are bright ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si_Co on 12 November, 2010, 04:06:20 pm
^^^ ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 November, 2010, 04:08:29 pm
Watching the Stafford road race on EuroSport 2
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 12 November, 2010, 04:11:50 pm
Quote from: Si_Co on 12 November, 2010, 04:00:58 pm
Quote from: jogler on 12 November, 2010, 03:30:21 pm
Waiting for darkness....

I assume wiggle have delivered a new toy. Let there be light!

Quote from: jogler on 12 November, 2010, 04:04:45 pm
You catch on quick...you are bright ;)

Boys and their toys  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 04:13:32 pm
freezing my arse off on the front doorstep with a bike full of shopping and a locksmith stuck in traffic. Have key, lock not turning. It's raining.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 November, 2010, 04:16:02 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 04:13:32 pm
freezing my arse off on the front doorstep with a bike full of shopping and a locksmith stuck in traffic. Have key, lock not turning. It's raining.

Best eat all the ice cream and frozen peas before they thaw...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 12 November, 2010, 04:19:59 pm
Well, what light did you get then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 November, 2010, 04:20:30 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 04:13:32 pm
freezing my arse off on the front doorstep with a bike full of shopping and a locksmith stuck in traffic. Have key, lock not turning. It's raining.

It would be.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 November, 2010, 04:29:25 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 12 November, 2010, 04:19:59 pm
Well, what light did you get then?

Hope Vision 1
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 12 November, 2010, 04:30:48 pm
Trying to find my memory, I keep going totally blank.
Jogler having to be very patient  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 November, 2010, 05:19:19 pm
Medicating with a cold Heineken, as found in the staff kitchen.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 05:25:30 pm
Defrosting in front of the computer, after agency-approved locksmith turned up, decided the lock didn't take Mastercard and re-attempted my jibble-it-through-the-letterbox approach using a Mk1 coathanger and a mirror instead of two spokes and some gaffer tape.  He didn't get it to work either, but I reckon I won that round on account of not dropping my burglary tools through the letterbox.

Locksmith eventually gained access using a drill and the now legendary Bigger Hammer, and we are now the proud owners of a shiny new Yale lock that isn't prone to self-deadlocking due to vibration, and a small pile of splintery wood.

Only rode 1km in the end, so no verdict on the knee other than it's a bit cold.

I think it's just stopped raining.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 November, 2010, 05:27:29 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 05:25:30 pm
I think it's just stopped raining.

Of course it has, you're now indoors.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 05:30:06 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 November, 2010, 05:27:29 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 05:25:30 pm
I think it's just stopped raining.

Of course it has, you're now indoors.
 

So true.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 November, 2010, 05:34:55 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 05:25:30 pm
Only rode 1km in the end, so no verdict on the knee other than it's a bit cold.
But at least you rode that one km :)

Quote from: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 05:25:30 pm
I think it's just stopped raining.
Typical.  I would suggest a nice cup of tea to help you warm up, but you might hit me....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 06:34:52 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 November, 2010, 05:34:55 pm
But at least you rode that one km :)

Good point *heads over to BikeJournal*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 12 November, 2010, 06:48:06 pm
Just got in from work after another shitty day at the orifice...  major drains up to find out why a job for _megacustomer_ didn't go as planned, then I checked a similar job for another _bigcustomer_ and found that that's been ballsed up as well. At least we should be able to rescue that one, but we'll need to get the orders reissued.

I managed to spend an awful lot of dosh on nice smelling stuff for presents and am now munching Serrano ham before having a shower and sitting down to chill out.

It's been quite a hectic week and I've only done about 10 miles on the bike  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 November, 2010, 07:00:05 pm
In the pub again waiting for Mrs. B's yoga class to finish.
Annoyingly, someone has put the telly on and it seems to be showing Strickly Cum Dancing.  I thought that was a weekend thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 07:01:30 pm
Quote from: Basil on 12 November, 2010, 07:00:05 pm
Strickly Cum Dancing

Arrgh, pass the brain bleach!


ETA: I've just been informed that said programme features Paul Daniels.  Better make that extra strong brain bleach.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 12 November, 2010, 07:05:38 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 07:01:30 pm
Quote from: Basil on 12 November, 2010, 07:00:05 pm
Strickly Cum Dancing

Arrgh, pass the brain bleach!


ETA: I've just been informed that said programme features Paul Daniels.  Better make that extra strong brain bleach.

A vivid imagination is a terrible thing, n'est ce pas? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 12 November, 2010, 07:10:14 pm
Quote from: Basil on 12 November, 2010, 07:00:05 pm
In the pub again waiting for Mrs. B's yoga class to finish.
Annoyingly, someone has put the telly on and it seems to be showing Strickly Cum Dancing.  I thought that was a weekend thing.

Another reason why pubs should NOT have tellys  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 November, 2010, 07:11:09 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 07:01:30 pm
ETA: I've just been informed that said programme features Paul Daniels.  Better make that extra strong brain bleach.
I can't hear or read that name without thinking of the all-time best interview line:
Quote from: Mrs Merton
So, Debbie McGee, what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 November, 2010, 07:14:11 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 12 November, 2010, 07:11:09 pm
I can't hear or read that name without thinking of the all-time best interview line:
Quote from: Mrs Merton
So, Debbie McGee, what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?

We can but hope it was that, rather than what he does with his magic wand...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 November, 2010, 07:21:25 pm
Ah.  Now I undertand.   They were waiting for the program that is on now. 
A preview of tomorrow's match against South Africa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 12 November, 2010, 08:23:46 pm
Waiting on the bath filling, then some naked sudoko in the bath.   :thumbsup:  (I'll try and not drop the pencil this time)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 12 November, 2010, 08:37:40 pm
Waiting for Mrs C to join me for a curry. The waiters have brought her wine unbidden so she had better not let me down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 12 November, 2010, 08:44:34 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 12 November, 2010, 08:37:40 pm
Waiting for Mrs C to join me for a curry. The waiters have brought her wine unbidden so she had better not let me down.

Fingies crossed for Mrs. C.
And for the curry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 13 November, 2010, 04:29:01 am
Not sleeping.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 November, 2010, 05:01:20 am
Sorry to hear that, Gordy. Best wishes from New Zealand.

What we're doing right now: about to cook some dinner on the campsite in Lake Tekapo. I've just got back from horse riding along the lake and Woolly is getting ready to go star gazing at the observatory late tonight. Don't want to come home just yet!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 November, 2010, 05:20:10 am
I too have been awake early,since 0400hrs & co-incidently looking at the stars thru' the back bedroom window(the room Peli & Wooly used when they stayed here) using a monoscope.There's virtually no cloud cover tonight.
This idea of going to bed early doesn't work for me.After 6 hours it's as if an internal alarm clock goes off & it's all systems revved up ::-).Mind you I know I shall need 40 winks at tea time

Edit   Guday to the yacf poms in Oz :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 13 November, 2010, 09:57:37 am
Having just fallen very badly off the diet wagon, getting ready to go out for a ride. 4 bars of chocolate is around how many miles riding?
I have to be back by 12.30 so I reckon hill hunting and hammering are the only way.

Moment of weakness your honour. Perhaps I could just develop a spot of bulimia?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 13 November, 2010, 10:09:05 am
Quote from: boab on 13 November, 2010, 09:57:37 am
Having just fallen very badly off the diet wagon, getting ready to go out for a ride. 4 bars of chocolate is around how many miles riding?
I have to be back by 12.30 so I reckon hill hunting and hammering are the only way.

Moment of weakness your honour. Perhaps I could just develop a spot of bulimia?

Find a really, really big hill and hammer up it a few times. That will do the trick one way or another. Oh, you live in Norfolk...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 November, 2010, 10:10:53 am
Quote from: Manotea on 13 November, 2010, 10:09:05 am
Find a really, really big hill and hammer up it a few times. That will do the trick one way or another. Oh, you live in Norfolk...

No she doesn't  :D.

We found enough hills in Suffolk a couple of weeks ago to give us a good workout on t'cog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 13 November, 2010, 07:01:49 pm
Trying to decide whether or not to edit the photos from today's shoot with one of Scotland's Commonwealth Games track cyclists.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 November, 2010, 09:01:43 pm
Watching with trepidation as my laptop updates from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10.

As always, laptop never updated until 1) backup made, and 2) desktop machine is in tip-top shape.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 November, 2010, 09:11:30 pm
barakta managed to successfully install 10.10 earlier while stoned on codeine.  That's a violation of the no-root-while-under-the-influence rule, but it seems to have gone okay.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 13 November, 2010, 09:12:37 pm
reading this as it's crap on telly  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rdaviesb on 13 November, 2010, 09:14:00 pm
Avoiding X factor  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 13 November, 2010, 09:40:16 pm
Smoking Caribbean Red and Orange Habanero chillis over hickory and mesquite. (Oh, and trying hard not to eat too many of the first batch while they're meant to be drying out ready for grinding).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 November, 2010, 10:57:32 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 November, 2010, 09:01:43 pm
Watching with trepidation as my laptop updates from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10.

As always, laptop never updated until 1) backup made, and 2) desktop machine is in tip-top shape.
 

Hurrah!  Update done with no complications.  Yes, Ubuntu is definitely getting better.  :thumbsup:
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 November, 2010, 11:13:14 pm
Fiddling with my new Dunsley log burner with back boiler. Had all sorts of fun trying to get the pump to the heat store to kick in. The sparkly had installed the temperature probes the wrong way round I discovered in the end. He had put the feed probe on the return and vica versa. Plus the return probe even when I swapped them round turned out to be in a bad position, it was getting too hut due to gravitation. Moved it to the other side of an anti gravity valve and it all works now. Now I juts have to work out an optimal set of values for the temperature differences to kick the pump in and out and an optimal setting for the oil boiler top up timer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 November, 2010, 01:17:04 am
Quote from: Andrij on 13 November, 2010, 10:57:32 pm
Hurrah!  Update done with no complications.  Yes, Ubuntu is definitely getting better.  :thumbsup:

Agreed, we haven't had to uninstall NotworkMangler from barakta's machine to get the IPv6 configuration to behave properly, which is an improvement, and the nvidia binary graphics drivers sorted themselves out quietly and without a fuss.

It also seems to boot stonkingly fast.  Good stuff.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 November, 2010, 10:52:04 am
I just used my car for the fourth time this year, to shift three years worth of cardboard shipping boxes to the local recycling centre.  They entirely filled the back of my Corsa with the seats down. :o

I also used the trip to do a quick Sainsburys shop, since I was passing there anyway.

Time for elevenses methinks!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 November, 2010, 10:58:00 am
That sounds like the start of a slippery slope to me, Tim.  I suggest going out for a nice bike ride to restore the natural balance of the universe.  Today feels like a day that red would suit - to match and tone with the autumn leaves donchathink?  I don't s'pose you'd have a red bike knocking about that needs photographing out in the wild, would you?  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 November, 2010, 11:19:57 am
...but it's wet on the road outside, it'll get the bike dirty.  I can't get dirt on my shiny new pristine best bike! :-[

Anyway, I still haven't got the water bottles or bicycle computer from ChainReaction, so it's clearly not complete and ready for photography yet!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 November, 2010, 01:56:53 pm
Sorting food & drink to be consumed during an afternoon of vegging-out in front of the ogglebox:Skysports 1:Premiership football.
Weight gain here I come ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 November, 2010, 02:22:31 pm
Raking leaves.
:-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 November, 2010, 02:23:35 pm
Watching True Blood and trying to decide if I can be bothered with it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 November, 2010, 06:37:53 pm
Watching Dearly_Beloved attempting to fit marathon winters.  They are not cooperating.  There may have been a not small amount of tyre lever kersproinging and swearing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 November, 2010, 06:51:22 pm
Realising the updating SqueezeServer is always a bad idea.  I've never yet had it work correctly.  This time I had to reinstall SSOTS, because after just updating SqueezeServer, then SSOTS couldn't successfully start it, and it wouldn't even start the old version when I tried to revert to that.  Even when I'd reinstalled both, it took an entire reboot of the NAS to get it to come up correctly(ish).

My Squeezebox Radio has got very confused, and the power off switch won't even turn it off now, and the entire library database vaporised, and I'm having to do a complete rescan (about 10% so far), so that I've actually got some music to play.

You'd think that by version 7.5.1 that had got a vague idea about what they were doing. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 November, 2010, 07:10:29 pm
Being glad of that youtube video from Spa cycles.  Peace (after a fashion) reigns once more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 14 November, 2010, 07:46:35 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 14 November, 2010, 02:23:35 pm
Watching True Blood and trying to decide if I can be bothered with it.

Read the books instead. Hysterical.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 November, 2010, 08:05:05 pm
I've decided I'm giving up on True Blood. I've taken it off my lovefilm list. Mad Men all the way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 November, 2010, 08:25:28 pm
We have:
Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1865.0)
Interesting or unusual cars you have spotted recently (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=76.0), and
Interesting or unusual planes? (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=40516.0)

So, wondering how long before the inevitable Interesting or unusual trains thread appears.  With this lot, I'm surprised it doesn't already exist.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 14 November, 2010, 08:38:33 pm
Explaining to my wonderful wife why, before I put MY  new 15x10 foot shed up, I have to paint it first.

And, getting used to using Opera instead of Internet Explorer (it seems much quicker and more stable than IE)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 14 November, 2010, 09:11:16 pm
Quote from: essexian on 14 November, 2010, 08:38:33 pm
Explaining to my wonderful wife why, before I put MY  new 15x10 foot shed up, I have to paint it first.

And, getting used to using Opera instead of Internet Explorer (it seems much quicker and more stable than IE)
Cool :D. Can we move in? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 14 November, 2010, 09:38:36 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 14 November, 2010, 09:11:16 pm
Quote from: essexian on 14 November, 2010, 08:38:33 pm
Explaining to my wonderful wife why, before I put MY  new 15x10 foot shed up, I have to paint it first.

And, getting used to using Opera instead of Internet Explorer (it seems much quicker and more stable than IE)
Cool :D. Can we move in? ;)

Sorry, no. I am moving my home office into the shed so our new kittens: all five of them, can have my current office as their bedroom. So, there won't be room for you.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 14 November, 2010, 09:46:02 pm
My routine Sunday task of wading though around 250 pictures of U-10 football match.  Always 1 for local paper to accompany the match report.  Around 40 for club website and similar to forward to opponent team manager.

Even worse this weekend - league match on Saturday and a County Cup match on Sunday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 15 November, 2010, 08:23:10 am
Just done:

Written to Red Driving School regarding one of their cars overtaking me so close yesterday that I swear that I felt the brush of the door mirror.   I reminded them of rule 163 of the Highway Code and suggested that they remind their instructors of this too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 15 November, 2010, 09:51:06 pm
Watching Rebus with one eye.  Missing Edinburgh.

Edit: um.  Don't mean that quite how it might sound.  Not missing it for the drugs, crime and random violence.



Well, not just that.

Ah, god, they're standing in the doorway to Bannermans.  I should go watch something set in a place I've never lived in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 17 November, 2010, 08:52:36 pm
Painting messy large white polka dots (with leftover Dulux) onto an old blue jacket.

It's for Children in Need day this Friday at work. I hope the paint dries in time!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 18 November, 2010, 08:36:16 pm
Working and watching Carpool on Dave. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 18 November, 2010, 08:44:00 pm
Sorting out my 2010-11 Income/Tax spread sheet
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 18 November, 2010, 09:08:46 pm
Waiting for GRTools to finish installing.  It was a 260M download, and it's taking an absolute age to install, but every so often needs me to hit the OK button, or press "Y". :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 November, 2010, 09:25:27 pm
Sneezing and talking about dungarees on the internet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 18 November, 2010, 09:49:48 pm
Having my bed-time coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 November, 2010, 10:11:03 am
Enjoying a day off. Still in dressing gown, and summoning up the spoons to get up and go and put the kettle on again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 19 November, 2010, 07:34:47 pm
chopping chocolate and walnuts and not eating mixture. Honest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 November, 2010, 07:55:27 pm
Not packing.

This is sub-optimal.  :-\
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 19 November, 2010, 09:02:13 pm
Wishing I'd gotten home early enough to have a nap before setting out for FRNttC
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 19 November, 2010, 09:24:49 pm
checking camera kit and batteries/SD cards ready for U-10 Football tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 November, 2010, 09:46:27 pm
Just received a large delivery of hippyfood from a Tesco man with a misbehaving sign-for-your-delivery computer.  It eventually woke up and gave an error message about the battery compartment door not being shut, and politely thanked him when this was rectified, before going into the obligatory Windows Mobile taking-about-three-times-longer-than-you-think-it-should boot-up sequence.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 19 November, 2010, 10:42:12 pm
Regretting spending this evening at my first ever local Lib Dem meeting.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 20 November, 2010, 10:19:23 am
Anything to avoid facing up to the Oncoming Storm of Christmas again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 November, 2010, 10:47:19 am
Sneezing.  How have Kim/Basil managed to send me the lurgy when I haven't even seen either of them!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 20 November, 2010, 10:58:50 am
Quote from: Gordy on 19 November, 2010, 10:42:12 pm
Regretting spending this evening at my first ever local Lib Dem meeting.

Were you not expecting Bacchanalian debauchery then ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 20 November, 2010, 10:59:42 am
Sleeping off FNRttC.  This post is an illusion.  Or a dream.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 November, 2010, 01:18:57 pm
Slobbing on the sofa watchng Arse-nil & Tottenshithotspur on the box.
a.k.a. "not riding my bike" ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 20 November, 2010, 01:23:00 pm
Having a warming cuppa - got a bit chilly swopping sus to rigid forks and fitting 'grds on one of the Kili Comps!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 November, 2010, 01:26:12 pm
Working

On some Mental Health videos.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 November, 2010, 01:29:03 pm
You are John Cleese AICMFP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 20 November, 2010, 01:46:12 pm
Getting cold stares from two dogs that seem to think it is time for walkies.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 November, 2010, 02:48:01 pm
Hiding from the rain and contemplating buying a galaxy. A green one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 November, 2010, 02:58:08 pm
bike or chocolate bar :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 20 November, 2010, 03:13:29 pm
putting off the evil moment when I have to start sorting through 233 pictures of the morning U-10 football.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 20 November, 2010, 03:45:16 pm
Having a cup of tea before starting to clean window frames upstairs. I'd forgotten about this part of selling a house.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 November, 2010, 05:48:40 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 November, 2010, 02:58:08 pm
bike or chocolate bar :D

The one that burns calories rather than containing them.  It's teeny tiny and green, and in a somewhat disreputable state.  Needs new wheels, and probably quite a lot of other stuff.  Drop bars with bar end shifters - how easy would they be to get used to, I wonder.  It's rather pretty though.  And I could potentially strip it down and build it back up (under suitable adult supervision) myself.  Bit vague and woolly plan, not sure if it's a good one.

Might mean that I'd end up with a bike that Mr Legg would deem appropriate for the Whitstable run!  Well, apart from having guards and racks and stuff.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 November, 2010, 06:14:43 pm
Up to my neck in Android firmware...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 November, 2010, 06:27:35 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 November, 2010, 05:48:40 pm
The one that burns calories rather than containing them.  It's teeny tiny and green, and in a somewhat disreputable state.  Needs new wheels, and probably quite a lot of other stuff.  Drop bars with bar end shifters - how easy would they be to get used to, I wonder.  It's rather pretty though.  And I could potentially strip it down and build it back up (under suitable adult supervision) myself.  Bit vague and woolly plan, not sure if it's a good one.

Doo iiit!

A CrinklyLion-sized Galaxy isn't to be sneezed at.

Bar-end shifters are pretty intuitive.  Certainly more so than trigger shifters or those weird roadie things.  They're also extremely reliable (as long as you don't come off the bike and allow it to slide for several metres on one of them) and easy to fettle.

A bike you've stripped down and built back up is truly your own.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 20 November, 2010, 06:48:12 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 November, 2010, 02:48:01 pm
.... contemplating buying a galaxy. A green one.

You are Zaphod Beeblebrox and ICMFP.  ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 20 November, 2010, 11:51:17 pm
Finishing the last drop of whisky
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 November, 2010, 09:00:28 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 November, 2010, 05:48:40 pm
...Might mean that I'd end up with a bike that Mr Legg would deem appropriate for the Whitstable run!  Well, apart from having guards and racks and stuff.....

You really need something made from soot or Ti to keep the en-bandaged one happy.  I must get mine ready for next year, although I've got a bag for mine, which is probably against the rules. :)

Quote from: itsbruce on 20 November, 2010, 10:59:42 am
Sleeping off FNRttC.  This post is an illusion.  Or a dream.

Wimp, I don't think we'd even finished the first round by that point! ;D

I'm currently lying in bed, thinking that I should get up and do something.  The cats been fed, so he's not going to come up and drag me out, so it's very tempting to get in a few more zeds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cyclone on 21 November, 2010, 09:29:30 am
Should have dragged my backside out on a clubrun but dont have the energy so trawling the interwebs  :facepalm: instead of getting through my list of diy chores.....and going out later to test the new saddle   :-X Am I a Brooks bum or not??? (or at least a Brooks derivative...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 November, 2010, 11:20:48 am
Drinking first coffee of day.  I somehow managed to get back to sleep after the noisy coffin coughing cubs woke everyone up at 6am (which I had predicted and prepared for by going to bed before 10) and slept til about 11.

Yawning too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 21 November, 2010, 02:07:18 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 20 November, 2010, 11:51:17 pm
Finishing the last drop of whisky

Always a very precious drop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 November, 2010, 02:57:16 pm
Trying to extract a PAC from Orange.  They keep asking difficult questions on the assumption that I've actually dealt with customer services in the n years I've had that account.  Or that I know the value of n.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 November, 2010, 03:10:22 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 November, 2010, 01:18:57 pm
Slobbing on the sofa watchng Arse-nil & Tottenshithotspur  Blackbum & Aston Villa on the box.
a.k.a. "not riding my bike" ::-)

& then Fulham v Man Tity

mofe n.r.m.b. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 November, 2010, 03:14:01 pm
Quote from: Kim on 20 November, 2010, 06:27:35 pm
A CrinklyLion-sized Galaxy isn't to be sneezed at.

My guess is that you have, though!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 21 November, 2010, 04:41:41 pm
Regretting my offer to make dinner tonight.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 November, 2010, 05:09:48 pm
monitoring maths homework
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 21 November, 2010, 05:14:59 pm
Drilling holes!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 21 November, 2010, 05:26:10 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 21 November, 2010, 04:41:41 pm
Regretting my offer to make dinner tonight.  :-\

I'm making roast chicken with all the trimmings, fresh fruit for afters.  What are you  making Gordy??
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 21 November, 2010, 05:41:37 pm
Plan A was home-made chicken and mushroom curry.

Plan B is haggis with mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes. (We hav'nae ony neeps)

Plan B is easier, so that's what''s on.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 November, 2010, 05:47:06 pm
what's wrong with a pizza home-delivery :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 November, 2010, 07:04:23 pm
Suffering in silence.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 21 November, 2010, 08:23:37 pm
Listening to my lovely wife telling me how stupid I am.... I didn't realise that Little Elma the kitten had climbed into the fridge.... yes, I closed the fridge door with her inside.

Yes, pretty stupid but I was cutting up the kittens roast chicken tea (I had a jam sandwich) and didn't notice Little Elma has jumped the four foot or so from the floor to the bottom shelf of the fridge. She was in there for about half a second before I realised she was missing...honest.



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andyoxon on 21 November, 2010, 08:48:39 pm
Posting on this thread (for the first time).  Has this been said before.  ???

Oh, and having a beer in the other room, NOT watching X-factor.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 November, 2010, 09:09:32 pm
Earlier today helped my brother cook a 'Thanksgiving' lunch for 200.  More recently, just watched the Browns lose to the Jaguars (a game the former should have won easily :( ).  Oh, and drinking.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 21 November, 2010, 09:55:02 pm
Wondering where the weekend has disappeared ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 November, 2010, 09:56:47 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 21 November, 2010, 09:09:32 pm
More recently, just watched the Browns lose to the Jaguars
 

That's sounds like some sort of superannuated Labour leadership contest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 21 November, 2010, 10:02:34 pm
Ironing work shirts whilst watching/listening to an AC/DC DVD.

Headbanging and ironing are not natural bedfellows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 November, 2010, 10:31:06 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 21 November, 2010, 09:56:47 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 21 November, 2010, 09:09:32 pm
More recently, just watched the Browns lose to the Jaguars
 

That's sounds like some sort of superannuated Labour leadership contest.

American football teams, so immensely more interesting.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 21 November, 2010, 10:34:28 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 21 November, 2010, 10:31:06 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 21 November, 2010, 09:56:47 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 21 November, 2010, 09:09:32 pm
More recently, just watched the Browns lose to the Jaguars
 

That's sounds like some sort of superannuated Labour leadership contest.

American football teams, so immensely more interesting.
 

I dunno, I reckon American Football has much in common with a political leadership contest, seeing as it's a series of committee meetings punctuated by short bursts of violence...  :demon:

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 November, 2010, 12:02:48 pm
Panicing about the awards ceremony tonight.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 November, 2010, 01:37:00 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 22 November, 2010, 12:02:48 pm
Panicing about the awards ceremony tonight.  :-\

Come on, spill the beans... Will it be televised?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 November, 2010, 02:05:48 pm
Hopefully not.

I'm not up for an award, I'm a monkey making it happen.  :thumbsup:

Jimmy McGovern will be there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 22 November, 2010, 06:30:22 pm
Getting my new folding bike ready. I am cycling in that London tomorrow; the first time I have done that since 1988. (Not an epic ride. Just from Euston to the Angel. Might go along the canal).

Wonder if they still have horse drawn buses?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 November, 2010, 01:46:51 am
Trying to install WinXP SP3 on my parents' computer.  There have been problems, but after deciding to jfgi I think I've got it sussed.

I should probably be revising for the 'theory' section of my driving test tomorrow morning, but I've come down with a serious case of ICBA.  I only need a score of 75% in each section to get my temp permit, so I should be fine.  I think.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 November, 2010, 01:47:47 am
Lying in bed in H10
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 23 November, 2010, 02:00:00 am
Trying to decide if it is worth trying to sleep at night tonight when tomorrow is the only day I am not actually working nights this week. I am going for a ride in the morning so maybe a small amount of normal night sleep might be a good idea  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 23 November, 2010, 07:57:00 pm
Trying to avoid the post-touring blues. Yikes, this cold and dark and having-to-go-back-to-work is getting me down!

Hurry up with the piccies, Woolly!  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 23 November, 2010, 08:26:07 pm
Regretting the beer.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 November, 2010, 08:32:18 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 23 November, 2010, 08:26:07 pm
Regretting the beer.  ::-)

Already? It's only half-past eight man! Pull yourself together and get another round in...!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 23 November, 2010, 08:34:30 pm
Playing pool club on facebook  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 23 November, 2010, 08:35:44 pm

Regretting not wearing gloves while cycling in the snow  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 23 November, 2010, 09:00:33 pm
Lighting a fire in our bedroom, so it'll be nice & cosy in there when we go to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 November, 2010, 09:01:37 pm
Distracting myself from cleaning the kitchen.  God, my life's glamorous and exciting, isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 November, 2010, 09:29:19 pm
It' all rock & roll babe ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 23 November, 2010, 09:31:51 pm
Eating a surprisingly yummy and easy courgette and tomato quiche-y thing I just knocked together.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2010, 01:17:49 am
Still cleaning the kitchen. Dull, dull, dull.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 24 November, 2010, 01:39:46 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2010, 01:17:49 am
Still cleaning the kitchen. Dull, dull, dull.

LOL now that is a very odd time of day to still be fettling ur kitchen  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 24 November, 2010, 05:01:37 am
Quote from: Feline on 24 November, 2010, 01:39:46 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2010, 01:17:49 am
Still cleaning the kitchen. Dull, dull, dull.

LOL now that is a very odd time of day to still be fettling ur kitchen  :o

Can't sleep now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 24 November, 2010, 05:52:10 am
Wondering how to reply to an email from a wonderful colleague who is ill, stressed and unhappy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2010, 10:40:33 pm
Still cleaning the kitchen.  How can it take this long to clean a room so small?

(in fairness, I have slept a bit and been to work for 12 hours in the meantime)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 24 November, 2010, 11:27:02 pm
Waiting to watch the toss and the first ball before going to bed to listen to the rest on the radio.

Fnarrr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 November, 2010, 11:31:39 pm
Listening to Bill Anders's voice, saying this, shortly after members of our species orbited the Moon for the first time.



In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good.


 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robbo6 on 24 November, 2010, 11:42:27 pm
Wondering whether to order a new cap on the internet or go down to a proper shop tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2010, 11:46:18 pm
Troubleshooting a disk failure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 November, 2010, 01:59:16 am
Admiring the sheeny shiny clean kitchen, whilst waiting for a bath to run in the sheeny shiny clean bathroom.


Of course, this means that tomorrow I can't put it off any longer, and will have to make a start on tackling the teetering_piles_of_crap in the living room.....

Housework is so tedious, isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 25 November, 2010, 03:06:57 am
Off to bed  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jane on 25 November, 2010, 06:28:03 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 November, 2010, 01:59:16 am
Admiring the sheeny shiny clean kitchen, whilst waiting for a bath to run in the sheeny shiny clean bathroom.


Of course, this means that tomorrow I can't put it off any longer, and will have to make a start on tackling the teetering_piles_of_crap in the living room.....

Housework is so tedious, isn't it?

My God CL- exactly how big are your kitchen and bathroom?  You seem to have been cleaning them for a very long time. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 November, 2010, 06:37:26 am
Quote from: jane on 25 November, 2010, 06:28:03 am
My God CL- exactly how big are your kitchen and bathroom?  You seem to have been cleaning them for a very long time.  

Tiny.  I can't even photograph my bike in the kitchen, because it doesn't fit.  But it is now a _very_ clean kitchen.  Even the drawer of shame, and the windowsill of doom, and behind the fridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 November, 2010, 06:46:22 am
eating porridge
drinking fresh orange juice
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: giropaul on 25 November, 2010, 09:36:40 am
Quote from: Gordy on 24 November, 2010, 05:52:10 am
Wondering how to reply to an email from a wonderful colleague who is ill, stressed and unhappy.

Does your colleague know about:

Teacher Support Network (http://teachersupport.info/)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 25 November, 2010, 12:17:27 pm
Stretched out on the sofa, feeling ill, coughy, sore throat, headache, and general lurgy.  Wondering what I can do that requires bugger all effort.

Talisker is quite happy, he's got someone around all day to annoy and to try to convince that he's starving to death (again).

Predictably the couple of parcels which I'm hoping would arrive today, so the day wouldn't be totally wasted, haven't turned up yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 November, 2010, 03:47:07 pm
GWS, Tim.

I just received a big hug from Floella Benjamin and am on cloud nine.   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 25 November, 2010, 03:53:45 pm
Lady Floella Benjamin of Playschool?
We are impressed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 November, 2010, 04:01:47 pm
Yes, she was lovely! Apparently I'm artistic as I chose the arched window. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 November, 2010, 04:15:56 pm
I've just finished having a telephone conversation with my all-but-5-month-old grand daughter. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 26 November, 2010, 11:06:32 am
Waiting for my daughter to have her (2nd) morning dump so we can go to the shops (and the tip). Lucky girl.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 November, 2010, 11:19:57 am
I'm cuddling a sleeping baby and wearing the badge of grandfatherhood, which is a small spot of regurgitated breast milk, on my right shoulder.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 November, 2010, 11:22:32 am
You mean you didn't have the uniform of (grand)fatherhood: The teatowel over the shoulder?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 November, 2010, 07:04:52 pm
Contemplating a spot of tidying up.  Or the possibility of making a batch of bananananananananana cake.  Do you think there'll be anyone around in York to eat it this weekend if I do?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 November, 2010, 07:06:47 pm
Applying medicinal Very Hot Curry(TM).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 26 November, 2010, 07:36:19 pm
Waiting for a thai takeaway.
Come ooooonnn. Need GCC!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 26 November, 2010, 08:09:45 pm
Quote from: Giropaul on 25 November, 2010, 09:36:40 am
Quote from: Gordy on 24 November, 2010, 05:52:10 am
Wondering how to reply to an email from a wonderful colleague who is ill, stressed and unhappy.

Does your colleague know about:

Teacher Support Network (http://teachersupport.info/)

Thanks for that. I think her problem is more to do with a dickhead layabout husband who expects his tea on the table every night. It was better today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 27 November, 2010, 02:14:37 pm
Waiting....

The shoulder of lamb is slow roasting, the potatoes are dauphinois'ed, the veg are prepped, the nibbles are set out, the pudding is ready when we are, the cheese board is cheesey, and the booze is chilled.

Now I just need some guests for my Movember feast where I get to laugh at celebrate my moustachioed friends  :D

Have I forgotten anything?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: noisycrank on 27 November, 2010, 02:59:29 pm
Return of The Cat on Film4
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 27 November, 2010, 03:00:43 pm
Post-tour finances. Yawn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 27 November, 2010, 03:01:40 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 27 November, 2010, 02:14:37 pm
Have I forgotten anything?
My invite :demon:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2010, 03:01:50 pm
Housework.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 27 November, 2010, 03:03:21 pm
Listening to The White Stripes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 27 November, 2010, 03:05:49 pm
Reading The Charlotte Appreciation Issue of Cycle magazine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2010, 04:19:30 pm
Is that a new issue?  I don't get it any more (see another thread for why).

I'm practising "Bohemian Like You" on an acoustic guitar.  It isn't very hard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 27 November, 2010, 04:22:52 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2010, 04:19:30 pm

I'm practising "Bohemian Like You" on an acoustic guitar.  It isn't very hard.

yebbut how's the guitar coming along  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2010, 04:23:33 pm
I walked into that, didn't I?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 27 November, 2010, 07:12:28 pm
Quote from: αdαmsκι on 27 November, 2010, 03:01:40 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 27 November, 2010, 02:14:37 pm
Have I forgotten anything?
My invite :demon:.

If you've got a mo, come on o...ver   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 28 November, 2010, 01:36:01 pm
Watching Norwich v Ipswich on BBC1......

...........come on NORWICH  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 28 November, 2010, 01:37:50 pm
The Old Farm derby.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 28 November, 2010, 01:54:25 pm
Explaining to my better half that I can't paint the new summerhouse as the paint has frozen solid. Don't think I should have left it out overnight. 

Shame I have to watch the football while it unfreezes....  ;)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 November, 2010, 01:55:58 pm
Just back from a short walk round the local parks in the chilly sunshine. I think we're finally acclimatising. Brr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 November, 2010, 01:57:40 pm
Watching my team beating Chelsea 1-0 atm :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: E.C. Ryder on 28 November, 2010, 01:59:27 pm
Listening to Talk Sport and the Newcastle v Chelsea game.

 Come on Chelsea we need to win this one
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 28 November, 2010, 02:02:49 pm
Quote from: essexian on 28 November, 2010, 01:54:25 pm
Don't think I should have left it out overnight.....
...... while it unfreezes....

Check the label. A lot of paint products are stuffed once they've been exposed to frost.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 November, 2010, 02:06:40 pm
Quote from: Dinamo on 28 November, 2010, 01:36:01 pm
Watching Norwich v Ipswich on BBC1......

...........come on NORWICH  :thumbsup:

Indeedy - and now a man up too.

Good to see lots of Mos. Are Norwich all sporting a Mo?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 November, 2010, 03:24:48 pm
Making chocolate butter icing to spread between the layers of a chocolate sponge cake. To make it more spreadable I've blended it with The King's Ginger Liqueur (http://thekingsginger.com/) I bought earlier in the year.

And now I'm listening for the hoardes of stampeding yacfers heading my way...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 November, 2010, 03:36:26 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 28 November, 2010, 03:24:48 pm
Making chocolate butter icing to spread between the layers of a chocolate sponge cake. To make it more spreadable I've blended it with The King's Ginger Liqueur (http://thekingsginger.com/) I bought earlier in the year.

And now I'm listening for the hoardes of stampeding yacfers heading my way...

Hate you, unless you tell me your adress, oh your really north aern't you...post it to me

Now I daydreaming of kirsts cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 November, 2010, 03:59:42 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 28 November, 2010, 03:24:48 pm
Making chocolate butter icing to spread between the layers of a chocolate sponge cake. To make it more spreadable I've blended it with The King's Ginger Liqueur (http://thekingsginger.com/) I bought earlier in the year.

And now I'm listening for the hoardes of stampeding yacfers heading my way...

from here to Embra approx 3.5 hrs: 3 with a bit of hurry-up.

Save some please ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 November, 2010, 04:01:13 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 November, 2010, 01:57:40 pm
Watching my team beating Chelsea 1-0 atm :)

a point each is more satisfying for my team than Abromovich Inc.. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 28 November, 2010, 05:24:03 pm
Trying to find my warm cycling gear, still looking for something warm to put on my feet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: NeilP on 28 November, 2010, 05:49:52 pm
Web surfing with the footy on the telly on mute and the 5Live commentary on headphones. Just about to have a cup of tea and some of my daughter's fantastic mince pies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 28 November, 2010, 08:07:29 pm
Sending this by candle light. We are having a power cut. Its been off since 7pm.

No idea who went out of the dancing.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 November, 2010, 09:05:51 pm
Enjoying the hospitality of my local while I wait for my house to warm up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 November, 2010, 09:20:40 pm
Drying off after what can only be described as a miserable shower.  7500W is not enough power to bring a useful amount of water up to stand-under-it-willingly temperatures in these conditions, dammit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: daimountaingoat on 28 November, 2010, 09:26:15 pm
i'm enjoying a few cans
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 November, 2010, 09:57:15 pm
Amazed at the shitty bike my friend bought.

But at least will be fixed in a few days.  FInally.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 November, 2010, 11:51:51 pm
Sneezing and coughing and feeling grotty.  Might go out in the snow to buy some lemsip!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 November, 2010, 12:06:46 am
Celebrating the safe return to civilisation Middle Earth of barakta.

Astoundingly she caught the last train out of Edinburgh to Mordor Central on a Sunday evening, which went through the well-known railway blackspots of Wigan and Crewe *and* narrowly avoided some overrunning engineering works at dePreston, in the middle of a snowpocalypse, and yet arrived at its destination intact and no more than a couple of minutes late.

Even more astoundingly, the buses were still running when she got there.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 November, 2010, 12:56:02 am
That does indeed sound like cause for celebration!  I shall toast her safe return with lemsip  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 29 November, 2010, 11:17:05 am
Sitting in Emergency. Waiting for an xray of my shoulder so they can work out what's gone awry. Last time I was here was 2 years ago with VeloYellow after he came off his bike. I'm just as impressed with the great staff tonight. Possibly even more so as mine is far less obviously an emergency - no blood or obvious breaks!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 29 November, 2010, 11:31:07 am
Just finished using Fairy Power Spray to remove a rather poor coat of paint on my Aston Martin DB5 airfix kit.   :thumbsup:

This time I'll try several thinned coats of gloss black rather thick ones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 29 November, 2010, 11:44:13 am
Hope all is well SandyV take care down there in the heat :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 29 November, 2010, 08:16:59 pm
Wondering how easy it is to get blood out of lycra.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 29 November, 2010, 08:26:08 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 29 November, 2010, 08:16:59 pm
Wondering how easy it is to get blood out of lycra.

Is it your own blood or from someone else?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 29 November, 2010, 08:41:07 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 29 November, 2010, 08:16:59 pm
Wondering how easy it is to get blood out of lycra.

Oh, dear.

Sometimes it takes a wee while for the results of an 'off' to become apparent.  Stupid ice. 

I would try salt water, by the way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 29 November, 2010, 08:42:07 pm
Waiting for snow....    >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 November, 2010, 08:42:53 pm
Wishing the dog would stop vomiting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 29 November, 2010, 09:06:11 pm
Working out that one inch of wine left in the second bottle when there's only two people in the house must mean I've drunk too much.

* mellow....*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 November, 2010, 09:10:47 pm
Quote from: SandyV on 29 November, 2010, 11:17:05 am
Sitting in Emergency. Waiting for an xray of my shoulder so they can work out what's gone awry. Last time I was here was 2 years ago with VeloYellow after he came off his bike. I'm just as impressed with the great staff tonight. Possibly even more so as mine is far less obviously an emergency - no blood or obvious breaks!

How's it going?
I do hope nothing serious
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 November, 2010, 09:18:49 pm
All the best SandyV, hope all is OK!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 29 November, 2010, 09:20:09 pm
All OK. Torn rotator cuff apparently. Glad I went though as it was quite different pain to anything I'd experienced before. Being left arm and having had a Healthy Heart presentation  at work last week I might have panicked a bit when it got worse during the day.  Decided I'd rather be embarrassed than wake up dead (over dramatic - moi?) Slight improvement this morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 November, 2010, 09:21:41 pm
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tom B on 29 November, 2010, 09:22:27 pm
About to go home and have a glass of Bruichladdich  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 29 November, 2010, 09:26:29 pm
Glad things are improving SV.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 29 November, 2010, 09:32:44 pm
PS I thought the A&E deserved extra points as they were also dealing with the Ashes "crowd" including the chap who kept asking if the finger injury (bite apparently) could just be washed and stitched so he could go home. They maintained their humour which was particularly impressive as they are also moving to a new building this morning and had to deal with what was more like a Saturday night than a Monday.
Thanks for your good wishes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 30 November, 2010, 01:24:13 am
Quote from: Gordy on 29 November, 2010, 08:26:08 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 29 November, 2010, 08:16:59 pm
Wondering how easy it is to get blood out of lycra.

Is it your own blood or from someone else?


Mine.  I didn't snap and decapitate an RLJer :)  Slipped on a thick patch of ice and skinned myself on landing.  Some of me is still attached to the bib tights...

Very glad there's nothing wrong with my right arm other than the skinning.  My left arm isn't quite the same months after being knocked off by a van.  Me knocked off the bike, that is, not my arm knocked off me.

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 29 November, 2010, 08:41:07 pm

Sometimes it takes a wee while for the results of an 'off' to become apparent.  Stupid ice. 

I would try salt water, by the way.

Thanks for the sympathy and the tip.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 November, 2010, 08:42:42 pm
Looking at the rollers. Waiting for mastery to fall upon me
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 30 November, 2010, 08:45:27 pm
Laughing at Hulver, again.
 Thanks. pal. Thanks, YACF.  ;D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 December, 2010, 11:18:39 am
Listening to the kettle whistle.  (Electric kettles aren't common in the US.)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 01 December, 2010, 05:46:17 pm
Sitting on my third train at London Bridge. The first is still there having just had its other part attached. The second is still awaiting its guard. I don't know why I am hopeful about this one. Desperation I guess.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 01 December, 2010, 07:15:53 pm
In the pub. Starting to calm down. After the fraughtest day for quite a long time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 01 December, 2010, 09:44:10 pm
Bed. Knackered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 01 December, 2010, 09:51:46 pm
Quote from: RJ on 26 February, 2010, 12:47:29 pm
Trying to upload files to a ScholarOne site ...

in print  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 01 December, 2010, 09:53:57 pm
That sounds like good news RJ :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 01 December, 2010, 10:06:28 pm
More relief than anything else, TBH - it was a beyond-the-edge-of-the-desk production that took (several) years to finish and is now reduced to just 10 pages of print ...

Oh, alright then - it's good news :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 December, 2010, 01:33:05 pm
Comfort eating.
mMmm Fat and Sugar
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 02 December, 2010, 08:53:38 pm
Taking the pi$$ing out of my housemate as he's doing a workout on his rollers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 December, 2010, 10:10:17 pm
Playing iSketch. We should have yacf iSketch nights.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 02 December, 2010, 10:11:50 pm
Just finished re-engineering the kitchen with a jigsaw, a hammer and some screwdivers.

Mrs MV is not back from work yet.  I do hope she doesn't mind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nightrider on 04 December, 2010, 01:34:27 pm
Nursing a hangover,Dads been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas,I drank 3Lt's of Westons organic cider.I now have one organic hangover.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: newtoncap on 04 December, 2010, 01:41:46 pm
Just got back from a walk on a snowy Redcar beach with Lindagordinho, Crustyjuggler, Shyumu, MrsShyumu & their offspring.     Fantastic fish and chips too!

Now considering buying a turbo trainer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 04 December, 2010, 08:45:27 pm
Writing Christmas cards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 04 December, 2010, 08:50:23 pm
Quintessence on Spotify.

Just finished mailing a friend from c. 45 years ago - she's pretty poorly so just indulging in idle chit-chat. And now I'm worrying about her.

Bad thing aging. She was a bouncy little mod and I was a flash drunk. And look at us now...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 December, 2010, 09:46:20 pm
I appear to be cleaning the bathroom and the kitchen again - Lord, but I know how to live, me.  On the bright side it's a lot quicker than it was last weekend.  Still dull as dishwater though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 December, 2010, 07:20:18 pm
Waiting for my flight to Chicago, then on to London.  Trying to figure out if I'm leaving home or going home...
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 06 December, 2010, 07:35:11 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 06 December, 2010, 07:20:18 pm
Waiting for my flight to Chicago, then on to London.  Trying to figure out if I'm leaving home or going home...
 

For you it is both.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 December, 2010, 03:57:23 pm
Getting ready to visit t'Doctor as I'm a poorly Peli.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 07 December, 2010, 05:09:43 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 07 December, 2010, 03:57:23 pm
Getting ready to visit t'Doctor as I'm a poorly Peli.  :'(

GL at the docs, hope they can do something for you! If not then I maybe try an ibuprofen / chocolate / hot water bottle combo. Take care!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 December, 2010, 06:13:29 pm
Thanks Feline. They gave me a repeat of salbutamol and an asthma assessment which were my main reasons for going. My peak flow is substandard. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 December, 2010, 06:18:18 pm
I'm putting off looking at my hub.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2010, 07:15:42 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 07 December, 2010, 06:13:29 pm
My peak flow is substandard. :(

Here, you can borrow some of mine.  It wasn't much of an indication of lung function anyway...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 December, 2010, 08:24:33 pm
I think several of us have let the side down on that front lately.  Andygates pretty spectacularly IIRC.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 December, 2010, 01:43:26 am
Clearing up after baking. 



OK, I admit it, I'm scoffing all the leftover chocolate ganache and licking the bowl clean :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 December, 2010, 09:21:57 am
You should have invited jogler over.  I think he's an expert at 'clearing up after baking'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 December, 2010, 09:48:05 am
Quote from: clarion on 08 December, 2010, 09:21:57 am
You should have invited jogler over.  I think he's an expert at 'clearing up after baking'.

BTDTGTTS :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 December, 2010, 09:50:57 am
Against my instincts of financial self preservation I am writing cheques in favour of my suppliers & sub-contract labour despite my clients not doing the same in my favour.
I may make a contribution to the Rant thread some time soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 08 December, 2010, 10:29:36 am
Coughing. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 December, 2010, 10:31:52 am
Giving the dog a cuddle prior to his morning emptying walk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 08 December, 2010, 11:42:36 am
Trying to sort out having paid the Congestion Charge for the wrong registration. Why do TFL rather leave it to go to appeal and then resolve it rather than just resolve it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 December, 2010, 11:52:52 am
Scoffing scones with clotted cream & jam :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 08 December, 2010, 01:46:54 pm
Just back in from a 4.8 mile hike up town and back...  Nice crisp morning,  nice coffee and cake at the coffee shop...

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 08 December, 2010, 04:06:49 pm
Just put Georgie my MTB back in the garage after collecting her from the repair shop at Halfords.

I have taken her for a spin around the block and nothing has fallen off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 08 December, 2010, 05:51:52 pm
wondering why i work for a cowboy !!! and why is it that cowboy's always pay a lot more than  other company's  just answerd my own question :facepalm: seriously depressed at being off the bike for 5 weeks after an accident at work  :( never mind christmas is nearly here and hopefully in the new year we will all be able to get some good miles in  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 09 December, 2010, 09:24:51 am
Nothing I'm in agony my back hurts
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 December, 2010, 06:06:12 pm
Wish me luck, this evening I am deciding on the final spec of my new audax bike and ordering all the bits (I hope!).
I bet I will forget to order something crucial!
Currently reading up on what the various bits are actually called  :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 December, 2010, 11:21:37 pm
Grating nutmeg.  And hoping to not grate my fingers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 December, 2010, 11:22:12 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 09 December, 2010, 11:21:37 pm
Grating nutmeg.  And hoping to not grate my fingers.
While typing, you are brave :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 09 December, 2010, 11:24:15 pm
Drinking coffee
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 December, 2010, 11:27:16 pm
Getting ready to go to bed in a bed for the first time in about two months. Since we've been home we've been sleeping on our Downmats in the living room. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 December, 2010, 11:33:28 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 09 December, 2010, 11:27:16 pm
Getting ready to go to bed in a bed for the first time in about two months. Since we've been home we've been sleeping on our Downmats in the living room. 

What was wrong with your actual bed?  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 December, 2010, 11:34:09 pm
Quote from: Feline on 09 December, 2010, 11:33:28 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 09 December, 2010, 11:27:16 pm
Getting ready to go to bed in a bed for the first time in about two months. Since we've been home we've been sleeping on our Downmats in the living room. 

What was wrong with your actual bed?  :o
Our lodger was in it.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 December, 2010, 11:36:59 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 09 December, 2010, 11:34:09 pm
Quote from: Feline on 09 December, 2010, 11:33:28 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 09 December, 2010, 11:27:16 pm
Getting ready to go to bed in a bed for the first time in about two months. Since we've been home we've been sleeping on our Downmats in the living room. 

What was wrong with your actual bed?  :o
Our lodger was in it.  ;D

Ahhh I can see why that might have been a problem!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 December, 2010, 11:38:27 pm
Also, we were so cosy and comfy on our mats in our sleeping bags on the floor. I'm putting off going to bed because I know I won't sleep as well in a bed! Born to tour...  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 December, 2010, 07:57:28 am
Quote from: peliroja on 09 December, 2010, 11:38:27 pm
Also, we were so cosy and comfy on our mats in our sleeping bags on the floor. I'm putting off going to bed because I know I won't sleep as well in a bed! Born to tour...  ;D

a very appropriate sig.-line
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 10 December, 2010, 08:17:21 am
I didn't sleep well at all. Asthma.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 10 December, 2010, 09:40:20 am
I'm signing back into work - in a token manner - from home. I'm still far from well after a rather pernicious chest infection, but I still feel the need to be "there", even though I shan't be doing all that much!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 December, 2010, 09:41:16 am
I'm cursing ill-health.  Everyone in the house is coughing around me, and I'm too crook to go to work today as well :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 December, 2010, 09:49:08 am
Quote from: peliroja on 10 December, 2010, 08:17:21 am
I didn't sleep well at all. Asthma.  >:(

Neither did I. Arthritis. The joints which are guaranteed to give me a bad night when they are affected are my shoulders. Impossible to get comfortable, always load-bearing no matter how you lie. Trying to get up or turn over changes the stresses and the pain. It's my right shoulder which is giving me serious jip at the moment.

You should have texted me, Peli. We could have kept each other company. :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 10 December, 2010, 09:54:53 am
Trying to download my last 12 months statements from BarclayCard.  Takes me back to the days of 2400 modems. It's so slow that I've already been force logged out twice.  Could it be the WikiLeak imbecile attackers?


Seems to be waking up again - downloading a zip pdf file of unknown size.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 December, 2010, 12:51:33 pm
I am contemplating a POETS day declaration :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 December, 2010, 01:32:30 pm
it's POETS day :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 11 December, 2010, 10:52:46 am
I just went out to pick up a 30kg delivery of cat litter from my local Post Office. Inevitably whilst I was out, another parcel was delivered.  Luckily one of my neighbours took it in for me.

I think I've had about ten deliveries in the last two days, and there's at least one more somewhere in the system.

It's not that I've been ordering a lot, but I've had no parcel deliveries for about two weeks, and it's not been helped by Wiggle sending what could have been sent in one Jiffy bag, as four separate ones (with more to follow!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 11 December, 2010, 11:06:51 am
Quote from: TimO on 11 December, 2010, 10:52:46 am
...and it's not been helped by Wiggle sending what could have been sent in one Jiffy bag, as four separate ones (with more to follow!)

I just got another two parcels from Wiggle through the letterbox.  Given that the contents of each was less than £5, the postage, packaging, and packets of Haribo, must cost a significant amount of their profit. :-\

I think there's at least one more parcel before that order is complete.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 11 December, 2010, 02:07:15 pm
It's midnight here. I'm waiting for riders to finish the Warwick Walkabout 200. Made most challenging by the amount of flood water around. Some serious servicing of BBs tomorrow I think. They walked bikes over a rail bridge to avoid one torrent. Very long coal train through 10 mins later. Too close a call for my level of risk aversion but then I don't think I would have been brave enough to walk across the rail bridge in the first place.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 December, 2010, 07:51:39 pm
Goodness me, Sandy! I hope they all arrived safely.

I'm waiting for some roast potatoes to cook. Nom nom nom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 11 December, 2010, 07:59:16 pm
Feeling sorry for myself. Should have been going to see daughter tomorrow - back problems mean 2x 3+ hours sat on National Express just not on. Bugger.

The pain is not nice. The disappointment much worse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 11 December, 2010, 08:21:48 pm
Shelveses, gollum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 11 December, 2010, 09:44:17 pm
"They walked bikes over a rail bridge to avoid one torrent. Very long coal train through 10 mins later. Too close a call for my level of risk aversion but then I don't think I would have been brave enough to walk across the rail bridge in the first place. "

Brave not exactly the RIGHT word there, is it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 12 December, 2010, 01:06:21 am
Coal trains aren't doing 200 km/h at 10 minute intervals. Railway bridges have refuges at regular spacings. Seems reasonable enough to me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 December, 2010, 03:09:03 pm
Waiting for a cake to bake.

ETA: one that's in the oven. I'm not hoping for spontaneous cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 December, 2010, 03:25:12 pm
Being frustrated with Future Publishing. They've sent the magazine subscription I intended as a gift to my address, rather than the giftee's address, for the third month running. Utter numpties.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 December, 2010, 03:29:10 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 12 December, 2010, 03:09:03 pm
Waiting for a cake to bake.

ETA: one that's in the oven. I'm not hoping for spontaneous cake.

Oh, is this where I am going wrong?  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 December, 2010, 03:57:22 pm
I'm hoping for spontaneous cake, but experience suggests that it's unlikely to happen.

Still, hope springs eternal. ;D

<fx: Finishes scoffing the Dairy Cream Apple Turnover, from Sainsburys>

I'm certainly not relying on anything unlikely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 December, 2010, 04:02:57 pm
Sorry Tim and Feline, but you're both a bit far away for me to drop off a spontaneous cake on a Sunday afternoon.

I'm waiting for my boys to finish emptying the dishwasher so that I can get into the kitchen to cook Sunday lunch at teatime for one of our neighbours (whose husband is away in the states) and Arch and us.  I seem to have accidentally ordered far too much cream (needed it for chocolate ganache to put in banananananana cake but inadvertently bought about 4 times what was required) on the last supermarket shop, have a load of eggs to use up and lots of leftover dried fruit from making Christmas Puds for Deano's ride, so bread and butter pudding it is!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 December, 2010, 04:08:08 pm
Dammit, I need to move house closer to CL!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 December, 2010, 04:24:37 pm
Being hungry reading about all the cake makage going on on the forum this afternoon :P

my ingredients for lemon polenta cake aren't coming until Tuesday :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 December, 2010, 06:05:14 pm
It's not cake time yet. Stollen And mince pies.
In my kitchen baking. Nom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 December, 2010, 06:07:31 pm
I could really go off some people....   :P ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 12 December, 2010, 06:07:56 pm
Just come in from building a shed, about to have a cup of tea to warm up.  Watching Force 10 from Navarone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 December, 2010, 06:09:53 pm
Suffering rumbly guts after Sunday lunch, which had to be at lunchtime because the kids wanted to go to Christingle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 December, 2010, 06:10:30 pm
Tidying up after a visit from barakta's mum, and noting that it's probably preferable to the more traditional tidy-up-before-the-inlaws-visit arrangement.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 12 December, 2010, 06:14:54 pm
Waiting for dinner with an aperitif glass of red.
It smells lovely.
Helen is currently in the kitchen checking on progress............. bless  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 12 December, 2010, 06:49:54 pm
Drinking wine while trying to stay awake. One is not helping the other.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 December, 2010, 07:16:53 pm
Setting up my heart rate monitor (Polar FT7).  Now to read the manual and learn how to get some use out of the thing.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Redlight on 12 December, 2010, 07:32:11 pm
Booking ski hire, lessons, etc. Two weeks to go  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RW on 12 December, 2010, 07:43:54 pm
I've just cleaned the oven.  Turned it back on and fused the whole house.  I'm also trying to get to grips with putting music on a micro sd card in a form that my phone understands.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 December, 2010, 07:49:03 pm
Eating cake. Yum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 December, 2010, 07:54:31 pm
Wishing I could eat either of the two cakes I've made but I have to take them to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 12 December, 2010, 08:04:06 pm
Don't you work from home ? And isn't part of every cake maker to test their cakes ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 December, 2010, 08:09:05 pm
Get thee behind me, woollysatan!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 12 December, 2010, 08:12:10 pm
ooohh are we forming a orderly queue for the cake tasting ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 12 December, 2010, 08:13:11 pm
oh I forgot I'm easting the rather yummy cake that Peli just made, is that what this thread is about - what you are doing right now ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 December, 2010, 08:15:27 pm
Watching Macbeth on BBC4 in a hotel room in York.  Early night so that I can be at work in the signalbox here at 0500.
Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth is beautiful and frightening in equal measure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 December, 2010, 09:49:39 pm
You daft bugger rower-you should have  said you were round here, you could have joined us for tea. There are not small amounts of leftovers...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 13 December, 2010, 09:52:18 am
Quote from: peliroja on 11 December, 2010, 07:51:39 pm
Goodness me, Sandy! I hope they all arrived safely.


They did! And they didn't even need the extra time in the end.  The last one arrived with 90 minutes in hand.  All very wet and glad to finish though.

Hope you're fully recovered now, Peli!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 13 December, 2010, 06:11:12 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 December, 2010, 09:49:39 pm
You daft bugger rower-you should have  said you were round here, you could have joined us for tea. There are not small amounts of leftovers...
Very kind of you to offer!  If I'm away-from-home working, then my inherited work-ethic says that I shouldn't have any fun.  And I would feel guilty for intruding.

But +1, Yes, I am daft.  I'll PM you next time I'm in the area, so that you can get experience of exactly HOW daft I am.

(BTW I'm back in Derby now.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 December, 2010, 06:39:44 pm
Looking for a wee bit o' airfix kit that I dropped on the carpet.......

comes here my precious...........   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 December, 2010, 07:15:23 pm
what are you buiding?HMS Victory? Wellington bomber?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 13 December, 2010, 07:39:07 pm
I have just spent the entire afternoon clearing out my garage. I got fed up of scraping ice off the car when I have a double garage it should be in!

I found a total of 7 bikes in there (not including the Fuji who lives in my study), a couple of which I had forgotten I had. Some are ones the kids outgrew so I can sell them. The car is now full of stuff to go to the tip in the morning. I even swept the garage out! Of course, I could just forget my plans of sticking the car in there and buy N+10 to fill the available space!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 December, 2010, 08:00:06 pm
A double garage is intended to have one half filled with bikes & the other half to accommodate a turbo trainer or rollers plus a fettling area.
Cars are designed to live outside.
End of.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 December, 2010, 08:10:31 pm
Quote from: SandyV on 13 December, 2010, 09:52:18 am
Quote from: peliroja on 11 December, 2010, 07:51:39 pm
Goodness me, Sandy! I hope they all arrived safely.


They did! And they didn't even need the extra time in the end.  The last one arrived with 90 minutes in hand.  All very wet and glad to finish though.

Hope you're fully recovered now, Peli!
Getting there, thanks Sandy! Glad they arrived safely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 December, 2010, 08:21:02 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 12 December, 2010, 07:54:31 pm
Wishing I could eat either of the two cakes I've made but I have to take them to work.
I took one to work today for the lunch tomorrow. (I can't take it in tomorrow as I won't be in until after the team lunch). I put the other one in the freezer to await the OT lunch on Wednesday. The OT lunch has been postponed until January so I've taken the cake out of the freezer and once it's defrosted I'll be eating it, slice by tasty slice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 December, 2010, 08:31:24 pm
Quote from: jogler on 13 December, 2010, 07:15:23 pm
what are you buiding?HMS Victory? Wellington bomber?

Aston Martin DB5.

Found the wee bit!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 13 December, 2010, 09:54:16 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 13 December, 2010, 08:31:24 pm
Quote from: jogler on 13 December, 2010, 07:15:23 pm
what are you buiding?HMS Victory? Wellington bomber?

Aston Martin DB5.

Found the wee bit!   :thumbsup:
Hurrah! :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 13 December, 2010, 09:59:26 pm
Staring at a gutted storage heater thinking, "all these bits look fine, why don't you work?" and waiting for the THUNK of the relay.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 December, 2010, 11:19:23 am
Quote from: jogler on 13 December, 2010, 08:00:06 pm
A double garage is intended to have one half filled with bikes & the other half to accommodate a turbo trainer or rollers plus a fettling area.
Cars are designed to live outside.
End of.

The other half is full of biscuits, surely  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 December, 2010, 11:23:12 am
The life expectancy of biscuits is sufficiently low as to preclude the need for storeage facilities for same :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2010, 11:23:51 am
Taking another pension.

My Civil Service pension, based on 20 years' reckonable service, is worth 9 times as much as the Norwich Union pension, for which I've been paying for the past 15 years.

It comes to something when the amount I paid in every month is more than the amount I'll get.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 December, 2010, 12:27:35 pm
I think you'll find that's what a private sector pension can look like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 14 December, 2010, 12:52:54 pm
Having a cup of tea, to put off getting ready to go to a baby shower.

The baby shower will be fun.  It's the getting ready bit I don't like.

Although I do have a new frock  (http://www.peopletree.co.uk/products/erin-print-dress/)  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 14 December, 2010, 01:21:22 pm
baking  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 December, 2010, 02:44:31 pm
Trying to resist the lure of the peanut M&M's in the office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 December, 2010, 04:23:39 pm
Scoffing a scone with crotted cleam & strawberry jam made by Mr. Nesbitt's better half:& very nice she it is too,she is too :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 15 December, 2010, 06:15:34 pm
Making a list, checking it twice, trying to ignore who's naughty or nice...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 December, 2010, 01:49:58 pm
holding down the windscreen to the body of my airfix db5 while the glue sets.  oh for a third pair of hands...,.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 16 December, 2010, 01:53:57 pm
Making a cup of tea & a sausage sandwich hopefully in time for star trek enterprise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2010, 03:57:41 pm
Quote from: fungus on 16 December, 2010, 01:53:57 pm
Making a cup of tea & a sausage sandwich hopefully in time for star trek enterprise.

Ah yes... the manic whirlwind of fun that is... the IT contractor On The Bench.

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 December, 2010, 09:03:28 pm
Reading the Singletrack Picolax thread, again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 December, 2010, 10:30:00 pm
Oh no.  Now I'm going to have to read it again too. 
Last time, I cracked a rib.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 16 December, 2010, 11:11:06 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 16 December, 2010, 09:03:28 pm
Reading the Singletrack Picolax thread, again.

Holy shit that's funny.  I'm getting very odd looks from mrs_o.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 December, 2010, 11:20:30 pm
Okay, finally got round to reading that one myself.  It's the suspense that makes it...   :facepalm:

I never really understood why people get quite so hung up about having things stuck up their arse, though.  Especially in a medical context.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 16 December, 2010, 11:30:35 pm
I had to read it in about three or four.. err... sittings with a break in between to mop my eyes, take deep breaths and calm down.

The last time I had anything stuck up my arse, the "sticking up the arse" bit went almost unnoticed next to the searing pain it was meant to provoke.  (It was to check whether I really had appendicitis and, oh yes - I definitely did!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 December, 2010, 12:20:49 pm
Waiting for the man from Tesco to deliver the bottle of whisky I am supposed to receive in exchange for getting up at stupid o'clock this morning to take TWFKAML to St Pancras; and watching a man in a BMW being utterly hopeless at getting out of the side road.  I bet Tesco man now does not come because of the SNO.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 17 December, 2010, 11:03:41 pm
Have just finished dismantling an old PC hard drive, destroyed the discs with the data, put the aluminium out for recycling, saved the Torx screws and as a bonus I now have a really powerful fridge magnet  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2010, 08:19:43 am
In the office dealing with the " can you do it before Christmas" merchants ::-) which this year has the added incentive of avoiding the imminent VAT increase
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 18 December, 2010, 12:48:48 pm
I just connected up my pond heater (basically a little heated stick that floats in polystyrene) to stop the pond freezing over while I am at work tonight. It's also much easier than kettles of boiling water. The Koi seem very impressed and are now worshipping it like it is their sun god.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 18 December, 2010, 03:18:13 pm
Watching, on "Alibi", a feature-length Miss Marple, set in Barbados.  Perfect antidote to the lack-of-jetstream cold weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2010, 03:26:56 pm
Watching Rawhide on TCM
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 18 December, 2010, 03:45:50 pm
Considering how many people I could strangle and get away with it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 December, 2010, 03:48:51 pm
Building an immense cauldron of Leek & Potato & Bacon soup.

I'm going to be hunkering down while this snow stuff is happening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 December, 2010, 03:57:17 pm
Ineffectually cleaning an 8 1/2 year old oven.  No products really work on burnt-on stuff that has turned to carbon.  It's really a matter of removing the lumps and stopping it smelling until it gets replaced.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 December, 2010, 04:07:53 pm
Trying to summon the energy to wander out in the cold to buy milk so I can have a cuppa and paracetemol for a poorly head.  Meant to be going out later, and actually I just want to stay home and curl up on the sofa - probably snuggled up in the slanket that Dearly_Beloved got as a christmas present from work. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 18 December, 2010, 04:21:29 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 18 December, 2010, 04:07:53 pm
Trying to summon the energy to wander out in the cold to buy milk so I can have a cuppa and paracetemol for a poorly head.  Meant to be going out later, and actually I just want to stay home and curl up on the sofa - probably snuggled up in the slanket that Dearly_Beloved got as a christmas present from work. 

Hope you are feeling better soon! Have just popped out to the local Co-op and stupidly wore my trainers with holes in, soaked through in 3 minutes. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 December, 2010, 04:50:18 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 18 December, 2010, 04:21:29 pm
Have just popped out to the local Co-op and stupidly wore my trainers with holes in, soaked through in 3 minutes. :(

Blimey HWness.  Are you sure you're not a Brummie?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 18 December, 2010, 05:33:56 pm
Quote from: Basil on 18 December, 2010, 04:50:18 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 18 December, 2010, 04:21:29 pm
Have just popped out to the local Co-op and stupidly wore my trainers with holes in, soaked through in 3 minutes. :(

Blimey HWness.  Are you sure you're not a Brummie?

Que?! I know I'm a tight welsh woman...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 December, 2010, 05:59:49 pm
;-)
Seems to be a Brummie thing.  Going out in deep snow in trainers.
Or so I've observed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 18 December, 2010, 07:25:06 pm
watching the guns of navarone in front of a blazing fire with a bowl full half full of brazil nuts and a good burgundy.

So this is Christmas...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2010, 07:28:20 pm
not quite...it will be when
The Robe
Ben Hur

are on the tv
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 18 December, 2010, 07:54:24 pm
Digesting turkey curry. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 December, 2010, 07:59:48 pm
Enduring Strictly because Mrs S is lovely, made me shepherd's pie for dinner, and she deserves to watch TV without worrying about whether it "annoys me".

But fuck me - I wish they'd employ session singers who could sing in tune. Ow.

The wood burner is a-blazin' and the wine is a-flowin'. Outside it's a-freezin'.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geoff on 18 December, 2010, 08:15:57 pm
Fixing DVD playing on the old Dell lappie...I've given up trying to download dell's own codec pack...so downloading vlc instead
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 18 December, 2010, 08:39:54 pm
Regretting my "no booze 'til Christmas Eve" promise...  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 18 December, 2010, 09:41:23 pm
Drinking Cotes Du Rhone, fiddling about on here and listening to Strictly (not in line of sight).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 18 December, 2010, 10:53:31 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 18 December, 2010, 03:57:17 pm
It's really a matter of removing the lumps and stopping it smelling until it gets replaced.

Much like an elderly relative, I guess.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 19 December, 2010, 10:20:38 am
Quote from: Jaded on 18 December, 2010, 10:53:31 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 18 December, 2010, 03:57:17 pm
It's really a matter of removing the lumps and stopping it smelling until it gets replaced.

Much like an elderly relative, I guess.

Except that in that instance RZ gets to be the replacement elderly relative.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 19 December, 2010, 10:29:57 am
Warming up after a ride out to get a paper in -10 degrees.

Glorious!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2010, 10:30:26 am
Digesting porridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 December, 2010, 10:52:42 am
Wondering where I left the painkillers
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 19 December, 2010, 10:59:26 am
Watching Something for the Week-end. Duran Duran really come across as right arrogant gets.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RW on 19 December, 2010, 01:57:34 pm
Work  :(
Ploughing through verbatim comments from a survey that the agency didn't code up.  In response to the question "What did the 7% in other say?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 19 December, 2010, 02:00:19 pm
Waiting for our pains au chocolat to warm up. Today will be another lazing-about-on-the-sofa day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 19 December, 2010, 02:32:48 pm
Bottling the damson gin <hic>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 19 December, 2010, 02:37:06 pm
Contemplating a second apre-jog toddy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Snakehips on 19 December, 2010, 04:13:18 pm
Furtively reading Alan Sugar's autobiography but pretending to access YACF.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 December, 2010, 04:16:57 pm
Waiting for the fan-heater-onna-extension-lead to get the bathroom up to a sensible temperature so I can have a much-needed shower.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: plug on 19 December, 2010, 06:40:22 pm
After a splendid afternoon eating and drinking with friends, drinking beer and eating cheese and listening to Chumbawamba on the gramophone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 19 December, 2010, 06:47:51 pm
Waiting for a website backup

File 291 out of 2720

It has been running for 100 minutes. 
 :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2010, 06:49:57 pm
Wondering what the dog is dreaming about.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 December, 2010, 06:58:53 pm
I was reunited with A Flock of Seagulls today.

Which was nice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 19 December, 2010, 09:52:13 pm
boiling a kettle so i can get hot water for a wash before  bed seeing as my boiler still isn't giving hot water :-( 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 December, 2010, 12:52:21 am
Making christmas puds.  And, ahem, 'quality controlling' the first batch that I made a week or so back.

Not bad, I reckon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 20 December, 2010, 05:25:58 am
sat here at 5-25 AAy EMM still not sleeping, despite a shedload of deugs!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adam on 20 December, 2010, 05:51:48 am
Quote from: Jaded on 19 December, 2010, 06:58:53 pm
I was reunited with A Flock of Seagulls today.

Which was nice.

Have you had your hair done?  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2010, 09:52:17 am
Collating a quotation for a job needing to be done between Xmas & New Year & wondering how enthusiastic or otherwise I feel about it all.The conclusion will determine how sharp my pencil is;or otherwise. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 December, 2010, 11:49:49 am
Considering gym membership options.  I'm currently a memeber of the dirt cheap, decent but too far to be convenient gym on the other side of town.  This (plus their not brilliant opening times) means that I never blinking get there.  I'm trying to decide whether, since my C2W payments finished this month (Yay- Valencia is mine all mine!), I can justify joining the ludicrously expensive posh gym 5 minutes down the road.  I don't like it anywhere near as much as the tatty old council gym that they closed down which I used a lot, but it is remarkably convenient.  I'd be able to get there, have a decent swim/class/workout and get back to pick up on the mornings that littly is in school.  Could possibly get an early swim before work on the day that I'm just round the corner first thing.  They're open til 11 so I should be able to get at least 2 evenings a week.  Hmm.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 20 December, 2010, 11:54:31 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 December, 2010, 11:49:49 am
Considering gym membership options.  I'm currently a memeber of the dirt cheap, decent but too far to be convenient gym on the other side of town.  This (plus their not brilliant opening times) means that I never blinking get there.  I'm trying to decide whether, since my C2W payments finished this month (Yay- Valencia is mine all mine!), I can justify joining the ludicrously expensive posh gym 5 minutes down the road.  I don't like it anywhere near as much as the tatty old council gym that they closed down which I used a lot, but it is remarkably convenient.  I'd be able to get there, have a decent swim/class/workout and get back to pick up on the mornings that littly is in school.  Could possibly get an early swim before work on the day that I'm just round the corner first thing.  They're open til 11 so I should be able to get at least 2 evenings a week.  Hmm.....

I would go with the option you know you will get to most often if you can possibly justify the cash. At least you will be getting decent value for money instead of shelling out for something you never use ... in terms of cost-per-use the most convenient one is always going to win out!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AndyH on 20 December, 2010, 12:17:28 pm
Sitting at my desk wondering what time I can close the site due to the weather  :demon:

And watching 3 Polish demolition workers carrying on in the sideways sleety rain that Christchurch is having at the moment.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 December, 2010, 02:23:49 pm
Steaming a christmas pudding.  The first of three - our kitchen is going to be very very steamy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 20 December, 2010, 04:45:31 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 December, 2010, 02:23:49 pm
Steaming a christmas pudding.  The first of three - our kitchen is going to be very very steamy.

Christmas Pudding, Nom, Nom... Address pleeze!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2010, 05:03:23 pm
I know CL's address & am not averse to bribery & corruption but best of all,I'm Cheap ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 December, 2010, 05:10:41 pm
Monitoring the National Rail website and providing barakta with information to facilitate her escape from Mordor Central in a concise accessible format.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 December, 2010, 05:29:50 pm
Sucking a fisherman's friend*.

*actually a Dequadin lozenge but the smut potential is so much less with them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 December, 2010, 07:08:48 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 20 December, 2010, 05:29:50 pm
Sucking a fisherman's friend*.

Anyone we know?  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 December, 2010, 07:17:38 pm
Mrs. Wow is sucking a Hall's Soother.

Does Mrs. Hall know?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 20 December, 2010, 07:32:44 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 December, 2010, 05:03:23 pm
I know CL's address & am not averse to bribery & corruption but best of all,I'm Cheap ;D

Does Regulator know about these facts?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2010, 07:37:21 pm
Yes Reg does know me, but not in a biblical sense.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2010, 09:35:48 pm
Wrapping Xmas pressies,eating dark chocolate mints & drinking Grolsch,thus demonstrating that blokes can do multi-tasking :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 20 December, 2010, 09:47:50 pm
Listening to Woolly and PGTips farting in unison.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 23 December, 2010, 10:25:42 pm
Making a list of things that rhyme with Nork.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 December, 2010, 10:26:44 pm
Laundry.  And contemplating wrapping the rest of the presents....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 23 December, 2010, 10:34:16 pm
Wondering if I'll ever get used to this Mac.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 23 December, 2010, 10:37:50 pm
I've done the laundry and wrapped all the presents. It's just as well since I am working tomorrow. I am now contemplating getting on the turbo trainer while I drink Baileys  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 December, 2010, 11:06:08 am
Killing time, which thoroughly deserves it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 24 December, 2010, 11:25:23 am
currently trying to eat my own body weight in mince pies. And mostly succeeding :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 December, 2010, 11:28:03 am
Waiting for the washing machine engineer ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 December, 2010, 12:01:16 pm
Allegedly getting sorted for going away.

Not very efficiently.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulR on 24 December, 2010, 12:04:28 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 24 December, 2010, 11:06:08 am
Killing time, which thoroughly deserves it.

I thought I'd killed it off yesterday but today sees me still attempting to bludgeon it into submission. 

management says our team leaders can let us go at 3 if they want.  I am therefore surfing all kinds of cycling and astronomy websites and waiting until I am released to meet my big bro who is over from Leftpondia for a few days and will travel down to Lake Como Forest Hill with me this evening for much food and stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 December, 2010, 12:38:00 pm
Eating chocolate coins and waiting for Crusty to come home so we can go delivering Xmas cards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 24 December, 2010, 12:50:12 pm
I've just started the Land Rover to go round to my dad's to drop of the videos of my niece's wedding I've just finished. I've just got back form the builder's merchant having bought a washbasin to replace one that has just cracked, I'll fit that this afternoon and put some Fernox in the central heating as a leak has developed, then I'll start my Christmas shopping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 24 December, 2010, 12:52:54 pm
Trying to get plywood skelfs out of my fingertip.

Ouch!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 December, 2010, 12:58:39 pm
Waiting for Management to send us home.  Rumour says 2-ish, but I'm hoping for earlier.
 
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 24 December, 2010, 12:59:29 pm
Been to the pub in the village to rendezvous with Waitrose & collect our Christmas vittels.  Oddly they were in the exact same hire van that I drove for a week when we moved house

I've disconnected & removed a very scary bit of wiring in the downstairs loo, which involved an expedition into the roofspace above the kitchen. Where I found a whole lot more wiring that made me go "mmm"

A job for the warmer weather will be to lift the ceiling insulation and tidy all that up.  I for one welcome our new Part P overlords.

Got to fit a banister rail, and a handle in the loo, this afternoon, then assemble a bed for our guests.  The sun's out though, so time for a run first :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 December, 2010, 01:30:49 pm
Assisting in the time killing Collective.
I have written a spreadsheet for a friend. I think that's a first, generally I do excel for money, not love...
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Post by: welshwheels on 24 December, 2010, 03:32:18 pm
just been tracking santa with 2 very excited little boys http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jaded on 24 December, 2010, 03:36:10 pm
Just put the Christmas Tree up with some wood and wire. ;D
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Post by: rower40 on 24 December, 2010, 03:48:31 pm
Listening to the Festival of 9 Lessons and Carols on The Home Service Radio 4, from Kings Bollege Bambridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 December, 2010, 03:53:01 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 24 December, 2010, 03:36:10 pm
Just put the Christmas Tree up with some wood and wire. ;D

...and a ziptie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 24 December, 2010, 04:01:29 pm
feeling fuckin bored
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Post by: Hilldodger on 24 December, 2010, 04:01:54 pm
Just masked off my Capri and about to put a coat of primer on  :thumbsup:

Guess what I'm doing tomorrow  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2010, 04:36:41 pm
Quote from: welshwheels on 24 December, 2010, 03:32:18 pm
just been tracking santa with 2 very excited little boys Official NORAD Santa Tracker (http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html)   :thumbsup:

Well that's wrong. I was just leaving for Waitrose when you posted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 December, 2010, 04:43:06 pm
Sneezing, mostly.
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Post by: delthebike on 24 December, 2010, 04:46:27 pm
Wondering how bad my timing is. I was just opening the microwave door, literally just pushed the door release button, when the eggs I was nuking decided to explode and coat the oven.  :facepalm:  :sick:  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 24 December, 2010, 04:48:34 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2010, 04:36:41 pm
Quote from: welshwheels on 24 December, 2010, 03:32:18 pm
just been tracking santa with 2 very excited little boys Official NORAD Santa Tracker (http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html)   :thumbsup:

Well that's wrong. I was just leaving for Waitrose when you posted.
You had better get a move on you can go to waitrose anytime  ;) one night shift a year we ask you to work pls dont be late for work ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 December, 2010, 04:48:46 pm
Running a bath, to warm me up ready for an hour's sleep, ready for a night shift.  My colleague is bringing in some (banned) reindeer antlers for us all to wear.

Note to self: remove antlers if the cardiac arrest bleep goes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 December, 2010, 09:58:49 am
Setting up a Samba share on my Linux box so Pcolbeck junior can install Starcraft from it as his laptop wont read the DVD and my Linux box will. It was only  a couple of years ago that Christmas mornings meant helping him build Lego ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 25 December, 2010, 02:57:40 pm
Feeling guilty about shovelling more coal onto the fire.  Climate change and all that.  You don't get much higher carbon content than that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 December, 2010, 11:30:36 am
enjoying the decadence of still being in p.j.'s & dressing gown at this time in the morning with the added benefit of scoffing mince pies & coffee :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 26 December, 2010, 12:12:17 pm
Migrating mailboxes from one IMAP server to another...

And deleting most of the rubbish I seem to have 'saved' over the past few years in the process

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 26 December, 2010, 12:19:20 pm
Reading the Sunday newspapers with a fillum on in the background.  The husband is baking a ham and preparing the vegetables. Roll on Day Two of food nomness  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 26 December, 2010, 01:48:48 pm
Explaining to the "current" wife why I have left the heating on in the garage: the bikes were cold*. It doesn't seem that is a good reason and that I must be mad to do so...it also seems that at times the bikes mean more to me than she does.  ::-) :facepalm: ;D




* The rear derailer on the MTB had frozen mud in it which stopped it from changing up. I cleaned the bike and re-oiled it. I put the heater on to stop any left over water from freezing again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 December, 2010, 01:58:31 pm
Chatting with my mum's hens.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2010, 02:01:26 pm
Attempting to assuage the inner turmoil.

I am very warm and comfortable but I really ought to go for a bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 December, 2010, 02:38:42 pm
Wondering whether to duck and cover as my new HP all in one printer is making weird creaking / whirring / clanking noises while doing it's "one time install"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 26 December, 2010, 02:48:17 pm
watching Boom and Albert slogging it out in the snowy Cyclocross, Great stuff!
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Post by: peliroja on 26 December, 2010, 05:56:15 pm
Playing fetch with Daisy, the cat. She's now quite exhausted and flat out on the mat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 December, 2010, 06:14:34 pm
Convalescing ineffectively
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2010, 06:16:07 pm
I've just had a natter with Mrs. Wow's youngest sister (Burnley-based). She's now talking to Dez and the phone will be handed to Mrs. Wow once Dez has finished regaling her with the intricacies of his arduino.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 December, 2010, 07:10:26 pm
Entering my first Audax in nearly a year and a half.  Should be suitably painful.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 December, 2010, 07:14:00 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 26 December, 2010, 07:10:26 pm
Entering my first Audax in nearly a year and a half.  Should be suitably painful.
 

Ooh... which one? Can we come and laugh?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 December, 2010, 07:16:45 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 26 December, 2010, 07:14:00 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 26 December, 2010, 07:10:26 pm
Entering my first Audax in nearly a year and a half.  Should be suitably painful.
 

Ooh... which one? Can we come and laugh?

Willy Warmer.  Don't worry if that one isn't on your list — you can laugh when I do the Old Squit, as that's in your neck of the woods.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2010, 08:03:30 pm
Blimey. I did that 2 years ago. Didn't we arrive together, Andrij?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 December, 2010, 08:11:29 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2010, 08:03:30 pm
Blimey. I did that 2 years ago. Didn't we arrive together, Andrij?

Yes, we did.  And, IIRC, with not too much time left to spare.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 27 December, 2010, 04:17:45 am
Being awake!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 27 December, 2010, 05:25:16 am
Getting drunk and maaybe deciding what film to watch.
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Post by: woollypigs on 27 December, 2010, 05:26:01 am
Still awake!
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Post by: Gattopardo on 27 December, 2010, 05:49:43 am
me too.

Want to snuggle  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 27 December, 2010, 05:52:55 am
Or just sand a few fillered panels for me?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 27 December, 2010, 06:03:18 am
Just leaving to take Mrs G to Crewe railway station.   :'(
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Post by: woollypigs on 27 December, 2010, 06:06:19 am
hehe, I wish the snuggling would work I tried it out for two hours with Peli, even though it was rather nice I was not able to sleep.

Time for breakfast soon I think, will put the kettle on, any one for a cuppa ?
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Post by: Domestique on 27 December, 2010, 06:10:29 am
Having a cup of coffee pre-work
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 27 December, 2010, 06:14:44 am
Quote from: woollypigs on 27 December, 2010, 06:06:19 am
hehe, I wish the snuggling would work I tried it out for two hours with Peli, even though it was rather nice I was not able to sleep.

Time for breakfast soon I think, will put the kettle on, any one for a cuppa ?


big mug of strong tea, no sugar, for me please!

Just seen mrs Aidan off to work, going to get the pompino sorted in a minute for a negative temperature spin :-)


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 27 December, 2010, 06:48:03 am
Being bored in the Sydney suburbs. The first few days here were ok as we went into town lots but three days of family, TV and driving along six-lane highways to yet another blinking shopping mall ... if I have to eat another stinking food court meal I'll top myself. The problem is that J's mum and dad love this shit a d think they're being good to us. Help!

But tonight we're going out with friends - hurray! To a Bavarian bier haus? This could be great or dreadful...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 27 December, 2010, 06:51:53 am
Quote from: Ariadne on 27 December, 2010, 06:48:03 am
Being bored in the Sydney suburbs. The first few days here were ok as we went into town lots but three day's of family, TV and driving along six-lane highways 

Just keep driving north on the New England Highway for about 5 hours and you'll be at our place - we're having salmon fillets and prawns for dinner and you're more than welcome!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 27 December, 2010, 07:04:33 am
Quote from: Ariadne on 27 December, 2010, 06:48:03 am
But tonight we're going out with friends - hurray! To a Bavarian bier haus? This could be great or dreadful...

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_I2koBEIwO7s/TOxXjYUwyII/AAAAAAAAPHk/fPTo9dsYfC8/s400/DSC04135.JPG)
If you go here Bavarian Bier Cafe (http://www.bavarianbiercafe.com/) in York St.

Don't get the veggie taster platter. Even for you this is way too small portions. And for no beer drinking Peli there wasn't much food there for her.

Tough the beer was rather good.

Take SandyV's offer you will not regret it, her hospitality is just brilliant and you get to talk about bicycles too :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 27 December, 2010, 07:47:57 am
Thanks Woolly!

I've just finished peeling the prawns!  They look good.  I think I'll add some avocado.

The salmon fillet will be accompanied by chinese cabbage and broccoli with ginger, garlic, soy sauce and sesame seeds.  (It was an extra special at the supermarket today - $9 a kilo - instead of $29!!  So, some for tonight and enough to freeze for later in the week)   :) :)
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2010, 08:05:09 am
We're lying in bed having tea too. Cheers!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 27 December, 2010, 11:36:07 am
Coughing....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 27 December, 2010, 11:42:06 am
hmm still awake
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 27 December, 2010, 12:23:06 pm
I'm drinking a cup-of-soup
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Post by: jogler on 27 December, 2010, 12:51:24 pm
drinking Grolsch
eating mince pies.
male multi-tasking? no problem ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 December, 2010, 01:00:25 pm
Trying to tidy up the living room enough so that I can re-arrange the furniture.  Good thing I have tomorrow off as well...
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 27 December, 2010, 02:34:33 pm
Preparing to replace a radiator valve without draining the central heating.
I've not tried bungs before. I hope they work!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mondobongo on 27 December, 2010, 03:24:14 pm

Just about to start cooking tea, mince, mushrooms and onions with crinkle cut chips and garden peas.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 December, 2010, 03:39:08 pm
Waiting on platform 8 for a delayed transpennine express and worrying I will miss my connection at York.
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Post by: peliroja on 27 December, 2010, 04:29:10 pm
Enjoying playing with the moggy again. She even fetches! Hours of entertainment!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 December, 2010, 04:38:09 pm
Wondering if 'dildo' is an appropriate word for the family game of scrabble.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 December, 2010, 04:46:43 pm
Cursing the weather. Train took 20 mins to get through Morley tunnel, as driver had to do safety checks for falling ice. Should be on 1646 from York but not even at York yet. Hope my connection is 45 mins late.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 27 December, 2010, 04:59:13 pm
Waiting for my salmon pizza to cook cos I'm COLD after getting myself out of the house for an hour or so.  It's wet and windy but is above 0C which is nice!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 07:12:54 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 27 December, 2010, 04:29:10 pm
Enjoying playing with the moggy again. She even fetches! Hours of entertainment!
Ours used to do that. :)

Wondering when is an appropriate time to put pizza in the oven for tea, being as we didn't get lunch til 3.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 09:40:50 pm
Buying some Assos shorts, reduced to £90 in the sale.
<terribel French accent> Beeecause my bottom ees wuurrrrth eet </accent>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 December, 2010, 09:49:55 pm
This thread is useless etc... ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 09:55:22 pm
Quote from: clarion on 27 December, 2010, 09:49:55 pm
This thread is useless etc... ;)

I can remember in a previous life; BA (before Assos) turning up at a Logis de France at the end of a 2 week holiday, peering thru my legs at the mirror behind me, and seeing my bottom was completely purple.  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 27 December, 2010, 09:59:06 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 09:40:50 pm
Buying some Assos shorts, reduced to £90 in the sale.
<terribel French accent> Beeecause my bottom ees wuurrrrth eet </accent>
Which sale?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 27 December, 2010, 09:59:18 pm
*snigger*

Low flying deckchairs have their advantages.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 December, 2010, 10:05:58 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 09:55:22 pm
Quote from: clarion on 27 December, 2010, 09:49:55 pm
This thread is useless etc... ;)

I can remember in a previous life; BA (before Assos) turning up at a Logis de France at the end of a 2 week holiday, peering thru my legs at the mirror behind me, and seeing my bottom was completely purple.  :o

Wot Clarion sed  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 10:06:43 pm
Jejames
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 10:26:06 pm
Butterfly has gone all quiet...she must be hunting down bottom cupping Assos bargains :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 27 December, 2010, 10:29:33 pm
Indeed, thank you :). Contemplating whether a footprint for the tent or a pair of shorts is more important ;D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 10:30:09 pm
what's a footprint?

Oh I see, we have a large bit of thin foam, but that's for out-the-back-of-the-car type camping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clandy on 27 December, 2010, 10:30:58 pm
Watching Meat Loaf perform Hot Patootie in The Rocky Horror.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 December, 2010, 10:36:49 pm
I was going to say marzipan-ing the christmas cake but my assos tells me to shop instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 27 December, 2010, 10:37:38 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 10:30:09 pm
what's a footprint?

A groundsheet that protects the underneath of the tent and acts as a groundsheet in the porch; it is particularly useful in muddy felds in winter. The hilleberg one we need is £5 off and therefore £47. Not sure how urgent that is - although if we are all feeling better and the weather isn't too bad, we should be camping in 2 and a half weeks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 December, 2010, 10:42:36 pm
Damnation out of stock. Back to cake and marzipan..


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 December, 2010, 10:48:20 pm
Quote from: boab on 27 December, 2010, 10:42:36 pm
Damnation out of stock. Back to cake and marzipan..


1) Can damnation be back-ordered?
2) Is the damnation for yourself, or is it a gift for someone special?

 ;D
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 27 December, 2010, 10:50:37 pm
Quote from: boab on 27 December, 2010, 10:42:36 pm
Damnation out of stock. Back to cake and marzipan..



Mrs Pingu must have grabeed the last pair!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2010, 11:04:55 pm
I've been having a little texting fun at my nephew's expense. It's his 18th birthday.

Quote from: Me
Happy 18th birthday, love, Ed Millibland

Quote from: Nephew Robert
OK, who is this actually?

Quote from: Me
It's yougov. Now you are 18 we are interested in how you would vote if there was an election tomorrow. All the best, John Humphrys

Quote from: Nephew Robert
Well why did you spell Milliband wrong then?

Quote from: Me
What we really need to know is Do you agree with Nick?

Quote
Well I'm left wing and I certainly haven't turned my back on the Lib dems but I have no fixed political allegiance, hell, some of the things the Tories have done have been quite good. Still, how would Yougov get my number?

Quote from: Me
Uncle Santa knows everyone's number. Happy birthday!

Quote from: Nephew Robert
This is quite creepy... Who IS this?

Quote from: Me
Come on Robert! Uncle and Santa should be a real giveaway!  :facepalm:


Quote from: Nephew Robert
Aaaahhhh! Uncle Peter? I'm guessing because of the beard.

Quote from: Me
Well done! happy birthday!

Quote from: Nephew Robert
Thank you!  ;D

 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 27 December, 2010, 11:58:31 pm
Brill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 December, 2010, 12:44:54 am
Chilling out on my first night off for a little while.

Considering whether it would be a good idea, to ride a bicycle tomorrow, purely for pleasure.

Feeling really quite happy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 28 December, 2010, 10:30:30 am
Recovering!  I was about to put Blue the greyhound into the car to take him to be an emergency blood donor for a dog that had been run over (Blue does this fairly often and usually enjoys the adventure) when he slipped his collar and decided to chase Sam, one of our 4 sheep.  While I had visions of the great sheep massacre of 2010, Blue decided he wanted to play down the other end of the paddock.  Sam panicked; Blue chased Sam; I chased Blue; Larry (sheep who thinks he's human) chased Blue as well (a great new game) as did Meg the Whippet  - think Benny Hill without with the buxom blondes and theme music.  Eventually, I stopped,  Blue got bored and came over and put his head through the collar.  Terrific fun. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 December, 2010, 11:06:38 am
Waiting for Dearly_Beloved and EldestCub to come back from town so we can pack the car and head on our way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 December, 2010, 11:55:03 am
Watching Brief Encounter and still wondering whether there is a point to the story.  Also wondering why a doctor with a special interest in lung diseases smokes like a chimney.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 December, 2010, 11:58:58 am
Waiting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 28 December, 2010, 12:15:52 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 28 December, 2010, 11:55:03 am
Watching Brief Encounter and still wondering whether there is a point to the story.  Also wondering why a doctor with a special interest in lung diseases smokes like a chimney.
Smoking, hats, accents.

These things make a film.

See also "Farewell My Lovely"

Meanwhile, I'm looking for my cable cutters. Has anyone seen them?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 December, 2010, 12:48:25 pm
Playing chess with g.d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 28 December, 2010, 12:53:43 pm
Still coughing...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 December, 2010, 01:02:55 pm
Running a bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 28 December, 2010, 01:07:41 pm
Sorting out my surplus of bicycle parts, I'm considering a sale  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 December, 2010, 02:41:31 pm
Asset stripping the turkey.  All the bones etc are being crammed into the pressure cooker.  Soon the freezer will be re-stocked with a very large bag of turkey stock cubes.  (I use the ice cube trays to do this) 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 December, 2010, 02:53:56 pm
I was supposed to be going to John Lewis to pick up an xbox for my brother. But ICBA, so I'll go tomorrow instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 28 December, 2010, 02:56:35 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 December, 2010, 02:41:31 pm
Asset stripping the turkey.  All the bones etc are being crammed into the pressure cooker.  Soon the freezer will be re-stocked with a very large bag of turkey stock cubes.  (I use the ice cube trays to do this) 

I did similar yesterday except with a chicken and two pheasant and with an intention to make soup rather than stock. The content of the pan after I drained it all reminded me of Aliens
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 December, 2010, 05:17:55 pm
Heading, very slowly, southwards on the M6. Waving, slightly forlornly, in the direction of jogler-ville where we were going to drop in yesterday to deliver a Xmas Pud, in a slightly coals to Newcastle manner, before our plans got changed by illness and stuff.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 December, 2010, 05:28:11 pm
Having a snooze at daughter's house.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 December, 2010, 05:40:51 pm
Watching The Circus on ITV2 but really I should be getting dressed to go out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 December, 2010, 06:00:06 pm
Circumnavigating Mordor.

*waves in the approximate direction of Kim and barakta, and the Country Girl*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 28 December, 2010, 06:00:34 pm
Warming up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 December, 2010, 07:04:49 pm
Coordinating a two-pronged attack on the scary damp patch on the bedroom wall using a fan heater and portable air conditioner.  Fortunately the large clump of ice that was the source of the water has now all melted, but I'd really rather like to avoid any mouldy nastiness setting in.

*Waves belatedly to CL and co.*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 29 December, 2010, 12:57:08 pm
Waiting for the heating engineer to pop back from the parts shop with a thermistor for my boiler.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 December, 2010, 01:26:41 pm
Eating beans on toast with Marmite.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 29 December, 2010, 01:38:55 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 28 December, 2010, 12:15:52 pm

Meanwhile, I'm looking for my cable cutters. Has anyone seen them?

Have you found them? If not, have you checked under the hammer on the vegetable rack and in the shoe cleanng box?

I'm avoiding doing anything constuctive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 December, 2010, 02:44:50 pm
Quote from: jogler on 27 December, 2010, 12:51:24 pm
drinking Grolsch
eating mince pies.
male multi-tasking? no problem ;D

an action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 December, 2010, 02:48:21 pm
Considering offering sexual favours to anyone who can find my missing memory stick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 29 December, 2010, 03:02:47 pm
^ does it have to be in that sequence?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 29 December, 2010, 03:05:12 pm
Are those two things related?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2010, 03:08:46 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 29 December, 2010, 01:38:55 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 28 December, 2010, 12:15:52 pm

Meanwhile, I'm looking for my cable cutters. Has anyone seen them?

Have you found them? If not, have you checked under the hammer on the vegetable rack and in the shoe cleanng box?

I'm avoiding doing anything constuctive.

Could be in the cupboard beside the pasta.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 December, 2010, 03:11:06 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 29 December, 2010, 02:48:21 pm
Considering offering sexual favours to anyone who can find my missing memory stick.

preparing my bike for a fast ride to Edinburgh.In my saddlebag I have my patented memory stick detector
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2010, 03:29:02 pm
*wondering how best to let Kirst know I've nicked her memory stick in the hope of sexual favours for its return*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 December, 2010, 03:34:37 pm
*wondering how best to let Clarion know I've nicked Kirst's memory stick off him in the hope that he doesn't offer sexual favours for finding it notice*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 December, 2010, 03:35:22 pm
Quote from: clarion on 29 December, 2010, 03:29:02 pm
*wondering how best to let Kirst know I've nicked her memory stick in the hope of sexual favours for its return*

& how will you explain that to your better half? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2010, 03:44:00 pm
No need to now you've nicked it off me :( >:(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 December, 2010, 03:46:53 pm
You could have tidied up while you were here thieving.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 December, 2010, 03:48:49 pm
Quote from: clarion on 29 December, 2010, 03:44:00 pm
No need to now you've nicked it off me :( >:(

it's a good thing that I've saved you from yourself ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 December, 2010, 03:50:10 pm
This is all very well, but my memory stick is still missing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 December, 2010, 03:52:18 pm
Have you looked in the bathroom? :demon:
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Post by: jogler on 29 December, 2010, 03:55:33 pm
Trying to supress an impending attack of NewYearResolutions-itis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2010, 03:56:36 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 29 December, 2010, 03:46:53 pm
You could have tidied up while you were here thieving.

Perhaps if you tidy up, you might find it....

*ducks*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 29 December, 2010, 03:58:08 pm
Planning a diy 200 for Friday, weather looks ok but cold ( although warmer than it has been :thumbsup:)  and got a route to Lincoln that avoids the littlest lanes ( and the A15)  be nice to get out again for a decent ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 29 December, 2010, 03:59:15 pm
Watching Zulu with tea and cake. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 29 December, 2010, 03:59:28 pm
I tidied up the drawers yesterday and then was able to find 3 sets of bicycle repair kits  :thumbsup:

I  have been trying to get my continental tyres back onto my bloody wheel. I cannot bloody do it and am waiting for help.

Have now moved onto uninstalling and reinstalling the new AVG.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 29 December, 2010, 04:11:57 pm
I have just snored so loudly that I woke myself up.

My colleague took it in his stride, saying 'It's OK. Go back to sleep if you want!'

The office is quiet, luckily . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 29 December, 2010, 04:17:13 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 29 December, 2010, 03:59:28 pm
I tidied up the drawers yesterday and then was able to find 3 sets of bicycle repair kits  :thumbsup:

I  have been trying to get my continental tyres back onto my bloody wheel. I cannot bloody do it and am waiting for help.

Have now moved onto uninstalling and reinstalling the new AVG.

h_w, get yourself a : VAR lever (http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSp4M2o29X31Fm83wbsjvN5uf4xpPVe_YM9rbR-GzDJcAg7ppKnRw)
I got one last week after giving up on fitting a tyre on a Campag rim. I wish I'd got one years ago, they really work.  :thumbsup:

Quote from: mike on 29 December, 2010, 03:59:15 pm
Watching Zulu with tea and cake. 
I too have been watching Zulu, but with coffee and chocolate.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 29 December, 2010, 04:40:21 pm
Quote from: eck on 29 December, 2010, 04:17:13 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 29 December, 2010, 03:59:28 pm
I tidied up the drawers yesterday and then was able to find 3 sets of bicycle repair kits  :thumbsup:

I  have been trying to get my continental tyres back onto my bloody wheel. I cannot bloody do it and am waiting for help.

Have now moved onto uninstalling and reinstalling the new AVG.

h_w, get yourself a : VAR lever (http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSp4M2o29X31Fm83wbsjvN5uf4xpPVe_YM9rbR-GzDJcAg7ppKnRw)
I got one last week after giving up on fitting a tyre on a Campag rim. I wish I'd got one years ago, they really work.  :thumbsup:

Oooh thanks Eck. I have seen that product before with regards to getting the last bit of tyre back on the rim. What seems to be happening to me is that every time I am getting back the tyre into the rim (with the inner tube sitting nicely inside) the other side of tyre keeps falling out over both sides of the rim.  ???  >:( Girlie fettling FAIL!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2010, 04:47:36 pm
A VAR will definitely help, though I understand Pippa's heel method is pretty successful too. (see threads passim).

If I were nearer, I would pop round with me lever, but I'm not right good. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 December, 2010, 04:55:32 pm
Quote from: clarion on 29 December, 2010, 04:47:36 pm
A VAR will definitely help, though I understand Pippa's heel method is pretty successful too. (see threads passim).


True, but I'd bet a VAR lever is considerably cheaper than a pair of Louboutins.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2010, 05:03:33 pm
But so much less stylish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2010, 05:10:31 pm
That looks like a pair of toenail clippers!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2010, 05:16:06 pm
Ruddy big toenails!  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 29 December, 2010, 06:44:47 pm
Sitting in the front upstairs seat of a coach, being driven away from That London. The driver seems to taking great delight in bullying black cabs who aren't going as fast as he thinks they shold be.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 29 December, 2010, 10:16:43 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 29 December, 2010, 06:44:47 pm
Sitting in the front upstairs seat of a coach, being driven away from That London. The driver seems to taking great delight in bullying black cabs who aren't going as fast as he thinks they should be.

S

see? They're not all bad . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 31 December, 2010, 03:58:41 pm
I feel so drained in energy by my recent lurgy that I am sitting playing Sims 3 on my PC. it is the closest to actual brain death I can achieve.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 31 December, 2010, 04:00:01 pm
Quote from: Feline on 31 December, 2010, 03:58:41 pm
I feel so drained in energy by my recent lurgy that I am sitting playing Sims 3 on my PC. it is the closest to actual brain death I can achieve.

Try Cityville on facebook, its even closer ;D its also as adictive as crack
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 31 December, 2010, 05:53:19 pm
Procrastinating
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 December, 2010, 05:54:47 pm
Watching the end of The Sound of Music. I've never seen it all the way through.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2010, 05:55:21 pm
Quote from: boab on 31 December, 2010, 05:53:19 pm
Procrastinating

I haven't got around to that yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 January, 2011, 01:06:09 pm
Watching the BBC thing about polar bears and pmsl at the female seducing the male. Subtle, she isn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 January, 2011, 02:35:37 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 29 December, 2010, 02:48:21 pm
Considering offering sexual favours to anyone who can find my missing memory stick.
Found it myself. Must go claim the reward.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 02 January, 2011, 02:40:40 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 02 January, 2011, 01:06:09 pm
Watching the BBC thing about polar bears and pmsl at the female seducing the male. Subtle, she isn't.

Hmmm.... Maybe polar bears and humans aren't so different?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 January, 2011, 02:56:48 pm
Oh bollocks, I missed that!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 January, 2011, 02:58:12 pm
It might still be on iPlayer. There are images of seals in peril though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 02 January, 2011, 02:59:39 pm
I've just got back from a ride and demolished 4 hot mince pies and two cups of tea  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 January, 2011, 03:05:06 pm
Ah it's repeated in the early hours of tomorrow. I think I can let the poor polar bears nom the seals while they get the chance. At least the seals don't depend on what's left of the ice for food. I shall watch from behind the sofa :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 January, 2011, 03:50:19 pm
Running a bath, and trying to decide what to listen to while I'm in it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 January, 2011, 03:51:27 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 02 January, 2011, 03:50:19 pm
Running a bath, and trying to decide what to listen to while I'm in it.

Didn't bobb provide you with some choons?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 January, 2011, 03:57:47 pm
He did, but they're not very relaxing-in-the-bath sort of choons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 04 January, 2011, 12:25:34 pm
Just finished taking the Christmas tree down  :(
Title: Warty
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 January, 2011, 01:22:57 pm
I'm the token man at a young mums' lunch: seven ladies, nine babies and me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 January, 2011, 01:26:50 pm
I'm about to start making a lasagne.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 January, 2011, 01:27:02 pm
Waiting for the washing machine repair man.

Again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 04 January, 2011, 01:28:09 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 02 January, 2011, 03:57:47 pm
He did, but they're not very relaxing-in-the-bath sort of choons.

*Gets guitar out and starts writing soothing choon*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 January, 2011, 01:29:15 pm
My bath choons of preference are usually Sam Cooke, Bjork, Antony & the Johnsons or maybe some Aretha, if that helps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 January, 2011, 02:08:24 pm
Making lasagne.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 04 January, 2011, 02:15:23 pm
Just reading a contact email from a guy I worked with back in 1982 before he moved to USA in 1984.  Hadn't heard from him before today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 04 January, 2011, 11:09:22 pm
Perusing google maps with a glint in my eye.

God, how I wish I was retired and wealthy....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 January, 2011, 11:22:02 pm
Sitting up in bed, thinking my back hurts.
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Post by: Simonb on 04 January, 2011, 11:24:25 pm
Booking a city break to Moscow for Mrs B's birthday. It's where we met, thirteen years ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 04 January, 2011, 11:26:05 pm
Catching up with Rich Hall on iPlayer.
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Post by: Simonb on 04 January, 2011, 11:27:47 pm
Wondering why lastminute.com is so woefully unusable.
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Post by: Jaded on 04 January, 2011, 11:33:08 pm
Watching the cricket.
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Post by: border-rider on 04 January, 2011, 11:34:05 pm
Catching up on Downton Abbey
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 04 January, 2011, 11:43:15 pm
Fuck 'em. Fuck lastminute.com
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 04 January, 2011, 11:44:47 pm
Watching a friend being interviewed on BBC News Wales, about the bombing of Llandaff Cathedral in WW2. He was utterly charming  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 January, 2011, 11:48:40 pm
Trying to beat Amazon into submission so they will sell me a sodding book instead of logging me out. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 06 January, 2011, 06:34:22 pm
Finishing the last of the Christmas cake  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 06 January, 2011, 06:56:27 pm
Waiting for a lift to go carol1 singing.
Last of the season (it being (possibly) twelfth night).

1) These will be 'traditional' pre-"Hymns Ancient and Modern" carols. Possibly a bit rough and ready in places but great fun. Four part2 harmonies.
2) Or seeing it's in the pub, possibly four pint harmonies
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 06 January, 2011, 06:58:38 pm
Watching Miguel Portillo on BBC2. His series of Bradshaw's musings have been rather good  :thumbsup:
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Post by: interzen on 06 January, 2011, 07:20:41 pm
Trying very hard to stay awake long enough for the battery on my new camera to finish charging so I can have a play with it  :)

Unfortunately, it seems to be a losing battle ...
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Post by: Basil on 07 January, 2011, 12:01:18 pm
Paying bills  >:( and cooking sausages.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 07 January, 2011, 04:09:05 pm
making a bread & butter pudding,under supervision of my kitchen godess :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 January, 2011, 04:19:09 pm
Fettling the route of my planned 2013/14 Great Australian Road Trip  8)

Beats work, that's for sure.
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Post by: Chris S on 07 January, 2011, 05:28:55 pm
Collapsing with a cuppa having been humping my wood for well over an hour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 07 January, 2011, 05:30:17 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 07 January, 2011, 05:28:55 pm
Collapsing with a cuppa having been humping my wood for well over an hour.
:o  :facepalm:  :-[   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 07 January, 2011, 07:10:07 pm
Collapsing with a glass of wine after the sheer exhaustion of having to carry a large ASDA order from the hall into the kitchen to put it all away. If only I could get the delivery driver to do this bit for me too I would have cracked it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 January, 2011, 07:11:46 pm
But he can't drink the wine; he has to drive the van back! :o
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Post by: SandyV on 07 January, 2011, 07:58:07 pm
Waiting for a flight home. Cancelled last night now delayed this morning.
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Post by: JohnP on 07 January, 2011, 08:14:50 pm
Preparing to review some bird photos from Grafham Water today.  Expect them all to be a bit grey and damp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 08 January, 2011, 01:30:41 pm
Just about to get owned on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox by my son ;D 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 08 January, 2011, 01:41:41 pm
Quote from: Grub on 08 January, 2011, 01:30:41 pm
Just about to get owned on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox by my son ;D 

Too much punishment in a week, Grub!!  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 08 January, 2011, 02:30:53 pm
Mhuh  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 08 January, 2011, 02:40:45 pm
Quote from: Grub on 08 January, 2011, 02:30:53 pm
Mhuh  :smug:

It will get better.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 January, 2011, 03:22:42 pm
Drinking the coffee I just made. Listening to KT Tunstall. Surveying the bomb site that is my living room; planning my attack on the mess. Not allowed to the gym til I've tidied it up a bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 08 January, 2011, 04:06:55 pm
^ +1

Through the Dark is just about to finish as Eye To The Telescope winds down.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 January, 2011, 04:07:29 pm
Listening to Rumer.
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Post by: BrianI on 08 January, 2011, 04:11:16 pm
Watching Tamiya Flat Aluminum paint dry on a Mercedes Benz 540K 1:24 scale rear drive shaft assembly!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 January, 2011, 04:12:18 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 08 January, 2011, 04:07:29 pm
Listening to Rumer.

Saw her on the Hootenanny. May require further investigation.

I ran out of Tiger Suit so am on Indie Rock Mix now. Chelsea Dagger currently playing while I pause for a Jasmine tea.
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Post by: simonp on 08 January, 2011, 04:15:18 pm
Heh. Back to Tunstall. (Other Side of The World).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 08 January, 2011, 04:16:03 pm
On to Dr Hook now. 
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Post by: Gandalf on 08 January, 2011, 04:16:19 pm
Whupping my son and grandson at bowling,  tennis and boxing on the Nintendo Wii.......this may be a slight lie.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 January, 2011, 05:03:13 pm
Wrapped in a blanket, drinking wine, watching Mad Men.
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Post by: Andrij on 08 January, 2011, 05:09:02 pm
Having a pre-dinner whisky.  The wine has been opened to allow it to breath; dinner should be ready within an hour.  It's looking like an absolutely decadent evening.  ;D
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 08 January, 2011, 05:19:56 pm
Copying recipes from one format to another on the computer (Claris Works to RTF)

This is making me hungry  :-\

S
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Post by: jogler on 08 January, 2011, 06:44:17 pm
eating the last of the b&b pudding
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Post by: Butterfly on 08 January, 2011, 07:15:54 pm
Trying to warm up.
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Post by: woollypigs on 08 January, 2011, 07:17:39 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 08 January, 2011, 07:15:54 pm
Trying to warm up.
It was right old brrr out there today wasn't it. Warming up with yummy chocolate brownie and tea right now
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Post by: Butterfly on 08 January, 2011, 07:21:15 pm
We stopped at a cafe that wasn't warm enough at lunch time, so when we set off again, my feet were still frozen and I wasn't coping :(. We stopped again at a nice warm harvester and scandalised a witress by ordering pudding without a main ;D.
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Post by: itsbruce on 08 January, 2011, 08:05:29 pm
Just been playing this (http://www.youtube.com/v/7alrycItYV8&)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 January, 2011, 11:17:23 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 08 January, 2011, 08:05:29 pm
Just been playing this (http://www.youtube.com/v/7alrycItYV8&)
WTF?! I mean, seriously, WTF?!
It's a well known fact that Japanese games can be a bit, erm, odd, but even under the influence of the humongous quantities of painkillers I've had to take for a back spasm, that made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Especially the polar bear(!).

Perhaps I need to take something stronger - my brain was waving the white flag after about 3 minutes.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 January, 2011, 11:40:27 pm
Just had pizza, after having spent the afternoon having cafe n kuchen, drinking beer & beer & beer, having a snack of bread cheeze & cured meat. Deciding it was time to gom home at 2130. Food, beer, giggles, zzz, :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 09 January, 2011, 11:09:20 am
Just answered the door to a very pleasant lady delivering a 'welcome to the community' pack from the local church.  They must keep an eye on when houses get sold and then take it upon themselves to visit the newcomers.  How awfully nice  :thumbsup:  I'm really quite tempted to pay them a visit.  But Mrs C has just reminded me that I'm not religious.  She has a point.
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Post by: itsbruce on 09 January, 2011, 11:33:23 am
Quote from: interzen on 08 January, 2011, 11:17:23 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 08 January, 2011, 08:05:29 pm
Just been playing this (http://www.youtube.com/v/7alrycItYV8&)
WTF?! I mean, seriously, WTF?!
It's a well known fact that Japanese games can be a bit, erm, odd, but even under the influence of the humongous quantities of painkillers I've had to take for a back spasm, that made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Especially the polar bear(!).
It's really very simple; you play a body builder whose creatine supplement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine) is stolen by an American Football player.  You and your weightlifting buddies (including the polar bear) chase him down, matching his power poses as he crashes through walls.  Just as you catch him, he passes the creatine on to a skate-boarding alien. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 January, 2011, 12:01:52 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 09 January, 2011, 11:33:23 am
It's really very simple; you play a body builder whose creatine supplement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine) is stolen by an American Football player.  You and your weightlifting buddies (including the polar bear) chase him down, matching his power poses as he crashes through walls.  Just as you catch him, he passes the creatine on to a skate-boarding alien. 
Oh right ... that explains everything(!)
Given that the skateboarding alien looked a bit like Roger The Alien from "American Dad", when he first appeared I really did fear for my sanity.

Oh, those wacky Japanese ...
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Post by: jogler on 09 January, 2011, 12:57:24 pm
Trying to read & type on thius forum without the benefit of specs :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 09 January, 2011, 03:36:45 pm
Quote from: jogler on 09 January, 2011, 12:57:24 pm
Trying to read & type on thius forum without the benefit of specs :(

And it's turning you into Foghorn Leghorn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 January, 2011, 03:40:34 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 09 January, 2011, 03:36:45 pm
Quote from: jogler on 09 January, 2011, 12:57:24 pm
Trying to read & type on thius forum without the benefit of specs :(

And it's turning you into Foghorn Leghorn.
What, ah say, what you implyin' there boy? :)

I'm still trying to thaw my feet out after this mornings little potter, erase prescription-drug addled images of weird Japanese Wii games from my memory and fettling my iPhone GPS app. In that approximate order.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 January, 2011, 05:58:11 pm
Making my eldest child emnpty the dishwasher (child labour FTW!) and watching the young'un run up and down the room dragging a stuffsack with a ball in in whilst shouting 'Captain Scarlet' and occasionally coming up to ask 'can I have some more uncooked bus-get-ee*? Please?'




*Spaghetti.  Well, words can be tricky when you're 3....
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 January, 2011, 07:11:11 pm
Running a bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 09 January, 2011, 07:13:08 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 09 January, 2011, 05:58:11 pm
Making my eldest child emnpty the dishwasher (child labour FTW!) and watching the young'un run up and down the room dragging a stuffsack with a ball in in whilst shouting 'Captain Scarlet' and occasionally coming up to ask 'can I have some more uncooked bus-get-ee*? Please?'




*Spaghetti.  Well, words can be tricky when you're 3....

Words can be tricky when you are 50...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 09 January, 2011, 11:13:43 pm
at washington airport after an exhausting conference.  Hopefully will get some sleep on the plane cos next weeks pretty busy too.

so much for my new years resolution of not working too hard....
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 January, 2011, 11:47:25 pm
Making chocolate fridge cake.  With cherries and apricots and sultanas in it, and white chocolate stars on it.
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Post by: SandyV on 11 January, 2011, 07:41:38 am
Watching the Brisbane River rise. Have seen 18 pontoons(2 with boats attached and 3 with lights and seats) and 1 cabin cruiser float past so far. High tide in about 6 hours. Another1.5m and the swimming pool is flooded. 2m and its the basement (and lift well). I'll post some photos when it gets dark as it's quite mesmerising in its steady rise up the riverbank.
And here come pontoons 19, 20 and 21. I wonder how long ours is going to last. 
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Post by: Clare on 11 January, 2011, 07:52:23 am
 :o

Good luck Sandy.

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Post by: Wendy on 11 January, 2011, 08:09:08 am

    YouTube
        - Toowoomba Flood 2011.01.10
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY&feature=player_embedded)
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Post by: SandyV on 11 January, 2011, 08:23:59 am
And here comes pontoon number 40. At least it will be dark soon and I won't be able to see it. 
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Post by: Basil on 11 January, 2011, 08:52:35 am
Hope you're OK Sandy.
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Post by: woollypigs on 11 January, 2011, 10:32:42 am
Well its gotta be some flood before SandyV's need to move out, as she is on the 12th floor. Just hope you got enough food and water to last. A great place to see it all from I'm sure
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Post by: SandyV on 11 January, 2011, 12:14:13 pm
Thanks all.

This is what I sent to friends tonight:

Thanks for your kind wishes, everyone.  Here is a link to some photos from today.  I've just gone down to have a look at the water and it is now at the top step of the steps down to the pontoon - and it's low tide!  I've never seen it that high in the 22 years I've been in this building.  The river is so wide, it reminds me of Bangkok for some reason!


 West End pictures - Day 1 (http://s787.photobucket.com/albums/yy155/sandyvigar/Brisbane%20%20Flood%20Day%20One%2011%2001%2011/?albumview=slideshow)

There's a couple of pictures that look rural - I took these yesterday when I was out to look at our potential new home in Lowood.  It was high and dry unlike the other ones we were considering in Forest Hill and Laidley although many of the roads to Lowood were cut by the floodwaters that came down from Toowoomba.

If the forecast is correct the water here may get to the level of the swimming pool over night or tomorrow morning and could peak around the level of the roof of the car port between the pool and the building (ceiling of the ground floor/ foyer level)  on Thursday and maybe stay until Saturday.  This would be a metre or two higher than 1974 and mean that the basement will be filled with floodwater.  I hope the forecast is wrong.

The pontoon is still there, though not much is visible.  While I was down there, another 3 pontoons floated past - that's 69 that I've seen today plus 2 cabin cruisers!

The car is now moved up the hill and the basement is cleared.  Water bottles, buckets and bath are filled with water (ironic eh?), mobile phone is charged and new batteries in the torches and radio so I'm set.

I'll take some more pictures in the morning.

I hope that those of you in the same boat (pun intended) are coping ok.
 
 
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Post by: interzen on 11 January, 2011, 12:26:34 pm
Blimey, that's bad  :o
We got news last night that our Australia office had been evacuated as a precautionary measure when the waters started encroaching on the car park, and they're based just outside Brisbane proper.

Good luck to anyone affected by the floods.
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Post by: jogler on 12 January, 2011, 09:09:16 pm
Sorting a route from Euston to home .
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 January, 2011, 11:30:51 pm
Essential ride prep.





Yeah, OK, I'm baking.
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Post by: Jaded on 14 January, 2011, 11:38:59 pm
Prepping for tomorrow's ride and fretting.
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Post by: Kim on 14 January, 2011, 11:40:20 pm
Not posting a Red Dwarf quote to the turkey vindaloo thread.
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2011, 11:42:01 pm
Writing an accident report for my insurers  ::-)
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Post by: Oaky on 14 January, 2011, 11:45:39 pm
Wishing wasabi peas weren't so damn nommy!  >:(
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Post by: Basil on 15 January, 2011, 01:12:17 am
After pub cooking.
That'll be bacon and plum jam sandwiches again.  :P
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Post by: mondobongo on 15 January, 2011, 01:14:02 am
Having a couple of Ardbegs.
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Post by: Oaky on 15 January, 2011, 01:32:42 am
updating my NiMH battery charging records
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Post by: BrianI on 15 January, 2011, 08:36:12 am
trying not to fall asleep despite just getting up and having porridge for breakfast.  Darn dark days make me sleepy all day long.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 January, 2011, 10:02:53 am
Thinking how utterly miserable January is and wishing something nice would happen.
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Post by: Dibdib on 15 January, 2011, 10:09:46 am
Sitting on my sofa, absolutely hanging after my first ever 5k ParkRun (http://parkrun.org.uk/swindon/).

I'm too fat for this nonsense...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 January, 2011, 10:12:28 am
Quote from: Kirst on 15 January, 2011, 10:02:53 am
Thinking how utterly miserable January is and wishing something nice would happen.
Wondering about the mysterious synchronicity of life. There's just been a knock at the door and it was a bloke delivering a bottle of champagne with a card saying it's a belated birthday present from my godmother.  ;D
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 15 January, 2011, 10:16:55 am
Thinking how strange it is to be looking out over a green back garden - the last time I had this view was back in November.  It's had a continual cover of snow since then, until few days ago. 
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Post by: numbnuts on 15 January, 2011, 10:49:33 am
feeling ill
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Post by: Adam on 15 January, 2011, 11:48:41 am
Just finished storing away 11 bottles of Persil detergent, which Asda had reduced by nearly 2/3, to £5 for 3l.  That's about 3 years worth of washing.

It's daft, as they were charging the same price for 1 litre bottles!
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Post by: E.C. Ryder on 15 January, 2011, 11:58:21 am
Enjoying a lovely cuppa after having been with out power for over an hour again in windy Ockendon, I suppose being a household of all electricty does have it`s drawbacks!
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Post by: mike on 15 January, 2011, 12:03:45 pm
getting ready to go to a cousins wedding. 

Finally!!  i think this is his fourth financee and the only one not to have run for the hills when they realise how odd he really is...
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Post by: BrianI on 15 January, 2011, 04:03:07 pm
Running a bath!    :thumbsup:
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Post by: numbnuts on 15 January, 2011, 04:10:38 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 15 January, 2011, 10:49:33 am
feeling ill
feeling better now  :)
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Post by: BrianI on 15 January, 2011, 04:12:53 pm
bath still running.... Pesky low powered combi boiler.... 

squeeky clean now
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Post by: itsbruce on 15 January, 2011, 04:42:04 pm
Naked housework.  Because you really needed to know that.
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Post by: her_welshness on 15 January, 2011, 04:46:39 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 15 January, 2011, 04:42:04 pm
Naked housework.  Because you really needed to know that.

Ahh that Melanie Griffiths bit from 'Working Girl'  :thumbsup: We've all done it.

Am watching 'Foyles War' and eating gingerbread Men.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 January, 2011, 04:53:06 pm
Quietly squelching on a TPE train from Darlo to York, after a lovely day out in fine company and entertainingly epic weather. There may have been a few minor optical illusions...

ETA - just going through northallerton. *waves to Tiermat, TLD, and Mrs T*
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Post by: interzen on 15 January, 2011, 05:18:35 pm
Sitting at home in a not inconsiderable amount of pain (waiting for the painkillers to kick in) cursing useless car-hire companies and people with the driving abilities commonly associated with, say, fish. Insurance reports all filled in, but still need proof-reading. That can wait.

Today I have bought a car, spent a fortune on bus fares, spent a very nice afternoon with SWMBO in York during which lunch consisted of a BFO burger. Even better, I've found out that my Alfine 11-speed hub may well be turning up at the LBS on Friday  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 January, 2011, 06:59:31 pm
Looking at kitchen porn in the Lakeland catalogue.
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Post by: daimountaingoat on 15 January, 2011, 07:02:14 pm
Digging into a nice plate of curry and chips  :)
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Post by: spesh on 15 January, 2011, 07:13:04 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 15 January, 2011, 06:59:31 pm
Looking at kitchen porn in the Lakeland catalogue.

Ah yes, Lakeland... purveyors of all the gadgets you never realised you didn't really need.  :demon:

That said, having had a mini-spree in the Guildford branch this afternoon, I did come away with a few items that I actually needed, but heaven forfend that I ever take up home baking...  ;D
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Post by: Adrian on 15 January, 2011, 07:23:15 pm
Quote from: spesh on 15 January, 2011, 07:13:04 pm

Ah yes, Lakeland... purveyors of all the gadgets you never realised you didn't really need have room for in your kitchen.  :demon:


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 January, 2011, 07:25:50 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 15 January, 2011, 06:59:31 pm
Looking at kitchen porn in the Lakeland catalogue.

mrs. jogler even logs on to Lakelandporn on their website :-[
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 January, 2011, 07:26:31 pm
Oh, me too, but it's not as satisfying as looking at the catalogue.
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Post by: jogler on 15 January, 2011, 07:32:41 pm
it's even more satisfying actually handling the stuff within the den of iniquity shop:so I'm told :demon:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 January, 2011, 07:34:20 pm
I try not to do that very often. It makes it too hard to stop, and my kitchen is small.
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Post by: spesh on 15 January, 2011, 07:37:49 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 15 January, 2011, 07:34:20 pm
I try not to do that very often. It makes it too hard to stop, and my kitchen is small.

True, dat.  ;D
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Post by: SteveC on 15 January, 2011, 07:52:41 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 January, 2011, 07:32:41 pm
it's even more satisfying actually handling the stuff within the den of iniquity shop:so I'm told :demon:
The 'flagship' store in Kendal is wonderful.  Free internet cafe for those not interested in kitchen porn and a very nice real cafe as well.
And I seem to remember that, even though we were on the first week of a two centre camping holiday, we still bought STUFF!
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Post by: jogler on 15 January, 2011, 08:44:36 pm
Eating cake,the grand-daughter's birthday party variety.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 January, 2011, 08:46:49 pm
Watching The Devil Wears Prada, which is moderately crap, but being totally in awe of how fabulous Meryl Streep's hair is.
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Post by: mondobongo on 15 January, 2011, 11:03:37 pm
Dunking shortbread in my coffee and thinking about bed.
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Post by: peliroja on 15 January, 2011, 11:05:43 pm
Stressing.
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Post by: interzen on 15 January, 2011, 11:05:50 pm
Fighting with a remote database server which is flakier than a nuclear strike on a Kellogg's factory, whilst drinking utterly obscene quantities of tea.
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Post by: Kim on 16 January, 2011, 02:19:17 am
Quote from: Kirst on 15 January, 2011, 06:59:31 pm
Looking at kitchen porn in the Lakeland catalogue.

I assume not in the uk.rec.cycling sense?  :D
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Post by: rower40 on 16 January, 2011, 04:27:16 am
Fettling Thames Valley Signalling Centre.
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Post by: Jaded on 16 January, 2011, 04:49:49 am
Fighting indigestion  :(
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Post by: andygates on 16 January, 2011, 07:00:51 am
Wrapping Christmas presents. 

(The Santa visit to the tribe got delayed, and I always stall wrapping...)
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Post by: mondobongo on 16 January, 2011, 08:41:23 am
Looking out the window at the miserable rain willing it to stop.
Title: Doing now.
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2011, 12:50:06 pm
Sitting on a train in a state of confusion and Holyhead. Our reservations tell us to change at Chester and Warringtonto get to euston. However this train goes straight to Euston and gets there at the same time as our reservations would get up there. Our tickets are valid without reservations.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 January, 2011, 01:01:32 pm
Cursing period pain, and thinking about making chocolate chili muffins for the OT lunch on Wednesday.
Title: Re: Doing now.
Post by: rower40 on 16 January, 2011, 01:21:04 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2011, 12:50:06 pm
Sitting on a train in a state of confusion and Holyhead. Our reservations tell us to change at Chester and Warringtonto get to euston. However this train goes straight to Euston and gets there at the same time as our reservations would get up there. Our tickets are valid without reservations.
Stay on board till someone tells you otherwise.  I would assume that a set of Engineering Work was planned to cause you to have to change; but in between the booking of your tickets, and today, the work got cancelled.  So the train prolly IS going to That London (Euston).
Title: Re: Doing now.
Post by: Dez on 16 January, 2011, 02:15:46 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 16 January, 2011, 01:21:04 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2011, 12:50:06 pm
Sitting on a train in a state of confusion and Holyhead. Our reservations tell us to change at Chester and Warringtonto get to euston. However this train goes straight to Euston and gets there at the same time as our reservations would get up there. Our tickets are valid without reservations.
Stay on board till someone tells you otherwise.  I would assume that a set of Engineering Work was planned to cause you to have to change; but in between the booking of your tickets, and today, the work got cancelled.  So the train prolly IS going to That London (Euston).
Actually, we get into Euston 25 minutes later by staying on the train, but as we avoid two changes it makes sense to stay on the train.
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Post by: robbo6 on 16 January, 2011, 02:36:50 pm
You also avoided Warrington, which is always a sensible thing to do.
Title: Doing now.
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2011, 02:44:13 pm
Our hand was forced by the fact that someone else had reserved our seats from Chester to Euston. We are on a train To Warrington now.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2011, 03:27:54 pm
Our train from Warrington is delayed. However, when it does arrive the first stop is Euston. I think thats probably the longest distance between scheduled stops that I have experienced.
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Post by: αdαmsκι on 17 January, 2011, 06:40:49 pm
Seeking motivation to get off my butt and go for a run.
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Post by: itsbruce on 17 January, 2011, 11:07:39 pm
Watching The Bourne Supremacy.  It's reminding me how much I like Berlin.
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Post by: SandyV on 18 January, 2011, 09:32:41 am
Watching tv by electric light and eating warm food with chilled drink in hand while washing machine washes. This electrickery is very good stuff!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 January, 2011, 12:09:26 pm
Laughing at my colleague who bought boots from asda and didn't notice until another colleague noticed that one is a 6 and one is a 9. I might never stop laughing.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 January, 2011, 12:11:41 pm
Pretending to write my dissertation whilst acquainting myself with The Sundays.
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Post by: interzen on 18 January, 2011, 12:24:59 pm
Getting ready to tell my insurance company that I'm going to lodge a personal injury claim against the stupid woman who tried to kill me last week and acquainting myself with a humongous cup of tea.
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Post by: Dibdib on 18 January, 2011, 10:09:13 pm
Tearing myself away from t'interwebs and doing some Important StuffsTM like job interview prep, and packing for an overnight trip to Germany.

Yup, getting off the computer now. Honest. Hmm...
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Post by: Chris S on 18 January, 2011, 10:17:30 pm
Waiting for a software build to finish. Whilst waiting, I'm watching an animation of the Heart of Wales 300 Audax on Google Earth. That Long Mynd looks a brute. What have I let myself in for?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 January, 2011, 10:38:05 pm
Beating the new Velo Vision website into submission with the Big Foam Cluebat ... and thinking what I'd do to the old hosting company if I had a nice, hefty length of Clue-By-Four[tm]
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 January, 2011, 10:50:42 pm
Swearing.
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Post by: interzen on 18 January, 2011, 11:17:36 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 18 January, 2011, 10:17:30 pm
Waiting for a software build to finish. Whilst waiting, I'm watching an animation of the Heart of Wales 300 Audax on Google Earth. That Long Mynd looks a brute. What have I let myself in for?
Aching calf muscles?  ;D
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Post by: mondobongo on 18 January, 2011, 11:30:31 pm
Just poured a large scotch and clicked play on Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 January, 2011, 12:12:42 pm
My colleagues are crying with laughter as I get closer and closer to a proper toddler style tantrum. I am inches away from stamping my feet, flailing on the ground and sobbing with frustration at the absolute crap landed on us. Hello workers, here's a change to a complicated procedure. Now it's even more complicated, so guess what? You're getting no training at all! And for extra lolz, we've hidden the electronic training manual so well it'll take 2 of you 40 minutes to find it, because we' ve called it something completely irrelevant. And, bits of the instructions are wrong. Crack on!
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 19 January, 2011, 12:25:18 pm
I am trying to be interested, really really trying..... :'(
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Post by: Andrij on 19 January, 2011, 01:36:10 pm
Quote from: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 19 January, 2011, 12:25:18 pm
I am trying to be interested, really really trying..... :'(

Never mind, fires burn themselves out eventually.
 
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 19 January, 2011, 01:48:27 pm
Well, that philosophy should help with the budget cuts.
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Post by: Andrij on 19 January, 2011, 02:07:53 pm
Sorry.  Poor attempt at humour.  :-[
 
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Post by: Gus on 19 January, 2011, 02:20:44 pm

Trying to make a playlist for music I can use while running
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 19 January, 2011, 06:32:33 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 19 January, 2011, 02:07:53 pm
Sorry.  Poor attempt at humour.  :-[
 

No probs comrade. The gallows humour at work is grinding to say the least...
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Post by: Thing2 on 21 January, 2011, 01:59:17 am
Sitting with a beer in Casablanca (a bar) in El Calefate (Argentina), looking forward to yet more ruta 40 tomorrow! If there's a hint of headwind during the first 30km, I'm going go be seriously annoyed!
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Post by: Salvatore on 21 January, 2011, 02:23:05 am
It was in a bar in El Calafate that I realised that my credit card was missing. I didn't realise that by that time the thieves had already made merry in B A to the tune of £3000.

I've just checked and I've got an unopened bottle of Calafate Puro (made from Calafate berries in El Calafate - Alc.22%) in my kitchen.
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Post by: Jaded on 21 January, 2011, 02:39:58 am
Putting a load of goo into some tissues.
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Post by: jogler on 21 January, 2011, 05:54:24 am
alternating between here & working on a B.O.Q. & a drawing for a ceiling grid.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 21 January, 2011, 09:47:54 am
Quote from: Thing2 on 21 January, 2011, 01:59:17 am
Sitting with a beer in Casablanca (a bar) in El Calefate (Argentina), looking forward to yet more ruta 40 tomorrow!

I don't think that anyone's going to beat that today  ;D

I'm just packing before we go to Aviemore to watch the husky racing.
Expect lots of pictures.
It's just a shame that the snow has gone.

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Post by: Basil on 21 January, 2011, 09:53:10 am
Sitting in my dressing gown.  Thinking about getting my arse in gear and getting off to Wales.
If I'm still on here at lunch-time, could someone shout at me, please?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 21 January, 2011, 10:07:37 am
coughing.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 January, 2011, 10:11:58 am
Sitting in a train wondering what I'm going to do with my 3 deg 20 minute wait at Shenfield.
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Post by: her_welshness on 21 January, 2011, 10:24:08 am
Sitting in my pyjamas genning up for my job interview this afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 21 January, 2011, 10:25:28 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 21 January, 2011, 10:24:08 am
Sitting in my pyjamas genning up for my job interview this afternoon.

Just a tip from one who interviews from-time-to-time: I'd perhaps dress a tad more formally than that* ;)

<good luck>

*unless it's a vacancy for a bed tester, of course.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 21 January, 2011, 10:30:29 am
Quote from: Thing2 on 21 January, 2011, 01:59:17 am
Sitting with a beer in Casablanca (a bar) in El Calefate (Argentina), looking forward to yet more ruta 40 tomorrow! If there's a hint of headwind during the first 30km, I'm going go be seriously annoyed!

you lucky bastard.  We were there last year and were just talking about it last night, it was the best steak we had on our whole trip.

(Mrs M had already lost her credit card by then, and none of our other cards woudl work in the cashpoints.. )
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 21 January, 2011, 10:49:40 am
Just got back from the library. Might as well make the most of it. >:(
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Post by: her_welshness on 21 January, 2011, 11:31:00 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 21 January, 2011, 10:25:28 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 21 January, 2011, 10:24:08 am
Sitting in my pyjamas genning up for my job interview this afternoon.

Just a tip from one who interviews from-time-to-time: I'd perhaps dress a tad more formally than that* ;)

<good luck>

*unless it's a vacancy for a bed tester, of course.

Diolch MV! Am wearing a dark blue Phase Eight dress and am just doing me nails!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 21 January, 2011, 11:32:32 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 21 January, 2011, 11:31:00 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 21 January, 2011, 10:25:28 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 21 January, 2011, 10:24:08 am
Sitting in my pyjamas genning up for my job interview this afternoon.

Just a tip from one who interviews from-time-to-time: I'd perhaps dress a tad more formally than that* ;)

<good luck>

*unless it's a vacancy for a bed tester, of course.

Diolch MV! Am wearing a dark blue Phase Eight dress and am just doing me nails!

Give your claw hammer a good polish as well....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2011, 03:45:55 pm
Waiting for Robert to finish what he's doing and give me the lift home he promised before he started doing whatever it is
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 January, 2011, 05:22:54 pm
Attempting to repair a power supply.  I hate repairing power supplies.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 January, 2011, 05:29:39 pm
Sitting on a train wondering why there are still so many people on it, given that it has almost reached Saarfend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 21 January, 2011, 05:42:59 pm
Playing with our Kittie Queens who have been to the vets today for their "operations"... Their Mum and Brothers are cleaning them currently to get the funny medical smell off them.

Happy to have them back.... :)
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Post by: Domestique on 21 January, 2011, 07:56:28 pm
About to kick 2_Flat_Erics sorry arse with a game of Risk  :D

I will dominate the world  :demon:
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Post by: peliroja on 21 January, 2011, 08:00:00 pm
Feeling shattered, as usual. A stressful week.
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Post by: TimO on 21 January, 2011, 08:01:39 pm
Loading up the route for tonight's Not The Christmas Night Ride To Bognor onto my GPX before I start finding and preparing stuff for the ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 January, 2011, 08:02:38 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 21 January, 2011, 08:00:00 pm
Feeling shattered, as usual. A stressful week.

I'd give you a virtual hug but I might infect you with my virtual gutrot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jezzasnr on 21 January, 2011, 08:10:36 pm
Enjoying a friday evening baking bread with John Grant soundtrack.
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Post by: interzen on 21 January, 2011, 09:04:05 pm
Lying in bed, reading this on the iPad ...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2011, 09:14:00 pm
Wondering if I've just made an utter tit of myself, but thinking fffft, sometimes you have to.
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Post by: her_welshness on 22 January, 2011, 05:26:49 pm
Am giving my nails a french polish before going out to Greenwich tonight for a Burns Night supper  :D
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Post by: Jaded on 22 January, 2011, 05:31:42 pm
editing images for an application and reading this and listening to music and editing webpages and doing system maintenance
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 January, 2011, 07:51:22 pm
Thinking that I should really go and get on with baking a cake.....
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Post by: jogler on 22 January, 2011, 08:00:34 pm
Eating chocolate pudding & double cream that mrs. jogler has forced upon me
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 January, 2011, 08:05:04 pm
It's a hard, hard life isn't it, jogler?    ;D
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Post by: Kim on 22 January, 2011, 08:07:44 pm
Eating curry and hoping barakta isn't going to have to change at Crewe.
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Post by: jogler on 22 January, 2011, 08:09:26 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 22 January, 2011, 08:05:04 pm
It's a hard, hard life isn't it, jogler?    ;D

I have sacfriced my waistline on the alter of love.Mrs. jogler fancied chocolate pudding but there was too much for one so I did the deed & saved her from herself ;)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 January, 2011, 10:39:57 pm
Quote from: jogler on 22 January, 2011, 08:09:26 pm
I have sacfriced my waistline on the alter of love.Mrs. jogler fancied chocolate pudding but there was too much for one so I did the deed & saved her from herself ;)

You're clearly a Good Man, jogler, to make such a sacrifice  ;)

I am now waiting for chocolate and bananananananananana cake to finish cooking.
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Post by: her_welshness on 23 January, 2011, 02:50:30 pm
Am watching 'Jamie's 30-minute meals' and contemplating going to the library and going to Lewisham Market just as its closing to see if there are any free bits of fruit and veg lying around  :)
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Post by: TimO on 23 January, 2011, 03:14:14 pm
I just washed Friday/Saturday's night ride gunk off of the Red bike.  It's now back to luverly shinyness, and slightly lime scented where I used lime scented kitchen wipes to clean the greasy spots off the frame.

Talisker is also slightly washing up liquid flavoured, since he insisted on sitting about two inches from the bike whilst I was washing it down. :-\
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Post by: gordon taylor on 23 January, 2011, 03:16:24 pm
At home, recovering from a lovely, brilliant, overnight trip to London. We saw "The King's Speech" (spellbinding) in a cinema with a bar and live band in the foyer  :o ... and hired ten Boris bikes between us. Those things are the greatest invention of all time in the civilised urban world. Thanks, London.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2011, 03:17:40 pm
Going through the annual purgatory which is the on-line tax return.
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Post by: eck on 23 January, 2011, 03:22:43 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2011, 03:17:40 pm
Going through the annual purgatory which is the on-line tax return.
ISTR you were a day or two ahead of me last year. I'm putting it off until tomorrow - it seems a much more appropriate activity for a Monday morning. Unless I can think of something else to do tomorrow.  :-X
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Post by: Simonb on 23 January, 2011, 03:32:23 pm
Applying for a Russian visa -- not the most straightforward affair considering we're only going for a long weekend.
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Post by: Jurek on 23 January, 2011, 03:35:45 pm
Having just washed the gunk from the last three or four rides off the Van Nic, I'm eating home made spicy parsnip soup and, as my neighbour has moved out, listening to The KLF.
Very Very Loud. :D
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Post by: Kim on 23 January, 2011, 04:10:37 pm
Cleaning.  House is full of hairballs and fettling detritus.
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Post by: BrianI on 23 January, 2011, 04:33:53 pm
Just about to go on my clothes horse elliptical trainer for 20 minutes or so once I change into something more comfortable....
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 January, 2011, 04:35:12 pm
Running a bath. I think I say that at roughly this time every Sunday.  ;D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 January, 2011, 05:32:48 pm
Waiting for my fish and chips to be ready.
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Post by: barakta on 23 January, 2011, 05:35:15 pm
Recovering from the cleaning Kim just mentioned.  And learning more Inkscape cunningness.
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Post by: jezzasnr on 23 January, 2011, 06:27:53 pm
Sat feeling very content after 6 mile run with belly full of Tandori chicken, dhal, raita & veg curry.
Just contemplating the evening ahead.
Evening in & early night or catch up with an old friend for coffee.
Been a good weekend.
Tidy!
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Post by: SandyV on 24 January, 2011, 02:10:25 am
Driving back from Bright after the Alpine Classic. It's a 13 hour trip!
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Post by: mondobongo on 24 January, 2011, 11:09:06 pm
Waiting for the washing machine to finish washing kit that I need for tomorrow mornings ride.
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Post by: jogler on 25 January, 2011, 08:40:55 am
Quote from: SandyV on 24 January, 2011, 02:10:25 am
Driving back from Bright after the Alpine Classic. It's a 13 hour trip!

bloodandsand :o
I thought six hours to Scotland  is a bleedin' long way for a bike ride.
You are keen :thumbsup:
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Post by: SandyV on 25 January, 2011, 10:05:31 am
It was also the Audax AGM + Velo yellow wanted to improve on last years time for the 250 (he did by 40 minutes). Next year I think we'll fly though.
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 25 January, 2011, 08:14:09 pm
Just finished The Great British Class Survey on the BBC.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/class/  It's worth doing for the heraldic shield it creates for you  :thumbsup:

Now watching Gok Wan.  
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Post by: Pippa on 25 January, 2011, 09:11:42 pm
Looking for my hip flask. Where izzit?  >:(
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Post by: Polar Bear on 25 January, 2011, 09:16:49 pm
There's one within my grasp just now with some Jura within.   Fancy a nip?   
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 January, 2011, 09:35:02 pm
Waiting for photobucket to upload photos. Some time this week would be nice.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 January, 2011, 09:35:28 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 25 January, 2011, 09:11:42 pm
Looking for my hip flask. Where izzit?  >:(

[panic mode]

Has someone been nicking hap flasks?!? :o  BRB........

[/panic mode]

Just had a look and both of mine are still here.

Wanna borrow one?
 
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Post by: Pippa on 25 January, 2011, 09:57:04 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 25 January, 2011, 09:16:49 pm
There's one within my grasp just now with some Jura within.   Fancy a nip?   

Cheers  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pippa on 25 January, 2011, 09:58:43 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 25 January, 2011, 09:35:28 pm
Wanna borrow one?

Thanks! But s'alright. I found it. Phew. Hidden behind all the alcohols.
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Post by: Kim on 25 January, 2011, 10:10:49 pm
Just hung out some washing and noticed the reflective stripe on my DHB gloves has finally given up.
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Post by: peliroja on 25 January, 2011, 11:11:29 pm
Being shattered. Yawn is my permanent state.
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Post by: TimO on 27 January, 2011, 07:59:39 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 January, 2011, 09:35:28 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 25 January, 2011, 09:11:42 pm
Looking for my hip flask. Where izzit?  >:(
...
Just had a look and both of mine are still here.
...

So n+1 applies to hip flasks!

Yay. :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 January, 2011, 08:50:44 pm
Being mildly entertained by the fact that I've been home for half an hour or so, and still have goosebumps.  I wasn't cold (apart from my feet, which were hurting by the time I got back) until I got home!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 January, 2011, 08:55:08 pm
Possessing 16 jars of hot marmalade, as well as a few dregs left in the measuring jug. There will be a sandwich as soon as it's cooled down enough.
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Post by: Kim on 28 January, 2011, 08:56:15 pm
Wondering if I'll ever be able to have a decent bike ride again.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 January, 2011, 09:13:30 pm
Kim - physioterrorism, you know it makes sense.  And time.  Borked knees take time to unbork. 

Bear in mind that the distances that you've been doing on the upwrong in the last few weeks would count as Really Big Bike Rides to the vast majority of normal folk out there.  And yes, you will go on decent bike rides because even if your knee doesn't agree in the short term to co-operate over the frankly silly distances you were doing last summer we'll just organise some forum rides (which will of course be decent or if certain forummers join in indecent) for this summer.  With camping and cake and unnecessarily frequent cafe stops but a few fewer miles and avoiding the really stupid bastard hilly bits.  Get your missis that trike and then she can come too!
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Post by: Oaky on 28 January, 2011, 09:15:09 pm
Watching Koyaanisqatsi
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Post by: LindaG on 28 January, 2011, 09:18:27 pm
Playing with scabs.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 January, 2011, 09:20:51 pm
Careful now LG - you'll make Charlotte jealous.....
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 January, 2011, 09:21:17 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 January, 2011, 09:13:30 pm
Kim - physioterrorism, you know it makes sense.  And time.  Borked knees take time to unbork. 

Bear in mind that the distances that you've been doing on the upwrong in the last few weeks would count as Really Big Bike Rides to the vast majority of normal folk out there.  And yes, you will go on decent bike rides because even if your knee doesn't agree in the short term to co-operate over the frankly silly distances you were doing last summer we'll just organise some forum rides (which will of course be decent or if certain forummers join in indecent) for this summer.  With camping and cake and unnecessarily frequent cafe stops but a few fewer miles and avoiding the really stupid bastard hilly bits.  Get your missis that trike and then she can come too!

I'll volunteer to organise some indecent bike rides.
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Post by: peliroja on 28 January, 2011, 09:23:23 pm
Surrounded by farting blokes (well, two).
And singing along to Evita. Great stress buster.
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Post by: woollypigs on 28 January, 2011, 09:27:10 pm
Trouser coughs, me dear.
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Post by: Adam on 28 January, 2011, 09:29:37 pm
Quote from: TimO on 27 January, 2011, 07:59:39 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 January, 2011, 09:35:28 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 25 January, 2011, 09:11:42 pm
Looking for my hip flask. Where izzit?  >:(
...
Just had a look and both of mine are still here.
...

So n+1 applies to hip flasks!

Yay. :thumbsup:

Do they do them in titanium?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 January, 2011, 09:30:37 pm
Do you two good people sing? We could go for a bit of European Harmonisation... :D (with or without the anal bass line).
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Post by: Adrian on 28 January, 2011, 11:29:31 pm
Quote from: Adam on 28 January, 2011, 09:29:37 pm
Quote from: TimO on 27 January, 2011, 07:59:39 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 January, 2011, 09:35:28 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 25 January, 2011, 09:11:42 pm
Looking for my hip flask. Where izzit?  >:(
...
Just had a look and both of mine are still here.
...

So n+1 applies to hip flasks!

Yay. :thumbsup:

Do they do them in titanium?

Of course the do (http://www.snowpeak.com/tableware/flasks-bottles/flask-titanium-m-t-012.html)
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Post by: Kim on 29 January, 2011, 12:40:26 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 January, 2011, 09:13:30 pm
Kim - physioterrorism, you know it makes sense.  And time.  Borked knees take time to unbork.  

This is true, but I'd quite like to solve the biomechanical problem that brought it on in the first place, so it doesn't just happen again.  Suspect that while the physio knows rather a lot about knees, he doesn't seem to know all that much about bicycles, which is suboptimal.

I'm becoming increasingly pessimistic about finding a solution by trial and error tweaking.  It's not science, it's engineering - and it's the wrong kind of engineering.

Expensive bike-fitting services I can't really afford fill me with dread, because I'm not a proper cyclist, don't have a proper bike, and it seems highly likely that they'll be frustratingly clueless about recumbents...


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Bear in mind that the distances that you've been doing on the upwrong in the last few weeks would count as Really Big Bike Rides to the vast majority of normal folk out there.

You have a point.  But conversely I'm not doing it to impress the majority of normal folk.  I couldn't really give a toss about normal folk.  I want to do something I enjoy, and 1-hour rides through the roads of South Birmingham aren't it.  Maybe I should get a mountain bike or something...


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And yes, you will go on decent bike rides because even if your knee doesn't agree in the short term to co-operate over the frankly silly distances you were doing last summer we'll just organise some forum rides (which will of course be decent or if certain forummers join in indecent) for this summer.

Yeah, there is that.  :)


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With camping and cake and unnecessarily frequent cafe stops but a few fewer miles and avoiding the really stupid bastard hilly bits.  Get your missis that trike and then she can come too!

I'd like that.  I'm having doubts as to whether it's actually sensible, though.



ETA: the above post may contain self-indulgent winging or traces of self-indulgent winging.  Feel free to ignore it.  I've had a bloody awful week; everything seems to be going wrong; my brain is being even more sluggish than usual; I'm cold, sleep-deprived, hormonal, and my knee is being unreasonably fucking painful after riding the ~10km home after it started hurting yesterday.  Pah!
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Post by: Feline on 29 January, 2011, 06:50:53 am
I'm about to set off (in my car- oh the shame) for an Audax. It is -4C outside. There is bound to be ice. There will be a head wind for the whole first half. It is my birthday. I must be frikkin mad  ;D
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Post by: woollypigs on 29 January, 2011, 07:18:14 am
Do I have too answer that? :)

Happy birthday \o/
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Post by: itsbruce on 29 January, 2011, 07:26:29 am
Sitting on a train, on my way to Long Eaton
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 January, 2011, 09:53:54 am
Quote from: Kim on 29 January, 2011, 12:40:26 am
ETA: the above post may contain self-indulgent winging or traces of self-indulgent winging.  Feel free to ignore it.  I've had a bloody awful week; everything seems to be going wrong; my brain is being even more sluggish than usual; I'm cold, sleep-deprived, hormonal, and my knee is being unreasonably fucking painful after riding the ~10km home after it started hurting yesterday.  Pah!

Sounds to me like a bad dose of wannaridemybikeandcan'titis, and I can empathise.  I suffered particularly badly with it over Christmas and it made me exceptionally miserable, grumpy and generally whinge-y.  In my case I prescribed a little light stoking for Wow, which seemed to do the trick and was feasible for me because the things stopping me riding were ice and my bike being in a completely different part of the country to me.  I don't know much - well, anything really - about the bike fitting stuff but is is completely infeasible that someone specialises in a 'bent version of the exercise?  If there's someone that does then at least find out what it would cost.  Then you could make an informed choice about it.

I can also understand that 1 hour tootles round the same old roads in your own neck of the woods are not exactly scintillating - I can never bring myself to go out for a ride around home on my own just because.  But there's no reason to not meet up with someone for a ride out that happens to be short.  Pick a weekend, book some cheap tickets and come to York to see us - the Cub can take you to see the planets and we'll go out for a curry.  I'm fairly certain there's a few forummers not a zillion miles from you who might well appreciate a bit of company on a weekend ride out for a cuppa and some cake somewhere.  I bet jogler, who isn't a million miles away, would be up for some company for a pootle (maybe even some darkside entertainment) one day and that could have the possible advantage of Marj cakes!  Catch a train (I know this involves the joy of Mordor Central but that place does have the advantage of having a plenty of trains to all over the place) to somewhere not too far but different to the bog standard loop and go for a ride there.  If you can't do a huge amount of miles, make the ones that you do as gloriously lovely/silly/epic/comedic as you can.  Silly Bike Adventures can be short stories as well as epic novels.
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Post by: andrewc on 29 January, 2011, 12:12:26 pm
Sitting in a cafe, digesting a full English. I had a ride pencilled in but was feeling highly crap yesterday so decided to be lazy.
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Post by: andygates on 29 January, 2011, 12:24:07 pm
Glued to the Al Jazizzle (damn you P Diddy!) revolution-cam and very much taking the weekend off.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 January, 2011, 12:37:11 pm
On a bus, on our way to granny Annie's for her birthday lunch. Looking out the window at the beautiful day, thinking that it looks perfect for a ride. Hoping it stays like this til tomorrow when I will be going for a ride!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2011, 01:44:21 pm
Swearing, cos trying to put my ski boots back together after drying them out is proving a test of wits.
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Post by: jogler on 29 January, 2011, 02:10:22 pm
Looking for my enthusiasm. I can't find it 'cause it's gone walkabouts.I suspect it's looking for somewhere warmer to go for a bike ride.
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Post by: SteveC on 29 January, 2011, 02:17:17 pm
Trying to warm up enough to face going out into the cold garage and garden.
There's birds wot need feeding and a bike wot needs fettling and all sorts but...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 January, 2011, 02:54:27 pm
Taking a short break from insulating my attic. The new bits that are the extensions have loads of insulation but the old bits have non, zip, nada and our heating oil usage is ridiculous. I am sticking 300mmm in right through the old bit.
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Post by: SteveC on 29 January, 2011, 03:30:53 pm
I have now warmed up and the birds have been fed.
I have also found the small piece of glass or flint which was entirely hidden in the thickness of the tyre.
Am now waiting for the tube to warm up to room temperature so I can patch it.

S
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Post by: jezzasnr on 29 January, 2011, 04:10:05 pm
making up some pizza dough fir saturday night dinner
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Post by: GruB on 29 January, 2011, 04:15:19 pm
Learning about the joys of Blackberry
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 29 January, 2011, 07:11:59 pm
Searching for something on'telly, I've now joined Mrs C in watching figure skating on Eurosport - the first time I've watched any since the heady days of Curry/Cousins/Torville/Dean.  After all these years I'm discovering that it's really quite enjoyable.  But it still has a Cold War feel to it.
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Post by: Jaded on 29 January, 2011, 07:19:16 pm
filing 'n shredding
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 29 January, 2011, 07:37:10 pm
They've just switched to the men's competition,  It's not half as interesting  :(
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Post by: woollypigs on 29 January, 2011, 07:38:45 pm
Teaching Peli to count to ten in Danish :)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 January, 2011, 08:13:27 pm
Watching the Princess Bride.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 January, 2011, 09:00:47 am
Getting ready to head to the station, to go to Garforth, for a bike ride  :)
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Post by: Aidan on 30 January, 2011, 09:03:17 am
Eating porridge and contemplating a nice route
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Post by: Jaded on 30 January, 2011, 09:08:02 am
Watching tennis and cricket.
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Post by: welshwheels on 30 January, 2011, 09:22:56 am
watching the great british  ;) tennis player andy murray and contemplating going out on the tracks and trails later !!!providing that i can get a freedom pass from partner and kids !
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Post by: SteveC on 30 January, 2011, 09:48:02 am
Getting ready for our hour of Big Garden Birdwatch.

S
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Post by: GruB on 30 January, 2011, 09:55:16 am
Eating porridge, watching the tennis and working on swimming club data with Mrs G.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 January, 2011, 10:05:52 am
I'm on the train... I say, I'M ON THE TRAIN :)

Going on a bike ride. It makes me  :D
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Post by: TimO on 30 January, 2011, 10:37:07 am
I'm twiddling my thumbs.  I was overly efficient in getting ready to got out shortly, so have nothing to do now!
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Post by: her_welshness on 30 January, 2011, 12:12:57 pm
Just about to fix a puncture  :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2011, 12:24:29 pm
Making lentil soup.
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Post by: Feline on 30 January, 2011, 03:38:29 pm
Sitting with a nice cup of tea after taking the kids out to the village pub for Sunday lunch. My son is out on the drive washing his bike and kindly agreed to wash the bird shit off the bay window while he was out there  :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 30 January, 2011, 03:42:20 pm
Wondering if 16:42 is too early to go to bed?
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Post by: BrianI on 30 January, 2011, 04:16:19 pm
Pondering whether to have a pre-dinner bath, or a post dinner bath....
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Post by: Basil on 30 January, 2011, 04:17:21 pm
Dinner in the bath?
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Post by: Feline on 30 January, 2011, 04:21:51 pm
Post-dinner paths are bad for falling asleep in and waking up to find them luke warm.
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Post by: BrianI on 30 January, 2011, 04:25:18 pm
Quote from: Basil on 30 January, 2011, 04:17:21 pm
Dinner in the bath?

I'd end up with soggy potato waffles!

Pre dinner bath it is then!
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Post by: gordon taylor on 30 January, 2011, 04:37:59 pm
Marking. An hour on and an hour off (for pottering.)
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Post by: essexian on 30 January, 2011, 04:45:48 pm
Watching the Manics from Blackwood on Freeview 301. One of my favourite bands.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 January, 2011, 05:41:01 pm
Making nana & choc chip cake.
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Post by: jogler on 30 January, 2011, 05:44:35 pm
In a moment I'm going to have another go  ::-) at understanding Google Maps so that I can draw my 50 & 100km audax routes
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Post by: Andrij on 30 January, 2011, 06:48:18 pm
Eyeing up a rather nice touring bike.  It would need a bit of customisation*, but 'as is' it ticks nearly all the boxes.  If I have to make a decision between buying a replacement for the Ribble or getting the touring bike, the latter will win.  Unless, of course, my employer ever gets around to implementing the Bike To Work Scheme...

* Does anyone here ever buy a bike 'off the shelf' and not spend up to half the purchase price 'tweaking' it?
 
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Post by: TimO on 30 January, 2011, 06:53:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 30 January, 2011, 06:48:18 pm
* Does anyone here ever buy a bike 'off the shelf' and not spend up to half the purchase price 'tweaking' it?

I beat that with my snow bike, I spent over twice the new cost of the bike on bits!
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Post by: Adrian on 30 January, 2011, 08:34:13 pm
Quote from: TimO on 30 January, 2011, 06:53:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 30 January, 2011, 06:48:18 pm
* Does anyone here ever buy a bike 'off the shelf' and not spend up to half the purchase price 'tweaking' it?

I beat that with my snow bike, I spent over twice the new cost of the bike on bits!

And averaging that out with Red?
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Post by: TimO on 30 January, 2011, 08:44:01 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 30 January, 2011, 08:34:13 pm
Quote from: TimO on 30 January, 2011, 06:53:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 30 January, 2011, 06:48:18 pm
* Does anyone here ever buy a bike 'off the shelf' and not spend up to half the purchase price 'tweaking' it?
I beat that with my snow bike, I spent over twice the new cost of the bike on bits!
And averaging that out with Red?

Hmm, I guess. I think I've spent around 25% of the base cost of Red on extras for him.

Of course that 25% is still more than the entire spend on Vince, the snow bike!
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Post by: Jaded on 30 January, 2011, 10:25:01 pm
Emptying a dog.
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Post by: Dibdib on 30 January, 2011, 10:50:41 pm
Giggling uncontrollably at the above ^^^^
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Post by: itsbruce on 31 January, 2011, 09:56:45 am
Rubbing my shoulder.
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Post by: Chris S on 31 January, 2011, 10:39:19 am
Eating Marmite on Toast.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 January, 2011, 11:50:02 am
Hiding in the toilets at work and rocking.
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Post by: Butterfly on 31 January, 2011, 11:59:25 am
Quote from: Kirst on 31 January, 2011, 11:50:02 am
Hiding in the toilets at work and rocking.
Are you Ok?
Can we help?
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Post by: numbnuts on 31 January, 2011, 12:35:02 pm
having my lunch soup, apple and a cup of tea
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 January, 2011, 12:47:09 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 31 January, 2011, 11:50:02 am
Hiding in the toilets at work and rocking.
Oh dear, that's doesn't sound good?
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 January, 2011, 12:57:34 pm
I'm over it now.  ;D Til next time. We're all rocking somewhere today, it's that sort of a day. One of my colleagues was rocking on the floor under her desk.
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Post by: mondobongo on 31 January, 2011, 01:08:08 pm
Helping the missus move a bedroom around and earning lots of brownie points.  ;D
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Post by: andygates on 31 January, 2011, 03:37:29 pm
Twiddling my beard.  It's no good, it starts the day all Unterbootseekomanndant-vergroomen and ends the day all twizzly Singing Rabbi.  Bah!
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Post by: Kim on 31 January, 2011, 04:01:03 pm
About to go on a freezing cold shopping trip before the norovirus sets in...
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Post by: Chris S on 31 January, 2011, 04:11:15 pm
Quote from: Kim on 31 January, 2011, 04:01:03 pm
About to go on a freezing cold shopping trip before the norovirus sets in...

Beware of farts. HTH  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 February, 2011, 11:20:08 am
Having my day wasted.  >:(
Sitting here waiting for promised "early" delivery of table and chairs.
Bored.
Can't even pop out for a newspaper 'cos I bet they're hiding round the corner waiting for me to do just that.
Thank heavens for "From Our Own Correspondent"
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Post by: Chris S on 03 February, 2011, 11:23:08 am
Melting my brains with multiple virtual machine environments.
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Post by: Kim on 03 February, 2011, 11:50:39 pm
Just realised, some 13 months after the unfortunate graphics card fire incident, that I now have a computer that will run Google Earth.

We've just watched a Google Earth tour of my tracklog of the Pen-y-Pass descent synchronised with Charlotte's video in another window.  This is unimaginably awesome, in a geeky way   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Oaky on 04 February, 2011, 01:18:04 am
Having some wine to wind down from tonight's woeful tube+train experiences.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 February, 2011, 03:42:57 pm
This afternoon I have cajoled a heroin addict into throwing his keys down to me, rhen once I was in had to help him get his shit-encrusted slippers on  :sick:
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Post by: jogler on 04 February, 2011, 04:06:53 pm
packing a rucsac
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Post by: GruB on 04 February, 2011, 08:42:48 pm
Watching the rugby.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: longers on 05 February, 2011, 04:08:43 pm
Rubbing chilli powder on my nuts.

It's advice I got on here to keep the squirrels off them.
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Post by: JohnP on 05 February, 2011, 05:21:31 pm
Sorting through, and editing, 200 pictures of this morning's U-10 soccer while watching the rugby on tv.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 February, 2011, 06:06:36 pm
Getting sorted to go to the flicks.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 05 February, 2011, 06:32:14 pm
Wondering why I slept for five solid hours this afternoon.  ???
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Post by: Basil on 05 February, 2011, 07:20:57 pm
Having spent several hours chopping wood, I'm wondering if it's too early to go to bed.
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Post by: David Martin on 05 February, 2011, 07:50:34 pm
Slightly sozzled(*) and about to head home from the lab after attending an excellent lecture  by Bang Wong.

Yes that is his name and he is a really nice guy.

(*) been at the Scottish Cycling event organisers workshop then hurtled back to Dundee on the train to get here in time for the lecture - no time to eat yet so a glass of wine on an empty stomach is quite potent.

..d
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Post by: αdαmsκι on 05 February, 2011, 08:12:28 pm
I'm trying to work out how the waffle I'm meant to be teaching is science, and even more challenging, how the hell to make it engaging. But more importantly I'm waiting for my dinner.
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Post by: Andrij on 05 February, 2011, 08:22:54 pm
Finishing off a bottle of Highland Park while trying to write a one-page document in FOREIGN.  I may enjoy reading it tomorrow.  Who knows, it may even make sense.
 
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Post by: Aidan on 05 February, 2011, 08:26:00 pm
Ive just removed about 6 layers of skin from my finger ends playing my new guitar. Damn its good :thumbsup:
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Post by: rower40 on 05 February, 2011, 08:33:41 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 February, 2011, 11:50:39 pm
Just realised, some 13 months after the unfortunate graphics card fire incident, that I now have a computer that will run Google Earth.

We've just watched a Google Earth tour of my tracklog of the Pen-y-Pass descent synchronised with Charlotte's video in another window.  This is unimaginably awesome, in a geeky way   :thumbsup:
Would love to see that. Am not quite techno savvy enough to do it myself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 February, 2011, 08:40:55 pm
It's not that hard - load your GPX tracklog as saved by memory map into Google Earth and click on the convert-to-tour button, having first jibbled the tour creation settings to give a 1:1 playback speed.

Then it's just a case of pausing and unpausing either the tour or video until they line up at a convenient landmark (and realising that they're not getting out of sync, it's just me zooming on ahead  ;D )  :thumbsup:

Of course what would be really cool would be if Google Earth let you use the streetview imagery for a tour... no camera needed.  :)
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Post by: LindaG on 06 February, 2011, 12:35:02 am
Blowing my nose on my pyjama top.
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Post by: Fast Bill on 06 February, 2011, 08:26:10 am
Psyching myself up to play badminton again after a years lay-off ... potentially a "send in the clowns" moment  :facepalm:
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Post by: gordon taylor on 06 February, 2011, 08:30:21 am
Hovering over a Kindle "buy" button...

 ::-)
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Post by: SteveC on 06 February, 2011, 04:55:42 pm
"Decommissioning" our old Mac.
Dead CD drive, dying screen, done us very well but time to move on (long past time to move on if you ask MrsC!)

S
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 February, 2011, 05:07:34 pm
laundry, mediating arguing boys, and cooking rissotto.
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Post by: jogler on 06 February, 2011, 05:19:35 pm
taste-testing fairy cakes baked my g.d..She definatley has her grandmother's baking touch :thumbsup:
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 06 February, 2011, 05:49:32 pm
Just sold my Planet X Uncle John cyclo x frame & forks for £150 which will now pay for new rims on my mavic Ksyrium ssc sl's  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 February, 2011, 07:02:53 pm
Waiting for my tea to cook, and wishing I'd done some stuff differently.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 06 February, 2011, 08:31:57 pm
Wondering if the ironing will do itself.

 ::-)
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Post by: itsbruce on 06 February, 2011, 10:02:04 pm
Watching Wallander.  Haven't taken time for it before, but I probably should have.  Seeing David Warner and Kenneth Branagh sitting side by side, awesomely powerful, quiet acting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 06 February, 2011, 11:15:52 pm
Writing notes to myself to remember to ride straight to t'farm in the morning, not to the office.
3 notes. In kitchen, shoes, on phone.
Bet I still forget.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 February, 2011, 01:09:58 am
Quote from: boab on 06 February, 2011, 11:15:52 pm
Writing notes to myself to remember to ride straight to t'farm in the morning, not to the office.
3 notes. In kitchen, shoes, on phone.

On bike would seem like a more successful strategy...
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Post by: Gattopardo on 07 February, 2011, 02:09:45 am
Fire fox is running badly and annoying me, can't get java to update on my linpus system
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 February, 2011, 03:42:55 am
I woke up crying from a bad dream and now I can't sleep  :( so I'm lying awake convinced everything I've ever done is wrong
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 07 February, 2011, 03:53:09 am
Quote from: Kirst on 07 February, 2011, 03:42:55 am
I woke up crying from a bad dream and now I can't sleep  :(

You alright?
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 February, 2011, 04:12:31 am
Bad dream and 4am paranoia is all
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 February, 2011, 08:02:45 am
Hope it's better in the light of day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 February, 2011, 08:04:35 am
Too tired to care!
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Post by: Julian on 07 February, 2011, 08:06:42 am
Drinking tea and playing with CSS code, and realising I'm going to be late if I don't have a shower RIGHT NOW.
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Post by: Feline on 07 February, 2011, 10:43:39 am
drooling   :smug:
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 07 February, 2011, 07:32:31 pm
I'm thinking what a great One Show presenting team Matt Alwright and Louise Minchin are.  And what an entertaining guest Sigourney Weaver makes.
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Post by: BrianI on 08 February, 2011, 08:05:05 am
worrying!

Oh, is that another grey hair on my head now?   :facepalm:
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Post by: jogler on 08 February, 2011, 02:45:13 pm
Enjoying a post-ride coffee&cake stop at CafeMarj.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 February, 2011, 03:56:59 pm
Thinking that jogler is a lucky git!


And that I fail to understand why he isn't approximately the size of a house  ;D
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Post by: numbnuts on 08 February, 2011, 04:41:15 pm
I'm thinking of buying a new saddle, but which one...
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Post by: mike on 08 February, 2011, 04:44:03 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 08 February, 2011, 04:41:15 pm
I'm thinking of buying a new saddle, but which one...

Mrs Mike is selling a 42cm Wintec if that's any good?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 February, 2011, 05:29:22 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 08 February, 2011, 03:56:59 pm
Thinking that jogler is a lucky git!


And that I fail to understand why he isn't approximately the size of a house  ;D

I used to be a small bungalow but since I stopped smoking & discovered the taste of food I have developed into a semi-detached house ;)
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Post by: itsbruce on 08 February, 2011, 05:33:25 pm
Perhaps you'll turn into one of these (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064074/).
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 February, 2011, 11:12:22 pm
Just finished watching the last episode of the doll house, which I started watching several months ago.  And summoning the courage to go finish cleaning the bike which was positively repulsively filthy.  The patent Kim method of washing wheels in the bath meant that I could properly clean the incredibly thick layer of finest Yorkshire Mud out from the inside of the mudguards.  And the chain was, frankly, embarassing.

Of course, once I finish cleaning the bike I will then need to go and clean the bath.  And the living room floor.  And me.
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Post by: PaulR on 08 February, 2011, 11:18:34 pm
I've just been processing some photos of nebulae taken in the back garden earlier this evening.  Quite pleased (I never thought I'd be able to catch the horsehead nebula from a London garden) but it's a lot of faff for some very amateurish results.  Tired now.
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Post by: Kim on 09 February, 2011, 01:25:41 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 08 February, 2011, 11:12:22 pm
And the chain was, frankly, embarassing.

Ah, that'll be my mission for tomorrow.  I rode a horrifically squeaky 40km today on the Dawes (Which I realised is a Discovery, and therefore ought to be the bike of choice for the solar system ride.  I'll try not to abandon it and disappear without a trace in the orbit of Jupiter, though.), so there's nothing for it but to give the whole drivetrain a thoroughly overdue de-skogging and hope it doesn't snow next week.

The chain on the Streetmachine's starting to go squeaky too.  Hopefully just needs a drop (well, rather a lot of drops by the time you've done the whole chain) of lube, rather than the full cleaning treatment.  That tends to be rather efforty.  Should probably put something down to catch the drips if I'm going to be using it on the trainer, too.

Either that or I use rower40's method of switching bikes until they're all in need of fettling.  The tandem is suboptimally heavy to ride on your own, though, and my folding BSO is semi-retired for good reason...
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 09 February, 2011, 01:41:44 am
Just been on facebook cause I've had a friend request of an ex girlfriend that I've wanted to get back in touch with for years  ;)

Edit: She looks really good  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 February, 2011, 07:19:57 pm
Standing in the cinema waiting for my friend.
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Post by: essexian on 09 February, 2011, 07:43:50 pm
Sitting in First Class on a Virgin Train eating a 3 bean wrap and drinking coke...


Yes not very interesting I know. Earlier i went on HS1 from Dover...impressive train but no First Class....!

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Post by: gordon taylor on 09 February, 2011, 08:26:07 pm
Marking exam papers for a colleague who seems to be going under.

It's never pleasant, especially close up.  :-\
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Post by: pcolbeck on 09 February, 2011, 09:32:49 pm
Finishing off a reply to a tender request for a new 10Gb based data centre network.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 09 February, 2011, 11:18:47 pm
High on paint fumes, hey kids don't do drugs but paint bike fairings in the house
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 February, 2011, 11:21:20 pm
Losing the will to live doing my work's Moodle (online induction/training course). They actually seem to expect you to know the names of people working in their HR department you will most likely never meet etc. etc. You have to do a test at the end of each section to prove you have memorised it all sufficiently  ???
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Post by: BrianI on 10 February, 2011, 02:16:36 pm
Trying to get my head round stitching a 360x180 degree HDR bracketed panorama.  I think my 'puter needs more coal.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 February, 2011, 03:33:57 pm
Waiting for a 29.
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Post by: her_welshness on 10 February, 2011, 03:35:35 pm
skyping out IT guy, who will sadly no longer be our IT guy  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 10 February, 2011, 06:33:02 pm
Trying to get my laptop to bl**dy work properly, it keeps dying now that I use Kaspersky and Firefox  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 February, 2011, 08:59:28 pm
Getting pissed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 February, 2011, 09:08:49 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 10 February, 2011, 08:59:28 pm
Getting pissed.

Good work  :thumbsup:

We'll make a Brit of you yet  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 February, 2011, 11:13:46 pm
Fighting with marathon plus tyres. They are not only winning, but pointing and laughing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 February, 2011, 11:16:06 pm
Quote from: boab on 10 February, 2011, 11:13:46 pm
Fighting with marathon plus tyres. They are not only winning, but pointing and laughing.

Beer and a couple of blokes (me and #1 son) did it for me. We had sore thumbs for a while. Mick Madgett is the only person I have seen get a brand new M+ onto a wheel without expletive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 February, 2011, 11:20:05 pm
It's all in the grip strength...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 February, 2011, 11:43:20 pm
Ding-a-ding

Round 2 to the tyre. Tube is fucked.

Once more unto the breach dear friends




Thinking of offering marmalade and cake and possibly sexual favours to anyone who can get the bastard thing on before 4am Saturday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2011, 12:00:28 am
This toe strap technique any help?


    YouTube
        - How to fit a Marathon Plus  Tyre.mp4
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XUFVrl0UT4)

Meegat (occasionally of this parish) claims it works as described...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2011, 12:02:33 am
I've never had any problems fitting Marathon+ to the tandem. It was a bit harder fitting them to my son-in-law's 700c equipped Dawes Galaxy though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 11 February, 2011, 12:17:37 am
Quote from: boab on 10 February, 2011, 11:43:20 pm
Ding-a-ding

Round 2 to the tyre. Tube is fucked.

Once more unto the breach dear friends




Thinking of offering marmalade and cake and possibly sexual favours to anyone who can get the bastard thing on before 4am Saturday

On one ride, where we had to take an M+ off 4 times, I developed quite an efficient technique for removing and replacing them.

So, what kind of favours are we talking about ?  ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 11 February, 2011, 01:28:32 am
I won!

And I swapped the lights and stuff too.

All offers formally rescinded.

(25 x 700c. Tight little bastids. Much more difficult than the 28s, a rim/tyre combination that was just not meant to be easy.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 11 February, 2011, 01:37:55 am
Quote from: boab on 11 February, 2011, 01:28:32 am
I won!

And I swapped the lights and stuff too.

All offers formally rescinded.

(25 x 700c. Tight little bastids. Much more difficult than the 28s, a rim/tyre combination that was just not meant to be easy.)

 :thumbsup: Let's hope they don't have to come off until they wear out!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 February, 2011, 09:48:00 am
Quote from: boab on 11 February, 2011, 01:28:32 am
I won! And I swapped the lights and stuff too.

All offers formally rescinded.

:(  :( :(

I'm quite experienced with M+.  Call me sooner next time (which will be when they've worn out, chiz) before the offer is withdrawn ;)



Quote
(25 x 700c. Tight little bastids. Much more difficult than the 28s, a rim/tyre combination that was just not meant to be easy.)

We've had some 25s.  In fact, we've still got a couple of pairs on the go.  Really tricky.  But toestraps (or reusable zipties) are the way to go. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 11 February, 2011, 09:53:15 am
Trying to drum up the enthusiasm to move and make coffee and breakfast - I was on-call last night and in the lab from 2-4am
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2011, 10:17:04 am
I ought to go to the doctor's to collect a prescription, but that's off topic because it's what I ought to be doing rather than what I am doing, which is spodding on here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 February, 2011, 05:40:19 pm
Thinking that it's time to get ready and head off home, and that I hope it's a bit less nippy than when I rode home this way 2 weeks back.  Friday commute - probably what I need right now. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2011, 07:28:48 pm
Drying off after a gratuitously drawn-out shopping trip and subsequent shower.

Clean chain is clean!  It's now so quiet I can hear an exciting new intermittent rattling noise...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 11 February, 2011, 07:36:53 pm
STILL waiting for DHL to deliver...................
Admittedly it's still within their 07.30->21.00 window but I'd hoped that I might get lucky.
It's a very big window.....................

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 February, 2011, 08:10:51 pm
Having a brief sit down, having had a thoroughly lovely friday commute home.  And spent 10 minutes outside in the pitch black with a bucket of soapy water and a washing up brush getting the first layer of skog off the bike.  An evening of bike cleaning awaits...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 February, 2011, 08:59:20 pm
Panicking.

Sometimes I look at the stuff I've laid out and think - f*ck, I used to take more stuff than this driving 200 miles, let alone cycling 200 miles.

I can't possibly survive on this puny pile of stuff, can I?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 February, 2011, 09:06:02 pm
Watching Mad Men and thinking that half their season 4 cast is made up of Desperate Housewives and Buffy actors.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 11 February, 2011, 09:07:32 pm
Hissing at pieces of dismantled computer like a cornered stoat (with apologies to SimonP). 

I appear to have mistaken a chipset for a graphics card.  I didn't realise this until I started to plug the leads in and though 'where's the VGA port gone?'

Bah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 13 February, 2011, 11:56:06 am
Waiting for the rain to stop  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 February, 2011, 12:08:41 pm
Being scunnered with this dreich weather. I want to be on my bike, damnit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 13 February, 2011, 12:36:15 pm
Complaining to a local bus company about one of their drivers.
He pulled out on me yesterday.
I had a discussion with him when I caught him at the lights (actually, I talked, he listened).

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 13 February, 2011, 12:39:48 pm
Looking out at the rain and gales, and being thankful for a dry, sunny ride yesterday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 February, 2011, 12:40:25 pm
Making two kinds of soup and one kind of cake and dancing to George Michael.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 February, 2011, 12:47:48 pm
Planning an omelette.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 13 February, 2011, 03:20:04 pm
Pot of tea, Sunday paper, rosy glow from 25 windy miles, roaring fire, rugby on telly and the French are looking beatable. Perfect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 13 February, 2011, 03:23:06 pm
France v Ireland on TV and 331 photos from yesterday's U-10 soccer in Photoshop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 13 February, 2011, 03:28:00 pm
A nice light lunch while watching the rugby   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 February, 2011, 03:31:31 pm
Being wet.
Being fecking, fecking wet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 February, 2011, 04:51:42 pm
Drinking coffee and gossiping with my mum and my big sis, defrosting my toes before heading back out to go home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 February, 2011, 05:33:14 pm
Watching The Dambusters, AKA How not to name your Pet dog  :D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2011, 11:02:22 am
Making a playlist for use on the Turbo trainer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 14 February, 2011, 11:05:50 am
Collating loads of legal reference materials for printing on A3 for ease of use.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 14 February, 2011, 11:48:18 am
Having a browse through local college prospectusises.  Quite looking forward to doing a wee course in something interesting, not sure what yet!  Desk top publishing? wee course in web development?  photography?  Decisions decisions!   :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 14 February, 2011, 12:03:06 pm
Chasing colleagues to find out which of them will actually be turning up for fish & chips tomorrow lunchtime at the local greasy spoon.  Effing programmers.  It's binary FFS.   Yes. No. True. False. 1. 0.  Grrrr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 14 February, 2011, 02:56:43 pm
I'm not doing nothing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 February, 2011, 03:05:48 pm
the double negative  means that you are doing something:so spill the beans :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 14 February, 2011, 03:37:13 pm
Resting between bouts of Lego and Brio :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 February, 2011, 04:15:21 pm
Stressful, eh? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Fast Bill on 14 February, 2011, 04:25:49 pm
Relishing my first cup of tea this afternoon. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 February, 2011, 04:41:56 pm
On train heading York-wards with Woolly. My Great-Aunt's funeral tomorrow. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 15 February, 2011, 12:19:31 pm
On the train heading Brighton-wards.

So far two signal failures, a level crossing failure and a bridge strike.

It beats the M4, M25, M23 any day  though.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 February, 2011, 02:19:49 pm
Cleaning the living room floor, and wishing I had a bike shed.  And better fettling skills - the rear disk is rubbing and I don't know why :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 February, 2011, 02:44:30 pm
And now I'm going to collect the eldest cub and two of his mates who are coming round for tea.  Wish me luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 February, 2011, 03:49:41 pm
On a cold York platform.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 15 February, 2011, 04:34:58 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 14 February, 2011, 02:56:43 pm
I'm not doing nothing
same as yesterday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 February, 2011, 11:18:07 pm
I am considering my cycling future.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Martin109 on 16 February, 2011, 11:25:00 pm
Listening to recordings of 'On Your Bike' on the computer.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 February, 2011, 09:18:57 am
Sitting on a train heading for Witham whence AH and I plan to ride to Thaxted.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 February, 2011, 09:38:16 am
Sitting on a different train which, according to the FSNT I shouldn't have caught. It was four minutes late so I will be in Witham sixteen minutes early. That's the second time in succession that I've caught the old connection that I'm now scheduled to miss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 17 February, 2011, 01:08:52 pm
Passing time waiting to see whether or not the tree fellers CAN take c.50' off the tops of our 8 conifers without crushing the conservatory or indeed one end of the house. And listening to the chain saws and wood chipper (which sounds rather like I'm throwing fivers into it a rate of 350 quid a day). And thinking what I would rather do with those fivers....

No disasters so far - but sooner him (seen just "above" roof line) than me!

(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p56/wasnti/TreeDown.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 February, 2011, 04:12:53 pm
drinking post-ride coffe & eating half a wet nellie chez jogler's cafe. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 17 February, 2011, 04:18:18 pm
Two of the maddest biddies that use the Library have returned  :( I have retreated behind my Mac monitor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 17 February, 2011, 04:19:44 pm
Dying slowly from the lurgi that my mrs has passed on to me  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 17 February, 2011, 04:31:06 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 17 February, 2011, 04:18:18 pm
Two of the maddest biddies that use the Library have returned  :( I have retreated behind my Mac monitor.

Make that three!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 February, 2011, 04:35:38 pm
Basking in having delivered a stimulating and successful learning event to a load of people who thought they were going to find the subject of complaints dry and dull.

I got a spontaneous round of applause. :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 17 February, 2011, 04:42:26 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 February, 2011, 04:35:38 pm
Basking in having delivered a stimulating and successful learning event to a load of people who thought they were going to find the subject of complaints dry and dull.

I got a spontaneous round of applause. :D

You're good, you are  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 February, 2011, 07:28:27 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 February, 2011, 04:35:38 pm
Basking in having delivered a stimulating and successful learning event to a load of people who thought they were going to find the subject of complaints dry and dull.

I got a spontaneous round of applause. :D

So all that time on the RANT thread has paid off. ;)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 February, 2011, 08:01:48 pm
Quote from: jogler on 17 February, 2011, 04:12:53 pm
drinking post-ride coffe & eating half a wet nellie chez jogler's cafe. :thumbsup:

eating the other half of the wet nellie
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 February, 2011, 08:05:37 pm
Googling wet nellie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 February, 2011, 08:09:54 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 17 February, 2011, 07:28:27 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 February, 2011, 04:35:38 pm
Basking in having delivered a stimulating and successful learning event to a load of people who thought they were going to find the subject of complaints dry and dull.

I got a spontaneous round of applause. :D

So all that time on the RANT thread has paid off. ;)
 

:-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 February, 2011, 08:11:19 pm
Eating a packet of mini chedders.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 February, 2011, 08:12:08 pm
Hating, mostly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 17 February, 2011, 08:55:23 pm
Having a glass of wine since my weekend started tonight :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 February, 2011, 10:11:50 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 17 February, 2011, 08:12:08 pm
Hating, mostly.

Seems like a lot of effort to go to.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 February, 2011, 11:04:23 pm
* checks News *

Aurora to light up the Night Sky!

* checks Weather report *

Overcast at 400 feet. Fog.

Figures  ::-).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 February, 2011, 06:21:01 pm
Packing up to go home.  And wondering if I have any socks lurking in my pannier somewhere, because  think it might be a tad chilly around foot level on the way....

It's the holidays!  \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 February, 2011, 06:25:00 pm
Thinking it's time I had a new avatar, and wondering what it should be.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 February, 2011, 06:26:19 pm
I'm sure bobb will be along in a minute with some suggestions...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 18 February, 2011, 06:27:53 pm
Ploughing through Property Law guff for one of my exams next week and being distracted by t'internet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 February, 2011, 07:15:28 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 18 February, 2011, 06:25:00 pm
Thinking it's time I had a new avatar, and wondering what it should be.
Make some cake in the shape of boobs
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 February, 2011, 09:57:21 pm
Watching Track Cycling on the TV from Manchester, drinking wine, and thinking - What would make this moment perfect is a cake shaped like boobs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 February, 2011, 09:59:19 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/2616398141_dc5fca2392.jpg)

They look fake to me though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 18 February, 2011, 10:02:13 pm
Proofreading.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 February, 2011, 10:04:28 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 18 February, 2011, 09:59:19 pm
They look fake to me though.

Hehe. I don't care  :demon:.

NB: 99% of men don't care.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 19 February, 2011, 10:41:54 am
Regretting not getting up earlier.

It's now cold sleety rain and there is no way on earth either child will stoke the tandem into town.

Will have to take the car.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: E.C. Ryder on 19 February, 2011, 12:45:19 pm
Listening to radio 5 and the Chelsea v Everton game. Come on Chelsea!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 February, 2011, 12:46:22 pm
Listening to The News Quiz.

I've just heard Jeremy Hardy refer to IDS as "Irritable Duncan Syndrome". ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 19 February, 2011, 12:47:11 pm
Sitting in a tedious meeting in a darkened room in Rome.  It's a beautiful city, and  a fantastic day outside with clear blue skies & warm sun.  What a waste.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 19 February, 2011, 05:51:26 pm
About to see Paul at the pictures at Fulham.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SlowCoach on 19 February, 2011, 07:49:51 pm
Watching Vicky Pendleton being beaten by Anna Meares in the sprint semi finals
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 February, 2011, 08:06:40 pm
Quote from: SlowCoach on 19 February, 2011, 07:49:51 pm
Watching Vicky Pendleton being beaten by Anna Meares in the sprint semi finals

Indeed. She was ASLEEP.  :facepalm:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 19 February, 2011, 08:10:11 pm
Cooking stuffed peppers. I just nearly set fire to the kitchen, too much Pinot Grigio (in me), wasn't meant to be a Flambé but the flames were a good foot high  ;D Peppers are now in teh oven nomnomnom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 February, 2011, 08:12:42 pm
Wondering if I'll finish the bottle of Rioja I opened this evening...
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 19 February, 2011, 08:25:21 pm
I must not finish this bottle, coz I need to leave here at 7am to ride to Bristol for the CTC ride in the morning  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 February, 2011, 08:35:11 pm
Quote from: Feline on 19 February, 2011, 08:25:21 pm
I must not finish this bottle, coz I need to leave here at 7am to ride to Bristol for the CTC ride in the morning  :D

I normally wouldn't mix red and white.  But if I finish this Rioja I won't care, so could finish your bottle for you. 
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 19 February, 2011, 08:37:51 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 19 February, 2011, 08:35:11 pm
Quote from: Feline on 19 February, 2011, 08:25:21 pm
I must not finish this bottle, coz I need to leave here at 7am to ride to Bristol for the CTC ride in the morning  :D

I normally wouldn't mix red and white.  But if I finish this Rioja I won't care, so could finish your bottle for you. 
 

Awesome, you are more than welcome to pop round and save me from myself!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 February, 2011, 08:42:31 pm
Quote from: Feline on 19 February, 2011, 08:37:51 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 19 February, 2011, 08:35:11 pm
Quote from: Feline on 19 February, 2011, 08:25:21 pm
I must not finish this bottle, coz I need to leave here at 7am to ride to Bristol for the CTC ride in the morning  :D

I normally wouldn't mix red and white.  But if I finish this Rioja I won't care, so could finish your bottle for you. 
 

Awesome, you are more than welcome to pop round and save me from myself!

Don't think I could get there before you left for your ride in the morning.  We could meet half way (if I can manage to not fall off my bike for that distance).
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 19 February, 2011, 08:52:02 pm
Pondering how to fettle a 1/24th scale chrome gear stick back together seeing as it snapped in two while I was gluing it in place.....   ??? It's a bit too thin to glue back together  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: longers on 19 February, 2011, 08:56:40 pm
I can get hold of some tough bright silvery tape if that's any good to you? Would a piece cover the length of it if wrapped round?

Happy to post next weekend foc. It's pretty sturdy stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 19 February, 2011, 09:26:48 pm
Quote from: longers on 19 February, 2011, 08:56:40 pm
I can get hold of some tough bright silvery tape if that's any good to you? Would a piece cover the length of it if wrapped round?

Happy to post next weekend foc. It's pretty sturdy stuff.


Cheers longers!  I've wrapped it in some masking tape which I've then "painted" with a silver paint pen. Doesn't look tooo bad, however I might fettle around with a straightened paper clip!   ;D  I'll let you know if I need any of that silvery tape.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SlowCoach on 19 February, 2011, 09:42:38 pm
Watching them repair the derney
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 February, 2011, 09:57:00 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 19 February, 2011, 08:12:42 pm
Wondering if I'll finish the bottle of Rioja I opened this evening...
 

No longer wondering — it's a done deal.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 19 February, 2011, 10:00:16 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 19 February, 2011, 09:57:00 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 19 February, 2011, 08:12:42 pm
Wondering if I'll finish the bottle of Rioja I opened this evening...
 

No longer wondering — it's a done deal.
 
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 February, 2011, 10:20:27 pm
Freezing my nuts off in the garden with a bottle of Old Speckled Hen, 'cos my phone won't do the internoodle in the house.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: longers on 19 February, 2011, 10:29:08 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 19 February, 2011, 09:26:48 pm
I'll let you know if I need any of that silvery tape.

Please do, we/they use it while masking up tools before they're etched and I'm sure there's got to be another use for it outside work.
Send a pm if interested eh?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 February, 2011, 10:31:43 pm
getting ready to 'awaken the forest'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 19 February, 2011, 10:33:01 pm
Just back from seeing Anton & Erin at the Usher Hall - great fun, great music, and the dancing wasn't bad either  :thumbsup:  They were looking less orange than they do on Strictly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 February, 2011, 10:55:55 pm
Working my way through a bag of Reese's peanut butter cops (minis).
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 20 February, 2011, 07:12:04 am
Running down the clock before setting out to meet Scottlington for a Chicken Willy 200km.  We were going to ride yesterday but it seemed a bit daft to ride through a morning of cold drizzle unnecessarily.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 February, 2011, 07:54:35 am
Going to work :(
an example of anti-audax discrimination by clients  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SlowCoach on 20 February, 2011, 11:16:24 am
Rapidly losing my hearing - sitting immediately in front of the vuvuzela and cow bells at Manchester Velodrome
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 February, 2011, 11:52:55 am
Attacking a huge and extremely ancient budlia. (Sp?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 20 February, 2011, 03:38:36 pm
Listening to Tom Waits murdering "Waltzing Matilda" on R2 and wanting to kill him, the wife, the radio, the cat.

Feck me! I hate Tom Waites!!!!   >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 February, 2011, 03:45:27 pm
Yes.  I heard it too.  Somehow it suited the mood in my Welsh local.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 20 February, 2011, 03:49:50 pm
I like Tom Waits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 20 February, 2011, 04:26:32 pm
Quote from: Valiant on 20 February, 2011, 03:49:50 pm
I like Tom Waits.
Yeah, but you've never been normal!!!    ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 February, 2011, 04:34:24 pm
Drinking coffee at granny Annie's house, with Arch. We did hills :) Setting off soon to head back to York. Nice day for a ride!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 20 February, 2011, 04:42:45 pm
Quote from: FatBloke on 20 February, 2011, 04:26:32 pm
Quote from: Valiant on 20 February, 2011, 03:49:50 pm
I like Tom Waits.
Yeah, but you've never been normal!!!    ;D

I like Tom Waits too.
But admit that some of his stuff can be *ahem* 'difficult to access', as it were.
Waltzing Matilda - or Tom Traubert's Blues - as it is known, is not one of those though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 February, 2011, 04:44:02 pm
Watching the Grammys on ITV and thinking Gwyneth Paltrow can actually sing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 20 February, 2011, 04:51:15 pm
Quote from: FatBloke on 20 February, 2011, 03:38:36 pm
Listening to Tom Waits murdering "Waltzing Matilda"

I love his take on it, it's a sad broken-down tale. But then I like Tom Waits in general.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrkThaBWa5c&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrkThaBWa5c&feature=player_embedded)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 20 February, 2011, 05:00:18 pm
Feeling my legs. Post-fixie ride. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 February, 2011, 05:02:22 pm
Running some cold water into the bath before I get into it. I might be gone for some time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 February, 2011, 05:07:00 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 20 February, 2011, 05:00:18 pm
Feeling my legs. Post-fixie ride. :)

 :thumbsup:

it's still your fault ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 February, 2011, 05:07:43 pm
taste -testing mrs. jogler's scones :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 20 February, 2011, 07:18:20 pm
Quote from: FatBloke on 20 February, 2011, 04:26:32 pm
Quote from: Valiant on 20 February, 2011, 03:49:50 pm
I like Tom Waits.
Yeah, but you've never been normal!!!    ;D

If not liking Tom Waits is normal you can stick it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 20 February, 2011, 09:18:10 pm
Trying to iron shirts whilst watching the Eurosport highlights from the World Cup track cycling.

It's usually a fairly automatic operation, but for some reason, I just ironed half a shirt.

Given the order I do things - collar - yoke - cuff - sleeve - other cuff - other sleeve - L-front - back - R-front, it's a bit of a puzzle how I managed to put it on the hanger then notice I'd missed one sleeve, one side of the front and half the back ???  It's almost like a neurological disorder form an Oliver Sachs book.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 February, 2011, 09:20:15 pm
You iron the cuffs?  :o

My mother is horrified by my ironing. I never iron anything that doesn't show, and that includes the backs of shirts if I'll be wearing a jacket/cardigan over them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 20 February, 2011, 09:34:21 pm
I am even worse, I don't iron anything at all  ;D
I only buy things that come out of the tumble dryer looking ironed. M&S non-iron school shirts FTW!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 20 February, 2011, 10:23:06 pm
The last thing I ironed was my wedding dress :). I may have to give in and iron one of the shirts that I wore to an interview though  ::-).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 February, 2011, 11:53:08 am
Waiting for a courier.  Still no sign.  Online tracking say that the parcel went on a van in York this morning.  Yawn.  It's a bloody work parcel that I'm having delivered to home so that I can do work stuff in holidays too.  And me and the boys are getting bored stuck at home.

Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 21 February, 2011, 12:13:57 pm
Trying to work with four kittens sitting on my desk.  ;D

Its strange, when they walk across the keyboard, what they type seems to make more sense than anything I do!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 21 February, 2011, 09:14:15 pm
Working, whilst on leave.  My work life is that shite at present.
At least Mrs G is sat here working too - but she is getting paid.
Private enterprise vs Public Sector. 
Welcome to David Cameron's Big Society - I'm a volunteer  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 February, 2011, 11:06:21 pm
Sulking.
1st equal in the pub quiz.
Tie break.  Date Room With a View first published?
Broken Brains here put 1925.
Oops.  Sorry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 22 February, 2011, 08:04:04 am
Quote from: Grub on 21 February, 2011, 09:14:15 pm
Working, whilst on leave.  My work life is that shite at present.
At least Mrs G is sat here working too - but she is getting paid.
Private enterprise vs Public Sector. 
Welcome to David Cameron's Big Society - I'm a volunteer  :(

They don't do overtime or anything like that in the private sector.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 February, 2011, 08:22:46 am
Wondering if I should send my CV into a Singapore recruitment agency who are recruiting in Britain, and if I would really be prepared to sell my flat and disappear to Singapore for several years.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 22 February, 2011, 08:28:58 am
Waiting for a train.

You did ask!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: epa611 on 22 February, 2011, 09:32:56 am
Bored andn trying to kill some time :(

Finish this contract tomrrow, so nothing realy much for me to do.  Big boss is coming over from USA to take me for lunch today, and I've a leaving lunch arranged for tomorrow before I drive back to Scotland for good ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 February, 2011, 10:42:50 am
Quote from: Kirst on 22 February, 2011, 08:22:46 am
Wondering if I should send my CV into a Singapore recruitment agency who are recruiting in Britain, and if I would really be prepared to sell my flat and disappear to Singapore for several years.

I think the climate would drive me back to Blighty inside six weeks...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 February, 2011, 11:23:31 am
Then I'll ask bobb to come with me instead of you...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 22 February, 2011, 12:42:03 pm
running back to the loo every so often  :-[ :-[ whilst watching the re-run of the unveiling of the velodrome.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 22 February, 2011, 12:52:48 pm
Getting bored by the second, I’m away dog sitting and I didn’t bring my bike anyway  the weather is crap and there is sod all to do, still the money good  :) and I've got the internet
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 February, 2011, 01:16:26 pm
My CV. I can't remember the official name of the Trust which was my first employer, and I have no idea what my skills are.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 February, 2011, 01:18:36 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 22 February, 2011, 01:16:26 pm
My CV. I can't remember the official name of the Trust which was my first employer, and I have no idea what my skills are.

I trust you have asked Bobb to provide a reference? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 February, 2011, 06:02:35 pm
I've put "available on request." I still can't remember the name of the Trust I worked for in my first job. It wasn't Kent & Canterbury hospitals, it was the community trust. Canterbury & Thanet South East Community Trust? Does anyone know what trust an OT at Nunnery Fields Hospital would have been employed by in 1992/3?  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 22 February, 2011, 06:11:55 pm
I'm watching DVDs of Michael Portaloo's Railway Journeys.  He's currently enthusing/reminiscing about my #1 home town.

Where the ROOLZ of football were developed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 February, 2011, 09:05:05 pm
I am in an awesomely cheap but remarkably nice hotel near the start of tomorrows Wye Wednesday 200k audax, in their restaurant pigging out on gourmet carbs  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sigod on 22 February, 2011, 09:10:52 pm
Failing utterly to find a good audio book about cycling. Itunes/Amazon/Audible...you are rubbish!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 February, 2011, 04:52:12 pm
Procrastinating.  I should really go and do some jobs....
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 23 February, 2011, 07:27:25 pm
Wondering if the BBC is burning down, following the sounding of the fire alarm during the course of The One Show.   They cut to a VT and abandoned the show in mid air.  At least it proves that it's live !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 23 February, 2011, 07:31:41 pm
Having spent 8.5 hours today in meetings, I'm now doing my project work. While nursing a sore wrist, which a massage therapist hurt yesterday.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 23 February, 2011, 11:38:19 pm
Finishing my second (and last) beer of the evening and thinking I really ought to be in bed

but will probably have to sort the cats out first
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 February, 2011, 11:42:56 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 February, 2011, 04:52:12 pm
Procrastinating.  I should really go and do some jobs....

Well, I've cleaned the bathroom and done some shopping.  So now I'm back to procrastination.  Whilst eating toast and jam.
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Post by: Julian on 23 February, 2011, 11:45:33 pm
Looking at cardboard boxes and wondering how this flat became a Tardis without me noticing.
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Post by: Jaded on 24 February, 2011, 09:41:47 am
Having monumental, paintstripping wind.

Wind that Ural K promised me wouldn't happen after our activities last night.
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Post by: Feline on 24 February, 2011, 11:18:18 am
Quote from: Jaded on 24 February, 2011, 09:41:47 am
Having monumental, paintstripping wind.

Wind that Ural K promised me wouldn't happen after our activities last night.

I could have done with the help of a tail wind like that yesterday  ;D
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Post by: Andrij on 24 February, 2011, 04:24:28 pm
Printing out a map to get me to tonight's gig (https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/weekly-themes/vox-clamantis-da-pacem).   It's Eesti Fest (http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/weekly-themes?theme=168)!
 
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Post by: tiermat on 25 February, 2011, 03:25:03 pm
Watching The Vault's "Biggest US Tracks of the 90's" did the leftpondians really have NO musical taste during the nineties?


Oh and suffering from terminal sneezing, well that's what it feels like, sneezing so much that I am having trouble breathing sometimes....
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Post by: clarion on 25 February, 2011, 03:32:19 pm
Waiting for responses from people on things I want to resolve today :(
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Post by: BrianI on 25 February, 2011, 04:32:26 pm
Wondering if I really did see two white doves flying past the window, or if it was a glitch in the matrix......
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Post by: clarion on 25 February, 2011, 04:38:25 pm
Quote from: clarion on 25 February, 2011, 03:32:19 pm
Waiting for responses from people on things I want to resolve today :(

Still waiting :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 February, 2011, 04:45:04 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 25 February, 2011, 04:32:26 pm
Wondering if I really did see two white doves flying past the window, or if it was a glitch in the matrix......

They are probably Libyan emigrés.
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Post by: essexian on 25 February, 2011, 04:45:29 pm
Promising myself I will NEVER use Tescos Direct online again....might be a rant along after half 5.

Also making a mushroom stew for tea....may have used a bit too much garlic.......  ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 25 February, 2011, 08:32:34 pm
Been to a funeral at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. The church was pretty much full.

As I drove back reflecting, in the pouring rain, I thought I'd made the right decision not to ride down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 25 February, 2011, 08:53:04 pm
Trying not to think too much.

A couple of G&Ts are helping as is the current Planter's Punch. Bjork also.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 February, 2011, 07:19:15 am
Getting ready to work another weekend (but not in the flesh tomorrow:on standby via mobile phone unless it goes titsup today).Food & flask packed.
Must stop off for a Daily Mail :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 26 February, 2011, 10:38:47 am
Sitting in the garden room enjoying the song of a dunnock and the sight of them and lots of other small birds on the feeders.  I really should get up and do stuff but this is really quite delightful. 

Hopefully at some point today I'll find out if my new bike is ready for collection  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 26 February, 2011, 11:06:27 am
Cursing the lack of initiative of other trades & site management.
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Post by: Welsh Man on 26 February, 2011, 12:10:27 pm
Waiting for the Rugby to start, come on Wales !


 ;D
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Post by: SteveC on 26 February, 2011, 12:24:18 pm
Just come in from emptying one of the large black plastic patio tubs we inherited when we moved here (11 1/2 year ago!).
Going to have lunch, then go out and do the other one.  This will make MrsC happy!  :thumbsup:

There will be rugby later  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

S
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 February, 2011, 12:26:48 pm
About to go to B&Q to buy a cheap sliding mitre saw to deal with the huge pile of scrap wood in the garage and shed. I need to reduce it to logburner sized nits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 February, 2011, 12:37:50 pm
I've just been reading this thread (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3627.0) and looking forward to the weather improving.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 February, 2011, 02:58:34 pm
Admiring my new hair. It's nearly as cool as bobb's, and it's bright red.  :D
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Post by: keepontriking on 26 February, 2011, 03:24:04 pm
Designing a pub guide to the New Forest while listening to Crystal Palace v Reading.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 February, 2011, 04:00:05 pm
Thinking that this hotel room is bigger than my house!
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Post by: her_welshness on 26 February, 2011, 04:09:52 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 February, 2011, 04:00:05 pm
Thinking that this hotel room is bigger than my house!

Nice  :thumbsup: Hope you guys have a lovely week-end.

I am eating Pickled onion monster munch and watching Wales trying to play a game of rugby.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 February, 2011, 07:12:49 pm
Hating pain.
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Post by: Jaded on 26 February, 2011, 07:28:51 pm
Revelling in the England win (just seen time shifted) and the 4-0 win I saw earlier.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 February, 2011, 07:46:00 pm
Resting after spending all afternoon grovelling about in the innards of the car doors with a big tube of sealant. That'd better have fixed it or else.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geraldc on 26 February, 2011, 07:47:34 pm
Reading about Ligers/Tigers and wishing I had a bigger garden and was a billionaire/Bond villain. Can you teach a big cat to use a litter tray?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 February, 2011, 07:50:37 pm
Dunno, but that's just reminded me of the huge racing cat track and the ginormous litter tray in the Grim Fandango game for PC.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 26 February, 2011, 07:51:28 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 26 February, 2011, 07:46:00 pm
Resting after spending all afternoon grovelling about in the innards of the car doors with a big tube of sealant. That'd better have fixed it or else.
I feel your pain, Mrs P. I found a small tear in the seal round the rear hatch of our soggy Jazz, and have patched it with a bit of inner tube and some sealant.
I can recommend a take-oot curry, a bottle of Magners and copious Vino Collapso for enhancing one's equanimity.  O:-)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 February, 2011, 08:12:31 pm
Nice use of inner tube eck :D. The curry will have to wait until tomorrow....trip to the Indian resto for Pingu's birthday :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 27 February, 2011, 08:04:25 am
Drooling over pictures of rather nice American Flatbows on the innernet.   :thumbsup: I quite fancy buying one for the summer to replace my old and boring recurve bow... 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 February, 2011, 08:52:17 am
Standing on the platform at Mordor Central watching a class 350 being repeatedly rebooted, rather than getting lost in Coventry as I should be...
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Post by: jogler on 27 February, 2011, 08:58:47 am
Aching all over.Headache,earache,teethache,backache,thighs & calfs ache,shoulders & arms ache.
It's amazing how quickly you can go from fit to work ( & by implication,ride a bike) at 0800 Saturday to not-much-chance at tea time Saturday to feeling wrecked on Sunday morning. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 27 February, 2011, 11:26:16 am
Just getting ready for an early Sunday dinner then take step son back to Uni. He's been home for weekend and managed to eat us out of house and home in three days ;D

Managed a nice 25 miler a bit earlier but am gutted that its sunny and I cant go out to play for the rest of the day >:(
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 February, 2011, 08:02:57 pm
Feeling mildly claustrophobic in a packed 02 academy. First supporting act just starting. He's quite funny.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 27 February, 2011, 08:18:54 pm
Having a sit down, having bought a suit earlier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 27 February, 2011, 08:43:39 pm
Quote from: Kim on 27 February, 2011, 08:52:17 am
Standing on the platform at Mordor Central watching a class 350 being repeatedly rebooted, rather than getting lost in Coventry as I should be...
I assume they were toe-tector size 11s...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 February, 2011, 12:08:36 am
There was certainly some harsh language being employed that would be consistent with that.  And the pantograph doing the hokey cokey, with associated sparky goodness.  They got it going eventually.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 February, 2011, 04:06:43 am
Not sleeping.  :(
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 February, 2011, 04:12:12 am
I just finished fettling and now I really should do some sleeping.
I fitted my Cateye, Garmin and IQ cyo light to my new bike. I finally have a day off tomorrow and can take my bike on it's first ever proper ride  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 28 February, 2011, 06:02:44 pm
Being amazed at how much impact 3 builders & one electrician can have.  Today was "pull everything apart, lift all the upstairs floors & see what's there" day.

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Post by: Hot Flatus on 28 February, 2011, 08:13:04 pm
You wait until they get the angle grinder out and start chasing into the plaster to rewire.

Oh, the dust....
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Post by: simonp on 28 February, 2011, 08:14:44 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 February, 2011, 04:12:12 am
I just finished fettling and now I really should do some sleeping.
I fitted my Cateye, Garmin and IQ cyo light to my new bike. I finally have a day off tomorrow and can take my bike on it's first ever proper ride  ;D

04:12?

Even worse than me a few days before LEL in 2009.

(I was very tired when I started LEL...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 February, 2011, 08:18:33 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 28 February, 2011, 06:02:44 pm
Being amazed at how much impact 3 builders & one electrician can have.  Today was "pull everything apart, lift all the upstairs floors & see what's there" day.



Were there several "ooooph" sharp intake of breath moments?
Much bonce,bum & bollock scratching?*
Will they be back on the 'morrow?
 
*them,not you ;D
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Post by: Feline on 28 February, 2011, 09:45:49 pm
Quote from: simonp on 28 February, 2011, 08:14:44 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 February, 2011, 04:12:12 am
I just finished fettling and now I really should do some sleeping.
I fitted my Cateye, Garmin and IQ cyo light to my new bike. I finally have a day off tomorrow and can take my bike on it's first ever proper ride  ;D

04:12?

Even worse than me a few days before LEL in 2009.

(I was very tired when I started LEL...)


Ah yeah, when I was setting up my new Cateye it said it was 1am, I stupidly thought it somehow actually knew what time it was. There is no clock in my study AKA indoor secret feline bunker. Clearly it must have been later  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 February, 2011, 09:58:51 pm
Well, I was washing my wheels in the bath.

But the  phone rang, and it was next to the computer.

So now I'm posting on here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 28 February, 2011, 09:59:52 pm
plotting a weeks walking in wales ;) I recon a couple of days in the brecons then up to snowdonia...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 28 February, 2011, 10:01:31 pm
Trying to buy train tickets.  It's only been an hour and a half now ::-)
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Post by: Chris S on 28 February, 2011, 10:05:17 pm
Pondering stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 28 February, 2011, 10:45:06 pm
Quote from: Ural Kunst on 28 February, 2011, 08:13:04 pm
You wait until they get the angle grinder out and start chasing into the plaster to rewire.

Oh, the dust....

Tomorrow. Today they had the angle grinder out to cut a new doorway.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 28 February, 2011, 10:46:06 pm
Quote from: Deano on 28 February, 2011, 10:01:31 pm
Trying to buy train tickets.  It's only been an hour and a half now ::-)

Plus another 45 minutes >:(  Stupid fucking East Coast website.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 28 February, 2011, 10:47:21 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 28 February, 2011, 10:45:06 pm
Quote from: Ural Kunst on 28 February, 2011, 08:13:04 pm
You wait until they get the angle grinder out and start chasing into the plaster to rewire.

Oh, the dust....

Tomorrow. Today they had the angle grinder out to cut a new doorway.  ;)

Dust n' noise.
Big time  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 28 February, 2011, 10:48:41 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 26 February, 2011, 07:28:51 pm
Revelling in the England win (just seen time shifted) and the 4-0 win I saw earlier.

I hadn't realised that you were a Man. U fan Jaded  :o

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 28 February, 2011, 10:49:21 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 February, 2011, 08:18:33 pm

Were there several "ooooph" sharp intake of breath moments?
Much bonce,bum & bollock scratching?*

Well, much "that's a very odd way of doing that" and "Here, Rob, have you ever seen anything like this before ?"

 ;D

the electrician had already been round to poke about and to tell us all the things that needed fixing, so it wasn't a huge surprise.

Quote
Will they be back on the 'morrow?

I expect so, since I'm paying them.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 February, 2011, 10:49:55 pm
Quote from: mike on 28 February, 2011, 09:59:52 pm
plotting a weeks walking in wales ;) I recon a couple of days in the brecons then up to snowdonia...

Don't turn your back on the Cambrian Mountains. Wonderful walking and you hardly see anyone. Somewhere near Devil's Bridge would be a good centre. I can supply you with the routes of some excellent walks round there if you like. We've also taken the tandem round there. Of course, Charlotte and I cycled through there on our way from Bangor to Haverfordwest last August.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 February, 2011, 11:02:56 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 February, 2011, 09:58:51 pm
Well, I was washing my wheels in the bath.

Being very glad that nothing pointy got in either of the two fairly large holes in my rear tyre whilst I was riding home on Friday.  That could have been far from ideal. 


And wondering if Valencia will ever recover from what I've inflicted on her in the last two months.  My poor petal has suffered....
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 March, 2011, 01:33:59 am
And now I'm washing bedding, since the SmallestCub has just thrown up all over his bed.  Poor wee lamb is now tucked up on a bed made of towels and blankets on the living room floor.  I need to finish cleaning my bike, and then will be sleeping on the sofa to keep an eye on him.

Oh, the glamour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 March, 2011, 01:57:59 am
Getting distracted by YACF on the way to bed, and noting that overrunning hacking sessions (even the really bad kind, which this one wasn't) are infinitely preferable to anything involving vomit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 01 March, 2011, 08:10:09 am
Pausing between the squat rack and the bench.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 March, 2011, 05:43:46 pm
* Kim is warming her hands over the gas flame, because the kitchen is a bit chilly

* Barakta sends things flying while attempting to put the lid back on the butter one-handed

* Kim rescues one of those plastic clips you use for sealing bags of food from the burner

* Kim inspects the damage

Kim: "Hmm, these are remarkably non-flammable..."

Barakta: "*giggle*mumble*giggle*mumble*"

Kim: "What?  No!  We are not burning one of the small ones for SCIENCE!"

* Barakta continues to have hysterics
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 01 March, 2011, 05:55:25 pm
Quote from: Kim on 01 March, 2011, 05:43:46 pm
* Kim is warming her hands over the gas flame, because the kitchen is a bit chilly

* Barakta sends things flying while attempting to put the lid back on the butter one-handed

* Kim rescues one of those plastic clips you use for sealing bags of food from the burner

* Kim inspects the damage

Kim: "Hmm, these are remarkably non-flammable..."

Barakta: "*giggle*mumble*giggle*mumble*"

Kim: "What?  No!  We are not burning one of the small ones for SCIENCE!"

* Barakta continues to have hysterics

Can I burn one for SCIENCE when you're not in?  Or outside?   :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 01 March, 2011, 06:19:28 pm
Quote from: Chocolatebike on 28 February, 2011, 10:48:41 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 26 February, 2011, 07:28:51 pm
Revelling in the England win (just seen time shifted) and the 4-0 win I saw earlier.

I hadn't realised that you were a Man. U fan Jaded  :o

Way more important than Man U!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 March, 2011, 10:47:20 pm
Quote from: barakta on 01 March, 2011, 05:55:25 pm

Can I burn one for SCIENCE when you're not in?  Or outside?   :demon:

Come on B.  We're waiting for the results report.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 March, 2011, 10:48:09 pm
I haven't gone out yet  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 March, 2011, 11:01:03 am
I'm waiting for the slowest report evah to export.  It runs the queries overnight, but I still have at least four periods while I can't use the other functions on my PC (or log on anywhere else) while I wait... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 March, 2011, 12:23:44 pm
Aaaaand it's done!

But there was a bug, so it needs to be partially rerun later ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 March, 2011, 12:24:29 pm
Procrastinating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 March, 2011, 05:55:53 pm
Looking at my ex's old house. I lived there with him for a while then we broke up, I moved in here, he married some bint and they sold that house and now it's up for sale again. http://www.edinburghprimeproperty.com/brochure/970.aspx It looks like the current owners have made a lot of changes, some of which I'm not sure I like, but that's ok.

I would love to live in that house again. Not because of him, but because it's a lovely house, nice area, garden just big enough for what I'd like to do with it, handy for work and town and buses, easy to manage n+1, and I could convert the shed into a little workshop and make jewellery.

Fingers crossed for a lottery win this week!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 March, 2011, 06:06:20 pm
Thinking that today has been long enough, I'm not getting anywhere and it's time to go home.  And possibly to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 02 March, 2011, 10:16:48 pm
Picking up campervan in Auckland before setting off on 5 weeks touring - excited  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 March, 2011, 09:57:33 am
Sitting having breakfasted and listening to the piano being tuned. Cup of tea soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 03 March, 2011, 07:03:48 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 March, 2011, 09:57:33 am
Sitting having breakfasted and listening to the piano being tuned. Cup of tea soon.

Is the sciatica any better yet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 03 March, 2011, 07:12:07 pm
After replacing both tyres, putting on a new rim tape, replacing a spoke, and putting a new rear brake cable on the Kaffenback, I'm about to to take it out for a couple of miles test ride, to make sure nothing rattles excessively or falls off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 03 March, 2011, 07:46:47 pm
Cool, everything pretty much worked as expected.

Both sets of brakes squealed, I'd cleaned the wheels and tyres in the bath with biological washing liquid, and obviously it left a slight coating.  A couple of times up to West Croydon station, and then down the hill pedalling as hard as I could with both brakes on cured that.  It's down to a very slight squeal just as you stop from the front brake, which will probably go in the commute tomorrow.

Right, time for supper, and then I'll do some work on Red bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 March, 2011, 07:48:56 pm
Waiting for pingu to get home so I can have dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 03 March, 2011, 10:13:58 pm
I have just entered all the details of my 2 best bikes and my mobile phone onto Immobilise :: The National Property Register, for phones, gadgets, bikes & more... (http://www.immobilise.com)
I am now looking around wondering what else to put on there, my dogs perhaps?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 March, 2011, 02:13:32 am
Admonishing myself for going to bed early.Slept for a couple of hours,woke up & now can't get back to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 March, 2011, 07:17:52 am
Trying to overcome a mild dose of CBA-itis and get ready for work.  On the bright side, Friday commute \o/.  On the other, less bright side I forgot to charge my lights last night and might have to use my emergency non-rechargeable AAs.  But then again, Friday commute \o/.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 04 March, 2011, 07:24:51 am
At Heathrow. Waiting for a flight to Moscow with Mrs B. A weekend of cultural delights awaits. Plus some 'snowmobili' on Sunday!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 04 March, 2011, 07:28:36 am
Starting to get a bit concerned that I might not be able to get the tandem onto East Midlands Trains tomorrow morning.  Wondering about taking a trip to the station this evening, on the tandem, and asking a kind guard if I could do a bit of a try-out between a train terminating and going off to the depot.

It would appear that the lifts at Derby station are (deliberately?) too small for tandems.  Carrying up & down the stairs FTW!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cyclone on 04 March, 2011, 07:33:45 am
Attempting to get motivated enough to check another set of Benchmarking data for my school before the meeting with the Principal on Monday....Better have a cuppa....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 March, 2011, 08:24:04 am
pondering on the positives of procrastinating
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 04 March, 2011, 09:00:12 am
Quote from: rower40 on 04 March, 2011, 07:28:36 am
Starting to get a bit concerned that I might not be able to get the tandem onto East Midlands Trains tomorrow morning.  Wondering about taking a trip to the station this evening, on the tandem, and asking a kind guard if I could do a bit of a try-out between a train terminating and going off to the depot.

It would appear that the lifts at Derby station are (deliberately?) too small for tandems.  Carrying up & down the stairs FTW!

Clarion managed to get ours into some pretty small lifts by removing all the luggage and holding it up on it's back wheel  :) Good luck :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 04 March, 2011, 10:18:25 am
Sitting with a coffee, admiring my new shoes in a League of Gentlemen Tubbs way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 March, 2011, 10:22:39 am
Champing at the bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 March, 2011, 10:31:37 am
Fretting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 04 March, 2011, 10:31:59 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 March, 2011, 10:22:39 am
Champing at the bit.

How's the nasty S thing me dear?  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 March, 2011, 10:33:48 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 04 March, 2011, 10:31:59 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 March, 2011, 10:22:39 am
Champing at the bit.

How's the nasty S thing me dear?  :-*

Hurts less, but I've got a lot of numbness in my left buttock and leg. I could do with a good vigorous massage. Is that your line at all?  :D
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Post by: Chris S on 04 March, 2011, 10:43:14 am
Compiling.
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Post by: Andrij on 04 March, 2011, 10:59:41 am
Quote from: Chris S on 04 March, 2011, 10:43:14 am
Compiling.

A word of advice: these days you can get computers to do that for you. ;)
 
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Post by: Feline on 04 March, 2011, 11:47:11 am
Being competed over. I have 2 cats and 2 dogs all competing for my attention and wanting to be the 'main' pet to sit right in the middle of my lap. It's like a zoo in here sometimes  ;D
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Post by: Aidan on 04 March, 2011, 12:00:28 pm
Suffering from indigestion from the horse pills the doc gave me for the "really nasty" ( her words) ear infection I've got, which in itself hurts like hell, even with painkillers.  The steroid eardrops arent much fun either, and of course this is in my "good" ear  and cant wear my aid, so I can hear bugger all too.  FML

And I'm on holiday next week and cant really ride my bike until this clears up FFS


Maybe this should have gone in the rants thread ;D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 March, 2011, 12:31:22 pm
Eating a school dinner.  Possibly one of the finest school dinners in the country, because this school cook is exceptionally good at her job which is why this is the only school I book a dinner in every time I'm here.  Fridays have advantages.
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Post by: Feline on 04 March, 2011, 12:38:33 pm
I'm now walking round the house in my SPD sandals, just making sure they are definitely the right size before I fit the cleats (they then can't be exchanged). They have remarkably comfortable souls to walk on. My foot size puts me right on the borderline between two Shimano sizes, so I opted for the smaller pair as this avoids toe overlap on my bikes better. They seem to fit well, and I don't suppose I am that likely to stub my big toe while cycling anyway. I think they are a keeper  :D
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Post by: Greenbank on 04 March, 2011, 12:41:24 pm
And so it has begun.

I'm reading 'Goodnight Moon' as it seems my daughter decided to put it in my commuting bag this morning when I wasn't looking.

Luckily there's another copy at home as it'll be needed before I'm back from work.
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Post by: her_welshness on 04 March, 2011, 12:43:25 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 March, 2011, 10:33:48 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 04 March, 2011, 10:31:59 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 March, 2011, 10:22:39 am
Champing at the bit.

How's the nasty S thing me dear?  :-*

Hurts less, but I've got a lot of numbness in my left buttock and leg. I could do with a good vigorous massage. Is that your line at all?  :D

 ;D Only meted out to teh husband, dearest. Seriously I recommend deep tissue massage. You will sleep for the next 12 hours afterwards, but its bloody brilliant.

Am currently listening to Absolute 80's and fantasizing about new bikes.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 04 March, 2011, 01:04:35 pm
I am drinking a Large Mug of Tea.
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Post by: Feline on 04 March, 2011, 01:42:54 pm
Haha I just had to answer my door wearing my SPD sandals, the person who came to collect the Bettaware catalog stared at my feet for a few seconds then said 'you do know you have a label hanging on those don't you?'. I replied 'yes I will take it off when I attach my cleats' and he rapidly retreated looking a bit weirded out.  ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 04 March, 2011, 01:46:28 pm
I'm in Pollock.

In my new shoes.
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Post by: Kim on 04 March, 2011, 03:20:25 pm
Quote from: Feline on 04 March, 2011, 12:38:33 pm
My foot size puts me right on the borderline between two Shimano sizes, so I opted for the smaller pair as this avoids toe overlap on my bikes better.

Interestingly, I'm also between sizes, and opted for the larger one because it gives plenty of room for socks  8) and to avoid toe-overlap while walking...

Make of that what you will.


PS. Hot-melt glue in the cleat bolt heads.  It works.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 March, 2011, 03:23:59 pm
Quote from: Feline on 04 March, 2011, 01:42:54 pm
Haha I just had to answer my door wearing my SPD sandals, the person who came to collect the Bettaware catalog stared at my feet for a few seconds then said 'you do know you have a label hanging on those don't you?'. I replied 'yes I will take it off when I attach my cleats' and he rapidly retreated looking a bit weirded out.  ;D

He may have thought that you said something else.  :P
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Post by: FatBloke on 04 March, 2011, 03:27:08 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 March, 2011, 03:20:25 pm
I'm also between sizes, and opted for the larger one because it gives plenty of room for socks  
    :o :o :o :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 04 March, 2011, 03:31:11 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 March, 2011, 03:20:25 pm
Quote from: Feline on 04 March, 2011, 12:38:33 pm
My foot size puts me right on the borderline between two Shimano sizes, so I opted for the smaller pair as this avoids toe overlap on my bikes better.

Interestingly, I'm also between sizes, and opted for the larger one because it gives plenty of room for socks  8) and to avoid toe-overlap while walking...

I opted for the larger size as feet tend to swell on long rides. What may seem comfy now may turn out to be horrible on day 2 of a 600km ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 04 March, 2011, 07:16:28 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 04 March, 2011, 03:31:11 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 March, 2011, 03:20:25 pm
Quote from: Feline on 04 March, 2011, 12:38:33 pm
My foot size puts me right on the borderline between two Shimano sizes, so I opted for the smaller pair as this avoids toe overlap on my bikes better.

Interestingly, I'm also between sizes, and opted for the larger one because it gives plenty of room for socks  8) and to avoid toe-overlap while walking...

I opted for the larger size as feet tend to swell on long rides. What may seem comfy now may turn out to be horrible on day 2 of a 600km ride.

I was wearing thick socks today while trying them out and they were a good fit. I am guessing by day 2 of a 600 I might not care what is on my feet!
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Post by: jogler on 04 March, 2011, 07:26:25 pm
Scoffing mrs. jogler's chocolate cake & then allowing a decent interval before trying the boiled fruit cake & then allowing a decent interval before taste testing the jam-oaty flapjacks :smug:
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 05 March, 2011, 12:32:20 am
Thinking of new and "Interesting" ways to send HUGE waves of discomfort to Wowbagger for mentioning Sciatica!

Absolute agony with it today and in both legs, lower back et al!  Could hardly walk and El Doktor tells me to rest and not exercise!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 March, 2011, 04:35:24 am
Trying very hard to digest a Stupid O'Clock breakfast before setting out for an audax.
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Post by: DrMekon on 05 March, 2011, 06:00:11 am
Been up with our 16 month old since 5am. Just heard our 5 year old wake up. Just putting the coffee on.
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Post by: TimO on 05 March, 2011, 06:53:36 am
Getting ready to go off and do the Cheam and Morden Silly 50. ;D
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Post by: jogler on 05 March, 2011, 07:10:25 am
Reving up my mind & body to goto work.Having trouble getting out of the door.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 March, 2011, 11:04:03 am
Contemplating breakfast, before heading out for a bike ride.  CrinklyCub reckons it's time for his first 'proper' ride of the year....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 March, 2011, 11:05:00 am
getting ready for a yacf assignation with an audax agenda
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Post by: Andrew Br on 05 March, 2011, 11:50:58 am
Quote from: Kim on 04 March, 2011, 03:20:25 pm



PS. Hot-melt glue in the cleat bolt heads.  It works.

It's worked for me (so far)  :thumbsup:

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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 March, 2011, 04:36:38 pm
Cafe stop. About halfway, so maybe 9 miles done. Lord, it's nippy when you're only going 6 or 7 mph on the flat! Hot chocolate and sticky toffee pudding seem to be going down well with the boy :)
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Post by: peliroja on 05 March, 2011, 04:45:22 pm
Having a very lazy day recovering from a stressful week.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 March, 2011, 05:09:32 pm
Driving down to our southern Scotland Audax HQ so pingu can do a 200 2moro & I can fart about & scoff cakes wiv my mum.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 March, 2011, 08:00:49 pm
Drinking coffee before setting off back home. Cub got a lift back, and his bike will be delivered back tomorrow. M'boy done good. Slow, but good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 March, 2011, 08:02:57 pm
About to jump in the shower, and noting that my dodgy knee is relatively non-painful compared to the rest of my body.  This is a very good thing.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 March, 2011, 08:05:06 pm
Wondering if I'm pregnant.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 March, 2011, 09:27:46 pm
Just finished packing Pcolbeck juniors case. He's off on a skiing trip with later tonight. 18kg allowance including hand luggage when you have to take a skiing helmet and everything but the skis and boots is not very much. I can remember going on the school skiing trip when I was his age (14) - time flies.
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Post by: L CC on 05 March, 2011, 09:31:02 pm
Waiting for chips
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 March, 2011, 01:02:50 pm
Making a chocolate ganache log, then two types of soup and some bread. And maybe a rhubarb crumble.
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Post by: peliroja on 06 March, 2011, 01:20:18 pm
Trying to locate my get up and go.
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Post by: Chris S on 06 March, 2011, 02:01:07 pm
Contemplating a spin on the turbo, having completed some DIY.
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Post by: L CC on 06 March, 2011, 02:05:39 pm
Stalking.

 ::-)
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Post by: peliroja on 06 March, 2011, 02:22:40 pm
Wasting a Sunday.
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Post by: Chris S on 06 March, 2011, 09:21:30 pm
I'm angry. F*cking angry.

There.

Now you know.  >:(
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Post by: jogler on 07 March, 2011, 07:29:41 am
^^^
is this related to Deano's pictures ? :demon:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 March, 2011, 07:49:27 am
Feeling a bit dodgy.  Hope that this isn't another bug.  Ah, the joy of working with germ bombs....
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 March, 2011, 07:59:29 am
Falling in love. Maybe.  ;D
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Post by: Chris S on 07 March, 2011, 08:11:43 am
Quote from: jogler on 07 March, 2011, 07:29:41 am
^^^
is this related to Deano's pictures ? :demon:

:)
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Post by: jogler on 07 March, 2011, 02:30:22 pm
I'm wondering why I feel so tired:in fact I feel utterley exhausted.
I realise that the cold/virus/whatever that I had last week has weakened me to the degree that I couldn't ride up two hills on Saturday that I've slayed on previous rides but I've worked only half a day today & am absolutely cream crackered.I feel like I could sleep for England despite having the best two consecutive night's sleep I've had for many many months.

ETA & I had a very very chilled-out lazy day yesterday

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Post by: Feline on 07 March, 2011, 02:38:06 pm
I am going to mow my lawn ... well what's left of it anyway. The dogs have really taken their toll on it over the wetter weather.

My dogs are young and frisky and they seem to always chase each other around the garden following the exact same circuit. I am going to insert a secret chain link fence barrier in the bushes to disrupt their main race track through my border  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 07 March, 2011, 03:48:48 pm
I am sitting in Edinburgh Airport killing time and waiting for a flight to Paris, then overnight to Cape Town. Any YACFers in the departure lounge, I am next to Caffe Nero.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 07 March, 2011, 07:04:25 pm
Jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
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Post by: jogler on 07 March, 2011, 07:20:23 pm
eating cake
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Post by: Dinamo on 07 March, 2011, 08:10:42 pm
watching University Challenge......
..........trying to answer a question  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 07 March, 2011, 08:12:33 pm
Quote from: Dinamo on 07 March, 2011, 08:10:42 pm
watching University Challenge......
..........trying to answer a question  ???

Got one  :thumbsup: correctly identified the opening line from War Of The Worlds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 March, 2011, 08:39:59 am
Considering the many unpleasant aspects of insomnia  :(

<--- Riding a bike 400km appears to be one cure  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 08 March, 2011, 11:01:42 am
Waiting for the kettle to boil for a cup of tea, before heading back out to the garden to continue giving my Dawes Horizon a strip down and rebuild!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 08 March, 2011, 02:05:10 pm
Ironing. It hasn't changed much in the last few years that I have managed to mostly avoid this form of torture. It still sucks and I shan't be doing it again in a hurry.
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Post by: Jaded on 08 March, 2011, 02:11:13 pm
Prevaricating before going out for a spin.
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Post by: LindaG on 08 March, 2011, 02:12:49 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 08 March, 2011, 02:05:10 pm
Ironing. It hasn't changed much in the last few years that I have managed to mostly avoid this form of torture. It still sucks and I shan't be doing it again in a hurry.

Indeed.  I ironed TWO PAIRS OF TROUSERS myself this morning.

Must be spring.
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Post by: her_welshness on 08 March, 2011, 02:18:54 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 08 March, 2011, 02:12:49 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 08 March, 2011, 02:05:10 pm
Ironing. It hasn't changed much in the last few years that I have managed to mostly avoid this form of torture. It still sucks and I shan't be doing it again in a hurry.

Indeed.  I ironed TWO PAIRS OF TROUSERS myself this morning.

Must be spring.

Don't do ironing and I am one of a growing number of ladies from my generation who have stopped. The husband still does though  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2011, 02:27:20 pm
Thinking about my buttock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 08 March, 2011, 02:42:16 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2011, 02:27:20 pm
Thinking about my buttock.

Thinking about Wow's buttock.
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Post by: Chris S on 08 March, 2011, 02:46:21 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 08 March, 2011, 02:42:16 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2011, 02:27:20 pm
Thinking about my buttock.

Thinking about Wow's buttock.

Thinking about Pippa thinking about Wow's buttock.
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Post by: jogler on 08 March, 2011, 03:15:25 pm
Enjoying a post-ride scoffstop chez jogler's cafe.Coffee & Marj-made oatyjammyflapjack things.
FTW

ETA & a door-step slice of boiled fruit cake
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Post by: BrianI on 08 March, 2011, 03:41:11 pm
running a bath
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Post by: clarion on 08 March, 2011, 03:57:08 pm
Referring an agreement I've been asked to sign to the ICO. >:(
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Post by: αdαmsκι on 08 March, 2011, 04:37:13 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 08 March, 2011, 02:05:10 pm
Ironing. It hasn't changed much in the last few years that I have managed to mostly avoid this form of torture. It still sucks and I shan't be doing it again in a hurry.

As you're there, could you do all the shirts I need for work please? :-* :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 08 March, 2011, 04:38:34 pm
Just calming down after using my mediation skills intensively.

Again.
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Post by: welshwheels on 08 March, 2011, 06:27:56 pm
watching paris / nice highlights
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Post by: her_welshness on 08 March, 2011, 06:35:34 pm
listening to 80's music and counting down the minutes til I finish work.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 08 March, 2011, 06:42:17 pm
Off to a IbikeMCR (I bike Manchester) meeting @ the Las O Gowrie pub to put forward a 100km bike ride in the Peak District for the festival. I wanna get them hippy's doing some real cycling !
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Post by: BrianI on 08 March, 2011, 07:26:47 pm
Encoding some Vangelis CDs to MP3 on my 'puter, and trying to scrape horribly fuzzy felt from the interior of a 1/24th scale model I'm working on.
Fuzzy felt bad, embossing powder good for fake 1/24th scale  interior carpet.
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 08 March, 2011, 07:27:06 pm
Watching PM Dave on The One Show - he's doing not bad.
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Post by: Feline on 08 March, 2011, 09:08:47 pm
Trying to avoid breathing in because my daughter is coughing and sneezing next to me and I don't want her lurgy  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 08 March, 2011, 09:18:09 pm
Trying too decide if I'm up to a diy 200 tomorrow after a week of ear infections and strong tablets, or whether attempting it will juat add to my tally of DNFRTY :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 March, 2011, 09:19:49 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 March, 2011, 03:15:25 pm
Enjoying a post-ride scoffstop chez jogler's cafe.Coffee & Marj-made oatyjammyflapjack things.
FTW

ETA & a door-step slice of boiled fruit cake

doing an action replay :smug:

we need a smiley for "fatgit"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Speshact on 08 March, 2011, 09:21:13 pm
slicing the flexible top off 225 fluorescent straws and then cutting a slit along the side of each one to make 225 spoke decorations for a kids cycle project next week.

The project appears popular, so I may have to buy another box of 225 straws and attack them with my swiss army penknife too.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 March, 2011, 09:28:31 pm
Wondering if I should tell someone something that might worry and upset them, even though I would be telling them to let them know that there is nothing to be worried or upset about. So maybe I should just say nothing because they'll never know.
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Post by: cyclone on 08 March, 2011, 09:32:21 pm
Stuffing cake into my mouth before returning to battle with the pedal on the the vile Tonka toy - it was so nice to fly along on the Mercian today in comparison.... :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 March, 2011, 09:34:01 pm
                   Decided to bunk off work while the sun is shining.
...

I've caught up with paperwork this evening after dark.One of the seemingly few advantages of self employment is being able to adopt a selfish flexi-time working schedule
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 March, 2011, 09:37:28 pm
wrestling with nationalrail.co.uk

It would appear that I may be able to get to Manchester for 7 quid.  And back from Blackpool for 12 quid - which completely removes my somewhat flimsy justification for riding home  :demon: 

But will I get bike bookings? 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 March, 2011, 09:37:46 pm
Nursing a heatsink (well, lack thereof) burn on my thumb and index finger.  Pesky linear regulators.   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 08 March, 2011, 09:40:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 08 March, 2011, 09:37:46 pm
Nursing a heatsink (well, lack thereof) burn on my thumb and index finger.  Pesky linear regulators.   :facepalm:

My last soldering iron burn is only just healing over ... must be time to solder something else!
Is it possibly to burn myself on my new hot melt glue gun I wonder?  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 08 March, 2011, 09:52:06 pm
Watching Edge of Darkness. No, not that shit Mel Gibson bollox, the Real One with Bob Peck and Joe Don Baker.

Also

Looking at a streetmap of Mansfield.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 09 March, 2011, 03:17:44 am
Sitting in an airport hotel at allegedly 5.15 but in reality my body clock is still at 3.15 having had nowhere near enough sleep in the last 48 hours. I have managed to devour an apple and a coffee - and the very nice chap setting up breakfast (opens at 6, my flight is at 7) is running me up some toast or something.

Pretty much time to log off and finish the packing. One more flight till Cape Town, then I can just worry about being rather too unfit and the impending strong winds and hot weather.
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Post by: peliroja on 09 March, 2011, 07:39:15 am
On the turbo before work. I'm going to be late. I worked until past ten last night, so never mind.
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Post by: Tewdric on 09 March, 2011, 07:42:50 am
Quote from: Feline on 08 March, 2011, 09:40:14 pm
Is it possibly to burn myself on my new hot melt glue gun I wonder?  :demon:

Yes, there's lots of scope.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 March, 2011, 08:25:24 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 08 March, 2011, 02:18:54 pm
Don't do ironing and I am one of a growing number of ladies from my generation who have stopped. The husband still does though  :thumbsup:

I don't do much ironing, but when I was married I did far more than my wife did! (and it was as likely to be her clothes as mine that I was ironing).

When I'm visiting my parents, if I need to look respectable I'm far more likely to get the iron out and tidy up a packed shirt than let my mother do it.

I'll occasionally iron stuff like shirts, generally when I need it to be tidy, for something significant like a job interview, wedding or funeral.  Likewise, but even less often for a suit, although that will generally survives being packed and carried better than a shirt does.

It's been months since I last got the ironing board out however, one of the advantages of working in academia. :thumbsup:
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Post by: numbnuts on 09 March, 2011, 08:52:48 am
waiting to go to the Ash Wedensday church service  O:-)
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Post by: mike on 09 March, 2011, 09:38:02 am
applying to the UK border agency for work permits for our offshore teams.  I love filling in forms, me.
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Post by: jogler on 09 March, 2011, 10:22:14 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 March, 2011, 09:19:49 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 March, 2011, 03:15:25 pm
Enjoying a post-ride scoffstop chez jogler's cafe.Coffee & Marj-made oatyjammyflapjack things.
FTW

ETA & a door-step slice of boiled fruit cake

doing an action replay :smug:

we need a smiley for "fatgit"

another action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 09 March, 2011, 10:45:27 pm
About to step out into the night and the whispering breezes, to rendezvous with Simon L at HPC and do a recce for the Southend FNRttC.

G'night all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 March, 2011, 10:58:50 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 09 March, 2011, 10:45:27 pm
About to step out into the night and the whispering breezes, to rendezvous with Simon L at HPC and do a recce for the Southend FNRttC.

G'night all.

Have a great ride  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 09 March, 2011, 11:00:20 pm
Being quiet upstairs so as not to disturb the book club.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 March, 2011, 11:07:21 pm
I just gave my daughter her laptop back after a month of confiscation. I seriously hope I don't live to regret this  (http://planetsmilies.net/confused-smiley-17490.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 09 March, 2011, 11:09:00 pm
What's the worst she can do with it?

I'm about to go to bed. Teeth cleaned.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 March, 2011, 11:13:29 pm
Quote from: Bledlow on 09 March, 2011, 11:09:00 pm
What's the worst she can do with it?

I'm about to go to bed. Teeth cleaned.

She can start cybering her 16 year old BF (she is 13) via web cam on MSN  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 10 March, 2011, 02:10:02 am
Quote from: Feline on 09 March, 2011, 10:58:50 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 09 March, 2011, 10:45:27 pm
About to step out into the night and the whispering breezes, to rendezvous with Simon L at HPC and do a recce for the Southend FNRttC.

G'night all.

Have a great ride  :D

It was a sharp crack, like a rifle shot which rang out as we descended from Bow flyover, apace.
Only it wasn't a rifle shot - but one of the spokes in Simon's rear wheel, thereby reducing the number of remaining useable spokes by half1, and rendering the wheel no-more-turney-tonight.

So, I'm back home drinking tea and eating the cheese and ham roll I had planned to eat somewhere out in Essex.
Simon and the Colnago are in a taxi, bound for the soft underbelly of south London.

Shame, 'cos it's a lovely clear night, and with the tailwind we would probably have made Southend before the first trains to London.  :(

1: There may be traces of exaggeration in this sentence.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 March, 2011, 06:22:51 am
Lying in bed, listening to the wind howling outside and trying to summon  the energy and enthusiasm to crawl out of my pit and go tackle the day and the commute. It does not sound like ideal cycling weather out there!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 March, 2011, 06:26:23 am
Wishing I could find a way of removing the blades from my back, buttock and thigh and wishing that my bowels and bladder would do as they are told.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 March, 2011, 06:48:07 am
Quote from: Jurek on 10 March, 2011, 02:10:02 am
Quote from: Feline on 09 March, 2011, 10:58:50 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 09 March, 2011, 10:45:27 pm
About to step out into the night and the whispering breezes, to rendezvous with Simon L at HPC and do a recce for the Southend FNRttC.

G'night all.

Have a great ride  :D

It was a sharp crack, like a rifle shot which rang out as we descended from Bow flyover, apace.
Only it wasn't a rifle shot - but one of the spokes in Simon's rear wheel, thereby reducing the number of remaining useable spokes by half1, and rendering the wheel no-more-turney-tonight.

So, I'm back home drinking tea and eating the cheese and ham roll I had planned to eat somewhere out in Essex.
Simon and the Colnago are in a taxi, bound for the soft underbelly of south London.

Shame, 'cos it's a lovely clear night, and with the tailwind we would probably have made Southend before the first trains to London.  :(

1: There may be traces of exaggeration in this sentence.

Great shame, Jurek. I had considered inviting you both for a cuppa / breakfast at the end of your ride. If you have time for another go, let me know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 10 March, 2011, 09:01:43 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 10 March, 2011, 06:48:07 am
I had considered inviting you both for a cuppa / breakfast at the end of your ride. If you have time for another go, let me know.

Thanks Wow, that's most kind.

There is a loose plan for another go, but as you say,  time is starting to get a bit thin, it may well turn out to be a short notice jobbie - or not at all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 March, 2011, 09:27:46 am
36 is the proper number for spokes.  32 the absolute minimum ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 10 March, 2011, 09:30:13 am
Quote from: clarion on 10 March, 2011, 09:27:46 am
36 is the proper number for spokes.  32 the absolute minimum ;D

I think we both have an idea of how many spokes there aren't in the wheel in question  ;).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 March, 2011, 09:39:33 am
;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 10 March, 2011, 11:06:52 am
Quote from: Feline on 09 March, 2011, 11:13:29 pm
Quote from: Bledlow on 09 March, 2011, 11:09:00 pm
What's the worst she can do with it?

I'm about to go to bed. Teeth cleaned.

She can start cybering her 16 year old BF (she is 13) via web cam on MSN  :facepalm:
Ah. I see the potential problems. You have my sympathy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 March, 2011, 11:39:02 am
I'm scoffing the last jammy-oaty flapjack-thingy :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 10 March, 2011, 11:41:05 am
Quote from: clarion on 10 March, 2011, 09:27:46 am
36 is the proper number for spokes.  32 the absolute minimum ;D

So you can't have an uneven number of spokes then...?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 March, 2011, 11:45:52 am
I prefer not to.  The rear 'wheel' I got with my Ridgeback had different ideas...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 10 March, 2011, 09:14:30 pm
Putting off packing for the weekend. Because I really don't like packing. One bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 March, 2011, 10:24:33 am
Watching news feeds from Japan and counting my blessings.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 11 March, 2011, 10:30:44 am
Quote from: Chris S on 11 March, 2011, 10:24:33 am
Watching news feeds from Japan and counting my blessings.
This.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 11 March, 2011, 10:37:01 am
Wondering how many have been washed away in Japan.

Feeling rough.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 March, 2011, 10:50:47 am
I too have seen the footage from Japan.This sort of thing puts a different perspective on one's own problems issues,dont'ya think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 March, 2011, 11:01:08 am
Eating a vanilla slice in celebration of having actually achieved something this morning. I'm very sticky now.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 March, 2011, 11:04:46 am
*refrains from comment* :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 11 March, 2011, 11:05:49 am
Quote from: mike on 09 March, 2011, 09:38:02 am
applying to the UK border agency for work permits for our offshore teams.  I love filling in forms, me.

Spare a thought for the many who have lost their livelihoods to offshoring.    :( :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 March, 2011, 11:28:12 am
Quote from: clarion on 10 March, 2011, 09:27:46 am
36 is the proper number for spokes.  32 the absolute minimum ;D

I think I have that many on the Ridley....

What's that? you mean per wheel oh.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 March, 2011, 11:37:58 pm
Baking.  This will come as no surprise to many on here....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clandy on 11 March, 2011, 11:45:21 pm
Wishing I'd bought a bottle of Famous Grouse instead of a half bottle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 11 March, 2011, 11:46:14 pm
Setting my alarm for 5.20am and wondering why I'm still up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 March, 2011, 12:09:59 am
Deliberating.

Hmmm.... chocolate and bananananananana done, although I still need to do the filling.  12" square Mildenhall cake is currently cooling under the lemon drizzle icing.  Coffee cake is in the oven.  I've got one solitary Kim-friendly St Clements cake in the freezer.

Chocolate cake?

Flapjack?

Chocolate fridge cake?

What shall I do next....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 12 March, 2011, 12:13:48 am
Quote from: Greenbank on 11 March, 2011, 11:46:14 pm
Setting my alarm for 5.20am and wondering why I'm still up.

Snap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 12 March, 2011, 12:16:24 am
Quote from: Clandy on 11 March, 2011, 11:45:21 pm
Wishing I'd bought a bottle of Famous Grouse instead of a half bottle.

Ah.  I know that feeling.  Have you tried Black Grouse yet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clandy on 12 March, 2011, 12:18:05 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 12 March, 2011, 12:16:24 am
Quote from: Clandy on 11 March, 2011, 11:45:21 pm
Wishing I'd bought a bottle of Famous Grouse instead of a half bottle.

Ah.  I know that feeling.  Have you tried Black Grouse yet?

I have to buy half a bottle on a Friday night or I won't have a Saturday, regardless of which label is on the bottle. ;) My current preference is Monkey Shoulder, but it doesn't come in half bottles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 12 March, 2011, 08:58:40 am
Looking at snow falling - I'm glad I haven't got a bike ride planned for today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 12 March, 2011, 09:11:41 am
Just finished breakfast.  Off to the allotment in a minute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 March, 2011, 09:22:03 am
Preparing a bolasagne.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 12 March, 2011, 10:41:29 am
Settling in for a day of carpal disaster otaku, with post-quake imagery and map tools and coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 March, 2011, 10:48:43 am
Working.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 March, 2011, 10:59:45 am
Feeling like poo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 March, 2011, 11:21:38 am
Waiting for Mrs B to get out of the shower.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 14 March, 2011, 03:14:58 am
Worrying.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 14 March, 2011, 03:45:07 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 14 March, 2011, 03:14:58 am
Worrying.

About what?

Drink a cheap red.  After wasting most of the day am awake now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kathy on 14 March, 2011, 06:38:02 am
Sneezing, again.

Either I've had a cold for the last three weeks; my hayfever has begun early; or I've developed an allergy to the cats.  >:( :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 March, 2011, 07:44:28 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 14 March, 2011, 03:14:58 am
Worrying.
Me too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 March, 2011, 07:47:50 am
Hoping that the worriers worries have calmed.

And thinking that I have a spot of conjunctivitis to go with the bit of a cold that developed over the weekend, and that this is very irritating.

And that I should go and make the EldestCub's packup, and get the pair of them ready for school.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 14 March, 2011, 07:51:44 am
waiting for the gp surgery to open so I can get an appointment for my rash covered, vomiting son.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 14 March, 2011, 07:58:39 am
Missing my Dawes Horizon.  Frame and fork in lbs getting a new headset.  My bike shed seems to empty with only one bike in it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 March, 2011, 11:07:28 am
Faffing.  My meeting (on my day off) was cancelled but it's not worth going home because I'd only have to turn round and come back to collect the SmallestCub.  I could do some more work, while I'm here, but don't feel like it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 March, 2011, 11:19:00 am
Trying to decide which bike to use for a 300km audax which I expect to be max. value for £  time-wise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 March, 2011, 01:31:11 pm
I'm sitting here feeling knackered after 3 night shifts trying to decide what to do first, take the dogs out on  bike ride, clean the 3 dirty bikes, or fettle my pond electrics and filter to turn them on now it's warming up and the water is starting to green. my Koi carp are hungry and I can't feed them until their filtration is on.

I'm so undecided what to do first I am in danger of doing none of them and falling asleep!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 March, 2011, 03:33:49 pm
sleep
bike ride with dogs
pond filter etc
clean bikes
hth
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 14 March, 2011, 03:44:32 pm
110mph.  (Estimated, becos GPS doesn't work aboard Meridianae.)

This makes up for the time spent, watching the ducks, stationary on the bridge over the Trent on the southbound journey, waiting for a late-running Nottingham train to call at East Midlands Waste-of-Greenbelt-Shadow-of-Powerstation Parkway.

Best bit is that I get back to Derby at my work finish time, so I can go straight home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 March, 2011, 06:44:10 pm
Inspired by the above post I am digging up some gps tracks for the GPS board. Watch this space. Or that space, actually.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 March, 2011, 06:45:58 pm
Fiddling with brakes.

The hydraulic disc brakes on the Bat Bike[tm] to be more precise - practicing fitting new pads etc. as I'm a complete newbie when it comes to disc brakes on bikes. To my delight, it seems to be far less of a faff than adjusting V-brakes (or, worse still, cantis)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 March, 2011, 06:52:50 pm
Quote from: jogler on 14 March, 2011, 03:33:49 pm
sleep
bike ride with dogs
pond filter etc
clean bikes
hth


Well, I managed some but not all of the above! Didn't sleep (yet).

Did the bike ride with the dogs first and then fettled the pond electrics. Took longer than I had planned because I decided to fit a permanent passive RCD (these don't trip in a power cut so the filters come back on again with the power unlike those cheap plug in jobbies), then I opened up the junction box at the end of my armoured cable and it was pretty damp and corroded in there so I replaced the whole thing and all the cable glands. Having never fitted an armoured cable gland before I hadn't got much clue what I was doing. Then assembled the filter and plugged everything in. Garden lights working fine, UV light working fine, waterfall pump working fine, but unfortunately main big-bastard pump that supplies the filter isn't working :( This is bad news since big-bastard pump is worth a few hundred quid and is probably out of guarantee. It's getting dark now so I will fish out it's receipt tonight and take it to the water garden centre at Blagdon this week to see if it can be repaired.

Ran out of daylight to clean the bikes in the end. Oh well, I will lube my Sabbath chain and clean it properly after I ride it tomorrow  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Baggy on 14 March, 2011, 06:57:43 pm
I'm failing to do the hoovering.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 March, 2011, 08:11:43 pm
Big fat nothing. Thinking about going to bed soon. Offshore..... so it's that, or the joys of $kyN3w$, or possibly more likely at this time of night, all the big burly blokes will be watching Corrie, or some other carp. Still, hopefully I won't have a cabin mate after tomorrow night so I might be able to choose what shite to watch in private.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 March, 2011, 08:31:25 pm
Feeling like I've ridden an audax.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 March, 2011, 08:35:48 pm
Carp! I drank 2 glasses of wine while cooking and eating my dinner (bacon and asparagus linguini a la Jamie Oliver) and because I haven't slept in 30 hours orso (coz of working) I am now majorly trashed. Carp, I need to get up early tm to go on a bike ride!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 March, 2011, 08:37:23 pm
Quote from: Kim on 14 March, 2011, 08:31:25 pm
Feeling like I've ridden an audax.

In what way?  I'm quite intrigued.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 March, 2011, 08:52:03 pm
Every muscle in my legs is aching, and I could do with about 15 hours more sleep.  And I don't want to go near a bike for at least a month.

I suspect this will last until tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 14 March, 2011, 09:04:10 pm
Nobikerideguilt!  :(

Junk food run.  Need simple sugars to work the geekbrain.   :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 March, 2011, 11:09:20 pm
I am thinking that this evening has been less painful than recent ones. I am hoping that I will be able to lie in bed tonight for periods longer that 15 minutes before having to get out and stomp around in extreme pain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 March, 2011, 11:24:08 pm
Contemplating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 14 March, 2011, 11:26:15 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 March, 2011, 11:09:20 pm
I am thinking that this evening has been less painful than recent ones. I am hoping that I will be able to lie in bed tonight for periods longer that 15 minutes before having to get out and stomp around in extreme pain.

Wishing you well.  And thinking of your great ride report on the "Dunnockshaw Trail".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 14 March, 2011, 11:33:35 pm
Hope you are better soon Wowbagger.

I'm working. 'Till Wednesday night when I have an interview. At 8pm  >:(. I want to be at home now, not 10pm on Wednesday :(. Still, the overtime will help the imminent redundancy be less painful. Especially if the job is suitable :-\.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 March, 2011, 11:59:15 pm
I just got home, before midnight, because I lost track of time and luckily realised that I needed to leave work before tubes, trains and suchlike stopped working.

If I'd cycled in, instead of cheating and using public transport, so I could experiment with the Kindle, I would have stayed in and finished off some other stuff that doesn't essentially need to be done tonight.  So I'd probably have spent another hour or two coding, and ended up back here at 1-30am or worse.

Cycling to work can be a bit of a disadvantage, because I know I can always get home, no matter how late I leave.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 15 March, 2011, 12:04:42 am
Quote from: TimO on 14 March, 2011, 11:59:15 pm
I just got home, before midnight, because I lost track of time and luckily realised that I needed to leave work before tubes, trains and suchlike stopped working.

If I'd cycled in, instead of cheating and using public transport, so I could experiment with the Kindle, I would have stayed in and finished off some other stuff that doesn't essentially need to be done tonight.  So I'd probably have spent another hour or two coding, and ended up back here at 1-30am or worse.

Cycling to work can be a bit of a disadvantage, because I know I can always get home, no matter how late I leave.

You need to write a script VIA which Talisker can tell you it's home time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 15 March, 2011, 12:12:01 am
Quote from: Adrian on 15 March, 2011, 12:04:42 am
You need to write a script VIA which Talisker can tell you it's home time.

I don't need a script, I just need a mike fed through the ADSL link to a speaker at work.  The "Feed Me" meowing would soon drive me home. ;D

Alternatively I could just learn to read clocks, after all I have to glance at the edge of the screen to see one, several inches from where I'm probably looking, it's a lot of work. :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 15 March, 2011, 12:21:40 am
Still a bit stiff.

Amazing what a few miles in the rain at the end of a long ride can do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 15 March, 2011, 07:55:27 am
Waiting for a parcel delivery (no bike stuff, but a new hard drive, 120mm fan filter and a tin of compressed air for disposing of the dust bunnies in the case)

11am, still waiting.  Daren't go for a poo in case the courier stealthily chaps on the door and runs away meaning I'll need a 30 mile round trip to collect from their depot....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 15 March, 2011, 09:30:21 am
I'm just off to a funeral  :'( 2nd one this year
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 15 March, 2011, 10:59:54 am
Quote from: numbnuts on 15 March, 2011, 09:30:21 am
I'm just off to a funeral  :'( 2nd one this year

Funeral's do tend to suck, especially when all the so called "friends and relatives of the deceased" crawl out from the woodwork.  Then the friends of the deceased sod off to their bowling club match rather than attend the buffet the deceased family had arranged..... ::-)

Hopefully that'll be the last one of the year for you numbnuts.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 March, 2011, 12:52:41 pm
Being harassed by barakta ... on a telephone!   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 March, 2011, 10:12:57 pm
Getting an early night. Today has been great, but ultimately, I failed to live up to it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 15 March, 2011, 10:18:04 pm
Laying in bed with Alan Partridge*, a mug of camomile tea and my Desire HD.

* Radio 7
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 March, 2011, 10:20:12 pm
Pondering my current project in my silver class.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 15 March, 2011, 10:49:30 pm
About to set out to meet with Simon L and Anrij for another spot of FNRttC recce'ing.
Hopefully this'll be a more successful trip than the last one (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10706.msg881039#msg881039).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 March, 2011, 10:57:01 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 15 March, 2011, 10:49:30 pm
About to set out to meet with Simon L and Anrij for another spot of FNRttC recce'ing.
Hopefully this'll be a more successful trip than the last one (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10706.msg881039#msg881039).

Sadly, we won't be able to offer hospitality tomorrow. Each of us has a  separate engagement le matin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 16 March, 2011, 03:14:10 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 15 March, 2011, 10:57:01 pm
Sadly, we won't be able to offer hospitality tomorrow. Each of us has a  separate engagement le matin.

No worries, thanks for the thought anyway.
It wasn't a full recce - just to Romford and back, to have a look at some traffic lights. Yes, the excitement of these night rides knows no bounds.  ::-)
47 miles, nonetheless.  
Which on top of today's err.... yesterday's 39 means I think I am entitled to a small glass of beer whilst I wait for the oven to pre-heat, prior to my sticking some fish fingers in it. Nom :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 March, 2011, 07:02:34 am
Listening to the weather forecast in preparation for leaving very early for my weekly walk to work.
(Funny how rain doesn't cause me a problem when riding, but I don't want to walk in it) 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 16 March, 2011, 07:22:52 am
Waiting to accompany Ms Manotea the younger on a university visit. The last of the Darlings will be flying the nest this Autumn, though I suspect the first of the Darlings may well return.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 March, 2011, 08:13:32 am
They never really leave Manotea.Mrs. jogler has a fridge magnet which says...
A mother holds her child's hand for a while.
She holds the heart for ever.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 March, 2011, 03:39:20 pm
Smirking
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 16 March, 2011, 11:34:52 pm
I'm sitting here hoping I haven't got any GT85 on my rims. The route I just created on Bikehike for tomorrow has 4000 feet of climbing in 50 miles so I might need my brakes  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 March, 2011, 11:43:06 pm
You don't need brakes for climbing  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 March, 2011, 11:44:00 pm
Quote from: Kim on 16 March, 2011, 11:43:06 pm
You don't need brakes for climbing  :P

You do if you get tired slow down, stop and then start rolling backwards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 17 March, 2011, 12:35:07 am
The thought of descending either Dundry hill, Hinton Blewett hill or Cheddar Gorge tomorrow brakeless scared me sufficiently to go and replace my Shimano pads with the new Kool Stop salmons I had lined up to go on next. The brakes certainly feel nice and nippy now while testing them in my lounge  ;D

I must stop this midnight fettling I have a habit of doing!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 March, 2011, 01:29:40 am
I think it was about midnight when CrinklyLion and I started fettling bikes at the weekend...

(I'm currently not fettling my dynamo charger, because running the wheel up to speed in a truing stand with a power drill isn't the sort of thing the neighbours would appreciate at this time of night.  Especially when the rectifier goes on stream and the whole lot vibrates like a bastard for a second or two.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 March, 2011, 01:48:43 am
Doing visios of data centre designs. I am so slow at visio ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 17 March, 2011, 03:51:29 am
Failing to sleep. Trying not to wake Kim by wriiggling and distracting myself with YACF on N800 old bggy pda.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 March, 2011, 08:18:52 am
Pondering ideas on making a new computer / scale modelling desk with more room for modelling on.......  Gosh aren't IKEA desks expensive.  Surely length of mdf, a router (the woodworking kind,  not the network kind), and some screw on tables legs should do the trick.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 March, 2011, 09:11:04 am
Running late after a sleepless night, and considering breakfast options.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 17 March, 2011, 09:12:53 am
Quote from: Feline on 17 March, 2011, 12:35:07 am
The thought of descending either Dundry hill, Hinton Blewett hill or Cheddar Gorge tomorrow brakeless scared me sufficiently to go and replace my Shimano pads with the new Kool Stop salmons I had lined up to go on next. The brakes certainly feel nice and nippy now while testing them in my lounge  ;D

I must stop this midnight fettling I have a habit of doing!

Feline Towers must be heeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge if the lounge is big enough to get a bike up to brake testing speed :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 March, 2011, 11:29:19 am
I'm forcing my brain to accept that POETS day won't happen this week due to the need to settle down to a marathon estimating/quoting session due to receiving one of those fire-brigade type phone calls yesterday.
One phone can really f**kup one's weekend & rest of the month plans. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 18 March, 2011, 11:37:06 am
Thinking about advanced driving courses.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 March, 2011, 11:44:00 am
Waiting for the pharmacist to get my eye ointment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Redlight on 18 March, 2011, 11:48:59 am
...feeling a sense of irritation that four months after kicking off a web site redesign process with a discussion about branding with our chief executive, at which he rejected my proposal to review our rather stale branding and ruled that I could update the web site but should not touch the branding, I have just come out of yet another meeting, at which he spent an hour nit picking about the font size on the umpteenth iteration of the new web site design, with an instruction to.... set up a project to review the branding, with the web site recamp on hold until that exercise is completed.

AAArgh.

I take comfort in the fact taht I am paid a decent wodge to put up with blithering indecision
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 18 March, 2011, 01:02:40 pm
Eating cheese butties on the topmost Crinkle of Crinkle Crags :-)  No sign of any Lions...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 18 March, 2011, 01:07:18 pm
Re-hydrating after a night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 18 March, 2011, 02:49:28 pm
Just handed in an application for a senior post within my institution. More everything clenched than fingers crossed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 March, 2011, 03:45:03 pm
Sitting at my desk feeling a bit "wrung out" after three interminable hours of tele-conferences with the dullest people In The World.

I thought nuclear physicists would be interesting to listen to. But they're really not.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 March, 2011, 04:24:59 pm
Sitting in the optician's waiting room. Waiting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 18 March, 2011, 05:22:27 pm
Quote from: billplumtree on 18 March, 2011, 01:02:40 pm
Eating cheese butties on the topmost Crinkle of Crinkle Crags :-)  No sign of any Lions...

GIT.

(I'm still at work)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 March, 2011, 05:40:10 pm
I'm wondering why Nick Crane carries that umbrella everywhere but never uses it,even in the persisting rain ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 March, 2011, 06:17:19 pm
Quote from: billplumtree on 18 March, 2011, 01:02:40 pm
Eating cheese butties on the topmost Crinkle of Crinkle Crags :-)  No sign of any Lions...

That made me snort most unattractively with laughter.  And then go and look up Crinkle Crags, and even though they appear to be on the Wrong Side of those hills, I have to agree with Deano.

GIT.

(hope it was a nice day)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 18 March, 2011, 06:40:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 18 March, 2011, 05:40:10 pm
I'm wondering why Nick Crane carries that umbrella everywhere but never uses it,even in the persisting rain ::-)
He doesn't use it (on telly) because it interferes with the sound recording. 

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 March, 2011, 06:40:55 pm
Drinking my first bottle of Betty Stogs for many months, and waiting for a curry to thicken up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 March, 2011, 06:44:43 pm
Watching The News and really wishing I wasn't. Where's the remote?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 18 March, 2011, 06:48:00 pm
Just finished Delia's spicy chicken with rice-n' red peppers and a brace of salads and am about to get my head down pre FNRttC.
The moon looks stonking out there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 18 March, 2011, 07:52:22 pm
Trying to guess where my boss has hidden the TV remote >:(. I'm beginning to think he's taken it out with him.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 18 March, 2011, 11:59:51 pm
Adding waypoints and making routes using the routesheet and tracks for the End of Hibernation this sunday. Had the door closed and didn't hear the baby crying. MsM has made it very clear that I have lost some brownie points.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 19 March, 2011, 02:48:27 am
Sitting in the rain waiting for Oppy (Fleche Opperman) team to arrive so I can feed them lots quickly to assist in their quest to ride 507 kms in 24 hours
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 19 March, 2011, 02:52:30 am
Quote from: SandyV on 19 March, 2011, 02:48:27 am
Sitting in the rain waiting for Oppy (Fleche Opperman) team to arrive so I can feed them lots quickly to assist in their quest to ride 507 kms in 24 hours

Hi. I'm guessing it's a route with long straight roads ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 19 March, 2011, 04:18:10 am
failing to feel sleepy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 March, 2011, 05:40:25 am
Try feeling one of the remaining sicks dwarfs ;D
you might yet get lucky :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 March, 2011, 05:20:58 pm
Transferring all the songs bobb has written for me to my mp3 player so I can listen to them on the train down to that London next weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 March, 2011, 09:46:50 am
Enjoying the Schadenfreude of watching those with major hangovers being tormented by those with minor hangovers who are cooking a monumental fry-up.

Yup - it's the second weekend of partying in the S household, and there are some grey and shiny faces in the kitchen this morning, ho yuss!  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 20 March, 2011, 09:57:01 am
Watching a pair of bullfinches on the patio just in front of me.  This new house has been a bit of a disaster in terms of fitness.  In the old house in order to enjoy the day we had to get out and about, in the new one we can happily sit and vegetate all day watching the activity in the garden.  Over breakfast this morning I've seen 15 species, including the bullfinches and also a buzzard at house height fleeing the attentions of a mob of crows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 March, 2011, 10:49:26 am
Got up early to see the Severn Bore. Never seen it before and whilst it could not be called spectacular, it was a sobering reminder of the power of water, seen so soon after events in Japan.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 March, 2011, 10:53:22 am
Quote from: Jaded on 20 March, 2011, 10:49:26 am
Got up early to see the Severn Bore. Never seen it before and whilst it could not be called spectacular, it was a sobering reminder of the power of water, seen so soon after events in Japan.
Bugger.  That's been on my "Experiences To Do" list for many years.

*wanders off to Wikipedia to learn more about it*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 20 March, 2011, 11:22:13 am
just got back from church and now drinking a coffee
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 March, 2011, 11:45:38 am
Reading the Lakeland Garden catalogue and fantasising about having a garden.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: giropaul on 20 March, 2011, 02:13:28 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 20 March, 2011, 11:45:38 am
Reading the Lakeland Garden catalogue and fantasising about having a garden.

By far the best way to garden!

Real ones are a pain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 March, 2011, 03:16:46 pm
Now I am laughing my head off at the penguins running about on the Edinburgh zoo penguin cam.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 20 March, 2011, 03:20:08 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 20 March, 2011, 11:45:38 am
Reading the Lakeland Garden catalogue and fantasising about having a garden.

There's one here you can come and dig to your heart's content if you like...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 March, 2011, 03:27:56 pm
See signature line.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 March, 2011, 03:35:24 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 20 March, 2011, 03:20:08 pm

There's one here you can come and dig to your heart's content if you like...
Oh, I don't want to have to do any digging. I just want to do the planning and the enjoying!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 March, 2011, 05:49:10 pm
Watching The News for the first time today, and realising why - living as I do just 10 miles from RAF Marham - my night's sleep was so disturbed by aircraft last night.

 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 March, 2011, 09:01:33 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 18 March, 2011, 07:52:22 pm
Trying to guess where my boss has hidden the TV remote >:(. I'm beginning to think he's taken it out with him.

If you have access to the web, then TV Catchup (http://www.tvcatchup.com/) is your friend.  It'll even work with this fairly underpowered Netbook, so most Laptops should be able to produce a reasonable image quality.


I'm just finishing a bottle of Shepherd Neame Late Red.  It's very nice.

I'm also wondering whether to put a second pizza in the oven. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 March, 2011, 10:14:51 pm
Beethoven. Violin Concerto.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 March, 2011, 12:52:04 am
Swearing and bleeding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 21 March, 2011, 01:10:31 am
Yikes - what have you done? You ok?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 21 March, 2011, 01:25:38 am
One hopes it's a fettling injury of smaller import than the standard entry criterion to the nuttycyclist group of honour.  If it's anything MORE negligent than THAT than the Essex Massive will be setting off, as soon as the camera batteries recharge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 March, 2011, 01:30:05 am
Don't worry, minor electronics fettling injury - one nipped thumb and one b0rked circuit board.

And now I'm going to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 21 March, 2011, 08:05:24 am
Quote from: Deano on 18 March, 2011, 05:22:27 pm
Quote from: billplumtree on 18 March, 2011, 01:02:40 pm
Eating cheese butties on the topmost Crinkle of Crinkle Crags :-)  No sign of any Lions...

GIT.

(I'm still at work)

Sorry, couldn't resist  ;D  Back down to earth now tho.  Trying to work out why the Windows Installer upgrade I wrote fails to, er, upgrade.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 March, 2011, 08:09:16 am
Drinking coffee, and wondering what we've forgotten to do as we appear to be ready to set off for school and we're not late.  Yet.

And trying to decide if I should take the SmallestCub on my bike (he sits on the saddle and I walk and push) so that I can then ride to a site for work-related stuffs on my day 'off'.  +ive would be a spot of riding, and potentially getting a bit less behind.  -ive would be work on day off, which is historically a bit of a slippery slope.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 21 March, 2011, 08:13:32 am
waiting for a c/a site to open so i can collect the 2skips of green waste that mr public has filled over the weekend    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 21 March, 2011, 08:37:58 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 March, 2011, 08:09:16 am
... I can then ride to a site for work-related stuffs on my day 'off'.  +ive would be a spot of riding, and potentially getting a bit less behind.  -ive would be work on day off, which is historically a bit of a slippery slope.

Don't do it! I can see the theory that it might take the pressure off when you do go to work, but I think you seriously need some down time. If you crack (and people do, even the strongest) you'll be no use for a while.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 21 March, 2011, 09:46:45 am
For the first time in this crappy job, I have literally nothing to do - at all, so I shall head out with my Blackberry and take advantage of the situation. Home working does have certain benefits...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 March, 2011, 11:10:18 am
Sitting on the patio,feeling the warmth of the Sun,doing cost estimates,drinking coffe,poncing about on this forum & generally taking advantage of being self employed & working from home :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 March, 2011, 04:08:53 pm
Trying not to buy a 2nd hand galaxy.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 March, 2011, 04:10:09 pm
^^^^^
quite right too:buy my trike instead :demon: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 21 March, 2011, 04:15:18 pm
Quote from: jogler on 21 March, 2011, 11:10:18 am
Sitting on the patio,feeling the warmth of the Sun...

I'm watching the driving snow :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 21 March, 2011, 04:46:02 pm
Quote from: jogler on 21 March, 2011, 04:10:09 pm
^^^^^
quite right too:buy my trike instead :demon: ;D

No, I'm sure he really needs a pristine HP Spirit recumbent to add to his collection. Only down the road as well ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 March, 2011, 05:01:30 pm
Feeling somewhat puggled after a days voluntary conservation work at a local wildlife reserve.   :o  Dinner, bath then bed I think!  Lots of work done though!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 March, 2011, 05:08:08 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 21 March, 2011, 04:46:02 pm
Quote from: jogler on 21 March, 2011, 04:10:09 pm
^^^^^
quite right too:buy my trike instead :demon: ;D

No, I'm sure he really needs a pristine HP Spirit recumbent to add to his collection. Only down the road as well ;D

Stop it, you gits.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: newtoncap on 21 March, 2011, 07:26:40 pm
Is up and running with broadband and home phone after 6 weeks of being without internet!!!!!   Now to catch up on 6 weeks of ride reports and gossip!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 21 March, 2011, 09:05:29 pm
Taking a taxi to Toronto
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 March, 2011, 09:51:34 pm
Just washed & rinsed my cycling kit & hung it to dry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 March, 2011, 10:56:06 pm
Pondering apparently intractable issues.  When I should be sleeping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 March, 2011, 12:35:50 am
I just finished building this.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/orbiter_done_smaller.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/orbiter_done.jpg)

I'm easily amused, and can claim that this was "work". ;D

(Well, I did construct a spacecraft).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 March, 2011, 12:48:51 am
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 March, 2011, 01:07:28 am
What was slightly amusing, is that after I'd finished construction, I had these bits left.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/orbiter_bits_left_over_smaller.jpg)

... but I'm still missing one small part!

(They do have an online website where I think I can submit a request to be sent that piece).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 March, 2011, 01:20:22 am
Does that happen with real spacecraft too?   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 22 March, 2011, 01:35:01 am
Deciding how to attach a bike frame to my rack as I have one to collect from peckham.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 22 March, 2011, 06:15:33 am
Quote from: TimO on 22 March, 2011, 12:35:50 am
I just finished building this.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/orbiter_done_smaller.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/orbiter_done.jpg)

I'm easily amused, and can claim that this was "work". ;D

(Well, I did construct a spacecraft).
:thumbsup: Very Nice :thumbsup:

However...
[boys&toys-stereotype]

(click to show/hide)
Mine's bigger than yours. 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 March, 2011, 07:31:22 am
EldestCub says, "ah, so cool!"
SmallestCub says "a science rocket!"

I think that counts as approval all round from the under-10s  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 22 March, 2011, 08:23:07 am
You need a better camera Tim, that one's pixellated.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 March, 2011, 08:52:12 am
That camera is a bit hopeless, it's my phone, and it does leave something to be desired in the quality department. ;D

I bet yours isn't on you desk at work Rower40. ;D

What's quite impressive with that model, is that the orbiter easily comes away from the SRBs and ET, the wheels can deploy, the cargo bay doors will open, and it has a Canada-arm and satellite inside. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 22 March, 2011, 10:16:50 am
Quote from: TimO on 22 March, 2011, 08:52:12 am
That camera is a bit hopeless, it's my phone, and it does leave something to be desired in the quality department. ;D

Hehehehehe, I meant the lego blocks are what are making the "pixels".  Look at the nose and the tail fin.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 March, 2011, 05:29:23 pm
Waiting on my quorn flavour peppered quorn steak and potato waffle (not quorn flavoured) cooking in the oven.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 March, 2011, 06:00:13 pm
Decellerating my brain to tick-over revs, after a day of number crunching.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 March, 2011, 06:19:37 pm
Anticipating food, which will be lamb chops with veg, some of which involves leek.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 March, 2011, 09:01:07 pm
Eating a large plate of (rather good, if I do say so myself) linguine with peas and green beans in a cream sauce with plenty of black pepper and a huge amount of garlic in.

Hah, wednesday end-users!  Try, tomorrow at work, telling me stuff doesn't work or 'I know you're busy but....' and I will BREATH ON YOU!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 March, 2011, 09:28:20 pm
Regretting I couldn't face any of the mushroom risotto Butterfly made, despite its delicious aroma. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 23 March, 2011, 09:34:36 am
Just polishing off a toasted onion bagel with marmite.

Yummyscrummylicious :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 March, 2011, 10:53:55 am
Contemplating a second breakfast. This will involve a short ride to the Co Op to get bread.

* looks outside at warm sunshine *

Shame!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 March, 2011, 11:31:06 am
Feeling slightly queasy and a bit wobbly.  Not ideal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 March, 2011, 11:50:49 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 March, 2011, 11:31:06 am
Feeling slightly queasy and a bit wobbly.  Not ideal.

*checks calendar*

Uh-oh, it's Wednesday. :(
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 March, 2011, 06:30:02 pm
Packing up to go home.  Still feeling a bit queasy.  But at least it's not quite dark.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 23 March, 2011, 06:31:29 pm
Surely this is the best time of the week - the longest possible time until it's Wednesday morning again..?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 March, 2011, 07:42:55 pm
This is true.  And only 2 days until the weekend...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 March, 2011, 07:57:52 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 22 March, 2011, 10:16:50 am
Quote from: TimO on 22 March, 2011, 08:52:12 am
That camera is a bit hopeless, it's my phone, and it does leave something to be desired in the quality department. ;D
Hehehehehe, I meant the lego blocks are what are making the "pixels".  Look at the nose and the tail fin.  :D

I realised that, but the camera is also somewhat hopeless.  Camera phones always seem to stink.


Currently I'm hunting through some telemetry description files, so I can then look at the temperature of the spacecraft equipment platform, so in turn I can work out whether our instruments current is rising because the instrument box is hotter, or the instrument box is getting hotter because the current is rising (iyswim).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 March, 2011, 09:07:05 pm
Quote from: TimO on 23 March, 2011, 07:57:52 pm
Currently I'm hunting through some telemetry description files, so I can then look at the temperature of the spacecraft equipment platform, so in turn I can work out whether our instruments current is rising because the instrument box is hotter, or the instrument box is getting hotter because the current is rising (iyswim).

Yay (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12.msg895056#msg895056) :thumbsup: it's healthy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2011, 08:28:31 am
Sitting waiting until 30 minutes have elapsed after the swallowing of an alendronic acid tablet, after which it will be safe to eat some breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Riggers on 24 March, 2011, 08:33:58 am
You poor old chap. I had to 'look up' Alendrondic, and the cautions in taking it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 March, 2011, 08:38:33 am
Worrying.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2011, 08:40:06 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2011, 08:28:31 am
Sitting waiting until 30 minutes have elapsed after the swallowing of an alendronic acid tablet, after which it will be safe to eat some breakfast.

OK - 30 minutes have now elapsed. Lead me to the cereals!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 March, 2011, 08:41:01 am
Hope that the meds work Wow, and that you enjoy your breakfast :)  And Chris, I hope that whatever the source of your worries is sorts itself out asap.

I'm looking at the list and trying to work out what to do first....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2011, 08:42:48 am
No, you're looking at the list and trying to work out what to do second.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 March, 2011, 09:07:31 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 March, 2011, 08:41:01 am
...And Chris, I hope that whatever the source of your worries is sorts itself out asap.

Thanks, CL. It's improved already - but I have a conference call shortly I've not been looking forward to. Not erm... my favourite clients...

Man up Chris.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 March, 2011, 09:10:36 am
Wondering where to start.  ???

And feeling a bit vulnerable having been copied at a late stage on a long email which mentions me throughout. Nothing too bad, but just weird to hear people talking about/referring to you.   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2011, 09:36:04 am
Hey, everyone, have you heard about that Peliroja? She's an absolute star, that one. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 March, 2011, 09:45:55 am
Picking myself up off the floor.
I twisted something on the way down.

Shit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 March, 2011, 09:47:28 am
Ouch.  Hope it's nothing too major.  I prescribe cake and Not_Brown_Drink of your choice for the shock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 24 March, 2011, 10:08:13 am
Quote from: boab on 24 March, 2011, 09:45:55 am
Picking myself up off the floor.
I twisted something on the way down.

Shit.

Fall from foot or from velo?

GWS boab :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 March, 2011, 10:13:09 am
Foot, I stood up too quickly.

Is fine. Kinda.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 24 March, 2011, 10:15:40 am
Ouch...

Take care schweeeetheart.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 March, 2011, 04:25:48 pm
I've been on the skive today, having left work at 2am!

I just popped out to Sainsburys for some supplies, and even though it's only 1½ miles, and I'm in shorts and no jacket, I'm sweating.  Given how cold it was last Friday night, how can it be so hot now?! ???

I'm just going to grab an late lunch / early supper and then cycle into work for a BUG thing, sort of. Our BUG died a bit of a death, and the Student Union seems to want to try and revive it or something, so we'll see what happens.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 March, 2011, 07:46:10 pm
Quote from: Basil on 21 March, 2011, 04:08:53 pm
Trying not to buy a 2nd hand galaxy.  :facepalm:
Trying not to go and look at it on Saturday.  :facepalm: :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 March, 2011, 08:08:56 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 24 March, 2011, 08:38:33 am
Worrying.

Looking back on today after this.

The conference call was like something from the X-Files. Fucking weird - but I survived.

I had a ride in the sunshine that was nothing short of perfect, in many ways.

I got back, did a load of work and had an excellent dinner. Now doing Friday jobs on a Thursday - which is always a Good Thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 March, 2011, 08:14:36 pm
Wondering what's going on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 March, 2011, 08:16:34 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 24 March, 2011, 08:14:36 pm
Wondering what's going on.

That happens to you too? I thought it was only me... ;)

Hope you find out soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 March, 2011, 08:23:24 pm
Quote from: Basil on 24 March, 2011, 07:46:10 pm
Quote from: Basil on 21 March, 2011, 04:08:53 pm
Trying not to buy a 2nd hand galaxy.  :facepalm:
Trying not to go and look at it on Saturday.  :facepalm: :facepalm:

you need to ride there onna DF trike :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 March, 2011, 08:31:57 pm
I've just agreed to go and check on this tomorrow:

 Saw this in the street earlier. Is it Science? Please tell me... on Twitpic  (http://twitpic.com/4cv4fu)

for SCIENCE!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 24 March, 2011, 08:41:20 pm
I am tingling.
First sun burn of the year  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 March, 2011, 09:46:14 pm
Distracting myself from putting away the shopping.

We have lots of random food.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 24 March, 2011, 10:06:42 pm
Waiting for my bosses to come back so I can go home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 March, 2011, 10:29:41 pm
Waiting for Butterfly's bosses to get back so Butterfly can come home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2011, 10:30:52 pm
Scanning maps from Philip's Navigator, Lowestoft to Ardnamurchan. I've almost got as far as Harrogate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 March, 2011, 10:41:17 pm
Does this mean that some form of jolliday is on the cards after all?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2011, 10:49:52 pm
Ho yuss! I'll decide probably on Tuesday whether I'm fit to cycle. Still touch and go I reckon. Didn't go out today after all, but fettled and did boring workish stuff instead. Back still iffy but I can ride. Haven't done a 50 miler yet. If I can't cycle we'll be doing the trip in the car and visiting people at appropriate junctures.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 March, 2011, 10:51:46 pm
Well, let me know when you're round about this bit of the world.  I have been known to pop out to meet and greet people with cake....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 March, 2011, 10:54:29 pm
Quote from: Basil on 24 March, 2011, 07:46:10 pm
Quote from: Basil on 21 March, 2011, 04:08:53 pm
Trying not to buy a 2nd hand galaxy.  :facepalm:
Trying not to go and look at it on Saturday.  :facepalm: :facepalm:

So, some of the wrapper was torn off and it had been licked at one end.

Are you a Brummie or a mouse? You might not get any food for a week! Buy it!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2011, 10:55:38 pm
Oooh!

Moss (near Doncaster) to Harrogate: 4th April.
Harrogate to Hawes: 5th April
Hawes to Kirkoswald: 6th April
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2011, 01:00:41 am
Listening to a live online radio commentary of zombie/taxi/etc activity on the now legendary Broad Street (yes, really.  I think it's Art) and resisting the urge to go and do a couple of laps on the recumbent to see if the commentator dies of excitement.

The Commentators TONIGHT. &laquo;  Stan’s Cafe Theatre Company (http://www.stanscafe.co.uk/?p=1511)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 25 March, 2011, 01:05:22 am
Wrestling with javascript.  I think I may be running out of curly braces. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2011, 01:11:57 am
Dammit, I nipped to the loo and missed a man leaning against a bollard in a hi-vis vest!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2011, 01:21:09 am
A guy just threw up onto the saddle of someone's bike!  And a bin!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2011, 01:25:31 am
The bike owner's returned, and has mounted the bike!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2011, 01:28:05 am
Grr, the stream cut out at the most important bit.

They're now contemplating how many dresses you'd need to have enough material to make a dress, IYSWIM.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2011, 01:40:56 am
One of the commentators is a cyclist.  He's got his bike parked in full view of their commentary position.  Very sensible, though I bet he's wishing he'd stuck a plastic bag over the saddle....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2011, 01:47:21 am
Man eating sandwich in carpark!  This is awesome, they should totally provide this every night as a service for insomniacs.

He's dropped the wrapper.  Will it attract rats?  They agree this is far worse than the public urination they witnessed earlier.  There's a bin less than 20 yards away, but no public toilets to speak of.

They'll keep us posted on any vermin action.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2011, 01:59:27 am
KILTS!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 March, 2011, 02:13:46 am
Finishing of a report on enterprise wireless that I promised for tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2011, 02:44:26 am
Man having a really long piss through the barriers into the car park.  I think I'll take that as my cue for bed.  It's not going to get any more exciting...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 25 March, 2011, 05:28:57 am
Trying to get home from the Arctic

It's turning out to be a bit of a long journey, 9 hours of which was spent in a tiny airport in Northern Finland...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 25 March, 2011, 06:43:08 am
Up early readying my bike for tomorrow's Audax (The Dean) -- so that I can get an early night tonight.

Lovely morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveS on 25 March, 2011, 07:25:20 am
Just got back from walking the dog. Lovely morning, thinking about a ride to St Davids this afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 25 March, 2011, 07:30:21 am
about to set off to drive my mum to Manchester airport, she's off on safari!!  Not bad for someone on her 6th hip who cant walk more than about 50 yards at a time. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 March, 2011, 08:29:14 am
Listening to Preston & Steve (
   Preston and Steve | 93.3 WMMR: Everything That Rocks
 (http://www.prestonandsteve.com)), a best of from yesterday (guess they are having a break at the mo as all this week's podcasts have been best ofs)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: newtoncap on 25 March, 2011, 08:33:33 am
Is heading up to York today and needs to take my rear wheel into a bike shop for fixing before I attempt my first TT next week!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 25 March, 2011, 08:49:31 am
Looking to sell a kidney!

Just had to book an MOT and Service for the car.....£185!!! All this for a car which does less than 3 000 miles a year (and most of them to the shops and back!).

Do I really, really, really need a car??? (The wife thinks we do so we have transport to take the cats to the vets if need be. Sigh).

Anyway, FOR SALE, one part used kidney: in reasonable condition from a non smoker, non drinker, non cake eater. No reasonable offer refused.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 25 March, 2011, 09:09:18 am
Quote from: essexian on 25 March, 2011, 08:49:31 am
Looking to sell a kidney!

Just had to book an MOT and Service for the car.....£185!!! All this for a car which does less than 3 000 miles a year (and most of them to the shops and back!).

Do I really, really, really need a car??? (The wife thinks we do so we have transport to take the cats to the vets if need be. Sigh).

Anyway, FOR SALE, one part used kidney: in reasonable condition from a non smoker, non drinker, non cake eater. No reasonable offer refused.
Sell the car and hire one for vets trips and occasional weekends. Some companies such as enterprise do half price weekend rates,, which makes it really resonable. Cheaper than keeping a car on the road by some considerable margin. Some of the prices start at under £20 per day which makes a vets trip pretty cheap. Or get a cab - fast and cheap for occasional trips such as the vets. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 25 March, 2011, 09:33:43 am
Swearing. I believe I may have exercised my entire sweary-lexicon.

Mudguards...  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 March, 2011, 09:34:17 am
I'm trying hard not to die laughing after seeing my pension projections.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 March, 2011, 09:34:54 am
Well, at least that would save you from a poverty-stricken old age.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 March, 2011, 09:38:57 am
Only thing that will.   My gold-plated public service pension seems to be lacking something in lustre...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 25 March, 2011, 10:19:41 am
Quote from: clarion on 25 March, 2011, 09:38:57 am
Only thing that will.   My gold-plated public service pension seems to be lacking something in lustre...

A somewhat familiar ring to that Clarion......

 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 March, 2011, 10:39:58 am
I am sure.

Marching with us tomorrow? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 25 March, 2011, 10:53:31 am
Quote from: clarion on 25 March, 2011, 10:39:58 am
I am sure.

Marching with us tomorrow? ;)

I wish!

Good luck :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 March, 2011, 10:57:13 am
:) We'll do it for you, too, then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 March, 2011, 11:00:19 am
I've conveened an impromptu Board meeting.The only item on the agenda is..
Is it POETS day?
bit of a no brainer methinks..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 March, 2011, 06:58:47 pm
Taste testing oatyjam flapjacks
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 March, 2011, 07:09:06 pm
Realising it's dark.  Better go home!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: giropaul on 25 March, 2011, 07:17:58 pm
Quote from: essexian on 25 March, 2011, 08:49:31 am
Looking to sell a kidney!

Just had to book an MOT and Service for the car.....£185!!! All this for a car which does less than 3 000 miles a year (and most of them to the shops and back!).

Do I really, really, really need a car??? (The wife thinks we do so we have transport to take the cats to the vets if need be. Sigh).

Anyway, FOR SALE, one part used kidney: in reasonable condition from a non smoker, non drinker, non cake eater. No reasonable offer refused.


£185 for a service AND MoT? Hell, that's bl....dy cheap!

MoTs are now £50 odd, and I've not paid less than £300 for a service for several years. Where are you going - if it's near Stafford I'm on my way there!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 March, 2011, 07:46:59 pm
I think you're both doing well.Last week the Volvo consumed £600 for a service including cam belt change & other consumables
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 March, 2011, 07:57:09 pm
Quote from: jogler on 25 March, 2011, 06:58:47 pm
Taste testing oatyjam flapjacks

doing an action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 25 March, 2011, 08:00:20 pm
Quote from: Giropaul on 25 March, 2011, 07:17:58 pm
Quote from: essexian on 25 March, 2011, 08:49:31 am
Looking to sell a kidney!

Just had to book an MOT and Service for the car.....£185!!! All this for a car which does less than 3 000 miles a year (and most of them to the shops and back!).

Do I really, really, really need a car??? (The wife thinks we do so we have transport to take the cats to the vets if need be. Sigh).

Anyway, FOR SALE, one part used kidney: in reasonable condition from a non smoker, non drinker, non cake eater. No reasonable offer refused.


£185 for a service AND MoT? Hell, that's bl....dy cheap!

MoTs are now £50 odd, and I've not paid less than £300 for a service for several years. Where are you going - if it's near Stafford I'm on my way there!
Quote from: jogler
I think you're both doing well.Last week the Volvo consumed £600 for a service including cam belt change & other consumables

Cheapskates, the lot of you! (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27765.msg854012#msg854012)

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Speshact on 25 March, 2011, 08:01:47 pm
blutacking the draft Camberwell to Vauxhall bridge section of Cycling Superhighway 5 to my kitchen wall.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 March, 2011, 09:07:57 pm
Sitting in the car while Dez goes to find that the queue for the apple store he just didn't join at Bluewater was actually the queue for the apple store at lakeside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 25 March, 2011, 09:13:38 pm
Quote from: Speshact on 25 March, 2011, 08:01:47 pm
blutacking the draft Camberwell to Vauxhall bridge section of Cycling Superhighway 5 to my kitchen wall.

Ooh were you at the meeting yesterday?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 25 March, 2011, 09:15:05 pm
recovering from a 3 hour ride around Crich.  Hilly, compared to Cambridge.  Quite tired. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 25 March, 2011, 09:28:55 pm
Packing for tomorrow's march.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Speshact on 25 March, 2011, 09:30:23 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 25 March, 2011, 09:13:38 pm
Quote from: Speshact on 25 March, 2011, 08:01:47 pm
blutacking the draft Camberwell to Vauxhall bridge section of Cycling Superhighway 5 to my kitchen wall.

Ooh were you at the meeting yesterday?
Yes, with my Lambeth Cyclists hat on
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 25 March, 2011, 09:42:32 pm
Having a beer trying to kill 4 hours before my flight home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 25 March, 2011, 10:58:13 pm
I am browsing stems. I'm thinking of trying a 80mm one instead of my 90mm as I think this would encourage me to spend more time on the hoods where I can reach my brakes  ;D

There seems to be a fairly limited choice in 80mm black ones without nasty in-your-face graphics all over them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 25 March, 2011, 11:00:45 pm
Quote from: mike on 25 March, 2011, 09:15:05 pm
recovering from a 3 hour ride around Crich.  Hilly, compared to Cambridge.  Quite tired. 

My sister lives in Crich. Did you see her?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 March, 2011, 11:19:47 pm
Watching benjamin button and deciding to clean the chain on the fixie.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 25 March, 2011, 11:20:23 pm
Quote from: Speshact on 25 March, 2011, 08:01:47 pm
blutacking the draft Camberwell to Vauxhall bridge section of Cycling Superhighway 5 to my kitchen wall.

I was peering at that yesterday.  I wish I could see that sort of detail for the current work going on with CS7.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 25 March, 2011, 11:23:37 pm
winding down after a 0830->2230 stint of work (although I did get out at lunchtime for a fast 10 mile ride in the sun - shorts, short sleeves, mitts, sunglasses  :thumbsup:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 25 March, 2011, 11:34:20 pm
Enjoying a glass of wine in the lounge at Pearson.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 26 March, 2011, 05:54:19 am
Filling up on coffee, bananananananas and cereal before heading into town for the beginning of the Cam to the Coast ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 March, 2011, 07:41:01 am
I'm on the train, just left Morpeth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 26 March, 2011, 08:42:29 am
Quote from: mike on 25 March, 2011, 09:15:05 pm
recovering from a 3 hour ride around Crich.  Hilly, compared to Cambridge.  Quite tired. 
Still in the area? Come to our beer festival at Derby Rowing Club, and watch the Boat Race on our big telly!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 26 March, 2011, 10:43:04 am
Quote from: Feline on 25 March, 2011, 10:58:13 pm
I am browsing stems. I'm thinking of trying a 80mm one instead of my 90mm as I think this would encourage me to spend more time on the hoods where I can reach my brakes  ;D

There seems to be a fairly limited choice in 80mm black ones without nasty in-your-face graphics all over them.

Is it a hand size/finger length issue ?
If so, you can get spacers for Shimano shifters to bring the brake levers nearer to the bars.

Of course you'll now tell me that you've got Campag or SRAM..................

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 March, 2011, 11:12:50 am
Quote from: Chocolatebike on 26 March, 2011, 10:43:04 am

If so, you can get spacers for Shimano shifters to bring the brake levers nearer to the bars.


I didn't know that.
I have small hands/short fingers which makes braking/gear changing on the drops of the Trek less than easy.
I shall speak with my lbs.
thanks for the info
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 March, 2011, 11:13:34 am
waiting for the Tesco home-delivery vanman
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 March, 2011, 11:21:26 am
I've just had some soup and then out for a ride  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 March, 2011, 11:33:13 am
Typing on my brand new keyboard for the first time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 26 March, 2011, 11:39:33 am
Watching 3 men & a tractor doing some work :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 March, 2011, 12:05:33 pm
Breathing a

MASSIVE

parental sigh of relief.
 :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 March, 2011, 12:36:57 pm
Stressing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 26 March, 2011, 01:04:06 pm
Quote from: Chocolatebike on 26 March, 2011, 10:43:04 am
Quote from: Feline on 25 March, 2011, 10:58:13 pm
I am browsing stems. I'm thinking of trying a 80mm one instead of my 90mm as I think this would encourage me to spend more time on the hoods where I can reach my brakes  ;D

There seems to be a fairly limited choice in 80mm black ones without nasty in-your-face graphics all over them.

Is it a hand size/finger length issue ?
If so, you can get spacers for Shimano shifters to bring the brake levers nearer to the bars.

Of course you'll now tell me that you've got Campag or SRAM..................



No, its not a hand issue, and yes I have SRAM (they are adjustable too) :)
I am very slightly over-reached at the shoulders when riding on the hoods for any long period. This could be simply because I am used to riding in quite an upright 'hybrid' position, but I would like to try a 10mm shorter stem to see if this makes a difference since I don't want to change my saddle position as this is correct with respect to my feet and knees.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 26 March, 2011, 01:09:23 pm
I'm trying to decide what to do next.   I have the choice of:

1:  Remove the large shard of metal in the front tyre of Mlle PB's tourer.   I had to put my wheel on her steed in order that she could pootle off to do some shopping just now.

2:  Throw myself into an afternoon of study

3:  Take lunch.

I'm erring towards 3   ;D
 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 26 March, 2011, 03:33:47 pm
Quote from: jogler on 26 March, 2011, 11:12:50 am
Quote from: Chocolatebike on 26 March, 2011, 10:43:04 am

If so, you can get spacers for Shimano shifters to bring the brake levers nearer to the bars.


I didn't know that.
I have small hands/short fingers which makes braking/gear changing on the drops of the Trek less than easy.
I shall speak with my lbs.
thanks for the info

Here they are:-

Evans Cycles | Specialized Slim Shim Brake Lever Spacer | Online Bike Shop (http://www.evanscycles.com/products/specialized/slim-shim-brake-lever-spacer-ec008424?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=froogle&utm_campaign=froogle)

I know first hand that they work on Sora as well as Ultegra and 105 mentioned in the ad.



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 26 March, 2011, 03:46:54 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 March, 2011, 12:05:33 pm
Breathing a

MASSIVE

parental sigh of relief.
 :D


Good News WB?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 March, 2011, 05:37:02 pm
Sitting in a pub with Charlitte, Julian, Phil and Mr Gates, after a successful day of marching and chanting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 March, 2011, 05:40:41 pm
packing cycling kit,bike & toothbrush for an overnight stay in York.
Remember to take the oaty flapjacksRemember to take the oaty flapto take the oaty flapjacksRemember to take the oaty flapjacksjacksRememberRemember to take the oaty flapjacksRemember to take the oaty flapto take the oaty flapjacksRemember to take the oaty flapjacksjacksRemember
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 26 March, 2011, 05:41:41 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 26 March, 2011, 05:37:02 pm
Sitting in a pub with Charlitte, Julian, Phil and Mr Gates, after a successful day of marching and chanting.

 :thumbsup:
Sounds like the place to be this afternoon!

I am giving my bike a final audax-ready fettle and wipe down.
I have also just taken my pond filter appart to change the UV bulb and cannot for the life of me work out how to open the sealed unit so I have come indoors to google for the instructions  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 March, 2011, 05:55:09 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 26 March, 2011, 05:37:02 pm
Sitting in a pub with Charlitte, Julian, Phil and Mr Gates, after a successful day of marching and chanting.

Excellent! Wish I could have joined you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 26 March, 2011, 05:59:02 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 26 March, 2011, 05:37:02 pm
Sitting in a pub with Charlitte, Julian, Phil and Mr Gates, after a successful day of marching and chanting.

I don't suppose its called "The old copper kettle"?

I'm sorting out a bike for the SoS210 tomorrow and trying to remember when Stevenage is
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 March, 2011, 10:53:03 pm
Quote from: jogler on 25 March, 2011, 06:58:47 pm
Taste testing oatyjam flapjacks

This  :smug:

Marj-cake.  It's what you need at the end of a busy day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 March, 2011, 11:19:44 pm
Just finishing a cup of coffee and then I'm off to bed. We all get up an hour earlier than we think it is tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 26 March, 2011, 11:21:40 pm
Oops I just realised the hour is going on which is somewhat unfortunate because it is now going to mess up my pre-audax early night :facepalm:
So I am now doing a spot of carb loading instead  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 March, 2011, 12:52:59 am
*is a bit pissed*

*rolls up right trouser leg for a quick fiixie sprint around the suburbia of night time Bournville*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 27 March, 2011, 02:07:12 am
Quote from: Basil on 27 March, 2011, 12:52:59 am
*is a bit pissed*

*rolls up right trouser leg for a quick fiixie sprint around the suburbia of night time Bournville*

Wear a silly hat and people will just think you're from a Masonic Lodge type deal!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 March, 2011, 02:29:38 am
Quote from: Basil on 27 March, 2011, 12:52:59 am
*is a bit pissed*

*rolls up right trouser leg for a quick fiixie sprint around the suburbia of night time Bournville*

Is that what the noise was?   :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 March, 2011, 02:41:24 am
That was fun.

For some reason the ear worm on the way round was
Hong Kong - Garden - Hong Kong - Whoa oh oh oh

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 27 March, 2011, 02:49:32 am
Still awake and Im out on me bike at 6:30 am for a 200km Audax 8 am start

Dam !

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 March, 2011, 02:53:17 am
Quote from: Kim on 27 March, 2011, 02:29:38 am

Is that what the noise was?   :P
Sorry, Friday night is beer night.  Regardless of whether here or in Waleslandshire.
The only problem is that when on a fortnightly basis it's Brum, I can't blame the farting noises on the sheep.


Edit:
Just realised it is actually Saturday night.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 March, 2011, 01:16:50 pm
Quote from: Basil on 24 March, 2011, 07:46:10 pm
Quote from: Basil on 21 March, 2011, 04:08:53 pm
Trying not to buy a 2nd hand galaxy.  :facepalm:
Trying not to go and look at it on Saturday.  :facepalm: :facepalm:

Doh!
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:D :D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 27 March, 2011, 01:23:54 pm
Watching Mrs C fill in a census form. She just doesn't get the narwhal thing at all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robbo6 on 27 March, 2011, 04:27:44 pm
Looking at email pics of cousin-in-law's new infant squirrel monkey and thinking it's at least two weeks before I can poke it with  a stick see it for real.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 27 March, 2011, 04:43:27 pm
I've just finished writing a blog on my DIY kayak sail
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 March, 2011, 06:06:10 pm
@Basil: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 27 March, 2011, 08:41:47 pm
writhing with abdominal pain  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 March, 2011, 08:43:17 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 27 March, 2011, 08:41:47 pm
writhing with abdominal pain  :(

:(   GWS!


Over on this side of the river... deciding on a new pair of cycling shoes.  Decisions, decisions, decision...
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 March, 2011, 09:35:27 pm
supping Horlicks
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 March, 2011, 09:55:57 pm
GWS Jurek.  Sorry to hear you're not well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 March, 2011, 09:57:54 pm
Procrastinating about putting the bin out.  How glamorous.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 27 March, 2011, 10:00:58 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 27 March, 2011, 08:43:17 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 27 March, 2011, 08:41:47 pm
writhing with abdominal pain  :(

:(   GWS!


Over on this side of the river... deciding on a new pair of cycling shoes.  Decisions, decisions, decision...
 

You need to get SPD sandals  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 March, 2011, 05:16:36 am
Quote from: Feline on 27 March, 2011, 10:00:58 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 27 March, 2011, 08:43:17 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 27 March, 2011, 08:41:47 pm
writhing with abdominal pain  :(

:(   GWS!


Over on this side of the river... deciding on a new pair of cycling shoes.  Decisions, decisions, decision...
 

You need to get SPD sandals  ;D

Obviously you didn't notice what I was wearing the last two times we've met.  ;D

My sandals are still in good shape, but my cold weather and 'not looking like a cyclist' footwear has seen better days.  Finally decided on Shimano MT60.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2011, 11:43:54 am
Quote from: Jurek on 27 March, 2011, 08:41:47 pm
writhing with abdominal pain  :(

I hope that you are soon better, Jurek.

I have just been singing on the telephone to my grand daughter, who is very keen on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. My daughter and I do the Mozart arrangement in two-part harmony and Martha is spellbound. She then makes hummy noises which are rhythmically fairly accurate but not at the right pitch.

Singing to young children seems to be a really important thing to do, it fascinates them so much.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 11:59:04 am
Quote from: Andrij on 28 March, 2011, 05:16:36 am
Quote from: Feline on 27 March, 2011, 10:00:58 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 27 March, 2011, 08:43:17 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 27 March, 2011, 08:41:47 pm
writhing with abdominal pain  :(

:(   GWS!


Over on this side of the river... deciding on a new pair of cycling shoes.  Decisions, decisions, decision...
 

You need to get SPD sandals  ;D

Obviously you didn't notice what I was wearing the last two times we've met.  ;D

My sandals are still in good shape, but my cold weather and 'not looking like a cyclist' footwear has seen better days.  Finally decided on Shimano MT60.
 

You got me, I mostly tend to check out male cyclist arses and not feet  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 12:34:45 pm
I'm trying to work out wtf has been happening with my blood sugar.

I got up, gave Talisker his breakfast, remember running a bath for myself, but then have some very odd delirious memories of getting out of the bath, and somehow ending up on the bed.  My hair was wet, so I must have washed it, but I normally shave first, but my chin is still stubbly, so I didn't do that.

Luckily my body brought me around enough to realise I was very hypo, and take several energy gels, but I seem to have had some half awake / half asleep hypo dreaming, which has lost me several hours, and basically wiped out this morning.

Bad hypos are really not very good.  I just wish I knew why I had that one?  I'm wondering if I've buggered up an insulin injection somewhere. :-\ ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 March, 2011, 12:41:22 pm
Eep!

Hope you're feeling better with some sugars in and that it stabilises.  It's scary when your body behaves unpredictably, isn't it?  Is it worth a trip to the docs, or at least getting someone to come round for a cuppa and a gossip for a couple of hours to be sure that it's settled down?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 12:43:11 pm
Quote from: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 12:34:45 pm
I'm trying to work out wtf has been happening with my blood sugar.

I got up, gave Talisker his breakfast, remember running a bath for myself, but then have some very odd delirious memories of getting out of the bath, and somehow ending up on the bed.  My hair was wet, so I must have washed it, but I normally shave first, but my chin is still stubbly, so I didn't do that.

Luckily my body brought me around enough to realise I was very hypo, and take several energy gels, but I seem to have had some half awake / half asleep hypo dreaming, which has lost me several hours, and basically wiped out this morning.

Bad hypos are really not very good.  I just wish I knew why I had that one?  I'm wondering if I've buggered up an insulin injection somewhere. :-\ ???

That sounds bad :(
Maybe you should try feeding yourself something when Talisker gets breakfast before doing anything else since it will have been so many hours since you last ate. Could the hour going on have upset your routine a bit?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 March, 2011, 12:44:01 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 11:59:04 am
Quote from: Andrij on 28 March, 2011, 05:16:36 am
Quote from: Feline on 27 March, 2011, 10:00:58 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 27 March, 2011, 08:43:17 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 27 March, 2011, 08:41:47 pm
writhing with abdominal pain  :(

:(   GWS!


Over on this side of the river... deciding on a new pair of cycling shoes.  Decisions, decisions, decision...
 

You need to get SPD sandals  ;D

Obviously you didn't notice what I was wearing the last two times we've met.  ;D

My sandals are still in good shape, but my cold weather and 'not looking like a cyclist' footwear has seen better days.  Finally decided on Shimano MT60.
 

You got me, I mostly tend to check out male cyclist arses and not feet  ;D

I look forward to receiving your expert opinion.   ;)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 12:44:50 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 28 March, 2011, 12:44:01 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 11:59:04 am
Quote from: Andrij on 28 March, 2011, 05:16:36 am
Quote from: Feline on 27 March, 2011, 10:00:58 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 27 March, 2011, 08:43:17 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 27 March, 2011, 08:41:47 pm
writhing with abdominal pain  :(

:(   GWS!


Over on this side of the river... deciding on a new pair of cycling shoes.  Decisions, decisions, decision...
 

You need to get SPD sandals  ;D

Obviously you didn't notice what I was wearing the last two times we've met.  ;D

My sandals are still in good shape, but my cold weather and 'not looking like a cyclist' footwear has seen better days.  Finally decided on Shimano MT60.
 

You got me, I mostly tend to check out male cyclist arses and not feet  ;D

I look forward to receiving your expert opinion.   ;)
 

10/10  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 28 March, 2011, 03:28:02 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 March, 2011, 10:53:03 pm
Quote from: jogler on 25 March, 2011, 06:58:47 pm
Taste testing oatyjam flapjacks

This  :smug:

Marj-cake.  It's what you need at the end of a busy day.

I'm now polishing off the last of it :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 March, 2011, 03:31:33 pm
Quote from: Deano on 28 March, 2011, 03:28:02 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 March, 2011, 10:53:03 pm
Quote from: jogler on 25 March, 2011, 06:58:47 pm
Taste testing oatyjam flapjacks

This  :smug:

Marj-cake.  It's what you need at the end of a busy day.

I'm now polishing off the last of it :thumbsup:

I went to get a piece after my tea last night and the boys had eaten it ALL!  Shocking lack of respect for their mother, if you ask me....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 March, 2011, 03:39:34 pm
Feeling a wee bit guilty. Just as well I work at home - so nobody was around to see me fall asleep after lunch, and not wake up 'til 3pm  :facepalm:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 03:40:34 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 28 March, 2011, 03:39:34 pm
Feeling a wee bit guilty. Just as well I work at home - so nobody was around to see me fall asleep after lunch, and not wake up 'til 3pm  :facepalm:.

Hi-5!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 March, 2011, 03:44:01 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 12:44:50 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 28 March, 2011, 12:44:01 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 11:59:04 am

You got me, I mostly tend to check out male cyclist arses and not feet  ;D

I look forward to receiving your expert opinion.   ;)
 

10/10  ;)

 :-*
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2011, 06:28:02 pm
Taking a break from wrestling with a brand new Marathon Plus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 06:36:12 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 12:43:11 pm
Maybe you should try feeding yourself something when Talisker gets breakfast before doing anything else since it will have been so many hours since you last ate. Could the hour going on have upset your routine a bit?

It's not normally a problem.  Tali gets his breakfast, I see to my ablutions, I do my breakfast insulin injection, and have my breakfast.

I can't entirely remember what I did this morning, which suggests my blood sugar level was low to start with.  The particular insulins I'm using now seem to give less warning of hypos than the previous one, which was worse than the one I was on prior to that, for almost two decades.  Aren't improvements in medication wonderful. :-\
(I didn't have much choice on either occasion, the insulin I was using was ceasing production).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 March, 2011, 06:42:26 pm
In a 2.5 hour evening meeting until 20.00.  :facepalm:
And my rear light batteries have run out so I will have to cycle home in the dark without a rear light. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 06:43:33 pm
TimO, have you gone to basal/bolus MDI now?  Did they send you on a carb counting course yet?  I'd say that's fairly essential, plus an understanding of basal rate testing methodology.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 07:09:12 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 06:43:33 pm
TimO, have you gone to basal/bolus MDI now?  Did they send you on a carb counting course yet?  I'd say that's fairly essential, plus an understanding of basal rate testing methodology.

I've been carb counting for over two decades, but no I don't exactly understand how it relates to rate testing methodologies for the Basal/Bolus regime.  The diabetic nurse put various recommendations into the letter she sent my GP, but as usual, bugger all has happened, so I probably need to go an harass my GP personally.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 March, 2011, 07:31:16 pm
Worrying. Again.

I have to attend a tribunal tomorrow, in connection with a close family member. I don't do stuff like this very well. According to my GP (who is useless and knows nothing) I am "An anxious type" which is why I don't do this stuff very well (so clearly the GP at least worked that out correctly).

Dr Ethanol is soothing my furrowed brow tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 28 March, 2011, 07:37:29 pm
Trying to get the energy to get off my seat and get todays smelly muddy conservation volunteer clothing in the wash, then run a bath.  I may be able to cycle 50 miles without too much bother, but when it comes to digging drainage ditches or lifting stone cobbles so that a cobbled courtyard can get relaid.....   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 28 March, 2011, 07:54:33 pm
Packaging fleabay stuff for to take down the PO.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2011, 07:56:31 pm
I won the last wrestling match. I'm about to start another.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 08:30:37 pm
Quote from: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 06:36:12 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 12:43:11 pm
Maybe you should try feeding yourself something when Talisker gets breakfast before doing anything else since it will have been so many hours since you last ate. Could the hour going on have upset your routine a bit?

It's not normally a problem.  Tali gets his breakfast, I see to my ablutions, I do my breakfast insulin injection, and have my breakfast.

I can't entirely remember what I did this morning, which suggests my blood sugar level was low to start with.  The particular insulins I'm using now seem to give less warning of hypos than the previous one, which was worse than the one I was on prior to that, for almost two decades.  Aren't improvements in medication wonderful. :-\
(I didn't have much choice on either occasion, the insulin I was using was ceasing production).

If this were me I would sleep with something sugary by the bed, and test blood glucose as soon as you wake up. If it's under 4 mmol/l don't even try to get out of bed until you eat! If this is the case you probably need to get your GP to take a look at how long your insulin is lasting, it may be too long  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 08:34:48 pm
Quote from: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 07:09:12 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 06:43:33 pm
TimO, have you gone to basal/bolus MDI now?  Did they send you on a carb counting course yet?  I'd say that's fairly essential, plus an understanding of basal rate testing methodology.

I've been carb counting for over two decades, but no I don't exactly understand how it relates to rate testing methodologies for the Basal/Bolus regime.  The diabetic nurse put various recommendations into the letter she sent my GP, but as usual, bugger all has happened, so I probably need to go an harass my GP personally.

Ah, sorry, I somehow thought you might not be carb counting as I think that's not so common with mixtard.

I think you can google up basal rate testing - it's very common with pumpers, but still useful with MDI especially when you have changes in daily exercise.  Are you on Lantus or Levemir?  I've read that Levemir might be better if you have to change your basal more, as Lantus sticks around for ages and isn't so flexible.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2011, 08:37:26 pm
Having another breather from the Marathon Plus wrestling match.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 March, 2011, 09:30:35 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2011, 08:37:26 pm
Having another breather from the Marathon Plus wrestling match.

Did you have Beer yet? Beer helps. Preferably Woodfordes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 28 March, 2011, 09:32:15 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2011, 08:37:26 pm
Having another breather from the Marathon Plus wrestling match.
Do you have some red high heals?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 March, 2011, 09:36:58 pm
eating the last oatyjam flapjack of the current batch
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 28 March, 2011, 09:39:32 pm
trying various light linux. puppy is my favorite so far, intels moblin the most out there. quite s few fail. Slax wouldn't let me choose en-gb keyboard, most ubuntu except xubuntu crash or fail to load... I suspect the problems lay with the usb creators.  pendrives universal and multiboot, as Elsa as the linux live creator have failed at least once.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 09:56:46 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 08:30:37 pm
If this were me I would sleep with something sugary by the bed, and test blood glucose as soon as you wake up. If it's under 4 mmol/l don't even try to get out of bed until you eat! If this is the case you probably need to get your GP to take a look at how long your insulin is lasting, it may be too long  :-\

I don't generally worry unless my blood sugar drops below 3 mmol/l.  My all time record low was when I lived in Streatham, and cycling home after a Friday Night Ride to the Coast, I started getting a bit hypo at the bottom of Brixton Hill.  Since that was less than ten minutes from home, I kept on going.  When I did a test at home, it was only just over 1 mmol/l !

If I worried about it being low first thing in the morning, I'd never get up.  You expect it to be low then, only preferably not too low.  I normally have a couple of energy gels next to the bed, because I know they get sugar into my system faster than anything else (and a bag of jelly beans as a fallback!)  A symptom of low blood sugar level in the early morning is a headache when you wake up, so you can work out if your insulin levels are too low regularly.

Quote from: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 08:34:48 pm
I think you can google up basal rate testing - it's very common with pumpers, but still useful with MDI especially when you have changes in daily exercise.  Are you on Lantus or Levemir?  I've read that Levemir might be better if you have to change your basal more, as Lantus sticks around for ages and isn't so flexible.

I shall have to have a Google for that, cheers.  I'm already on Levemir, but I'm also a bit hopeless at remembering to do the Basal dose, since it's not something I've had to do before.  Forgetting is a bit of a cockup, because I have to do an injection, and then tend to suffer from too much when it overlaps with the next injection.  At least in that situation, I know what's causing the hypo.  I'm still unsure why it was so bad this morning.

One of the problems I find with hypos, is that if it's so bad that I need to take sugar asap, I'm also so out of it, that I don't realise that I'm badly hypo.  It seems to almost make me delirious, I have very surreal dreams, to the extent that I can't remember them because they were so weird!  My body normally recovers after a while, so then I take some sugar, so I guess in that respect I'm lucky, but that seems to take an hour or two.  So, like this morning, I only really came out of it around mid-day, which was a little off-putting!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 March, 2011, 09:57:45 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 March, 2011, 09:36:58 pm
eating the last oatyjam flapjack of the current batch

being jealous of jogler!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 10:00:28 pm
Quote from: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 09:56:46 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 08:30:37 pm
If this were me I would sleep with something sugary by the bed, and test blood glucose as soon as you wake up. If it's under 4 mmol/l don't even try to get out of bed until you eat! If this is the case you probably need to get your GP to take a look at how long your insulin is lasting, it may be too long  :-\

I don't generally worry unless my blood sugar drops below 3 mmol/l.  My all time record low was when I lived in Streatham, and cycling home after a Friday Night Ride to the Coast, I started getting a bit hypo at the bottom of Brixton Hill.  Since that was less than ten minutes from home, I kept on going.  When I did a test at home, it was only just over 1 mmol/l !

If I worried about it being low first thing in the morning, I'd never get up.  You expect it to be low then, only preferably not too low.  I normally have a couple of energy gels next to the bed, because I know they get sugar into my system faster than anything else (and a bag of jelly beans as a fallback!)  A symptom of low blood sugar level in the early morning is a headache when you wake up, so you can work out if your insulin levels are too low regularly.

Quote from: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 08:34:48 pm
I think you can google up basal rate testing - it's very common with pumpers, but still useful with MDI especially when you have changes in daily exercise.  Are you on Lantus or Levemir?  I've read that Levemir might be better if you have to change your basal more, as Lantus sticks around for ages and isn't so flexible.

I shall have to have a Google for that, cheers.  I'm already on Levemir, but I'm also a bit hopeless at remembering to do the Basal dose, since it's not something I've had to do before.  Forgetting is a bit of a cockup, because I have to do an injection, and then tend to suffer from too much when it overlaps with the next injection.  At least in that situation, I know what's causing the hypo.  I'm still unsure why it was so bad this morning.

One of the problems I find with hypos, is that if it's so bad that I need to take sugar asap, I'm also so out of it, that I don't realise that I'm badly hypo.  It seems to almost make me delirious, I have very surreal dreams, to the extent that I can't remember them because they were so weird!  My body normally recovers after a while, so then I take some sugar, so I guess in that respect I'm lucky, but that seems to take an hour or two.  So, like this morning, I only really came out of it around mid-day, which was a little off-putting!

What you have just described is exactly what worries me most .... you can be so hypo you are unable to think clearly enough to recognise it. Coma and death can follow. A blood glucose of 1 is verging on coma, please please don't let this happen! </worried friend mode>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 10:06:53 pm
Quote from: DrMekon on 28 March, 2011, 09:39:32 pm
trying various light linux. puppy is my favorite so far, intels moblin the most out there. quite s few fail. Slax wouldn't let me choose en-gb keyboard, most ubuntu except xubuntu crash or fail to load... I suspect the problems lay with the usb creators.  pendrives universal and multiboot, as Elsa as the linux live creator have failed at least once.

Getting a Linux that will work reliably on a random machine can be problematic.  I think it took me four tries to get a Linux that would (mostly) work on this machine.  The first three barfed at the install stage.  I still can't get it to understand the built in SD Card reader, but a USB SD reader seems to work OK, so I can live with that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 10:12:32 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 10:00:28 pm
What you have just described is exactly what worries me most .... you can be so hypo you are unable to think clearly enough to recognise it. Coma and death can follow. A blood glucose of 1 is verging on coma, please please don't let this happen! </worried friend mode>

LOL, the 1 mmol/l case was exceptional, and I had plenty of stuff to scoff, which I did.  Normally if I'm below 3 mmol/l I'll eat something immediately, and probably before that if I'm cycling because I know it'll burn off soon.

I think part of the trouble with having unusual instances early in the morning is that I'm also likely to just be a bit dopey from getting up, although generally my body tends to actually kick me up to awakeness quite fast when I'm hypo.  The odd few occasions, like this morning are, as I said, somewhat upsetting to me as well, so I certainly want to avoid them!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2011, 10:23:59 pm
I was just wondering what Feline is intending to do with the rest of the year when she passes her annual target in July. :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 10:30:01 pm
Don't worry too much Feline, although it's lovely that you do.  Tim's very experienced, and I know where he's coming from.  I've never quite gone to 1.0, although I once had a 1.9.  Usually your liver will dump its glycogen stores when you get that low, but I guess Tim's might already have been depleted by the hours of cycling beforehand.

It's nice being on a pump that keeps records, as I no longer have a problem with forgetting basal or bolus injections. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 10:32:11 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2011, 10:23:59 pm
I was just wondering what Feline is intending to do with the rest of the year when she passes her annual target in July. :P

I suspect that if and when I ride PBP I might not want to ride a bike for a couple of months ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 28 March, 2011, 10:34:19 pm
pondering what supplies I need for my DIY bathroom fettle session tomorrow.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 28 March, 2011, 10:38:53 pm
Quote from: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 10:06:53 pm
Quote from: DrMekon on 28 March, 2011, 09:39:32 pm
trying various light linux. puppy is my favorite so far, intels moblin the most out there. quite s few fail. Slax wouldn't let me choose en-gb keyboard, most ubuntu except xubuntu crash or fail to load... I suspect the problems lay with the usb creators.  pendrives universal and multiboot, as Elsa as the linux live creator have failed at least once.

Getting a Linux that will work reliably on a random machine can be problematic.  I think it took me four tries to get a Linux that would (mostly) work on this machine.  The first three barfed at the install stage.  I still can't get it to understand the built in SD Card reader, but a USB SD reader seems to work OK, so I can live with that.

It was all so simple until the SSD on my aspire one started failing (it's now reappeared but I am sick of it disappearing just as my wife "needs" it to watch Holby). It's been getting a distro that says it's persistent AND works on an aspire one without grinding to a halt, and doesn't crash when saving / loading the userfile that's taken so long.

I'm currently running Lucid Puppy 5.1.1 with the "safe" userfile setup. It's much quicker than the last but one xubuntu. Sadly, the latest ubuntu flavours are very slow indeed on this machine. The upside is puppy is intimidatingly ugly to look at, which makes me look all techy, when the reality is I can barely switch a pc on without calling helpdesk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 March, 2011, 10:49:33 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2011, 10:23:59 pm
I was just wondering what Feline is intending to do with the rest of the year when she passes her annual target in July. :P

Golf?  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 10:50:44 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 10:30:01 pm
... Usually your liver will dump its glycogen stores when you get that low, but I guess Tim's might already have been depleted by the hours of cycling beforehand. ...

Yes, I've found I have to be very careful with blood sugars after a FNRttC.  I've had a couple of quite horrible hypos afterwards.  I remember cycling home from the station after one, and having to stop and eat an entire bag of jelly babies at the halfway point, which is a lot of sugar!

With the Basal-Bolus regime I seem to be able to fare better, but as ever, lots of blood tests are the best thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 10:54:43 pm
Quote from: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 10:50:44 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 10:30:01 pm
... Usually your liver will dump its glycogen stores when you get that low, but I guess Tim's might already have been depleted by the hours of cycling beforehand. ...

Yes, I've found I have to be very careful with blood sugars after a FNRttC.  I've had a couple of quite horrible hypos afterwards.  I remember cycling home from the station after one, and having to stop and eat an entire bag of jelly babies at the halfway point, which is a lot of sugar!

With the Basal-Bolus regime I seem to be able to fare better, but as ever, lots of blood tests are the best thing.

Do they not advise you to reduce your insulin dose by about a third when you are doing something like that? The risks of your blood glucose rising over that time frame are dwarfed by the huge risk of hypo  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 March, 2011, 11:03:05 pm
Quote from: Feline on 28 March, 2011, 10:54:43 pm
Do they not advise you to reduce your insulin dose by about a third when you are doing something like that? The risks of your blood glucose rising over that time frame are dwarfed by the huge risk of hypo  ???

I generally just eat more.  Around 20g of carbs an hour on a night ride seems to work, with a big cake (or equivalent) and cup of tea with two or three heaped spoons of sugar at the half way point.

It seems to work, and I've probably done thirty night rides with no big problems so far.

The biggest problem I have, is that the cooked breakfast that most cafes and restaurants dish up is rather light on carbs.  I actually ordered sticky toffee pudding with custard with my breakfast at Whitstable. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 March, 2011, 11:11:18 pm
I'm still learning what's right on the pump, but will commonly run a temporary basal rate of 30 or 40%  of normal when riding home after a full day. Like Tim I'll carry loads of extra carbs. I once refused to share my bottle of SiS sports drink at a 24 hour race so that I'd be safe with enough carbs. Harsh, but my priorities were right.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 March, 2011, 07:16:41 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 March, 2011, 09:57:45 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 March, 2011, 09:36:58 pm
eating the last oatyjam flapjack of the current batch

being jealous of jogler!

I have submitted a request for sufficient oatyjamflapkack victuals to feed me thru the darkest hours;when I expect no shops etc. to be available; of the forthcoming Mull It Over audax.
Don't you wish,even more so,that you were riding it? :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 March, 2011, 09:03:14 am
Ya meanie!

Will you be taking extras to share too?  That could be a very very effective way of guaranteeing company :thumbsup:

And no, I don't wish I was riding it because a 300 with hills really would be a Beyond_Silly_Bike_Adventure.  What I wish is that I were capable of riding it.  Then I would be flapjack-stealing all the way round!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 March, 2011, 12:17:08 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 March, 2011, 09:03:14 am


Will you be taking extras to share too?  That could be a very very effective way of guaranteeing company :thumbsup:



There will be sufficient for sharing :thumbsup: but they will be divied up before the start so that each of us will carry his own :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 March, 2011, 12:35:43 pm
Stressing, with a headache which I've had since last night.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 29 March, 2011, 08:18:10 pm
Just declined to referee a paper on medical x-ray facilities in Ghana.

Q: "Erm, did you mean to send this to the other Dr Volio ? Not really my subject"
A:  "Whoops"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 March, 2011, 08:44:27 pm
I am removing layers of stiff upper lip I've been wearing today, to see what emotional mush there is left underneath  :(.

The Good News is - it was worth it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 29 March, 2011, 08:50:58 pm
Laundry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 March, 2011, 05:21:21 pm
Wondering which way to go home (Friday commute on a Thursday, confusing....)

Option 1)  back the way I came - the long way, bearable road surface, relatively quiet then the planets path.
Option 2) complete the circuit - shorter, with some horrible surface, crappy traffic then Grimston Bar roundabout.

On the way here I tootled along at between 20 amd 35 kph, without having to pedal very hard.  There may have been an element of wind assistance..... 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 31 March, 2011, 05:30:32 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 31 March, 2011, 05:21:21 pm
There may have been an element of wind assistance..... 
Beans and eggs last night for dinner ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 31 March, 2011, 05:36:34 pm
Taking a break and cooking dinner after a days bathroom tile fettling,  and cleaning the house before the Man From Del Monte BT comes tomorrow between 8am and 1pm to fit my uber light speed innernet (seeing as it was only £1 a month more for BT infinity than i'm currently paying for ye olde worlde adsl innernet).

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 March, 2011, 08:32:46 pm
Sitting on my sofa, eating lasagne and roasted vegetables, with bobb.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 31 March, 2011, 08:36:03 pm
Eating egg fried rice wot Woolly just made, and wondering what Kirst and bobb are up to. And now back to work...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 31 March, 2011, 08:41:11 pm
Didn't you read Kirst post? Eating lasagne of course!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 31 March, 2011, 09:12:14 pm
It's not true.


We've finished eating  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 March, 2011, 09:55:26 pm
Sitting on my sofa with bobb eating rhubarb & ginger almond crumble with vanilla icecream.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 31 March, 2011, 11:06:28 pm
Prepping for a job interview tomorrow at 10am. Getting it would lose me some brownie points with some important people, but gain me 5yrs funding, a promotion, and a move to a more interesting area of research. In the current climate, I´d even skip the promotion, but I won´t mention that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 31 March, 2011, 11:21:05 pm
After spending most of the day hacking away at code, I think I've solved the couple of bugs in the processing software, which I initially started yesterday evening before leaving work.

I'm now back at the point I was early yesterday evening, so things are running 24 hours late. :-\ :(

I'd complain about the idiot who wrote the code initially, but that would be somewhat self referential. :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 April, 2011, 11:47:39 am
bobb's gone downstairs for a smoke, I'm about to have a shower, and then we're going to decide what to do today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 01 April, 2011, 11:53:18 am
Now sitting at work trying to come down from the nerves of an interview with 4 Professors. Like my ideas for the post, but got a bit of a hammering for my publication record :/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Thing2 on 01 April, 2011, 12:08:52 pm
Sitting around, drinking tea and enjoying my last day of unpaid leave.
Monday is looming, but fortunately there's the small matter of the 3Down to take care of first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 01 April, 2011, 01:38:53 pm
drinking tea and listening to Elton John
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 01 April, 2011, 01:53:55 pm
Declaring a POETS day :thumbsup:

(ahead of jogler for once, too)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 April, 2011, 02:03:56 pm
Sitting with bobb in a restaurant because he decided to take me for a poncey lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2011, 02:08:40 pm
Quote from: Deano on 01 April, 2011, 01:53:55 pm
Declaring a POETS day :thumbsup:

Git!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 April, 2011, 02:12:08 pm
Waiting for HMRC to answer the sodding telephone! >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2011, 02:26:40 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 01 April, 2011, 02:03:56 pm
Sitting with bobb in a restaurant because he decided to take me for a poncey lunch.

Waiting for the next installment!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 April, 2011, 02:57:07 pm
Listening to someone apparently trying to fix the printer with a hammer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 April, 2011, 03:22:03 pm
That counts as fine tuning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 April, 2011, 03:39:19 pm
Only if being done with a "brummie screwdriver"
 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 April, 2011, 04:07:10 pm
Sitting with bobb in a cafe waiting for scones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 April, 2011, 04:21:16 pm
Is that a euphemism?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 01 April, 2011, 04:22:22 pm
Quote from: clarion on 01 April, 2011, 04:21:16 pm
Is that a euphemism?
No! The scone is a small British quick bread of Scottish origin.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 01 April, 2011, 04:23:00 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 01 April, 2011, 04:22:22 pm
Quote from: clarion on 01 April, 2011, 04:21:16 pm
Is that a euphemism?
No! The scone is a small British quick bread of Scottish origin.  ::-)

... the Cake of Destiny!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 01 April, 2011, 04:23:46 pm
working out the last hour of my contract  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2011, 04:27:14 pm
Packing up to go home.  Feeling a bit wobbly, in a 'cor that feels like wednesday!' way, but it's probably because I've had a double-dose of thursday on a friday (which is just wrong!) because I had to swap things round so I could collect the kids tonight because Dearly_Beloved is going ojut straight from work.


imustnotforgettocollectthecubsimustnotforgettocollectthecubsimustnotforgettocollectthecubs
imustnotforgettocollectthecubsimustnotforgettocollectthecubsimustnotforgettocollectthecubs
imustnotforgettocollectthecubsimustnotforgettocollectthecubsimustnotforgettocollectthecubs
imustnotforgettocollectthecubsimustnotforgettocollectthecubsimustnotforgettocollectthecubs
imustnotforgettocollectthecubsimustnotforgettocollectthecubsimustnotforgettocollectthecubs
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2011, 07:11:00 pm
Eating chips with chip spice.

And I didn't forget to collect the cubs  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 01 April, 2011, 08:16:41 pm
Just finished painting our new downstairs loo.  Just needs a door, now.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 01 April, 2011, 09:15:49 pm
I've just spent an entire day looking for a reason why one of our data processing systems appeared to be doing something daft.

After about eight hours of work, I've come to the conclusion that actually what appeared to be unusual, is a real variation in the data, and not something dopey happening with the code.

So, about 10MBytes of PDFs and a moderately long explanatory email has gone out, and now I'm buggering off home, so that the weekend can begin. :thumbsup:

It's a shame that I'm now two days behind on work that needed to be finished today. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 01 April, 2011, 09:24:39 pm
Quote from: RJ on 01 April, 2011, 04:23:00 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 01 April, 2011, 04:22:22 pm
Quote from: clarion on 01 April, 2011, 04:21:16 pm
Is that a euphemism?
No! The scone is a small British quick bread of Scottish origin.  ::-)

... the Cake of Destiny!

The Scone of Stone
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2011, 09:53:24 pm
Making flapjack.

To raisin, or not to raisin, that is the question.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 01 April, 2011, 09:54:55 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2011, 09:53:24 pm
Making flapjack.

To raisin, or not to raisin, that is the question.....
Make one off each :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 01 April, 2011, 09:55:43 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2011, 09:53:24 pm
Making flapjack.

To raisin, or not to raisin, that is the question.....

Raisin!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 01 April, 2011, 09:55:51 pm
Going to bed as I need to be up at silly o'clock for the 3down.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2011, 10:09:18 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 01 April, 2011, 09:54:55 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2011, 09:53:24 pm
Making flapjack.

To raisin, or not to raisin, that is the question.....
Make one off each :)

We have a winner!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 April, 2011, 07:14:04 am
Eating flapjack for my breakfast  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 02 April, 2011, 08:14:58 am
Lying in bed trying to read YACF, but having to squint as I'm too lazy to stretch the 10ft to get my glasses...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 02 April, 2011, 09:21:33 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 02 April, 2011, 07:14:04 am
Eating flapjack for my breakfast  :D
With raisins or without?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 April, 2011, 10:00:54 am
Tesselating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 02 April, 2011, 10:13:02 am
Thinking that I probably should go for a bike ride but feeling unmotivated.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 02 April, 2011, 11:48:56 am
On a train from Plymouth to Bristol, after a weeks holiday.
Looking forward to riding the Bath 100 Sportif tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 02 April, 2011, 09:21:24 pm
Making marmalade (3-fruit - no need for Seville oranges ...).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 02 April, 2011, 09:36:49 pm
Travelling back from Highbury with two VERY tired kids.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 April, 2011, 09:53:26 pm
Preparing a business proposal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 April, 2011, 09:54:35 pm
No, what you are doing is propositioning for business ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 April, 2011, 09:56:24 pm
Wondering whether or not there's a circle of Hell being reserved for Apple App Store reviewers/moderators.

I sincerely hope so  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 April, 2011, 10:31:13 pm
Thinking I really should go to bed having been up all night riding last night and I have to be at the start of the Nutty Nuns 200k at 8am tomorrow!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 April, 2011, 02:10:51 pm
Thanking bobb who has just datatagged my bike for me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 April, 2011, 02:15:55 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 02 April, 2011, 10:00:54 am
Tesselating.

Innuendo?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 03 April, 2011, 02:57:32 pm
Cursing the weather.
Every time I think about going out on the bike, it starts raining.
Every time I get involved in something else, the sun comes out.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 03 April, 2011, 03:46:58 pm
Baking a few scones and drinking tea  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 03 April, 2011, 06:34:15 pm
Waiting for the lift which is going to take me to see Jeremy Hardy tonight!  :thumbsup:

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 03 April, 2011, 06:35:35 pm
Watching it pour with rain, 10 minutes after getting in from a 100km bike ride.

Good timing  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 April, 2011, 08:07:01 pm
Waiting for the waiting staff to ask bobb and I what we would like for dessert.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 April, 2011, 08:16:43 pm
scoffing 'arf a wet nellie ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 April, 2011, 08:17:18 pm
Getting ready for work tomorrow and wondering when this painful ulcer in my throat is going to heal.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 03 April, 2011, 09:04:33 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 03 April, 2011, 08:07:01 pm
Waiting for the waiting staff to ask bobb and I what we would like for dessert.

Worrit good like?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 03 April, 2011, 09:07:55 pm
Feeling chuffed that I managed to actually cycle about 12 miles today ;D

Feeling sad that I have to make a 12 mile ride a real effort of willpower and physical health :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 03 April, 2011, 09:18:41 pm
Quote from: Pedaldog on 03 April, 2011, 09:07:55 pm
Feeling chuffed that I managed to actually cycle about 12 miles today ;D

Feeling sad that I have to make a 12 mile ride a real effort of willpower and physical health :-[

Hurrah that you went :D!  :thumbsup: :-* :thumbsup: :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 April, 2011, 09:19:37 pm
Top riding, lad.

Where did you go? 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 03 April, 2011, 09:35:15 pm
Just out to Bull Beck near Caton.  Had a coffee and then stopped to help a guy whose chain had snapped as I had a Link Extractor in my kit. Next Hurdle is to do it again within a few days and not get myself into the But, But.... Game.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 03 April, 2011, 09:36:09 pm
Reading a thesis on medication adherence measurement devices for a viva I am doing tomorrow. It's more interesting than it sounds, though not interesting enough to stop me dipping in here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 April, 2011, 09:44:09 pm
Quote from: Pedaldog on 03 April, 2011, 09:35:15 pm
Just out to Bull Beck near Caton.  Had a coffee and then stopped to help a guy whose chain had snapped as I had a Link Extractor in my kit. Next Hurdle is to do it again within a few days and not get myself into the But, But.... Game.

Nice.  Decent ride, getting you out of town, chance for a stop before returning.  Just right.

And :thumbsup: for good deed :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 April, 2011, 09:47:38 pm
Quote from: Pedaldog on 03 April, 2011, 09:04:33 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 03 April, 2011, 08:07:01 pm
Waiting for the waiting staff to ask bobb and I what we would like for dessert.

Worrit good like?
We both had haggis, neeps and tatties, with broccoli and green beans, but mine was veggie haggis. Then he had chocolate marscarpone cheesecake, which he said was really nice, and I had pecan pie, which was ok. Service wasn't fantastic. But we had a nice walk there and back.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 04 April, 2011, 10:22:39 am
Off to Norwich to examine an MRes. Really good work; I've read PhD thesis with similar amounts of effort put it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 April, 2011, 02:14:08 pm
Disagreeing with bobb about how to pronounce scone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 04 April, 2011, 02:19:18 pm
I hope you've gone somewhere else for them.  Always Sunday (on the High St) does good scones ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 04 April, 2011, 02:36:22 pm
I CBA to do anything useful today. I am on call tonight though so I might have to actually get into the shower soon!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 April, 2011, 03:08:07 pm
I am eating an enormous bowl of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes and milk  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 04 April, 2011, 03:27:11 pm
I've just got back from kayaking and having homemade mince pies  :P and a cup of tea 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 04 April, 2011, 03:40:05 pm
Being unsuccessful in not noticing that some irresponsible oik has left a several of slices of date and walnut loaf in the kitchen at work.

Nom nom nom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 April, 2011, 03:41:43 pm
Having a brief tea break.

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 April, 2011, 03:48:01 pm
Quote from: RJ on 04 April, 2011, 02:19:18 pm
I hope you've gone somewhere else for them.  Always Sunday (on the High St) does good scones ...
We decided to come home and make some, so soon I will be teaching him how to make them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 April, 2011, 04:05:09 pm
Recovering from long drive (for me) and now constructing a mahoosive Pasta-Everything-That-Needs-Using-Up-In-The-Fridge in preparation for tonight's pub quiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 04 April, 2011, 04:06:00 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 04 April, 2011, 03:48:01 pm
Quote from: RJ on 04 April, 2011, 02:19:18 pm
I hope you've gone somewhere else for them.  Always Sunday (on the High St) does good scones ...
We decided to come home and make some, so soon I will be teaching him how to make them.

That's dangerous knowledge  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 April, 2011, 04:56:26 pm
Quote from: Basil on 04 April, 2011, 04:05:09 pm
Recovering from long drive (for me) and now constructing a mahoosive Pasta-Everything-That-Needs-Using-Up-In-The-Fridge in preparation for tonight's pub quiz.

Good grief.  That was a bit fierce. 
That can be a problem when "Things that need using up in the fridge" includes several chillies.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 April, 2011, 05:02:25 pm
Eating homemade scones with cream and jam that bobb made under my instruction. Nom nom nom. They're really good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 April, 2011, 05:06:13 pm
Talented lad.

Excellent teacher.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 April, 2011, 05:12:51 pm
feeling somewhat puggled after a days fettling some stone cobbles after levelling off the ground with sand...   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 April, 2011, 06:19:17 pm
Equivocating.
Oban in the Mondeo or Volvo?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 April, 2011, 06:22:55 pm
Wondering if I'm man enough for the Lanchester 400 on fixed gear. Probably not. Actually.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 04 April, 2011, 06:40:46 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 04 April, 2011, 06:22:55 pm
Wondering if I'm man enough for the Lanchester 400 on fixed gear. Probably not. Actually.

;D

I'm not either, unless I get a whole lot fitter or madder in the next month.

Mind you, I survived yesterday's Killhope Grimpeur on fixed, and the first 50 km are the same - and I got to Nenthead in about the same time as on the Lanchester...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 April, 2011, 10:34:28 pm
Faffing.  And contemplating cake, the baking of...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 April, 2011, 10:38:20 pm
I've found my driving licence (fully-faired powered recumbent quadricycle, for the hiring of) and am now battery-herding so that:  a) we don't get lost in Gravelly Hill scary flat places  and  b) to give barakta a fighting chance of being able to hear while trike-testing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 April, 2011, 11:45:37 pm
Baking chocolate and bananananananana cake.  And contemplating making flapjack, whilst that's baking and the laundry is churning away in the machine.  I mean, flapjack's quick and more just weighing then stirring then waiting a bit than actual baking, isn't it....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 04 April, 2011, 11:52:01 pm
Just been called so I'm going to get dressed and head into work :(

Crinkly Lion - Save me some cake for when I get back
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2011, 12:11:54 am
Hmmm.... CrinklyCake Delivery Services haven't quite made it that far north.  Yet....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2011, 12:49:43 am
Deciding whether or not to set the alarm an extra 15 minutes early, to allow for making chocolate ganache to go in the chocolate and bananananananana cake.  My train isn't due to leave until nearly 8 o'clock.... although the ticket office queue will be nasty then, so I need to allow for that.  Decisions, decisions....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 05 April, 2011, 03:00:06 am
Can I live closer the the crinkly cake maker.

Have a cllection of aches which helped me sleep earlier now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 05 April, 2011, 08:12:14 am
Contemplating the next anti-biotic pill.  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2011, 08:20:55 am
On a train to harrogate, armed with cake and flapjack. Valencia is sharing  the bile space with 3 other commuter bikes, including a rather pleasant dyno-hubbed Pearson with very little in the way of gears. Hurray for northern trains turning a blind eye-4 bikes + a folder on, bike space  meant for 2! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 05 April, 2011, 08:22:24 am
Seething with anger.  I have told my head of dept this, too, in no uncertain terms.

I am being made redundant O.K., its necessary, but why do those cnuts in HR think its O.K. to deny us any information, and completely fail to tell me exactly how much money I will be receiving, when, and how.  I leave at the end of next week, I have a future to plan, you fuckers!  I asked for someone to come nad sit down with me to half an hour to explain to me exactly what will happen, not to much to ask for after 20 years service, is it?  Evidently it is.  Complete and utter cunts, the lot of them...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 April, 2011, 08:28:56 am
Sneezing myself into a state of awakeness.  This is suboptimal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 April, 2011, 08:51:33 am
Just back from the GP, after spending at most five minutes with the Dr, who came to the conclusion which I would have bet money on him making, which is that I need to go to the hospital and be looked at by someone else.  I know why I have to go through this rigmarole, so hospitals don't have to deal with time wasters etc, but it's annoying nevertheless.

Make an appointment to see a Dr, several days later see Dr, make an appointment to see Hospital, several days later see Hospital, make and appointment .... etc ad nauseum.  Eventually I imagine I'll actually hit someone who will do something. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 09:01:04 am
Gazing out of the window and not working when I should be.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 05 April, 2011, 09:56:15 am
Quote from: Kirst on 04 April, 2011, 02:14:08 pm
Disagreeing with bobb about how to pronounce scone.

If it's a potato scone, all that matters is that it's delicious.  Which they are.

Quote from: Kirst on 04 April, 2011, 05:02:25 pm
Eating homemade scones with cream and jam that bobb made under my instruction. Nom nom nom. They're really good.

Ah, well then, potato scones next!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 05 April, 2011, 10:12:44 am
Watching the Wright stuff. Gilmore Girls is coming on in a minute  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 April, 2011, 10:18:34 am
feeling pleased that I don't know what either of those is :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 11:07:18 am
xslt transforms.

Ugh  :facepalm:

Whoever dreamt up xslt must have been seeing a whole frikkin team of therapists...

* brain melts *
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 April, 2011, 11:27:13 am
Feeling sad because bobb's going back to Essex today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 April, 2011, 11:58:08 am
Quote from: Kirst on 05 April, 2011, 11:27:13 am
Feeling sad because bobb's going back to Essex today.


A visit to Essex in your future ? Sounds like a perfect excuse to sign up for the Dunwich Dynamo.... :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 05 April, 2011, 12:45:19 pm
Keeping an eye on a convalescing FirstBorn and trying to source raised bed & wormery materials for our school holiday project ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 05 April, 2011, 12:46:03 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 11:07:18 am
xslt transforms.

Ugh  :facepalm:

Whoever dreamt up xslt must have been seeing a whole frikkin team of therapists...

* brain melts *

I quite like xslt :)  Have written a series of applications either entirely in it or using it as the major component.  XSLT2 is nicer, has to be said.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 April, 2011, 03:19:33 pm
Getting ready to take bobb to the station.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 April, 2011, 03:22:19 pm
He wants to go to Essex?  The boy needs his head lookin at!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 05 April, 2011, 03:29:59 pm
laundry  :sick: it's sooo boring
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 April, 2011, 03:53:35 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 05 April, 2011, 03:19:33 pm
Getting ready to take bobb to the station.  :'(
Did he enjoy Edinburgh? Would he like to move there?  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 April, 2011, 04:12:35 pm
I think so, and maybe. All in good time  ;D We're trying to find cheap fares for him to come back at easter or the weekend after
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 05 April, 2011, 04:17:43 pm
***Wonders whether it is too early to think of purchasing a new hat***
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 05 April, 2011, 04:19:07 pm
I'm on the train home now. I miss Kirst terribly already. But like Arnie - I'll be back :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 April, 2011, 04:29:04 pm
I've just got in from seeing bobb off at the station. When the train pulled away I just stood there looking mournfully after it and feeling bereft.

He's quite a guy.  ;D

Quote from: Regulator on 05 April, 2011, 04:17:43 pm
***Wonders whether it is too early to think of purchasing a new hat***
I see you in more of a fascinator, to be honest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 April, 2011, 04:57:06 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 05 April, 2011, 04:29:04 pm
I see you in more of a fascinator, to be honest.

I don't know what a fascinator is, but I know I Dare Not Google It
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 April, 2011, 04:58:36 pm
:'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 April, 2011, 06:27:43 pm
Quote from: boab on 05 April, 2011, 04:57:06 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 05 April, 2011, 04:29:04 pm
I see you in more of a fascinator, to be honest.

I don't know what a fascinator is, but I know I Dare Not Google It

Thank you for educating me Kirst, and yes, Reg would look divine in one of these..... ;D

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Fascinators.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 April, 2011, 06:38:48 pm
Just fitted two Schwalbe Ultremo Extreme ZX tyres to the Ridley.

Why these? Cos they is charcoal grey to match the bike :)

They do look nice tho....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 April, 2011, 06:41:55 pm
The one top left is Reg, surely?

Edit
 ::-) :facepalm: I meant Top Right
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 April, 2011, 07:01:25 pm
I was thinking bottom right, it's that over the shoulder, "come hither" look he has.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 April, 2011, 07:18:10 pm
Cursing Tamiya Acrylic Modelling Paint.  3 days drying later (it says only 24 hours on the bottle), and the matte varnish I've added to the part is making the paint run!    :demon: :demon: :demon:  Luckily Fairy Power Spray is good at stripping trashed paint jobs (and I've used it 3 times now on the same part!) without damaging the plastic...   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2011, 07:26:59 pm
On a train home from harrogate, having effected a cake/hat exchange with the wowbaggers in a  pub car park somewhere infeasibly pretty. We just went through Cattal. I was very tempted to get off and ride the rest of the way home, but there's a CrinklyAuntie babysitting, and I ought to get back.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 April, 2011, 07:32:17 pm
Quote from: jogler on 04 April, 2011, 06:19:17 pm
Equivocating.
Oban in the Mondeo or Volvo?

Decided.
Volvo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 07:39:59 pm
I'm getting one of those - a Volvo 850 estate  :thumbsup:.

It's even Maroon  ;D

I iz olde.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 April, 2011, 07:43:09 pm
You'll need to buy a Volvo driver's hat (http://www.google.co.uk/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.irelandblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/buyIrishTweedHat.jpg&sa=X&ei=RGKbTeCVHJTV4ga6pOmFBw&ved=0CAQQ8wc4DA&usg=AFQjCNE2vYABYdy5xzoDEh3fyt1GmYT_Ng), mind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 April, 2011, 07:50:50 pm
I reckon this is also appropriate

Classic Houndstooth Flat Cap by Failsworth |  Tom Dick and Harry (http://www.tomdickandharry.co.uk/flat-caps/failsworth-bold-houndstooth-flat-cap.html)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 07:53:09 pm
Quote from: jogler on 05 April, 2011, 07:50:50 pm
I reckon this is also appropriate

Classic Houndstooth Flat Cap by Failsworth |  Tom Dick and Harry (http://www.tomdickandharry.co.uk/flat-caps/failsworth-bold-houndstooth-flat-cap.html)



LOL!

Erm... there are some who will disown me if I represent in one of those...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 April, 2011, 07:53:30 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 07:39:59 pm
I'm getting one of those - a Volvo 850 estate  :thumbsup:.

It's even Maroon  ;D

I iz olde.

Do they still supply them with two bales of hay and a labrador? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 April, 2011, 07:59:14 pm
Actually,when I find one of these

Wax Cap - Sylkoil -  Barbour (http://www.barbour.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=products.view&ProductID=19966&RangeID=1&PCategoryID=6&PSubCategoryID=152)

I shall buy one to represent my right of passage to being a 60 year old very soon
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 08:04:38 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 05 April, 2011, 07:53:30 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 07:39:59 pm
I'm getting one of those - a Volvo 850 estate  :thumbsup:.

It's even Maroon  ;D

I iz olde.

Do they still supply them with two bales of hay and a labrador? :)

The Labrador (German Shepherd actually...) has been removed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 05 April, 2011, 08:08:46 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 07:39:59 pm
I'm getting one of those - a Volvo 850 estate  :thumbsup:.

It's even Maroon  ;D

I iz olde.
Last year I met a guy who had been a close friend at school (in the middle of last century). Then, he was a rebellious rocker. He moved to Brizzle in the 70s, but came back to Scotland a couple of years ago.
Now, he drives a Volvo, has a caravan and... and... he's an active member of the Ramblers.  ???  :facepalm:

Still a really good guy though.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 April, 2011, 08:10:52 pm
I'm going to adjourn to the office to do enough paper-pushing to give me the time to have Friday off to travel to Oban.
The "joys" of home-based working :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 05 April, 2011, 08:18:18 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 07:39:59 pm
I'm getting one of those - a Volvo 850 estate  :thumbsup:.

It's even Maroon  ;D

I iz olde.

I had one of those as my company motor back in the day. A T5 was the one to get...

There is only one thing more satisfying than knowing you can overtake a Porsche and that's knowing you can overtake a Porsche with a chest of drawers in the back.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 April, 2011, 08:21:10 pm
If we're admitting.
I had a Volvo estate as a company vehicle back in the early eighties.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 05 April, 2011, 08:34:55 pm
At this exact moment i am listening to the who  baba o reily and wondering if prof kathy sykes is a boiler or not ? lol :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 05 April, 2011, 09:40:13 pm
Sitting in by far the nicest pub in Streatham.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 05 April, 2011, 10:51:09 pm
I have just ordered a Humax freesat+ box to replace the Sky+ box I am currently using but have cancelled the subscription to, due to end on 7th April  :thumbsup:

I cancelled my Sky direct debit just in case the cretins try to take another £63 a month off me after my subscriptions ends, and this week they wrote to tell me they needed new direct debit details since I had cancelled it haha. I wonder if they are planning on pulling the 'we have no record of your cancellation' routine. If they are, then I plan on playing the 'I have no money so sue me' routine  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Philip D on 05 April, 2011, 10:57:05 pm
Reading the Welcome Guide of my newly arrived Amazon Kindle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 April, 2011, 11:18:07 pm
Turning out the lights so I can see the glow from the Tritium Light tags I just got. :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 06 April, 2011, 10:51:19 am
Being daunted by my To Do List
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 April, 2011, 10:59:06 am
I'm sorting my stuff for the Oban audax.It seems a bit early but I have more time to do it today 'cause i'm on site all day tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 April, 2011, 11:48:52 am
Waiting for an answer to a call to a software helpline ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 06 April, 2011, 12:04:02 pm
Being at home listening to two chaps fit a new front door.   


Very noisily.

But I have caught up on some web projects and I might get into the garden later.  :thumbsup:

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 06 April, 2011, 12:35:42 pm
Beautiful day out there so why am I stuck indoors – waiting for the  boiler man to do the yearly service  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 April, 2011, 05:41:35 pm
Feeling a bit shocking. Off to bed to try to sleep through it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 April, 2011, 07:05:53 pm
cursing,the,fact,i,knocked,water,ofer,the,laptop,and,now,the,keys,are,all,weird.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 06 April, 2011, 09:39:02 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 05 April, 2011, 07:53:30 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 07:39:59 pm
I'm getting one of those - a Volvo 850 estate  :thumbsup:.

It's even Maroon  ;D

I iz olde.

Do they still supply them with two bales of hay and a labrador? :)

You can't half go off some people tho'but!  ;D

That diesel 'old bloke's' car left yours at quarter to three last Saturday and I was having a brew with my mum & dad in Manchester at four o'clock.Not a bloody dog in sight...

Anyways now you've become a Honda owner do we call you Howard or Hilda?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 06 April, 2011, 09:40:21 pm
Quote from: Manotea on 05 April, 2011, 08:18:18 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 05 April, 2011, 07:39:59 pm
I'm getting one of those - a Volvo 850 estate  :thumbsup:.

It's even Maroon  ;D

I iz olde.

I had one of those as my company motor back in the day. A T5 was the one to get...

There is only one thing more satisfying than knowing you can overtake a Porsche and that's knowing you can overtake a Porsche with a chest of drawers in the back.

A chest of drawers in the back of a Porsche would play havoc with the aerodynamics . . .  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 06 April, 2011, 09:58:25 pm
Drinking a warm can of Fosters, too tired to make lunch for tomorrow, too apathetic to get up from my chair to go to bed, wondering if I will get paid tomorrow (T+9 business days).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 07 April, 2011, 07:03:52 am
Packing bags in a motel near Auckland airport in preparation for tomorrows flight back to UK after 6 fantastic weeks touring New Zealand. Back to work next week  :(
Title: Right now
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 April, 2011, 07:58:03 am
Catching up with over a week's worth of this thread, shedding tears at the thought of Kirst standing sorrowfully waving bobb off at Waverly and wondering whether the film will be entitled Briefs Encounter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 07 April, 2011, 08:05:50 am
About to ride into Bristol to meet a bunch of people for a ride :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 April, 2011, 11:26:21 am
Attempting to to boostrap my brain while absorbing steroids and antihistamines as rapidly as possible so as not to sneeze all over the physioterrorist.

Knee has stopped hurting this morning, naturally.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 07 April, 2011, 11:37:10 am
I've just escaped the zombies in Mordor Central.

It's OK, don't worry - I stayed in my steel protective tube. However I hope it rains soon and washes al the zombie flesh off the windows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 07 April, 2011, 12:06:00 pm
Waiting for my batteries to recharge. Done quite a bit of screwing this morning.

90mm easy to screw screws are still hard to get in.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 07 April, 2011, 12:20:35 pm
Quote from: essexian on 07 April, 2011, 12:06:00 pm
Waiting for my batteries to recharge. Done quite a bit of screwing this morning.

90mm easy to screw screws are still hard to get in.



That is why Man (or Woman) invented the hammer ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 07 April, 2011, 12:21:06 pm
Suffering for testing a ThoraxTrainer, I've got a bad case of DOMS. :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 07 April, 2011, 07:46:53 pm
I sat down with a glass of wine and some cheese. It was a nice 135g piece of channel island Brie. I intended to eat a few slices of it as a starter. It is now gone  :o  :facepalm:  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 07 April, 2011, 07:49:22 pm
Quote from: Feline on 07 April, 2011, 07:46:53 pm
I sat down with a glass of wine and some cheese. It was a nice 135g piece of channel island Brie. I intended to eat a few slices of it as a starter. It is now gone  :o  :facepalm:  :smug:
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 07 April, 2011, 08:42:49 pm
Going all bleary-eyed after a day of online applications for training contracts.

It might be another three fingers night...   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 April, 2011, 07:52:21 am
Not setting off for work.  SmallestCub still poorly, so Dearly_Beloved has taken the big'un to school whilst I stay here (unlike yesterday when the SC went in the bike seat in his PJs).  Then I'm off to work, but we probably aren't going to go away tonight when I get home, after all.  Ho hum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 08 April, 2011, 08:50:03 am
having a haddock headache for breakfast.   :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 09 April, 2011, 04:11:40 am
Putting stuff in the car!

Scotland, here we come!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 09 April, 2011, 06:08:19 am
heading to London to be a tour guide for some american & indian colleagues for the day.  Should be quite good actually, BorisBikes are on my secret agenda for them all..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 09 April, 2011, 06:24:39 am
Wondering why I set the alarm one hour earlier than I needed to....  >:(
Title: Right now
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 April, 2011, 07:49:18 am
Contemplating aching legs, watching a very promising weather forecast and about to don lycra before going downstairs for yet another cooked breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 09 April, 2011, 07:54:44 am
Having a little browse on here, seeing all your clever and amusing posts.  My favourite part of most days!!

Shortly I'll get ready to ride to work for a full day of skating in the Park, can't wait!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 April, 2011, 01:09:49 pm
Suffering with a headache.

That is the least of my worries right now.

Spent the morning at James Cook Hospital having my top lips sown up, due to some idiot deciding my face looked too lovely to stay the way it was (probably he thought that :) ), and decided to rearrange it at 6:30AM in the car park of Blythe services...

So I am ouchy right now.... :(

TLD and Mrs T are being stars, helping me get through the "why?"s....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 09 April, 2011, 01:15:30 pm
That's terrible Tiermat, get well soon.

I'm collecting together and double bagging the last of the bits of asbestos board from when we had our eves etc redone. Not that much left and then I think tahts all the asbestos gone from our property - well bar the shed roof but that can stay.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 April, 2011, 02:28:39 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 09 April, 2011, 01:09:49 pm
Suffering with a headache.

That is the least of my worries right now.

Spent the morning at James Cook Hospital having my top lips sown up, due to some idiot deciding my face looked too lovely to stay the way it was (probably he thought that :) ), and decided to rearrange it at 6:30AM in the car park of Blythe services...

So I am ouchy right now.... :(

TLD and Mrs T are being stars, helping me get through the "why?"s....

Hope that they gave you penty of good quality painkillers to go with that.  GWS, and I really hope that the rest of your weekend is significantly better that it has been so far!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 April, 2011, 07:45:17 pm
Big hugs to you, mate.  I can't understand why people get so insane about things that they think that's an appropriate response.  We'll never understand it.

I hope you got enough of his details to report the incident (there's almost certainly CCTV), and that you GWS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 April, 2011, 07:57:13 pm
Right now, I am eating the last flapjack. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 09 April, 2011, 08:02:24 pm
Meeps at Tiermat!  Hope you recover both physically and mentally soonest!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 09 April, 2011, 08:17:48 pm
Phil! WTF?  :o

It wasn't the line manager from your last contract was it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 April, 2011, 08:22:41 pm
That looks nasty Tiermat, hope the police are taking an active interest  >:(

Heal well & quickly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Charlotte on 09 April, 2011, 08:44:55 pm
Sodding Norah, what happened, Tiermat?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 April, 2011, 09:07:14 pm
Mmm, that doesn't sound good :(

Tonight I am mostly being an audax widow. Drinking kriek, eating dark chocolate :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 09 April, 2011, 09:42:25 pm
Ooh tiermat, I'm sorry to hear that...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 10 April, 2011, 12:05:12 am
Feeling sick that two horses died in the Grand National (and one apparently later described as an "obstacle on the course" by a commentator).

Horrific.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 April, 2011, 08:01:14 am
Quote from: clarion on 09 April, 2011, 07:45:17 pm
Big hugs to you, mate.  I can't understand why people get so insane about things that they think that's an appropriate response.  We'll never understand it.

I hope you got enough of his details to report the incident (there's almost certainly CCTV), and that you GWS.

Thankyou for your support, all of you.

I migth just start another thread on this so I can delete it if needs be.

Police involved, NYP very very good (it helps that I have friends and family in the force).

I have a witness who volunteered his details.

Physically I am ok, mentally not so, floods of tears come in waves at the moment.  Have decided not to go to work this week (I work for a PSC so appearing on a client's site looking like I do right now will probably not be a good idea!)

Ok, I'll go and detail what happened in another thread, maybe it will help get it out of my system...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 10 April, 2011, 06:41:19 pm
Best wishes, tiermat. 

Right now, I'm running a bath and sorting the piles of stuff into slightly different piles.  There's method in here, somewhere, but it's probably at the bottom of one of the heaps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 10 April, 2011, 08:58:27 pm
Firstly, best wishes to Tiermat, sorry to hear about your incident, get well soon and I hope the police get hold of the driver and give him a taste of his own medicine.   :-\

Pretty sad that two horsies died in the grand national.  They should stop racing on horses horses, remove the  jumps, and make the jockeys do the race on Penny Farthings!   :thumbsup:
Now running a bath!   :thumbsup:  (a rubber duckie smiley would be good!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 10 April, 2011, 10:06:52 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 10 April, 2011, 08:58:27 pm
Pretty sad that two horsies died in the grand national.  They should stop racing on horses horses, remove the  jumps, and make the jockeys do the race on Penny Farthings!   :thumbsup:
+1 to that.

Article about cruelty of Grand National here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/apr/10/grand-national-bullfighting-deaths). I am still utterly sickened.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 10 April, 2011, 11:34:23 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 10 April, 2011, 12:05:12 am
Feeling sick that two horses died in the Grand National (and one apparently later described as an "obstacle on the course" by a commentator).

Horrific.

Agreed. It's barbaric.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 11 April, 2011, 02:17:02 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 10 April, 2011, 10:06:52 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 10 April, 2011, 08:58:27 pm
Pretty sad that two horsies died in the grand national.  They should stop racing on horses horses, remove the  jumps, and make the jockeys do the race on Penny Farthings!   :thumbsup:
+1 to that.

Article about cruelty of Grand National here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/apr/10/grand-national-bullfighting-deaths). I am still utterly sickened.

I don't have any figures but suspect that's a lot fewer deaths than occur in greyhound racing on a much more frequent basis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 11 April, 2011, 03:22:08 pm
I just took a couple of chunky locks (New-York D-Lock, and Street Cuffs) down to the bike store, so I can cycle Red into work without (i) having to worry about locking him up with only one lock & (ii) needing to carry two heavy locks in a top bag on an Arkel Randonneur rack, which really can't take too much weight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 11 April, 2011, 03:50:06 pm
eating ice cream :P :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 April, 2011, 04:16:50 pm
Busy busy busy, eh? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 April, 2011, 04:18:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSmeFuXT06M

:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 11 April, 2011, 04:57:01 pm
That's right :). It's hard work ignoring so many things that need doing ;D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 April, 2011, 05:11:05 pm
Writing 'end of year' reports.  :sick:
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 April, 2011, 05:25:08 pm
Summoning the energy for the karate class run, and wondering if there's some paracetemol lurking at the bottom of a bag somewhere.  If not, I may have to resort to frankly silly doses of calpol.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 11 April, 2011, 06:41:13 pm
I am inGlastonbury on amission to obtain the yACF baton fromParrettPedlar of this parish.
I found an iPhone 4 at the spire monument and phoned 'mum' in it's contacts to let it's owner know where it was. The lad seemed overcome with gratitude that his phone hadn't been nicked!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 April, 2011, 06:46:00 pm
Enjoying the light show that is - getting up out of a chair too quickly when under the influence of post exercise hypotension and post blood donation hypotension.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 11 April, 2011, 07:52:20 pm
Deciding whether to pour another of red. Yeah, why not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 April, 2011, 07:57:42 pm
Giving serious consideration to n-3
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 11 April, 2011, 08:43:36 pm
Quote from: jogler on 11 April, 2011, 07:57:42 pm
Giving serious consideration to n-3
How does that work then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 11 April, 2011, 09:11:35 pm
Settling down, in an otherwise empty clifftop house on the edge of a tiny village, listening to the wind whistling round the eaves, after a long day playing signalman on a steam railway, followed by steak & a many of pints, to watching ch5's "Resident Evil: Extinction" fillum starring my fave dream gurl Milla HoHoWitch.

Unlikely to sleep tonight.  House nowhere near zombie-proof enough. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 April, 2011, 09:18:33 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 11 April, 2011, 08:43:36 pm
Quote from: jogler on 11 April, 2011, 07:57:42 pm
Giving serious consideration to n-3
How does that work then?

one sells two folders & an upright trike not ridden for many a while in preperation for a possible house move
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 11 April, 2011, 11:07:56 pm
coagulation screen and a cross-match for a 'bleeder' in A&E. 11 nights on call (on top of a 37.5hr week) in 18 days. Tonights the last one until Good Friday  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 April, 2011, 09:10:36 am
:thumbsup:  Hope you catch up on some sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 12 April, 2011, 09:40:25 am
A bit of a lie-in now on my 'compensatory rest'- not in work until lunch time  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 12 April, 2011, 09:50:47 am
Wishing I hadn't fallen down the stairs on Sunday :(

I was rescuing a baby rabbit that had mysteriously appeared upstairs, and fell over my own feet on the way.  My lower back is pretty painful (old being-knocked-off injury that recurs) and I was meant to be going for a ride with Tewdric today.  It's a fantastic day, with bright sun and little wind, and we were going off over the hills. 

I got as far as the end of the drive and decided it would be a Bad Idea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 12 April, 2011, 10:00:17 am
Sat in the office, looking round my colleagues for something to do.

After two years on secondment I have returned to the office just as a big project ended and a number of people are scrabbling for work.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 April, 2011, 10:08:39 am
Oh, poor MV.

Eeevil bunny!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 12 April, 2011, 10:12:23 am
I suspect that the bunny was an innocent party in all this.

(http://bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/39.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 April, 2011, 10:22:33 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 12 April, 2011, 10:12:23 am
I suspect that the bunny was an innocent party in all this.

(http://bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/39.jpg)

OMG, that cat is HUGE!!!  :o

I bet it's about to crush that car.

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 April, 2011, 10:47:47 am
Reminiscing.  The posts elsewhere (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=46057.msg912176#msg912176) about the JB in York led me to accidentally find this John Bull Surfing Club (http://www.holmea.demon.co.uk/JBSC/John%20Bull%20Surfing%20Club.htm) which I'd completely forgotten about.  I shared a house with two of the guys in the photograph, and remember the state they were in when they came home from that trip!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 April, 2011, 11:57:41 am
Checking on the internet, to examine the photos posted by the webcam, to see if the bin-men have been. Yes. Now off out to retrieve the bin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 April, 2011, 12:07:51 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 12 April, 2011, 11:57:41 am
Checking on the internet, to examine the photos posted by the webcam, to see if the bin-men have been. Yes. Now off out to retrieve the bin.

Have you ever considered using Windows a window?
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 April, 2011, 12:13:20 pm
Catching up on Waking the Dead that I fell asleep during on Sunday....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 April, 2011, 12:17:00 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 April, 2011, 12:07:51 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 12 April, 2011, 11:57:41 am
Checking on the internet, to examine the photos posted by the webcam, to see if the bin-men have been. Yes. Now off out to retrieve the bin.

Have you ever considered using Windows a window?
 
I am currently looking through the window at this view:
(click to show/hide)
To stay glued to the back door window to see if the bin-men have been would be completely against the ethos of the place.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 12 April, 2011, 12:24:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 April, 2011, 10:22:33 am
I bet it's about to crush that car.

It's OK, I did that myself on Saturday  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 12 April, 2011, 01:00:52 pm
Sitting in the sun room, looking out over a lovely expanse of sea loch, the sun is shining and the BT engineer is digging up loads of peat trying to fine a break in our cable. Hopefully he will find it and fix it and we will have broadband!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 12 April, 2011, 04:08:24 pm
Being very bored and trying to resist the siren call of the vending machine
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 April, 2011, 06:25:01 pm
Feeling guilty for contemplating lighting a fire: after all, the sun has been shining all day. But it's quite cold/damp in here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 April, 2011, 06:30:10 pm
Chortling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 12 April, 2011, 06:33:05 pm
Waiting for Son2 to go to swimming so I can get onto the Xbox to play Red Dead Redemption on line - such a fun game.  I am finally being my lifelong hero - Clint Eastwood in the Wild West.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 April, 2011, 09:20:34 am
Deeply regretting opening that second bottle of wine last night.

 :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 April, 2011, 09:34:57 am
Baking bread, and contemplating making a second sort of bread.  Then I shall probably make a St Clements cake and perhaps some flapjack (plain? chocolate? raisin? oh the dilemma) then make some soup and pop out to the shop for some bits and bobs to go with jacket spuds.

I've already fettled small children into a state to face the world and sent them all on their way to places.  And loaded the dishwasher this morning and set it going and am onto the second load of laundry.

I appear to be a housewife.  How odd.

I'm also listening to music really quite loud, and singing.

Hah - I laugh in the face of Wednesday!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 13 April, 2011, 12:37:31 pm
Trying to conjure up a postal delivery by sitting down to a hot meal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 13 April, 2011, 01:00:34 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 13 April, 2011, 12:37:31 pm
Trying to conjure up a postal delivery by sitting down to a hot meal.

No.

You need to take a bath, engage in having a dump, or be in the middle of rumpy pumpy for that to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 13 April, 2011, 01:24:37 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 13 April, 2011, 09:20:34 am
Deeply regretting opening that second bottle of wine last night.

 :sick:

There's a cure for that...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 April, 2011, 01:50:29 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 13 April, 2011, 01:24:37 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 13 April, 2011, 09:20:34 am
Deeply regretting opening that second bottle of wine last night.

 :sick:

There's a cure for that...

Yup. Chocolate. Eating some right now  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 April, 2011, 03:41:04 pm
Begining to formulate a broad plan to get sufficiently fit & experienced to ride LEL 2013.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 13 April, 2011, 03:57:20 pm
I'm updating the firmware on my Garmin Edge and hoping it doesn't get b0rked in the process  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 April, 2011, 07:55:17 pm
Quote from: Grub on 12 April, 2011, 06:33:05 pm
Waiting for Son2 to go to swimming so I can get onto the Xbox to play Red Dead Redemption on line - such a fun game.  I am finally being my lifelong hero - Clint Eastwood in the Wild West.

It's a good game that Red Dead Redemption (not played it online on my PS3 though).
Currently taking a break from that and playing Batman: Arkham Asylum (The joker is certainly well voice acted, Batman is rather flat though.  And Harley Quinn.... Gosh...   Good 3d modelling, the right things jiggle about, and good voice acting and motion capture!  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:)

At the moment though, I'm sticking down wee strips of tesco value wrapping foil to chrome some parts on my merc benz 540K 1:24 scale model I'm fettling together!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 April, 2011, 08:07:10 pm
Bathing small children.  Well, footling on the interwebs and listening to the pair of them hopefully not drowning each other from the other end of the house.  But today I have been mostly cooking:  soup and bread and jacket spuds for lunch with the boab clan, and St Clements cake, and tacos with spicy beef (mushroom veggie option) for tea tonight and cottage pie for their tea tomorrow.  I do like cooking  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 April, 2011, 08:19:08 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 12 April, 2011, 06:30:10 pm
Chortling.

Chorlton?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0xZh2Uf5v0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0xZh2Uf5v0)

Sounds a bit like this should be the yacf theme tune, "zoom around on your wheels so merrily!"    ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 April, 2011, 08:41:13 pm
Thumbtwiddling while tedious disk diagnostics slowly work their way towards the 98% point, where errors tend to show up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 April, 2011, 09:19:09 pm
Thanking my lucky stars that iOS development is not (currently) my sole source of income ... and waiting for my *very* loud external disk to finish syncing so I can go to bed without the sounds of it thrashing away coming through the walls.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 April, 2011, 11:57:28 pm
Waiting for flapjack to finish cooking.....  I decided to make plain, in the end.  It's probably going to get chocolated though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 14 April, 2011, 12:02:17 am
Quote from: BrianI on 13 April, 2011, 08:19:08 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 12 April, 2011, 06:30:10 pm
Chortling.

Chorlton?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0xZh2Uf5v0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0xZh2Uf5v0)

Sounds a bit like this should be the yacf theme tune, "zoom around on your wheels so merrily!"    ;D

Chorlton ? 'S where I live  :thumbsup:

Sadly, I think that the makers, Cosgrove Hall, have gone  :'(

Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 April, 2011, 06:10:53 am
Suffering knee-pain induced insomnia and empathising with Mal Volio on the futilty of falling downstairs and being unable to ride a bike as a result.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 14 April, 2011, 09:43:09 am
Waiting for my parents to finish faffing so we can go out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 14 April, 2011, 09:50:52 am
Trying to get my head around an "process" that probably hasn't changed since before Pepys was made Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board.  Ohh, my aching bonce.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 14 April, 2011, 12:18:11 pm
Drinking a cup of coffee made with water boiled in my Kelly kettle. I've had it for years but never got round to using it. I'll be bringing it to the Not A Royal Wedding camping trip.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 April, 2011, 12:33:46 pm
EldestCub and I are eating our second breakfast, on the train, on our way to Tiermat's House of Fine  Coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 April, 2011, 12:40:56 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 13 April, 2011, 08:19:08 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 12 April, 2011, 06:30:10 pm
Chortling.

Chorlton?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0xZh2Uf5v0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0xZh2Uf5v0)

Sounds a bit like this should be the yacf theme tune, "zoom around on your wheels so merrily!"    ;D

<Deep Lancastrian Accent>
'allo Little Old Lady
</DLA>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 April, 2011, 02:09:37 pm
Bleeding.

Gorse & dog rose 1 - 1 Jaded
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 14 April, 2011, 02:22:23 pm
Continuing the tedious hunt for non existent administrative jobs in Sheffield. Seems like as soon as they get posted they've been filled.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 April, 2011, 02:41:10 pm
Wishing it was next week when bobb will be here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 April, 2011, 02:58:46 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 14 April, 2011, 02:09:37 pm
Bleeding.

+1

Sysadmin blood sacrifice: 1  Dodgy ATA cable: 0
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 14 April, 2011, 04:42:42 pm
Waiting for the  piano tuner to arrive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 April, 2011, 04:53:18 pm
Trying to complete1 Angry Birds Rio on the iPad ...

1 - as in 'three stars on every level' complete
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 14 April, 2011, 07:09:27 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 14 April, 2011, 02:41:10 pm
Wishing it was next week when bobb will be here.

Celebrating,that,Kirst,has,a,new,keynoard.
 ;D

Off to the pub for my tea, as there's no food left in the house (except a cornflake or two), and I leave Cornwall tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 April, 2011, 07:34:47 pm
i,don.t,hafe,a,new,keynoard1,i,was,posting,from,my,phone,at,lunchtime.,
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 April, 2011, 07:39:43 pm
Making a mushroomy garlicky pasta thing which is smelling rather nom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 April, 2011, 07:40:26 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 14 April, 2011, 02:41:10 pm
Wishing it was next week when bobb will be here.
Awww.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 April, 2011, 08:14:31 pm
Enjoying being able to read a book in the dwindling daylight of the great outside without freezing my nuts off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 14 April, 2011, 08:32:26 pm
Just checked my office email for the document I am supposed to read tonight / on the train tomorrow.

It's not there  :thumbsup: yet  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 April, 2011, 08:33:49 pm
Watching Shrek, eating Spag Bol. I am a simple soul  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 14 April, 2011, 08:38:04 pm
the fridge was empty, so just back from dinner at the pub.  Lots of banter with the [other] locals and 3 lovely pints of wherry. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 April, 2011, 09:58:10 pm
Reading 22 pages of a document, which is my contribution to a larger mission document that we're writing, and which has to have the various bits glued together tomorrow, for submission on Monday.  I've just spent most of the last two days writing this bit, and assuming I don't find any big issues tonight, I can go home shortly.  Yay!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 April, 2011, 10:02:48 pm
Tesco.com just came with £170 worth of stuff to restock my empty cupboards. The driver kindly carried all the boxes into my kitchen for me so i could unload them straight into the fridge and cupboards. I am now replenished with food stocks and even more importantly wine  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 April, 2011, 10:08:20 pm
Thinking how wonderful Woolly makes my cooking look on his new website (http://gourmand.woollypigs.com/). :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 April, 2011, 10:10:18 pm
Currently thinking about how I could explain yet another n+1 (a Van Nicholas Yukon fixed) to SWMBO in such a way that I don't die of terminal earache :)

(said n+1 hasn't been bought, yet, but the LBS made me an offer I'm finding it very difficult to refuse)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 14 April, 2011, 10:11:01 pm
Quote from: interzen on 14 April, 2011, 10:10:18 pm
Currently thinking about how I could explain yet another n+1 (a Van Nicholas Yukon fixed) to SWMBO in such a way that I don't die of terminal earache :)

(said n+1 hasn't been bought yet, but the LBS made me an offer I'm finding it very difficult to refuse)

You could hide it at mine.  I wouldn't use it on anything longer than a 600 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 April, 2011, 10:13:24 pm
How would you do a Yukon fixed?  I thought the dropouts were vertical.

*leans in, interested in the answer, while attempting to affect an air of nonchalance, in case anyone notices and wants to point out that it is not, financially, a very good time to be buying a new Ti bike*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 April, 2011, 10:16:21 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 April, 2011, 10:13:24 pm
How would you do a Yukon fixed?  I thought the dropouts were vertical.

*leans in, interested in the answer, while attempting to affect an air of nonchalance, in case anyone notices and wants to point out that it is not, financially, a very good time to be buying a new Ti bike*
Clicky ... (http://vannicholas.com/36/Yukon_Fixed/bike.aspx) - the only change I'd make is fitting a Honey B17 Standard. The Swift is far too narrow for me.

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 April, 2011, 10:20:18 pm
Yon link didn't work, and I can't see a horizontal dropout (or track ends or EBB ) as an option ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 April, 2011, 10:23:16 pm
The first attempt at posting the link got butchered - I've corrected it, but just in case it's still being uncooperative, try this:

http://vannicholas.com/36/Yukon_Fixed/bike.aspx

<waynes_world>
It will be mine. Oh yes. It will be mine.
</waynes_world>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 14 April, 2011, 10:24:47 pm
Quote from: interzen on 14 April, 2011, 10:16:21 pm
Clicky ... (http://vannicholas.com/36/Yukon_Fixed/bike.aspx) - the only change I'd make is fitting a Honey B17 Standard. The Swift is far too narrow for me.

 ;D
[/quote]

Likewise; but before that I'd make sure not to choose the polished alloy fork option (does look good though).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 April, 2011, 10:25:28 pm
Ah.  I see now.  That's awfully nice.

Any idea what the OLN is?

No reason ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 April, 2011, 10:29:06 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 April, 2011, 10:25:28 pm
Ah.  I see now.  That's awfully nice.

Any idea what the OLN is?

No reason ;)
120mm, which means it'd stay as a double-fixed rather than being S3X'd.

Think I'll go and have a little lie down now ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 April, 2011, 10:37:06 pm
*rubs thighs*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 April, 2011, 10:46:33 pm
Quote from: TimO on 14 April, 2011, 09:58:10 pm
Reading 22 pages of a document, which is my contribution to a larger mission document that we're writing, and which has to have the various bits glued together tomorrow, for submission on Monday.  I've just spent most of the last two days writing this bit, and assuming I don't find any big issues tonight, I can go home shortly.  Yay!

Right a few odd and sods sorted, but I think it's now close enough to being done, that I can upload it onto our Sharepoint (spit) server, call it a day, and go home!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 14 April, 2011, 10:50:36 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 April, 2011, 10:37:06 pm
*rubs thighs*

Whilst you are at the bank with my stockings, can you pick up enough for a BIG shed and nice custom tourer for me? Ta :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 April, 2011, 11:10:45 pm
Of course. :) :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 15 April, 2011, 01:19:07 am
Celebrating 15 years of being Alive :-)

Having a little sniffle for the past that is no more and a, hopeful, smile for the present day and the future that might not have been ;)

Dramatic I know O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 15 April, 2011, 01:30:24 am
Nice one PD!

I'm just back from Inverness. Mrs J and Master J have got the train up from Manchester. Except because of a delayed train and missed connection, they got a taxi to Inverness from Perth. Apparently that's cheaper than holding back the connecting train and getting a fine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 15 April, 2011, 03:51:10 am
Gettinng ready to go to the airport
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 15 April, 2011, 06:02:45 am
damn, I've been awake since 4..  No real reason, just wide awake.

Have had 3 cups of tea and done some work, about to go for a swim.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 April, 2011, 09:19:22 am
Quote from: Pedaldog on 15 April, 2011, 01:19:07 am
Celebrating 15 years of being Alive :-)

Having a little sniffle for the past that is no more and a, hopeful, smile for the present day and the future that might not have been ;)

Dramatic I know O:-)

We're glad you're still with us, PD :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 April, 2011, 10:11:31 am
Sorting a tandem et al for tonight's FNRttC,Manc./Bpool.

My stoker is  still inerpit 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 April, 2011, 10:16:44 am
Quote from: jogler on 15 April, 2011, 10:11:31 am
Sorting a tandem et al for tonight's FNRttC,Manc./Bpool.

My stoker is  still inerpit 8)

No, she's undertaking essential ride prep, making sure that she's on peak form at midnight.  I assume that later today she will be scoffing loads of marj-cake undertaking essential carb-loading?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 April, 2011, 11:02:23 am
 For a variety of reasons mrs. jogler has not baked since the Wiggy 100 preperations
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 April, 2011, 12:43:45 pm
Looking for a pen.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 April, 2011, 01:18:21 pm
Looking for inspiration
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 April, 2011, 01:21:17 pm
Quote from: interzen on 15 April, 2011, 01:18:21 pm
Looking for inspiration

There's some over there look, behind those books. Can I borrow a pen?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 April, 2011, 01:23:55 pm
Wondering which teetering pile of crap I've hidden the envelopes in.  Also trying to decide if it would be bad form to not take a pump (since even the mini-pump doesn;t fit in the saddlepack) with me on the FNRttC.  I mean, someone will have one I can borrow,  and I'm not taking a lock, or any cake.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 April, 2011, 01:26:29 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 15 April, 2011, 01:23:55 pm
Wondering which teetering pile of crap I've hidden the envelopes in.  Also trying to decide if it would be bad form to not take a pump (since even the mini-pump doesn;t fit in the saddlepack) with me on the FNRttC.  I mean, someone will have one I can borrow,  and I'm not taking a lock, or any cake.....

This is dangerous thinking.
Last week I started a ride with 59 other cyclists.I rode the last 80km solo.
Think on......

ETA  attach the pump to the frame with zip ties or tape of some sort.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 15 April, 2011, 01:54:28 pm
doggie sitting until Monday afternoon
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 April, 2011, 01:55:40 pm
Missing Woolly who's in DK for the weekend.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si_Co on 15 April, 2011, 02:00:17 pm
Pondering what jobs require absolutely no interaction with other people in any way, shape or form
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 April, 2011, 02:01:13 pm
a wc cubicle anna daily newspaper?
hth
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 15 April, 2011, 02:26:00 pm
Wondering WTF the huge plume of black smoke was rising up from a few of streets away... Helicopter circling at the moment.  Loads of sirens earlier.

EDIT: Huge fire between a motorbike shop and a house in Witham, apparently (according to a quick search on that twitter thingie).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 April, 2011, 02:32:20 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 April, 2011, 01:26:29 pm
This is dangerous thinking.
Last week I started a ride with 59 other cyclists.I rode the last 80km solo.
Think on......

ETA  attach the pump to the frame with zip ties or tape of some sort.

Yebbut that was audaxing, where you are meant to be self-supporting and audacious and challenge yourself, and which is undertaken by people who are ded 'ard and who will do things like carrying on riding when their frame breaks in two. 

This is FNRttCing, where you are meant to have fun and get there in time for (beer for) breakfast and allowed to be useless at fixing punctures and minor bike wibbles, although people might take the piss laugh and point in a well-natured lightly mocking jovial manner while they help you.

It'll fit in a jersey pocket.  But I think it'll just annoy me there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 15 April, 2011, 02:40:13 pm
Waiting for home time and wondering if I can get away with reading the new CityCycling (http://www.citycycling.co.uk) at work while I'm waiting.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 15 April, 2011, 03:51:07 pm
Using the last bit of bandwidth before Radio Silence is imposed by entering Mordor Central.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 April, 2011, 04:02:06 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 15 April, 2011, 02:32:20 pm
It'll fit in a jersey pocket.  But I think it'll just annoy me there.

I have a pump.  And some CO2.  And I expect we'll be riding at about the same pace.

And the TECs will have one.

As will almost everyone else.

You'll be fine, as long as you don't have a you-know-what on the way to the station and miss your train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 15 April, 2011, 04:15:46 pm
Just paid my Council Tax online, and I'm just about to go and get a refund from the horriblemarket.

Short story is that the checkout operating system* had a funny five minutes, cocked up the totals and effectively ran the cashback through twice. The relevant department at the head orifice then added their own little cockup by accidentally shredding the copy of the bank statement showing the erroneous deductions, but it's all sorted now...

Technological progress = finding new ways fix a process until it breaks.  :demon:

* The checkouts run on Windoze, so go figure. And the reboot process makes XP look fast  ;D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 April, 2011, 08:13:24 pm
Eating toast with marmite.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 April, 2011, 08:16:19 pm
Feeling out of my depth. Really quite a lot  :(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 April, 2011, 08:18:13 pm
Fiddling with the S3X hub on The Beast - given that SWMBO has decreed that she's going up to Edinburgh on Wednesday I'm going to make the most of the fact that I'll be able to get a few miles in without been made to feel guilty about not dragging my arse to Leeds.

Or something.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 April, 2011, 08:30:40 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 15 April, 2011, 08:16:19 pm
Feeling out of my depth. Really quite a lot  :(.

Hope you find shallower waters soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 15 April, 2011, 08:38:33 pm
Cursing my recurring groin condition and pissed off that I won't be able to ride down to Manchester tonight to say hello to the FNTttCers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 April, 2011, 09:45:36 pm
On a train. On my way!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 April, 2011, 09:47:57 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 15 April, 2011, 09:45:36 pm
On a train. On my way!

Packing the car & we'll be on our way very soon
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 15 April, 2011, 10:38:51 pm
Quote from: torslanda on 15 April, 2011, 08:38:33 pm
Cursing my recurring groin condition and pissed off that I won't be able to ride down to Manchester tonight to say hello to the FNTttCers.

Shame,sorry to hear that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 April, 2011, 10:50:33 pm
skyping,nonn,
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 15 April, 2011, 11:03:31 pm
About to test how slow my broadband really is. I may be some time...  :-\
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 April, 2011, 11:18:21 pm
I am well into my thirteenth hour of this train journey and I am now so bored that I am beginning to be able to distinguish between different types of boredom and thus am in the paradoxical situation that I'm starting to find boredom interesting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 April, 2011, 11:22:48 pm
Do be careful

N is for Neville who died of ennui (http://ops.tamu.edu/x075bb/poems/gorey/) ;D
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 April, 2011, 12:03:20 am
Still stuck at Retford.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 April, 2011, 12:28:10 am
I've found a copy of the sun and I'm doing the sudoku.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 April, 2011, 01:27:19 am
Moving at more than 100mph towards Grantham.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 02:49:26 am
Awoken by extremely loud music from flat upstairs. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 April, 2011, 04:19:41 am
Eating a very fine cheese sarnie in Ribchester.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 16 April, 2011, 04:32:36 am
Putting another sample on the synchrotron.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 April, 2011, 04:58:19 am
About to in to bed after riding back from King's Cross in two taxis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 April, 2011, 08:55:14 am
Having daymares.
An overactive imagination is a curse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 16 April, 2011, 09:49:12 am
Sorting stuff for going to Paris tomorrow :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 April, 2011, 01:14:22 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 16 April, 2011, 04:58:19 am
About to in to bed after riding back from King's Cross in two taxis.

:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 April, 2011, 02:45:31 pm
Digesting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 16 April, 2011, 02:59:43 pm
I was looking forward to an afternoon nap.  But now that I see that "Tron: Legacy" is out on DVD, I'm off into town to buy a copy at some TLA shop whose brand image is that of a dog listening to a gramophone.

As soon as I've hung up the washing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 03:04:05 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 02:49:26 am
Awoken by extremely loud music from flat upstairs. :(
Just woken up having not slept much last night due to loud music from flat above.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 16 April, 2011, 03:05:19 pm
Cursing the chest infection that means I'm on high-dosage antibiotics for 10 days and the headache they are causing and wishing I could go out on my bike.

San
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 April, 2011, 03:09:30 pm
On a train, nearly home. Will pop into ticket office on way through station and get tickets for the our little adventure in 2 weeks time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: redshift on 16 April, 2011, 03:10:44 pm
Quote from: ravenbait on 16 April, 2011, 03:05:19 pm
Cursing the chest infection that means I'm on high-dosage antibiotics for 10 days and the headache they are causing and wishing I could go out on my bike.

You caught what I just had?  Wow - it must be virulent to get through the intarwebs like that!

I've been off the steroids/antibiotics for a week now, but still need the inhaler to get to work and back.   >:(


Meanwhile, I'm relaxing with a choc chip muffin and a cup of tea between RX31 and RX32 of the next University Challenge series.  No, I won't tell you who's winning, as that would make Tom B sad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 16 April, 2011, 03:15:48 pm
Quote from: redshift on 16 April, 2011, 03:10:44 pm

You caught what I just had?  Wow - it must be virulent to get through the intarwebs like that!

I've been off the steroids/antibiotics for a week now, but still need the inhaler to get to work and back.   >:(

No idea. Doc seems to think that the atypical infection I got while I had the flu last year was merely suppressed by the drugs they gave me and what I need is double the dose for double the time.

I hate being on antibiotics. My body hates antibiotics. I hate being ill. I hate not being able to ride my bike.

I am exceedingly grumpy.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 16 April, 2011, 03:32:06 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 12 April, 2011, 12:24:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 April, 2011, 10:22:33 am
I bet it's about to crush that car.

It's OK, I did that myself on Saturday  :facepalm:

Oh yeah. :(  Did you manage to find all the bits?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 16 April, 2011, 03:33:39 pm
Trying to persuade myself to get out of this chair and make myself some scrambled eggs on toast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 03:40:12 pm
Having dipped into a thread in NSFW, realising how much I truly detest the expression "I would".  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 April, 2011, 03:48:36 pm
Basking in the warm glow of having fettled two bikes without supervision, including changing tyres which usually defeats me. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 04:57:52 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 03:04:05 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 02:49:26 am
Awoken by extremely loud music from flat upstairs. :(
Just woken up having not slept much last night due to loud music from flat above.  >:(
Getting angry at noise from upstairs again. The occupants have woken up and are watching very loud television and shouting.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 16 April, 2011, 05:37:46 pm
Apart from typing this, listening to electric folk and playing along on the mandolin. Fab!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 16 April, 2011, 05:42:52 pm
Quote from: simonp on 16 April, 2011, 03:32:06 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 12 April, 2011, 12:24:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 April, 2011, 10:22:33 am
I bet it's about to crush that car.

It's OK, I did that myself on Saturday  :facepalm:

Oh yeah. :(  Did you manage to find all the bits?



yes. The trim went back on fine and I managed to get the door to work properly.  It's not actually that bad. Still a monumentally stupid thing to do, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 16 April, 2011, 05:46:50 pm
Just having a cup of tea after doing the last clean of the aftermath of the builders. Finally killed the dust monster !

Mrs MV's mother is coming to cut the ribbon on the new kitchen tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 April, 2011, 05:52:18 pm
I've just finished writing to the Scottish ministers for Transport and Tourism at how Scotrail are a heap of crap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 16 April, 2011, 06:06:49 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 04:57:52 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 03:04:05 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 02:49:26 am
Awoken by extremely loud music from flat upstairs. :(
Just woken up having not slept much last night due to loud music from flat above.  >:(
Getting angry at noise from upstairs again. The occupants have woken up and are watching very loud television and shouting.  >:(

I commiserate with you. If it’s any consolation we also have a noisy prick that lives two doors away who finds it impossible to play his euro dance shite without having to open every window in his house. Knob jockey  >:(
I have just sent a noise complaint to the council  :smug: I can’t believe I am the only one that has a problem with the noise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 06:11:53 pm
Sympathies, Domestique.

We've had no problems with upstairs for a couple of years, but the flat has just been bought by new owners and new tenants (or friends of the existing tenants) seem to have moved in with their big, noisy telly and sound system. I couldn't believe what I was hearing at 03.00 today... It was so loud, it was as if it was playing in our own living room.

They're now watching football. I feel like I'm in the stadium itself.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 16 April, 2011, 06:17:33 pm
Maybe you could have a word when you see them Peliroja, as they are new. I think a lot of people just dont realise how noisy flats are.
Our friend here will soon have his BBQ out as the weather warms, that also means euro polish shite house music pumping out form the speakers that are brought outside  >:(
Alas it totally spoils the quiet of the garden/weekend/freetime.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 April, 2011, 06:17:53 pm
I am hiding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 06:23:05 pm
Quote from: Domestique on 16 April, 2011, 06:17:33 pm
Maybe you could have a word when you see them Peliroja, as they are new. I think a lot of people just dont realise how noisy flats are.
Our friend here will soon have his BBQ out as the weather warms, that also means euro polish shite house music pumping out form the speakers that are brought outside  >:(
Alas it totally spoils the quiet of the garden/weekend/freetime.
I think I'll wait until Woolly is home. I don't fancy confronting a load of blokes when I'm here by myself (from the sounds of it there were 3-4 men upstairs last night).

I hope the council takes your complaint seriously. It's really depressing having noisy neighbours. 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 16 April, 2011, 06:31:47 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 06:23:05 pm
Quote from: Domestique on 16 April, 2011, 06:17:33 pm
Maybe you could have a word when you see them Peliroja, as they are new. I think a lot of people just dont realise how noisy flats are.
Our friend here will soon have his BBQ out as the weather warms, that also means euro polish shite house music pumping out form the speakers that are brought outside  >:(
Alas it totally spoils the quiet of the garden/weekend/freetime.
I think I'll wait until Woolly is home. I don't fancy confronting a load of blokes when I'm here by myself (from the sounds of it there were 3-4 men upstairs last night).

I hope the council takes your complaint seriously. It's really depressing having noisy neighbours. 



The people who live downstairs to us are great, as I hope we are to them, so we have been lucky. One of the reasons why we havent sold up and buggered off a long time ago.
Hope you can resolve the situation

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 April, 2011, 06:43:33 pm
Commiserations.  Constant noise is so wearing and depressing .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 April, 2011, 07:02:58 pm
Not watching the footingball that is going on above my head.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 07:22:35 pm
Quote from: Basil on 16 April, 2011, 07:02:58 pm
Not watching the footingball that is going on above my head.
Ditto! God, I really hate football (and the noise it makes).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 16 April, 2011, 07:51:09 pm
One of the reasons I bought a house so far from work, was that I could afford one here, whereas closer to work would have been substantially more expensive (which I couldn't afford), or would have had to be a flat.

I've lived in flats, and mostly they're OK, but it's either a case of people above you being noisy, or feeling guilty about being too noisy for the people below you.

Even if the people directly around you are OK, I've also found that the sorts of areas in London that have flats in, also tend to have higher population densities anyway, so you also find things like more noisy BBQs in the back gardens during the summer.  This is not of course uniquely a flat problem, but the greater number of people in close proximity makes it more likely.

The downside is of course when I'm leaving work at midnight, I know it'll be well after 1am before I can get to bed, which can be a bit of a downer, regardless of how much I like cycle commuting.

Even being in a house, it's a semi, so I still have one neighbour that the house is intimately connected to, but it's potentially a lot less of a problem (and for next door hopefully!)

Currently I'm being very lazy, and eating supper whilst watching episodes of The Big Bang Theory and Chuck on DVDs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 April, 2011, 10:51:54 pm
Just got back from photographing a concert in a church.  Terrible lighting, f/4 at 1/15 on ISO 800.  Used a monopod and hoped.  Tripod wouldn't have helped because of subject movement.  One of those Nikon DSLRs with an ISO of 50,000 would have been nice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 16 April, 2011, 11:02:57 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 10 April, 2011, 10:06:52 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 10 April, 2011, 08:58:27 pm
Pretty sad that two horsies died in the grand national.  They should stop racing on horses horses, remove the  jumps, and make the jockeys do the race on Penny Farthings!   :thumbsup:
+1 to that.

Article about cruelty of Grand National here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/apr/10/grand-national-bullfighting-deaths). I am still utterly sickened.

And 2 more today in the Scottish Grand National.

These races are just too hard on the animals.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 April, 2011, 11:07:59 pm
I've just dragged myself out of bed in a codeine haze and have some emergency curry in the microwave.  Can move my neck again now, mostly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 11:41:23 pm
I'm feeling very angry again at the loud music and shouting (attempt at singing?) which has started again upstairs.

And feeling sad and angry at the link Pluck just posted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 16 April, 2011, 11:48:22 pm
watching dexter series 4 and getting a eye twitch again...also stuffing my face earlier and now feeling sick.

Why do I not feel hungry all day then unsatisfiable in the evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 17 April, 2011, 12:22:59 am
Quote from: peliroja on 16 April, 2011, 11:41:23 pm
I'm feeling very angry again at the loud music and shouting (attempt at singing?) which has started again upstairs.
They're now shouting along to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm9cbx47QGA). FFS.   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 17 April, 2011, 06:40:13 am
Having some breakfast, crunchy nut clusters mmm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 17 April, 2011, 07:16:42 am
Loading the bike with ballast for another trundle-training short audax (the Diddy Doddle, I'm told!).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JonBuoy on 17 April, 2011, 07:31:28 am
Just about to set off for the Hillingdon round of the BHPC race meet.  If any other YACFers make it to the event I'll be on the recumbent tandem  -  that should narrow it down a bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 17 April, 2011, 08:08:03 am
at birmingham airport drinking overpriced but actually rather nice coffee , boarding flight to Paris in 4O minutes




Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 17 April, 2011, 08:09:30 am
at a lan party playing Risk II
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 April, 2011, 10:19:59 am
Waking up, more or less.  And thinking that I must put the rack back on Valencia so that I can be sherpa for the boy again, instead of the other way round, if we're going to ride to Granny's house this morning.  The question is, shall I make him ride back too?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 April, 2011, 10:58:03 am
Watching "Scrapheap Challenge"
Also, trying to decide whether or not to go out and bag a few more bridleways on the Bat Bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 April, 2011, 11:11:03 am
Being pissed off.  The rack won't go back on.  One of the threads is buggered, I think.  Arse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 17 April, 2011, 02:59:06 pm
Trying to work out how to kill permanently a really annoying backpacker (not Vernon this time) who is web-chatting and his pooter says bee-bee-bee-beep every time one person replies and kno-kno-kno-knock for the other "friend" he is communicating with.

Vernon has told me we shouldn't mute his laptop, so the only other option is to kill permanently.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 April, 2011, 03:00:03 pm
Celebrating 35 years' marriage with an afternoon snooze.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 17 April, 2011, 03:12:19 pm
Trying to summon up the energy to go and mow lawns...

...and all the other gardening tasks on my list

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 April, 2011, 03:17:00 pm
Trying the summon the energy to go and have a nap  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 17 April, 2011, 03:33:42 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 17 April, 2011, 03:00:03 pm
Celebrating 35 years' marriage with an afternoon snooze.

I'm surprised you can get away with calling her that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 17 April, 2011, 03:42:45 pm
Looking out over 5 miles of calm sea loch. A yacht is making its way in the breeze down to the harbour. The sun is shining, birds are at at the newly filled bird feeder. New leaves twitter in the wind. The Summer Isles sit glowering on the horizon.

I don't want to leave.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 17 April, 2011, 05:20:38 pm
Recovering after three laps of Richmond Park with a bath and peanut butter on toast. And neighbours are quiet (at the moment). :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 April, 2011, 06:41:10 pm
Feeling a bit sick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 April, 2011, 06:47:31 pm
Watching Debian install, having beaten the notwork driver into submission...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 17 April, 2011, 06:51:11 pm
Finished scoffing pani puri and vegi samosa
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 17 April, 2011, 07:34:56 pm
Listening to Big Snake work his way through his phone book to tell them that he has been to Brighton for the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 17 April, 2011, 11:18:19 pm
Thinking I really must get an early night. I am riding the YACF baton to another country tomorrow  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 17 April, 2011, 11:20:28 pm
drinking
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 18 April, 2011, 10:26:26 am
Wondering what I've forgotten to pack (there's always something).

Also promising myself I will make an effort to try a hire bike in Dublin.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 18 April, 2011, 10:29:54 am
Just booked a physio appointment for them to have a look at my hip.

Hoping that it'll just be a small musclar thing although I can imagine the physio's reaction when I say I'm doing a 400km cycle ride in under 2 weeks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 18 April, 2011, 10:33:57 am
Sitting on a Tuscan hillside in the sun catching up with a week's  worth of unread YACF.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 18 April, 2011, 10:39:12 am
Being irritated by the noise the neighbours are making in their garden.

I know its spring and its a nice day, but do I really need to hear your voices? And telling your children to "get the feck back into the house" is somewhat chavy.

Sigh. Can't wait for winter to drive you idiots back indoors. It would nice nice to hear the birds singing (and the motorway rubbling in the backgroun).

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 18 April, 2011, 10:42:30 am
Having breakfast, looking at this view.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/breakfast_view.jpg)

I think I'll go do my favourite 100km ride today.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 April, 2011, 11:24:31 am
Writing the 'support site' for my iThing apps.

Apple insist on a support website for submitted apps, which is fair enough, but coding HTML is a bit like dentistry with a power drill. I now fully expect them to take issue with my statement that the iPhone GPS is a power-hungry piece of kit (which it is) and for long logging sessions an additional power source is recommended (which it is, and Deano of this parish demonstrated rather nicely yesterday when he was doing a bit of testing for me)

After that, I'm off up to Gear4Music for a bit of retail therapy  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 18 April, 2011, 11:51:56 am
Quote from: interzen on 18 April, 2011, 11:24:31 am
Writing the 'support site' for my iThing apps.


What does the app do?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 April, 2011, 11:59:03 am
Quote from: PaulF on 18 April, 2011, 11:51:56 am
Quote from: interzen on 18 April, 2011, 11:24:31 am
Writing the 'support site' for my iThing apps.


What does the app do?
GPS logging and visualisation - it also sounds like it gives Deano an excuse to bore people with statistics relating to rates of climb and general hilliness :) (sorry Dean, couldn't resist!)

Pix here: iOS app pics | Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?fbid=10150110637841636&id=527151635&aid=275391&l=117d11070a) (assuming the FacePalm public link actually works)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 18 April, 2011, 04:46:35 pm
I'm adding up columns of figures on draft P11s trying to discover a reconciliation discrepancy that I am pretty certain won't be apparent from this process.

But I can't try anything else till it's done.  It's sodding tedious, and it hurts my eyes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 18 April, 2011, 07:55:36 pm
I just remembered to put the new residents parking permit in the car, since it runs out today.  Last year I had five tickets before I noticed them, and then realised that the council hadn't got around to sending me the new permit.

Oddly enough, after I emailed them, it appeared a couple of days later.  Spooky coincidence that.  I then had to appeal the tickets, but since the permits covered me for the period (I just couldn't display it, since they hadn't sent it), they let me off.

I'm amazed that the council doesn't send "you need to renew your permit" notices, since parking permits must be relatively cheap money for them.  Maybe they just want to encourage cockups, and the parking tickets they can issue if you miss renewing it. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 18 April, 2011, 08:11:26 pm
Trying not to super glue my finger to an 1930s Mercedes Benz 540K   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 April, 2011, 08:16:12 pm
Making noise ... with one of these Akai Synth Station 25 for iPhone and iPod Touch at Gear4Music.com (http://www.gear4music.com/Keyboards-and-Pianos/Akai-Synth-Station-25-for-iPhone-and-iPod-Touch/CEW) and an iPod Touch, plus one of these: Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer for iPhone and iPod Touch at Gear4Music.com (http://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Line-6-MIDI-Mobilizer-for-iPhone-and-iPod-Touch/CR4) hooked up to the iPad for a bit of additional acoustic Armageddon :)

Might even record some of it later ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SlowCoach on 18 April, 2011, 09:53:29 pm
Quote from: TimO on 18 April, 2011, 07:55:36 pm
I just remembered to put the new residents parking permit in the car, since it runs out today.

In the days before I cycle commuted I once remembered to put my new work car parking permit in ahead of time - before the old one expired. As I drove up to the barrier the following day the security guard from hell refused to let me past because I didn't have a valid permit. "What's that" I said - proudly pointing to the new permit. "Oh - that's not valid until next week" was the reply  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 19 April, 2011, 06:27:03 am
 having breakfast then going on a cycle tour of central Paris. :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 19 April, 2011, 06:39:09 am
Arse-ing about with Rackspace Cloud Servers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 19 April, 2011, 12:54:34 pm
Sending my CV out.

Joy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 April, 2011, 01:33:01 pm
Trying to understand WTF someone is asking me to do.

(Reads e-mail again)

I suspect nothing has actually changed and the lusers were able to do what they claimed they couldn't do all along.  See the "Working With The Terminally Feebleminded" thread for more examples.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 19 April, 2011, 03:12:56 pm
Wondering what to do about a dead server.

I suspect that either the CPU or the Motherboard has died, in which case I have to see if I can find an old CPU in another machine which I can borrow to try it out, or see about replacing the motherboard with something the same form factor (ATX) and preferably which well take PCI boards, and the ATX power supply connector, so I don't have to replace the entire damned thing (which would make retrieving data off of the RAID array more interesting).

Oh what fun, just before we all bugger off for a week (or two).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 April, 2011, 03:24:25 pm
Having fixed that one we are now trying to work out why a couple of stupid mofo printers don't bleeding print and unfortunately we can't just nip round to the printers on account of them being a Several of thousand miles away.  Feck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 April, 2011, 03:51:16 pm
Breathing a sigh of relief.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 19 April, 2011, 03:55:12 pm
Kicking myself for asking MapInfo to do *that* query ...  :facepalm:

*twiddles thumbs*
*slinks off to make tea*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 19 April, 2011, 03:58:27 pm
hoovering out the car, now about to dust the dash and interior trim, then wash the outside!   :o  Perhaps i'll get better mpg once it's all shiny and clean?   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 April, 2011, 05:33:32 pm
Quote from: clarion on 19 April, 2011, 03:51:16 pm
Breathing a sigh of relief.
why,are,you,the,one,complaining,to,mr,larrington,that,your,printers,don.t,work/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 April, 2011, 05:51:25 pm
Lurking in the lobby next to first class on an east coast train heading north. Surrounded  by off duty train crew and stories of industrial dispute!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 April, 2011, 11:39:05 pm
Sitting in Tiermat's house  of coffee, with the lovely Mrs T, having missed my train home by about 30 seconds. They don't think I should ride the 35ish miles home. Even if that would be an excellent silly bike adventure!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 19 April, 2011, 11:43:29 pm
Oh no!  Damn trains.  Even when they're on time they're wrong.

Just reverse the FNRtTH route ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 April, 2011, 11:44:00 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 19 April, 2011, 11:39:05 pm
Sitting in Tiermat's house  of coffee, with the lovely Mrs T, having missed my train home by about 30 seconds. They don't think I should ride the 35ish miles home. Even if that would be an excellent silly bike adventure!

35 miles, in the dark......a mere bagatelle compared to your most recent adventure, a trifle to a lady of your character & determination !  On the other hand, coffee & cake..... :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 April, 2011, 12:18:23 am
I'd do 35 miles in a blink, but I've got stupidly bright lights, that I know will easily last a couple of hours.  If you're not equipped to do that distance, you possibly don't want to.


I just got the AVR development environment working on my Eee Netbook, so I can write C-Code for my Teensys on here now, and program them.  Yay, techie fun!

I've got it sat here flashing morse code at me.

I think I need to hack up some code to randomly generate random keyboard characters every so often, and then leave it plugged into my bosses PC. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 April, 2011, 06:27:21 am
On the TPE heading south. Hopefully I'll have time to go home, get changed and grab  a  cake before I head out to meet shyumu and ride back north!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 20 April, 2011, 07:18:18 am
having brekky, croissants of course , then heading to the tat shops round notre dame to buy the kids a tasteless and useless present ( as is our wont)  the more tasteless and useless the better!!! Flying back to blighty this afty so have to go through the terror of a shuttle bus transfer once again!  still been a reat trip and did everything i wanted to do on my birthday, which was fantastic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 April, 2011, 01:12:15 pm
Sitting on a pleasantly shady bench, listening to the birds, and eating flapjack. Grand.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 April, 2011, 01:14:52 pm
Getting ready to head out for a little potter round the lanes, complete with camera.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 April, 2011, 01:16:40 pm
Have just disassembled an Acer Aspire One, to find out that all I really needed to do was re-flash the BIOS :(

Have now put it back together and have 3 screws and one clip left over :( :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 20 April, 2011, 01:20:19 pm
Getting ready to go to a dogs funeral.

The Mum in laws dog: Matty, much loved by all that knew him (apart from joggers who he used to chase) left the world today after 17 years of being the best dog in the world.

Quite upsetting really. And he wasn't even my dog although we did have him for 3 weeks every summer while his "Mum and Dad" went overseas on holiday. I will miss our walks around Cannock Chase.

RIP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 April, 2011, 07:43:20 pm
looking,forward,to,nonn,arrifing,tomorrow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 20 April, 2011, 07:44:30 pm
Quote from: essexian on 20 April, 2011, 01:20:19 pm
Getting ready to go to a dogs funeral.

The Mum in laws dog: Matty, much loved by all that knew him (apart from joggers who he used to chase) left the world today after 17 years of being the best dog in the world.

Quite upsetting really. And he wasn't even my dog although we did have him for 3 weeks every summer while his "Mum and Dad" went overseas on holiday. I will miss our walks around Cannock Chase.

RIP

RIP Matty :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 April, 2011, 07:46:11 pm
Wishing my bloody knee would recover so that I can have a few bike rides in this gorgeous weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 20 April, 2011, 09:21:40 pm
I just painted my wooden garden furniture in that restorer gel gunk stuff. When it reached the 15 minutes mark to rinse it off it obligingly started to rain! Finished the job with the hose, had a glass on wine feeding the Koi and then came in because it's getting dark. I've just had 2 days off the bike as a planned break and spent the time with the kids having BBQ's and trips to the beach so the good weather has been a bonus.  :thumbsup:

Squidge found a hole on the beach and jumped in it to cool down:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/beach002.jpg)

Haven't perfected the art of smokeless cooking yet!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/BBQ036.jpg)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 April, 2011, 10:09:07 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 20 April, 2011, 07:43:20 pm
looking,forward,to,nonn,arrifing,tomorrow

Yay!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 20 April, 2011, 11:10:26 pm
Unravelling.
The feeble strings holding 'it' all together are snapping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 20 April, 2011, 11:12:19 pm
Sitting on a bus somewhere in north London. I will be on it for quite some time!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 April, 2011, 11:14:36 pm
Quote from: boab on 20 April, 2011, 11:10:26 pm
Unravelling.
The feeble strings holding 'it' all together are snapping.

Oh arse boab, that doesn't sound good.  And I'm shit at knitting and all that stuff, so no use to you putting it back together.

Slightly more seriously, I hope stuff looks a bit less gloomy soon.  Shout if there's anything that needs done that I can help with?  I have absolutely no idea what that might be, but the offer's there in case.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 20 April, 2011, 11:36:16 pm
drinking wine and scanning film - and retching on the smell of dog fart that's just hit me
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 12:29:46 am
Having a nose bleed.  Boo hiss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 April, 2011, 12:32:21 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 12:29:46 am
Having a nose bleed.  Boo hiss.

Woah, snap!   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 12:49:02 am
Freaky!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 April, 2011, 12:50:37 am
Mine was a side effect of a giant sneezing fit, so not entirely unprovoked.  My fault for going outside in the daylight, I suppose.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 21 April, 2011, 02:07:34 am
Still on a bus........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 21 April, 2011, 06:31:08 am
Drinking coffee prior to heading off for another very busy day in Pathology at Derby Hospital, and suspecting that I'll need to go in tomorrow as well.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 April, 2011, 07:51:54 am
Pondering on the fact that I seem to have a rather large collection (i.e. 4) of bum bags and small belt mounted camera bags.  Also pondering how it would be possible to fettle one into a small handlebar bag which would strap to the handlebars without the need for brackets etc..... Hmmmmm......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 21 April, 2011, 08:55:22 am
Lying in bed in Edinburgh.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 21 April, 2011, 09:23:58 am
Also in Edinburgh. Only I'm trying on all Kirst's underwear and prancing around her flat whilst she's at work  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 09:29:22 am
Obviously Edinburgh is where all the cool kids are at  ;D  Don't forget to take her laptop to the shop for the keyboard, will you?  Although I shall miss the old one.....

I am not in Edinburgh.  I am waiting for EldestCub to finally get dressed so that I can go to work.  And wondering why no bugger told me we had run out of milk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 April, 2011, 09:35:08 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 09:29:22 am
  And wondering why no bugger told me we had run out of milk.

mrs. jogler says the same thing on occassion.Can't imagine to whom she may be referring ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 April, 2011, 09:36:00 am
Quote from: nonn on 21 April, 2011, 09:23:58 am
Also in Edinburgh. Only I'm trying on all Kirst's underwear and prancing around her flat whilst she's at work  :P

standard yacf response......
ttiuwp
 :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 21 April, 2011, 09:36:50 am
trying to decide which work can wait till tuesday to let me skive today.  Next week should be quiet, right? everyone else seems to be taking the whole damn thing off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 10:58:43 am
Having taken  Valencia to her second home to get a thread tapped and the damage I caused with my little incident fixed, we're off to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 April, 2011, 11:05:09 am
Quote from: nonn on 21 April, 2011, 09:23:58 am
Also in Edinburgh. Only I'm trying on all Kirst's underwear and prancing around her flat whilst she's at work  :P
This thread does not require photos.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 21 April, 2011, 11:08:44 am
Coughing.

Still.

Although my bottom bracket arrived. Yay.

Too late to actually fix my bloody bike before I need it though.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 April, 2011, 11:09:59 am
Waiting for the postie.

Then I'm off out for a spin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 21 April, 2011, 11:25:37 am
Wondering how much longer I can fanny about before I won't be able to complete today's workload in a mad frenzy. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 01:38:29 pm
Waiting for a website backup to complete before I go and try to make a new webcalendar.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 21 April, 2011, 01:42:20 pm
Pulling together P45 and several P60s and P11Ds to start bartering for a 2010/2111 tax refund and a better code for 2011/12.


Also waiting for a phone call from a friend from Germany to say if he will have time to call in on the way to Dover.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 April, 2011, 01:50:10 pm
Itching.
Just given the hedge in the front garden a quick trim, and leylandii really, really makes me itch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 April, 2011, 01:57:29 pm
Feeling a bit  :o after this mornings 55 mile ride.  Perhaps I shouldn't have had that scone and jam  after a rather large scrambled egg roll at the cafe stop....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 21 April, 2011, 02:41:05 pm
Recovering from a dump. I think some of my brains came out my ears.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 April, 2011, 07:40:53 pm
waiting,for,nonn,to,get,changed,and,then,we,are,meeting,a,nrainless,jaded,at,mother,india,for,curry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 21 April, 2011, 07:49:19 pm
Clenching buttocks whilst doing my first ever laptop screen transplant.   So far I've successfully dismantled the machine, removed the damaged article, installed and connected the new screen and just did a pre-assembly test. 

So satisfying!!!   :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 April, 2011, 07:51:34 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 21 April, 2011, 07:40:53 pm
waiting,for,nonn,to,get,changed,and,then,we,are,meeting,a,nrainless,jaded,at,mother,india,for,curry.
So having already Found Religion (and lost part of his brain) he's wanting to do it all over again after a curry? Chapeau, that man ...

Edinburgh seems the place to be ATM - SWMBO has gone up there to visit a friend and last I heard she was sat somewhere in Leith getting plastered. Nice work if you can get it ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 21 April, 2011, 08:42:07 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 21 April, 2011, 07:49:19 pm
Clenching buttocks whilst doing my first ever laptop screen transplant.   So far I've successfully dismantled the machine, removed the damaged article, installed and connected the new screen and just did a pre-assembly test. 

So satisfying!!!   :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Awesome! Is this an easy transplant to carry out? I ask because there is a laptop in this house thats glass screen was smashed by a falling tower of over 100 Relentless empty cans (don't ask) :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 April, 2011, 08:54:51 pm
Ditto here (though the exact sequence of events prior to screen breakage is a little misty in this case).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 April, 2011, 09:17:55 pm
Often it's not that difficult to replace components in laptops, except (i) you have to dismantle the things, which is often non-trivial compared to a desktop, unless you can find a website for your exact model that explains how to take it apart (ii) you have to find a source of the borked bit, which is all too often even more difficult and (iii) at a price which is sensible, and not more than the cost of a similar second hand laptop.

I've repaired a few laptops over the years, and they've all been a bit of a nuisance.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 09:42:13 pm
Wishing my head didn't hurt, and contempleting what the corner shop (not one that does bike fettling, mind) might have to offer for my tea because nothing in the house appeals and woman cannot live by flapjack alone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 21 April, 2011, 10:53:45 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 09:42:13 pm
Wishing my head didn't hurt, and contempleting what the corner shop (not one that does bike fettling, mind) might have to offer for my tea because nothing in the house appeals and woman cannot live by flapjack alone.
Well no - you need chocolate too. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 10:57:44 pm
Conveniently enough, this particular flapjack recipe also contains that essential food group :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 April, 2011, 10:59:25 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2011, 10:57:44 pm
Conveniently enough, this particular flapjack recipe also contains that essential food group :-)
Caffeinated flapjack? Now there's a concept I could get behind :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 21 April, 2011, 11:01:53 pm
Lovely it is too. I'm scoffing a bit, having dug it out of my saddlebag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 April, 2011, 01:36:37 am
Glaring at exim logs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 22 April, 2011, 01:39:05 am
Having committed and pushed the working yacf grapher I’m now investigating fink so I can install sitecopy and more automate the process.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 April, 2011, 01:47:38 am
Quote from: Kim on 22 April, 2011, 01:36:37 am
Glaring at exim logs.

Are they quivering in trepidation?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 April, 2011, 02:44:39 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 22 April, 2011, 01:47:38 am
Quote from: Kim on 22 April, 2011, 01:36:37 am
Glaring at exim logs.

Are they quivering in trepidation?

They're now mostly full of frozen spam.  Which is as it should be.  Calling it a night, and I'll deal with whatever idiotic thing I've forgotten in the mor^H^H^Hafternoon.

After putting a load of bat flatteries on charge, because it's the FNRttC tomorrow and flattery will get you nowhere.
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Post by: Domestique on 22 April, 2011, 06:04:03 am
Cup of coffee then off to work in a bit
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Post by: peliroja on 22 April, 2011, 12:22:52 pm
Working. Contemplating eating the mini muffin sitting looking at me from the table.
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Post by: mike on 22 April, 2011, 12:34:47 pm
eating the green and blacks mini-eggs that I'd bought for my sister.  Damn.
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Post by: TimO on 22 April, 2011, 12:57:25 pm
Trying to sort out why my card appears to have been blocked by the Bank again.  I think it's related to trying to pay my water bill online, last night, but having no source of any cash, aside from what was in my wallet, at the start of a long bank holiday weekend, isn't exactly promising. :-\
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Post by: jogler on 22 April, 2011, 01:05:42 pm
Quote from: mike on 22 April, 2011, 12:34:47 pm
green and blacks mini-eggs

I was unaware that such delights exist.I shall gototheshopthisafternoon
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Clare on 22 April, 2011, 01:17:01 pm
Trying to type a blog entry in a power cut, I can't see the keyboard and keep making smelling pistakes.

The power has just come back (again, third fourth fifth time lucky)

come on China Electric (or whatever you're called) sort it out.

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Post by: tiermat on 22 April, 2011, 01:39:40 pm
Quote from: TimO on 21 April, 2011, 09:17:55 pm
Often it's not that difficult to replace components in laptops, except (i) you have to dismantle the things, which is often non-trivial compared to a desktop, unless you can find a website for your exact model that explains how to take it apart (ii) you have to find a source of the borked bit, which is all too often even more difficult and (iii) at a price which is sensible, and not more than the cost of a similar second hand laptop.

I've repaired a few laptops over the years, and they've all been a bit of a nuisance.

They can be, if you don't know what you are doing, fortunately, in a previous life, I was trained by most of the then existing major manufacturers in how to disassemble and re-assemble thier laptops.  Things have not changed much since then, and I have already fixed one forumite's laptop (in a Jury's Inn bar of all places :) ) and I am willing to repeat the offer, the only downside is you will have to get the offending item to North yorkshire...
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Post by: BrianI on 22 April, 2011, 03:45:00 pm
browsing yacf on my ps3 and 42"lcd tv  and using a nifty wee keypad clipped onto the ps3 controller to type this message.!!!!!!1one :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 April, 2011, 04:00:23 pm
Quote from: TimO on 22 April, 2011, 12:57:25 pm
Trying to sort out why my card appears to have been blocked by the Bank again.  I think it's related to trying to pay my water bill online, last night, but having no source of any cash, aside from what was in my wallet, at the start of a long bank holiday weekend, isn't exactly promising. :-\

Right, my magic conversation with a computer on the other end of the phone line, and confirmation that all the recent purchases were indeed mine, has returned my card to the land of usefulness, and it let me have cash from the hole in the wall machine, and to spend in Sainsburys.  I have food again. :thumbsup:

For some bizarre reason my bank often stops my card for seemingly random reasons, whilst not stopping it for things which look a bit iffy to me.

They've never stopped it for purchases from random US companies, but last time they stopped it for a DVD purchase from play.com, a company that I have made something over 500 purchases from, and this time it was in response to trying to pay my water bill online. :-\  I can't see many people trying to pay a water bill with stolen credit card details, it's not as though you would be difficult to find. ???
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Post by: Aidan on 22 April, 2011, 04:08:18 pm
Tweaking the route for my coast to coast next week :thumbsup:
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Post by: her_welshness on 22 April, 2011, 04:17:48 pm
Tackling the sudoku and watching Countdown. Its all about the word and number power this afternoon.
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Post by: simonp on 22 April, 2011, 04:20:39 pm
Fiddling around with sitecopy configuration to make the weights graphs be hosted on my ntl (virgin media) account rather than on imageshack.  Snooker in the background; about to go and make some mackerel on toast, and maybe a coffee.  Feeling a little flabby - just a couple of days of eating a bit more than normal and a bit less cycling and gym work, and I go all podgy.  >:(
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Post by: RJ on 22 April, 2011, 04:57:04 pm
Taking a break from building a small raised bed; have just set the bread machine running; and am drinking a large cup of tea.
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Post by: interzen on 22 April, 2011, 05:06:11 pm
Fighting with iTunes Connect.
Who'da thought that submitting something for validation could be so freakin' difficult  ::-)

EDIT: Done. Sorted. Now wait for the inevitable Spurious Reason For Rejection[tm]. After that little palaver, <mumble> years of teetotalism may be heading down the dunny later on.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 April, 2011, 05:07:36 pm
I've just returned from Staples, who had Samsung Galaxies on special offer. Since it's an unusable heap of crap, and vastly inferior to the Ipad, I didn't buy one. I didn't buy an Ipad either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 April, 2011, 06:10:49 pm
I am starting at a very large mountain of shopping, having just got back from spending approximately half a lifetime in the horriblemarket.

We now have food. 

And washing powder, so I can do the laundry.

And baking ingredients.

So I can make cake!
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Post by: interzen on 22 April, 2011, 06:16:01 pm
That makes me want to wander up to the Co-op in the village, buy lots of cake and eat myself into a coma ...
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Post by: jogler on 22 April, 2011, 07:13:57 pm
scoffing a slice of mrs. jogler's boiled fruit cake :thumbsup:

the forecast for the weekend is "more of the same" 8)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 April, 2011, 08:41:17 pm
Schnuggling with bobb on the sofa watching Corrie and waiting for the crumble to be ready.
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Post by: interzen on 22 April, 2011, 08:42:40 pm
Just been for a wee spin round the block to test the new Cyo on the work bike - swipe me, it's bright. Unfortunately (for my bank balance, at least) it means I'll have to buy another for the fixed Audax bike.
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Post by: rower40 on 22 April, 2011, 09:06:06 pm
Sighing with relief now that the logistics of not one, but two, trips to Cornwall to play trains have been organised.

First Great Western's Indian call centre has come up trumps, providing me with an arrangement of 8 random alphanumerics, which will cause the ticket machine to disgorge my sleeper reservations.  (Yes I do have to pay for these: my psychic paper lets me onto the train, but doesn't provide me with a bed.)

Hertz has emailed to confirm my hire car booking for trip #1.

Western Greyhound's website has been perused and some Brompton-Friendly bus times have been obtained for trip #2.

Next weekend's audax routesheet has been looked at and (mostly) ignored, because a very nice man e-mailed a .gpx file, which went straight into MemoryMap and thence to my Garmin.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 April, 2011, 09:56:03 pm
Not interfering, as Dearly_Beloved swaps his tyres.  Goodbye to the swarm of bees dancing on bubble wrap until next year!
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Post by: peliroja on 22 April, 2011, 10:17:29 pm
Finishing work for the day, and about to watch sommat.
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Post by: simonp on 22 April, 2011, 11:56:14 pm
Quote from: simonp on 22 April, 2011, 04:20:39 pm
Fiddling around with sitecopy configuration to make the weights graphs be hosted on my ntl (virgin media) account rather than on imageshack.  Snooker in the background; about to go and make some mackerel on toast, and maybe a coffee.  Feeling a little flabby - just a couple of days of eating a bit more than normal and a bit less cycling and gym work, and I go all podgy.  >:(


Sigh… ntl webspace won’t let me upload.  This seems to be a common problem from browsing the customer “service” forums; some kind of permissions cock-up.  Individual customers seem to be expected to sort this out individually with virgin media one at a time (rather than them fixing the problem globally).

So, I’ve created a new domain but it’s not enabled yet.  Meanwhile, I’ve been messing around with the colours and line styles - it’s now only using bright colours and this is sufficient for the 38 users.  Once I have a proper webspace working again I’ll start uploading the new graph.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2011, 12:07:36 am
Laundry, baking and listening to Eartha Kitt.  I seem to have found myself in the 1950s.  I might have to emulate Little MsCharly (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31801.msg866936#msg866936) and go look for a frock, a pinny and some marigolds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 23 April, 2011, 01:32:18 am
I can Haz Hangover taking away pill plz?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2011, 04:12:40 am
Thinking that there appears to be a not small quantity of cake-and-flapjack in my kitchen.


I do hope the arrowers are hungry.
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Post by: interzen on 23 April, 2011, 07:27:16 am
After 24hrs of eating petrol station food and whatever they could pick out from between their teeth whilst on the move, I'd say that's a fair bet ...
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Post by: LindaG on 23 April, 2011, 08:32:29 am
Planning my day whilst eating bacon and eggs.   :)
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Post by: L CC on 23 April, 2011, 09:08:40 am
remembering suncream
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 April, 2011, 09:22:38 am
wondering if it really is going to rain all day as the BBC weather site claims.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 April, 2011, 09:28:35 am
Hoping the weather picks up as nonn and I are going to hire a bike for him today and venture into the wilds of East Lothian, perhaps only as far as Luca's.
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Post by: jogler on 23 April, 2011, 09:53:08 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2011, 12:07:36 am
Laundry, baking and listening to Eartha Kitt.  I seem to have found myself in the 1950s.  I might have to emulate Little MsCharly (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31801.msg866936#msg866936) and go look for a frock, a pinny and some marigolds.

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2011, 04:12:40 am
Thinking that there appears to be a not small quantity of cake-and-flapjack in my kitchen.


I do hope the arrowers are hungry.


looking at the times of those posts the question arises....
WHEN DO YOU SLEEP?
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Post by: LindaG on 23 April, 2011, 11:20:40 am
Having a nice cup of coffee, having just got home from the LBS.  We were discussing a potential n+1, if and when I get some compo after my accident.  Feeling really quite excited now!
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Post by: peliroja on 23 April, 2011, 11:28:11 am
Good news, Lindagordinho!
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Post by: jogler on 23 April, 2011, 12:44:07 pm
way to go LG :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2011, 12:49:23 pm
Quote from: jogler on 23 April, 2011, 09:53:08 am
looking at the times of those posts the question arises....
WHEN DO YOU SLEEP?

In the case of last night, between approximately 4:30 and around 7:00.  I still was far from the most tired looking person in the pub thobut!  :)

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 23 April, 2011, 11:20:40 am
Having a nice cup of coffee, having just got home from the LBS.  We were discussing a potential n+1, if and when I get some compo after my accident.  Feeling really quite excited now!

\o/
(will it have multiple gears and a freewheel or not?)
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Post by: interzen on 23 April, 2011, 12:58:54 pm
Quote from: jogler on 23 April, 2011, 09:53:08 am
looking at the times of those posts the question arises....
WHEN DO YOU SLEEP?
Sleep is for wimps :)

Anyway, I'd view baking as being a bit like software development back in the day - if you were developing software you grabbed some sleep whilst your code compiled. Similarly, it'd be quite feasible to grab a quick nap whilst a batch of cake is 'compiling' in the oven. Simple!
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Post by: jogler on 23 April, 2011, 01:09:07 pm
Quote from: jogler on 22 April, 2011, 07:13:57 pm
scoffing a slice of mrs. jogler's boiled fruit cake :thumbsup:

the forecast for the weekend is "more of the same" 8)

action replay :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2011, 01:10:38 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 April, 2011, 12:58:54 pm
Anyway, I'd view baking as being a bit like software development back in the day - if you were developing software you grabbed some sleep whilst your code compiled. Similarly, it'd be quite feasible to grab a quick nap whilst a batch of cake is 'compiling' in the oven. Simple!

Ah, but an efficient workflow and the baking/decorating of multiple sorts of cake scuppers that plan.  Plus I'd sleep too long and it would burn!
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Post by: Basil on 23 April, 2011, 01:12:38 pm
Wondering why the bloody hell it's raining.
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Post by: interzen on 23 April, 2011, 01:16:43 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2011, 01:10:38 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 April, 2011, 12:58:54 pm
Anyway, I'd view baking as being a bit like software development back in the day - if you were developing software you grabbed some sleep whilst your code compiled. Similarly, it'd be quite feasible to grab a quick nap whilst a batch of cake is 'compiling' in the oven. Simple!

Ah, but an efficient workflow and the baking/decorating of multiple sorts of cake scuppers that plan.  Plus I'd sleep too long and it would burn!
"Efficient workflow"? That's management-talk, that is ...
I quite like the idea of concurrent cake-compiling though :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 April, 2011, 01:23:47 pm
I have been out on a bicycle today! It felt really weird. Just half a mile round the block.

I'm going to Southend boys' High School this afternoon because we (the Southend Bach Choir) are taking part in a workshop with the local youth orchestra and going through the choruses from Elijah.
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Post by: Clare on 23 April, 2011, 01:40:36 pm
Eating Ma Po Tofu which is either:

a) bloody good

or

b) OK I suppose


depending on which of us you ask.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2011, 01:49:16 pm
Watching my smallest boy putting in his shoes unassisted. Apparently he is practising for when he is four.
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Post by: andrewc on 23 April, 2011, 01:53:49 pm
Have just finished plotting the route for a brief overnight camping jaunt tomorrow, into Wales and the climb over Esclusham to Llangollen, then down past Oswestry to camp here (http://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/siteseeker/aspx/details.aspx?returnPage=searchBasic.aspx&id=126076&currentPage=0&enhancement=silver&priority=5)  Home via a different route on Monday.
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Post by: numbnuts on 23 April, 2011, 02:04:01 pm
Drinking tea, then I'm off to a 70th birthday party
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Post by: LindaG on 23 April, 2011, 05:17:57 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2011, 12:49:23 pm
\o/
(will it have multiple gears and a freewheel or not?)


[churchill] Ooooooh, yes. [/c]

And it will be real.  So real, in fact, that it has a nine month gestation period.  8) 8)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 April, 2011, 05:19:13 pm
Discussing with nonn how to fill the 40 minutes before Doctor Who.
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Post by: her_welshness on 23 April, 2011, 05:31:07 pm
Putting away the clothes from the balcony as we've just had sheet lightning - come on the rain!
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Post by: LindaG on 23 April, 2011, 05:34:08 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 23 April, 2011, 05:31:07 pm
Putting away the clothes from the balcony as we've just had sheet lightning - come on the rain!

Oh, yes please.  We've had no rain for ages.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 April, 2011, 06:27:21 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 23 April, 2011, 01:23:47 pm
I have been out on a bicycle today! It felt really weird. Just half a mile round the block.

I'm going to Southend boys' High School this afternoon because we (the Southend Bach Choir) are taking part in a workshop with the local youth orchestra and going through the choruses from Elijah.

That was fun! SEYSO (South Essex Youth Symphony Orchestra) were superb. My younger son and his mates were heavily involved with them about 10 years ago when they were all still at school (their music teacher was the founder / principle conductor of SEYSO) but I have to say that I reckon they are better now.

Their main work in the first half was Carnival of the Animals. The lad who had been timpanist for their first piece suddenly morphed into a full-blown percussionist, playing one of the piano parts, which is technically very difficult before moving onto the xylophone for the skeletons. He was really god. During his playing of one of the piano pieces the ancient score he was reading from lost a few pages and he carried on as though nothing had happened whilst a nearby adult sorted the pages out and then turned them for him. The 'cellist played the Swan magnificently.

We sang the choruses for the first half of Elijah. They went pretty well. The second worse of Southend's two MPs turned up to watch.

My knee is now objecting thoroughly to having to stand up for about 30 minutes.
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Post by: BrianI on 23 April, 2011, 07:22:21 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 23 April, 2011, 05:31:07 pm
Putting away the clothes from the balcony as we've just had sheet lightning - come on the rain!

Aww, I want some lightning :-(

Currently I'm pondering whether to stay up late1 and watch Indy Jones and the temple of doooom, or have an early bath, then early bed.

1 Pretty sad thinking 9pm is late on a saturday night.    :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 23 April, 2011, 08:45:49 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 April, 2011, 09:22:38 am
wondering if it really is going to rain all day as the BBC weather site claims.

It didn't  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 23 April, 2011, 09:57:58 pm
Enjoying a post-supper, chilled glass of Sauvignon Blanc and listening to Weather Storm by Massive Attack whilst the endorphins from last night's FNRttC properly do their thang  8).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 April, 2011, 10:05:00 pm
I've just ben woken up by the dog, who wants a game.

I think he's been missing me, what with 2 weeks' holiday an now a further 10 days inability to take him for a walk.
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Post by: Basil on 23 April, 2011, 11:06:37 pm
Sitting with a glass of wine, looking up at a beautiful starry sky.
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Post by: LindaG on 23 April, 2011, 11:07:21 pm
Drinking a hot chocolate, reflecting on the Easter vigil, and planning the big family lunch for tomorrow.
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Post by: interzen on 23 April, 2011, 11:15:14 pm
Listening to the thunder ...
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Post by: L CC on 24 April, 2011, 08:20:06 am
I am just going outside and may be some time
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 April, 2011, 08:21:30 am
Will a bicycle be involved?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 April, 2011, 08:22:13 am
I'm staying in and I may be some time. :'(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 April, 2011, 11:13:09 am
Trying to work out exactly where in the Meadows Danny MacAskill is at 3m10s in this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o) so nonn can go and pay homage at the tree.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 April, 2011, 11:55:41 am
I've looked for that too, but not found it yet!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 April, 2011, 12:25:28 pm
Faffing.  It's a skill we have in adundance in our household.
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Post by: Oaky on 24 April, 2011, 12:29:57 pm
Recovering. 

(A schoolfriend's wedding do last night - probably not the best preparation for 485km tomorrow.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 24 April, 2011, 12:54:52 pm
Drinking mushroom soup before heading back out into the garden to do another 4 hours work on the new cabin I am building: that will be the 20 hour this weekend. The structures up, doors, windows and roof all on....only got the electrics, lighting, boarding up, gap filling and painting to do....sigh.

Not been out on my bike for 5 days. Starting to get restless!!! Doubt I will be able to go out until Wednesday now. Sigh.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 April, 2011, 02:00:35 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 24 April, 2011, 11:55:41 am
I've looked for that too, but not found it yet!
We think it's one of the chopped-down ones.

Nonn and I are now sitting in the Olympia cafe waiting for our lunch. Then we will have icecream.
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Post by: Tewdric on 24 April, 2011, 02:07:16 pm
Sitting in the garden drinking a cold beer and replaying the HoE 300 in my head.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 24 April, 2011, 02:10:55 pm
baking as in cooking  :P
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Post by: interzen on 24 April, 2011, 02:13:51 pm
Cleaning up after two trips to Halfords1 and some bike fettlement. Net result is mucky hands and a nice, bright headlamp on the 3-speed Fixed Of Doom. Going to think about lunch now ...

1 - LBS is closed today, but to Halford's credit, they did find me a 60mm mudguard bolt and didn't charge me for it. Had to go back later on 'cos none of the spade connectors I had would fit on my Schmidt  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 April, 2011, 02:44:37 pm
Onna bike ride. Well, in a cafe technically.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 April, 2011, 03:55:36 pm
Snoozing in my brother's garden after the first outdoor lunch of the year.
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Post by: Domestique on 24 April, 2011, 04:12:13 pm
Just thinking to myself how nice (quiet) today has been with all the major shops shut. If only every Sunday could be like this.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 April, 2011, 10:05:04 pm
Onna bike ride. Thinking that the stars are particularly lovely tonight. And that I should probably have worn  socks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 24 April, 2011, 11:29:17 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 April, 2011, 10:05:04 pm
Onna bike ride. Thinking that the stars are particularly lovely tonight. And that I should probably have worn  socks.

Did you get lost? I didn't think you were going that far.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 April, 2011, 11:38:37 pm
Lost, no. Taken a route that may have involved a gratuitous hill or two?   Might have done...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 April, 2011, 11:45:30 pm
Quote from: jogler on 23 April, 2011, 09:53:08 am
looking at the times of those posts the question arises....
WHEN DO YOU SLEEP?

...was my thought when she MMSed me a picture of some cake while I was at the halfway stop on the FNRttC yesterday.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 24 April, 2011, 11:46:16 pm
Quote from: Kim on 24 April, 2011, 11:45:30 pm
Quote from: jogler on 23 April, 2011, 09:53:08 am
looking at the times of those posts the question arises....
WHEN DO YOU SLEEP?

...was my thought when she MMSed me a picture of some cake while I was at the halfway stop on the FNRttC yesterday.   ::-)

The language of cake
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 24 April, 2011, 11:54:00 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 April, 2011, 11:38:37 pm
Lost, no. Taken a route that may have involved a gratuitous hill or two?   Might have done...

The best kind of hills ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 24 April, 2011, 11:54:20 pm
Quote from: Kim on 24 April, 2011, 11:45:30 pm
Quote from: jogler on 23 April, 2011, 09:53:08 am
looking at the times of those posts the question arises....
WHEN DO YOU SLEEP?

...was my thought when she MMSed me a picture of some cake while I was at the halfway stop on the FNRttC yesterday.   ::-)

I think I got that same message after I asked "Why aren't you in bed?"
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Post by: peliroja on 24 April, 2011, 11:56:46 pm
About to go to bed after watching the first episode of Forbrydelsen II and eating G&B's organic chocolate mini eggs.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 April, 2011, 11:59:33 pm
Uploading about a gadzillion photographs.  And eating crisps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 April, 2011, 12:09:09 am
Trying to say rødgrød med fløde. Not successfully.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 April, 2011, 12:21:02 am
Quote from: peliroja on 25 April, 2011, 12:09:09 am
Trying to say rødgrød med fløde. Not successfully.  :-[

Does that mean that you will be shot?  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 25 April, 2011, 06:10:57 am
Having a cup of coffee, then off to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 25 April, 2011, 07:06:46 am
Considering whether I should have cold, left over take away curry for breakfast.

Ah, why not.... its a balanced food stuff containing fruit and vegetables. Just what you need at the start of the day........  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 25 April, 2011, 07:33:27 am
Curry for breakfast is ace!!

am about to take the train to Stamford to deliver a a frame I've sold, then I'm cycling home.

I've never tried cycling while carrying a frame, but I've got to get the 6 miles to the station somehow... I was thinking of wearing it like a large, red & white necklace?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 April, 2011, 08:48:51 am
Lounging in my tent while drinking tea and browsing the forum. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology I can even read "Questionable Content" while camping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 April, 2011, 08:55:16 am
Sitting in the garden, in my dressing gown, sipping coffee.
Mrs. B not happy as most of the holiday cottages near us are currently occupied and she thinks I'm frightening them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Steph on 25 April, 2011, 09:32:06 am
Getting dressed for the commute.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 April, 2011, 11:26:30 am
Sitting on Chalkwell Beach where some people have just carved a big YES in the sand, as part of the AV campaign.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 25 April, 2011, 11:41:48 am
About to fire up the barbie and steeling myself to entertain Mrs Manotea's friends. To say I'd rather be elsewhere doesn't come close...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 April, 2011, 01:00:19 pm
Awaiting a taxi to take me to the hairyport.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Steph on 25 April, 2011, 01:18:12 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 April, 2011, 11:56:46 pm
About to go to bed after watching the first episode of Forbrydelsen II and eating G&B's organic chocolate mini eggs.  :thumbsup:
Got any spare?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 25 April, 2011, 01:35:34 pm
Quote from: mike on 25 April, 2011, 07:33:27 am
Curry for breakfast is ace!!
Try chocolate :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 25 April, 2011, 01:48:58 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 25 April, 2011, 01:35:34 pm
Quote from: mike on 25 April, 2011, 07:33:27 am
Curry for breakfast is ace!!
Try chocolate :)
Cold pizza FTW :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 02:35:22 pm
Porridge + cappuccino FTW.  :P

I’m thinking about doing some tidying or some gardening or some bike fettling or some fiddling with the electrics.

If I never log on here again, probably best to assume it was the electrics.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 02:43:08 pm
Quote from: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 02:35:22 pm
I’m thinking about doing some tidying or some gardening or some bike fettling or some fiddling with the electrics.
Now those all sound like the sorts of things that you should think about on a day like today.  And then ignore, and go for a nice bike ride or something :)

Quote
If I never log on here again, probably best to assume it was the electrics.
See, a bike ride would be safer too!

I am drinking coffee, and thinking about going to the shops to buy a new pair of jeans having discovered a hole in one of my two current pairs of jeans.  I do Not Like clothes shopping.  Fortunately they've shut down the clothes shop for biffas in the centre of town, so if I do go I'll have to ride a few miles to the out of town shopping sprawl.  Every cloud...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 25 April, 2011, 02:44:06 pm
Taking a break from filling in online application forms. I have been working for 5 hours straight one just one application and have not even finished it yet!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 02:45:14 pm
Bleurgh.  I hate doing application forms.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 25 April, 2011, 02:48:52 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 25 April, 2011, 01:35:34 pm
Quote from: mike on 25 April, 2011, 07:33:27 am
Curry for breakfast is ace!!
Try chocolate :)

On curry? My touring breakfast is black tea, a pint thereof; my sitting in a tent at York one is bacon samminges.


Oh, er, yeah....sitting at work. Thass me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 25 April, 2011, 04:34:55 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 02:45:14 pm
Bleurgh.  I hate doing application forms.

I know! And each part of the job spec (about 7 different parts) you could fill up to 5000 characters with which is effectively 1500 words. I have just spent 6.5 hours of nearly one application  :-[ I have 3 more to go.

But I have chocolate egg.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Steph on 25 April, 2011, 04:36:09 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 25 April, 2011, 04:34:55 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 02:45:14 pm
Bleurgh.  I hate doing application forms.

I know! And each part of the job spec (about 7 different parts) you could fill up to 5000 characters with which is effectively 1500 words. I have just spent 6.5 hours of nearly one application  :-[ I have 3 more to go.

But I have chocolate egg.

I haven't
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 25 April, 2011, 04:37:25 pm
Quote from: Steph on 25 April, 2011, 04:36:09 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 25 April, 2011, 04:34:55 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 02:45:14 pm
Bleurgh.  I hate doing application forms.

I know! And each part of the job spec (about 7 different parts) you could fill up to 5000 characters with which is effectively 1500 words. I have just spent 6.5 hours of nearly one application  :-[ I have 3 more to go.

But I have chocolate egg.

I haven't

Neither have I - its rapidly disappeared  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Steph on 25 April, 2011, 04:38:13 pm
 :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 April, 2011, 05:21:57 pm
I've just taught nonn to make profiteroles and now we're waiting for them to be cooked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 05:41:25 pm
Enjoying the sunshine. And being slightly shocked that it only took about 6 minutes in the shop to try and buy 2 pairs of jeans and 2 tops. That's my clothes shopping  for the year done! I celebrated by going to aldi and buying a new cake tin and a cheapo set of camping pans.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 April, 2011, 05:42:19 pm
Woolly and I just had a fun afternoon exploring off-roady bits of Richmond Park we'd not seen before. Our ride was, quite rightly, punctuated by an ice cream.

And it's 20% off at Deliverance tonight, so we're having an evening off cooking. Proper relaxing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 05:57:10 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 02:43:08 pm
Quote from: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 02:35:22 pm
I’m thinking about doing some tidying or some gardening or some bike fettling or some fiddling with the electrics.
Now those all sound like the sorts of things that you should think about on a day like today.  And then ignore, and go for a nice bike ride or something :)

Quote
If I never log on here again, probably best to assume it was the electrics.
See, a bike ride would be safer too!

I am drinking coffee, and thinking about going to the shops to buy a new pair of jeans having discovered a hole in one of my two current pairs of jeans.  I do Not Like clothes shopping.  Fortunately they've shut down the clothes shop for biffas in the centre of town, so if I do go I'll have to ride a few miles to the out of town shopping sprawl.  Every cloud...

Well, I opted for thinking about it a bit more, then gardening.  It’s a lovely sunny breezy spring day out there.  I got to use a shredder and an axe.

I had to stop because I’ve run out of space in the compost bin and in the bag I use to collect shreddings in; plus I’m now very hungry and my hands feel like they’ve been err… using an axe.

Next is to have another coffee and a bit to eat, then I might head out for the bike ride you suggested.  It’s turning into a perfect evening for it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 April, 2011, 09:10:13 pm
Quote from: Tourist Tony on 25 April, 2011, 02:48:52 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 25 April, 2011, 01:35:34 pm
Quote from: mike on 25 April, 2011, 07:33:27 am
Curry for breakfast is ace!!
Try chocolate :)
On curry?

Curry on chocolate (it works better that way round) for breakfast is something I've been guilty of on occasion.  Not only does it work surprisingly well, but it's two of the main food groups in one   8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 25 April, 2011, 09:12:32 pm
Thinking that I need to tell Helen to NEVER leave jelly babies here.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 09:38:18 pm
Quote from: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 05:57:10 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 02:43:08 pm
Quote from: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 02:35:22 pm
I’m thinking about doing some tidying or some gardening or some bike fettling or some fiddling with the electrics.
Now those all sound like the sorts of things that you should think about on a day like today.  And then ignore, and go for a nice bike ride or something :)

Quote
If I never log on here again, probably best to assume it was the electrics.
See, a bike ride would be safer too!

I am drinking coffee, and thinking about going to the shops to buy a new pair of jeans having discovered a hole in one of my two current pairs of jeans.  I do Not Like clothes shopping.  Fortunately they've shut down the clothes shop for biffas in the centre of town, so if I do go I'll have to ride a few miles to the out of town shopping sprawl.  Every cloud...

Well, I opted for thinking about it a bit more, then gardening.  It’s a lovely sunny breezy spring day out there.  I got to use a shredder and an axe.

I had to stop because I’ve run out of space in the compost bin and in the bag I use to collect shreddings in; plus I’m now very hungry and my hands feel like they’ve been err… using an axe.

Next is to have another coffee and a bit to eat, then I might head out for the bike ride you suggested.  It’s turning into a perfect evening for it.


And very nice it is to, though it was near sunset by the time I set off, so it was a dusk-twilight-dark 37km ride.  I’m glad I put knee warmers on, but upper body survived with just my MC top.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 April, 2011, 09:40:36 pm
Being really crap at sudoku.

I'm playing on websudoku.com and each time I complete an "easy" puzzle I'm told that 95% of people complete that puzzle more quickly that I do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 25 April, 2011, 09:41:34 pm
Balvenie / top gun / the last of the chocolate. 

Top weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 09:44:11 pm
Quote from: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 09:38:18 pm
And very nice it is to, though it was near sunset by the time I set off, so it was a dusk-twilight-dark 37km ride.  I’m glad I put knee warmers on, but upper body survived with just my MC top.

Now, wasn't that a better plan than diy or tidying?

I am digesting a very very large plate of beancurd and vegetable stir fry.  And footling on the interwebs whilst ignoring whatever film the eldest Cub is watching with his dad and Bedstemor, on the very last night of being able to stay up late before we go back to school on Wednesday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 09:48:15 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 25 April, 2011, 09:40:36 pm
Being really crap at sudoku.

I'm playing on websudoku.com and each time I complete an "easy" puzzle I'm told that 95% of people complete that puzzle more quickly that I do.

Oh, that’s interesting, they compare you to other saddos.  Must give that a try. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 April, 2011, 09:49:43 pm
Trying to work out if there really was as much muck on the back of the shirt I'm wearing for the big presentation tomorrow as I thought there was, or if I was having a massive hallucination.

I mean, the black mark and the brown smear were definitely real. But the general grey stuff that looked like I'd been using it to clean a table I'm not so sure about.

Anyway, I'd better hope I don't get caught in the rain tomorrow or I will be covered in suds and smelling of the rather nice hotel soap.

Tea......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 25 April, 2011, 09:50:40 pm
Wondering how many plumbers you have to ring for a quote before one of the F*ckers bothers to ring you back.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 09:50:51 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 09:44:11 pm
Quote from: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 09:38:18 pm
And very nice it is to, though it was near sunset by the time I set off, so it was a dusk-twilight-dark 37km ride.  I’m glad I put knee warmers on, but upper body survived with just my MC top.

Now, wasn't that a better plan than diy or tidying?

Well, yes.  But if I spend all my time finding better things to do than tidying, then this place will never get tidy.  :-[

And given I’m riding a 400k next weekend, and a 600k two weeks later, I have get it in sometime.

Last year, I was away every weekend for six weeks between May and June and the garden still hasn’t recovered.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 09:54:47 pm
Quote from: simonp on 25 April, 2011, 09:50:51 pm
Well, yes.  But if I spend all my time finding better things to do than tidying, then this place will never get tidy.  :-[

And given I’m riding a 400k next weekend, and a 600k two weeks later, I have get it in sometime.

Last year, I was away every weekend for six weeks between May and June and the garden still hasn’t recovered.  :facepalm:


*CL counts on fingers*
7-ish years ago, I more or less left home for a year whilst I did my PGCE - I came home at weekends, but spent them working anyway. 

Our house still hasn't recovered.  Fortunately for the sake of the garden, we don't have a garden.

I choose to ignore it and ride my bike instead  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 26 April, 2011, 07:49:56 am
Feeling nauseous.    :( :( :(

I think I must have taken more sun/heat/exercise yesterday than I am realistically able to cope with.

Back to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 April, 2011, 08:27:43 am
Waiting.
Waiting on my fish tank + cabinet delivery some time today between 9am and 5pm.   :demon:  A nice sunny day outside, a shame they couldn't give me a more accurate time, at least tell me if it was going to be AM or PM. 
Still at least that will give me time to do some work on revamping my website from Pixelpost to Wordpress.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 April, 2011, 09:09:35 am
Just thinking how nice Charlotte's hair was looking this morning.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 26 April, 2011, 09:13:11 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 April, 2011, 09:09:35 am
Just thinking how nice Charlotte's hair was looking this morning.  :D

*snigger*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 26 April, 2011, 11:41:31 am
Contemplating an immense quantity of laundry that has accumulated while I worked nights over the bank holiday.

I'm torn between spending the day catching up on housework or catching up on weeding the garden. I really need to rest my left wrist which I must have done something to because I can't grip anything strongly with that hand at all at the moment. I had to undo twist fit IV line connectors with the wrong hand at work yesterday which felt very weird. I wouldn't like to have to perform major surgery with a useless hand so it had better get fixed before Friday when I'm working again!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 April, 2011, 12:14:11 pm
Stressing out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 April, 2011, 12:16:34 pm
Browsing the Job Center PlusTM looking for jobs. Sod all. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 26 April, 2011, 02:24:08 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 April, 2011, 02:45:14 pm
Bleurgh.  I hate doing application forms.

+10209

Updating my CV is what I'm doing, and that's not far behind.

I don't even want this blimmin job. There's no livestock, no tractors, it doesn't smell bad and there'll be no wanking. Now does that sound like a fun job to you?
Sheesh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 April, 2011, 05:28:38 pm
cogitating....
a 200km audax.......
a Barley with only the kitchen sink missing?
a seat pack with only the very necessary?
lights?
no lights?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 26 April, 2011, 06:04:49 pm
Quote from: boab on 26 April, 2011, 02:24:08 pm


I don't even want this blimmin job. There's no livestock, no tractors, it doesn't smell bad and there'll be no wanking. Now does that sound like a fun job to you?
Sheesh.

That sounds like most jobs.
Except for the lack of wanking of course.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 April, 2011, 06:07:21 pm
waiting to start the last leg of the journey home to Pingu. I fancy a celebratory drinkypoo but am feeling guilty enough already about lack of gym.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 April, 2011, 06:19:43 pm
A stressful evening awaits. Should I eat chocolate now, or later?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 April, 2011, 06:20:10 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 26 April, 2011, 06:19:43 pm
A stressful evening awaits. Should I eat chocolate now, or later?

Both.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 April, 2011, 06:22:46 pm
Just getting ready to accompany nonn to the airport.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 26 April, 2011, 06:30:25 pm
Trying very hard to resist the very strong temptation to lie down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 April, 2011, 06:33:42 pm
The season of Long Audax rides (>300km) is upon us.

I am sorting my saddlebag out and making a list of what's missing:


Anything else?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 26 April, 2011, 06:36:50 pm
I had a pair of lightweight luggage straps which have gone missing. Useful for lashing stuff to my saddlebag. Very annoying.
I also need a lightweight wind/raincape. Happily the change in the weather suggests I'll be toting my eVent jacket to Wales this weekend after all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 April, 2011, 07:58:41 pm
I was trying not to cry at the airport seeing nonn off - or boaby as he is to be known here - but now I am pretending not to cry on the airport bus back to town.  :'(  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 April, 2011, 08:06:20 pm
Smelling like Nikwax.

Mrs S just applied the first coat of Nikwax spray to my Goretex jacket, wot I was wearing. I'm off to Wales y'see - where it rains, like, all the time.

Second coat tomorrow, then into the tumble dryer (not me).

I smell like a second hand car showroom... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 April, 2011, 08:08:24 pm
it's an improvement on audaxaroma or eau de auk is it not? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 April, 2011, 08:19:38 pm
Quote from: jogler on 26 April, 2011, 08:08:24 pm
it's an improvement on audaxaroma or eau de auk is it not? ;D
Parfum de randonneur :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 26 April, 2011, 09:12:08 pm
I just did a quick 13 miles to Wimbledon and back, since I knew their Evans was open until 8pm (unlike the local one which closed at 6pm), and I needed some rim tape for the rear wheel on the Kaffenback.  I got there in time, and they had a single road roll of Velox rimtape (and some horrible plastic stuff) which cost me £2.99.  If I'd taken the Tram rather than cycled, it would have cost me almost as much in Tram fares!

I've since been struggling to get the front rack on.  It needs a couple of p-clips on each side, which of course need to be clamped on reasonably tightly, with a small allen key, and a locking nut, which makes life just that little bit more fiddly.

Whilst I'm taking a reprieve from swearing at that, I think I'll just pop over to Sainsburys for some odds and sods before they close.

Talisker has curled up on the temporarily discarded bike stand bag, and has been watching, presumably with some degree of feline amusement.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 April, 2011, 09:17:32 pm
Quote from: TimO on 26 April, 2011, 09:12:08 pm
Talisker has curled up on the temporarily discarded bike stand bag, and has been watching, presumably with some degree of feline amusement.

Do you think he's realised yet that all this bike-fettlage means a trip to the cat hotel is likely?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 April, 2011, 09:21:34 pm
Going to bed.

* folds arms in petulant fashion*

Harrrummph...  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 26 April, 2011, 09:59:27 pm
Quote from: interzen on 26 April, 2011, 08:19:38 pm
Quote from: jogler on 26 April, 2011, 08:08:24 pm
it's an improvement on audaxaroma or eau de auk is it not? ;D
Parfum de randonneur :)
Speak for yourselves
Quote from: boab on 19 April, 2011, 12:35:42 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2011-04-19094532.jpg)
Well.... it is The French Ride...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 26 April, 2011, 10:34:01 pm
Jumping 700 places in BikeJournal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 26 April, 2011, 11:09:50 pm
I didn't ride my bike today because when I did yesterday it was slightly uncomfortable due to having sunburnt my arse sleeping in the garden at the weekend when I was working nights  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 April, 2011, 11:47:27 pm
Quote from: Feline on 26 April, 2011, 11:09:50 pm
I didn't ride my bike today because when I did yesterday it was slightly uncomfortable due to having sunburnt my arse sleeping in the garden at the weekend when I was working nights  ;D

ttiuwp ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 27 April, 2011, 12:33:26 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 April, 2011, 09:17:32 pm
Quote from: TimO on 26 April, 2011, 09:12:08 pm
Talisker has curled up on the temporarily discarded bike stand bag, and has been watching, presumably with some degree of feline amusement.
Do you think he's realised yet that all this bike-fettlage means a trip to the cat hotel is likely?

He's not that smart.  This is a cat which after three years, still hasn't worked out that the first thing that happens every day, before breakfast, is that he gets a pill. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 27 April, 2011, 12:39:45 am
Quote from: Feline on 26 April, 2011, 11:09:50 pm
I didn't ride my bike today because when I did yesterday it was slightly uncomfortable due to having sunburnt my arse sleeping in the garden at the weekend when I was working nights  ;D

Ouch!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 04:17:43 am
Failing to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 06:42:01 am
Trying to drag myself out of bed so that I can go to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 27 April, 2011, 06:55:00 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 06:42:01 am
Trying to drag myself out of bed so that I can go to work.
Smile - It's Wednesday!!

Oh....  Sorry
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 27 April, 2011, 07:14:36 am
Sitting outside, as the sun rises for yet another hot day in Brittany, drinking coffee and eating croissant, whilst I wait for Mr R to wake up...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 27 April, 2011, 07:16:25 am
Why? What did you do to him?



Oh yes....re your situation...


GIT!!!!





 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 April, 2011, 02:50:01 pm
Leaping out of bed bright and early to start a fresh new day.

(Or, dragging my slug-like bulk out of bed so I can appear to offspring, soon to return from Skool, to have done something with my time today).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 27 April, 2011, 02:56:01 pm
Feeling really, really sleepy. And stressed.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 27 April, 2011, 03:01:46 pm
[gets out bottle of aromatic rubbing oil, and starts to gently ease all the tension out of poor Peli's shoulders....hopes Woolly is out]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 03:34:41 pm
Quote from: boab on 27 April, 2011, 02:50:01 pm
Leaping out of bed bright and early to start a fresh new day.

(Or, dragging my slug-like bulk out of bed so I can appear to offspring, soon to return ffrom Skool, to have done something with my time today).

How's the elbow/knee?  Is it better?  If not, have you been to get it checked yet?

(I did warn you I would nag.  And I am my Mother's Daughter.  Which means that I learnt the art of nagging at the knee of a master.....)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 April, 2011, 03:37:18 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 27 April, 2011, 02:56:01 pm
Feeling really, really sleepy. And stressed.  :-\

Nurse! Chocolate! Quick!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 27 April, 2011, 03:50:05 pm
I think I've just ordered the correct Motherboard, CPU, and RAM, so I can more or less drop them into the server.

If I'm lucky that lot will just boot up with the current kernel.  If I'm unlucky, I'll need to rebuild the kernel, which worst case will need me to buy a new CD-Rom that I can plug into the onboard SATA controller.

Fingers crossed, but none of this should interfere with stuff until next week, after the Narwhal camping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 06:36:15 pm
Thinking about going home.  My head still doesn't hurt.  And although I do feel a bit queasy that'll be because by the time I got to the sandwich shop they'd run out of sandwiches, so I ate (rather a lot of) root vegetable crisps and cottage cheese for lunch.

And I still don't particularly want to kill anyone. 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 April, 2011, 06:42:03 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 03:34:41 pm
How's the elbow/knee?  Is it better?  If not, have you been to get it checked yet?

(I did warn you I would nag.  And I am my Mother's Daughter.  Which means that I learnt the art of nagging at the knee of a master.....)

Bit sore. No, and no. Sorry Mum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 April, 2011, 06:44:15 pm
Having a) just driven back from Leeds and b) tipped an ungodly amount of weedkiller over the out-of-control wilderness that is my back garden I'm now fighting the urge to have a quick snooze, knowing full well that a 'quick snooze' could easily turn into a 4-5hr sleep.

Zzzzzz ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 06:47:58 pm
Quote from: boab on 27 April, 2011, 06:42:03 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 03:34:41 pm
How's the elbow/knee?  Is it better?  If not, have you been to get it checked yet?

(I did warn you I would nag.  And I am my Mother's Daughter.  Which means that I learnt the art of nagging at the knee of a master.....)

Bit sore. No, and no. Sorry Mum.

Now, you know what I'm going to say now, don't you?

*CL stares, slightly quizzically, over the top of her glasses at boab*

I believe that somebody would like their arm and their leg to be functioning for a rather splendid ride with added hilly goodness next weekend - is this kind of behaviour likely to help?  Hmmmm?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 April, 2011, 11:22:03 pm
Catching up on about 6 years worth of accidents, adventures and assorted silliness with our friend Hanananananah the astrononononomer, who is back in the UK for the first time in ages.  I taught her to ride the 'bent earlier and she didn't fall off  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 11:28:17 pm
 
Quote from: boab on 27 April, 2011, 11:18:48 pm
I have now spent the evening partaking of West Suffolk's finest Hospital-ity.

You can stop nagging.
Nothing serious1.

The early signs of osteo-arthritis are more worrying, apparently.
Thanks. Really glad I went. Not. I'm only 42 FFS.


1Complete rest & ice for 2 days. With Ibuprofen. And then yes you can ride 200 miles, if you want to. It will not make it any worse.

Well, I'm glad you went. And relieved that it isn't more serious. And very cheerful that you can  do a medically sanctioned silly hilly 200 this weekend. And wondering if I can arrange a  cake courier...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 28 April, 2011, 12:04:17 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 11:28:17 pm
Quote from: boab on 27 April, 2011, 11:18:48 pm
I have now spent the evening partaking of West Suffolk's finest Hospital-ity.

You can stop nagging.
Nothing serious1.

The early signs of osteo-arthritis are more worrying, apparently.
Thanks. Really glad I went. Not. I'm only 42 FFS.


1Complete rest & ice for 2 days. With Ibuprofen. And then yes you can ride 200 miles, if you want to. It will not make it any worse.

Well, I'm glad you went. And relieved that it isn't more serious. And very cheerful that you can  do a medically sanctioned silly hilly 200 this weekend. And wondering if I can arrange a  cake courier...

::-) I really should start to charge.

Glad it's nowt too serious, boab.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2011, 05:53:27 am
Quote from: Deano on 28 April, 2011, 12:04:17 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 11:28:17 pm
And wondering if I can arrange a  cake courier...

::-) I really should start to charge.

Glad it's nowt too serious, boab.


Payment in flapjack?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 28 April, 2011, 07:38:29 am
Hold your horses peeps.

There is some debate (OK, my 'special friend' has just returned from the CrinklyLion school of nagging) whether driving 300 miles can in any way be described as complete rest.
I'm taking a poll of the offspring to see how sold we are on the idea.

I suspect it's wagons roll, (the grandparents have easter eggs!) but, ought to check.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 28 April, 2011, 08:06:32 am
Well, it is hardly strenuous excercise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2011, 08:56:33 am
Quote from: boab on 28 April, 2011, 07:38:29 am
Hold your horses peeps.

There is some debate (OK, my 'special friend' has just returned from the CrinklyLion school of nagging) whether driving 300 miles can in any way be described as complete rest.
I'm taking a poll of the offspring to see how sold we are on the idea.

I suspect it's wagons roll, (the grandparents have easter eggs!) but, ought to check.

I dint do nuffink, 'onest!  But I am still glad you got it checked.  And reassured that there's nothing actually broken!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 28 April, 2011, 08:57:07 am
Pondering on whether I should take an overnight bivvy trip tonight!   I do indeed have a goretex bivvy, a warm synthetic sleeping bag, and I'm sure I've got an army poncho which could be tied between trees to make a shelter.  Probably wouldn't cycle too far, there is a nice bit of out of the way woodland  around 10 mile away....
Hmmmmm.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 28 April, 2011, 08:58:27 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2011, 05:53:27 am
Quote from: Deano on 28 April, 2011, 12:04:17 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 11:28:17 pm
And wondering if I can arrange a  cake courier...

::-) I really should start to charge.

Glad it's nowt too serious, boab.


Payment in flapjack?

Oh, go on then ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 28 April, 2011, 09:09:32 am
Preparing for my job interview  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 28 April, 2011, 09:10:00 am
Quote from: BrianI on 28 April, 2011, 08:57:07 am
Pondering on whether I should take an overnight bivvy trip tonight!   I do indeed have a goretex bivvy, a warm synthetic sleeping bag, and I'm sure I've got an army poncho which could be tied between trees to make a shelter.  Probably wouldn't cycle too far, there is a nice bit of out of the way woodland  around 10 mile away....
Hmmmmm.......

Is this to stay there until it is safe to come back on Friday evening?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 28 April, 2011, 09:20:37 am
Pondering whether or not it was a good idea to have sent my CV in for a .Net developer job in Ashford...

Good luck to her_welshness with the interview.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 April, 2011, 09:23:12 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 28 April, 2011, 09:09:32 am
Preparing for my job interview  :)

fingers crossed for you
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 April, 2011, 09:26:03 am
Good luck HW!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2011, 09:32:58 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 28 April, 2011, 09:09:32 am
Preparing for my job interview  :)

Fingers and toes crossed for you, both that they like you (which they will unless they are DIM!) and that you like them :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 28 April, 2011, 09:48:18 am
Packing.

(And looking forward, in a slightly hopeful way, to Flapjack)
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 April, 2011, 09:48:53 am
@crinkly do you think you caught arthritis riding on my tandem? @Her Welshness Good luck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 28 April, 2011, 09:54:57 am
Quote from: Adrian on 28 April, 2011, 09:10:00 am
Quote from: BrianI on 28 April, 2011, 08:57:07 am
Pondering on whether I should take an overnight bivvy trip tonight!   I do indeed have a goretex bivvy, a warm synthetic sleeping bag, and I'm sure I've got an army poncho which could be tied between trees to make a shelter.  Probably wouldn't cycle too far, there is a nice bit of out of the way woodland  around 10 mile away....
Hmmmmm.......

Is this to stay there until it is safe to come back on Friday evening?

I'll probably get up at crack of dawn tomorrow morning, then take a leisurely cycle stopping off at a café for a coffee and scone before taking a slow pootle home.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 April, 2011, 10:06:27 am
About to burn some fat!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 28 April, 2011, 10:52:10 am
Good luck with the I/V HW :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 April, 2011, 10:59:29 am
laminating a route sheet
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 April, 2011, 11:00:55 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 28 April, 2011, 09:09:32 am
Preparing for my job interview  :)

Hope it's fruitful :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2011, 12:04:23 pm
I am swearing mildly (but very quietly) at software.  And idiots that set up notworks in counter-intuitive and non-helpful ways.  I am also feeling rather hungry, because I forgot to eat breakfast and there's no biscuits in the staffroom here  :o, and but am nonetheless resisting the temptation to eat either the cake or the flapjack that is currently in my bag....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 April, 2011, 12:10:21 pm
Debating whether or not to head to Leeds and buy lots and lots of electronic bits and bobs from Clas Ohlson1 and Maplin ... I also need a PSU for my Akai SynthStation and Maplins in York don't have anything suitable in stock :demon:

1 - well worth a look if you happen to have one near you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2011, 03:17:34 pm
Quote from: boab on 28 April, 2011, 09:48:18 am
Packing.

(And looking forward, in a slightly hopeful way, to Flapjack)

I intend to hand over a bag of baked_comestibles later today, and you and Deano can fight it out at the weekend who gets what!  He does appear to be a very trustworthy cake courier though.  He transported flapjack to Oban without even getting paid....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 April, 2011, 03:30:34 pm
Have just had a shower and then am heading out to a "Royal Wedding Garden Party" at TLD's school then back to go beer hunting with two forumites :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 April, 2011, 05:52:31 pm
Downloading bangin' Techno choons to the iPod ready for the night section of Saturday's 400  :thumbsup:.

FFS - How old are you?  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2011, 06:00:21 pm
On a train, on my way out for a pint/bike ride/very important cake delivery.  It's the weekend!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 28 April, 2011, 06:04:43 pm
Today, I am mostly measuring Mrs eck's bust.  :P
To make sure we order the right size of Audax Écosse jersey, you understand.  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 April, 2011, 07:41:00 pm
Quote from: eck on 28 April, 2011, 06:04:43 pm
Today, I am mostly measuring Mrs eck's bust.  :P
To make sure we order the right size of Audax Écosse jersey, you understand.  O:-)
All day?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 28 April, 2011, 08:05:57 pm
Getting steadily more angry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 April, 2011, 08:14:00 pm
Trying to work but feeling exhausted and unproductive. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 April, 2011, 08:35:58 pm
Trying to convince myself it's more sensible to pack for this weekend's camping trip tonight rather than at stupid o'clock tomorrow morning (need to leave home 09:00-ish).  Problem is, after a stressful 3-day week I have a serious case of CBA.  :-\
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 April, 2011, 08:38:22 pm
Looking forward to a whole weekend of Audax-based self-harm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 28 April, 2011, 08:43:04 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 28 April, 2011, 08:38:22 pm
Looking forward to a whole weekend of Audax-based self-harm.

You make it sound like the Brevet Cymru is a hard ride.

I got round it on my first attempt at a 400k; and within a week my legs stopped hurting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2011, 10:28:08 pm
Sitting on the train, waiting to depart northallerton, after a splendid evening of beer and bikes and chat. Good stuff  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 28 April, 2011, 11:11:04 pm
Quote from: simonp on 28 April, 2011, 08:05:57 pm
Getting steadily more angry.


Well, spending 7 hours starting at 3pm battling against all sorts of stupid issues meant I didn’t leave work till 10pm.  Fortunately I don’t have to catch the train to Wales till tomorrow afternoon so there’s plenty time to get everything sorted out for the BC 400.

Currently sorting out charging some batteries and washing some clothes for the weekend.  Oh and having dinner, I need to do that too.

Bah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 28 April, 2011, 11:48:49 pm
Listening to some fairly dark stuff by Massive Attack prior to launching myself into the darkness of Deptford to intercept the Republican's Refusenik ride... trying to resist the schoolboy temptation to hide in the shadows and Leap Out With a Great Noise as they pass...

That would be wrong.

Very wrong.

Wouldn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 29 April, 2011, 01:50:16 am
Paying the price of half a can of Red Bull 6 hours ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 April, 2011, 02:09:54 am
wondering wot i is doing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 April, 2011, 06:47:44 am
Quote from: Andrij on 28 April, 2011, 08:35:58 pm
Trying to convince myself it's more sensible to pack for this weekend's camping trip tonight rather than at stupid o'clock tomorrow morning (need to leave home 09:00-ish).  Problem is, after a stressful 3-day week I have a serious case of CBA.  :-\
 

No surprises here.  I'm now packing in a hurried manner.  ::-)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 29 April, 2011, 06:56:00 am
Relaxing, having taken an executive decision that we're not, after all, going to spend this weekend driving 1000 miles all over Scotland to visit ancient grumpy relatives.  :thumbsup:

My long weekend now looks normal: some pootling, some fettling, some TV, some beer.   :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 29 April, 2011, 08:07:02 am
Going to work and hope that most people will be indoors watching drivel so that I can have the roads and parks for myself.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 April, 2011, 08:11:55 am
Several pages back now but I still can't resist the temptation to ask BrianI how was Dawn's crack.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rhys W on 29 April, 2011, 08:40:50 am
Getting ready to meet some comrades for a bike ride. We'll be like Charlton Heston in The Omega Man. Except without the mutants.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 April, 2011, 08:45:30 am
Just about to carry the bike & camping kit downstairs to begin the trip to Monmouthshire (via Lime St station)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 29 April, 2011, 09:05:55 am
Drinking a cup of tea and about to leave for work.
Have to take the car today so I can bring home my 40kg dog food order :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 29 April, 2011, 09:29:46 am
Jangling my new twangler before getting ready for work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 29 April, 2011, 01:14:23 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2011, 03:17:34 pm
I intend to hand over a bag of baked_comestibles later today, and you and Deano can fight it out at the weekend who gets what!  He does appear to be a very trustworthy cake courier though.  He transported flapjack to Oban without even getting paid....

Ah, but we haven't done the FJ reconciliation yet.  How many bits did you actually send?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 April, 2011, 01:24:12 pm
 :o

He wouldn't have pinched any.... would he?  Actually, I can't even remember how much got sent other than that there was two sorts, in a fairly small bag for fitting-in-audax-saddlebag reasons.  But I am fairly confident that Deano can be trusted in such matters.  That jogler on the other hand....  ;)

I have just fed the last flapjack in the house to my children.  This means there is no cake left in the house at all, so what I am doing right now is contemplating heading to the shop for ingredients so that I can bake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 29 April, 2011, 02:48:18 pm
Sitting on a train, which will take me to That London as the first stage of my trek to Chepstow (well, near it) for the Brevet Cymru tomorrow.

I have brought my MBP along and will be fiddling with it on the train in order to add weight change graphs to the existing graph.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 29 April, 2011, 05:16:31 pm
On my sixth and last train of the day, having covered *silly* mileage.  Only three more hours to go...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 April, 2011, 05:42:46 pm
Were they good trains?  Apparently there's signal issues around Derby.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 29 April, 2011, 05:45:48 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 April, 2011, 05:42:46 pm
Were they good trains?  Apparently there's signal issues around Derby.....
Dunno anything about signals in/around Derby - I left there at 0645 this morning and all was working.  Since then I've changed trains at Leeds, Carlisle, Glasgow Central, Hyndland and Edinburgh.

Currently waiting for signal T534 at Newcastle to show something other than red.  It might be because we're early, but I dunno.  Oh - we're moving again now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 April, 2011, 05:54:02 pm
ooohh - did you go through Garsdale?  That's one of my favourite train journeys :)

I'm still thinking about going to the shop.  I went to sleep for a couple of hours instead of going earlier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 April, 2011, 10:00:54 pm
Being a bored audax widow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 April, 2011, 10:05:08 pm
Baking.  I know, shocking, isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 29 April, 2011, 10:06:03 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 April, 2011, 10:05:08 pm
Baking.  I know, shocking, isn't it?
:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 29 April, 2011, 10:11:19 pm
Assembling kits for tomorrow: fettling kit, first-aid kit, navigation kits, YACF (clothing) kit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 29 April, 2011, 10:12:09 pm
I shocked myself by watching the highlights of the royal wedding on TV, I didn't know I was even remotely interested!
Not as shocking though as the sheer number of people who wanted to bring their pet to the vets today, many of them for routine things. I got no lunch break at work all day and only one cup of tea  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 April, 2011, 10:33:07 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 29 April, 2011, 10:11:19 pm
Assembling kits for tomorrow: fettling kit, first-aid kit, navigation kits, YACF (clothing) kit.

Oh, I haven't even thought about any of that stuff yet.  Should I, I wonder?  Although I s'pose you have the fettling/first aid/navigation bit under control, so it's probably OK if I concentrate on the calorific kit :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 April, 2011, 11:01:14 pm
Making a big reduction to the stock levels of Grolsch.I've earned it :smug:

And wondering if Crinkly Lion will be baking  at midnightr or 0100hrs or 0200hrs as previously :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 April, 2011, 11:15:05 pm
Well, it's only 11:15, and I'm already on recipe number 3.  So unless I randomly decide to make coffee cake too, I shouldn't be.  Although I might be waiting for cake to cool down so that I can fill it with chocolate ganache....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 April, 2011, 12:44:17 am
Mudguard fettling.  And wondering if His Leggship doesn't talk sense sometimes.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 April, 2011, 02:58:11 am
All finished baking and fettling (I hope). Stuff sorted-ish ready.  Only a couple of hours 'til it's time to wake the Cub up - probably best go get some kip!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AndyH on 30 April, 2011, 03:36:03 am
Just about to leave for the Brevet Cymru  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 April, 2011, 06:44:17 am
On a X-country train, with the bikes stowed in the dangly space. The guard just came and said thank you to us for doing such a good job  of sorting them and our luggage out. Second breakfast time now :) (And yes, I know it's daft to have sufficient pannier-age to count  as luggage when we're going to do a 50km audax, but one of them is full of cake. One has certain standards to maintain!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 April, 2011, 07:31:48 am
Suffering from the "Want to stay curled up in this cozy sleeping bag"/"Need a pee" dilemma.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 30 April, 2011, 07:43:03 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 30 April, 2011, 12:44:17 am
Mudguard fettling.  And wondering if His Leggship doesn't talk sense sometimes.....
Thobut mudguards always get de-fettled by X-country dangly-bike-spaces.  I have my allen keys etc for pre-ride adjustments.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 April, 2011, 08:53:40 am
Amazed yet again that CL was still up at extremely sillo'clock with  baking & fettling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cD9cBEaNBc

or not ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 April, 2011, 09:53:49 am
Wondering what bad news the government buried yesterday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 30 April, 2011, 11:22:42 am
Waiting for the hovercraft at Portsmouth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 30 April, 2011, 12:21:11 pm
Wondering hoe Greg will cope now that he can no longer be the Duchess of Cambridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 April, 2011, 12:37:23 pm
Sitting in the pub, having a beer, on my own. I hope none of you think this is weird.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 30 April, 2011, 12:40:23 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 April, 2011, 12:37:23 pm
Sitting in the pub, having a beer, on my own. I hope none of you think this is weird.

You are Basil AICMFP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 April, 2011, 12:48:38 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 30 April, 2011, 12:40:23 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 April, 2011, 12:37:23 pm
Sitting in the pub, having a beer, on my own. I hope none of you think this is weird.

You are Basil AICMFP

There is no quiz. And being an audax widow this weekend, I haz no penguin to entertain me. So I 'fell in' on the way home from the shops :-[
Soon I shall mow the lawn and enjoy this odd (for aberdeen) blue sky. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 April, 2011, 02:13:34 pm
Not sitting in the pub with Mrs. P
:-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 30 April, 2011, 02:18:38 pm
Having breakfast before a walk, just have to get a move on before Dr. Who tonight
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 30 April, 2011, 02:26:01 pm
Breakfast, dear boy?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 30 April, 2011, 02:35:20 pm
Yup we just got up :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 30 April, 2011, 02:41:32 pm
Dear gods, the debauchery of these Danes! I have been up since 0650, three hours playing, some writing and a blast on the bike. And no brekky nor lunch
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 30 April, 2011, 02:45:42 pm
Well it is Peli who makes me do it, she so darn fine to sleep with :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 30 April, 2011, 02:53:25 pm
TOO MUCH INFORMATION!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 30 April, 2011, 03:08:13 pm
Waiting for heartbeat to  return to normal. Have just been on the roof to try and fix up a new TV aerial. Got up there but it was too windy for me and I discovered I am not destined to be an aerial installer. Spent 15 minutes sat on the chimney then gave up.Lovely view across the Wolds and Howerdian hills though. I will call an aerial guy to fit it me thinks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 30 April, 2011, 03:10:00 pm
What is wrong with sleeping, people do it every it every day, go to bed and count sheep. What are you thinking ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 April, 2011, 06:36:09 pm
I am sitting on a X-country train out from Tamworth, listening to the cub having Very Serious Conversations with Rower40. Rower40 is experiencing the delights of an apparently limitless supply of why. We did an audax, we did :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 May, 2011, 05:35:54 am
Hurting, worrying, not sleeping and listening to the cock crow.

Shut up! You haven't even got any hens, mister.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 01 May, 2011, 06:07:32 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 30 April, 2011, 06:36:09 pm
I am sitting on a X-country train out from Tamworth, listening to the cub having Very Serious Conversations with Rower40. Rower40 is experiencing the delights of an apparently limitless supply of why. We did an audax, we did :)
Strangely enough, no one asked 'why?' for that last one.
Not wanting to get out of bed to go rowing, 'cos I is sore.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 May, 2011, 06:32:14 am
I am streetviewing, to work out where I'm meeting the toytowners in a few hours, whilst drinking coffee and contemplating getting a rack pack ready to set off and head to the station.  Need to set off soon, should probably get on with it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 May, 2011, 08:02:40 am
Once again, armed only with a bike, some cake and a vague clue where I'm going, I find myself on platform 11 at York station. Silly-Bike-Adventure ahoy!

Eta-jogler will be disappointed to learn that his attempt at inflicting an earworm on me yesterday was  too late. But it'll probably haunt me today instead. And doubtless pleased to learn that I got a good 6 hours kip last night!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 01 May, 2011, 09:51:29 am
Recovering from getting up at 4.30 to dance the summer in!
A Merry May to everyone!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 01 May, 2011, 11:33:01 am
Travelling back from the Brevet Cymru.  Very thirsty today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 May, 2011, 11:43:33 am
Contemplating a saddle fettle :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 01 May, 2011, 12:58:35 pm
Eating and dropping crumbs all over my keyboard
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 May, 2011, 01:21:22 pm
Just hung up a roll of Rollei infrared film to dry.  Scans later  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 May, 2011, 02:11:04 pm
Sitting in the shade in front of Durham Cathedral. Lovely stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 01 May, 2011, 02:25:51 pm
Tidying up a rather dishevelled house, after two weeks of temporary bachelorhood, before the rest of the clan appear from Hungary.

At least the kids will be distracted with their new trampoline...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 May, 2011, 02:51:29 pm
Hacking on iPhone apps and trying very hard to ignore the all-pervading smell of rapeseed1

1 - There's a field of it out the back of the house, and since the wind is easterly the smell is worse than usual
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 01 May, 2011, 02:52:02 pm
Feeling grumpy about being ill. Still.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 01 May, 2011, 03:07:21 pm
just home from a windy century ride where I didnt eat enough - now emptying the fridge. Then it'll be off to tes*o to re-stock before Mrs M gets home at 4.00. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 May, 2011, 03:11:19 pm
Drinking a naughty glass of pink wine, whilst cooking chicken stew for when Crusty gets in from his bike ride.  And listening to 6music playing some odd music.  I am really enjoying myself  :)  And looking forward to seeing him.

A shame ravenbait can't pop round for tea.  Chicken stew is most medicinal (but not for the chicken).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 01 May, 2011, 04:30:41 pm
Home-made curry (from scratch) on the stove, resting. I'm eating hummus on toast, listening to Pendulum, and we're going to watch Dr Who again before I start work for the evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 May, 2011, 05:39:38 am
Woke up early with a hangover after last night's party  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 02 May, 2011, 06:18:46 am
Cup of coffee then off to work
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 02 May, 2011, 06:52:11 am
Pondering the meaning of the word 'justice' when used by Obama. Bin Laden may have been a bad man, but even Saddam Hussein had a trial.
Ok,  this should be in the relevant thread.  Oops.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 02 May, 2011, 09:45:08 am
Ignoring the pile of marking.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 May, 2011, 09:55:00 am
Trying (and mostly failing) to keep up with Post Audax Hunger. Second breakfast, and it's barely 10am  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 02 May, 2011, 09:57:46 am
Thinking of getting up and making breakfast.  Mr Ocado delivered supplies not an hour ago and I have fresh stocks of muesli and fruit.  Also bacon, but I’ll save that for later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 02 May, 2011, 10:20:11 am
Eating pain-au-chocolat and drinking coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 02 May, 2011, 10:30:38 am
Drinking coffee, reviewing conference abstracts, and wondering where the bleep my cassette lockring tool has gone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 May, 2011, 10:32:02 am
Waiting for the chaos in the kitchen to calm down, so I can go make a picnic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 May, 2011, 12:04:38 pm
Wanting to go do stuff in the garden, but the wind out there is annoying me  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 May, 2011, 12:09:03 pm
Working. Being stressed and frustrated.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 May, 2011, 01:43:39 pm
Peli, you need a better job :(

I am sitting in the grounds at Lotherton Hall. It's very busy, but pleasant. Last time I was here was with Mseries, and we rode back to York.  Somehow I don't think the journey home in the car will be quite as nice :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 02 May, 2011, 02:32:52 pm
Tinkering the CV and emailing it to my agency.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 May, 2011, 02:35:09 pm
Wishing I had a kite, 'cos hot-diggity-daffodil it's windy out there ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 02 May, 2011, 02:39:48 pm
Hot Lava Java coffee before I hit the back garden with my new shears.
They are new but in the old style of sheep shearing shears, like the Specsavers ad with the shepherd that shears his collie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 May, 2011, 02:42:52 pm
Quote from: Grub on 02 May, 2011, 02:39:48 pm
They are new but in the old style of sheep shearing shears, like the Specsavers ad with the shepherd that shears his collie.
Where'd you get them?
They're *exactly* the sort of thing I could do with for light foliage-bothering duties (ie. where BFO shears and chainsaw aren't required)

I was hoping to get some more weedkiller down this arvo but the wind has pretty much put paid to that  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 May, 2011, 02:45:41 pm
Quote from: Grub on 02 May, 2011, 02:39:48 pm
Hot Lava Java coffee before I hit the back garden with my new shears.
They are new but in the old style of sheep shearing shears, like the Specsavers ad with the shepherd that shears his collie.

They sound like just the thing for topiary!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 May, 2011, 02:50:53 pm
Quote from: Feline on 02 May, 2011, 02:45:41 pm
Quote from: Grub on 02 May, 2011, 02:39:48 pm
Hot Lava Java coffee before I hit the back garden with my new shears.
They are new but in the old style of sheep shearing shears, like the Specsavers ad with the shepherd that shears his collie.

They sound like just the thing for topiary!
Indeed they do, so I put "topiary shears" into Google and got several hits which confirmed that these are precisely what I'm after. I can now go to the local hardware emporium and actually ask for 'topiary shears' rather than 'some shears like that shepherd uses in the Specsavers advert' :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 02 May, 2011, 02:55:32 pm
I got them from Roses Ironmongers / Harware in Devizes.  They are not cheap - £17 but if you look after them they last a lifetime.  I grew up using my dad's and they are still in the bottom drawer of his shed in Australia ( even though he is no longer there ).

Mine are made by Fiskars and are guaranteed for 10 years.

And Googling found they are actually called TOPIARY Shears  ;D  ( bonus point to Feline )

(http://static-emea.fiskars.com/var/fiskars_emea/storage/images/frontpage/products/plant-care/hedge-shears/113010-topiary-shears/164927-2-eng-GB/113010-Topiary-Shears_product_main.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 May, 2011, 06:48:36 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 02 May, 2011, 01:43:39 pm
Peli, you need a better job :(

I am sitting in the grounds at Lotherton Hall. It's very busy, but pleasant. Last time I was here was with Mseries, and we rode back to York.  Somehow I don't think the journey home in the car will be quite as nice :)

We stopped right near there for our on-the-way picnic!
If only I'd've known...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 May, 2011, 07:25:57 pm
Dibsing the big table in the pub as some old friends will be joining us for a meal before the quiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 May, 2011, 08:05:19 pm
Applying masking tape.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 May, 2011, 08:07:26 pm
Still working. Just made a big error. Bollox.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 02 May, 2011, 08:54:29 pm
Deciding not to even attempt to deal with email, Internets, blogs, humans, BiCon backlog till tomorrow evening and plotting an early night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 May, 2011, 09:00:41 pm
Just starting on a heyuuge bowl of mushroom risotto with added chicken.   Wondering how much crap will be in my email tomorrow.

Waves "goodnight" to Barakta.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 03 May, 2011, 08:37:33 am
Looking out of the window.

F*ck me... it's windy. What a surprise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 May, 2011, 08:44:40 am
Replacing an isolation valve adjacent to the domestic central heating pump.I put these valves in to obviate the need to drain the system down in the event of needing to change the pump.
I didn't put i.v.'s in to service the i.v.'s & therefore still need to drain down the system
oh joy ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 03 May, 2011, 08:53:13 am
I hope you put in some extra IVs so that when you need to service the IVs that isolate your IVs you don’t have to drain the system. While your at it put in some to isolate the IVs that isolate the iVs and ........ :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 May, 2011, 09:53:30 am
Sitting in the physio's office. He's running 20 minutes late  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 03 May, 2011, 08:20:50 pm
Apparently going down with a cold.

Bah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 May, 2011, 08:26:16 pm
Panicking about my job interview.

fuckityfuckityfuckityfuckityfuckityfuckityfuck.

I don't know which fucking white papers they're going to ask me about.

What the hell am I doing going through this again.   :facepalm: :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 03 May, 2011, 09:23:42 pm
Playing my mandolin along to a Show of Hands CD
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 May, 2011, 09:43:34 am
Waiting on fish tank MKII getting delivered, then waiting for another courier van to collect Fish Tank MKI (with value added crack in it).  Why can't the same courier give me my new one, and take the old one away at the same time?  Mind you I've been somewhat productive so gar, only 9:41 am, and i've got my pc upgraded to Xubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 May, 2011, 10:01:06 am
Dialling into yet another tele conference. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 04 May, 2011, 10:22:10 am
Thinking WTF. None of my neighbours have their bins out today, and it is usually bin day on Wednesday. It wasn't a bank holiday this week. They must know something I don't  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 04 May, 2011, 10:23:40 am
Quote from: Feline on 04 May, 2011, 10:22:10 am
Thinking WTF. None of my neighbours have their bins out today, and it is usually bin day on Wednesday. It wasn't a bank holiday this week. They must know something I don't  :(

Are you sure?  What was Monday?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 May, 2011, 05:28:12 pm
Still waiting for fish tank MKII to be delivered.  Phoned the place I am getting the tank from, they now say it should be delivered anytime between now and 7pm.  Shame, as it's such a nice evening!

grumpy courier driver must have seen my post on yacf as it's magically been delivered at 6pm!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 04 May, 2011, 05:31:03 pm
Looking for typoes I may have missed first time around in my very long blog rant about the latest Doctor Who and trying to decide whether to make salad or spiced Moroccan stew with the leftover lamb.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 May, 2011, 05:32:26 pm
M'at work.  Missed the blinkin' helldesk cutoff, so can't fix this particular problem until next week now.

Next!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 May, 2011, 05:35:28 pm
Printing off an entry form for my next 200km audax & contemplating delivering it by hand to Macclesfield tomorrow :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 May, 2011, 05:35:50 pm
Putting together a support site for my latest iPhone creation.

Dunno why, but writing HTML code just makes my brain .... slow .... down ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 04 May, 2011, 05:40:26 pm
Still at work on my birthday.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 May, 2011, 05:44:07 pm
Happy Birthday TT!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 May, 2011, 06:11:45 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 May, 2011, 05:32:26 pm
M'at work.  Missed the blinkin' helldesk cutoff, so can't fix this particular problem until next week now.

Next!

Blimey!  The helldesk answered a ticket logged online even though they were s'posed to be shut!  I mean, I know it was a very very easy question - they had to look up a license number and that was it - but that's like extra customer service  :o

Course, now I've got to fix it....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 04 May, 2011, 06:12:55 pm
Quote from: Feline on 04 May, 2011, 10:22:10 am
Thinking WTF. None of my neighbours have their bins out today, and it is usually bin day on Wednesday. It wasn't a bank holiday this week. They must know something I don't  :(

It wasn't?

 ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 May, 2011, 07:12:20 pm
Packing up to go home.  The thing that I was fixing is fixed, and that was two big ticks off another list.

Today I have closed 23 support tickets.

My colleagues have closed 17 between them.

That's more like how it used to be!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 May, 2011, 07:14:22 pm
Mergesorting a massive pile of British Rail orange cardboard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 04 May, 2011, 08:40:17 pm
Just noticing that it is that Tourist tony chaops birthday so preparing to rush home and down a beer to celebrate. Happy wossname Tony!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 04 May, 2011, 09:02:34 pm
Working from home but not getting paid.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 May, 2011, 09:23:09 pm
Like those West Mids ex-coppers, then, eh? ;)  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 04 May, 2011, 09:30:33 pm
No  ::-)  More than my job's worth  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 May, 2011, 06:35:00 am
Trying to drag myself out of my pit, to go to work. Don't wanna!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 05 May, 2011, 06:43:34 am
Pah been up all night.  Now either bored or tired can't figure out which.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 05 May, 2011, 06:59:42 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 05 May, 2011, 06:35:00 am
Trying to drag myself out of my pit, to go to work. Don't wanna!

+1
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 May, 2011, 09:21:06 am
Binge eating.
14 chocolate mini rolls for 'breakfast'.
That's not going to end well is it?
:sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 May, 2011, 09:24:03 am
Possibly not.  I'm guessing that you, like me, are an 'open packet is an empty packet' kinda gal?

I had cake for my breakfast, if that makes you feel any better....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 May, 2011, 09:30:43 am
I can see how that might not be a good idea.  However, don't fret it.  Eating something 'proper' as well can help.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 05 May, 2011, 09:31:50 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 05 May, 2011, 09:24:03 am
Possibly not.  I'm guessing that you, like me, are an 'open packet is an empty packet' kinda gal?

I had cake for my breakfast, if that makes you feel any better....

Have just looked in the bread bin - there is nothing there!!!!  :o Gah, where are the chocolate rolls when you need them  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 May, 2011, 09:33:15 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 05 May, 2011, 09:24:03 am
Possibly not.  I'm guessing that you, like me, are an 'open packet is an empty packet' kinda gal?

I had cake for my breakfast, if that makes you feel any better....

I only stopped after I'd opened packet #3 and realised there was only one left for each child...
I washed it down with a pint of milk. FFS I really am full of the self-loathing today. As well as mini rolls.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 05 May, 2011, 10:13:29 am
Quote from: boab on 05 May, 2011, 09:33:15 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 05 May, 2011, 09:24:03 am
Possibly not.  I'm guessing that you, like me, are an 'open packet is an empty packet' kinda gal?

I had cake for my breakfast, if that makes you feel any better....

I only stopped after I'd opened packet #3 and realised there was only one left for each child...
I washed it down with a pint of milk. FFS I really am full of the self-loathing today. As well as mini rolls.
The only reason I'm not full of mini rolls (or chocolate biscuits or mars bars or penguins or even cereal bars) is that I have eaten them all and haven't been shopping. I think a big piece of bread and marmalade before I do go shopping is the only way to stop it going really wrong :-[. It's a shame we're out of muller corner yogurts as well, as they are one thing that sometimes pushes the cravings off for a bit.

Have a virtual hug. :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 May, 2011, 01:52:15 pm
Setting up fish tank!   :thumbsup: (seeing as it eventually got delivered at 6pm last night!)
Looks to be intact, so now getting the gravel substrate down, then a bit of bog wood (which I've soaked in water for the best part of a week with regular water changes), and probably a couple of largish pebbles to finish the decor before planting next week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 05 May, 2011, 03:31:52 pm
Venting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 May, 2011, 03:56:13 pm
Packing for 'lightweight' camping.

Tent + mat (annoyingly, the Downmat was dispatched today and will undoubtedly turn up about 3 hours after I leave) + sleeping bag + titanium spork runs to about 1.5 Altura Orkney 56's.  The rest is rapidly filled by a change of clothing, drugs and shower stuff, cafe lock, waterproof, bike tools, spares, basic food and so on.

I must be doing it wrong.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 05 May, 2011, 04:03:44 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 May, 2011, 03:56:13 pm
Tent + mat (annoyingly, the Downmat was dispatched today and will undoubtedly turn up about 3 hours after I leave) + sleeping bag + titanium spork runs to about 1.5 Altura Orkney 56's.  The rest is rapidly filled by a change of clothing, drugs and shower stuff, cafe lock, waterproof, bike tools, spares, basic food and so on.

That's about where I was, packing-wise, until I realized that the tent didn't have to go in a pannier.

If you're not using a rack pack, shock-cording the tent on top of a rack between the panniers can work well, and saves a lot of space.  The only way we've found to pack for two on a tandem without invoking trailers.  There are probably other large-stuff-outside-panniers options, too.

I still lust after some Arkel rear panniers with dedicated mat-pockets!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 May, 2011, 04:09:26 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 05 May, 2011, 04:03:44 pm
I still lust after some Arkel rear panniers with dedicated mat-pockets!

If you mean the TT-84's, then I guess they have that advantage, although I'd imagine that by the time you've filled them, they're probably quite a challenge to physically move. ;D

I do like the Arkel stuff, but if I could afford to buy some TT-84s, I'd probably then be afraid to use them, for fear of damaging them!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 05 May, 2011, 04:12:47 pm
Exchange rates have not been kind to Arkel-fans...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 May, 2011, 04:36:25 pm
Going home.  Via the shop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 May, 2011, 04:54:27 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 05 May, 2011, 04:03:44 pm
That's about where I was, packing-wise, until I realized that the tent didn't have to go in a pannier.

My usual configuration is everything in four less-than-crammed panniers, because the bike's designed to take a lot of weight low down between the wheels on the front racks.  I'm doing this trip on just the two Alturas, because I want to keep the weight down and because one of my nasty Halfords panniers has a b0rked clip (and the replacement Ortlieb front rollers are still in the post).  I seem to have got everything in, with a couple of bits and pieces strapped to the bike frame directly.

I'll have a bag of water on the rear rack, which doesn't entirely preclude sticking the tent/sleeping bag there, but would make everything a lot faffier and less train-friendly.

If I had the Ortliebs and compressed the fuck out of my enormous sleeping bag, I'd probably manage two front panniers and a rack pack.  That configuration works surprisingly well.

I've done the two panniers plus tent/bag on the rear rack thing before.  I don't recommend it on a DF bike - it makes the handling nasty on climbs, and it's almost impossible to carry up and down steps without injuring yourself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 05 May, 2011, 05:22:07 pm
Sat in the centre in coniston listening to the rain on the sky lights :-( the weather has be wonderful for weeks, why start raining just as I start 6 days of walking and cycling?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 05 May, 2011, 05:52:03 pm
Quote from: matthew on 05 May, 2011, 05:22:07 pm
Sat in the centre in coniston listening to the rain on the sky lights :-( the weather has be wonderful for weeks, why start raining just as I start 6 days of walking and cycling?

Oh no, poor you! Hope it clears up.

I'm just getting ready to go out to my Krav Maga class - and already looking forward to my regular Thursday burrito afterwards!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 May, 2011, 06:29:20 pm
Quote from: matthew on 05 May, 2011, 05:22:07 pm
Sat in the centre in coniston listening to the rain on the sky lights :-( the weather has be wonderful for weeks, why start raining just as I start 6 days of walking and cycling?

You are me and ICMFP.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 May, 2011, 06:33:14 pm
Being a cat bed, having just mowed the 'lawn'. Ignoring Pingu grumpily washing up while listening to Tom Robinson's Fresh on the Net.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 May, 2011, 07:47:08 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 05 May, 2011, 04:03:44 pm


 shock-cording the tent on top of a rack between the panniers

thats the way I carry my tent
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 05 May, 2011, 08:01:23 pm
Trying these (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=13438.msg932730#msg932730) on

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  :D

EDIT - Must ride tomorrow.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 05 May, 2011, 08:21:47 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 05 May, 2011, 08:01:23 pm
Trying these (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=13438.msg932730#msg932730) on

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  :D

EDIT - Must ride tomorrow.....

No need for photos.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 05 May, 2011, 08:58:50 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 05 May, 2011, 08:21:47 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 05 May, 2011, 08:01:23 pm
Trying these (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=13438.msg932730#msg932730) on

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  :D

EDIT - Must ride tomorrow.....

No need for photos.

None are about to be proffered  :P So The Nation  can sleep easy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 May, 2011, 10:07:42 pm
Trying to think of something reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeealllly sarcastic to say to the company who, along with my new kite, sent me a free gift of two England car flags.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 05 May, 2011, 10:42:25 pm
Basil, I can't match your tache ;-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 05 May, 2011, 10:46:31 pm
I meant to have an early night tonight on the basis I need to get a very early night tomorrow night for a 4 am start on Saturday for the Old Roads 300k Audax.
Why is it I never seem to manage to go to bed before midnight whatever my best intentions?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 May, 2011, 07:26:07 am
Quote from: matthew on 05 May, 2011, 10:42:25 pm
Basil, I can't match your tache ;-)

You need to try harder and concentrate.  Sit there straining, "nnnnnggggh".  Keep concentrating.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 06 May, 2011, 07:52:59 am
Putting on make up.


It's difficult when you're laughing this much.

Me, in make up.

*snigger*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 May, 2011, 08:09:28 am
All the best for today  :thumbsup:.

Fingers, toes, legs etc - all crossed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 May, 2011, 08:32:38 am
Quote from: Basil on 06 May, 2011, 07:26:07 am
Quote from: matthew on 05 May, 2011, 10:42:25 pm
Basil, I can't match your tache ;-)

You need to try harder and concentrate.  Sit there straining, "nnnnnggggh".  Keep concentrating.  ;)

Ex-Lax needed?
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 06 May, 2011, 08:33:19 am
Good luck Boab.

Failing to boot brain, I even ate a croissant Kim kindly left me after her sparrowfart leaving madness.  8 mins to do hair & shoes and drag sorry self out of house before I'm technically late for work. Sleeeeeeeeeepy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 06 May, 2011, 08:47:21 am
Getting ready to go to the airport. Birthday party in DK mates 50th its going to be a good one :) but I will not get to see Peli for days :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 06 May, 2011, 08:52:43 am
Not putting on make-up, nor 'doing' hair. Pouring tea, then twangling my janglers for an hour or two. Then a ride.
Oh, and ironing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 May, 2011, 09:24:18 am
Quote from: boab on 06 May, 2011, 07:52:59 am
Putting on make up.


It's difficult when you're laughing this much.

Me, in make up.

*snigger*

Crikey.  I think I last did that in.... (scratches head, counts on fingers) 2004.  Or possibly 2005.

Good luck :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 06 May, 2011, 09:57:57 am
Blowing the dust off my CV with a view to fettling it later on.

Also, recovering from the ego-rape which comes from asking your 80-year old neighbour to give you a hand getting your bike across the threshold  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 May, 2011, 02:35:58 pm
Not getting any work done.  :-\
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 06 May, 2011, 02:37:18 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 06 May, 2011, 02:35:58 pm
Not getting any work done.  :-\
 

+1.

Its not right having to work on a Friday.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 May, 2011, 03:12:51 pm
Being grumpy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 May, 2011, 04:26:17 pm
Getting ready for a full-on weekend of work and no Woolly. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 May, 2011, 04:29:11 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 06 May, 2011, 04:26:17 pm
Getting ready for a full-on weekend of work and no Woolly. :(
:(   

Drinking nasty instant coffee and trying to get in a good mood for the weekend.  And savouring the phrase "dead-eyed corporate zombie".  Thanks Rhona Cameron for that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 06 May, 2011, 04:34:18 pm
On a train to Edinburgh. I'm just passing through York.

*presses nose against window* I can almost smell Crinkly CAKE from here  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 May, 2011, 04:51:50 pm
Had I but known. 

I have been known to turn up at the station with cake for forumites....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 06 May, 2011, 05:40:01 pm
Sitting in the Jerusalem Tavern, enjoying a pint of honey porter, having spent a pleasant half hour in LMNH. It's all go, I tell you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 May, 2011, 05:42:20 pm
Wanting CrinklyCakeTM.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 May, 2011, 05:44:45 pm
I fed the last one to some teachers yersterday.  Need to bake....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 06 May, 2011, 05:48:31 pm
I am plotting a huge carb-loading fest, washed down with alcohol free wine and followed by no caffeine.
For some reason I don't feel particularly hungry. I am trying not to stress about tomorrow  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2011, 05:52:20 pm
grumping about not being invited to teh pub.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 06 May, 2011, 05:53:43 pm
Quote from: Feline on 06 May, 2011, 05:48:31 pm
I am plotting a huge carb-loading fest, washed down with alcohol free wine and followed by no caffeine.
For some reason I don't feel particularly hungry. I am trying not to stress about tomorrow  :-\

Don't over stress - you'll be fine.  Don't go too fast early on which was my mistake on my first 300k in 2006.  I did my fastest-to-date 200k at the time, and then by 250k I was more likely to fall asleep in my food rather than eat it.  I ended up finishing in 16h and it took a long time (2010) before I did a faster 300k event.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 06 May, 2011, 05:54:40 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2011, 05:52:20 pm
grumping about not being invited to teh pub.  :'(
Your welcome at the Jerusalem. There are still seats.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 May, 2011, 05:55:35 pm
Wondering what to have for tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 06 May, 2011, 05:59:38 pm
Quote from: simonp on 06 May, 2011, 05:53:43 pm
Quote from: Feline on 06 May, 2011, 05:48:31 pm
I am plotting a huge carb-loading fest, washed down with alcohol free wine and followed by no caffeine.
For some reason I don't feel particularly hungry. I am trying not to stress about tomorrow  :-\

Don't over stress - you'll be fine.  Don't go too fast early on which was my mistake on my first 300k in 2006.  I did my fastest-to-date 200k at the time, and then by 250k I was more likely to fall asleep in my food rather than eat it.  I ended up finishing in 16h and it took a long time (2010) before I did a faster 300k event.



I think I would be very pleased if I managed to ride it in 16h, I am aiming for more like 18  ;D
I will try to go at a steady pace because there is a fair amount of climbing and I run a definite risk of getting knackered by the 200k point, and I will be horribly close to home at that stage (the route passes only 1 mile from here  :o )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 06 May, 2011, 06:04:19 pm
Quote from: Feline on 06 May, 2011, 05:59:38 pm
Quote from: simonp on 06 May, 2011, 05:53:43 pm
Quote from: Feline on 06 May, 2011, 05:48:31 pm
I am plotting a huge carb-loading fest, washed down with alcohol free wine and followed by no caffeine.
For some reason I don't feel particularly hungry. I am trying not to stress about tomorrow  :-\

Don't over stress - you'll be fine.  Don't go too fast early on which was my mistake on my first 300k in 2006.  I did my fastest-to-date 200k at the time, and then by 250k I was more likely to fall asleep in my food rather than eat it.  I ended up finishing in 16h and it took a long time (2010) before I did a faster 300k event.



I think I would be very pleased if I managed to ride it in 16h, I am aiming for more like 18  ;D
I will try to go at a steady pace because there is a fair amount of climbing and I run a definite risk of getting knackered by the 200k point, and I will be horribly close to home at that stage (the route passes only 1 mile from here  :o )

Wise indeed.  The thing is, mine was the Mildenhall 300k (not the new route introduced last year) and there’s only about 1700m climbing (IIRC) in it.  The final 100k or so are pretty much pan flat.  Comparing times directly would be a little unfair.

I had the same risk, the old 300k route passed about 5 miles south of here.  Luckily I had some energy at that point, it was only really starting to go wrong by the time I reached Chatteris, and once I was there, the ride to the finish was about the same as the ride directly home.  And my car was at the finish!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 May, 2011, 06:13:11 pm
Wondering why all of a sudden I have no mobile signal. Is the Vodafone network kerflooey?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 May, 2011, 06:20:43 pm
Ordering a takeaway and feeling stressed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2011, 06:21:51 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 06 May, 2011, 05:54:40 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2011, 05:52:20 pm
grumping about not being invited to teh pub.  :'(
Your welcome at the Jerusalem. There are still seats.

*gets coat*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 May, 2011, 06:22:19 pm
Thinking that someone should go give Peli a hug to go with that takeaway.  And that I really ought to have finished work by now.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 May, 2011, 06:32:06 pm
Quote from: Feline on 06 May, 2011, 05:59:38 pm
I think I would be very pleased if I managed to ride it in 16h, I am aiming for more like 18  ;D

You'll be fine - just take it easy and keep hydrated.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 06 May, 2011, 07:22:30 pm
Wondering what the weather forecast will be tomorrow in costa del west fife. 
Also wondering if i'll be able to go for a short cycle, or whether ma gammy feet will be too sair. (ach, awa wi yursel ya middens o' painfull arches)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 May, 2011, 07:24:03 pm
Drinking whisky and dry ginger; playing with teh internets; feeling happy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 May, 2011, 08:05:07 pm
Saving £800 pa on my energy bills  :smug:

Looking at the rain and thinking I should be out in it shopping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 May, 2011, 08:07:26 pm
Heating up my wheat bag.  Drinking whisky.  Listening to The Sundays.  Looking for a chick flick to watch whilst Crusty is out at his meeting with the Vicar.

Who says middle-age is boring?   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 06 May, 2011, 10:32:10 pm
Hoping that this weekend will have a dry spell that's long enough for me to finish replacing the shed roof.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 06 May, 2011, 10:33:03 pm
Basking in the fact that I haven’t electrocuted myself yet again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 May, 2011, 11:00:01 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 06 May, 2011, 08:05:07 pm
Saving £800 pa on my energy bills  :smug:
Oh, do share? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 06 May, 2011, 11:30:41 pm
Induction cooking are great.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 May, 2011, 12:59:52 pm
Wondering how to get rid of this horrid neck ache.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 07 May, 2011, 01:12:16 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 07 May, 2011, 12:59:52 pm
Wondering how to get rid of this horrid neck ache.
Isn't he off to Denmark soon?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 07 May, 2011, 01:21:42 pm
Quote from: simonp on 06 May, 2011, 11:30:41 pm
Induction cooking are great.  :thumbsup:


except when you have to change all your pans....  :facepalm:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 07 May, 2011, 01:23:54 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 07 May, 2011, 01:21:42 pm
Quote from: simonp on 06 May, 2011, 11:30:41 pm
Induction cooking are great.  :thumbsup:


except when you have to change all your pans... :facepalm:

Fortunately I already realised I wanted one, so all pans bought in about the last 6 months have been induction ready.  And my existing stainless ones will work.  It’s only a small number of items that I still need to replace (wok, griddle, frying pans).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 07 May, 2011, 01:26:55 pm
We got ours some years ago on the understanding that they would be OK with induction. As it turns out, this was not true.  They're stainless.  The new stainless ones have a ferromagnetic insert in the base, and they're fine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 May, 2011, 01:42:24 pm
Quote from: simonp on 06 May, 2011, 10:33:03 pm
Basking in the fact that I haven’t electrocuted myself yet again.


Is that an honest mistake or did you mean to KILL yourself with elctrickery?

Or was what you meant "to give myself another electric shock"?

(Sorry but this, and the one about elctric lamps[/] not bulbs was drummed into me @ college :) )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 08 May, 2011, 02:47:49 am
Catching up on YACF on my new birthday present iPad.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 08 May, 2011, 08:49:27 am
Quote from: SandyV on 08 May, 2011, 02:47:49 am
Catching up on YACF on my new birthday present iPad.   ;D
hurrah !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 May, 2011, 10:20:53 am
Quote from: SandyV on 08 May, 2011, 02:47:49 am
Catching up on YACF on my new birthday present iPad.   ;D

Happy Birthday then.Today, or am I belated?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 May, 2011, 10:51:40 am
Cogitating
do I vegitate in front of the brainfazer & watch* Stoke Shitty get thrashed by Arse 'n' Ell or go for a ride :-\

*there's prawns & beer left from last night,chilling nicely in the fridge :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 May, 2011, 11:21:27 am
Trying to decide between raspberry jam, lingonberry jam or lime marmalade for my toast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 08 May, 2011, 11:35:07 am
Finding it surprisingly difficult to move off the sofa. I really need to go and wash my hair, I look like something out of a horror movie after yesterdays wet Audax. When I got home at 3.30am a shower was the very last thing on my mind. Now I need to launder all the bedding as well!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 May, 2011, 01:52:29 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 07 May, 2011, 01:26:55 pm
We got ours some years ago on the understanding that they would be OK with induction. As it turns out, this was not true.  They're stainless.  The new stainless ones have a ferromagnetic insert in the base, and they're fine.

Interesting; the manual claims if a magnet sticks, it will work.  This might be slightly simplistic.  The new stainless ones do certainly work.  TBH, I haven’t been using the older pans on the old cooker anyway, the new ones are nicer, so if it comes to it, they can go for recycling and I won’t be too cut up about it, it’ll save some space.

I could do with a trip to town to get an induction ready wok as I want to do a stir fry this evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 May, 2011, 02:08:53 pm
Quote from: Feline on 08 May, 2011, 11:35:07 am
Finding it surprisingly difficult to move off the sofa. I really need to go and wash my hair, I look like something out of a horror movie after yesterdays wet Audax. When I got home at 3.30am a shower was the very last thing on my mind. Now I need to launder all the bedding as well!

Phwooar!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 08 May, 2011, 02:19:20 pm
Wishing I'd had a proper meal when I got home from riding the Taste of the Test perm yesterday. I feel completely wiped out this afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 May, 2011, 03:26:05 pm
Quote from: Feline on 08 May, 2011, 11:35:07 am
Finding it surprisingly difficult to move off the sofa. I really need to go and wash my hair, I look like something out of a horror movie after yesterdays wet Audax. When I got home at 3.30am a shower was the very last thing on my mind. Now I need to launder all the bedding as well!

First 300k of the season used to do this to me.  Fortunately I keep my hair a sensible length these days so if I go unwashed, it still doesn’t look like I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards.  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 May, 2011, 04:56:57 pm
laminating the route sheet for next weekend's audax ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 May, 2011, 05:02:11 pm
Suffering after an excess of alcohol last night....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 May, 2011, 05:03:04 pm
Still?  Blimey.  Must have been a heck of a party....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 08 May, 2011, 05:04:21 pm
Just par-cooked 9 pork and beef mince and herb burgers which are chillin' on the window before I freeze them.
While they were doing, I made some tzaziki.
It'll go well to cut back some of the heat of tonight's supper which is chicken spiced with tumeric, ginger, coriander and curry sauce.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 May, 2011, 05:41:41 pm
Sitting onna bus listening to angry music.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 May, 2011, 06:15:58 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 08 May, 2011, 05:03:04 pm
Still?  Blimey.  Must have been a heck of a party....

It was, I went to bed at midnight, Mrs T posted on FB @ 2AM!! But she missed our Aussie friend ringing at 2:41, so I guess she posted from her phone, whilst in bed!

She got out of bed for all of an hour today, and is currently back in bed!

I am feeling almost human now, and just about to have a full blown argument put TLD to bed, she had a late one last night and was up early this morning so early night for her tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 May, 2011, 07:04:36 pm
Tell her I won't bring her any CAKE this week if she doesn't get an early night :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 08 May, 2011, 07:06:17 pm
Missing my parent's guide dog puppy terribly.   :'( :'( :'(

Saw her for the last time today, as tomorrow she will be on her way to the guide dog centre at Tollgate, where she will get her scans & x-rays to do the final assesement for her going into the guide dog breeding program.

At least if she does go into the breeding program she'll be a brood bitch lovely mummy and be placed with a family full time as a domestic pet although she will get bred from once a year!   :'( :'( :'(

Must be a bit of dust in my eye as my eyes do seem to be a bit watery........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 May, 2011, 07:46:13 pm
Waiting for the iPad software update to download - all 600Mb-ish of it.
Then have to do the same for the iPhone, and then the iPod ...  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 May, 2011, 07:50:37 pm
 :'( @BrianI.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 May, 2011, 08:06:21 pm
Quote from: interzen on 08 May, 2011, 07:46:13 pm
Waiting for the iPad software update to download - all 600Mb-ish of it.
Then have to do the same for the iPhone, and then the iPod ...  ::-)

While those of us with a 1st gen Touch haven't had an update in ages.  It appears we've been abandoned.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 09 May, 2011, 01:18:50 am
Quote from: jogler on 08 May, 2011, 10:20:53 am
Quote from: SandyV on 08 May, 2011, 02:47:49 am
Catching up on YACF on my new birthday present iPad.   ;D

Happy Birthday then.Today, or am I belated?

Thanks for your good wishes.  It is however the present that is belated (by about a month) - well worth the wait though.  I'm having a lot of fun finding free books to download.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 May, 2011, 02:29:25 am
Failing to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 May, 2011, 11:47:15 am
Realising I am a bit more achey today than I was yesterday. This is making me realise what an immense feat those who have to go to work the next day after long audaxes are pulling off  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 09 May, 2011, 11:48:26 am
Trying to work through the brutal caffeine withdrawal headache I am subjecting myself to,
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 09 May, 2011, 12:30:13 pm
Quote from: Feline on 09 May, 2011, 11:47:15 am
Realising I am a bit more achey today than I was yesterday. This is making me realise what an immense feat those who have to go to work the next day after long audaxes are pulling off  :o

600k with no sleep.  Work on Monday.

In the afternoon, talking with a colleague.  "You seem a bit tired".

No shit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 09 May, 2011, 12:35:38 pm
Partly why I picked the bank holiday weekends for my 400 and 600 rides this year.

I'm working Tue/Wed after the K&SW but then on holiday for a week. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 09 May, 2011, 01:44:43 pm
Looking out over Ulswater trying to decide when to turn back over kirkstone pass!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tourist Tony on 09 May, 2011, 02:10:10 pm
Working. Dealing with idiot management who have no knowledge of what we do.

No change there then
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 May, 2011, 04:12:12 pm
Recovering from having given first aid to someone in the office who collapsed. Now she's with the paramedics. Feeling a bit dizzy myself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 May, 2011, 04:28:15 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 09 May, 2011, 04:12:12 pm
Recovering from having given first aid to someone in the office who collapsed. Now she's with the paramedics. Feeling a bit dizzy myself.

Blimey your employer seems to be working all their employees into the ground  :o
Make sure you get some rest peli!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 May, 2011, 05:50:29 pm
Getting ready to go out for mrs. jogler's Birthday meal :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 09 May, 2011, 05:57:29 pm
Shitting myself about my first-ever spinning class.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 May, 2011, 06:08:49 pm
Quote from: simonp on 09 May, 2011, 05:57:29 pm
Shitting myself about my first-ever spinning class.


I'm told there's often nice scenery to observe at such classes (I haven't ever been to one myself though)  :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 May, 2011, 06:11:41 pm
Listening to music on Direct Line's computer system.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 May, 2011, 06:29:17 pm
Feeling shaky and stressed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 May, 2011, 06:44:57 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 09 May, 2011, 06:29:17 pm
Feeling shaky and stressed.

I'm getting worried you're heading for a major burn-out. If your work is starting to make you sick please go see your doctor and get signed off before it really drags you low.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 May, 2011, 06:47:21 pm
I just sent an order off twice, once by Fax, and once by emailed PDF.  We are having real problems ordering a CPU, largely because of the varied incompetence and failure to confirm anything of our internal systems (which I don't trust, so I've been checking).

I've asked the chap I contacted at the supplier to confirm that they've received the purchase order, since my belief in things just working in the background has been sorely tested.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 May, 2011, 07:36:26 pm
Quote from: Feline on 09 May, 2011, 06:08:49 pm
Quote from: simonp on 09 May, 2011, 05:57:29 pm
Shitting myself about my first-ever spinning class.


I'm told there's often nice scenery to observe at such classes (I haven't ever been to one myself though)  :-X

Feline is entirely correct ;)

It might turn out to be a cyclist lonely hearts venue ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 09 May, 2011, 08:11:31 pm
Quote from: jogler on 09 May, 2011, 07:36:26 pm
Quote from: Feline on 09 May, 2011, 06:08:49 pm
Quote from: simonp on 09 May, 2011, 05:57:29 pm
Shitting myself about my first-ever spinning class.


I'm told there's often nice scenery to observe at such classes (I haven't ever been to one myself though)  :-X

Feline is entirely correct ;)

It might turn out to be a cyclist lonely hearts venue ;D

Well I turned up one of the last so had a front row spot. Meaning no scenery for me.

I can haz dead now?

Why I tried to maintain 380W at one point I don't know. That's my
minute power from my vo2max test. Ow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 May, 2011, 08:14:46 pm
Watching Noggin the Nog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 09 May, 2011, 08:31:07 pm
Quote from: Feline on 09 May, 2011, 06:44:57 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 09 May, 2011, 06:29:17 pm
Feeling shaky and stressed.

I'm getting worried you're heading for a major burn-out. If your work is starting to make you sick please go see your doctor and get signed off before it really drags you low.

good advice that! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 May, 2011, 08:42:40 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 09 May, 2011, 06:29:17 pm
Feeling shaky and stressed.

How is the plan for a September-ish start for anothe bicycle sabbatical coming along?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 09 May, 2011, 09:24:28 pm
Drying Jamise the cat off. He has just been out in one of the most epic storms I can remember. 30 mins of lighting and heavy rain.

For those who live to the south and east of Stafford....its heading your way!!!!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 May, 2011, 09:40:11 pm
Quote from: essexian on 09 May, 2011, 09:24:28 pm
Drying Jamise the cat off. He has just been out in one of the most epic storms I can remember. 30 mins of lighting and heavy rain.

For those who live to the south and east of Stafford....its heading your way!!!!



it's arrived here :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 May, 2011, 10:24:36 pm
Quote from: jogler on 09 May, 2011, 08:42:40 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 09 May, 2011, 06:29:17 pm
Feeling shaky and stressed.

How is the plan for a September-ish start for anothe bicycle sabbatical coming along?
All systems are good to go. Though need to plan where to go etc etc. Which we will get our heads into planning mode when peli's event is over in eight or so days time
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 09 May, 2011, 11:42:11 pm
Listening to angry music again (All is Not Well, by Manhole - now known as Tura Satana), this time while eating Stilton on Nairn’s Organic Oatcakes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 May, 2011, 07:50:07 am
I go past the Nairn's factory on my way to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 May, 2011, 08:18:12 am
Listening to "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum and smelling the Dauphinoise Potatoes cooking slowly in the oven downstairs...

Sigh

I hate my job

Sigh

:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 May, 2011, 09:03:14 am
Sitting in the doctor's waiting room. Ho hum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 May, 2011, 09:33:57 am
Thinking of devising a structured/regular ride schedule 'cause I don't have a commute to provide a degree of base fitness.
atm my riding is very ad-hoc
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 May, 2011, 09:43:09 am
Doing a stint sitting at home waiting for a parcel. Dez is out at a public inquiry. Mrs. Wow is taking the dog out. When she gets back I will go and try to fix Aunt Phyllis's water butt, whose tap I caught with a pedal on Saturday and all the water leaked out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 May, 2011, 01:36:54 pm
Digesting CAKE.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 May, 2011, 02:02:55 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 10 May, 2011, 01:36:54 pm
Digesting CAKE.

Vulgar vvvv

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/me is starving :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 May, 2011, 02:18:08 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 10 May, 2011, 02:02:55 pm
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/me is starving :(

Good Lord. It's the boab household.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 10 May, 2011, 02:22:02 pm
I have just worked out that 700kCals in 55 minutes in that spinning class suggests an average power output of 212W.

No wonder I was fubar'd at the finish, given there was a warm up and cool down in that, and I was outputting over 300W quite a lot of the time.

I started the thing with sore quads & abs from the day before's gym visit too.  And I'd only had 4h sleep and got through the day on caffeine.  Good training for PBP that!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 May, 2011, 02:30:10 pm
Quote from: boab on 10 May, 2011, 02:18:08 pm
Good Lord. It's the boab household.

Oh good, now that you've said that it's probably OK to say that I saw that and thought of you  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 May, 2011, 02:35:43 pm
Attempting to establish reliable text-based telephonic communication between kimbarakta HQ and barakta's office.  This is proving depressingly difficult.

Get with the 90s people!  Nobody makes phone calls any more!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 10 May, 2011, 02:40:34 pm
Quote from: Kim on 10 May, 2011, 02:35:43 pm
Attempting to establish reliable text-based telephonic communication between kimbrakta HQ and barakta's office.  This is proving depressingly difficult.

Get with the 90s people!  Nobody makes phone calls any more!

I don't know why but, I read kimbrakta as Kimbraktoo :-\ or is a  ;D allowed?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 10 May, 2011, 02:42:20 pm
Scratching the back of my neck. Think I need to take a shower to get rid of the loose hairs since I got my value for money cooncil haircut (aka a #4 all over).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 May, 2011, 02:44:50 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 10 May, 2011, 02:40:34 pm
I don't know why but, I read kimbrakta as Kimbraktoo :-\ or is a  ;D allowed?

To be fair, I did typo it.

Kimbraktoo sounds like a good place to emigrate to, well away from the clutches of British Telecom and the RNID.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 May, 2011, 02:51:52 pm
Quote from: boab on 10 May, 2011, 02:18:08 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 10 May, 2011, 02:02:55 pm
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/me is starving :(

Good Lord. It's the boab household.

And don't you look simply lovely in your pinny! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 10 May, 2011, 02:53:31 pm
Sat on a warm Kingston station, waiting for a train to Twickenham, then Reading, dashing through Didcot and off to home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 May, 2011, 03:56:41 pm
Quote from: clarion on 10 May, 2011, 02:51:52 pm
Quote from: boab on 10 May, 2011, 02:18:08 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 10 May, 2011, 02:02:55 pm
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/me is starving :(

Good Lord. It's the boab household.

And don't you look simply lovely in your pinny! ;D

I'll have you know I spend a lot of time in my aprons.
Unlike that sugar coated thing up there, I am HARDCORE and my pinnys are goth-approved BLAA-AAA-ACK.
Don't want to get all phone-sex on you, but I'm wearing one right now...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 May, 2011, 03:59:35 pm
ttiuwp  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 May, 2011, 04:15:16 pm
Not sure it adds much to the collective wisdom, but

your wish is my command

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 May, 2011, 04:22:57 pm
Phwoooarrrr!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 10 May, 2011, 04:24:51 pm
I think there's something splashed on that pinny...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 May, 2011, 04:27:00 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 10 May, 2011, 04:24:51 pm
I think there's something splashed on that pinny...
Cake mix. Honest. Probably.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 May, 2011, 04:31:32 pm
Quote from: boab on 10 May, 2011, 04:15:16 pm
Not sure it adds much to the collective wisdom, but

your wish is my command

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I expected your pic  to look like


Mary-Louise Parker Naked Save for an Apron, Baking a Pie – Eat Me Daily (http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/07/mary-louise-parker-naked-save-for-an-apron-baking-a-pie/)

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 May, 2011, 04:40:15 pm
 :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 May, 2011, 04:47:54 pm
I am listening to loud music whilst cooking a Proper Roast Dinner.  With pigsinblankets and stuffing and roast tatties/sweet potatoes/'snips and yorkshire puds.  I think I might do carrotandswede mash.  And broccoli.  Oh, and some chicken.

I do love cooking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 10 May, 2011, 04:48:46 pm
Quote from: boab on 10 May, 2011, 04:40:15 pm
:facepalm:

I think you mean...

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 May, 2011, 04:50:02 pm
That's very yummyinmytummy Crinkly :thumbsup: I can get there approx 1930hrs.is that o.k.?
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 May, 2011, 06:54:45 pm
browsing the internet looking at 2nd hand camper vans & motorhomes :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 10 May, 2011, 09:17:41 pm
Eating a very nice burger (with salad, potato wedges, and using a knife and fork an evryfink) while Bedfordshire hurtles past the window at 110mph.

East Midlands Trains have customer service (in the posh seats, anyway) down to a T.

(Edit: And free wi-fi too!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 10 May, 2011, 09:25:58 pm
Considering the wisdom of:

Spinning class last night.

Near 30mph on the pomp on the way to work this morning.

Being sore all day.

Near 30mph on the pomp on the way to the gym.

And after saying several times I was going to have an easy swim, I did 1000m in 20 minutes. I was going to try for a 1500m PB in fact and might still have achieved that, but at 1000m my arms suddenly felt like lead, so I quit.

The BCM is about 3.5 days away.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 May, 2011, 09:33:28 pm
Failing to get to grips with samba (server, not the dance).  I'll try again when I can concentrate a bit more.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 10 May, 2011, 09:34:36 pm
Though. I'm not sore any more. Swimming is great for that. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 10 May, 2011, 09:46:31 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 10 May, 2011, 09:33:28 pm
Failing to get to grips with samba (server, not the dance).  I'll try again when I can concentrate a bit more.

Samba configuration can be "fun".  The entire server here is still borked, so I don't have to worry about it at the moment.


I've just failed to find a decent size of PROM.  The largest PROM I can find in a Rad Hard technology is 32k×8, which seems a bit pathetic by modern standards, but it's surprising how hard it is to find a decent size of non-volatile memory, at least compared to stuff like RAM. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 May, 2011, 09:57:55 pm
Coughing.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 May, 2011, 10:01:28 pm
Quote from: TimO on 10 May, 2011, 09:46:31 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 10 May, 2011, 09:33:28 pm
Failing to get to grips with samba (server, not the dance).  I'll try again when I can concentrate a bit more.

Samba configuration can be "fun".  The entire server here is still borked, so I don't have to worry about it at the moment.

This is my first foray into the world of servers (excluding being a regular 'user' on the Windows system at work).  I need to either find an "Idiot's Guide to Servers" or buy some BEER and invite over one of my geekier friends.

Quote from: TimO on 10 May, 2011, 09:46:31 pm
I've just failed to find a decent size of PROM.  The largest PROM I can find in a Rad Hard technology is 32k×8, which seems a bit pathetic by modern standards, but it's surprising how hard it is to find a decent size of non-volatile memory, at least compared to stuff like RAM. :-\

Wow, I actually understood that, but only because I've spent too much time in Ctrl+Alt+Del.  ;D
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 11 May, 2011, 12:02:05 am
Updating the BCM gpx for the new control location whilst trying to decide whether to not watch Snog Marry Avoid?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 May, 2011, 12:19:04 am
Quote from: TimO on 10 May, 2011, 09:46:31 pm
Rad Hard technology

Are they the ones who licensed the Real Man Saddle for production in Germany?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 11 May, 2011, 12:28:29 am
Making a gpx for the Denmead 400.
I need to start getting to bed a bit earlier for these early starts methinks!
I'm really glad now that I worked over all the bank holidays so I've got some time off this week and next, I certainly needed to recovery time!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 May, 2011, 02:12:37 pm
Watching the Giro
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 May, 2011, 02:25:42 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 11 May, 2011, 02:12:37 pm
Watching the Giro

this home-working lark...
is a PITA
bloody marvellous

edit as appropriate ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 11 May, 2011, 02:27:53 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 10 May, 2011, 09:57:55 pm
Coughing.  >:(

Hey! Me too!  :thumbsup:



>:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 11 May, 2011, 02:38:04 pm

Trying to bake a cake
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 11 May, 2011, 02:44:16 pm
Failing to find a free Eurosport feed of the Giro in English today. I could either subscribe the £3.99 for a month or learn Italian so I can understand the feed I'm currently watching  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 May, 2011, 02:55:15 pm
I reckon it's viewing that makes sound non-essential.I often have it on-screen without sound so that i can watch it & work atst.
Male multi-tasking is not a myth ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 May, 2011, 03:08:06 pm
I've just murdered a Magnum 8)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 11 May, 2011, 03:24:59 pm
I'm busy carrying out a Motherboard transplant operation.  Out with the P8SCT, and in with the S3210SHLX.  It's a shame that the Motherboard cabling, all the power LEDs, switches etc is different, otherwise it would almost be unplug cable, plug in cable, and done.

I also discovered that the power cabling already has an EPS12V as well as the used ATX12V, which I'd already bought another cable to implement!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 May, 2011, 04:12:49 pm
Fettling brackets.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 11 May, 2011, 06:12:50 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 10 May, 2011, 09:17:41 pm
Eating a very nice burger (with salad, potato wedges, and using a knife and fork an evryfink) while Bedfordshire hurtles past the window at 110mph.

East Midlands Trains have customer service (in the posh seats, anyway) down to a T.

(Edit: And free wi-fi too!)
Bemoaning the fact that I've had diarrheoa aka gut-rot ever since that "very nice burger". It might just be a coincidence.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 11 May, 2011, 06:19:26 pm
I've just been reading up on Wimbledon Station Oyster card usage, since I'll have to make two, unusual for me, interchanges this evening, once from Underground to National Rail, and later on from National Rail to Tram.

I think I know which Oyster Validators to use now, but they don't make it simple!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 May, 2011, 06:20:27 pm
Installing rubbish assessment softyware.  Very manually, and very slowly.

Ah.... the joy of Wednesday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 May, 2011, 06:54:13 pm
Trying to summon the energy to do some dinner :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 11 May, 2011, 07:01:01 pm
Tidy.  Carbon forks and new bars on Il Pompino.  No more scary creaking.  Bars slightly higher than before, too, so a bit easier on the hands over 600km.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 May, 2011, 09:32:03 am
Waiting for domestic violence training to start and realising I know one of the trainers and have wanted to smack her for a long time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 May, 2011, 09:33:24 am
That's not a great start.

Wait... they give training in domestic violence now?  In my day, lass, you had to learn on the job. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 12 May, 2011, 09:42:00 am
Wiping butter off my screen.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 May, 2011, 09:58:40 am
Well, you say it's butter... ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 May, 2011, 10:55:09 am
Spodding from a train - a first for me!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 12 May, 2011, 11:59:24 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 May, 2011, 10:55:09 am
Spodding from a train - a first for me!

Spod!  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 May, 2011, 01:17:44 pm
Listening to a cow-orker - who is in the middle of replacing his motor-car - ranting at a hapless insewerants company employee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 02:41:15 pm
Going to SJS cycles  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 12 May, 2011, 02:52:45 pm
Clearing my desk.

Because of the office move tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 03:32:42 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 02:41:15 pm
Going to SJS cycles  ;D

I've never been there, though I admit to being tempted after the Toilets Of Taunton incident.

I imagine it as a giant sheddi warehouse full of every bracket, widget, pingfuckit and bit of sturdy touring kit you could possibly desire, so it's probably for the best that I don't.  It'll either end in disappointment, or worse, turn out to be completely true.  My bank account could never recover from the resulting bracketgasm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 May, 2011, 04:20:02 pm
Contemplating my navel a spreadsheet and a build document I really really need to get finished for lunchtime tomorrow.

Oh well, it looks like, as both Mrs T and TLD are out for the night I will be burning the midnight oil when I get back from MSG.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 12 May, 2011, 04:26:54 pm
Trying to figure out which tent we shall buy, they are not making it easy for us are they. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 12 May, 2011, 04:27:45 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 12 May, 2011, 04:20:02 pm
Contemplating my navel a spreadsheet and a build document I really really need to get finished for lunchtime tomorrow.

Oh well, it looks like, as both Mrs T and TLD are out for the night I will be burning the midnight oil when I get back from MSG.

Work?  Things have changed ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 12 May, 2011, 04:28:36 pm
I've just finished listing a batch of stuff on fleabay.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 May, 2011, 04:31:00 pm
Getting ready to head home into a real howler of a headwind ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 May, 2011, 04:35:20 pm
Thinking about Feline's trip to SJS cycles and wondering what sort of reception I'd get it I went there
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 12 May, 2011, 04:37:38 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 May, 2011, 04:35:20 pm
Thinking about Feline's trip to SJS cycles and wondering what sort of reception I'd get it I went there

Ask her if there are Wanted posters of you there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 12 May, 2011, 04:38:40 pm
"The Southend flangebreaker".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 04:46:50 pm
Doing half-arsed acts of tidying-up while watching my phone recharge and keeping a nostril open for escaping magic smoke.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 12 May, 2011, 04:56:59 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 12 May, 2011, 04:38:40 pm
"The Southend flangebreaker".

That's not a reference to anything to do with cycling, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 06:12:43 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 May, 2011, 04:35:20 pm
Thinking about Feline's trip to SJS cycles and wondering what sort of reception I'd get it I went there

There were various staff Thorns parked onna rack inside, and the staff there are not the condescending whippet-like kind either, I'm sure they would give you a warm welcome  :thumbsup:

Quote from: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 03:32:42 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 02:41:15 pm
Going to SJS cycles  ;D

I've never been there, though I admit to being tempted after the Toilets Of Taunton incident.

I imagine it as a giant sheddi warehouse full of every bracket, widget, pingfuckit and bit of sturdy touring kit you could possibly desire, so it's probably for the best that I don't.  It'll either end in disappointment, or worse, turn out to be completely true.  My bank account could never recover from the resulting bracketgasm.

You might be slightly disappointed in that SJS isn't like a normal bike shop, they have no shop floor and no stock at all on display, but when you tell one of the friendly assistants sitting at their desks what it is you are after they will show you all the options on their screen then go and fetch stuff out of the warehouse for you to look at and choose from. It is a little bit like shopping on the internet only you can look at the stuff immediately and only pay for the things you decide you want and then you don't have to wait for them to be delivered  ;D

It isn't quite my LBS being 15 miles away, but they have a cracking range of stuff in stock and it's not a bad bike ride from here  :smug:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 06:42:23 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 06:12:43 pm
There were various staff Thorns parked onna rack inside, and the staff there are not the condescending whippet-like kind either, I'm sure they would give you a warm welcome  :thumbsup:

I assume you've missed that Wowbagger has an impressive track record for breaking Rohloffs (yes, plural!) and having Thorn replace them under warranty...


Quote
You might be slightly disappointed in that SJS isn't like a normal bike shop, they have no shop floor and no stock at all on display, but when you tell one of the friendly assistants sitting at their desks what it is you are after they will show you all the options on their screen then go and fetch stuff out of the warehouse for you to look at and choose from.

Argos-tastic.  Still, I suppose it makes sense - there's no way they could possibly afford enough shelf space to display all the clever little widgets they stock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 06:47:00 pm
Quote from: TimO on 11 May, 2011, 03:24:59 pm
I'm busy carrying out a Motherboard transplant operation.  Out with the P8SCT, and in with the S3210SHLX.  It's a shame that the Motherboard cabling, all the power LEDs, switches etc is different, otherwise it would almost be unplug cable, plug in cable, and done.

I'm sort of done with this, except that the PCI-X SATA controller card is about four inches further to the left than it used to be.

This wouldn't have been a problem, except that it turns out that some of the SATA cables were stretched as far as they could be.

So, another order for some 0.9m SATA cables (the current ones are 0.6m), which if I'm lucky will be delivered from Insight tomorrow, or failing that on Monday.

Then I can see what impact EFI is going to have on the boot process, and whether this CPU is compatible with the existing Kernel. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 06:49:23 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 06:42:23 pm

Argos-tastic.  Still, I suppose it makes sense - there's no way they could possibly afford enough shelf space to display all the clever little widgets they stock.

I suspect they don't sell all that much stuff to the locals. Bridgwater has to be one of the least cyclist-friendly towns in the whole county too (inna moton sense).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 06:50:29 pm
Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 06:47:00 pm
Quote from: TimO on 11 May, 2011, 03:24:59 pm
I'm busy carrying out a Motherboard transplant operation.  Out with the P8SCT, and in with the S3210SHLX.  It's a shame that the Motherboard cabling, all the power LEDs, switches etc is different, otherwise it would almost be unplug cable, plug in cable, and done.

I'm sort of done with this, except that the PCI-X SATA controller card is about four inches further to the left than it used to be.

This wouldn't have been a problem, except that it turns out that some of the SATA cables were stretched as far as they could be.

So, another order for some 0.9m SATA cables (the current ones are 0.6m), which if I'm lucky will be delivered from Insight tomorrow, or failing that on Monday.

Then I can see what impact EFI is going to have on the boot process, and whether this CPU is compatible with the existing Kernel. :-\

My browser seems to lack a built in translator with a 'TimO' option  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 12 May, 2011, 06:53:53 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 06:49:23 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 06:42:23 pm

Argos-tastic.  Still, I suppose it makes sense - there's no way they could possibly afford enough shelf space to display all the clever little widgets they stock.

I suspect they don't sell all that much stuff to the locals. Bridgwater has to be one of the last cyclist-friendly towns in the whole county too (inna moton sense).
It's not exactly the easiest town to drive around either!
(SJS have always been closed when I've driven past)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 06:59:23 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 06:50:29 pm
Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 06:47:00 pm
The new computer innards are a slightly different shape, so the law that says cables either come in "too short" or "impossibly tangled" has once again been demonstrated to be true.

Now I've got to wait for some longer ones to arrive before discovering why else this isn't going to work.

My browser seems to lack a built in translator with a 'TimO' option  :o


How's that?

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 07:12:47 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 06:59:23 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 06:50:29 pm
Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 06:47:00 pm
The new computer innards are a slightly different shape, so the law that says cables either come in "too short" or "impossibly tangled" has once again been demonstrated to be true.

Now I've got to wait for some longer ones to arrive before discovering why else this isn't going to work.

My browser seems to lack a built in translator with a 'TimO' option  :o


How's that?

 ;D

 :thumbsup:  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 May, 2011, 07:35:56 pm
I'm going to try and fit a tandem in the back of my car.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 07:41:36 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 06:59:23 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 06:50:29 pm
Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 06:47:00 pm
The new computer innards are a slightly different shape, so the law that says cables either come in "too short" or "impossibly tangled" has once again been demonstrated to be true.

Now I've got to wait for some longer ones to arrive before discovering why else this isn't going to work.

My browser seems to lack a built in translator with a 'TimO' option  :o

How's that?

Hmm, I feel that it loses some of the style and warmth of the original. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 09:24:49 pm
I just had a play with a Teensy for an authentic work related purpose!

We have a small magnetometer design that we'll be launched on a CubeSat early next year, and it communicates via SPI, which has caused various issues, because we don't really have much which can talk SPI easily and cleanly.

There's a Teensy library which does SPI, so I can easily hack up some C code to configure the ADC, and then grab the data and pass it to the PC over USB.

A quick experiment demonstrated that I can do basic SPI communication in less than a dozen lines of code.  Yay!

(Kim can now pass that through her TimO to Feline translator!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 May, 2011, 09:33:12 pm
Yeah.  No idea what you are on about.  But sounds like it might be fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 09:42:58 pm
Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 09:24:49 pm
(Kim can now pass that through her TimO to Feline translator!)

*tapity-tap*

Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 09:24:49 pm
Legitimate excuse to play with geek-toys...

My satellite is full of eels.

And they work!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 12 May, 2011, 09:52:22 pm
Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 07:41:36 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 06:59:23 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 06:50:29 pm
Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 06:47:00 pm
The new computer innards are a slightly different shape, so the law that says cables either come in "too short" or "impossibly tangled" has once again been demonstrated to be true.

Now I've got to wait for some longer ones to arrive before discovering why else this isn't going to work.

My browser seems to lack a built in translator with a 'TimO' option  :o

How's that?

Hmm, I feel that it loses some of the style and warmth of the original. ;D
Yeah these online translators are a bit crap.

Sorry, Kim, it just had to be done ... :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 10:06:17 pm
A CubeSat is a tiny satellite.  The smallest CubeSat is 10×10×5 cm and weighs 0.5kg (that's a ½U CubeSat).  The one we're involved with is a bit bigger, it's a 3U CubeSat, so it's 30×10×10cm and can weigh 3kg (actually a bit more is acceptable), but that's still pretty small for an entire satellite.

We'll be flying this new technology instrument on it, along with a larger particle instrument made by a US University, who are also building the rest of the satellite.

Normally when we build instruments, it takes a long time, and we're only slightly involved, on this one, we've got a fairly major involvement, the development time is relatively small, the only downside is that we've got bugger all money to do it!

On the face of it, it sounds quite grand, but in reality there are only about four of us working on it here, and only for a very small amount of time (probably less than 10% of my time).  Quite neat though.

Our instrument will be undertaking dual duty, it'll be used as part of the satellites Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS), but is also planned to be used for science studies.

TRIO-CINEMA (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/spat/research/missions/space_missions/cinema)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 May, 2011, 10:30:51 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 12 May, 2011, 07:35:56 pm
I'm going to try and fit a tandem in the back of my car.

Did it work?
The volvo is c a v e r n o u s, but is it big enough for a tandem?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 May, 2011, 10:33:44 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 09:42:58 pm
Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 09:24:49 pm
(Kim can now pass that through her TimO to Feline translator!)

*tapity-tap*

Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 09:24:49 pm
Legitimate excuse to play with geek-toys...

My satellite is full of eels.

And they work!
PMSL.  New screen please.  And, as a result of the gut-rot, prolly a new chair too.
 :thumbsup: ;D :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 10:38:55 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 12 May, 2011, 10:33:44 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 May, 2011, 09:42:58 pm
Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 09:24:49 pm
(Kim can now pass that through her TimO to Feline translator!)

*tapity-tap*

Quote from: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 09:24:49 pm
Legitimate excuse to play with geek-toys...

My satellite is full of eels.

And they work!
PMSL.  New screen please.  And, as a result of the gut-rot, prolly a new chair too.
 :thumbsup: ;D :thumbsup: ;D

 ;D  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 12 May, 2011, 10:42:22 pm
Feeling mightily chuffed as I've passed the entire Core element of my LPC course.   I have three exams left for my electives which are in June. 

Relief and ecstasy are pouring out of me in equal abundance ATM  ;D  :smug: 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 May, 2011, 10:43:12 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 12 May, 2011, 10:42:22 pm
Feeling mightily chuffed as I've passed the entire Core element of my LPC course.   I have three exams left for my electives which are in June. 

Relief and ecstasy are pouring out of me in equal abundance ATM  ;D  :smug: 

Congratulations  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 12 May, 2011, 10:51:36 pm
Tim, will your satellite have any room spare for a small gnome?  My neighbour has a new one and I have a cool idea for a practical joke....

Actually a few spare k on a data drive might do and I'll forward a small .jpg of the gnome instead..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 May, 2011, 11:38:44 pm
On a train home from the pub. Sitting in first class, with the tacit approval of the train guard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 May, 2011, 11:41:36 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 May, 2011, 11:38:44 pm
On a train home from the pub. Sitting in first class, with the tacit approval of the train guard.
Welcome to my world.  I hope you get a taste for it :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 May, 2011, 11:42:49 pm
Quote from: Tewdric on 12 May, 2011, 10:51:36 pm
Tim, will your satellite have any room spare for a small gnome?  My neighbour has a new one and I have a cool idea for a practical joke....

Actually a few spare k on a data drive might do and I'll forward a small .jpg of the gnome instead..

Unfortunately we won't write the code, the controller is being built by Berkeley, and we have provided/are providing pseudo-code which they'll base their actual code on.

We may get someone to pay us to build an entire CubeSat at some point, but so far we've failed to get the necessary funding to do that (we probably need something like £30000 just for the launch).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 12 May, 2011, 11:43:28 pm
Quote from: Tewdric on 12 May, 2011, 10:51:36 pm
Tim, will your satellite have any room spare for a small gnome?  My neighbour has a new one and I have a cool idea for a practical joke....

Actually a few spare k on a data drive might do and I'll forward a small .jpg of the gnome instead..

Hiding a jpg in pseudo-code must be easy though....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 May, 2011, 12:00:27 am
Not really, it's not very complex pseudo code, and they need to understand it to merge our code into the larger project.  There's no way to really hide anything even vaguely significant in it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 13 May, 2011, 12:08:14 am
Think of the money you could make sending hidden jpgs into space.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2011, 12:10:32 am
Strikes me that there are much cheaper ways of sending jpegs into space...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 May, 2011, 01:45:19 am
Going to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 13 May, 2011, 01:48:24 am
Just finished re-wrapping my bars, so now I'm going to bed too :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 May, 2011, 02:06:39 am
Eating fish finger sandwiches
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 May, 2011, 07:23:59 am
After 2 whole pints of beer and really not enough sleep, feeling mildly hungover.  First hangover of 2011, that is.



They are a shocking bad influence, those boys.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 May, 2011, 08:11:17 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 13 May, 2011, 07:23:59 am
After 2 whole pints of beer and really not enough sleep, feeling mildly hungover.  First hangover of 2011, that is.



They are a shocking bad influence, those boys.

that's what I tell my grand daughters :-* ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 May, 2011, 11:28:54 am
I have just vacuumed, swept, wiped and dusted (almost) the whole house.  Bed linen changed, piles of paperwork crap sorted chucked in the bin.
I'm bloody exhausted.
Just the kitchen to go.  I may be some time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 13 May, 2011, 11:39:47 am
Quote from: Basil on 13 May, 2011, 11:28:54 am
I have just vacuumed, swept, wiped and dusted (almost) the whole house.  Bed linen changed, piles of paperwork crap sorted chucked in the bin.
I'm bloody exhausted.
Just the kitchen to go.  I may be some time.

Basil, can I borrow you for my house next please :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 13 May, 2011, 11:41:47 am
...And if you're coming down to Somerset anyway...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 May, 2011, 12:27:10 pm
Hurray for paracetemol and chocolate biscuits and a 12 mile commute from my morning meeting to here.  I feel positively human again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 May, 2011, 01:02:40 pm
Quote
Estragon: [struggles to remove his boot and fails] Nothing to be done.
Vladimir: I'm beginning to come round to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.

Waiting for the washing machine repair man to come and do a repair to our washing machine.

*sigh*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 13 May, 2011, 01:33:29 pm
Listening to a conference call...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 13 May, 2011, 01:36:58 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 13 May, 2011, 01:33:29 pm
Listening to a conference call...

Call is supposed to be anonymous but moderator can't say anonymous!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2011, 01:42:09 pm
Nibbling a sausage roll having just managed to buy the last of the decent bread in tescos.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 13 May, 2011, 01:51:32 pm
Eating porridge. I actually for the first time ever managed to make porridge in the microwave without it boiling over or exploding gunge into those little grids of holes in the side walls where any attempt to clean it out pushes it further in  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 13 May, 2011, 02:03:35 pm
Making my way to Wales.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 13 May, 2011, 02:07:50 pm
Eating chocolate. *chomp*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 May, 2011, 02:08:15 pm
Quote from: Feline on 13 May, 2011, 11:39:47 am

Basil, can I borrow you for my house next please :)

Of course you can, my dear.  I won't be doing any more house-work though.
I'll just sit in a corner somewhere.  You can use me as a sort of Conversation Piece/Object d'art.  Your mates will soon all want one.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 13 May, 2011, 04:18:27 pm
Quote from: Basil on 13 May, 2011, 02:08:15 pm
Quote from: Feline on 13 May, 2011, 11:39:47 am

Basil, can I borrow you for my house next please :)

Of course you can, my dear.  I won't be doing any more house-work though.
I'll just sit in a corner somewhere.  You can use me as a sort of Conversation Piece/Object d'art.  Your mates will soon all want one.  ;D

Would that be the interactive version of the piece entitled 'Lounge Basil' where the Basil provides different responses and effects depending on the quantity and quality of Ale administered?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 13 May, 2011, 04:46:25 pm
I'm hoping that the pizza I just made for AWL Jr and his mate doesn't kill them. I looked at the use by date on the flour after I put it in the oven and it was December 2009! No wonder the dough wouldn't knead well!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 13 May, 2011, 05:21:14 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 13 May, 2011, 04:46:25 pm
I'm hoping that the pizza I just made for AWL Jr and his mate doesn't kill them. I looked at the use by date on the flour after I put it in the oven and it was December 2009! No wonder the dough wouldn't knead well!

Why didn't you buy any fresh flour? Did you need the dough that badly?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 May, 2011, 05:24:39 pm
doh :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 May, 2011, 05:44:53 pm
Shivering.  Hopefully I'm not coming down with man flu a head cold or something.
Having some weetabix followed by two chocolate doughnuts for dinner probably won't help though....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 May, 2011, 05:49:12 pm
Quote from: boab on 12 May, 2011, 10:30:51 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 12 May, 2011, 07:35:56 pm
I'm going to try and fit a tandem in the back of my car.

Did it work?
The volvo is c a v e r n o u s, but is it big enough for a tandem?

Yes. Front wheel off - it's fine. Just.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 13 May, 2011, 06:53:35 pm
Quote from: Deano on 13 May, 2011, 05:21:14 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 13 May, 2011, 04:46:25 pm
I'm hoping that the pizza I just made for AWL Jr and his mate doesn't kill them. I looked at the use by date on the flour after I put it in the oven and it was December 2009! No wonder the dough wouldn't knead well!

Why didn't you buy any fresh flour? Did you need the dough that badly?

Problem was I didn't realise until it was in the oven. They seem to have survived and it didn't actually taste that bad. I thought it best to try it as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 May, 2011, 08:58:26 pm
Checking the weather forecast for North West Scotland  :(      I suppose the wind will keep the midges at bay.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 13 May, 2011, 09:27:48 pm
Wondering what I've forgotten about.  It's the night before an Audax, and my bike was ready and my bags packed before 21:00.  That's at least three hours too early.

Something must be wrong...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2011, 09:32:21 pm
Worrying about the state of my knee, having abused it due to the lift at Mordor Central being out of service. Also wondering if I can jibble the door control with a screwdriver again, as this train appears to be staffed by bastards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 May, 2011, 09:37:10 pm
Quote from: Kim on 13 May, 2011, 09:32:21 pm
Worrying about the state of my knee, having abused it due to the lift at Mordor Central being out of service. Also wondering if I can jibble the door control with a screwdriver again, as this train appears to be staffed by bastards.

Ah , it's one of _those_ Friday nights.  Have fun.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 13 May, 2011, 10:24:02 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 13 May, 2011, 08:58:26 pm
Checking the weather forecast for North West Scotland  :(      I suppose the wind will keep the midges at bay.......

Never check the weather forecast.  It's bad luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 May, 2011, 12:47:47 am
Eating cheese scones and drinking coffee at Granny Annie's, with 'slow'coach, having a break on our random ride to Scarborough.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 May, 2011, 05:42:40 am
Looking out of my window at the rain  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 May, 2011, 07:22:12 am
It's sunny in Scab! But we're too early for the 'spoons, so resorting to McD's coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 May, 2011, 07:51:39 am
Just wrestled the bike & luggage onto the Edinburgh train. Bloody hooks are too low for my bike so the rear mudguard is being squashed. Weather very changeable, glad I put a long sleeve top on though !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 May, 2011, 08:35:28 am
Getting ready to go to Prudhoe for the weekend, grumping about missing Eurovision, and sad I won't be able to skype bobb tonight.  :'( ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 May, 2011, 08:44:51 am
Quote from: Kirst on 14 May, 2011, 08:35:28 am
Getting ready to go to Prudhoe for the weekend, grumping about missing Eurovision, and sad I won't be able to skype bobb tonight.  :'( ;D

Skypeing!!  Is that the sort of thing to mention on a respectable forum ?
 :o :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 May, 2011, 08:49:16 am
Possibly not, but is this a respectable forum?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: longers on 14 May, 2011, 09:04:31 am
Watching and listening to a fair bit of hail coming down. I'll maybe have that second cup of tea instead of going out right away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 May, 2011, 09:25:08 am
eating brekky, doing my friend's washing and preparing to go civil partnership dress shopping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 14 May, 2011, 04:52:10 pm
I am resting my right index finger after I bashed it between a steel bar and a sledgehammer.  Fortunately I was wearing a glove but I thought I'd better stop after I noticed blood seeping through the leather.  The blood stopped after I put it under a cold tap for a bit.  It'll be fine tomorrow as i only nipped it luckily.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 May, 2011, 05:12:03 pm
I'm taking a sneaky tea break at home half way through a 400k audax :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 14 May, 2011, 05:12:13 pm
Working from home for a different force  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 14 May, 2011, 05:49:11 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 14 May, 2011, 08:49:16 am
Possibly not, but is this a respectable forum?

On an off day it can be
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 May, 2011, 06:05:42 pm
Lying in my tent listening to the rain
Title: What are you doing now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 May, 2011, 06:56:59 pm
Going out for a sing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 14 May, 2011, 09:49:57 pm
lying in our tent, in weymouth. typing with one hand because the other is needed to hold the netbook up ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 May, 2011, 10:22:26 pm
Attempting to install Nutty Narwhal on our Eee PC...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 May, 2011, 05:57:31 am
Getting ready....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 15 May, 2011, 07:12:44 am
Having a coffee before refettling ubuntu 10.04 LTS onto my pc instead of 11.04
 :o

-- edit -- half our or so later... 10.04 LTS installed.  Ahh, that's better, like a nice comfy well worn in saddle.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 May, 2011, 10:30:47 am
Curled up in my tent with a Kindle. Putting off packing up and getting moving.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 May, 2011, 10:40:12 am
I am supposed to be going to watch my youngest play football at his club's fun day.
However, as I'm so miserable about it Mrs G has just cracked the shits and said I can stay at home.
Last year I cracked the shits too.
I have just figured out why that is.  ~
I would rather be on the BCM with Chris N, Paul D, Toby and Rampikash........ so I am childlikely jealous.

So, as soon as they have gone I will nip out to the shed, get the TCR out and ride to the Fun Day.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 May, 2011, 11:07:58 am
Right now I am mostly aching.  How irritating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 May, 2011, 11:20:04 am
Watching Pingu snoozing on the sofa with my cat, and wondering when I'm going to get out on my bike  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 May, 2011, 11:21:29 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 15 May, 2011, 11:20:04 am
Watching Pingu snoozing on the sofa with my cat, and wondering when I'm going to get out on my bike  :'(

Go now! While Pingu and teh Cat are otherwise engaged.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 May, 2011, 11:28:26 am
Don't wanna go out on my own, it's no fun. And I have the navigational skillz of a roadkill toad. And it's raining.
I'm just getting bored of being a super randonneur widow. Still holiday next weekend :) and somewhere new to cycle :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 15 May, 2011, 12:38:22 pm
Falling apart.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 15 May, 2011, 01:09:37 pm
Quote from: boab on 15 May, 2011, 12:38:22 pm
Falling apart.



Oh dear, I hope you are feeling better soon *cwtches*

We are watching 'Burn Notice' and I am gorging on books.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 15 May, 2011, 01:21:07 pm
Listening to my son (21) who is moaning, groaning and throwing up in the loo.

He arrived back from the FA cup final at 7am; he may have been drowning his sorrows.

 ::-) :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 15 May, 2011, 02:20:02 pm
Went to the football via TCR and then just got home via TCR.  I now have to go out to visit someone important via Etape as the clouds are gathering but I am smiling now.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 15 May, 2011, 06:06:52 pm
ZOMG I am having weird cravings (and before anyone asks, no I am not pregnant!). Went out for a huge roast beef Sunday lunch, but since getting home I have the munchies ... for chocolate milkshake (which I never normally drink), cold tinned mushy peas, blue stilton cheese and after eight mints.
I am guessing this must be Audax related  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 15 May, 2011, 06:17:11 pm
Quote from: Feline on 15 May, 2011, 06:06:52 pm
ZOMG I am having weird cravings (and before anyone asks, no I am not pregnant!). Went out for a huge roast beef Sunday lunch, but since getting home I have the munchies ... for chocolate milkshake (which I never normally drink), cold tinned mushy peas, blue stilton cheese and after eight mints.
I am guessing this must be Audax related  :o

Have had the real attack of the munchies too today - cold tinned mushy peas  :sick:

I am in the process of making gnocchi - the last time I did this Sir Delia recipe it was a spectacular disaster. I want to bloody well get it right  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 May, 2011, 06:21:26 pm
Quote from: Feline on 15 May, 2011, 06:06:52 pm
ZOMG I am having weird cravings (and before anyone asks, no I am not pregnant!).

I am guessing this must be Audax related  :o

I've been craving Frijj and poppadums on and off since last weekend.  Reasonably sure I'm not pregnant either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 May, 2011, 06:24:49 pm
Currently cooking my dinner, the main component of which is Sir Ainsley of Harriot's 'Creamy Vegetable Spelt', which really is rather nice indeed. Also, watching "Time Team" on Channel 4 - they've found a body!

Edit: also^2 - fettling Orange Gina for tomorrow's ride to work. Now that the physio has finished with me I'm getting back to riding the One True Way[tm] :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 15 May, 2011, 06:40:53 pm
listening to a tap drip in the bathroom...
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Post by: Andrij on 15 May, 2011, 08:11:25 pm
I am so fed up with not getting to grips with setting up a server that I've decided to do my ironing instead. *sigh*
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 15 May, 2011, 08:12:08 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 15 May, 2011, 08:11:25 pm
I am so fed up with not getting to grips with setting up a server that I've decided to do my ironing instead. *sigh*
 

Now that is the ultimate in fed up behaviour  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 May, 2011, 08:59:28 pm
Lying in my tent listening to the rain. It's pissing down in Ullapool  :(
To the pub !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 May, 2011, 09:17:57 am
Cogitating.Walk or ride to the village to get newspapers :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 May, 2011, 09:22:44 am
Quote from: jogler on 16 May, 2011, 09:17:57 am
Cogitating.Walk or ride to the village to get newspapers :-\

Take the 'bent, just for the giggles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 May, 2011, 10:23:22 am
Waiting for UPS to deliver the jerseys and hallucinating on Sharpie fumes from writing out the envelopes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 16 May, 2011, 11:33:00 am
Wondering how the hell I thought I'd booked at Butlins Minehead and in reality I've booked at Bognor Regis. I would've turned up at Minehead if I hadn't checked the booking carefully.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 May, 2011, 12:07:34 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 16 May, 2011, 11:33:00 am
Wondering how the hell I thought I'd booked at Butlins Minehead and in reality I've booked at Bognor Regis. I would've turned up at Minehead if I hadn't checked the booking carefully.
Bugger Bognor!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 16 May, 2011, 12:09:50 pm
Well, quite!

I was totally underwhelmed last time I was there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 May, 2011, 01:15:06 pm
I'm about to go out and do what passes for work around these part.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 May, 2011, 01:31:10 pm
Picking through policy renewal paperwork from the mustelid bastards with a fine tooth comb...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 May, 2011, 02:26:38 pm
Pottering about in the back "garden", although it's not much of a "garden" as more a sea of patio and stone chips with the occasional potted plant (1 of) and a Buddleja (Butterfly bush) down the far end in a 2 foot square of between the paving slabs.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 May, 2011, 02:33:09 pm
On yet another conf call!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 May, 2011, 02:36:08 pm
Watching the smallest cub playing castles.  This mainly involves creating a large pile of cushions on the settee, then sitting in the top to eat your picnic lunch.  And then jumping on and over it.

I give it another ten minutes before we have to turn it into a Den, which involves a blanket/slanket roof.

And wishing I could have somehow managed to carry home the absolutely gigantic cardbboard box that I was offered in the LBS this morning, because he would have really liked it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 16 May, 2011, 02:42:13 pm
Icing my forearm which has been ruined by riding the BCM on fixed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 May, 2011, 02:42:30 pm
Pondering the (significant) calibration error on our bathroom scales, having finally got round to mopping up all the grout dust from the other day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 May, 2011, 03:06:18 pm
Getting angry with what people have written on the internet.
 :facepalm:

Knew I shouldn't have looked.
And I was warned, and everything.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 May, 2011, 03:09:06 pm
waiting to go home
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 May, 2011, 03:19:32 pm
Wishing it was Wednesday, and waiting for a bus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 16 May, 2011, 03:21:58 pm
Just pegged my washing out, at least the wind is good for something  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 May, 2011, 03:22:36 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 16 May, 2011, 03:19:32 pm
Wishing it was Wednesday

Personally, I'm leaning a bit more towards being glad that it's not, since me and Wednesdays don't generally get on.  But I shall wish for it to be Wednesday too, for your benefit :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 May, 2011, 03:35:03 pm
Contemplating the ride home - it's a bit, erm, breezy for 71" fixed given my current level of fitness  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 May, 2011, 04:30:08 pm
I'm downloading a couple of big files from Computerteddy's server, because he's an admirable geek who does the entirety of Europe in OpenStreetMap. I have and 8Gb micro SD card which will, hopefully, accept this file so that the Garmin can read it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 16 May, 2011, 05:00:40 pm
Just got on a train at Bristol, with a 3 hour journey home to look forward to.  Having left home at 5.15 this morning and a six hour client meeting in the middle, I am now quite tired.

glad I didnt drive though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 16 May, 2011, 05:47:22 pm
On a train back to Embra with Fingal, sucking a chupa chup.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 May, 2011, 06:16:14 pm
Recovering.
As a former colleague would have said, it's a bit lively out there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 16 May, 2011, 06:23:55 pm
Making pizza
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 May, 2011, 06:48:30 pm
Gardening.  I fucking hate gardening.   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 16 May, 2011, 07:45:08 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 16 May, 2011, 12:09:50 pm
Well, quite!

I was totally underwhelmed last time I was there.

If you go along the front to Felpham there is a beach front cafe where they serve what is quite literally a mean pint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 16 May, 2011, 08:03:01 pm
Feeling tired and can’t be arsed doing anything.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 May, 2011, 08:08:50 pm
Planning meals for nonn and I this week and being annoyed by a bogey hanging at the back of my nostril which swings back and forth and whistles every time I breathe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 17 May, 2011, 07:21:28 am
Being unimpressed by the veggie breakfast in first class on this virgin train to that london.

No toast!!!!!!!

Sigh...and all that money for the ticket.... (actually i booked a month ago so my ticket was 39 quid less than the walk up standard ticket...but still no toast!!!!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 May, 2011, 10:02:30 am
Quote from: jogler on 16 May, 2011, 09:17:57 am
Cogitating.Walk or ride to the village to get newspapers :-\

which 200km audax next :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 17 May, 2011, 10:41:04 am
Having my wedding ring shrunk. 

The downside of weightloss :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 May, 2011, 01:40:59 pm
trying not to fall asleep.............  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 17 May, 2011, 03:00:44 pm
Watching stage 10 of the Giro :)

Then I have the Tour of California recorded on my Humax box to watch next :)

I'm being a lazy git today. I really need to finish off clipping my dog, I turned him into something very weird looking last night by shaving his body but haven't yet done his head and legs. I can't possibly walk him looking like this, it would be too embarrassing and I risk getting reported for animal cruelty  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 17 May, 2011, 05:45:55 pm
Sitting on a train to Kirkcaldy with Fingal, sucking a chupa chup.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 17 May, 2011, 05:52:36 pm
installing an eticket system thingiy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 May, 2011, 06:47:08 pm
Quote from: ravenbait on 17 May, 2011, 05:45:55 pm
Sitting on a train to Kirkcaldy with Fingal, sucking a chupa chup.

Sam

"Ye can tell yersel, by the queer like smell,
The next stop's Kirkcaldy"

From the days of ye olde Lino works at Forbo Nairn.   :thumbsup:

--edit-- now gluing a steering wheel onto a steering column using contact cement.  (a plastic model kit car, not a real life one!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 17 May, 2011, 09:08:39 pm
Waiting for a batch of muffins to cool enough so I can "taste" one.

(Actually, they tasted pretty damn fine uncooked, but you can't be too careful  ;))

EDIT:  I had to have a second one just to be sure, but yes - they're fine.  Phew!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 17 May, 2011, 09:26:23 pm
Realising I've sucked all my chupa chups.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 17 May, 2011, 09:27:56 pm
Have a muffin.  Banana & chocolate?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 17 May, 2011, 09:29:08 pm
Ooooh. Nom. But I haven't had my dinner yet.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 May, 2011, 10:05:02 pm
You're a grownup now. You can have cake before your dinner, Celebrations for breakfast, whatever you like. It's ace being a grownup sometimes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 May, 2011, 10:19:58 pm
Reading the Bryan Chapman thread and being told I'm not allowed to do it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 May, 2011, 10:21:20 pm
See previous post.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 May, 2011, 10:25:28 pm
It's okay, we've been all grownup and agreed on a list of dependencies that must first be satisfied, including a year of cycling without kneefail; an appropriate act of n+1 and successful completion of a 200, 300 and 400 without death.

Should keep me going for a while...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 17 May, 2011, 10:27:03 pm
Watching an old BBC4 documentary about Krautrock on YouTube ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 17 May, 2011, 10:28:38 pm
IT admin from home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 May, 2011, 10:43:44 pm
Eating rice crispies.  Enjoying the silence of two boys sleeping.  Thinking that, although it is nearly Wednesday, this is at least good news for Kirst.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 May, 2011, 10:47:49 pm
It's even better for bobb!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 17 May, 2011, 11:40:44 pm
I just finished shearing my dog. He looks really silly now  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 May, 2011, 11:44:12 pm
Gouda with biscuits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 17 May, 2011, 11:45:52 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 17 May, 2011, 10:05:02 pm
You're a grownup now. You can have cake before your dinner, Celebrations for breakfast, whatever you like. It's ace being a grownup sometimes.

With great power comes great responsibility.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 17 May, 2011, 11:53:23 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 May, 2011, 10:25:28 pm
It's okay, we've been all grownup and agreed on a list of dependencies that must first be satisfied, including a year of cycling without kneefail; an appropriate act of n+1 and successful completion of a 200, 300 and 400 without death.

Should keep me going for a while...

See you in Chepstow next year.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 18 May, 2011, 01:20:02 am
Getting drunk....and eating brie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 May, 2011, 01:32:12 am
Eating...again.The only time I've not felt hungry in the past 48hrs is when I've been asleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 May, 2011, 12:30:00 pm
Feeling a bit sick.  And realising that I have no paracetemol with me.  Boo hiss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 18 May, 2011, 12:32:05 pm
Feeling depressed and angry. Also narked about how much it costs to replace a wheel bearing on a Ford Mondeo.

But I found a chupa chup I didn't know I had so it's not all bad.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 May, 2011, 12:33:36 pm
Quote from: ravenbait on 18 May, 2011, 12:32:05 pm
But I found a chupa chup I didn't know I had

\o/

How freaky.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 18 May, 2011, 01:09:25 pm
Yay, I tried on my new jerseys and they are  :thumbsup:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/YACFjerseys.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 May, 2011, 02:29:46 pm
Worrying about Mrs T.

Have dropped her off at the hospital for, errrrr, a procedure that involves a camera and picolax.....

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 18 May, 2011, 02:49:21 pm
Hope Mrs T is alright and you get to take her home soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 18 May, 2011, 02:51:22 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 18 May, 2011, 02:29:46 pm
Worrying about Mrs T.

Have dropped her off at the hospital for, errrrr, a procedure that involves a camera and picolax.....



Good luck to Mr T. I hope they don't find anything abnormal where they are looking and it isn't too unpleasant. GWS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 May, 2011, 02:56:20 pm
Quote from: barakta on 18 May, 2011, 02:49:21 pm
Hope Mrs T is alright and you get to take her home soon.

Thx, I can go and collect her at 4PM, there is a big bag of M&S chocolate coated forest fruits waiting for her, for when she feels like eating.

She doesn't react well to sedation, so it may be tomorrow before she dives into them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 May, 2011, 06:47:02 pm
Sitting next to bobb waiting for our tea to be ready.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 18 May, 2011, 06:54:13 pm
Keying the postal questionnaires onto the audax website (It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 18 May, 2011, 06:55:44 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 18 May, 2011, 02:56:20 pm

Thx, I can go and collect her at 4PM, there is a big bag of M&S chocolate coated forest fruits waiting for her, for when she feels like eating.

She doesn't react well to sedation, so it may be tomorrow before she dives into them.

Hope she's not feeling too out of sorts and she feels better soon.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 18 May, 2011, 07:03:54 pm
Aching
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 May, 2011, 07:34:31 pm
Waiting for a PC to finish building so that I can go home.


Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 May, 2011, 07:44:54 pm
Huzzah!  T'is done.  So I shall go home, and eat gaviscon and paracetemol for tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 May, 2011, 07:45:14 pm
Barakta and I just murdered a hedge.

I have a big choppy thing and I'm not afraid to use it   :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 18 May, 2011, 07:46:48 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 May, 2011, 07:45:14 pm
Barakta and I just murdered a hedge.

I have a big choppy thing and I'm not afraid to use it   :demon:

 :o
Did you have at it with sporks?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 May, 2011, 07:48:23 pm
This thing's almost *better* than sporks!

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_2676.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 18 May, 2011, 07:51:14 pm
Running a bath, as I'm somewhat sair after a day of  laying cobbles.  Wasn't enough 2lb lump hammers to go round, so muggins here said he'll use the 12lb head of a broken shafted fencing hammer instead.  It certainly bedded the cobbles into the ground, but gosh it was heavy! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 18 May, 2011, 09:06:16 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 May, 2011, 07:48:23 pm
This thing's almost *better* than sporks!

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_2676.sized.jpg)

 ;D That hedge didn't stand a chance!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 May, 2011, 09:15:35 pm
I'm a bit stumped (pun intended) about what to do with the cuttings, though...

The council will take green waste, but in plastic bags one molecule thick.  Obviously attempting to cram them full of anything remotely twiggy is a recipe for frustration.

Barakta's vetoed a giant bike trailer to take them to the tip.

We don't have room to safely burn them (unless I finish the gassification stove, but I suspect that would take a while to get through it all).

Ditto compost, even if I didn't object to such things on the grounds of being Not A Hippy.

Last time we committed hedgicide, some students helpfully nicked the cuttings from our front garden (presumably because they wanted firewood).  So my current plan is to hope for a repeat of that.  If nothing else, it should allow it to dry up and become a bit easier to manage.

 :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 May, 2011, 09:27:18 pm
You both look very "happychappy" in that pic :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 18 May, 2011, 09:35:32 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 May, 2011, 09:15:35 pm
I'm a bit stumped (pun intended) about what to do with the cuttings, though...

The council will take green waste, but in plastic bags one molecule thick.  Obviously attempting to cram them full of anything remotely twiggy is a recipe for frustration.

Barakta's vetoed a giant bike trailer to take them to the tip.

We don't have room to safely burn them (unless I finish the gassification stove, but I suspect that would take a while to get through it all).

Ditto compost, even if I didn't object to such things on the grounds of being Not A Hippy.

Last time we committed hedgicide, some students helpfully nicked the cuttings from our front garden (presumably because they wanted firewood).  So my current plan is to hope for a repeat of that.  If nothing else, it should allow it to dry up and become a bit easier to manage.

 :-\

If any of your neighbours pay for one of the special council garden waste bins (assuming your council does these) you can sneak out there in the dead of night before a collection and fill all their bins up  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 18 May, 2011, 10:12:00 pm
Eating a very yummy Herby rice salad (http://gourmand.woollypigs.com/2011/05/herby-rice-salad/) that Peli knocked up this evening with some roasted chicken.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 May, 2011, 10:14:28 pm
Quote from: Feline on 18 May, 2011, 09:35:32 pm
If any of your neighbours pay for one of the special council garden waste bins (assuming your council does these) you can sneak out there in the dead of night before a collection and fill all their bins up  :demon:

Birmingham City Council haven't discovered wheelie bins yet.  It's a point of some contention.

Hence the one-molecule-thick plastic bags for garden waste.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 18 May, 2011, 10:15:56 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 May, 2011, 10:14:28 pm
Quote from: Feline on 18 May, 2011, 09:35:32 pm
If any of your neighbours pay for one of the special council garden waste bins (assuming your council does these) you can sneak out there in the dead of night before a collection and fill all their bins up  :demon:

Birmingham City Council haven't discovered wheelie bins yet.  It's a point of some contention.

Hence the one-molecule-thick plastic bags for garden waste.

Ah carp, and they are so much harder to hijack too :(

A cargo bike to the local recycling centre would do the trick. What an excellent excuse for N+1!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 18 May, 2011, 11:54:01 pm
Quote from: Feline on 18 May, 2011, 01:09:25 pm
Yay, I tried on my new jerseys and they are  :thumbsup:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/YACFjerseys.jpg)

I’ve got one of those s/s ones from last year.  Medium.  Was a bit snug when it turned up but I’ve got back to my summer shape now and it’s fine. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 19 May, 2011, 12:07:49 am
Quote from: simonp on 18 May, 2011, 11:54:01 pm
I’ve got one of those s/s ones from last year.  Medium.  Was a bit snug when it turned up but I’ve got back to my summer shape now and it’s fine. :)


I'm pleased I went for the medium SS and large LS winter weight. The LS one is roomy enough to be able to wear a merino base layer or 2 underneath which I wanted. It will also have the room for if I get fatter after PBP too!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 19 May, 2011, 12:18:05 am
I wore a medium s/s Mille Cymru top with a Rapha merino base layer on the BCM at the weekend.  I’ve been following the advice to buy large in all these things (such as my PBP 07 top and my LEL top).  They’re all far too large.  ::-)  The Mille Cymru top fits me far better, so as the yacf ones are from the same manufacturer, I’m sticking with medium.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 19 May, 2011, 12:43:22 am
Insomnia.

Again.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 19 May, 2011, 12:44:32 am
Quote from: ravenbait on 19 May, 2011, 12:43:22 am
Insomnia.

Again.

Sam

What?  It’s early.

I’m busy fiddling with Python code.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 May, 2011, 12:47:26 am
Cursing our-favourite-telco.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 May, 2011, 01:05:48 am
Still feeling sick. And the paracetemol has got rid of neither the headache, nor the neck/shoulder pain. This is distinctly suboptimal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 19 May, 2011, 01:19:20 am
Quote from: simonp on 19 May, 2011, 12:44:32 am
Quote from: ravenbait on 19 May, 2011, 12:43:22 am
Insomnia.

Again.

Sam

What?  It’s early.

I’m busy fiddling with Python code.


Depends on how long you've been up.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 19 May, 2011, 01:24:42 am
I'm getting into a good nocturnal pattern for the weekend of nights, but unfortunately I want to go out for a ride with some normal people in the morning so I will have to get up early. Ah well sleep deprivation is excellent preparation for upcoming events  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 19 May, 2011, 12:19:52 pm
I've just run out of lapsang souchong!

 :-\ >:( :'(

But I do have a fresh bag of chupa chups.

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 19 May, 2011, 12:23:53 pm
Eating a pie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2011, 02:29:59 pm
Digesting salad,avacado & prawns :)Soon to be scoffing chocolate ginger biccies with coffee
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 19 May, 2011, 02:40:33 pm
Quote from: ravenbait on 19 May, 2011, 12:19:52 pm
But I do have a fresh bag of chupa chups.

Sam

I bought 4kg of them not so long ago.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 19 May, 2011, 03:11:34 pm
Scoping out some topiary shears.
I reckon they're a better bet for lightweight hedge trimming than a dirty great chainsaw (even if the latter is potentially more fun ;) )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 May, 2011, 03:21:19 pm
Procrastinating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ravenbait on 19 May, 2011, 03:22:08 pm
Filling out a hydrology request, sucking a chupa chup.

(Fingal's at home.)

Sam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 19 May, 2011, 03:26:04 pm
trying to get my work finished so I can piss off home early (I'm having a long weekend break and heading for inverness on the early ferry tomorrow)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 May, 2011, 03:34:04 pm
I've been in the loft.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2011, 04:46:03 pm
keeping pigeons?
 :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2011, 04:47:50 pm
Feeling the need for holiday.We might get the p.j.'s off the caravan :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 19 May, 2011, 04:59:47 pm
Quote from: Kim on 19 May, 2011, 03:21:19 pm
Procrastinating.

Welcome to my world...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 May, 2011, 08:30:36 pm
Lying in a tent on a windy campsite. I've just been informed that we can expect the arrival of Gurkhas, on bikes.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 19 May, 2011, 08:43:56 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 19 May, 2011, 08:30:36 pm
Lying in a tent on a windy campsite. I've just been informed that we can expect the arrival of Gurkhas, on bikes.....

Woo! That sounds exciting :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 May, 2011, 08:55:41 pm
*jealous*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 May, 2011, 09:15:29 pm
My informant may have been confused, there is one Gurkha looking chap in the kitchen, in military kit, a few tents and some fit young blokes arriving on bikes.  I don't think you get many blonde Gurkhas...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2011, 09:17:14 pm
I prefer my gerkins in vinegar
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 May, 2011, 05:40:50 pm
Perusing a map.
O.S. Landranger Sheet 128  Derby & Burton upon Trent.

Very conveniently it extends to just south-west of Rugely to include part of Cannock Chase.It's actually rather unusual for a route I wish to follow not to spill onto an adjacent map sheet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 May, 2011, 06:36:14 pm
I've just finished rewiring the RAID array in the new improved (and working!) server.  The old RAID cables were 24" ones, and with the new motherboard the PCI-X sockets are a few inches further away than they used to be, so I had to order some 36" cables, and due to various cockups in the ordering process, it's taken the best part of a week for them to be delivered.

The system now boots happily, but the md auto-detect seems to have gotten a bit borked, and was unhappy with one of the RAID arrays, but that's sorted (mostly, sort-of, in a slightly bodged fashion).

The next trick is to recompile the kernel, since the older motherboard used a Tigon-3 driver for the networking, and this one needs an Intel driver (reasonably enough, it's an Intel motherboard).

Hopefully the networking will come up then, and I can shove the server back into the cupboard, and do everything else remotely with SSH.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 May, 2011, 06:38:51 pm
Trying to convert a file through umpty different stages to contort it into the right format for the crappy assessment software to play nicely with.  Haven't done it since last year and I can't remember how to fix thyis particular problem.

And composing an email to a supplier to ask why they haven't fixed the stuff I've reported, repeatedly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 20 May, 2011, 06:46:29 pm
Waiting outside work for a bus. Should be cycling, the weather is glorious.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 May, 2011, 06:53:24 pm
Creating graphics for reports whilst also (in my head) adjusting settings for a support ticket system, preparing a presentation for Monday, getting a shopping list together, panicking about money and getting the bike ready for Sunday's 200km.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 May, 2011, 06:57:03 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 20 May, 2011, 06:53:24 pm
and getting the bike ready for Sunday's 200km.

an audax? if so which one?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 May, 2011, 07:01:44 pm
The Gospel Pass 200km.

there be AAAs there!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 20 May, 2011, 07:03:37 pm
Fettling a wheelchair
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 May, 2011, 07:30:06 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 May, 2011, 06:38:51 pm
Trying toFinished converting a file through umpty different stages to contort it into the right format for the crappy assessment software to play nicely with.

And now I'm going to go and do the Friday commute home :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 20 May, 2011, 08:15:22 pm
Walking home from the bus stop with comfort food.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 20 May, 2011, 08:18:33 pm
Eyeing up the stack of dishes in the sink and wishing I had a dishwasher...   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 May, 2011, 09:24:45 pm
Right, after several hours of head scratching, recompiling of kernels, and general fiddling around with settings, I've got the networking to accept that there is something else more exciting than Loopback out there.

Unfortunately, dhcpcd doesn't get a useful IP address, because the hardware address has changed, and the chances of me getting our IT bods to deal with this before Monday are slight to non-existent.

On the plus side, I now know that you really need to carefully check udev rules, because the danged thing decides to make Ethernet device names persistent, which is a git when most of the system expects the network port to be eth0, and not eth2. :-\

So, what I'm doing now, is to get changed for the commute home!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 20 May, 2011, 10:26:40 pm
Just home from watching the Welwyn Track League and now catching up on cyber things.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 20 May, 2011, 10:30:44 pm
Feeling happy that I won an eBay case against a seller of a metal mop bucket. They did actually replace it, but with an identical one with an identical leak. The seller tried to go off eBay, which seemed a bit naughty & wasn't fast at responding, so I think a month to get a mop bucket is long enough. I escalated the case & got a decision in my favour in minutes.

My floor is rather mucky these days!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 21 May, 2011, 04:41:52 am
Drinking tea and shoveling muesli down my neck prior to going coastal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 May, 2011, 07:09:21 am
Wondering, with the greatest respect, why anyone who wanted a mop bucket wouldn't just go to the local hardware shop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 21 May, 2011, 07:46:00 am
Sat in battle, a place dear to my heart having spent a couple of summers digging the abbey up as an archaeology student.

190km into a 300 DIY and it was jolly cold last night.

Anyone know what time the world ends?  Promised Cass I'd be home to share the moment with her.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 21 May, 2011, 07:50:33 am
Quote from: marcusjb on 21 May, 2011, 07:46:00 am
190km into a 300 DIY and it was jolly cold last night.

That´s a bit hardcore. I look forward to you towing me around Seething!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 May, 2011, 08:00:56 am
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 20 May, 2011, 10:30:44 pm
Feeling happy that I won an eBay case against a seller of a metal mop bucket. They did actually replace it, but with an identical one with an identical leak. The seller tried to go off eBay, which seemed a bit naughty & wasn't fast at responding, so I think a month to get a mop bucket is long enough. I escalated the case & got a decision in my favour in minutes.

My floor is rather mucky these days!

Just a shame there aren't many old fashion hardware stores now, where everything one could need is in dusty cardboard boxes behind the till or on shelves around the shop.  Including fork 'handles!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 21 May, 2011, 08:26:12 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 21 May, 2011, 07:09:21 am
Wondering, with the greatest respect, why anyone who wanted a mop bucket wouldn't just go to the local hardware shop.

Well, the local hardware shop is full of the most decrepit people & stock, with such poor service & crazily high prices (50+% more for the bucket than eBay for the same thing) that I refuse to use them. The eBay punter said delivery would be 2-3 days, which seemed reasonable.

As it turned out, 2 attempts/deliveries and a month later, it hasn't quite turned out right...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 May, 2011, 11:01:11 am
In York, although we sadly lost Stubbs DIY we are still blessed with Barnitts (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?cid=18371096868555785407&q=Barnitts+Ltd,+Colliergate,+York&hl=en&sll=53.959865,-1.079515&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&ie=UTF8&ll=53.965832,-1.098847&spn=0,0&z=15).  There are actually several businesses in York with this name, and many moons ago when I spent a year or two working for Directory Enquiries it was quite common to get people ringing up for the number for Barnitts.  Naturally it was important to be certain that you gave them the number they were actually looking for and although I never had a call where the customer wanted one of the other Barnitts you had to check.  You were supposed to say something like "Is that Barnitts on Colliergate?" but I never did. 

"Is that Barnitts the everything shop?" always seemed to raise a smile.

Right now I am contemplating baking and cooking, and possibly wandering to Barnitts for a new flask.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 May, 2011, 12:38:09 pm
I'm off into the garage to start getting our camping kit together & sort out various panniers in readiness for the YACFCannockCraicCrinkly&CubCampingConference.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 May, 2011, 12:42:59 pm
Blimey, that's a bit organised. 

I Am Baking.

Whodathunkit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 21 May, 2011, 12:55:41 pm
Being very very very lazy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 21 May, 2011, 12:58:06 pm
Being naughty watching cycling on the TV when I should be asleep (am on nights). Gotta go back to work in 4 hours time  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 May, 2011, 01:02:31 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 May, 2011, 12:42:59 pm
Blimey, that's a bit organised. 

It's unlikely to prevent a last minute search for something essential ::-)
I really want to keep next weekend free & next week I might be busy making my next £miilion, ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: closetleftie on 21 May, 2011, 01:21:17 pm
Midway through an operating list. Quick lunchbreak then back into the fray.

Got to keep Mrs L in shoes somehow, I suppose...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 21 May, 2011, 03:53:00 pm
Sorting through books.  About to take a load to the charidee shop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 May, 2011, 03:58:27 pm
Being impressed at the good-natured way that my boy's are sharing the chocolate bowl.

Right, flapjack done (both sorts).  Coffee cake done.  Better go to the shop and then crack on with the Mildenhall cake and the scones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 May, 2011, 04:22:58 pm
Flapjack break between Dounreay and Thurso, cold, wet & windy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 May, 2011, 04:31:09 pm
watching paint super glue dry on MK2 1/24th scale model car steering column made out of a toothpick.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 21 May, 2011, 06:00:52 pm
Writing a report for work. Dull boring snore.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 May, 2011, 06:02:23 pm
Having a rest before putting my suit on and cycling off to sing in a concert.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 May, 2011, 06:04:31 pm
Still baking.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 21 May, 2011, 06:18:20 pm
Relaxing in a X-country HST heading back north after an awesome day playing
God Signalman in Bodmin General.  Time off for good behaviour -
the "Responsible Officer" said that she'd take over the signalling for the
last train of the day, and the putting-them-all-back-in-their-sheds after, so
that I could catch an earlier (and much faster) train back to Derby. I had been
there since 0745, having arrived on the Sleeper from Up London.

[GPS woke up just as the Sleeper was going through Ealing at midnight last
night. So I mentally waved at Charlotte & Julian.]

One other trainee signalman came into the box just about then, asking the RO if
there were any spare days.  So I said "You can have the rest of today"!  He'd
had a bit of a set-to with his other half, leaving the house with the words
"I'm going down the railway".  :o

(I think I quite like being single.  Maybe someone can prove me wrong.  Please?)

Then the train crew let me have a cab ride!  So the Brompton
got folded into the Guard's Van, and I went up the sharp end.  It certainly
made me feel part of the family.
Title: What are you doing now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 May, 2011, 08:54:59 pm
In the interval. I've just seen Teddy Taylor in the audience. I'm almost tempted to tell him 'come back, all is forgiven!'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 21 May, 2011, 09:04:46 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 21 May, 2011, 04:22:58 pm
Flapjack break between Dounreay and Thurso, cold, wet & windy.

That's a boring bit of road!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 21 May, 2011, 11:02:57 pm
Staring at a map of Europe and feeling road-lonely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 May, 2011, 11:42:09 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 21 May, 2011, 06:18:20 pm
lots of train-related stuff

You know, I've had an absolutely bloody lovely day of baking (from about 10am until about 6.30pm) whilst singing at the top of my voice and dancing round the living room then a fast (almost even by other people's standards) blast to Stamford Bridge to meet the Moors and Wolds audaxers and feed them scones and cake and coffee and flapjack then an utterly delicious night-time wander back the wiggly way home where I had a good gossip with my sister and her partner who were babysitting.

But right now, what I'm doing is feeling very slightly jealous of Rower40's day  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 22 May, 2011, 01:26:53 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 May, 2011, 11:42:09 pm


But right now, what I'm doing is feeling very slightly jealous of Rower40's day  :)

I'm feeling really jealous. Particularly of the cab ride  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 22 May, 2011, 01:28:54 am
Sitting here wondering where this bloody rapture is. I could do with a bit of rapture.

Perhaps I'll have some more toast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 22 May, 2011, 01:30:02 am
Sod it. I'll go to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 May, 2011, 09:05:42 am
Well,I've not been ruptured & four tuneately there are no norsemen with epoxy lips galloping about.

I reckon there's been some confusion about  Puncture Number Four & Poxy Zits.

be carefull out there 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 May, 2011, 03:22:06 pm
Sitting in Wick railway station. As they won't let my bike on the train (4 pre-booked) I may as well use it to eat lunch out of the wind... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 May, 2011, 03:36:48 pm
Looking at previously-loved machine tools on eBay and wishing I had  a) a car  and  b) a shed
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 May, 2011, 03:41:57 pm
Thinking that it's days like today I wish I still lived in a basement flat...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 23 May, 2011, 03:57:22 pm
Baking an espresso-chocolate cake  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 May, 2011, 04:04:59 pm
Thinking that sounds interesting and should be added on the recipe thread.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 May, 2011, 06:14:26 pm
Quote from: TimO on 20 May, 2011, 09:24:45 pm
Right, after several hours of head scratching, recompiling of kernels, and general fiddling around with settings, I've got the networking to accept that there is something else more exciting than Loopback out there. ...

... so now I'm sitting back with a warm glow, knowing that the server is again working fine!

It's been shoved back into the cupboard, and is busily updating itself with about a months worth of data being pulled across the network (it'll be a couple of days before it's finished, there's a lot of data).

The new quad core CPU is blindingly fast compared to the old Pentium one.  A typical processing task that took around 30 second, now takes 9 seconds, and that's something which is only running on a single CPU.

The web server no longer brings the entire machine to it's knees when it's got an exceptionally complex script to run.

Yay for new(ish) powerful CPUs!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 23 May, 2011, 06:50:04 pm
I am rather unwisely enjoying a really nice bottle of wine after having had very little sleep for the past 3 days (on nights). There is a distinct possibility it will render me unconscious at some point soon. I must attempt to molish a meal for my sprogs before this happens!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 May, 2011, 07:15:53 pm
Setting out the stages needed for planning my trip to the Post Office tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 23 May, 2011, 07:18:51 pm
Cooking a biryani
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 May, 2011, 07:59:34 pm
Grinning...from ear to ear.Think Chesire cat.Think cat & cream.Almost  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 May, 2011, 08:22:07 pm
Thinking that as a result of the terrible weather and a volcano going foooom, bobb might not be able to go home tomorrow.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 23 May, 2011, 08:23:44 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 23 May, 2011, 08:22:07 pm
Thinking that as a result of the terrible weather and a volcano going foooom, bobb might not be able to go home tomorrow.  :smug:
;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 May, 2011, 08:26:07 pm
Oh noes, Kirst.  Whatever will you do?

Actually, don't answer that  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 23 May, 2011, 08:27:12 pm
Result, Kirst  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 May, 2011, 08:32:51 pm
Quote from: Feline on 23 May, 2011, 08:27:12 pm
Result, bobb  ;D

FTFY  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 23 May, 2011, 08:51:40 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 23 May, 2011, 08:32:51 pm
Quote from: Feline on 23 May, 2011, 08:27:12 pm
Result, bobb  ;D

FTFY  ;)

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 May, 2011, 09:54:31 pm
Lying in my tent and listening to the gale  :o :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 May, 2011, 08:05:21 pm
Waiting for an alarm engineer.

And now on hold :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 May, 2011, 08:15:15 pm
And now on hold again.  15 minutes into this call.

Buggers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 May, 2011, 08:18:08 pm
Wishing I only had four panniers of belongings to worry about. Rather than filtering all this *spreads arms wide* into four panniers.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 24 May, 2011, 08:22:20 pm
eating dates and cashew nuts while my sossidges cook. At this rate, I *will* spoil my appetite :D

Peli, i thought you were only going for a week?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 24 May, 2011, 08:23:22 pm
11 days Mike :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 24 May, 2011, 08:23:56 pm
aah.  Best give woolly more to carry then...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 24 May, 2011, 08:26:00 pm
Oi I got the house and the kitchen already :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 May, 2011, 08:26:08 pm
Watching my phone recharge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 May, 2011, 08:30:52 pm
Quote from: clarion on 24 May, 2011, 08:15:15 pm
And now on hold again.  15 minutes into this call.

Buggers.

Finished.

And still don't know when the sodding engineer will be coming, nor why he was delayed. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 May, 2011, 08:58:56 pm
Being tired and hungry on a train from Burton.
It goes all the way to Cardiff. 
I wish. 
I have to get of at Mordor Central.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 May, 2011, 09:10:02 pm
wibbling,  and hobbling with a sair foot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 May, 2011, 09:35:11 pm
Trying *very* hard to stay awake - nodding off isn't an option, at least until my laundry has finished drying.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 May, 2011, 11:09:05 pm
Just finished hanging out laundry.  I literally got my knickers in a twist there for a while.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 25 May, 2011, 09:35:30 am
Looking at SON dynohubs.  Must... resist... teh SHINY...
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2011, 09:58:35 am
Feeling somewhat Wednesday-ish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 25 May, 2011, 10:12:51 am
Listening in on some client calls from our "call centre"..................  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 25 May, 2011, 12:25:08 pm
Just listened to the v funny People of Walmart song by Jessica Frech. Excellent video too which, er, celebrates the diversity of humankind  ;D

Coming to an Asda near you...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 25 May, 2011, 01:52:16 pm
I just got back from a four hour hospital appointment.  What was actually less than an hour of nurses and a Doctor actually doing anything was punctuated by very long periods of waiting. :-\ ???

I'm now wondering what the likelihood of my operation being cancelled is, given that I have to stay in overnight because I'll need a General Anaesthetic, and Talisker isn't seen as being capable of looking after me, once I've come around from that.  Of course, as ever, beds are in short supply, so I could find the surgery cancelled at short notice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 25 May, 2011, 01:55:48 pm
Seeing as I'm still in Edinburgh due to volcanic activity I'm writing a new song about it. It will have lines about "eruptions" and stuff  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 May, 2011, 01:59:49 pm
Will magma feature?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 25 May, 2011, 02:32:03 pm
Oh yes! The possibilities are endless!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rhys W on 25 May, 2011, 03:27:04 pm
Going over some highly technical stuff I did in my last job, because I'm about to be interviewed by a couple of MIT PhDs about a job in their start-up. Why they're interested in me I have no idea!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2011, 03:27:16 pm
Rebuilding a workstation.  Feeling slightly sick.  Wishing I had remembered to buy paracetemol.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 25 May, 2011, 03:31:50 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2011, 03:27:16 pm
 Feeling slightly sick.

Is there something you would like to share  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 May, 2011, 03:38:51 pm
Reworking a bunch of calculations and wondering how to deal with a bunch of lying liars who tell lies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2011, 03:45:54 pm
Quote from: Marj on 25 May, 2011, 03:31:50 pm
Is there something you would like to share  ;D

It's Wednesday.  Wednesdays are not the best days.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 May, 2011, 04:06:10 pm
Redoing an electronic form for the 4th time, thinking it has taken me aporox 8 hours to get to this stage, and I would really like a drink.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2011, 11:42:13 pm
Baking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 25 May, 2011, 11:43:14 pm
Learning Ruby on Rails (a web development framework using the Ruby programming language).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 25 May, 2011, 11:45:46 pm
Just finished taking the studs out of my cricket shoes and fitted the flat ones that look like pontefract cakes ready for an artificial pitch tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 12:26:51 am
Waiting for cheese scones and flapjack to be ready.  My house smells tasty at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 May, 2011, 12:32:48 am
Wondering which Terry Pratchett character I would be, if I were one.  And meta-wondering why I've never contemplated this before.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 12:35:38 am
I can see you having a certain Susan-esque manner with a poker.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 May, 2011, 12:44:06 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 12:35:38 am
I can see you having a certain Susan-esque manner with a poker.

Quote from: IRC, just now
<kim> actually, that's something i've never really thought about.  if i were a pratchett character, which one would i be?
 * kim thinks . o O ( and the first person to say bloody stupid johnson gets sporked )
<nat> one of the sensible ones
<kim> it's susan, isn't it?
<nat> that did come to mind...
<nat> maybe tiffany aching
<nat> but more susan
<nat> well, more Marcie Hatter, but she isn't pratchett ;)
 * kim sighs
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 26 May, 2011, 12:53:54 am
Magrat?    (Running away right now Miss!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 May, 2011, 12:54:23 am
That was my original off-the-top-of-my-head suggestion for a Pterry character to disguise myself as.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 26 May, 2011, 12:56:17 am
What Duck?


I think I'd probably be Foul Ole Ron (Buggr'em, Buggr'em, Buggr'it!) or with my current strength at not smoking Coffin Henry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 01:13:54 am
Maybe more interesting - which one would you want to be?

As a teenager, I had a boyfriend who said that I reminded him of Death in the kitchen from Mort.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 26 May, 2011, 01:33:10 am
Relaxing after a few pints, some banging choons and a ride home in the dark with FO Fenix chasin the badger.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 26 May, 2011, 01:33:48 am
I'd hop rincewind, I fear twoflower.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 26 May, 2011, 01:38:06 am
I COULD MURDER A CURRY
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 26 May, 2011, 01:38:57 am
But I'd be the librarian.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 May, 2011, 07:25:35 am
Feeling sad because bobb's about to leave.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 May, 2011, 08:21:09 am
Quote from: jogler on 21 May, 2011, 12:38:09 pm
I'm off into the garage to start getting our camping kit together & sort out various panniers in readiness for the YACFCannockCraicCrinkly&CubCampingConference.

This didn't happen.I was seduced by Sky Sports Survival Sunday football coverage ::-)
I'm on Plan B for today so will have another go at sorting the camping itup kit
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 26 May, 2011, 08:59:38 am
Acting tour guide for three korean contractors! Got 3 hours to take them into london for photos to show their family of the "I was here" kind!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tom B on 26 May, 2011, 02:30:48 pm
In Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, about to ride over the Pyrenees and into Catalunya. There has just been a half hour downpour, first rain in the 10 days ive been in France  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 May, 2011, 02:36:10 pm
Watching the Giro, whilst working on a word document, on my new HUGE monitor....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 03:23:32 pm
trying very hard not to fall asleep....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 May, 2011, 03:27:44 pm
Planning a short summer-holibobs tour of the Dales, including trains and tents
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 03:29:08 pm
I thought you didn't do camping?  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 May, 2011, 03:30:34 pm
It is all dependent on the Deershed experience....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 03:41:42 pm
Trains and tents make for good jollydays, in my opinion. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 May, 2011, 03:46:26 pm
I'm on the phone to the sodding alarm company again.  On hold while they investigate the difference between arses and elbows. 

Answer: They aren't a bunch of elbows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 May, 2011, 03:48:01 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 03:41:42 pm
Trains and tents make for good jollydays, in my opinion. 

Tents more than trains, in mine...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 26 May, 2011, 03:52:19 pm
Submitting & filling in forms for audax  perms / DIY / calender events.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 26 May, 2011, 03:53:25 pm
Smelling fresh strawberries, soon to be jam.   8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 May, 2011, 04:06:42 pm
trying not to go all wibbly thinking about tomorrow interview for a college course...   :o :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 May, 2011, 04:11:09 pm
Whimpering.
Managed to blag an even earlier appointment with the dentist, to be told that I'll need 3 fillings replacing, one tooth crowning and one tooth extracting, for a total cost of around £6001  :o Or I could have it done on the NHS if I'm prepared to cart my arse halfway to Hull for the treatment - if it was a one-off then I'd consider it, but not for the 4 or 5 treatments that are required.

On the plus side(!) the dentist I saw, and her husband, are keen cyclists ... I also like the idea of having a gold crown, even if it is on a tooth which won't be seen in the normal run of events.

1 - Taking into account the cover I'll get via the work health plan. Not a lot, but better than nothing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 04:13:33 pm
So, does that mean you're coming out for a bike ride in a bit then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 May, 2011, 04:21:59 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 04:13:33 pm
So, does that mean you're coming out for a bike ride in a bit then?
Possibly. If I can loosen up a bit (given the state of my lumbar spine, dentists chairs aren't the epitome of comfort)

On the one hand, I think fresh air, exercise and a bloody good rant about the state of UK dentistry1 might be a Good Thing. On the other hand, I'm looking out of the window of the home office and seeing gert big chunks of ice dropping out of the sky. Hmm.

1 - I know that NHS dentists get a generally shitty deal from the gubmint, it's why our village dentist decided to jack it in and retire early, but the cost of some treatments is utterly insane. It comes to something when an extraction is the path of least resistance  :-X

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 26 May, 2011, 04:24:05 pm
Feeling sated.
I ate the last of the cheesecake. Nom.


@delthebike- is it strawberry time already? Excellent. Better get ready for Jamming.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 May, 2011, 04:29:10 pm
Doing a git clone of sflphone, to see if Linux can handle my SIP any better than the carp 3CX I use on Windows.

ETA: And wondering if I should tak emy swimming cossie tonight, instead of a bike :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 May, 2011, 04:33:49 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 26 May, 2011, 04:29:10 pm
ETA: And wondering if I should tak emy swimming cossie tonight, instead of a bike :)
The way the weather has been over the past couple of hours you'll have to make allowances for the possibility of drowning *and* concussion. Them were big hailstones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 26 May, 2011, 04:36:43 pm
Quote from: boab on 26 May, 2011, 04:24:05 pm
is it strawberry time already? Excellent. Better get ready for Jamming.
We've been picking strawbs for a fortnight.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 May, 2011, 04:54:55 pm
Feeling anxious about the London drivers not bothering to look because there is rain on their windows. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 26 May, 2011, 04:56:16 pm
Looking out at SE1 wondering just how soaked I'm going to get playing 5-a-side.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 26 May, 2011, 06:21:01 pm
Marveling at the wet stuff falling from the skies. We've got thunder and evryfink.

I don't think I've seen any since February.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 26 May, 2011, 07:04:04 pm
Fettling the tandem and getting camping gear ready for a weekend away in the New Forest.

First camping of the year - quite late this year!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 May, 2011, 08:08:21 pm
Pondering the safe place I have misplaced kept my university graduation certificate...  Hopefully I won't need it for tomorrows interview for an NC Conservation & Countryside Recreation course at college tomorrow.....

Hmmmmm.......

--edit-- quick phone call to parent's house, and it's safely tucked away at their house!!!  Better pop down and get it! ;-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 26 May, 2011, 08:16:12 pm
Packing panniers because I'm going to Scotland tomorrow night on a train straight after work.
Unfortunately, this is a boring but dutiful family visit with a tiny amount of cycling involved.

I'd rather stay at home and potter around.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 May, 2011, 05:08:55 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 May, 2011, 03:23:32 pm
trying very hard not to fall asleep....

This, again.  The carpet under the desk in this reception office looks remarkably comfy.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 May, 2011, 05:19:26 pm
Feeling rather perplexed about this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13578369).

I'm afraid my general support for the police after incidents such as this and Tomlinson is rapidly evaporating.   Fancy that big brave policeman and his mates having to run across to a wheelchair and pull out a man who cannot propel it himself, cannot walk, cannot resist physically, across the road.    Gosh.  Such bravery, such integrity.   Knowing how wonderful our police force is helps me sleep soundly at night.

I know this should be in POBI but I don't bother to go in there. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 May, 2011, 05:39:55 pm
Packing up to go home.  Hoping I don't fall asleep on the way!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 May, 2011, 05:50:15 pm
Contemplating which chippy in Cromer to frequent for my tea.

The Park Chippy would seem to be a mere turn-o-the-pedals from here, so I think it will be that one.

Anyone want anything?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 May, 2011, 06:02:03 pm
jumbo sausage and chips please.   Salt and vinegar on the chips would be fantastic.   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 May, 2011, 06:18:30 pm
I'll have the same please plus mushy peas
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 May, 2011, 07:06:32 pm
House-sitting in Leeds for SWMBO and waiting for an order of curried goat to arrive from the local Jamaican eatery  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 27 May, 2011, 07:12:30 pm
Wandering around paddington station.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 27 May, 2011, 07:13:52 pm
Feeling THE FEAR.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 May, 2011, 07:42:45 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 27 May, 2011, 05:50:15 pm
The Park Chippy would seem to be a mere turn-o-the-pedals from here, so I think it will be that one.

This was most definitely the Right Choice. There were many locals in evidence, which is always a good sign. Quiet a long wait - but no matter, one of the best chippies I've frequented in a while; well up to the standard of the one I was at on Tuesday  :thumbsup:.

I'm not looking forward to next Wednesday's weigh-in...  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 May, 2011, 07:44:01 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 27 May, 2011, 05:50:15 pm
Anyone want anything?

Fishcakes no chips please.
Thanks

(o, and some tartare sauce if they've got it)

ETA: Bugger. Left it too late
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 27 May, 2011, 07:44:51 pm
Just finished mowing the lawn ... phew. It was getting on for a foot long in places. Not sure what happened really, but every single day I haven't been out riding or working recently it's been too wet to mow it. It was almost getting to that needing a strimmer to cut point.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 May, 2011, 07:53:43 pm
Using Listen Again to hear Brian May and Roger Taylor on the R2 breakfast show this morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 May, 2011, 08:04:41 pm
Suffering an allergic reaction to a unseen beastie sting (on the lip, while I was riding at about 30mph).  I've taken lots of piriton and ventolin and am generally counting myself lucky that I didn't barrel roll the bike into a bank of nettles or anything.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 27 May, 2011, 08:11:37 pm
Quote from: Kim on 27 May, 2011, 08:04:41 pm
Suffering an allergic reaction to a unseen beastie sting (on the lip, while I was riding at about 30mph).  I've taken lots of piriton and ventolin and am generally counting myself lucky that I didn't barrel roll the bike into a bank of nettles or anything.

 ;D  Good video that one, isn't it?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 27 May, 2011, 09:00:24 pm
Wondering how to stay awake until midnight, when I'll be getting a work-related phone call.  Whereupon I have to log in to some computer out there in railway land, type in some COMPUTER SCIENCE, then phone back to say it's done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 27 May, 2011, 09:40:21 pm
Drinking a reasonably-priced Chianti and listening to the wind whistle through the trees up my little Tuscan hill.

Being amazed to discover that one of my neighbours in this tiny village has installed wifi. Wondering if they are using a 3G connection (like me) or whether wired broadband has finally got here eight years after Telecom Italia said it would.

Hoping that BA will phone about my bag that didn''t find its way out of LHR T5 this morning as it's got all the books I was planning to read this week.

Feeling happy (due to the above) that borrowing my wife's Kindle and preloading it with some other stuff was a smart move.  It also allowed me to read YACF via the free 3G connection on the train.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 May, 2011, 09:52:20 pm
Sitting in the Chinese takeaway, waiting for my bean cues and sweetcorn soup to be ready.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: giropaul on 27 May, 2011, 10:10:18 pm
Quote from: Feline on 27 May, 2011, 07:44:51 pm
Just finished mowing the lawn ... phew. It was getting on for a foot long in places. Not sure what happened really, but every single day I haven't been out riding or working recently it's been too wet to mow it. It was almost getting to that needing a strimmer to cut point.

I remember someone wanting to find out exactly which house a cyclist lived in - "Just look for the longest grass - it's always a cyclist" was the advice from several people.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 27 May, 2011, 10:13:06 pm
Quote from: Giropaul on 27 May, 2011, 10:10:18 pm
Quote from: Feline on 27 May, 2011, 07:44:51 pm
Just finished mowing the lawn ... phew. It was getting on for a foot long in places. Not sure what happened really, but every single day I haven't been out riding or working recently it's been too wet to mow it. It was almost getting to that needing a strimmer to cut point.

I remember someone wanting to find out exactly which house a cyclist lived in - "Just look for the longest grass - it's always a cyclist" was the advice from several people.

 ;D Guilty as charged m'lord  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 27 May, 2011, 10:22:47 pm
I don't have any (intentional) grass in my gardens.  The weeds are getting ludicrously long however.  I think I need a flame thrower. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 27 May, 2011, 10:26:37 pm
Quote from: TimO on 27 May, 2011, 10:22:47 pm
I think I need a flame thrower. :-\

That's close enough to Rocket Science, isn't it?

<---- still hasn't fired up the strimmer this year  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 May, 2011, 10:46:59 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 27 May, 2011, 09:00:24 pm
Wondering how to stay awake until midnight, when I'll be getting a work-related phone call.  Whereupon I have to log in to some computer out there in railway land, type in some COMPUTER SCIENCE, then phone back to say it's done.

OK - I'll try to help you stay awake.

I was on a 125 in Didcot on Monday and as we were just beginning to move there was a bang and the train shuddered to a halt (not great for me)

Then there was a beeping on the tannoy, and a voice started counting  one, two, three, four - all the way up to thirty.

Then we started moving agin.

Very odd. Never had that before.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 27 May, 2011, 11:01:01 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 27 May, 2011, 10:46:59 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 27 May, 2011, 09:00:24 pm
Wondering how to stay awake until midnight, when I'll be getting a work-related phone call.  Whereupon I have to log in to some computer out there in railway land, type in some COMPUTER SCIENCE, then phone back to say it's done.

OK - I'll try to help you stay awake.

I was on a 125 in Didcot on Monday and as we were just beginning to move there was a bang and the train shuddered to a halt (not great for me)

Then there was a beeping on the tannoy, and a voice started counting  one, two, three, four - all the way up to thirty.

Then we started moving agin.

Very odd. Never had that before.

That sounds frikking weird .... no wonder you were mildly freaked Jaded ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 27 May, 2011, 11:14:56 pm
Quote from: Feline on 27 May, 2011, 11:01:01 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 27 May, 2011, 10:46:59 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 27 May, 2011, 09:00:24 pm
Wondering how to stay awake until midnight, when I'll be getting a work-related phone call.  Whereupon I have to log in to some computer out there in railway land, type in some COMPUTER SCIENCE, then phone back to say it's done.

OK - I'll try to help you stay awake.

I was on a 125 in Didcot on Monday and as we were just beginning to move there was a bang and the train shuddered to a halt (not great for me)

Then there was a beeping on the tannoy, and a voice started counting  one, two, three, four - all the way up to thirty.

Then we started moving agin.

Very odd. Never had that before.

That sounds frikking weird .... no wonder you were mildly freaked Jaded ...

^^ What she said ^^

A TPWS activation will slam the brakes on, but it'll be 5 or more minutes before the train can move again, because of all the forms that need to be filled in.

Anyway, the phone call has come in.  It looks like tonight's work is going to be delayed as a "possession irregularity" has occurred.  Someone's put the detonators down on the wrong line. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 27 May, 2011, 11:21:44 pm
I am cooking Nigella's recipe rocky road. This is a first for me  :D
Riders of the Kernow 600 better hope I don't get the midnight munchies tonight  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 May, 2011, 12:13:04 am
Cleaning m'bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 May, 2011, 02:59:45 am
Lying awake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 May, 2011, 09:14:42 am
Drinking coffee, and contemplating getting ready to go for a bike ride.  I wonder what the chances are that I'll bump into the Peterborough CTC lot at the railway station.  Maybe I should take a cake, in case.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 May, 2011, 10:22:05 am
DunRun cake duly delivered to a slightly confused peterborough CTCer. Am now on platform 11, awaiting a TPE. Windy day!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 28 May, 2011, 09:09:07 pm
Watching dozen of fireflies and hoping this will increase to thousands by the end of the week as that's one incredible sight.

Thinking that maybe I should shut the window as several have come in and are trying to mate with the neon power indicator on my four way power expansion block ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 May, 2011, 09:17:10 pm
Reading twitter feeds and being thankful I'm not riding a 600km audax this weekend. My turn soon...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 28 May, 2011, 09:17:46 pm
Watching Man U gettin beat. Happy days for a Man City fan :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 May, 2011, 10:40:13 pm
Trying to persuade bobb to dance naked for me on webcam. He's not cooperating so far.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 May, 2011, 08:23:01 am
Wondering where Pingu is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 May, 2011, 08:26:11 am
Plotting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 May, 2011, 08:29:54 am
What? world domination?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 29 May, 2011, 08:30:00 am
Wondering whether I should have a 3rd round of Marmite on toast and 7th & 8th cup of tea.

I love breakfast!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 29 May, 2011, 08:31:49 am
in bed, in a castle in scotland.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 May, 2011, 08:34:04 am
Getting ready for some mild off-roading through Epping Forest.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 May, 2011, 08:34:42 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 May, 2011, 08:29:54 am
What? world domination?

Yes


A GPS route
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 29 May, 2011, 08:36:15 am

Trying to persuade that working on a Sunday is cool and good for the economy, so far I've failed miserably  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 29 May, 2011, 08:40:12 am
Off cycling in Yorkshire
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 May, 2011, 10:03:43 am
Planning a planet-slaying morning
1)fill up two cars with petrol
2)visit the caravan dealership
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 May, 2011, 10:25:02 am
About to set off on a life-saving mission - I've run out of coffee ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 May, 2011, 11:08:39 am
I'm having a nice cup of tea, the girls and the rabbit are running round the garden and one of the cats is playing with a dead mouse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 May, 2011, 11:14:56 am
Drinking coffee and arranging to go to my mum's for Sunday lunch at teatime.  There have been promises of bread and butter pudding....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 29 May, 2011, 01:16:24 pm
Dyeing my hair and then going to do my nails. Wedding Anniversary dinner tonight.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 May, 2011, 01:18:03 pm
Feeling distinctly wobbly.  Perhaps the second large cafetiere all to myself wasn't such a good plan....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 May, 2011, 01:30:24 pm
Feeling chilly chin after first proper shave in two years.
No.  Of course I shave the tash off as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 May, 2011, 03:37:51 pm
Trying to get the ludicrously tangled knot out of my hair.  Perhaps I need a haircut.... but it's only a couple of years since the last one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 May, 2011, 03:43:24 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 May, 2011, 03:37:51 pm
Perhaps I need a haircut.... but it's only a couple of years since the last one.

Yeah, far too soon.   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 29 May, 2011, 03:58:05 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 May, 2011, 03:37:51 pm
Trying to get the ludicrously tangled knot out of my hair.  Perhaps I need a haircut.... but it's only a couple of years since the last one.

Hee hee, am glad am not the only one who routinely ignores hair-cutting. Have you tried some serum to get rid of knot CL?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 May, 2011, 03:58:55 pm
Just noticed my error above.  I meant to say "of course I wont shave my tash off as well"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 29 May, 2011, 04:04:02 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 29 May, 2011, 03:58:05 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 May, 2011, 03:37:51 pm
Trying to get the ludicrously tangled knot out of my hair.  Perhaps I need a haircut.... but it's only a couple of years since the last one.

Hee hee, am glad am not the only one who routinely ignores hair-cutting. Have you tried some serum to get rid of knot CL?

Spraylube conditioner is the dog's danglies for this...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulR on 29 May, 2011, 04:08:11 pm
taking a breather from sanding our bedroom

The ceiling is truely orrible - I've taken the blister-effect paper down, and it's left an intermittent layer of paper shreds and a shiny hard base of glue.  I've got to strip that back, fill the many cracks and chips, paint it, sand down the woodwork including window frames that have been stained in 1978 dark brown treacle colour, paint the whole lot (including two built in wardrobes, put up lining paper and then patterned wallpaper.  

Two days' work done so far and I am perhaps 10% of the way there.  What else would I want to spend my bank holiday weekend doing?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 29 May, 2011, 04:33:15 pm
Preparing food like there's no tomorrow.

Tonight's supper, tomorrow's breakfast, bits and pieces for supper for the next few days - it's all in the mix.

My body feels spent following yesterday's ride (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=46611.0) and this seems to be a very good way of relaxing.

That, and listening to Straight Road by 3 Phase.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulR on 29 May, 2011, 05:35:04 pm
Well, I am now listening to some 3 phase as well.  Thank you for distracting me from the tiresome job in hand!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 29 May, 2011, 06:03:55 pm
Quote from: PaulR on 29 May, 2011, 05:35:04 pm
Well, I am now listening to some 3 phase as well.  Thank you for distracting me from the tiresome job in hand!  ;D

That's something of (but not a huge amount, given some of your previous)  a surprise  :thumbsup:  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulR on 29 May, 2011, 06:06:59 pm
MissR was a little surprised too.  "Is that your choice of music?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 29 May, 2011, 06:11:23 pm
Quote from: PaulR on 29 May, 2011, 06:06:59 pm
MissR was a little surprised too.  "Is that your choice of music?"

Bless  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 May, 2011, 06:50:41 pm
Photographing the lilies using the legendary Leica "Summicron with Near-Focusing Range", apparently the best camera lens ever made.  It gets as close as...oh, half a metre, which isn't actually that impressive.

LEICA 50mm f/2 SUMMICRON with Near-Focusing Range (1956-1968) (http://www.kenrockwell.com/leica/50mm-f2-dr.htm)

The wind is a PITA; I need f/11 or f/16 which means 1/8 second in the shade.  I'm using ISO 100 film but rating it as ISO 64 because it's colour neg and the lens extension requires a bit of extra light.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 29 May, 2011, 07:04:50 pm
Just got home after a long night helping at the Bude control on the Kernow &SW 600.

The most epic sleep of all was performed by my daughter who managed to fall asleep well before midnight and wake up at 10am this morning, having hardly seen any of the riders and not done any cooking which she had wanted to come and help with!

After the last riders left early this morning Pippa left for home and Ian, Simonp and I crashed out for 2-3 hours kip ourselves before cleaning up and loading all the stuff into the cars. They went straight on to the final control and I went on a little holiday jolly with my dogs and mini-me Natalie for the day. We decided to go to Porlock since it looked very nice on the outward journey, and spent a pleasurable few hours walking on the beach and surrounding area. We found a great dog friendly pub for some lunch, then drove the rest of the way home. I now have an epic number of blankets and pillows to launder.

It was a great night being on the 'other side' of audax and livened up by a scrote invading the town hall at about 4am. He mounted AndyH's enigma before being confronted and chased off down the street (on foot) by me and IanH. None of the sleeping riders woke up  :o
I really hope I didn't poison anyone with my cooking, and that they all come in in time this evening!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 29 May, 2011, 07:09:28 pm
Being somewhat Mr Grumpy Face.   >:(

Sair feet getting rather annoying now.  Plantar fasciitis ftl.

Looking forward to my getting put on another waiting list assessment for treatment at an NHS podiatrist @ my local gp surgery on the 15th of June.  Hopefully it'll not be too long after that before I can see a foot man to get my feet fixed.....   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 29 May, 2011, 08:35:40 pm
Sitting in a barn in Somerset with 18 or so other people, drinking G&T and waiting for Clarion and TGL to get back from their foraging with (hopefully) tea :D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 29 May, 2011, 09:49:11 pm
And pray tell has Somerset found a new G and T mine or some such?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 May, 2011, 10:41:16 pm
Thinking that I should go and put the recycling out.  Oh, the glamour....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 May, 2011, 10:45:58 pm
Still crying after The Kings Speech.

Sorry if there should be an apostrophe, I cannot see the keyboard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 30 May, 2011, 02:41:21 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 May, 2011, 07:48:23 pm
This thing's almost *better* than sporks!

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_2676.sized.jpg)

I got one of those as well. It will quite happily take down a moderate sized sapling (3"-4" trunk)

Like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 May, 2011, 02:58:46 pm
Could you loan it to Clare?
see"rant" thread
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 30 May, 2011, 03:04:40 pm
Quote from: jogler on 30 May, 2011, 02:58:46 pm
Could you loan it to Clare?
see"rant" thread

It's not big enough for the buddhelia, although I could use it to persuade certain dog owners of the error of their ways.


Hmmmmm, devious.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 May, 2011, 03:07:19 pm
Working out the logistics of getting Mrs. Wow home, with or without bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 30 May, 2011, 03:19:57 pm
Quote from: Clare on 30 May, 2011, 03:04:40 pm
Quote from: jogler on 30 May, 2011, 02:58:46 pm
Could you loan it to Clare?
see"rant" thread

It's not big enough for the buddhelia, although I could use it to persuade certain dog owners of the error of their ways.


Hmmmmm, devious.



* crosses legs * and adds Clare to the list of people to stay on the right side of.

My self seeded buddleia has been dealt with by one of those, and for the 6"+ stuff at the bottom, my axe. It may not have just been riding fixed that buggered my wrist up, my hands were sore for a couple of days after that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 30 May, 2011, 03:21:10 pm
Realising my passport expired last week...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 30 May, 2011, 03:21:39 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 30 May, 2011, 03:07:19 pm
Working out the logistics of getting Mrs. Wow home, with or without bike.

Best wishes my dear boy. :-*

I can't currently do anything as I have a cat on my lap. Once he has jumped off it will be hoovering time and then gravitate towards the kitchen. Since we bought our DAB digital radio I haven't stopped finding excuses to flee there to listen to it  ::-)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 30 May, 2011, 03:32:41 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 30 May, 2011, 03:07:19 pm
Working out the logistics of getting Mrs. Wow home, with or without bike.

I know they are shite, but don't Ryanair have several Danish airports they fly out of? Just checked & although it's not right by Odense, there are daily flights from Billund. If you fly Friday, it's c.830DKK - plus all the shite Ryanair add on for bikes and payment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 May, 2011, 03:47:54 pm
Sitting on the balcony of my local with a pint of Rebecca, looking out over a sunny Teifi valley.
Every one else has wandered off to the other pub to watch the football and I am the only one here.
Life doesn't get more peacefull, or better than this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 May, 2011, 05:25:01 pm
Listening to TLD and Mrs T baking :)

Good days
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 30 May, 2011, 05:41:17 pm
Have just put a banananananananana bread in the oven, thanks to SandyV for the recipe  :thumbsup:

Am now enjoying the smell of the rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 30 May, 2011, 05:43:02 pm
Eating a bit of CrinklyLion's coffee cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 30 May, 2011, 05:44:40 pm
Quote from: Deano on 30 May, 2011, 05:43:02 pm
Eating a bit of CrinklyLion's coffee cake.

*Searching for CrinklyLion's coffee cake recipe*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 May, 2011, 06:07:15 pm
Cutting my hair (seriously)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 May, 2011, 06:08:05 pm
Wondering what I managed to cock up earlier that's causing the bread to escape the bread machine in a manner not entirely unlike The Blob...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 30 May, 2011, 06:09:34 pm
Quote from: Kim on 30 May, 2011, 06:08:05 pm
Wondering what I managed to cock up earlier that's causing the bread to escape the bread machine in a manner not entirely unlike The Blob...

s/1tsp yeast/1tbsp yeast/

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 30 May, 2011, 06:14:27 pm
I don't think quantity of yeast is that critical.

Did you set the bread machine on a timer, and if so, is there any chance at all that the yeast could have got wet prematurely?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 May, 2011, 06:21:34 pm
It was yeast out of a sachet, though of a different brand to the one I normally use...

No timer, I just bunged everything in and set it going.  Can't imagine I got the water/flour too far off, as that tends to end in fail rather than expanding blob.  I don't *think* I forgot the salt...


ETA: Blobbiness not as severe as it appeared when peering through the window.  It's just risen a bit more than normal, so maybe I did misjudge the flour...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 30 May, 2011, 06:55:18 pm
Wondering whether ICBA to go to Newcastle to see a band and then cycle back  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 May, 2011, 07:01:37 pm
Well.....

- is it likely to be a good gig?
- what would you do if you didn't go?
- is it a nice enough ride back again?
- are you back at work tomorrow? 

Remember, any excuse for a (decent) bike ride, and if you're going to be knackered and have a hangover it might as well be whilst you're at work and getting paid for it  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 30 May, 2011, 07:03:06 pm
Shit ride back (40 miles down the A167), and my mate's not going anymore, so I'd be billy-no-mates at the gig.

It'll probably be good - last night of the tour and all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 May, 2011, 10:31:31 pm
Watching the Queen documentary.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 30 May, 2011, 11:17:32 pm
Recovering from first intervals of 2011. 3x15 at 205W. Except first was 205, second 209, third 208. First felt easy. Second felt ok. Third, well we don't talk about that one. Ow!

<<< drenched. Time for a bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 30 May, 2011, 11:27:59 pm
Quote from: Kim on 30 May, 2011, 06:21:34 pm
ETA: Blobbiness not as severe as it appeared when peering through the window.  It's just risen a bit more than normal, so maybe I did misjudge the flour...

Ah, okay, so it's not the "dough escaping from the machine" scenario I originally imagined.

(Yes, I have seen that.  IIRC, We'd set it in "dough" mode with a plan of making pizzas that night, but then forgot to set the timer to a sensible value).  Cleanup was not fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 May, 2011, 01:03:27 am
Feeling mildly stressed.  Not sure why.  Odd.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 31 May, 2011, 01:15:26 am
Thinking I should really get my head down - I've been up since 04:45 yesterday and there's been 70+ miles (albeit leisurely) miles thrown in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 31 May, 2011, 02:07:43 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 31 May, 2011, 01:03:27 am
Feeling mildly stressed.  Not sure why.  Odd.

Whats up crinkly?

Am drowning my pity and sorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 31 May, 2011, 06:34:28 am

Looking at a map, so I can find Peli, Woolly and the Wowbaggers in Copenhagen.
I'm going to join them for todays tour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 31 May, 2011, 06:57:25 am
Trying to pack our panniers, funny when you have the space how much of it you can take up with what is in your panniers.

Looks like 5 wonderful days of riding coming up though into the wind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 May, 2011, 07:04:24 am
give the baked beans a miss ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 May, 2011, 07:05:22 am
Trying to rev. up body & mind to go to work
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 May, 2011, 08:48:21 am
Quote from: Lynx on 31 May, 2011, 02:07:43 am
Whats up crinkly?

Nowt specific, I don't think.  Just a bit edgy.  Staving off the half-term ("oh thank God, we made it to the holidays and no longer need to keep it together OMG where did that black dog come from?") blues I suspect.  Plenty of bike-riding planned for the rest of the week.  That usually does the trick :)

But thanks for asking - hope you're having a good day.

I am currently over-caffienating, which is probably a Bad Plan, and doing laundry whilst contemplating getting my act together, which would be a Good Plan.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 May, 2011, 11:46:03 am
And now I am taking a short break from tackling the laundry mountain, putting away thereof.  Which is a job that I loathe.  To add to the irritation, I've spent about an hour folding clean laundry now, and so far have found precisely 3 t-shirts that belong to me.

I might have to go and bake a cake to cheer myself up.

ETA - 7 (yes, seven) bin bags filled with charity shop stuff. And more to go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 31 May, 2011, 02:26:06 pm
Waiting to go to hospital to have a MRI scan
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 May, 2011, 02:26:45 pm
Hope it isn't too stressful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 May, 2011, 02:30:56 pm
I've just packed my tent, titanium spork, shiny new downmat and shiny new knee-friendly sleeping bag into shiny new panniers.  There seems to be rather a lot of space left over.  I suppose I should top it up with the usual combination of excessive bike tools, sunblock, arctic weather gear and emergency food supplies until the bike weighs at least half what I do...   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 31 May, 2011, 02:41:28 pm
Writing up the results from an analysis looking at whether motivation to increase physical activity predicts change in objectively measured physical activity energy expenditure over a 15 week period. The answer is that it is a significant predictor, but that it only predicts 1.1% of the variance. 'Significant, but not important' is how one of our senior researchers put it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 31 May, 2011, 07:37:22 pm
Sending off yet more job applications  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 May, 2011, 07:39:47 pm
Waiting for the codeine to kick in.
My thought processes have already turned into cheese, I just need my back to stop aching now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 May, 2011, 08:50:29 pm
worrying that I have fecked my back muscles again :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 June, 2011, 01:09:25 am
Wondering why the last 2% of the packing always seems to account for about 98% of the weight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 01 June, 2011, 01:31:25 am
Got in from the Bristol YACF pub meet not long ago. It was a good evening, with good beer and a very nice pie and mash. Something to definitely be repeated.

I managed to ride home without falling off, but got slightly worried when a police car pulled over in front of me yards from home and wound down his window. Fortunately all he said was 'that's a nice bright light' and not 'OMG are you cycling drunk' so all was good  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 June, 2011, 01:39:48 am
Quote from: Kim on 01 June, 2011, 01:09:25 am
Wondering why the last 2% of the packing always seems to account for about 98% of the weight.

In my case, because of locks and cake.

I'm wondering where the spork had gone to....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 June, 2011, 01:44:51 am
Locks, water and electrons are what always get me.  The latter are surprisingly heavy  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 01 June, 2011, 01:58:14 am
Being awake at 2am again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 01 June, 2011, 02:09:10 am
Quote from: simonp on 01 June, 2011, 01:58:14 am
Being awake at 2am again.


Don't worry, you're not alone!
I dunno why I'm not more tired since I've had 3 hours sleep in the past 24 hours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 01 June, 2011, 02:23:53 am
Wow ! Loads online at this ungodly hour. Maybe we could have a imsomniac thread.

Im off to Tes*o for some nibbles. Also must stop drinking grade 4 + coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 June, 2011, 07:46:45 am
Wishing I'd gone to bed earlier. So tired I feel sick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 01 June, 2011, 07:55:08 am
Up all night!  So drinking coffee and thinking about doing other stuff.


Listening to radio 4 and thinking that I don't care less and its dross.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 01 June, 2011, 07:56:25 am
Sitting at my desk. Trying to summon up the will to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 01 June, 2011, 08:00:13 am
Quote from: Feline on 01 June, 2011, 02:09:10 am
Quote from: simonp on 01 June, 2011, 01:58:14 am
Being awake at 2am again.


Don't worry, you're not alone!
I dunno why I'm not more tired since I've had 3 hours sleep in the past 24 hours.

You’re just wrong.  :P

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 June, 2011, 08:04:35 am
I am wondering what I've forgotten.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 01 June, 2011, 08:06:48 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 01 June, 2011, 08:04:35 am
I am wondering what I've forgotten.

A Cub?

Your Bike?

Cake?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 June, 2011, 08:19:33 am
I can either see or hear all of those.  And the tickets are on my coat pocket.  We'll bluff the rest!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 June, 2011, 08:23:38 am
Have a good ride!

I'm in the slow process of packing up ready to leave for Middelfart.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 01 June, 2011, 08:27:06 am
Good riding CL and Wow.

It is my day off today, so am sat in my pj's watching the News and feeling guilty because I promised my husband I would be off on my bike  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 June, 2011, 09:06:58 am
Quote from: TheLurker on 01 June, 2011, 07:56:25 am
Sitting at my desk. Trying to summon up the will to work.

+1
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 01 June, 2011, 09:24:24 am
Watching the progress of the train on the internet.  Hoping Crinkly+Cub get on it OK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 01 June, 2011, 09:31:51 am
Quote from: rower40 on 01 June, 2011, 09:24:24 am
Watching the progress of the train on the internet.  Hoping Crinkly+Cub get on it OK.
And I've remembered to pack my 4th GPS device, and to send it the relevant text message so that it reports where it is to the interwebs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 June, 2011, 11:17:51 am
Being very mildly hungover on a train. The infallible copper dragon slightly failed me, possibly because I'd only had  a mousetrap sarnie, a TLD flapjack and half a bowl of chips to eat and then didn't  really get enough sleep due to packing and faffing. About to play connect  4.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 June, 2011, 11:19:21 am
Doing my roots, writing to my solicitor, and photographing my own head.

Multitasking FTW
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 01 June, 2011, 12:15:07 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 01 June, 2011, 11:19:21 am
Doing my roots, writing to my solicitor, and photographing my own head.

Multitasking FTW

There's a story in there somewhere.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 June, 2011, 03:10:17 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 01 June, 2011, 12:15:07 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 01 June, 2011, 11:19:21 am
Doing my roots, writing to my solicitor, and photographing my own head.

Multitasking FTW

There's a story in there somewhere.......

Yebbut, not a very good one.

Do you reckon Russell Jones and Walker have a disproportionate amount of post arriving in C5 sized envelopes?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 01 June, 2011, 03:23:16 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 01 June, 2011, 03:10:17 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 01 June, 2011, 12:15:07 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 01 June, 2011, 11:19:21 am
Doing my roots, writing to my solicitor, and photographing my own head.

Multitasking FTW

There's a story in there somewhere.......

Yebbut, not a very good one.

Do you reckon Russell Jones and Walker have a disproportionate amount of post arriving in C5 sized envelopes?

Hope you get a good resolution soon Linda (although I know no financial compensation can ever erase the impact it's had on your life).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 June, 2011, 03:27:02 pm
Quote from: Feline on 01 June, 2011, 03:23:16 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 01 June, 2011, 03:10:17 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 01 June, 2011, 12:15:07 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 01 June, 2011, 11:19:21 am
Doing my roots, writing to my solicitor, and photographing my own head.

Multitasking FTW

There's a story in there somewhere.......

Yebbut, not a very good one.

Do you reckon Russell Jones and Walker have a disproportionate amount of post arriving in C5 sized envelopes?

Hope you get a good resolution soon Linda (although I know no financial compensation can ever erase the impact it's had on your life).
Aw, that's nice of you Feline.  Actually I'm doing great.  Sitting in my 'jammies with a stained bath towel wrapped round me, on the internet, at 3 in the afternoon.  So back to normal really  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 01 June, 2011, 03:30:47 pm
 ;D  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 01 June, 2011, 03:32:30 pm
Waiting (the story of my life) suppose to be fitting my mates kayak out so where is he  >:( another bloody wasted day <rant over> feel better now  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 01 June, 2011, 07:46:01 pm
Outside the Old Spring in Cambridge with colleagues. Innuendo levels critical.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 01 June, 2011, 08:55:41 pm
Discussing stag do options.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 June, 2011, 09:12:03 pm
Erm. Losing it a bit, TBH.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 June, 2011, 09:15:30 pm
Missing bobb, and being glad he'll be here in 2 weeks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 01 June, 2011, 09:17:12 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 June, 2011, 09:12:03 pm
Erm. Losing it a bit, TBH.  :(

Ah, company!

:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 01 June, 2011, 09:39:16 pm
Quote from: simonp on 01 June, 2011, 09:17:12 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 June, 2011, 09:12:03 pm
Erm. Losing it a bit, TBH.  :(

Ah, company!

:(


Oh noes. Virtual hugs to you both!
(I lost it years ago myself ;) )
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Post by: itsbruce on 02 June, 2011, 06:53:32 am
Procrastinating.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 02 June, 2011, 07:07:52 am
Thinking what a damned good thing it was, given the unplanned twist our holiday has taken, that I bought this netbook and brought it with me.

OK, Vicky found this hotel on Woolly's PC, but with this I've been able to keep the family informed of developments, find train times, plan days out from the hotel, keep a check on the bank (given that we've got a lot of unplanned expense) and of course keep in touch with YACF. Without all of those things, the entire time since Mrs. Wow's tumble would have been a lot more stressful than they are.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 02 June, 2011, 07:30:45 am
Quote from: itsbruce on 02 June, 2011, 06:53:32 am
Procrastinating.
I'm going to do that later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 June, 2011, 09:17:09 am
Haven't got time to procrastinate right now.

Hugs to all those losing it a bit.  Hope that this morning you are finding it again. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 June, 2011, 09:21:59 am
Getting ready for bed.  It's going to be a hot one  :(
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Post by: RJ on 02 June, 2011, 10:34:10 am
Informing myself about shale gas and coal bed methane (and their impacts) ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 02 June, 2011, 10:42:29 am
I'm doing the paperwork for my performance assessment next week...  I hate doing these sorts of things.

I'm trying to find a polite way of reminding them that I'm doing more than was envisaged by my job description and that I should get a pay review...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 02 June, 2011, 11:14:27 am
Sitting at my desk in a deserted school, surfing for cheap train tickets instead of doing something about the piles of marking on every surface.

And wondering, glumly, what on earth is going on outside - there have been multiple sirens going past for 20 minutes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 02 June, 2011, 12:11:43 pm
Just worked out I have 57 more 'get ups' before we are off to Holland
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Post by: RW on 02 June, 2011, 12:19:23 pm
Thinking about lunch.
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Post by: fuzzy on 02 June, 2011, 01:28:42 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 02 June, 2011, 11:14:27 am
Sitting at my desk in a deserted school, surfing for cheap train tickets instead of doing something about the piles of marking on every surface.

And wondering, glumly, what on earth is going on outside - there have been multiple sirens going past for 20 minutes.

Gordy,

if you live in/ near Watford, someone has holed themselves up in a bank on market Street, armed pPolice and Bomb disposal are on scene.

if not near that location, sorry- no answer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 02 June, 2011, 02:20:38 pm
Wasting time & digging in the crates
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Post by: IanDG on 02 June, 2011, 03:51:45 pm
Looking through mortuary and post mortem/autopsy equipment and supplies catalogues  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 02 June, 2011, 03:56:14 pm
You are Jigsaw AICMFP
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Post by: IanDG on 02 June, 2011, 04:14:57 pm
;)
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Post by: essexian on 02 June, 2011, 05:17:03 pm
Listening to the Dandy Warhols "Come Down" on "11" and being very happy we live in a detached property!

Brilliant album which brings back loads of US road trips.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 02 June, 2011, 07:52:48 pm
Dancing around with a glass of vino to Pablo Picasso by Mr Cale on very loud.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 June, 2011, 10:03:59 pm
I've just spent about an hour on the phone to my father, trying to lead him through what are painfully basic things for me, but which he manages to bugger up so easily!

For the last few years, I've got him a couple of Mini Macs on the basis that OSX is relatively difficult to break, and difficult to infect with malware etc, unlike the Windows 98 box he had prior to this.

Nevertheless, whenever he manages to do something strange, it can be a bugger to resolve it remotely, since as anyone who has done remote PC debugging knows, it's amazing how often strange things can happen in response to having done "nothing".

I've just managed to clear the print queue, but I still can't quite work out how he seems to have got whatever OSX uses to view PDFs into a state where it'll only print the odd pages of a document. :-\ ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 03 June, 2011, 12:39:06 am
Cleaning. My parents are planning a visitation tomorrow so I thought the house should get its annual clean today. 3 Miele vacuum bags full  :o
I have wrinkly fingers now after scrubbing the kitchen floor. Thank goodness I won't need to do that again for a while.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 03 June, 2011, 12:56:07 am
Writing a database to use at the Avalon Sunrise control on Saturday.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 June, 2011, 09:22:28 am
Hating things.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 June, 2011, 10:29:33 am
On a ferry to our eleventh island of the Vicycle Tour. And realising I really am at my happiest when cycle touring. :)

We're hoping the Wows will also get to enjoy today's beautiful weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 03 June, 2011, 10:47:12 am
In Watford having first coffee (and fried egg in a bap).

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Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 June, 2011, 10:52:21 am
Digesting BACON.
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Post by: tiermat on 03 June, 2011, 02:31:37 pm
Calling it POETS day and heading off to the pub for swift, cooling pint :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 03 June, 2011, 02:33:35 pm
Listening to my laptop about to explode!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 03 June, 2011, 02:53:57 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 03 June, 2011, 09:22:28 am
Hating things.

That's a bit harsh, I've always found Joth and Emma very pleasant.

 ;)

IGMC
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 03 June, 2011, 02:58:59 pm
failing to come up with an answer to a reviewer question as to why the data used in the paper I recently submitted is 10 years old (true answer insults the journal it has been submitted to).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: smurphboy on 03 June, 2011, 03:00:26 pm
Preparing a customer demo whilst looking dreamily out of the office window at the sunshine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 June, 2011, 03:09:52 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 03 June, 2011, 10:29:33 am
On a ferry to our eleventh island of the Vicycle Tour. And realising I really am at my happiest when cycle touring. :)

We're hoping the Wows will also get to enjoy today's beautiful weather.

You've picked a wonderful place to cycle tour.   My favourite places from our 2008 tour were Aero, Langeland and Ribe though at least 99% of Denmark was fabulous.  ;D


 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 03 June, 2011, 03:44:00 pm
searching for work  :-\
Plenty of work available delivery pizzas/catalogues/avon using your own car and then paying the pizza/catalogues/avon company for the privilege of delivery the pizza/catalogues/avon.   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 03 June, 2011, 03:47:33 pm
Attempting to fettle a p*nct*re at nuneaton station. Boab & Boablet getting tetchy.
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Post by: numbnuts on 03 June, 2011, 03:48:48 pm
just got back from fitting a sail to my mates kayak it was hot working out in the sun  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 03 June, 2011, 03:51:13 pm
Going outside to try my new garden vac.....

Here Kitten Kitten....  ;D
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Post by: gordon taylor on 03 June, 2011, 03:58:38 pm
Starting to regret my casual "come to ours tonight for a bbq," comments.

Damn.  Tidy, shop, clean, tidy more, cook, socialise.... Damn   ::-)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JT on 03 June, 2011, 03:59:46 pm
Re-inventing a wheel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 03 June, 2011, 04:13:53 pm
Quote from: boab on 03 June, 2011, 03:47:33 pm
Attempting to fettle a p*nct*re at nuneaton station. Boab & Boablet getting tetchy.
I might not have got that self-adhesive patch on very well.  Please feel free to blame me lots. :-[ :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 03 June, 2011, 04:17:06 pm
Quote from: essexian on 03 June, 2011, 03:51:13 pm
Going outside to try my new garden vac.....

Here Kitten Kitten....  ;D

Good luck with that.  The only thing the freaks Talisker out is the vacuum cleaner.  He barely notices the Dustmen, Fireworks going off, or trains hammering past the house, but even picking up the vacuum cleaner is enough to send him sprinting for the cat flap!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 June, 2011, 04:17:35 pm
Quote from: boab on 03 June, 2011, 03:47:33 pm
Attempting to fettle a p*nct*re at nuneaton station. Boab & Boablet getting tetchy.
Oh noes! I knew I should have given you my spare tube :( Front again?

I am eating coffee cake on a train. And thinking that going riding in the hills tonight with those fast northern boys might just kill me. I shall have to weigh them down with lots of cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 June, 2011, 06:12:05 pm
Drinking coffee & eating very salty chip-sticks.Thinking that it's nice to go cycle-camping for a couple o' days but it's also nice to be back at home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 03 June, 2011, 08:02:49 pm
Quote from: Feline on 03 June, 2011, 12:39:06 am
Cleaning. My parents are planning a visitation tomorrow so I thought the house should get its annual clean today. 3 Miele vacuum bags full  :o
I have wrinkly fingers now after scrubbing the kitchen floor. Thank goodness I won't need to do that again for a while.

If all your fingers wrinkle in water, your peripheral nerves are probably intact...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 June, 2011, 08:40:16 pm
Watching Woolly writing up his blog while lying in Sweaty Betty (our tent) on a wonderful "overnatning" campsite in Southern Jutland. It's a former watermill and is almost perfect. For 20DNK/head including fantastic facilities (and no mossies, as far as we can see), we've stumbled upon a gem.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 June, 2011, 08:52:11 pm
Trying not to scratch my mozzie bites...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 03 June, 2011, 09:00:42 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 June, 2011, 08:52:11 pm
Trying not to scratch my mozzie bites...
I thought I'd escaped uneaten, but I've found just the one.  2 inches above my right ankle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 03 June, 2011, 11:27:44 pm
Fighting off The Shits.
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Post by: smurphboy on 03 June, 2011, 11:50:33 pm
Watching Saving Private Ryan whilst trying not to fall asleep (two long days of work, not a comment on the film) as I've never actually watched it due to Spielbergaphobia.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 June, 2011, 02:29:16 am
Eating cheese scones and drinking coffee at granny Annie's. There may be cake and candles soon.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 04 June, 2011, 06:11:17 am
Off to Spa cycles on the bike from Manchester.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 June, 2011, 10:35:32 am
Quote from: rower40 on 03 June, 2011, 09:00:42 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 June, 2011, 08:52:11 pm
Trying not to scratch my mozzie bites...
I thought I'd escaped uneaten, but I've found just the one.  2 inches above my right ankle.

I've got one on my head, a couple on my legs, several on my arms (including the obligatory outer elbow) and a neat little row of them along my lower back.

...so I got off quite lightly, by the standards of mozzie attacks.
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Post by: tiermat on 04 June, 2011, 10:43:29 am
Stripping.......




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the espresso machine to clean it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 04 June, 2011, 11:07:43 am
Quote from: peliroja on 03 June, 2011, 10:29:33 am
On a ferry to our eleventh island of the Vicycle Tour. And realising I really am at my happiest when cycle touring. :)

We're hoping the Wows will also get to enjoy today's beautiful weather.

POTD!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 04 June, 2011, 11:14:30 am
Plumbing... and needing a colossal amount of faff, just to extend the feed to the toilet by 5mm.

(Mrs G has fitted a new floor, hence the toilet is now 5mm higher, drat.)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 June, 2011, 12:13:32 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 04 June, 2011, 11:14:30 am
Plumbing... and needing a colossal amount of faff, just to extend the feed to the toilet by 5mm.

(Mrs G has fitted a new floor, hence the toilet is now 5mm higher, drat.)


If she's capable of fitting a new floor, you'd think she could handle a bit of plumbing as well. ;)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 June, 2011, 12:31:15 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 03 June, 2011, 09:00:42 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 June, 2011, 08:52:11 pm
Trying not to scratch my mozzie bites...
I thought I'd escaped uneaten, but I've found just the one.  2 inches above my right ankle.

I have just the one.Inside right leg just below the calf & the itch don't bother me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 June, 2011, 01:44:57 pm
Taking a break from Spring CleaningTM to work on a laptop in the south of France (sadly, remotely).  But I can't as there's a connection problem (see Ctrl+Alt+Del).  So now I'm contemplating a light snack as it's too warm for a proper meal (which would also risk food coma).  Must avoid those brown-coloured 'isotonic recovery drinks' I have in the fridge...
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 04 June, 2011, 02:06:12 pm
Clearing the compost bin area of stinging nettles.  It is infested.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 04 June, 2011, 02:11:58 pm
The budget.


Quote from: Grub on 04 June, 2011, 02:06:12 pm
Clearing the compost bin area of stinging nettles.  It is infested.


Leave a few nettles for the peacocks won't you Grub?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 June, 2011, 02:15:31 pm
Skiddling data between micro SD cards.
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Post by: Gus on 04 June, 2011, 02:36:11 pm

Enjoying a nice chilled lager  :)
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Post by: BrianI on 04 June, 2011, 02:46:07 pm
Girding my loins before heading into Mordor Tescoville.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 June, 2011, 07:42:25 pm
Drinking while waiting for a virus scan to finish on a laptop in the south of France.  Then I will be drinking while I remove lots of junk installed by my friend's guests.  While I'm installing long-overdue updates, I may have a drink.

Well, that will be this evening's activities sorted.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 04 June, 2011, 07:49:02 pm
Downloading “We no Speak Americano” from iTunes.

Heard it in the gym some time ago, had no idea what it was.  It was in a TV ad just now so I used Shazam on it.

Taste in music, moi?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 04 June, 2011, 08:50:47 pm
Sitting at my friends computer in Hartlepool looking out of her window at the North York Moors in the distance.
Also I have a large bowl in front of me which contains strawberry cheesecake and a large scoop of vanilla ice cream that I am devouring  :P  
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 04 June, 2011, 08:52:38 pm
Feeling like Claude Raines.
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Post by: PaulF on 04 June, 2011, 08:58:58 pm
Making pesto
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 June, 2011, 09:15:45 pm
uploading photographs. Sllll....ooooo....w.....llll.....yyyyyyy.

And still trying (with limited success, tbh) to not scratch my mozzie bites.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 June, 2011, 09:23:35 pm
I have 154 Cannock Chase piccies on the camera.I really should have a look to see if "the incident that didn't happen" is recorded :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 04 June, 2011, 09:30:29 pm
Watching the Red Sox throw away a 4 run lead :(
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Post by: simonp on 04 June, 2011, 09:47:31 pm
Relaxing (via meditation). Well, I was. Just finished.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 04 June, 2011, 11:04:34 pm
Riding around Texas on a Buffalo in Red Dead Redemption.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 04 June, 2011, 11:08:05 pm
Quote from: Grub on 04 June, 2011, 11:04:34 pm
Riding around Texas on a Buffalo in Red Dead Redemption.
  Bloody brilliant game   :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: smurphboy on 04 June, 2011, 11:10:45 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 04 June, 2011, 09:30:29 pm
Watching the Red Sox throw away a 4 run lead :(

They are showing Cubs @ St Louis on ESPN America here so I'm having to watch the Sox on Gameday... Isn't the same!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 05 June, 2011, 11:04:01 am
thinking - if I go out for a ride will I get wet
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Post by: Pippa on 05 June, 2011, 11:13:47 am
Waiting. My flight is delayed 2.5 hours :(
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Post by: SteveC on 05 June, 2011, 01:03:12 pm
Itching.

I've just removed an ant nest from the pot our olive tree lives in.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 05 June, 2011, 02:36:45 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 05 June, 2011, 11:04:01 am
thinking - if I go out for a ride will I get wet
yes I did and got very wet  ;D
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Post by: interzen on 05 June, 2011, 02:38:07 pm
Trying hard not to buy one of these for OrangeGina  ;D

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5082/5282420016_08f3c0e669.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wv/5282420016/)
Brooks B17 Standard Mandarin (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wv/5282420016/) by The Prudent Cyclist (http://www.flickr.com/people/wv/), on Flickr

Not quite the strident shade of orange I was hoping for, but good enough ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 05 June, 2011, 02:46:05 pm
Missing Dr RJ.  Baking.
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Post by: GruB on 05 June, 2011, 03:36:36 pm
Getting dressed for a pirate fancy dress 50th birthday party.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 June, 2011, 03:41:17 pm
Quote from: Grub on 05 June, 2011, 03:36:36 pm
Getting dressed for a pirate fancy dress 50th birthday party.
Why are pirates better than ninjas? Nobody knows, they just aaaarrrrrrr!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 June, 2011, 06:44:25 pm
Tidying the hoose before the decorators (aka dad) comes in to strip the wallpaper in the kitchen tomorrow, and measure up my spare room for laminate flooring......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 05 June, 2011, 07:02:47 pm
With the determination of an eighteenth-century explorer setting off into parts unknown and the bravery of an Antarctic wanderer staring out at the white emptiness, I'm embarking on a voyage to discover the forever-elusive (at least, until now) line between Crap I Don't Need and Useful Stuff I Should Not Throw Away. 

Lesser men have perished on this journey.  Wish me well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 June, 2011, 07:20:40 pm
My word.  That's a bit brave for a Sunday evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 05 June, 2011, 07:24:49 pm
I could do with doing some of that.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 June, 2011, 07:25:51 pm
Quote from: simonp on 05 June, 2011, 07:24:49 pm
I could do with doing some of that.  :-[

My house is living proof that although I've embarked on that particular journey on several occasions, every single one has been an epic fail  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 05 June, 2011, 08:17:33 pm
Quote from: Deano on 05 June, 2011, 07:02:47 pm
With the determination of an eighteenth-century explorer setting off into parts unknown and the bravery of an Antarctic wanderer staring out at the white emptiness, I'm embarking on a voyage to discover the forever-elusive (at least, until now) line between Crap I Don't Need and Useful Stuff I Should Not Throw Away. 

Lesser men have perished on this journey.  Wish me well.
I've not, technically, FOUND that line, but I know well where it is.  It's a long LONG way away.  So everything in the environs of my house/garage/desk-at-work is well within the set of "Useful Stuff I Should Not Throw Away".

Crap I Don't Need is readily recognisable in Colour Supplements and freebie catalogues that land on the hallway with a Kerthlump in October.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 June, 2011, 08:21:13 pm
The line is also prone to moving shortly after a major clear-out.

You can guarantee that you'll find a use for some item of rare tqt (http://www.uk-rec-sheds.org.uk/faq30.txt) a couple of weeks after disposing of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 05 June, 2011, 08:22:07 pm
This goes deep.  Deeper than I realised.  Strata of comics, minidiscs, CDs, tapes, vinyl, plots for unfinished novels and plans which never came to fruition.  Atlases from before the cold war ended.  Adaptors which don't fit anything I ever remember owning (yes I know everyone has these - but an entire box of them?).

I may be some time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 June, 2011, 08:31:15 pm
Quote from: Deano on 05 June, 2011, 08:22:07 pm
Adaptors which don't fit anything I ever remember owning (yes I know everyone has these - but an entire box of them?).

Of course.  There's a critical mass effect with such things.  Once you have a box full, the probability of being able to find a, say, 9VDC adaptor that's good for at least 800mA rises to the point where you can start to Get Things Done.

In a neat stack in the corner of this room we have, in addition to the box of random power supplies: the box of ethernet cables and connectors; the box of mains distribution, the box of kettle leads (okay, nobody needs that many, but the damn things *breed* if allowed to go free-range); the box of 75ohm coax (see kettle leads); two of several boxes of increasingly obsolete (some to the point of archaeological interest) computer parts and a box of spare bike components.  I also have an entire drawer dedicated to adaptors, plugs, gender-benders, breakout leads, donkey-knobblers and the like.  It doesn't close properly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 05 June, 2011, 08:34:50 pm
Kettle leads - my dad bought a new kettle from the supermarket, but took it back cos it was just a box with a kettle and no lead.  At the supermarket, the kind lady opened the box, opened the kettle, and revealed the lead nestling inside.  She kept an admirably straight face.

It obviously had a longer gestation period than my dad expected.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 June, 2011, 08:36:45 pm
Quote from: Deano on 05 June, 2011, 08:22:07 pm
This goes deep.  Deeper than I realised.  Strata of comics, minidiscs, CDs, tapes, vinyl, plots for unfinished novels and plans which never came to fruition.  Atlases from before the cold war ended.  Adaptors which don't fit anything I ever remember owning (yes I know everyone has these - but an entire box of them?).
Tell you what, if you've got a 6V/1A centre-positive power adapter I'll have it off you - I need one for my Akai SynthStation and the bastards don't supply one as standard.

I, on the other hand, seem to be a breeder of USB cables if the Big Box O' Crap in the corner of Mission Control is any indication.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 05 June, 2011, 09:01:59 pm
I'd say with confidence that I don;t have one, except that I've no idea what one looks like. 

I've struck stationery.  Notebooks, staples, highlighters... I never could resist a nice pen. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 05 June, 2011, 09:29:28 pm
Quote from: Deano on 05 June, 2011, 08:22:07 pm
This goes deep.  Deeper than I realised.  Strata of comics, minidiscs, CDs, tapes, vinyl, plots for unfinished novels and plans which never came to fruition.  Atlases from before the cold war ended.  Adaptors which don't fit anything I ever remember owning (yes I know everyone has these - but an entire box of them?).

I may be some time.

I once filled a small hippo bag with spare pc crap. Two weeks later, I was in PC world on a Saturday morning being asked if I would pay £25 for a vga cable.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 05 June, 2011, 09:34:46 pm
A couple of months ago, I sold a Jethro Tule to Polar Bear, as I didn't have a bike with 15mm tracknuts.

About a month after that, I bought a new set of wheels with 15mm tracknuts :)

(and today, I found the packaging for the Jethro Tule, and hoyed it...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 June, 2011, 09:45:14 pm
It's all sounding revoltingly organised....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 05 June, 2011, 09:45:49 pm
*sound of hollow laughter*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 June, 2011, 01:01:07 am
Hmmm... you've seen our gaffe, haven't you?  More to the point, you've seen my desk  ::-)

Currently I am coughing my head off and having a slight nosebleed.  I should be hanging our laundry and going to bed. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 06 June, 2011, 08:01:56 am
I've seen where your desk should be - I reckon you could take the desk away and that stuff would stand up by itself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 06 June, 2011, 08:58:31 am
Quote from: Deano on 06 June, 2011, 08:01:56 am
I've seen where your desk should be - I reckon you could take the desk away and that stuff would stand up by itself.

Oi, whose been copying my office? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cyclone on 06 June, 2011, 10:08:56 am
Trying to find the perfect rural french idyll on the net that isn't in danger of being infected with: (a) termites (b) incredibly poor taste in kitchens and bathrooms and (c) some form of employment prospects nearby.... :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 06 June, 2011, 10:38:51 am
Sitting in the lounge at T5 waiting for my flight.

Back to Toronto again!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 06 June, 2011, 01:42:49 pm
Waiting for Miss Dan the Elder to decorate gingerbread pigs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 June, 2011, 03:12:06 pm
Waiting for a "come & collect me" phone call from mrs. jogler who is having more minor day-surgery relating to spinal nerve damage.
Pensive
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 June, 2011, 03:27:15 pm
Hope all goes well.

:-* to Mrs jogler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 06 June, 2011, 03:29:15 pm
all the best from me too
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 June, 2011, 04:59:35 pm
All very best to Mrs jogler from Woolly and me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 06 June, 2011, 05:01:04 pm
fingers crossed for mrs jogler that it goes well and she recovers fast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 06 June, 2011, 05:15:53 pm
Best wishes to Marj.

 :-*

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 06 June, 2011, 05:16:05 pm
Cake is a panacea :)

GWS to Mrs J
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 06 June, 2011, 06:34:57 pm
I'm wondering why I was oopid enough so sunburn my arse again. I lay in the garden on a mission to get rid of comedy cycling suntan but as usual fell asleep out there. At least I didn't sunburn my nipples this time, that is infinitely more sub optimal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 June, 2011, 06:57:21 pm
Re-writing a licence agreement to reflect recent changes in governance concerning audits and access to one of our products.

Having read Feline's post, I'm waiting for pictures.  8)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 06 June, 2011, 07:42:14 pm
Quote from: Feline on 06 June, 2011, 06:34:57 pm
I'm wondering why I was oopid enough so sunburn my arse again. I lay in the garden on a mission to get rid of comedy cycling suntan but as usual fell asleep out there. At least I didn't sunburn my nipples this time, that is infinitely more sub optimal.

You may as well embrace the comedy cycling tan for what it is  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 06 June, 2011, 07:47:48 pm
Best wishes to marj, and jogler.

Me? I'm melting holes in a dozen 78 rpm records so that I can make some cardboard record players with Y8 tomorrow.

Cardboard Record Sleeve Doubles as Record Player (http://gizmodo.com/5496452/cardboard-record-sleeve-doubles-as-record-player)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 06 June, 2011, 08:08:03 pm
Running a baff as I'm somewhat sair after a day of defettling1[ṣup] a 6 strand 250m long barbed wire fence.   Suprising how much you can get on the flatbed of a Ford Ranger truck.....

1 Even with a team of three working on defettling the fence it was still a hard days graft!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 06 June, 2011, 08:12:43 pm
I am home folks, bambi legged and wobbly but ok.  I have had some nerve denervation treatment in the hope that it will control the pain for longer.  The word from the hospital that I have to do nothing for 48 hours, looks like beans on toast after tonight, I did have the foresight to do a homity pie and green salad for Jogler to re-heat (the homity pie and not the salad).  

Thanks for all your good wishes, love xxxxx
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 06 June, 2011, 08:14:03 pm
Good to hear it, Marj :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 June, 2011, 08:16:15 pm
Quote from: Marj on 06 June, 2011, 08:12:43 pm
I am home folks, bambi legged and wobbly but ok.  I have had some nerve denervation treatment in the hope that it will control the pain for longer.  The word from the hospital that I have to do nothing for 48 hours, looks like beans on toast after tonight, I did have the foresight to do a homity pie and green salad for Jogler to re-heat (the homity pie and not the salad).  

Thanks for all your good wishes, love xxxxx

too late,too late my dear.I hope you like your salad toasted ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 06 June, 2011, 10:10:36 pm
Mending a dinosaur.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 07 June, 2011, 06:05:04 am
Off to hospital for an operation.  I'll see you all in somewhere between 12 hours and 36 hours time, depending on how well I feel, and how good my phone's/Kindle's coverage is!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 07 June, 2011, 06:40:41 am
Working from the kitchen table while I eat my cycling fuel - aka porridge.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 June, 2011, 07:57:03 am
Waiting to go out for a fasting blood test.

Meanwhile, I'm on bread & water, minus the bread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 07 June, 2011, 12:30:18 pm
Thinking of buying crampons.

For the ironing mountain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 07 June, 2011, 12:34:02 pm
Kick-off meeting. Turgid shit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 07 June, 2011, 02:45:50 pm
Quote from: boab on 07 June, 2011, 12:30:18 pm
Thinking of buying crampons.

For the ironing mountain.

Give it all a good shake, it'll be fine! ;D

Ironing is highly overrated.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 June, 2011, 02:54:47 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 07 June, 2011, 02:45:50 pm
Quote from: boab on 07 June, 2011, 12:30:18 pm
Thinking of buying crampons.

For the ironing mountain.

Give it all a good shake, it'll be fine! ;D

Ironing is highly overrated.

Presunktly.  Gave it up about (counts on fingers) 7 years ago.  And I don't look that crumpled.  And even if I dress up smart I manage to look scruffy within 10 minutes anyway, so I might as well start off that way....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 June, 2011, 02:59:18 pm
Just replaced the router, keep getting drop outs and have so far replaced a metric shit-load of cables, poked and proded the firewall config and finally replaced the router to see if it the old one (approx 5 yrs old and has never really liked it since TalkTalk bought tiscali).

So far so good, but we shall keep an eye on things, in case it is TalkTalk talking out of their collective bums when they say that there is no problem on the line.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JT on 07 June, 2011, 03:01:07 pm
Just saved our HR department (all women FWIW) from a giant spider.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 07 June, 2011, 03:03:34 pm
Quote from: JT on 07 June, 2011, 03:01:07 pm
Just saved our HR department (all women FWIW) from a giant spider.

Oh for goodness sake - tell them to pull themselves together!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 07 June, 2011, 03:07:26 pm

Trying to get 50ml Finish Line green out of my toolbox, the top somehow loosened
and all the tools are now well lubed  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JT on 07 June, 2011, 03:09:16 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 07 June, 2011, 03:03:34 pm
Quote from: JT on 07 June, 2011, 03:01:07 pm
Just saved our HR department (all women FWIW) from a giant spider.

Oh for goodness sake - tell them to pull themselves together!

What and pass up the chance to be a hero?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 07 June, 2011, 03:40:36 pm
Quote from: JT on 07 June, 2011, 03:09:16 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 07 June, 2011, 03:03:34 pm
Quote from: JT on 07 June, 2011, 03:01:07 pm
Just saved our HR department (all women FWIW) from a giant spider.

Oh for goodness sake - tell them to pull themselves together!

What and pass up the chance to be a hero?  ;D


Yes indeedie. Never underestimate the tea and biccie potential in doing Hero Shit TM
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 07 June, 2011, 03:43:34 pm
Both Butterfly and JT's posts made me LOOOL!   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 June, 2011, 04:11:23 pm
Shoe shopping. I bloody hate shoe shopping. But we've come to the shoe shop with a rocking horse, the boy got the same as last time but the next size up and in this year's colours and I got the same but last year's colours from the kids range. Took about 3 minutes, including measuring. I can live with that!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 June, 2011, 04:29:31 pm
3 Minutes!  That's almost as good as buying them on the internet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 June, 2011, 05:48:13 pm
S'copable with, isn't it?  And the rocking horse is a bonus.

Now I am mostly coughing.  Apart from when I am sneezing.  Or, possibly, coughing and sneezing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 June, 2011, 06:07:35 pm
Looking at my 'to do ' list and despairing.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 07 June, 2011, 06:31:42 pm
Quote from: TimO on 07 June, 2011, 06:05:04 am
Off to hospital for an operation.  I'll see you all in somewhere between 12 hours and 36 hours time, depending on how well I feel, and how good my phone's/Kindle's coverage is!

So I`m alive!

I came around from the general less than an hour after I was knocked out. I've got fairly minor pain, which is good.

It took me a fair amount of time to get my stuff back, so I spent most of the afternoon staring at the ceiling!

I should be let out midday tomorrow. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 07 June, 2011, 06:42:53 pm
Quote from: TimO on 07 June, 2011, 06:31:42 pm
Quote from: TimO on 07 June, 2011, 06:05:04 am
Off to hospital for an operation.  I'll see you all in somewhere between 12 hours and 36 hours time, depending on how well I feel, and how good my phone's/Kindle's coverage is!

So I`m alive!

I came around from the general less than an hour after I was knoced out. I've got fairly minor pain, which is good.

It took me a fair amount of time to get my stuff back, so I spent most of the afternoon staring at the ceiling!

I should be let out midday tomorrow. :)

Good to hear  :thumbsup:

Hope you heal quickly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 07 June, 2011, 06:43:38 pm
Thinking. Have I  had enough of cycling in Yorkshire ?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 June, 2011, 07:37:16 pm
Quote from: TimO on 07 June, 2011, 06:31:42 pm
So I`m alive!

Well that's good to hear!

Quote
I should be let out midday tomorrow. :)

Is Talisker prepped and ready to provide post-operative care?  Hope that you heal up well and quickly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 07 June, 2011, 08:02:16 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 07 June, 2011, 07:37:16 pm
Is Talisker prepped and ready to provide post-operative care?
We are talking about a cat here!  Mainly he'll be annoyed that he has to spend several nghts in the cattery.

Actually picking him up from the cattery on Thursday will be a nuisance, and I've yet to decide exactly how I'll collect him!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 07 June, 2011, 08:04:29 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 June, 2011, 06:07:35 pm
Looking at my 'to do ' list and despairing.  :(

This is why I never make a to do list!
Hope it diminishes for you soon!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 June, 2011, 08:09:48 pm
Chilling a home-made tomato soup while Woolly roasts spuds. And proof-reading and editing the blog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 07 June, 2011, 08:20:21 pm
Quote from: TimO on 07 June, 2011, 08:02:16 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 07 June, 2011, 07:37:16 pm
Is Talisker prepped and ready to provide post-operative care?
We are talking about a cat here!  Mainly he'll be annoyed that he has to spend several nghts in the cattery.

Actually picking him up from the cattery on Thursday will be a nuisance, and I've yet to decide exactly how I'll collect him!

Hmm, cats aren't known for their nursing abilities...

Would offer to help with cat-picking-up-duties if it wasn't for lack of car...it is a bit of a pain that you have to worry about that... There are animal collection/delivery services, but they are damned expensive. It's a good thing Cam has learned to like the Tube for travelling purposes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 07 June, 2011, 08:31:55 pm
Quote from: TimO on 07 June, 2011, 08:02:16 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 07 June, 2011, 07:37:16 pm
Is Talisker prepped and ready to provide post-operative care?
We are talking about a cat here!  Mainly he'll be annoyed that he has to spend several nghts in the cattery.

Actually picking him up from the cattery on Thursday will be a nuisance, and I've yet to decide exactly how I'll collect him!

When do you have to pick him up?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 June, 2011, 12:40:26 am
Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 07 June, 2011, 08:20:21 pm
Hmm, cats aren't known for their nursing abilities...

One of my cats (who was very much Not A Lap Cat) used to, quietly and without a fuss, sit protectively next to people when they were ill.  Not especially useful nursing-wise, but I appreciated it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 June, 2011, 08:11:50 am
Quote from: Feline on 07 June, 2011, 08:04:29 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 June, 2011, 06:07:35 pm
Looking at my 'to do ' list and despairing.  :(

This is why I never make a to do list!
Hope it diminishes for you soon!

Ta.

Sadly, lists are important - at least in the office.  Otherwise things get missed and clients get upset.  As for diminishing, it should after a week of early starts and late departures.  If it's not cleared by 17:00 Friday I may be working over the weekend. *sigh*  But I will find time for a bike ride. (I may have a new Brooks to break in!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 08 June, 2011, 09:23:11 am
Yay!

It looks like they're going to let me out of hospital shortly.

I'm waiting for a "letter", and some pain killers, and then I should be out of here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 June, 2011, 09:55:13 am
Quote from: Andrij on 06 June, 2011, 06:57:21 pm
Re-writing a licence agreement to reflect recent changes in governance concerning audits and access to one of our products.

Having read Feline's post, I'm waiting for pictures.  8)
 


(http://arrogantass.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/donkey.jpg)

*little moment*

HTH
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 June, 2011, 09:56:57 am
Wondering if my pompino’s safe.  Bit creaky again.   :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 June, 2011, 10:33:42 am
Still bloody coughing.  Boo hiss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 08 June, 2011, 10:44:53 am
Suffering from the Comedy Cold.

Having spent the weekend with a nose running like the Niagra Falls, eyes streaming, a head feeling like it was filled with hot porridge, I have now progressed the the intermitant Joe Pasquale like telephone voice ::-)

"Good morning, Chad Valley Police, squeaky squeaky squick speaking, can I help squeaky?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 08 June, 2011, 12:06:54 pm
Thinking I'm now going to give up wine and coffee ready my 600 on Saturday. I didn't mean to finish off the bottle I opened last night but it's gone now, oops.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 June, 2011, 01:04:19 pm
Painfully remembering that I should have raised the seatpost on the tandem to account for my new cleat position.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 08 June, 2011, 01:13:04 pm
Flucloxacillin.
It better be ftw, as the Next Suggestion was Quite Gruesome.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 June, 2011, 01:16:07 pm
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 07 June, 2011, 06:43:38 pm
Thinking. Have I  had enough of cycling in Yorkshire ?



Nope, one can NEVER have to much cycling in Yorkshire
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 08 June, 2011, 01:19:39 pm
Quote from: simonp on 08 June, 2011, 09:56:57 am
Wondering if my pompino’s safe.  Bit creaky again.   :hand:


Well, I tried riding to work on it again, and the creaking has stopped.

 ???

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 June, 2011, 03:14:05 pm
laminating a route sheet
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 08 June, 2011, 03:19:46 pm
Looking out of the office window and thinking "Feck- waterproofs are at home" ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 08 June, 2011, 03:21:28 pm
Admiring my FANTASTIC NEW HAIRCUT!!!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 08 June, 2011, 03:24:21 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 08 June, 2011, 03:21:28 pm
Admiring my FANTASTIC NEW HAIRCUT!!!   :thumbsup:

TTIUWP you know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 June, 2011, 04:15:40 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 08 June, 2011, 03:21:28 pm
Admiring my FANTASTIC NEW HAIRCUT!!!   :thumbsup:

will I get to see it at Tan Hill? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 June, 2011, 05:56:40 pm
Going back to bed again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 08 June, 2011, 06:03:07 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 08 June, 2011, 05:56:40 pm
Going back to bed again.

Are you poorly me dear?

It has been my day off today so have been sat on my arse watching Season One of BSG.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 June, 2011, 06:54:56 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 08 June, 2011, 03:19:46 pm
Looking out of the office window and thinking "Feck- waterproofs are at home" ::-)
I dealt with a similar problem by staying at work until the need for waterproofs had passed, then legging it home before the need reappeared.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 08 June, 2011, 08:59:18 pm
Have just put in the oven:

Bread and butter pudding
Chocolate and beetroot cake
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 June, 2011, 09:01:53 pm
Picking a delightful bit of crusty sunburn off my ear.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 June, 2011, 11:35:13 am
I just collected Talisker from the cattery, which involved two buses and three trams, so took about twice as long as using the bike and trailer. :-\

Talisker doesn't mind trams, but really isn't impressed by buses, which move about as erratically as cars, but somewhat more violently.  I had to open the door on his basket a crack and pet him, otherwise his full volume complaining meow would have got me chucked off the bus. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 June, 2011, 02:02:44 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 08 June, 2011, 03:21:28 pm
Admiring my FANTASTIC NEW HAIRCUT!!!   :thumbsup:

Is it as cool as bobb's?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 June, 2011, 03:34:33 pm
I am making a list of things I have to do today. It is getting a bit long so I am now going down it again and crossing out anything that I CBA to do and isn't essential. I might just go out on the bike with the dogs instead  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 June, 2011, 03:50:29 pm
Quote from: Feline on 09 June, 2011, 03:34:33 pm
I am making a list of things I have to do today. It is getting a bit long so I am now going down it again and crossing out anything that I CBA to do and isn't essential. I might just go out on the bike with the dogs instead  :D

Quote from: Feline on 07 June, 2011, 08:04:29 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 June, 2011, 06:07:35 pm
Looking at my 'to do ' list and despairing.  :(

This is why I never make a to do list!
Hope it diminishes for you soon!

tsk, tsk,tsk!  :P
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 June, 2011, 04:02:55 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 09 June, 2011, 03:50:29 pm
Quote from: Feline on 09 June, 2011, 03:34:33 pm
I am making a list of things I have to do today. It is getting a bit long so I am now going down it again and crossing out anything that I CBA to do and isn't essential. I might just go out on the bike with the dogs instead  :D

Quote from: Feline on 07 June, 2011, 08:04:29 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 June, 2011, 06:07:35 pm
Looking at my 'to do ' list and despairing.  :(

This is why I never make a to do list!
Hope it diminishes for you soon!

tsk, tsk,tsk!  :P
 

Yes I know, but I'm riding a 600 on Saturday and I don't want to forget to do something vital, like take my bike  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 June, 2011, 05:08:09 pm
Stuck in Much Marcle after car decided it no longer needed a gear box on A40 near Ross.
Mrs. B coming to the rescue.  She's not best pleased.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 June, 2011, 09:47:53 pm
Online shopping.  Coughing.  Being grumpy.  Wishing I was in the pubbe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 09 June, 2011, 10:26:00 pm
writing a shopping list:
Butter
Chocolate
Eggs
Vanilla Essence

Been a bit busy and emptied my cupboards today
 :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 June, 2011, 10:27:31 pm
Eggs!  Thank you for reminding me!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 10 June, 2011, 12:20:43 am
Waiting to go home.

Bah. They've just announced my flight has been delayed  >:(

Oh well free boozahol might help pass the time  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 10 June, 2011, 09:10:05 am
recovering.

Some fool in the office suggested a team breakfast at a nearby greasy spoon.

I was weak.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 June, 2011, 09:44:54 am
Waiting for an interview candidate who isn't going to turn up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 10 June, 2011, 09:47:21 am
Waiting for a difficult meeting to start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 10 June, 2011, 10:05:45 am
Packing the car to drive to Norfolk. Yikes!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 10 June, 2011, 10:48:55 am
Keeping on fretting that I will forget something important for this weekend in Norfolk......I see a pile with a tent, sleeping bag, mat, shoes, helmet, shears, tape measure, saddle bag, bag of non-cycling clothes etc.

On the other side of the room is the bike, with water bottles, GPS, pump etc.

Think I am ready!

Just weighed my saddlebag for the weekend - in PBP-packed style it's 5.75kg - this includes a bit of grub, spare tyre, emergency bivi etc., so I don't think that is terrible.  Doesn't include hi-vis jacket yet though.  Other than that, I think it's as I will have it for then.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 June, 2011, 10:53:15 am
Quote from: marcusjb on 10 June, 2011, 10:48:55 am
Keeping on fretting that I will forget something important for this weekend in Norfolk......I see a pile with a tent, sleeping bag, mat, shoes, helmet, shears, tape measure, saddle bag, bag of non-cycling clothes etc.

Planning on doing a spot of gardening on your way round? You pass my house on Sunday - the hedges could do with a trim...

And... "tape measure"... not my immediate thought when packing for an audax...?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 10 June, 2011, 10:58:00 am
Just finished the faff that goes with losing one's wallet yesterday.  New plastics en route and, having been re- acquainted with said wallet, loss is £40 in cash removed at some point between loss and recovery, and the sheer inconvenience of not having easy access to my bank account.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Majorbloodnok on 10 June, 2011, 10:59:45 am
Quote from: Feline on 10 June, 2011, 10:05:45 am
Packing the car to drive to Norfolk. Yikes!

Whatcha up to in Norfolk? (sorry if I have missed pages of Norfuk related banter but I can't be arsed to search for it  ;))

Edit:  Caught up - Seething
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 10 June, 2011, 11:01:39 am
Quote from: Chris S on 10 June, 2011, 10:53:15 am
Quote from: marcusjb on 10 June, 2011, 10:48:55 am
Keeping on fretting that I will forget something important for this weekend in Norfolk......I see a pile with a tent, sleeping bag, mat, shoes, helmet, shears, tape measure, saddle bag, bag of non-cycling clothes etc.

Planning on doing a spot of gardening on your way round? You pass my house on Sunday - the hedges could do with a trim...

And... "tape measure"... not my immediate thought when packing for an audax...?

It's very important I remember these - have a little family business to attend to tonight in Heckingham (about 5m from Seething) involving the tidying up of my grand-parents grave and measuring the headstone (something to do with moles and the need to add an extra flagstone or something - I just do what I'm told!).  The church there is now only used once a year, and the grass only gets cut at the end of summer, so it gets a bit scruffy.   

We pass through Heckingham at about 595km, but didn't fancy carrying the shears and tape measure all the way around the 200km leg.  Though, for a small fee I could and do your hedges as well!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 June, 2011, 11:20:07 am
Sitting, full of fear, in the cafe opposite the dentist's in Lampeter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 10 June, 2011, 11:51:45 am
Cooking for tomorrow's 600.
Banana cakes - done!
Pumpkin, bacon and cauliflower soup - done!
3 types of pasta sauce - done!
Zucchini slice (AKA courgette slice but really lots of different vegetables slice) - yet to do (on a break for a few minutes - musn't lose enthusiasm).

Weather forecast - cold and rainy.  coldest June day on record here this week, down to 0 not far from here.  Still, it is winter I suppose.
Hope the forecasters are wrong - not fun for the riders or the supporters!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 10 June, 2011, 11:59:54 am
Yesterday I was stripping.





Today I am sanding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 June, 2011, 12:02:26 pm
Quote from: SandyV on 10 June, 2011, 11:51:45 am
Weather forecast - cold and rainy.  coldest June day on record here this week, down to 0 not far from here.  Still, it is winter I suppose.
Hope the forecasters are wrong - not fun for the riders or the supporters!


It's a bit like that round here at the moment. 13° is pretty ropey compared to what we've enjoyed over the past couple of months.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 June, 2011, 01:14:34 pm
Still coughing. Just woke up from a dream in which I acquired n+1. It was small but perfwctly formed, despite containing traces of pink. I bought it, and went for a ride on a coast road and it felt like flying. Then The Cough woke me up. Bah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 June, 2011, 01:16:47 pm
Snotting.  I'm reasonably sure it's just allergies.  I hope.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Majorbloodnok on 10 June, 2011, 01:28:03 pm
Quote from: Kim on 10 June, 2011, 01:16:47 pm
Snotting.  I'm reasonably sure it's just allergies.  I hope.

My hay fever has been awful this week.  Even those in the office that don't normally pop a 1-a-day have been suffering.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 June, 2011, 01:41:23 pm
Sitting in the garden enjoying one of the alloted days of summer in Aberdeen (we must be pretty much out of days by now) in preparation for the quaffage of ale at 4pm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 June, 2011, 02:02:26 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 10 June, 2011, 01:41:23 pm
Sitting in the garden enjoying one of the alloted days of summer in Aberdeen (we must be pretty much out of days by now) in preparation for the quaffage of ale at 4pm.
Meanwhile, down in the flatlands I've just been to pick the car up from the garage and drove back through a couple of showers of absolutely Biblical proportions. It's freakin' cold, too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JT on 10 June, 2011, 02:08:39 pm
I was just sat in the garden having my lunch but then I live in the drought zone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 June, 2011, 04:47:10 pm
Cooking tea.  Feeling sad.  The two are unrelated, mind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 10 June, 2011, 04:50:26 pm
Drinking tea, eating cake and watching the clock tick down to 5pm when I can turn my computer off and not worry about work for a week!!!!

Well that's the plan. I know however that I will log onto my works email at least twice a day while on holiday...sigh. Why do I do that?

11 mins to go...  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 10 June, 2011, 04:51:21 pm
Measuring up for the British decorating championships to be held in our house again this year.  I'm the only entrant but somehow I still manage to come last.  I'm hoping that between some serious measuring with my bad shoulder and a bad scan result on my knee that the champs will be called off.  Bound to be only a postponement, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 June, 2011, 09:47:42 pm
Sitting in a tent in a field at Seething, listening to the rain and feeling quite relieved to be helping and not riding the Seething 600 this week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 10 June, 2011, 09:50:36 pm
Thinking "I can see my tattoos through my trisuit, it's probably over-stretched"  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 10 June, 2011, 09:57:13 pm
Sorting out the "cupboard of doom" in my kitchen.

God my life is so rock and roll.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 June, 2011, 10:00:41 pm
Quote from: andygates on 10 June, 2011, 09:50:36 pm
Thinking "I can see my tattoos through my trisuit, it's probably over-stretched"  :o

I think the thread about thin / overstretched clothing is thataway (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=46297.0)  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 June, 2011, 10:02:01 pm
Sipping red while waiting for the microwave to ping....... didn't gey in till 8 and I can't be bothered to cook properly  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 June, 2011, 10:06:23 am
Looking out of the window at the rain and hail... :(

Oh well, I've got about 2 months housework to catch up on...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 11 June, 2011, 02:16:39 pm
just got back fom a 31 mile ride and now have tea and scones  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 June, 2011, 02:22:18 pm
Tidying out the bottom of the wardrobe, and then I might do under the kitchen sink.  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 11 June, 2011, 02:48:50 pm
Just out to mow the lawn.  Cheerio.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 June, 2011, 02:51:30 pm
Wowbagger and I have just stuffed ourselves with a burger and a tart and are now sitting sizzling in the sun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 11 June, 2011, 02:54:53 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 11 June, 2011, 02:51:30 pm
Wowbagger and I have just stuffed ourselves with a burger and a tart and are now sitting sizzling in the sun.

In the other thread I just read, you're waiting for your food.  That was quick eating! :o ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 11 June, 2011, 03:24:09 pm
Just mowed the lawn.
Stood in the centre and spun through 360° with the strimmer.
Job done.

As an aside..... what might be the implications of swapping nylon strimmer cable  with, say, gear cable? Hmmm?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 11 June, 2011, 03:28:49 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 11 June, 2011, 03:24:09 pm
As an aside..... what might be the implications of swapping nylon strimmer cable  with, say, gear cable? Hmmm?

If you accidentally strimmed (strummed?) your toes, I suspect a piece of metal gear cable is going to be rather a lot less forgiving to your shoes/toes/bones. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 11 June, 2011, 03:32:44 pm
Having a quick cup of tea between getting in from morris dancing at a local fete worse than death and packing the car to go out to tonight's gig.  Why is it always the gigs miles away where you need to set up early then hang around for about two hours before doing anything?

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 11 June, 2011, 03:34:16 pm
Quote from: TimO on 11 June, 2011, 03:28:49 pm
If you accidentally strimmed (strummed?) your toes, I suspect a piece of metal gear cable is going to be rather a lot less forgiving to your shoes/toes/bones. :-\

Indeed, as would be PVC mains cable insulation  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 11 June, 2011, 03:36:29 pm
Sorting, chucking, cleaning, rationalising. So a rather late, but better than never, spring clean.

The kitchen is almost done. Then onto clothes. And then shoes  :o  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adam on 11 June, 2011, 03:46:35 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 11 June, 2011, 03:36:29 pm
. And then shoes  :o  :'(


Yeah, right..........  :P

Actually I've been doing something vaguely similar.  I went through my panniers and emptied all the accumulated rubbish out of the bottom, and sorted it into stuff to keep; credit card slips and old work related stuff (which had been in there so long, they're no longer needed) for shredding; and paper for recycling.

Not surprisingly, the pile to keep was the smallest pile.

Then I worked my way through a check list of items for things to take for the charity ride next week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 11 June, 2011, 05:16:21 pm
Mowing the lawn and keeping an eye on the thunderheads moving in
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 11 June, 2011, 06:32:15 pm
Quote from: Adam on 11 June, 2011, 03:46:35 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 11 June, 2011, 03:36:29 pm
. And then shoes  :o  :'(


Yeah, right..........  :P

Oi. I'll have you know I've just thrown out 6 pairs of shoes....!  :smug:

Now how many more am I allowed to go and buy?  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 June, 2011, 06:38:44 pm
Is the right answer 12? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 11 June, 2011, 06:56:37 pm
I am back home after stuffing myself silly at the Birmingham Wing Wah buffet restaurant. Four trips too the buffet was a bit indulgent, but the lemon chicken was sooooooo good. I suspect my MSG intake was rather high, as was the salt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 June, 2011, 07:01:11 pm
About to order a replacement bulb for the projector. I've been instructed to, what with Wimbledon looming on the horizon.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 11 June, 2011, 07:02:21 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 11 June, 2011, 06:38:44 pm
Is the right answer 12? ;D

 ;D  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:

Absolutely!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 June, 2011, 07:28:09 pm
Thinking that I am becoming an anti social git in my middle age.

I hate going out with people I don't know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 11 June, 2011, 07:29:28 pm
Ha.  You are not alone  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 June, 2011, 07:30:00 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 June, 2011, 07:28:09 pm
Thinking that I am becoming an anti social git in my middle age.

I hate going out with people I don't know.
Oh, me too. And even with people I do know, I'd usually rather stay in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 June, 2011, 07:46:28 pm
Listening to the rice pot bubble through Jan Gabarek's sax.   Kebabs are under the grill... :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Majorbloodnok on 11 June, 2011, 08:02:52 pm
Just read the Gruffalo's Child to my 3 year old and now listening to him mutter in my ear about light sabers and RDT2 (?) as he falls asleep. Think I'll stay a while and watch him....

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 June, 2011, 10:36:35 pm
scoffing ice-cream & drinking Coca-Cola
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 12 June, 2011, 09:42:50 am
Compiling the latest release of Hugin! (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/)   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 12 June, 2011, 10:11:59 am
Transferring demons.

Ooops, that meant to say transferring domains. From the hosting company that has become a demon to a new one that is very complex but has a great reputation. About to do the psg, then I may well move Alfie - I haven't told him yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 12 June, 2011, 10:41:37 am
Watching (http://cyclingweekly.ipcshop.co.uk/images/CustomImages/3851_2009-Milan-San-Remo-Mark-Cavendish-DVD-Offer.jpg) that I got a while ago.  Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen are making this rainy day exciting  ;D ;D even though I know the result.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 June, 2011, 10:50:30 am
Contemplating which ride for July's 200km audax. I may do a Peak Audax Permenant cause there are complications/clashes with the Calendar events.
& enjoying the aromas emenating from the kitchen
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 12 June, 2011, 11:02:15 am
Just got back from church and now having a coffee and looking at the rain  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 12 June, 2011, 11:07:10 am
Lying in bed listening to the rain pattering down and thinking how good it will be for the garden.

Also wondering if my eldest daughter's got into grammar school - will find out tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 12 June, 2011, 11:09:18 am
Listening to the rain and catching up online before settling into more revision before my last LPC exam on Tuesday - Family law. 

Family Law just happens to be my favourite and strongest area so I'm quite happy about this   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 12 June, 2011, 11:15:15 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 June, 2011, 07:28:09 pm
Thinking that I am becoming an anti social git in my middle age.

I hate going out with people I don't know.
One of my favorite quotations is JB Priestley's "One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 June, 2011, 12:26:08 pm
licking the bowl.Actually I'm licking the spatula which is used to scoop the mix :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 June, 2011, 12:27:58 pm
Feeling knackered after yesterday's ride with Wowbagger (I think I didn't drink or eat enough when I got home) and wondering how to approach today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 June, 2011, 12:50:03 pm
Trying to get my PC back online.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 12 June, 2011, 03:21:25 pm
Plotting.

The Telegraph Hill ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Majorbloodnok on 12 June, 2011, 03:25:50 pm
1/3rd through today's batch of flapjack and it's still less than 1 hour old.  I feel a little sick



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 12 June, 2011, 04:37:45 pm
I borrowed from the library a copy of Anthea Turner's 'The Perfect Housewife' and have spent the morning and afternoon decluttering and tidying various parts of the flat. It feels really good  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 June, 2011, 04:56:25 pm
I'd like to help you continue to "feel really good" - I'll PM you my address and you can carry on decluttering over here. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 12 June, 2011, 05:01:07 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 June, 2011, 04:56:25 pm
I'd like to help you continue to "feel really good" - I'll PM you my address and you can carry on decluttering over here. ;)

 ;D I love decluttering and cleaning. Our flat feels amazing. Am trying to get the husband to declutter the bookcases but no such happening here - I doubt if I will get far with getting you to declutter Andrij  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 June, 2011, 05:02:55 pm
Looking at the rain. Better head out into it soon...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 12 June, 2011, 05:53:41 pm
Laughing my socks off at my father. Him and my Mum have bought this motor home and its got some teething problems. The current gremlin is their digital radio and its volume, once it reaches 15 level it cuts out. So my Dad put in another radio to rectify the problem, but yet again once again it hits 15 level and switches itself off. It could only happen to my father.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 June, 2011, 06:02:22 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 June, 2011, 05:02:55 pm
Looking at the rain. Better head out into it soon...
+1.
I've got to get down to the station on the Brommie this evening.  It doesn't look as though there's going to be a rain-free window.  And the taxi option is out (or at least difficult/embarrassing) as my wallet is empty, so the taxi would have to wait while I visit a cashpoint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 June, 2011, 07:39:06 pm
Nearly home. Still pissing it down and blowing a hooley. Isn't riding your bike grand?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 June, 2011, 07:40:01 pm
scoffing chocolate cake made by YouKnowWho :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 June, 2011, 08:44:36 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 12 June, 2011, 06:02:22 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 June, 2011, 05:02:55 pm
Looking at the rain. Better head out into it soon...
+1.
I've got to get down to the station on the Brommie this evening.  It doesn't look as though there's going to be a rain-free window.  And the taxi option is out (or at least difficult/embarrassing) as my wallet is empty, so the taxi would have to wait while I visit a cashpoint.
One door opens...  There was a gap between raindrops.  But when I got to the station, both cashpoints were out of order.  Something to do with the plethora of young people who had attended some music festival in the vicinity.  Why, if it's called "Download", do they feel the need to actually ATTEND?  Can't they just stay in their bedrooms with their babbage-engines?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 June, 2011, 08:54:32 pm
Dripping.  Home.  That were good fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 12 June, 2011, 08:56:27 pm
Flagging. Just about to go to bed.

zzzzzzzzzzz
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 June, 2011, 11:22:39 am
Filling in my application from for Further Education Bursaries and Education Maintenance Allowance for my NC Conservatin college course starting in September.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 13 June, 2011, 02:41:26 pm
dog and house sitting for the next 6 days
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 June, 2011, 02:50:03 pm
Trying not to fall asleep.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 June, 2011, 04:28:20 pm
Quote from: jogler on 12 June, 2011, 12:26:08 pm
licking the bowl.Actually I'm licking the spatula which is used to scoop the mix :thumbsup:

Can you not flush, like everyone else? :)

I am realising that tonight I might well see the sun set then rise before I have finished the work I need to get completed by SOP tomorrow....

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 June, 2011, 05:29:54 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 13 June, 2011, 04:28:20 pm


Can you not flush, like everyone else? :)





 ;D

coincidentally I too saw last night's sunset & this morning's sunrise without the interuption of the bed & sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 13 June, 2011, 05:38:55 pm
Contemplating a visit to Stonehenge for the Solstice. I've no job to go to and the missus can be persuaded with some convincing cover story...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 June, 2011, 06:00:29 pm
 supping coffee & forcing myself to eat chocolate cake made by TheKitchenGodess :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 13 June, 2011, 06:03:18 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 13 June, 2011, 05:38:55 pm
Contemplating a visit to Stonehenge for the Solstice. I've no job to go to and the missus can be persuaded with some convincing cover story...

The last couple of years, on or near to the solstice, a WARTY Solstice ride has gone from Glastonbury at Sunset to Stonehenge at Sunrise, followed by a cycle across Salisbury plain to an alfresco breakfast.

I'm not allowed to do it this year, but others may be contemplating it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 June, 2011, 06:59:20 pm
Adding more coal to my coal powered Babbage Engine as it crunches it's little brain working out a 66 image 360x180 degree HDR panorama.  "She needs more dilythium crystals, Cap'n"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 13 June, 2011, 08:21:08 pm
I’m on a train to Scotland with the evening sunshine beaming through the window.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 June, 2011, 08:50:59 pm
I'm altering the cumulative  distance column on an audax Permenant route sheet to reflect the fact that my start control will not be the one printed at the top of the routesheet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 13 June, 2011, 09:06:02 pm
Quote from: TimO on 13 June, 2011, 06:03:18 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 13 June, 2011, 05:38:55 pm
Contemplating a visit to Stonehenge for the Solstice. I've no job to go to and the missus can be persuaded with some convincing cover story...

The last couple of years, on or near to the solstice, a WARTY Solstice ride has gone from Glastonbury at Sunset to Stonehenge at Sunrise, followed by a cycle across Salisbury plain to an alfresco breakfast.

I'm not allowed to do it this year, but others may be contemplating it.
I've been keeping an eye out for invitations, but it appears to be taking a breather this year. Or other media are being used for planning the ride 'cos they don't want me. [rower40's paranoia kicks in]  But in fact I'll be girding something or other in preparation for the assault on Tan Hill.

I suggested to Kim that she take the Street Machine across the military road, after my (wholly dry, please note) success with the Grasshopper.  *boing boing*

TimO - Best wishes for your continued recovery.

In response to the thread title.  Sitting in an almost deserted pub, waiting for both my steak and the sun to go down.  No point in having a SON dynohub on one's Brompton, and then riding home in daylight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 June, 2011, 09:08:52 pm
Waiting.  For laundry to finish, and the dishwasher to finish, and the online shopping to arrive.  Oh, the unbearable glamour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 June, 2011, 09:14:22 pm
Washing socks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 June, 2011, 11:52:03 pm
Trying to summon the energy to go and put the rest of the shopping away.  And empty the dishwasher.  And hang up the laundry.  And empty the cat litter tray.

The glamour just never ends.....

Might go and look at photos of viaducts (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=47563.msg968540#msg968540) again instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 June, 2011, 04:44:19 am
Thinking I should go to bed. I've had about 12 hours sleep over 4 days but somehow don't feel tired. Weirdness!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 June, 2011, 06:05:25 am
Building Linux servers, and finding that the network is not enabled (at the switch end) so my sleepless night doing this has been wasted.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 June, 2011, 08:57:59 am
Now composing an email detailing just why YUM is not a suitable substitute for RHNS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: smurphboy on 14 June, 2011, 09:27:22 am
Waiting for someone to go and recycle my customer's server so I can do some work...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 14 June, 2011, 09:45:09 am
Being somewhat concerned about my sisters cat, who had been missing since Friday. Sister was woken by the cat crawling back up the stairs  been struck by a car.  May have to get a rear leg amputated.   :'( (The cat that is, not my sister!)

Taking my mind off that, currently having a cup of red bush tea, and looking at the photies I took of my cousins new 4 week old baby at the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 14 June, 2011, 12:17:35 pm
on my lunch hour at work  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 June, 2011, 12:19:28 pm
 :)

I'm currently fighting off a very early attack of the mid-afternoon dozies.  And cooking lunch for the SmallestCub.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 14 June, 2011, 12:25:39 pm
Wondering how on Earth I managed to get paint there!!!!!  :o

Memo to self, its supposed to go on the walls not on your self!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 June, 2011, 12:26:11 pm
Partaking of a most excellent ham sammich ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 June, 2011, 12:34:00 pm
Feeling strangely fine....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 14 June, 2011, 12:39:59 pm
Quote from: essexian on 14 June, 2011, 12:25:39 pm
Memo to self, its supposed to go on the walls not on your self!
Rule number one when painting, no matter how careful, wrapped up and protected you are: You WILL get paint on oneself.
Rule number two when painting, no matter how careful, wrapped up and protected the location you are painting is: You WILL get paint where you had not planned to paint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 June, 2011, 12:42:22 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 14 June, 2011, 12:34:00 pm
Feeling strangely fine....
Likewise. Might be something to do with the several 'test runs' I've done with my new AeroPress.

Wonder if it can last until the end of the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 14 June, 2011, 01:14:28 pm
Writing an exception report to explain a system failure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 June, 2011, 01:15:22 pm
Watching TOTP from 1976 while I eat my lunch, then back to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 June, 2011, 06:42:45 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 14 June, 2011, 12:39:59 pm
Quote from: essexian on 14 June, 2011, 12:25:39 pm
Memo to self, its supposed to go on the walls not on your self!
Rule number one when painting, no matter how careful, wrapped up and protected you are: You WILL get paint on oneself.
Rule number two when painting, no matter how careful, wrapped up and protected the location you are painting is: You WILL get paint where you had not planned to paint.


Yes, and if rule one and two don't cut in just when you think you are high and dry you will knock the paint tin over all over the floor  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 June, 2011, 07:25:08 pm
And if none of that happens, something with a tail will come along and use it as a brush...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 14 June, 2011, 08:48:42 pm
Gawping (briefly, as the train trundled over) at the fancy-dress students congregating in the "Bristol Pear".  And yes, I did get the spelling right.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 June, 2011, 08:51:43 pm
Is this worth trundling up the hill for?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 June, 2011, 08:53:28 pm
Wishing I'd worn gloves to deseed and chop three chillies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 14 June, 2011, 08:57:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 14 June, 2011, 08:51:43 pm
Is this worth trundling up the hill for?
It looked a bit full.  Depends if you like that kind of thing.

Am now in Mordor Central, on a train that's so early, it has to wait for 8 whole minutes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 June, 2011, 09:02:13 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 14 June, 2011, 08:57:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 14 June, 2011, 08:51:43 pm
Is this worth trundling up the hill for?
It looked a bit full.  Depends if you like that kind of thing.

Not really, no.  The Bristol Pear is one of those watch-where-you're-treading-when-you-walk-past noisy student pubs.  It's no Country Girl.

Commiserations on your prolonged stop at Mordor Central.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 14 June, 2011, 09:03:48 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 14 June, 2011, 08:53:28 pm
Wishing I'd worn gloves to deseed and chop three chillies.

ADVICE!! Don't rub your eyes, scratch you arse or pick your nose until the chilli is off!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 June, 2011, 09:29:04 pm
Quote from: Pedaldog on 14 June, 2011, 09:03:48 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 14 June, 2011, 08:53:28 pm
Wishing I'd worn gloves to deseed and chop three chillies.

ADVICE!! Don't rub your eyes, scratch you arse or pick your nose until the chilli is off!

There are other things you also might want to avoid touching  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 June, 2011, 09:32:16 pm
I know, and I'll need to empty my mooncup later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 June, 2011, 10:11:55 pm
I like the Bristol Pear.  I've never been there, but I understand that it acts as a sort of student sink. :-)
Likewise the Three Horseshoes, which is a football people sink.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 June, 2011, 10:21:07 pm
Quote from: Basil on 14 June, 2011, 10:11:55 pm
I like the Bristol Pear.  I've never been there, but I understand that it acts as a sort of student sink. :-)

The canonical student sink must be The Soak (not to be confused with Selly Soak, which is the name of the laundrette[1] on the other side of the road).



[1] Excellent name, but the proprietor is excessively creepy, to the point where I carved my own washing machine hinge from wood[2] rather than take another wash load there.

[2] Not quite knitting a tube from beetles, but the same school of thought.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 June, 2011, 12:07:06 am
Currently going through my home insurance policy to see if I have accidental damage cover for contents so I can possibly avoid having to pay full whack to replace my iPad with one that doesn't have a severely cracked screen1 :-\

1 - Amazingly, it still works, but the aforementioned cracks give rise to some, erm, interesting usability issues.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 15 June, 2011, 12:18:58 am
Quote from: interzen on 15 June, 2011, 12:07:06 am
Currently going through my home insurance policy to see if I have accidental damage cover for contents so I can possibly avoid having to pay full whack to replace my iPad with one that doesn't have a severely cracked screen1 :-\

1 - Amazingly, it still works, but the aforementioned cracks give rise to some, erm, interesting usability issues.

You took it very well, I thought, both the incident with the cat and the high shelf ;) and the discovery of the damage. Here's to insurance pay-outs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 June, 2011, 12:37:06 am
Quote from: Deano on 15 June, 2011, 12:18:58 am
Quote from: interzen on 15 June, 2011, 12:07:06 am
Currently going through my home insurance policy to see if I have accidental damage cover for contents so I can possibly avoid having to pay full whack to replace my iPad with one that doesn't have a severely cracked screen1 :-\

1 - Amazingly, it still works, but the aforementioned cracks give rise to some, erm, interesting usability issues.

You took it very well, I thought, both the incident with the cat and the high shelf ;) and the discovery of the damage. Here's to insurance pay-outs.
Or perhaps not.
Having read through the fine print, it seems that "laptops, mobile phones or computer equipment designed to be portable" are excluded. However, since this information is on my renewal notice, which doesn't take effect until July 1st, I may be able to swing it.

I feel an interesting phone call coming on tomorrow. What I do know is that whilst the screen can be replaced it's not exactly economically viable (ie. I'm better off buying a new fondleslab). 'Forced' upgrades - gotta love 'em ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 15 June, 2011, 07:33:27 am
Off to interview some candidates for an internship.Academic research does feel like a pyramid scheme at times.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 June, 2011, 08:43:36 am
Cursing bloody insurance companies - turns out that my iPad is not covered by my contents policy, accidental damage or no, because of the above mentioned 'office equipment' exclusion. Bastards.

On the plus side, I may be able to get the screen replaced under warranty as its less than a year old - there's an official Apple reseller in town, so I feel a *very* early lunch coming on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 15 June, 2011, 09:04:20 am
I am sitting on my own in a farmhouse in the middle of (very) rural France contemplating the half a day's work I have to do, and the two and a half days I have, to do it...

The sun is out, the birds and singing, and all is well with the world.

Now in which of the 8 or so outbuildings did Pascal says the mower was kept?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 15 June, 2011, 10:49:27 am
Quote from: Wombat on 15 June, 2011, 09:04:20 am
I am sitting on my own in a farmhouse in the middle of (very) rural France contemplating the half a day's work I have to do, and the two and a half days I have, to do it...

The sun is out, the birds and singing, and all is well with the world.

Now in which of the 8 or so outbuildings did Pascal says the mower was kept?

Finding the mower is half a day's work?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 15 June, 2011, 11:21:24 am
Having my morning scone. The cafe was all out of knives though, so I'm spreading the butter with a plastic fork.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 15 June, 2011, 12:10:02 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 15 June, 2011, 10:49:27 am
Quote from: Wombat on 15 June, 2011, 09:04:20 am
I am sitting on my own in a farmhouse in the middle of (very) rural France contemplating the half a day's work I have to do, and the two and a half days I have, to do it...

The sun is out, the birds and singing, and all is well with the world.

Now in which of the 8 or so outbuildings did Pascal says the mower was kept?

Finding the mower is half a day's work?

Well it is rather a large country estate!  Actually I remembered which barn it was in, and having mowed rather a large area, am now enjoying local bread and cheese.  More mowing when I can shift off my lazy arse...  Now, next riddle, can I find any face protection, as I'm reluctant to use the killer strimmer with the brushcutting blade, without protection.  Got boots and gloves, but I don't want a stone in the face, or liquidised stinging nettle juice, either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 June, 2011, 02:44:19 pm
Watching the Tour of Switzerland on Eurosport 2 with the sound off & listening to Springsteen playing loudly on the c.d. player .
This working-from-home lark is really challenging ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 15 June, 2011, 03:30:39 pm
Going home with a headache...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 June, 2011, 03:31:55 pm
Sorry Gordy,I'll turn it down a bit ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 June, 2011, 03:40:30 pm
Waiting for the paracetamol to kick in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 June, 2011, 03:43:02 pm
Don't tell me you too can hear it. :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 June, 2011, 04:01:42 pm
Shopping around for a) buildings and contents insurance and b) hard-shell cases for the iPad 2.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 June, 2011, 04:02:44 pm
Aching and feeling sick :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Majorbloodnok on 15 June, 2011, 04:17:21 pm
Wishing my left knacker would permit a bike ride, but alas, its having none of it.  And the rain is coming later this week, I haven't been on the bike since last Thursday.  Damn you squashed plumbs!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 15 June, 2011, 05:05:40 pm
Having a beer while waiting for Peli's new cake to bake. Come on oven BAKE faster!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eclipserider on 15 June, 2011, 05:09:36 pm
sitting in the office avoiding work! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 June, 2011, 05:27:28 pm
Waiting for bobb's plane to arrive. I told him I wouldn't be able to meet him at the airport and to come straight to mine, and I'm here as a surprise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 June, 2011, 05:35:43 pm
Having a long dull day at work improved by reading that ^^^^^^^ and feeling a bit cheered up

Hope you have a grand time K+b :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 15 June, 2011, 05:39:07 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 15 June, 2011, 05:27:28 pm
Waiting for bobb's plane to arrive. I told him I wouldn't be able to meet him at the airport and to come straight to mine, and I'm here as a surprise.
Now you just hope that he doesn't check yacf as he is waiting in the queue at passport control.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 June, 2011, 06:19:36 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 15 June, 2011, 05:39:07 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 15 June, 2011, 05:27:28 pm
Waiting for bobb's plane to arrive. I told him I wouldn't be able to meet him at the airport and to come straight to mine, and I'm here as a surprise.
Now you just hope that he doesn't check yacf as he is waiting in the queue at passport control.

He'll not pass thru' it.He's not using the M25 :demon: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 June, 2011, 06:21:40 pm
Have a great time, Kirstnbobb. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 June, 2011, 08:56:48 pm
We've just had delicious dinner and now we're watching telly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 June, 2011, 08:59:57 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 15 June, 2011, 06:21:40 pm
Have a great time, Kirstnbobb. :)

has a certain ring to it,dontyathink 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 16 June, 2011, 08:21:42 am
Investigating the possibilities of using uPNP to achieve NAT traversal, so I can put a server on a residential network, without explicitly needing to configure the port forwarding.

It's a problem that only occurred to me this morning, but obviously things like peer-to-peer protocols have had to find ways around this.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a simple standard way of doing this sort of thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 June, 2011, 12:49:08 pm
Eating school dinners chocolate sponge with chocolate custard  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 June, 2011, 01:05:08 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 16 June, 2011, 12:49:08 pm
Eating school dinners chocolate sponge with chocolate custard  :smug:

That most definately deserves a

GIT
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 June, 2011, 01:06:28 pm
I didn't get the skin off the custard.


But I did get an extra big portion :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 16 June, 2011, 09:04:02 pm
Posting nonsense into threads here to keep debate alive and well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 June, 2011, 09:16:47 pm
Laughing socks off at Danny Bhoy gig. Why is he not more famous?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 June, 2011, 09:21:17 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 16 June, 2011, 01:06:28 pm
I didn't get the skin off the custard.

 :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 June, 2011, 09:24:49 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 June, 2011, 09:16:47 pm
Laughing socks off at Danny Bhoy gig. Why is he not more famous?!

Is it the Australian one where is talking about the Geckos?

Saw that one on the way to Aus, LMAO!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 June, 2011, 09:41:23 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 June, 2011, 09:16:47 pm
Laughing socks off at Danny Bhoy gig. Why is he not more famous?!
I've mentioned him a few times in my annual Fringe review thread. He's at his best when he talks about Scotland, I think. But he is generally very funny.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 June, 2011, 09:54:01 pm
Shopping around for a set of Ortliebs for the new bike (2rear, 2front, 1bar).  I think the hazel ones will do.  Roll on, pay day!
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 16 June, 2011, 09:57:00 pm
Just had what I thought would be a really difficult conversation with my daughter about relationships (in this case mine not hers). She did more than surprise me, she shocked me (and that isn't easy to do!)  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 16 June, 2011, 11:12:52 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 16 June, 2011, 09:24:49 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 June, 2011, 09:16:47 pm
Laughing socks off at Danny Bhoy gig. Why is he not more famous?!

Is it the Australian one where is talking about the Geckos?

Saw that one on the way to Aus, LMAO!!!

Nope in the flesh
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 June, 2011, 11:51:51 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 16 June, 2011, 09:41:23 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 16 June, 2011, 09:16:47 pm
Laughing socks off at Danny Bhoy gig. Why is he not more famous?!
I've mentioned him a few times in my annual Fringe review thread. He's at his best when he talks about Scotland, I think. But he is generally very funny.
He was side-achingly funny this evening. And he even featured a Viking called Henrik in his routine.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 17 June, 2011, 08:22:10 am
Funny to see that one of my friends was also there via FB.   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 17 June, 2011, 04:26:44 pm
Getting ready to go to work .... sigh. Roll on Monday morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 17 June, 2011, 04:33:53 pm
Quote from: Feline on 17 June, 2011, 04:26:44 pm
Getting ready to go to work .... sigh. Roll on Monday morning.

Yeah, it's the weekend for normal people isn't it.

Me too Feline.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 June, 2011, 05:25:08 pm
Contemplating panniers as well as socks and sandals for the FNRtWetstable tonight...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 17 June, 2011, 06:39:50 pm
Peli pictures Kim wearing a set of panniers on her feet. :)

We're gently steaming on a train to Marks Tey to meet the Baggers for a weekend's camping. I had to do a secret handshake with the ticket lady to get her to give me the cheap tickets. Tut.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 June, 2011, 06:51:05 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 June, 2011, 05:25:08 pm
Contemplating panniers as well as socks and sandals for the FNRtWetstable tonight...

Considering the prediction of non-stop wetness, I've opted for a pannier rather than my rack bag.  The latter is pretty water resistant, but I don't want to take the risk.  As for sandals, there's no need to ask!
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 June, 2011, 06:55:30 pm
A recce run for the Sun 2 sun ride. Skipwith Common is a goer, I reckon :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 June, 2011, 07:47:45 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 17 June, 2011, 06:51:05 pm
Considering the prediction of non-stop wetness, I've opted for a pannier rather than my rack bag.  The latter is pretty water resistant, but I don't want to take the risk.

That and I'm going on to see friends in Canterbury afterwards.  A dry change of clothing would be prudent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 17 June, 2011, 07:53:58 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 June, 2011, 07:47:45 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 17 June, 2011, 06:51:05 pm
Considering the prediction of non-stop wetness, I've opted for a pannier rather than my rack bag.  The latter is pretty water resistant, but I don't want to take the risk.

That and I'm going on to see friends in Canterbury afterwards.  A dry change of clothing would be prudent.

I'm thinking of a change of dry clothes just because it would be nice to have them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 June, 2011, 08:22:21 pm
Stuck on a train from Lichfield. 
Going nowhere due to "Attempted suicide in the Gravely Hill area"
I'm somewhat surprised to be given that detail.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 June, 2011, 08:44:31 pm
Trying to think of slogans for my placard for tomorrow's Slutwalk.

I quite like

ARR
EEE
ESS
PEE
EEE
SEE
TEE
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 17 June, 2011, 08:47:42 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 17 June, 2011, 08:44:31 pm
Trying to think of slogans for my placard for tomorrow's Slutwalk.

I quite like

ARR
EEE
ESS
PEE
EEE
SEE
TEE

Maybe you should have another go at letter 6...?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 June, 2011, 08:58:12 pm
I don't think so.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 17 June, 2011, 11:40:36 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 17 June, 2011, 08:58:12 pm
I don't think so.

I'm probably missing something here (not for the first time!) but it's not how Cee-Lo spells it!

Good luck with the march.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 18 June, 2011, 09:28:17 am
Enjoying a post-ride pint at 'the coast'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 June, 2011, 10:06:23 am
Quote from: Peter on 17 June, 2011, 11:40:36 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 17 June, 2011, 08:58:12 pm
I don't think so.

I'm probably missing something here (not for the first time!) but it's not how Cee-Lo spells it!

Good luck with the march.
But it's how Aretha sings it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 18 June, 2011, 11:05:32 am
Lusting after a Circe Helios Auster tandem - no helped by my wife's enthusiasm and the offer of a test ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: longers on 18 June, 2011, 12:11:34 pm
I'm currently wondering why a random cat has come into the house last night and peed on my recipe book that was left open on the worktop. It's the one with all my hand written recipes in so it's now in the shed and I'll have to write them all out again.

Git.

Having two cats in the house and a big dog didn't put it off. I don't think it was any of them what done it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 18 June, 2011, 01:10:15 pm
Getting ready to taxi Family G to Swindon for the JLS and Ollie Murs concert at Lidiard Park.
I have my dinner made, drink, snacks, laptop and two new DVDs to watch. 
Inception and SALT.  Hopefully I will get to see both before they return to the car.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 18 June, 2011, 02:24:00 pm
Watching the jet black clouds whizz by, interspersed with bright blue skies and sunshine  also listening to the wind howl. Off to see a bike event in half an hour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 18 June, 2011, 02:43:00 pm
Moving into my new garden office....okay, the wife calls it a shed but it has taken me 2 months of hard work to get it to this stage and a shed it is no longer! I mean, how many sheds do you know have internet/ phone access, a TV point, light and power and desk, chair and sofa bed???

Just been told I am decorating the bedrooms next....might get some time to do some cycling at Xmas  >:(

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 June, 2011, 03:58:05 pm
Helping a friend to update her CV.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 18 June, 2011, 06:32:17 pm
Holed up in the tent, listening to the wind and odd rainshower. Woolly just had a dip in the river, with the aid of a rope swing. He's now "this" cold. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 18 June, 2011, 06:46:50 pm
Don't you mean "this" ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 June, 2011, 10:01:54 pm
I am mostly faffing.

I should be emptying a dishwasher, hanging out some laundry, sorting out kit for tomorrow, finding the 24" spare tubes and baking.

But mostly, I am faffing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 18 June, 2011, 10:15:44 pm
I am work .... sigh.
At least I have teh cute kittehs here to play with!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Majorbloodnok on 18 June, 2011, 11:56:07 pm
Sitting on a platform in the cold waiting to meet a friend who's car I have had on my drive all week while they holiday in Ireland, she missed the earlier train from Stansted...I'm planning an early ride in the morning too.  Damn

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 June, 2011, 12:31:33 am
I appear to be baking.  And listening to music.  Quite loud, but with headphones.  The cat does not approve when I sing along.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 19 June, 2011, 02:15:36 am
Bracing myself for the last 40k while letting the smoke disperse from my knees.
Once more unto the breach then...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 June, 2011, 02:40:15 am
Oh bugger!  I didn't realise you were riding, thought you'd decided against - I'd have come to meet you with cake!  Hope the last bit goes well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 19 June, 2011, 06:02:47 am
Quote from: longers on 18 June, 2011, 12:11:34 pm
I'm currently wondering why a random cat has come into the house last night and peed on my recipe book that was left open on the worktop. It's the one with all my hand written recipes in so it's now in the shed and I'll have to write them all out again.

Git.

Having two cats in the house and a big dog didn't put it off. I don't think it was any of them what done it.

<Blues Brothers>

"It's a message from god."

</BB>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 June, 2011, 08:46:59 am
Sitting  on platform 9c at Leeds station, waiting for the doors to open on the 09:00 service to Carlisle. I have a Cub, 2 bikes and a pannier full of scones, flapjack and CAIK :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 19 June, 2011, 08:56:29 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 19 June, 2011, 08:46:59 am
Sitting  on platform 9c at Leeds station, waiting for the doors to open on the 09:00 service to Carlisle. I have a Cub, 2 bikes and a pannier full of scones, flapjack and CAIK :)

And what time to you arrive in Cambridge?   :P



 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 19 June, 2011, 09:10:50 am
Going out to photograph my son on his first big tree-surgeon contract. He's had to employ another two qualified groundworkers and also pay £1000 (up front) to get the road partially closed with traffic lights for one day. The whole job will take twelve days and he's nervous about getting all the big roadside trees down today.

Fingers crossed.

 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 June, 2011, 11:33:16 am
Discussing with bobb whether to climb Arthur's Seat, go to Porty or go to Cramond.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 June, 2011, 11:38:55 am
Quote from: jogler on 12 June, 2011, 12:26:08 pm
licking the bowl.Actually I'm licking the spatula which is used to scoop the mix :thumbsup:

action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 June, 2011, 01:44:36 pm
Stumbling around like a zombie who's escaped from Leicester.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 19 June, 2011, 02:00:00 pm
Beginning to sort things out for the July 1st departure for Windyland.

Outward rail tickets bought:  Check

Spare tent pegs bought:   Check

Tubus 72100 fork brackets bought*   Check

Campsites, hostels and wild camping hotspots researched:   Check

D&E Coaches bike bus info downloaded:   Check

Return tickets bought:  XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Looks like I'm not coming home  ;D

* Will allow me to mount lowriders onto Mlle PB's bike so she can carry the larder!   :D   

For those of a concerned disposition, Mlle PB's forks are designed to carry panniers.  However, a couple of broken bolts in the bosses have meant that I could not fit her lowriders.   As the knackered bosses are through the fork blades rather than affixed to them, the Tubus brackets can simply sit over the existing bosses  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 19 June, 2011, 03:24:55 pm
Travelling south on the West Coast Main Line; still in Scotland.  Back to Cambridge by 9pm and hope to be back home by 9.15, if all goes to plan.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 19 June, 2011, 03:34:19 pm
Just about to head off into a thunderstorm for a final leg-stretcher before next weekend's 24hr. Still, The Red Arrers are about for the Margate Air Show, so should be plenty to see.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 June, 2011, 03:07:05 pm
After an fun day yesterday in Manc, watching the Manchester Day Parade, drinking beer, eating Tapas, drinking more beer, then going to see Kings Of Leon play (which may have included me getting into a fight with someone who told Mrs T to F*** OFF) and the group of four of us getting split up and being unable to contact one another due to a total lack of mobile signal, I am hanging like a B***** today.....

Oh and I have some highly technical work type stuff to sort out, and my brain seems unable to function.... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 20 June, 2011, 03:10:32 pm
Thinking about camping in Bunnyland.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 20 June, 2011, 03:48:25 pm
Dripping all over the house again. It was lovely sunshine, so I rode to a docs appointment, went into a shop, came out to ride home and it's a deluge from nowhere! Rode home hardly being able to see where I was going, and lo and behold I have been in the house 5 minutes and it has stopped! It's a conspiracy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 20 June, 2011, 08:26:02 pm
Preparing myself for doing the ironing before it goes from BP proportions to BR.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 20 June, 2011, 11:41:29 pm
Going to bed after 14+ hours of Summer Solstice briefings.  Back on again at 5 am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 June, 2011, 12:51:58 pm
Eating lunch with the SmallestCub, sat on a bench on platform 3 at York station. We aren't actually catching a train. He just wanted to eat his lunch here :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 June, 2011, 12:53:12 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 June, 2011, 12:51:58 pm
Eating lunch with the SmallestCub, sat on a bench on platform 3 at York station. We aren't actually catching a train. He just wanted to eat his lunch here :)
I could probably see you from my office, that is if there weren't several large trees in the way :)

(I've just eaten my lunch, but will be having my usual hour of 'reading time' fairly shortly)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 21 June, 2011, 01:14:41 pm
Getting edumacated by someone with a doctorate in computer geeky stuffs :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 21 June, 2011, 01:26:47 pm
Mrs J is in York today. Arriving by train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 June, 2011, 01:29:49 pm
Had I known, I'd have brought a cake and a sign :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 21 June, 2011, 04:04:32 pm
I am procrastinating. I have delayed going out for a ride with the dogs for 3 hours now because the sky is a nasty shade of grey. So far it hasn't rained. As soon as I go out it will though! Meh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 June, 2011, 04:07:31 pm
Seething

Just seething, that is all
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 21 June, 2011, 04:12:03 pm
Pondering a ride tomorrow. Where shall I go?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 June, 2011, 04:59:11 pm
Wishing there was another ash cloud.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 21 June, 2011, 09:41:56 pm
Holding the keyboard vertically to let the white wine drain from it. Je suis a clumsy arse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 June, 2011, 10:28:36 pm
Working on my CV.
About as much fun as a swift kick in the head.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 22 June, 2011, 12:10:28 pm
Looking out of the window at precipitation of truly biblical proportions.

The forecast currently says it'll have stopped well before I need to go home.  Fingers are crossed...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 22 June, 2011, 01:30:30 pm
Watching Venus Williams getting her arse handed to her.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 June, 2011, 01:31:22 pm
Considering building an Ark.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 22 June, 2011, 01:51:35 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 22 June, 2011, 01:31:22 pm
Considering building an Ark.

"A" or "B"?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 June, 2011, 02:46:35 pm
Having been dumped yesterday by my ISP I am taking Kim's advice and getting aaisp broadband which it seems I can now get on my line  :thumbsup:

I am trying to decide how many units to buy. Hrmmmmmmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 June, 2011, 02:49:26 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 22 June, 2011, 01:31:22 pm
Considering building an Ark.

Have you got any bird's eye maple?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 June, 2011, 03:34:35 pm
Building up a parts kit for the Flight Model and Flight Spare of a power supply we're supplying for a mission.

It's not that expensive, so probably only £20000 or £30000 worth of components. :o

I've just counted out 72 1µF capacitors, gods this is tedious. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 June, 2011, 04:15:34 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 22 June, 2011, 01:30:30 pm
Watching Venus Williams getting her arse handed to her.

That was a match and a half. Shame about the result.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 22 June, 2011, 04:54:31 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 22 June, 2011, 04:15:34 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 22 June, 2011, 01:30:30 pm
Watching Venus Williams getting her arse handed to her.

That was a match and a half. Shame about the result.

It was. The Japanese lady was awesome.

Am just about to get the banana bread out of the oven followed by more Wimbledon  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 06:41:17 pm
Quote from: Feline on 22 June, 2011, 02:46:35 pm
Having been dumped yesterday by my ISP I am taking Kim's advice and getting aaisp broadband which it seems I can now get on my line  :thumbsup:

I am trying to decide how many units to buy. Hrmmmmmmm.

Don't worry too much about it - changing your number of pre-pay units for the next billing cycle is but a quick IRC/email/SMS/phone/carrier pigeon conversation with support.  You don't have to say shibboleet (http://www.xkcd.com/806/) either (though they are trained to recognise it).   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 June, 2011, 08:10:51 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 06:41:17 pm
Quote from: Feline on 22 June, 2011, 02:46:35 pm
Having been dumped yesterday by my ISP I am taking Kim's advice and getting aaisp broadband which it seems I can now get on my line  :thumbsup:

I am trying to decide how many units to buy. Hrmmmmmmm.

Don't worry too much about it - changing your number of pre-pay units for the next billing cycle is but a quick IRC/email/SMS/phone/carrier pigeon conversation with support.  You don't have to say shibboleet (http://www.xkcd.com/806/) either (though they are trained to recognise it).   :)

I went with 7 units for now, and will add more when I see what I'm using  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 June, 2011, 08:13:29 pm
I just mowed my lawn. I have recently suffered from a run of bad luck lawn wise where every single time I've been home and free to do it it has rained or just been raining. It was long enough that I had to turn the mower over about 4 times to clear the moist grass from the shoot into the container. I often wonder about getting a sit on petrol job. My lawn isn't hugely big but mowing it gets really boring when it takes over 2 hours!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 08:16:04 pm
Get a sheep  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 22 June, 2011, 08:21:47 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 08:16:04 pm
Get a sheep  :thumbsup:

They can be surprisingly high-maintenance.

If I was picking animals on the basis of living-lawnmower potential, I'd probably rate geese over sheep.  Although they can make rather a mess...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 June, 2011, 08:23:25 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 22 June, 2011, 08:21:47 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 08:16:04 pm
Get a sheep  :thumbsup:
...If I was picking animals on the basis of living-lawnmower potential, I'd probably rate geese over sheep.  Although they can make rather a mess...

Geese also tend to eat things like slug, snails, and other beasties which will eat your plants, so they have that in their favour over sheep as well. :thumbsup:


I just realised that for one of the components I'm digging out from our component store, I previously used the wrong (newer) devices for the QM (Qualification Model), so I'm going to have to use a mixture of new and slightly older components for the Flight and Flight Spare Models. :-[

At least I can use this as a justification for improving our component recording system (which is bloody god awful at the moment). :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 22 June, 2011, 08:23:35 pm
Looking at places to stay for my upcoming holibob  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 08:31:02 pm
Quote from: TimO on 22 June, 2011, 08:23:25 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 22 June, 2011, 08:21:47 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 08:16:04 pm
Get a sheep  :thumbsup:
...If I was picking animals on the basis of living-lawnmower potential, I'd probably rate geese over sheep.  Although they can make rather a mess...

Geese also tend to eat things like slug, snails, and other beasties which will eat your plants, so they have that in their favour over sheep as well. :thumbsup:

Geese would probably end up holding you under siege in your own home, vicious bastards that they can be.

Eating your plants, though, that's one in favour of goats...  (Also handy if you have SCSI hardware to jibble)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 June, 2011, 08:42:20 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 08:16:04 pm
Get a sheep  :thumbsup:

Well funny u should say this, I used to have a herd of 13 free range guinea pigs who mowed to lawn constantly to within an inch of it's life and fertilised as they went! Unfortunately my current dog population would eat them if I got more!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Photos/Nat_7bday_138.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 08:46:38 pm
Awesome.

Are those bricks unusually small, or are they *ENORMOUS*?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 June, 2011, 08:51:00 pm
It's known as audax-grass Feline.Geese also have the advantage of being oven ready with expediency.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 June, 2011, 08:54:11 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 08:46:38 pm
Awesome.

Are those bricks unusually small, or are they *ENORMOUS*?

My pigs were all enormous, well over a kg each! I miss them. I don't miss buying the 8 cucumbers a week, bale of hay a fortnight, and massive quantities of spring greens they used to eat tho!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 June, 2011, 08:57:29 pm
Quote from: Feline on 22 June, 2011, 08:54:11 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 June, 2011, 08:46:38 pm
Awesome.

Are those bricks unusually small, or are they *ENORMOUS*?

My pigs were all enormous, well over a kg each! I miss them. I don't miss buying the 8 cucumbers a week, bale of hay a fortnight, and massive quantities of spring greens they used to eat tho!

As well as your lawn? Jeez... no wonder they were that size  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 June, 2011, 08:59:59 pm
I shud prolly add that featured on that pic was Obi Wan Kenobi, Anakin, Leia, Padme, Luke and Chewie  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 June, 2011, 02:12:18 am
Eating experimental savoury flapjack.

Not bad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 June, 2011, 07:05:30 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 June, 2011, 02:12:18 am
Eating experimental savoury flapjack.

Not bad.

Cheese & Marmite?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 June, 2011, 07:27:50 am
I've just done a couple of hours of estimating*.The absence of phone calls & other distractions means that I can do,in that short time,the amount of work that would take most of the normal office hours of a day.

Now I'm going to do toast & coffee so that mrs. jogler & I will have breakfast in bed.
 :)

*ETA  whilst wearing my dressing gown ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 23 June, 2011, 08:35:18 am
Trying to decide whether to make my way over to Piercebridge to meet the CTC for a ride to Richmond.  It's stair rodding it out there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 June, 2011, 08:37:53 am
I'm trying to decide whether to take a bottle of wine to a farmer. It will be a nice ride out, it is a bit breezy, but lovely and sunny for a change! (sorry lg!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 23 June, 2011, 08:39:47 am
Quote from: Feline on 22 June, 2011, 08:59:59 pm
I shud prolly add that featured on that pic was Obi Wan Kenobi, Anakin, Leia, Padme, Luke and Chewie  :D

 :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 June, 2011, 09:31:22 am
Quote from: Jaded on 23 June, 2011, 08:37:53 am
I'm trying to decide whether to take a bottle of wine to a farmer. It will be a nice ride out, it is a bit breezy, but lovely and sunny for a change! (sorry lg!)

Of course, I did some emails and now it is raining!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 June, 2011, 11:56:01 am
Watching some impressively large hailstones bouncing off passers-by  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 June, 2011, 02:15:42 pm
I am sacrificing my  waistline for the greater good & benefit of those yacfers attending York Rally & passing by our caravan the mobile yacf cake stop.

I'm taste testing my your  our the cakes.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: smurphboy on 23 June, 2011, 02:33:43 pm
Failing to get comfortable at a new workstation. The chair just isn't right and the desk appears to have been sized at 3/4 scale...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 June, 2011, 04:40:09 pm
Almost finished sorting & packing the car & caravan.Very little to do in the morning FTW.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 23 June, 2011, 05:19:38 pm
I think I must be running a chinese laundry. I asked my daughter to clean her room yesterday, and have therefore ended up with 8 loads of laundry to do today  :o
And it took me a staggering half hour to find the hole in my lawn to stick the rotary washing line into. I was starting to feel I was going bonkers searching fruitlessly for it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 June, 2011, 05:54:40 pm
I finally went to see my farmer and met him in a gateway, to give him his bottle of wine.

We're booked for next year.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 June, 2011, 12:13:11 am
Listening to strange rustlings outside the tent interspersed with the toytown siren chorus. And wishing my mate didn't send me that Blair Witch comment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 June, 2011, 12:18:01 am
On the bus back from Take That. Bus driver is a radge. I have a fluffy lilac cowboy hat that lights up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 June, 2011, 01:34:05 am
Packing (with minor acts of fettling) for the York Rally, on the basis that when packing for something, any amount of staying up late is more sensible than waiting until morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 June, 2011, 08:42:22 am
Quote from: Kirst on 24 June, 2011, 12:18:01 am
On the bus back from Take That. Bus driver is a radge. I have a fluffy lilac cowboy hat that lights up.

I understand TT are putting on a real spectacle this time.  Hope you had loooooadsa fun.

What's a radge?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 June, 2011, 08:43:39 am
Quote from: clarion on 24 June, 2011, 08:42:22 am
Quote from: Kirst on 24 June, 2011, 12:18:01 am
On the bus back from Take That. Bus driver is a radge. I have a fluffy lilac cowboy hat that lights up.

I understand TT are putting on a real spectacle this time.  Hope you had loooooadsa fun.

What's a radge?

Urban Dictionary: Radge (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Radge)

Come on, Clarion! Keep up!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 June, 2011, 08:44:13 am
ICBA2G ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 June, 2011, 08:45:39 am
Quote from: clarion on 24 June, 2011, 08:44:13 am
ICBA2G ;D

From the examples given, it's clearly a Caledonionists' term of abuse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 June, 2011, 04:47:12 pm
I'm filing invoices. :(

My first job (temporary) after graduation was filing invoices for a double glazing company called Abbseal.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 June, 2011, 07:52:01 pm
On my way home after watching the Red Arrows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 June, 2011, 07:56:04 pm
Cleaning up after re-potting a load of plants.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 June, 2011, 08:55:31 pm
Packing and washing up at the same time.  It's not really working.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2011, 09:09:11 pm
Being a cat bed.
I need a pee, cat!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 June, 2011, 09:29:43 pm
Gobsmacked at the hypocrisy of some of the people who purport to be on our side.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 June, 2011, 09:36:32 pm
I've finished the Part Kit I've been hunting down for the last couple of days.  Yay! :thumbsup:

Now I'm writing some pseudo code for the time determination algorithms that will be used on the next big project we're working on.
Title: Doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 June, 2011, 09:02:05 am
Heading out to Manningtree for a nice day in the company of Auntie Helen
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 25 June, 2011, 09:16:16 am
About to put the top box on the car and go fetch Ms Manotea the Elder and all her belongings home from college.

Master Manotea will be next weekend.
Title: Good news
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 June, 2011, 09:36:54 am
I managed to catch the earlier connection from Shenfield - the one the stupid timetable changes were designed to make me miss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 25 June, 2011, 12:53:50 pm
I'm at home with the lurgy  >:(

I should be on an audax.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 June, 2011, 12:58:03 pm
Complaining to the BBC that since the digital switchover when they added BBC Alba, they take other radio stations off when Alba is on. The radio reception here is awful at this time of year more often than not and I usually end up listening via the telly. Now I can only do that when Alba isn't on. I'm supportive of Gaelic broadcasting but not at the loss of R2!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 25 June, 2011, 02:47:51 pm
Sweating my 'taters off.
I managed to summon enough mojo to go out back and do a bit of work in the garden, nothing strenuous just some re-potting and the like1, and half an hour later I have the look (and probably smell) of someone who's just ridden 600km across the Sahara (or similar hot spot of your choice)

Warm weather is nice. Warm weather with added humidity that could stall a jumbo jet, not so much.

1 - and maybe find my missing mojo. Sadly, that drew a blank.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 25 June, 2011, 05:49:41 pm
Just come from a birthday picnic in Greenwich Park and am now watching Djokovic and Baghdatis slogging it out whilst drinking Sainsbury's knock off Pimms  :thumbsup:
Title: What am I doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 June, 2011, 06:06:29 pm
Sitting on a train which is just pulling out at the town of my birth and feeling quite pleased that my dad didn't.
Title: Re: What am I doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 25 June, 2011, 06:08:25 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 25 June, 2011, 06:06:29 pm
Sitting on a train which is just pulling out at the town of my birth and feeling quite pleased that my dad didn't.
I'm now trying to soak up the coffee that I've just coughed into my keyboard ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FatBloke on 25 June, 2011, 06:18:15 pm
But surely it's the town of your conception where you didn'y want him pulling out, not the town of your birth?     :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 June, 2011, 06:49:43 pm
So far as I am aware, they were the same place. Late Sept 1953 would have given him no particular reason to be anywhere else.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 25 June, 2011, 08:51:25 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 25 June, 2011, 06:49:43 pm
So far as I am aware, they were the same place. Late Sept 1953 would have given him no particular reason to be anywhere else.

Oh what a night: late September back in 653, what a very special time for thee

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 25 June, 2011, 08:53:17 pm
Hand-to-hand combat with Welsh Assembly Govt forms CD(W) and FM4, trying to register some of our fields.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 June, 2011, 09:04:38 pm
Baking.  And being happy because I just got some FABULOUS news about seeing a friend for a ride, soon :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Snakehips on 25 June, 2011, 09:10:54 pm
Celebrating not winning an ebay auction for a Voodoo Limba that was way out west somewhere.
Bid in a moment of madness (does anybody else get them ?}
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 25 June, 2011, 10:32:36 pm
Reading train timetables.

Getting very excited in a scared way.

Staying up far too late when I have to get up at 0545.  But it's still fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 June, 2011, 01:52:49 am
Sitting at Pluto, drinking proper coffee, eating lots and waiting for marshmallows to toast. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 June, 2011, 04:36:49 am
Having a cup of coffee before heading out for a bike ride.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 June, 2011, 06:10:28 am
Drinking tea and envying those York rally nightriders. 

Better get dressed and go I s'pose  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 26 June, 2011, 06:21:34 am
Drinking tea, wishin' I'd gone to bed earlier.

Lookin' forward to today's ride  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 26 June, 2011, 06:23:55 am
Contemplating a long list of chores to do today.

None of them look fun.

 :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 26 June, 2011, 07:47:54 am
Looking through the window at the rain

My 'day off' starts at 9am when my on-call ends and it looks like I'm in for a wet ride :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 June, 2011, 07:54:07 am
Sulking.  :(
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 26 June, 2011, 08:23:07 am
Quote from: Andrij on 26 June, 2011, 07:54:07 am
Sulking.  :(
 

Still? Because I got first dibs on Mr R's ukulele?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 26 June, 2011, 04:02:23 pm
Wilting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 26 June, 2011, 04:08:16 pm
Cooling down
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 26 June, 2011, 04:36:37 pm
Lying in the sun listening to chilled tunes and pretending to get some work done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: smurphboy on 26 June, 2011, 04:44:55 pm
Wondering why I've run out of cider... How can this have been allowed to happen?

Bike fettling can wait.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 June, 2011, 04:49:18 pm
 working my way through the huge box of Roses on the desk. They are all melty, making them even more revolting than usual. And I've had about 20 :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 26 June, 2011, 04:53:44 pm
I've just woken up ;D  been for an hours kip after a late drive back from Manchester last night, a very early start to get Mrs Aidan to work and a nice ride in the sun.  Fell better now :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 June, 2011, 08:07:28 pm
Pondering what tomorrows "Amazon Awareness Day" at the Dole Office Job Centre Plus TM will be like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 27 June, 2011, 02:30:22 am
Waiting patiently for the Nicotine Fairy to come and spread her substances, in a magical stylee.
Perhaps a Lare ;D, greasy :thumbsup: Doner Kebab with oil from the bottom of the grilling doohickey blathered on and, PLEEZE!, no luke warm half of a tomato in there. Tomato isn't done until it squeals and blackens.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 June, 2011, 10:49:37 am
Missing bobb. About a week is when it really kicks in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 June, 2011, 11:00:59 am
Deciding whether I should curse or celebrate - my n+1 is out of stock until September ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 27 June, 2011, 04:19:20 pm
sitting in a hospital management meeting (bored)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 June, 2011, 05:16:08 pm
Avoiding any sitting position which puts pressure on a sore coxis.
I have a pain in the arse (That'll be someone's starter for ten.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 27 June, 2011, 05:18:13 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 26 June, 2011, 08:07:28 pm
Pondering what tomorrows "Amazon Awareness Day" at the Dole Office Job Centre Plus TM will be like.

Well, it was interesting. More about the process for getting employed at Amazon and hints and tips about how to get through the assessment, plus helpful advice like not to smoke a giant spliff before the Drugz n Alcohol dip test, and it's a good idea to refresh ones mental arithmetic skillz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 June, 2011, 06:27:52 pm
Getting ready to go with #1 son to see Roger Waters.
Yippee!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 June, 2011, 06:28:38 pm
Eating chalk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 27 June, 2011, 06:29:15 pm
Wondering why there's such a variety of moaning and complaining on YACF, again.   ::-)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 June, 2011, 06:30:52 pm
Are you complaining about that or accepting it cheerfully? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 27 June, 2011, 06:37:49 pm
Rehydrating
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 27 June, 2011, 06:41:14 pm
listening to I'm sorry, I havent a clue :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 27 June, 2011, 06:43:39 pm
Quote from: mike on 27 June, 2011, 06:41:14 pm
listening to I'm sorry, I havent a clue :D

Heh! This happens in Londres too!  :D


Quote from: PaulF on 27 June, 2011, 06:37:49 pm
Rehydrating
Oh, and rehydrating.
Inappropriately.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 June, 2011, 10:19:11 pm
Quote from: jogler on 27 June, 2011, 05:16:08 pm
Avoiding any sitting position which puts pressure on a sore coxis.
I have a pain in the arse (That'll be someone's starter for ten.)

Fish.  Barrel.

*puts gun down* ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 June, 2011, 12:00:04 am
Finishing off the packing. 

eep
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 June, 2011, 07:35:14 am
I'm hoping that LindaG has a nice little tour.  And wishing a little that I had sorted out something so that I could head up to meet her today....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 June, 2011, 09:19:30 am
Aching.
I rode in on Morticia the 1x1 (née The Bat Bike) and spent the last mile or so riding with a badly slipping seatpost. Although I've sorted the seatpost out my back is aching magnificently as a result. Nice ride in though - tried a slightly different route involving more cycle track and I think I'll be sticking with it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 June, 2011, 09:37:02 am
Building servers, watching the window cleaner clean windows (duh!) and getting all excited 'cos our Foo Fighters tickets have just arrived :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: longers on 28 June, 2011, 09:43:29 am
I'm currently wondering why Metcheck is showing what the weather was or will be on 29th May?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 June, 2011, 02:30:06 pm
Making a long-overdue appointment with an optiquack, after catastrophic glasses failure at the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 June, 2011, 02:31:25 pm
I went and saw one of them yesterday, and should have new glasses in a week or so.

I am now 300 quid poorer.

I could have bought a bloody bike for that!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 June, 2011, 02:33:59 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 June, 2011, 02:31:25 pm
I could have bought a bloody bike for that!

That's more or less what happened on the last few occasions the lens fell out.

Threadlock won't cure the creeping inadequacy of my 4-year-old prescription, though, so needs must...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 June, 2011, 02:39:48 pm
In fairness, it was 7 years since I bought these, which was also when I had my last eye test.  And the pair before had done for 5 years.  And the pair before were bought when I was still at uni. 

I'm still slightly concerned that I went and chose glasses without a responsible adult to look after me.  Glasses shopping is worse than shoe shopping - and you live with the consequences of the decision for a lot longer.  I did, whilst thinking of you, go and look at the ti frames but I didn't like any of them, btw.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 June, 2011, 02:43:25 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 June, 2011, 02:39:48 pm
I'm still slightly concerned that I went and chose glasses without a responsible adult to look after me.  Glasses shopping is worse than shoe shopping - and you live with the consequences of the decision for a lot longer.

Agreed.  And sensibly unfashionable glasses frames are too thin to have a Kim-observable colour, which means even more blind guesswork than usual.


Quote
I did, whilst thinking of you, go and look at the ti frames but I didn't like any of them, btw.

Ach!  Don't give me ideas like that!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 28 June, 2011, 02:43:39 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 June, 2011, 02:33:59 pm

Threadlock won't cure the creeping inadequacy of my 4-year-old prescription, though, so needs must...

Have you tried the Threadlock on the ciliary muscle?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 June, 2011, 02:46:11 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 28 June, 2011, 02:43:39 pm
Have you tried the Threadlock on the ciliary muscle?  ;)

No, but I can confirm that meths doesn't work.  (Don't ask how I know this.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 28 June, 2011, 02:48:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 June, 2011, 02:46:11 pm
No, but I can confirm that meths doesn't work.  (Don't ask how I know this.)

AAAKKK!  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 28 June, 2011, 02:49:08 pm
Is that how much a pair of glasses is nowadays, £300 ?

Do they still do NHS ones. I loved them NHS glasses that Morrisey donned as did my dad

I have recentley started going bog eyed and £300 ain't in my budget. If they have NHS ones that make ya look like Dame Edna Everage then so be it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 28 June, 2011, 02:59:29 pm
It depends what you need, My last pair was £45 including the sight test.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 28 June, 2011, 03:08:20 pm
Thanks. I'll feel better going for an eye test knowing it ain't going to cost me £300 :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 June, 2011, 03:26:18 pm
I too am in need of new specs having had an eye test 6 months ago & not chosen new frames for my updated prescription ::-)
must get a roundtoit
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 June, 2011, 09:06:37 pm
Waiting for England to (inevitably) win this ODI so that I can go an get the early night I've promised myself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 June, 2011, 09:57:23 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 June, 2011, 02:43:25 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 June, 2011, 02:39:48 pm
I'm still slightly concerned that I went and chose glasses without a responsible adult to look after me.  Glasses shopping is worse than shoe shopping - and you live with the consequences of the decision for a lot longer.

Agreed.  And sensibly unfashionable glasses frames are too thin to have a Kim-observable colour, which means even more blind guesswork than usual.

Take friend with camera for hopelessly short sighted new frame choosing WIN :-)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 28 June, 2011, 09:58:15 pm
About to go and make scones (school snack ...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 June, 2011, 10:12:19 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 28 June, 2011, 09:57:23 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 June, 2011, 02:43:25 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 June, 2011, 02:39:48 pm
I'm still slightly concerned that I went and chose glasses without a responsible adult to look after me.  Glasses shopping is worse than shoe shopping - and you live with the consequences of the decision for a lot longer.

Agreed.  And sensibly unfashionable glasses frames are too thin to have a Kim-observable colour, which means even more blind guesswork than usual.

Take friend with camera for hopelessly short sighted new frame choosing WIN :-)

Last time I just took infinitely more stylish friend with strong opinions and did what I was told. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 June, 2011, 10:15:13 pm
I don't think Pingu would describe himself as stylish or strongly opinionated (not in a style sense anyway), but he did to take photies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 June, 2011, 10:21:12 pm
I can't remember how much my glasses were, my first, and only pair, are over ten years old, and I only wear them in the car, so I'm not too worried about how I look with them on. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 28 June, 2011, 10:41:06 pm
On a train in Sweden.  How come they get free wifi, lots of power sockets and cool magnetic blinds, and we dont?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 June, 2011, 11:53:23 pm
I just purchased car insurance, online, and tweaked up the voluntary excess, to the extent that my Third party, Fire and Theft cover is effectively Third Party cover.  It's not that the excess is that high, but that a 15 year old 1.2L Corsa isn't worth that much (although it's actually in very good condition).

I think I need to get rid of this car, the insurance, VED, MOT and residents parking permit annually cost more than the car's worth.  The insurance along is probably more than that!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 29 June, 2011, 12:01:44 am
On a conference call <yawn>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 29 June, 2011, 12:04:24 am
Working out who is Richard BURTON version of Blake's Jerusalem.  Ive no idea and I'm to far gone to think about it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 29 June, 2011, 12:50:20 am
Quote from: mike on 28 June, 2011, 10:41:06 pm
On a train in Sweden.  How come they get free wifi, lots of power sockets and cool magnetic blinds, and we dont?

'Cos it's Sweden...................


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 29 June, 2011, 12:55:29 am
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 28 June, 2011, 02:49:08 pm
Is that how much a pair of glasses is nowadays, £300 ?



For me, the frame cost is (largely) irrelevant. The major cost is the lenses.
I'm extremely short sighted, with significant astigmatism in one eye. Unless I want very thick lenses, I have to pay (lots) more for high refractive index glass.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 June, 2011, 09:00:05 am
Right now, I'm feeling monumentally sick thanks to this stuff: Gliclazide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliclazide)

Diabetes sucks ...  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 29 June, 2011, 09:22:02 am
Quote from: interzen on 29 June, 2011, 09:00:05 am
Right now, I'm feeling monumentally sick thanks to this stuff: Gliclazide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliclazide)

Diabetes sucks ...  :(

Ooh sympathies mate, I've been down that route.  New prescription, or new diagnosis?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 June, 2011, 09:25:52 am
Quote from: Wendy on 29 June, 2011, 09:22:02 am
Quote from: interzen on 29 June, 2011, 09:00:05 am
Right now, I'm feeling monumentally sick thanks to this stuff: Gliclazide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliclazide)

Diabetes sucks ...  :(

Ooh sympathies mate, I've been down that route.  New prescription, or new diagnosis?
New prescription - I've been on metformin for a while now, but the side effects from that were a walk in the park compared to gliclazide. I feel like I've been turned inside out and all I want to do is sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 June, 2011, 09:30:00 am
Quote from: Chocolatebike on 29 June, 2011, 12:55:29 am
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 28 June, 2011, 02:49:08 pm
Is that how much a pair of glasses is nowadays, £300 ?



For me, the frame cost is (largely) irrelevant. The major cost is the lenses.
I'm extremely short sighted, with significant astigmatism in one eye. Unless I want very thick lenses, I have to pay (lots) more for high refractive index glass.



In fairness the 300 quid was for two pairs, one tinted, and including the eye test.  And I think I have only bought 3 sets of glasses without the benefit of the NHS vouchers that you get when you're at school, which adds up to not a massive total expenditure when you consider how long it is since I left school.  And glasses is something that I sort of don't mind spending money on to get decent ones.  I wear them all the time - first thing I do when I wake up is put on my specs and last thing I do at night is take them off.

I actually chose a pair from the kids range for my main pair!  Not the Mr Tickle ones, although I was very tempted....  When did kids glasses get so good?  All through primary school I had a choice of the pink pair, the blue pair or the brown pair.

Right now I am doing an EYFS data return andsummoning the courage to go unpack 4 laptops to set up and install whilst rebuilding a wrokstation.  And drinking coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 June, 2011, 09:33:32 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 June, 2011, 09:30:00 am
I actually chose a pair from the kids range for my main pair!  Not the Mr Tickle ones, although I was very tempted....  When did kids glasses get so good?  All through primary school I had a choice of the pink pair, the blue pair or the brown pair.
Kid's stuff is always better.
For example, I'm in the market for a new helmet and I thought I'd found one in a suitably strident shade of orange. Guess what? It was a kid's helmet  - damn my overly-large adult bonce >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 June, 2011, 10:46:14 am
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 28 June, 2011, 02:49:08 pm
Is that how much a pair of glasses is nowadays, £300 ?



& + some  ::-)
frames
bifocals
photocromatic lenses
ant-scratch coating
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 June, 2011, 06:03:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 June, 2011, 02:30:06 pm
Making a long-overdue appointment with an optiquack, after catastrophic glasses failure at the weekend.

Saw optiquack, peered at VERY SMALL WRITING, got prescription sorted and then chose a set of frames without adult supervision.  Needless to say this was based largely on the optical and fly-deflecting properties of the lens shape (this eliminated all the titanium bling), with not looking too dorky as a secondary consideration, so I'll probably end up looking like a German or something.  At least the colour decision was easy...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 29 June, 2011, 06:49:06 pm
I just remembered that Talisker isn't competent to look after himself these days, and that I needed to book him into a cattery whilst I'm away visiting the parents, this weekend.

Luckily my local, friendly, cat hotel has space.  Phew. :)

I wonder what else I forgotten about. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 29 June, 2011, 06:52:45 pm
Eating my dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 29 June, 2011, 11:31:54 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 June, 2011, 09:30:00 am
And glasses is something that I sort of don't mind spending money on to get decent ones.  I wear them all the time - first thing I do when I wake up is put on my specs and last thing I do at night is take them off.



I agree with all of that except for the last bit; I think I scratch my arse.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 30 June, 2011, 07:56:35 am
This could be your lucky day


    YouTube
        - ‪Graham Rose Holsten Pils Advert‬&rlm;
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd0twblMeLk&feature=related)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 June, 2011, 09:31:29 am
Trying to get some work done.  Every space in this school is filled - even the head has been booted out of her office and has nicked the half desk I usually borrow in reception - so I'm parked in a corner of the 'hall' (it's a slightly larger than average classroom) and getting treated to an exclusive preview of this summer's show - the Scarecrow has a pretty good voice, and the Lion ain't bad either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 30 June, 2011, 09:35:47 am
Maybe you could join in ?

Shouldn't you be on the picket ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 June, 2011, 09:53:42 am
Support staff, not a teacher.  And neither of my schools today are shut.

ETA - ding dong, the witch is dead!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 June, 2011, 10:07:10 am
Building servers, AGAIN....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 30 June, 2011, 10:07:58 am
lol  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 June, 2011, 10:55:33 am
Now drinking a GORGEOUS coffee from my new machine, that the lovely Mrs T has bought me for my birthday.

It's one of these: Dualit Espressivo - Coffee Machine - Espresso Coffee Maker from Dualit (http://www.dualit.com/products/espressivo-coffee-machine)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 30 June, 2011, 12:02:46 pm
Pondering whether to make a nice shiny new flemish twist bowstring, or start building a new set of Port Orford Cedar Arrows, or install ubuntu on my Samsung NC10.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 June, 2011, 12:07:55 pm
alternating between left arse cheek & r.a.c.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 June, 2011, 12:11:36 pm
Trying not to think about jogler's arse :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 30 June, 2011, 12:16:31 pm
Trying not to think about clarion thinking about jogler's arse ;)

...and admiring the view at Talkin Tarn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 June, 2011, 12:22:41 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 30 June, 2011, 10:55:33 am
Now drinking a GORGEOUS coffee from my new machine, that the lovely Mrs T has bought me for my birthday.

It's one of these: Dualit Espressivo - Coffee Machine - Espresso Coffee Maker from Dualit (http://www.dualit.com/products/espressivo-coffee-machine)
Never mind the machine, what coffee are you using?

(waiting for my delivery from hasbean to turn up - some interesting stuff likes therein)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 June, 2011, 12:27:36 pm
Quote from: Deano on 30 June, 2011, 12:16:31 pm
Trying not to think about clarion thinking about jogler's arse ;)

...and admiring the view at Talkin Tarn.

having gewgled "Talkin Tarn" the thought springs to mind......
you lucky git :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 June, 2011, 12:52:16 pm
Indeed. I may have to hate you again....

Git.

(give LG a big fat hug from me!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 30 June, 2011, 01:00:19 pm
Being very jealous of my wife who is currently riding behind the Tornado  on the West Somerset Railway whilst I am at my desk working!!!!!

Something is VERY wrong in this relationship!!!!  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 June, 2011, 01:05:48 pm
Quote from: interzen on 30 June, 2011, 12:22:41 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 30 June, 2011, 10:55:33 am
Now drinking a GORGEOUS coffee from my new machine, that the lovely Mrs T has bought me for my birthday.

It's one of these: Dualit Espressivo - Coffee Machine - Espresso Coffee Maker from Dualit (http://www.dualit.com/products/espressivo-coffee-machine)
Never mind the machine, what coffee are you using?

(waiting for my delivery from hasbean to turn up - some interesting stuff likes therein)

There is only one true coffee...

Monsoon Malabar from Coffeebeanshop.co.uk
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 30 June, 2011, 01:07:03 pm
About to fill in some library membership forms *boring*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 June, 2011, 01:23:34 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 30 June, 2011, 12:52:16 pm
Indeed. I may have to hate you again....

Git.

(give LG a big fat hug from me!)


Do I assume from this that Deano is in the company of LG.If so ....
you lucky lucky git ;D

Do NOT give LG a hug from me,I'll do it myself when next we meet :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 30 June, 2011, 01:37:32 pm
Going out on my track bike for the first time really this year as its sunny. Also got my new carbon white bling DMT road shoes on that I've had over two years though never worn incase I scratch em.

:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 June, 2011, 01:45:54 pm
Producing improbable amounts of snot, for no obvious reason.

*sniffle*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 June, 2011, 01:51:53 pm
I've just put the battery( on marj's electrikery bike) on charge in readiness for post-Tan Hill playing over the weekend in the area of Reeth
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 July, 2011, 07:06:19 pm
Baking flapjack.

There's a surprise :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 July, 2011, 07:55:27 am
Eating cheesecake from Beigel Bake (Brick Lane) while taking advantage of free wifi on a fast, clean & comfy train. It almost feels as if I'm on the Continent. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 July, 2011, 12:21:24 pm
Not learning from my past mistakes   :facepalm:

Got home from work at 10am with exactly 6 hours before I need to leave to go back in again. Do I get straight into bed and sleep? No, I tit about and realise I now have less than 4 hours to sleep and shower. It's going to be a looooong night shift tonight. Roll on 9am Monday morning.
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Post by: Pippa on 02 July, 2011, 12:38:05 pm
Making lemon sorbet. To be served with vodka russian sauce tonight.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 02 July, 2011, 12:46:41 pm
Back at work after my rest days. Settling down for a string of seven on the trot...mmmm tea.
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Post by: Basil on 02 July, 2011, 01:02:53 pm
Flipping between here and the live Tour coverage on the 'puter.
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Post by: numbnuts on 02 July, 2011, 01:17:20 pm
I'm sat down as I'm tired, this morning I have -
updated my blog
made 36 mince pies
cleaned the bathroom
put all my kayaking equipment away
and washed my kayak
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Post by: simonp on 02 July, 2011, 02:15:11 pm
Sitting outside a caff on the pier at Harwich with TG.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 July, 2011, 04:43:30 pm
Waiting for a train. Tired, happy.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 02 July, 2011, 05:04:37 pm
Aboard ferry to Barra. Calm seas, cool, broken clouds. Contemplating the menu...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 July, 2011, 05:08:44 pm
Enjoying a pint of Punk IPA, despite the efforts of the very talkative Australian woman at the end of the table. She has 2 male companions but logue is mainly of the mono variety. I wish she'd stop thumping the table tho.
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Post by: BrianI on 02 July, 2011, 06:02:27 pm
Browsing yacf on my newly installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my Samsung NC10.

Micro$oft free zone now at home!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Basil on 02 July, 2011, 06:55:36 pm
I'm at a muslim wedding and a couple of us have slipped out for a pint before the food starts.
The screen in the pub is showing galic (sp) football.  I'm certainly getting some culture today.
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Post by: Basil on 02 July, 2011, 07:01:45 pm
Ah.  I'm wrong.  They've got sticks.  It's hurly
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Post by: Adam on 02 July, 2011, 08:26:18 pm
Feeling a bit lost, as apart from tomorrow's ride, I haven't got any other epic rides of my own planned for this year.  :-\

I'll have to get my thinking head on.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 02 July, 2011, 08:44:11 pm
Sat on the sofa avoiding going out to a friends birthday party or a hawian pub crawl

Fun fun fun
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Post by: gerwinium on 02 July, 2011, 08:47:43 pm
Reading up on the rigging of Dutch windmills on WIkipedia. My Saturday nights are very exciting.
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Post by: peliroja on 02 July, 2011, 11:09:17 pm
Sniggering at Nicholas Witchell on the news just now:

Quote
"A firm grip and a smooth action, and two shovel-loads were deposited..."
:o

He was referring to Prince William planting a tree.  ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 03 July, 2011, 01:28:38 am
Being hot in bed.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 July, 2011, 07:13:13 am
Not getting ready to go audaxing with the Cub  :(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 July, 2011, 08:49:15 am
Wondering where pingu is. No updates for hours.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 03 July, 2011, 10:25:12 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 July, 2011, 07:13:13 am
Not getting ready to go audaxing with the Cub  :(

Oh dear.

I'm trying to decide between a 10 and 12l hydration pack. At this rate colour will be the deciding factor.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 July, 2011, 10:36:07 am
Quote from: perpetual dan on 03 July, 2011, 10:25:12 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 July, 2011, 07:13:13 am
Not getting ready to go audaxing with the Cub  :(

Oh dear.
It was a sensible choice - I just couldn't face anything last night, let alone getting us and our stuff ready for a 50 and organising transport for him there and everything.  And it's roasting out there - I have morethan enough sunburn for one weekend!

Quote
I'm trying to decide between a 10 and 12l hydration pack. At this rate colour will be the deciding factor.
Having totally run out of water on Fiday/Saturday's ride, I'd say get the big'un!
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Post by: interzen on 03 July, 2011, 10:48:36 am
Looking for my hat.
If SWMBO follows through on her promise that she'll be coming to York (probably one of the signs of the Apocalypse, but there you go) then I'm going to need some kind of fabric-based protection for my head - showering this morning was an, erm, interesting experience  :o

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Post by: perpetual dan on 03 July, 2011, 11:33:35 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 July, 2011, 10:36:07 am
Quote from: perpetual dan on 03 July, 2011, 10:25:12 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 July, 2011, 07:13:13 am
Not getting ready to go audaxing with the Cub  :(

Oh dear.
It was a sensible choice - I just couldn't face anything last night, let alone getting us and our stuff ready for a 50 and organising transport for him there and everything.  And it's roasting out there - I have morethan enough sunburn for one weekend!

Having had a lie in I think I may wait until a bit later to get a ride in. Then I can blame sticky tarmac for my slowness.


Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 July, 2011, 10:36:07 am
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I'm trying to decide between a 10 and 12l hydration pack. At this rate colour will be the deciding factor.
Having totally run out of water on Fiday/Saturday's ride, I'd say get the big'un!

I'll have 3l of water space either way - I'm not sure I'm capable of drinking 10l between stops without doing a passable impression of a 3 year old needing a wee.  :o 
The question is really whether I'm likely to fill the extra 2l with unnecessary and heavy junk or something vital that would otherwise involve yet another bag.
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Post by: Kim on 03 July, 2011, 07:11:14 pm
Feeling surprisingly knackered.  I only did 30km at pootle pace!
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Post by: rower40 on 03 July, 2011, 08:59:49 pm
Watching a hot-air balloon getting closer and closer to the train I'm on in Market Harborough.

I think we'll get away though.
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Post by: Kim on 03 July, 2011, 09:01:47 pm
Suffering the digestive aftermath of advanced sleep deprivation and large doses of diclofenac and codeine.  Probably explains the previous post...
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Post by: Basil on 04 July, 2011, 09:55:52 am
Eating an absolutely enormous breakfast outside the Granary in Hay.
I'll never eat it all.   Where's Teethgrinder when you need him?
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 04 July, 2011, 01:36:00 pm
Recovering form my first bit of work since March! I taught a Catalan woman English, although why she's spending £3K on a week at a private school when the money would be better spent on learning the basics is beyond me. Still, keeps me off the streets...
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 July, 2011, 07:23:58 pm
Sitting on a wall in front of school, in a nice shady spot, eating ice lollies with the SmallestCub while we wait for big'un to finish his karate class.
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Post by: essexian on 04 July, 2011, 07:43:52 pm
There is a song from the 1970's which goes something like: "Thinking it right, doing it wrong, its easier from an armchair..." (bet no one knows who did it!) well that's me at the moment... planning but knowing I won't actually do it!

The plan...the C2C over 2 days in September. Why won't I do it.... because I hate hills and never actually complete what I plan. Sigh.

Bit of a waste of time planning, but its good to dream eh.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 July, 2011, 07:46:25 pm
Quote from: essexian on 04 July, 2011, 07:43:52 pm
There is a song from the 1970's which goes something like: "Thinking it right, doing it wrong, its easier from an armchair..." (bet no one knows who did it!) well that's me at the moment... planning but knowing I won't actually do it!
Tenement Funster. It's a Queen song, written and sung by Roger Taylor. Waves of alternatives wash at my sleepiness, have my eggs poached for breakfast, I guess...
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Post by: Kim on 04 July, 2011, 07:49:40 pm
Discussing whether lightsabres radiate heat, and whether you could use them to cook sausages.   :facepalm:
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Post by: essexian on 04 July, 2011, 07:50:56 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 04 July, 2011, 07:46:25 pm
Quote from: essexian on 04 July, 2011, 07:43:52 pm
There is a song from the 1970's which goes something like: "Thinking it right, doing it wrong, its easier from an armchair..." (bet no one knows who did it!) well that's me at the moment... planning but knowing I won't actually do it!
Tenement Funster. It's a Queen song, written and sung by Roger Taylor. Waves of alternatives wash at my sleepiness, have my eggs poached for breakfast, I guess...

Yep! Sound of my teenage years that song.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 July, 2011, 07:51:31 pm
It's not Tenement Funster, it's Drowse.  :-[

Quote from: Kim on 04 July, 2011, 07:49:40 pm
Discussing whether lightsabres radiate heat, and whether you could use them to cook sausages.   :facepalm:
Bobb's just bought one, ask him.
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Post by: Andrij on 04 July, 2011, 07:52:42 pm
Quote from: essexian on 04 July, 2011, 07:43:52 pm

The plan...the C2C over 2 days in September. Why won't I do it.... because I hate hills and never actually complete what I plan. Sigh.


Add one or two more days, which will give you time to enjoy the route and walk when necessary.

I may be doing C2C and/or Hadrian's Wall this year.  Must dig out the maps, etc and make some tentative plans...
 
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Post by: Kim on 04 July, 2011, 08:00:05 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 04 July, 2011, 07:51:31 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 July, 2011, 07:49:40 pm
Discussing whether lightsabres radiate heat, and whether you could use them to cook sausages.   :facepalm:
Bobb's just bought one, ask him.

Barakta just found a roadkill one.  It still works!
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Post by: BrianI on 05 July, 2011, 11:18:14 am
Putting off cleaning the bathroom.   :sick:  Probably quicker to nuke it from orbit!
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Post by: interzen on 05 July, 2011, 11:21:55 am
Going to finish my cup of coffee and then wander over to the station to buy some bits of orange cardboard.
And my lunch.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 July, 2011, 03:10:35 pm
I'm trying to write an abstract for a paper.
I've never written a paper before (not on my own anyway).
I'm currently staring at a blank piece of paper.  :-\
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Post by: woollypigs on 05 July, 2011, 03:13:07 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 05 July, 2011, 03:10:35 pm
I'm currently staring at a blank piece of paper.  :-\
Now that is a good start.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 July, 2011, 03:53:04 pm
Watching smalls playing with trampolines, paddling pools and supersoakers. Garden envy, I haz it :-(
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Post by: Guy on 05 July, 2011, 04:02:03 pm
Just shutting down to bog off home  :thumbsup:;D while wondering what disasters await tonight/tomorrow :hand: :facepalm:

Thass what I'm doing. :smug:
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Post by: Jaded on 05 July, 2011, 04:04:56 pm
Transferring applications across to the new laptop and eagerly awaiting the 8GB RAM that should arrive tomorrow.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 July, 2011, 04:23:23 pm
I haz finished letting the BS flow and am about to email my abstract to my mentor for him to carefully shred into microscopic pieces.
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Post by: interzen on 05 July, 2011, 04:27:20 pm
Having the final coffee of the day (decaf) before heading off home for some hardcore bike fettling.
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Post by: LindaG on 05 July, 2011, 04:31:44 pm
Planning a romantic evening in with Crusty  :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 July, 2011, 05:00:44 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 05 July, 2011, 04:23:23 pm
I haz finished letting the BS flow and am about to email my abstract to my mentor for him to carefully shred into microscopic pieces.

Grumbling, because he did.
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Post by: BrianI on 05 July, 2011, 05:28:19 pm
Trying to fit the contents of my  spare room / office into boxes so DIY Dad can make a start on the laminate flooring tommorrow.  I can haz shrinking ray please?
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Post by: Kim on 05 July, 2011, 07:05:02 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 05 July, 2011, 03:53:04 pm
Watching smalls playing with trampolines, paddling pools and supersoakers. Garden envy, I haz it :-(

It'd only end up with a severe case of Cyclist's Lawn, thobut...
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Post by: rower40 on 05 July, 2011, 07:16:40 pm
Struggling to make a decision:
Supper then pub?
Pub then Supper?
Supper AT Pub?

And an associated query:
Walk or Bike to Pub?
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Post by: Jaded on 05 July, 2011, 07:22:38 pm
I've just turned my Hard Disk into a Tunnocks Teacake.
It looks splendid.
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Post by: TimO on 05 July, 2011, 08:04:28 pm
Hunting around on the net to find a new mount for my TomTom car GPS.  I managed to trip over the insecurely fitted power cable on Sunday, wrenching the USB cable out of the back, and as it turns out, actually ripping the connector off of the PCB, in a rather irreparable fashion. :(

On the relatively plus side, whilst TomTom wanted £30 for a replacement, Asda.com has one for a smidgen just over £20 (including P&P), which isn't too bad.  Hopefully it'll come before the Dunwich Dynamo, since I'm not convinced I can drive to Dunwich without electronic aid!

It's amazing what you can find on the net when you need a spare summat, although I failed on Sunday, at my parents, when it turns out that Prestige don't seem to be able to supply spares for their Skyline Pressure Cookers any more.  To be fair, the design appears to be over fifty years old, so it's possible that it isn't considered safe by modern design standards!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/PrestigeSkyline.jpg)
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Post by: Andrij on 05 July, 2011, 08:18:00 pm
Quote from: TimO on 05 July, 2011, 08:04:28 pm
Hunting around on the net to find a new mount for my TomTom car GPS.  I managed to trip over the insecurely fitted power cable on Sunday, wrenching the USB cable out of the back, and as it turns out, actually ripping the connector off of the PCB, in a rather irreparable fashion. :(

On the relatively plus side, whilst TomTom wanted £30 for a replacement, Asda.com has one for a smidgen just over £20 (including P&P), which isn't too bad.  Hopefully it'll come before the Dunwich Dynamo, since I'm not convinced I can drive to Dunwich without electronic aid!


Simples: you're easiest route to the A12 (perhaps via M25?), head east to Yoxford, turn right and follow the signs (you can use an old route sheet, too).  Very little navigating.
 
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Post by: TimO on 05 July, 2011, 08:25:04 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 05 July, 2011, 08:18:00 pm
Simples: you're easiest route to the A12 (perhaps via M25?), head east to Yoxford, turn right and follow the signs (you can use an old route sheet, too).  Very little navigating.

Yep, it's probably not overly complex, although I'll be looking for a quick route, which doesn't involve the Dartford crossing (because (i) I'm stingy, and (ii) I can almost guarantee I won't have the correct change!).

The advantage of this GPS unit, is that it has a cellphone built into it, and it'll check the road status whilst I'm in motion, and actively update the route to avoid any problems.  This sort of feature tends to be very useful on roads like the M25!
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Post by: Andrij on 05 July, 2011, 08:42:33 pm
Quote from: TimO on 05 July, 2011, 08:25:04 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 05 July, 2011, 08:18:00 pm
Simples: you're easiest route to the A12 (perhaps via M25?), head east to Yoxford, turn right and follow the signs (you can use an old route sheet, too).  Very little navigating.

Yep, it's probably not overly complex, although I'll be looking for a quick route, which doesn't involve the Dartford crossing (because (i) I'm stingy, and (ii) I can almost guarantee I won't have the correct change!).


1) best route to Blackwall Tunnel, which gets you to the start of the A12
2) South Circ, Woolwich Ferry, North Circ, A12

Other options are available.
 
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Post by: Valiant on 06 July, 2011, 01:53:57 am
Lying in bed watching the Apprentice.
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Post by: Aidan on 06 July, 2011, 07:26:49 am
sitting on the crapper, after sleeping crapply n a crap hotel which is a crappy 250 miles from home, going off to do a crap job today followed by a long crap drive. If things are realy crap then i may have to come back on friday , which will be utterly crap, and will mean missing   the Three Bridges on saturday. Crap!
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Post by: her_welshness on 06 July, 2011, 11:38:16 am
Prepping for a funeral.
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Post by: Regulator on 06 July, 2011, 11:49:45 am
Sucking an ice lolly to try and numb my tongue a bit....
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Post by: tiermat on 06 July, 2011, 12:32:25 pm
Contemplating how I am going to get a tent, 2 sleeping bags and associated gubbins onto my bike, along with a tagalong, ready for the test ride on Saturday....
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Post by: LindaG on 06 July, 2011, 12:36:42 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 06 July, 2011, 12:32:25 pm
Contemplating how I am going to get a tent, 2 sleeping bags and associated gubbins onto my bike, along with a tagalong, ready for the test ride on Saturday....

Crikey, tough question!  Can the gubbins go in a rucksack?  Tent and sleeping bags might go in panniers ...
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Post by: Kim on 06 July, 2011, 01:07:23 pm
Will the tagalong take a rack?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 July, 2011, 01:09:15 pm
When I asked this the other day I was told n+1 was the answer.  Or a rack on the front!  

Actually, yours is an islabikes trailerbike isn't it?  I believe it may be possible to fit a rack to that.
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Post by: tiermat on 06 July, 2011, 02:02:33 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 July, 2011, 01:07:23 pm
Will the tagalong take a rack?

It should do, but needs one for a brommie or similar as it's a 20" wheel jobby with a corresponding short seat tube.

ETA I have a rack for the front, BUT the U-bolts are too small (24mm and the forks are 26mm) so need to find some slightly larger ones)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 July, 2011, 02:16:28 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 06 July, 2011, 02:02:33 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 July, 2011, 01:07:23 pm
Will the tagalong take a rack?

It should do, but needs one for a brommie or similar as it's a 20" wheel jobby with a corresponding short seat tube.

Would a standard islabikes rack fit?  I could attempt to nick the cub's (from his 24" Beinn) and bring it tomorrow or summat....
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Post by: tiermat on 06 July, 2011, 02:20:53 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 06 July, 2011, 02:16:28 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 06 July, 2011, 02:02:33 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 July, 2011, 01:07:23 pm
Will the tagalong take a rack?

It should do, but needs one for a brommie or similar as it's a 20" wheel jobby with a corresponding short seat tube.

Would a standard islabikes rack fit?  I could attempt to nick the cub's (from his 24" Beinn) and bring it tomorrow or summat....

Prolly not, the seat tube is VERY short, I tried fitting one of the Aldi ones (which does quite small) but there is very little clearence under the seat etc.

Just going to head out to Halfords in a minute (for the U-Bolts), shall have a look there.
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Post by: Feline on 06 July, 2011, 05:00:14 pm
I am watching the TdF at the moment, and my daughter came in fron school, watched it for a few seconds then asked if that's what I am entering in August  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: BrianI on 06 July, 2011, 07:59:05 pm
Pondering why I can get on the net on my wireless netbook, but can't on my desktop pc upstairs, and hoping it isn't a problem with the long length of externel cat 6 ethernet cable which goes from the router downstairs, out the wall, up the wall then through the wall  to the pc upstairs...

Also hoping i'm not coming down with Mammalian Man Flu  :(

-- edit-- seems to be working now! Perhaps the bt home hub 3 was needing forty winks.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 July, 2011, 10:57:03 pm
Loudon on LOUD and flapjack, baking thereof.

Most :) inducing.  And my kitchen smells fab.
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Post by: LindaG on 06 July, 2011, 10:58:50 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 06 July, 2011, 10:57:03 pm
Loudon on LOUD and flapjack, baking thereof.

Most :) inducing.  And my kitchen smells fab.

Wainwright?
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 July, 2011, 11:04:47 pm
That reminds me; can you post your cheese flapjack recipe, please?
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Post by: gordon taylor on 06 July, 2011, 11:17:47 pm
Waiting for the bread machine to ping.
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Post by: SandyV on 07 July, 2011, 03:52:09 am
VeloYellow and I are on The Peak in Hong Kong!  It is 33 degrees and humid.
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Post by: essexian on 07 July, 2011, 06:44:10 am
Sitting in standard class on a cross country train wishing i had booked first class as i normally do.

Half the people on this train have colds whilst the other half have either not washed or smell of fags.

Terrible. Glad i am changing trains in Birmingham in a bit.
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Post by: Feline on 07 July, 2011, 08:10:32 am
Feeling like a zombie waiting to finish night shift at 9am, then I have some people to meet at 10 for a nice bike ride.
This is part of my sleep-deprived cycling training schedule ready for PBP :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Guy on 07 July, 2011, 09:16:34 am
Staring dully at my computer while listening to the rain hammering down outside (at least I hope it's outside).
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Post by: BrianI on 07 July, 2011, 02:23:52 pm
Running a hot bath seeing as I'm feeling freezing cold.   :'(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 July, 2011, 02:35:27 pm
Come up here, we've got all the windows open cos it's roasting!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 07 July, 2011, 02:54:52 pm
I just ordered a new PC for our Technician (that job description rather belittles the fact that he designs and build all our power supplies, and has done most of the construction work for several decades worth of instrumentation on board spacecraft).

The PC currently on his desk originally came with Windows 2000 on it, and was quite powerful then (a Pentium 4 @ 2.4GHz).  The replacement I just ordered has a Core i5-2400 CPU, which by a fairly simplistic performance metric, is twenty times more powerful!

It also has 8G of RAM and 1TB of hard disc, so should keep him happy for the foreseeable future. ;D
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Post by: Andrew Br on 07 July, 2011, 03:35:20 pm
Eating the last( :'()) piece of Crinkly Lion supplied flap-jack.
You know, it's probably worth doing the Yorkshire rides for the cake alone  ;)

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Post by: border-rider on 07 July, 2011, 05:42:37 pm
Contemplating buying a tractor, and all the difficult decisions that entails...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 July, 2011, 05:46:30 pm
Rediscovering why I loathe and detest train travel  >:(
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 July, 2011, 06:11:17 pm
On a different train to Interzen. Lots of reasonably human schoolkids on this one. And the sun is shining :)
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Post by: rower40 on 07 July, 2011, 06:37:57 pm
Basking in a warm sense of SMUG.  I was trainee signalman in a proper signalbox, on a preserved line.  The "proper" signalman, supervising me, was the line's General Manager.  He left me to it after the first cup of tea.  The Chief Civil Engineer (who was in PICOW ("Person In Charge Of Work") for some re-sleepering on one of the lines) came to me at the end of the shift, and said that, if it hadn't been for the fact that I answered the phone each time as "Trainee Signalman", he wouldn't have known I wasn't the "real" one.

Home in time for tea and medals.
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Post by: LindaG on 07 July, 2011, 08:11:07 pm
Wishing  I was at the pub.   ::-)
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Post by: Butterfly on 07 July, 2011, 09:17:02 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 07 July, 2011, 06:37:57 pm
Basking in a warm sense of SMUG.  I was trainee signalman in a proper signalbox, on a preserved line.  The "proper" signalman, supervising me, was the line's General Manager.  He left me to it after the first cup of tea.  The Chief Civil Engineer (who was in PICOW ("Person In Charge Of Work") for some re-sleepering on one of the lines) came to me at the end of the shift, and said that, if it hadn't been for the fact that I answered the phone each time as "Trainee Signalman", he wouldn't have known I wasn't the "real" one.

Home in time for tea and medals.


 :thumbsup: That sounds fun :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 July, 2011, 09:37:57 pm
Eating very good chips, in the pub.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 July, 2011, 09:43:52 pm
Hey, rower, did you get to wear a proper cap an evrifink?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 07 July, 2011, 11:28:59 pm
Finishing my drink, after watching a top class thunderstorm from my new french windows.  That was class, that was  :thumbsup:   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 July, 2011, 11:52:44 pm
Recovering ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 08 July, 2011, 12:43:39 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 07 July, 2011, 05:42:37 pm
Contemplating buying a tractor, and all the difficult decisions that entails...

Treat it like buying a bike; consider what you'll need it to do, what options you'll need for it and then go and buy the best looking one that is slightly more you can afford.
HTH.

Also, like bikes, the bigger the engine the better.
Unlike bikes, you can choose the engines on tractors.



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 08 July, 2011, 01:10:40 am
Sitting in the lounge at Pearson (again ???) waiting for the redeye home. At least I got upgraded  : :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 July, 2011, 08:51:25 am
Quote from: Chocolatebike on 08 July, 2011, 12:43:39 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 07 July, 2011, 05:42:37 pm
Contemplating buying a tractor, and all the difficult decisions that entails...

Treat it like buying a bike; consider what you'll need it to do, what options you'll need for it and then go and buy the best looking one that is slightly more you can afford.
HTH.

Also, like bikes, the bigger the engine the better.
Unlike bikes, you can choose the engines on tractors.


Remember, red ones are faster. ;)

IIRC, DocSquid did some tractor shopping a few years back.  Might be worth having a word with her.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 08 July, 2011, 08:59:31 am
Quote from: Chocolatebike on 08 July, 2011, 12:43:39 am
Treat it like buying a bike; consider what you'll need it to do, what options you'll need for it and then go and buy the best looking one that is slightly more you can afford.
HTH


 :thumbsup:

That's the philosophy I'm adopting.  I already had the TSO discussion with the tractor selling man so I'm looking at a decent (well) used one with a decent spec.

Red would be nice, but I'm tending towards orange. Then there's a whole world of accessories to get into; topper or flail ? log bench ? I wonder if there's a yATF out there...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 July, 2011, 11:05:06 am
Trying to write a light-hearted speech, I only have 4 weeks to complete it, which means it will probably just end up being "Thanks" :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 July, 2011, 02:16:32 pm
Feeling sleepy, after a very nice lunch, with the woman I love, at The Kings Arms in Sandhutton.

Fish Cobbler followed by Summer Pudding, nomnomnomnomnom
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 July, 2011, 05:54:37 pm
Having watched the shuttle launch, I'm celebrating the MiniDisc walkman going out of production by resurrecting my MZ-R30 (http://twitpic.com/5n2gnl).  Apart from the battery being well past its sell-by date, various buttons not responding and the Interesting Grinding Noises it's made ever since a two-storey fall onto a stage (it's also survived freezing rain, African dust, tube train doors, various out-of-spec power sources, countless knocks and drops, and being made to record beginner violinists), it appears to be working perfectly.

Solid state is way more practical, but I reckon this was the peak of digital coolness.   8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 08 July, 2011, 06:02:41 pm
Lying on a blankie on the floor, with my legs up on the chair.  Nibbling nuts and drinking a cocktail.  I won't be moving far this evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 08 July, 2011, 06:04:31 pm
Browsing fetish gear!  I'm supposed to be buying tablewear  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 July, 2011, 06:08:12 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 08 July, 2011, 06:02:41 pm
Lying on a blankie on the floor, with my legs up on the chair.  Nibbling nuts and drinking a cocktail.  I won't be moving far this evening.


Who's nuts ?  :demon:

You've not crocked yourself again ?  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 08 July, 2011, 06:58:25 pm
Sitting in our new tent with massive space to move about in. And trying to keep the chickens out of the "west wing" they are not much scared these little buggers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 08 July, 2011, 07:57:21 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 08 July, 2011, 06:04:31 pm
Browsing fetish gear!  I'm supposed to be buying tablewear  :o

Rubber table cloth, gimp placemats...?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 08 July, 2011, 07:57:59 pm
Wipe-clean is one thing.  But secondhand?!  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 July, 2011, 08:35:37 pm
Shopping for a cravat.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 08 July, 2011, 08:42:05 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 08 July, 2011, 08:35:37 pm
Shopping for a cravat.
 

Is this a euphemism for something?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 July, 2011, 09:03:41 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 08 July, 2011, 08:42:05 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 08 July, 2011, 08:35:37 pm
Shopping for a cravat.
 

Is this a euphemism for something?

No euphemism, no secret meaning, just as it says on the tin.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 08 July, 2011, 09:06:52 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 08 July, 2011, 09:03:41 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 08 July, 2011, 08:42:05 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 08 July, 2011, 08:35:37 pm
Shopping for a cravat.
 

Is this a euphemism for something?

No euphemism, no secret meaning, just as it says on the tin.
 

You are Leslie Phillips (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4768067746_422411c685_o.jpg) and ICMFP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 July, 2011, 09:30:19 pm
Ding dong!
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 08 July, 2011, 09:32:20 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 08 July, 2011, 09:30:19 pm
Ding dong!
 

Nurse Bell!!!  :o :o :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 09 July, 2011, 10:36:34 am
Quote from: Andrij on 08 July, 2011, 09:30:19 pm
Ding dong!
 
Waiting with FiL in hospital for glucoe blood tests. Kindlng.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 July, 2011, 10:38:13 am
Having a nice cup of tea, listening to the rain, and looking forward to my first day with Crusty in 28 days  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 July, 2011, 11:38:23 am
Waiting for nonn to have a shower and get dressed so we can go out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 09 July, 2011, 11:43:41 am
Quote from: Mal Volio on 07 July, 2011, 05:42:37 pm
Contemplating buying a tractor, and all the difficult decisions that entails...

Just come back from the shop with a copy of Practical Tractor in a plain brown wrapper.

Oo-arrr indeed.  There's a whole new world of obsession out there :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 July, 2011, 11:48:22 am
I drove my tractor through your haystack last night
I threw my pitchfork at your dog to keep quiet
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 09 July, 2011, 11:56:36 am
Linux Mint 11 playtime.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 09 July, 2011, 11:59:07 am
Quote from: Kirst on 09 July, 2011, 11:48:22 am
I drove my tractor through your haystack last night
I threw my pitchfork at your dog to keep quiet

I know  :facepalm:

I can't quite believe I've come to a place in my life where I'm getting interested in agricultural accoutrements  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 July, 2011, 12:16:43 pm
Are tractors available in fixed gear config.?. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 July, 2011, 07:58:16 pm
I've just done the years second "big shop".

I can't do my normal shop using the bike trailer, and what I can sensibly carry back from Sainsburys is inly enough for day to day stuff.  I needed some heavy things, or just lots of some smaller stuff, so I decided it was time to get the car out.

Generally it's a bit silly to use a car to go to Sainsburys, since it's about 3/4 mile away, but if I can make it worth it, I'll use it, and I can't really do even a moderate shop on foot at the mo.

I did manage to entirely fill the boot up, about a dozen of mostly the large reusable shopping bags, an the kitchen is still partially filled with shopping, much to Talisker's annoyance!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 09 July, 2011, 09:59:19 pm
For the first time in ages making spag boll.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 July, 2011, 10:13:11 pm
Watching Back to the Future 3.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: niggle on 09 July, 2011, 11:50:55 pm
Reading this thread duhh  ;)











Has that been done already?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 July, 2011, 11:52:50 pm
Flapjackery.  Waiting for the butter and syrup and sugar to melt.  Listening to the Detroit Cobras, which is indeed excellent music to bake to.  And eating a cold jacket spud, which is very tasty....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: niggle on 10 July, 2011, 12:16:13 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 09 July, 2011, 11:52:50 pm
Flapjackery.  Waiting for the butter and syrup and sugar to melt.  Listening to the Detroit Cobras, which is indeed excellent music to bake to.  And eating a cold jacket spud, which is very tasty....
I was amazed to discover that what Americans call flapjack is something entirely different, some kind of pancake apparently. However they do have something like our flapjack, under another name which I have forgotten  :-[
EDIT: they call it Hudson Bay bread/bars
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 10 July, 2011, 12:16:36 am
just back from a 'call' having a drink before bed and hoping for a quiet night
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 10 July, 2011, 12:22:33 am
Quote from: niggle on 10 July, 2011, 12:16:13 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 09 July, 2011, 11:52:50 pm
Flapjackery.  Waiting for the butter and syrup and sugar to melt.  Listening to the Detroit Cobras, which is indeed excellent music to bake to.  And eating a cold jacket spud, which is very tasty....
I was amazed to discover that what Americans call flapjack is something entirely different, some kind of pancake apparently. However they do have something like our flapjack, under another name which I have forgotten  :-[
EDIT: they call it Hudson Bay bread/bars

American biscuits.  Now they're really mad.  You wouldn't dunk them in yer tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 July, 2011, 12:37:58 am
Thinking I shouldn't have had that fourth pint of Peroni.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 10 July, 2011, 07:12:56 am
Quote from: niggle on 10 July, 2011, 12:16:13 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 09 July, 2011, 11:52:50 pm
Flapjackery.  Waiting for the butter and syrup and sugar to melt.  Listening to the Detroit Cobras, which is indeed excellent music to bake to.  And eating a cold jacket spud, which is very tasty....
I was amazed to discover that what Americans call flapjack is something entirely different, some kind of pancake apparently. However they do have something like our flapjack, under another name which I have forgotten  :-[
EDIT: they call it Hudson Bay bread/bars

Same here - but from the reverse side.  Not Leftpondian though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 10 July, 2011, 07:56:18 am
Celebrating my third hour of being awake, on this lovely morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 10 July, 2011, 08:10:33 am
And on the forum?  Get a life you sad b**$££%. [/YouTubeWhingingDriverComment]

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 10 July, 2011, 09:43:31 am
Watching the AM show with a purring cat on my lap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 10 July, 2011, 10:16:13 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 10 July, 2011, 09:43:31 am
Watching the AM show with a purring cat on my lap.
The cat's just got off my lap, leaving me both hands for the keyboard

I am listening to next door build his house extension and to MrsC making CAEK downstairs.
I am dreading having to re-start the sudden attack of decorating.  :hand:

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 10 July, 2011, 10:32:33 am
Decorating?  I'm sitting down to a coffe after plastering the 2 thirds of a bathroom wall with a basin, a light and a light switch on it.  The ceiling is 2.8 m high.  I think I might take the rest of the day off and go on a bike ride. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 10 July, 2011, 10:44:09 am
I'm a total DIY wimp.  Our decorating consists of painting the walls and woodwork and 'sort of' fitting a piece of carpet.

The only plastering I get involved with needs BEER! 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 July, 2011, 01:24:07 pm
Threatening bobb that if he doesn't make a decision about what he wants to do this afternoon, I will make him go to a garden centre and look at flowers and then we will return home and watch episode after episode of Friends whilst listening to Nicola Roberts' new album.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 10 July, 2011, 01:32:59 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 10 July, 2011, 10:16:13 am
I am dreading having to re-start the sudden attack of decorating.

Start decorating in haste; repent at leisure. Well, you would if you had any....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 10 July, 2011, 01:53:29 pm
Have just tidied up the kitchen, having a break, and then cleaning the bathroom. My domesticity has inspired my husband into cleaning the oven too  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 10 July, 2011, 03:16:05 pm
Quote from: Manotea on 10 July, 2011, 01:32:59 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 10 July, 2011, 10:16:13 am
I am dreading having to re-start the sudden attack of decorating.

Start decorating in haste; repent at leisure. Well, you would if you had any....
;D

Today's stint is now over.  "All" I have to do tomorrow is lay the carpet.  Trouble is, MrsC is now saying things like "That was pretty easy, we could do the other bedroom as well and we've even got enough paint left"  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 July, 2011, 03:41:22 pm
This morning I helped Badger build a wheel. I was not terribly happy with the results: it was rigid enough, but I rounded a couple of nipples (he was re-using spokes so they may have already had some rounding on them). It was reasonably true, but not perfect. Some of this was down to the fact that I was struggling to do the spokes up any tighter - sodding arthritis! Its dishing was not quite as good as I'd wanted either. He's going to take it away and try it out: I've found that, on most occasions that I've made wheels, I've not been satisfied with the results from an aesthetic point of view, but the bikes tend to be less fussy than I am and they actually work OK in practice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 10 July, 2011, 03:44:42 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 10 July, 2011, 03:16:05 pm
Quote from: Manotea on 10 July, 2011, 01:32:59 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 10 July, 2011, 10:16:13 am
I am dreading having to re-start the sudden attack of decorating.

Start decorating in haste; repent at leisure. Well, you would if you had any....
;D

Today's stint is now over.  "All" I have to do tomorrow is lay the carpet.  Trouble is, MrsC is now saying things like "That was pretty easy, we could do the other bedroom as well and we've even got enough paint left"  :facepalm:

Well done  :thumbsup: DIY is addictive though, once you do one task you can think of plenty of other jobs to do  ;D

Have hoovered and have done the bathroom, am having a bugger of a job shifting the worse of the limescale off. Have tried SUPER-Harpic and SUPER-Jif Bathroom cleaner. Anthea Turner recommends lemon, I am going to try that next.... :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 July, 2011, 04:06:00 pm
Sitting on a garden chair in the kennel, waiting for this shower to pass so I can continue to fettle the garden.
Daren't go back in the house as Mrs  B is likely to say something that begins with "Could you just..."or even more frighteningly, "I've been thinking..."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 July, 2011, 04:10:34 pm
MV, did you see the bike made out of tractors on the Tour coverage? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 10 July, 2011, 04:14:55 pm
I did :)

Fantastic.  I loved the thing made of ribbons atop the mountain yesterday too
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 10 July, 2011, 04:25:21 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 10 July, 2011, 04:10:34 pm
MV, did you see the bike made out of tractors on the Tour coverage? ;)

There have been a few of those on the Tour so far, and I haven't been watching it that closely.  There was an animated one last week, where the tractors were actually driving around the wheels! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 July, 2011, 05:17:42 pm
I've seen a couple where the wheels were going round the wrong way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 10 July, 2011, 05:21:36 pm
One of them seemed to have a revolving chainset  & moving chain, but they didn't show it for long enough to see what was going on
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 July, 2011, 05:54:33 pm
Having a sit down and a cup of peppermint tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 July, 2011, 05:56:47 pm
Waiting for barakta to return from the land of bagpipes and no trousers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 July, 2011, 06:11:34 pm
Thinking I need another drink, again. Got thru 750ml of water in 35km yesterday, in Scotland, in the rain. Something's gone a bit wonkysomewhere...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clifftaylor on 10 July, 2011, 06:16:50 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 10 July, 2011, 06:11:34 pm
Thinking I need another drink, again. Got thru 750ml of water in 35km yesterday, in Scotland, in the rain. Something's gone a bit wonkysomewhere...

This may indicate a lack of beer  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 10 July, 2011, 06:26:50 pm
Being very hungry after yesterday's 200k.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 10 July, 2011, 06:45:17 pm
Quote from: Kim on 10 July, 2011, 05:56:47 pm
Waiting for barakta to return from the land of bagpipes and no trousers.

Is there anything worn under your kilt?
.
.
.
No, it's all working perfectly!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 July, 2011, 06:47:36 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 10 July, 2011, 06:45:17 pm
Quote from: Kim on 10 July, 2011, 05:56:47 pm
Waiting for barakta to return from the land of bagpipes and no trousers.

Is there anything worn under your kilt?
.
.
.
No, it's all working perfectly!   :thumbsup:

Bazinga!

(of course, if he had a hamburger under his kilt then you'd know he was a McDonald)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 July, 2011, 06:52:09 pm
Drinking a product of Bury St. Edmunds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 July, 2011, 06:53:26 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 10 July, 2011, 06:52:09 pm
Drinking a product of Bury St. Edmunds.

You're not supposed to drink Branston Pickle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 10 July, 2011, 06:57:30 pm
Attempting an ancient Auraucaria.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 July, 2011, 07:03:24 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 10 July, 2011, 06:57:30 pm
Attempting an ancient Auraucaria.

OK, give us some of the clues then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 10 July, 2011, 09:18:13 pm
Making fruit salad with Feline.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 July, 2011, 09:38:58 pm
Quote from: simonp on 10 July, 2011, 09:18:13 pm
Making fruit salad with Feline.
is that what they call it these days?
 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 10 July, 2011, 11:03:04 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 10 July, 2011, 09:38:58 pm
Quote from: simonp on 10 July, 2011, 09:18:13 pm
Making fruit salad with Feline.
is that what they call it these days? ;)

<splutter> ;D

New keyboard please!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 11 July, 2011, 04:47:38 am
Can't sleep. Been digging through dusty old crates of vinyl albums and have that strange itchy feeling from handling and cleaning old vinyl record sleeves.

Only good thing is I found some class albums.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 11 July, 2011, 04:48:10 am
Anybody there ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 11 July, 2011, 08:54:13 am
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 11 July, 2011, 04:48:10 am
Anybody there ?

No.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 July, 2011, 08:56:33 am
Quote from: simonp on 10 July, 2011, 09:18:13 pm
Making fruit salad with Feline.

Let me guess, a couple of melons, a pair of peaches, a kiwi fruit, a banana and two prunes?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 July, 2011, 08:59:34 am
Quote from: Jaded on 11 July, 2011, 08:56:33 am
Quote from: simonp on 10 July, 2011, 09:18:13 pm
Making fruit salad with Feline.

Let me guess, a couple of melons, a pair of peaches, a kiwi fruit, a banana and two prunes?

That brings an entirely new meaning to the word "cocktail".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 July, 2011, 09:05:53 am
Contemplating washing (clothes), tidying the bedroom and the kitchen.

May not get much further than this stage tho. :)

Oh and need to unpack after the weekend's aborted camping expedition....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 July, 2011, 12:41:52 pm
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 11 July, 2011, 04:48:10 am
Anybody there ?

To know the answer look at the Users Online list at the bottom of the Home page
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 July, 2011, 12:45:11 pm
Planning a holiday.
Where to go?
When to go? There will be casualties:missed audax calendar rides:missed forum rides.
Perhaps opportunities to do audax/social rides with other groups/clubs
Camping?
Caravan?
Hotel?

 :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 July, 2011, 01:18:10 pm
I'm in the pub, with crinklyauntie. Who rode here. On her new bike :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 11 July, 2011, 01:22:40 pm
Dipping back into my dissertation
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 July, 2011, 01:26:02 pm
Writing GPX-molishing tools in Scala1 ...

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 July, 2011, 01:27:56 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 11 July, 2011, 01:22:40 pm
Dipping back into my dissertation

I think that's legal now,providing you have reached the age of majority ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 11 July, 2011, 01:36:33 pm
Quote from: jogler on 11 July, 2011, 01:27:56 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 11 July, 2011, 01:22:40 pm
Dipping back into my dissertation

I think that's legal now,providing you have reached the age of majority ;D

Do you know, the bit I did wasn't half bad.  I think I should probly finish the bugger and mop up my unfinished BSc.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 July, 2011, 01:37:54 pm
Go for it... :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 July, 2011, 02:20:55 pm
Putting T-shirts into envelopes, then off to Post Office :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 July, 2011, 02:34:02 pm
Going :) because I just found out how to change the font on all slides at once in a powerpoint presentation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 11 July, 2011, 02:37:26 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 11 July, 2011, 02:20:55 pm
Putting T-shirts into envelopes, then off to Post Office :)

Huzza!

<claps hands in excitement>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 July, 2011, 07:20:41 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 July, 2011, 07:23:58 pm
Sitting on a wall in front of school, in a nice shady spot, eating ice lollies with the SmallestCub while we wait for big'un to finish his karate class.

Action replay!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 July, 2011, 07:49:31 pm
Buying #1 son a pub meal.
Yes.  THAT pub.
Our usual quiz team will be up later.  Oh how I've missed this place.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 11 July, 2011, 09:45:35 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 10 July, 2011, 09:38:58 pm
Quote from: simonp on 10 July, 2011, 09:18:13 pm
Making fruit salad with Feline.
is that what they call it these days?
 ;)

Best fruit salad I’ve ever had.

 :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 July, 2011, 09:53:32 pm
:D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 July, 2011, 09:55:00 pm
Lying in bed feeling a bit 'bleurgh'  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 11 July, 2011, 10:24:51 pm
Just about to go to bed.
Taxi arrives at 04.15  :o, train leaves 05.05.


HOLIDAY !  ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 11 July, 2011, 10:30:14 pm
Quote from: Chocolatebike on 11 July, 2011, 10:24:51 pm
Just about to go to bed.
Taxi arrives at 04.15  :o, train leaves 05.05.


HOLIDAY !  ;D



That is the world's best feeling!  Have a marvellous time  :D

I am burning a CD.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 July, 2011, 10:40:36 pm
I am Finding Stuff in order to fill in a tax return, prior to claiming our tax credits by the end of July. Mrs. Wow is engaged in a similar task. It is a stressful time.

However, I have found both P60s relating to my pension.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 July, 2011, 11:22:07 pm
I just dun an expense claim to myself. Then transferred the £800.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 July, 2011, 12:54:04 pm
Waiting for my lunch to cook warm up in the microwave and trying to decide which bike to use tonight.  Need to narrow it down by requirements:

Needs lights and mudguards - so no to the Holdsworth
Needs wheels - no to the Ridley then, as I have just taken the wheels to the LBS for trueing
So that leaves the fixie or the saracen.....

Saracen it is then :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 July, 2011, 04:14:06 pm
York's flat - fixie'll be fine!  Although we could head to Skipwith for a spot of comedy off-road.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 12 July, 2011, 05:06:16 pm
Coming back from a four days mini tour in Sumerset. No rain as the forecast warned us abou, bar the first "on/off" day. Steep hils were concoure and great views seen oh and the odd icecream eaten.
 
Our new home (hilleberg katium 3gt) is well worth the investment, it makes camping so much easier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 July, 2011, 05:07:35 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 July, 2011, 04:14:06 pm
York's flat - fixie'll be fine!  Although we could head to Skipwith for a spot of comedy off-road.....

Forgot to say, the fixie needs a stem and saddle fitting......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: closetleftie on 12 July, 2011, 06:05:34 pm
Am waiting for the sodding surgeon to wire back together all the bits of this old boy's femur wot he broke to get the bent bits of metal out. A hip replacement from the 80's that's seen the end of its life.

Oh, and giving the old boy some blood. And getting his heart to beat properly again ever so often.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 July, 2011, 06:34:55 pm
Feeling glum. Bobb just left.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 July, 2011, 07:44:18 pm
Sitting onna train home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 July, 2011, 07:56:43 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 12 July, 2011, 06:34:55 pm
Feeling glum. Bobb just left.  :'(

Who is glum?
does bobb know?
  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 July, 2011, 08:26:07 pm
In the pub. Beer and chips  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gerwinium on 12 July, 2011, 08:28:20 pm
After a veggie fish & chips, two pints and a treacle tart with ice cream, vegetating, listening to music and playing with the interwebs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 12 July, 2011, 08:36:30 pm
Wearing my marvellous new t-shirt, and listening to Loudon Wainwright III, on CrinklyLion's suggestion.  And not doing the washing up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 12 July, 2011, 08:58:00 pm
Waiting for the missus and kids to go off to bed, so I can sneak out my new 3G Kindle and have a fiddle.

Feeling not the slightest guilt about my lunchtime liaison.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 12 July, 2011, 09:00:50 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 12 July, 2011, 08:58:00 pm
Waiting for the missus and kids to go off to bed, so I can sneak out my new 3G Kindle and have a fiddle.

Feeling not the slightest guilt about my lunchtime liaison.

Juicy details please?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 12 July, 2011, 09:04:25 pm
Well, it's a fancy e-book reader from Amazon...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 12 July, 2011, 09:04:58 pm
You bad boy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 July, 2011, 09:40:57 pm
Now in another pub. Copper Dragon!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 July, 2011, 11:38:10 pm
Writing emails about communications protocols, and crash detection algorithms.  The fun shall continue tomorrow at work. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 12 July, 2011, 11:42:20 pm
Going to bed

A midnight conference call last night followed by a hilly 200 with Tewdric & a short interlude at the Clytha Arms & I'm struggling to stay awake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 12 July, 2011, 11:43:50 pm
deciding to sleep or do something else.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 12 July, 2011, 11:52:41 pm
Work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 July, 2011, 12:33:34 am
Going to bed early, in anticipation of earthquakes and stereo hammering at 9am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 13 July, 2011, 12:37:03 am
Importing my Stevie Wonder album into i-Tunes.  I lent it to my friend - four years ago, and have just got it back.  Making friends with it again is a joy  8)  Harmonica, glockenspiel, old-fashioned love songs.   Maaaaarvellous.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 July, 2011, 06:45:30 pm
Eating a chocolate biscuit, cursing earache, about to pack up and go home.


11 hour days at work are bad, m'kay?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 13 July, 2011, 06:48:14 pm
Today I have managed to catch up on all the paperwork nuisance type things I have been procrastinating over doing for ages. It seems even my tax return seemed a cheery proposition compared to spending any time today thinking, maybe a sign of how well I am (not) dealing with the death of a friend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 July, 2011, 06:48:32 pm
Considering going back to bed, now the stereo hammering has ceased for the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 July, 2011, 09:53:02 pm
Contemplating which ride to do for my August 200km audax.I've actually being thinking about snice approx 20km from the end of the one I did today.
I think it will be another Peak Audax Wigley Perm,probably the Eureka ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 13 July, 2011, 09:54:05 pm
Ooh, are you back on your RRTY mission jogler?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 July, 2011, 09:58:47 pm
aye: done #4 today.See

Round The Year Randonneurs Log (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=4705.525)

page 36,reply #526
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 13 July, 2011, 10:01:13 pm
That's marvellous!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 July, 2011, 11:40:51 pm
Grocery shopping....

it's so DUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLL!

And then I've got to do the [insert swearword of choice] dishwasher and hang up the [insert swearword of choice] laundry and empty the [insert swearword of choice] cat litter tray.  Dull, dull, dull.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 14 July, 2011, 12:15:57 am
Fell asleep at 6.30pm.
Woke at 10pm, and switched on "Fatal Attraction" on Film4 +1.

Now unlikely to sleep... ::-)

Mmm, bunnies...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 14 July, 2011, 12:29:49 am
Tearing myself away from Curtis Mayfield.  So good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 July, 2011, 07:55:23 am
Eating My Breakfast. And wishing Chris Evans would come back so Richard Madeley would Fuck Off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 July, 2011, 08:44:21 am
Taking so long eating my breakfast that I will now need to average 13mph up over the Mendips to get where I'm going by 10am  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 July, 2011, 09:16:10 am
Contemplating which of today's tasks will be more exciting: writing up the proposal for revising this year's budget or rewriting a change management process which the industry has been using (with minor modifications) for the last 12 years.  At least I have nothing else on my agenda for today. Oh, hold on a minute...

My cup runneth over.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 14 July, 2011, 09:18:35 am
Quote from: Feline on 14 July, 2011, 08:44:21 am
Taking so long eating my breakfast that I will now need to average 13mph up over the Mendips to get where I'm going by 10am  :facepalm:

Oops :(

Hope you have a good ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 14 July, 2011, 01:19:34 pm
Having had my spare room / office / airfix room laminated yesterday (cheeers DIY dad), I've got my PC / office / airfix desk back together, and most importantly desktop PC fettled back together!   :thumbsup:

Nice sunny afternoon so about to get changed into lycra and head out for a nice spin on the office chair  bike    ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 July, 2011, 10:20:56 pm
Talking to bobb's cat on skype.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 July, 2011, 10:53:53 pm
Staring at the mountain of shopping that has been delivered and thinking that I really can't be arsed to put it all away.

But I have to, or I won't be able to make cake tomorrow because the kitchen is full of bags of shopping.

Bloody hate putting the shopping away.  S'not fair.  Why can't it just magically sort itself out?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 July, 2011, 11:01:49 pm
That's the problem with getting it delivered:

Arrive home looking sufficiently hot/cold/wet/sweaty/allergic with a bike load of shopping, and barakta takes sympathy and puts the shopping away while I stumble about and faff with gloves and glasses and things.

Get the Tescos man to do all the hard work, and muggins here has to do all the heavy lifting and most of the organising.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 July, 2011, 09:42:19 am
Quote from: jogler on 19 June, 2011, 11:38:55 am
Quote from: jogler on 12 June, 2011, 12:26:08 pm
licking the bowl.Actually I'm licking the spatula which is used to scoop the mix :thumbsup:

action replay


action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 15 July, 2011, 12:58:47 pm
Going to bed with Terry Pratchett and my 'phone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 July, 2011, 01:01:30 pm
Having a think about where I might want to go and ride on Sunday ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 July, 2011, 02:14:41 pm
Just downloading 1.25Gb of 70s/80s Disco 'n Funk to the iPod for the long drive West to this weekend's cycling & camping.

Mmm.... disco fever...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 July, 2011, 03:18:01 pm
Choosing and printing off pictures suitable to transfer to a flag ready for Deershed next weekend.

So far have found dragon, fox and zebra....

Hmmmm, wonder if I can find a narwhal? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 15 July, 2011, 10:25:36 pm
Sitting out one hell of a storm and remembering Fetlar and the ripped tent last year...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 July, 2011, 11:45:16 pm
Do these storms save themselves for arrival PB ::-)
Hope you both remain safe
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 July, 2011, 02:42:22 am
Baking.

I know, it's a shock :o

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 16 July, 2011, 06:35:45 am
Lying in bed waiting for the drugs to kick in.


Benadryl for the hay fever, before anyone jumps to the wrong conclusion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 16 July, 2011, 06:53:48 am
procrastinating.

my foot hurts, so I cant run and cant ride but can probably swim.  Problem is, I dont want to go swimming but if I wait long enough, the 1 hour 'lane swimming' slot at the local pool will be nearly over by the time I get there...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 July, 2011, 07:36:46 am
Watching rain drops the size of golf balls starting to flood the back garden.   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 July, 2011, 09:59:36 am
Drying out.
Just ridden down to the garage and back (all of about 4 miles) to book the car in and I'm bloody soaked!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 16 July, 2011, 10:38:05 am
Being on hold with Direct Line.  Six minutes and counting...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 16 July, 2011, 10:44:18 am
Sitting in a tent in Kettlewell, listening to the rain. Fucked if I'm going out in that!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 July, 2011, 10:52:13 am
It's pissing it down here too.  So, rather than going into town to buy stuff for party bags, I shall bake a bit more.

Can't have too much cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 16 July, 2011, 10:56:41 am
Quote from: SteveC on 16 July, 2011, 10:38:05 am
Being on hold with Direct Line.  Six minutes and counting...
Twenty-one minutes later.  There was one piece of information I didn't have, so I'm back on hold again... :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 July, 2011, 10:58:37 am
Waiting for the bus to Leeds. In the rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 16 July, 2011, 11:06:20 am
I was going to,  either, 1, Recover the shed roof where the wind damaged the felt a few weeks ago, or 2, go for a ride up to Glaisdale.

I'm not doing either because it is siling down outside, think I'll watch 6 and a half hours of the Tour instead
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 16 July, 2011, 11:07:01 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 16 July, 2011, 02:42:22 am
Baking.

I know, it's a shock :o



Just to shock a little more - I have got to make some more oaty jammy flapjacks, for some reason they seem to hae depleted rather quickly and its looking like there will be non left for our visitor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 16 July, 2011, 11:10:46 am
Quote from: jogler on 15 July, 2011, 11:45:16 pm
Do these storms save themselves for arrival PB ::-)
Hope you both remain safe

I reckon so. We have survived!    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 July, 2011, 11:12:11 am
Quote from: Marj on 16 July, 2011, 11:07:01 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 16 July, 2011, 02:42:22 am
Baking.

I know, it's a shock :o



Just to shock a little more - I have got to make some more oaty jammy flapjacks, for some reason they seem to hae depleted rather quickly and its looking like there will be non left for our visitor.

 :thumbsup:

Quote from: Marj on 16 July, 2011, 11:07:01 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 16 July, 2011, 02:42:22 am
Baking.

I know, it's a shock :o



Just to shock a little more - I have got to make some more oaty jammy flapjacks, for some reason they seem to hae depleted rather quickly and its looking like there will be non left for our visitor.

 :demon:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 July, 2011, 11:17:03 am
I'm helping Marj  to justify the need to make more oatyjammy flapjacks :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 July, 2011, 11:21:33 am
Ooh, looking at the Will It Rain Today? website, it looks as if it's about to stop raining in Brum. 
Might go shopping.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 July, 2011, 11:41:10 am
I think that being as it is pissing down, and there's going to be no forum this afternoon, we'll go out for lunch and a couple of pints. Then come home and watch the tour while being a cat bed and possibly have a bit of a snooze.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 16 July, 2011, 12:14:36 pm
The sun's breaking through here now, it's dried up and there's bits of blue sky :)

It was astonishingly wet overnight though
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 July, 2011, 12:19:22 pm
Feeling happy I got out on a bicycle ride, and home again before it started raining datsun cogs.   :thumbsup:

Now missing the Mr Blobby Theme on the new fangled YACF forums.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 July, 2011, 12:26:42 pm
Sitting in Leeds Waterstones. Just had an interesting chat with Andy Kershaw (the DJ) who's here doing a book signing. Its even stopped raining. For now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 July, 2011, 04:59:38 pm
wishing people on twitter would stop tweeting Tour spoilers
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 16 July, 2011, 11:25:24 pm
Laying in my sleeping bag listening to the wind in the trees at the most exclusive campsite in the Outer Hebrides contemplating having my legs ripped off tomorrow over 20 miles by the Stafford RC Best Clubman 1975...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 July, 2011, 02:32:16 am
Betcha can't guess!

Yup.  Baking.

I had three sorts of cake in my kitchen already.  My son decided he wanted a chocolate cake for his birthday.  Guess which sort of cake I hadn't made yesterday?

T'is just about done now, anyway.  And smells mighty fine  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 17 July, 2011, 02:41:57 am
What if Isaid I love you would you have jelly with the cake?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 July, 2011, 03:07:36 am
In the  morning I have 3 different flavours of jelly to make. And 2 sorts of ice cream to go with it,  and wafers and strawberry sauce and chocolate sauce :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 17 July, 2011, 03:20:42 am
And my invite?

I'm quiet, what talk to anyone and hover up any and all spare jelly, ice cream and cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 July, 2011, 07:37:48 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 17 July, 2011, 02:32:16 am
Betcha can't guess!

Yup.  Baking.

I had three sorts of cake in my kitchen already.  My son decided he wanted a chocolate cake for his birthday.  Guess which sort of cake I hadn't made yesterday?

T'is just about done now, anyway.  And smells mighty fine  :)

So that's cake for breakfast, lunch and dinner then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 17 July, 2011, 07:52:15 am
Trying to get psyched up to direct traffic at the Royal International Air Tattooo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 July, 2011, 12:45:35 pm
Howling with laughter at Tommy Cooper on ITV4
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 17 July, 2011, 02:01:20 pm
Just pointed the 'Polar Bears' in the direction of the ferry and waved them off (into the rain).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 July, 2011, 02:03:54 pm
Thinking about spending too much £ on a new camera lens.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 July, 2011, 02:09:12 pm
Trying to convince myself that getting the car sorted out tomorrow will not lead to some variety of fiscal sodomy. I can also be happy in the knowledge that it's *not* going to a main dealer.

Fortunately, signs point to a problem with the fuel pump relay, rather than the fuel pump itself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 July, 2011, 02:23:34 pm
Making ridiculous quantities of potato & aubergine curry in order to use up ridiculous amounts of potatoes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 July, 2011, 01:25:11 am
Hacking twirssi to replace the ASCII-art fail whale with a fail narwhal, while barakta and I giggle like small children staying up well past their bedtime.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 19 July, 2011, 01:46:57 am
Sitting in Notwork Fail's Didcot Bunker, nurse-maiding some equipment that hasn't gone wrong.  Ever.  But some corporate genius has decreed that our company must supply 24h cover.  Even though it's another company's box that occasionally declares "<name-removed-on-legal-advice>.exe has encountered a problem and must shut down.  Click here to send an email to Microsoft."  There's no rep of that company here tonight.

Our kit doesn't even run Windows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 19 July, 2011, 04:20:02 am
Just read all 52 pages of the "Cameron Communications Director" thread.

I just couldn't get worked up about it; Police, Politicians, Press.  Three areas of society that I really hope to have as little to do with as possible.

I'd better go and have a look at the computers downstairs in the equipment room here in the Didcot Bunker.  If all the signals go red, I've pressed the wrong button.   Apologies to anyone commuting on the Great Western today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 19 July, 2011, 05:55:37 am
Hunting for the bubble wrap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 July, 2011, 12:03:56 pm
Waiting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 July, 2011, 12:06:04 pm
looking at an image in my minds eye,conjured from a comment elsewhere on the forum, of Charlotte in a lycra cat suit :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 July, 2011, 12:11:22 pm
Waiting til the postie has been, in case toys arrive, then off to Pompey for the evening, back late tomorrow...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 19 July, 2011, 12:19:18 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 19 July, 2011, 12:11:22 pm
Waiting til the postie has been, in case toys arrive, then off to Pompey for the evening, back late tomorrow...

Are you on holidays then ?

Im (should) digging in crates of vinyl albums and submitting them on Discogs for sale
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 July, 2011, 12:22:45 pm
Unfortunately not, going to do some work, 'cos the guy that lives closest to our Pompey site is useless....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 19 July, 2011, 12:24:56 pm
Im thinking Pompey in France lol

Talking of work >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 July, 2011, 12:41:12 pm
Doing some more waiting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 19 July, 2011, 12:47:48 pm
What are you waiting for ? Im waiting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 19 July, 2011, 12:49:49 pm
Cursing my colleague for taking a 2hr lunch break and couting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 July, 2011, 03:00:57 pm
Waiting for this hospital to finish poking and prodding my Dad so I can accompany him back to the community hospital nearer home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 July, 2011, 03:12:46 pm
Being at home poorly, and watching the Murdochs at the select committee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 19 July, 2011, 03:25:02 pm
Leila K lol. You do know Leila K was maybe the worst solo artist ever.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 July, 2011, 03:26:23 pm
Attempting to neutralise the biological hazard that is my SPD sandals.  So far I appear to have neutralised my lungs.   :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 19 July, 2011, 03:30:26 pm
Quote from: Kim on 19 July, 2011, 03:26:23 pm
Attempting to neutralise the biological hazard that is my SPD sandals.  So far I appear to have neutralised my lungs.   :sick:

Ha ha ha. Wear them in the shower, well it works with crash helmets

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 July, 2011, 03:32:47 pm
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 19 July, 2011, 03:25:02 pm
Leila K lol. You do know Leila K was maybe the worst solo artist ever.
I think Timmy Mallett was worse.
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Post by: clarion on 19 July, 2011, 03:46:58 pm
I've just reorganised my office furniture.  Not easy swapping three desks around in a small space.  Especially when you find that one of them is just balancing on its back support instead of being screwed to it >:(

Now off to mash a brew.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 19 July, 2011, 03:50:17 pm
Spending much time on YACF
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Post by: Jurek on 19 July, 2011, 05:04:35 pm
And there I was thinking of this (http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6028/5954333237_8ff155c16e_o.jpg) Leila K  :-[
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 July, 2011, 07:00:32 pm
Waiting to spring into action on a mission of mercy.
Well, actually to pick up my new immigré boss' SO and take her to the hairyport to pick up her immigré kitties in time for her to get on a train to Embra for her mothers' wedding.
Or something.
It's complimicated.
And I don't know if it's going to work, either.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 July, 2011, 07:46:34 pm
Internet plane spotting
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Post by: tiermat on 19 July, 2011, 08:28:58 pm
Sat in a thai restaurant overlooking southampton docks, waiting for someone to take my order
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Post by: Basil on 19 July, 2011, 08:47:57 pm
Where do you want it taken to?
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Post by: tiermat on 19 July, 2011, 08:58:35 pm
Basil, if i could do smileys kne my phone you would get a FRO ons
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 July, 2011, 10:17:41 pm
Bathing in the warm glow of international kitty rescue
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Post by: Oaky on 19 July, 2011, 10:20:38 pm
Trying to keep fruit flies away from my wine.  >:(
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Post by: rower40 on 20 July, 2011, 07:26:16 pm
Mordor Central.  Again.
Few orcs penetrate through to the first class bit of a Voyager. Phew.
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Post by: PaulF on 20 July, 2011, 07:28:39 pm
Ignoring an e-mail turf war at the office. Im off til Monday and it will be resolved one way or anoher by then.

Let the children play :)
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Post by: jogler on 20 July, 2011, 07:49:43 pm
Modifying the cumulative distance column on a Eureka Perm routesheet so that my start control at Astbury reads "0".

Tipex rools o.k.
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Post by: LindaG on 21 July, 2011, 10:12:47 am
Writing to the Union (sigh).
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Post by: Jacomus on 21 July, 2011, 11:32:32 am
Wondering where I can get my hands on a pork pie, without walking all the way to Tesco, as I can't be away from the office for too long as I'm flying solo today.
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Post by: interzen on 21 July, 2011, 11:35:10 am
Waiting for OS X Lion to download. It could be a long wait.
Then I've got to download the new version of Xcode, which involve another long wait.

Whilst all this is going on, I'm preparing myself mentally for this afternoon's trip to the dentist.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 July, 2011, 05:54:20 pm
On a train, having left platform 11 slightly late. With CrinklyAuntie and her new bike!
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Post by: tiermat on 22 July, 2011, 11:50:58 am
Packing the car full of camping gear, eady for the weekend trip to deershed.
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Post by: LindaG on 22 July, 2011, 12:16:08 pm
Making key lime pie AND toffee apple tart AND pot-roasting a chicken.  To try to cheer up my poor juggler, who is most fed-up.
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Post by: interzen on 22 July, 2011, 12:18:27 pm
Thinking about what other little odds and sods I need to get if I make good on my plan to head up to Dalby Forest tomorrow ...
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Post by: Basil on 22 July, 2011, 12:24:13 pm
Waiting
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 July, 2011, 12:25:36 pm
Thinking about getting changed into something suitable for going to a retirement do.
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Post by: jogler on 22 July, 2011, 12:54:11 pm
Sorting & packing the "necessary" for doing MR24 support for some Scotlandshire forumites
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Post by: LindaG on 22 July, 2011, 01:31:55 pm
Chilling the key lime pie.  There was too much filling and I've half a bowl of creamy limey goodness going spare.

***Paging jogler***

I zested my finger along with the limes, which was special, and has added extra flavour to this.
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Post by: Feline on 22 July, 2011, 01:35:17 pm
Making Prik Nam Pla to go with the thai curry I am going to cook tonight :)
(http://www.cookasianfood.com/wp-content/gallery/sauces-condiments-dips/prik-nam-pla.jpg)
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Post by: LindaG on 22 July, 2011, 01:36:55 pm
Quote from: Feline on 22 July, 2011, 01:35:17 pm
Making Prik Nam Pla to go with the thai curry I am going to cook tonight :)


Wouldn't fancy that.  Looks a bit bland.
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Post by: Feline on 22 July, 2011, 01:39:22 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 22 July, 2011, 01:36:55 pm
Quote from: Feline on 22 July, 2011, 01:35:17 pm
Making Prik Nam Pla to go with the thai curry I am going to cook tonight :)


Wouldn't fancy that.  Looks a bit bland.

You serve it at the table and spoon some of it on top of your thai dish to make it taste hotter!
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Post by: SteveC on 22 July, 2011, 05:06:53 pm
Having done tonight's "must do's" at the computer  :smug: I am going outside to work through the equivalent list for the garden.


S
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 July, 2011, 08:27:37 pm
Enjoying a romantic weekend with bobb at the Holiday Inn in Colchester.
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Post by: interzen on 22 July, 2011, 09:02:24 pm
Quote from: Leila K on 22 July, 2011, 08:27:37 pm
Enjoying a romantic weekend with bobb at the Holiday Inn in Colchester.
An unusual combo, that :) Have fun ...
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Post by: jogler on 23 July, 2011, 03:59:20 am
Thinking that an early night ( 10 o'clock to bed )wasn't a good idea.My body clock says "you've had 6hrs,that's enough...wake up"  ::-)
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Post by: Andrij on 23 July, 2011, 04:15:45 am
Quote from: jogler on 23 July, 2011, 03:59:20 am
Ehinking that an early night ( 10 o'clock to bed )wasn't a good idea.My body clock says "you've had 6hrs,that's enough...wake up"  ::-)

Shall we start a club?
 
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Post by: Adam on 23 July, 2011, 06:42:56 am
Quote from: Andrij on 23 July, 2011, 04:15:45 am
Quote from: jogler on 23 July, 2011, 03:59:20 am
Ehinking that an early night ( 10 o'clock to bed )wasn't a good idea.My body clock says "you've had 6hrs,that's enough...wake up"  ::-)

Shall we start a club?

I was only awake at 5.  Can I join?
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Post by: Kim on 23 July, 2011, 08:38:57 am
OTOH, my body clock wants another 4 hours or so.   >:(
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Post by: interzen on 23 July, 2011, 11:48:41 am
Trying to find the business end of my coffee grinder .....  :o
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 July, 2011, 01:02:54 pm
Bra shopping. Ah, the joy of the kersnap pingfuckit underwire moment. And, indeed, the joy of York city centre on a Saturday lunchtime!
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Post by: interzen on 23 July, 2011, 01:04:08 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 July, 2011, 01:02:54 pm
Bra shopping. Ah, the joy of the kersnap pingfuckit underwire moment. And, indeed, the joy of York city centre on a Saturday lunchtime!
And a race day, too ... you have my sympathy.

(will be braving the masses myself later on when I've had some more coffee ...)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 July, 2011, 03:13:38 pm
Having seaside fun with bobb on Clacton pier.
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Post by: her_welshness on 23 July, 2011, 03:37:52 pm
Quote from: Leila K on 23 July, 2011, 03:13:38 pm
Having seaside fun with bobb on Clacton pier.

Yippeee! My manager has a caravan in Clacton. Wyvenhoe is meant to be verra nice apparently.

I am in work today when I was meant to be at a wedding  :(
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Post by: interzen on 23 July, 2011, 03:38:10 pm
Waiting for the bus home.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 July, 2011, 04:08:32 pm
Taking boys to visit grandad in hospital. Hoping that all concerned behave themselves!
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Post by: Basil on 23 July, 2011, 04:14:42 pm
Nursing my thumb which I am repeatedly hitting with a hammer today.
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Post by: Adrian on 23 July, 2011, 04:25:15 pm
Psyching myself up in preparation for Cadel Evans being interviewed.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 July, 2011, 07:13:52 pm
Wondering if 7.30 is too early a night. Is it silly to go to bed before the 4 year old? And pondering whether or not to get some henna and go carrot-topped again...
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Post by: BrianI on 23 July, 2011, 07:58:22 pm
Quote from: Basil on 23 July, 2011, 04:14:42 pm
Nursing my thumb which I am repeatedly hitting with a hammer today.
Were you listening to MC Hammer at the time?   ;)
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Post by: interzen on 23 July, 2011, 08:01:30 pm
Celebrating freedom. Of a sort.

It's a mixed blessing.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 July, 2011, 11:51:40 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 23 July, 2011, 03:37:52 pm
Quote from: Leila K on 23 July, 2011, 03:13:38 pm
Having seaside fun with bobb on Clacton pier.

Yippeee! My manager has a caravan in Clacton. Wyvenhoe is meant to be verra nice apparently.

I am in work today when I was meant to be at a wedding  :(

Wivenhoe is indeed very pleasant. I was eating curry there on Monday, as it is where my son lives. All the Clacton trains stop there, I believe.

There are good pubs, some very good restaurants, a delicatessen, a lovely church and, at weekends, a ferry. This will take you to Rowhedge from whence you can visit Fingringhoe. I'm sure nonn would like to take you there.
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Post by: Jurek on 23 July, 2011, 11:55:41 pm
I have drunk beer in a pub Fingringhoe.

It was quite lovely.
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Post by: her_welshness on 24 July, 2011, 11:37:45 am
Just booked Harry Potter tickets this afternoon - with 3D goodness  :thumbsup:

I am still sat in my jim-jams though  :-[
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 July, 2011, 12:12:55 pm
In the beer garden of the Viper, with nonn, waiting for lunch.
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Post by: Kim on 24 July, 2011, 12:29:59 pm
Attempting to cure my headache with rehydration and paracetamol.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 July, 2011, 01:28:28 pm
Helping granny Annie make lunch. EldestCub and I rode here, together with the CrinklyAuntie and her fwmbab.
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Post by: interzen on 24 July, 2011, 01:49:01 pm
Partaking of a leisurely luncheon before sallying forth to do battle with the garden.
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Post by: TimO on 24 July, 2011, 02:06:43 pm
At work, watching the start of the Tour de France coverage, and finishing off my lunch.

I'm going to spend a few hours hacking away trying to get some code written, that will be representative of the code needed to run our magnetometer on a CubeSat that we're involved with (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/spat/research/missions/space_missions/cinema).  This won't be the actual code used on the spacecraft, because that'll be written by Berkeley, but they'll need some example code, so we get as near to what we want, and so that they know how to do it!

It'll keep me suitably occupied, there's nothing like swearing at intransient electronics and software to take your mind off of other things!
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Post by: Manotea on 24 July, 2011, 03:02:24 pm
Starting the long haul in Richmond park waiting for the first ditchling devil riders.
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Post by: Dinamo on 24 July, 2011, 03:03:55 pm
Watching the Tour on TV & the Test match on my PC  :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 24 July, 2011, 03:07:19 pm
Just back from deershed, a fantastic weekend with friends, the kids playing continuously from Friday PM to today.

The girls are asleep on the sofa and I am contemplating emptying the car, that contemplation might be as far as I get with it tho....
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Post by: LindaG on 24 July, 2011, 03:23:32 pm
Oh that's excellent Tiermat. Does that mean TLD will be open to more camping adventures?
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Post by: peliroja on 24 July, 2011, 03:24:45 pm
Watching the Tour while keeping an eye on an entertaining spat between @piersmorgan and @louisemensch on Twitter. 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 July, 2011, 03:28:13 pm
Snuffling, and waiting for Pingu to come back home so I can watch the Tour and the F1.
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Post by: Kim on 24 July, 2011, 03:34:51 pm
Wondering if there's more to this headache than dehydration...   :-\
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Post by: GruB on 24 July, 2011, 03:37:04 pm
Watching the Tour.  I've mown the lawn so I'm permitted to relax for a moment.
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Post by: peliroja on 24 July, 2011, 03:37:37 pm
Is it a tea headache, Kim? Have you had enough of the stuff so far this morning, I wonder?
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Post by: Kim on 24 July, 2011, 03:59:08 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 24 July, 2011, 03:37:37 pm
Is it a tea headache, Kim? Have you had enough of the stuff so far this morning, I wonder?

As someone who eschews tea (I know, I'd fail the Britishness test), that seems unlikely.

I thought it was something to do with dehydration after a fairly hard ride (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10.msg1005005#msg1005005) yesterday, then sleeping for about 15 hours.  But I'm becoming suspicious that I may have contracted the lurgy that barakta's been suffering from all week.  Fneh.
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Post by: padbeat on 24 July, 2011, 04:11:24 pm
In St Jean de Mont in the Vandee watching the Tour on TV2. We should have been here 3 weeks ago to watch the first stage go rolling by the end of the road, but hey ho! Sometimes I hate my job ...
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Post by: tiermat on 24 July, 2011, 05:10:28 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 24 July, 2011, 03:23:32 pm
Oh that's excellent Tiermat. Does that mean TLD will be open to more camping adventures?

A resounding YES!!!! :)
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Post by: border-rider on 24 July, 2011, 05:28:06 pm
Quote from: Grub on 24 July, 2011, 03:37:04 pm
Watching the Tour.  I've mown the lawn so I'm permitted to relax for a moment.

I've been cutting the grass as well. The lawnmower seems to have just died, so I get a break ;)
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Post by: BrianI on 24 July, 2011, 05:41:23 pm
feeling somewhat migrainey, trying to chill in the hoose with windows open, blinds drawn  so that neighbours won't see my clothing or lack of keeping the glarey daylight out, and also pondering that I need to cut down on coffee and tea and try and drink more h20. 

Also also pondering on treating myself to a car assisted bike ride next week, perhaps parking up in Crieff visitor centre, picnic etc in pannier, then heading towards Comrie via the south crieff road, then heading up for a picnic @ Loch Lednock.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: GruB on 24 July, 2011, 06:38:40 pm
Just planning our day out in London tomorrow.
Madame Tussauds and The Dungeon I think.
I know it is costly but the boys will love it I reckon.
You have to do it once.  ;D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 July, 2011, 01:25:37 pm
Being a Bad Mummy. Day of telly and Wii and slobbing round the house and  eating rubbish for all of us. I have absolutely no energy or enthusiam for anything more today....
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Post by: BrianI on 25 July, 2011, 02:10:53 pm
cleaning out my bedroom drawers.  Found 17p so far   :thumbsup:  and a couple of foostie socks   :sick:
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Post by: Kim on 25 July, 2011, 02:47:00 pm
Exim wrangling.  This is usually the bit where I swear at Debian for being obscure.
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Post by: BrianI on 25 July, 2011, 06:29:47 pm
Getting my photie gear packed up as I fancy taking a wee dander up a wee hill to see the sunset over the Ochils.   :thumbsup: Whether it'll be a dramatic sunset, that's another matter entirely.   ???
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Post by: Feline on 26 July, 2011, 11:31:18 am
I got a free waterproof iPhone case with my ink cartridge order. I am struggling to understand how to use it though. Particularly feature number 4: When using this product, such as cameras. Handsets and other products falling into the water, will be automatically cropped to.  ???

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/iPhonecase.jpg)
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Post by: Guy on 26 July, 2011, 11:58:04 am
Reading Dilbert cartoons from the 1980s while wondering if lunch time will ever arrive.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 July, 2011, 12:23:42 pm
Feline, I haven't seen such a great example of engrish for a long time!
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Post by: matthew on 26 July, 2011, 01:17:14 pm
Sitting with my bike beside the river cree.

Scratching midge bites because the campsite has a pond and this is scotland
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 July, 2011, 01:19:49 pm
Quote from: matthew on 26 July, 2011, 01:17:14 pm
Sitting with my bike beside the river cree.

Scratching midge bites because the campsite has a pond and this is scotland
Where?
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Post by: Basil on 26 July, 2011, 02:01:31 pm
Sitting in my garden and NOT GARDENING
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 July, 2011, 02:46:57 pm
Sitting on a train with my boys.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 July, 2011, 02:48:25 pm
Still packing enormous amounts of stuff.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 10:16:42 am
Drinking coffee whilst hurtling through Nottinghamshire at 125 mph.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 10:48:08 am
Decelerating for York. I've finished my coffee and biscuit and am hankering after CAKE.

I do have marmite sandwiches. I'll try to wait until after noon to eat them.

The Garmin has recorded 130 mph for this train, the fastest ever I think. Probably an aberration.
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Post by: pixieannie on 27 July, 2011, 11:09:12 am
Sitting.  Nina now at the vets, soon to go through her TPLO (tibial plateau levelling osteotomy), bless her fluffy little feet.  I'm in a fair amount of pain but have a sense of humour in the form of a Cose.ta coffe
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 July, 2011, 11:13:51 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 10:48:08 am
Decelerating for York. I've finished my coffee and biscuit and am hankering after CAKE..
Had you but said, we could have met you by the door for an illicit cake handover. We have previous for that sort of behaviour!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 11:23:18 am
I suspect that a consignment of Crinklycake would have resulted in irreparable frame damage and Robin Thorn just pointing and laughing.

We are about to stop in Darlington. In 38 minutes I will eat my sandwiches.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 11:27:56 am
Getting concerned about my connection in Edinburgh. There's a 10-minute turn-round and we seemed to leave Darlington 3 minutes late. Hopefully we will pick up some time.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 11:49:49 am
Crossing the Tyne. Back on schedule.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 July, 2011, 11:59:37 am
Deer Mizter Wow of Teh Baggers,
Pleaze to be bringing sum of teh nice weathers up with you,
kthxbai,
I haz a frozen
(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/i-has-frozen.jpg)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 12:12:26 pm
Doing my best to carry a consignment of warmth for Mrs. Pingu.

The trouble is that it seems that most of the warm weather this month has been in North Wales.

A few minutes ago I could see the North Sea from between Morpeth and Alnwick.
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Post by: clarion on 27 July, 2011, 12:35:55 pm
That's an utterly beautiful part of the country, isn't it? :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 July, 2011, 12:36:31 pm
Woo! The sun has come out and it's warm. You must be pushing it in front of the train :D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 12:44:36 pm
The sun is out now. A small girl has just exclaimed,  a propos the view over the sea, "Wow, that's beautiful,isn't it?" I have to concur.
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Post by: clarion on 27 July, 2011, 12:53:40 pm
How did she know your name?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 12:58:09 pm
Perhaps she's on YACF.
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Post by: clarion on 27 July, 2011, 01:00:49 pm
Poor thing. 
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 July, 2011, 01:03:15 pm
You'll be going through Dunbar right about now. Wave to my Uncle Tommy's bothy.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 July, 2011, 01:07:22 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 12:44:36 pm
The sun is out now. A small girl has just exclaimed,  a propos the view over the sea, "Wow, that's beautiful,isn't it?" I have to concur.

Usually on the train through Fife, I exclaim 'Seals!', and then look embarrassed when I realise that Pingu isn't with me  :facepalm:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 01:42:37 pm
Just left Haymarket. I didn't buy any. Is this got enough for you, Mrs P? The air conditioning on this train appears to have wilted.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 July, 2011, 03:25:13 pm
Yes, that's just lovely thanks Wow :).
What did you not buy any of?
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Post by: Pingu on 27 July, 2011, 03:29:45 pm
Hay?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 03:32:35 pm
Hay indeed. Cloudless at Killiecrankie.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 03:59:25 pm
Pass of Drumochter. 1505 feet according to the Garmin. Is that Britain's highest railway?
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Post by: clarion on 27 July, 2011, 04:05:38 pm
Are you sure about that figure?  I thought the highest railway was the Leadhills & Wanlockhead (http://www.leadhillsrailway.co.uk/), which reaches 1498ft
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Post by: jane on 27 July, 2011, 04:21:09 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 03:59:25 pm
Pass of Drumochter. 1505 feet according to the Garmin. Is that Britain's highest railway?
Off to your right somewhere should be Ben Macdui. Wave to my daughter, she is probably somewhere near the top, if not on it, around now.
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Post by: BrianI on 27 July, 2011, 06:23:09 pm
Spinning out one of those indian "We have found a problem on your pc" calls and confusing them by saying "I don't run microsoft or apple operating systems on my PC, I am running ubuntu linux."

So Indian Call Centre Worker by the name of "Micheal" replies  " Please go to your start menu.... Press the windows key on your keyboard..... blah blah blah online virus currupt your documents and data... Because of a technical fault with your pc we cannot diagnose your pc at this moment in time.... For a one time payment we can fix your pc online and give you a software warranty......... please be on hold while I generate the online access code."  I then hang up, and he then promptly rings back up....    >:(

Managed to spam his spam call out for 17 minutes in the end, and he hung up rather confused about people not using Windows or Apple operating systems!  ;D
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Post by: LindaG on 27 July, 2011, 09:24:35 pm
Drinking wine in the garden.
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Post by: interzen on 27 July, 2011, 09:31:09 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 03:59:25 pm
Pass of Drumochter. 1505 feet according to the Garmin. Is that Britain's highest railway?
Yep, although I believe that the 'official' score is 1484ft ASL
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Post by: interzen on 27 July, 2011, 10:48:39 pm
Cursing Apple and their stupid, hair-brained, counterintuitive code-signing process1 .... GAAAAAH!

1 - with sincere apologies to my cadre of lovely beta testers, please vent your indignation at the Fruit Company.

EDIT: It turns out that I might have skipped a very tiny, yet mind-blowingly important step in the build process. Naturally, this is glossed over in the documentation and I'm not the first person to find out the hard way  ::-)
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Post by: tiermat on 27 July, 2011, 10:53:59 pm
Building servers, AGAIN!!!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 July, 2011, 11:02:11 pm
Cleaning my bike. Missing the ipod. Eyeing up the middle chainring with deep suspicion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 28 July, 2011, 01:25:57 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 27 July, 2011, 11:02:11 pm
Eyeing up the middle chainring with deep suspicion.

The middle one?  It's the big'un you have to look out for IME - that's the one that leads to sore knees and needing to lie down just for a moment.
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Post by: Kim on 28 July, 2011, 01:26:39 pm
Also, big rings often have a taste for human flesh.
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Post by: rower40 on 28 July, 2011, 01:45:12 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2011, 01:42:37 pm
Just left Haymarket.
I'm visibly relieved that Wow didn't attempt a trainset[/] transit of Haymarket today.  A train 'sat down' (BBC website said "slipped off the tracks" - as though they're icy) at Princes Street Gardens last night, and is still there today.  The Dundee to Plymouth HST came through Derby about 55 mins late, and is terminating at Newton Abbot.
Title: What am I doing right now.
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2011, 06:04:49 pm
Drinking a cup of tea and admiring loch Broom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 28 July, 2011, 06:08:06 pm
Sneezing and farting ;D
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Post by: jogler on 28 July, 2011, 06:50:21 pm
simultaneously or consecutively?
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Post by: eck on 28 July, 2011, 06:51:19 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 July, 2011, 06:50:21 pm
simultaneously or consecutively?
Nah, cause and effect.
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Post by: jogler on 28 July, 2011, 06:53:08 pm
cogitating....which bike to take on hols:geared of fixed?
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Post by: Aidan on 28 July, 2011, 06:54:42 pm
Quote from: eck on 28 July, 2011, 06:51:19 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 July, 2011, 06:50:21 pm
simultaneously or consecutively?
Nah, cause and effect.

This
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 July, 2011, 07:03:55 pm
Quote from: eck on 28 July, 2011, 06:51:19 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 July, 2011, 06:50:21 pm
simultaneously or consecutively?
Nah, cause and effect.

that would be farting & sneezing then,would it not?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 July, 2011, 07:12:12 pm
I have just packed up my bike for a 10 day camping trip. it is so heavy now I can hardly lift the back wheel off the ground ... yikes!
I think I probably won't sleep much tonight wondering if I will make it 150 miles to Flers like this  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 28 July, 2011, 07:23:18 pm
Finishing off a scale model kit I was given at christmas.  Started it in january, and I might even get it finished before next christmas!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 28 July, 2011, 07:56:05 pm
I thought you were off to France WB? Or is this another hols? (jealous of course)
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Post by: simonp on 28 July, 2011, 08:00:39 pm
Gardening.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 July, 2011, 08:33:51 pm
Looking through the Lakeland autumn catalogue with lust in my eyes.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 July, 2011, 08:58:53 pm
Figuring out how to get from Haymarket to Leith tomorrow morning, being as Waverley is Do Not Pass Go....
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 July, 2011, 09:04:10 pm
How much luggage will you have? The no25 goes down Leith Walk, or you could walk to Princes Street and get 7, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 22, 49.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 July, 2011, 09:08:57 pm
Yeah, I has sussed out the 25. No luggage but I'm supposed to be at the cook school for 0915. Oh well, I'll get there when I get there.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 July, 2011, 02:28:36 pm
Baking. This is quite odd. I mean, it's daylight out there and everything!
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Post by: interzen on 29 July, 2011, 03:42:56 pm
Watching train videos on my iPad, and it's all because of the "Trainspotters" thread :)
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Post by: Kim on 29 July, 2011, 03:45:38 pm
Wondering if I should wake barakta, who appears to have fallen asleep amongst the bikes in the front room.
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Post by: Basil on 29 July, 2011, 04:01:52 pm
Draw a tyre mark across her, then take a photo.  ;)
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Post by: Feline on 29 July, 2011, 08:00:21 pm
I'm in the pub near the ferry terminal in Portsmouth trying not to get too drunk before my ferry. I had a really nice 100 mile ride here, not very fast because of a weeks camping stuff on the bike but not as slow as I was expecting to be :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 July, 2011, 08:02:16 pm
Recovering from a day spent learning to cook fish while scoffing liberal quantities of wine :P
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 July, 2011, 01:07:53 pm
Wondering if bobb and I could develop and open a crazy golf course. It would be the only one in east central Scotland and it would have loads of windmills.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 July, 2011, 02:53:54 pm
Attempting to escape from Mordor Central without the aid of a bike. This involves suboptimal amounts of hanging around on platform 11 inhaling the diesel fumes.
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Post by: BrianI on 30 July, 2011, 03:05:29 pm
Quote from: Leila K on 30 July, 2011, 01:07:53 pm
Wondering if bobb and I could develop and open a crazy golf course. It would be the only one in east central Scotland and it would have loads of windmills.
   ;D  Yay for Crazy Golf!   :D
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Post by: her_welshness on 30 July, 2011, 03:13:39 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 30 July, 2011, 03:05:29 pm
Quote from: Leila K on 30 July, 2011, 01:07:53 pm
Wondering if bobb and I could develop and open a crazy golf course. It would be the only one in east central Scotland and it would have loads of windmills.
   ;D  Yay for Crazy Golf!   :D

God I hate Crazy Golf, reminds me of being 12 again, in Swansea, wearing a cagoule (sp).

At the moment I am trying to prepare answers to potential questions that they will ask me at my job interview next week.
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Post by: BrianI on 30 July, 2011, 03:53:01 pm
Melting.   :sick:  Too hot!   :-[
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Post by: Jaded on 30 July, 2011, 03:58:16 pm
Fencing.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 30 July, 2011, 06:50:54 pm
Sitting with my foot up, trying to come up with plan B for supper. Plan A was walk to the chippy, but my ankle says no.
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Post by: her_welshness on 30 July, 2011, 07:35:40 pm
Quote from: perpetual dan on 30 July, 2011, 06:50:54 pm
Sitting with my foot up, trying to come up with plan B for supper. Plan A was walk to the chippy, but my ankle says no.

Papa John's pizza?  :D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 July, 2011, 10:01:04 pm
Sitting in Durness Youth Hostel, one of 26 guests only four of whom have English as a first language.

By far the largest group is a bunch of Swiss and German Christian cyclists who set off from Inverness last Monday. There's a car supporting them and a little while ago a quartet of brass payers started up on the grass outside. They were bloody good.

I want to go all Old Testament Prophet and teach them Cwm Rhondda.
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Post by: andrewc on 30 July, 2011, 10:14:47 pm
I stayed at Durness YHA on my first trip there, many moons ago. I tried to get in when I was there in May, but they had a block booking from a school group so I ended up camping again.

I seen to remember driving some Germanic chaps out of the kitchen with the fumes from my curry... ;D
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Post by: interzen on 30 July, 2011, 10:17:41 pm
Lying in bed, feeling like hammered shit.
Best weather we've had for ages and I've got a freakin' cold  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 30 July, 2011, 10:24:28 pm
Sitting in a cottage in Vendée drinking wine.
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Post by: andrewc on 30 July, 2011, 10:48:04 pm
Sitting in a flat in Liverpool, drinking wine & listening to Emma Kirby & Gothic Voices doing some of Hildegard of Bingen's stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 July, 2011, 10:54:37 pm
It seems that there's going to be a lot of competition for the Cape Wrath ferry in the morning.
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Post by: andrewc on 30 July, 2011, 11:05:06 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 30 July, 2011, 10:54:37 pm
It seems that there's going to be a lot of competition for the Cape Wrath ferry in the morning.

Sneak into the bike shed & let their tyres down  :demon:

Have fun, but be careful. Bits of the route are pretty rough and I saw one bloke leave copious amounts of skin on the track..
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Post by: Kim on 31 July, 2011, 12:17:17 am
Being awake.  This is suboptimal.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 July, 2011, 12:28:13 am
I'm also fully awake.  Have plans to get up at a silly hour and ride some Surrey Hills before the traffic (and thinner cyclists) hit them), possibly to no avail due to lack of sleepiness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 31 July, 2011, 12:33:26 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 31 July, 2011, 12:28:13 am
I'm also fully awake.  Have plans to get up at a silly hour and ride some Surrey Hills before the traffic (and thinner cyclists) hit them), possibly to no avail due to lack of sleepiness.

Replace 'Surrey' with 'North London' for me, but I have no bail option as I've arranged to drag someone else along the route.  Worst case scenario: I spend most of Sunday asleep.
 
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 31 July, 2011, 12:34:36 am
Giggling and Grinning insanely like Micky Dolenz on Speed!


Sugar Rush from 2 litres of Pepsi!
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 July, 2011, 12:42:32 am
Quote from: Andrij on 31 July, 2011, 12:33:26 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 31 July, 2011, 12:28:13 am
I'm also fully awake.  Have plans to get up at a silly hour and ride some Surrey Hills before the traffic (and thinner cyclists) hit them), possibly to no avail due to lack of sleepiness.

Replace 'Surrey' with 'North London' for me, but I have no bail option as I've arranged to drag someone else along the route.  Worst case scenario: I spend most of Sunday asleep.

That would be my plan too, have to be somewhere later on though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 July, 2011, 01:08:47 am
I'm not entirely sure that going for a bike ride is a particularly sensible solution to my current state of awakefulness.  Not that I'd normally let that stop me, but I haven't recovered from the FNRttS (or, more precisely, the hours of faffing about that were involved in getting back to Brum after it).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 July, 2011, 01:17:30 am
Quote from: Kim on 31 July, 2011, 01:08:47 am
I'm not entirely sure that going for a bike ride is a particularly sensible solution to my current state of awakefulness.  Not that I'd normally let that stop me, but I haven't recovered from the FNRttS (or, more precisely, the hours of faffing about that were involved in getting back to Brum after it).

Oh sure, I wasn't suggesting it as a solution - more pre-empting my possible decision not to ride if I don't get some sleep soon. 

About to hit the minus 5hr window which makes such things less likely.  See how I feel when the alarm rings.
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Post by: Kim on 31 July, 2011, 01:23:33 am
*nods*

Enjoy the ride, if there is one   :)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 July, 2011, 03:40:46 pm
Stage one of tackling the Teetering_Piles_Of_Crap. Boys' bedroom, laundry mountain and toy boxes. This is quite some undertaking...
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Post by: rower40 on 31 July, 2011, 03:43:04 pm
Mostly chortling.
I've never been sigged before.
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Post by: Jaded on 31 July, 2011, 04:51:45 pm
Putting some washing out. On a Sunday.

VERY BAD
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Post by: Kim on 31 July, 2011, 04:54:34 pm
Spooling up the air conditioner.  The humidity's gone silly, for some reason.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 31 July, 2011, 05:08:14 pm
Sorting through yet more dusty crates of vinyl albums. cleaning them best I can and working what ones I'll keep and which ones Ill sell on Discogs

This crate seems to have a lot of punk from the 70's - 80's

Currently listening to Kate Bush album. Hounds Of Love. Reminds me of the time I went to see The Rapture & that other band that did a cover version of Hounds Of Love at Manchester Academy. My wife at the time was 8 month pregnant.

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Post by: longers on 31 July, 2011, 05:18:53 pm
Currently feeling really really ill. All self inflicted so no sympathy required.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 31 July, 2011, 05:23:45 pm
Giving up writing an EMC document, since I'm not sure whether to write a very short abbreviated version, and massively detailed and long version, or a more realistic middle ground!

Instead I'm going to spend a few hours working on Software Requirements documents instead, which is almost relaxing in comparison.

There's nothing like writing thousands of pages of supporting documents for a project, to waste all the time that we could spend on actually doing the project. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 31 July, 2011, 07:06:57 pm
Possibly pondering too much on matters which aren't too good to spend too much time pondering on.   :-\
Title: What am I doing now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 July, 2011, 07:50:53 pm
Sitting in the Smoo Cave Hotel, having consumed a salmon main course followed by cranachan. I'm also into my second pint of ale so am feeling mellow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 July, 2011, 11:08:20 pm
Suffering from a large dose of CBA when I should be emptying the cat litter tray, putting the bins out, loading the dishwasher and hanging up laundry. gosh, the glamour!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 August, 2011, 12:10:02 am
Swearing at Microsoft products.
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Post by: Basil on 01 August, 2011, 12:21:00 am
Wondering why that although I'm catching a train to Waleslandshire tomorrow morning in order to ride my best tourer back to Brum[1], I have done no packing, map checking or any prep whatsoever.
Oh, It's because I'm me. isn't it?

[1] I've got the week off so the route will not be the usual A40 - Brecon - Hay - Leominster - Stourport.  It will probably contain much more gratuitous Wales (Mid and even North) than usual. Plus Bus shelters, wild camping, pubs and even more pubs.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 August, 2011, 12:24:02 am
Quote from: Basil on 01 August, 2011, 12:21:00 am
Wondering why that although I'm catching a train to Waleslandshire tomorrow morning in order to ride my best tourer back to Brum[1], I have done no packing, map checking or any prep whatsoever.
Oh, It's because I'm me. isn't it?

[1] I've got the week off so the route will not be the usual A40 - Brecon - Hay - Leominster - Stourport.  It will probably contain much more gratuitous Wales (Mid and even North) than usual. Plus Bus shelters, wild camping, pubs and even more pubs.  :thumbsup:

Basil m'dear

You are me.  And ICMFP.

The solution is to pack now, and set off anyway.  You'll catch up on your sleep outdoors.  It's too damn hot to be in a bed tonight anyway.

Hope you have a marvellous time!  Will there be a ride report?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 August, 2011, 12:38:54 am
Thanks Linda,

I'm glad to think that we are the sensible ones.  :)  I never plan.  I don't want to spend a week being in a certain place by a certain time.  That's like being at work!  :(

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 01 August, 2011, 12:24:02 am
Will there be a ride report?
erm
Quote from: Basil on 01 August, 2011, 12:21:00 am
, pubs and even more pubs.  :thumbsup:

proly not, if the pubs have their usual affect.  :facepalm:

Where the hell was I?  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 August, 2011, 12:40:33 am
Quote from: Basil on 01 August, 2011, 12:38:54 am

Where the hell was I?  ???

Packing, Basil.

Packing.   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 August, 2011, 12:42:13 am
Oh yes.

Bye
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 01 August, 2011, 06:23:55 am
Breakfast time, getting ready for work after a week off.  Deep joy.
Title: What am I doing now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 August, 2011, 07:29:54 am
Digesting a Scottish Youth Hostel breakfast. Well that didn't take long.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 01 August, 2011, 09:51:18 am
Can't do quotes easily from the mobile interface, but +1 for Kim's last post!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 01 August, 2011, 11:25:22 am
Waiting in for someone else's parcel and tidying the garage.

Neither of which is fun.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 August, 2011, 12:54:10 pm
Enjoying a rare day off, would have been better to have tomorrow off, but I could only have today :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 August, 2011, 12:54:56 pm
Making a playlist.  And burning it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 August, 2011, 01:02:38 pm
Digesting lunch, watching boys have fun with balloons and whoopee cushions, contemplating actually getting us all ready to go swimming before it gets too late. I bloody love school holidays, me. Makes me wish I could go back to being a full time mum. M'boys are (to me at least) much more interesting than other people's IT problems.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 August, 2011, 01:04:50 pm
Other people's IT problems are a particularly special (and sadly, insidious) class of uninteresting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 01 August, 2011, 01:06:47 pm
Sweltering
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 01 August, 2011, 03:44:57 pm
Resolving discrepancies between choices on a behaviour change technqiue taxonomy made by 2 other peopled doing data extraction. Been doing it for a week. My brane hruts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 August, 2011, 03:47:41 pm
Wishing I'd parked my motor-car in one of three spaces on the other side of the building :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 01 August, 2011, 04:03:39 pm
Sitting by a po in the 30+ degree zone, watching the sun go down over the hills with a beer in my hand. smiling because I have managed to convince Mrs Ham to hire bikes tomorrow (very itchy pedals). Life is good enough that I can forgive my Kindle battery for giving up the ghost. Oh yes, I forgot, using free Internet on my phone.


edit: thzt REALLY should have read sitting by the pool
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 August, 2011, 07:25:21 pm
Lying around on the sofa, being a cat bed, thinking about tackling the kitchen and contemplating orangeness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 01 August, 2011, 07:53:35 pm
Watching my wife cook supper for me :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 August, 2011, 08:53:57 pm
In a camp site in Dingwall spodding from my tent. It's pissing down. I'm full of rice bolognese and bannock and hoping that the rain will stop so that I can sit outside to make a cup of tea.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: keepontriking on 01 August, 2011, 09:07:27 pm
Setting mouse traps.
Grrrrr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 August, 2011, 12:55:33 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 01 August, 2011, 07:25:21 pm
thinking about tackling the kitchen and contemplating orangeness.

Didn't tackle the kitchen. Am now contemplating orangeness from a different perspective. I appear to have very very shiny hair that might not be quite my natural shade....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 August, 2011, 08:48:49 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 02 August, 2011, 12:55:33 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 01 August, 2011, 07:25:21 pm
thinking about tackling the kitchen and contemplating orangeness.

Didn't tackle the kitchen. Am now contemplating orangeness from a different perspective. I appear to have very very shiny hair that might not be quite my natural shade....

 :o

Clearly - pictures are required.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 August, 2011, 09:17:20 am
Still no laptop, so fail at posting inline pics here. There's one on a certain popular social networking site tho...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 August, 2011, 09:54:10 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 02 August, 2011, 09:17:20 am
Still no laptop, so fail at posting inline pics here. There's one on a certain popular social networking site tho...

So there is! Niiiice...  :thumbsup:
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Post by: numbnuts on 02 August, 2011, 10:09:55 am
waiting to have my eyes tested 8) and then I think I will be £200 + poorer
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 August, 2011, 01:00:42 pm
Drinking an ice cold San Miguel and dreaming of Barcelona
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 August, 2011, 01:23:01 pm
Wondering if bikely will ever play nicely.  :-\
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 02 August, 2011, 01:39:20 pm
Rubbing freeze gel into my back and hoping that my back will stop going into spasm as I have my Reading Group tonight  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 02 August, 2011, 01:50:42 pm
Procrastinating because I have lots of tedious data analysis to do, and I don't really care about the outcomes even though I'm going to be first author on the paper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 August, 2011, 02:04:03 pm
I'm in a wood.
Best not to describe what I'm doing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 August, 2011, 03:20:26 pm
Eating one of the ice creams bought for us all by a member of staff on her way in to work :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 August, 2011, 08:31:41 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 02 August, 2011, 09:17:20 am
Still no laptop, so fail at posting inline pics here. There's one on a certain popular social networking site tho...

 :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 August, 2011, 11:37:54 pm
Quote from: Basil on 02 August, 2011, 02:04:03 pm
I'm in a wood.
Best not to describe what I'm doing.

Do you need a folding spade for that?

Or are you a different kind of bear?  ;D
Title: What am I doing now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 August, 2011, 05:34:56 am
Wondering if Her Welshness went all the way whether her Reading Group would become a Swindon Group.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 03 August, 2011, 01:12:02 pm
Waiting in for a parcel, which isn't mine.  :-\

And packing... in theory.
Title: What am I doing now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 August, 2011, 01:53:42 pm
Admiring Edinburgh and the Pentland hills from north of the Forth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 03 August, 2011, 01:53:55 pm
I've just finished cleaning my neighbours flat, he a hoarder, just removed 18 bags of rubbish from his kitchen and lounge
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 August, 2011, 06:45:52 pm
Wondering why I went this way.
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Post by: Simonb on 03 August, 2011, 06:46:26 pm
Working; fixing other people's shit.
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Post by: Basil on 03 August, 2011, 06:55:10 pm
Quietly charging this phone in a pub. 
Always choose a table next to the gambling machine.  There's often a spare socket.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 August, 2011, 07:06:49 pm
Typing this reply oh nag on that was a second ago now I am saying that was a second ago but hold on now that's in the past, this is a realy hard question .....
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Post by: Canardly on 03 August, 2011, 08:19:00 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 03 August, 2011, 01:53:55 pm
I've just finished cleaning my neighbours flat, he a hoarder, just removed 18 bags of rubbish from his kitchen and lounge

Thought you had a a bad back atm? That's not going to do you much good now is it?
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Post by: numbnuts on 03 August, 2011, 09:26:40 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 03 August, 2011, 08:19:00 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 03 August, 2011, 01:53:55 pm
I've just finished cleaning my neighbours flat, he a hoarder, just removed 18 bags of rubbish from his kitchen and lounge

Thought you had a a bad back atm? That's not going to do you much good now is it?
His flat was worse than my bad back, I kidd you not, he's over 80 and has cancer
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Post by: Canardly on 03 August, 2011, 09:29:37 pm
Oic.
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Post by: Oaky on 03 August, 2011, 09:33:23 pm
Sipping Pineau des Charentes and reading PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
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Post by: Basil on 04 August, 2011, 09:17:31 am
Wondering if it is going to stop raining.
And whether I should either try and wait it out or just get on with it and pack up a soaking tent thereby commiting to wetness for the rest of my tour.
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Post by: Basil on 04 August, 2011, 09:38:08 am
Looking westward.
It's looking hopefull.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 August, 2011, 03:13:57 pm
Wondering:

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Post by: Kim on 04 August, 2011, 05:46:25 pm
Feeling groggy.  I fell asleep with the kitten again.
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Post by: keepontriking on 04 August, 2011, 07:13:20 pm
Now drying off after five soggy hours of cycle training in the pouring rain.
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Post by: Andrij on 05 August, 2011, 01:57:03 pm
Trying not to fall asleep at my desk.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 August, 2011, 03:06:44 pm
Having utterly failed at clothes shopping, I am drinking coffee and watching EldestCub play in a play area. So, for someone's birthday party, jeans and a t-shirt or cycling jersey  :-\ I bloody hate clothes shopping...
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Post by: TheLurker on 05 August, 2011, 03:22:26 pm
Clock-watching.
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Post by: essexian on 05 August, 2011, 03:45:17 pm
Quote from: TheLurker on 05 August, 2011, 03:22:26 pm
Clock-watching.

And waiting for the Central Heating bloke to arrive...only 90 mins late.

Edit to add: Oh the power of YACF.... he turned up within a minute of me posting the above!
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Post by: LindaG on 05 August, 2011, 05:05:45 pm
Having my lunch
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Post by: Wowbagger on 06 August, 2011, 10:35:23 am
Enjoying the unfamiliar surroundings of some services on the A1. It's years since we did a hong car journey.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 August, 2011, 11:25:41 am
Wishing the assay office would hurry up.

I was given gift vouchers from http://niziblian.wordpress.com/ for my birthday last year and after much deliberation decided to have a pendant custom made. It's gone off to the assay office for hallmarking and I am come over all Veruca Salt - I want it now.
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Post by: numbnuts on 06 August, 2011, 01:15:16 pm
I'm feeling sorry for myself I think I have man flu
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Post by: TimO on 06 August, 2011, 02:24:00 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 06 August, 2011, 01:15:16 pm
I'm feeling sorry for myself I think I have man flu

Sorry to hear that numbnuts, an affliction which is clearly far worse than anything else anyone could get. ;D

I just got back from a pet shoppery visit, and one of the neighbour's cats was even friendlier than normal.  The very interested sniffing of the carrier bag containing two bags of kitten food may have had something to do with it!
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Post by: Red on 06 August, 2011, 02:47:30 pm
I'm watching Kim fettle my bike (the one that the bike shop supposedly fixed). Currently fixing a pingfuckit with epoxy resin. It's fascinating.
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Post by: LindaG on 07 August, 2011, 09:50:35 am
Just about to set off for the solemn (BCP) Eucharist at York.  Men's voices  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Aidan on 07 August, 2011, 09:51:43 am
Trying to shake a killer headache so I  can get out before it rains
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Post by: jogler on 07 August, 2011, 12:14:56 pm
nowt.
I've just had the most physically & mentally demanding 3 weeks at work for years & feel fooked so I'm going to chill some Grolsch & veg out in front of the telly to watch the football. 8)
O.K?

ETA  veegingout starts early...watching the Triathlon on BBC 2
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 07 August, 2011, 01:27:56 pm
I'm supposed to be decorating the stairs up to the new attic rooms, when in fact I am stood on the stairs playing air guitar to a Dave Gilmour solo
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Post by: RJ on 07 August, 2011, 01:35:18 pm
Well, at least you're in the right place  ;)
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 07 August, 2011, 01:40:09 pm
Mrs Pharghangitivati is downstairs, oblivious to what is really going on  ;)
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Post by: RJ on 07 August, 2011, 01:52:56 pm
Long may she remain so ...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 August, 2011, 04:17:41 pm
Watching Firewall and wondering why someone as talented as Harrison Ford does so much dross.
Title: What am I doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 August, 2011, 08:47:48 pm
In the middle of a family do on Mrs Wow's side: Uncle Eric's 88th birthday.
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Post by: RJ on 07 August, 2011, 09:38:05 pm
Making strawberry jam.  Past the point of no return and about to pot up.
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Post by: rower40 on 08 August, 2011, 06:55:27 am
Even the open-air bit (the extreme west end) of Mordor Central is grim.
This train has just arrived (0653), and sits here till 0712.  And, like all Voyagers, it smells of wee. :sick:
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Post by: BrianI on 08 August, 2011, 03:55:02 pm
About to suspend my PC, then pop out to the garden shed and refit the Bontrager Race Lite Hardcase 700x32C tyres to my Dawes Horizon as I'm not planning any more off road excursions for the foreseeable future.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 August, 2011, 05:21:36 pm
Being on holiday. And being pleased/cross that it's 2 days and one and a half hours till bobb arrives.
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Post by: jogler on 08 August, 2011, 08:36:13 pm
I've just posted my AUK entry forms for

John Perrin's "3 Loops" ride
&
Mike Wigley Perms.....
A Mere 200
Holt 200
Eccleshall 200

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Post by: Andrij on 08 August, 2011, 08:44:36 pm
In light of how close I live to the High Street, I'm about to pack a bag for a quick get-away.  Hopefully it will just mean I'm over-packed for the commute tomorrow.
 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 August, 2011, 09:28:07 pm
Hoping that the 'hotel' I've got booked in Embra for the big gay wedding of the year this Saturday will a) let us in early enough to get changed before the wedding and b) isn't quite as shit as all the reviews I've just read would suggest. :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 August, 2011, 09:33:19 pm
Which one?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 August, 2011, 09:35:00 pm
Park View house hotel
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 August, 2011, 09:38:07 pm
Never heard of it, sorry  ;D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 August, 2011, 10:08:25 pm
Well, that's put my mind at ease ;D
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Post by: RJ on 09 August, 2011, 01:00:13 am
Streuth, some of those reviews are classic ...
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Post by: LindaG on 09 August, 2011, 01:34:32 am
Not sleeping ...
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Post by: why1040 on 09 August, 2011, 01:37:48 am
Ditto!
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Post by: Kim on 09 August, 2011, 01:57:45 am
Yes, that.  Hoping that rumours of rioters heading in this direction are just that.
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Post by: Jaded on 09 August, 2011, 06:50:53 am
Lying in bed, listening to the wind and rain, deciding that a 200 is probably silly.
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Post by: TimO on 09 August, 2011, 07:12:11 am
Getting rid of yesterdays clothes for a bath, and shave, so I'm less likely to scare the locals than I was half an hour ago, when returning home!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2011, 10:38:54 am
Quote from: RJ on 09 August, 2011, 01:00:13 am
Streuth, some of those reviews are classic ...
Yes they were good, weren't they. I've got a funny feeling they're not going to let us check in early. I will give them another couple of hours to reply before I start badgering them on the phone.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 August, 2011, 10:47:33 am
You can always come and get changed here if you like.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2011, 10:51:36 am
Awh, thanks for the offer Kirst, I may have to take you up on that if I don't get anywhere! :)
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Post by: jeremaiah on 09 August, 2011, 11:15:33 am
Sitting at work at the office and thinking about how uncomfortable, tired and ill I am feeling right now and how much time there is left before lunch. Also, my chat buddy is not here today, so time is going a little slow.
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Post by: interzen on 09 August, 2011, 11:28:29 am
Sitting at work, thinking of the forthcoming double-whammy of blood tests and a cortisone injection in my hip :(
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 August, 2011, 11:35:47 am
Considering what customisations to order for EldestCub's new bike. Marathons, I think. But not isla mudguards-they are too short, and I can get sks ones from the corner shop fitted for not much more. Name on the top tube... Will take the rack of his current one, I reckon.
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Post by: TheLurker on 09 August, 2011, 12:12:22 pm
Waiting for a colleague to get his cycling togs on so that we can head out for a (short) lunch time bimble.
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Post by: LindaG on 11 August, 2011, 12:20:12 am
Listening to the pelting rain and distant thunder.   :D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 August, 2011, 10:40:58 am
Wondering how I can convince bobb to think about moving here next year when the weather is doing his best to convince him it never stops raining.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2011, 10:44:35 am
Distract him from the weather somehow. I'm sure you'll think of something...
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Post by: Kim on 11 August, 2011, 01:29:55 pm
Feeding the cat and disposing of the subsequent toxic waste.
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Post by: Regulator on 11 August, 2011, 01:43:23 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 11 August, 2011, 10:40:58 am
Wondering how I can convince bobb to think about moving here next year when the weather is doing his best to convince him it never stops raining.

You could always move to Essex*....  ;D







*Only joking.  Even Edinburgh is preferable to Essex.  :demon:






 ;D
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Post by: tiermat on 11 August, 2011, 01:46:13 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 11 August, 2011, 12:20:12 am
Listening to the pelting rain and distant thunder.   :D

You should have been out with us on Saturday lunchtime.

You couldn't miss the pelting rain as it was hitting you like stones, and the Thunder was all around you....

Slightly wet got we :)
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Post by: mike on 11 August, 2011, 01:47:23 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 11 August, 2011, 01:43:23 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 11 August, 2011, 10:40:58 am
Wondering how I can convince bobb to think about moving here next year when the weather is doing his best to convince him it never stops raining.

You could always move to Essex*....  ;D







*Only joking.  Even Edinnurgh preferable to Essex.  :demon:



ahem. 
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Post by: LindaG on 11 August, 2011, 01:47:32 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 11 August, 2011, 01:46:13 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 11 August, 2011, 12:20:12 am
Listening to the pelting rain and distant thunder.   :D

You should have been out with us on Saturday lunchtime.

You couldn't miss the pelting rain as it was hitting you like stones, and the Thunder was all around you....

Slightly wet got we :)

We weren't a million miles from you, in Osmotherley, though we missed the thunder.  My shoes have only just dried out.  Just in time for tonight, in fact  ;)
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Post by: Regulator on 11 August, 2011, 01:51:57 pm
Quote from: mike on 11 August, 2011, 01:47:23 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 11 August, 2011, 01:43:23 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 11 August, 2011, 10:40:58 am
Wondering how I can convince bobb to think about moving here next year when the weather is doing his best to convince him it never stops raining.

You could always move to Essex*....  ;D







*Only joking.  Even Edinnurgh preferable to Essex.  :demon:



ahem.


Need I say more?    :P ;D
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 11 August, 2011, 02:41:55 pm
I'm just about to have some lovely Danish Spunk in my mouth.
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Post by: why1040 on 11 August, 2011, 03:16:51 pm
Licorice or winegum?   ;D
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 11 August, 2011, 03:19:59 pm
Liquorice. Yum, yum!
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Post by: Dinamo on 11 August, 2011, 03:25:09 pm
Having the car MOT'd !
Wish me luck   :-\
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Post by: Dinamo on 11 August, 2011, 08:44:28 pm
Quote from: Dinamo on 11 August, 2011, 03:25:09 pm
Having the car MOT'd !
Wish me luck   :-\

It PASSED  :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2011, 10:51:31 pm
On a TPE train home, after another splendid pubbe runne. Tiermat had reinforcements in the shape of Deano tonight, so instead of being outnumbered 4 to 1 by the wimmin it was 4 to 2. And then crusty joined us at the pub as well. Good chips, good beer, good company, grand night out :)
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Post by: Regulator on 12 August, 2011, 05:25:08 pm
Just about to head off to Newmarket Racecourse to see Tom Jones* at Newmarket Nights.  I'm in a kilt, much to Mr R's distress - but to the delight of the ladies accompanying us.




*Not my choice.  It was one of Jon's colleagues' choice.  She's Welsh.
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Post by: jogler on 12 August, 2011, 05:28:52 pm
TTIUWP ;)
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Post by: Kim on 12 August, 2011, 05:46:46 pm
Hoovering, as there's no longer a kitten in mortal fear of the thing.
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Post by: tiermat on 12 August, 2011, 05:49:03 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2011, 10:51:31 pm
On a TPE train home, after another splendid pubbe runne. Tiermat had reinforcements in the shape of Deano tonight, so instead of being outnumbered 4 to 1 by the wimmin it was 4 to 2. And then crusty joined us at the pub as well. Good chips, good beer, good company, grand night out :)

Having visited it at lunchtime, I am now aware of a pubbe that rivals The New Inn in the chip stakes.

Next ride from here might just involve visiting it, the trouble is that visiting it means heading skywards at one point.....
Title: What am I doing now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 August, 2011, 05:59:46 pm
Sitting on a train heading in a currywards direction.
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Post by: interzen on 12 August, 2011, 06:06:21 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 12 August, 2011, 05:49:03 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2011, 10:51:31 pm
On a TPE train home, after another splendid pubbe runne. Tiermat had reinforcements in the shape of Deano tonight, so instead of being outnumbered 4 to 1 by the wimmin it was 4 to 2. And then crusty joined us at the pub as well. Good chips, good beer, good company, grand night out :)

Having visited it at lunchtime, I am now aware of a pubbe that rivals The New Inn in the chip stakes.

Next ride from here might just involve visiting it, the trouble is that visiting it means heading skywards at one point.....
Chips > hills ...
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Post by: border-rider on 12 August, 2011, 06:09:31 pm
Just made up another tranche of damson gin.

The end of last year's crop, been in the freezer

The sloes look almost ready now though...
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 August, 2011, 11:51:49 pm
Well, tomorrow is a forum ride. And it is nearly midnight. So, naturally, I'm about to bake a cake!
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Post by: RJ on 13 August, 2011, 10:16:29 pm
Quote from: RJ on 07 August, 2011, 09:38:05 pm
Making strawberry jam.  Past the point of no return and about to pot up.

Deja vu ...
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Post by: RJ on 13 August, 2011, 10:17:24 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 08 August, 2011, 09:28:07 pm
Hoping that the 'hotel' I've got booked in Embra for the big gay wedding of the year this Saturday will a) let us in early enough to get changed before the wedding and b) isn't quite as shit as all the reviews I've just read would suggest. :(

*Waiting with baited breath for review*  ;D
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 14 August, 2011, 02:24:03 am
Worrying that I might have left it too late but not going out to buy any more cigarettes, Ever?
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Post by: Jurek on 14 August, 2011, 05:58:18 am
Wanting moar sleep.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 14 August, 2011, 06:55:50 am
Go back to bed then.

This advice is brought to you free by the letter k and the number 7.
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Post by: TimO on 14 August, 2011, 07:46:43 am
Quote from: Kim on 11 August, 2011, 01:29:55 pm
Feeding the cat and disposing of the subsequent toxic waste.

Interestingly she's produced some of the most benign (and in tiny quantities) cast waste I've ever had to deal with.  Even in non-clumping litter, it's very dry, and almost odourless.

I can hear her thudding about next door, I don't know what she's doing, but she's clearly having fun doing it!  I'll go a deal with Kai first, since (i) I need to go to the loo, and that involves the bathroom, so I can't avoid waking him up & (ii) I won't disturb her, and stop her doing whatever she's doing to the Shoelaces of Doom/Squeaky Mouse/Random rolling toy.
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Post by: Basil on 14 August, 2011, 11:30:50 am
Watching Rag, Tag and Bobtail on Youtube.
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Post by: interzen on 14 August, 2011, 11:34:14 am
Watching "Scrapheap Challenge" - even if they are repeats, they make Sunday mornings bearable.
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Post by: numbnuts on 14 August, 2011, 12:42:43 pm
I'm just about to sit in the garden to catch some rays  8)
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Post by: Butterfly on 14 August, 2011, 12:47:05 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 12 August, 2011, 06:09:31 pm
Just made up another tranche of damson gin.

The end of last year's crop, been in the freezer

The sloes look almost ready now though...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

*plans visit to Mal Volio's  :D*
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Post by: rogerzilla on 14 August, 2011, 04:52:27 pm
Just got back from Lacock, where I took a photo of Mr Fox Talbot's oriel window.  Embarrassingly, they have cameras older than mine in the museum (which isn't actually very good).  There's also an exhibition on George Bernard Shaw's photography, including a large photo of him apparently taking a snap with a Leica.  He has a finger over the lens  :facepalm:
Title: What am I doing now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 August, 2011, 05:17:00 pm
Sitting on my brother's lawn alter having consumed too much beer, wine and food. I'm now enjoying my second cup of tea.
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Post by: Red on 14 August, 2011, 05:19:46 pm
Trying to persuade some flatteries to inflate.
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Post by: Kim on 14 August, 2011, 05:26:30 pm
They'll get you nowhere.
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Post by: andrewc on 14 August, 2011, 05:39:21 pm
Sitting onna train, thinking of shower, sudocreme,  food, bed..
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Post by: Andrij on 14 August, 2011, 05:47:26 pm
Mapping out points of interest of a ride I want to do in the next month or two.  Details to be revealed soon-ish...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 August, 2011, 06:06:44 pm
Quote from: RJ on 13 August, 2011, 10:17:24 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 08 August, 2011, 09:28:07 pm
Hoping that the 'hotel' I've got booked in Embra for the big gay wedding of the year this Saturday will a) let us in early enough to get changed before the wedding and b) isn't quite as shit as all the reviews I've just read would suggest. :(

*Waiting with baited breath for review*  ;D
It was absolutely fine. Pretty friendly. Room in the annexe was compact & bijou  but clean, and the walls didn't keep any sound out but that didn't seem to stop me sleeping as soon as my head hit the pillow at 0230 this morning. Can't say anything about the breakfast though.  :-[ I really ought to add something to Tripadvisor to balance out all the crap ones.
And the wedding was great (http://flic.kr/p/acCHQJ). (photo by anth)

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Post by: LindaG on 14 August, 2011, 06:09:50 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 14 August, 2011, 06:06:44 pm
Quote from: RJ on 13 August, 2011, 10:17:24 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 08 August, 2011, 09:28:07 pm
Hoping that the 'hotel' I've got booked in Embra for the big gay wedding of the year this Saturday will a) let us in early enough to get changed before the wedding and b) isn't quite as shit as all the reviews I've just read would suggest. :(

*Waiting with baited breath for review*  ;D
It was absolutely fine. Pretty friendly. Room in the annexe was compact & bijou  but clean, and the walls didn't keep any sound out but that didn't seem to stop me sleeping as soon as my head hit the pillow at 0230 this morning. Can't say anything about the breakfast though.  :-[ I really ought to add something to Tripadvisor to balance out all the crap ones.
And the wedding was great (http://flic.kr/p/acCHQJ). (photo by anth)

What a relief!
Fabulous wedding pics.
I love this one.  Aw!  http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6038861454/

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Post by: LindaG on 14 August, 2011, 06:51:16 pm
Burning CDs for the long car drive down to That London on Friday night.  And drinking Strongbow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 14 August, 2011, 06:54:46 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 14 August, 2011, 06:51:16 pm
Burning CDs for the long car drive down to That London on Friday night.  And drinking Strongbow.
Jings, you're classy. Tesco Strong Dry Cider for me. "Full Flavour of Refreshment" it says here.  :-\
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Post by: LindaG on 14 August, 2011, 06:56:04 pm
Quote from: eck on 14 August, 2011, 06:54:46 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 14 August, 2011, 06:51:16 pm
Burning CDs for the long car drive down to That London on Friday night.  And drinking Strongbow.
Jings, you're classy. Tesco Strong Dry Cider for me. "Full Flavour of Refreshment" it says here.  :-\

It's not bad, actually.  Dry.  Just right for a warm afternoon when you've the remains of a hangover  :o  The last time I drank it I had to ask a bloke to get it for me 'cos I was underage  ;D
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Post by: eck on 14 August, 2011, 07:00:09 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 14 August, 2011, 06:56:04 pm
Quote from: eck on 14 August, 2011, 06:54:46 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 14 August, 2011, 06:51:16 pm
Burning CDs for the long car drive down to That London on Friday night.  And drinking Strongbow.
Jings, you're classy. Tesco Strong Dry Cider for me. "Full Flavour of Refreshment" it says here.  :-\

It's not bad, actually.  Dry.  Just right for a warm afternoon when you've the remains of a hangover  :o  The last time I drank it I had to ask a bloke to get it for me 'cos I was underage  ;D
Ha! When I was underage, a pint of cider was about a shilling and fourpence ha'penny.  :facepalm: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 15 August, 2011, 08:13:01 am
Quote from: Jurek on 14 August, 2011, 05:58:18 am
Wanting moar sleep.

Oh yes, none Friday night, an hour or so's snooze Saturday afternoon, 4 hours Saturday night. It is not quite enough.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 August, 2011, 08:16:49 am
Packing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 15 August, 2011, 08:23:50 am
Oddly enough, also packing, but this is my cycle commutating kit for my first cycle into work in over two months.  Yay!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 August, 2011, 11:28:49 am
Guess!

Go on, see if you can guess!

OK, I am building servers, again....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 August, 2011, 11:39:58 am
Admiring Tiermat's apostrophe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 August, 2011, 11:42:03 am
Debating with bobb about the funkiest piece of music ever.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 August, 2011, 11:45:45 am
Waiting for the rain to stop so I can go into town and post a box of bike bits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 August, 2011, 12:15:08 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 15 August, 2011, 11:42:03 am
Debating with bobb about the funkiest piece of music ever.
And?

Surely the Theme from Shaft must be a contender?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 August, 2011, 12:42:29 pm
I think it's the beginning of Superstition, he thinks it's the middle of Super Funky Essex Disco Frenzy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 15 August, 2011, 08:47:38 pm
Always thought "Jungle Boogie" by Kool and the Gang was right up there in the halls of Funk fame.  And then there's the bass line in "Chocolate Salty Balls", by the inimitable Chef.

Been representing YACF at LFGSS South drinks, in my black YACF top.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 August, 2011, 08:58:45 pm
Hmm fair enough, think I was getting the 'wacca wacca' blaxploitation mixed up with real funk.

I likes the Sea Funk :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy9jlUGB1q8
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AnthCC on 16 August, 2011, 07:37:58 pm
Pondering whether to add photos of Mr and Mrs Pingu from the weekend's big gay wedding... ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 August, 2011, 07:44:38 pm
Well that depends on whether I'm making a horrid face or not, n'est ce pas?  >:(  :P ;)

(Hope you didn't mind me linking to one of your shots BTW)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AnthCC on 16 August, 2011, 08:20:16 pm
Nah, course not. :)

Hmmm, not sure I have one of you NOT making a horrid face... :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 16 August, 2011, 08:44:02 pm
Recovering over a glass of wine from a day out at the Royal Devonshire Dockyard
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 16 August, 2011, 08:56:48 pm
Waiting for Ms Manotea the elder to come home so I can confirm that the reason why her printer 'doesn't work' is at all related to the fact that there isn't a black ink cartridge in it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 August, 2011, 09:08:04 pm
Quote from: AnthCC on 16 August, 2011, 08:20:16 pm
Nah, course not. :)

Hmmm, not sure I have one of you NOT making a horrid face... :P

*blows big fat raspberry*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AnthCC on 16 August, 2011, 09:19:38 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 August, 2011, 09:08:04 pm
Quote from: AnthCC on 16 August, 2011, 08:20:16 pm
Nah, course not. :)

Hmmm, not sure I have one of you NOT making a horrid face... :P

*blows big fat raspberry*

Yeah, that's what one of them looks like.... :D

(only 300 photos still to sort through...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 August, 2011, 09:55:56 pm
You must be going blind!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AnthCC on 16 August, 2011, 10:51:47 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 August, 2011, 09:55:56 pm
You must be going blind!

Nah, being kept entertained...

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6067/6051037600_f19c3362e5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6051037600/)
Pulling Faces 2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6051037600/) by blackpuddinonnabike (http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/), on Flickr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 August, 2011, 11:14:29 pm
Number 2, I note. Still, it could have been worse...and has been several times before!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 August, 2011, 10:07:17 am
Watching Trapdoor with the EldestCub, thinking that we should probably get dressed before the CrinklyAuntie comes round and wondering where we should ride to. Thinking maybe Stamford bridge chippy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 17 August, 2011, 12:31:13 pm
Eating flapjack and drinking coffee until the bleeding stops. Then I'll go out for a wee test ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 17 August, 2011, 12:34:25 pm
I'm not packing when I should be packing. Eeps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gruff on 17 August, 2011, 12:39:48 pm
Avoiding my Matlab homework by playing with my newly delivered Rubik's cube.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 17 August, 2011, 12:50:45 pm
Sat outside a job site wolfing down chicken curry, phone going mental, emails aplenty to deal with - blimey I am looking forward to 10 days of just peddling a bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 17 August, 2011, 01:14:01 pm
I'm eating an ice cream  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 August, 2011, 06:10:01 pm
Salt, sugar and fizzy pop break in the park in Stamford Bridge, on our way home after a rather pleasant ride. 10ish miles to go :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 August, 2011, 04:28:39 pm
Basement of the science museum with SmallestCub. Noisy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 20 August, 2011, 04:52:39 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 August, 2011, 04:28:39 pm
Basement of the science museum with SmallestCub. Noisy!
Ooooh!!  I used to love the Science Museum.  Haven't been there for years.  I feel an excursion coming on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RichForrest on 20 August, 2011, 06:09:22 pm
Sat in a campsite in Rostrevor NI having a cider after a 10 mile walk up and around a mountain.
Cycling back to Slane tomorrow for 2 nights and a day sight seeing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 August, 2011, 06:55:16 pm
Self medicating with wine after a close encounter with a taxi cab in Diss earlier. Pringled my front wheel but I seemed ok - just a bruised hand. Now achey and having trouble turning my head. I would be less annoyed if it wasn't almost totally my fault. What a n00b... :(

Note to self: Wake up FFS - bike paths are dangerous. Use the road. Twat...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 20 August, 2011, 06:59:34 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 20 August, 2011, 06:55:16 pm
Self medicating with wine after a close encounter with a taxi cab in Diss earlier. Pringled my front wheel but I seemed ok - just a bruised hand. Now achey and having trouble turning my head. I would be less annoyed if it wasn't almost totally my fault. What a n00b... :(

Note to self: Wake up FFS - bike paths are dangerous. Use the road. Twat...

Sounds a bit nasty Chris, the fact that you have trouble turning your head?  Phone call to NHS24 / NHS Direct perhaps? Hope you get better soon!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 20 August, 2011, 07:46:00 pm
You PBP'ing as well Chris? Get yourself checked out mate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 August, 2011, 07:48:46 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 20 August, 2011, 07:46:00 pm
You PBP'ing as well Chris? Get yourself checked out mate.

No. Off to the Arrivee on Monday though - to point and laugh at the finishers  :demon:.

Heading for Paris in a cycling camping stylee. If I can ride...  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 20 August, 2011, 08:00:56 pm
Feeling a bit sorry for myself.  Fever and on antibiotics that don't seem to have improved the situation much in 4 days.  Still three more days of teh course to go through, so contemplating whether I should call NHS direct.  Also wondering if I can go to work tomorrow, on the bus/train though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 August, 2011, 09:30:23 pm
Watching
DIE HARD
.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 August, 2011, 02:40:17 pm
Anticipating the delights of the lemon curd layer cake I've just made.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 21 August, 2011, 02:59:19 pm
Lazing about and occasionally dozing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 August, 2011, 03:01:57 pm
Wishing I was at Kirst's :P
Thinking I will have to shift this kitty and go to the airport soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 August, 2011, 03:54:09 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 August, 2011, 04:28:39 pm
Basement of the science museum with SmallestCub. Noisy!

So, several hundred feet from where I work!  (Although I wouldn't have been at work yesterday)


I've just scrubbed down a bag that was covered in kitteh paw prints from when Talisker was using it to sleep on last winter.  I've had to put the towel rack in the bath to let it drip dry, and Kai is enamoured with watching it.  It must be the drips slowly running along it's length.  I await a bang from upstairs, when he tries to attack it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 August, 2011, 04:25:54 pm
We walked from queensway and may have waved in the general direction of "Tim the rocket scientist's office" as we passed in the vicinity. At which point EldestCub said "we must be nearly there then, cos he works next door doesn't he?"  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 21 August, 2011, 04:34:56 pm
Taking a break from a marathon weeding session and wishing it were late enough to suggest a beer.
Maybe a Polish rhubarb lemonade will have to suffice.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 August, 2011, 04:53:07 pm
Well, I have also finished a marathon gardening session and have cycled to the pub. 
Although to be fair, cycling to any pub around here means you deserve a pint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 21 August, 2011, 04:56:09 pm
Quote from: TimO on 21 August, 2011, 03:54:09 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 August, 2011, 04:28:39 pm
Basement of the science museum with SmallestCub. Noisy!

So, several hundred feet from where I work!  (Although I wouldn't have been at work yesterday)


I've just scrubbed down a bag that was covered in kitteh paw prints from when Talisker was using it to sleep on last winter.  I've had to put the towel rack in the bath to let it drip dry, and Kai is enamoured with watching it.  It must be the drips slowly running along it's length.  I await a bang from upstairs, when he tries to attack it!

Same from my work.  I should have been there yesterday, but am off unwell.  Shame...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 21 August, 2011, 05:02:42 pm
Using The Future Sounds of London to remove the mortar from these walls whilst I make tzaziki.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 21 August, 2011, 07:48:06 pm
Quote from: Basil on 21 August, 2011, 04:53:07 pm
Well, I have also finished a marathon gardening session and have cycled to the pub. 
Although to be fair, cycling to any pub around here means you deserve a pint.
We did get one a bit later. 
Picon biére -- very refreshing following such activities!  :P

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 August, 2011, 08:00:13 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 21 August, 2011, 04:34:56 pm
Maybe a Polish rhubarb lemonade will have to suffice.

I don't know what that is, but it sounds NOM
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 21 August, 2011, 08:13:56 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 21 August, 2011, 08:00:13 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 21 August, 2011, 04:34:56 pm
Maybe a Polish rhubarb lemonade will have to suffice.

I don't know what that is, but it sounds NOM
It is seriously NOM.  It's a still soft drink, old fashioned lemonade with added rhubarb.  We get it from the Polish section of our local Tesco.
The brand is Tymbark.

Recommended!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 August, 2011, 09:26:02 pm
Wishing I'd had the forethought to get something wet from the 7-11 at the airport. It's Sunday and the shops are shut. I'm thirsty.
Title: Doing now.
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2011, 08:12:49 pm
Sitting in the tent on the cliff top at St Cast le Guildo as a thunderstorm rages all round us. We are full of baguette, salami and emmental but we haven't had the chance to make a cup of tea yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 August, 2011, 08:33:25 pm
Pondering on why my radiators are heating up while I'm running a bath.....
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 August, 2011, 08:35:57 pm
*sniffle*
medicating
*burp* *sniffle*
Title: Re: Doing now.
Post by: Canardly on 22 August, 2011, 08:39:52 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 22 August, 2011, 08:12:49 pm
Sitting in the tent on the cliff top at St Cast le Guildo as a thunderstorm rages all round us. We are full of baguette, salami and emmental but we haven't had the chance to make a cup of tea yet.

Same thing is about to descend here weather warnings.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 August, 2011, 08:46:18 pm
Hiring a van...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 August, 2011, 09:19:46 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 August, 2011, 08:46:18 pm
Hiring a van...

Any connection with an earlier reference to unobtanium?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 August, 2011, 09:26:12 pm
None whatsoever.  Barakta has talked me into delivering the mountains of bisexual propaganda that are currently cluttering up the house to Leicester next week.  This will give us room for n+1 other stuff, and is therefore worth the effort.
Title: Doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 August, 2011, 09:23:19 am
We are sitting on a ferry which has not started yet. I may be some time and would actually be grateful for some bisexual propaganda. I don't think I'd go to Leicester for it though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 24 August, 2011, 09:29:12 am
Having a cup of tea and watching the fat bullfinches, which appear to be moulting.  I didn't realise they had a separate winter plumage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 August, 2011, 10:29:59 am
Wondering whether there are any circumstance under which the wearing of silver clogs may be considered a Good Thing.  Going to a fancy dress party as a psychedelic Land Girl is about the only one I can think of.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 August, 2011, 11:08:14 am
Just for a change, building servers, the end is in sight tho, as I only have another ~20 to do....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 August, 2011, 11:17:03 am
Aching, and trying to stay awake.
Late start today because I was up until stupid o'clock fettling our external server after a much-needed RAM upgrade, but still manage to average around 16mph on the way in. I was knackered before I left home, I'm twice as knackered now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 24 August, 2011, 11:18:06 am
It's my day off today so am about to switch the radio on and start cleaning the flat  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 August, 2011, 11:21:20 am
Planning food for the weekend, working out how to fit everything in to today that I need to do and (already) and planning a Way Of The Roses ride for last weekend in September.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 August, 2011, 06:56:56 pm
Saying "ah dinnae hink so!" at various car insurance quotes on various comparison web pages.   >:(

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 August, 2011, 07:55:38 pm
Cutting my toe nails.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 August, 2011, 10:27:34 pm
Attempting to tidy up the camping equipment cupboard.......... so far I've found 3 tents, 3 sleeping mats, 2 sleeping bags, 4 stoves, 3 rucksacs and an unused set of walking poles..... there's a 1/2 used gas canister from a trip 20+ years ago !  6 mugs of various sizes & materials from an orange plastic one that's about 30 years old to a double wall titanium job.

Tomorrow nights entertainment is the bike tools & spares stockpile...

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 August, 2011, 10:17:48 am
Hurting.  How the fuck do you sprain your ankle while asleep ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 25 August, 2011, 11:56:46 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 25 August, 2011, 10:17:48 am
Hurting.  How the fuck do you sprain your ankle while asleep ???

 :hand:

Do NOT go there.  This is yacf. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 August, 2011, 12:42:13 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 24 August, 2011, 10:29:59 am
Wondering whether there are any circumstance under which the wearing of silver clogs may be considered a Good Thing.  Going to a fancy dress party as a psychedelic Land Girl is about the only one I can think of.
Truly, your BRANES is a strange and wondrous place.

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 25 August, 2011, 10:17:48 am
Hurting.  How the fuck do you sprain your ankle while asleep ???
Were you wearing the clogs?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 August, 2011, 02:52:50 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 25 August, 2011, 12:42:13 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 25 August, 2011, 10:17:48 am
Hurting.  How the fuck do you sprain your ankle while asleep ???
Were you wearing the clogs?

No, just a smile ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 25 August, 2011, 03:01:27 pm
I'm eating an ice cream  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 August, 2011, 03:18:22 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 25 August, 2011, 10:17:48 am
Hurting.  How the fuck do you sprain your ankle while asleep ???

I pulled something in my knee in bed the other night.  It's unfair.   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 August, 2011, 03:31:49 pm
Is that bragging  ;)

Annoyed myself motorbike fettling so will go home and cycle fettle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 August, 2011, 03:57:01 pm
Trying to summon enthusiasm for, well, anything.  I'm supposed to be going to Mildenhall tomorrow, and that's not going to happen at this rate.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 25 August, 2011, 04:01:56 pm
Contemplating picking some apples before another 25 cows appear in the garden and help themselves.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 25 August, 2011, 04:09:39 pm
Finished counting the number of cakes available for a ride (obtained whilst travelling First Class on Virgin Trains): 3..... time to plan a mega epic bike ride to do tomorrowduring my day off.  ;D

Never liked cake until I started cycling again three years ago.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 25 August, 2011, 04:53:48 pm
Trying to look busy ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 August, 2011, 04:55:18 pm
Kim - go and have enough fun for me and the cubs too.  Hopefully we'll make it next year....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 August, 2011, 05:16:10 pm
Well I've half-arsedly fettled the bike, put some batteries on charge and plotted a GPS route down from Peterborough.  I expect I'll manage to pack some camping kit over the course of the evening, and I'll make a proper decision in the morning.  Meh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 25 August, 2011, 08:45:28 pm
Drinking wine whilst feeling completely nucking fackered.  No, I didn't do PBP.  I just went to work for the day  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 25 August, 2011, 09:10:57 pm
Unfortunately that is becoming a common experience for the lucky few.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 August, 2011, 06:10:49 am
Drinking coffee and realising that, even if I am completely worn out by 7PM on a night, NOT to go to bed, as I WILL wake at 5AM and not be able to get back to sleep...

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Oh well at least I can spend the day fettling food for tomorrow :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 26 August, 2011, 07:12:00 am
Digging in crates of 12" vinyl
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 26 August, 2011, 09:01:29 am
Just finished the second cup of coffee of the day and not feeling even slightly caffinated >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 August, 2011, 08:55:17 pm
A piece of reflective writing for work (sigh). 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 26 August, 2011, 09:21:12 pm
Listening to the pitter patter of surprisingly noisy paws hammering around upstairs.  Zev and Kai raising small furry hell!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 August, 2011, 09:23:30 pm
I've just got in from work after rescuing another failing job.  Had to get a taxi home, thunder, lightning & torrential rain.  Pavements & roads are awash !

It's the Creamfields festival over the weekend.  Some people are going to get very muddy...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 August, 2011, 09:25:49 pm
Yawning and wishing it was bedtime.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 August, 2011, 11:29:56 pm
Wondering how wet my mate who is running the gate at Leeds is right now. Quite, I expect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 August, 2011, 11:53:45 pm
Drugs.

And fettling, but mostly drugs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 27 August, 2011, 12:12:17 am
Failing to sleep.  Abandoning any plans for a nocturnal Silly_Bike_Adventure to Mildenhall.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 27 August, 2011, 12:35:52 am
Cleaning some bits of bike and the kitchen.  Whilst scoffing an excessive amount of yoghurt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 27 August, 2011, 01:00:18 am
Debating if I should enter a certain calender audax ? and filling in /entering audax perms as Im running low on brevet cards.

I watched about 20+ hours of TV in the last 3 days. This is not good ! TV may go on for 1/2 hour ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 27 August, 2011, 01:28:38 am
Its all busy work after all as I'm annoyed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 August, 2011, 06:17:27 am
Lying in my tent, listening to planes with sore legs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 August, 2011, 07:39:21 am
Quote from: Jaded on 27 August, 2011, 06:17:27 am
Lying in my tent, listening to planes with sore legs.
Well, it takes them a lot of running to reach take-off speed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 27 August, 2011, 07:42:28 am
wishing i hadnt woken up at 5 and wondering if I can squeeze a nap in this afternoon..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 August, 2011, 09:31:47 am
Nursing a hangover and looking at the rain  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 27 August, 2011, 03:14:19 pm
Sitting with my feet up as high as possible since each one resembles a plump marrow currently. I'm hoping this swelling goes down sooner rather than later, and the throbbing big toe is also most unwelcome! It is great to be home and have proper internet access again though!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 August, 2011, 10:55:18 pm
Watching several members of the bridal party play guitar hero. Ah well, at least the bride can belt them out tunefully.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 August, 2011, 11:27:20 pm
Listening to nocturnal camping sounds: the wind rustling in the trees; the flapping of tents with guys a bit slack; the distinctive sound of cleats on pebbles; the snoring of post-pub cyclists and, if you listen really hard, the crawling of the earwigs that sneaked into my tent earlier...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 August, 2011, 11:35:38 pm
Oh, and rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 August, 2011, 01:08:21 am
Same as Kim, except no rain, earwigs, cleats or wind.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 August, 2011, 05:26:02 am
Lying in a tent being awake and wondering where the summer went. It's still dark at 5.23.
Title: Re: Now
Post by: Jurek on 28 August, 2011, 06:08:58 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 August, 2011, 05:26:02 am
Lying in a tent being awake and wondering where the summer went. It's still dark at 5.23.

It gets better just after six.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 August, 2011, 09:22:49 pm
Playing scrabble with my boss on Friendface.  The only outlet I have for my feelings towards him is to whup his ass on the Internet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 August, 2011, 10:35:30 pm
Baking an epic rhubarb crumble for simonp and I to scoff :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 29 August, 2011, 07:40:27 am
replying to this thread!  ;D
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 August, 2011, 08:34:32 am
Enjoying a pre-Swains cappuccino.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 29 August, 2011, 08:36:12 am
collecting as many electrons as possible before we go and drop the tent ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 29 August, 2011, 08:58:40 am
opening my cards and watching Frasier  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 29 August, 2011, 09:02:46 am
Watching my plans for a 'bent excursion on the High Peak and Tissington trails wash away down the storm drain, assisted by that exceptionally wet form of rain that seems to be afflicting Derbyshire today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 August, 2011, 09:09:35 am
I've just put a load in the washing machine, having previously consumed my weekly dose of methotrexate with my breakfast and also loaded the bread maker.

It's a beautiful morning but has that air of temporariness about it. I'd like to go out an pick some blackberries later. This will involve Mrs. Wow an a tandem, which is good.

Cup of tea next.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 29 August, 2011, 09:36:12 am
drinking a coffee and think where can I go for a ride today
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 August, 2011, 09:49:10 am
Lovely morning. Hoping my Friday 200km gets ratified else I'll have to pop out again on Wednesay. Instead of Thursdy. Ouch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 August, 2011, 09:50:48 am
Drinking coffee. Packing may also be occurring. Homeward-bound....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 August, 2011, 10:19:27 am
Phoning the help desk who are not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 29 August, 2011, 10:29:14 am
Planning the rearrangement of my bed room, hopefully evicting large numbers of files that aren't mine in the process.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 29 August, 2011, 08:18:56 pm
Quote from: her_welshness on 29 August, 2011, 08:58:40 am
opening my cards and watching Frasier  :D

You managed to sneak that in rather quietly.


Happy Birthday.

Hope you are having a good one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 August, 2011, 09:17:10 pm
Oh yes, HW!

Penblwydd Hapus to you!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 August, 2011, 12:33:35 pm
Having an annoying morning renewing insurance. The house contents, buildings and the car all come up in the first week of September.

I just went through the rigmarole of trying out Saga for all that insurance but it came out at about £30 more than our existing provider - so that was about an hour wasted filling in an on-line form and giving my details to someone to pass on to a bunch of spammers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 30 August, 2011, 02:23:51 pm
I am sitting here feeling absolutely knackered for no reason (well there was a reason but that was 5 days ago now). Where has my mojo gone?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 August, 2011, 03:21:26 pm
I just set up a printer.  Using a parallel port.  It Just Worked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 30 August, 2011, 06:11:54 pm
Pondering what the heck a Scottish Qualification Authority Registration Number is and if I have one?!?!   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 30 August, 2011, 09:55:23 pm
Doubling the average age in a group of people drinking jaeger bombs in a beer garden. Dear god help me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 August, 2011, 08:11:23 am
Drinking coffee. Being pestered by a moggy too stupid to look in her bowl and see that she already has food. Realising how much chain oil I failed to wash off in the bath. Trying to summon some enthusiasm for getting dressed and going to work. Feeling very Wednesday-ish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 31 August, 2011, 08:40:53 am
About to take Kai for his second round of vaccinations, which I think means he can go out then. Yay. :thumbsup:

I'm using the bike and trailer today, which he may not be impressed by, but he wasn't particularly impressed by the car either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 31 August, 2011, 08:58:49 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 31 August, 2011, 08:11:23 am
Being pestered by a moggy too stupid to look in her bowl and see that she already has food.

If she's anything like the cat that I'm staff for, I reckon that she knows the bowl has kitteh noms in it, it's just that she wants attention.

Cats, as a rule, are even more self-centred than gyroscopes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 31 August, 2011, 09:06:54 am
Pixel Peeping.

Left my glasses behind somewhere, and having to use spares with a shorter focal length :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 31 August, 2011, 11:34:34 am
Creaming & lycra-ing up, in preparation for A Ride.
It may be too soon, but I have things to deliver.
I'm taking the boablet to stoke, in case I run out of ooOmph.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 31 August, 2011, 12:03:46 pm
Quote from: spesh on 31 August, 2011, 08:58:49 am
Cats, as a rule, are even more self-centred than gyroscopes.

Spesh, even for your usual standard that one is a cracker.
 ;D ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 August, 2011, 12:10:19 pm
Quote from: spesh on 31 August, 2011, 08:58:49 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 31 August, 2011, 08:11:23 am
Being pestered by a moggy too stupid to look in her bowl and see that she already has food.

If she's anything like the cat that I'm staff for, I reckon that she knows the bowl has kitteh noms in it, it's just that she wants attention.

Cats, as a rule, are even more self-centred than gyroscopes.
Having met the moggy in question (I'm assuming that CL is referring to Mogwai) I can vouch for the fact that she probably really is too dense to realise that she's got food in her bowl :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 August, 2011, 12:26:33 pm
Updating my details on BA's scummy webshite.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 31 August, 2011, 12:48:27 pm
Quote from: Feline on 30 August, 2011, 02:23:51 pm
I am sitting here feeling absolutely knackered for no reason (well there was a reason but that was 5 days ago now). Where has my mojo gone?

I'd have thought that the effects of PBP would last a fair time.

Anyway - Chapeau, or Beret to you!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 August, 2011, 08:21:28 pm
Watching The A-Team film and painting my toenails midnight blue.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Androcles on 31 August, 2011, 10:38:48 pm
Chilling in my hotel room in Midrand, South Africa after learning that my design works well when two trains get pranged. 

Hoping to get a good sleep tonight as I will not on the flight back tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 01 September, 2011, 09:50:15 am

Baking a nice moist chocolate cake  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 01 September, 2011, 06:16:48 pm
About to address a postcard to Paul Rogue of La Tannière, who provides crepes and coffee at the roadside to PBP riders. And I'm going to use the pen which was a freebie at the Illifaut secret controle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 September, 2011, 06:44:55 pm
taste-testing cake :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 September, 2011, 07:19:47 pm
Sitting outside a tent watching the sun set with Crusty, a beer, and a book :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 September, 2011, 07:53:02 pm
Watching TimO entertain cats.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 01 September, 2011, 08:10:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 01 September, 2011, 07:53:02 pm
Watching TimO entertain cats.

I can't see TimO or the cats at the moment! Is my feed broken?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 September, 2011, 08:11:43 pm
Selling my life1 on eBay

1 - Well, not really, since I'd likely have very few takers, but I am getting shot of some of my excess noise-making gear and bits of model trains2.
2 - plus an extremely broken iPad. It's listed as such, of course, and if it sells then I'm pretty sure that the Apocalypse will be at hand3
3 - Or reinforce my belief that people on eBay will buy pretty much anything. Even buggered iPads.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 September, 2011, 11:38:54 am
Trying not to repeat a big mistake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 September, 2011, 11:40:29 am
Try....ing......

to

...throw....


this


fucking.... computer.... ugh... <gasp>

out of the...

<pant>

window...

 >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 September, 2011, 11:42:01 am
Chris, try the shirt window, it should be bigger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 September, 2011, 11:43:33 am
Quote from: Chris S on 02 September, 2011, 11:40:29 am
Try....ing......

to

...throw....


this


fucking.... computer.... ugh... <gasp>

out of the...

<pant>

window...

 >:(

I thought you said it was nearly fixed!

O.. another computer... carry on  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 September, 2011, 11:45:43 am
Quote from: Feline on 01 September, 2011, 08:10:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 01 September, 2011, 07:53:02 pm
Watching TimO entertain cats.
I can't see TimO or the cats at the moment! Is my feed broken?

There was a problem yesterday between about 7am and 11am, but after that it should have been working.  If the page fails to reload for some reason (eg temporary WiFi congestion or whatnot), then it can stop updating.  A manual reload normally cures this.

It's working fine at the moment, I just watched Zev wander up to the Kitty City and actually use one of the scratching posts to scratch. :thumbsup:

She's buggered off, out of view of the cameras now of course.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 September, 2011, 03:55:58 pm
Waiting ten minutes until BA's online check-in opens for tomorrow's flight.  After which I shall be on holibobs :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 September, 2011, 07:26:51 pm
On a train, just left Sheffield, footling on the interwebs whilst reading stories to SmallestCub :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 02 September, 2011, 08:46:47 pm
Relaxing, in leather-upholstered First Class comfort aboard 1C80, while I am whisked towards That London at reassuringly high speed.  I have just demolished perhaps the finest tomato soup ever to be served on a train.  (I.e. not from a packet)

Ok, I did have to pay for the soup, but, that notwithstanding, Psychic Paper For The Win.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 September, 2011, 08:51:35 pm
Back at the other end of the luxury spectrum, here, chez fboab, there is hubble bubble boil & trouble going on.
A cauldron boils, the pots warm, crab apple jelly is soon to be upon us.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 September, 2011, 09:14:08 pm
Packing stuff for the FNRttC, and preparing to leave Kai and Zev with enough cat food to last them for twelve hours(ish).

That means one meal as I leave for Zev, and two in the automatic dispenser to open at 6am and 10am.

... and for Kai, a meal in a minute, another one as I leave, and his dried food bowl filled up as much as I can fill it.  I expect all of them to be empty when I get back, he's a growing lad. :)

Oh, and milk and water for Zev, and just water for Kai, since he doesn't seem to be interested in milk.  At some point he's probably going to try it, realise it's nice, and treble the household milk bill in one go (cat milk for one cat costs more than cows milk for one human).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 02 September, 2011, 09:16:04 pm
Having a wardrobe crisis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 September, 2011, 09:22:22 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 02 September, 2011, 09:16:04 pm
Having a wardrobe crisis.

I was thinking of wearing cycling clothes this evening.  Are you going for a more radical approach?  Evening wear perhaps?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gerwinium on 02 September, 2011, 09:23:44 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 02 September, 2011, 09:16:04 pm
Having a wardrobe crisis.

Not going for the super hero outfit?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 02 September, 2011, 09:25:34 pm
Quote from: gerwinium on 02 September, 2011, 09:23:44 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 02 September, 2011, 09:16:04 pm
Having a wardrobe crisis.

Not going for the super hero outfit?
It's in the wash  :P.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 02 September, 2011, 10:52:31 pm
being pi55ed.  Bumping into my GP in the next village pub was a disaster, he kept buying me beer....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: smurphboy on 02 September, 2011, 11:18:16 pm
Wondering how one night cycle camping can fill two big panniers and still need me to strap something on top of my rack? Still, all packed now, clearly an early night is needed, not Hot Fuzz on ITV2  :thumbsup:
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 September, 2011, 07:39:46 am
Enjoying the services provided by Mr Branson's transportation business.

Also, in a panic re: the weather as I didn't check the forecast before leaving home. Whoever said it's grim up north was spot on! I shall be returning to London rather wet. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 September, 2011, 12:06:43 pm
Just got back from the sewage farm, which had an open day (I'm not making this up; I took Miss Z the elder to see the poo).

Two fascinating facts:

1. Tomato seeds and sweetcorn go through the plant unchanged, just as they go through YOU unchanged.  There are tomato plants growing on the sludge as it's waiting for collection by farmers!

2. Swindon is the only plant to have granulated activated carbon to remove endocrine disruptors (contraceptive pill residues) which otherwise make trout go TS.  I'm not making that up either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 03 September, 2011, 12:15:41 pm
Fascinating indeed Rogerzilla. I think there was an article in the New Scientist a few years ago about how the Aztecs grew and cultivated everything from their poo.

Time to go and have a shower, have been in my pj's all morning  :)
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 September, 2011, 05:00:54 pm
Travelling back to London with n+1. It's been a bit of an adventure. Details and pics to follow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 03 September, 2011, 05:03:48 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 September, 2011, 05:00:54 pm
Travelling back to London with n+1. It's been a bit of an adventure. Details and pics to follow.

Ohhhhh can't wait to see what you've got!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 September, 2011, 05:22:35 pm
Prepping for tomorrow's charity ride

Would if the hill past the reservoir has flattened out a bit? I do hope so :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 September, 2011, 09:17:22 pm
Quote from: Feline on 03 September, 2011, 05:03:48 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 September, 2011, 05:00:54 pm
Travelling back to London with n+1. It's been a bit of an adventure. Details and pics to follow.

Ohhhhh can't wait to see what you've got!

There's a write-up and pics here (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=43667.msg1035145#msg1035145), some of which are repeated in the usual place.  Better pics in a day or two, weather permitting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 03 September, 2011, 09:49:28 pm
Experimenting with flapjack on a camping stove.  The toast experiments went well.

Nice bike, Andrij.  BRITISH racing green?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 04 September, 2011, 08:12:07 am
Went to wedding last night (evening do only invite - the first time I've ever had one of those, but as only two of us from the office went at all, maybe I should be honoured).

Got there at 7.30.  Speeches still going on so skulked in the car park until they'd finished.  Music started half an hour later, DJ was like Jon Gaunt's fatter brother.  Band came on at about 8.30, very competent but the mix was wrong and they were too loud so half the guests went outside.  No food.  At 9.30pm Mrs Z decided that, as we hadn't eaten, we were going to McD's (no chance getting a table anywhere else at that time on a Saturday).  McD's car park was full of chavs hooting each other in their horrible little cars so we had sausage and chips from the local chippy instead.  This was the best part of the evening.

Mrs Z actually said she'd had a nice time because it was all so bizarre  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 September, 2011, 09:33:47 am
Quote from: Deano on 03 September, 2011, 09:49:28 pm

Nice bike, Andrij.  BRITISH racing green?

Cheers!  Yes on the colour, though that's not how it was listed on the chart.  I recognise the irony of of having a tourer painted a 'racing' colour, but BRG is the colour I've always wanted for a touring bike.  IMHO it adds a touch of class.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 04 September, 2011, 09:42:59 am
Quote from: Andrij on 04 September, 2011, 09:33:47 am
Quote from: Deano on 03 September, 2011, 09:49:28 pm

Nice bike, Andrij.  BRITISH racing green?

Cheers!  Yes on the colour, though that's not how it was listed on the chart.  I recognise the irony of of having a tourer painted a 'racing' colour, but BRG is the colour I've always wanted for a touring bike.  IMHO it adds a touch of class.  :smug:

I don't think that anyone was concerned about any irony relating to a racing colour on a tourer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 04 September, 2011, 07:11:35 pm
It's the same colour as Vernon's Hewitt was.

Nice bike.

 :)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 September, 2011, 07:21:02 pm
Being a jessie and a big girl's blouse.

The problem with not being ill very often at all, is you are shit at it when it (eventually) happens.

<groan> <cough cough cough> <ow> <Mmmmaeeraghh....>

 >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 September, 2011, 08:51:49 am
Mentally preparing myself for a visit to the dentist ... to have a tooth extracted  :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 September, 2011, 01:07:49 pm
Sitting in the Cadbury Club, eating my ridiculously cheap Pensioner's Lunch.
I love being old!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 September, 2011, 05:14:03 pm
Wishing I'd had more sleep
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 05 September, 2011, 05:27:07 pm
Stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 September, 2011, 05:45:11 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 05 September, 2011, 05:27:07 pm
Stuff.
Did that earlier. Just DA now
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 05 September, 2011, 05:53:20 pm
Done 2 sets of VAT returns, one ONS return, paid a load of bills & invoiced clients for a big load of cash
Fairly productive couple of hours, that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 September, 2011, 05:54:44 pm
Recovering from a partial tooth extraction - got to go back in 3 weeks to have the roots of the tooth removed  :-\

Normally I'd not complain about the fact that I've slept for most of the day, but now my back and my mouth are having a contest to see which can inconvenience me most.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 September, 2011, 07:31:16 pm
Massaging my poor brane cells after straining  them at my first day at college!   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 05 September, 2011, 10:32:20 pm
Listening to a pair of c**** talking about the British army in the pub  :demon:
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 September, 2011, 05:39:55 am
Lying in bed listening to the wind.
Title: Re: Now
Post by: her_welshness on 06 September, 2011, 07:20:19 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 06 September, 2011, 05:39:55 am
Lying in bed listening to the wind.

Watching BBC Breakfast and dreading the commute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 September, 2011, 07:24:22 am
Lying in bed not listening to Wowbagger's wind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 September, 2011, 07:39:16 am
Looking out the window and wondering where summer has gone :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 September, 2011, 08:31:34 am
waiting for a taxi. I missed mine because I left work late. Because someone was sick on me. In ten hours I'll be back to do it all again. Oh woe is me :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 September, 2011, 09:05:36 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 06 September, 2011, 08:31:34 am
waiting for a taxi. I missed mine because I left work late. Because someone was sick on me. In ten hours I'll be back to do it all again. Oh woe is me :D

One of the many reasons I sit at a desk playing with computers, and don't do a real job. My SiL was an A&E nurse for a very long time - and she impressed me most by her ability to put up with the worst our species could throw at her (and over her), in return for those moments when she truly made a difference to someone's life.

What am I doing right now? Thanking people like you and her for putting up with the stuff you do  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 September, 2011, 09:20:07 am
Aww Chris you spoiled a good moan by making me feel all warm and fuzzy. Thanks for that. :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 September, 2011, 09:30:55 am
Quote from: Chris S on 06 September, 2011, 09:05:36 am
What am I doing right now? Thanking people like you and her for putting up with the stuff you do  :thumbsup:.

Ditto.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 06 September, 2011, 10:49:44 am
Comforting my colleague Rahim who has a shitty public duty this morning at our library. The rain has brought in all the weirdoes. He then said to me 'hang on, you worked for Lambeth - this borough must be like a walk in the park'  ;D Love the lovely man.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 September, 2011, 11:08:46 am
Watching the tower cranes on on neighbouring construction site swaying in the wind. Scary.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 06 September, 2011, 11:42:30 am
Carefully clipping my toenails so as not to tear holes in my running shoes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 06 September, 2011, 12:03:41 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 06 September, 2011, 11:42:30 am
Carefully clipping my toenails so as not to tear holes in my running shoes.
It would be much easier if you took the shoes off first...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 06 September, 2011, 12:05:27 pm
Thinking longingly of steak and other such foods.
It's only been just over 24hrs since I had my tooth out and I'm already sick to death of ice-cream and smoothies. Worse, the antiseptic packing in the empty socket makes my coffee taste vile  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 06 September, 2011, 01:08:31 pm
eating a mince pie  :P well I've just made 30 so I had to try them out
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 September, 2011, 01:34:23 pm
Contemplating a quote for a piece of jewellery.

It costs close to that of a soot bike :~
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 06 September, 2011, 08:01:21 pm
I'm in the pub.
I had a pint and a starter.  Then I had a pint and main course.  Then a pint.  Then pudding.  Do I have another pint?

Pro: It's a pint.
Con: The huge-screen telly is showing the fupball.
Pro: There's wireless broadband.
Con: I'm really rather full.  (Obv...)

All things prosidered, I'm having another pint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 06 September, 2011, 08:15:22 pm
Trying to decide whether doing more work this evening will make me more stressed, and even if it does, is it worth it for to have less stress tomorrow morning...

Ha, thank you YACF, just writing that down has made me see sense. I'm off to put the telly on and have a glass of wine. But not too much wine or the morning will be doubly unpleasant!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ariadne on 06 September, 2011, 09:32:03 pm
Err... that didn't quite work out, still kept working. This self employment's a funny old thing...
But I'll put up with crazy-busy for a few weeks, better than the not-busy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 07 September, 2011, 08:32:47 am
Getting ready to take Zev to the vets (by bike trailer) for her second vaccination.  I had to pop her in the carrier early, since she was hiding under the sofa, and it took a while to get her out the first time!

(This wasn't pre-emptive vet hiding, but more general, since Kai can't get under there, so she can wind him up!).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 07 September, 2011, 10:39:20 am
Quote from: Ariadne on 06 September, 2011, 09:32:03 pm
Err... that didn't quite work out, still kept working. This self employment's a funny old thing...
But I'll put up with crazy-busy for a few weeks, better than the not-busy.

seconded.It's either peaks or troughs.No time for anything of time enough for anything ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 07 September, 2011, 04:40:10 pm
Enjoying some scarce alone time. Whilst missing John Peel. Which is a bit odd but never mind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 September, 2011, 04:55:10 pm
Getting high on solvents and (hopefully) banishing the squeak fairy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 September, 2011, 05:00:45 pm
Posting even more eBay stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 08 September, 2011, 11:30:50 am
Just come back from the loading bay, where the BOC bod hasn't been and so our Dewar isn't full of N2

Bah. >:(

We were planning on testing the entire safety protocol for moving it, and preferably not killing anyone in the process.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 September, 2011, 12:46:06 pm
Eating a school dinner.

I should go and get my portion of chocolate rice pud before the hordes go back for seconds!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 08 September, 2011, 12:56:05 pm
Quote from: TimO on 08 September, 2011, 11:30:50 am
Just come back from the loading bay, where the BOC bod hasn't been and so our Dewar isn't full of N2

Bah. >:(

We were planning on testing the entire safety protocol for moving it, and preferably not killing anyone in the process.
Fill it with red-dyed water.  Then your testing is to check that no-one gets any red on them when you move it.
So for that you'd need it not to have any N2 in.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 September, 2011, 11:51:32 am
Quote from: jogler on 08 August, 2011, 08:36:13 pm
I've just posted my AUK entry forms for

John Perrin's "3 Loops" ride
&
Mike Wigley Perms.....
A Mere 200
Holt 200
Eccleshall 200

Regretting that I will be a DNS on this ride & a also absent from York on Sunday :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 09 September, 2011, 11:57:02 am
Trying to get rid of a real head splitting headache, which is bordering on migraine  :-[    Riding FNRTTC tonight, so must get rid of it.  I made the effort to get my new Supernova fitted specially :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 09 September, 2011, 03:21:33 pm
waiting and waiting and waiting
and waiting and waiting and waiting and
waiting and waiting and waiting
and waiting and waiting and waiting and
waiting and waiting and waiting
and waiting and waiting and waiting and
waiting and waiting and waiting
and waiting and waiting and waiting and
waiting and waiting and waiting
and waiting and waiting and waiting and

for Scottish Power Gas Boiler Service Engineer to give my boiler its Pre Service Inspection.

He was due to arrive today between 8am, and 1pm, a few phone calls to Scottish Power and they say he'll be here sometime between now and 7pm   :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 September, 2011, 03:25:43 pm
Data mangling

Brane-ache!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 09 September, 2011, 03:28:51 pm
Manually testing a web application.

Didn't someone invent a way to automate this years ago? Ffs this is dull. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Woofage on 09 September, 2011, 03:31:37 pm
Working myself up to doing some violin practice (concert tomorrow).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 09 September, 2011, 03:45:46 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 07 September, 2011, 04:40:10 pm
Enjoying some scarce alone time. Whilst missing John Peel. Which is a bit odd but never mind.

Cheer up: he's been canonized...

(http://permanenza.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/tnpipx.jpg)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 09 September, 2011, 03:47:59 pm
Got a haematology analyser in bits trying to find out why the controls are out of limits  ???

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 September, 2011, 06:47:47 pm
what a bloody nuisance
 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 09 September, 2011, 07:08:03 pm
celebrating the fact that boiler man came!   :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 September, 2011, 09:10:42 pm
Lookin at a wonderful moon from the train window
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 September, 2011, 09:14:11 pm
Trying to sneak packets past the bogon field radiated by a CrossCountry Voyager...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 September, 2011, 03:27:31 am
Waiting in friday night a&e. Well, the nice lady from nhs direct and a very nice man off the interwebs both told me I should. Bleeding Chap with the ripped shirt is arguing with the 4 women accompanying him about whether they should wheel him outside for a smoke. Whist one of them is holding a bowl for him to puke in. Hurt Ankle While Dancing is saying she needs to get out of here, and has said several times that she didn't want the blues and twos on in the ambulance from Selby. Wobbly grey-faced youth got taken through The Doors in short order. Middle-aged bloke with one shoe on looks perplexed by it all, tho his wife/lady friend seems very cheerful. Quiet Reading Girl has disappeared while I was in triage. Left-handed Idiot Who Can't Competently Walk Around On Pavements Near the Minster
is using a telephonic dinosaur right-handed to post on a cycling forum and wishing she was riding to hull not to in a very long queue to see a doc in order to probably join an equally long queue for x-ray...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 September, 2011, 03:51:58 am
666
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 September, 2011, 04:10:19 am
Hurt Ankle is now comparing injuries with Self-Harming Goth Boy and discussing how much trouble each will be in with respective parents in a manner that can only be described as flirtatious. I think they may have a belching contest soon. Goth Boy, who apparently used to be a grave digger, is going to sneak out for a fag even tho the nurse told him the site is no smoking and if he isn't there when they call him he'll lose his place in the queue. Frizzy-Haired Woman with Insufficient Respect for Personal Space just stole my magazine. Cheerful Camp Triage Nurse says it's busy, lots of ambulances coming in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 September, 2011, 04:31:47 am
Friday night a&e.

Be nice and polite but firm.  Did it in whitechappel once the pain from the injury was more than the pain from the injury. So i self medicated.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 September, 2011, 05:51:11 am
Seen doc. Nearly passed out when bending arm. Got fed co-codomol. Now waiting for x-ray. Doc rides a ridgeback :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 September, 2011, 06:30:02 am
Making an appointment at the fracture clinic :( This really is not the best of weeks...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 10 September, 2011, 07:38:13 am
Sending Crinkly a very gentle hug.

 :-*

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 10 September, 2011, 07:55:15 am
Gotta love A&E.  Last time I was in, there was a girl in riding gear who'd fallen off a pony, and a young lad with a fishing hook through his finger.  Only needed a baby with a saucepan on its head for the full set...

GWS Crinkles - hugs and sympathy from me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 10 September, 2011, 07:58:56 am
Quote from: Clare on 10 September, 2011, 07:38:13 am
Sending Crinkly a very gentle hug.

 :-*

+ 1  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 10 September, 2011, 08:20:17 am
Poor Crinkly, huge sympathy for you!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 10 September, 2011, 08:21:46 am
I remember now why I left Sandwell DGH for a job at the Western Isles Hospital - GWS Crinkly Lion
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 September, 2011, 09:21:26 am
Oh No. Poor you Crinkly. Lots of gentle hugs from us.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 September, 2011, 09:25:29 am
Lots of sympathy winging its way Crinkly-wards.  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 10 September, 2011, 09:34:59 am
Lots of sympathy from me too!  Hope that it's not too bad and you get well soon!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 10 September, 2011, 11:28:05 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 10 September, 2011, 03:27:31 am
Left-handed Idiot Who Can't Competently Walk Around On Pavements Near the Minster
is using a telephonic dinosaur right-handed to post on a cycling forum and wishing she was riding to hull not to in a very long queue to see a doc in order to probably join an equally long queue for x-ray...

I'm sorry Kay, but this had me giggling.

Your capacity to raise a smile in the face of misery is fantastic.

GWS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 10 September, 2011, 11:36:21 am
Not just what Arch said. Crinklylion got the train straight after A+E to join up with the FNRTTC people for breakfast. Sling, broken bone and all. She's my friend that well 'ard chick. Is there anyone else who would do this? Not only that, she was trying to get someone to look after me cause she had to go home! Respec'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 September, 2011, 11:41:13 am
Crinkly's stoicism is admirable.

And Lindagordinho has just entered the 10000th post on this thread!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 September, 2011, 11:43:10 am
Working :(

Hopefully I can complete it today so I can ride down to York with Deano tomorrow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 10 September, 2011, 11:45:14 am
Lindagordinho is sitting malodorously on the TPE home from York trying to stay awake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 September, 2011, 11:47:19 am
I'm part-way through a cup of coffee and being pestered by the dog. Before we went for our walk I threw him a piece of liver cake which he failed to catch and couldn't find at the time. Now he's lying by a trolley squeaking incessantly. I think he's found it but can't reach it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 September, 2011, 11:47:37 am
Stop off at NTR and pick up your keys :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 September, 2011, 12:41:01 pm
Sitting on a bus in Armley. Woo-fricking-hoo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 10 September, 2011, 01:38:19 pm
Much sympathy for crinkly. Dare one ask whether this is your cake mixing arm?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 10 September, 2011, 02:12:02 pm
It is indeed her mixing arm. It is also her writing and mouse arm.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 10 September, 2011, 02:20:20 pm
Just got back from a bit of geocaching, cut short when Miss Z the younger evacuated herself while looking for the second cache of the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 10 September, 2011, 03:05:38 pm
1) Bemoaning the fact that X-country trains, after spending several miles tanking it past all the M5 traffic, have to slow down in full sight of all the motorists to stop at Tiverton Parkway, where almost no-one ever alights or boards.

2) Preparing to wave at Kim from this Voyager(*) (1656 arrival Mordor Central, so passing Silly Oak about 10 mins before that) on my way back to the Midlandlands after another successful week playing with trains in Cornwall.

3) (*) Making a mental note to commit to memory the SATURDAY X-country HST diagrams, as well as the Mon-Fri ones. I'd expected this train to be a class 43, but it's a dangly-bike-space-smells-of-wee train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 10 September, 2011, 03:17:31 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 10 September, 2011, 03:05:38 pm
1) Bemoaning the fact that X-country trains, after spending several miles tanking it past all the M5 traffic, have to slow down in full sight of all the motorists to stop at Tiverton Parkway, where almost no-one ever alights or boards.
Described by a (very foxy) onetime colleague who managed our branch there as "a one-sheep town".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 September, 2011, 04:46:03 pm
Waving to rower40's train as it goes past....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 10 September, 2011, 04:51:51 pm
Quote from: Kim on 10 September, 2011, 04:46:03 pm
Waving to rower40's train as it goes past....
I searched for someone to wave to...  (Didn't see you anywhere obvious - station platforms, on the aqueduct, outside the Bristol Pear)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 10 September, 2011, 04:55:24 pm
Catching my breath after an hour or so of tandem-cleaning.

It's mostly to put off the evil moment when I have to have another go at fettling the gears (veterans of the camping weekend may remember "do we have a granny ring today... <clickety clickety click>... um, no.")
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Steph on 10 September, 2011, 04:55:51 pm
Just in off the bike, shopping put away and about to shower, get into a long skirt and sweatshirt, and doss the early evening away watching the rest of the rugby on ITVplayer. With a glass of wine for later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 September, 2011, 04:56:20 pm
In a post-FNRttC-sitting-in-my-pajamas-and-can't-be-arsed-to-move-from-the-computer sense, I'm afraid.

If I'd still been in sweaty bike gear, I'd have nipped up to the aqueduct...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 10 September, 2011, 05:01:29 pm
Freezing.  And in Mordor Central too.  Hooda fort it?

The Aircon on this Voyager has been turned up to 11 and then some.  Fortunately only 40 more minutes, then I put myself in the hands of Derby's finest taxi drivers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gerwinium on 10 September, 2011, 05:14:24 pm
Eating the last Crinklycake for at least 6 weeks :( - it was left on the table so I thought it was a shame for it to go to waste. Nice coffee cake!

Hope you get well soon, CL :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 10 September, 2011, 06:42:13 pm
Lying on my bed listening to next door tell white lies whilst trying to sell his overpriced car...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 September, 2011, 12:31:56 am
Quote from: gerwinium on 10 September, 2011, 05:14:24 pm
Eating the last Crinklycake for at least 6 weeks :( - it was left on the table so I thought it was a shame for it to go to waste. Nice coffee cake!

Hope you get well soon, CL :)

Git for not sharing.

Get well cl's cake arm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gerwinium on 11 September, 2011, 08:32:31 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 11 September, 2011, 12:31:56 am
Git for not sharing.

If you're in the London area of London, I'm happy to share.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 September, 2011, 08:34:56 am
About to take the dog for a walk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 September, 2011, 08:57:12 am
Sitting in a tent about to have an 85th birthday party.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 September, 2011, 08:59:23 am
Many happy returns Jaded!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 September, 2011, 09:01:04 am
I do believe Gattopardo might well be in That London. And deserves CAIK for sending me encouraging messages to entertain me in a&e in the wee small hours of sat am.  I am celebrating 2 major achievements, right now. 1) I managed to get dressed, even put on a bra, with only mild whimpering. 2) I successfully put 4 weeks worth of rubbish out ahead of bin day 2moro. Next up, clear table, post kitchen and cook sunday lunch. Maybe another coffee first...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 11 September, 2011, 09:07:10 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 11 September, 2011, 09:01:04 am
I do believe Gattopardo might well be in That London. And deserves CAIK for sending me encouraging messages to entertain me in a&e in the wee small hours of sat am.  I am celebrating 2 major achievements, right now. 1) I managed to get dressed, even put on a bra, with only mild whimpering. 2) I successfully put 4 weeks worth of rubbish out ahead of bin day 2moro. Next up, clear table, post kitchen and cook sunday lunch. Maybe another coffee first...

Thats sounds like plenty of achieving for today ;D  TaKE IT EASY!  you dont want any more damage or pain
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 11 September, 2011, 09:09:10 am
I'm just heading out for a bit of a ride.  Was hoping it would be longer, but as ever recently, Real Life is getting in the way :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 September, 2011, 09:12:01 am
Quote from: gerwinium on 11 September, 2011, 08:32:31 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 11 September, 2011, 12:31:56 am
Git for not sharing.

If you're in the London area of London, I'm happy to share.

yep gimmr cake ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 September, 2011, 09:17:59 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 11 September, 2011, 09:01:04 am
I do believe Gattopardo might well be in That London. And deserves CAIK for sending me encouraging messages to entertain me in a&e in the wee small hours of sat am.  I am celebrating 2 major achievements, right now. 1) I managed to get dressed, even put on a bra, with only mild whimpering. 2) I successfully put 4 weeks worth of rubbish out ahead of bin day 2moro. Next up, clear table, post kitchen and cook sunday lunch. Maybe another coffee first...

Be careful, as said upthread take it easy.  Use the little slaves sorry kids to help. 

 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gerwinium on 11 September, 2011, 11:28:00 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 11 September, 2011, 09:12:01 am

yep gimmr cake ;)

Ok, message me a location where it needs to go and I'll get it there somehow. Or what is left after me & Mr g. had some  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 September, 2011, 12:30:44 pm
I know what I should be doing: heading into town to see Deano off on his little adventure.

Instead, I'm having to deal with Real Lifetm and the consequences thereof. Hmmph.

EDIT: And dealing with eBay idiots who can't be arsed to read a listing properly  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 11 September, 2011, 02:20:42 pm

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 11 September, 2011, 09:01:04 am
... post kitchen...

Will that be "Large Letter" or do you think you'll have to use Parcel Post?
 ;)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 September, 2011, 03:02:31 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 11 September, 2011, 08:57:12 am
Sitting in a tent about to have an 85th birthday party.

May you have many more!  I must say, you look good for your age.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 11 September, 2011, 10:08:40 pm
Watching Countryfile and trying to spot Mrs MV's dad :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 12 September, 2011, 11:29:23 am
Sitting in Beverley library. There appears to be a competition to be thE LOUDEST TYPEST going ON. The guy in the corner's winning, but he probably has a lifetime of hammering 12" nails to fall back on. Ancient typewriter lady can't really compete, and at least she appears to know how to use a mouse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 September, 2011, 02:13:10 pm
Feeling a) bored, b) sad, c) hungry, d) tired....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 September, 2011, 02:19:08 pm
All of the above, but especially a) as I'm waiting for Shitty Link to deliver a package. I wish that Amazon would pick a courier company and bloody well stick to it1.

1 - we'll conveniently ignore the fact that in ShittyLinkLand, 'local' to York is actually Leeming, which his about 40 miles away  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 September, 2011, 02:20:42 pm
Shitty Link nearly always deliver when I'm on the loo.  I assume that's how they get the name.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 September, 2011, 02:23:53 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 September, 2011, 02:20:42 pm
Shitty Link nearly always deliver when I'm on the loo.  I assume that's how they get the name.
For me, it's usually when I'm in the shower ...

Worse, I have a bunch of stuff to take up to the post office - not a big problem in theory, since the round trip is considerably less than a mile, but the Immutable Law Of Sod dictates that as soon as I reach the post office, the courier will pop out of a wormhole outside my house, attempt to deliver the package and then bugger off again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 September, 2011, 02:28:03 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 September, 2011, 02:20:42 pm
Shitty Link nearly always deliver when I'm on the loo.  I assume that's how they get the name.

Let's hope they don't change their name to Saver Link. I'd never get any deliveries at all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 September, 2011, 02:28:29 pm
Taking drugs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 September, 2011, 02:30:59 pm
Quote from: interzen on 12 September, 2011, 02:19:08 pm
All of the above, but especially a) as I'm waiting for Shitty Link to deliver a package. I wish that Amazon would pick a courier company and bloody well stick to it1.

1 - we'll conveniently ignore the fact that in ShittyLinkLand, 'local' to York is actually Leeming, which his about 40 miles away  ::-)

you do know why they moved there, don't you (they used to be based in York).

It was because they changed the trucks they were using, the new ones couldn't turn around at the York depot so they moved to Leeming!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 September, 2011, 07:39:40 pm
Wondering whether I should pay the fixed penalty I just got, or not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 September, 2011, 08:23:57 pm
Having an fag outside the pub before the quiz starts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 12 September, 2011, 08:36:52 pm
Grouting



(edit: ie. Applying grout to tiles, and not whatever meaning Roger might find from the dark recesses of his experience, or urban dictionary)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 September, 2011, 08:55:34 pm
Quote from: Raminphrikesh Pharghangitalivati on 12 September, 2011, 08:36:52 pm
Grouting

(edit: ie. Applying grout to tiles, and not whatever meaning Roger might find from the dark recesses of his experience, or urban dictionary)

*checks UrbanDictionary, is not at all surprised*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 13 September, 2011, 12:04:27 am
Listening to 40+ year old Genesis and crying.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 September, 2011, 04:20:22 pm
Wrestling with IBM software.  Takes ~ 15mins to complete a build on a server, then >30 minutes to complete the job tracking system tickets :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 14 September, 2011, 05:16:54 pm
I'm not doing nothing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 September, 2011, 06:06:41 pm
I think that you are employing a double negative :) so you are doing something :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 14 September, 2011, 06:32:02 pm
Mourning the loss of plum jam. Airport Security have taken it for their toast.
:'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 September, 2011, 06:33:23 pm
Getting high on a heady blend of solvents.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 September, 2011, 06:38:15 pm
Feeling generally hacked off, despite the fact that SWMBO is now gainfully employed (albeit by Accenture, but a job is a job even if it is in bloody Warwick).

I have ordered a couple of BFO pizzas from the local pizzeria to see if circular cheese on toast is a good cure for general ennui (plus I can have cold pizza for lunch tomorrow)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 September, 2011, 07:11:59 pm
eating choklit brownies, drinking milk, and typing awkwardly one-handedly whilst (thanks to Tiermat) browsing the interwebs on a screen of normal size wiv pics and everyfink!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 14 September, 2011, 07:12:51 pm
Hurrah!  Crinkly am back!    :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 September, 2011, 07:14:14 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 14 September, 2011, 07:11:59 pm
eating choklit brownies, drinking milk, and typing awkwardly one-handedly whilst (thanks to Tiermat) browsing the interwebs on a screen of normal size wiv pics and everyfink!

I completely forgot to do the new user follow up call, sorry.

Have you found the MP3s?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 September, 2011, 07:15:57 pm
Have you found the pr0n?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 September, 2011, 07:26:59 pm
I only just got online this evening, since router wrangling was required which necessitated outside collaboration for hysterical raisins.  so I haven't even looked for the porn!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 September, 2011, 09:10:12 pm
In the pubbe. With cyclists. And an open fire. And chips :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 September, 2011, 09:16:35 pm
At home. With a sore neck. No chips. Looking through various job specs (some of which are laughably inappropriate, but I need all the laughs I can get at the moment)

EDIT: Looks like I've got some eBay packaging to do now - sales are like buses; you get none for ages and then a whole bunch of them arrive at once.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 September, 2011, 09:36:41 pm
Failing to pack for a weekend of trains and Traditional Scottish Weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 15 September, 2011, 09:49:49 pm
Regretting a can of coke.

I needed it, OK. I didn't enjoy it, and it wont happen again.
Can I start to feel even a little bit tired soon, please?
It's been nearly 5 hours, surely the caffeine thingy will be wearing off soon?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 September, 2011, 12:37:17 am
Packing for a weekend of trains and Traditional Scottish Weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adam on 16 September, 2011, 06:29:47 am
Quote from: Kim on 14 September, 2011, 06:33:23 pm
Getting high on a heady blend of solvents.

That reminds me.  Last weekend I saw a guy whose a T-shirt had a big picture of a can of Evo-stick, and some words along the lines of "drugs are crap, what happened to glue sniffing?"    ::-) ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 16 September, 2011, 11:21:24 am
Thinking of introducing some balance .....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 September, 2011, 12:05:40 pm
I am about to take a prescription to the chemist's for Lee Brilleaux (http://www.drfeelgood.de/lee.htm)'s mother.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 September, 2011, 12:13:41 pm
Is it for milk and alcohol?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 September, 2011, 12:26:36 pm
Going to get a fag and a coffee after spending a couple of hours researching a customers issue with subordinate certificate authorities authenticating router to router VPNs. My brain hurts but I think I found the answer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: YahudaMoon on 16 September, 2011, 12:34:31 pm
Digging in crates of lovely nice and clean vinyl for a change instead of old dusty crates. One of my beloved Rega turntables has stopped going round, can't complain after 20 years of constant use. Its proberbly done more miles than Ive done cycling.

So Ive removed the tone arm and its off to the turntable doctors to get fixed
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 September, 2011, 12:37:38 pm
Quote from: clarion on 16 September, 2011, 12:13:41 pm
Is it for milk and alcohol?

No.

It's quite something that the mother of someone so rich and famous, albeit dead, is, at 89 years old, left with no-one much to look after her. She has a half-brother who lives about 10 miles away and does most of her shopping for her. We met her while coming back from the park: she was struggling to walk, having been to the doctors, and when she said she had to go to the chemist's, I offered to go for her. She initially declined but eventually said yes.

She told me that she has no other family living in this country: she was an only child, apart from an older sibling who died in Egypt as a babe in arms. She was born out there (her dad, in the army, was posted there at the end of WW1). Although Lee's widow phones her every week, she and the two grand-children are in the US of A. As she said when I dropped her drugs off, "If only he hadn't married an American I'd have some family living here!"

OK, Dave, I think I'm due an "I just made Society Bigger!" T-shirt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 September, 2011, 01:33:42 pm
I'm interested to hear that she was born in Egypt.  Lee was IIRC born in S. Africa.  And yes, sad that the mother of someone so famous (I don't know about rich - ISTR alcohol dealt with a lot of that, and they only had a brief spell in the limelight compared to the years of slog) has barely anyone around to help.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 September, 2011, 01:44:25 pm
Sitting on a Rich Man's Toy to York and preparing to wave in the general direction of rower40 as it passes through Derby...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 16 September, 2011, 01:47:42 pm
Stalking people on google plus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 16 September, 2011, 06:12:11 pm
Vaguely preparing the bike and myself for the Superspeedy FNRttC to Harwich tonight.

Kai is lying down in the doorway looking suitably relaxed, and is likely to be annoyed when I start digging stuff out, and putting bits together!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 September, 2011, 06:18:06 pm
Quote from: clarion on 16 September, 2011, 01:33:42 pm
I'm interested to hear that she was born in Egypt.  Lee was IIRC born in S. Africa.  And yes, sad that the mother of someone so famous (I don't know about rich - ISTR alcohol dealt with a lot of that, and they only had a brief spell in the limelight compared to the years of slog) has barely anyone around to help.

She told us that he was half-way to training to be a solicitor when he had to make the choice between that and Feelgood. Within a year of his decision he had bought his house outright.

"The things people do for a living!" remarked Joan, "Screaming his head off into a microphone!" ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 16 September, 2011, 09:58:13 pm
Ooh! Pub!
Shh - alcohol tolerance of a gnat...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 17 September, 2011, 06:12:19 am
In York station, waiting to surprise Kim.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 17 September, 2011, 06:28:57 am
Quote from: rower40 on 17 September, 2011, 06:12:19 am
In York station, waiting to surprise Kim.

Jump out & say BOO!  ;D

I'm just about the carry the bike & gear downstairs before riding to the station, I should be on a French campsite tonight.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 17 September, 2011, 07:09:40 am
Off to gatwick to meet malins to use up an el supremo brevet (buckbarn) that has been lurking in my drawer a while. Aside from a nice day out I can get double bubble from the stamp I use to return it by including the app for the new uppertea wot was returned to me because I hadn't signed it. El s is a bit of a stickler but  rules is rules and it would never do if an imposter turned up pretending to be moi!
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 17 September, 2011, 07:21:31 am
Looking at the paint stained fingers poking out of my mitts. Mrs manotea has been exacting a heavy price post PBP.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 September, 2011, 07:36:52 am
I have just had some of the gratuitous melon that the Indian restaurant sent with the curry the other night, and have followed that up with porridge. Cup of tea next, then sort out any more stuff I need for today's ride.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 17 September, 2011, 07:44:31 am
I'm on the train, it hasn't gone anywhere yet but I'm on it. More importantly, so is the bike!
Usual faff waiting for someone to let me on, but at least the Virgin trains on the West Coast line don't have dangly bike spaces.
Title: Re right now
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 September, 2011, 08:46:19 am
I'm on a train and it stinks. I can't work out if it's the carriage or the bloke sitting opposite me. I'm pretty sure it's not me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 17 September, 2011, 09:05:58 am
Campaigning.
Title: Re right now
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 September, 2011, 09:54:48 am
This train doesn't smell so this scientific control demonstrates that it isn't me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 17 September, 2011, 10:08:15 am
Enjoying my morning off.  Showered, dried, slathered in Nivea (mmmm) and feeling all lovely.  Just about to pore over some maps with my darling Crusty, ready for our cycling hols next week   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 September, 2011, 10:26:37 am
he is a lucky chap that Crusty

eta a y to luck
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 17 September, 2011, 10:32:20 am
 
Quote from: jogler on 17 September, 2011, 10:26:37 am
he is a lucky chap that Crusty

 :-[ :) :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 September, 2011, 11:12:41 am
he's nearly as lucky as me ;D
 ;) :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 September, 2011, 11:34:31 am
Lots of lucky men around here, and crusty and jogler are certainly among them. :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 17 September, 2011, 07:26:48 pm
I'm just about to start halving a load of chillis (including a small number from my garden, some from the shop and a few from Oscars Dad) ready for smoking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gill on 17 September, 2011, 11:11:11 pm
Waiting to be driven to Manchester to get on my bike and ride back to Blackpool on the first BHF Manchester to Blackpool night ride with 8 other mad cycling friends and a host of other people  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 18 September, 2011, 06:47:50 am
Edit: Delayed post, I got distracted, so it didn't get posted until this morning, it was supposed to be posted 7pm-ish last night!

Just awoken from my post-FNRttC forty winks.  I've had to refeed Cats, Kai being ready to start eating the furniture, and Zev almost as enthusiastic.

I've been wandering around putting things on charge.  I've taken the batteries out of the GPS, and started charging those, and put the Dinotte and Exposure lights all on charge, since they were all pretty heavily discharged on the FNRttC.

The battery is coming out of the Olympus SLR in a moment, so it can be charged up to the last erg.  I checked the memory card, and whilst it's not empty, it's got over 4G of spare capacity, which should be enough for whatever delights we see tomorrow on the Thames Meander (room for around several hundred photos before I need to start deleting stuf).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 18 September, 2011, 09:02:55 am
Wallowing.
I have caught someone's lurgy and feel too rough to do the ride we planned for this morning. I ought to get up and do something productive but instead here I  wallow, unable to swallow, while other people go and have fun.
Title: Re right now
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 September, 2011, 09:08:19 am
On a train heading for That London, feeling smug that I have remembered to put a pair of socks in my saddlebag. My tongue is also very aware of the place which, up to about lunch time yesterday, was occupied by a large filling. It feels like tipping Stac Pollaidh's velvet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 18 September, 2011, 09:11:22 am
Lying under a duvet on the sofa with George the cat watching the rugby  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 September, 2011, 11:19:39 am
Girding my loins to go to the vet and find out whether my cat's prognosis is good or bad.  I suspect I will be digging a deep hole in the garden later  :'(  I've had him since I was 28 and I'm 42 now.  Still, 14 years and only one day of ill health isn't bad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 18 September, 2011, 11:43:28 am
good luck with that, Rog. 

Am drinking coffee, listening to desert island discs, pondering a nap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 September, 2011, 11:48:23 am
Taking advantage of the fact that the sun is out by doing as much laundry as I can (and getting it out on the washing line) before it inevitably starts raining again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: thelazycyclist on 18 September, 2011, 11:55:21 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 18 September, 2011, 11:19:39 am
Girding my loins to go to the vet and find out whether my cat's prognosis is good or bad.  I suspect I will be digging a deep hole in the garden later  :'(  I've had him since I was 28 and I'm 42 now.  Still, 14 years and only one day of ill health isn't bad.

 :( Fingers crossed for good news Roger. 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 September, 2011, 11:57:14 am
Clearing out guttering. 
Hopefully there won't be torrents of water slashing down my window tonight after these efforts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 18 September, 2011, 12:07:36 pm
Ruing the fact that I've only just realised that my BMC membership gives me 10% off purchases in all the shops I've recently spent money in...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 18 September, 2011, 01:24:52 pm
Quote from: fboab on 18 September, 2011, 09:02:55 am
Wallowing.
I have caught someone's lurgy and feel too rough to do the ride we planned for this morning. I ought to get up and do something productive but instead here I  wallow, unable to swallow, while other people go and have fun.

I've got something like that, I think I caught nephew Oli's school September Lurgy. Sore throat for two days but now it's snot, and feeling like someone poking my sinuses with hot wire.

Still, there's some laundry soaking in the bathroom sink, I've stocked up on groceries, and I'll get round to the washing up shortly.

After another cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 September, 2011, 01:59:51 pm
Well, Mr. Josh has confounded us all by regaining the use of his legs (he jumped out of my arms and trashed the place), indicating that the clot has been dissolved by the heparin treatment.  He is also breathing more easily, so the fluid around his lungs is diminishing.  He should be home tomorrow.  He'll be on pills for the underlying heart disease and he may last a week or may last a year.  The next time he gets a clot, though, that'll be it - we can't put him through that again.  Hopefully he'll just expire in his sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 September, 2011, 06:30:49 pm
Catching up with the internets and engaging in chemical warfare with the person next to me, while waiting for a train out of Edinburgh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 September, 2011, 06:42:42 pm
thinking i should write a checklist....

plenty of hot water
plenty of dry fluffy towels
orange juice with no bits in
washing machine ready to go
radiator space for drying de-stinked lycra
choice of sofa/bed/floor space
hot chocolate and sufficient milk
variety of kim-friendly foods (rice, white bread, ham, sausages without silly green bits in etc)

yup, i think the den is ready for the return.  And hopefully she'll forgive me for making her go to scotland in the rain to deliver caik....,.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 18 September, 2011, 06:56:47 pm
Feeling like there's a lurgy coming on.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frere on 18 September, 2011, 07:01:26 pm
Trying to make up my mind which to watch first then the other on catch up TV: Spooks or Downton Abbey......Meanwhile in that state of indecisiveness, getting ready to go get a tiffin from www.thethalicafe.co.uk

Frere
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 18 September, 2011, 07:04:44 pm
Quote from: Frere on 18 September, 2011, 07:01:26 pm
Trying to make up my mind which to watch first then the other on catch up TV: Spooks or Downton Abbey......Meanwhile in that state of indecisiveness, getting ready to go get a tiffin from www.thethalicafe.co.uk

Frere
That's easy--always record the one with the adverts!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frere on 18 September, 2011, 07:10:25 pm
Mind made up :)

Frere
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 18 September, 2011, 08:43:37 pm
Tucked up all cosy in my tent, books, i-pod, head torch and stuff all nicely to hand. But feeling the inexorable sensation of my bladder filling up. Do I get up now or wait for the situation to reach a critical point?
Title: Re doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 September, 2011, 08:52:54 pm
Go now unless you are a dab hand with the she-wee and the plastic milk bottle. Bladder criticality within tent is something best avoided in my experience.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 September, 2011, 08:54:24 pm
Thinking that it feels like I'm starting to get the cold :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 18 September, 2011, 08:54:53 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 18 September, 2011, 06:42:42 pm
thinking i should write a checklist....

plenty of hot water
plenty of dry fluffy towels
orange juice with no bits in
washing machine ready to go
radiator space for drying de-stinked lycra
choice of sofa/bed/floor space
hot chocolate and sufficient milk
variety of kim-friendly foods (rice, white bread, ham, sausages without silly green bits in etc)

yup, i think the den is ready for the return.  And hopefully she'll forgive me for making her go to scotland in the rain to deliver caik....,.
And no surprises from an unexpected rower40 at the station.

I'm about to watch my first stationary episode of Downton Abbey.  All the others have been courtesy of First Great Western's "VOLO" video-on-demand service on board 1C99, the Paddington to Penzance sleeper.  I'm at home this time.

Mmm..., Michelle Dockery *Rubs thighs in a Vic Reeves kind of way*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 18 September, 2011, 08:56:35 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 18 September, 2011, 07:04:44 pm
Quote from: Frere on 18 September, 2011, 07:01:26 pm
Trying to make up my mind which to watch first then the other on catch up TV: Spooks or Downton Abbey......Meanwhile in that state of indecisiveness, getting ready to go get a tiffin from www.thethalicafe.co.uk

Frere
That's easy--always record the one with the adverts!

S

We will be watching Spooks, because although Mr Welshness does not mind Downton Abbey its the last series of Spooks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 September, 2011, 09:37:47 pm
Doing not very much at all while the train has an extended stop in Geordieland for a crew upgrade.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 September, 2011, 09:43:37 pm
laundry.

and contemplating the most sensible way of getting the soggy grubby recycling boxes round to the front door, and the recycling sorted into them.  gosh, i miss arch's lot who used to collect from the back alleyways!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 18 September, 2011, 09:48:24 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 18 September, 2011, 09:43:37 pm
laundry.

and contemplating the most sensible way of getting the soggy grubby recycling boxes round to the front door, and the recycling sorted into them.  gosh, i miss arch's lot who used to collect from the back alleyways!
You have a plentitude of sufficiency of urchins.  Problem solved.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 September, 2011, 09:53:39 pm
they be sleeping.  and i should sort it tonight as the cooncil binman collects recycling at dark o'clock (and does it noisily and doesn't put the boxes back where he found them) unlike the much more civilised hours that were kept by arch's lot!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 18 September, 2011, 09:57:38 pm
Ironing shirts for work this week \O/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 September, 2011, 10:11:44 pm
I had a shirt that wasn't non iron once.
I took it to the charity shop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 19 September, 2011, 06:14:13 am
I'm in Egypt with my brother and 2 nieces.  My brother has developed a good Egyptian look about him being tanned and bearded.  My nieces are blonde, 16 and 20, and dress like Australian girls (especially the elder).  She has 3 marriage offers so far and many requests for photos - apparently they look like queens (but I doubt Egyptian queens looked quite like that).  My brother is currently holding out for a better offer.

Off to Abu Simbel today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 September, 2011, 03:39:36 pm
Wondering how I can go from having 15 different people asking me questions, all at the same time, to nothing in the space of 3 working days....

Oh well, at least I have had plenty of chance to get out on the bike :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 September, 2011, 03:57:24 pm
getting bored, I'm away house/dog sitting, and I can never find anything to do, I've been for a ride the dog has been walked and now asleep so I only have the computer and I'm getting bored with that, roll on Friday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 19 September, 2011, 06:31:29 pm
Making inroads into the Teetering Piles Of ... Ironing. :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 September, 2011, 08:08:58 pm
Sitting in a bar in Brugge listening to the soundtrack of my youth. "Sweet Child of Mine" always reminds me of a very young, very pretty glass collector at Milos in Liverpool.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 19 September, 2011, 08:12:58 pm
Doing a bit of detective work in advance of Wednesday afternoon's job interview.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 September, 2011, 08:25:13 pm
FFS, Teenage Kicks followed by Sultans of Swing,  I could get drunk & maudlin in this place....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 September, 2011, 08:28:00 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 19 September, 2011, 08:08:58 pm
Sitting in a bar in Brugge listening to the soundtrack of my youth. "Sweet Child of Mine" always reminds me of a very young, very pretty glass collector at Milos in Liverpool.

Which bar? :p
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 September, 2011, 08:33:35 pm
Sacre Cour, the bar/restaurant part of the Bauhaus hostel on Langstraat. Not a specialist beer place.....yet...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 September, 2011, 09:01:43 pm
Not quite as jealous now then....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 September, 2011, 09:12:37 pm
Where would you recommend ? I'm here tmorrow as well.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 September, 2011, 09:54:48 pm
In t Brugs Beertje, drinking Wit Goud Witloofbier
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 September, 2011, 10:26:47 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 19 September, 2011, 09:54:48 pm
In t Brugs Beertje, drinking Wit Goud Witloofbier
Well that's the best one! :P nomnomnom
Chicory...interesting.
The other place in Brugge we recommend is.....well, closed.
Appears to have been taken over by new owners, still allegedly has beer...Comptoir Des Arts - Kunstkroeg on Vlamingstraat, 53.

Been too long I think :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 September, 2011, 06:04:23 pm
Wondering if we have any C5 envelopes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 September, 2011, 06:05:40 pm
wondering if kim has been led astray....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 20 September, 2011, 06:08:35 pm
Quote from: Kim on 20 September, 2011, 06:04:23 pm
Wondering if we have any C5 envelopes...

Wonder no more....no

Really should move.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 September, 2011, 06:12:27 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 September, 2011, 06:05:40 pm
wondering if kim has been led astray....

I may also have just booked a cheap ticket on the last train to York on the night of the 8th...   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 September, 2011, 06:28:07 pm
need a crinklyhotel for a couple of nights, perchance?

that'll make the smallestcub happy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 September, 2011, 06:30:13 pm
With room for a green bike with a very long chain?   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 September, 2011, 06:34:05 pm
Having a leisurely cup of tea before cycling off for a choir practice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 September, 2011, 06:36:33 pm
Struggling to find the drive to complete my work for today. :(
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 September, 2011, 07:31:04 pm
Couldn't be bothered walking back into town so am curled up in the tent with a Kindle and some St Bernardus Tripel.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 September, 2011, 07:35:38 pm
Trying to find a tie for my interview tomorrow.
Already polished my shoes, so that's one less thing to worry about.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oscar's dad on 20 September, 2011, 07:58:53 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 17 September, 2011, 07:26:48 pm
I'm just about to start halving a load of chillis (including a small number from my garden, some from the shop and a few from Oscars Dad) ready for smoking.

You around tomorrow (Wednesday) night???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 20 September, 2011, 08:07:09 pm
Quote from: interzen on 20 September, 2011, 07:35:38 pm
Trying to find a tie for my interview tomorrow.
Already polished my shoes, so that's one less thing to worry about.

Good luck Iz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 20 September, 2011, 08:27:16 pm
In a very, very quiet pub in Edale, enjoying a pint (not my first) before retreating to my smelly tent. Kinder tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 September, 2011, 08:43:26 pm
Is that the one with the campsite directly behind it Mike? The name of the pub escapes me
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 20 September, 2011, 08:46:23 pm
Quote from: interzen on 20 September, 2011, 07:35:38 pm
Trying to find a tie for my interview tomorrow.
Already polished my shoes, so that's one less thing to worry about.

GL, hope it goes well!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 20 September, 2011, 08:49:01 pm
Not preparing a talk/presentation thing ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 20 September, 2011, 09:41:33 pm
Quote from: Kim on 20 September, 2011, 06:12:27 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 September, 2011, 06:05:40 pm
wondering if kim has been led astray....

I may also have just booked a cheap ticket on the last train to York on the night of the 8th...   ;)
No need to wave as you come through Derby.  I'll be in Cornwall.  With a 2-hour bike commute on Saturday afternoon, Sunday Morning, Sunday evening and Monday Morning.  I'm going to be a bit bored of the Camel Trail by Monday lunchtime. Especially if the surface is how I remember it - mud and leaves.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 20 September, 2011, 10:51:45 pm
Quote from: Oscar's dad on 20 September, 2011, 07:58:53 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 17 September, 2011, 07:26:48 pm
I'm just about to start halving a load of chillis (including a small number from my garden, some from the shop and a few from Oscars Dad) ready for smoking.

You around tomorrow (Wednesday) night???

could be :)
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Post by: Gattopardo on 20 September, 2011, 10:54:29 pm
Didn't leave flat, but made a strange mix of gram flour, bicarb, bananas and eggs mixed and baked in the bread maker.  Should have contained milk and sweetner but could be bothered to move off the sofa.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 20 September, 2011, 11:16:07 pm
Now awaiting the cake to cool.
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Post by: Quisling on 21 September, 2011, 02:15:17 am
Working out the pattern repeat for the slab quantities for the new patio/path etc.  This involved cutting up lots of bits of paper to make "slabs", then transferring the finished article to a more wind resilient drawing and checking I've done it right with the use of different coloured pencils for each slab size.

I can now get on with getting some prices and ordering the materials so I can get it laid before the big frosty stuff arrives.  Time for bed!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 September, 2011, 07:35:42 am
Worrying about my kitteh and waiting for the vets to open.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 September, 2011, 07:43:08 am
hoping the pingus' kitteh improves.  and sending virtual cake for said kitteh's slaves to cheer them up.
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Post by: Chris S on 21 September, 2011, 07:44:00 am
Nursing a mid-week hangover. Tut tut...
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Post by: tiermat on 21 September, 2011, 07:47:26 am
Watching BBC Breakfast online, and spotting Hilldodger
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Post by: Kim on 21 September, 2011, 08:38:39 am
Forcing myself to eat in preparation for a hilly 100k
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Post by: Chris S on 21 September, 2011, 08:49:13 am
Quote from: Kim on 21 September, 2011, 08:38:39 am
Forcing myself to eat in preparation for a hilly 100k

 :o

That sentence appears to contain traces of audacious intent. You're not about to enter the beardy-weirdy sandal wearing, Barley toting world of audax are you?
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Post by: Kim on 21 September, 2011, 08:55:04 am
No, I did that yesterday.  I'm just taking the scenic (in the chevron sense) route to barakta's mum's.
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Post by: SteveC on 21 September, 2011, 10:38:49 am
Waiting for the Openreach man to come back and reconnect my phone and broadband.

S
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 September, 2011, 10:52:42 am
wandering around dressed in a towel, not being smelly and waiting to be dry.  i was just very very brave and had a bath without a responsible adult in shouting distance in case i couldn't get out!

next i shall be taking more painkillers before mostly trying to find the relevant bits of paper (i suspect this will be challenging) to go with my mostly completed tax credit and council tax benefit forms.  then i shall be packing overnight clothes for cubs to go stay with their dad tomorrow.  then i shall be deciding if i can face going into school to borrow a computer with printer to complete a cb claim for the littly, since i've never got round to doing it and he is now 4, and to give them my sick note.  then i will possibly, if i am very brave, attempt to organise house insurance,

i hate paper.  invention of stan it is.
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Post by: andrewc on 21 September, 2011, 11:43:49 am
Sitting at the side of the Brugge - Gent canal eating brood met kaas.
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Post by: PaulF on 21 September, 2011, 12:03:28 pm
Trying (with little success) to install SQL Server 2008
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Post by: Andrij on 21 September, 2011, 01:01:36 pm
Going home.

I will have some soup then crawl into bed in the hope that when I crawl back out tomorrow morning I will feel better.
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Post by: peliroja on 21 September, 2011, 01:12:21 pm
Thinking about Troy Davis.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 September, 2011, 01:16:29 pm
Me too.  :(
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Post by: PaulF on 21 September, 2011, 02:06:55 pm
Quote
PaulF:
Trying (with little success) to install SQL Server 2008


Success!
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Post by: Basil on 21 September, 2011, 05:04:12 pm
Sitting on a train in Derby.  Not going anywhere due to broken down train further up the line.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 September, 2011, 05:40:59 pm
In the chippy, waiting for our tea to be cooked. My boys are reciting lines from monty python about spam, having spotted spam fritters on the menu :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 September, 2011, 05:42:40 pm
Wonderful spam!
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Post by: L CC on 21 September, 2011, 06:08:37 pm
Egg Bacon Spam and Sausage without the spam, please.
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Post by: andrewc on 22 September, 2011, 12:58:12 pm
Sitting outside the Waterhuis aan de bierkant in Gent. Sipping Gandavum and waiting for Stoverij met Westmalle dubbel & Rodenbach.
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Post by: Feline on 22 September, 2011, 01:29:40 pm
I am procrastinating ... badly. I had so much to do yesterday I went into a catatonic state and did none of it. If I do the same today I won't be riding the audax I was planning for saturday. WTF is wrong with me?  :facepalm:
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Post by: jogler on 22 September, 2011, 02:26:50 pm
Watching the UK Ironman triathlon from Bolton.
Team True Spirit:an amazing collection of athletes displaying TRUE GRIT & makes one realize how fortunate one is & puts  your own "problems" into perspective.
Chapeau heroes :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 22 September, 2011, 02:37:20 pm
Quote from: Feline on 22 September, 2011, 01:29:40 pm
I am procrastinating ... badly. I had so much to do yesterday I went into a catatonic state and did none of it. If I do the same today I won't be riding the audax I was planning for saturday. WTF is wrong with me?  :facepalm:

Sounds like you're actually procrastinating really well :D

But more helpfully, can you make a list of what you need to do, prioritise it (or choose all the quick tasks) and then check off items as you finish them. May help make it less daunting
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Post by: clarion on 22 September, 2011, 02:50:36 pm
Having lunch in epsom in advance of a hospital appointment.  Couldn't have the usual things because my doctor's advised me to avoid egg and dairy.  Oh.  Beans on toast, then.  But I usually have one or the other of the prohibited foods at every meal.  Stumped now.
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Post by: tiermat on 22 September, 2011, 02:51:35 pm
<apologies to Clarion> Making Lasgne ready for Saturday night
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Post by: clarion on 22 September, 2011, 06:04:56 pm
;D  Enjoy it.  It's something I know you do well. :)
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Post by: andrewc on 23 September, 2011, 07:41:21 am
Sitting in my tent, watching my breath steam in the air. Wondering about a second cup of tea.
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Post by: L CC on 23 September, 2011, 08:20:33 am
Listening to K-hop and waiting for my 'tea' to cool.

I am not responsible for the K-hop, or the 'tea'.
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Post by: clarion on 23 September, 2011, 08:22:22 am
Butterfly just answered the door to our jolly postman, who gave her a big parcel.

So we're currently being bowled over (forgive the pun) by the generosity of some folk in the Northallerton area.

Thank you.
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Post by: jogler on 23 September, 2011, 08:24:59 am
I'm trying to entice a lady yacf-er to spend a weekend at joglerville.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 September, 2011, 08:28:24 am
Quote from: clarion on 23 September, 2011, 08:22:22 am
Butterfly just answered the door to our jolly postman, who gave her a big parcel.

So we're currently being bowled over (forgive the pun) by the generosity of some folk in the Northallerton area.

Thank you.

oooh, i think i might know what was in your parcel and if i'm right i think i might know how tempted i was to offer to transport it south so that i could accidentally lose it because it is really rather lovely!
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Post by: clarion on 23 September, 2011, 08:29:45 am
It is astonishingly lovely.  We are gobsmacked.
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Post by: clarion on 23 September, 2011, 08:30:35 am
Quote from: jogler on 23 September, 2011, 08:24:59 am
I'm trying to entice a lady yacf-er to spend a weekend at joglerville.

Well worth the effort IMHO.
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Post by: Butterfly on 23 September, 2011, 08:31:27 am
Quote from: clarion on 23 September, 2011, 08:29:45 am
It is astonishingly lovely.  We are gobsmacked.
Indeed :D. I'm feeling the urge to hoover so that the house is nice enough for it :-[.
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Post by: Riggers on 23 September, 2011, 08:59:01 am
I'm contemplating 'blueing up' a cat's eyes of this Parish, to make him more like Hitler.
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Post by: jogler on 23 September, 2011, 09:21:52 am
I'm doing Domestic Engineering a.k.a. "hoovering" .This Dyson thing is more bloody complicated than flying a helicopter :o
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 September, 2011, 09:31:28 am
can you imagine how disappointed i am that i can't lift the hoover out of the cupboard with my poorly elbow?  heart-breaking it is.  absolutely heart-breaking.
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Post by: jogler on 23 September, 2011, 09:37:18 am
every cloud has a silver lining,eh? ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 September, 2011, 10:00:46 am
I'm about to go to the dentist's to find out if he is able to patch up this shell of a tooth of mine.
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Post by: jogler on 23 September, 2011, 10:24:58 am
I'm going to have a rummage thru' the bitsbox to see if I've got a spare pair of spd's to put on the trike.
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Post by: Gill on 23 September, 2011, 10:29:05 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 23 September, 2011, 08:31:27 am
Quote from: clarion on 23 September, 2011, 08:29:45 am
It is astonishingly lovely.  We are gobsmacked.
Indeed :D. I'm feeling the urge to hoover so that the house is nice enough for it :-[.

I think we might need a picture  :)
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Post by: Gill on 23 September, 2011, 10:31:09 am
Quote from: jogler on 23 September, 2011, 08:24:59 am
I'm trying to entice a lady yacf-er to spend a weekend at joglerville.

Monsieur Jogler you are rather partial to lady yACFers!  :-*
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Post by: jogler on 23 September, 2011, 11:08:01 am
They do occupy several of the top-ten places on my Christmas card list ;)
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Post by: Kim on 23 September, 2011, 01:08:49 pm
Celebrating Bi Visibility Day in the traditional manner: by faffing and being indecisive.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 September, 2011, 01:26:54 pm
Quote from: Kim on 23 September, 2011, 01:08:49 pm
Celebrating Bi Visibility Day in the traditional manner: by faffing and being indecisive.

Do you have to wear bi-viz for that?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 September, 2011, 01:30:44 pm
I haven't decided yet.   ;D


Barakta has the monopoly on purple T-shirts with witty slogans, anyway.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 03:31:06 pm
Off to Sevenoaks HIFI specialist on Bridge St to get some new parts for the inside of my Rega Planar turntable. Its been going round for 20years and you can buy a upgrade motor. Im guessing its going to cost about £100  :-\

I need to buy diamonds as well. Its going to be a expensive shop
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Post by: her_welshness on 23 September, 2011, 03:38:18 pm
Laminating displays for the library: Black History Month, National Poetry Week and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There is not enough months to go round!
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Post by: SteveC on 23 September, 2011, 07:15:34 pm
I ought to be packing for tomorrow's holiday.  I hate packing.   >:(

S
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Post by: SteveC on 23 September, 2011, 08:06:25 pm
Packing is now done, apart from the worrying about what I've forgotten.

S
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Post by: jogler on 23 September, 2011, 08:11:57 pm
I'm contemplating ressurecting my RRTY campaign.If I can squeeze a 200km ride in during the next seven days I can...
choose from some good rides on the Auk calendar for October.
get the winter riding done sooner than later.

I have a few Perms in my desk drawer:the Mere 200 looks favourite.
 :-\
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 September, 2011, 08:30:36 pm
g'wan g'wan g'wan.... y'know you want to.  just do one, then see what happens next....
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Post by: Gattopardo on 23 September, 2011, 08:48:27 pm
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 03:31:06 pm
Off to Sevenoaks HIFI specialist on Bridge St to get some new parts for the inside of my Rega Planar turntable. Its been going round for 20years and you can buy a upgrade motor. Im guessing its going to cost about £100  :-\

I need to buy diamonds as well. Its going to be a expensive shop

I upgraded my motor from RS, same motor from rega just cheaper.  There are loads of diagrams on the net for upgrading the capacitors and resitors.  Did mine in an afternoon and seem to make it more stable spped wise.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 23 September, 2011, 08:55:22 pm
Heading to the midlands, well suppose to and seemingly not be able to motivate myself to move off the sofa.  BG are going crazy the whole day....wonder whats going on in my body.......
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 September, 2011, 09:09:35 pm
thinking that i might have done too much today.  i have dull niggly elbow pain, and keep getting cramp in wrist, hand and upper arm, despite vitamin i and co-codomol.  perhaps too much chocolate-based physiotherapy....
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 09:15:54 pm
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 03:31:06 pm
Off to Sevenoaks HIFI specialist on Bridge St to get some new parts for the inside of my Rega Planar turntable. Its been going round for 20years and you can buy a upgrade motor. Im guessing its going to cost about £100  :-\

I need to buy diamonds as well. Its going to be a expensive shop

Dam £130 for a new motor. Im not doing this now though its done.
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Post by: Andrij on 23 September, 2011, 09:18:29 pm
Packing and fettling (spoke reflectors and backup lights) in preparation for heading Up North.  Also fighting the desire to go to bed now and leave this work until stupid o'clock in the morning.
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Post by: border-rider on 23 September, 2011, 09:23:40 pm
Just managed to pay my road fund licence car tax online. Blimey, first time that's ever worked for me. It was only MOT'd today so that's quite impressive.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 23 September, 2011, 09:28:11 pm
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 09:15:54 pm
Quote from: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 03:31:06 pm
Off to Sevenoaks HIFI specialist on Bridge St to get some new parts for the inside of my Rega Planar turntable. Its been going round for 20years and you can buy a upgrade motor. Im guessing its going to cost about £100  :-\

I need to buy diamonds as well. Its going to be a expensive shop

Dam £130 for a new motor. Im not doing this now though its done.

Its a primotec motor and a few resistors....also is yours a rubber band mount the new one is fixed to the plinth.
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Post by: gerwinium on 23 September, 2011, 10:27:29 pm
Recovering from a bout of Doombar after not-cycling-home from work.
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Post by: Andrij on 23 September, 2011, 10:39:48 pm
Quote from: gerwinium on 23 September, 2011, 10:27:29 pm
Recovering from a bout of Doombar after not-cycling-home from work.

Rewind one week; replace Doombar with Derail Ale.  Heading back to the office on Saturday to collect the bike was oh-so-much fun.  ::-)
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Post by: jogler on 24 September, 2011, 05:41:11 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 September, 2011, 08:30:36 pm
g'wan g'wan g'wan.... y'know you want to.  just do one, then see what happens next....

yes I do want to but I'm not sure I can do ....It's about 8 weeks since I last did a ride of such distance/time & I feel that I've lost the edge.The spirit is willing but the flesh is definately weak.
It may be more sensible to work back up to it. The Eureka in November is attractive for a couple of reasons.This also gives the opportunity & time to monitor a couple of physical issues which have arisen since I last did a 200km ride.
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Post by: jogler on 24 September, 2011, 06:41:08 am
I'm perusing the Events Calendar on the AUK website
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Post by: jogler on 24 September, 2011, 06:51:38 am
I going to make breakfast in bed for marj & I
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 September, 2011, 12:24:09 pm
Reading about feline lymphoma. I really shouldn't but I am such a bloody masochist.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 September, 2011, 12:25:31 pm
And wondering what time the fish shop shuts :P
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 September, 2011, 12:36:46 pm
About to have lunch. Then I'm going for a bike ride somewhere. It's another gorgeous day.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 September, 2011, 01:08:38 pm
Having a wee sit down after lunch then bobb and I are going to cycle along the canal path and I am going to make him pick blackberries, with the bribe of pie.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 September, 2011, 01:24:59 pm
Jan and I picked 4 litres yesterday, which have now ben stewed and await freezing. Many of those we picked were just a bit too soft, but they'll be OK cooked.

There are more coming on the bushes (depending on the species - I understand that there are several), but whether they will ripen is another matter.
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Post by: Canardly on 24 September, 2011, 02:04:10 pm
Just cut the grass and have a bazillion cherries lying on  garden  now strewth. Note: all my blackbirds have disappeared strange....
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Post by: andrewc on 24 September, 2011, 04:15:11 pm
Sitting in a bar in Turnhout, on the banks of the Dessel. Waiting for my glass of Westmalle and thinking that I should have put sunscreen on.

:-)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 September, 2011, 04:17:27 pm
andrewc, you are a git and ICMFP.
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Post by: andrewc on 24 September, 2011, 04:37:59 pm
Sorry Mrs P!    This has been a lovely route so far (Vlaanderen Fietsroute) It's a shame to cram it into 2 weeks. You can't spend enough time in the towns.
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Post by: barakta on 24 September, 2011, 04:59:11 pm
Quote from: Kim on 23 September, 2011, 01:30:44 pm
I haven't decided yet.   ;D


Barakta has the monopoly on purple T-shirts with witty slogans, anyway.

Almost none of my teeshirts are purple AND with witty slogans.  They're usually one or the other. 

And what do you mean you don't remember what colour my teeshirts are?  Shocking, really!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 September, 2011, 07:15:11 pm
Being miserable.
My fecking jaw hurts, and I've got to go back to the dentist again on Monday :(

I've taken so many painkillers you could probably hear me rattling in Hull.
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Post by: Clare on 24 September, 2011, 08:53:32 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 24 September, 2011, 04:15:11 pm
Sitting in a bar in Turnhout, on the banks of the Dessel. Waiting for my glass of Westmalle and thinking that I should have put sunscreen on.

:-)

Vernon's brother lives in Turnhout, we'll be there next weekend.

Don't drink all the Westmalle!

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Post by: Canardly on 24 September, 2011, 09:40:12 pm
Er did I say Git?......... ::-)
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Post by: L CC on 25 September, 2011, 07:45:48 am
Waiting for someone to make me breakfast. Preferably in bed.

It could be quite a wait.
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Post by: welshwheels on 25 September, 2011, 08:01:10 am
how do you want your eggs ?  ;D^^^^ getting ready to watch scotland v argentina then fettle the commuter for a bit then a christening that i do not want to go to later !!!
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Post by: her_welshness on 25 September, 2011, 08:28:39 am
Quote from: welshwheels on 25 September, 2011, 08:01:10 am
how do you want your eggs ?  ;D^^^^ getting ready to watch scotland v argentina then fettle the commuter for a bit then a christening that i do not want to go to later !!!

Also about to watch the rugby and then hopefully going on a cycle ride later  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Butterfly on 25 September, 2011, 09:06:41 am
Just about to head out to a second interview. Fingers crossed!
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Post by: welshwheels on 25 September, 2011, 09:31:40 am
good luck :)
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Post by: Canardly on 25 September, 2011, 10:22:10 am
Crikey having an interview on a  Sunday! Hope it all goes well Butterfly.
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Post by: her_welshness on 25 September, 2011, 10:29:45 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 25 September, 2011, 09:06:41 am
Just about to head out to a second interview. Fingers crossed!

Good luck Butterfly!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 September, 2011, 10:33:21 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 25 September, 2011, 09:06:41 am
Just about to head out to a second interview. Fingers crossed!

how odd.  i dreamt about you getting a new charge last night - a wee girl with long curly red hair called, i think, freya.

fingers crossed that it is the right job for you and that the interviewer has the sense to see that there couldn't be anyone better for the job. 

(altho obv the actual right job for you, when i win the lottery, will be to move to york and look after the cubs  :D)
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Post by: andrewc on 25 September, 2011, 01:18:12 pm
Sitting in yet another Belgian cafe in glorious sunshine.  Waiting for Uitsmijter met ham kaas and drinking beer. Only bad think is that I ordered Dommelsch Oud Bruin and its only 2.5% !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 September, 2011, 10:11:08 am
Pre-doping for yet another trip to the bloody dentist (last one for a while, I hope)

Top tip if  you're having any mouth-work done: take suitable painkillers (in my case paracetamol/codeine and ibuprofen) about 90 minutes before your appointment. Assuming you're in the chair for half an hour or so, the pills will be kicking in
by the time you leave, thus vastly reducing the amount of pain/swelling/general crapness you'll have to endure.

(and hopefully I'll find out fairly soon if I can hand my notice in ...)
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Post by: tiermat on 26 September, 2011, 10:45:24 am
Aching like a bastard.

That is all....
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Post by: interzen on 26 September, 2011, 12:15:18 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 26 September, 2011, 10:45:24 am
Aching like a bastard.

That is all....
Ditto, mi amigo, albeit for slightly different reasons.

Next trip to the dentists is in 4 weeks ... for a root canal  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 September, 2011, 12:19:47 pm
Looking at my "to-do" list.  Every item is boring and shite and I don't want to do any of it.

So I shan't.   :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 September, 2011, 12:23:02 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 26 September, 2011, 12:19:47 pm
Looking at my "to-do" list.  Every item is boring and shite and I don't want to do any of it.

So I shan't.   :demon:
That would make it a "to don't" list, then - I have one of those, and it's bloody massive :)

The main item on my "to do" list is 'tell current employers to get stuffed (in the nicest possible way)' but I'm not in a position to do that just yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 September, 2011, 12:34:29 pm
Quote from: interzen on 26 September, 2011, 12:23:02 pm

The main item on my "to do" list is 'tell current employers to get stuffed (in the nicest possible way)' but I'm not in a position to do that just yet.

That sounds lovely.  I wish I could do that. 

Well, I do, every time I speak to them, but silently, seethingly, beneath my veneer of smiling professionalism.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 September, 2011, 12:35:40 pm
Cogitating.
The Fell Club...shall I join? shall I not?

apparently there is a "no Kids"* rule which makes me  :( &  >:(

this may be a deal breaker

*do they allow dogs?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si_Co on 26 September, 2011, 12:40:11 pm
Quote from: jogler on 26 September, 2011, 12:35:40 pm
Cogitating.
The Fell Club...shall I join? shall I not?

apparently there is a "no Kids"* rule which makes me  :( &  >:(

this may be a deal breaker

*do they allow dogs?

Do you have a dog? If it's what you really want I'm sure i can help out  :demon: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 September, 2011, 12:43:28 pm


Quote from: Si_Co on 26 September, 2011, 12:40:11 pm
Quote from: jogler on 26 September, 2011, 12:35:40 pm
Cogitating.
The Fell Club...shall I join? shall I not?

apparently there is a "no Kids"* rule which makes me  :( &  >:(

this may be a deal breaker

*do they allow dogs?

Do you have a dog? If it's what you really want I'm sure i can help out  :demon: ;D


No thanks,we've done this before ;)

I have a "thing" about places that exclude children but allow smelly,hairy animals that shit somewhere other than in a w.c..

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 26 September, 2011, 12:44:55 pm
Steeling myself to investigate the pungent aroma of dead mouse that seems to have developed in the spare bedroom  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 26 September, 2011, 12:56:32 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 26 September, 2011, 12:44:55 pm
Steeling myself to investigate the pungent aroma of dead mouse that seems to have developed in the spare bedroom  :sick:

Oh dear  :(

Just about to go out on public duty in the library. I am managing not to kill anyone today  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 September, 2011, 04:20:15 pm
listening to the small having yet another tantrum, waiting for him to calm down enough to allow me to go talk to him.  he also had a proper strop half way home, next to a very busy road.  strange the things that you suddenly discover are much much more difficult when you only have one functioning arm.

having just seen how little of his packed lunch he ate, i suspect severe calorie deficit.

this may also go some way to explaining the orange card and the 2 red cards that he got in school today.

i don't know if i can face going back out there later to take the big one for a karate class, since i can't strap the stroppy wee bugger in the buggy because i can't push the buggy.

 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 26 September, 2011, 04:28:23 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 26 September, 2011, 12:44:55 pm
Steeling myself to investigate the pungent aroma of dead mouse that seems to have developed in the spare bedroom  :sick:

Seal door and never speak of it again.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 26 September, 2011, 04:41:14 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 26 September, 2011, 04:28:23 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 26 September, 2011, 12:44:55 pm
Steeling myself to investigate the pungent aroma of dead mouse that seems to have developed in the spare bedroom  :sick:

Seal door and never speak of it again.

Wise words, as it turned out, very wise words. I'll say no more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 26 September, 2011, 05:34:54 pm
at an airport at Heathrow waiting for Mrs Mike who's been to Plymouth for the day. Off to Kansas tomorrow :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 26 September, 2011, 05:42:50 pm
Quote from: mike on 26 September, 2011, 05:34:54 pm
at an airport at Heathrow waiting for Mrs Mike who's been to Plymouth for the day. Off to Kansas tomorrow :)

Friend of dorothy?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 September, 2011, 05:48:50 pm
Quote from: welshwheels on 25 September, 2011, 08:01:10 am
how do you want your eggs ?

I understand that some young men use "How do you like your eggs in the morning?" as a chat-up line to which the answer must surely be "Unfertilised!"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 September, 2011, 09:36:54 pm
Watching Police Camera Action and wishing half the population could have their cars crushed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 September, 2011, 09:52:17 am
Migrating my personal website to Amazon EC2.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 September, 2011, 10:30:02 am
Quote from: jogler on 26 September, 2011, 12:35:40 pm
Cogitating.
The Fell Club...shall I join? shall I not?

apparently there is a "no Kids"* rule which makes me  :( &  >:(

this may be a deal breaker

*do they allow dogs?

The Association of Lightweight Campers seems a better option for several reasons not least of which is that the Vice Chairman is rather attractive :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 September, 2011, 10:38:37 am
Celebrating as I have just moved my whole firewall infrastructure from one cabinet to another, without a problem. \o/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 September, 2011, 10:47:49 am
Quote from: jogler on 27 September, 2011, 10:30:02 am
Quote from: jogler on 26 September, 2011, 12:35:40 pm
Cogitating.
The Fell Club...shall I join? shall I not?

apparently there is a "no Kids"* rule which makes me  :( &  >:(

this may be a deal breaker

*do they allow dogs?

The Association of Lightweight Campers seems a better option for several reasons not least of which is that the Vice Chairman is rather attractive :)

Certainly is! :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 September, 2011, 01:36:39 pm
Sitting in another Belgian cafe drinking a very cold Grimbergen Blonde. It's scorchio...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 September, 2011, 03:46:04 pm
Just to make the Pingu' jealous,   I am in De Garre........
Brugs beertje is closed on Wednesday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 28 September, 2011, 04:57:46 pm
I am 'chatting' with No2Son in the kitchen.

Via the interweb. On netbooks. Across the table. 3 feet away from one another.

Who says families don't communicate anymore?
 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geraldc on 28 September, 2011, 05:00:22 pm
Have just come up with a brilliant idea to make my fortune.

I think I also need to boost my testosterone level too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 28 September, 2011, 05:05:52 pm
I don't think students make much money at that?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geraldc on 28 September, 2011, 05:16:37 pm
The 2 are unrelated! I just need to boost my aggression levels, I need be more of an alpha male and start winning audaxes amongst other things etc.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 28 September, 2011, 06:04:18 pm
Sitting at Arlanda airport waiting to fly home after a whole week in Sweden! Really looking forward to sleeping in my own bed in my own house tonight! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 September, 2011, 06:34:30 pm
Thinking how empty the flat feels without bobb.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 28 September, 2011, 06:49:48 pm

Preparing to go out and play badminton for the first time in 6 months.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 September, 2011, 06:57:55 pm
Posting replies to the wrong boards  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 September, 2011, 07:02:18 pm
Sold another vehicle....3 sold recently in total...........that I bought so in an effort to reduce the fleet I am standing still.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 September, 2011, 07:21:59 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 28 September, 2011, 03:46:04 pm
Just to make the Pingu' jealous,   I am in De Garre........
Brugs beertje is closed on Wednesday.
Thinking 'nom'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 28 September, 2011, 08:18:23 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 27 September, 2011, 01:36:39 pm
Sitting in another Belgian cafe drinking a very cold Grimbergen Blonde. It's scorchio...

Being jealous of andrewc.

 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

I wanna sit in a Belgian cafe with a tourer propped against the wall. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 September, 2011, 08:39:10 pm
PMSL at the sarcastic signs link Andrij posted in the Silly Signs thread. It's cheered me right up :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 September, 2011, 08:57:22 pm
thinking that the washing machine is making a suspicious noise.  fingers crossed, eh?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 September, 2011, 09:58:15 pm
Puzzling about cable pull.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 September, 2011, 10:27:54 pm
Contemplating going on a zombie-killing rampage.  Or eating some chocolate.  One or the other.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 September, 2011, 10:29:04 pm
it's a dilemma, isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 September, 2011, 10:44:18 pm
The zombies are being particularly loud and annoying this evening.

...but chocolate won.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 September, 2011, 10:45:24 pm
No longer drinking beer because I have run out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 September, 2011, 10:46:45 pm
i haz no zombies.  but also no chocolate....

(although earlier today i did eat rather a lot of rather delicious cherry and dark chocolate caik that the rm sorting office eventually found for me in exchange for a bit of red cardboard.  i shared some of it...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 September, 2011, 10:57:44 pm
Finished making a cherry garcia sponge cake esque thingy cake.

It was consumed by two friends mainly with tea.  Now to go home.............its 12miles away and I'm lacking in energy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 September, 2011, 11:09:34 pm
should have eaten more caik!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 28 September, 2011, 11:24:22 pm
On the train back into London after a leaving meal for a member of staff that we're going to miss enormously. I am also rather jealous of his travelling plans for the next year or so. Oh to be young again!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 September, 2011, 11:29:06 pm
Eating fruit cake with cheese like a Yorkshireman.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 28 September, 2011, 11:51:39 pm
Sat at work having a cup of black coffee & some ginger nuts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 29 September, 2011, 12:04:36 am
Getting ready for beddy. I've just finished making three jars of chilli jelly: apples free from my garden; chillis reduced to 15p in Tes*o. Bargain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 September, 2011, 06:54:56 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 September, 2011, 11:29:06 pm
Eating fruit cake with cheese like a Yorkshireman.

Good man! Keep up the good work! :)

Next stop flat cap and whippet and enjoying your pint with a good head on it, not like these soft southern pansies who have it flat :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 September, 2011, 02:06:09 pm
Ah ah ah ah staying alive staying alive.

But only just.  I'm with the hedgehogs when it comes to hibernation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 September, 2011, 04:16:58 pm
Heading SW at a blinding speed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 September, 2011, 04:22:05 pm
eating toast.

made out of white whoosh bread.

and spread with proper butter.

and covered in completely fabulous bramble and crab apple jelly that i was sent in the post by fboab (who is clearly psychic, because i love bramble jelly but have a pips issue with bramble jam) of this parish.

happylion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 September, 2011, 04:29:03 pm
Sitting in Diksmuide drinking Hommelbier.

My plans to bring chocolate home for friends and family have been scuppered. It's hot it wouldn't last the trip home !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 29 September, 2011, 06:39:27 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 September, 2011, 04:22:05 pm
eating toast.

made out of white whoosh bread.

and spread with proper butter.

and covered in completely fabulous bramble and crab apple jelly that i was sent in the post by fboab (who is clearly psychic, because i love bramble jelly but have a pips issue with bramble jam) of this parish.

happylion.

Fboab has warm fuzzy feeling of making poorly lion happy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 September, 2011, 08:18:53 pm
Mmmm hommelbier :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 September, 2011, 09:12:46 pm
I am trying to persuade my legs that they want to go out for a shakedown ride on the Orbit before I ride it to work at Ridiculous O'Clock in the morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 September, 2011, 09:19:00 pm
Re-programming the FNRttS route into my Garmin, after it got eaten by the memory corruption fairy a couple of months ago.  Wouldn't want to overshoot Smalldean Lane or anything...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 29 September, 2011, 09:23:23 pm
Sitting on a train pulling out of Bristol Temple Meads.  It’s running 5 minutes late.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 September, 2011, 11:01:29 pm
Looking up at the milky way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Speshact on 29 September, 2011, 11:11:10 pm
Deciding that just one more beer is a good idea
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 September, 2011, 11:17:31 pm
Waiting for a bus. Bikes are better, aren't they?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 September, 2011, 11:28:13 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 September, 2011, 11:17:31 pm
Waiting for a bus. Bikes are better, aren't they?

In all situations, given the right choice of bike. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=36217.msg685165#msg685165)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 September, 2011, 11:44:56 pm
Marvelling at my recording toys.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 September, 2011, 12:32:08 am
thinking that i really ought to crack on and get packed and ready then go to bed so that i can get up very early for a silly_bikeless_adventure.  and that actually my arm really hurts tonight  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 September, 2011, 12:40:28 am
Being loudly serenaded with an out of tune and poorly synchronised rendition of Bill Withers' Lean On Me by the half a dozen zombies currently outside the window.  Marvellous.

To their credit, they do at least know all the words.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 September, 2011, 06:33:19 am
Sitting onna bus...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 September, 2011, 06:57:12 am
And now i'm sitting onna different bus...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 September, 2011, 08:11:51 am
Breakfast in the garden. 
Glowering at the lawn for needing cutting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 September, 2011, 09:52:59 am
And now i'm onna train:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 30 September, 2011, 09:57:08 am
Are you heading this way? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 September, 2011, 09:57:43 am
Fighting the temptation to head out and grab a second breakfast.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 September, 2011, 09:59:33 am
Trying to decide whether my next fix will be Breakfast Bomb or unleaded Red Bull.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 30 September, 2011, 10:01:17 am
Are you winning Andrij? I'm avoiding the hoovering. I only have today and next friday off before I start a 5 day week job and I really need to do some house work. If I wait long enough, I usually find something more interesting to do, but it is getting a bit dire, even by my, extremely slack, standards :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 September, 2011, 10:09:25 am
No, I've lost to a cream cheese and smoked salmon bagel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 30 September, 2011, 10:37:23 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 30 September, 2011, 09:52:59 am
And now i'm onna train:)
Me too.  Wave if you see me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 30 September, 2011, 11:09:58 am
About to shower after first ride in 3 weeks and wondering why I keep finding other things to do ?  I have managed 2 walks this week and a photo trip to RSPB reserve so not totally idle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 30 September, 2011, 11:56:21 am
Giving in and going to vacuum.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 September, 2011, 12:04:53 pm
I'm doing similar, except that it involves lawns.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 30 September, 2011, 01:02:44 pm
Need to get out of bed and shave my head and face...maybe shower and go and get more meds.

Meh can't be arsed to move from under the duvet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 30 September, 2011, 01:17:31 pm
Developing an online relationship with someone called 'Grant' at Wiggle.  Our first date was when I received only one of the pair of panniers I ordered.  Grant apologised and promised to resolve the issue.

Second date was when I realised there were no rack mounts on the lonely pannier I had received.

Do you think he'll be round to deliver the pannier/parts himself?  He seems very nice.

I've been on worse dates ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Guy on 30 September, 2011, 02:21:52 pm
Sitting in a stiflingly hot office with absolutely bugger-all to do wishing 3 o'clock would hurry up and get here. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JonBuoy on 30 September, 2011, 02:56:03 pm
Enjoying a Huntsman's Pie and a pint of Pedigree in the Holly Bush in Makeney. I was passing on the way back from Carsington (not much) Water and it seemed rude not to.

I now understand why people make their annual pilgrimage here.
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 September, 2011, 03:01:43 pm
Sitting in my daughter's garden in Maidstone thinking about climate change.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 September, 2011, 03:02:28 pm
Quote from: JonBuoy on 30 September, 2011, 02:56:03 pm
Enjoying a Huntsman's Pie and a pint of Pedigree in the Holly Bush in Makeney. I was passing on the way back from Carsington (not much) Water and it seemed rude not to.

*jealous*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 30 September, 2011, 03:05:33 pm
Just paid last year's corporation tax & submitted the returns

I'll probably sit in the sun with a cup of tea to celebrate now :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil on 30 September, 2011, 03:05:45 pm
Wondering if the various acts of egregious muppetry currently being indulged in by the client and my managers mean that I won't be able to get to CM tonight :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 September, 2011, 03:06:52 pm
Sitting in a swelteringly hot office, looking at various job boards  (see Bad News thread for why) and wishing that 5pm would hurry up and get here so that I can be swelteringly hot whilst riding a bike instead of sitting at a desk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 September, 2011, 03:12:35 pm
Eating a very delicious sandwich in the cafe at "the beautiful museum of beautiful things" as my then 4 year old friend luke named it. Ludicrously overpriced, of course, but worth it for the lampshades alone. The theatre and performance gallery here is amazing. May go and admire decorative glass next.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 September, 2011, 03:21:11 pm
Taste-testing seedy flapjacks
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 30 September, 2011, 03:26:58 pm
Feeling smug because I've vacuumed upstairs for the first time since... oh, well, sometime or other. Also because I've found the bike computer that I used yesterday that I have wasted a lot of last night and this morning searching for. Feeling a bit dim because it was in my helmet all along :-[ ::-).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 September, 2011, 03:33:20 pm
:)  You're not dim.

But you are wonderful for vacuuming.  It was a bit mucky. :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 September, 2011, 03:52:54 pm
Just caught a gigantic 400kΩ insect, which buzzed past my head and made a lethargic bee-line for the window.

It's that time of year again: Barakta!  Check your pants! (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31801.msg989967#msg989967)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 September, 2011, 04:54:13 pm
We seem to have the opposite problem today - loads and loads of little fruit fly-type things, and I don't mean thunderbugs/thrips either. Makes a change, I suppose, since we're normally plagued by BFO wasps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 September, 2011, 05:46:03 pm
I'm sat on clapham common in the sunshine, sipping tea and leafing through the guardian while waiting for Butterfly, with whom I shall be cycling to meet friends and go for pancakes. Does it het better than this?

Yes it does - she's just arrived!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulR on 30 September, 2011, 05:55:42 pm
half-heartedly doing bits of work while wondering about going over the river for CM in a bit, and about why I am feeling so unenthusiastic about cycling when the weather is so glorious
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 September, 2011, 06:00:23 pm
Sitting in the back garden with a long, cool drink and playing SimCity on the iPad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 30 September, 2011, 06:03:43 pm
Getting ready for three long, hot nights at work  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 30 September, 2011, 06:09:54 pm
Wondering where my mojo went...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 September, 2011, 06:17:23 pm
Have you looked down the back of the sofa?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 September, 2011, 06:23:23 pm
Being a cat bed.

Wishing I were down the pub.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 September, 2011, 06:24:46 pm
Waiting for Mrs. B who is going to drive to the village for her yoga.  She'll drop me off at the creshe and pick me up one and a half hours and two pints later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 30 September, 2011, 06:25:46 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 30 September, 2011, 11:56:21 am
Giving in and going to vacuum.  >:(

My man did mine for me  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 30 September, 2011, 07:09:55 pm
Sitting outside a restaurant overlloking the harbour at Gravelines. Sipping Leffe Blonde and waiting for Moule Frites.  Pretty perfect, though some company would be nice....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 September, 2011, 07:20:01 pm
Quote from: Peewit on 30 September, 2011, 05:55:42 pm
and about why I am feeling so unenthusiastic about cycling when the weather is so glorious

same here ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 September, 2011, 07:42:48 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 30 September, 2011, 07:09:55 pm
Sitting outside a restaurant overlloking the harbour at Gravelines. Sipping Leffe Blonde and waiting for Moule Frites.  Pretty perfect, though some company would be nice....
You've got virtual company. Get the beers in then... :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 September, 2011, 10:37:06 pm
Quote from: Peewit on 30 September, 2011, 05:55:42 pm
half-heartedly doing bits of work while wondering about going over the river for CM

Glad you did come. Great to see you.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 01 October, 2011, 09:00:16 am
Sitting on the sofa watching early morning TV and contemplating breakfast whilst basking in that heady mix of fatigue, vaguely aching legs and virtuousness that comes after the day after a good day out on the bike the day before.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 October, 2011, 09:02:14 am
Reading SF whilst failing to get to sleep. Too hot to be working nights.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 October, 2011, 11:08:56 am
Sitting on the ferry in Dunkerque.  My Shimano sandals pong.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 October, 2011, 12:10:56 pm
Still harvesting blackberries. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 October, 2011, 12:19:02 pm
Listening to the neighbours dismantle their patio with power tools.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 October, 2011, 12:21:49 pm
Housework.  >:(

I used to treat myself to a cleaner once a fortnight but I just can't afford it any more so gave her the elbow several months ago. I really really miss having her.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 October, 2011, 12:33:24 pm
Listing yet more stuff on fleaBay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 01 October, 2011, 01:17:52 pm
Making bread, well the machine is, I'm in agony with back pain  :'(
Title: Now
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 October, 2011, 01:21:40 pm
Sitting under a cloudless sky eating lunch after spending the morning singing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: graculus on 01 October, 2011, 07:36:38 pm
Watching chinese lanterns drifting (well racing actually) across the sky out of the bedroom window. And listening to the occasional apple from next door's tree thud on their shed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 October, 2011, 08:42:35 pm
Looking at the pics Marj has taken of Cracknell & Waters
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 October, 2011, 10:51:08 pm
Playing facebook scrabble. Against bobb's cat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 October, 2011, 07:12:01 am
Quote from: Manotea on 01 October, 2011, 09:00:16 am
Sitting on the sofa watching early morning TV and contemplating breakfast whilst basking in that heady mix of fatigue, vaguely aching legs and virtuousness that comes after the day after a good day out on the bike the day before.

This, without TV, but with a netbook.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 02 October, 2011, 07:24:10 am
Just going out for a ride. Bye!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 October, 2011, 09:35:45 am
Admiring the bruises on my arms obtained during an evening of moshing at a Terrorvision gig last night.

And wondering how, after such a night I can feel fine with just 6 hours sleep, but on a normal day I feel rubbish after ~10hours sleep!

And listening to TLD singing "What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor" :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 October, 2011, 09:40:56 am
Thinking that as it's pishing down I should do all those crap wee jobs today, like putting the 'new' kitchen lights up (been sitting on the table for a few months) before it becomes permanently dark up here, and sorting out the curtain rail so I can use it properly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 October, 2011, 11:56:33 am
Watching the second of the two Queen documentaries that were shown earlier this year and sobbing and sobbing at the These Are The Days Of Our Lives video.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 October, 2011, 06:23:29 pm
On my last bus of the day. My word, i have transported publically this weekend!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 October, 2011, 06:26:56 pm
Dozing.
I seem to have spent the greater part of today either asleep or at very least semi-conscious.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 02 October, 2011, 06:48:07 pm
Looking at horseboxes and drooling...

:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 October, 2011, 08:35:51 pm
Digesting the fruits of my labours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 October, 2011, 08:56:26 pm
Route planning.

More accurately, looking for routes others have uploaded which coincide with my travel plans.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 October, 2011, 08:57:42 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 02 October, 2011, 08:35:51 pm
Digesting the fruits of my labours.

My immediate thought was that you'd eaten a baby. :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 October, 2011, 08:58:38 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 02 October, 2011, 08:57:42 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 02 October, 2011, 08:35:51 pm
Digesting the fruits of my labours.

My immediate thought was that you'd eaten a baby. :-X
Ewwh! I am not the Scottish character from Austen Powers thangyewverymuch
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 October, 2011, 09:07:51 pm
Even more yukky, I'm digesting the fruits of Mlle PB's labours.  She has just made drop scones  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 03 October, 2011, 10:09:43 am
Just reading the Echo website comments, wondering who Brooks Forbutox is  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 03 October, 2011, 11:42:57 am
Just hosed down the trailer after its year languishing in a barn. It still had a liberal coating of red Monmouthshire mud from the track to the last farm we lived in.  I may go shopping later :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 03 October, 2011, 12:25:49 pm
Off to get drugs and then some wandering around woolwich.  Then collect drugs and go home.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wonky on 03 October, 2011, 02:48:46 pm
Drinking a pre-departure champagne in BA club world and reading the forum before they make me turn my phone off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 03 October, 2011, 03:06:44 pm
Being nagged by my mother re letting the landlord be a completely useless bucket of wank.
(Not her phrasing)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 03 October, 2011, 03:08:36 pm
Quote from: Parsley on 03 October, 2011, 02:48:46 pm
Drinking a pre-departure champagne in BA club world and reading the forum before they make me turn my phone off.

Chapeau! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Majorbloodnok on 04 October, 2011, 01:30:18 pm
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6214/6208881688_4dde8d080e.jpg)



Is it too late to quit? Can't remember the last few sequences.....and I want my life back!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 04 October, 2011, 01:34:08 pm
Plenty of pages will give you the sequences if you've forgotten them.

I have a couple of cubes on my desk that I play with at least once a week to keep the sequences in my head.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 04 October, 2011, 11:22:55 pm
Sitting in the sun, enjoying a beer by the lake in Toronto.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 October, 2011, 09:44:08 am
Waiting to be seen at fracture clinic...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Guy on 06 October, 2011, 10:01:33 am
Wondering what pillock said it was legal for pubs to open on a skool night. :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 October, 2011, 01:09:18 pm
Chopping up sound files.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 06 October, 2011, 01:10:49 pm
Playing Age Of Empires III
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 October, 2011, 01:54:05 pm
Quote from: interzen on 06 October, 2011, 01:10:49 pm
Playing Age Of Empires III

The taunts on a network game are the best ;).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 October, 2011, 02:59:08 pm
Attempting to cancel our TV licence.  They don't make it easy, do they?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 06 October, 2011, 03:02:55 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 October, 2011, 02:59:08 pm
Attempting to cancel our TV licence.  They don't make it easy, do they?
Nope.
You might want to consider sending them (TV Licensing/Crapita) a letter revoking their implied right of access to your property, too - after I did that, the incessant hounding stopped fairly sharpish. There's a form letter for just such an occasion floating around on t'interwebs somewhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 06 October, 2011, 03:05:36 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 06 October, 2011, 01:54:05 pm
Quote from: interzen on 06 October, 2011, 01:10:49 pm
Playing Age Of Empires III

The taunts on a network game are the best ;).
Back in the days when I worked at York Uni and we played the likes of AoE1 and Doom/Quake on the network, I found that screaming abuse down the corridor was far more effective (and satisfying) than any canned network taunt ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 October, 2011, 03:51:43 pm
Working out wether to go to Majorca in May or June next year, and how much cycling I can get away with doing whilst there :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 October, 2011, 09:06:13 am
in the office. what do i do again?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 07 October, 2011, 09:12:55 am
Drink coffee, talk about the soaps, surf, talk googoo with the latest expectant colleague...  ;) 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 October, 2011, 11:19:06 am
Struggling to stay awake.  Just another 5.5 hours to go.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 October, 2011, 11:59:27 am
Quote from: Andrij on 07 October, 2011, 11:19:06 am
Struggling to stay awake.  Just another 5.5 hours to go.  :-\
I know the feeling well, despite having slept for just over 12hrs last night ... even the mighty "Breakfast Bomb" coffee hasn't had a great deal of effect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 October, 2011, 12:21:11 pm
Quote from: interzen on 07 October, 2011, 11:59:27 am
Quote from: Andrij on 07 October, 2011, 11:19:06 am
Struggling to stay awake.  Just another 5.5 hours to go.  :-\
I know the feeling well, despite having slept for just over 12hrs last night ... even the mighty "Breakfast Bomb" coffee hasn't had a great deal of effect.

I've had plenty of coffee; will now try sugar.  I shall be off to Greggs shortly to buy a small bag of waistline-destroying goodness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 October, 2011, 01:18:57 pm
Off to the GP for a ritual stabbing and a lecture about being too short for my weight...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 07 October, 2011, 01:20:55 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 October, 2011, 01:18:57 pm
Off to the GP for a ritual stabbing and a lecture about being too short for my weight...

Pah! The charts are wrong. You are clearly a perfectly sensible height for your weight :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 October, 2011, 02:15:44 pm
On account of being at the end of the alphabet, by the time I arrived they'd been going all morning and had got thoroughly bored of the BMI stuff, so I just got ushered through to the nurse for a flu vaccine and a bit of concerned wittering about my asthma.

Which is a pity, as I recently discovered that I can come out as either overweight or obese depending on which leg I stand on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 07 October, 2011, 08:07:07 pm
Being a bit of a cow.

Moo-lin a vent 

;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 07 October, 2011, 08:43:25 pm
Quote from: fboab on 02 September, 2011, 08:51:35 pm
Back at the other end of the luxury spectrum, here, chez fboab...
I'm back aboard the same train, making the same journey for the last time this year.  But we came to a bit of an abrupt stop just north of Leicester; the train manager has reported that the line is being checked for a trespasser.

And we've been stood for at least 20 mins.

ETA: 50 mins.  We've hit someone.  Oh dear for all concerned - especially the driver.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 07 October, 2011, 08:49:26 pm
wondering where kate humble has gone :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 October, 2011, 08:50:42 pm
I am sure the two guys don't mind, as they won't actually have to say anything in the segments with her in...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JonBuoy on 07 October, 2011, 11:52:46 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 07 October, 2011, 08:43:25 pm
Quote from: fboab on 02 September, 2011, 08:51:35 pm
Back at the other end of the luxury spectrum, here, chez fboab...
I'm back aboard the same train, making the same journey for the last time this year.  But we came to a bit of an abrupt stop just north of Leicester; the train manager has reported that the line is being checked for a trespasser.

And we've been stood for at least 20 mins.

ETA: 50 mins.  We've hit someone.  Oh dear for all concerned - especially the driver.

I guess that that explains the three police cars by the Humble Lane railway bridge just east of Cossington just now as we were on our way back from the Friday night bicycle pub run.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 08 October, 2011, 12:00:47 am
Quote from: mike on 07 October, 2011, 08:49:26 pm
wondering where kate humble has gone :(

+1

It was a bit weird doing the Wye Valley without her, considering that she lives there.

Nice piggies, tho'; we have them here now  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 08 October, 2011, 12:13:56 am
Having a drink in the First Class lounge before I fly home
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 October, 2011, 11:13:59 am
Sat drinking tea and watching towers on the river in Henley (-on-Thames not -with-icecream). Going to go for a ride later. :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rapples on 08 October, 2011, 11:26:12 am
Quote from: clarion on 08 October, 2011, 11:13:59 am
Sat drinking tea and watching towers on the river in Henley (-on-Thames not -with-icecream). Going to go for a ride later. :-)

Should have ridden to Specsavers :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 08 October, 2011, 11:53:12 am
Waiting for my Dad to wake up (he is having a kip after getting up to see the rugby) so that we can go off and do some pootling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 October, 2011, 03:31:33 pm
Been back to the campsite for a cup of tea, and now back in Henley having had a lunch served ridiculously slowly, though the food was good, drinking tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 October, 2011, 03:55:21 pm
Watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with a poorly TLD.

Mrs T is out on a jolly in York today so we are having some quality time, which started with us intending to visit some castles this morning, but even dosed up with Calpol, TLD felt nasty.  So we returned home to watch a film and slob out on the sofa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 October, 2011, 04:15:27 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 08 October, 2011, 03:55:21 pm
Watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with a poorly TLD.
Oh dear ...

Quote
Mrs T is out on a jolly in York today so we are having some quality time, which started with us intending to visit some castles this morning, but even dosed up with Calpol, TLD felt nasty.  So we returned home to watch a film and slob out on the sofa.
I'm doing the slobbing out on the sofa bit, mainly because it's York races today and I can't face the inevitable crowds in town. So I've got a cup of tea, some choons on in the background and I'm writing various odds and sods of code.

Today is a general 'yuk' kind of day - I've got more stuff that needs to be listed on eBay but I just can't be bothered ATM.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 08 October, 2011, 04:59:53 pm
Waiting for the other band member to turn up before going out to play for a 17th century banquet with period food.
Serious noms!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 08 October, 2011, 05:03:01 pm
Making seafood risotto for tea, then I'll be digging out longs and wintery stuff for tomorrow,  for the first time this year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 October, 2011, 05:15:51 pm
I'm hanking my cordage  :o  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 October, 2011, 05:56:46 pm
Listing clothes I'll never wear again on ebay. Anyone want a Warehouse size 12 black leather miniskirt?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 October, 2011, 09:38:10 am
Hope TLS is feeling better today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 October, 2011, 09:43:24 am
I am still in bed. Languishing. A lovely person made me breakfast. Considering what to have for brunch. I like post-audax Sundays.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 09 October, 2011, 11:01:11 am
Revising for Tuesday's Complex Analysis exam. Ugh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 October, 2011, 11:06:50 am
Getting ready for a trip oop North (well, as far as Northallerton at any rate ...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 October, 2011, 11:32:30 am
Listing more stuff on ebay. Nearly done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 09 October, 2011, 03:03:51 pm
Sitting on a 3 carriage train with no bike storage at all and contemplating how they can solve the problem. I think an extra carriage in the middle with folding seats would do it. When we left Twyford there was a bike for every doorway. This is stupid - we can't sit down because we have to keep moving the bikes, everyone else is inconvenienced and there is no space for a wheelchair or pushchair at all :(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 October, 2011, 03:06:42 pm
See sig line.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 October, 2011, 03:16:52 pm
Wondering whether to move down to the nasty pub.  Hardlypoo Untied are on the telly soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 October, 2011, 03:57:47 pm
Recovering from a train journey from Northallerton - I swear to $DIETY that were it not for the fact that there was 25kV of electrickery above the train, people would have been sitting on the roof and hanging off the side. Room inside the train was certainly at a premium ...

Public transport - gotta love it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 October, 2011, 06:13:23 pm
Not having my bike stolen.
More on this later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 October, 2011, 06:35:56 pm
That sounds better than the alternative, but less than ideal. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 October, 2011, 07:19:07 pm
Quote from: Basil on 09 October, 2011, 06:13:23 pm
Not having my bike stolen.
More on this later.
I decided I needed to watch the Notts County v Hardlypoo Untied match today and thought I would have go to the scary nasty local footbally pub.  But then I realised that it would prolly be on at the Cadbury Club which is much less 'orible, so I went there.
I parked my bike right by the main door, as I always do, just locked to itself.
When I popped out for a half time fag, the first thing I noticed was a stretch of plain wall next to the door that should have been a stretch of wall with a bike leaning against it.
After the initial ¾ second of denial and disbelief I realised that I might be able to do something.  The bike had only been locked up to itself with my cafe lock (stupid, stupid, stupid) but I figured that, even so, the scrotes were unlikely to have decent cutters on them, so there was likely to be someone carrying a bike not far away.
During a quick round around outside my attention was suddenly grabbed by a little bit of shiny SKS peeping out from behind some large bins by the rear entrance of the club.

I assume the technique is move and hide the bike.  Come back with cutters in the night.

A lesson to be taken on board, Basil.  You're getting too complacent.  >:(

The foopball was rubbish too.  (If you're a Notts Co. fan, YMMV)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 09 October, 2011, 07:54:44 pm
@Basil:Well done on retrieving your bike before the scrotes did.

@Everybody: Wondering if the overdose of C5 Envelopes has done for our Kim.  She's posted nowt since Saturday morning.  Most unlike her.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 October, 2011, 08:06:36 pm
There has been twitter Kimage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 October, 2011, 08:14:35 pm
Despairing because the mice are back.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 09 October, 2011, 08:25:16 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 09 October, 2011, 08:14:35 pm
Despairing because the mice are back.

Move. It's the only thing that works.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 09 October, 2011, 08:37:26 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 09 October, 2011, 08:14:35 pm
Despairing because the mice are back.

You need a Bobb kitten/cat.

... of course the little furry bugger will then just sit back, full of cat food, and watch the mice run around. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 October, 2011, 08:41:04 pm
I'm allergic to cats and I'm in a tiny second floor flat, or I would. I keep asking bobb to bring Boris the Blade with him for a week, but he never does. He's quite a good mouser by all accounts (Boris, not bobb).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 09 October, 2011, 08:42:33 pm
Moving forum boards around on a local forum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 October, 2011, 09:45:59 am
Quote from: rower40 on 09 October, 2011, 07:54:44 pm
@Everybody: Wondering if the overdose of C5 Envelopes has done for our Kim.  She's posted nowt since Saturday morning.  Most unlike her.

that's cos she was too busy riding her bike, then playing with science putty/eating curry/nattering/fettling/eating cake round at the den  ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 10 October, 2011, 03:40:46 pm
Holding a steady 100mph on the Exeter to Taunton line.  With a car on the parallel M5 keeping pace.

It had a natty blue and yellow chequerboard pattern on the side, and the word "Police" in large, unfriendly letters.

So that's all right then.

It's got away now - we had to stop at Tiverton Parkway, where the line seems to have but one purpose; to divide the fields-with-sheep-in (left) from the fields-with-cows-in (right).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 October, 2011, 04:32:04 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 10 October, 2011, 09:45:59 am
Quote from: rower40 on 09 October, 2011, 07:54:44 pm
@Everybody: Wondering if the overdose of C5 Envelopes has done for our Kim.  She's posted nowt since Saturday morning.  Most unlike her.

that's cos she was too busy riding her bike, then playing with science putty/eating curry/nattering/fettling/eating cake round at the den  ;D

Yeah, that.  As per tradition staying up till 3am and late-night bike fettling was involved.

I don't *think* I've signed up to any more audaxes, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 October, 2011, 04:50:58 pm
Quote from: Kim on 10 October, 2011, 04:32:04 pm
I don't *think* I've signed up to any more audaxes, though.

Yet...  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 October, 2011, 04:54:57 pm
i reckon she's got time to get a 200 in before the end of the month....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 October, 2011, 05:20:43 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 10 October, 2011, 04:54:57 pm
i reckon she's got time to get a 200 in before the end of the month....

They all seem to clash with bike rides.  Or be on the other side of the country.  Or come with something called "AAA points"...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 October, 2011, 05:23:24 pm
Quote from: Kim on 10 October, 2011, 05:20:43 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 10 October, 2011, 04:54:57 pm
i reckon she's got time to get a 200 in before the end of the month....

They all seem to clash with bike rides.  Or be on the other side of the country.  Or come with something called "AAA points"...
Sounds like a DIY permanent ought to fit the bill then - roll a route to suit yourself. AAA points optional.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 October, 2011, 05:25:36 pm
that means you looked.......  and since when has 'the other side of the country' ever stopped you?  or clashing with another bike ride, come to that....

paging fboab, paging fboab!  y'know how you said you'd drag me round a 200 before the year out and now i really really can't because that pavement jumped up an hit me and so kim seems to be having a several of silly bike adventures on my behalf?  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 October, 2011, 10:19:58 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 10 October, 2011, 05:25:36 pm
that means you looked.......  and since when has 'the other side of the country' ever stopped you?  or clashing with another bike ride, come to that....

paging fboab, paging fboab!  y'know how you said you'd drag me round a 200 before the year out and now i really really can't because that pavement jumped up an hit me and so kim seems to be having a several of silly bike adventures on my behalf?  :demon:

Well it's funny you should say that, as there is a ride with our name on...

The Silly Suffolk 200 (http://aukweb.net/events/detail/11-37/)

which may well feature a several of flatlanders on a variety of, well, silly bikes. With excess wheels, or inadequate gears. You'd be more than welcome, Kim... We could put you up before & after...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 October, 2011, 10:45:14 pm
Quote from: fboab on 10 October, 2011, 10:19:58 pm
Well it's funny you should say that, as there is a ride with our name on...

The Silly Suffolk 200 (http://aukweb.net/events/detail/11-37/)

which may well feature a several of flatlanders on a variety of, well, silly bikes. With excess wheels, or inadequate gears. You'd be more than welcome, Kim... We could put you up before & after...

Hmm, aren't I supposed to be tunneling the peaks or something?

I suppose my bike qualifies as having excess gears and inadequate wheels...

Anyway it says entries are closed.

And it goes through Dunwich!  I still haven't found the other half of the last earwig!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 October, 2011, 08:37:37 am
Quote from: Kim on 10 October, 2011, 10:45:14 pm
Quote from: fboab on 10 October, 2011, 10:19:58 pm
Well it's funny you should say that, as there is a ride with our name on...

The Silly Suffolk 200 (http://aukweb.net/events/detail/11-37/)

which may well feature a several of flatlanders on a variety of, well, silly bikes. With excess wheels, or inadequate gears. You'd be more than welcome, Kim... We could put you up before & after...

Hmm, aren't I supposed to be tunneling the peaks or something?

I suppose my bike qualifies as having excess gears and inadequate wheels...

Anyway it says entries are closed.

And it goes through Dunwich!  I still haven't found the other half of the last earwig!

Tunnels ride is on Saturday - Silly Suffolk 200 is on Sunday. We would happily offer you a lift with us in The Beast that is CEXy (an aging Volvo the size of a small Norfolk village) if fboab can lay her hands on her rack again (our bikes outside, yours inside - though you make have to remove a wheel).

I'm sure John can be persuaded for one more - he's a very amenable fellow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 October, 2011, 08:44:49 am
Silly Bike Adventure alert!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 11 October, 2011, 08:52:49 am
Nothing cycling related planned for today - just contemplating looking through, and thinning out, over 400 images taken at Paxton Pits yesterday.  Still have 2x youth soccer shoots from the weekend to edit down yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 11 October, 2011, 09:24:46 am
Waiting to go in to my Complex Analysis exam. Looking forward to it actually.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 11 October, 2011, 09:26:55 am
Quote from: Greenbank on 11 October, 2011, 09:24:46 am
Waiting to go in to my Complex Analysis exam. Looking forward to it actually.

Go, Greenbank, Go!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GrahamG on 11 October, 2011, 10:20:03 am
Job hunting. Totally fucking fruitless exercise that it is. Time to bite the bullet and visit the recruitment consultants in the hope of some 'requires half a brain, no experience necessary' type employment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 October, 2011, 10:24:02 am
Trying (and failing, it feels like) to dry myself out
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Post by: marcusjb on 11 October, 2011, 10:29:15 am
Quote from: GrahamG on 11 October, 2011, 10:20:03 am
'requires half a brain'

Surely that's you ruled out then?

 ;)

Best of luck - I don't envy anyone in your position currently.

We've been relatively fortunate, even though I lost my job three years ago.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GrahamG on 11 October, 2011, 10:42:50 am
;D

I've spent a good few months trying to get 'proper/professional' employment relevant to my experience. Now it's time for anything at all to pay the bills.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 11 October, 2011, 02:14:02 pm
Quote from: Manotea on 11 October, 2011, 09:26:55 am
Quote from: Greenbank on 11 October, 2011, 09:24:46 am
Waiting to go in to my Complex Analysis exam. Looking forward to it actually.

Go, Greenbank, Go!

It wasn't bad at all, won't have a problem getting the mark I need. Now I can forget about it all until the results come out in December.

Next year will be M336 Groups and Geometry and that'll be the final course I need to do to get my Maths degree.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 11 October, 2011, 04:25:02 pm
Pole dancing.

Seriously.

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 October, 2011, 04:27:33 pm
Quote from: citoyen on 11 October, 2011, 04:25:02 pm
Pole dancing.

Seriously.

d.

Mazurka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazurka)?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 11 October, 2011, 04:34:56 pm
Like that but with slightly less clothing. ;)

d.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 October, 2011, 04:40:26 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 11 October, 2011, 04:27:33 pm
Quote from: citoyen on 11 October, 2011, 04:25:02 pm
Pole dancing.

Seriously.

d.

Mazurka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazurka)?
Bless you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 11 October, 2011, 07:12:08 pm
Lying on a borked downmat with a hump under my bum where the baffles have died. Only bought it this summer :-(
Title: Right now
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 October, 2011, 08:15:15 pm
We've been Martha-sitting since 3pm. She's fighting against sleep now but we are under strict instructions not to put her to bed: we have to wait for her mum. I'm sure she'd go straight to sleep if we put her in her cot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 11 October, 2011, 08:20:55 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 11 October, 2011, 07:12:08 pm
Lying on a borked downmat with a hump under my bum where the baffles have died. Only bought it this summer :-(

This does not bode well for a £100 plus investment.
Title: Right now
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 October, 2011, 08:23:20 pm
It must be under guarantee shirley?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 October, 2011, 09:13:47 pm
Wishing I didn't have to get up at 0430 tomorrow  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 October, 2011, 03:50:02 am
I'm sitting up with 'Squidge', my collie. She has had 2 fits this evening, the last one at 2am, so I don't really want to go to bed and leave her. She bit her tongue quite badly during the last one and so isn't very happy. I've pumped her full of Valium so am hoping it won't happen again tonight. In the morning I will take a blood sample for bromide levels to check if her meds are too low. She had gone 8 weeks without a fit so I thought I had cracked it, but obv not :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 12 October, 2011, 05:08:03 am
Can settle, bed feels to big for some reason.
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Post by: Kim on 12 October, 2011, 04:43:03 pm
Bleeding: See fettling thread.
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Post by: interzen on 12 October, 2011, 05:14:07 pm
Getting ready to go home - I seem to have spent a large part of today talking to recruitment consultants.

Frighteningly enough, this is far more interesting than what I'd normally be doing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 12 October, 2011, 07:16:19 pm
Sitting outside a tent in Northumberland heating up Tinned peas by the light of my head torch. And having the time of my life. Even though all my stuff is soaking wet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 October, 2011, 07:19:21 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 12 October, 2011, 07:16:19 pm
Sitting outside a tent in Northumberland heating up Tinned peas by the light of my head torch.
That's either a very fierce torch or you'll be waiting a long time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 October, 2011, 07:22:00 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 12 October, 2011, 07:16:19 pm
Sitting outside a tent in Northumberland heating up Tinned peas by the light of my head torch. And having the time of my life. Even though all my stuff is soaking wet.

rock&roll living :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 12 October, 2011, 07:26:33 pm
Downloading IOS5  very. very. slowly.


It's a bit like heating tinned peas with a headtorch ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 October, 2011, 08:06:21 pm
Quote from: Aidan on 12 October, 2011, 07:26:33 pm
Downloading IOS5  very. very. slowly.


It's a bit like heating tinned peas with a headtorch ;)
I'm doing a Lion Internet Restore on my MacBook Pro - it's a monumental pain in the arse, but at least I'll have something to do tomorrow (restoring backups etc..). I'm leaving the iOS5 download until I'm on the fibre connection at work (iPod is already running a beta version)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 October, 2011, 02:15:15 pm
Digesting a most fantastic lunch, which was had at The Carpenter's Arms in felixkirk.

If you need me I will dozing in the corner :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 October, 2011, 10:01:58 pm
Eating takeaway curry and drinking beer in the pub just outside jesmond metro, with LG, tiptop and Slowcoach. The other punters clearly think we are bonkers :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 October, 2011, 12:01:15 am
At home digesting beer & curry.  My bosses leaving do started at 4:30 and I think he put £400 behind the bar..... :o

I'm sensible enough these days to pace myself, so was able to walk home in a straight line.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 15 October, 2011, 01:12:00 am
Waiting to fly home
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Post by: jogler on 16 October, 2011, 03:20:40 pm
Cutting cordage & playing with my tarp,on the back lawn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 October, 2011, 03:28:12 pm
Just had a late lunch consisting of Jalapeño Fire Doritos with mature cheddar melted over them. Bloody lovely, although "Jalapeño Fire" is a bit of a misnomer I think - they have quite a smoky flavour, but are far from hot (IMO, at least)

I'm also doing a bit of background reading for the two phone interviews I have on Monday and Tuesday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 October, 2011, 11:33:43 pm
Going to bed.  It's unreasonably early, but I'm cold and tired and fed up and not thinking clearly and I've got to be up at morning o'clock to babysit Tweedledum and Tweedledumber the inefficient gas fitters as they fumble their way around failing to work our front door, bending pipe, whether they've left the drill in the van and working out a sensible route for the condensate drain.

Meh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 17 October, 2011, 11:46:16 pm
Watching a few dollars more and napping a cat free afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 18 October, 2011, 03:24:21 pm
Sitting on a bench in Richmond Park, enjoying the sunshine in exactly the same way I've just not been enjoying the wind gusting over the hill. I've just decided to let reality intrude, so, instead of another lap, I'm off to the stupidmarket. Hey Ho. It was fun while itasted :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 October, 2011, 03:26:01 pm
Feeling mightily sick after cutting 3/4 of the way through my thumb with a knife whilst preparing dinner for Mrs T and TLD....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 18 October, 2011, 03:31:11 pm
That's not in the recipe.  Wouldn't it ne netters to get it seen to rather than post about it? </helpful advice>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 October, 2011, 03:33:39 pm
Quote from: clarion on 18 October, 2011, 03:31:11 pm
That's not in the recipe.  Wouldn't it ne netters to get it seen to rather than post about it? </helpful advice>

Possibly but I iz here alone and waiting for the dizzy feeling to pass.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 October, 2011, 03:36:50 pm
Bleeding radiators.

Ooh, the stinky hot spurty goodness!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 18 October, 2011, 04:03:54 pm
Quote from: clarion on 18 October, 2011, 03:31:11 pm
That's not in the recipe.  Wouldn't it ne netters to get it seen to rather than post about it? </helpful advice>

Hes going for the man points.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 18 October, 2011, 05:28:43 pm
Right now I'm wondering about the sanity of the auto-correct on my phone ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 18 October, 2011, 05:36:43 pm
Quote from: clarion on 18 October, 2011, 05:28:43 pm
Right now I'm wondering about the sanity of the auto-correct on my phone ;D

Damn You Auto Correct is hours of gut busting laughter.  I've got the app.  :D

www.damnyouautocorrect.com
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 October, 2011, 07:12:45 pm
hoping that tiermat got that seen to....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: NeilP on 18 October, 2011, 07:52:47 pm
Drinking Merlot after my Sainsburys ready made curry (which are surprisingly good).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 October, 2011, 08:12:48 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 18 October, 2011, 07:12:45 pm
hoping that tiermat got that seen to....

I needed to change the plaster, once Mrs T had returned home, so she assisted.

She handed me the plaster

She looked at the end of my thumb

She nearly fainted.

Doesn't do blood very well, my darling wife :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 October, 2011, 08:16:41 pm
TPIUWP
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Post by: rogerzilla on 18 October, 2011, 08:20:49 pm
Waiting for a film to dry so I can scan it.  Fuji Neopan in Rodinal 1:50.  The negs look contrasty but they should be very sharp (Rodinal is like turning up the unsharp mask filter in Photoshop).

Also watching the cats playing - yes, Hector has brought out Boo's inner kitten and they're chasing each other around the house.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 October, 2011, 08:09:24 am
Missing bobb. He was last here at the end of September and he won't be back till 3rd November. So we're more than half way through, but it just feels like ages.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 October, 2011, 08:22:08 am
Listgening to Ginger "G.T.T" on Last.FM and thinking that my thumb hurts.

Oh and doing my invoices/receipts as it is soon my quarter end :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Domestique on 19 October, 2011, 09:23:19 am
About to go to the LBS to pick up a newly built dynohub wheel for 2_Flat_Erics. Then over to see mam.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cyclone on 19 October, 2011, 09:35:01 am
Trying to engage brain and work out what's left to do before the pandemonium of tomorrow and the nightmare drive with 4 dogs, 1 cat, wife and son all in a Kangoo for the last trip to the Limousin...1000 miles straight  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 October, 2011, 11:42:25 am
I've just booked two ferry crossings within 3 days of each other.  Why?  Because I need time to work out which date is best (and my preferred date is booked up) but the crossings are filling quickly - if you're on a bike.  >:(  I'll lose the deposit on the one I don't use, but it's a small price to pay to ensure I can take my holiday when planned (even though it's already moved by a few days).  Tonight's job will be to rework the entire holiday schedule with the target of making each crossing then judge which works best. 

Sorry, perhaps this should have gone in the Grumble thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 19 October, 2011, 11:57:54 am
Having just had a chat with the MD (nothing major, just a minor change to my job title on my contract) and her telling me about her son teaching in English in Lithuania, I'm now wondering how feasible a 'round the Baltic' cycle tour would be :) Vilnius looks bloody gorgeous ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 October, 2011, 02:59:49 pm
Listening to "Jump Around" and dancing like a mad B******
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 October, 2011, 03:41:04 pm
I'm not doing nothing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 October, 2011, 06:30:32 pm
Ah HA! Smoke alarm.

Must mean dinner's ready  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 19 October, 2011, 06:59:55 pm
Putting on layers in preparation for standing outside shortly to watch the ISS go overhead (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8344.msg1072138#msg1072138).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 October, 2011, 07:29:20 pm
summoning the energy to go and fish chiddlers out of the bath.  and feeling distinctly wednesday-ish....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 19 October, 2011, 07:34:36 pm
Digesting my dinner - given that it consisted of, amongst other things, garlic, chilli, hummus and mature cheddar, there's no bugger going to be hanging onto my wheel tomorrow1  :P

1 - not that I generally have problems with wheelsuckers; that would imply I have a turn of speed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 19 October, 2011, 08:06:53 pm
Trying  to remember a link to a German wheel builder, that Woollypigs asked for.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 19 October, 2011, 08:37:57 pm
Contemplating snuff.


How long will I resist it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 October, 2011, 08:03:15 am
Gazing out over Cholsey and thinking that I'll be there in 2 weeks and 2 days exactly. Hoping that it won't be as cold as it is now!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 October, 2011, 08:05:46 am
Wondering how the hell you get a GPS track transfer program to work under Linux.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 October, 2011, 04:21:13 pm
I'm sat in the cafe at roehampton gate, trying to decide if I can fit in a circuit (and a third) before heading home, given that the ride home is longerthan the circuit, and it's only fair that I get home to feed the bairns afore they starve.

The luxury of choice (sometimes)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 21 October, 2011, 12:05:28 am
Instructing No2Son in 'How you can tell Eccles Cakes and Gingerbread are ready' so I can go to bed. He has no school tomorrow but I have to be up for work.

There may be no Crinkles, but there are cakes for the Tunnel riders.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 October, 2011, 12:41:26 am
Riding the Silly Suffolk on Google Streetview, to turn the routesheet into a track.  It just went under some familiar looking pylons...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 21 October, 2011, 02:05:44 am
Throwing up  :sick:  :sick:  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 21 October, 2011, 01:29:30 pm
Quote from: Feline on 21 October, 2011, 02:05:44 am
Throwing up  :sick:  :sick:  :sick:

Oh, dear   :(

I'm just trying to put all my music on the new computer.  Whilst listening to Tannhauser  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 October, 2011, 01:47:51 pm
My body appears to have gone into hibernation mode.  This is suboptimal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 October, 2011, 02:41:52 pm
Trying to stop yawning, and failing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 October, 2011, 08:01:22 pm
Getting to know my new phone while stealing electrons from the railways , feeling reasonably pleased with my boys ' behaviour, wondering if the guy sitting at this table with us.is going to spend the entire journey talking loudly on his.phone and feeling :) because we're off on holiday!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 October, 2011, 08:14:41 pm
Just cleaned the bathroom.  The mould on the walls was almost advanced enough to hold a basic conversation.     I always leave the transom window in the bedroom open, but the handle has jammed solid. In an effort to loosen it I've sprayed it with penetrating oil and it stinks.  I may camp out in the living room tonight...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 October, 2011, 09:12:38 pm
Being amazed at how pissed I am after a bottle of wine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 October, 2011, 09:14:33 pm
I've just had a ruthless cull of the PMs in my message board.Literally hundreds wiped out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Majorbloodnok on 21 October, 2011, 11:11:18 pm
Feeling emotional:  In a way I'm looking forward to a new day tomorrow.  I attended the funeral today of my old schoolmates sister - I practically lived with the family through secondary school and remember Lisa as the older (by 5 years) and to me, very attractive sister (typical schoolboy crush).  She knew just how to embarrass me and the more I blushed, the more she flirted.  Anyway, I hadn't seen my mate for 20 years and wondered if I should even attend, but of course I had to, and thankful I did.  It was the most emotional and loving tribute I have witnessed. Not a dry eye in the packed church.  Afterwards I felt compelled to get home and cuddle my kids for as long as they'd let me.

43 years old, lost her 3 year battle against cancer but loved by so many people, none more so than her 3 young children - RIP Lisa x




Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wonky on 23 October, 2011, 05:49:52 pm
Chilling at Bhaktivedanta Manor, getting a spiritual fix as the sun goes down, waiting for the Diwali firework show.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 23 October, 2011, 05:59:38 pm
Is it Diwali?
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wonky on 24 October, 2011, 06:48:45 am
Its actually on Weds 26th.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 11:01:10 am
Waiting for a flight to Trondheim, eating fruit salad & pondering the wisdom of putting things in the bin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 October, 2011, 11:36:56 am
On a train to That London, having had more than enough Suffolkcation yesterday, and still not thinking about 300s.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2011, 04:07:51 pm
Just setup rsync to mirror the RFC Editor database.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 October, 2011, 08:01:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 24 October, 2011, 11:36:56 am
On a train to That London, having had more than enough Suffolkcation yesterday, and still not thinking about 300s.

Yeah, you need to get a November ride in first  ;)
Plenty of time for 300s in the spring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 24 October, 2011, 08:08:27 pm
Sorting through a most humongous case bundle.   There are SIX respondents!  :o   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 24 October, 2011, 08:25:37 pm
Not packing for holidays.  I hate packing.  Particularly for flying.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 October, 2011, 08:57:04 pm
Onna train back out of That London.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 October, 2011, 09:01:51 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 October, 2011, 08:57:04 pm
Onna train back out of That London.

Wot, already?

You lions have fun?

I'm playing with my new laptop while Crusty's watching The World At War.  We were going to see a film but a friend popped by instead for a natter, which was better, and cheaper.  Also I arranged to play on bikes with him tomorrow.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 October, 2011, 09:23:59 pm
drrrrrinking. feck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 24 October, 2011, 09:26:19 pm
Baking bread.  And reviewing some predictive species distribution modelling carried out over half-term using Bartholemew's half-inch maps and Lego mini-figures  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 October, 2011, 09:29:17 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 October, 2011, 09:23:59 pm
drrrrrinking. feck.

Sounds like a plan.  Might join you.  What are you having?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 09:29:32 pm
Quote from: RJ on 24 October, 2011, 09:26:19 pm
Baking bread.  And reviewing some predictive species distribution modelling carried out over half-term using Bartholemew's half-inch maps and Lego mini-figures  ;)

I can't decide if that's actually more or less scientific than it sounds....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 09:30:20 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 24 October, 2011, 09:29:17 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 October, 2011, 09:23:59 pm
drrrrrinking. feck.

Sounds like a plan.  Might join you.  What are you having?

Don't mind if I stick to tea will you? I think if I break open the mini bar here it might bankrupt the company.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 09:33:16 pm
Thinking it smells of aircraft fuel in here now  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 24 October, 2011, 09:34:11 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 09:29:32 pm
Quote from: RJ on 24 October, 2011, 09:26:19 pm
Baking bread.  And reviewing some predictive species distribution modelling carried out over half-term using Bartholemew's half-inch maps and Lego mini-figures  ;)

I can't decide if that's actually more or less scientific than it sounds....

Probably both  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 October, 2011, 09:37:48 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 24 October, 2011, 09:29:17 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 October, 2011, 09:23:59 pm
drrrrrinking. feck.

Sounds like a plan.  Might join you.  What are you having?

Wodka. Wiv Wose hip sywup and lemonade
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 October, 2011, 09:41:54 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 October, 2011, 09:37:48 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 24 October, 2011, 09:29:17 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 October, 2011, 09:23:59 pm
drrrrrinking. feck.

Sounds like a plan.  Might join you.  What are you having?

Wodka. Wiv Wose hip sywup and lemonade

Awww.  Bwess. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 October, 2011, 09:43:59 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 October, 2011, 08:01:14 pm
Yeah, you need to get a November ride in first  ;)
Plenty of time for 300s in the spring.

See kids, this is how it happens!

Notice how she comes across as a voice of reason, and unless you keep your wits about you, you'll find yourself agreeing.  And then it's just harmless C5 envelopes and stuff.  The true horror comes much later...   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 09:51:15 pm
Quote from: RJ on 24 October, 2011, 09:34:11 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 09:29:32 pm
Quote from: RJ on 24 October, 2011, 09:26:19 pm
Baking bread.  And reviewing some predictive species distribution modelling carried out over half-term using Bartholemew's half-inch maps and Lego mini-figures  ;)

I can't decide if that's actually more or less scientific than it sounds....

Probably both  ;)


I need pictorial evidence of the lego and maps. And if there's cake on the maps, so much the better  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 October, 2011, 11:02:51 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 October, 2011, 08:01:14 pm
Yeah, you need to get a November ride in first  ;)
Plenty of time for 300s in the spring.

Nice little dart to the agm, I reckon. I mean, it hardly ever snows then....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 October, 2011, 11:07:58 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 October, 2011, 11:02:51 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 October, 2011, 08:01:14 pm
Yeah, you need to get a November ride in first  ;)
Plenty of time for 300s in the spring.

Nice little dart to the agm, I reckon. I mean, it hardly ever snows then....

Dammit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 October, 2011, 11:10:15 pm
Have you seen the distance between here and York?

Double dammit.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 October, 2011, 11:55:45 pm
Well, the crinklyhotel is fairly full, but I do believe that there might be a Kim-sized settee available that weekend...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 October, 2011, 11:59:09 pm
Triple dammit?

I suspect this may be a good time to step away from the keyboard and do some important hibernating...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 October, 2011, 12:28:37 am
Post cat feeding and deciding to wait till it stops raining to go home.....or not.

Decisions.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 25 October, 2011, 02:21:00 am
Cussin' and a moaning at my computer as it has done me a cd burn that skips and jumps the tracks, even though the original recording is okay as I listened to it from a USB Flashdrive. Two CDs have skipped and jumped the first three or four tracks of the Janis Ian Album and I iz giving up! :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 October, 2011, 08:54:43 am
Burn slower. Plus check that your RIPs are OK on the computer before burning them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 October, 2011, 09:16:50 am
Why do I get great ideas and then fail spectacularly   :facepalm:

Deciding to change a the fedora front end from gnome to xcfe and managed to get nothing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 October, 2011, 02:19:40 pm
Waving from the train in the general direction of newtoncap, as we pass through her town.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 October, 2011, 06:38:26 pm
Sitting with a beer in the Old Joint Stock.
The last time I was here was a couple of years ago when we ate here after the after the Brooks visit ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 26 October, 2011, 08:47:16 am
Fretting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 October, 2011, 10:41:54 am
I've just filled in an entry form & written out the necessary cheque & C5 envelopes for an audax
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 October, 2011, 10:47:43 am
Trying to wake up.  Just had my first lie-in of the holidays!  And fretting about fboab's fretting.  Hope you are fret-free soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 October, 2011, 12:12:55 pm
I'm eating an apple
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 October, 2011, 12:24:00 pm
Running a script on 54 servers.

this is simple, apart from the fact that, before I can run the script I need to:
1) Log into the server
2) Change my password
3) re-log in to server
4) copy script from another server (which involves entering password)

Then once run I need to copy the output to another server and onwards toa  windows box so I can then email it to India.

Where are YTSers when you need them?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 26 October, 2011, 12:26:24 pm
ClusterSSH or PSSH or Multixterm.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/execute-commands-simultaneously-on-multiple-servers-using-psshcluster-sshmultixterm.html
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 October, 2011, 12:29:27 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 26 October, 2011, 12:26:24 pm
ClusterSSH or PSSH or Multixterm.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/execute-commands-simultaneously-on-multiple-servers-using-psshcluster-sshmultixterm.html

Fine if I wasn't building these to a corporate standard, thus not allowed to add anything, not even shared keys  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 26 October, 2011, 12:34:24 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 26 October, 2011, 12:29:27 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 26 October, 2011, 12:26:24 pm
ClusterSSH or PSSH or Multixterm.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/execute-commands-simultaneously-on-multiple-servers-using-psshcluster-sshmultixterm.html

Fine if I wasn't building these to a corporate standard, thus not allowed to add anything, not even shared keys  :(

At least one of them (can't remember which) just replicates what you type in one window to all of the others, this includes the password upon first login.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 October, 2011, 02:29:06 pm
Watching "Bottom" whilst trying to write code. This is turning out to be surprisingly tricky ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 October, 2011, 02:53:12 pm
Watching (well listening to) someone else clean my oven.  The oven cleaning schedule got somewhat disrupted by my year of studying up north several years back and it has never ever recovered.  I couldn't face it, so I GAMI.  He's whistling.  In a 'I like my job' way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 October, 2011, 02:54:56 pm
Enjoying the fact I don't need to go and sit in a sauna tonight (others call it the local swimming baths, but it is always a sauna to me).  Also contemplating the need to cook dinner ready for Mrs T coming home at 5, and I need a shower.

Must remember NOT to cut my thumb whilst making dinner today.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 26 October, 2011, 08:01:04 pm
Sitting on a friend's wall, watching an appalling attempt to park, which hit the car behind 4 times!=-O
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 October, 2011, 08:09:39 pm
:o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 26 October, 2011, 10:02:57 pm
Cutting out bats that came with last week' s Beano
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 27 October, 2011, 12:06:02 am
Waiting for the fireworks to finish so I can sleep.

I don't like fireworks.

On an animal-lover front, they stress out my dog and my horse and everyone else's pets in the area.

On a personal level, they stress me out far more than either the dog or the horse.  The fear in itself is irrational, but it is rather complicated and related to something that isn't so irrational.

But I'd quite like for them to stop now, please   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 October, 2011, 04:50:35 am
Not sleeping.   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 27 October, 2011, 09:13:42 am
Quote from: tiermat on 26 October, 2011, 02:54:56 pm
Enjoying the fact I don't need to go and sit in a sauna tonight (others call it the local swimming baths, but it is always a sauna to me).  Also contemplating the need to cook dinner ready for Mrs T coming home at 5, and I need a shower.

Must remember NOT to cut my thumb whilst making dinner today.....

"So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 27 October, 2011, 09:17:16 am
Soaking up the 10,000 lux from my new Sad (awwww) Light Box.  Maybe it'll cheer up if I tell it a joke or two...  I think I'll name him "Luxo"   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 27 October, 2011, 10:45:18 am
just returned from A +E having my head glued back together after catching it on a door in work at 6 am this morning  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 27 October, 2011, 11:00:52 am
Quote from: welshwheels on 27 October, 2011, 10:45:18 am
just returned from A +E having my head glued back together after catching it on a door in work at 6 am this morning  :(

Oh noes!  Sorry to hear that.  Did you get superglued?  That would be cooler than stitches, I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 27 October, 2011, 11:16:23 am
yes a nice 2inch superglue on my head day off today try again tomorrow the only time i have been glad i used the car to commute as i was in work on my own and had to drive to a+e
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 October, 2011, 11:25:16 am
Feeling rather more upbeat than usual ...

The company I had an interview with about a month ago who weren't able to take me on permanently because of obstinate bean-counters have a fixed-term contract opening - I've been put forward for it, and it turns out that their lead technical guy remembers my interview1 and will be letting me know tomorrow afternoon whether I've got the job :)

Hopefully I'll be in a position to hand in my notice on Monday (if not, see the bad news thread ...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 October, 2011, 02:48:25 pm
I'm thinking.
I'm begining to think my left knee needs a coatoflookingat by a medical professional.It's been sore intermittently for a while but today it is permenantly painfull to the point of causing a limp.
It's not been a problem on the very few short rides I've done recently.I think I need to spend several hourts in the saddle to test it properly for bike riding, before I try my next audax.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 October, 2011, 03:32:00 pm
Wondering how long, and how expensive it would be, to get to Poland.

And if I would get a gert big lump of Cluebyfour through customs.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 October, 2011, 03:37:08 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 27 October, 2011, 03:32:00 pm
Wondering how long, and how expensive it would be, to get to Poland.

Relatively cheap and easy, I'd assume - budget airlines will get you there.

Quote
And if I would get a gert big lump of Cluebyfour through customs.....

Travel light and source one locally. 

:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 October, 2011, 03:51:11 pm
On a train, leaving a very wet Brum, heading for somewhere even wetter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 October, 2011, 03:54:57 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 27 October, 2011, 03:37:08 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 27 October, 2011, 03:32:00 pm
Wondering how long, and how expensive it would be, to get to Poland.

Relatively cheap and easy, I'd assume - budget airlines will get you there.

Fair point

Quote
Quote
And if I would get a gert big lump of Cluebyfour through customs.....

Travel light and source one locally. 

:)

the trouble with that is using untested equipment, and running the risk of sourcing one "Made in Chad"[1]

[1] possibly the one and only time I will need a Chris Ryan reference, as using the one my FiL would use would offend too many people :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 October, 2011, 04:09:21 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 27 October, 2011, 03:54:57 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 27 October, 2011, 03:37:08 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 27 October, 2011, 03:32:00 pm
Wondering how long, and how expensive it would be, to get to Poland.

Relatively cheap and easy, I'd assume - budget airlines will get you there.

Fair point

Quote
Quote
And if I would get a gert big lump of Cluebyfour through customs.....

Travel light and source one locally. 

:)

the trouble with that is using untested equipment, and running the risk of sourcing one "Made in Chad"[1]

[1] possibly the one and only time I will need a Chris Ryan reference, as using the one my FiL would use would offend too many people :)

Not sure about EU rules, but perhaps safer to declare your ClueByFour as sports, rather than work, equipment. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 October, 2011, 04:11:38 pm
Quote from: Basil on 27 October, 2011, 03:51:11 pm
On a train, leaving a very wet Brum, heading for somewhere even wetter.
Bridlington?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 27 October, 2011, 04:20:15 pm
tar gzipping together backups of all my photies dating back to 2004, hopefully into DVD burnable chunks, splitting each year into quarters.  Think I need to purchase another internal SATA drive for added backup action.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 27 October, 2011, 04:32:16 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 27 October, 2011, 04:20:15 pm
tar gzipping together backups of all my photies dating back to 2004, hopefully into DVD burnable chunks

Don't gzip them, one bit of bitrot (DVD's have a limited shelflife after burning) and the whole gzip file after that point becomes corrupted.

At least with a tar file you can read off the entire file and you are unlikely to lose more than one photo per bit of bitrot.

If they're a large collection of RAW or BMP images then consider using a lossless compression on the files first.

If they're JPEG or GIF then compressing them with gzip will get you next to nothing anyway as the files are already compressed via the underlying file format.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 27 October, 2011, 04:45:50 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 27 October, 2011, 04:32:16 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 27 October, 2011, 04:20:15 pm
tar gzipping together backups of all my photies dating back to 2004, hopefully into DVD burnable chunks

Don't gzip them, one bit of bitrot (DVD's have a limited shelflife after burning) and the whole gzip file after that point becomes corrupted.

At least with a tar file you can read off the entire file and you are unlikely to lose more than one photo per bit of bitrot.

If they're a large collection of RAW or BMP images then consider using a lossless compression on the files first.

If they're JPEG or GIF then compressing them with gzip will get you next to nothing anyway as the files are already compressed via the underlying file format.
 

Thanks for th tip Greenbank!  Tarring them certainly will be quicker!  The files are mostly Pentax PEF files, with some jpgs mixed in.  Would rather keep the PEFs if possible.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 27 October, 2011, 04:50:34 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 27 October, 2011, 04:45:50 pm
Thanks for th tip Greenbank!  Tarring them certainly will be quicker!  The files are mostly Pentax PEF files, with some jpgs mixed in.  Would rather keep the PEFs if possible.

gzip the PEF files individually (if worth it) before tarring then, that way a single bit of bitrot just corrupts that file rather than the rest of the .tar.gz file.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 October, 2011, 05:15:00 pm
Wheezing and feeling cruddy having just used up the bulk of today's energy re-arranging furniture and exposing myself to the dust buried thereunder.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 27 October, 2011, 05:16:51 pm
Just chuckling at all the locked threads on yacf and cc.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 October, 2011, 05:20:38 pm
Waiting for a bus, getting wet and drooling over an orange Brompton.

In that order.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 27 October, 2011, 06:25:28 pm
Quote from: interzen on 27 October, 2011, 05:20:38 pm
Waiting for a bus, getting wet and drooling over an orange Brompton.

In that order.

Me wants too!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 October, 2011, 06:28:54 pm
Just completed Step 1 of tonight's Plan for Sleep
1) eat dinner large enough to induce food coma
2) consume after-dinner drink(s)
3) enjoy a long hot bath
4) insert ear-plugs

SLEEP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 27 October, 2011, 06:30:03 pm

Cleaning out in old stacks of personal papers and 5 boxes ( 40x30x30 cm) of junk/bikeparts/other gadgets.
I have reduced it to 2 boxes incl. papers, and I could clearly see from the stacks when I started to go down the wrong track mentally.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 27 October, 2011, 06:31:38 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 27 October, 2011, 06:28:54 pm
Just completed Step 1 of tonight's Plan for Sleep
1) eat dinner large enough to induce food coma
2) consume after-dinner drink(s)
3) enjoy a long hot bath
4) insert ear-plugs

SLEEP

Do the bath thing first.
Your digestive tract won't thank you for getting into a (presumably) hot bath following a meal with drinks.
Srsly.

EDIT : Too late, innit?  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 October, 2011, 06:39:46 pm
*burp*

Yep, too late.  Not worried, haven't had problems before (or should I say 'yet'?).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 October, 2011, 06:43:49 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 27 October, 2011, 06:25:28 pm
Quote from: interzen on 27 October, 2011, 05:20:38 pm
Waiting for a bus, getting wet and drooling over an orange Brompton.

In that order.

Me wants too!!!!
If I manage to land the job that I've applied for them I'm 'aving it - I'm justifying it to myself on the grounds that my commute will increase from 5 miles to 25, and during the winter at least the journey will be multi-modal, be it bus/bike or train/bike.

Whilst 'Brompton Orange' isn't quite as strident as 'Genesis Orange', it's still good enough ;D

Which would probably make it an n+0.5 :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 October, 2011, 06:44:15 am
Quote from: Andrij on 27 October, 2011, 06:28:54 pm
Just completed Step 1 of tonight's Plan for Sleep
1) eat dinner large enough to induce food coma
2) consume after-dinner drink(s)
3) enjoy a long hot bath
4) insert ear-plugs

SLEEP

It worked!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 October, 2011, 08:36:48 am
Drinking tea in bed. Think I'll treat myself to another chapter of Rama before I get up and start my day. Days off FTW
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AndyK on 28 October, 2011, 08:40:59 am
Playing with Zombie Booth (http://youtu.be/juhlqD7GROo).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 October, 2011, 09:46:56 am
Still pondering orange Bromptons.

Hopefully I'll be in a position to actually order one later this afternoon ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 October, 2011, 09:48:14 am
Quote from: interzen on 28 October, 2011, 09:46:56 am
Still pondering orange Bromptons.

Hopefully I'll be in a position to actually order one later this afternoon ...

Go go go go go gogogogo for it!!! Good luck!  :thumbsup:

I dreamt I got an orange bike last night, it's all your fault.  It was a roadbike though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 October, 2011, 09:51:54 am
Quote from: Wendy on 28 October, 2011, 09:48:14 am
I dreamt I got an orange bike last night, it's all your fault.  It was a roadbike though.
Already got one of those ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 October, 2011, 09:54:19 am
Quote from: interzen on 28 October, 2011, 09:51:54 am
Quote from: Wendy on 28 October, 2011, 09:48:14 am
I dreamt I got an orange bike last night, it's all your fault.  It was a roadbike though.
Already got one of those ;D

Booohoooohooo!!   :'(

Ah well, this bit of orange cheered me up this morning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVmNTERIQC8
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 October, 2011, 09:58:00 am
Quote from: Wendy on 28 October, 2011, 09:54:19 am
Quote from: interzen on 28 October, 2011, 09:51:54 am
Quote from: Wendy on 28 October, 2011, 09:48:14 am
I dreamt I got an orange bike last night, it's all your fault.  It was a roadbike though.
Already got one of those ;D

Booohoooohooo!!   :'(

Ah well, this bit of orange cheered me up this morning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVmNTERIQC8
Go, postie! Go! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 October, 2011, 12:04:31 pm
Ridden a lumpy 5 miles to the cafe where I am nomming a late breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 October, 2011, 12:34:54 pm
Quote from: jogler on 27 October, 2011, 02:48:25 pm
I'm thinking.
I'm begining to think my left knee needs a coatoflookingat by a medical professional.It's been sore intermittently for a while but today it is permenantly painfull to the point of causing a limp.
It's not been a problem on the very few short rides I've done recently.I think I need to spend several hourts in the saddle to test it properly for bike riding, before I try my next audax.

I've got this pain thing sorted.
The pain started yesterday while doing the Tesco tango.

There's no pain today.
I've not been to Tesco today.

Q.E.D.     stay away from Tesco.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 October, 2011, 12:38:27 pm
Sounds like perfectly sound logic to me jogler.

I am confronting a mild hangover with coffee.  Coffee Good!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 October, 2011, 12:49:04 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 October, 2011, 12:34:54 pm
I've got this pain thing sorted.
The pain started yesterday while doing the Tesco tango.

Pushing supermarket trolleys, unless done extremely carefully, is one of the things almost guaranteed to b0rk my knee.  Attempting to keep a typical trolley heading in the right direction makes for lots of twisting forces just where you don't want them.

Online shopping FTW.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 October, 2011, 12:49:35 pm
Drinking capuccino from a paper cup whilst waiting for a course to start. Only me here. Hope I'm in the right room
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 October, 2011, 12:53:59 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 October, 2011, 12:49:04 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 October, 2011, 12:34:54 pm
I've got this pain thing sorted.
The pain started yesterday while doing the Tesco tango.

Pushing supermarket trolleys, unless done extremely carefully, is one of the things almost guaranteed to b0rk my knee.  Attempting to keep a typical trolley heading in the right direction makes for lots of twisting forces just where you don't want them.

Online shopping FTW.

That's largely because the UK persists in using stupid heath robinson design trolleys with all castoring wheels.  The type with only front wheel steering is so easy to push around, even when full of extremely heavy shopping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 October, 2011, 01:02:43 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 October, 2011, 12:49:04 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 October, 2011, 12:34:54 pm
I've got this pain thing sorted.
The pain started yesterday while doing the Tesco tango.

Pushing supermarket trolleys, unless done extremely carefully, is one of the things almost guaranteed to b0rk my knee.  Attempting to keep a typical trolley heading in the right direction makes for lots of twisting forces just where you don't want them.

Online shopping FTW.

This is where American technology is superior (IMHO).  On US shopping trolleys (in my experience) only TWO of the wheels pivot (front, IIRC).  In the UK, for some odd reason, all four wheels pivot.  While I acknowledge there are benefits to 4-wheel steering for vehicles, I remain unconvinced these carry over to trolleys.

ETA: cross-post with Wendy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 28 October, 2011, 01:14:04 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 28 October, 2011, 01:02:43 pm
This is where American technology is superior (IMHO).  On US shopping trolleys (in my experience) only TWO of the wheels pivot (front, IIRC).  In the UK, for some odd reason, all four wheels pivot.  While I acknowledge there are benefits to 4-wheel steering for vehicles, I remain unconvinced these carry over to trolleys.

ETA: cross-post with Wendy

Oh yes, totally agreed!!!

The best of all is a Burley D'Lite trailer with a stroller wheel attachment.  I can have the 3 year old in there, plus a crate of drinks and a week of shopping, and still steer it effortlessly with one hand.  OK, not going uphill, but on the flat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 October, 2011, 03:02:17 pm
Breaking out the credit card - looks like I might be buying me an orange Brommie ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 October, 2011, 03:05:21 pm
I am soon to be setting of for That London where I will be consuming food at Tas, The Cut. Boris Bikes will be involved.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 October, 2011, 03:06:31 pm
Not being very productive.  Actually, that's what I've been pretty much all day.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 October, 2011, 04:19:05 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 28 October, 2011, 03:06:31 pm
Not being very productive.  Actually, that's what I've been pretty much all day.  :-\

sounds like POETSdayitis.
There is only one cure
GWS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 October, 2011, 04:26:43 pm
If only I had such powers.  Even with my manager not in the office, couldn't manage it.  The frustration is greatly increased by IT undertaking a test of our 'business continuity plan;, which means no access to email or our network.  Thankfully I still have Internet access. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 28 October, 2011, 04:31:26 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 October, 2011, 04:19:05 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 28 October, 2011, 03:06:31 pm
Not being very productive.  Actually, that's what I've been pretty much all day.  :-\

sounds like POETSdayitis.
There is only one cure
GWS

Also not being very productive here. Well, I am on leave for a week from 5pm tonight... the boss and big boss are both off today and  as I don't have any work to do I went out for a ride at lunchtime. So now recovering from a 3 hour ride over all the lumps I could find on Cannock Chase. If I fall asleep before 5pm could someone give me a poke and send me home (all 10 yards away!!!).  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 October, 2011, 06:39:48 pm
Waiting for the ISS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 October, 2011, 07:02:55 pm
Drinking away next year's bonus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 28 October, 2011, 07:06:38 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 October, 2011, 06:39:48 pm
Waiting for the ISS

Too cloudy to see it here  :(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 October, 2011, 11:52:33 pm
Watching a log fire
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 28 October, 2011, 11:59:14 pm
Trying to learn the second of the dressage tests I'm doing tomorrow!  The first one is fine, I've learned it well...the second one is just similar enough to the first to be somewhat confusing!  And simpler, which is odd since it's a higher test!

At least I have an hour between tests tomorrow!  And a rather civilized start time of 14:37 rather than the 08:15ish I had last year!    :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 29 October, 2011, 12:26:46 am
Prob'ly better getting the Horse to learn it and you just go along for the ride O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 29 October, 2011, 09:36:36 am
Getting increasingly impatient for other family members who have not realised the impact than leaving an extra hour later means to our chances of getting to a diametrically opposite point in the West of London. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Smile.


Breathe.


Ommmmmmmmmmmmmm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 29 October, 2011, 10:10:17 am
Waiting for the dentist listening to radio 1. Not sure which is more painful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 October, 2011, 10:16:44 am
Eating bacon, drinking coffee and listening to Americans.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 29 October, 2011, 11:38:36 am
Printing off Yet Another College Essay  :thumbsup:


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 29 October, 2011, 11:46:47 am
Sitting down after dancing round the living room to Ride of the Valkyries with 2 year old clinging on for dear life
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sean on 29 October, 2011, 04:45:57 pm
just sat watching the cricket, waiting for the boss to get home from work so i can take her to asda !!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 October, 2011, 07:28:33 pm
Having major (and I mean major) anxiety attacks over the job offer I got on Friday - having read various articles online, even taking into account the lunatic fringe of the internet, I'm having serious second thoughts. Also, I'm genuinely scared about disclosing my various health issues (diabetes and my ongoing back problems, to name but two) so all things considered I'm at my wits end right now.

For all I've gone on about my current employers being afraid of change, it seems that I am too. Or rather, completely bloody terrified.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 29 October, 2011, 07:39:10 pm
Oooh, good luck mate!!  Do you have to tell them about your diabetes?  My policy is never to tell people, such as at gyms or places of work, because it just ends in bigotry and discrimination.  For example, "Oh, you're diabetic, you can't use the rowing machines then.".   ::-)

I'm currently salivating over Andy's new WAW velomobile, and turning quite a shade of green.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 October, 2011, 07:46:36 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 29 October, 2011, 07:39:10 pm
Oooh, good luck mate!!  Do you have to tell them about your diabetes?  My policy is never to tell people, such as at gyms or places of work, because it just ends in bigotry and discrimination.  For example, "Oh, you're diabetic, you can't use the rowing machines then.".   ::-)
This probably belongs elsewhere but on the other hand, a problem shared ...

I'm going for full disclosure, mainly because by doing so I can ask for 'reasonable adjustments' to be made to accomodate things like BG testing, hospital appointments and the like. My current employers have been very supportive, but indications are that my potential new employers may not be - I've been in situations like that before and I don't want to go there again. Apparently their staff turnover has been as high as 45%(!) although since this is the internet it's difficult to know who to believe.

I'm going to ring their HR people on Monday and try and get something in writing, and I've also emailed the MD and a couple of other folks at work saying that I'm having second thoughts and would like to talk things through.

Worst thing is I put in an order for a lease car today. Before the panic set in. Hopefully cancelling that should be straightforward should the need arise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 29 October, 2011, 09:30:48 pm
IZ seems to me you need to assess your motives for moving. If its dosh then you need to balance that against the support currently provided by existing employer. (ask em for a rise?) We all get fed up from time to time.

I
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 October, 2011, 10:47:08 am
Watching last night's TOTP2 Hallowe'en special. It's way more Hallowe'eny than Hallowe'en X-Factor. So far we've had Monster by the Automatic, Fire by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown (he'll teach you to burn), Ghostbusters, and I am currently woh-oh-ohing along with Stan Ridgeway's Camouflage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 October, 2011, 11:19:38 am
Quote from: Canardly on 29 October, 2011, 09:30:48 pm
IZ seems to me you need to assess your motives for moving. If its dosh then you need to balance that against the support currently provided by existing employer. (ask em for a rise?) We all get fed up from time to time.

I
Already done that - I've withdrawn my acceptance of the new job.

I'm fortunate in that I work with a great bunch of people, despite me moaning about them, and it's taken something like this to realise that. I made a mistake, and whilst I don't think I've burnt any bridges I do think I've got some fence-mending to do (mixed metaphors, love 'em)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 October, 2011, 11:33:52 am
Making parkin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gerwinium on 30 October, 2011, 11:35:27 am
Feeling smug after finishing cleaning the flat  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 October, 2011, 11:37:21 am
Being a domestic drudge.

Cleaning
Putting stuff in the attic
Washing (clothes)
Washing (dishes)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 October, 2011, 12:27:44 pm
I'm baking a fruit cake, well I'm not the oven is
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sean on 30 October, 2011, 01:03:10 pm
Just cooking a lovely roast lamb dinner. Then it's off to work !! :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 October, 2011, 01:38:32 pm
Building a stepping stone path across the lawn.  I'm one decent stone short, so when I've cut this lot in, I'm going for a scavenge hunt wander.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 30 October, 2011, 01:47:12 pm
Getting grief for marking when significant others are cooking/cleaning/baking/gardening...

 :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 October, 2011, 02:16:54 pm
Sitting in a field eating cheese pasty and rubbing my feet. The smells are mingling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jane on 30 October, 2011, 02:18:17 pm
Cleaning bikes. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 October, 2011, 02:19:08 pm
Not cleaning bikes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 30 October, 2011, 02:22:31 pm
Cleaning a fox skull.   :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 October, 2011, 02:27:13 pm
Mrs. Basil, re the stepping stone path.
"Great.  It looks as good as if it had been done by someone who knows what they're doing."
 
Harrumph. :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 30 October, 2011, 02:30:31 pm
Just finished practising on my double bass.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 October, 2011, 02:51:41 pm
Just failed to demonstrate to barakta that the fax machine still works.  Twice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 October, 2011, 02:56:56 pm
Digesting a mediocre sunday carvery lunch and an even less than acceptable pint of Copper Dragon.

Had a great time at two play parks with TLD tho, so the day has not been wasted :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 30 October, 2011, 03:04:47 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 30 October, 2011, 02:56:56 pm
Digesting a mediocre sunday carvery lunch and an even less than acceptable pint of Copper Dragon.

Life's too short to drink bad beer.  Either take it back (if it's actually gone off) or choose a different brew.  If you've exhausted the pub's choice, find a better hostelry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 30 October, 2011, 03:10:01 pm
Just finished filling in CRB check form  ::-) because I am a sports coach. Me. How the hell did this happen?

I've been working all night and now I've got a headache. I know it's a bit of a long shot but I think a beer might help. To the fridge! (point smiley)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SlowCoach on 30 October, 2011, 03:10:20 pm
At the Baltic viewing the Turner Prize exhibits. I will have no difficulty in resisting the urge to purchase...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 October, 2011, 03:44:09 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 30 October, 2011, 03:04:47 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 30 October, 2011, 02:56:56 pm
Digesting a mediocre sunday carvery lunch and an even less than acceptable pint of Copper Dragon.

Life's too short to drink bad beer.  Either take it back (if it's actually gone off) or choose a different brew.  If you've exhausted the pub's choice, find a better hostelry.

The beer was ok, it was just too cold (there was condensation on the glass FFS!) and it didn't hold it's head (sprinkler not on tight enough, combined with the too cold).

TBH, if I had gone up and complained I would have probably unleashed a full Defcon Tiermat, which would have seen me, Mrs T and TLD escorted off the premises, so I stayed stum, didn't even ask for dessert.

I shall just vote with my feet and never return to that pub.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 30 October, 2011, 04:39:03 pm
Quote from: fboab on 30 October, 2011, 02:16:54 pm
Sitting in a field eating cheese pasty and rubbing my feet. The smells are mingling.

Ah... so much of the audax experience, encapsulated in so few words.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 30 October, 2011, 04:54:51 pm
Just finished filling in a load of Audax entry forms, putting them in envelopes , with SAEs etc etc
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 October, 2011, 05:45:18 pm
I'm sucking  :o  a tic tac :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Majorbloodnok on 30 October, 2011, 05:59:09 pm
A real one or the green and orange type?  Edit:
How stupid of me, of course its a real one, all others can not be consumed singularly
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 30 October, 2011, 06:15:51 pm
Quote from: interzen on 30 October, 2011, 11:19:38 am
Already done that - I've withdrawn my acceptance of the new job.

I'm fortunate in that I work with a great bunch of people, despite me moaning about them, and it's taken something like this to realise that. I made a mistake, and whilst I don't think I've burnt any bridges I do think I've got some fence-mending to do (mixed metaphors, love 'em)

Congrats, I think you've made the right decision. It takes a wise and brave man to admit a mistake and correct it. That other place's turnover rate put the frighteners on me!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 October, 2011, 09:08:54 am
Battling with JSA's accounting system (quarter end :( )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 October, 2011, 11:59:43 am
Having an early lunch before I go to a funeral.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 October, 2011, 12:03:48 pm
Getting ready to ride to physio.  Hoping that Kirst, and the others involved, find the funeral that she is going to useful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 October, 2011, 01:41:10 pm
Wardialling D-Tek
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 October, 2011, 01:42:27 pm
Listening to a PM, on a conf call, completely miss the technical point of Blade Chassis switch configuration.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 31 October, 2011, 02:09:18 pm
Having lunch.
Today that means eating pasta salad with what I'm pretending are chop sticks but are actually hair sticks. But mostly resisting the urge to go to the toilet (again) and drinking cranberry juice and lots of water. Oh, and being cheerful to the narky doctor's receptionist who won't let me see anyone today because I didn't phone at 8 am. Telling her it's come on this morning, I know what it is (hell, any girl reading this knows what it is) isn't melting her frost. It's going to be a long night... And a calorie melting afternoon at work up and down those stairs...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 31 October, 2011, 02:25:19 pm
*ouch*  Yep, I know that feeling all too well.

FWIW, I've only ended up at the doc's with it once...usually I buy a box of cystopurin from the pharmacist/supermarket and that takes care of it.  YWMV
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 31 October, 2011, 02:29:14 pm
Quote from: fboab on 31 October, 2011, 02:09:18 pm
Having lunch.
Today that means eating pasta salad with what I'm pretending are chop sticks but are actually hair sticks. But mostly resisting the urge to go to the toilet (again) and drinking cranberry juice and lots of water. Oh, and being cheerful to the narky doctor's receptionist who won't let me see anyone today because I didn't phone at 8 am. Telling her it's come on this morning, I know what it is (hell, any girl reading this knows what it is) isn't melting her frost. It's going to be a long night... And a calorie melting afternoon at work up and down those stairs...

Those foul tasting citrate powder sachets you can get from the chemist for this are often not a permanent fix but they can improve things heaps while you wait to see the doctor. Also worth considering is keeping the last tablet of the course of antibiotics you get so that the next time it happens you have one to take while you wait. (I know I shouldn't do this, but anyone who has ever had this problem will understand why I do.) GWS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 October, 2011, 02:39:47 pm
+1 for hoarding antibiotics.

Your local NHS walk-in centre has probably been closed due to funding cuts, but in my experience they're pretty good for this sort of thing.

Otherwise, I just drink half my bodyweight in isotonic fluids, and wait for the bowels to provide an unhealthy distraction.   :-\


(I'm suspicious that GPs' receptionists live in a parallel universe where they never have trouble seeing a doctor in a hurry...)



ION: The sun is shining over Dulwich Park.   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 31 October, 2011, 02:43:55 pm
Quote from: fboab on 31 October, 2011, 02:09:18 pm
Having lunch.
Today that means eating pasta salad with what I'm pretending are chop sticks but are actually hair sticks. But mostly resisting the urge to go to the toilet (again) and drinking cranberry juice and lots of water. Oh, and being cheerful to the narky doctor's receptionist who won't let me see anyone today because I didn't phone at 8 am. Telling her it's come on this morning, I know what it is (hell, any girl reading this knows what it is) isn't melting her frost. It's going to be a long night... And a calorie melting afternoon at work up and down those stairs...

Oh sympathies. I'm on antibiotics for same atm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 October, 2011, 07:40:00 pm
Avoiding extorting little runts trick or treaters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 31 October, 2011, 07:54:10 pm
we've not had *one*! Idle little bas&ards.   Thats two bags of haribo for Mrs Mike to get through this week...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 October, 2011, 07:57:21 pm
I'm frightening the trickortreaters when I answer the door wearing a skeleton skull mask ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 November, 2011, 11:34:34 am
Feeling sick, dizzy and sleepy after banging my head really hard on the sloping ceiling in the corner of the lounge  >:(.

There is a large lump appearing on the top of my bonce...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 November, 2011, 12:27:24 pm
Being grumpy (or grumpier)

Had the first part of my root-canal surgery this morning and the anaesthetic is starting to wear off  :-X

Also fending off slave-traders with a big stick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 01 November, 2011, 12:33:02 pm
Changing ends at Mordor Central.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 November, 2011, 12:35:20 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 01 November, 2011, 12:33:02 pm
Changing ends at Mordor Central.
You should have said.  I'd have popped over for a quick "hello"  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 November, 2011, 12:36:37 pm
Feeling totally fucked off.

In June I noticed that a technical piece of work had not been done on these servers I am building (said work is out of my remit, but affects what I do).

I escalated this concern up the food chain and was assured that it would be dealt with.

Now, in October (for it all came to a head yesterday) I am being interrogated as to why certain network interfaces do not work.  D'oh, you idiots, if you had have done what I pointed out needed doing, it wouldn't be a problem.

So instead of fixing the issue I now have to work like an idiot to change the config of the servers so all the data for 4 interfaces goes over 2!!!!

Fuckwits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sean on 01 November, 2011, 01:37:07 pm
had an hour on the wii fit, now sat having mackeral with salad and watching Ray Winstone in Tracker. then it's off to work at 3  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 November, 2011, 03:02:08 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 November, 2011, 11:34:34 am
Feeling sick, dizzy and sleepy after banging my head really hard on the sloping ceiling in the corner of the lounge  >:(.

There is a large lump appearing on the top of my bonce...

 I reckon you have concussion.You need medical attention.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 November, 2011, 03:09:31 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 November, 2011, 03:02:08 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 November, 2011, 11:34:34 am
Feeling sick, dizzy and sleepy after banging my head really hard on the sloping ceiling in the corner of the lounge  >:(.

There is a large lump appearing on the top of my bonce...

 I reckon you have concussion.You need medical attention.

Hmm... I did consider the possibility, but I seem to have improved somewhat in the last hour. I'm pretty sure I knocked myself out - I can remember hitting my head and thinking "fuuuuuuuuuuuu******" - but then I was on the floor. I can't remember whether I just sort of collapsed on the floor because of the pain, or whether I actually checked-out for a second or two.

I have a nice straight cut across the top of my head, so I guess I banged my head on the edge of the dormer window (I'm in a top floor flat, so the room cuts into the loft-space) which probably concentrated the shock.

I'm less dizzy and woozy than I was, but have a crashing headache which is making work something of a challenge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 November, 2011, 03:28:19 pm
Also feeling sick dizzy and sleepy...

I stretched in the bed this morning, and something went click in my neck, accompanied by instant agonising pain.  This has happened a few times over the years (though not recently), and I know that it soon causes tension and more pain in my shoulder, and makes it too painful to move my head.  It's persisted for weeks like that before, and I know that the only way to deal with it is to take a large dose of opiates as soon as it happens and spend most of the following 24 hours too stoned to do anything - with luck that keeps everything from tensing up too badly and it sorts itself out in a couple of days.

Hence I've spent most of the morning drifting in and out of sleep, and having trippy dreams about chests of drawers and bar-end shifters.  I've now forced myself to get up and eat something, before the diclofenac I took for good measure takes its toll on my digestive system.  I seem to have about a 45 degree range of motion on my neck, which could be worse.

Really not impressed.


(And before anyone tells me to see a medic, the last time I went to a doctor with back pain they laughed at me and told me to take ibuprofen.  And that turned out to be a nice, textbook, provable condition.  I have no desire to put myself through that humiliation again for actual vague spine issues.  I have a finite number of medical spoons, and I need those for the important stuff.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 November, 2011, 03:54:19 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 31 October, 2011, 01:42:27 pm
Listening to a PM, on a conf call, completely miss the technical point of Blade Chassis switch configuration.
FTFY.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 01 November, 2011, 04:51:30 pm
@Kim. GWS. Friends of mine swear by physio, but your muscles need to come out of spasm, so drugs can help that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: oncemore on 01 November, 2011, 05:15:41 pm
Rubbing the arm after flu jab and thinking.....wouldn't the clinic for the jab be an awfully good way of selecting "volunteers" for the thinning out of the elderly and non-productive. Walk in, quick delayed action lethal shot, home and die.

All this bollocks about stay healthy/live longer when the last thing society needs is mass longevity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 01 November, 2011, 05:28:48 pm
Another 10min wait while the train driver walks from one end of the train to the other, at Mordor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 01 November, 2011, 05:35:57 pm
about to head out for my leaving do!  Will try and avoid getting drunk and being rude to tosspots...



..  for at least half an hour.  Till I get my present, at least :)
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 01 November, 2011, 06:06:10 pm
Sitting in a Glasgow hotel after a long and hard day waiting impatiently for the restaurant to open at 6.30 cos I'm bloody starving!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 November, 2011, 07:30:36 pm
Wondering why the pasta water is taking so long to boil. I'm hungry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 November, 2011, 08:39:01 pm
Deciding where to start...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 01 November, 2011, 10:07:03 pm
sat by what appears to be a coal and log fire in the lounge of an hotel in Tobermory   :thumbsup: after: 

1.5 hours at Heathrow
1 hour flight to Glasgow
2.5 hour drive to Oban
1 hour wait for the ferry
45 minute crossing to Mull
45 minute drive to Tobermory WTW

And tomorrow is on site by 8:30 work through, catch the 5pm ferry back to Oban and drive down to Glasgow for the 9:15pm flight south.

Must remember the photo of Balamory Corner Shop for my niece tomorrow lunchtime
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sean on 02 November, 2011, 01:43:36 am
just got home from work to find the psycoville halloween special on BBC4. funny as ****
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 November, 2011, 11:45:11 am
eating a Diet Crunchie bar
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 November, 2011, 12:44:03 pm
Getting ready to visit the *sssshhhhhh* Bike Whisperers *sssshhhhhh*.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 November, 2011, 01:42:43 pm
Talking to my girl on Facebook   :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :) :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 November, 2011, 01:46:19 pm
Re-configuring servers and worrying about other stuff....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 November, 2011, 01:48:20 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 02 November, 2011, 01:46:19 pm
Re-configuring servers and worrying about other stuff....

<Slides cup of coffee and piece of CAIK across desk to Tiermat.>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 02 November, 2011, 04:05:44 pm
Trying very hard not to let my Aspie side out wrt to stuff that really is quite inconsequential but is bothering me just because it's bothering me!  I know I can be illogically affected by some stuff, I know it's not sensible, but it doesn't stop it bugging the pants off me!   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 02 November, 2011, 04:09:26 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 02 November, 2011, 12:44:03 pm
Getting ready to visit the *sssshhhhhh* Bike Whisperers *sssshhhhhh*.


;D  and how was Fettle?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 November, 2011, 06:56:08 pm
Trying to find the contact lens that's not where it should be.
Ow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 November, 2011, 07:02:24 pm
Collapsing in a heap and being pestered by a moggy. Are we nearly there yet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 November, 2011, 07:13:03 pm
Trying to get a local mediawiki up and running whilst downloading Gnome3 to give it a wizz but my PC has decided to update KDE to 4.7.3 from 4.7.2 at the same time so since this is a 3mb ADSL link its all going to be a bit slow for half an hour or so .... Time for a cup of tea me thinks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 November, 2011, 09:34:17 pm
Quote from: mike on 02 November, 2011, 04:09:26 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 02 November, 2011, 12:44:03 pm
Getting ready to visit the *sssshhhhhh* Bike Whisperers *sssshhhhhh*.


;D  and how was Fettle?

Fettle was overly affectionate, as always, but eventually settled down.

Great visit, as expected.  Already noticed the difference on the 30km back home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 November, 2011, 09:58:19 pm
Tonight I appear to be listening to the Detroit Cobras on spotify.  And baking.

HappyCrinkly  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 November, 2011, 10:19:23 pm
Trying to work out an efficient route to City Link in Epsom, which for some odd reason parcels are now ending at, rather than the slightly more convenient location that they used to go to in Morden.

CycleStreets came up with a route that involved going over a railway footbridge.  That was otherwise a very efficient route, but since I'll need the trailer (it's a heavy box of cat and kitten food plus other moggie stuff), that's really not a good idea.  It would have been good if it hadn't suggested it in the first place, or at least had a "No stupid walking bits, which are impossible with a Tandem, Recumbent, or Trailer" option. :-\

It's going to be an 1½ hours roundtrip as it is, I'd rather not make it even harder!

... and as an aside, since the cats can't type:

Kai has just worked out that he can easily bash Zev's squeaky mouse on a string about by sitting on the end of the bed.

Zev on the other hand is trying to destroy stuff in the living room, and seeing what she can clamber over and under.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 November, 2011, 11:27:13 pm
Quote from: TimO on 02 November, 2011, 10:19:23 pm
... CycleStreets came up with a route that involved going over a railway footbridge. ...

... and after spending more than an hour with the GPSies link from CycleStreets, and carefully editing out the bits which were illegal or impossible to do, with much frequent checking of various website, and then saving it, GPSies decided to throw it all away, and revert to the original file. >:(

Why are so many of the GPS editing websites out there, so bloody godawfully badly written?  I keep on saying I'll write my own, but I've got too many other things that need doing, but I would have saved I don't know how many hours redrawing tracks and hand editing GPX files. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 02 November, 2011, 11:29:03 pm
Listening to some wicked jazz on Stomp Radio (http://www.stompradio.com/)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 November, 2011, 11:59:34 pm
Preparing a presentation. Wiv video and graphics 'n all.
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Post by: tiermat on 03 November, 2011, 03:04:56 pm
Ordering plants and bulbs for the garden for next year, as well as copying a new, non-fuber'd version of Four Lions to the media box so that Mrs T can watch the last 30 minutes of said movie.
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Post by: andygates on 03 November, 2011, 03:20:22 pm
De-duplicating my clop.  :demon:
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Post by: tiermat on 03 November, 2011, 04:18:31 pm
Email confirming that work that needed to be done has been done, also told them I am not back until Monday.

Break out the dancing girls, it's officially POETS day, for me anyway :)
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Post by: Basil on 03 November, 2011, 04:43:50 pm
OMG.  I've just found a pub in town selling Crafty Old Hen at £1.99 a pint!
It's a good job I'm on my way to see my dad or I'd be tempted to stay and get myself into a mess.  Which at an ABV of 6.5 wouldn't take long.
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Post by: interzen on 11 November, 2011, 12:28:47 pm
Debating whether or not to get on a bus, go into town and have a general nose around.
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Post by: Kim on 11 November, 2011, 04:18:56 pm
Giving my bike a once-over pre-FNRttC and packing some trousers for a weekend in Canterbury.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 November, 2011, 07:34:14 pm
Trousers are good in Canterbury.

I'm digesting curry.
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Post by: Kim on 11 November, 2011, 07:38:02 pm
They're also good in York, as I discovered last month.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 November, 2011, 07:40:08 pm
Why is it that the archbishops never seem to wear any? Or at least, conceal them with frocks?
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 12 November, 2011, 01:02:50 am
I'm having a really nice, relaxing time listening to the 5th Dimension (Age of Aquarius etc) on the bedroom hard drive, with HOOJE amounts of Koffy andithe pleasure is only marred by my blood glucose levels registering as 19.6 five hours after eating :o

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Post by: Domestique on 12 November, 2011, 04:10:24 am
Not sleeping
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 12 November, 2011, 05:32:43 am
Getting sorted to get my ass down to Alfreton
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 November, 2011, 08:52:18 am
On a train, heading to bradford, off to watch the films nominated for awards in the young animators and films for children categories of the bradford animation festival and hoping to catch up with a mate that I haven't seen for months. Not sure if he's got as many nominations as last year, but I'll find out soon enough :)
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Post by: mike on 12 November, 2011, 04:14:21 pm
watching the poseidon adventure.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: L CC on 12 November, 2011, 07:55:21 pm
Not murdering my children
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Post by: Chris S on 12 November, 2011, 09:25:18 pm
Sending myself to bed with no tea, as punishment for being weak and stupid.
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Post by: SteveC on 13 November, 2011, 10:28:18 am
Procrastinating and having a coffee.
I should be outside in the garden, doing a series of boring jobs.

S
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 November, 2011, 02:28:23 pm
Admiring my birthday present from bobb, now that it's been framed and hung.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/021.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/020.jpg)
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Post by: tiermat on 13 November, 2011, 02:55:01 pm
Wishing I hadn't started putting a new curtain rail up....

Next job, light shade....
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Post by: interzen on 13 November, 2011, 03:08:03 pm
Drinking tea.
Writing code.
Listening to choons.

In that approximate order.
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Post by: why1040 on 13 November, 2011, 03:38:03 pm
I have gone flump on the sofa after a VERY busy day competing with my horse.

I don't think I'll move from here...I have a blanket, CAKE, ribena and CSI...
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Post by: L CC on 13 November, 2011, 07:29:06 pm
Mouth breathing. Collecting snot in tissues and mostly getting them in the fire.

Winter. Gotta love it.
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Post by: Kim on 14 November, 2011, 12:06:34 am
Quote from: fboab on 13 November, 2011, 07:29:06 pm
Collecting snot in tissues and mostly getting them in the fire.

This is what my colds / protracted allergy sessions have been lacking my whole life!

Barakta: we can has FIRE?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 November, 2011, 12:08:21 am
I'm suffering from an infection of the larynx or thereabouts. This is especially annoying as next week I'm supposed to be singing in a concert. I think I need whisky and coffee and sleep.
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Post by: why1040 on 14 November, 2011, 12:13:17 am
Wondering why on earth I'm not asleep...

I was up at 6 after less than 6 hours' sleep, competed the horse in stressful jumping (stressful for me, the horse loved it) and was completely knackered on the sofa at 4.  Didn't have a nap, but woke up, fettled bike and am still awake now...

I should be completely out for the count!
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Post by: Kim on 14 November, 2011, 12:32:32 am
Bike ride.  You know it makes sense.   ;)
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Post by: barakta on 14 November, 2011, 08:32:05 am
Quote from: Kim on 14 November, 2011, 12:06:34 am
Quote from: fboab on 13 November, 2011, 07:29:06 pm
Collecting snot in tissues and mostly getting them in the fire.

This is what my colds / protracted allergy sessions have been lacking my whole life!

Barakta: we can has FIRE?

Yes!
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Post by: mike on 14 November, 2011, 08:39:56 am
hoovering.

I've been awake since 4 and am slightly manic.  MrsMike is making good use of it by giving me household chores to do, before I hit my snoozepoint at about 3pm.

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Post by: L CC on 14 November, 2011, 09:29:59 am
I'b dakig drugz as by code iz gedding ib by earz
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 November, 2011, 09:41:51 am
Wondering how slow a computer has to be before it's just a box.
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Post by: jogler on 14 November, 2011, 10:52:20 am
Quote from: fboab on 14 November, 2011, 09:29:59 am
I'b dakig drugz as by code iz gedding ib by earz

pardon?

GWS
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Post by: Kim on 14 November, 2011, 01:15:37 pm
Tidying up pre-fettle-fest.
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Post by: Andrij on 15 November, 2011, 07:49:32 pm
Comfort eating. :-\
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Post by: interzen on 15 November, 2011, 07:56:48 pm
Making sure that the FruitBookTM and FruitPadTM have all the necessary bits and pieces installed in preparation for tomorrow's job interview.

Then I'm going to take some (more) painkillers and go to bed.
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Post by: PaulF on 15 November, 2011, 09:16:06 pm
Quote from: interzen on 15 November, 2011, 07:56:48 pm
Making sure that the FruitBookTM and FruitPadTM have all the necessary bits and pieces installed in preparation for tomorrow's job interview.

Then I'm going to take some (more) painkillers and go to bed.

Good luck!
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Post by: RJ on 15 November, 2011, 09:22:25 pm
Pondering starting a "bones" spreadsheet for the measurements I took today, behind the scenes at the Museum.  Will probably wait until Thursday.
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Post by: LindaG on 15 November, 2011, 09:34:49 pm
Not sleeping.  Having spent a gruesome few hours this afternoon fighting to stay awake so as to regain my body clock after wrestling with pensioners all last night, I am now lying with my eyes wide open as my body groans in exhaustion, and my mind races uncontrollably.

Bollox to this.  Where is the chocolate, and where is the brandy   >:( >:( >:(
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 November, 2011, 09:50:32 pm
Hoping LG gets some Zzzzs soon.

And admiring the astonishingly bright orange-ness of my hair.  Big sis came round to help me cover my head in something-resembling-camel-poo, sit around and gossip for a few hours then wash it off again.  Shiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny!
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Post by: LindaG on 15 November, 2011, 10:00:30 pm
Oi!  Crinkly!  Photos!   
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 November, 2011, 10:07:14 pm
Nah - need to wait til tomorrow.  One of the best things about henna - waking up the morning after to find out how much extra bright!!! has happened overnight :)
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Post by: haliaetos on 15 November, 2011, 10:49:36 pm
Waiting for my banoffee cheesecake to finish cooking so I can go to bed. Looking forward to tomorrow teatime.  :P
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Post by: Kim on 15 November, 2011, 11:04:27 pm
Contemplating a bit of sneaky extra fettling before bed...
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Post by: Chris S on 16 November, 2011, 03:52:19 pm
Aching. I need a long soak in a hot bath.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 November, 2011, 04:00:21 pm
Going home

(Goes home)
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Post by: tiermat on 16 November, 2011, 04:04:24 pm
Killing timne until I take TLD to swimming lessons, then all hell breaks loose as I need to:
a) get her out of the lesson (which is MUCH harder than it sounds)
b) take her to my mum and dad's (approx 10 miles away)
c) come back here
d) get changed
e) get bike out
f) get to station for train to York @ 18:18

Total time between a and f? 1h18......
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Post by: Polar Bear on 16 November, 2011, 04:12:55 pm
Reviewing a bunch of correspondence for the students who are now undertaking my pro bono case work.     
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Post by: interzen on 16 November, 2011, 05:01:35 pm
Recovering. Or at least trying to.

4hr job interview (but a productive 4hrs nonetheless) and debating whether I can be arsed to go out for a ride later on given that a) one of (current) work's servers has decided to throw a hissy-fit and b) the tooth I'm having root-canalled tomorrow is giving me merry hell 'cos the infection hasn't cleared up fully. Stoopid diabetes :(
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Post by: CrinklyAuntie on 16 November, 2011, 11:45:55 pm
CU and I are playing with our sparkly new alpkit head torches  ;D
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Post by: jogler on 17 November, 2011, 10:08:24 am
Hoovering.
Amassing BrowniePoints,for the use of via hands-on domestic engineering
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Post by: Jaded on 17 November, 2011, 11:15:16 am
About to film a Caesarian.
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Post by: tiermat on 17 November, 2011, 11:16:06 am
Wondering just how the hell I am to fit >4 man days of work into <2 days, without the possibility of getting any assistance....
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Post by: interzen on 17 November, 2011, 12:11:54 pm
Regaining the feeling in the right side of my face.
The dentist went a bit OTT with the local anaesthetic and my nose has gone numb!
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Post by: Jaded on 17 November, 2011, 12:37:53 pm
One puppy died. All the others came out OK.
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Post by: Butterfly on 17 November, 2011, 12:43:56 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 17 November, 2011, 12:37:53 pm
One puppy died. All the others came out OK.
:( for the dead one (reminds me of a song :-[)

 :D for the rest!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 November, 2011, 12:55:28 pm
Quote from: interzen on 17 November, 2011, 12:11:54 pm
Regaining the feeling in the right side of my face.
The dentist went a bit OTT with the local anaesthetic and my nose has gone numb!

I had that yesterday, except it was my ear I couldn't feel. Yuk.
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Post by: RJ on 17 November, 2011, 12:56:41 pm
Quote from: RJ on 15 November, 2011, 09:22:25 pm
Pondering starting a "bones" spreadsheet for the measurements I took today, behind the scenes at the Museum.  Will probably wait until Thursday.

Still thinking about starting it ...
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Post by: Chris S on 17 November, 2011, 01:03:14 pm
Trying to force my brains back up my nose. Oh... it's just a head-cold. Phew.

This work is doing my head in - I thought my brains were melting  :facepalm:.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 November, 2011, 01:12:36 pm
Wondering if Bobb would like to go to the panto over Christmas.
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Post by: TimO on 17 November, 2011, 01:25:48 pm
Still waiting for four parcels to be delivered.  I know at least three of them were loaded up for delivery at around half eight this morning.  The other one is supposed to arrive today, but I'm not holding my breath. <fx: twiddles thumbs>
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Post by: LindaG on 17 November, 2011, 01:27:16 pm
Waiting for Crusty to come home so I can cook him some lunch.  Then shower, bed, work.  ho hum
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Post by: PaulF on 17 November, 2011, 01:40:52 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 17 November, 2011, 01:12:36 pm
Wondering if Bobb would like to go to the panto over Christmas.

Oh yes he will!

;)
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Post by: jogler on 17 November, 2011, 02:39:38 pm
scoffing Marj's homemade vegetable soup :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 17 November, 2011, 02:42:38 pm
Making a spectacular mess of attempting to fit Marathon Pluses to the baraktacycle.  I knew they were supposed to be bastards, but this is ridiculous.  Three pinch flats, and I haven't succeeded in fitting one yet!
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Post by: jogler on 17 November, 2011, 02:44:41 pm
Have you subjected them to the hairdryer treatment to warm up the last bastardbitoftyre/bead over the rim?
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Post by: Kim on 17 November, 2011, 03:05:07 pm
Not tried that yet.  Have been trying the Spa Cycles toestrap technique with limited success - there's so little give on a small wheel.
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Post by: tiermat on 17 November, 2011, 03:09:21 pm
Waiting for someone in Liverpool to test my server changes.

Wouldn't have needed to do anything if:
a) they had thought about it BEFORE the servers were built
b) hadn't dicked about with the standard routing once I handed the servers over to them.

Oh well, at least I will get a nice chunk of OT out of it...
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Post by: Chris S on 17 November, 2011, 03:18:41 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 November, 2011, 03:05:07 pm
Not tried that yet.  Have been trying the Spa Cycles toestrap technique with limited success - there's so little give on a small wheel.

I diagnose insufficient BEER and SWEARING.
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Post by: Mr Arch on 17 November, 2011, 03:20:59 pm
I'm trying to convert a bodged together lump of meta,l that has to accurately join two loose lumps of awkwardly shaped objects in perfect relative position, into an autocad drawing.
'Snot easy.
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Post by: Arch on 17 November, 2011, 03:47:23 pm
Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 17 November, 2011, 03:20:59 pm
I'm trying to convert a bodged together lump of meta,l that has to accurately join two loose lumps of awkwardly shaped objects in perfect relative position, into an autocad drawing.
'Snot easy.

Could be worse. You could be trying to tidy my flat....  ;)

I once drew, for a joke for someone, a spoof advert for the next great British engineering tool - a large printer that would print designs or blueprints onto the back of any size of envelope or fag packet....
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Post by: tiermat on 17 November, 2011, 03:49:25 pm
Still waiting.....
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Post by: jogler on 17 November, 2011, 03:50:19 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 17 November, 2011, 03:49:25 pm
Still waiting.....

U R Diana Ross AICMFP
 :)
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Post by: tiermat on 17 November, 2011, 03:52:28 pm
Quote from: jogler on 17 November, 2011, 03:50:19 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 17 November, 2011, 03:49:25 pm
Still waiting.....

U R Diana Ross AICMFP
 :)

I wondered why I looked different in the mirror this morning.  I wonder when that happened..... :)
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Post by: interzen on 17 November, 2011, 04:05:12 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 17 November, 2011, 03:52:28 pm
Quote from: jogler on 17 November, 2011, 03:50:19 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 17 November, 2011, 03:49:25 pm
Still waiting.....

U R Diana Ross AICMFP
 :)

I wondered why I looked different in the mirror this morning.  I wonder when that happened..... :)
You're obviously in the middle of some sort of chain reaction ....

IGMC :)
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Post by: tiermat on 17 November, 2011, 04:07:23 pm
TAXI for Interzen, Interzen, taxi waiting outside for you.....
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Post by: Kim on 17 November, 2011, 04:11:11 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 17 November, 2011, 03:18:41 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 November, 2011, 03:05:07 pm
Not tried that yet.  Have been trying the Spa Cycles toestrap technique with limited success - there's so little give on a small wheel.

I diagnose insufficient BEER and SWEARING.

No shortage of swearing, believe me!

In the absence of BEER, I managed to split the cut on my finger open again and bleed all over it.  That seemed to help.

Final score: 5:3

My hands are now two lumps of solid pain.  Those patches had better hold.

Barakta is summarily banned from riding through glass/hedge trimmings/flints of doom/car crash debris without someone manly gullible enough to offer to fix the p*nct*r*s for her.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 November, 2011, 04:11:26 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 17 November, 2011, 01:40:52 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 17 November, 2011, 01:12:36 pm
Wondering if Bobb would like to go to the panto over Christmas.

Oh yes he will!

;)
I'm disappointed that took so long.
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Post by: interzen on 17 November, 2011, 04:15:22 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 17 November, 2011, 04:11:26 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 17 November, 2011, 01:40:52 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 17 November, 2011, 01:12:36 pm
Wondering if Bobb would like to go to the panto over Christmas.

Oh yes he will!

;)
I'm disappointed that took so long.
Oh no you aren't :)

(this one could run and run ...)
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Post by: TimO on 17 November, 2011, 04:29:29 pm
Quote from: TimO on 17 November, 2011, 01:25:48 pm
Still waiting for four parcels to be delivered.  I know at least three of them were loaded up for delivery at around half eight this morning.  The other one is supposed to arrive today, but I'm not holding my breath. <fx: twiddles thumbs>

... and it all arrived within about 15 minutes!  Three of the boxes unpacked to this.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/CatFoodDelivery_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/CatFoodDelivery.jpg)

Over £200 of cat food, and a customer for the left hand side of the photo.  Eighteen cans of eleven different flavours.  Whereas Zev only has four flavours, but twenty four cans of each.  That's probably around three months worth for both of them!

I've now got to find somewhere in the Kitchen to store that lot.  I think the cat food and cereal cupboard is about to become the cat food only cupboard.
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Post by: interzen on 17 November, 2011, 04:31:02 pm
I feel a caption competition coming on ...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 November, 2011, 04:40:16 pm
Oh no you don't.
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Post by: Adam on 17 November, 2011, 07:07:58 pm
Behind you!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 November, 2011, 07:23:19 pm
Waiting for that penguin to come home from Embra so I have have dinner. *hungry*
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Post by: Chris S on 18 November, 2011, 05:16:51 am
Failing to sleep, so working instead.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 18 November, 2011, 07:05:17 am
Checking the weather before I ride out this morning to meet up with AWL.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 19 November, 2011, 12:42:46 pm
Just installed Teensyduino on my Linux box at home, which was a bit of a faff.

On Ubuntu (which is what this box has), you can install Arduino with the built in tools, but if you do that, the Teensyduino installer can't seem to find whatever it's looking for, and won't believe you when you say where it's installed.

I had to uninstall the version that Ubuntu had installed, do a more mundane gunzip, and tar, install the Teensyduino over the top of that (which worked), manually apply the udev rules, run it several times to work out what bits were still missing (just gcc-avr and then avr-libc), find out what serial device name was being used, give up on the Arduino's built in serial monitor (which wants to hunt for COM1 not /dev/ttyACM0), install PuTTY to use as a serial monitor, and various other little odds and sods which you didn't need to do with the Windows install, but do their best to catch you out under Linux.

I guess given that the Teensy and Arduino boards aren't generally things which are installed by totally naive users, a little bit of faffing was to be expected, but they it could have been made a bit more friendly (and slightly more detailed instructions would have helped a lot).

Anyway, at least I can get on with some work now, which is to try and develop a very tiny scripting language to allow semi-automatic testing sessions to be run overnight.  I'm using a stack based system, with single letter and symbol based commands to minimise the size of the script and the interpreter, since the code space will be limited to something like 512 bytes!

So to count from 1 to 10 and print it out would be something like this:

1 La 1 + @ "Count\n : " P @ A = Na "Done" H

The spaces there are pretty much optional, and just make the code clearer!
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Post by: border-rider on 19 November, 2011, 06:24:11 pm
Just having a nice cup of tea after a successful afternoon fettling the tractor

I fitted a roll bar & a seat belt so it's a bit less lethal now if it goes over

It would have been a fairly OK job but for the need to remove and refit the shiny new 3-point hitch system and remove & discard several rusted-on bits of redundant ironwork. And temporarily take off one of the back wheels...

It was really only possible because the wheel wrench from Mrs MV's car fits most of the bolts, so I could WD 40 them and then give them a good wrenching :)

I did remember to take a photo before I'd dismantled too much so I could put it back together again...

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6112/6364341085_e03abbd1a0_z.jpg)
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Post by: Feanor on 19 November, 2011, 06:53:50 pm
Quote from: TimO on 19 November, 2011, 12:42:46 pm
So to count from 1 to 10 and print it out would be something like this:

1 La 1 + @ "Count\n : " P @ A = Na "Done" H

The spaces there are pretty much optional, and just make the code clearer!

Sounds like you need to set up your own version of The Obfuscated C contest (http://www.ioccc.org/).

--
R
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Post by: Aidan on 19 November, 2011, 06:55:35 pm
I'm actually going to go and put the TV on ( if I can remember how  ;D)  to watch Yellowstone, and then American Art on Beeb 4
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 19 November, 2011, 07:15:32 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 19 November, 2011, 06:53:50 pm
Quote from: TimO on 19 November, 2011, 12:42:46 pm
So to count from 1 to 10 and print it out would be something like this:

1 La 1 + @ "Count\n : " P @ A = Na "Done" H

The spaces there are pretty much optional, and just make the code clearer!
Sounds like you need to set up your own version of The Obfuscated C contest (http://www.ioccc.org/).

LOL, it's only a smidgen away from being the sort of code you'd feed into a VM anyway, so a contest is hardly necessary!

You can't really beat APL for highly cryptic code, this program (swiped from the Wikipedia article on APL) "x[⍋x←6?40]" generates 6 sorted non-repeating random numbers between 1 and 40.
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Post by: interzen on 19 November, 2011, 08:15:11 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 19 November, 2011, 06:53:50 pm
Quote from: TimO on 19 November, 2011, 12:42:46 pm
So to count from 1 to 10 and print it out would be something like this:

1 La 1 + @ "Count\n : " P @ A = Na "Done" H

The spaces there are pretty much optional, and just make the code clearer!

Sounds like you need to set up your own version of The Obfuscated C contest (http://www.ioccc.org/).

--
R
DSLs are all well and good, but what's wrong with using FORTH? ;D

FWIW, Lua seems to be a popular language for talking to Arduinos and the like - it's compact (it was designed to be embedded) but I don't think it's that compact that it'll go into 512 bytes.

EDIT: This 'ere PDF: http://www.pyr.fi/apl/texts/IdiLib.pdf contains some fine examples of Weapons Grade APL
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 November, 2011, 12:31:16 pm
Actually, the 512 bytes is for the source code that I'm running, rather than the interpreter itself.  That has to be relatively small, because I need to be able to dump it into the Teensy's Flash memory, which is 1K (iirc), and I'm already using some of that.

Doing it this way makes it easy to write the interpreter as much as anything else.  I thought about using something like a Tiny Forth, or Tiny-C or Tiny Basic, but couldn't find a suitable one after a bit of hunting around.

The interpreter itself has to be compactish, but not that compact, because I've already got many of the libraries that are likely to be needed, like strings.h.  The code needs to be in fairly plain vanilla C or C++, because I have to combine it with the existing EGSE (Electronic Ground Support Equipment) code I've written that communicates with the ADC and magnetometer.

Obviously people have written interpreters and compilers before, which are very smaller.  One of the first machines I used a lot, the Acorn Atom, had a 4K Basic, and in many respects Atom Basic would be good for this, but it was written in machine code, and I don't have time to learn to code well in the ATMega's machine code, so I have to live with the C-ish environment which I understand (I actually have the disassembled and annotated source code for Atom Basic, my brother generated it more than a couple of decades ago when he was a student).

Feel free to suggest things, and I'll have a look at them, I'd love to make my life easier!  Currently I only have something like 12K available in the code memory (I've only used about 20K of the 32K available, although there's some other functionality I'd like to add in, which is currently in some discrete programs that require the controller to be reprogrammed before use, which isn't terribly user friendly).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 November, 2011, 12:50:22 pm
Quote from: interzen on 19 November, 2011, 08:15:11 pm
FWIW, Lua seems to be a popular language for talking to Arduinos and the like - it's compact (it was designed to be embedded) but I don't think it's that compact that it'll go into 512 bytes.

Quote
Lua is small

... The source contains around 17000 lines of C. Under Linux, the Lua interpreter built with all standard Lua libraries takes 153K and the Lua library takes 203K.

Now, I doubt I would need all standard Lua libraries, I could probably chuck some of them, but 153K itself is still far too big.

I toyed with using one of the Tiny Perls which people have developed for use on embedded Linuxes, but looking at the explanations of how to build them, I doubt I could work it out that rapidly, and they still look far too big (and frankly too powerful).

A Tiny Basic that I could tweak to include a few more specialised commands might be a solution.

uBasic (http://www.sics.se/~adam/ubasic/) looks like it might be a possibility, even just compiling the code on this machine (Ubunti Linux box), including a ten line example program, the binary is only 12K, which is promising.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 November, 2011, 01:31:58 pm
The obvious solution:

(click to show/hide)

;D

More seriously, what about LISP or one of its dialects? (Some version of Scheme would be one that springs to mind)

(I like these little diversions - I'm trying to get my head into coding mode, but every time I look out of the window I'm reminded that it's grey, foggy and generally 'orrible outside. The railway line is about 50 yards away and I can't even see it ...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 November, 2011, 02:31:59 pm
Quote from: interzen on 20 November, 2011, 01:31:58 pm
The obvious solution:

(click to show/hide)

Funnily enough, I've actually got that installed on our main server (or the bff version anyway), so it's available there, not that I've ever mentioned it to anyone!

Quote from: interzen on 20 November, 2011, 01:31:58 pm
More seriously, what about LISP or one of its dialects? (Some version of Scheme would be one that springs to mind)

That's possibly not a bad idea.  A Lego Mindstorm bod has written XS, which seems to be a lisp derived variant to control Mindstorm projects.  It's size isn't practical for my current purposes, and the code is probably far too complex for me to dig through at the moment, but it may be shrinkable into a similar size environment.

There a brief introduction into some of it in this (http://www.yuasa.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yuasa/xs/ilc03.pdf) presentation.  ... and even more info here (http://www.yuasa.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yuasa/xs/index.html).  It's compiled with GCC, and currently the Arduino environment uses avr-gcc, so I suspect there's some room for experimentation there, although my own experience of Lisp is pretty minimal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 November, 2011, 02:56:52 pm
Hmm, bitlash (http://bitlash.net/wiki/start) looks interesting.  I've got the basic environment working on a Teensy, which is taking up about 18K of the memory, which is more than optimal, but it's possible I could do some of the existing code using bitlash itself, rather than in the more general C code I've been writing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 20 November, 2011, 03:14:06 pm
Doing some tweaks to an essay before handing it in on Tuesday.   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 November, 2011, 03:20:26 pm
Oh, that's quite neat, I've done the microcontroller equivalent of a "Hello World" program using bitlash, that'll flash the LED on and off continuously, from powering the device on.  It stores the program in the EEPROM, and if you call it startup, it'll run immediately.

So with just:

function startup { pinmode(11,1); while(1) { d11=!d11; delay(200); } };

It defines the line as output, and then flips it's bit between true and false, whilst inserting a delay to make it visible. (Pin 11 is the LED, well actually it's not on the Teensy, but the Arduino code thinks it is!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 20 November, 2011, 04:09:23 pm
Cool, I think bitlash is close enough to what I want.  It's not small enough that I can integrate it into the existing code, but I can add in a handful of new commands; mode(n), display(n), reset(), startMagic(), stopMagic(), readAdc(n), writeAdc(n), vectors(), that will let me write fairly arbitrary command sequences, which can be stored in the 1K of EEPROM, and either executed interactively by typing in the command name, or assigned to startup, and run automagically at startup.  It looks a lot less cryptic then my proposed programming language.

I'll need to tweak my commands to work with the syntax that bitlash uses for function integration, and and start an interrupt handler in the background, but none of that seems to conflict with the way that bitlash works.  Yay, a good solution! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 20 November, 2011, 04:14:40 pm
Watching Midsommer Murders. It is very cheesy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 November, 2011, 04:53:06 pm
Putting water bottles into polylopes and then sticking labels on said polylopes.

About a third of the way through now, trouble is it is the easiest third I have done, the rest need lashing together with spit and baling twine packing tape.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 20 November, 2011, 05:12:36 pm
Drying off and trying to find my energy as I appear to have misplaced it!

Had an hour-long jumping lesson with the horsey which went really well but has left me feeling as though I've cycled 20 miles without a cake stop!   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 20 November, 2011, 05:30:05 pm
Quote from: TimO on 19 November, 2011, 07:15:32 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 19 November, 2011, 06:53:50 pm
Quote from: TimO on 19 November, 2011, 12:42:46 pm
So to count from 1 to 10 and print it out would be something like this:

1 La 1 + @ "Count\n : " P @ A = Na "Done" H

The spaces there are pretty much optional, and just make the code clearer!
Sounds like you need to set up your own version of The Obfuscated C contest (http://www.ioccc.org/).

LOL, it's only a smidgen away from being the sort of code you'd feed into a VM anyway, so a contest is hardly necessary!

You can't really beat APL for highly cryptic code, this program (swiped from the Wikipedia article on APL) "x[⍋x←6?40]" generates 6 sorted non-repeating random numbers between 1 and 40.
The worrying part is that I can read some APL code and knew for instance to start on the right so that it was generating 6 random numbers between 1 and 40 or 0 to 39 if {quad}io (i can't be bothered to hunt for the quad characture) is set to 0 rather than 1.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 20 November, 2011, 07:08:25 pm
Quote from: interzen on 19 November, 2011, 08:15:11 pm
EDIT: This 'ere PDF: http://www.pyr.fi/apl/texts/IdiLib.pdf contains some fine examples of Weapons Grade APL

Unfortunately that is even harder to read when the font isn't displaying properly!!! the 1/2 and 1/4 characters aren't used.
so I am told by my father who has written the dyalog APL interpreter for the last 30+ years
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 20 November, 2011, 07:13:32 pm
Realising that I don't have the time to do all my work tonight, and considering doing none at all.

Bah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 20 November, 2011, 09:57:51 pm
Drinking cheap Italian wine from a plastic cup in bed in a Travelodge, whilst looking at the sub optimal dongle attached to the laptop which is next to the non functioning Travelodge telly. How many grades of teh Suck can you get into one sentence?  Not that I'm complaining. Oh I am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 21 November, 2011, 08:20:09 am
Making a ridiculous noise. The aim is speech, the result something quite different. Something more like rattle & rasp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 November, 2011, 09:07:31 pm
Quote from: TimO on 20 November, 2011, 02:56:52 pm
Hmm, bitlash (http://bitlash.net/wiki/start) looks interesting.  I've got the basic environment working on a Teensy, which is taking up about 18K of the memory, which is more than optimal, but it's possible I could do some of the existing code using bitlash itself, rather than in the more general C code I've been writing.

Whilst this was looking quite promising, I've just spent about free hours of failing to get things to work properly.

Eventually when I got to the point of swapping lines in and out to try and work out exactly what was causing the code to randomly crash, I found that more than eight user defined functions seemed to be the problem, and that number "8" suddenly clicked in my memory, and after much searching I found a mention in the documentation that you were limited to 6 user defined functions, but to change a #define in the one of the files if you needed more.  It also said that if you tried to use too many functions you would get an error.  So the number in this version was already slightly larger, and the expected error didn't occur, it just crashed nastily (often killing the Teensy so badly that I had to physically do a hardware reset, which would have been difficult if I was doing this from home!).

Ho hum.  Sorted now, so I can now try and do what I was hoping to have finished this evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 November, 2011, 09:10:02 pm
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Going back to work.

(Goes back to work)

</inna_mr_larrington_stylee>

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 22 November, 2011, 04:13:35 pm
Sitting in Dulwich park whilst my charges  clamber about the netting. I went in to London recumbents whilst they were busy and met Oliver, who says hi to Kim and Barakta
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 November, 2011, 04:19:30 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 22 November, 2011, 04:13:35 pm
I went in to London recumbents whilst they were busy and met Oliver, who says hi to Kim and Barakta

Heh, cool.  He's totally right about hills (that they don't count if you're smiling (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10.msg1097090#msg1097090)).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 November, 2011, 06:42:25 pm
I just gave DHL a parcel to be delivered to the USA tomorrow.  I'm always slightly amazed that we can ship stuff around the world in 24 hours, if we're willing to pay enough. ;D

Somehow the original pickup got cancelled, but luckily DHL had a bod in the area who could drop in to pick it up within about five minutes of us ringing them up to ask wtf was going on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 November, 2011, 10:47:58 am
Contemplating selling my Longstaff :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 November, 2011, 11:15:46 am
Quote from: jogler on 23 November, 2011, 10:47:58 am
Contemplating selling my Longstaff :-\
I'm seriously contemplating something similar with my Dave Yates frame .... can't remember the last time I rode it in anger (or any other mood, come to that)

I'm also waiting for my eyesight to sort itself out - I had my annual retinal neuropathy scan this morning, which involved tropicamide eyedrops  :-\ Felt a bit of a pillock sitting in the surgery with my shades on, but things are looking a bit less blurry now, thankfully.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 23 November, 2011, 12:26:03 pm
Oooh, I know that one. Sucks eh?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 November, 2011, 12:40:42 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 23 November, 2011, 12:26:03 pm
Oooh, I know that one. Sucks eh?
I can see properly now, so either they're watering the eyedrops down or I've got 'em out of my system quicker than usual.

Just completed an online Java 'proficiency' test, just for shits and giggles - what a complete and utter waste of bloody time. At least half of the questions had nothing to do with Java at all  ::-) It just hardens my belief that such things are a waste of time, space and bandwidth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 November, 2011, 12:44:04 pm
Slowly folding in one myself as 5 different PMs harrass me about their servers being more important than anyone else's

Been here before and all that happens is that NOTHING gets done, rather than the ideal of them all getting done on time.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 November, 2011, 02:18:49 pm
Quote from: TimO on 22 November, 2011, 06:42:25 pm
I just gave DHL a parcel to be delivered to the USA tomorrow.  I'm always slightly amazed that we can ship stuff around the world in 24 hours, if we're willing to pay enough. ;D

... and I've just done that yet again, to include the replacement connector that we forgot to send yesterday, and which Berkeley are going to solder onto the board, because our technician is too busy working on other higher priority tasks!

Of course, sending it today means that it won't get there until Friday, because tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and the USA will be closed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 November, 2011, 02:29:56 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 23 November, 2011, 12:44:04 pm
Slowly folding in one myself as 5 different PMs harrass me about their servers being more important than anyone else's


Lock them all in a room until such time as they agree among themselves the priority of their projects.  If they can't agree, wait until there's only one of them left alive, then work on his server.

Simples!  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 November, 2011, 02:32:18 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 23 November, 2011, 02:29:56 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 23 November, 2011, 12:44:04 pm
Slowly folding in one myself as 5 different PMs harrass me about their servers being more important than anyone else's


Lock them all in a room until such time as they agree among themselves the priority of their projects.  If they can't agree, wait until there's only one of them left alive, then work on his server.

Simples!  :smug:

That would work if we were all in the same physical location, but 3 of us are in the UK, all different parts thereof, one in Poland and one in India....


Now though I am mainly burping curry flavour, after eating too many pakoras at lunchtime.  Which probably makes it a good thing we are not all in the same building.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 November, 2011, 03:01:06 pm
Getting my breath back after explaining the concept of 'open source software' to a supposedly technical recruiter :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2011, 12:10:06 am
Still contemplating, with very little enthusiasm, the rather large amount of shopping
Quote from: CrinklyUncle
Blimey- are you feeding the entire AGM?
that needs putting away.

I decided to prioritise shopping over the clearing of the Teetering Piles of Crap on the basis that given sufficient bacon sarnies the flatlanders won't care that they can't see the floor.  And if that fails, a quarter of the shopping bill was boozahol so I can just get them all too pissed to notice the mess :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2011, 12:33:11 am
A strategy that can't fail.

I'm contemplating a screenfull of maps with similar levels of enthusiasm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 24 November, 2011, 12:59:52 am
Deploying a code release to production, and burning wood:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1127109/2011-11-24-005702.jpg)

But mostly burning wood.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 24 November, 2011, 06:40:40 am
Drinking litre of coffee to cope with four hours sleep. Mini-mekon2 has not slept properly for 10 days, and he vomited in the bed for the 3rd night on the trot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 24 November, 2011, 08:31:11 am
Drinking tea and getting ready to take a trailer, modified to fit a custom hitch on a Brompton, to a friend.  He will also get one of my saddle bag prototypes to test to distruction.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 November, 2011, 09:54:31 am
I think I am vaguely recognising something called "enthusiasm".I find myself contemplating a bike ride just because I can.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 November, 2011, 12:23:28 pm
Quote from: DrMekon on 24 November, 2011, 06:40:40 am
Drinking litre of coffee to cope with four hours sleep. Mini-mekon2 has not slept properly for 10 days, and he vomited in the bed for the 3rd night on the trot.

Ahh.. Wee'uns. Keeping washing machines busy since they were invented.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 November, 2011, 12:32:59 pm
Writing a 'skills summary' for a rather promising sounding job about 10 miles from here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 24 November, 2011, 12:36:01 pm
Deciding whether to buy an Omega Railmaster, or Tudor Submariner (or neither).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 November, 2011, 12:43:31 pm
Cooking dinner (or tea to us Northerners).

Yes it is only lunchtime, but it is a slow-cooked lamb casserole with red cabbage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 24 November, 2011, 01:38:28 pm
Waiting to hear on a job, having been promised I'd hear on the 7th, 9th, 11th, 14th, 22nd, and 23rd. I'm assured I'm in the running, but still.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 24 November, 2011, 01:55:31 pm
I'm not doing nothing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 November, 2011, 02:17:35 pm
Quote from: interzen on 24 November, 2011, 12:32:59 pm
Writing a 'skills summary' for a rather promising sounding job about 10 miles from here.
Now on my way for an interview for aforementioned job ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2011, 02:34:57 pm
Good luck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 November, 2011, 02:36:36 pm
About to drink a cup of tea, then evacuate, followed by a trip to Waitrose.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 24 November, 2011, 02:57:51 pm
Waiting for my 2011/12 budget setting meeting with finance and my boss. The theatre meeting is now 1hr late - she must be getting a grilling  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 November, 2011, 04:48:24 pm
I'm supposed to be doing some research for a college essay on heather moorland, in particular diurnal variations in moorland birds.   

Browsing yacf seems more interesting though.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 November, 2011, 05:07:15 pm
This heather moorland,is she a forum member?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 24 November, 2011, 05:29:55 pm
Quote from: DrMekon on 24 November, 2011, 01:38:28 pm
Waiting to hear on a job, having been promised I'd hear on the 7th, 9th, 11th, 14th, 22nd, and 23rd. I'm assured I'm in the running, but still.

And now I am waiting until the 30th!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 November, 2011, 05:57:21 pm
Quote from: DrMekon on 24 November, 2011, 05:29:55 pm
Quote from: DrMekon on 24 November, 2011, 01:38:28 pm
Waiting to hear on a job, having been promised I'd hear on the 7th, 9th, 11th, 14th, 22nd, and 23rd. I'm assured I'm in the running, but still.

And now I am waiting until the 30th!
Whereas I have to go back to the same place I went to today, tomorrow, to have a meeting with the company's director.

Strewth, I've heard of moving fast but this is ridiculous!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 November, 2011, 06:01:22 pm
Quote from: DrMekon on 24 November, 2011, 05:29:55 pm
Quote from: DrMekon on 24 November, 2011, 01:38:28 pm
Waiting to hear on a job, having been promised I'd hear on the 7th, 9th, 11th, 14th, 22nd, and 23rd. I'm assured I'm in the running, but still.

And now I am waiting until the 30th!

is this potential employment with Procrastination Supreme Ltd ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 November, 2011, 06:06:28 pm
Winding down now.
Has been rather a hectic day!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 November, 2011, 06:39:08 pm
Bah! I have so much to do! Get ready for a weekend away (starting with a 200km audax). Ring my Mum who is 90 today. Finish work (bit of a crisis going on). Have a shower and get the mo tidied.

But I can't tear myself away from the Golden Compass audio book! Ooh... it's all kicking off at Bolvangar...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2011, 06:41:37 pm
Coffee break.  Cleaning.  Changing the sheets on a cabin bed with one of your arms just barely functional is... challenging.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ferret on 24 November, 2011, 06:44:27 pm
Trying to sell a horse
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: NeilP on 24 November, 2011, 06:45:02 pm
Breaking the pain barrier on a foam roller  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 November, 2011, 06:47:08 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2011, 12:10:06 am
Still contemplating, with very little enthusiasm, the rather large amount of shopping
Quote from: CrinklyUncle
Blimey- are you feeding the entire AGM?
that needs putting away.

I decided to prioritise shopping over the clearing of the Teetering Piles of Crap on the basis that given sufficient bacon sarnies the flatlanders won't care that they can't see the floor.  And if that fails, a quarter of the shopping bill was boozahol so I can just get them all too pissed to notice the mess :)

Works for me  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 November, 2011, 06:49:31 pm
Quote from: ferret on 24 November, 2011, 06:44:27 pm
Trying to sell a horse

upright or recumbent?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2011, 06:50:40 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 November, 2011, 06:47:08 pm
Works for me  :thumbsup:

We have a case of cider and one of fuzzy pop and 6 bottles of wine of assorted hues.  And gin.  And orange juice with no bits in.

And kim-friendly sossidges with absolutely no green bits in, and fancy-schmancy taste the finest sossidges, and bacon.  With a British flag on the packet, just for you m'dear :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 November, 2011, 07:02:01 pm
Writing a test harness in Ruby to show off at my second interview tomorrow ... I'm on a mission from $DEITY ;)

EDIT: I've just tried the first iteration and it actually bloody well works!  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 November, 2011, 07:04:13 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2011, 06:50:40 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 November, 2011, 06:47:08 pm
Works for me  :thumbsup:

We have a case of cider and one of fuzzy pop and 6 bottles of wine of assorted hues.  And gin.  And orange juice with no bits in.

And kim-friendly sossidges with absolutely no green bits in, and fancy-schmancy taste the finest sossidges, and bacon.  With a British flag on the packet, just for you m'dear :)

this cycling lark is just an excuse for something else innit ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 24 November, 2011, 07:04:34 pm
Sitting here reviewing the video I took at Geoff Hebditch's funeral today.  Best day I've had for ages, lots of fun, laughter and morris dancing in the street outside the church after the service.  A great sendoff to a guy who was a friend to at least 2 people on here.  SteveC, it was a great day!  I can email pics and video, or maybe I'll stick them on a Picasa web album.  Amazed how good video I can get out of a phone, 720p from a thing thats thinner than a thin thing that has been sat on.   I thought taking the SLR was a bit OTT for a funeral, but I was faced with a couple of monster Nikons and some serious lenses, so I would not have been alone.  However, I should have remembered Geoff always told me to take my SLR everywhere....

Lots of reminiscing, some decent beer, and a free brandy from the pub, 'cos the barman poured it by mistake and offered it to me!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 November, 2011, 08:14:40 pm
Quote from: windy on 24 November, 2011, 02:57:51 pm
Waiting for my 2011/12 budget setting meeting with finance and my boss. The theatre meeting is now 1hr late - she must be getting a grilling  :-\

Our budget for next year gets its first client review on Monday.  A good chunk is based on guesstimates which can't be refined until just before it goes to the final vote (thank you, HMG).  It's going to be an "interesting" discussion...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ferret on 24 November, 2011, 08:28:50 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 November, 2011, 06:49:31 pm
Quote from: ferret on 24 November, 2011, 06:44:27 pm
Trying to sell a horse

upright or recumbent?

most definitely upright, and we've still got it :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 24 November, 2011, 09:15:08 pm
Wondering if my sore throat and knackerdness will develop into the hacking lurgy that has floored several of my colleagues this week.

 :-\  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2011, 09:16:02 pm
Wishing my body would cooperate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 November, 2011, 10:51:22 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 24 November, 2011, 07:04:34 pm
Sitting here reviewing the video I took at Geoff Hebditch's funeral today.  Best day I've had for ages, lots of fun, laughter and morris dancing in the street outside the church after the service. ...

Sounds remarkably good to me. That's how I want people to remember me, with a damned good bash.  Whilst funerals are inevitably a bit sad, I think it's important that people remember all the good stuff, and generally behave as they would if the guest of honour was still around (iyswim).


At the moment I'm trying to work out how to rewrite a script that I wrote about 12 months ago, as a bit of a quick hack, but which is being used routinely now, so needs to be done a bit more correctly.

The current script is a slightly strange mixture of an invoked command, and interaction, so I'm going to remove the "Are you sure you want to do that Y/N?" bits and put some switches in that are something along the lines of "-y : Always do stuff" and "-l=<file> : Log stupid stuff to this file" etc
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Post by: Frere on 25 November, 2011, 09:28:26 am
On train at Morder Central en route to Manchester for a conference. Been looking at the bright autumnal day and wishing I was out on a bike.

Frere
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Post by: tiermat on 25 November, 2011, 09:48:49 am
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Telconf. Say no more :)

At least it is officially Porridge Day, so I had a nice brekky :)
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Post by: jogler on 25 November, 2011, 11:25:07 am
Drinking coffee & scoffing fairy cakes
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Post by: interzen on 25 November, 2011, 11:28:24 am
Fettling code.
The second interview that I should have been having today has now been put back to Monday due to the interviewer being stuck on a client site.

This gives me a whole weekend to fine-tune the test-generating code that I'd wrote last night and planned to demo today.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 November, 2011, 12:06:51 pm
Recovering from a 3+hour very-productive-but-my-branez-hurt-now meeting!
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Post by: essexian on 25 November, 2011, 12:13:25 pm
Having a lay down after booking a train ticket to that London at short notice: I normally book months in advance.

£160!!!!

Glad work is paying or I would have to cycle it! ..... cycle to that London...there's an idea for the summer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 November, 2011, 12:23:26 pm
Wondering why I am drowning in snot.
If this is the result of not having had a fag for four weeks, (kept that quiet, didn't I?) I'm rather tempted to go back to the smoker's dry cough.
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Post by: Wendy on 25 November, 2011, 12:26:54 pm
Snuggling next to my 3 year old in bed, about to have a nice afternoon sleep. He's so loving, he was stroking my cheek and getting his teddy to kiss me.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 November, 2011, 06:32:26 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2011, 06:41:37 pm
Coffee break.  Cleaning.

Again.  Bedrooms are all clean and shiny, stairs are hoovered (that's as good as it gets on the stairs, I ain't repapering in the next hour!), bathroom is, and I say this advisedly, as clean as a Rogerzilla bike.... kitchen next. Also contemplating what IO could cook for tea, once the kitchen is fettled.

I may be putting off the BIG one.... the living room, home to the biggest and teetering-est Teetering Piles Of Crap.  Which is probably silly, since that's where we need to fit the flatlanders bikes!
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Post by: why1040 on 25 November, 2011, 07:02:54 pm
Snuggled up on the sofa with dinner, pie in the oven for pudding, Kopparberg alcohol-free cider next to me and more exhausted than an exhausted thing but also very happy!

112 mile round trip with the horsey for a lesson might seem extreme (this is why I only do it once a month or so), but it's SO worth it-though more so when I get home as planned rather than spending a couple of hours waiting for the R-A-sodding-C   ;D
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Post by: Feline on 26 November, 2011, 12:38:42 am
I just found a tick on my dog, and some spot on flea and tick treatment that expired in 2008 in my cupboard. I applied it to both the dogs  :D
The cats must have seen me coming though and have both left the house at speed.
(P.S. I wouldn't recommend anyone else do this, but I'm familiar with the pharmaceutical properties of the active ingredient so I know this is safe)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 November, 2011, 02:08:56 am
I iz baking.

My (very clean) kitchen smells bloody fantastic!
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Post by: nicknack on 26 November, 2011, 02:16:31 am
Eating a cheese and pickled onion sandwich.
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Post by: Kim on 26 November, 2011, 02:50:42 am
Thinking about going back to bed.
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Post by: De Sisti on 26 November, 2011, 02:53:05 am
Loo, then inserting unlock code for TOPO GB. Had an issue with Mapsource. :hand:
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Post by: TimO on 26 November, 2011, 08:31:04 am
Wondering what statistics I can do on a set of continuously sampled values, without recording much.

I want to measure the output data from an instrument, but don't have enough memory to store an actual set of data, so I'm thinking of recording stuff like minimum, maximum, total, and number of samples (then the average is just total/number).  It would be nice to have some measure of the spread of data, and noise, but I can't work out values like σn, because I'd need the mean up front.  I'm wondering if something like the mean of differences would be useful as a "cheap" substitute? (and failing to Google any useful information!)

Aside from that, I'm also wondering what I can take photos of, to test out my new Zuiko 35mm f3.5 macro lens.  I was fiddling with it last night a bit, and the limited depth of of focus when the light is poor means that you have to get the focussing just right, and of course, if the light is poor, that's difficult to do!  Hopefully in daylight I'll be able to get some better shots (although it's hardly the right time of year to photograph flowers up close!)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 November, 2011, 08:36:36 am
Laundry - EldestCub has been of the school residential trip, so he came to drop off his bag and collect his bike before going to his dad's yesterday evening.  Is this like practice for in a few years time?

And considering tackling the Teetering Pile of Crap on the dining table....
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Post by: clarion on 26 November, 2011, 08:59:41 am
Passing through Didcot
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Post by: JohnP on 26 November, 2011, 09:13:03 am
enjoying 2 boiled duck eggs with a slice of toasted smelt.
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Post by: Jaded on 26 November, 2011, 09:22:19 am
Leaving Didcot.

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Post by: TimO on 26 November, 2011, 09:36:38 am
Installing ufraw, and the gimp plugin for ufraw, so I can get back into the habit of shooting RAW images, even if it does rather eat up the memory card!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 26 November, 2011, 10:01:21 am
Preparing for the pub quiz on Tuesday and waiting for MrsC to finish on FaceBook so we can go shopping (oh, the excitement)
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Post by: Pippa on 26 November, 2011, 01:36:22 pm
Tidying. Stuff that isn't mine  :demon:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 November, 2011, 01:37:31 pm
Contemplating filling a pannier with cake and going to see what this AGM business is all about...
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Post by: interzen on 26 November, 2011, 01:40:00 pm
Waiting in the circle of Hell known as Leeds bus station, for a bus home.
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Post by: Jurek on 26 November, 2011, 05:55:27 pm
Listening to the shipping forecast, before I go out.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 November, 2011, 05:59:23 pm
Expecting a wet ride?
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Post by: haliaetos on 26 November, 2011, 07:42:29 pm
Waiting for my tea to cook and trying to warm up after seeing the mighty Dons scrape a 3-3 draw with Dunfermline, scoring 2 very late goals. Extremely windy and exposed in their West Stand. I had forgotten just how amusing diehard fans can be.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 26 November, 2011, 07:44:10 pm
Waiting for 10 16-year-olds to arrive back from town, for a 16th birthday party.

Limited Alcohol has been purchased. I may need some myself to cope.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 November, 2011, 07:49:01 pm
Cursing Age Of Empires III

For the second time today, the bloody thing crashed just as I was about to unleash the Mother Of All Artillery Barrages[tm] on my opponent  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 26 November, 2011, 07:56:06 pm
Not watching Strictly
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wonky on 26 November, 2011, 08:13:56 pm
Hiding from "Britains Got an X Celebrity" or whatever carp is on in the living room. 
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Post by: Jaded on 26 November, 2011, 08:21:51 pm
Updating the Didcot thread.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 November, 2011, 08:22:44 pm
Filling my mouth with Willy Willy Shiraz and watching X Factor.
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Post by: AndyK on 26 November, 2011, 08:25:19 pm
Drinking Baileys and watching Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 November, 2011, 08:29:09 pm
Awaiting the arrival of friends, with whom we are intending to drink beer and eat cheese, crackers & nuts.
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Post by: Mr Arch on 26 November, 2011, 10:25:42 pm
Laughing with Arch at her next post!
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Post by: why1040 on 27 November, 2011, 02:00:14 am
Trying to convince myself that sleep is a good thing.

Darned insomnia, you only ever kick in when I'm wobbling-when I need to sleep the most! 
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 27 November, 2011, 09:27:50 am
Getting ready for a ferry trip. Forecast :


Quote
Gale warnings - Issued: 0857 UTC Sun 27 Nov

Severe gale force 9 veering northwesterly increasing storm force 10 imminent

I think it'll be a sort of rolling, pitching motion.  Any advice? 
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Post by: SteveC on 27 November, 2011, 09:43:04 am
Quote from: asterix on 27 November, 2011, 09:27:50 am
Getting ready for a ferry trip. Forecast :


Quote
Gale warnings - Issued: 0857 UTC Sun 27 Nov

Severe gale force 9 veering northwesterly increasing storm force 10 imminent

I think it'll be a sort of rolling, pitching motion.  Any advice?
Lord Nelson (who suffered from seasickness all his life) apparently reckoned the only cure was sitting under a tree!  HTH
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Post by: Gus on 27 November, 2011, 12:45:35 pm
Ripping my cd's to my laptop
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Post by: clarion on 27 November, 2011, 02:15:57 pm
Having a cup of tea in Crystal Palace Park. It's a lot of up to get here on fixed, even if you have three gears to choose from.  I was wishing that the trains were running, but I actually enjoyed the ride. :-)
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Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2011, 02:20:53 pm
Wondering if my knee is up to resolving the chocolate crisis.
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Post by: rower40 on 27 November, 2011, 02:36:46 pm
Quivering gently as the red cells fight the drinkahol for supremacy of the bloodstream.

That was one heck of a good party last night.  Rowing Club Annual Dinner.
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Post by: her_welshness on 27 November, 2011, 02:50:15 pm
Listening to a pieceon Radio 4 called 'Coming Out' which is about 3 people's experiences of MS and how it fits in with their workplace set up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 November, 2011, 02:51:03 pm
Thinking that I ought to get my lardy arse into gear and head to the shop, as I have no golden syrup in the house and our international corespondent is in need of flapjackery.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 November, 2011, 03:04:28 pm
Having a sit down. I've just done the dishes, cleaned the cooker, cleaned under the microwave  :sick: (coriander seeds can roll a long way, can't they?) and hammered some placards onto handles. When I have finished my sit down, I will go change the battery in my bike computer sensor thingy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 November, 2011, 03:17:41 pm
In the absence of anything better to do, and there being bugger-all on telly now that Scrapheap Challenge has finished for the day, I'm considering some fettling - since it's unlikely that the Dave Yates will get ridden this year, I'm considering transplanting the S3X and associated bits onto the Yellow Genesis and converting the DY back to a 'traditional' fixed.

I also need to consider some Christmas tat for the Surly in preparation for next weekend's festive jolly.

Also, need to prepare for tomorrow's second interview with a company I *really* want to work for1 - I could find myself in the rather odd position of having two job offers on the table.

1 - 10 miles from home, flexitime, generally laid-back atmosphere and they do all their development work on Macs. This would be preferable to wearing a shirt/tie combo and .NET
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Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2011, 04:22:13 pm
Quote from: Kim on 27 November, 2011, 02:20:53 pm
Wondering if my knee is up to resolving the chocolate crisis.

Just about, but it wasn't happy with shopping trolley pushing.  And my spidey sense appears to be defective.  But I have choc, and proper food for when barakta gets back.
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Post by: marcusjb on 27 November, 2011, 07:00:37 pm
Watching the Heathrow flight arrivals website and being pleased that Cass's flight looks like it will land half an hour earlier than scheduled - fingers crossed that means she's home half an hour earlier than scheduled!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 November, 2011, 07:06:30 pm
I've just been nattering to younger son about possible dates for family get-togethers. We haven't seen him since 22nd July. It might be possible for us to see him on 5th December.

His beagle keeps trying to pick a fight with a rottweiler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 27 November, 2011, 07:08:09 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 27 November, 2011, 07:06:30 pm

His beagle keeps trying to pick a fight with a rottweiler.

That's some euphemism there!   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 28 November, 2011, 06:18:21 am
Waiting for the. 0621 train to that london.

Blimey its early but the station is busy!

Glad i have a first class ticket so i can sleep.
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Post by: L CC on 28 November, 2011, 10:44:27 am
Dentist's waiting room. People watching. Ye gods. These people are making me look classy.
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Post by: Chris S on 28 November, 2011, 10:49:11 am
Quote from: fboab on 28 November, 2011, 10:44:27 am
Dentist's waiting room. People watching. Ye gods. These people are making me look classy.

I hope you're following the New Plan - and leaving a copy of Arrivee there... ;)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 28 November, 2011, 10:49:38 am
Quote from: fboab on 28 November, 2011, 10:44:27 am
Dentist's waiting room. People watching. Ye gods. These people are making me look classy.

 ;D
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Post by: essexian on 28 November, 2011, 12:19:13 pm
Sitting in a cafe in Romford waiting for my fry up to arrive....

Cafes are one thing east london/ essex do far better than the midlands ;D
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Post by: tiermat on 28 November, 2011, 12:19:52 pm
Watching last week's Later....

RHCP are on right now, looking VERY old
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Post by: Jaded on 28 November, 2011, 02:23:02 pm
Wrestling with a 2k projector at the BFI.
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Post by: Basil on 28 November, 2011, 02:27:15 pm
Approaching Mordor Central.
Oh, deep joy.  :-(
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Post by: interzen on 28 November, 2011, 03:34:10 pm
Celebrating ;D
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Post by: Peter on 28 November, 2011, 03:35:02 pm
Quote from: interzen on 28 November, 2011, 03:34:10 pm
Celebrating ;D

You done got a job?
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Post by: interzen on 28 November, 2011, 03:47:45 pm
Quote from: Peter on 28 November, 2011, 03:35:02 pm
Quote from: interzen on 28 November, 2011, 03:34:10 pm
Celebrating ;D

You done got a job?
Indeed I has - since it involves developing stuff for the Mac and iThings, it's as close to a dream job as I'm likely to find.
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Post by: jogler on 28 November, 2011, 03:49:10 pm
Congrats :thumbsup:
Pleased for you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 November, 2011, 03:49:57 pm
Quote from: interzen on 28 November, 2011, 03:34:10 pm
Celebrating ;D

Congrats, and I assume it will not impede your cycling?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 November, 2011, 03:50:57 pm
Huzzah!
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Post by: interzen on 28 November, 2011, 03:52:22 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 28 November, 2011, 03:49:57 pm
Quote from: interzen on 28 November, 2011, 03:34:10 pm
Celebrating ;D

Congrats, and I assume it will not impede your cycling?
Quite the opposite, actually - 10 miles each way and a good 20-25min quicker than the equivalent bus journey.

Also, since my starting salary is going to be higher than the figure I was put forward for, there may well be a fat-tyred n+1 looming on the horizon after Christmas :)
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Post by: Wendy on 28 November, 2011, 03:53:18 pm
Woop woop!  Hurrahs all round!
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Post by: clarion on 28 November, 2011, 03:55:07 pm
Great stuff! :D
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Post by: TimO on 28 November, 2011, 04:19:54 pm
Indeed, very good stuff. :thumbsup:


I've just updated the firmware on my camera, and on two out of my three lenses.  I didn't realise that the lenses were smart enough to have their own firmware. :o

The flash and the newest lens didn't need updates, on the reasonable basis that I've only had them for a few days, whereas the rest of the kit is several years old.

... although looking at what the lens updates give me, it mostly seems to be support for the Lumix DMC-G1 and DMC-L10, which I don't have, and the availability of Full contrast AF performance, which apparently doesn't work with the E-410 (which is what I have!).

So, that was a useful update process!

(Probably worth doing though, just in case there are some trivial little software fixes that aren't worth mentioning).
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Post by: Feline on 29 November, 2011, 01:46:08 am
Congratulations Interzen  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jaded on 29 November, 2011, 01:52:52 am
Yes, indeed!

Great news!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: interzen on 29 November, 2011, 11:25:07 am
Sorting out job related stuff (in a good way, for once) and drawing up a spec for n+1.5 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 November, 2011, 01:30:43 pm
Watching one of the tower cranes (can't see the other) on the building site next door swaying in the wind.  All rather alarming from this angle, can't image what it's like up in the cab.
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Post by: tiermat on 29 November, 2011, 01:31:52 pm
Sorting server issues

Again

<sigh>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 November, 2011, 03:21:31 pm
Trying to complete my self-appraisal form without committing mass murder.  What in the name of Christ's soupy beard are "high-leverage intervention points"?  and where can I buy some?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 November, 2011, 03:56:53 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 November, 2011, 03:21:31 pm
Trying to complete my self-appraisal form without committing mass murder.  What in the name of Christ's soupy beard are "high-leverage intervention points"?  and where can I buy some?

just tell 'em you are the muttsnutts,dogsbollox,therealdeal,godsgift etc,.& that your only failing is an excess of modesty ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 29 November, 2011, 04:17:48 pm
Trying to work out if I have the beginings of a cold starting up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 November, 2011, 04:34:37 pm
Me too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 29 November, 2011, 06:26:17 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 November, 2011, 03:21:31 pm
What in the name of Christ's soupy beard are "high-leverage intervention points"?

They are where you stick the crowbar.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 November, 2011, 09:28:40 am
Wondering if I should buy a Sonos system for the house, and if they do outdoor ones, so I can wire the garden for tunes....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 30 November, 2011, 10:08:03 am
Sitting in a London cafe, watching the world go by perving at the women with London legs and all the bikes.... sometimes simultaneously.

Swoon.

I love London.  :thumbsup: I've already Boris-biked to the world's biggest map shop.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 November, 2011, 11:57:32 am
Quote from: jogler on 29 November, 2011, 03:56:53 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 November, 2011, 03:21:31 pm
Trying to complete my self-appraisal form without committing mass murder.  What in the name of Christ's soupy beard are "high-leverage intervention points"?  and where can I buy some?

just tell 'em you are the muttsnutts,dogsbollox,therealdeal,godsgift etc,.& that your only failing is an excess of modesty ;)

Absolutely.  I'm just trying to find the right blend of withering sarcasm and wilfully obfuscatory language.  There's a question about budgets, so if I can work in a reference to George Osborne being a whey-faced slack-jawed waste of blood I will increase my win quotient by at least thirty per cent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 30 November, 2011, 12:48:29 pm
Thanking the train gods for a) Virgin trains,  b) the engineers who sorted out high speed leaning, c) flexible pricing (i.e. peanuts outside peak hours), d) complimentary food wine in first class...

And Boris bikes, of course.
London meets the Gordy test.

 :thumbsup:



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 30 November, 2011, 12:56:04 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 30 November, 2011, 09:28:40 am
Wondering if I should buy a Sonos system for the house, and if they do outdoor ones, so I can wire the garden for tunes....

Currently they do not do outdoor units - but nothing to stop you putting the amplifier (Sonos Connect:Amp as it's just been renamed) indoors - shed, house wherever and running speaker cable out (look for direct burial cable as you don't need to worry about degradation overly) and using waterproof speakers (lots of manufacturer's make them - we use the Polk units quite a lot - rather good).  If you're handy, you can also house it in an IP rated cabinet and install it somewhere outdoors (you'll obviously need mains as well though).

Battery powered outdoor Sonos Play:5 is something many people have been asking from them for years - no news yet!

Drop me a line if you've any questions on Sonos - I sell/install it and run it in most rooms at home.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 November, 2011, 01:52:12 pm
Just got back from the shops and now having a cup of tea and a mince pie  :P
....and now just made two ginger cakes
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 November, 2011, 03:02:34 pm
Warming up after a very cold morning and early afternoon of picketing and marching.
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Post by: interzen on 30 November, 2011, 03:12:37 pm
Waiting for the Home Delivery Network (aka "Sod's Law On Wheels") to deliver the stuff I ordered from Amazon  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 November, 2011, 03:33:39 pm
Going for a nap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 November, 2011, 03:35:33 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 30 November, 2011, 03:33:39 pm
Going for a nap.

Yawning and drinking coffee.  Feeling jealous of Kirst.  I wanna nap!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 November, 2011, 04:02:44 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 30 November, 2011, 03:35:33 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 30 November, 2011, 03:33:39 pm
Going for a nap.

Yawning and drinking coffee.  Feeling jealous of Kirst.  I wanna nap!
You could try some of the coffee concentrate I made earlier (see the cold brew coffee thread for the hows, whys and wherefores).

Take it from me, after a mugful of this stuff you won't be wanting a nap for at least 3 weeks, I reckon ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 November, 2011, 04:30:07 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 30 November, 2011, 03:33:39 pm
Going for a nap.

That's a damn good idea!  I've struggled to stay awake today.  Mind you, I have been filing...
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Post by: Feline on 30 November, 2011, 04:34:16 pm
Just got back from a walk with the dogs up Velvet Bottom (yes, this is a real place, just off Cheddar Gorge). Forgot how walking uphill is much harder work than cycling uphill. My daughter complained about 'jelly legs' on the way down  :D

Bought some festive earrings for a quid in the pound shop for tomorrows Bristol Oldtimer's Christmas ride and lunch.

Now I am taking my daughter to see the new Twilight film. I just worked a night shift and have had no sleep so I will probably fall asleep during the film, hope she doesn't notice!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 November, 2011, 04:35:43 pm
Quote from: Feline on 30 November, 2011, 04:34:16 pm
Now I am taking my daughter to see the new Twilight film. I just worked a night shift and have had no sleep so I will probably fall asleep during the film, hope she doesn't notice!
I suspect you won't be alone ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 November, 2011, 04:50:14 pm
Quote from: Feline on 30 November, 2011, 04:34:16 pm
...Velvet Bottom (yes, this is a real place, just off Cheddar Gorge).

Sounds a lot more comfortable than Rough Bottom, Hole Bottom and Thistle Bottom, which were all near to where I lived in Calderdale.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 December, 2011, 10:42:32 am
Supping & scoffing.
Coffee & mince pies
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 December, 2011, 10:44:06 am
Getting ready to do some more furniture moving.  TLD's new bedroom furniture has just arrived.

Hopefully I'll sleep well tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 December, 2011, 11:00:24 am
Sorting out job-related stuff and then heading off for a bit of retail therapy, which may or may not be cycling-related  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 01 December, 2011, 11:38:36 am
Quote from: Gordy on 30 November, 2011, 12:48:29 pm
Thanking the train gods for a) Virgin trains,  b) the engineers who sorted out high speed leaning, c) flexible pricing (i.e. peanuts outside peak hours), d) complimentary food wine in first class...

And Boris bikes, of course.
London meets the Gordy test.

 :thumbsup:

You forgot the free cake you also get in First Class  :thumbsup: ;D

Sitting in our Bassetlaw office wondering. No, just wondering.  :-\

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 December, 2011, 01:08:58 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 December, 2011, 10:42:32 am
Supping & scoffing.
Coffee & mince pies

action replay.We need an emoticon for Fatgit ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 02 December, 2011, 08:09:21 am
In work, waiting for a phone call from Korea
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 December, 2011, 08:35:29 am
Procrastinating.
It's a full time job.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 02 December, 2011, 08:39:40 am
Wondering whether I should cycle the 18 miles each way to the meeting in Wolverhampton. Its not the distance that bothers me, or the fact that its cold out there, but its the fact that I would be cycling back in the dark.

I know I should "man up" and just get on with it, but really don't like cycling in the dark, despite having enough lights on my bike to light up a small city.

Oh what to do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 03 December, 2011, 01:19:06 pm
Packing to go to Scotland urgently and trying to find someone to cover my shift tonight at work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 December, 2011, 01:22:01 pm
Looking for a birthday card I bought on Monday. It seems to have inconveniently vanished.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 03 December, 2011, 05:34:38 pm
I've been baking (Northerners, look away now) Parkin Variant No4 from Kirst's recipe with black treacle replaced by maple syrup, ginger omitted but sultanas, dates and glace cherries included. Nos 2  and 3 included nuts which was OK but made it difficult to slice neatly. It looks to be powerful stuff.

Also made a crumble with a load of left over apples, a can of pears and some blackberries.

It's fusion innit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 December, 2011, 05:37:40 pm
Quote from: Juan Martín on 03 December, 2011, 05:34:38 pm
I've been baking (Northerners, look away now) Parkin Variant No4 from Kirst's recipe with black treacle replaced by maple syrup, ginger omitted but sultanas, dates and glace cherries included. Nos 2  and 3 included nuts which was OK but made it difficult to slice neatly. It looks to be powerful stuff.

Also made a crumble with a load of left over apples, a can of pears and some blackberries.

It's fusion innit!
You'll probably burn in Hell for sullying a Parkin recipe, but I'd say that the crumble would go some way towards saving your soul from an eternity of writhing agony :)

I'm recovering with a cup of tea and some crap TV after today's festive trip to the pub - done about 25 miles altogether, but the wind made it feel a lot further. I think dessert might have been a step too far, however, since my blood sugar is now sky high and I'm feeling a bit drowsy ... nowt that another cup of tea won't fix ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 03 December, 2011, 05:41:41 pm
Quote
You'll probably burn in Hell for sullying a Parkin recipe

Just the reaction I had anticipated. Splendid.  ;D

I need to call it something else really...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 December, 2011, 05:43:50 pm
Quote from: Juan Martín on 03 December, 2011, 05:41:41 pm
Quote
You'll probably burn in Hell for sullying a Parkin recipe

Just the reaction I had anticipated. Splendid.  ;D

I need to call it something else really...
Lightweight, racing-spec Christmas cake? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 03 December, 2011, 05:52:38 pm
Hmmm...apart from the light bit!

I must admit, the cherries are difficult to assimilate, they do make it sound a bit camp. The phrase 'and glace cherries' always will I suppose.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 December, 2011, 06:15:05 pm
Notavinafag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 December, 2011, 06:30:39 pm
Quote from: Juan Martín on 03 December, 2011, 05:34:38 pm
I've been baking (Northerners, look away now) Parkin Variant No4 from Kirst's recipe with black treacle replaced by maple syrup, ginger omitted but sultanas, dates and glace cherries included. Nos 2  and 3 included nuts which was OK but made it difficult to slice neatly. It looks to be powerful stuff.

Burn the heretic!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 December, 2011, 06:48:27 pm
Quote from: Basil on 03 December, 2011, 06:15:05 pm
Notavinafag.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 December, 2011, 07:28:26 pm
Quote from: jogler on 03 December, 2011, 06:48:27 pm
Quote from: Basil on 03 December, 2011, 06:15:05 pm
Notavinafag.

 :thumbsup:

Acherly
I've been notavinafag since Nov 2nd.  But I've been using nicotine replacement therapy.  Today is my first day of no nicotine patch, lozenge or gum.
I've decided it's prolly best not to pop up to the Country Girl as I'm in a FUCKING BAD MOOD and I'd prolly have to chin one of the Cadbury lads if the come out with that Mail On Sunday shit
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 03 December, 2011, 07:36:00 pm
Keep it it up Basil, and well done! :thumbsup:

It's a tough thing you are doing. (dunnit meself - it's notnice)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 03 December, 2011, 07:38:57 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 03 December, 2011, 06:30:39 pm
Burn the heretic!

I am thinking about a Christmas version with cranberries and Brussels sprouts. Not really. But thinks...mincemeat...hmmm...

But great recipe Kirst. And so versatile.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 December, 2011, 07:44:28 pm
 :o ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 03 December, 2011, 07:47:35 pm
The recipe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 December, 2011, 07:59:07 pm
I know you meant the recipe. That's what I was  :o at.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 December, 2011, 08:11:19 pm
Quote from: Basil on 03 December, 2011, 07:28:26 pm
Quote from: jogler on 03 December, 2011, 06:48:27 pm
Quote from: Basil on 03 December, 2011, 06:15:05 pm
Notavinafag.

 :thumbsup:

Acherly
I've been notavinafag since Nov 2nd.  But I've been using nicotine replacement therapy.  Today is my first day of no nicotine patch, lozenge or gum.
I've decided it's prolly best not to pop up to the Country Girl as I'm in a FUCKING BAD MOOD and I'd prolly have to chin one of the Cadbury lads if the come out with that Mail On Sunday shit

Oh bollix.

I've just had a phone call.  I'm s'posed to be in King's Heath getting pissed. 
I'm Still in Bournville, already pissed.

*Chooses bike.*

Yeah! PUB FIXIE
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2011, 09:15:32 pm
*makes a note of the above post in case Basil wonders where his bikes went later*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 04 December, 2011, 12:11:08 pm
Morning Basil.

Deciding whether to go to Galtres Festival next year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 December, 2011, 12:52:24 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 04 December, 2011, 12:11:08 pm
Morning Basil.

Deciding whether to go to Galtres Festival next year.
I must say its tempting.
Will probably wait for the line-up to be confirmed first, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 December, 2011, 01:22:19 pm
Groan. 
Mornin'

*counts bikes*

Well, that seems to have gone well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 December, 2011, 02:29:52 pm
Quote from: Basil on 04 December, 2011, 01:22:19 pm
*counts bikes*

Well, that seems to have gone well.

n+x?   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 December, 2011, 04:16:12 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 December, 2011, 02:29:52 pm

n+x?   :D

No.  Just happy to find that n is constant.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 December, 2011, 04:30:17 pm
Struggling to find motivation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 04 December, 2011, 04:33:48 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 04 December, 2011, 04:30:17 pm
Struggling to find motivation.

It's behind you. But someone's left the top off, so there's not much left.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 December, 2011, 04:54:20 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 04 December, 2011, 04:33:48 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 04 December, 2011, 04:30:17 pm
Struggling to find motivation.

It's behind you. But someone's left the top off, so there's not much left.

I think I may have found some, but I had to get through a can of Red Bull to reach it.  There may even be enough motivation there to iron tomorrow's shirt tonight rather than at stupid o'clock tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 December, 2011, 04:56:17 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 04 December, 2011, 04:33:48 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 04 December, 2011, 04:30:17 pm
Struggling to find motivation.

It's behind you. But someone's left the top off, so there's not much left.

Are the tops for cans of motivation made of tuits?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 December, 2011, 05:07:54 pm
Running a bath and having a sit down. I've just made a batch of roasted tomato & red pepper soup for this week's lunches and the freezer, and a green bean & aubergine curry. And I'm feeling pleased that it's only 3 sleeps till McBobb arrives.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 04 December, 2011, 05:08:57 pm
Snuggled up in my pj's after a hot bath to help my sore back.  Trying very hard not to fall asleep but rather find some motivation to pack up some stuff for tomorrow, feed dog and feed self!  I'm absolutely knackered!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 04 December, 2011, 06:10:54 pm
I just stacked this lot up, in a pseudo-random, "you won't get the same catfood two days running" fashion.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/CatFoodCupboard_thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/CatFoodCupboard.jpg)

I now have a dedicated catfood only cupboard, but I managed to fit it all in there, so I no longer have a heap of cat food to walk around in the bathroom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 04 December, 2011, 06:12:30 pm
Quote from: TimO on 04 December, 2011, 06:10:54 pm
I just stacked this lot up, in a pseudo-random, "you won't get the same catfood two days running" fashion.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/CatFoodCupboard_thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/CatFoodCupboard.jpg)

I now have a dedicated catfood only cupboard, but I managed to fit it all in there, so I no longer have a heap of cat food to walk around in the bathroom.

Hungry!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 04 December, 2011, 06:55:32 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 04 December, 2011, 05:07:54 pm
... only 3 sleeps....
For some reason I find that quite touching.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 December, 2011, 07:03:07 pm
It has been brought home to me forcefully this afternoon that people who cut down trees for a living must be very fit and totally hard bastards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 December, 2011, 07:05:07 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 December, 2011, 07:03:07 pm
It has been brought home to me forcefully this afternoon that people who cut down trees for a living must be very fit and totally hard bastards.
Having seen the Leeds City Council chopper-downers working on the trees opposite SWMBO's house, I can only agree. Not having any adrenal glands must be part of the job description.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 05 December, 2011, 01:47:47 am
Pitting insomnia against dBASE III files.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 December, 2011, 07:56:38 am
Thinking that as I'm still full of cold  >:( I should cancel my morning visit to someone who has motor neurone disease as I don't want to kill her.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 05 December, 2011, 08:17:18 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 December, 2011, 07:03:07 pm
It has been brought home to me forcefully this afternoon that people who cut down trees for a living must be very fit and totally hard bastards.

No more walnut tree then?
I think they're probably up there in the fitness stakes with scaffolders.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 December, 2011, 08:31:22 am
It's no longer in tree form. All that remains is a 4' stump, sadly.

It's amazing how much bigger our garden looks with it gone. I must buy a new saw blade, as we snapped the old one during the final cut.

Had we delayed another year, I don't think we could have done the job without employing professionals. I'm amazed at how much that tree grew in its short (16 or 17) year life. I think we planted it in the winter of 1994/95, having moved here in the summer of '94.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 December, 2011, 10:32:58 am
Waiting for the local anaesthetic in my mouth to wear off ... on the third attempt (the previous two being thwarted by the Infection From Hell) I now have a root-filled tooth! In two-and-a-bit months a blingy gold crown will finish the job off :)

Once I can feel my mouth again, I've got to head into town and do somoe more C*******s shopping  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 December, 2011, 10:37:20 am
Trying to explain BladeCentres to someone who should know....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 December, 2011, 12:59:55 pm
Sniff...cough...sneeze...sweat...headache.  Felt too grotty even to drink much BEER yesterday.  Bastard clod.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 December, 2011, 12:01:28 am
Data recovery (not mine).

Anyone here not backed up their laptop recently?  You see, sometimes the Windows fairy comes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 December, 2011, 12:26:38 am
Stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 December, 2011, 08:01:58 am
Watching idiots drive far too fast for the conditions down our road.  Wondering who is going to be the first to pile into our hedge our our drive, or a vehicle coming the other way.  My money is the lazy git two doors down who 1) nearly ran me and TLD down in his "urgent" quest to get a newspaper 2) slid sideways around the corner on his return from his epic quest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 06 December, 2011, 08:32:00 am
Thawing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 December, 2011, 09:45:01 am
Waiting for a plane.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 December, 2011, 07:18:27 pm
Waiting for McBobb. He'll be here any minute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 07 December, 2011, 07:23:01 pm
Well, is he there yet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 December, 2011, 08:36:20 pm
He is. We've had a curry and we're about to have apple crumble.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 07 December, 2011, 08:37:17 pm
Sitting on the sofa wishing my back would stop hurting now...

It's been bloody sore since Sunday and it sucks!  I have too much to do to have back pain!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2011, 10:57:19 pm
I've just had a really good shower.  With warmth and litres per minute and everything.

*flops happily*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 December, 2011, 01:45:02 pm
Clock watching at work.  At 3 I shall naff orff in a generaly south westerly direction for several hours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 08 December, 2011, 05:34:42 pm
I just packed up the flight instrument in a suitcase ready to fly to San Francisco tomorrow.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/CINEMA-MAGIC/Photos/small.php?file=IMG_2025.jpg&size=480)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/CINEMA-MAGIC/Photos/small.php?file=IMG_2028.jpg&size=480)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 08 December, 2011, 07:44:04 pm
Watching The Sky At Night on BBC4 where Chris Lintott says to the guest, while talking about the outer planets, "I guess I have been abusing Uranus..."
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 09 December, 2011, 12:46:35 pm
Just washed the rear fender of my Yamaha YZF-R1, ready for painting Semi Gloss Black.
Here is the engine block for the afore mentioned YZF-R1:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/BrianInnes/EngineBlock2.jpg)

[Monty Python]It's only a model![/Monty Python]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 09 December, 2011, 03:14:13 pm
On the M4, heading for a friends birthday party on dartmoor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 December, 2011, 03:14:52 pm
Quote from: mike on 09 December, 2011, 03:14:13 pm
On the M4, heading for a friends birthday party on dartmoor.

What's he in for?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 December, 2011, 04:05:53 pm
pedalophilia: abusing his bike whilst still in warranty
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 09 December, 2011, 04:46:34 pm
Wondering how TimO is getting on with his suitcase-full of Achtung!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 December, 2011, 06:00:58 pm
Am about to venture out for the works x-mas do (a pub quiz, the only reason I'm going).
I really can't be arsed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 December, 2011, 06:35:31 pm
Wondering if tonight's pre-ride drinks will be cancelled.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 December, 2011, 06:36:28 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 09 December, 2011, 06:00:58 pm
I really can't be arsed.

Yeah.... this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 December, 2011, 07:23:02 pm
Sulking. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=53847.msg1112988#msg1112988)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 09 December, 2011, 08:44:44 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 December, 2011, 07:23:02 pm
Sulking. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=53847.msg1112988#msg1112988)

Understandably.
You're not alone - although I know that won't make Things Better.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 09 December, 2011, 08:52:55 pm
Watching Son1 kick arse online killing all playing MW3 on the Xbox.  He is awesome.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 December, 2011, 08:53:45 pm
Playing "Wish You Were Here" properly on guitar.  It's not actually very difficult.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 December, 2011, 09:09:18 pm
McBobb and I are watching Thunderball and wondering why we can't buy jetpacks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 December, 2011, 09:51:48 pm
@Roger.
Well, if Wycliff Jean (sp?) can do it....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 09 December, 2011, 11:07:38 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 09 December, 2011, 08:53:45 pm
Playing "Wish You Were Here" properly on guitar.  It's not actually very difficult.

You're just running over the same old ground, year after year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 10 December, 2011, 07:52:37 am
Glaring at the SNO outside and hoping it won't take too long to clear...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 December, 2011, 10:05:03 am
cogitating.....ride or walk to the newsagent's?

It's very heavy Jack Frost out there. :-\

ETA  used the mtb
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 10 December, 2011, 10:59:54 am
Im cogitating too, but am leaning heavily in the direction of guitar practise rather than bike riding at the moment.  Next dorrs garage roof is still white with frost in the places the sun hasnt hit it, and its about as warm as its likely to get all day, which means the sheltered lanes I'd probably ride on will probably stay icey all day, which is not good.    Tomorrow will be better for riding I think
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 10 December, 2011, 11:01:47 am
Just finished signing Christmas cards. 
Next--out into the garden: birds to feed, wood to saw up, plants to check...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 10 December, 2011, 11:11:30 am
Just cycled to the post office sorting centre to pay £1.12 for missing postage on a bloody xmas card! Its cold but enjoyed the ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 10 December, 2011, 01:25:56 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 09 December, 2011, 04:46:34 pm
Wondering how TimO is getting on with his suitcase-full of Achtung!

OK!

I delivered the flight kit to Berkeley yesterday, and have just woken up stupidly early for Saturday, since I'll need to go into work at some point.  I'm going to email the chap whose going to give me a lift in shortly, although given it's 5am here, so I'm not necessarily expecting a rapid reply!

I found that the dodgy chinese multi-way I chucked in my bag has an earthed plug, which won't fit my travel adapter, so I can only charge one UK plugged item at a time, which is mildly annoying.  I have five items with may that may need charging, this laptop, my phone, Kindle, cmaera and GPS, but two of those can be plugged into the laptop or a US plugged USB charger (part of the adapter).  I may very briefly have a look to see if I can find a UK style multi-way of some sort, but only if it costs less than $5 oir similar.  That's not very likely, so I won't spend much time on it.

I've ust installed Notepad++ on this machine, so I've got a text editor better than Notepad or the editor in the Windows command prompt.  I noticed that I'd forgotten to do this yesterday at 30000 feet, when I wasn't really in a position to do an easy download!

Then I need to have a quick hunt around, and see if I can find an OpenStreetMaps map of San Fransciso that I can download onto my Garmin GPS, so I'll potentially have an aid to getting around.

Berkeley seems fine so far, the Hotel's OK (to my somewhat sleep derived self of yesterday), and we're near any number of restaurants and purveyors of cheap food to students (since it's only a stone's throw from UCB).  For simplicity I'll probably grab breakfast at "Henry's" which is a restaurant attached to the hotel.  It may be stupidly expensive, but I didn't really spend much on food yesterday, either eating on the plane or Pizza bought for me!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 December, 2011, 07:01:19 pm
Stuck on a train at York due to points failure

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 10 December, 2011, 07:06:31 pm
Looking at photos.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 10 December, 2011, 07:08:50 pm
Watching one man & his dog  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: arabella on 10 December, 2011, 07:23:55 pm
Waiting whilst younger guy bakes choc chip cookies and cooks the dinner.   8)

Then I'd better do the greetings cards.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 December, 2011, 07:53:40 pm
Hiding from Strictly and Merlin in the King's
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 December, 2011, 07:57:29 pm
Watching Strictly and drinking tea. Does that make me the anti-Basil?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 10 December, 2011, 07:59:23 pm
Trying desperately not to fall asleep!  Knackered!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 December, 2011, 08:25:21 pm
Quote from: Basil on 10 December, 2011, 07:53:40 pm
Hiding from Strictly and Merlin in the King's

It's obviously a bloody big pub to accommodate Strictly & Merlin with all the paraphenalia that goes with 'em
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 December, 2011, 08:38:32 pm
No.   Mrs. B is watching.
Anyway, looks like I'll have to man up and go and suffer Merlin as I'm driving and can't have more than the one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 10 December, 2011, 09:05:04 pm
Losing the fight with teh lurgy.   :(   Whisky and bed methinks. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 10 December, 2011, 09:11:41 pm
Tonight I have mainly been mastering Sixpence None The Richer's "Kiss Me" on guitar, which gave me an excuse to dig out the capo.  I will have to convince Mrs Z to sing as it sounds a bit crap with my voice an octave too low (and the lyric about "I will wear that dress" grates as I'm neither Eddie Izzard nor Grayson Perry).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 December, 2011, 09:24:57 pm
Never mind, you could possibly pass for J Edgar Hoover in a bad light.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 10 December, 2011, 11:43:22 pm
I've just started my Christmas shopping. I have no intention of leaving the comfort of my sofa to do it either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 11 December, 2011, 12:01:43 am
Trying to clean All Purpose Glue from my bottom lip!   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 December, 2011, 12:04:59 am
Quote from: why1040 on 11 December, 2011, 12:01:43 am
Trying to clean All Purpose Glue from my bottom lip!   :facepalm:

That post is so ripe for elementary innuendo that I'll leave it to a novice to respond to.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 December, 2011, 02:27:38 pm
Looking at a photo of MercuryKev wearing his wife's clothes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonycollinet on 11 December, 2011, 02:32:52 pm
Eating a steak ciabatta
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 11 December, 2011, 02:33:56 pm
Clearing the lounge and upstairs bedroom in readiness for the new carpets being fitted on Wednesday. It's times like this when you realise the hidden dust and clutter that you have been hoarding through the years.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 December, 2011, 02:38:05 pm
Contemplating the scaffolding across the road that grew overnight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 11 December, 2011, 03:38:44 pm
Thinking about fitting new mudguards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 11 December, 2011, 05:03:06 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 December, 2011, 02:38:05 pm
Contemplating the scaffolding across the road that grew overnight.

I thought we had stopped hanging people?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 11 December, 2011, 05:39:14 pm
Hiding upstairs while Ms Weasel entertains two of her fellow Duran Duran fans by watching a series of DDlive DVDs. They seem lovely but in a ridiculously selfish way I would much rather the bigfuckofftelly was being put to the use I bought it for (namely either playing bangy-splatty-killy games or watching bangy-splatty-killy films).

She did make welshcakes though so the day hasn't been all bad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 December, 2011, 05:55:50 pm
Trying to summon up the reserves of arsed required to shift this cat off my lap and go make a GCD*.

*great chicky dinner (pinguese for noms)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 December, 2011, 06:03:05 pm
being gobsmacked :o

Stoke City have just beaten Spurs
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 December, 2011, 06:18:32 pm
Quote from: jogler on 11 December, 2011, 06:03:05 pm
being gobsmacked :o

Stoke City have just beaten Spurs

Excellent!  Yet another excuse to wind up the Spurs fans in out office.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 December, 2011, 06:24:05 pm
Watching my boys finishing their tea, and running a bath for them.  M'boys are back  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 11 December, 2011, 06:25:40 pm
About to get busy in The Salad Department of this house.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 11 December, 2011, 07:00:14 pm
Reading the Trowbridge section of the Wiltshire Times website in disbelief and hilarity  ;D

I think Didcot has been well and truly trumped.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 December, 2011, 08:03:55 pm
Have just told Pingu we're getting all our interior doors replaced tomorrow  :-[  :demon:  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 11 December, 2011, 08:08:09 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 11 December, 2011, 07:00:14 pm
Reading the Trowbridge section of the Wiltshire Times website in disbelief and hilarity  ;D

I think Didcot has been well and truly trumped.

Ever been to Calne ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 December, 2011, 10:37:33 am
I'm wondering how much longer I should keep this Windows 7 VM spinning on the "Please do not power off or unplug your machine. Installing update 94 of 94" screen before saying "Ah fukkit" and turning it off. It's been spinning there for two hours now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 December, 2011, 09:14:49 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 11 December, 2011, 08:08:09 pm
Ever been to Calne ?
It's an occasional CTC destination.  The chuds don't come out in daylight, you see.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 13 December, 2011, 02:09:38 pm
Recovering from a miraine.

Don't feel quite with it at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 December, 2011, 03:12:44 pm
Playing Management BS Bingo on a conf call.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 December, 2011, 04:01:19 pm
I've been trimming my nose hairs and my beard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 December, 2011, 06:36:14 pm
Hoping the weather gets so bad that McBobb's flight is cancelled tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 December, 2011, 08:15:51 pm
Feeling like crap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 December, 2011, 10:31:49 pm
I just finished doing my dad's Christmas shopping, sort of.  As in I've sorted out what everybody (including me) is getting and passed the list to my ex MiCL who is actually doing the buying.  Then in a week or thereabouts i shall have to do collecting, wrapping and orgnising sending the money.

Mind, less than an hour and that included 4 phone calls and half a dozen texts to check stuff.  I just hope that if he wants me to sort it next year (this is the third or fourth time that I've done it for him) he gives me a leeeeetle more notice!

But job done!

(shame I haven't done any at all of mine....)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 14 December, 2011, 11:07:25 am
Quote from: Jurek on 11 December, 2011, 06:25:40 pm
About to get busy in The Salad Department of this house.

Oh my!

Quote from: urbandictionary
Salad
A polite way of saying sex.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 14 December, 2011, 11:10:18 am
Quote from: Jacomus on 14 December, 2011, 11:07:25 am
Quote from: Jurek on 11 December, 2011, 06:25:40 pm
About to get busy in The Salad Department of this house.

Oh my!

Quote from: urbandictionary
Salad
A polite way of saying sex.

The salad was good.
But not that good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 14 December, 2011, 11:14:02 am
Just waved goodbye to our old fridge-freezer. For £12 a bunch of volunteers in a van came and took it and an old popty ping away. Pretty good service, I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 December, 2011, 11:48:15 am
Waiting for my dad to turn up with the two bikes I bought yesterday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 14 December, 2011, 12:06:05 pm
Working very very hard (Irony). I'm on call at home until 8 pm. in case a coworker gets sick.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 December, 2011, 02:04:12 pm
Waiting to be seen at the fracture clinic. Hopefully getting signed off...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 14 December, 2011, 02:14:16 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 14 December, 2011, 02:04:12 pm
Waiting to be seen at the fracture clinic. Hopefully getting signed off...

Good luck!

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 December, 2011, 02:45:15 pm
scoffing Marj's extremely successfull mince-pie experiments :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 December, 2011, 02:47:57 pm
Quote from: jogler on 14 December, 2011, 02:45:15 pm
scoffing Marj's extremely successfull mince-pie experiments :thumbsup:

I hope she has made enough for all of us.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 December, 2011, 02:51:22 pm
Having a workplace discussion about one of my colleagues buying Little Mermaid perfume for her young niece for Christmas. We think it probably smells of salmon and hairspray.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 December, 2011, 02:57:54 pm
So a bit like the Bigg Market then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 December, 2011, 03:40:51 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 14 December, 2011, 02:47:57 pm
Quote from: jogler on 14 December, 2011, 02:45:15 pm
scoffing Marj's extremely successfull mince-pie experiments :thumbsup:

I hope she has made enough for all of us.....

naturally:but the life expectancy of such things is much much less than the travelling time from Yorkshire to joglerville  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 14 December, 2011, 03:46:16 pm
Attempting washing machine repairs.

Much luck is required.

I have already had to use a hammer-and-knife combo. Fairly sure that's not recommended.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 December, 2011, 04:01:20 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 14 December, 2011, 11:14:02 am
Just waved goodbye to our old fridge-freezer. For £12 a bunch of volunteers in a van came and took it and an old popty ping away. Pretty good service, I think.

In Silly Oak they do that for free: you simply leave it in your front garden for a few nanoseconds.


Meanwhile, I'm psyching myself up to do battle with the smoke alarms.  We have many, one of which was bleeping about a bat flattery in the cold hours of the morning (and has of course stopped since the heating came on).  And the ceilings are suboptimally high.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 December, 2011, 04:24:56 pm
If you find that just leaving it in your front garden doesn't work for a while, you can speed things up by attaching a cheap lock and chain.  It will then disappear almost immediately.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 15 December, 2011, 09:36:01 am
Preparing to leave on another trip to Scotland.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 December, 2011, 10:01:16 am
Quote from: Kim on 14 December, 2011, 04:01:20 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 14 December, 2011, 11:14:02 am
Just waved goodbye to our old fridge-freezer. For £12 a bunch of volunteers in a van came and took it and an old popty ping away. Pretty good service, I think.

In Silly Oak they do that for free: you simply leave it in your front garden for a few nanoseconds.


Meanwhile, I'm psyching myself up to do battle with the smoke alarms.  We have many, one of which was bleeping about a bat flattery in the cold hours of the morning (and has of course stopped since the heating came on).  And the ceilings are suboptimally high.

We had a smoke alarm problem in a house we rented one holiday in Plymouth. The smoke alarm went off as soon as we started cooking sausages. The ceiling was ridiculously high and there was no way to reach the bloody thing until I had the bright idea of standing on the table and lifting my 7-year-old son at arm's length above my head and he took the battery out until things had calmed down a bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 15 December, 2011, 10:23:27 am
Quote from: Kim on 14 December, 2011, 04:01:20 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 14 December, 2011, 11:14:02 am
Just waved goodbye to our old fridge-freezer. For £12 a bunch of volunteers in a van came and took it and an old popty ping away. Pretty good service, I think.

In Silly Oak they do that for free: you simply leave it in your front garden for a few nanoseconds.

Our old pressed steel bath was on the skip for about half an hour before somebody knocked on the door. We probably have more passing trade then MV though!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 December, 2011, 11:04:47 am
Wondering if I can get a giant padded Christmas card with a picture of a teddy wearing a Santa hat holding a festive heart, that plays All I Want For Christmas Is You when it's opened.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 December, 2011, 11:14:36 am
Quote from: Kirst on 15 December, 2011, 11:04:47 am
Wondering if I can get a giant padded Christmas card with a picture of a teddy wearing a Santa hat holding a festive heart, that plays All I Want For Christmas Is You when it's opened.  ;D

I first read that as 'a teddy wearing Santa'.   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 15 December, 2011, 12:15:21 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 15 December, 2011, 11:04:47 am
Wondering if I can get a giant padded Christmas card with a picture of a teddy wearing a Santa hat holding a festive heart, that plays All I Want For Christmas Is You when it's opened.  ;D

Here's (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B005T3P77E/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=468292&s=kids) the link to where I bought Chris S's

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 December, 2011, 12:54:43 pm
That's truly a wondrous thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 December, 2011, 02:25:42 pm
Putting up Xmas lights in the office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 December, 2011, 03:30:42 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 15 December, 2011, 10:01:16 am
Quote from: Kim on 14 December, 2011, 04:01:20 pm
Meanwhile, I'm psyching myself up to do battle with the smoke alarms.  We have many, one of which was bleeping about a bat flattery in the cold hours of the morning (and has of course stopped since the heating came on).  And the ceilings are suboptimally high.

We had a smoke alarm problem in a house we rented one holiday in Plymouth. The smoke alarm went off as soon as we started cooking sausages. The ceiling was ridiculously high and there was no way to reach the bloody thing until I had the bright idea of standing on the table and lifting my 7-year-old son at arm's length above my head and he took the battery out until things had calmed down a bit.

After doing a full smoke alarm audit, with the aid of a head torch and a longer ladder, I have not only worked out how to remove them from their brackets, but determined that they are all of the sealed 10-year-battery kind, and well within their expected operational lifetime.  They all pass the test button test (this is slightly easier, as it can be performed by broom handle), too.  Needless to say I haven't heard a peep from any of them since.

In the highly unlikely event of ever owning my own house, I'm going to install a proper alarm panel, and not have to worry about this nonsense.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 15 December, 2011, 03:44:06 pm
Christmas shopping in Westfield! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 15 December, 2011, 03:49:40 pm
Sniffing, sneezing, groaning, drinking lemsip and watching an old film whilst wearing a Big Old Cardie and thick socks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 December, 2011, 03:51:32 pm
Wondering whether I'll make it home without being nicked for lack of number plates :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 December, 2011, 04:17:00 pm
I've just evicted something foul and mysterious from the back of the fridge, and a metric fuckload of cardboard[1] to the communal wheelie-bin.  The house now smells awful and has room for an n+1[2].



[1] One day I'll get a bike trailer and be able to take such things to be recycled.
[2] Or, you know, people sitting around the dining table, that sort of thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 15 December, 2011, 04:22:28 pm
Quote from: Kim on 15 December, 2011, 04:17:00 pm
I've just evicted something foul and mysterious from the back of the fridge, and a metric fuckload of cardboard[1] to the communal wheelie-bin.  The house now smells awful and has room for an n+1[2].



[1] One day I'll get a bike trailer and be able to take such things to be recycled.
[2] Or, you know, people sitting around the dining table, that sort of thing.

Oh, the glamour!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 15 December, 2011, 04:33:31 pm
Just finished cleaning up vomit from my lap and floor and everywhere. A very unwell 3yo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 December, 2011, 04:35:20 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 15 December, 2011, 04:33:31 pm
Just finished cleaning up vomit from my lap and floor and everywhere. A very unwell 3yo.

That's nice.

Don't stray too far from a loo in the next couple of days. Y'know... just in case like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 15 December, 2011, 06:11:47 pm
Not having to deal with vomitting small children, or fire alarms, but trying to work out a magnetometer temperature calibration curve with insufficient data, a lot of hand waving approximations, and on the screen of a small netbook several thousand miles away from where I'd normally do this sort of thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 December, 2011, 06:22:29 pm
Quote from: TimO on 15 December, 2011, 06:11:47 pm
Not having to deal with vomitting small children, or fire alarms, but trying to work out a magnetometer temperature calibration curve with insufficient data, a lot of hand waving approximations, and on the screen of a small netbook several thousand miles away from where I'd normally do this sort of thing.

You make it sound like rocket scie...  Oh, yeah.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 15 December, 2011, 06:27:56 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 15 December, 2011, 06:22:29 pm
You make it sound like rocket scie...  Oh, yeah.  ;D
Don't forget TimO has not had to do hand waving approximations since his final exam.  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 15 December, 2011, 08:05:42 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 15 December, 2011, 04:33:31 pm
Just finished cleaning up vomit from my lap and floor and everywhere. A very unwell 3yo.
This is the reason I have no step-children!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 December, 2011, 12:07:29 am
I am staring at paper.  I bloody hate paper....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 16 December, 2011, 12:09:51 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 16 December, 2011, 12:07:29 am
I am staring at paper.  I bloody hate paper....

Toilet paper?  Wallpaper?  The Daily Mail?

School report?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2011, 12:16:05 am
Looking at my back wheel, trying to find the source of the blow-out I had, 2km from home  >:(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 December, 2011, 09:43:35 am
Wishing I wasn't a beggar, so I could be a chooser.
Psyching myself up for an interview for a job I don't really want.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 December, 2011, 09:53:06 am
I know that feeling.  Good luck anyway. :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Panoramix on 16 December, 2011, 10:59:39 am
On a ferry that was supposed to dock in St Malo but got diverted to Roscoff.

I would guesstimate 40knots and 3 or 4 m swell. Sea is white and beautiful.

It's OK we have free wifi and internet via satellite!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 December, 2011, 11:00:55 am
Feeling all warm and fuzzy at how we, as a community, can pull together to help someone in need.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: arabella on 16 December, 2011, 12:36:42 pm
There is not 1 but there are 2 boxes of chocolate on my desk.  They keep getting emptier, and co-incidentally a pile of wrappers is building up.
Also there is a chocolate wrapper star on the top of the xmas twig on a colleagues desk.

I wonder what the connection is  8)

Today is my last day in until 28th too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 December, 2011, 02:14:11 pm
Drinking coffee & scoffing marj'smincepies & malt loaf :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 16 December, 2011, 02:15:36 pm
Failing to talk SWMBO to go to the Globe in May to see Othello in "Hip Hop."  :(

Might have to go on my own and save her £5 admission price.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2011, 02:23:06 pm
Having lunch after having a nice back massage, and failing to pop into Tesco (spent 20 mins queuing to get to the roundabout, saw the queue to leave the car park and decided not to bother). Afternoon off :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 16 December, 2011, 02:29:07 pm
Hanging on an internet conference call that's spectacularly failing as a bunch of people with PhDs fail to work the technology :)

So far we have one heavy breather and a lot of silence
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 16 December, 2011, 02:36:43 pm
It's funny how many people with PhDs, especially those with beards, seem to be spectacularly impractical in every day life!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SlowCoach on 16 December, 2011, 03:31:02 pm
Losing the will to live whilst waiting for a park and ride bus back to the carpark in York. I know I should have brought my bike. I could have ridden half way home by now...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 December, 2011, 03:36:07 pm
Traffic's bad in York today!  I am waiting for a support engineer to call me.  He called me bang on time at 3:30 as arranged, but I wasn't on site as expected because of the traffic....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 December, 2011, 03:40:30 pm
Not working very hard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 December, 2011, 03:45:28 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 December, 2011, 03:40:30 pm
Not working very hard.

+1  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 December, 2011, 03:46:24 pm
Quote from: Basil on 16 December, 2011, 03:45:28 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 December, 2011, 03:40:30 pm
Not working very hard.

+1  :-[

I'm not working at all :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 December, 2011, 04:05:21 pm
I am, and I'm not s'posed to be!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 December, 2011, 08:22:37 pm
Because of this

http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=54765.msg1116069#msg1116069
 
I'm writing up a SMART based training/riding regime that I can follow next year as prep. for LEL2013.

I just want Santa to bring a big bar of chocolate enthusiasm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 16 December, 2011, 08:25:25 pm
Having a nice cup of tea after cooking up some fooshie. :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 16 December, 2011, 09:09:26 pm
At the Warhorse witg mrs mike.  Neeeeeiiiiiight
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 16 December, 2011, 10:52:41 pm
Cried Like A Baby.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 17 December, 2011, 07:27:53 am
Hanging over, went out last night, got very very very drunk, managed to lose my brother, staggered home and fell asleep, woke at 6:30.

Head banging, feel like I have a bad cold and also feel like I am going to throw up any second....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 December, 2011, 08:10:04 am
(looks out of window)

Oh look. Ice.

(goes back to bed)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 December, 2011, 08:14:05 am
Packing for this weekend's trip and struggling to resist the temptation to crawl back into bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 17 December, 2011, 08:16:10 am
Looking at the ice and deciding that guitar is a better option than cycling this morning. A review of this will be held at 11.00am
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 December, 2011, 11:20:43 am
Freezing on a train to Glasgow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 December, 2011, 02:57:39 pm
I'm multi-tasking....
eating grapes whilst
watching Marj put up the Xmas decorations
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 December, 2011, 03:03:12 pm
Playing with a Kindle, and wondering why on earth it doesn't speak epub.   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 17 December, 2011, 03:16:41 pm
Still waiting for the boiler fixer to turn up 'after one o'clock'. Getting dark now so I won't be able to get out today. Bugger. A ride tomorrow will be a priority.

Looking on the bright side, being trapped indoors means I have hoovered parts of the house that have not been visited in errr some time. Won't need to do that again before Christmas, New Year, Easter....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 December, 2011, 09:02:36 pm
Planning next year's audax rides, drinking wine, and farting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 17 December, 2011, 09:12:04 pm
Hiding whilst the rest of the family watches strictly....
Title: Doing right now
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 December, 2011, 10:04:51 pm
I'm eating too much after our concert. I've been engaged in conversation with Teddy Taylor and it was much more congenial than the last time we met when I chaired a school governors' meeting he attended just before the  1997 general election.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 December, 2011, 10:08:08 pm
Yay! Celebrating my fave dancer (oh and some random celeb) winning strictly.

Sorry Paul to bring it here, where you thought you were safe :D Bright side - all over for another year. Unless they are doing an xmas special...
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Post by: TimO on 17 December, 2011, 10:19:38 pm
Waiting for a set of halogen lamps to put enough oomph through a set of solar panels into the battery of a satellite, so we can take it outside into the sun, and carry out an ACS (Attitude Control System) test.  Or not.  I've been waiting for this test to be done since Tuesday.  This is pretty much the last chance they have to do it, and then I'm off to the airport.
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Post by: PaulF on 17 December, 2011, 10:36:32 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 17 December, 2011, 10:08:08 pm
Yay! Celebrating my fave dancer (oh and some random celeb) winning strictly.

Sorry Paul to bring it here, where you thought you were safe :D Bright side - all over for another year. Unless they are doing an xmas special...

I'll forgive you :D

Just spent an enjoyable hour wandering through random YouTube videos ending up with Diamonds and Rust
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Post by: TimO on 18 December, 2011, 04:03:50 am
I'm now twiddling my thumbs in San Francisco domestic departures, because I got here very early, and both check-in and security where quiet and efficient. It took me around twenty minutes from getting off the airport train to being in the departure area. I guess that's far better than it being very slow though!
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Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2011, 07:32:54 am
Having a frustratey sulk about the overnight snowfall.
Me,my kit & my bike are ready to ride from Derby on the Belton Mince Pie ride but I've wimped out due to the roads hereabout being iffy. :(
I've done this ride before & was looking forward to the route,the company(you know who you are) & the mince pie & craic at Belton.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 18 December, 2011, 08:10:01 am
Quote from: TimO on 18 December, 2011, 04:03:50 am
I'm now twiddling my thumbs in San Francisco domestic departures, because I got here very early, and both check-in and security where quiet and efficient. It took me around twenty minutes from getting off the airport train to being in the departure area. I guess that's far better than it being very slow though!
Don't bring us back any Hershey Kisses from the duty free; they taste like puke  :sick:
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Post by: rower40 on 18 December, 2011, 08:15:48 am
Quote from: jogler on 18 December, 2011, 07:32:54 am
Having a frustratey sulk about the overnight snowfall.
Me,my kit & my bike are ready to ride from Derby on the Belton Mince Pie ride but I've wimped out due to the roads hereabout being iffy. :(
I've done this ride before & was looking forward to the route,the company(you know who you are) & the mince pie & craic at Belton.
No snow in Derby.  Roofs white with frost, not anything worse.
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Post by: JonBuoy on 18 December, 2011, 08:58:01 am
Quote from: rower40 on 18 December, 2011, 08:15:48 am
Quote from: jogler on 18 December, 2011, 07:32:54 am
Having a frustratey sulk about the overnight snowfall.
Me,my kit & my bike are ready to ride from Derby on the Belton Mince Pie ride but I've wimped out due to the roads hereabout being iffy. :(
I've done this ride before & was looking forward to the route,the company(you know who you are) & the mince pie & craic at Belton.
No snow in Derby.  Roofs white with frost, not anything worse.

Not even frosty in Loughborough and the rainfall radar looks like this morning's showers will (mostly) miss us.

I might have to pootle over to Belton and bag a few mince pies for myself.
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Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2011, 09:11:22 am
you two are not helping :hand:
 ;D
we've had yet  more snowfall in the last couple of hours & now there are no vehicles on the road.It's amazing how quiete verywhere is.I might go down to the village for newspapers on the sledge :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jaded on 18 December, 2011, 09:15:40 am
This time yesterday I was buying the last Christmas tree stand in our area (the family didn't want the Christmas Panto again this year starring me and our 20 year old stand). I was also trying to stand up in various car parks that 'the management won't let us grit it'  :demon:
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Post by: JonBuoy on 18 December, 2011, 09:19:29 am
Quote from: jogler on 18 December, 2011, 09:11:22 am
you two are not helping :hand:
 ;D
we've had yet  more snowfall in the last couple of hours & now there are no vehicles on the road.It's amazing how quiete verywhere is.I might go down to the village for newspapers on the sledge :thumbsup:

Apologies.  I was just trying to entice you out with local weather reports.  It sounds like you may have made the correct decision if it is that bad near you.

For future reference  -  the Loughborough area often gets off very lightly when there is snow around.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2011, 09:31:40 am
Wishing the loaf would finish baking. It's a lovely smell but becomes a bit overwhelming towards the end of the cooking time.

Ah, it's finished as I type.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 18 December, 2011, 09:40:08 am
I've just re-strung the Telecaster.  Kluson tuners are marvellous - no loose string ends and the job's done in 5 minutes.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2011, 09:48:15 am
Admiring RZ's sig line, which I hadn't noticed before. Very good!
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Post by: graculus on 18 December, 2011, 10:56:14 am
Taking a break from putting the house straight after last night's meal with friends. How do seven people manage to use up what seems like every item of cutlery, crockery and cooking equipment in the house?

(Answer: By having soup & bread; cranberry, leek and roast nut pie or turkey and all the trimimngs; Christmas pudding with custard or/and cream; coffee and mints. Wine and soft drinks. We didn't need to start the cheese and biscuits so saved them for another time. But it was very nice)
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Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2011, 11:06:14 am
Just finished shovelling snow off the driveway,patio & paths around the house.
I prefer to see the snow un-disturbed but it's too risky for Marj to be walking on with her knee & spine problems.A fall for her doesn't bear thinking about :hand:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 December, 2011, 11:14:09 am
Watching last night's Christmas TOTP2 special, and wondering if I'll ever have a Christmas like the one in the Last Christmas video, except without the heartbreak and betrayal, naff diamanté brooch and terrible 80s perms.
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Post by: Canardly on 18 December, 2011, 11:19:11 am
Contemplating going to Aldi to see if they have any of those merino tops left, oh and the kettle has just packed up...tum ti tum...
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Post by: L CC on 18 December, 2011, 11:21:27 am
A combination of procrastination (me) and hibernation (Mr Smith) meant we didn't head off to the Club Mince Pie Ride today. Looking at the snow I've stopped feeling even remotely guilty.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 December, 2011, 01:20:25 pm
Making curry and listening to The Messiah. If bobb was here it would be perfect.  ;D
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Post by: Basil on 18 December, 2011, 04:39:16 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 December, 2011, 03:03:12 pm
Playing with a Kindle, and wondering why on earth it doesn't speak epub.   ???

What the ecky thump is epub?  It sounds like something I ought to be aware of.  :D
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Post by: Kim on 18 December, 2011, 04:41:46 pm
Quote from: Basil on 18 December, 2011, 04:39:16 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 December, 2011, 03:03:12 pm
Playing with a Kindle, and wondering why on earth it doesn't speak epub.   ???

What the ecky thump is epub?  It sounds like something I ought to be aware of.  :D

A common file format for ebooks.  The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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Post by: Basil on 18 December, 2011, 05:00:44 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 December, 2011, 04:41:46 pm
Quote from: Basil on 18 December, 2011, 04:39:16 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 December, 2011, 03:03:12 pm
Playing with a Kindle, and wondering why on earth it doesn't speak epub.   ???

What the ecky thump is epub?  It sounds like something I ought to be aware of.  :D

A common file format for ebooks.  The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

Oh.  OK, thanks.  Not that sort of pub, then.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 18 December, 2011, 06:53:33 pm
Having a break from writing Christmas cards... and struggling with the annual letter.

I know, I know - but some older relatives enjoy reading it.
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Post by: Jaded on 19 December, 2011, 12:27:08 am
We won the pub quiz. AND the jackpot question.  :smug:
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Post by: TimO on 19 December, 2011, 09:49:56 am
About to go to the cattery and pick Zev and Kai up.  Yay, kittehs back for a few days. :thumbsup: ;D
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Post by: Chris S on 19 December, 2011, 09:59:22 am
Making toast.
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Post by: jogler on 19 December, 2011, 02:45:31 pm
a joint effort with Marj to wrap Xmas pressies for the family.
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Post by: Andrij on 19 December, 2011, 07:29:32 pm
While stopping briefly at York station on the way back down to London I'm thinking I should have tried to order some CAKE.  :-(
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Post by: Jaded on 19 December, 2011, 07:48:51 pm
Hoovered my office.

Need an archaeologist to examine the hoover bag.
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Post by: Basil on 19 December, 2011, 08:36:48 pm
Drinking beer, waiting for the quiz to start.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 December, 2011, 08:44:45 pm
Aching.
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Post by: rower40 on 20 December, 2011, 07:24:01 am
Writing interminable 'things to do' lists.
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Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2011, 07:25:44 am
Just been preparing quotes for the last 2 hours. Might go back to bed now.
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Post by: Feanor on 20 December, 2011, 08:30:39 am
Grumbling that I can't do a commute today as it's my last day at work for the year.

I'm stuck at home in 'parent' mode, getting the Juniors out to school.
And messing around with various Interwebbery obviously...
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Post by: mike on 20 December, 2011, 08:34:03 am
about to go out in 'dutiful son' mode.  Mum needs a lift to the hospital, I'm unemployed, [almost] everybody wins.
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Post by: ferret on 20 December, 2011, 09:13:08 am
I've just been informed that "we" are off to the metropolis that is Cardiff to do a quick job ( yeah right ) and on the way back we will be stopping off at Tesco's to do the Christmas shop  yippee :-\
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 December, 2011, 09:18:38 am
Admiring the dog's ability to sing.

If I sing, he doesn't react. If I play the piano, he doesn't react. If I play the tenor recorder, he goes into Baskerville-tinged-with-American-werewolf-in-London mode, and all this without getting out of bed. Most primal for such a pampered pooch.
Title: Doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 December, 2011, 11:17:57 am
Sitting in the optician's waiting for Mrs Wow, Whose eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord are being tested as I type.
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Post by: tiermat on 20 December, 2011, 11:20:01 am
Watching Repoman
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Post by: tiermat on 20 December, 2011, 01:19:20 pm
Finished watching Repo Man and now poking around Hilarystone.com

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Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2011, 02:49:28 pm
lucky Hilary :demon:
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Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2011, 02:59:19 pm
I'm contemplating getting back into model making.
1/36th scale military vehicles,usually Tamiya products.

I know there's a tea chest or two in the loft with a least one partially built model tank.A King Tiger IIRC.There might even be model not yet started.There are certainly a lot of military personnel that need assembling & painting.All this from a time when I was into dioramas.There are already quite a few completed vehicles that could be displayed.
It can be a way of filling one's time in the dark winter evenings.

This was my main hobby before cycling became #1 interest.
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Post by: CrinklyAuntie on 20 December, 2011, 05:09:57 pm
Resting my aching feet and legs after a busy day of Xmas shopping with the Crinkly Cubs and thinking CrinkyLions Valencia looks lovely in my kitchen and she should stay  ;D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 December, 2011, 05:25:16 pm
Very efficient christmas shopping b the small lions it was too!  And the last of the wrapping is done and dusted, phew.  Now, having successfully accomplised three other people's christmas shopping I probbly ought to start thinking about my own.

So, you like the Very Lovely Valencia then?  But far too similar to one of your other bikes, really... you have the shopper and the hybrid, next up should be a nice drop-barred lightweight tourer.  Or a 'bent.  Or some carbon bling.  Or....

I am taking a well-earned break for five minutes, before bundling boys up to go to find a CrinklyNiece who can take christmas presents back south on a train with her.  It's all go, isn't it?
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Post by: gordon taylor on 20 December, 2011, 06:55:31 pm
Wondering why our two placid dogs fight fight ferociously (drawing blood) when our daughter comes home to stay.
They appeared to be trying to kill each other. Three people and a broom handle were used to get them apart tonight.
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Post by: Wendy on 20 December, 2011, 07:37:38 pm
Watch more dog whisperer, then change how you all act around the dogs?
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Post by: ian on 20 December, 2011, 08:28:15 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 20 December, 2011, 06:55:31 pm
Wondering why our two placid dogs fight fight ferociously (drawing blood) when our daughter comes home to stay.
They appeared to be trying to kill each other. Three people and a broom handle were used to get them apart tonight.

It could be worse. Your normally placid daughter could come home to visit and start fighting the dogs. Then before you know it, you have David Attenborough and a BBC film crew in your kitchen waiting to film the spectacle. Attenborough also has no respect for a man's Hobnobs.

Today I'm on day 2 of being (a) on holiday and (b) ill, which must be somewhere on the scale of cruel and unusual. It would in some ways be more justified if I was a snot volcano or in danger of launching myself from the toilet seat upon a brown rocket. But it's grim achey malaise with no external symptoms (thus guaranteeing me little sympathy), consoled only slightly by munching ibuprofen. Bleeding eyeballs get people's attention. Occasional shivering and groaning just makes them tell you not to forget to empty the washing machine.

Being ill is very dull but my brain is too listless to settle on anything, other than skittering around reminding me that it is indeed very boring and isn't this worse than actually working? I was going to load a seven foot Christmas tree on the back of my bike too, mostly to see what effect it would have on the drivers coming down Anerley Hill. That would have been fun.

I need more drugs.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 December, 2011, 08:36:22 pm
Quote from: ian on 20 December, 2011, 08:28:15 pm

...assorted funny bonkers stuff...

I need more drugs.

You know, I'm not completely convinced you are right about that....
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Post by: why1040 on 20 December, 2011, 08:38:08 pm
Sneezing.

In Sweden.

And preparing for a funeral tomorrow   :'(
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Post by: Feline on 20 December, 2011, 10:52:22 pm
Contemplating buying some brown fabric and leather string to make my dog an Ewok costume for christmas. He actually looks pretty much like an Ewok already!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Nat14bd053.jpg)
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Post by: gordon taylor on 21 December, 2011, 05:46:13 am
Wondering if I'll get any sympathy for going to work at the crack of dawn on the first day of my Christmas holidays to attack the marking pile.
No? Oh well ... ;)

The alternative is to bring it home and clog up the kitchen table for days.
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Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2011, 07:43:15 am
You could bring it home and the dog could eat it?
HTH
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Post by: Wendy on 21 December, 2011, 10:55:45 am
Huge sympathy of course! From those of us who live with such piles at least.
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Post by: jogler on 21 December, 2011, 07:34:26 pm
Putting on weight
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2011, 07:34:58 pm
Just about to go to the pub for a Green Party / Occupy bash.
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Post by: LindaG on 21 December, 2011, 11:29:06 pm
Eating sandwiches on my meal break at work.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 December, 2011, 11:41:33 pm
Footling on the interwebs.  Procrastinating.  Drinking beer.  Well, fuzzy pop, anyway.
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Post by: Kim on 21 December, 2011, 11:51:03 pm
Watching Dexter.  It's sick.  In both senses of the word.  I think I like it.
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Post by: Dez on 21 December, 2011, 11:58:52 pm
Quote from: Kim on 21 December, 2011, 11:51:03 pm
Watching Dexter.  It's sick.  In both senses of the word.  I think I like it.

I'm still waiting for LoveFilm to send me the first couple of series. They've been on my list for ages.
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Post by: Mr Arch on 22 December, 2011, 05:18:08 am
I'm watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2.

Professor MacGonagal. :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 22 December, 2011, 07:31:40 am
Quote from: Kim on 21 December, 2011, 11:51:03 pm
Watching Dexter.  It's sick.  In both senses of the word.  I think I like it.

It is brilliant, dark, comedy dark in places.

The quality of the story line dips a bit in season 2, but then gets better for seasons 3 onwards.
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Post by: ian on 22 December, 2011, 11:15:57 am
Coincidentally, watched the season 4 finale of Dexter last night. Oh my. That's how you end a series. Season 5 had better be in my Christmas stocking.

The casting of C. Michael Hall is pitch perfect. That little grin he gives at the end of the opening credits. There is nothing more sinister in the known universe.
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Post by: Aidan on 22 December, 2011, 12:15:28 pm
Trying to eat my body weight in baked goods and liquorice allsorts, while paying 5.5p per  minute plus a 13.1p setup charge for the priveledge of tearing some poor bastard at Barclaycard a new one
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Post by: numbnuts on 22 December, 2011, 12:44:59 pm
making mince pies  :P
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Post by: Regulator on 22 December, 2011, 01:31:09 pm
Waiting for DH to publish the national contract, so that I can finish my Operating Framework stuff.  They're taking their sweet time and publishing rubbish to do with Memoranda of Agreement with Scottish Ministers, rather than concentrating on stuff that is important.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 22 December, 2011, 01:50:05 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 22 December, 2011, 12:44:59 pm
making mince pies  :P
now eating mince pies  ;D well you have to try them out
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Post by: Regulator on 22 December, 2011, 01:50:53 pm
*Waits for numbnuts to offer them round*
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 December, 2011, 01:52:55 pm
Just finished eating. Now for a cup of tea and then for a glorious, sunny sea front pootle.
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Post by: Regulator on 22 December, 2011, 01:56:55 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 22 December, 2011, 01:52:55 pm
Just finished eating. Now for a cup of tea and then for a glorious, sunny sea front pootle.

FTFY... well, it is Sarfend on Sea you're talking about.  ;)

It might have a sunny sea front, but I wouldn't describe it as 'glorious'   ;D
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Post by: Feanor on 22 December, 2011, 01:57:41 pm
Re-compiling Asterisk, in an attempt to upgrade my VoIP installation from 1.4 to 1.6.

I need incorporate custom mods to the Zaptel channel driver to make it behave sensibly with the way UK phone system uses polarity reversals to signal that CallerID is coming, and then the way it reverses polarity again on clear-down.   The default behaviour Just Doesnt Work, and CallerID is intermittent at best, and remote hang-up detection is flakey too.   

I've long-since fixed up the Zaptel drivers in my Asterisk 1.4-based Trixbox, but the newer installs are Asterisk 1.6 based, and Zaptel has been re-named to DAHDI, and I'm trying to find the same bits of code that need frobbed with.   Although is seems to compile, at the moment the bloody channel is not loading when Asterisk starts.   Giving up for the moment.

I've got better things to be doing, so I'm about to throw the old HDD back into the Asterisk box and live with it for a while longer.

I'm going to go clean my bike which looks like it did a cyclo-cross.
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Post by: Kim on 22 December, 2011, 02:29:22 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 22 December, 2011, 01:57:41 pm
I've long-since fixed up the Zaptel drivers in my Asterisk 1.4-based Trixbox, but the newer installs are Asterisk 1.6 based, and Zaptel has been re-named to DAHDI, and I'm trying to find the same bits of code that need frobbed with.   Although is seems to compile, at the moment the bloody channel is not loading when Asterisk starts.   Giving up for the moment.

I've got a 1.4 installation with the appropriate hacks, and it seems to be 100% reliable.  I'm extremely reluctant to touch it, for exactly this reason.

Good luck, and damn our-favourite-telco and their strange ways of doing things.
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Post by: rower40 on 22 December, 2011, 02:43:18 pm
Reading the above two posts and wondering what language they're in. ::-)
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Post by: Regulator on 22 December, 2011, 03:09:29 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 22 December, 2011, 02:43:18 pm
Reading the above two posts and wondering what language they're in. ::-)

Geekese...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 December, 2011, 03:51:38 pm
Wishing it was time to go home. I'm tired, my hip is sore, and my caseload is hacking me off.
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Post by: Andrij on 22 December, 2011, 04:29:27 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 22 December, 2011, 01:31:09 pm
Waiting for DH to publish the national contract, so that I can finish my Operating Framework stuff.  They're taking their sweet time and publishing rubbish to do with Memoranda of Agreement with Scottish Ministers, rather than concentrating on stuff that is important.

I'm cursing DECC for actually publishing stuff that impacts me.  I'm in the office next week and planned on catching up on various things that aren't 'urgent'.  Instead I'm working on impact assessments.  Just a thousand or so pages left to read before I can start compiling my section of our response...
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Post by: tiermat on 22 December, 2011, 06:45:54 pm
Drinking Wall's County Brewery Gun Dog Bitter (recommended) and watching Rico Daniels turn a pile of firewood into a dining table.

That guy is genius, we would lok a pile of junk and think "hmmm, might be worth a couple of quid at the scrappies" He thinks "Armchair".  He also seems to have a flagrant disregard for H&S.  His safety specs (only used when using the chainsaw) are a pair of flying goggles....
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Post by: Ham on 22 December, 2011, 10:12:54 pm
Waving goodbye to Lun'on to say hello to sno for a week......

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Post by: L CC on 22 December, 2011, 11:30:54 pm
Digesting a very nice dinner, courtesy of Mr Smith's employer.
Floozie ftw
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Post by: TimO on 23 December, 2011, 04:10:36 am
Eating my breakfast and grabbing a last few odds and sods of packing before I depart for a week in the south-west.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 23 December, 2011, 06:19:39 am
Heading out early to get to tesco for last minute stuff before it gets manic, not the ideal way to start a day.
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Post by: TimO on 23 December, 2011, 10:24:00 am
Quote from: TimO on 23 December, 2011, 04:10:36 am
Eating my breakfast and grabbing a last few odds and sods of packing before I depart for a week in the south-west.

... and I got here. ;D
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Post by: rafletcher on 23 December, 2011, 10:35:02 am
Quote from: Aidan on 23 December, 2011, 06:19:39 am
Heading out early to get to tesco for last minute stuff before it gets manic, not the ideal way to start a day.

Ah did that yesterday afternoon :-)   I'm idling at work until 11:30, then off to look at a car. I shouldn't really, I don't need to.... but I like it and the C-Max I have (a distress purchase when I just had to offload the waaay too noisy Yaris) is sooooo boring  ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 23 December, 2011, 10:38:51 am
Watching Jeremy Kyle.
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Post by: tiermat on 23 December, 2011, 10:44:12 am
Drinking coffee, in an attempt to stay awake, and wondering how long I can get away without doing any work today and still call it a "Professional Day"

Lots of house cleaning to do, and I AM NOT DOING IT ON CHRISTMAS EVE
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 December, 2011, 10:49:44 am
We're at work, but not doing any work,  We've drank lots of tea, played on the internet, been for breakfast and we're about to put a film on to one of the computers before eating Christmas cake, drinking hot chocolate and listening to Christmas carols.
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Post by: jogler on 23 December, 2011, 10:51:00 am
Quote from: tiermat on 23 December, 2011, 10:44:12 am
Drinking coffee, in an attempt to stay awake, and wondering how long I can get away without doing any work today and still call it a "Professional Day"
Lots of house cleaning to do, and I AM NOT DOING IT ON CHRISTMAS EVE

According to the Gospel of Those  W.W.F.H., Friday's are acceptable as Poets day.Particulary this one,being the eve of the eve.
So rejoice & cease work.Tell 'em I said you can ;)
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Post by: tiermat on 23 December, 2011, 10:53:34 am
Quote from: jogler on 23 December, 2011, 10:51:00 am
Quote from: tiermat on 23 December, 2011, 10:44:12 am
Drinking coffee, in an attempt to stay awake, and wondering how long I can get away without doing any work today and still call it a "Professional Day"
Lots of house cleaning to do, and I AM NOT DOING IT ON CHRISTMAS EVE

According to the Gospel of Those  W.W.F.H., Friday's are acceptable as Poets day.Particulary this one,being the eve of the eve.
So rejoice & cease work.Tell 'em I said you can ;)

Copied and pasted into an email to my boss, thanks. :)
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Post by: jogler on 23 December, 2011, 11:29:28 am
I'm sacfificing my waistline & cholesterol levels on the Altar of Marj Kitchen Godess
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 December, 2011, 11:43:14 am
Setting the Out Of Office wossname, logging out and fucking off.  Radio silence 'til Wednesday.  Do drink too much :thumbsup:
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Post by: Juan Martín on 23 December, 2011, 11:58:58 am
Just back from a 5 mile run up to Lambeth Bridge and back. Everything very quiet in the City, thinking about sloping off early as everone else evidently has.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2011, 02:34:27 pm
Just been to gym  O:-) & had lunch. Was planning to finish varnishing new doors today, but I seem to have lost the requisit[e - ed] stores of arsed, so I shall be a cat bed instead  :smug:

And now wondering what the correct spelling is of that word that I've got not right...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 December, 2011, 02:36:51 pm
There should be an e on the end.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2011, 02:41:31 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 23 December, 2011, 02:36:51 pm
There should be an e on the end.
Thanks Kirst  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 23 December, 2011, 03:51:26 pm
Well I'm still here at work. I don't think I'll bother be able to leave early now! Never mind I should have the train to myself tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 December, 2011, 03:56:14 pm
Being happy we got let go from work early and trying to summon the energy to start packing.
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Post by: tiermat on 23 December, 2011, 04:00:40 pm
Sweatinglike a pig that knows he's for breakfast.

Just lugged a Kitchaid Artisan mixer and the same make of blender up the stairs, wrapped them and stuck them in the loft.

What's the betting the roof will leak tonight or tomorrow?
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Post by: Feanor on 23 December, 2011, 04:01:03 pm
Have just cleared the workbench of bike-related stuffs, and attached the ski-vices.

Found and opened up the Box-o'-Ski-Fettling stuffs.

/me has 8 pairs o' skis to fettle over next few days.
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Post by: ferret on 23 December, 2011, 04:05:13 pm
just finished me cup of tea, now to do the last 3 hours then I'm done................................................................ till tomorrow :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 December, 2011, 05:25:47 pm
Wishing bobb was here so I could give him his present.  ;D
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Post by: why1040 on 23 December, 2011, 05:27:43 pm
Have collapsed exhaustedly on my bed after we've hosted a certain mini-Christmas for the side of the family that we would normally celebrate Christmas with.  There were 5 adults here already, we added 5 more plus 3 kids all under 5!

I'm completely knackered!  It's been chaos!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 December, 2011, 05:44:53 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 23 December, 2011, 04:01:03 pm


/me has 8 pairs o' skis to fettle over next few days.

how many legs do you have?
 ;D
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Post by: LindaG on 23 December, 2011, 06:34:09 pm
Topping up my caffeine levels before braving the rain to go to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 23 December, 2011, 10:51:34 pm
Quote from: jogler on 23 December, 2011, 05:44:53 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 23 December, 2011, 04:01:03 pm


/me has 8 pairs o' skis to fettle over next few days.

how many legs do you have?
 ;D

Just slightly more than average, same as most people.
 :)
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Post by: mike on 24 December, 2011, 09:12:22 am
Epic scrambled eggs and bacon at a cafe in a church in cambridge. No excuses not to finish the shopping now.
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Post by: LindaG on 24 December, 2011, 09:49:11 am
Drinking hot chocolate and missing John Peel quite a lot.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 December, 2011, 11:18:39 am
I can't believe i'm actually thinking about going to Sainsbury's right now!
Although to be fair all I want to do is bung the 30 quid of change I have in the change machine and take a pair of shoes to be resoled. So I wouldn't really be going round the 'super'market.
And I could probably do with the walk, my back is killing me. Think I tweaked something while I was asleep last night ;(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2011, 11:24:13 am
About to take the dog out. Then planning a Waitrose trip. We need more brussels sprouts and probably some more milk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 December, 2011, 12:37:53 pm
I'm sitting at a railway station, got a ticket to my destination...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 December, 2011, 12:43:22 pm
I don't imagine you are homeward bound though :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 December, 2011, 12:45:48 pm
Wondering if I want to go Christmas shopping.  I mean, I actually (I know, this is against the roolz) like Christmas shopping.  I even like Christmas shopping on Christmas eve.  And I still have lots of it to do.  But since my Christmas Day isn't until Friday, I could just wait til Monday, when all the shops will probably be open anyway and stuff.  And then I could drink more coffee right now, and go back to bed...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 24 December, 2011, 12:47:36 pm
Just finishing lunch, then I shall be going outside into the garden because

a) it's a lovely day here and
b) we've finished all the Christmas prep!

(or maybe this should be in the good news thread?)

MrsC still has cooking to do but that doesn't count--all the cleaning and tidying is completed!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 24 December, 2011, 12:48:03 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 24 December, 2011, 12:37:53 pm
I'm sitting at a railway station, got a ticket to my destination...

Does bobb know about your tour of one night stands?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 24 December, 2011, 02:20:03 pm
Drinking tea and watching Christmas Carol on DVD. All Christmas prep done and the mince pies are cooling and we will be sampling them soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 December, 2011, 02:43:35 pm
Contemplating going for a bike ride.  The furthest one since the Elbow.  About a dozen miles out to a village to see an old school friend (who is oop north visiting family and celebrating her birthday) and meet her new baby daughter.  And see another old school friend wot I don't see much.  This would then be followed by a dozen-ish miles back in the dark on the lanes.

*goes to check weather forecast for suspicious -ive signs*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 December, 2011, 02:50:09 pm
About to get on a train to Personchester.  Without a bike.  It's not natural...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 24 December, 2011, 06:55:24 pm
Well  I'm supposed to be cooking

Actually I'm listening to music, posting on here, rehydrating (Shiraz is isotonic right?) and preparing a snack for Santa.

Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JJ on 24 December, 2011, 07:29:55 pm
I seem to have floated into one of those eddies on the edge of the maelstrom that is my household today. I'm rather enjoying the sensation of slowly spinning. In no rush to swim out into the mainstream.
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Post by: Julian on 24 December, 2011, 08:52:03 pm
Been to the Smithfield meat auction with my parents (from which I emerged with a goose, two ducks, a large quantity of beef and a pork loin, part of which will be Christmas lunch.  They went home with even more :o).  Put the red cabbage in the slow cooker for tomorrow, made two dozen vegan 'sausage' rolls (actually chestnut puree and stuffs), a dozen real sausage rolls, been to the supermarket for moar booze, started drinking moar booze, watched brother whisk up some veggie sauce for tomorrow, and now idling on the internets while sister-in-common-law creates risotto for dinner.  My family, logical and biological, totally rock.  :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2011, 08:55:37 pm
I'm about to settle down and listen to the Christmas Oratorio by Mr. Bach, which was broadcast from St. John's, Smith Square, a couple of nights ago.

I might need more beer.
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Post by: why1040 on 24 December, 2011, 09:10:48 pm
Collapsed in bed.

Today has been our Christmas, celebrated with the "wrong" side of the family this year due to their sudden loss a month ago.

It's been...odd.

We got to watch Disney in peace, which makes a change (we normally have great arguments with the cousins/aunt about this, but this side of the family is as avid as we are).  We had many laughs.  Plenty of glögg and Julmust to go with the salmon, eggs, ham, meatballs (swedish of course), sausages, potatoes, salad, cheese, bread, herring*, janson's temptation**, spättekaka and fruit salad!

My cousin and my brother played with the new*** ice hockey game and my cousin won.

There were also a lot of tears.  My aunt misses her husband unsurprisingly.  It's been just over a month and she's really not coping very well yet.  Understandable.

Tiring, wonderful, difficult and bittersweet.

*In two forms this year: mustard sauce and sour cream/caviar sauce
**which isn't anyone's temptation imho
***as in newly purchased...it's an old old OLD game inasmuch my uncle had one when he was a kid in the 40s
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Post by: PaulF on 24 December, 2011, 09:16:16 pm
Sitting in one of JJ's eddies :)
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Post by: oncemore on 24 December, 2011, 09:25:37 pm
Just sat here being utterly unspeakably BORED. Comes of being sober. Waiting to drive and collect the kids from the pub.

Christ, I want a drink.
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Post by: Kim on 24 December, 2011, 10:26:02 pm
BAHA racing.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2011, 09:06:17 am
Trying to convince myself to go on the London Xmas Day Ride.  Weather is good, don't have any other plans, but part of me fancies doing absolutely nothing today.
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Post by: BrianI on 25 December, 2011, 09:25:23 am
Listening to the strong wind blawing aboot ootside. 

And browsing Project Gutenberg for ebooks since I think Santa may have left me a Kindle at my parents house! 
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Post by: Domestique on 25 December, 2011, 09:53:05 am
Watching the Borrowers on ITV+1
There is quite a bit of cycling in this  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 25 December, 2011, 01:39:24 pm
Playing scrabble with the family. My MIL has just put down vulva but claims to not know what it means. We've just handed her the dictionary.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 25 December, 2011, 07:28:28 pm
Just surfaced from my sick bed to get some food and crawl back in...    :(  :(  :(

Hope the rest of you are having a great time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2011, 07:49:48 pm
Still listening to the Christmas Oratorio.
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Post by: SteveC on 25 December, 2011, 07:52:36 pm
GWS, PB. Feeling rotten at Christmas seems so much worse.

I am currently in a collapsed state following goose, loads of veg, and MrsC's wonderful pudding.
Our largest cat has decided that he needs to sleep on my stomach.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 25 December, 2011, 10:33:28 pm
Having had a nice early night, I've just woken myself up with an EPIC coughing fit!   >:(

Now I can't get back to sleep cos I can't stop coughing!

I'm going off this cold, rapidly!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 25 December, 2011, 10:41:38 pm
I'm sitting here, doing nothing but ageing ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 25 December, 2011, 10:45:01 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 25 December, 2011, 10:41:38 pm
I'm sitting here, doing nothing but ageing ...

That's a lot better than the alternative.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 25 December, 2011, 10:51:05 pm
Quote from: Clare on 25 December, 2011, 10:45:01 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 25 December, 2011, 10:41:38 pm
I'm sitting here, doing nothing but ageing ...

That's a lot better than the alternative.

'Specially when you're working your way through a Beatle and ex-Beatle back catalogue  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 25 December, 2011, 11:01:36 pm
Preparing dinner for tomorrow night. Forgot until 10pm that the belly pork needed simmering for 2 hours, the day before
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Post by: rower40 on 25 December, 2011, 11:42:30 pm
Failing miserably to dampen down family arguments.  Fortunately no-one ever listens to me.

Searching for the escape route.  Only 3 more sleeps till I can go back home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2011, 11:50:18 pm
What are you arguing about? Let's see if YACF can settle things!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2011, 12:16:48 am
Too late. I'm going to bed. Good night one and all!
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Post by: clarion on 26 December, 2011, 11:34:47 am
Sat in Richmond park with a beautiful woman, a nice cup of tea and a cake.  Oh - and a tandem :D

Looking forward to meeting good friends :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2011, 11:37:41 am
About to set off to Maidstone.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 December, 2011, 03:13:26 pm
Necking ibuprofen following a slow hobble round town. And watching telly through the coloured cellophane from Quality Streets for extra festiveness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 26 December, 2011, 03:51:03 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 26 December, 2011, 03:13:26 pm
Necking ibuprofen following a slow hobble round town. And watching telly through the coloured cellophane from Quality Streets for extra festiveness.

DIY 3D glasses, old style.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 26 December, 2011, 03:51:51 pm
Wondering if my stiff and sore back has anything to do with getting that tractor tyre onto the pickup truck.

Fool.  ::-)
Title: Doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2011, 03:58:41 pm
Doting in a manner entirely appropriate for a grandparent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 December, 2011, 07:57:14 pm
Worrying.

Like a fool. :-[
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Post by: Jurek on 26 December, 2011, 07:58:32 pm
Quote from: clarion on 26 December, 2011, 07:57:14 pm
Worrying.

Like a fool. :-[

Best put a stop to that, then, eh?
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Post by: Canardly on 26 December, 2011, 08:26:05 pm
What he says
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Post by: Jules on 27 December, 2011, 11:03:33 am
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons having got up at 04:30 to take the women of the household to LHR.They're away in FORN PARTS until Saturday so it's just me and the 14 &  7 year old boy children in the house. Think we might replensish the junk food stocks and pull a movie all-nighter ;D
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Post by: clarion on 27 December, 2011, 11:26:42 am
Quote from: Jurek on 26 December, 2011, 07:58:32 pm
Quote from: clarion on 26 December, 2011, 07:57:14 pm
Worrying.

Like a fool. :-[

Stopped now. There was a very genuine cause for worry, which had been preying on my mind all yesterday (so sorry to everyone if I seemed distracted/unsociable), but it is now resolved, I am pleased to say.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 December, 2011, 11:28:38 am
Feeling a lot better at last, looking at the backlog of tasks to be done and thinking BOLLOCKS - I'm having my Christmas!    ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 27 December, 2011, 11:36:06 am
Looking at my fleet of bikes and the 5ltrs of Muck Off I have just brought and wondering if I should go back and get some more.... :facepalm:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2011, 11:39:22 am
Feeling like a muppet after rejecting Pingu's invite on a nice bicyclops pootle because I'm going out for coffee with the girls.
Except it's tomorrow I'm going out for coffee  :facepalm: :facepalm: :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 December, 2011, 12:03:33 pm
Being run ragged by mum's hens which seem to know she's out and are taking advantage.
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Post by: Feline on 27 December, 2011, 12:12:35 pm
I'm sat on the sofa watching my Christmas present from simonp doing the vacuuming  :thumbsup:
(http://www.irobot.com/global/Files/product_images/IRBT_77003_en319317.gif)
http://www.irobot.com/uk/store/store_products.aspx?id=267
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geraldc on 27 December, 2011, 12:27:56 pm
In the office, waiting for a phonecall, browsing the forum instead of doing paperwork for a deal...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 December, 2011, 01:41:05 pm
Waiting for it to be time to go get bobb at the station.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 December, 2011, 02:12:30 pm
Conquering the New World (which is to say, playing "Age Of Empires III")
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2011, 02:40:00 pm
Quote from: Feline on 27 December, 2011, 12:12:35 pm
I'm sat on the sofa watching my Christmas present from simonp doing the vacuuming  :thumbsup:
(http://www.irobot.com/global/Files/product_images/IRBT_77003_en319317.gif)
http://www.irobot.com/uk/store/store_products.aspx?id=267

And? Does it suck?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 December, 2011, 02:40:29 pm
And what do the cats make of it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2011, 02:41:18 pm
Being a cat bed after finishing varnishing the doors, listening to choons, and wondering why the bass on the stereo sounds so much less, well, bassy, than on the Sqzbox Boom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 27 December, 2011, 03:21:58 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2011, 02:40:00 pm
Quote from: Feline on 27 December, 2011, 12:12:35 pm
I'm sat on the sofa watching my Christmas present from simonp doing the vacuuming  :thumbsup:
(http://www.irobot.com/global/Files/product_images/IRBT_77003_en319317.gif)
http://www.irobot.com/uk/store/store_products.aspx?id=267

And? Does it suck?

It seems to suck rather well  :D
If it senses a particularly dirty area it will scoot round and round it until it's got everything. It can get onto my rugs (AKA dog beds) without getting tangled up on the egdes. I'm going to set it loose upstairs next!

Quote from: Kim on 27 December, 2011, 02:40:29 pm
And what do the cats make of it?
They haven't yet tried to ride it like some kittens on youtube! The fact they seem so unperturbed is probably a sign of the weirdness they regularly witness in this house anyway  :D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2011, 03:28:30 pm
Sounds good!

I have just frightened the bejeebus out of Pingu by telling him I bought something from the sales online while he was out.
He gave me a hard stare. He thought I'd bought a telly without consultation. ;D
It was only a roller blind reduced to £24.

Am currently trying to figure out if I could hack a wee motor on to it to remote control it (for cat bed ease of use).
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2011, 05:13:58 pm
Can we surmise from some of the above that SimonP has successfully automated the sucking of Feline's dirty areas?  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 December, 2011, 05:39:49 pm
Watching Miss Z the elder playing Wii Dance.  The lyrics to "I Like To Move It" are astonishing.

Quote
All girls all over the world,
original Mad Stuntman pon ya case man!
I love how all girls a move them body,
and when ya move ya body, and move it,
nice and sweet and sexy, alright!

Woman ya cute, and you don't need no make up,
original cute body you a mek man mud up.
Woman ya cute, and you don't need no make up,
original cute body you a mek man mud up.

Woman! Physically fit, physically fit,
physically, physically, physically fit
Woman! Physically fit, physically fit,
physically, physically, physically fit

Woman! Ya nice, sweet, fantastic
Big ship on de ocean that a big titanic
Woman! Ya nice, sweet, energetic
Big ship on de ocean that a big titanic
Woman! Ya nice, sweet, fantastic
Big ship on de ocean that a big titanic
Woman! Ya nice, sweet, energetic
Big ship on de ocean that a big titanic
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 27 December, 2011, 06:33:14 pm
Making a desperate attempt to De-ice my freezer
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 27 December, 2011, 07:39:31 pm
Enjoying my holiday.
Wine helps.
 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 27 December, 2011, 07:57:58 pm
Isn't being able to just bumble around wonderful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 December, 2011, 09:10:38 pm
Waiting for the water to boil so I can cook some pasta.   It might boil quicker now I've turned the hob back on after being out of the flat for a few days  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 27 December, 2011, 10:19:37 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 27 December, 2011, 05:39:49 pm
The lyrics to "I Like To Move It" are astonishing.

Quote
All girls all over the world,
original Mad Stuntman pon ya case man!
I love how all girls a move them body,
and when ya move ya body, and move it,
nice and sweet and sexy, alright!


I can only see King Julian from 'Madagascar' now when I hear that.

At work, we call Our Glorious Leader ( in Houston ) King Julian.

Every time he comes up with some nonsense that needs to be done 'straight away', we all chant, in the voice of King Julian:
"Quickly, Quickly, before we come to our senses!"

And when it doesn't pan out, we all chant:
"I don't understand! The science seemed so sound!"

Along with the various hand-actions demonstrating the feeding of a sacrafice into the volcano.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 27 December, 2011, 10:21:05 pm
I just learned how to cook an omelette. It's never too late  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 December, 2011, 10:24:15 pm
A new world has opened before you. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 28 December, 2011, 08:36:39 am
At bleedin' work.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 28 December, 2011, 09:20:54 am
Onna train. Bike bars are hooked over a handrail, so the front wheel is off the ground. Am idly kicking the front wheel round to increase the recorded mileage on the computer.   
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 28 December, 2011, 09:22:20 am
Sat at Arlanda airport waiting for my flight home!
I'd like to say I've enjoyed my week-anna-bit away, but the best I can say is that it's been bittersweet!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 28 December, 2011, 09:23:57 am
Quote from: rower40 on 28 December, 2011, 09:20:54 am
Onna train. Bike bars are hooked over a handrail, so the front wheel is off the ground. Am idly kicking the front wheel round to increase the recorded mileage on the computer.
::-) Should just get a GPS and leave it turned on and recording for the train journey. That way you also get mega calorie use, which will allow you to consume vast quantities of CAKE, and high speeds, to impress you cycling chums with!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 December, 2011, 09:30:02 am
Quote from: delthebike on 28 December, 2011, 09:23:57 am
Quote from: rower40 on 28 December, 2011, 09:20:54 am
Onna train. Bike bars are hooked over a handrail, so the front wheel is off the ground. Am idly kicking the front wheel round to increase the recorded mileage on the computer.
::-) Should just get a GPS and leave it turned on and recording for the train journey. That way you also get mega calorie use, which will allow you to consume vast quantities of CAKE, and high speeds, to impress you cycling chums with!  ;D

I'm sure Rower40 knows the mass of the train he's on, so telling the GPS that would increase the calorie use still further.
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Post by: Andrij on 28 December, 2011, 09:32:38 am
Working Sitting in the office.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 28 December, 2011, 09:37:49 am
Sitting on a bed with a vomiting child
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Post by: clarion on 28 December, 2011, 10:20:25 am
Oh dear.  BTDT as I'm sure have you, many times.  GWS to relevant child.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 28 December, 2011, 10:29:43 am
Configuring my new second-hand pc ready for replacing the ageing desktop.   Win XP Pro of course  :P
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Post by: TimO on 28 December, 2011, 12:34:51 pm
Trying to pack everything into four panniers for the trip back to That London.  Theoretically it ought to be simpler than packing to come down, but I bought a couple of pairs of shoes, which aren't making it any easier!
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Post by: LindaG on 28 December, 2011, 01:27:15 pm
Lying in bed listening to the bins blowing down the street in the howling wind that woke me up. Coffee or not coffee is the next question. God help the person who next speaks to me this morning.
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Post by: Feanor on 28 December, 2011, 03:26:33 pm
Packing ski kit for tomorrow's departure on the Clan Feanor ski-jolly.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 December, 2011, 03:54:05 pm
Waiting....
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Post by: clarion on 28 December, 2011, 03:55:01 pm
Wishing Radcliffe & Maconie weren't away :(
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Post by: chris on 28 December, 2011, 07:37:26 pm
Waiting for Mrs chris' sister to visit. I think she might have the ump with me though and not turn up. She sent me a text this morning asking if it was OK to come round between 7:00 and 7:30 this evening. I replied saying that half an hour was more than enough time :demon:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 December, 2011, 08:24:01 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 28 December, 2011, 01:27:15 pm
Lying in bed listening to the bins blowing down the street in the howling wind that woke me up. Coffee or not coffee is the next question. God help the person who next speaks to me this morning.

Can I be a pedant and point out that it's afternoon already?
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Post by: LindaG on 28 December, 2011, 08:53:14 pm
Of course you can, Karl.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 December, 2011, 09:00:27 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 28 December, 2011, 08:53:14 pm
Of course you can, Karl.

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/8532-2/DSC05303.JPG)

He's got more hair than I have!
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Post by: Wendy on 28 December, 2011, 09:02:59 pm
Fitting a MonkeyLight to the front wheel of my bike:

http://youtu.be/DLtbeU8FJW0
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Post by: LindaG on 28 December, 2011, 09:12:21 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 December, 2011, 09:00:27 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 28 December, 2011, 08:53:14 pm
Of course you can, Karl.

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/8532-2/DSC05303.JPG)

He's got more hair than I have!

Nice pendant.

Did you get it for Hannukah?
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Post by: gordon taylor on 28 December, 2011, 10:49:41 pm
Feeling mellow...
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 December, 2011, 11:16:49 pm
Wrapping Christmas presents.

Hey - I haven't had my proper Christmas yet, OK?  So, now that m'boys are back from their wee trip away and have come back to the ride side of those hills, on Friday we're going to have christmas dinner and presents and all that jazz all over again.  Altho I may have to draw the line at santa stockings....
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 December, 2011, 08:40:46 am
Bobb and I are in the platform 8 waiting room at Huddersfield station, waiting for the transpennine express.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 29 December, 2011, 09:22:36 am
Wishing that my daughter would get out of bed so that I can give her a lift to Leeds.
What is it that makes the youth of today incapable of functioning during daylight hours?

 ::-)

(Grumpy old git alert...)
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Post by: rower40 on 29 December, 2011, 09:40:20 am
Watching Dr Who "Blink" on Watch+1[1].  That Sally Sparrow...
[goes for a little lie down]

[1] "+1" channels; the proof of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey ... stuff.
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Post by: andrewc on 29 December, 2011, 03:29:59 pm
If Wowbagger ever again ventures to Liverpool I'll take him for a pint in the Swan Inn, Wood St. Amongst it's may wonderful features is a large picture of Karl Marx.  Wow sitting underneath it would make a good photo.

(http://www.historyguide.org/images/marx-bio.jpg)


It's a grey, windy & wet day in Liverpool. I met my sister for lunch, but am not in a mind to do anything else so have returned home and donned my fleecy lounging gear prior to curling up with my Kindle.
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Post by: L CC on 29 December, 2011, 04:00:51 pm
Trying not to wish I'd brought a bike as I look out at the glory of North Northumberland
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Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2011, 04:03:36 pm
It's grand walking country, thobut ;)
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Post by: Kim on 29 December, 2011, 04:34:57 pm
Tackling the Teetering Piles Of Crap.
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Post by: clarion on 29 December, 2011, 04:41:21 pm
Wishing it were 5 and I could be riding to meet a friend.
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Post by: Kim on 29 December, 2011, 06:55:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 29 December, 2011, 04:34:57 pm
Tackling the Teetering Piles Of Crap.

We hit floor!

And hoovered it!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 December, 2011, 07:00:40 pm
Bloody hell, that's a bit energetic!  Or perhaps it wasn't a Teetering Pile of Crap on the scale of some of my TPoCs....
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Post by: Kim on 29 December, 2011, 07:13:28 pm
'twas necessary, as we're having people here for the new year.

I'm still largely in denial over the front room though:  Using the ICE flagpole[1] to make careful measurements I've demonstrated that it's geometrically possible to re-arrange the assortment of cycles in such a way that frees enough space to deploy the sofa-bed.  In the manner of the stereotypical mathematician, I've decided that'll do, and not actually moved anything.


[1] I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the main arguments in favour of recumbent flags are based on them being generically handy things to have with you, rather than for visibility.
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Post by: Pingu on 29 December, 2011, 11:18:06 pm
Still struggling with the Guardian Christmas prize crossword.

 ::-)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 December, 2011, 08:33:35 am
Waitimg for bobb to wake up so we can have a cuddle.
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Post by: LindaG on 30 December, 2011, 03:22:01 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 30 December, 2011, 08:33:35 am
Waitimg for bobb to wake up so we can have a cuddle.

Awwww  :D

I am gloating, because we set off for a ride on a perfect clear, sunny winter morning with a gorgeous sky.  It was just starting to pitter as we made for home, and now that I'm all warm dry and fed, it's pouring with rain and absolutely freezing cold.

I love it when you catch the weather.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wonky on 30 December, 2011, 03:33:16 pm
Watching the weather like a hawk, whilst deciding whether to go to CM or not.
Looks like there will be a break in the rain from 6 till 10. So I think I'll be going.
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Post by: lou boutin on 30 December, 2011, 06:39:06 pm
Watching the Good Life Christmas special - the one where Harrods refuses to bring Christmas to the Ledbetters when she won't accept a Christmas tree that is a few inches short and she has to have share Christmas with Tom and Barbara. The old ones are the best.
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Post by: andrewc on 30 December, 2011, 07:00:34 pm
Listening to Radio 3 while my dinner defrosts.   It's been rain or drizzle all day here, so I'm failing to find any enthusiasm to go out to the pub later. One of my Christmas bottles of red may be opened instead.
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Post by: her_welshness on 30 December, 2011, 10:58:25 pm
Am 1 hour and 8 minutes into Tim Minchins DVD and I cannot find the funny.
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Post by: tiermat on 30 December, 2011, 11:24:18 pm
All tiggery-type excited.  Mrs T has agreed to me doing a tour of that there Spain in April.......
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Post by: LindaG on 31 December, 2011, 04:39:22 am
Not sleeping.  Again.  >:(

Nearly time to get up for work.
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Post by: Jurek on 31 December, 2011, 05:52:37 am
Drinking tea.
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Post by: tiermat on 31 December, 2011, 08:14:20 am
Surfing the internet, planning a spanish tour and some other, boring stuff :)
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Post by: CrinklyUncle on 31 December, 2011, 10:33:08 am
Drinking Monsoon Malbar coffee made with my new cafetiere, a xmas present from CL
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Post by: Juan Martín on 31 December, 2011, 10:38:50 am
Just about to pop up to Sevenoaks to take a look at alleged Witcomb. Full report later...
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Post by: Basil on 31 December, 2011, 04:53:31 pm
Sitting the car out side Carmarthen station waiting for #2 son off train from Ferryside. 
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 December, 2011, 04:59:50 pm
Wondering where my watch is.
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Post by: tiermat on 31 December, 2011, 05:36:57 pm
Quote from: CrinklyUncle on 31 December, 2011, 10:33:08 am
Drinking Monsoon Malbar coffee made with my new cafetiere, a xmas present from CL

It's the start of a slippery slope.....
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Post by: rogerzilla on 01 January, 2012, 05:33:17 pm
Just about sobered up from lunchtime, which was basically a repeat of Christmas dinner but with chicken instead of turkey (far superior, it has to be said).  I know I had two glasses of champagne and two glasses of red wine.  Mrs Z only admits to the same and Mrs Z senior had half a bottle of champagne.  No-one knows where the rest of the red went  ::-)

I think it's another Downton Abbey-fest this evening because Mrs Z had the DVDs for Christmas.  I prefer the younger sister (not the plain middle one) to Lady Mary.
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Post by: TimO on 01 January, 2012, 05:39:04 pm
Acting as a cat bed.

I'd quite like the coffee I promised myself after giving Kai and Zev their late lunch / early supper, but Zev got on my lap before I remembered to do that, and has been here for the last hour or so.  It's so unusual to have her asleep on my lap, that I've not yet had the heart to dump her off!
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Post by: gordon taylor on 01 January, 2012, 05:51:32 pm
Tip-toeing my way into Facebook.

I don't like it ATM, but the family say I'm out of touch without it.
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Post by: Gus on 01 January, 2012, 05:56:29 pm
Packing for 3 months away from home  :thumbsup:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 01 January, 2012, 05:59:02 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 01 January, 2012, 05:51:32 pm
Tip-toeing my way into Facebook.

I don't like it ATM, but the family say I'm out of touch without it.
I think I half registered once and was put off by all the "tell us everything about yourself that might help identity thieves" questions.
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Post by: jogler on 01 January, 2012, 06:14:40 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 01 January, 2012, 05:51:32 pm
Tip-toeing my way into Facebook.

I don't like it ATM, but the family say I'm out of touch without it.

I continue to stay out of touch.I've managed without it for almost six decades so........
Plus I already spend too much time on tinternet
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 January, 2012, 07:04:01 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 01 January, 2012, 05:51:32 pm
Tip-toeing my way into Facebook.

I don't like it ATM, but the family say I'm out of touch without it.
The trick is to only use it for what you want to use it for - control it rather than it controlling you.
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Post by: L CC on 01 January, 2012, 08:43:40 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 01 January, 2012, 07:04:01 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 01 January, 2012, 05:51:32 pm
Tip-toeing my way into Facebook.

I don't like it ATM, but the family say I'm out of touch without it.
The trick is to only use it for what you want to use it for - control it rather than it controlling you.
If your family is geographically diverse, across time zones and continents, it allows you to share the inconsequential stuffs that keep you connected.
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Post by: Julian on 01 January, 2012, 08:47:54 pm
Drinking beer, watching Narnia and tweaking a job application.
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Post by: Tewdric on 01 January, 2012, 08:49:32 pm
Having a night off boozahol!
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Post by: mike on 01 January, 2012, 08:53:53 pm
Quote from: Tewdric on 01 January, 2012, 08:49:32 pm
Having a night off boozahol!

this.
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Post by: L CC on 01 January, 2012, 08:55:46 pm
Watching telly.

Trying to remember the last time I did this. June, I think?
Adverts are truly shite, aren't they?
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Post by: lou boutin on 01 January, 2012, 09:09:02 pm
Watching Harry Potter.
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Post by: why1040 on 01 January, 2012, 09:16:04 pm
Me too

 ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2012, 10:56:09 pm
Competing with the dog to see who can fart the most. It's close.
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Post by: clarion on 02 January, 2012, 03:28:00 pm
We're sat in the central courtyard at the. British museum.  For the record, they seem very relaxed about people picnicking on the benches :-)
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Post by: lou boutin on 02 January, 2012, 03:31:08 pm
Watching Sister Act 2
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Post by: interzen on 02 January, 2012, 03:50:00 pm
Reading my PDF copies1 of XXC Magazine (http://xxcmag.com/) - it's giving me some very unsound ideas ...

1 - Print copies have been ordered, but won't be here 'til next week.
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Post by: giropaul on 02 January, 2012, 03:55:39 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 01 January, 2012, 05:51:32 pm
Tip-toeing my way into Facebook.

I don't like it ATM, but the family say I'm out of touch without it.

That, in my view, is one of the most compelling arguments to ignore it.
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Post by: Pingu on 02 January, 2012, 05:53:36 pm
Quote from: fboab on 01 January, 2012, 08:55:46 pm
Adverts are truly shite, aren't they?

Yes  :demon:
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Post by: eck on 02 January, 2012, 06:02:43 pm
Quote from: fboab on 01 January, 2012, 08:43:40 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 01 January, 2012, 07:04:01 pm
Quote from: Gordy on 01 January, 2012, 05:51:32 pm
Tip-toeing my way into Facebook.

I don't like it ATM, but the family say I'm out of touch without it.
The trick is to only use it for what you want to use it for - control it rather than it controlling you.
If your family is geographically diverse, across time zones and continents, it allows you to share the inconsequential stuffs that keep you connected.
+1 to that fboab.
Our son joined the USAF in August and has just moved to his first proper posting, a base near Tuscon.
In reply to my query whether he'd got there ok yesterday, from South Carolina, he posted:
Quote
just saw a for real tumbleweed. so I'm definitely in Arizona
:D :thumbsup:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 January, 2012, 11:42:34 am
Sitting at home waiting for the hospital to ring me with an MRI appointment.  ::-)
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Post by: Jaded on 05 January, 2012, 11:45:14 am
Walking the pug.
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Post by: clarion on 05 January, 2012, 11:56:36 am
Is that a euphemism?
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Post by: Jaded on 05 January, 2012, 12:05:36 pm
No, he's still got all his equipment.
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Post by: jogler on 05 January, 2012, 02:20:21 pm
actually,it's a trombone
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Post by: tiermat on 06 January, 2012, 02:11:19 pm
Reading crazyguyonabike and getting wanderlust.....
Title: Doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2012, 02:19:18 pm
Drinking coffee at Clacket Lane having dropped Woolly and Peli off at Gatwick.
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Post by: Kim on 06 January, 2012, 03:32:49 pm
Just realised that it's Critical Mass tonight, and wondering whether I can be arsed.   :-\
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 January, 2012, 03:45:57 pm
Desperate to go home. I'm knackered, full of cold and running a temperature. 25 C in the office doesn't help.

The day seems so loong.
Title: Re: Doing now
Post by: Wendy on 06 January, 2012, 03:57:16 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2012, 02:19:18 pm
Drinking coffee at Clacket Lane having dropped Woolly and Peli off at Gatwick.

Should have said to visit, that's only 10min from me. :P
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Post by: Basil on 06 January, 2012, 04:39:02 pm
Oh good.  I'm in the wrong country.  That should be a good enough excuse not to attend CM.
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Post by: Kim on 06 January, 2012, 05:18:48 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 January, 2012, 03:32:49 pm
Just realised that it's Critical Mass tonight, and wondering whether I can be arsed.   :-\

The realisation that I've just washed all my winter gloves has made the decision for me.   :facepalm:
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 06 January, 2012, 06:18:10 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 06 January, 2012, 02:11:19 pm
Reading crazyguyonabike and getting wanderlust.....

Meee tooooooo.
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Post by: PaulF on 07 January, 2012, 01:00:03 pm
Coming round from anaesthetic. The (planned) operation was a success :)
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Post by: tiermat on 07 January, 2012, 01:55:09 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 07 January, 2012, 01:00:03 pm
Coming round from anaesthetic. The (planned) operation was a success :)

\o/ glad to hear Paul, get well soon.  Where do we send cake/sweets/grapes? :)
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Post by: Feline on 07 January, 2012, 03:08:05 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 07 January, 2012, 01:00:03 pm
Coming round from anaesthetic. The (planned) operation was a success :)

Excellent news  :thumbsup:
How long have they said you will need to be off the bike?
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Post by: PaulF on 07 January, 2012, 03:11:22 pm
Well will be home today. The surgeon is a cyclist and said "as soon as I feel comfortable" :thumbsup:  was mentally prepared for 6 weeks off and reckons much less than that :D
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Post by: Feline on 07 January, 2012, 03:17:06 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 07 January, 2012, 03:11:22 pm
Well will be home today. The surgeon is a cyclist and said "as soon as I feel comfortable" :thumbsup:  was mentally prepared for 6 weeks off and reckons much less than that :D

Result  :thumbsup:
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Post by: lou boutin on 07 January, 2012, 05:34:06 pm
GWS PaulF

I am enjoying a day with my family.  We are making sweets.  Yummy.
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Post by: PaulF on 07 January, 2012, 05:46:39 pm
Just got home :)
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Post by: clarion on 07 January, 2012, 10:16:32 pm
Great news Paul.  Hope you recover swiftly :)
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 07 January, 2012, 11:30:54 pm
Bah, in a moment of distraction I hit exit on the menu in the game I was playing (Oolite). Intended to exit the menu not the game. But it didn't ask me to confirm exiting and I hadn't saved yet. Poop.
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Post by: Feline on 08 January, 2012, 12:03:05 am
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 07 January, 2012, 11:30:54 pm
Bah, in a moment of distraction I hit exit on the menu in the game I was playing (Oolite). Intended to exit the menu not the game. But it didn't ask me to confirm exiting and I hadn't saved yet. Poop.

simonp is also playing Oolite and has recently moved from harmless to dangerous. I am keeping my addictive persona well clear of the game since it seems a way to while away countless hours while my housework goes to s**t! My favourite planets are populated with Fierce Furry Felines  :D
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Post by: Frere on 08 January, 2012, 12:17:37 am
Watching the Sherlock Holmes 'Scandal in Belgravia' on BBC iPlayer and wondering what the fuss is about.

Finding those thoughts floating on the screen a bit gimmicky and annoying.

Frere
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Post by: Kim on 08 January, 2012, 12:43:45 am
Quote from: Frere on 08 January, 2012, 12:17:37 am
Finding those thoughts floating on the screen a bit gimmicky and annoying.

I quite liked them.  Could have done with a little longer to read them on the TV I was watching them on, though, as I was having to squint a bit.

I thought it was a refreshing change from mocking up MovieOS screens for every little interaction with technology, avoiding the problem of looking obviously dated or fake.  Much better than a lingering close-up of a phone every time someone sends a text message.

It struck me as somewhat derivative of the use of comic-book speech bubble style subtitle positioning in Heroes, which I was really impressed by (especially when I discovered that on the HD-DVDs (dunno about blu-ray) the subtitles tracks all did the same thing, not just the burnt-in subs for the Japanese characters).  It really fitted in with the overall style of the series.
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Post by: Feline on 08 January, 2012, 12:56:05 am
Crap, I just sorted my bike out in case I feel the urge to ride into Bristol in the morning and then decided to go to bed. This was when I remembered the bedding is still wet in the washing machine  :facepalm:
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Post by: TimO on 08 January, 2012, 01:11:24 am
Been there, done that, that's what sleeping bags are for. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 January, 2012, 01:13:21 am
Or, you could have n+1 sets of bedding...
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Post by: Feline on 08 January, 2012, 01:16:34 am
Quote from: Kim on 08 January, 2012, 01:13:21 am
Or, you could have n+1 sets of bedding...

I do .... they are both in the wash! Epic fail  :facepalm:

Quote from: TimO on 08 January, 2012, 01:11:24 am
Been there, done that, that's what sleeping bags are for. ;D

Trouble with that is my cats find the silky texture of my sleeping bag exciting and spend the whole night pouncing on my feet. This is why I don't take them camping or wear silky clothing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 January, 2012, 01:19:22 am
If I were less familiar with the ways of Siamese cats, I might suggest sleeping in a cat-free room.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 08 January, 2012, 01:21:39 am
Quote from: Kim on 08 January, 2012, 01:19:22 am
If I were less familiar with the ways of Siamese cats, I might suggest sleeping in a cat-free room.   ;D

The carpet outside my bedroom door would not thank me for attempting that  ;D
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Post by: Domestique on 08 January, 2012, 03:47:07 am
Not sleeping  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 08 January, 2012, 05:03:03 am
Quote from: Domestique on 08 January, 2012, 03:47:07 am
Not sleeping  :(

This.  Again.

Also, thinking of waking Crusty up to go for a bike ride.  It isn't frosty, at least I don't think so.  And the lights are charged.

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Post by: clarion on 08 January, 2012, 05:09:55 am
That.  i woke up, was restless, so came downstairs, had some toast, did some fettling and washed up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 08 January, 2012, 05:13:38 am
Quote from: clarion on 08 January, 2012, 05:09:55 am
That.  i woke up, was restless, so came downstairs, had some toast, did some fettling and washed up.

I just had some camomile tea and went on the 'net for a play.  Nearly time to get up anyway.
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Post by: Jurek on 08 January, 2012, 05:22:50 am
Drinking tea.

No milk  :(.

And listening to Joe Jackson's Steppin' out.

Top tune.
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Post by: BrianI on 08 January, 2012, 07:17:05 am
soaking up lux from my lightbox.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: rower40 on 08 January, 2012, 10:51:35 am
Clocking up silly TOIL hours, by sitting in the messroom of Didcot signalbox.  I've watched three trains and a hi-viz-clad gentleman with a clipboard pass by along Dead Rabbit curve (*) so far this morning; normally there's only one or two trains per day there.

(*) My coined name for this stretch of line, for obvious reasons.  Actually from Didcot North Junction to Foxhall Junction.

Update: 7 trains. And the hi-viz clipboard man has now walked back the other way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 January, 2012, 11:09:12 am
Looking at B&Bs on Skye in Portree and Kyleakin. And grumbling to myself because my hip is nippy this morning. And wondering if I have an underactive thyroid because waking up is like swimming through treacle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 08 January, 2012, 02:07:58 pm
Watching Handbag's flight from Tokyo coming in to Heathrow on Flight Radar (http://www.flightradar24.com/).

She's currently over South Woodham Ferrers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 January, 2012, 02:54:52 am
Watching Zev and Kai playing cat chess while on standby for last-minute proofreading duties for barakta.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 January, 2012, 03:52:11 am
Not sleeping. 

Drinking camomile tea.

 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 09 January, 2012, 06:20:44 am
Fighting with a printer... which might be heading out through the window soon.  >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 January, 2012, 10:23:32 am
Watching a bloke fit a towbar to my car, along with a HUGE bike rack....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 January, 2012, 10:28:54 am
Fitting a tow bar using a bike rack? Impressive ... I'd have thought some kind of welding gear would be required :)

[ this interlude brought to you in a possibly vain attempt to put off having to explore more of my predecessor's spaghetti code ]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 10 January, 2012, 10:33:17 am
Going quietly (and expensively) stir crazy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 January, 2012, 10:34:27 am
Quote from: interzen on 10 January, 2012, 10:28:54 am
Fitting a tow bar using a bike rack? Impressive ... I'd have thought some kind of welding gear would be required :)

[ this interlude brought to you in a possibly vain attempt to put off having to explore more of my predecessor's spaghetti code ]

Not quite, but it has meant he has had to remove the rear bumper, which if you have seen my car, or know it's type you will understand that is not something to be done lightly, and I am surprised he has managed it himself, all on his own (I have a Honda FR-V)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 January, 2012, 10:56:18 am
Waiting for a web page to load....

So far >10 minutes....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 January, 2012, 12:03:22 pm
Potty training. Score so far today=

potty: 6
floor: 3 4
sofa: 1
half on floor, half on potty: 1

Not bad for a start :)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 January, 2012, 12:26:21 pm
Sounds like Clarion learns quickly. Well done ol' chap  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 January, 2012, 12:33:15 pm
I'm quite proud of my achievement there ;D

Actually, I've been hanging out the laundry, doing photo homework, getting lads out to where they need to go, filing documents, checking routes and searching for a book.  Who says men can't multitask?  Ok, so it manifests more like lack of focus...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 January, 2012, 04:29:03 pm
Considering how to get to a job interview without a car.

Options:
a) ride
b) bus-train-walk
c) taxi
d) flutter eyelashes and waft tempting cake-smells at man-with-car.

Hmm...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 10 January, 2012, 04:33:19 pm
Quote from: fboab on 10 January, 2012, 04:29:03 pm
Considering how to get to a job interview without a car.

Options:
a) ride
b) bus-train-walk
c) taxi
d) flutter eyelashes and waft tempting cake-smells at man-with-car.

Hmm...

Good luck, L,  whatever you decide.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 January, 2012, 04:37:20 pm
aye,good luck with the interview.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 10 January, 2012, 04:48:11 pm
Quote from: fboab on 10 January, 2012, 04:29:03 pm
Considering how to get to a job interview without a car.

Options:
a) ride
b) bus-train-walk
c) taxi
d) flutter eyelashes and waft tempting cake-smells at man-with-car.

Hmm...

Correct answer is probably d), arriving at work in post-ride state is IMO fine but for an interview I might want to actually do my hair and wear proper clothes. (The employer will then never see me like that again once I actually have the job!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 January, 2012, 05:33:56 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 10 January, 2012, 12:03:22 pm
Potty training. Score so far today=

potty: 6 7
floor: 3 4
sofa: 1
half on floor, half on potty: 1

Not bad for a start :)
:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 January, 2012, 05:41:52 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 10 January, 2012, 05:33:56 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 10 January, 2012, 12:03:22 pm
Potty training. Score so far today=

potty: 6 7+ 1 poo! :D
floor: 3 4
sofa: 1
half on floor, half on potty: 1

Not bad  for a start :)
:)

FANTASTIC! (I realise I'm sad :-[)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 10 January, 2012, 05:42:54 pm
Potty training here also. 1 poo on the potty, first one ever so I'm quite impressed. No wees on the floor so far, and 5 in the potty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 January, 2012, 05:46:26 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 10 January, 2012, 05:42:54 pm
Potty training here also. 1 poo on the potty, first one ever so I'm quite impressed. No wees on the floor so far, and 5 in the potty.
That's fab!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 10 January, 2012, 05:48:59 pm
:D

You're not sad at all, I have the same sort of score sheet. We're doing stickers for successful potty usages.  Putting the chart in excel would be sad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 January, 2012, 05:50:06 pm
Quote from: Wendy on 10 January, 2012, 05:48:59 pm
:D

You're not sad at all, I have the same sort of score sheet. We're doing stickers for successful potty usages.  Putting the chart in excel would be sad.

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 January, 2012, 06:40:20 pm
Quote from: Feline on 10 January, 2012, 04:48:11 pm
Quote from: fboab on 10 January, 2012, 04:29:03 pm
Considering how to get to a job interview without a car.

Options:
a) ride
b) bus-train-walk
c) taxi
d) flutter eyelashes and waft tempting cake-smells at man-with-car.

Hmm...

Correct answer is probably d), arriving at work in post-ride state is IMO fine but for an interview I might want to actually do my hair and wear proper clothes. (The employer will then never see me like that again once I actually have the job!)
:)
Whilst I very nearly attended the first interview for my current job in cycling gear, I decided that cycling across town with laptop etc. in less than 45 minutes was probably a tough ask. In the end I went on the bus but did the interview in 'civvies' (I did do the 'shirt and tie' bit for the second interview, mind)

My answer would also be d), with c) as a backup plan - b) doesn't bear thinking about in your neck of the woods (public transport is complete shite here, so $DEITY only knows what it's like in darkest Suffolk) and I'd only consider a) if I could get away with it (see above)

Even if it turns out to be option e) (something else), good luck ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 11 January, 2012, 03:55:55 am
Aye. Best of luck boab. You're due some. I'm at work, which is good cos this is my most awake time of day at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 January, 2012, 04:45:17 am
Not sleeping, so taking the opportunity to do some trans-Atlantic familial computer maintenance.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 January, 2012, 04:20:40 pm
Waiting for the GP.  I arrived waaaay early, but used the time to finish reading my book.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 11 January, 2012, 05:27:39 pm
Looking for mudguards and pedals for N+1. I don't yet know when N+1 will arrive, but as soon as it does I want to have all the bits ready to ride it  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 11 January, 2012, 05:54:50 pm
Waiting to go out beach fishing tonight  (http://i806.photobucket.com/albums/yy350/bravada21/Smileys/fishing.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 January, 2012, 05:58:15 pm
Staunching the blood flow...   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 11 January, 2012, 06:01:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 January, 2012, 05:58:15 pm
Staunching the blood flow...   ::-)

Picture??
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 January, 2012, 06:02:34 pm
It seems to have stopped bleeding now.

Tiddly little finger cut, anyway.  Just one of those surprisingly bleedy ones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 11 January, 2012, 08:42:34 pm
Browsing public inquiry documents (looking for core document E2  ::-))
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 11 January, 2012, 09:07:24 pm
Quote from: RJ on 11 January, 2012, 08:42:34 pm
Browsing public inquiry documents (looking for core document E2  ::-))

not in that 1000+ items  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 12 January, 2012, 06:03:50 pm
Trying to figure out level 11 of Phlipple
http://phuzzboxmedia.com/index.php/games/phlipple (http://phuzzboxmedia.com/index.php/games/phlipple)   :demon: :demon: :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 January, 2012, 06:25:41 pm
Digesting my dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 13 January, 2012, 08:58:19 am
Drinking a second cup of tea, as the memories of last night come wafting back. 

I need to drink less wine.  Was I really pontificating on Cartesian mind/body dualism at 1am?  Oh, goddy god   :facepalm:  And my head hurts.   :-\

It's a good job my friends love me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 January, 2012, 09:00:02 am
Oh, we do, we do! More tea!  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 13 January, 2012, 09:06:02 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 13 January, 2012, 09:00:02 am
Oh, we do, we do! More tea!  :-*

Thank you  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 January, 2012, 10:34:14 am
I love it when you pontificate ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 13 January, 2012, 11:10:04 am
Drinking coffee and making mince pies  :P home made mince with loads of brandy ..hic
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 13 January, 2012, 12:23:38 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 13 January, 2012, 11:10:04 am
Drinking coffee and making mince pies  :P home made mince with loads of brandy ..hic

Sounds lovely  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 13 January, 2012, 01:07:48 pm
Bugger all as we've got a power cut at work  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 13 January, 2012, 01:33:40 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 13 January, 2012, 08:58:19 am


Was I really pontificating on Cartesian mind/body dualism at 1am?
There is no better time!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 13 January, 2012, 01:44:40 pm
Checking on the builders.
Being builders, they're not here today.
The water's off, it's freezing, I'm starving and there's no real food here. Brrrr!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 13 January, 2012, 01:53:18 pm
Quote from: fboab on 13 January, 2012, 01:44:40 pm
Checking on the builders.
Being builders, they're not here today.
The water's off, it's freezing, I'm starving and there's no real food here. Brrrr!

Oh, FFS.  How annoying.

It'll be great when it's done tho'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 January, 2012, 02:16:24 pm
Looking for the sellotape...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 13 January, 2012, 03:21:28 pm
Waiting for 10 minutes to pass. Then holiday  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 January, 2012, 03:24:00 pm
Quote from: Kim on 13 January, 2012, 02:16:24 pm
Looking for the sellotape...

It's over there ------>

HTH  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 January, 2012, 05:24:34 pm
Waiting for the opportunity to complete my first commuting 'full house' of 2012.  They'll let me out of here eventually...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 13 January, 2012, 05:27:14 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 January, 2012, 05:24:34 pm
They'll let me out of here eventually...
You mean the works bar is still open?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 January, 2012, 05:33:05 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 13 January, 2012, 05:27:14 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 January, 2012, 05:24:34 pm
They'll let me out of here eventually...
You mean the works bar is still open?  ;)

Sadly, I'm at work for work purposes.  Office bar is open next Friday (but there are leaving drinks being had at a local hostelry even as I speaktype).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 January, 2012, 07:25:39 pm
Using Fairy Power Spray to strip off a rather poorly applied coat of paint on a plastic scale model..  Perhaps I ought to use some of the Fairy Power Spray on my rather dirty oven tray too......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adam on 14 January, 2012, 10:07:19 am
Doing my tax return online (exciting stuff).

Instead of getting some money back like I usually do, I might have to pay some more to HMRC!!    :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 14 January, 2012, 11:35:32 am
Ooh yes, tax return. Meeting accountant this week to finish mine.

Sitting on train to Sheffield for a reunion of old university mates. Quite excited, seeing some people who I've sadly lost touch with over the last 20 years. I expect much drunken bad behaviour (not from me though) and some dad-dancing (this is entirely possible for me).

Half a lifetime ago. Cor we are getting old.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 January, 2012, 11:39:48 am
Quote from: marcusjb on 14 January, 2012, 11:35:32 am
Half a lifetime ago. Cor we are getting old.

Every time someone mentions that phrase I, for some reason, automatically think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1YqF3pYAeg
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 14 January, 2012, 11:49:43 am
I am pretty sure we'll be back giggling like teenagers, telling puerile jokes etc. pretty quickly.

Looking forward to it all, just dreading someone coming up to me and saying 'remember me?' and not having a clue. Even worse is people who I only know by nicknames, I may never have known their real names!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 January, 2012, 03:14:02 pm
Sitting here thinking I really should do my tax return ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 January, 2012, 04:30:11 pm
That's a point: tax return!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 January, 2012, 04:43:24 pm
Watching darts.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 14 January, 2012, 04:47:10 pm
Fletching Arrows.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 January, 2012, 05:12:11 pm
Watching The Dam Busters and waiting for the oven to heat up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 January, 2012, 05:17:37 pm
I just had a bod at the door, asking about loft insulation, and whether I'd received the information from British Gas.

After various questions, he tried to get me to sign what looked a lot like a contract to have work done, and indeed after looking around briefly online, it does look like it's some sort of arrangement to get people to sign up, and possibly not cancel.  Possibly not a scam, but not far off, and being economical with the truth, as well as biasing what they say.

He wasn't particularly averse to me not signing up, but I think he probably didn't want me start looking too closely at the details on the paperwork.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 14 January, 2012, 05:23:10 pm
Feeling  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 January, 2012, 06:36:06 pm
On the way to Sainsburys I decided to pop into the new(ish) Croydon Cycle Surgery.

It's not a bad store, but being co-situated with Snow+Rock and Runners Need, it isn't all that big.  There's a similar Cycle Surgery / Snow+Rock on Kensington High Street, which is probably smaller overall, but has more bicycle accessories that this one does.

They have a greater proportion of bicycles, but since it's probably a decade since I bought a bike in a shop, that isn't of much an interest to me.

I did buy a thin pair of Sugoi Thermal Knit Gloves, and they seemed to have a nice selection of locks (this is Croydon, after all!)

It's OK, and with luck, they'll stock more stuff eventually.  I've noticed in the past that such stores often start off with relatively low levels of accessories, and it takes a while to build all the stock up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cwbuk on 14 January, 2012, 08:52:29 pm
wondering how i get a my cycling log
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Snakehips on 14 January, 2012, 08:57:00 pm
Drinking one of my Christmas presents.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 14 January, 2012, 08:59:21 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 13 January, 2012, 03:24:00 pm
Quote from: Kim on 13 January, 2012, 02:16:24 pm
Looking for the sellotape...

It's over there ------>

HTH  :thumbsup:
I expect she's now found it, but is searching for the end.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 14 January, 2012, 09:23:59 pm
Quote from: cwbuk on 14 January, 2012, 08:52:29 pm
wondering how i get a my cycling log

Simple, just register at www.mycylinglog.com. For the 'ticker' below your posts there are instructions here (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=55291.30).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 15 January, 2012, 08:31:18 am
Quote from: PaulF on 14 January, 2012, 09:23:59 pm
Quote from: cwbuk on 14 January, 2012, 08:52:29 pm
wondering how i get a my cycling log

Simple, just register at www.mycylinglog.com. For the 'ticker' below your posts there are instructions here (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=55291.30).
Try

http://www.mycyclinglog.com/

PaulF is having typing issues this morning!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 15 January, 2012, 08:39:23 am
Trying to figure out why two gorgeous swans arrived on the lake outside our house.  They turned up on Friday but left yesterday morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 15 January, 2012, 09:59:50 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 15 January, 2012, 08:39:23 am
Trying to figure out why two gorgeous swans arrived on the lake outside our house.  They turned up on Friday but left yesterday morning.
Were they mute swans or one of the other sorts.  The others you occasionally see in the winter migrate anyway, so may well move about looking for somewhere suitable for the winter.  Mute swans have orange bits on the beak.  The others are smaller and have yellow instead.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 15 January, 2012, 11:20:59 am
Just got back from church and now having a coffee
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 January, 2012, 11:30:10 am
Listening to the Unthanks.  Drinking coffee.  Trying to summon the gumption to get on and bloody do summat, which isn't going well at the mo.  Maybe one more coffee will help....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JenM on 15 January, 2012, 11:32:15 am
....pass your cup over, I've got a fresh pot made
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 January, 2012, 11:33:37 am
Cheers pet, black and no sugar!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JenM on 15 January, 2012, 11:42:53 am
No probs - there you go.  Just wash the cup up afterwards

(http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd396/jcm56/P1000586.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 15 January, 2012, 11:46:29 am
Pretending to know a lot more about technology than I actually do, and admiring Phil's eye which you can now see your reflection in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 January, 2012, 11:52:30 am
Going OW! I hit my knee on the door as I came back into the house, as there was a small child behind it, stopping it opening properly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 January, 2012, 12:29:34 pm
I'm refilling my legs.Yesterday's ride seems to have emptied them.I haz raging munchies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 15 January, 2012, 12:46:48 pm
Just watched the HardTalk Interview (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b019867h/HARDtalk_Graeme_Obree_Former_cycling_World_Champion/) with the totally amazing Graeme Obree (posted elsewhere ITP). About to head out on the bike; proving difficult as I hear it's cold out there and we have a lovely fire going in the kitchen.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 15 January, 2012, 03:58:23 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 15 January, 2012, 09:59:50 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 15 January, 2012, 08:39:23 am
Trying to figure out why two gorgeous swans arrived on the lake outside our house.  They turned up on Friday but left yesterday morning.
Were they mute swans or one of the other sorts.  The others you occasionally see in the winter migrate anyway, so may well move about looking for somewhere suitable for the winter.  Mute swans have orange bits on the beak.  The others are smaller and have yellow instead.

S

Having searched the net I think were likely to be Bewick swans, so yep they were probably testing the waters.  They're probably better off not being here, we have lots of fishermen, so there will be lines and weights around that aren't good for them. Shame, they were beautiful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 15 January, 2012, 04:07:28 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 15 January, 2012, 03:58:23 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 15 January, 2012, 09:59:50 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 15 January, 2012, 08:39:23 am
Trying to figure out why two gorgeous swans arrived on the lake outside our house.  They turned up on Friday but left yesterday morning.
Were they mute swans or one of the other sorts.  The others you occasionally see in the winter migrate anyway, so may well move about looking for somewhere suitable for the winter.  Mute swans have orange bits on the beak.  The others are smaller and have yellow instead.

S

Having searched the net I think were likely to be Bewick swans, so yep they were probably testing the waters.  They're probably better off not being here, we have lots of fishermen, so there will be lines and weights around that aren't good for them. Shame, they were beautiful.
Unlike mutes, Bewick's and Whooper's both tend to be wary of people.  I've never got that close to either, except at a WWT reserve where one had got used to the hides (and for some reason hadn't bothered to migrate back to the arctic to breed)

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 15 January, 2012, 04:11:53 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 15 January, 2012, 04:07:28 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 15 January, 2012, 03:58:23 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 15 January, 2012, 09:59:50 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 15 January, 2012, 08:39:23 am
Trying to figure out why two gorgeous swans arrived on the lake outside our house.  They turned up on Friday but left yesterday morning.
Were they mute swans or one of the other sorts.  The others you occasionally see in the winter migrate anyway, so may well move about looking for somewhere suitable for the winter.  Mute swans have orange bits on the beak.  The others are smaller and have yellow instead.

S

Having searched the net I think were likely to be Bewick swans, so yep they were probably testing the waters.  They're probably better off not being here, we have lots of fishermen, so there will be lines and weights around that aren't good for them. Shame, they were beautiful.
Unlike mutes, Bewick's and Whooper's both tend to be wary of people.  I've never got that close to either, except at a WWT reserve where one had got used to the hides (and for some reason hadn't bothered to migrate back to the arctic to breed)



S

My husband and I stood by the lake, watching them.  After a while they swam quite close to us; my husband was trying to take photographs of them, but it was too dark.  It seemed like they were trying to pose for pictures.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 15 January, 2012, 05:56:49 pm
Wondering whether to put the studded tyres back on in case there's ice tomorrow. :-\

Also wondering why I can't get a seatpost in a frame, despite it being the correct size according to my digital caliper...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 15 January, 2012, 06:31:31 pm
Sitting alone and freezing cold in a pub while Mr Smith gets a taxi to get a train to get the car to come get the (broken) tandem.

Wondering how to end the curse of boab.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 January, 2012, 06:43:52 pm
Quote from: fboab on 15 January, 2012, 06:31:31 pm
Wondering how to end the curse of boab.

Change your name.
Sir Francis Drake changed the name of his ship from The Pelican to The Golden Hind & look what happened to him:became very matey with royalty ;)

I hope your luck changes for the better very very soon boab,I really do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 15 January, 2012, 07:32:01 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 January, 2012, 06:43:52 pm
I hope your luck changes for the better very very soon boab,I really do.
^ This ^
A broken tandem is a sad thing. I hope it can be put together again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 15 January, 2012, 08:03:35 pm
It got so bad today I started laughing hysterically.
The ferry was closed, we had to detour through Gt Yarmouth (bottom feeder central of Norfolk). Then we stopped at a garden centre in the hope of tea- but it was a parallel universe garden centre with a jumble sale. Then we managed to jam the chain between the frame and the cassette. Then Chris's pedal fell off (only after we'd stopped twice for me to inspect his cleats) and then the chain snapped. Right now the chain is jammed solid again.

Sigh. It's a nice pub. I'm watching telly.
Mr Smith has decided I'm somewhat incident prone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 January, 2012, 08:20:38 pm
Quote from: fboab on 15 January, 2012, 08:03:35 pm

Mr Smith has decided I'm somewhat incident prone. is a lucky lad

ftfy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 January, 2012, 08:40:39 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 15 January, 2012, 11:30:10 am
Listening to the Unthanks.  Drinking coffee.  Trying to summon the gumption to get on and bloody do summat, which isn't going well at the mo.  Maybe one more coffee will help....

Still this, pretty much.

Not the most productive day ever  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 January, 2012, 10:11:28 am
Sat in a Honda dealership, the sun in my eyes and Jeremy Kyle on the tv competing with the radio in the background. i am getting a headache. :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 January, 2012, 10:41:09 am
Waiting for a bus. I missed the previous one by less than 5 minutes, and the next isn't till 12.
60 minutes down, 75 to go, and my resolve not to go to the shop and buy chocolate is slipping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 January, 2012, 10:44:15 am
Finally beginning to see the funny side of yesterday's shenanigans.

The cab ride from Wells to Norwich was spendy (£50 - Sunday rates), but I got the benefit of the life story of the driver. Which was nice. Actually, we mostly chatted about bikes and hills - so it was OK.

It was just as well we elected to leave the tandem at Wells (with boab standing guard), rather than dismantle it and force it into the taxi, because the trains from Norwich to Diss were in fact, buses. Ah - the Sunday Bus Replacement Service - I'd forgotten it's now a permanent feature of the Norwich-Ipswich line.

So after a bonus 3 hour drive (Diss -> Wells -> Diss), boab and I finally managed to get our long awaited, and by then rather dried-up, stew & dumplings.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 January, 2012, 10:50:44 am
Quote from: Chris S on 16 January, 2012, 10:44:15 am
Finally beginning to see the funny side of yesterday's shenanigans.
And about time too!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 January, 2012, 10:51:53 am
Quote from: fboab on 16 January, 2012, 10:50:44 am
Quote from: Chris S on 16 January, 2012, 10:44:15 am
Finally beginning to see the funny side of yesterday's shenanigans.
And about time too!

 :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 January, 2012, 12:03:44 pm
Revving up the Nikon.
It's a long time since I used this.It's actually Marj's toy.I reckon I'll just set everything to auto & point&shoot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 January, 2012, 01:17:03 pm
Home now, £95 lighter and have been told the car needs 2 more new tyres and the alignment doing :(

This thing costs a fortune, tyres are £145/corner (Michelin Primacy in 205/50WR17) and the suspension is prone to go out of alignment, especially so as it has the bigger wheels on (standard is 16").

Oh and it's not the reversing sensor control box that is faulty, it's one of the sensors.  Still covered under warranty though, so it should be as they are ~£150 a set (the control box is about £180)!

And yes they did ask when I had had the towbar fitted :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 January, 2012, 01:58:40 pm
Blowing my daily calorie allowance in Morissons cafe... :-/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 16 January, 2012, 02:39:58 pm
Hiding whilst the sparkies rip the house apart for a general rewiring....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 January, 2012, 06:31:27 pm
Heating my Tesco Value cheese n tomato pizza in the oven.
Feeling somewhat chilly after todays college field trip up Glen Clova and Loch Brandy. 
Hot shower soon!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 17 January, 2012, 03:52:03 am
Being awake.  Drinking camomile tea (sigh).   Looking forward to seeing my excellent, reasonable, supportive and even-tempered boss tomorrow for our friendly chat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 17 January, 2012, 04:16:08 am
Stressing. Not sleeping :(

Camomile tea sounds a good idea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 17 January, 2012, 08:34:42 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho link=topic=10706.msg1140929# msg1140929 date=1326772323
Being awake.  Drinking camomile tea (sigh).   Looking forward to seeing my excellent, reasonable, supportive and even-tempered boss tomorrow for our friendly chat.

Your not sleeping has been going on for a while now.  :(

I hope you find a remedy soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 17 January, 2012, 09:40:18 pm
Having got bored with everything on my phone crashing, the Camera, the Browser, and most recently the Settings ( :-\ ) I decided to blow everything away, and revert to the factory settings.

So, nuked back to nothing, fiddled around until I got the WiFi working, and then downloaded the Android update, and it's now back to where it should be, excepting downloading all the Apps that I've previously installed.  On the plus side, that does mean I can install things relatively cleanly this time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 17 January, 2012, 11:13:00 pm
playing with my arduino game, deciding whether to take it apart or put it away as-is.

It is a reaction timer. Press the button, wait for the light to turn off (a variable length of time) and then hit the button again. Best so far was 154 ms (and the 'jump start' limit is coded at 150 :o )

I'm liking playing with hardware :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 18 January, 2012, 03:57:05 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 17 January, 2012, 08:34:42 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho link=topic=10706.msg1140929# msg1140929 date=1326772323
Being awake.  Drinking camomile tea (sigh).   Looking forward to seeing my excellent, reasonable, supportive and even-tempered boss tomorrow for our friendly chat.

Your not sleeping has been going on for a while now.  :(

I hope you find a remedy soon.

So do I!  Thanks Lou  ;D

And here we are again, camomile tea, cowboy junkies, I should probly start doing something useful with this time.  I'm like a Meerkat on cocaine at 4am and a zombie at 4pm.  Does John Cusack need a new stalker, d'you think?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2012, 12:09:25 pm
Feeling meh about everything, work, family, life, cycling, EVERYTHING....

Stoppit and go away, I want to feel good enough to go cycling, but that just is not happening :(

Add to that it seems that all my friends are buggering off to forrin parts to have fun on bikes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 18 January, 2012, 12:15:58 pm
Don't wait to feel good enough to go cycling; go cycling and you will feel good! :D

Just to offset the friends enjoying rides in exotic Forrin, think of me in Sarf Lahndan! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2012, 12:24:09 pm
Quote from: clarion on 18 January, 2012, 12:15:58 pm
Don't wait to feel good enough to go cycling; go cycling and you will feel good! :D

Have you been talking to Mrs T? She has just said pretty much the same thing, via email :D

Quote
Just to offset the friends enjoying rides in exotic Forrin, think of me in Sarf Lahndan! ;D

That's "Here be Dragons" territory, innit? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 18 January, 2012, 12:36:23 pm
Mrs T is a very wise woman.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 18 January, 2012, 01:21:08 pm
Thinking about putting the heating on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 18 January, 2012, 01:29:03 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 18 January, 2012, 12:09:25 pm
Feeling meh about everything, work, family, life, cycling, EVERYTHING....

Stoppit and go away, I want to feel good enough to go cycling, but that just is not happening :(

Add to that it seems that all my friends are buggering off to forrin parts to have fun on bikes.
 

Oi!  Not all your friends, surely?

Mr Two Wheels Round Catatonia  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2012, 01:30:44 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 18 January, 2012, 01:29:03 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 18 January, 2012, 12:09:25 pm
Feeling meh about everything, work, family, life, cycling, EVERYTHING....

Stoppit and go away, I want to feel good enough to go cycling, but that just is not happening :(

Add to that it seems that all my friends are buggering off to forrin parts to have fun on bikes.
 

Oi!  Not all your friends, surely?

Mr Two Wheels Round Catatonia  :P

Not all, which is why I said it seems

I think next weekend, and the resumption of thursday night rides, can't come soon enough...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 18 January, 2012, 01:31:50 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 18 January, 2012, 01:30:44 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 18 January, 2012, 01:29:03 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 18 January, 2012, 12:09:25 pm
Feeling meh about everything, work, family, life, cycling, EVERYTHING....

Stoppit and go away, I want to feel good enough to go cycling, but that just is not happening :(

Add to that it seems that all my friends are buggering off to forrin parts to have fun on bikes.
 

Oi!  Not all your friends, surely?

Mr Two Wheels Round Catatonia  :P

Not all, which is why I said it seems

I think next weekend, and the resumption of thursday night rides, can't come soon enough...

Well said, that dragon! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 18 January, 2012, 04:16:59 pm
I just had a mad dash to hide a very large cardboard box that has been delivered before the kids got home, I am hoping to get away with having it stashed on end behind the door in my ensuite bathroom. Inside is my son's birthday fixie  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 18 January, 2012, 05:06:02 pm
Slightly panicking- I start work tomorrow.

How do you that again?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 January, 2012, 05:12:45 pm
Quote from: fboab on 18 January, 2012, 05:06:02 pm


How do you that again?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5JHGi0awgc

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 18 January, 2012, 05:26:43 pm
Sat at work in my bike kit ready to ride home  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 18 January, 2012, 05:44:11 pm
Try to decide which fire to put out first...  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 18 January, 2012, 07:07:14 pm
Feeling tired.   :-[  Big walk up Glen Clova with college on Monday, bracken & rhodedendrononn bashing with college @ Falkland Estate on Tuesday, and bracken bashing at RSPB Vane Farm nature reserve as a volunteer today, means I'm rather tired and sair now!  Soon bath then bed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 18 January, 2012, 07:16:33 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 18 January, 2012, 05:44:11 pm
Try to decide which fire to put out first...  :-\

Losing the will to live work.  I think this means I should go home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adam on 18 January, 2012, 08:09:47 pm
Quote from: Adam on 14 January, 2012, 10:07:19 am
Doing my tax return online (exciting stuff).

Instead of getting some money back like I usually do, I might have to pay some more to HMRC!!    :o

I finally went back online on the HMRC web site to finish this off.  I owe them £44.10. 

However, you'll be pleased to know that I've paid this just now, rather than waiting to the end of the month.  Hopefully this injection of money will enable the Government to end the austerity measures.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 January, 2012, 12:05:38 am
Failing to sleep.

I got a bit (OK, quite a lot) stressed about stuff earlier, which upset someone. Now it's bothering me. I don't like upsetting people.

I shall watch a Harry Potter movie. That'll send me to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 January, 2012, 12:19:24 am
Chris - hope the stress about Stuff fades soon, and the upset s short-lived.

I am thinking that I ought to get my arse into gear, have a bath and go to bed since I have managed to sleep less than 4 hours most nights this week.  Innaminnit....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GruB on 20 January, 2012, 12:29:51 am
After arriving home form work at midnight I've just eaten a blueberry muffin left for me by Mrs G.  She has been baking tonight using her new 'The Diabetic Revolution' cook book - the muffins are well moist and tasty. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 20 January, 2012, 12:40:41 am
Quote from: Chris S on 20 January, 2012, 12:05:38 am
Failing to sleep.

I got a bit (OK, quite a lot) stressed about stuff earlier, which upset someone. Now it's bothering me. I don't like upsetting people.

I shall watch a Harry Potter movie. That'll send me to sleep.

Try not to stress even more about the results of your earlier stress. Sometimes reacting to stress is unavoidable and human even if not ideal, you shouldn't beat yourself up about it. Those who care about you will understand.
Hope you manage to get to sleep soon. I tend to find the secret is to stop trying to sleep and just rest while reading a book lying down (a boring one preferably) and let the sleep come by itself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 January, 2012, 01:04:01 am
Wondering:

a) whether barakta could make it to the top of Gay Hill[1] and still have enough cycling legs left to get home again.
b) whether I should put the maps away and go to bed.


[1] As previously observed, this one wasn't named by a cyclist.  It marks the point where it's Downhill[2] All The Way To Stratford.
[2] In the Deano sense.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 20 January, 2012, 04:26:53 am
You never know till you try Kim!  Is there a cafe at the bottom of said hill?

I am Not Sleeping, and am drinking hot chocolate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 January, 2012, 07:37:42 am
Yet another night of not sleeping, must be something in the water.  That and getting a knee in the posteria at about 4AM....

Making porridge and watching TV, trying to summon up enough energy and enthusiasm to do 1) work 2) a bike ride today.

Is it ok if I only manage 1 of those 2? preferably the second...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 January, 2012, 09:25:22 am
Quote from: tiermat on 20 January, 2012, 07:37:42 am

Is it ok if I only manage 1 of those 2? preferably the second...


perfectectly acceptable  :thumbsup:

POETS day it is then ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 20 January, 2012, 12:44:29 pm
Having another bout of upset stomach  :( It's been uncomfortable for 3 days again.  I've removed wheat and dairy from my diet but not introduced either yet, so I suspect they might not be the culprit  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 January, 2012, 01:17:59 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 20 January, 2012, 12:44:29 pm
Having another bout of upset stomach  :( It's been uncomfortable for 3 days again.  I've removed wheat and dairy from my diet but not introduced either yet, so I suspect they might not be the culprit  :-\

Did you see the Doc yet - even if just for the stock "It's a virus, now go away." answer?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 January, 2012, 04:09:31 pm
I've just been re-reading my E2E blog.Now I have itchy pedals ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 20 January, 2012, 04:12:54 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 20 January, 2012, 12:44:29 pm
Having another bout of upset stomach  :( It's been uncomfortable for 3 days again.  I've removed wheat and dairy from my diet but not introduced either yet, so I suspect they might not be the culprit  :-\
If I eat wheat, it takes at least 5 days for the effects to wear off. Give it time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 January, 2012, 08:15:31 pm
Trying to help someone I haven't spoken to for 9 years resolve a major network issue, 20:15 on a Friday night, WTF?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 20 January, 2012, 08:29:11 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 20 January, 2012, 04:12:54 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 20 January, 2012, 12:44:29 pm
Having another bout of upset stomach  :( It's been uncomfortable for 3 days again.  I've removed wheat and dairy from my diet but not introduced either yet, so I suspect they might not be the culprit  :-\
If I eat wheat, it takes at least 5 days for the effects to wear off. Give it time.

I stopped eating wheat and dairy 6 days ago, so I suppose they could be still having an effect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 20 January, 2012, 08:30:57 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 20 January, 2012, 01:17:59 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 20 January, 2012, 12:44:29 pm
Having another bout of upset stomach  :( It's been uncomfortable for 3 days again.  I've removed wheat and dairy from my diet but not introduced either yet, so I suspect they might not be the culprit  :-\

Did you see the Doc yet - even if just for the stock "It's a virus, now go away." answer?

Not yet, but it looks like it might be necessary. It's having some benefits: I've lost the few pounds I put on at Christmas and a few more and I'm one back in a size 8.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 January, 2012, 08:33:18 pm
Quote from: Ham on 20 January, 2012, 08:15:31 pm
Trying to help someone I haven't spoken to for 9 years resolve a major network issue, 20:15 on a Friday night, WTF?

Ah, a 'friend' in need....

is sometimes a pain in the arse?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 January, 2012, 10:32:41 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 January, 2012, 08:33:18 pm
Quote from: Ham on 20 January, 2012, 08:15:31 pm
Trying to help someone I haven't spoken to for 9 years resolve a major network issue, 20:15 on a Friday night, WTF?

Ah, a 'friend' in need....

is sometimes a pain in the arse?

Well..... in this particular instance seeing as (1) I haven't had anything to do with networking for 8+ years and (2) the friend doing the asking was someone I have worked with who is now Rather Big in MegaUS_Corp, it could be described as an exercise in enlightened self interest, especially as I appear to have been able to add to the process that the exiting (talented) team was able to achieve.

It could yet be my ticket out of $corp_crap
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 January, 2012, 10:35:38 pm
digesting a generous dollop of Marj's homemade rice pudding :smug:
food fit for the gods :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 21 January, 2012, 03:13:58 am
Not Sleeping.

Drinking camomile tea.

Having a bit of a sneeze.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 January, 2012, 05:39:15 am
Waiting at a quiet (ish) Euston for a train to the Fylde.  Savouring the joy of riding through London streets relatively free of the motorised infestation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 21 January, 2012, 06:47:34 am
Sitting on a Virgin train towards Preston. I've never really been to Lancashire so it's quite exciting. :D I'd forgotten that I actually quite like Virgin trains. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 21 January, 2012, 06:56:10 am
not slept since about 4am, got up at 5, drinking tea and playing with photoshop. I recon I understand about 0.00000001% of what it can do - scary stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 January, 2012, 07:37:03 am
Deciding that attempting more sleep isn't going to work, and choosing Coffee instead.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: citoyen on 21 January, 2012, 07:38:16 am
Eating porridge and waiting for it to get light so I can go out on my bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 21 January, 2012, 07:44:51 am
As above!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 January, 2012, 07:46:52 am
Why?  Just ride in the dark! :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 January, 2012, 07:56:08 am
Watching Trans-World Sports on Sky Sports, there is a long section on Shanaze Read (a whole segment of the show so about 15 minutes)

They have just shown *that* crash.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 January, 2012, 10:45:38 am
Contemplating my attire for the LCC 'Go Dutch' photo-shoot early this afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 21 January, 2012, 11:04:46 am
Quote from: Andrij on 21 January, 2012, 10:45:38 am
Contemplating my attire for the LCC 'Go Dutch' photo-shoot early this afternoon.

Clogs FTW
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2012, 11:08:57 am
Thinking that next time I have cash to spare I might get a slow cooker.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 January, 2012, 01:07:10 pm
Ripping Northern Soul CDs into iTunes for some dancing at Mrs Pcolbecks birthday party tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 January, 2012, 01:18:26 pm
Watching "Going South" on the Travel Channel and contemplating tidying the kitchen cupboards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 21 January, 2012, 06:17:53 pm
Sitting on a train on the way back from Lytham. We've had a great day, and the trains have been brill  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 January, 2012, 07:37:42 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 January, 2012, 10:35:38 pm
digesting a generous dollop of Marj's homemade rice pudding :smug:
food fit for the gods :thumbsup:

action replay :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 21 January, 2012, 07:46:45 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 21 January, 2012, 11:08:57 am
Thinking that next time I have cash to spare I might get a slow cooker.

I have just rediscovered the delights of these and bought one when Tesco were selling 'em for £8 before Xmas (£12 now but £25 if Morphy Richards appears on the front switch). Amazing what cheap old bits you can whack in and  which miraculously transform into something wonderful, rich and satisfying.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 January, 2012, 08:00:11 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 21 January, 2012, 11:08:57 am
Thinking that next time I have cash to spare I might get a slow cooker.

Don't! Slow Cookers are great for casseroles, but you'll start to tire of "Yet Another Dog Food dinner" real quick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 21 January, 2012, 08:03:51 pm
We used our slow cooker today to produce a fantastic beef casserole with dumplings. We often use it at weekends in the winter - highly recommended.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 21 January, 2012, 08:07:12 pm
I have just finished washing up after eating the first meal cooked with the aid of our new food processor (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=55827.0).  We got the Kenwood in the end.  This could be fun and it wasn't that difficult to wash up either!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 21 January, 2012, 08:11:15 pm
Waiting for my home made rhubarb crumble to finish cooking  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 21 January, 2012, 08:35:25 pm
Quote from: jogler on 21 January, 2012, 07:37:42 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 January, 2012, 10:35:38 pm
digesting a generous dollop of Marj's homemade rice pudding :smug:
food fit for the gods :thumbsup:

action replay :smug:

You threw up and got to taste it twice?   :demon:  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 January, 2012, 09:07:25 pm
Tracking down an intermittently squealing hearing aid.  (No, it's not attached to barakta's head.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2012, 09:29:27 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 21 January, 2012, 08:00:11 pm
Don't! Slow Cookers are great for casseroles, but you'll start to tire of "Yet Another Dog Food dinner" real quick.
I don't eat meat so that doesn't worry me. I thought it would be good for cooking curries reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally slowly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 January, 2012, 02:29:54 am
Tidying and sorting.  Incredibly slowly....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 January, 2012, 03:55:08 am
And now I appear to be baking.  That's a bit more like fun :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 January, 2012, 03:59:52 am
At least you're managing something constructive.  All I've done is eat last night's leftovers / tonight's dinner.  One would think that after half a bottle of wine I'd sleep straight through the night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 22 January, 2012, 06:54:11 am
Feeling pretty good, actually, after sleeping till 0530.  That's like a long lie-in these days!

And helping Crusty pack  his bike. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 22 January, 2012, 08:25:35 am
 :thumbsup:
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 22 January, 2012, 06:54:11 am
Feeling pretty good, actually, after sleeping till 0530.  That's like a long lie-in these days!

And helping Crusty pack  his bike.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 22 January, 2012, 09:35:44 am
Making marmalade, tiring but the result will be worth it
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 22 January, 2012, 09:39:28 am
Feeling like crap and looking at the sunshine and wind outside and wishing myself well enough to go and play.  :( :-[ :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 January, 2012, 10:20:05 am
Sitting in the "internet room"
(The garden - we have no mobile signal in the house)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 January, 2012, 10:38:36 am
Heading north to collect the kittehs from the quite frankly bonkers mad cat lady at the new cattery (they're not your babies, they're *mine*).
And trying not to think about the 4 hrs sleep and the having to go to the airport tomorrow having spent all day yesterday getting to or in one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 22 January, 2012, 01:05:32 pm
Downloading lots of data to the new laptop in preparation for desktop replacement.   This poor machine has served me well...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 January, 2012, 01:11:47 pm
settling into couch-potatoe/lounge-lizard mode to watch a few hours of continuous Premiership live transmission  football via Sky Sports 1
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 22 January, 2012, 02:32:37 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 22 January, 2012, 08:25:35 am
:thumbsup:
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 22 January, 2012, 06:54:11 am
Feeling pretty good, actually, after sleeping till 0530.  That's like a long lie-in these days!

And helping Crusty pack  his bike.

 :thumbsup:

 :)    :-*

Thanks for that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 January, 2012, 02:51:43 pm
Tidying up
Doing laundry
Tweaking bicycles
Cursing the weather

Not necessarily in that order.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 January, 2012, 08:06:52 am
Drinking coffee, in preparation for the final hurdle in the getting-Cubs-ready-for-school stakes.  Coats and shoes.  It's a challenge, but I think today we'll beat it!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 23 January, 2012, 08:38:12 am
Discovering all sorts of unwished for information about the other people on the bus.
Job no1 at work will be to find out about facilities for cycle commuting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 23 January, 2012, 08:44:21 am
Quote from: fboab on 23 January, 2012, 08:38:12 am
Discovering all sorts of unwished for information about the other people on the bus.
Job no1 at work will be to find out about facilities for cycle commuting.

Good luck today  :)

I'm staring at my mobile, willing it to receive a message of some kind from Crusty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2012, 08:45:39 am
Quote from: fboab on 23 January, 2012, 08:38:12 am
Discovering all sorts of unwished for information about the other people on the bus.
Job no1 at work will be to find out about facilities for cycle commuting.

I was looking over your shoulder when you typed that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 January, 2012, 02:23:43 pm
Still tidying and sorting.

Godz, there's a load of old shite in my house.

Mind, there's a load less than there was.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 January, 2012, 02:26:31 pm
Carefully examining tyres for signs of damage.  Mr Legg would approve.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 23 January, 2012, 02:38:18 pm
Did that this morning - dug out a few flinty shards and glass spikes, but nothing that looked immediately integrity-threatening.

Flat-blade jewellers' screwdrivers are great for levering those buggers out of the tyre.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 23 January, 2012, 02:41:13 pm
Quote from: fboab on 23 January, 2012, 08:38:12 am
Discovering all sorts of unwashed  information about the other people on the bus.
Job no1 at work will be to find out about facilities for cycle commuting.

FTFY
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 January, 2012, 03:03:50 pm
Chopping kindling.  A highly satisfying job.
Now, I know that using the hand axe would be perfectly adequate, but where's the fun in that?
*places smaller log on top of chopping log.*
*does impression of olympic hammer thrower winding up*
*completly misses smaller log and cleaves chopping log in two*
 
Bugger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 January, 2012, 03:18:10 pm
Quote from: Basil on 23 January, 2012, 03:03:50 pm
Chopping kindling.  A highly satisfying job.
Now, I know that using the hand axe would be perfectly adequate, but where's the fun in that?
*places smaller log on top of chopping log.*
*does impression of olympic hammer thrower winding up*
*completly misses smaller log and cleaves chopping log in two*
 
Bugger.

This outcome is of course, somewhat better than missing everything and making contact with your shin instead. My oh my, that smarts...  :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 January, 2012, 03:57:07 pm
:-)
The big f-off axe has a long enough handle that were I to miss altogether, the head would bury itself in the ground some way in front of me.
Safer than the hand axe, in that respect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 January, 2012, 04:20:16 pm
Masticating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 January, 2012, 07:54:02 pm
Coming down with the cold again and feeling a bit sorry for myself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 January, 2012, 08:13:18 pm
Medicating with a Portuguese product of the tawny variety.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 23 January, 2012, 09:24:33 pm
Feeling somewhat pooped after a 10 mile hike around the Mar Lodge estate at college today
Left college minibus at Linn of Dee car park, then a hike up to Derry Lodge taking a quick lunch stop at Bob Scott's Bothy.  Continued up past Derry Lodge, then up Derry glen crossing the metal bridge over the river, then back down the other side of Derry Glen, Derry Lodge then back to Linn of Dee car park.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 23 January, 2012, 11:45:21 pm
Coding up a model of part of a thing we’re designing at work.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 January, 2012, 12:46:11 am
Wondering if I'm coming down with lurgy again  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 January, 2012, 06:01:29 am
Drinking coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 January, 2012, 08:21:54 am
On the bus, drinking the remainder of my breakfast tea from my bidon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 25 January, 2012, 01:12:03 am
I realised today that I have so many guests coming at the weekend that one must sleep in the spare room. Then I noticed that room currently has neither curtains nor a curtain pole. So I went out and got these and am now putting up curtains!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 25 January, 2012, 07:10:02 am
Drinking tea and trying to stretch my sore neck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 January, 2012, 07:55:13 am
Putting off setting off for work for the first time since last Wednesday.  :(

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 25 January, 2012, 11:39:33 am
Working. Of course.

No, actually, I'm gnawing fingernails waiting for new tyres to be delivered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 25 January, 2012, 07:46:51 pm
Just finished reading a lengthy, but entertaining, review/rant of the film Troy (http://centrosaurine.blogspot.com/2004/07/moment-of-plagiarism.html).  I read this when it was first posted (the author is an acquaintance), but glad to have come across it again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 January, 2012, 10:52:54 am
Abusing my educator powers by telling my student that if she doesn't wear the Happy Birthday hat all day, even though it's uncomfortable, hot and itchy, she will fail her placement.

It is her birthday, by the way, it's not just random cruelty. And I made chocolate cake with alcoholic butter icing so it's not like I'm really evil.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 January, 2012, 09:28:07 pm
Acquainting myself with Kummerspeck.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 January, 2012, 11:20:36 pm
I appear to be baking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 January, 2012, 11:21:04 pm
I approve
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 January, 2012, 11:40:14 pm
Watching an ancient HIGNFY in which William Hague is in the chair and the guests are Jeremy Clarkson and Linda Smith.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 26 January, 2012, 11:50:22 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 January, 2012, 11:40:14 pm
Watching an ancient HIGNFY in which William Hague is in the chair and the guests are Jeremy Clarkson and Linda Smith.  :(

Some say only the good die young....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 January, 2012, 02:09:25 am
Realising that I don't have the jar of lemon curd in the cupboard that I thought I had.  This is quite irritating.

And I don't know if Kim eats lemon buttercream, which would be the alternative.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 January, 2012, 08:15:56 am
If you have lemon and butter and eggs and sugar you could make lemon curd. It's dead easy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 27 January, 2012, 08:17:50 am
Last thing to pack before setting off for the hostelling trip is this computer.  Not quite time to go yet, so still on-line.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 January, 2012, 08:18:21 am
I've put a pot of absolutely first rate Seville orange marmalade in. I know it's first rate because I made it. :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 January, 2012, 08:18:56 am
Quote from: rower40 on 27 January, 2012, 08:17:50 am
Last thing to pack before setting off for the hostelling trip is this computer.  Not quite time to go yet, so still on-line.

I'm not taking a computer because I've lent my eeepc to my daughter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 27 January, 2012, 08:34:04 am
Quote from: Kirst on 27 January, 2012, 08:15:56 am
If you have lemon and butter and eggs and sugar you could make lemon curd. It's dead easy.

Yes, I've just run out of the lemon curd someone made for me as a Christmas gift.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 January, 2012, 08:52:10 am
I remembered where the emergency contingency jar was hiding.  Phew.  I've made lemon curd once, a long time ago, with my Granny.  From memory it probably isn't the sort of task that you'd particularly want to start on at 3am on a school night :)

But I might have to dig out a recipe now you've got me thinking....

Now, I am drinking coffee at work and trying to work out what to fix first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 27 January, 2012, 09:26:12 am
Phew! Glad you found the lemon curd.

I can't see the diet going well this weekend! :-[

I'm waiting for TGL to finish in the bathroom, so I can go in there. He's not hurrying himself, so I'm assuming a freshly shaved lad will be making his way to Yorkshire! :) This reduces our chances of being thrown off the train for fraudulently buying a child ticket! :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AndyK on 27 January, 2012, 12:41:59 pm
Today I am having lots of fun (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Dg/funtimes.jpg)!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 27 January, 2012, 12:44:48 pm
Quote from: AndyK on 27 January, 2012, 12:41:59 pm
Today I am having lots of fun (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Dg/funtimes.jpg)!  :thumbsup:
I think your second and third samples are off colour!  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 28 January, 2012, 03:22:21 pm
Having a coffee and browsing several unmentionable forums* before getting back into college work...

*
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 January, 2012, 09:15:00 pm
I've just had the site of my biopsy excision redressed by Nurse Marj..
Such a gentle hand :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 January, 2012, 09:24:38 pm
Feeling thick — reading a novel but only with the help of a dictionary.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 28 January, 2012, 10:00:33 pm
Enjoying a (suprise) ceilidh in my honour :-P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 29 January, 2012, 05:54:38 am
At 6 am on a Sunday morning? With an OFSTED inspection tomorrow?

Working. Resentfully.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 29 January, 2012, 08:13:35 am
Quote from: Gordy on 29 January, 2012, 05:54:38 am
At 6 am on a Sunday morning? With an OFSTED inspection tomorrow?

Working. Resentfully.  >:(

Oooh, sympathy. I know just how that affects my partner. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 January, 2012, 09:31:24 am
Trying to get the hang of Led Zep's "That's The Way" - most of it is easy (only four chords, one of which is all open strings anyway), but the coda is a bit tricky.

It's the first time I've tried open G tuning, and the guitar sounds much nicer for it.

ISTR the lyric about "Yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers, but all that lives is born to die" found its way into a Mint Sauce cartoon in the days when MBUK wasn't crap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 January, 2012, 10:45:07 am
Having cleaned the house, I've gone back to bed. I have a cold in my nose and feel poorly :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 January, 2012, 02:57:02 pm
I'm now crying at EastEnders. I am definitely not well to a) be watching EastEnders and b) to be crying at it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 January, 2012, 03:02:21 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 28 January, 2012, 09:24:38 pm
Feeling thick — reading a novel but only with the help of a dictionary.   :(
I'm doing that at the moment, although the dictionary in question is an online English-Brazilian Portuguese one (the book in question is "Brasyl" by Ian McDonald - it's very good, but he uses a lot of Sao Paulo slang, which makes for heavy going at times)

Prior to this, the last time I needed a dictionary when reading a book was when we did 'Brave New World' at school!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 29 January, 2012, 07:35:50 pm
Sipping Pineau de Charente (red, thereof) thinking happy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 29 January, 2012, 08:28:10 pm
Trying to prettify the weight loss graphs a bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 29 January, 2012, 09:12:23 pm
Whiling away the interval at a marvellous Josie Lloyd gig.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 January, 2012, 09:18:02 pm
Digesting a huge plate of Shakshuka (http://frombootlewithlove.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/shakshuka/) and polenta whilst drinking red wine and listening to Arvo Part.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 29 January, 2012, 09:19:17 pm
At 9:30 pm on a Sunday evening with an OFSTED inspection tomorrow?

Working, resentfully.   >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 29 January, 2012, 09:20:15 pm
Looking at an entirely asleep cat in front of the fire.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 January, 2012, 09:22:43 pm
Acclimatising myself to being at home after an excellent weekend's forum-related silliness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 January, 2012, 09:35:50 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 29 January, 2012, 09:22:43 pm
Acclimatising myself to being at home after an excellent weekend's forum-related silliness.

Thawed out yet?  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 January, 2012, 09:41:38 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 29 January, 2012, 09:35:50 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 29 January, 2012, 09:22:43 pm
Acclimatising myself to being at home after an excellent weekend's forum-related silliness.

Thawed out yet?  :D

Wowbagger was inside, snuggled up with various other bodies in the bar(n).  I was the only one mad enough to camp.    I had to take my balaclava off and undo the sleeping bag hood as I was too warm.    Taking the tent down I didn't put gloves on and couldn't feel my hands afterwards. I gave up trying to get the crispy fabric into it's stuffsac and just bundled it into a pannier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 January, 2012, 09:44:20 pm
It was pretty nippy when I arrived home and because Mrs. Wow and Dez had been out since about lunch time, the heading was off and the temperature in the house was 14°C. Having said that, I had a very good ride back to Northallerton with three worthies, consumed soup at Betty's tea room and have spent a good few hours on warm trains.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 29 January, 2012, 10:15:45 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 29 January, 2012, 09:31:24 am
... in the days when MBUK wasn't crap.

That's practically going back to the days of purple anodising, Jackson Pollock-style Alpinestars kit,  RockShox Mag 21 forks and hardtails being just fine for both XC racing and the Kamikaze DH course at Mammoth Mountain...

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 29 January, 2012, 11:30:33 pm
Celebrating having filed my tax return-and it's not even the last day or anything!

I don't actually mind the return itself.

It's the paperwork...there is nothing so boring as sodding paperwork!   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 29 January, 2012, 11:34:21 pm
mmm

I've got mine pencilled in for tomorrow morning. Fairly straightforward for me, though
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 29 January, 2012, 11:38:19 pm
Yeah, mine's not that bad really...but I'm busy tomorrow and I don't want to be filing last minute on the last day...lol!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 29 January, 2012, 11:39:25 pm
Quote from: Ham on 29 January, 2012, 07:35:50 pm
Sipping Pineau de Charente (red, thereof) thinking happy.

yum!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Moose57 on 29 January, 2012, 11:40:40 pm
Trying unsuccessfully to log onto mycyclinglog
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 January, 2012, 01:00:33 pm
Aching.  I think the only bit of me that doesn't hurt is the lungs.  Which is deeply ironic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 January, 2012, 01:18:04 pm
Monna train!
/Shouts
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 January, 2012, 01:19:19 pm
Setting an alarm and off for a snooze. Sooooooooooooooooo tired.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 January, 2012, 01:20:55 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 30 January, 2012, 01:19:19 pm
Setting an alarm and off for a snooze. Sooooooooooooooooo tired.

Have some lunch first!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 January, 2012, 04:27:46 pm
Hey, at least I ate breakfast already!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 January, 2012, 04:39:36 pm
Watching it get dark(er)
Finishing the bits list for Pugsley
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 January, 2012, 04:55:09 pm
fretting

Not fretting any more  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 30 January, 2012, 11:43:03 pm
Observing the build-up of ice on everything outside, in the steady freezing drizzle, and making plans to get the Ice Bike out of storage and ready for use tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 January, 2012, 12:04:04 am
Waiting to see how orange orange is...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 January, 2012, 12:09:48 am
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 January, 2012, 12:22:11 am
The answer appears to be "quite orange"  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 01 February, 2012, 12:17:35 am
Trying to decide whether to fit ice tyres for tomorrow or not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 February, 2012, 03:01:31 am
Not sleeping. Never mind :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 February, 2012, 08:26:24 am
Hey - that's what I was doing then too!

Now drinking tea and wondering where on earth to start..... happy wednesday, everybody!  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 February, 2012, 08:43:56 am
Huddling around a cup of coffee at work, trying to warm up enough so that I can go for a pee and actually be able to find my willie.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 February, 2012, 09:27:43 am
Searching for a light-weight, 2-person tent for my hols this year.

I have a fairly light 1-person tent which has suited my needs, but it's too snug for all my touring luggage.  Also, orange isn't the best colour for a tent if you need to do a bit of wild camping (hopefully won't need to, but one never knows...).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 February, 2012, 09:33:15 am
Quote from: Andrij on 01 February, 2012, 09:27:43 am
Searching for a light-weight, 2-person tent for my hols this year.

I have a fairly light 1-person tent which has suited my needs, but it's too snug for all my touring luggage.  Also, orange isn't the best colour for a tent if you need to do a bit of wild camping (hopefully won't need to, but one never knows...).

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/vango-tempest-200-2-berth-tent-p139965

They also have the Banshee(a whole kg lighter), but it has a big orange patch on the side....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 February, 2012, 02:31:03 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 February, 2012, 09:33:15 am
They also have the Banshee(a whole kg lighter), but it has a big orange patch on the side....

I have a Banshee 300, and it doesn't.  I'm fairly sure the 200 (owned by fboab of this parish) doesn't either.  The outer is Generic Poo Colour™ (I assume a shade of green) with occasional black bits.  The inner is orange.

Not a bad tent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 February, 2012, 02:40:54 pm
Quote from: Kim on 01 February, 2012, 02:31:03 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 February, 2012, 09:33:15 am
They also have the Banshee(a whole kg lighter), but it has a big orange patch on the side....

I have a Banshee 300, and it doesn't.  I'm fairly sure the 200 (owned by fboab of this parish) doesn't either.  The outer is Generic Poo Colour™ (I assume a shade of green) with occasional black bits.  The inner is orange.

Not a bad tent.

*ahem* (http://cdn.gooutdoors.co.uk/Products/16630-160511133518924647974.jpg)

The one they have(Banshee 200), does.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 01 February, 2012, 02:41:55 pm
Isn't that because it's door is rolled up on the side?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 February, 2012, 02:43:30 pm
Quote from: Feline on 01 February, 2012, 02:41:55 pm
Isn't that because it's door is rolled up on the side?

D'oh, of course!  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 February, 2012, 12:51:14 am
About to go to bed with a lady I haven't slept with for some time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 February, 2012, 01:17:17 am
I have just finished fettling my bike (fitted ice tyres) and taken it for a test ride round the block. It made a buzzing sound on the road, but otherwise was great  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 February, 2012, 01:26:32 am
Quote from: Feline on 02 February, 2012, 01:17:17 am
I have just finished fettling my bike (fitted ice tyres) and taken it for a test ride round the block. It made a buzzing sound on the road, but otherwise was great  :thumbsup:

They make for a surprisingly comfortable (if noisy) ride, and as you might expect are pretty fantastic off-road, but as I discovered on Sunday, can be hard work to maintain a decent pace on for prolonged periods.

Take it easy on the corners until you've got the feel for them though - there's a distinctive point where it shifts from running on the inner two rows of studs to the two rows on one side, which feels almost but not quite entirely like the bike's about to go down sideways.

With any luck, fitting them will fend off the ice for a while  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 February, 2012, 01:28:28 am
Quote from: Kim on 02 February, 2012, 01:26:32 am
Quote from: Feline on 02 February, 2012, 01:17:17 am
I have just finished fettling my bike (fitted ice tyres) and taken it for a test ride round the block. It made a buzzing sound on the road, but otherwise was great  :thumbsup:

They make for a surprisingly comfortable (if noisy) ride, and as you might expect are pretty fantastic off-road, but as I discovered on Sunday, can be hard work to maintain a decent pace on for prolonged periods.

Take it easy on the corners until you've got the feel for them though - there's a distinctive point where it shifts from running on the inner two rows of studs to the two rows on one side, which feels almost but not quite entirely like the bike's about to go down sideways.

With any luck, fitting them will fend off the ice for a while  :P

Yes, I actually fitted them to guarantee you all an ice-free couple of months!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 February, 2012, 03:44:44 am
Ironing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 February, 2012, 08:59:07 am
Drinking lumens from my lightbox, and soaking up coffee.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 02 February, 2012, 09:06:34 am
Quote from: Andrij on 02 February, 2012, 03:44:44 am
Ironing.
Are you mad?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 02 February, 2012, 09:33:37 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 02 February, 2012, 09:06:34 am
Quote from: Andrij on 02 February, 2012, 03:44:44 am
Ironing.
Are you mad?!

+1!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 February, 2012, 09:53:00 am
Quote from: Wendy on 02 February, 2012, 09:33:37 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 02 February, 2012, 09:06:34 am
Quote from: Andrij on 02 February, 2012, 03:44:44 am
Ironing.
Are you mad?!

+1!!!!!!!!!

For the record, I did not wake up at stupid o'clock to do some ironing.  I was up at stupid o'clock, just like nearly every morning the last few weeks, for no apparent reason.  As I wasn't able to fall back asleep I thought it as good a time as any to iron my shirt for the day.  While I was at it, I did a few more.

For those who question the very act of ironing, I'll have you know that no self-respecting chap would ever go to work or a social occasion without a properly ironed shirt!  :smug:


edit: corrected an omission - I blame insufficient levels of caffeine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 February, 2012, 09:54:56 am
I'm so glad not to be a Chap right now  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 February, 2012, 09:55:32 am
Admiring the wrinkles in my shirt and appreciating how well they complement my raffish good looks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 February, 2012, 09:57:27 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 02 February, 2012, 12:51:14 am
About to go to bed with a lady I haven't slept with for some time.

It occurred to me that I have twice woken up next to two other ladies since I last slept with the lady I was with last night. O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 02 February, 2012, 09:58:03 am
Quote from: Andrij on 02 February, 2012, 09:53:00 am
For those who question the very act of ironing, I'll have you know that no self-respecting chap would ever go to work or a social occasion with a properly ironed shirt!  :smug:

Exactly! Don't iron. :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 February, 2012, 10:02:10 am
Quote from: Wendy on 02 February, 2012, 09:58:03 am
Quote from: Andrij on 02 February, 2012, 09:53:00 am
For those who question the very act of ironing, I'll have you know that no self-respecting chap would ever go to work or a social occasion with a properly ironed shirt!  :smug:

Exactly! Don't iron. :P

 :o   Anathema!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 02 February, 2012, 10:05:38 am
Read your post again!!   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 February, 2012, 10:08:06 am
Listening to an unholy underwire/spin cycle interface.  Hope it's not too expensive.   :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 February, 2012, 10:32:28 am
Quote from: Wendy on 02 February, 2012, 10:05:38 am
Read your post again!!   ;D

Doh!  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 02 February, 2012, 12:23:35 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 02 February, 2012, 03:44:44 am
Ironing.

Oh yes? Not PROPER ironing though

(http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Sport/Extreme/Extreme-Ironing-sport/Extreme-Ironing-sport1.jpg)

(http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Sport/Extreme/Extreme-Ironing-sport/Extreme-Ironing-sport5.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 February, 2012, 01:33:22 pm
oogling the new two-fit wheels that have arrived from Merlin.

They are Veryveryveryvery nice (Ultegra 6700 BTW)

(http://www.rouesartisanales.com/upload/images/6700-Ultegra6700_wheels.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 February, 2012, 02:44:12 pm
And now getting prices for having two frames shot blasted and re-painted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 February, 2012, 02:45:28 pm
Basking in the glow of my own wonderfulness, having just done a Good Deed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 February, 2012, 02:45:42 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 02 February, 2012, 01:33:22 pm
oogling the new two-fit wheels that have arrived from Merlin.

They are Veryveryveryvery nice (Ultegra 6700 BTW)



Nice skewers.  Giz one.   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 February, 2012, 02:50:02 pm
LG, is it front or rear that has busted? I am sure I have spares in the garage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 February, 2012, 03:17:09 pm
About to have a post 5km walkjog coffee.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 02 February, 2012, 03:22:36 pm
Trying to decide what to make for dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 February, 2012, 03:23:48 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 02 February, 2012, 03:22:36 pm
Trying to decide what to make for dinner.

Same here, what are you having? I can't decide....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 February, 2012, 03:55:56 pm
Summoning some gumption.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 02 February, 2012, 04:37:30 pm
As if by magic

(http://www.simplyoz.com/i/300x300/8/498.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 February, 2012, 04:44:07 pm
*snorts unattractively with laughter*

Why thank you, kind sir.  That'll do nicely.  The big F off pot of coffee may have helped a bit too....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 02 February, 2012, 05:19:01 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 02 February, 2012, 03:23:48 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 02 February, 2012, 03:22:36 pm
Trying to decide what to make for dinner.

Same here, what are you having? I can't decide....

I decided on hotpot, but couldn't get out of the office to get some lamb.  So it looks like the lasagne, that I cooked at the weekend and put in the freezer, is on tonight's menu with some garlic bread and green salad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: border-rider on 02 February, 2012, 05:21:38 pm
Just wormed the cats. Let no-one say I don't lead a jetset lifestyle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 February, 2012, 05:22:39 pm
Quote from: Ham on 02 February, 2012, 04:37:30 pm
(http://www.simplyoz.com/i/300x300/8/498.jpg)

Does that work for cleaning tuits?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 02 February, 2012, 08:30:11 pm
packing for a work trip to saudi,

looking forward to some winter sun but not sure I'll get to see outside of the hotel, car, office and sewage works :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 03 February, 2012, 12:06:44 pm
I'm bored, so I'm looking at a certain shoe site and longing for a new pair of boots.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 03 February, 2012, 12:21:15 pm
I am waiting in for a delivery, and have a fixie to unbox and build up before my son gets home at 4pm, it is his 18th birthday tomorrow and it is his present!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 12:21:47 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 12:06:44 pm
I'm bored, so I'm looking at a certain shoe site (http://www.drmartens.com/) and longing for a new pair of boots.

Excellent!  ;)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 February, 2012, 12:55:34 pm
Thinking my student has been gone a long time and maybe she thought I meant it when I said if she was going for chips she had to eat them in the car  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 February, 2012, 01:38:49 pm
The militant big-D-deafie in the back of my brain says why would you say something like that unless you meant it...  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 03 February, 2012, 01:39:21 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 12:21:47 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 12:06:44 pm
I'm bored, so I'm looking at a certain shoe site (http://www.drmartens.com/) and longing for a new pair of boots.

Excellent!  ;)

Hmmm do they have red soled boots on that site?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 February, 2012, 01:47:07 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 February, 2012, 01:38:49 pm
The militant big-D-deafie in the back of my brain says why would you say something like that unless you meant it...  :(
Oh, cos we were talking about how the smell of chips makes everybody else want them. She's back now. She knew we were joking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 03 February, 2012, 01:47:28 pm
Packing up and photographing bits of hi-fi - time for an upgrade, rather earlier than planned, but sometimes there are opportunities that are too good to miss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 03 February, 2012, 01:48:50 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 01:39:21 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 12:21:47 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 12:06:44 pm
I'm bored, so I'm looking at a certain shoe site (http://www.drmartens.com/) and longing for a new pair of boots.

Excellent!  ;)

Hmmm do they have red soled boots on that site?
This site (http://www.chromebagsstore.com/shoes.html) has some nice red soled shoes :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 February, 2012, 03:51:57 pm
Wondering whether to go and see Les Emotifs Anonymes tonight, or just veg out in front of the telly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 February, 2012, 04:04:11 pm
Looking forward to beer, pizza and caik at TLD's birthday party.

obv. TLD is not having the beer part of that, myself, my brother and my FiL will make sure we keep good care of that! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 05:18:39 pm
Sitting at my desk drinking red wine.  If one must work after 5pm on a Friday, it helps to have a drink to hand.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 03 February, 2012, 05:20:54 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 03 February, 2012, 01:48:50 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 01:39:21 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 12:21:47 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 12:06:44 pm
I'm bored, so I'm looking at a certain shoe site (http://www.drmartens.com/) and longing for a new pair of boots.

Excellent!  ;)

Hmmm do they have red soled boots on that site?
This site (http://www.chromebagsstore.com/shoes.html) has some nice red soled shoes :D

Now those are a must have  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 03 February, 2012, 05:24:34 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 12:21:47 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 12:06:44 pm
I'm bored, so I'm looking at a certain shoe site (http://www.drmartens.com/) and longing for a new pair of boots.

Excellent!  ;)
 

I just got a pair again after about a 20 year gap.. Still awesome :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 February, 2012, 05:25:17 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 05:18:39 pm
Sitting at my desk drinking red wine.  If one must work after 5pm on a Friday, it helps to have a drink to hand.


absolutely
when I worked in North Cheam ( London Rd) we used to simply walk from the office door & cross the road to the wine bar directly opposite to start the evening shift 1800-2200hrs
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 03 February, 2012, 05:34:16 pm
Spent most of the afternoon ripping a really nasty rootkit out of one of the kids' PCs.
I was ( and may still be ) this >< close to nuking it from orbit, but I think it's clean now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 05:45:47 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 05:20:54 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 03 February, 2012, 01:48:50 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 01:39:21 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 12:21:47 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 12:06:44 pm
I'm bored, so I'm looking at a certain shoe site (http://www.drmartens.com/) and longing for a new pair of boots.

Excellent!  ;)

Hmmm do they have red soled boots on that site?
This site (http://www.chromebagsstore.com/shoes.html) has some nice red soled shoes :D

Now those are a must have  :thumbsup:

+ LOTS!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 03 February, 2012, 05:56:11 pm
Quote from: mike on 03 February, 2012, 05:24:34 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 12:21:47 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 03 February, 2012, 12:06:44 pm
I'm bored, so I'm looking at a certain shoe site (http://www.drmartens.com/) and longing for a new pair of boots.

Excellent!  ;)
 

I just got a pair again after about a 20 year gap.. Still awesome :)

A new pair of super high heels with red soles??  Awesome!  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 February, 2012, 06:06:25 pm
Wondering where that penguin is....and what time I can haz dinner :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 February, 2012, 06:21:39 pm
I am on a train to That London where I anticipate spotting a several of forumites. I have about my person not small amounts of Luggage Of Inconvenient Proportions, the successful porterage of which required a certain amount of ingenuity combined with gaffer tape and bungees.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 February, 2012, 06:34:45 pm
Wondering what sort of ebil schweine runs an away from home course that doesn't finish til after 5 on a Friday. Pingu is stuck in Perth (reartanged deranged trains) and won't be home til 9.
Pizza alone again then  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 06:36:40 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 February, 2012, 05:18:39 pm
Sitting at my desk drinking red wine.  If one must work after 5pm on a Friday, it helps to have a drink to hand.

There was only ONE bottle of red purchased for the office bar this evening, but two each of rosé and white.  >:(  I should have brought the red to my desk.  Oh well, on to the pink stuff...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 February, 2012, 07:56:57 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 February, 2012, 06:21:39 pm
I am on a train to That London where I anticipate spotting a several of forumites. I have about my person not small amounts of Luggage Of Inconvenient Proportions, the successful porterage of which required a certain amount of ingenuity combined with gaffer tape and bungees.

 :thumbsup:  Have fun Crinkles!  Are there photographs of said (rather tall) luggage?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 February, 2012, 09:46:05 pm
Skyping bobb and watching him open his birthday presents - I let him open them early as we'll be on Skye on his actual birthday.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 04 February, 2012, 10:24:43 am
Starting to put on the layers so as I can get a few miles out on the bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 04 February, 2012, 10:35:26 am
Quote from: Jurek on 04 February, 2012, 10:24:43 am
Starting to put on the layers so as I can get a few miles out on the bike.

So if you're anything like me it'll be an hour till you're ready to go then  :P

Too many layers, looking forward to summer not just for the warmth but for the ease of getting ready to go out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulR on 04 February, 2012, 10:38:59 am
About to settle down to some advice on the management of intellectual property rights in documents prepared jointly by academics and professional advisers employed by a firm that is funding the academics.  Wish I was layering up for a ride though - looks like a good chance to get out on the lanes before the snow arrives.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 04 February, 2012, 10:40:33 am
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 04 February, 2012, 10:35:26 am
Quote from: Jurek on 04 February, 2012, 10:24:43 am
Starting to put on the layers so as I can get a few miles out on the bike.

So if you're anything like me it'll be an hour till you're ready to go then  :P

Too many layers, looking forward to summer not just for the warmth but for the ease of getting ready to go out.

I'm aiming to be out by 11:00, so you're mostly correct  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 11:12:29 am
I am watching out of the window as my son, his gf and friend try out his new birthday fixie. I am seriously scared he is going to crash!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 February, 2012, 11:18:31 am
Quote from: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 11:12:29 am
I am watching out of the window as my son, his gf and friend try out his new birthday fixie. I am seriously scared he is going to crash!

Let him, it's the fixie right of passage, like the SPD one, but can hurt a bit more :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 February, 2012, 11:25:55 am
Having a coffee, getting a David Dickinson tan from my SAD light box, and browsing this new fangled http://www.mysqa.org.uk (http://www.mysqa.org.uk) site.
Was it really way back in 1995 that I sat Higher English?   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 12:20:01 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 04 February, 2012, 11:18:31 am
Quote from: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 11:12:29 am
I am watching out of the window as my son, his gf and friend try out his new birthday fixie. I am seriously scared he is going to crash!

Let him, it's the fixie right of passage, like the SPD one, but can hurt a bit more :)

I just calculated his gear inches on Sheldon's site and it is 80.6 inches!!  :o :o :o
I think I'm going to have to replace his 46t chainring with a 39t to make it a bit more rideable since we are amongst the Mendip hills  ;D
I really don't want him to fall off it, but there is not much I can do to stop him other than shout 'keep pedalling' at him as he rides off. His GF just suggested that maybe he should wear his helmet on it until he gets used to it, but the look on his face was classic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 February, 2012, 01:48:04 pm
Making caramelised red onion and goat's cheese tarts :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 04 February, 2012, 02:41:53 pm
Warming up, after a silly ride in nasty wind-blown sleet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 02:54:03 pm
About to bake a birthday cake. Wish me luck, I am crap at cakes!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 04 February, 2012, 02:58:54 pm
Sitting in crystal palace park cafe, as close as I can get to the radiator. Currently on my forth tea and hoping my friend isn't long because I need to move soon and I don't fancy dragging her bags as well as mine to the loo with me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 04 February, 2012, 06:31:55 pm
Quote from: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 11:12:29 am
I am watching out of the window as my son, his gf and friend try out his new birthday fixie. I am seriously scared he is going to crash!

*Guilt* I loaned mine to my bro-in-law, who was wearing trainers, not SPDs. SPD pedals on my bike. He went quite fast, being fairly athletic, and then had to avoid a runner, which caused the no-pedal-brake reaction. He had a big crash and lots of road rash, and I still feel guilty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 February, 2012, 06:51:59 pm
Printing off my college essay.   O:-) :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 February, 2012, 07:59:46 pm
The Light of My Life is making cheeseandsossidge sandwiches ;D so any minute now my digestive system is going to get another proper workout :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 04 February, 2012, 08:50:08 pm
Watching a programme about Louis XIV and his anal fistula  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 February, 2012, 08:54:58 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 04 February, 2012, 08:50:08 pm
Watching a programme about Louis XIV and his anal fistula  :o

me too
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 04 February, 2012, 08:57:43 pm
Quote from: jogler on 04 February, 2012, 08:54:58 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 04 February, 2012, 08:50:08 pm
Watching a programme about Louis XIV and his anal fistula  :o

me too

+2
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 04 February, 2012, 08:59:31 pm
Versailles is a pretty cool gaff.  I've also been to Mad King Ludwig's Bavarian clone (which is bigger!).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 February, 2012, 10:40:18 pm
Watching The Full Monty. Robert Carlyle does one of t'best non-native Yorkshire accents I've ever heard, but he doesn't get t'glottal ts right.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 04 February, 2012, 11:18:20 pm
Just finished watching 'Brighton Rock'. It was the 2010 version; i'd not seen it before, although I've seen the black and white version.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 February, 2012, 08:08:47 am
Getting all scandanavian. Nekkid snowballing, sauna, that kind of thing



Or just looking at snow and snuggling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: trixie on 05 February, 2012, 01:16:54 pm
lighting the fire...sipping a glass of red wine...forgetting life and all its nasties... :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spokenword on 05 February, 2012, 01:25:53 pm
Standing by the AGA, making strawberry jam, looking at the snow and thinking how much more sensible it is to do it now rather than in the heat of July.
The scones to go under it are in the oven. I feel it is important to check the quality of the finished product.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 05 February, 2012, 01:31:08 pm
Drinking a mug of very strong coffee
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 February, 2012, 01:39:28 pm
Wishing this fucking migraine would piss off. It's been nagging me since about 9 yesterday morning. No proper headache, but started with the normal visual disturbance, my head feels "tight" rather than properly aching, I'm unable to concentrate on stuff and I'm feeling really knackered - terribly heavy eyelids. I slept well last night too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 05 February, 2012, 01:45:47 pm
Just having a well earned cup of tea after repairing a burst water pipe and draining the central heating system of water. We have decided that central heating is too much effort as it breaks down at least one a year.... i had to replace a pump at Christmas and now a burst pipe. I think my summer job will be to put underfloor heating down.

Oh and I don't know which cowboy fitted it in the first place but the stop cock didn't so had to fit a new one. Now waiting for the loft to dry out before putting some new insulation down.

Finally, did my good deed of the day in Wickes when I showed a bloke how to repair a burst pipe...well I have done enough plumbing  since we moved here to know my way around a copper pipe!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: giropaul on 05 February, 2012, 01:50:14 pm
Quote from: essexian on 05 February, 2012, 01:45:47 pm
Just having a well earned cup of tea after repairing a burst water pipe and draining the central heating system of water. We have decided that central heating is too much effort as it breaks down at least one a year.... i had to replace a pump at Christmas and now a burst pipe. I think my summer job will be to put underfloor heating down.


So that you'll have to jackhammer the floor up every year when it goes wrong instead?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 February, 2012, 02:02:48 pm
Installing roller blinds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 07 February, 2012, 05:24:37 pm
On the phone to the Royal Opera House to book tickets for Miss Fortune in March.  It's the first day of release of the whole Spring Season and it's apparently a bit busy.  I've been unable to get through on the phone all day and the website put me as 2386th in the queue when it finally loaded...I had to give up when I was number 1687th as I had to take the dog to the vet!

I've been waiting for 23 minutes and I've just been told I'm number 22 in the queue.  I started off number 47...

Zzzzzzzz
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 February, 2012, 08:40:43 pm
Crying over Gok's Teens
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 07 February, 2012, 08:42:59 pm
Aching, mostly.

Aching? Or acheing?

Anyway, I hurt.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 February, 2012, 08:43:39 pm
Maximus Triking in the snow, by any chance?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 February, 2012, 08:54:13 pm
Wondering if it's too early to go to bed...
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Post by: Kim on 07 February, 2012, 09:45:05 pm
Remembering how to use mdadm.  As with fsck, this is generally a sign of having a bad day.
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Post by: Arch on 07 February, 2012, 10:17:00 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 07 February, 2012, 08:43:39 pm
Maximus Triking in the snow, by any chance?

I wish I had been!

Nah, our electric vehicle (Beryl) is knackered by the cold, so we've hired a Transit for the week. This serves to show how perfect Beryl is for the job, in terms of loading and unloading and driving into narrow streets and yards, if only she could do more than 3 miles to a charge on a good day. The Transit involves stepping up everytime you get in and out (which is every 4 or 5 houses), as opposed to just sliding in sideways at hip height, and also in order to access some of the boxes placed inside, not to mention the yards we can't get into so easily, so there's more walking back and forth with recycling boxes. The Transit also has a surprisingly small capacity, because Beryl's loadspace is maximised to our needs.

Also, in order to increase our capacity today, both trikes went out, and with three staff, that means I was handling the Transit on my own, which means unloading it twice alone, a job normally done by two people.  Also, without a Banksman, I didn't want to drive into a yard I couldn't turn round in, so as not to have to back out unguided, so there was more walking back and forth from the road. I'm driving it all week, because I'm the only person in everyday, so I'm the named driver. Hopefully I won't have to unload alone again anyway.

My legs ache like I've done a 100 miler, and my dodgy ankle (the one I sprained before Christmas) is twinging.

And it took two hours to learn not to try and apply the handbrake with my right hand - Beryl is left hand drive....  Funnily, I'm fine with the gearstick, because Beryl doesn't have one.

The only benefit to the Transit (beyond the more than 3 mile range) is the presence of heating and radio, and the ability to go faster than 10mph. However, the ability to go at more than 10 mph means that you don't get very long to appreciate the heating and radio before you're back at base.

I think I'll survive the week, but I think MFWHTBAB will find me poor and comatose company at the weekend!
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 08 February, 2012, 01:11:50 am
Trying (and failing) to write an eulogy for my mum. Funeral tomorrow.
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Post by: mike on 08 February, 2012, 04:21:55 am
Thinking of you, mr.C.

I'm wondering why I'm wide awake at 4.21.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 February, 2012, 07:34:13 am
Watching the sky getting lighter & feeling happy that the worst of the long nights are over...
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Post by: ludwig on 08 February, 2012, 11:43:07 am
supervising the digging up of the electric main to my new house in the hope that we left enough cable to reach where the meter box is going.
There's not enough cable so we will have to cut a new hole for the meter box and create a hatch in the ceiling etc etc.
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Post by: L CC on 08 February, 2012, 12:34:40 pm
Training my replacement.
He has terrible psoriasis, and is shedding all over the desk.
This is making me feel ill, and guilty for my squeamishness, and pitying. Poor guy.
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Post by: jogler on 08 February, 2012, 01:42:22 pm
I am making a bread pudding.
byebye diet ;D
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Post by: TimO on 08 February, 2012, 02:02:26 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 February, 2012, 09:45:05 pm
Remembering how to use mdadm.  As with fsck, this is generally a sign of having a bad day.

That's never a good sign. :-\ :(

I've modified the system startup script so that it recognises that root has logged in, and gives me information on the RAID arrays, mainly whether they've had something nasty happen.  An "OK" on a green background is what I'm looking and hoping for!

What always take me a few tries to remember is the difference between --query, --detail, and --examine (query and detail operate on an array, examine operates on a component.  Actually query will operate on a component as well, but winges a bit about it).
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 February, 2012, 04:53:13 pm
Having a particularly bad Wednesday.
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Post by: Wombat on 08 February, 2012, 06:45:07 pm
Having a particularly good Thursday.  Camped overnight at the top of denniston incline near Westport in south island of NZ, just had breakfast and soon off to further explore.  Camping in this instance involves Fleur, a Mazda E2000 campervan as recommended by YACF.  Cheers chaps!
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Post by: Wendy on 08 February, 2012, 07:00:24 pm
Quote from: fboab on 08 February, 2012, 12:34:40 pm
Training my replacement.
He has terrible psoriasis, and is shedding all over the desk.
This is making me feel ill, and guilty for my squeamishness, and pitying. Poor guy.

Well, most of house dust is skin flakes, so you've been touching and breathing and eating the stuff since you were born. This is only icky because it's more obvious.
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Post by: jogler on 08 February, 2012, 07:36:27 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 February, 2012, 01:42:22 pm
I am making a bread pudding.
byebye diet ;D

& now we are eating it :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 08 February, 2012, 07:45:11 pm
Failing to play bike-Sokoban so the gas man can get to the meter in the morning.

ETA: Done!  Without folding the Trice, and I managed to fix the dodgy cooker socket with stripped threads in the backbox.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Andrij on 08 February, 2012, 08:26:14 pm
Plotting with one of my parents, to be followed by plotting with my brother.
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Post by: why1040 on 09 February, 2012, 11:06:38 am
Worrying   :-\
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Post by: essexian on 09 February, 2012, 11:15:19 am
Two things...

Firstly, discovering that Travelodge are having a £10 sale today....so I have booked the hotel for the first day of the silly bike outing I have planned for May.... the train tickets are available next week..... £11 each way. Just need another hotel at an affordable price and I can have a long weekend away (mid week!) for less than £100!

Secondly, just had a phone call saying SWMBO's God Father has just died.  :( He discovered only a month ago he had lung cancer. At least it was quite quick I suppose.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 February, 2012, 11:33:50 am
Shopping for parts for a special N+1....
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Post by: why1040 on 09 February, 2012, 12:00:04 pm
Quote from: why1040 on 09 February, 2012, 11:06:38 am
Worrying   :-\

Breathing again!  :)
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Post by: interzen on 09 February, 2012, 12:05:17 pm
Considering a liquid lunch.
Not that kind of liquid lunch, but the sort that will minimise the risk of a temporary crown parting company from one of my back teeth.
Title: Doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 February, 2012, 12:14:35 pm
This morning I have been watching Postman Pat, who now has a son called Julian. We went to B and Q to buy some stuff for fixing screws for the stair gate. I'm now watching someone eat her lunch. I like being a granddad.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 February, 2012, 12:17:33 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 09 February, 2012, 12:14:35 pm
This morning I have been watching Postman Pat, who now has a son called Julian. We went to B and Q to buy some stuff for fixing screws for the stair gate. I'm now watching someone eat her lunch. I like being a granddad.
You mean there's a Mrs Postman Pat? Why has this not been more widely announced? Surely it's of more import than that posh couple from the big house that got married last year....
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Post by: Wowbagger on 09 February, 2012, 12:44:23 pm
There is a Mrs. Postman Pat. I believe she's called Laura,but I'll check next time we watch. There's also a vet called Amy, who may be from an ethnic minority, but Ajay the Train Driver and his family quite definitely are.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 February, 2012, 12:54:20 pm
OMG I'm so out of touch......
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 February, 2012, 12:57:21 pm
I've just announced that Postman Pat has a wife and child to the office and everyone is shocked that we didn't know. We think the BBC should have done a formal announcement. Mrs Postman Pat is Sara, our colleague with 3 year old son tells us.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 February, 2012, 01:01:34 pm
I reckon so. Never mind the Leveson inquiry, we need to find out why we weren't told!
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Post by: Kim on 09 February, 2012, 01:02:59 pm
Did this happen before or after Pat got his helicopter licence?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 February, 2012, 01:06:01 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman_Pat

Oh dear, theyve changed the theme tune!
Well I'm not watching it if I can't sing 'Postman Pat anisblackanwhitecat'.
Progress, meh.
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Post by: Kim on 09 February, 2012, 01:12:02 pm
Looking at that list of delivery vehicles, it's only a matter of time before Pat's allocated an official Royal Mail Soyuz and is tasked with delivering porn and oxygen supplies to John Tracy on Thunderbird 5...
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Post by: interzen on 09 February, 2012, 01:37:16 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 February, 2012, 01:12:02 pm
Looking at that list of delivery vehicles, it's only a matter of time before Pat's allocated an official Royal Mail Soyuz and is tasked with delivering porn and oxygen supplies to John Tracy on Thunderbird 5...
However, given the Royal Mail's usual track record, these supplies would surely end up crash-landing in the Pacific ...
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Post by: spesh on 09 February, 2012, 01:39:00 pm
Quote from: interzen on 09 February, 2012, 01:37:16 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 February, 2012, 01:12:02 pm
Looking at that list of delivery vehicles, it's only a matter of time before Pat's allocated an official Royal Mail Soyuz and is tasked with delivering porn and oxygen supplies to John Tracy on Thunderbird 5...
However, given the Royal Mail's usual track record, these supplies would surely end up crash-landing in the Pacific ...

Failing that, it gets put into a Hohmann transfer orbit and is last seen heading for the dark side of the moon.
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Post by: Quisling on 09 February, 2012, 01:42:01 pm
Taking a 5 minute (ok ten) breather from my IEMA open book assessment after pulling an all nighter last night to have a hope of getting it in on time. Nearly completed Q 6 out of 10 so on targetish to finish before the deadline.  Except that I go on holiday shortly  :facepalm:
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Post by: BrianI on 09 February, 2012, 01:47:49 pm
Finishing a cup of coffee, having a headache, and pondering putting my pinny on to turn my house from a sh**e tip into a tight ship.  At least it's not as untidy as those houses
you see on "How Clean Is Your House?" with Kim and Aggie.....
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Post by: Wowbagger on 09 February, 2012, 02:54:28 pm
You can still sing "Postman Pat anisblackanwhitecat" at the start of the programme. It seems that the new theme tune is only used at the end.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 February, 2012, 03:37:30 pm
Reading CGOAB, John Isle's tour of South America and then playing on Tout Terrain's configurator..

Maybe I should just step away from the PC.  €4500 for a TT Panamericana? They do look nice, but still.....
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Post by: why1040 on 09 February, 2012, 04:23:57 pm
Snuggled up under my blanket on the sofa watching crap telly.

Dog having an operation plus me going to the dentist for a 45 minute filling is more than I am capable of dealing with today.  Especially as my mouth now hurts from all the trauma to it...that was some filling!  :(
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Post by: lou boutin on 09 February, 2012, 07:52:33 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 09 February, 2012, 02:54:28 pm
You can still sing "Postman Pat anisblackanwhitecat" at the start of the programme. It seems that the new theme tune is only used at the end.

So Jess, the black and white cat, is still alive and kicking then?
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Post by: Julian on 09 February, 2012, 10:17:15 pm
Pondering whether to eat another of the coffee buns I baked after I got home today.
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Post by: BrianI on 10 February, 2012, 07:27:02 am
Pondering on what this afternoons ultrasonic bladder scan is going to be like.... I wonder if it will give my super powers?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 February, 2012, 07:33:15 am
brushing my teeth
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 February, 2012, 09:54:35 am
Watching more Postman Pat. Ted Glenn's son was learning to ride a bike and he fell off into a load of crap. He kept on riding though. It reminded me of a YACF ride.
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Post by: Wendy on 10 February, 2012, 10:09:36 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 10 February, 2012, 09:54:35 am
Watching more Postman Pat. Ted Glenn's son was learning to ride a bike and he fell off into a load of crap. He kept on riding though. It reminded me of a YACF ride.

Did anyone try to adjust their front mudguard with a foot whilst moving?  :demon:
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Post by: JStone on 10 February, 2012, 02:00:45 pm
Relishing the all-over glow and self-satisfied feeling that follows the regular Friday lunchtime swim.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 February, 2012, 04:16:57 pm
Correction: Bill is Alf Thompson's son. Apparently Ted Glenn is gay.

Some of the references are clearly aimed at grandparents looking after their grand children. In one programme, Pat learns to ride a horse. Ajay, the station master, tells Pat to get off his horse and drink some tea, Pat shouts "Hi ho Pumpkin!", Pumpkin being the horse's name, and the vicar about ride 'em cowboy.
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Post by: interzen on 10 February, 2012, 06:58:01 pm
Grinning like a lunatic after taking the Pugsley for a short test ride ...  ;D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 February, 2012, 07:04:01 pm
Trying to summon the motivation to make something to eat.
Title: Doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 February, 2012, 08:01:33 pm
I'm in a public meeting against Boris's proposed airport. It's going to be very difficult given that I despise some of the people who are on "our" side, eg David Amess.
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Post by: Butterfly on 11 February, 2012, 10:17:44 am
Sitting on a train rushing through snowy countryside to Cambridge. It's very pretty .
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 11 February, 2012, 11:09:21 am
Just got oout of bed :D

I have a mug of deliciouslifegivingtea(tm) and will play some Minecraft I think. Then weightlifting later followed by drinking cava and eating chocolate whilst wathcing a silly film with my girlfriend and her Mum. Oh yeah, and pizza for dinner.

All the important obs that actually need doing can wait until tomorrow.
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Post by: interzen on 11 February, 2012, 11:13:44 am
Getting ready for a drive down to sunny Burton-on-Trent for the first gig of the year (watching, that is, not performing)
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Post by: matthew on 11 February, 2012, 11:21:11 am
laid in bed with the cold I brought back from Saudi. feeling sorry for myself as I was supposed to be singing in the choir at a wedding today. Instead my throat feels raw, my sinuses are blocked and I suspect my temperature is up.

dosing up with sudafed, strepsils, smoothers and beachams.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 February, 2012, 11:30:24 am
Having had a lie in and been fed large amounts of coffee and pancakes for my breakfast I am currently delegating my parenting responsibilities to someone else who has taken cubs to play in the SNO, whilst I think I might pootle into town to buy a house.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 February, 2012, 11:44:59 am
^ :-)

Feeling a little bit hungover and willing it to rain so I don't feel like I've wasted a cycling day....
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Post by: slohill on 11 February, 2012, 12:05:40 pm
Hoping that the weather forecast is correct and we can get out on the roads tomorrow---too much risk of black ice in Cheshire at the moment with temperatures at -2C.
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Post by: Andrij on 11 February, 2012, 12:29:46 pm
Waiting while M$ installs 37 patches on my brother's computer.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Post by: WhizzBang on 11 February, 2012, 12:43:22 pm
making soup and trying to  keep warm.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 February, 2012, 01:08:35 pm
I tried some zoom burst using the camera the other night and I've just been looking at the results. I feel quite sick now.
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Post by: lou boutin on 11 February, 2012, 06:40:23 pm
Feeling very cold and contemplating getting the duvet down and a hot water while I watch a film on the sofa my Mr LB
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Post by: Feline on 11 February, 2012, 06:49:18 pm
Just watching my son ride off on his fixie wearing 3/4 length chinos and summer weight trainer socks and thin canvas shoes. It's -2C out there. Brrrrrrrrr.
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Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2012, 06:50:27 pm
Quote from: Feline on 11 February, 2012, 06:49:18 pm
Just watching my son ride off on his fixie wearing 3/4 length chinos and summer weight trainer socks and thin canvas shoes. It's -2C out there. Brrrrrrrrr.

What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by: Feline on 11 February, 2012, 06:53:27 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 February, 2012, 06:50:27 pm
Quote from: Feline on 11 February, 2012, 06:49:18 pm
Just watching my son ride off on his fixie wearing 3/4 length chinos and summer weight trainer socks and thin canvas shoes. It's -2C out there. Brrrrrrrrr.

What could possibly go wrong?

I expressed my concern, and he just said 'don't worry I have found my gloves today, I will just ride fast'  :o
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Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2012, 06:54:55 pm
It's not like he gets much of a choice with that gearing, anyway...   ;D
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Post by: Feline on 11 February, 2012, 06:56:37 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 February, 2012, 06:54:55 pm
It's not like he gets much of a choice with that gearing, anyway...   ;D

This is true  ;D
He is sporting a sore looking graze on the front of his ankle where his pedal clouted him earlier on today. He is really getting the miles in on his new bike  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 11 February, 2012, 07:29:05 pm
Drinking beer, and waiting for dinner to arrive, at the Queens Head, Milton Ernest.
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Post by: LindaG on 11 February, 2012, 07:31:32 pm
Hoping they've cancelled the rugby.
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Post by: Basil on 11 February, 2012, 07:39:24 pm
Trying to warm up.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 February, 2012, 09:44:16 pm
Just staggered in from a party in the village, Mrs Z taking the second shift.

We were both invited, Mrs Z failed to sort out a babysitter, I got the pick of the food  :demon:
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Post by: Andrij on 11 February, 2012, 10:44:37 pm
Hiding in my brother's study waiting for my parents to arrive.  Once they've settled in I shall come downstairs to surprise my father, who doesn't know I've come home for his birthday. :)
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Post by: LindaG on 11 February, 2012, 10:50:17 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 11 February, 2012, 10:44:37 pm
Hiding in my brother's study waiting for my parents to arrive.  Once they've settled in I shall come downstairs to surprise my father, who doesn't know I've come home for his birthday. :)

Aw  :)

How's it going?
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Post by: lou boutin on 11 February, 2012, 11:15:31 pm
Watching Bridget Jones and eating black pepper crackers with fruity mango chutney.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2012, 05:05:12 pm
Just finished re soldering the dry joints on my cars light blown blown detection thingy that looks like a relay but isn't. Now I have both main beams again !
Pity I didn't work out it was that before I had bough a new headlamp bulb ...
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Post by: Andrij on 12 February, 2012, 06:10:31 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 11 February, 2012, 10:50:17 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 11 February, 2012, 10:44:37 pm
Hiding in my brother's study waiting for my parents to arrive.  Once they've settled in I shall come downstairs to surprise my father, who doesn't know I've come home for his birthday. :)

Aw  :)

How's it going?

It all went well.  ;D

Brother and I are now off to the parents' for a late lunch.  I'll then spend some time letting people know I'm in town for the week.  Sadly, the day will end on a downer - I'm off to a wake for someone I used to perform with. :(
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Post by: lou boutin on 12 February, 2012, 09:20:19 pm
Watching the BAFTAs
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Post by: Kim on 12 February, 2012, 09:20:57 pm
Watching the newfangled Battlestar Galactica and wondering what they do with all the chads...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 February, 2012, 09:41:43 pm
Watching the BAFTAS, skyping Bobb and playing facebook scrabble.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 12 February, 2012, 11:07:48 pm
Discovering that 11pm whisky plus microwave sticky toffee pudding is a really, really bad combination.

 ::-) :-X
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2012, 11:10:23 pm
Thinking about buying a central heating boiler that generates electricity.
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Post by: jogler on 12 February, 2012, 11:11:16 pm

Quote from: Gordy on 12 February, 2012, 11:07:48 pm
Discovering that 11pm whisky plus microwave sticky toffee pudding is a really, really bad combination.

 ::-) :-X


custard would put it right ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 February, 2012, 11:12:30 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2012, 11:10:23 pm
Thinking about buying a central heating boiler that generates electricity.

Wouldn't one that generates hot water be more useful?    :D
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Post by: gordon taylor on 12 February, 2012, 11:22:47 pm
Quote from: jogler on 12 February, 2012, 11:11:16 pm

Quote from: Gordy on 12 February, 2012, 11:07:48 pm
Discovering that 11pm whisky plus microwave sticky toffee pudding is a really, really bad combination.

 ::-) :-X


custard would put it right ;)

Actually, in the interest of SCIENCE, I've added more whisky and the second microwave sticky toffee pudding to the experiment.

 :sick:

I'm an idiot.
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Post by: Simonb on 12 February, 2012, 11:24:57 pm
Making marmalade  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Feanor on 12 February, 2012, 11:28:53 pm
Yep.

In the interests of science, I had one too many glasses of grog last night, and had to keep up with a bunch of buggers on bikes today.   I said nowt about my lingering hangover, lest I was accused of wimpry.   In the end, the partial hangover cleared after an hour or so.

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Post by: Simonb on 12 February, 2012, 11:32:50 pm
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1127109/IMG_20120212_233017.jpg)

Thing is; how do I know when it's 'set'?
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Post by: David Martin on 12 February, 2012, 11:37:12 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 January, 2012, 04:09:31 pm
I've just been re-reading my E2E blog.Now I have itchy pedals ::-)

You are more than welcome to come via Dundee next time..
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Post by: David Martin on 12 February, 2012, 11:40:05 pm
Quote from: Simonb on 12 February, 2012, 11:32:50 pm
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1127109/IMG_20120212_233017.jpg)

Thing is; how do I know when it's 'set'?
Ask Kathy Pike, she is a marmalade setting expert.

(or look in /etc/jam for a settings file)
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Post by: Simonb on 12 February, 2012, 11:43:58 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 12 February, 2012, 11:40:05 pm
(or look in /etc/jam for a settings file)

Thanks. Found it in /etc/default/marmalade.
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Post by: Kim on 12 February, 2012, 11:48:57 pm
Surely there's a Makefile to do the work for you?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 12 February, 2012, 11:58:53 pm
Leaky abstraction: it just says "15-25 minutes, or when setting point is reached". Up to this point, I was fine.
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Post by: David Martin on 13 February, 2012, 12:01:57 am
Right now - killing time whilst the latest version of OpenMS (released yesterday) is compiling at the lab via VPN.

And trying to see how many groups I can add my latest batch of flickry goodness to.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 13 February, 2012, 12:07:13 am
Quote from: Simonb on 12 February, 2012, 11:58:53 pm
Leaky abstraction: it just says "15-25 minutes, or when setting point is reached". Up to this point, I was fine.

You put a bit on a cold plate and see if it stops being runny when it's cooled down. I think I let yesterday's marmalade for a bit too long and it's too sticky. Tastes wonderful though.
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Post by: Simonb on 13 February, 2012, 12:38:02 am
It is done.

I don't know whether it's set. Will have to go back in the pan if not, but it'd been bubbling for a good 25 minutes.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1127109/IMG_20120213_003020%20%281%29.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 February, 2012, 10:44:40 am
Cleaning >50years of muck and grease off a frame so I can send it off for painting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 February, 2012, 12:44:01 pm
Installing AV software on a server.  Fingers crossed, eh?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 February, 2012, 02:05:46 pm
My lungs are reasonably crud-free, my legs have mostly returned to their usual colour and it's 7C outside.  You can probably work out the rest...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 February, 2012, 02:48:05 pm
Laughing at my colleague's face as he realises it's Valentine's Day tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 February, 2012, 02:52:59 pm
Oh gawd, is it?  *rethinks visit to shops*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 13 February, 2012, 04:03:45 pm
Getting a grip and pulling myself together. <chin out smiley>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 February, 2012, 04:36:00 pm
Waiting for my chauffeur brother to arrive for our trip to the market (already postponed once).  In the mean time, I am downloading an OpenStreetMap which I will attempt to load onto my shiny new Garmin eTrex30.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 February, 2012, 06:02:28 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 February, 2012, 04:36:00 pm
Waiting for my chauffeur brother to arrive for our trip to the market (already postponed once).  In the mean time, I am downloading an OpenStreetMap which I will attempt to load onto my shiny new Garmin eTrex30.

The install worked! :)

As for the continued absence of my chauffeur brother, words shall be had.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 13 February, 2012, 11:03:50 pm
Being in an awkward gap between me getting in, late and tired, and MrsC getting in, even more late and even more tired.
At least I've been enjoying myself; she's had to go back into work.  :(

Trouble is I don't know whether she will want any or all of a glass of wine, a mug of cocoa or biscuits when she does get here and I don't want to start without her--or get the choice wrong!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 14 February, 2012, 12:20:59 am
Drinking chocolate and speculoos at midnight.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 14 February, 2012, 06:37:58 am
topping up on light box lux before heading to college for our fun 2 day adventure to Glencoe!   :thumbsup: 
Course tutor says we have to *take no notes* and enjoy ourselves!   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 14 February, 2012, 07:04:32 am
Preparing a picnic for today's expedition with two small children, one tandem and a tag-a-long.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 14 February, 2012, 07:24:24 am
Taking my blood pressure.... strangely, its considerably lower when sitting at home (150/90 with a pluse of 62) than it was at the doctors the other day (180/100 with a pluse of 102!).

White coat syndrome one thinks!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 14 February, 2012, 07:29:16 am
Quote from: Kirst on 13 February, 2012, 02:48:05 pm
Laughing at my colleague's face as he realises it's Valentine's Day tomorrow.

There were at least half a dozen people buying VD cards in Tescos at 6.15am this morning.... including one bloke wearing shorts!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: slohill on 14 February, 2012, 07:40:30 am
Getting ready to ride out with Watson's Wanderers from near Chester.  Harry Watson is a cycling hero.  He is 83yrs old now, has never owned a car, has cycled over 675,000 miles and can still put in 100 mile rides.  The rest of the group are mere youngsters aged between 55 and 75 yrs.  We ride out every Tuesday into Cheshire, Shropshire and/or North Wales.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 February, 2012, 12:01:38 pm
Packing bike frames into a box and printing off labels ready for them to head off on a holiday in Lincolnshire.

Hope they come back with nice tans (read resprays :) )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 February, 2012, 03:43:42 pm
Not riding my bike.  This irks me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 14 February, 2012, 03:47:07 pm
I've just got back from a funeral  :'( now sat down with a nice cup of tea
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Post by: lou boutin on 14 February, 2012, 05:30:10 pm
Watching George and Mildred and eating biscuits
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 February, 2012, 05:31:33 pm
Wondering what to make for dinner tonight.
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Post by: haliaetos on 14 February, 2012, 09:28:40 pm
Quote from: essexian on 14 February, 2012, 07:29:16 am
Quote from: Kirst on 13 February, 2012, 02:48:05 pm
Laughing at my colleague's face as he realises it's Valentine's Day tomorrow.

There were at least half a dozen people buying VD cards in Tescos at 6.15am this morning.... including one bloke wearing shorts!!!!

Wondering what it says about me that I immediately thought Venereal Disease rather than Valentines Day when I saw VD above...  :facepalm: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 February, 2012, 09:42:17 pm
Quote from: haliaetos on 14 February, 2012, 09:28:40 pm
Quote from: essexian on 14 February, 2012, 07:29:16 am
Quote from: Kirst on 13 February, 2012, 02:48:05 pm
Laughing at my colleague's face as he realises it's Valentine's Day tomorrow.

There were at least half a dozen people buying VD cards in Tescos at 6.15am this morning.... including one bloke wearing shorts!!!!

Wondering what it says about me that I immediately thought Venereal Disease rather than Valentines Day when I saw VD above...  :facepalm: ;D

Don't worry.  Me too.  ::-)

Anyway, I saw a girl desperately perusing the cards in Tescos in central Brum at lunchtime! :facepalm:
There was only crap left - or so I gathered from her panicky, exasperated manner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 11:50:19 am
Thinking.....
last week's weight gain is encouraging me to take a more serious attitude towards weight loss.I'm even contemplating riding a bike more than once in while ::-)
I think a self-imposed commute would be beneficial & a return to audaxing,knee permitting,would be good now that the (hopefully) worst of the winter weather is behind us.
That was a brave/foolish/temptating-fate comment ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 February, 2012, 12:55:29 pm
Heading down to the kitchen to make pancakes.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 01:25:36 pm
I'm trying to put a stop to this "thinking" lark....
I have thoughts of an attempt at an SR  series & resurrecting a RRTY campaign.
I'm trying to overcome the thought that my mind is writing cheques that my body knee can't cash.

I suppose there's only one way to find out

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 February, 2012, 01:38:29 pm
Stop making plans, and just ride thy bike! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 February, 2012, 02:02:02 pm
Waiting for DHLYodel to turn up to collect a box to take to Mr Yates :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 02:06:38 pm
Quote from: clarion on 15 February, 2012, 01:38:29 pm
Stop making plans, and just ride thy bike! :)

I've tried that.It doesn't work for me.My rides have to have a purpose,an incentive.Otherwise ICBA
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 February, 2012, 02:50:38 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 15 February, 2012, 02:02:02 pm
Waiting for DHLYodel to turn up to collect a box to take to Mr Yates :(

Courier has been and gone, so now I can have a little snooze :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 February, 2012, 03:14:46 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 02:06:38 pm
Quote from: clarion on 15 February, 2012, 01:38:29 pm
Stop making plans, and just ride thy bike! :)

I've tried that.It doesn't work for me.My rides have to have a purpose,an incentive.Otherwise ICBA

OK, your purpose it to get to the first junction.  By the time you're there, you may as well keep going ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 February, 2012, 05:06:36 pm
jogler, I couldn't make it round a 200 at the mo, but could possibly manage a relatively leisurely 100 in a month or so once I've hopefully got a few more miles done.  Shout up if you want company.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 05:24:46 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 15 February, 2012, 05:06:36 pm
jogler, I couldn't make it round a 200 at the mo, but could possibly manage a relatively leisurely 100 in a month or so once I've hopefully got a few more miles done.  Shout up if you want company.

neither could I CL ::-)

I was suprised to do 100km* the other weekend on the EM Fixed ride.Rode from home to their pub stop & back.

* There is no computer on the Langster so I plotted the ride on Bikely when I got back
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 February, 2012, 05:35:34 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 05:24:46 pm
neither could I CL ::-)

I was suprised to do 100km* the other weekend on the EM Fixed ride.Rode from home to their pub stop & back.

If you can ride a 100 on a day like that (sub zero temperature, stiffening breeze, snow later) then I doubt very much you'd have much trouble finishing a 200 in friendlier conditions.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 05:57:17 pm
It's the knee that's the current issue Chris.
I think the rest of my carcass could manage it & I have previously demonstrated to myself that I can adopt the necessary mind games to do a 200.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 February, 2012, 06:08:53 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 05:57:17 pm
It's the knee that's the current issue Chris.
I think the rest of my carcass could manage it & I have previously demonstrated to myself that I can adopt the necessary mind games to do a 200.

Right. Someone else not too far from here has recently been diagnosed with some knee issues. We're hoping some warmer weather will help offset some of the symptoms.

FWIW - I found Sunday's 200 quite hard going from a muscular/skeletal point of view. It was only a degree or so above freezing all day, and we were pushing hard; my legs have been quite sore since and I felt on the day that my muscles just weren't loosening up and getting going properly.

Here's hoping for an early spring  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 06:12:52 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 15 February, 2012, 06:08:53 pm


Here's hoping for an early spring  :thumbsup:

amen to that.
I think it's arthritis which I hope will be less of an issue during warmer temperatures.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 February, 2012, 06:13:02 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 15 February, 2012, 05:06:36 pm
jogler, I couldn't make it round a 200 at the mo, but could possibly manage a relatively leisurely 100 in a month or so once I've hopefully got a few more miles done.  Shout up if you want company.

This.  Always up for some knee-friendly cycling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 06:14:55 pm
I feel reet chuffed.Two yacf ladeez seeking my company ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 February, 2012, 07:02:26 pm
Feeling less than top notch again. I'm fed up with this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 15 February, 2012, 07:20:02 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 06:14:55 pm
I feel reet chuffed.Two yacf ladeez seeking my company ;D
Allow me to redress the balance, and volunteer my presence as well. :P
I too have kniggling nee problems, and a desire for some more purposefullnessicity to my riding of a weekend.  Permission to be kept posted as to which events you're planning to enter?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 February, 2012, 07:50:42 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 15 February, 2012, 07:02:26 pm
Feeling less than top notch again. I'm fed up with this.

Yeah, that rings a bell.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 07:51:11 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 15 February, 2012, 07:20:02 pm
Permission to be kept posted as to which events you're planning to enter?

Actually I do have an idea to ride some audax from Alfreton.
100km
200km
300km

all subject to knee & RL issues permitting
If you are interested I could pick you up en route.

Alfreton is possibly less than convenient for Crinkly Lion & Kim.And of late where there is Kim there is Barakta :thumbsup:

I'll give this some thought and start a seperate thread for those who are knee-challenged.I  think it could be entitled
" A Knees Up Ride"
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 15 February, 2012, 07:53:17 pm
I am also entering audaxes right now, so far decided on a 150k, 300k, 400k another 400k and a 600k. That will be an SR in itself but I should probably find a 200k to enter too :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 February, 2012, 08:09:14 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 07:51:11 pm
And of late where there is Kim there is Barakta :thumbsup:

Although at present her audax goals are limited to spotting typos in Arrivée   :D


Quote
I'll give this some thought and start a seperate thread for those who are knee-challenged.I  think it could be entitled
" A Knees Up Ride"
 ;D

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 15 February, 2012, 08:15:57 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 07:51:11 pm
Quote from: rower40 on 15 February, 2012, 07:20:02 pm
Permission to be kept posted as to which events you're planning to enter?

Actually I do have an idea to ride some audax from Alfreton.
100km
200km
300km

all subject to knee & RL issues permitting
If you are interested I could pick you up en route.
Interested? Very much so.

Quote from: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 07:51:11 pm
Alfreton is possibly less than convenient for Crinkly Lion & Kim.And of late where there is Kim there is Barakta :thumbsup:
Yebbut Derby station is mediumly accessible by train from both the CrinklyDen and the Mordorian outskirts.  So we could meet up there for onward travel to Alfreton - esp. as my own experiences of North-East Derbyshire suggest use of the "safety in numbers" approach.  And if the train times don't fit, I have plenty of spare-roominess chez Rower.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 February, 2012, 08:23:17 pm
^^^^
O.K.
See elswhere for the " A Knees Up Ride" thread & I'll PM  you wrt audax stuff.

Let us terminate our thread hijack at this juncture
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 February, 2012, 01:10:55 am
I'm not sleeping.
This is rubbish, as I'll be like miserable growling death tomorrow, and now I've finally got one of those job things, I don't want to lose it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 February, 2012, 08:11:19 am
Being excited. One, I have nice lunch today - home-made French onion soup which turned out really well, and two, bobb arrives tonight.
Title: Doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 February, 2012, 09:12:28 am
I'm going to meet a lady for a bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 February, 2012, 09:57:45 am
Having a coffee, and about to unpack from Tuesday & Wednesdays college field trip to Glencoe, Fort William and the surrounding area, taking in a nice walk up the Lost Valley, Glen Nevis,Glen Roy with the famous "Three Parallel Roads"   :thumbsup:

Expect pictures soon.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 16 February, 2012, 11:53:21 am
Researching style consultants - my girlfriend wants a wardrobe consultant to come and help her design some outfits for work etc.

This is the furthest I have ever had to delve into the world of fashion - male or female!  It's a scary place.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 16 February, 2012, 01:01:49 pm
lying to the hospital librarian
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 16 February, 2012, 01:02:31 pm
Trying to motivate myself to do the housework.

So far, I'm failing...lol!
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wonky on 16 February, 2012, 02:25:50 pm
Getting ready to go to Henry's funeral.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 February, 2012, 02:56:59 pm
Sitting back down at my desk having just shown the Nice Lady from TV Licensing the hole in the wall where the aerial cable would be if I had one and used it. She promised me no more hate-mail. I said I don't believe you - but don't worry as it goes straight from letter box to bin, unopened  :D.

Also enjoying a cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 February, 2012, 02:59:32 pm
I'm sat here in pain... :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 February, 2012, 04:23:34 pm
Still feeling a bit rubbish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 February, 2012, 06:06:55 pm
Wondering which of the cats was making the vomming noise, and where I will find the deposit...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 February, 2012, 06:27:40 pm
In deep training for tomorrow's ride.
I'm in the pub. :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 16 February, 2012, 06:36:29 pm
Carp, work just phoned desperate to cover tonight because of a no-show. I had about 5 hours sleep last night and spent the day riding 100k so I was looking forward to some food and a chill out. Now I have to go in for 11pm and work 10 hours instead  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 February, 2012, 06:38:16 pm
Remedying a calorie deficit.You know what I'm saying ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 February, 2012, 06:54:58 pm
Listening to geese flying overhead!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 February, 2012, 09:12:19 pm
Eating tea after a 2.5 hour jam session with a friend from work.  I have no right-hand technique, he has no left-hand technique, but we managed a pretty good "Folsom Prison Blues" with him doing the chords and me doing the jangly solo bits and singing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 16 February, 2012, 11:52:55 pm
Putting the finishing touches to the jumper that I've knitted for Peggy the chicken.


(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t250/nettienoodles/022.jpg)


(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t250/nettienoodles/019-3.jpg)
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Post by: Kim on 17 February, 2012, 12:09:41 am
Giving the Laserjet The Look.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 February, 2012, 12:21:24 am
Packing.  Sort of.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 February, 2012, 08:14:04 am
Done that, sort of.  Now wondering what I've forgotten....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 February, 2012, 08:32:12 am
Attempting to wake up.  Bike ride, for the purposes of.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 February, 2012, 08:51:33 am
I am armed with my stripiest socks, the cheese-tastic citrus print jersey that I reckon you could see from orbit and which clashes astonishingly with my hair (smidsy that, y'swines!), a plenty of orange cardboard, a pannier of random stuff, no caik, no flapjack, somebody's rather late birthday present, the muddiest bike ever and some equally muddy sturdy walking shoes.  And a reasonable level of determination to actually make it to Dentdale, one way or another, at the third attmpt!  M'off onna h'adventure :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 February, 2012, 12:03:43 pm
Eating cake with Kim.
We're contemplating sharing a hot tub later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Analog Kid on 17 February, 2012, 03:15:01 pm
Trying to muster the energy to lurch into the kitchen to make a cup of tea.

Really not enjoying this broken leg and crutches malarkey.

  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 February, 2012, 06:17:32 pm
At the Olympic velodrome, with Fidgetbuzz, waiting for the cycling to start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 17 February, 2012, 06:20:52 pm
Envious?
Me?
Nahhhh.

Putting the bike in the back of the car and heading out to Bulphan, where tomorrow my nephew gets married.
If all goes according to plan, I'll get a ride in before the service.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 February, 2012, 08:05:19 pm
Playing with a developer preview of OS X 10.8 .... hasn't crashed on me yet  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 17 February, 2012, 08:06:45 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 16 February, 2012, 11:52:55 pm
Putting the finishing touches to the jumper that I've knitted for Peggy the chicken.


(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t250/nettienoodles/022.jpg)


(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t250/nettienoodles/019-3.jpg)

What we really need is a pic of Peggy wearing her jumper! It will be teh cute!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 February, 2012, 08:08:01 pm
Quote from: Feline on 17 February, 2012, 08:06:45 pm
What we really need is a pic of Peggy wearing her jumper! It will be teh cute!
A video of aforementioned jumper being placed on aforementioned chook might have amusement potential, too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 18 February, 2012, 12:22:14 pm
Shopping in that YORK, for lil' sis's b'day prezzie
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 February, 2012, 12:30:21 pm
Waiting for my ears to defrost.

And wondering what the funny ticking noise coming from the laptop is....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 February, 2012, 01:42:51 pm
Quote from: Basil on 17 February, 2012, 12:03:43 pm
Eating cake with Kim.
We're contemplating sharing a hot tub later.
Pics or it didn't happen.
.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 18 February, 2012, 05:24:28 pm
Quote from: iddu on 18 February, 2012, 12:22:14 pm
Shopping in that YORK, for lil' sis's b'day prezzie

You no get me an ickle prezzie?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 18 February, 2012, 05:25:07 pm
Sharpening my tools

(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t250/nettienoodles/059.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 18 February, 2012, 05:36:24 pm
Drying out in the pubbe awaiting collection.
 No2daughter was no longer enjoying it in a Big Way so we bailed.
Now we are having crisps and tea and trying not to spread eau de randonneur to the other customers.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 19 February, 2012, 12:27:01 pm
Sitting in departures with mrsmike. Any top tips for Venice?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 19 February, 2012, 12:35:54 pm
Trying to regain the use of my arms.  Pull ups are getting easier but by god they render my arms completely useless for much of the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 February, 2012, 12:36:29 pm
Quote from: mike on 19 February, 2012, 12:27:01 pm
Sitting in departures with mrsmike. Any top tips for Venice?

Harry's bar and bellini (of the drink and artist kind)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 19 February, 2012, 12:36:52 pm
Quote from: mike on 19 February, 2012, 12:27:01 pm
Sitting in departures with mrsmike. Any top tips for Venice?
A long ball of string to find your way back to your hotel
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frere on 19 February, 2012, 12:40:43 pm
Quote from: mike on 19 February, 2012, 12:27:01 pm
Sitting in departures with mrsmike. Any top tips for Venice?

Expect to get lost, but enjoy getting lost. It's a city to get lost in and explore. Venice isn't a big place. Try to fix mental locations of St Mark's Square, and the head/tail of Venice as a fish (its almost fish shaped) so that you know roughly where you ought to be. Stay away from the obvious tourist eating troughs. It is especially beautiful at this time of year.

Have a lovely time :)

Frere
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 19 February, 2012, 12:48:28 pm
Quote from: mike on 19 February, 2012, 12:27:01 pm
Sitting in departures with mrsmike. Any top tips for Venice?
Venice for Carnevale -- not jealous at all! 

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 February, 2012, 12:59:56 pm
Wondering why the world seems to be slowly spinning to the left and hoping barakta hasn't given me one of her snot infections.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 February, 2012, 01:00:03 pm
Waiting for bobb and then we're going to the shop to buy things for sandwiches to take on the train with us tomorrow when we go to Skye. He said he wants caramel flapjacks. Closer questioning established he wants millionaires shortbread.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 February, 2012, 01:13:16 pm
yum!
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 February, 2012, 01:15:36 pm
Double yum.

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Post by: Jurek on 19 February, 2012, 01:31:45 pm
Trying to pull myself together after a weekend of industrial strength wedding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 19 February, 2012, 01:32:12 pm
I am currently warming up between bouts of 'doing stuff outside'.  I would call it gardening, except that I haven't touched a plant or any earth yet and I've been out there for hours!

S
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Post by: PaulF on 19 February, 2012, 01:45:04 pm
Aching :(

Did my longest ride in ages in an attempt to regain fitness, maybe pushed too hard ???
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Post by: ferret on 19 February, 2012, 01:46:37 pm
drinking a cup of tea, whilst contemplating my next line of attack on No; 2 sons rear axle which he managed to bend last night on his way home :facepalm:

however we do have a spare, which is from his other car, which he managed to seize the engine on, not really his fault that time either  ??? :facepalm:

I think £30/hour plus parts sounds reasonable  :demon:
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Post by: interzen on 19 February, 2012, 01:47:21 pm
Washing some socks and thinking about cleaning all the muck off the Pugsley :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 February, 2012, 02:00:04 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 19 February, 2012, 01:31:45 pm
Trying to pull myself together after a weekend of industrial strength wedding.

Is this an euphemism? If so, it a bit forthright of you to put it in The Pub!  :thumbsup:

For my part, I am mostly sneezing and trying to ignore an attention-seeking dog.
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Post by: Chris S on 19 February, 2012, 05:17:33 pm
Finished a bit of Flatwork (like Housework, but easier). Now catching up on emails, and World Cup cycling on iPlayer.
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 February, 2012, 06:04:18 pm
Breathing a sigh of relief. I have made 7 yes 7 calls to 02 customer services trying to get some sensible information about my blackberry id.  Finally the last girl found it for me and reset the password so that I could access the settings on my handset.  All of the others kept telling me to use my email address and wouldn't accept that the handset kept saying it wasn't my ID. Phew, I now have emails again.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 19 February, 2012, 06:58:26 pm
Drinking cava with some raspberry liqueur in it, for no other reason than we fancied it.

Waiting for the slow cooker to finish cooking a chicken.

Relaxing.

Trying not to think about work tomorrow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 19 February, 2012, 08:51:46 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 18 February, 2012, 05:25:07 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 18 February, 2012, 05:24:28 pm
Quote from: iddu on 18 February, 2012, 12:22:14 pm
Shopping in that YORK, for lil' sis's b'day prezzie
You no get me an ickle prezzie?
Sharpening my tools
(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t250/nettienoodles/059.jpg)
ULP! Just going down t'shops, sweetie :-* :-* :-*
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Post by: Chris S on 19 February, 2012, 08:52:45 pm
Watching Deliverance
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Post by: Jurek on 19 February, 2012, 08:58:40 pm
Listening to the Paul Oakenfold mix on BBC6 Music.

I'm struggling to think what might be more appropriate to follow the wedding I attended this weekend.

It fits in there just cushty. Natch.

Like a nantucket - see Douglas Adams.
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Post by: pixieannie on 19 February, 2012, 09:03:19 pm
Quote from: iddu on 19 February, 2012, 08:51:46 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 18 February, 2012, 05:25:07 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 18 February, 2012, 05:24:28 pm
Quote from: iddu on 18 February, 2012, 12:22:14 pm
Shopping in that YORK, for lil' sis's b'day prezzie
You no get me an ickle prezzie?
Sharpening my tools
(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t250/nettienoodles/059.jpg)
ULP! Just going down t'shops, sweetie :-* :-* :-*

Excellent and none of that plastic stuff. 
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Post by: Feanor on 19 February, 2012, 09:04:59 pm
Helping Junior#2 complete a cardboard and papier mache model Lancaster bomber for a school project, due in tomorrow.
We've finally just finished the painting, and it's good to go.

Looked a bit touch-and-go earlier as the papier mache only started at 2:00pm, and required forced-air drying ( in the fan oven @ about 60 degrees for an hour and a half )!
Like an episode of Scrap Heap Challenge.

But we're all done now.  Phew!
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wonky on 20 February, 2012, 12:22:02 am
Quote from: Feanor on 19 February, 2012, 09:04:59 pm
Helping Junior#2 complete a cardboard and papier mache model Lancaster bomber for a school project, due in tomorrow.
We've finally just finished the painting, and it's good to go.

Looked a bit touch-and-go earlier as the papier mache only started at 2:00pm, and required forced-air drying ( in the fan oven @ about 60 degrees for an hour and a half )!
Like an episode of Scrap Heap Challenge.

But we're all done now.  Phew!

I did that about 3 weeks ago. Daddy MAY have taken over a little bit.
Our lancaster bomber was made from coke bottles cut and hot glue gunned into shape, with a papier mache covering.
We found that the plastic balls from those coin operated vending machines outside the newsagents were great for making the domed bits. I melted a flat on one for the bomb aimers window.

It made it to the foyer display. :)

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 February, 2012, 07:50:14 am
Being excited 'cos Bobb and I are going to Skye today.
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Post by: essexian on 20 February, 2012, 08:27:17 am
Quote from: Kirst on 20 February, 2012, 07:50:14 am
Being excited 'cos Bobb and I are going to Skye today.

Oh I am really, really, really jealous!!!! I would love to go back there.

We stayed here for a week in the house behind the camera.

http://g.co/maps/srcq9

Fancy waking up to that view every day!

Oh, and it becomes worse when I say I am off to Stevenage today.... not knocking Stevenage but....sigh

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Post by: tiermat on 20 February, 2012, 08:28:13 am
gee-ing myself up to ride through to Thirsk for an appointment.

One that I am not looking forward to.

One I need to go to.

One that is going to be hard on my, emotionally.

It'll be reet.
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Post by: interzen on 20 February, 2012, 09:39:18 am
Recovering from open-wallet surgery.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 February, 2012, 10:12:39 am
On a train to Perth, just left Kirkaldy.
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Post by: lou boutin on 20 February, 2012, 11:15:16 am
Quote from: Kirst on 20 February, 2012, 10:12:39 am
On a train to Perth, just left Kirkaldy.

Have fun. I've only been to Skye once and it was beautiful; I'd love to go again.
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Post by: LindaG on 20 February, 2012, 11:33:17 am
Cooking a big pan of leek, mushroom and lemon risotto.  With much cheese.  Should do me the next 3 days while Crusty's off playing on his bike  :)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 February, 2012, 11:36:07 am
Trying to persuade bobb that the best way to be avenged on the mouth-breathing Sun readers who are insistent they are in the right seats even though 9 & 10F are not 9,10 & 11B is to sit right behind them and snog loudly.

Also discussing whether Freuchie or Murthly is the funnier word.
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Post by: interzen on 20 February, 2012, 11:40:51 am
Trying to decide which soup I should have for my lunch ... wild mushroom is a distinct possibility.

EDIT: I was going to add 'and waiting for the gas engineer to turn up' but he's just rung to say he's in the village and on his way  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 20 February, 2012, 01:12:02 pm
On the train to Stevenage and no, its not beautiful  :-[

At least I got a First Class seat for £30 (from Stafford to that London) which makes up for the lack of niceness to a degree.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 February, 2012, 05:43:50 pm
Wishing I wasn't going.
I'm about to go for dinner with the customer, the competition and the something in between. No-one else from my company is going. I've a feeling this will be excruciating, and I can't blot it all out by getting steaming either.....
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Post by: peliroja on 20 February, 2012, 06:22:25 pm
Playing the 'refresh game' with the DHL online tracker. Hurry up, fork! You arrived in Santiago yesterday and <sings> it's a long way... to Puerto Natales!
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Post by: Feline on 20 February, 2012, 07:22:34 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 20 February, 2012, 06:22:25 pm
Playing the 'refresh game' with the DHL online tracker. Hurry up, fork! You arrived in Santiago yesterday and <sings> it's a long way... to Puerto Natales!

Hope it arrives soon! And also that they sent the right fork!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 20 February, 2012, 08:31:38 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 20 February, 2012, 05:43:50 pm
Wishing I wasn't going.
I'm about to go for dinner with the customer, the competition and the something in between. No-one else from my company is going. I've a feeling this will be excruciating, and I can't blot it all out by getting steaming either.....

I feel your pain.  Those things are cring worthy. Good luck. 
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Post by: pixieannie on 20 February, 2012, 09:10:10 pm
Trying to make my bedroom look less Parisian Boudoir and more Cath Kidston...it may take some time.
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Post by: interzen on 20 February, 2012, 09:14:39 pm
Assembling the 'commuting mix' on my iPod ...
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Post by: smurphboy on 20 February, 2012, 09:16:36 pm
Half watching The Tube on BBC2 and half applying helicopter tape to my new frame. I really need to pay more attention to the tape, had the down tube piece off twice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 21 February, 2012, 12:43:29 am
Quote from: Kirst on 20 February, 2012, 10:12:39 am
...just left Kirkaldy.

Good news  :thumbsup:
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 21 February, 2012, 06:19:32 am
Just wondering what I should do with a few days garden leave. Now let me see...
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Post by: tiermat on 21 February, 2012, 08:24:54 am
Considering whether the roads are dry enough for the Holdsworth to have it's first outing of the year.

Looking positive so far :)
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Post by: longers on 21 February, 2012, 08:39:27 am
Eating fifth pancake.
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Post by: pixieannie on 21 February, 2012, 12:25:29 pm
Watching Jo Coburn discussing the Greek bailout.  *little moment*
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Post by: lou boutin on 21 February, 2012, 08:09:29 pm
Sitting at home in the UK rather than sitting at home in France - which is where I should be at the moment.
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Post by: jogler on 21 February, 2012, 08:20:54 pm
scoffing pancakes.Thanks marj  :-*
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 February, 2012, 08:30:26 pm
Missing pancake day, it would appear  :'(
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Post by: L CC on 22 February, 2012, 12:51:14 am
Not sleeping.

Miserable bastard again tomorrow, doubtless.

Grrr.
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Post by: clarion on 22 February, 2012, 01:04:36 am
Also not sleeping.  Waiting for painkillers to fend off some of the attack of toothache. :(
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Post by: simonp on 22 February, 2012, 02:44:53 am
I was going to try to work out how to make the x axis labels be dates instead of week numbers. But I’m going to try to sleep instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 February, 2012, 07:45:21 am
Trying to get my head around the "Engrish" instructions for the CISS system I bought for my inkjet printer.

 ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 22 February, 2012, 10:51:28 am
I too have been in receipt of little sleep, doubtless to do with the abundance of energy and the rattling sash windows.

I'm about to make some bloomers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 February, 2012, 10:53:47 am
Feeling very tired & sleepy.  I've got the lurgy but am still in work  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 22 February, 2012, 11:12:46 am
Quote from: andrewc on 22 February, 2012, 10:53:47 am
Feeling very tired & sleepy.  I've got the lurgy but am still in work  :(

Stop snivelling.
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Post by: tiermat on 22 February, 2012, 11:31:48 am
Banging my head against a brick wall, well it has to hurt less than dealing with the muppets I have to work with.

At least my random playlist on the iPod is serving up some cool tunes, currently "Jealous Again" by the Black Crowes...
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Post by: interzen on 22 February, 2012, 11:39:41 am
Quote from: tiermat on 22 February, 2012, 11:31:48 am
Banging my head against a brick wall, well it has to hurt less than dealing with the muppets I have to work with.

At least my random playlist on the iPod is serving up some cool tunes, currently "Jealous Again" by the Black Crowes...
I'm listening to proper, old-school Berlin School electronica at utterly brain-melting volumes.
It's almost helping me to forget about the mind-buggering horrors that are InDesign plugins and C++

I have also made an executive decision that today's lunch will come from M&S - it'll be the first meal I've had in 3 weeks that hasn't been predominantly liquid and/or made up of soft food so I'm going to make it count.
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Post by: tiermat on 22 February, 2012, 12:02:23 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 February, 2012, 11:31:48 am
Banging my head against a brick wall, well it has to hurt less than dealing with the muppets I have to work with.

At least my random playlist on the iPod is serving up some cool tunes, currently "Jealous Again" by the Black Crowes...

Now the client is blaming us for their DNS not working......

Ho Hum....
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Post by: interzen on 22 February, 2012, 12:07:25 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 February, 2012, 12:02:23 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 February, 2012, 11:31:48 am
Banging my head against a brick wall, well it has to hurt less than dealing with the muppets I have to work with.

At least my random playlist on the iPod is serving up some cool tunes, currently "Jealous Again" by the Black Crowes...

Now the client is blaming us for their DNS not working......

Ho Hum....

(http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/dilbert/internet_full.gif)
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Post by: matthew on 22 February, 2012, 01:59:55 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 22 February, 2012, 10:53:47 am
Feeling very tired & sleepy.  I've got the lurgy but am still in work  :(

I'm back home from work having been sick at the office.  :-[ *green at the gills smilie*
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Post by: L CC on 22 February, 2012, 08:46:37 pm
I've just woken up from a self indulgent petulant sending myself to bed. Now I feel all green & furry without actually having been drinking. Toying between staying put and getting up and doing the ironing. It's all glamour here.

Ugh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 22 February, 2012, 09:16:29 pm
Quote from: fboab on 22 February, 2012, 08:46:37 pm
I've just woken up from a self indulgent petulant sending myself to bed. Now I feel all green & furry without actually having been drinking. Toying between staying put and getting up and doing the ironing. It's all glamour here.

Ugh.

I had a little nap this afternoon and woke up feeling grotty.  That's all been corrected with a damned fine session at the climbing wall.

I hope you feel bright and bouncy very soon.
x
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Post by: tiermat on 23 February, 2012, 02:54:24 pm
Getting Spotify (on linux)to sync music to my 6G Nano.

It appears to be working, certainly better than VirtualBox, which kept telling me my iPod was corrupt and needed restoring, even though, if I connected it to a windows box, iTunes said it was ok.

The windows box is my work PC so I can't allow it to see my music collection, unfortunately. :(
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Post by: why1040 on 23 February, 2012, 03:05:09 pm
Waiting for my 15:00 client...

 ::-)
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Post by: why1040 on 23 February, 2012, 03:26:31 pm
Quote from: why1040 on 23 February, 2012, 03:05:09 pm
Waiting for my 15:00 client...

 ::-)
Still waiting...believe it or not, this is the first no-show I've had...sure, things happen and people have to cancel suddenly, but to not show up at all?  Phone's right next to me, so I've not missed a call either...

I could be upset, but if she's not here by half past, I'm taking the bike and going shopping in the sunshine!   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 23 February, 2012, 03:39:54 pm
Sticking two (rather inky) fingers up to manufacturers of expensive inkjet print cartridges after installing a continual inking system to my printer!

Yay for £0.20 per cartridge running costs.   :thumbsup: (Ok, so the system + ink costs £60.....)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 February, 2012, 03:41:48 pm
Can I stick an honorary two fingers up at them for having bought a Laserjet several years ago that's got through about one cartridge in that time?

The cost of inkjet ink is the biggest scam pulled on humanity since religion.  Or at least McDonald's.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 23 February, 2012, 05:18:15 pm
sitting on a train to the pubbe run, looking at hills and a fabulous sky and feeling happy. It's Thursday and All's right with the world.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 February, 2012, 05:55:48 pm
Summoning some gumption to get out the door to go join the pubbe runne.  Which, once I've done it, will mean that it is Thursday and all will be well with the world.

Btw, I've promised our man in India that we'll have a pint for him.  If we each do that, he might feel a bit leftover in the morning!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 February, 2012, 01:59:19 pm
Looking at weather forecasts for next Thursday and Friday.

On Thursday I aim to go NTR > Morecambe
On Friday I am reversing the route.
According the forecast (I know there is a week yet so all can, and probably will, change)
On Thursday the wind will be from the West
On Friday it changes round totally to be from the East.
Even the geographically challenged can work out what that means.....
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Post by: Quisling on 24 February, 2012, 02:02:01 pm
Just written up the notes from my meeting as a new charity Trustee last night, and done my actions from the meeting.
Back to work now then downhill to the weekend.  Waiting for shewhowillbeMrsQoneday to come home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 February, 2012, 02:21:21 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 24 February, 2012, 01:59:19 pm
Looking at weather forecasts for next Thursday and Friday.

On Thursday I aim to go NTR > Morecambe
On Friday I am reversing the route.
According the forecast (I know there is a week yet so all can, and probably will, change)
On Thursday the wind will be from the West
On Friday it changes round totally to be from the East.
Even the geographically challenged can work out what that means.....

Is the answer "It's grim up north"?  :demon:

Sorry, couldn't resist!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 February, 2012, 02:26:18 pm
Extra training, innit, T?

Currently I am eating cheap crappy instant noodles and summoning gumption to start again on today's death by a thousand cuts graphics driver un/installs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 February, 2012, 02:27:51 pm
At least we're living in The Future, and that doesn't involve excessive squinting at 60Hz CRTs...


Meanwhile, I'm searching for something known as 'floor'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 24 February, 2012, 02:31:03 pm
I've dismissed my class early, and am about to ride home in glorious sunshine  8)

ETA: And a rather stiff headwind...
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Post by: starkj73 on 24 February, 2012, 02:32:50 pm
Me?

Sitting at a desk watching the clock slowly tick to 4pm, then am garn yam, marra.

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Post by: Si_Co on 24 February, 2012, 03:15:58 pm
Deciding wether or not to attack my plaster cast with tools on Sunday morning cus i wanna go for a ride, <insert frustrated smiley>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 February, 2012, 03:42:45 pm
Just about to proof read an essay I've just finished for college.  4000 words on the integrated land management and rural land use conflict on Mar Lodge Estate.   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 24 February, 2012, 03:51:34 pm
Getting ready to finish work and go home...after all it is "Work your contracted hours day" today....shame I started work at 6.45am and have done considerably more hours this week than the 37.5 I am paid for.  :facepalm: :demon:

Enjoy your weekends.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 February, 2012, 04:35:11 pm
Just about to liberate a bottle of San Miguel from the fridge :)

Oh and thanks for that dig about the North Andrij, I shall remember it if when you make it up here, and realise that you are wasting your time in that grimy London village.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 24 February, 2012, 05:19:55 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 23 February, 2012, 05:18:15 pm
sitting on a train to the pubbe run, looking at hills and a fabulous sky and feeling happy. It's Thursday and All's right with the world.
Next time you feel like writing something like this, just note it down in a notebook, then cut-n-paste it to the internet after 24h if nothing has subsequently happened.  Please.
GWS :-* (and we'll be wanting to see the photos of the bruises under the oil-stained jeans.)

Myself, I've made significant inroads into the EU Sleep Mountain.  And not disturbed by Cats. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 25 February, 2012, 02:14:06 pm
Nomming on chocolate orange and banana and trying to make something of the mess that is my right eye.  I may go for a vamp look this evening, I'm certain it's all the rage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 25 February, 2012, 02:36:25 pm
Printing off the penultimate essay for this term!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Aidan on 25 February, 2012, 02:38:09 pm
Watching Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Dutch tv feed  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 February, 2012, 02:51:53 pm
Eating a bacon buttie. I've just walked into town & back and while I'm better than I've been in the week I still feel knackered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Carradice bag lady on 25 February, 2012, 03:29:50 pm
Bacon butties well good !!!!!
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 25 February, 2012, 03:43:54 pm
I've just driven MFWHTBAB's electric tractor round the road, which included driving it out of, and reversing it back into, the hallway!

What fun!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Carradice bag lady on 25 February, 2012, 03:59:49 pm
Oh fantastic did you reach record speeds ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 25 February, 2012, 04:09:11 pm
Watching Nanny McPhee - Ive not seen it before, it's quite funny.
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Post by: Carradice bag lady on 25 February, 2012, 04:29:44 pm
Yes best of a bad bunch - rugby,come dine or birds brittania what do I pay a licence for then shortly it's final score another hour of rubbish
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 25 February, 2012, 04:34:35 pm
Watching the Rugby with a 24 minute time slip, so I'll know the result after everyone else.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 25 February, 2012, 05:02:55 pm
Quote from: Carradice bag lady on 25 February, 2012, 03:59:49 pm
Oh fantastic did you reach record speeds ?

33rpm?  ;D

It's not quite a speed machine - a brisk walk in top gear. But it does have the option, for various complicated engineering reasons, to have 3 forward speeds and 1 reverse, or 1 forward and 3 reverse.... 

Seen here in action: (all forwards)

http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y179/Eversley/EV%20Tractor/?action=view&current=Roadtest05250212.mp4
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Post by: lou boutin on 25 February, 2012, 05:33:09 pm
Crying like a baby at the end of Nanny McPhee - how sad am I?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 25 February, 2012, 05:37:52 pm
Checking out ISA transfers, Nat West have a 3 year fixed interest one at 4.2%. ISAs have done better for me than Pension Funds, so it's probably worth locking the money away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 February, 2012, 05:56:20 pm
Woolly's gone off to a rodeo, so I'm about to have a peanut butter butty, on brown bread! Yes, this is a huge novelty in Chile!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 February, 2012, 03:40:02 pm
Watching last night's TOTP2 Boybands special. So far I've ffwded through Boyzone, Westlife and Dros.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 February, 2012, 03:42:32 pm
Planning a route that will take me through Thursday, Friday and a little bit of Saturday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 February, 2012, 03:46:11 pm
The arms to YMCA.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 February, 2012, 05:06:58 pm
Recovering from my first ride of the year. Made slightly harder by the application of cat to lap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 26 February, 2012, 05:11:51 pm
Sewing umbrella fabric into handbag liners for Arch.

Just failed to give away a set of French doors on Freecycle.  The chap came to have a look and decided against them as they were not really the right size.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 February, 2012, 02:03:16 pm
Baking CAKE.  For SCIENCE!
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 February, 2012, 02:15:07 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 26 February, 2012, 05:06:58 pm
Recovering from my first ride of the year. Made slightly harder by the application of cat to lap.
Yes I'd think that would interfere with a smooth pedalling action...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 February, 2012, 04:07:40 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 27 February, 2012, 02:15:07 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 26 February, 2012, 05:06:58 pm
Recovering from my first ride of the year. Made slightly harder by the application of cat to lap.
Yes I'd think that would interfere with a smooth pedalling action...
;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 29 February, 2012, 06:43:18 am
Failing to get anywhere with the Raspberry Pi.

Foolishly they "announced" yesterday that something significant would be happening today at 6am.

Their servers are now either unavailable, or just displaying what they did yesterday.  Twitter and Google suggest that they're selling the device through RS and Farnell, with Element 14 also involved.

Guess whose servers are basically unavailable!

#raspberrypi is pretty much at the top of trending topics on Twitter.  Definitely there for the UK, and high up worldwide!

On the plus side, Kai and Zev are getting an early breakfast today. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 February, 2012, 06:54:16 am
Look at Engadget, Tim.

Both Farnell and RS websites are down, or slow

Basics, in a nur shell, Model A upgraded to 256Mb, pre-orders being taken by RS and Farnell, who will do all the ordering and shipping for RaspberryPi.

Once the production flow is working properly then they will allow orders of >1, but for the moment (assuming you can get onto the website) you can only order 1.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 29 February, 2012, 07:54:36 am
I suspect it would be a challenge to order even one, most ordering websites require you to go through several pages to complete an order, and I've got at best a very slight response from their webservers, certainly no more than the occasional error page!

Ah well, enough hitting Refresh.  I'll probably try at infrequent intervals for the rest of the day, but there's a limit to how obsessed I am. :)

Oddly enough I'll mostly be buying computer kit today, a couple of desktop PCs, a server, a UPS, and other random bits of kit.  Probably a smidgen under £10000, but no chance of spending £25 on this. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 February, 2012, 11:54:43 am
Trying to get enough tuits together to pack two panniers ready for tomorrow's jaunt over to the wrong side of the pennines.

I am sure I have left some lying around here somewhere :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 29 February, 2012, 01:58:29 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 29 February, 2012, 11:54:43 am
Trying to get enough tuits together to pack two panniers ready for tomorrow's jaunt over to the wrong side of the pennines.

I am sure I have left some lying around here somewhere :)
Underpants/socks/soap/shoes?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 February, 2012, 02:19:05 pm
First two packed, fourth are on my feet ATM, but will pack them tonight.

Third no necessary, I shall be hotelling it tomorrow night
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 February, 2012, 02:21:50 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 29 February, 2012, 06:54:16 am
Once the production flow is working properly then they will allow orders of >1, but for the moment (assuming you can get onto the website) you can only order 1.
RS won't even let you order one at the moment - the RPi page has been replaced with a form to fill in to 'express an interest'. Farnell's website has been dead as a doornail since this morning.

At the appropriate time, I shall be ordering 10 of them. I have Plans.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 29 February, 2012, 06:41:14 pm
I am expressing an interest.  I have that BBC Micro vibe, and it'll make a dandy home media box, I reckon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 February, 2012, 09:28:44 pm
Nursing a sore ankle after fall off my shoes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 29 February, 2012, 10:21:10 pm
Quote from: TimO on 29 February, 2012, 07:54:36 am
I suspect it would be a challenge to order even one, most ordering websites require you to go through several pages to complete an order, and I've got at best a very slight response from their webservers, certainly no more than the occasional error page!

Ah well, enough hitting Refresh.  I'll probably try at infrequent intervals for the rest of the day, but there's a limit to how obsessed I am. :)
This sounds reminiscent of Southern's cheep rail tickets offer last spring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CommuteTooFar on 29 February, 2012, 10:24:26 pm
flossing my teeth before bed. Night night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 February, 2012, 10:45:38 pm
Buying train and plane tickets.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 29 February, 2012, 11:43:31 pm
Sitting up in bed in Nairobi, wondering whether to raid the mini-bar or order some proper grub from room service.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 March, 2012, 07:52:34 am
Packing my panniers ready to head off into the sunset to Morecambe, en velo. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 March, 2012, 07:59:15 am
Have a splendid time and keep us posted, and don't forget to photograph the beer and chips!  There will be beer and chips, won't there?  I'm fairly sure there's roolz about it....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 01 March, 2012, 09:31:46 am
Sitting on a coach bound for that London. Or at least for the Barnes Wildfowl and Wetlands reserve. Said coach has Internet access which is v e r y slow but at least it's free.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 01 March, 2012, 11:06:18 am
Cool! Have fun in Barnes :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 March, 2012, 12:42:54 pm
Eating paracetamol and rapidly coming to the conclusion that maybe I didn't dodge the flu this year afterall.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 March, 2012, 05:57:03 pm
Breathing. In. and out. And count.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 01 March, 2012, 06:14:49 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 01 March, 2012, 11:06:18 am
Cool! Have fun in Barnes :D
Thank you. We did!  Saw a fair few birds, nothing stunningly unusual, but snipe in the middle of London?!
I don't think we'll make it a regular trip. After all we have loads of really good bird watching sites much closer to us, but it's a good reserve and I would recommend it to anyone with the slightest interest in birds who lives anywhere near.

Am now back on the coach waiting to set off back to the west country.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Simonb on 01 March, 2012, 06:35:59 pm
Quote from: Kim on 01 March, 2012, 12:42:54 pm
[..] coming to the conclusion that maybe I didn't dodge the flu this year afterall.   :(

Oh Bugger.

Oh, and I'm eating toast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 March, 2012, 06:41:01 pm
Bugger indeed.  I've got the exhaustion, the dizziness, the cold sweats and more joint pain than you can shake a stout stick at.  I gave up and went to bed for a couple of hours earlier, and spent two hours having those nasty hallucinogenic nonsense debugging dreams where, for the first 60 seconds or so after waking up, you're utterly convinced that you've solved whatever problem you've been working on, before slowly realising that the solution is utter bollocks.

I've just eaten some of yesterday's leftover curry.  It was a struggle.  You know things aren't right when I struggle to eat curry.

On the plus side, my lungs are being a bit less asthmatic and more full of grot.

Bah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 March, 2012, 09:20:30 pm
Quote from: fboab on 01 March, 2012, 05:57:03 pm
Breathing. In. and out. And count.

Are you in labour?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 01 March, 2012, 10:40:43 pm
I'm effing about on t'Internet looking at possible accomodations in Wales-land for the BCM, when I have an 05:00 alarm call tomorrow for a ride in to work with someone who had to abandon our weekend ride through knee problems.    I need to shut the PC down, drink no more grog, and go to bed.   NN.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 March, 2012, 10:48:35 pm
Trying to talk myself out of an i-Pod classic.


My husband has no job.  We have no money.

[fiddlerontheroof] but on the other hand ...

I'm working harder than ever whilst having NO PERSONAL SPACE WHATSOEVER, AT ALL, EVER

My leg hurts

I deserve this

To live without my music would be impossible to do, and in this world of troubles, my music pulls me through.

[/fotr]

Hmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 March, 2012, 06:26:18 am
My internal discussions on such things often include the question:
What are you going to do without to pay for this?

(Twice, I gave up smoking for 6 months to pay for a bike.  These days it's much harder, as there's less to give up, & I'm not giving up cake, that'd be above and beyond....)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 March, 2012, 06:30:34 am
Last minute panicking revising before my first aid exams at college today......   :o
/me wonders what his practical scenario is going to involve ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 02 March, 2012, 07:21:12 am
First aid tests are fun :). Especially the ones with practical! Good luck.  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 March, 2012, 07:37:49 am
Good luck Brian!

I am attempting to summon some Gumption.  Again.  It is now too late to ring for the cop-out option of the lift from a colleague to work.... so I guess I'm riding.  Maybe one more coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 March, 2012, 07:39:48 am
Making porridge
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 02 March, 2012, 08:50:04 am
Wondering if I should tell our IT people that my works email doesn't seem to be working today.....

Or should I just keep quiet and get on with some proper work rather than spending half the day answering pointless emails....

Hummmm.... decisions, decisions  :thumbsup:



Edit to add 21 mins later.....some bugger has told them! They are looking into it.  >:( Looks like I might have to work today.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 02 March, 2012, 09:21:00 am
Working out the pattern for knitting a ventilator bonnet in the round.

Well actually posting on here while looking at my scrawled notes and realising that I'm going to have to knit another one to work out what I did last time.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 March, 2012, 12:02:15 pm
Just finishing a large, satisfyingly late breakfast in the cafe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 March, 2012, 01:13:05 pm
Now relaxing after the mornings first aid exams.   :thumbsup:  The practicals went OK, not sure about the multiple choice exam, or the short written answer exam though.......  Will find out next week.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 March, 2012, 01:28:25 pm
Still waiting for our parcel. DHL have now given it to a 'broker', and claim it is untrackable. And they don't know who - or what - the broker is. Apparently, the broker in the case could mean us. Except we haven't received the parcel.

You couldn't make it up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 02 March, 2012, 01:55:06 pm
Couldn't Woolly just wheelie the rest of the trip?

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 02 March, 2012, 01:58:21 pm
Quote from: Clare on 02 March, 2012, 01:55:06 pm
Couldn't Woolly just wheelie the rest of the trip?
 ;)


Well the last time tried that I nearly faceplanted and knocked my front wheel out of true. And that wad without 40kg off gear and food.

;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 02 March, 2012, 02:02:00 pm
OK fair point.

 :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 March, 2012, 07:09:48 pm
Quote from: fboab on 02 March, 2012, 06:26:18 am
My internal discussions on such things often include the question:
What are you going to do without to pay for this?

(Twice, I gave up smoking for 6 months to pay for a bike.  These days it's much harder, as there's less to give up, & I'm not giving up cake, that'd be above and beyond....)

Good point, well made.

I shall polish my nano.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 March, 2012, 07:52:24 pm
Playing with my new to me hand-me-down mobile phone.  Quite an upgrade from a Nokia 5140i to an LG Secret KF750.  Apparantly it can film video at 120fps, albeit at only 320x240 resolution......  Cheers sis for giving me your old mobile!   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 March, 2012, 09:34:43 pm
Freezing my nads off because the heating is broken  :(

It gets fixed tomorrow morning, hopefully.  New circuit board needed in the boiler.  This is the year we get a wood-burning stove.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 March, 2012, 09:52:41 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 02 March, 2012, 09:34:43 pm
Freezing my nads off because the heating is broken  :(

It gets fixed tomorrow morning, hopefully.  New circuit board needed in the boiler.  This is the year we get a wood-burning stove.
Freezing your nads off? Heating's hardly come on this evening in the not very frozen north  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 March, 2012, 01:03:32 pm
Boiling two eggs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 March, 2012, 01:08:21 pm
Listening to the washing machine.  I've been lurgified all week so housework was abandoned. I've now got some catching up to do  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 March, 2012, 01:43:13 pm
Digesting my pancakes. And wondering if I can be arsed going out in the pissing rain to buy some nice cheese.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 March, 2012, 02:23:16 pm
I appear to be in the Blacksmith's Arms in Naburn. Again. I wonder how that can have happened...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 03 March, 2012, 04:25:21 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 March, 2012, 02:23:16 pm
I appear to be in the Blacksmith's Arms in Naburn. Again. I wonder how that can have happened...
That does happen! We're in an ice cream parlour on a farm in oxfordshire :thumbsup:. I've just eaten a huge ice cream sundae :D, and we're enjoying the excitement at ice cream displayed by everyone, including children, teenagers, men in their 20's, couples and a lady who appears to be  about 100  :D. She's my new idol :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 March, 2012, 04:28:58 pm
I'm basking in the glow of smugness in that our shower, which started to leak from the mixer the night that our central heating wasn't working and the temperature outside was -6.5°C, thereby giving me the strong impression that something internal had frozen, has succumbed to my predations and now appears not to be leaking.

I spent £1.49 on O-rings at B & Q and in the end I didn't use them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 March, 2012, 05:14:08 pm
I'm supposed to be revising for Monday's exams but I'm actually watching last nights Queens of Disco.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 03 March, 2012, 05:59:21 pm
Pricing up my eBay target
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 03 March, 2012, 06:03:33 pm
Waiting. An hour. For a 19 min train journey.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 03 March, 2012, 06:17:04 pm
I'm watching Life with Judy Garland.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 March, 2012, 06:18:48 pm
WATCHING BRIAN BLESSED ON POINTLESS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 March, 2012, 09:58:52 am
Building meccano with Cubs.  Suitable for 8+.  Not this 8+!  I am soooooooo rubbish at meccano.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 04 March, 2012, 10:11:05 am
Watching the rain which is forecast to continue for 10 hours sigh. (Shouldnt complain really we desperately need it)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: John Henry on 04 March, 2012, 10:21:37 am
Quote from: Canardly on 04 March, 2012, 10:11:05 am
Watching the rain which is forecast to continue for 10 hours sigh. (Shouldnt complain really we desperately need it)

^^^ the same.

Contemplating going to put some new brake blocks on the LHT.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 March, 2012, 11:10:51 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 March, 2012, 09:58:52 am
Building meccano with Cubs.  Suitable for 8+.  Not this 8+!  I am soooooooo rubbish at meccano.

But you have other special talents.Not limited to cake-ing :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 March, 2012, 11:15:53 am
Fortunately my boys are more skilled than me.  And occasionally capable of being patient!

(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/417752_10150632818616839_551606838_8811403_1372313112_n.jpg)

(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/418156_10150632819341839_551606838_8811407_427011839_n.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 04 March, 2012, 11:18:38 am
Quote from: John Henry on 04 March, 2012, 10:21:37 am
Quote from: Canardly on 04 March, 2012, 10:11:05 am
Watching the rain which is forecast to continue for 10 hours sigh. (Shouldnt complain really we desperately need it)

^^^ the same.

just back from 30 wet and windy miles  :smug:  Quite soggy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 04 March, 2012, 11:29:45 am
Sitting in a barn listening to the rain and hoping it slows a bit so we can drop the tent and move TGL without having to drop his tent around him :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 04 March, 2012, 11:35:20 am
Rebuilding my iPhoto library  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 04 March, 2012, 12:18:46 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 04 March, 2012, 11:29:45 am
Sitting in a barn listening to the rain and hoping it slows a bit so we can drop the tent and move TGL without having to drop his tent around him :-X

You could just stay in the barn.

 :)


Meanwhile I'm still sat in bed, listening to the rain and contemplating a shower and an afternoon of lace making and knitting while performing the terminally dreary job of ripping CDs to the NAS by the power of FLAC before converting the resulting agglomeration of 1s and 0s to MP3 for iSod.

(I almost make it look like I know what I'm talking about.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 March, 2012, 12:38:50 pm
Grumping because I woke up feeling a bit shit and I'm sure I'm starting a cold, and trying to motivate myself to do the revision for tomorrow's exams.  >:( Also, missing bobb.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 04 March, 2012, 12:39:12 pm
Quote from: mike on 04 March, 2012, 11:18:38 am
Quote from: John Henry on 04 March, 2012, 10:21:37 am
Quote from: Canardly on 04 March, 2012, 10:11:05 am
Watching the rain which is forecast to continue for 10 hours sigh. (Shouldnt complain really we desperately need it)

^^^ the same.

just back from 30 wet and windy miles  :smug:  Quite soggy.

Me too! But warm and glowy after a hot shower!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 March, 2012, 05:48:25 pm
Acting as umpire to a 4-way bicker-fest between children.

How I (don't) love wet Sunday afternoons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 March, 2012, 06:35:42 pm
Pondering on what time I should go to bed tonight, seeing as I need to be up at silly o'clock1 tomorrow morning to get to college for 7am for our field trip to Loch Lomond.

1  Also known as 4:45am, so I can get breakfast, lightbox & coffee before the 40 minute drive to college at 6am....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 March, 2012, 06:36:49 pm
I am being Norty and Profligate with valuable resources.

While horizontal sleet whips by outside in the glow of the streetlight, I'm fresh out of a steaming hot bath in here, wearing a t-shirt and shorts.

(Turns up thermostat again)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 March, 2012, 06:38:08 pm
Barakta and I are having a cough-fest.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 March, 2012, 09:44:43 am
Packing bags for a couple of days down south.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 05 March, 2012, 06:55:46 pm
Watching Captain Pugwash  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 05 March, 2012, 07:12:50 pm
testing clothes in my wardrobe, it looks like 80 % needs replacing  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 March, 2012, 09:01:15 pm
Wondering if I can persuade Pingu to make me a cup of tea...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 March, 2012, 08:21:02 pm
Wondering what I could spend my bonus on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 March, 2012, 09:43:10 pm
Bike or cake, depending on how big said bonus is, surely?

I am contemplating attempting an early night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 March, 2012, 09:44:34 pm
Whatting at every mumble barakta makes (I've now lost the high frequency hearing in BOTH ears) and reading Alison Bechdel books.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 March, 2012, 10:31:01 pm
Hmm, I thought about bike, but that sort of bike would also entail the purchase of similar for Pingu, plus a several of ticquets to far, far away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 March, 2012, 10:53:27 pm
Quote from: Gus on 05 March, 2012, 07:12:50 pm
testing clothes in my wardrobe, it looks like 80 % needs replacing  :-\

That's because you are a finely honed athlete!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 07 March, 2012, 09:10:02 am
I'm on a CrossCountry train to Manchester, looking out for Rower40.

CrossCountry trains are reamers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 07 March, 2012, 10:10:54 am
Enjoying enduring a weekly conference call where the project mangler reads out his planning spreadsheet.

Again.

He doesn't actually deliver anything
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 March, 2012, 11:12:31 am
Quote from: Jaded on 07 March, 2012, 09:10:02 am
I'm on a CrossCountry train to Manchester, looking out for Rower40.

CrossCountry trains are reamers.

I'm on an East Coast train to Embra, looking out for seals.

There are no working mains sockets in this cabbage so my surfing shall shortly be curtailed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 March, 2012, 01:47:26 pm
Feeling very tired and contemplating an afternoon nap.  I think I migh crawl under my desk for 40 winks.  Just Hope no one comes into the office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 07 March, 2012, 01:54:05 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 07 March, 2012, 01:47:26 pm
Feeling very tired and contemplating an afternoon nap.  I think I migh crawl under my desk for 40 winks.  Just Hope no one comes into the office.

Another benefit of working from home is I can do just that  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 March, 2012, 07:53:35 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 07 March, 2012, 01:54:05 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 07 March, 2012, 01:47:26 pm
Feeling very tired and contemplating an afternoon nap.  I think I migh crawl under my desk for 40 winks.  Just Hope no one comes into the office.

Another benefit of working from home is I can do just that  :smug:

When ever I work from home I get regular calls, and emails to call in, to check if I'm working (well I suspect that's what they are meant to check)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 07 March, 2012, 08:30:21 pm
Feeling light-headed.
I cut my hair. #1 all over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 March, 2012, 02:35:14 pm
Translating a letter written by a GP into grammatical English which will not be taken amiss by the complainant ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 March, 2012, 03:02:18 pm
Preparing food for tonight* and tomorrow night**

* One of the, only slight, downsides of working at home is that I am the cooker of dinners.
** Mrs T is having a candle party so I am catering for said party.  BBQ pork & BBQ brisket is on the menu.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 09 March, 2012, 02:01:05 pm
Sitting in Murphy's "Irish" Bar in Schiphol airport.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 March, 2012, 02:02:34 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 09 March, 2012, 02:01:05 pm
Sitting in Murphy's "Irish" Bar in Schiphol airport.

The major downside of that bar is that it is the only place in the whole airport where smoking is permitted, so sitting in the bar can take years off you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 09 March, 2012, 02:06:36 pm
Singing 'Don't go breaking my heart' - well the Kiki Dee bit of it - to the office.  They're not that impressed. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 March, 2012, 03:35:41 pm
Given that I shall have to DNS tomorrow's 100km audax,I'm considering some alternatives to getting a few kms in.
ATM the favourite is a Sunday ride.The forecast is for better weather than Saturday.I also need to be local on Saturday in case the car is ready for collection.
I might get to the marina at Barton-under-Needwood where mid-ride sustenance is available.This also has the benefit of protecting my wallet 'cause I expect that spendid bike shop (Adrian Timmins?) will be closed.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 March, 2012, 03:48:48 pm
Being "Just Call Me Bobby Flay" i.e. barbequeing pork shoulder and brisket.

nomnomnomnom
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Post by: lou boutin on 10 March, 2012, 05:30:45 pm
I'm watching the last few episodes of V. I'm still trying to figure out how humanity forgot that the Vs visited in the 80s.
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Post by: BrianI on 11 March, 2012, 01:56:47 pm
Packing my stuff for our college field trip down to Wood of Cree in Dumfries & Galloway for a spot of tree planting on Monday & Tuesday!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 March, 2012, 04:29:26 pm
Resting my weary legs and being a kitteh bed.
And drinking tea.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 March, 2012, 07:39:16 pm
We have just had tea with our Swedish exchange student who arrived this afternoon for a week. A very polite 16 year old boy with excellent English. I just hope our son was as polite when he was in Sweden a couple of months ago.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 March, 2012, 07:42:50 pm
Trying, and failing, to get my arse into gear to Do Stuff.
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Post by: spesh on 11 March, 2012, 08:22:12 pm
Drinking wine and digesting a rather fine dinner...
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 March, 2012, 10:37:23 pm
About to bake.
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Post by: Frere on 12 March, 2012, 10:39:34 pm
Finishing up packing for the Malta trip

Frere
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Post by: PaulF on 13 March, 2012, 03:38:57 am
Not sleeping :(
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Post by: L CC on 13 March, 2012, 06:05:30 am
Following the instructions from my physio. Exercises and massage. Ow.
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Post by: essexian on 13 March, 2012, 06:12:52 am
Sitting on (why do we say “on”? I have a nice comfortable first class seat inside the train!) the 05.55 train from Stafford to That London on route to the flesh pots of Southend on Sea where I will spend the day locked in an office and not looking out at the longest one in the world.

Sadly I also don’t have my bike with me so I will not be able to take advantage of the wonderful cycling facilities I understand the town has to offer…..*


* May not be true. May also contain traces of irony.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 13 March, 2012, 06:38:44 am
Drinking my morning mug of tea and tryng to make my limbs work properly. All uncoordinated today, hopefully it'll wear off soon, I wouldn't mind waking up feeling half drunk if I'd actually been drinking  ::-)
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Post by: 1gear on 13 March, 2012, 02:29:12 pm
Sat waiting for 3, when I can go and get loaded. I've already polished the tank and trims on the wheels. Cleaned the floors and polished the dash again. And now I'm hoping I won't be going back to Felixstow, however there's more chances of that. Ahwell!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 March, 2012, 04:02:29 pm
Waiting in my dentist's waiting room.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 13 March, 2012, 04:36:27 pm
Typing up the minutes of the fencing club AGM.
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Post by: bazzerp on 13 March, 2012, 07:30:10 pm
Nekid onna bed in Cape Town, with a laptop between me legs. Recovering from the Cape Argus on Sunday.

Met Andrew Wheeldon of BEN on Sunday evening.

http://www.facebook.com/BENSouthAfrica
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 March, 2012, 09:11:28 pm
Researching things to do in Copenhagen for the weekend.
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Post by: Kim on 13 March, 2012, 09:19:32 pm
Researching microwaves.  Suggestions welcome for something  a) cheap  b) with push-buttons rather than anything that requires wrist rotation and c) the same width as a Wyse WY-120 keyboard?
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Post by: BrianI on 13 March, 2012, 10:01:08 pm
Feeling somewhat tired after 2 days tree planting down at Wood of Cree, Dumfries and Galloway.

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 March, 2012, 10:01:23 pm
Watching Rex The Runt (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135104/)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 March, 2012, 10:03:12 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 13 March, 2012, 10:01:08 pm
Feeling somewhat tired after 2 days tree planting down at Wood of Cree, Dumfries and Galloway.

 :thumbsup:

see any red sqrls?
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Post by: matthew on 13 March, 2012, 11:09:11 pm
I camped just north if there last summer, didn't see a red squirrel till the last morning as I left to cycle back towards Dumfries, when I nearly ran one over as I was looking at the deer off to the right of the road!!
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Post by: why1040 on 14 March, 2012, 03:41:16 am
Woke up suddenly with a non-trivial amount of sinus pain.  I've had grumblings from this sinus since the cold the other week, but this is beyond the pale!  Ibuprofen, xylometazaline and sudofed taken and silly tiptree game being played while I wait for it all to kick in enough to sleep...I'm exhausted after a completely fab weekend which only finished some 12 hours ago, so this is not funny!   :'(
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Post by: tiermat on 14 March, 2012, 09:30:56 am
It's only 09:30 and already today I have:

Done the shopping
put it all away
made dinner
cleaned the dishwasher
loaded said dishwasher
planted out my sage and rosemary plants
Done some work
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Post by: clarion on 14 March, 2012, 10:00:13 am
Time for a bike ride, then? :demon:
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Post by: tiermat on 14 March, 2012, 10:25:56 am
Bike riding tonight, with the York lot.

TLD's first load of washing on now, god alone knows what will happen when I get a job away from home again (which won't be for at least another 3 months  :thumbsup: )
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Post by: tiermat on 15 March, 2012, 03:05:15 pm
Organising insurance now, and hoping I don't need to use it (one lot for bikes (3 off) and one lot for holibobs)
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Post by: LindaG on 15 March, 2012, 04:47:33 pm
Trying to watch 'Cosmos'.

It's brilliant but Carl Sagan's voice sends me to sleep instantly.  I've tried to watch this episode three times so far  ::-)
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Post by: Kim on 15 March, 2012, 05:49:16 pm
Tidying up.  It's a quick-fix short term solution to feeling miserable that doesn't rely too strongly on functional brain or lungs.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 March, 2012, 06:01:36 pm
Onna train, listening to music, wearing bright yellow 70s tablecloth themed Lycra and off for a bike ride despite lack of fully functional brains or lungs.
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Post by: Kim on 15 March, 2012, 06:05:41 pm
*jealous*

The way I'm thinking, is that if I tidy up now, then by the time the lungs are a bit more functional, I'll be able to go for a bike ride (possibly involving non-Birmingham roads and/or a barakta) and come home to a house with a floor, rather than a leaf-litter of discarded tissues.   :sick:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 15 March, 2012, 07:26:33 pm
Dismantling a 1970s Sheaffer Touchdown Imperial pen from fleaBay.  It all came apart just fine, the piston is clean and shiny and the ink sac wasn't stuck to the insides, thank goodness.  The nib is marinading in ammonia for a few days to get the crud out while I wait for the new ink sac and O-ring to arrive.  The plastic body needs a damn good polish - I'll probably try Meguiar's ScratchX, which is a very mild car buffing compound (only a fraction as powerful as T-Cut).

It has a proper solid gold inlaid nib which is really quite flexible.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 March, 2012, 08:04:01 pm
Waiting for my tea to cook and cutting strips of http://stopgaps.com/ and poking them between my floorboards.
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Post by: Kim on 15 March, 2012, 08:14:26 pm
Having a strange urge to make a cycling safety awareness film in the style of Forklift Driver Klaus.

Wonder where I can get a video camera, an HGV and several 45 gallon drums of ketchup...
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Post by: why1040 on 15 March, 2012, 09:35:00 pm
Playing with my new iPhone  ;D
Upgrade...can't beat it! 
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Post by: LindaG on 16 March, 2012, 09:35:06 am
Regretting that third pint.   Ow.  Ow.   :hand: :hand:
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 March, 2012, 09:43:26 am
Quote from: Kim on 15 March, 2012, 08:14:26 pm
Having a strange urge to make a cycling safety awareness film in the style of Forklift Driver Klaus.

Wonder where I can get a video camera, an HGV and several 45 gallon drums of ketchup...
Anna recumbent with no chain guard. Running into a dog at full speed, then a toddler.
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Post by: Chris S on 16 March, 2012, 09:46:10 am
Quote from: Kim on 15 March, 2012, 08:14:26 pm
Having a strange urge to make a cycling safety awareness film in the style of Forklift Driver Klaus.

Wonder where I can get a video camera, an HGV and several 45 gallon drums of ketchup...

That sounds like an excellent project for a YACF team, fuelled by cake and beer.
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Post by: lou boutin on 16 March, 2012, 10:13:39 am
Having a bad ME day, so in bed with laptop finder taking 'lite' work duties.
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Post by: Ham on 17 March, 2012, 05:31:56 am
Warming up after listening to the dawn chorus. I may well go back out with a cuppa, worth it this time of year.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 March, 2012, 05:45:13 am
Cursing cats
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Post by: Andrij on 17 March, 2012, 05:56:09 am
Preparing for a day of cycling around Gloucestershire and a night of carousing in Cheltenham.
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Post by: Basil on 17 March, 2012, 06:31:38 am
Sitting outside with coffee, watching the birds.
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Post by: Ewan Houzami on 17 March, 2012, 03:06:49 pm
Boiling wort and watching that foreign bike race on t'internet.
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Post by: Feanor on 17 March, 2012, 03:17:30 pm
Oddly enough, with the yellow face in the sky, I'm ski-fettling.
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Post by: L CC on 18 March, 2012, 09:22:06 am
Enjoying my gifts:
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2012-03-18083358.jpg)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 March, 2012, 09:25:45 am
Waiting for Mrs. Wow to emerge. We are supposed to be going for a bike ride.
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Post by: jogler on 18 March, 2012, 10:49:48 am
Quote from: fboab on 18 March, 2012, 09:22:06 am
Enjoying my gifts:
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2012-03-18083358.jpg)

terrific
you have riches that money can't buy
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Post by: Regulator on 18 March, 2012, 11:02:12 am
I've just finished four hours of work, revising the EDS Goals that my directors singularly failed to complete properly.

I think I may go for a ride (if it doesn't tip it down, which it is threatening to do).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 March, 2012, 11:18:57 am
Eating early lunch, footling on interwebs, listening to music, contemplating yet-another-pot-of-coffee, and considering doing some organising and dull housework-y type stuff before CrinklyAuntie turns up to go do a horrible-market shop.
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Post by: why1040 on 18 March, 2012, 11:35:03 am
After an incredibly busy 9 days (though 99% of it lots of fun), I'm still in bed...I appear to have run out of spoons entirely!

Must get organised and go horse ride soon...just 5 more minutes here first...lol!
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Post by: gordon taylor on 18 March, 2012, 11:47:19 am
On a Sunday? When the sun is blazing? Marking...

This is shit. Absolutely shit. I'm getting closer and closer to the point where it'll all get burnt one weekend and I'll get sacked.

Not happy.
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Post by: AndyK on 18 March, 2012, 11:59:00 am
Snacking on a good piece of cheddar and strong raw onion.
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Post by: Andrij on 18 March, 2012, 12:33:35 pm
Finishing off last night's wine while I wait for my mates to decide what we're doing for lunch. Half are hung over, none spent Saturday cycling around Gloucestershire, so I'm having trouble convincing them food is needed NOW.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 March, 2012, 01:47:24 pm
Having a sit down before my friend turns up for champagne and cake. I've made lemon curd layer cake and scones, and there's loads of extra lemon curd for the scones.
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Post by: SteveC on 18 March, 2012, 02:17:50 pm
Grabbing five minutes breather in the middle of a gardening session.
I have cut the lawns for the first time this year.  (Which I certainly wasn't expecting to be doing, given the weather forecast!)

S
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Post by: jogler on 18 March, 2012, 02:40:27 pm
I'm vegging out on the sofa for a Sky Sports footballonthetelly afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 March, 2012, 02:48:29 pm
Just got up after an extended lie-in.
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Post by: Basil on 18 March, 2012, 04:51:17 pm
Digesting.
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Post by: Kim on 18 March, 2012, 05:50:04 pm
Baking and wondering how to get cyanoacrylate off fingers without any acetone.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 March, 2012, 05:51:53 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 March, 2012, 05:50:04 pm
Baking and wondering how to get cyanoacrylate off fingers without any acetone.

And what the hell are you baking?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 March, 2012, 05:55:14 pm
Bit pisse. d.
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Post by: GruB on 18 March, 2012, 07:01:47 pm
Just ordered Chinese for the boys and Indian for Mrs G and I.  I can't cook and today is Mother's Day so she isn't cooking.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 March, 2012, 07:17:54 pm
Just went to the shoppe for a bottle of wine and admired the sky on the way round.  Was standing outside teh door staring at the incredible sky, like a loon, and next door's kids came back from their dad's, so I told them which planets they were looking at.

They were full of wonder, it was so much fun!

I hope I got it right  ;D
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Post by: Ham on 18 March, 2012, 07:23:39 pm
Preparing to barbecue....
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Post by: lou boutin on 18 March, 2012, 08:00:21 pm
Watching 'Fame'
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 March, 2012, 08:19:45 pm
Fighting the Glump by making A Plan for the morning, and booking a hotel room for April.  Guess I'm off to Scotland....
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Post by: Chris S on 18 March, 2012, 08:20:37 pm
Fuming  >:(
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Post by: Kim on 18 March, 2012, 08:42:30 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 18 March, 2012, 05:51:53 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 March, 2012, 05:50:04 pm
Baking and wondering how to get cyanoacrylate off fingers without any acetone.

And what the hell are you baking?!

CAKE, obviously.  I just thought I'd do some fettling while it was in the oven, and had an accident with a difficult to open tube of superglue.
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Post by: Feanor on 18 March, 2012, 08:48:45 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 March, 2012, 05:50:04 pm
Baking and wondering how to get cyanoacrylate off fingers without any acetone.

Nibbling.
With teeth.

May get some surface layers of skin too, but heck: some people *pay* for that.
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Post by: Mr Arch on 18 March, 2012, 10:07:30 pm
Bidding on a fly press and watching Orbit, recorded earlier.

Didn't win the press. :(
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Post by: LindaG on 18 March, 2012, 10:18:30 pm
Waiting for the codeine to kick in.  After that I'll be able to sleep and shall go to bed.  In the meantime I haz tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 March, 2012, 10:30:03 pm
Wondering whether I should take cocodamol or mefenamic acid for my throbbing tooth.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 March, 2012, 10:34:00 pm
Watching Wales win the grand slam again.
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Post by: Basil on 19 March, 2012, 05:05:37 pm
Train spotting.
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 March, 2012, 07:06:29 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 18 March, 2012, 10:18:30 pm
Waiting for the codeine to kick in.  After that I'll be able to sleep and shall go to bed.  In the meantime I haz tea.

I read that as 'waiting for the cocaine to kick in' goodness only knows why, I've never gone anywhere near drugs in my life.  No one believes me since the day i asked for a hash brownie with my breakfast ( I of course meant hash brown).  Anyway, I will stop rambling and wish you better.  I hope the codeine has done the trick. 
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Post by: Kim on 19 March, 2012, 07:10:20 pm
Trying to bully barakta into using the turbo trainer while I molish food.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 March, 2012, 07:15:07 pm
Trying to get a kitten fix, but can't get on to kitty cam.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 19 March, 2012, 07:54:04 pm
My body clock has had it, worked 15 hour night shift after already being a bit knackered from Saturdays tandem ride. Came home this morning and tried really hard to stay awake but woke up at 7pm on the sofa with 2 dogs and a cat on top of me. Now I feel spacey but I suspect I will be feeling fine at 2am. I really needed to become un-nocturnal again this week, damn!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 March, 2012, 08:31:56 pm
Quote from: Kim on 19 March, 2012, 07:10:20 pm
Trying to bully barakta into using the turbo trainer while I molish food.

Update: Success on both counts.  And her lungs appear to work.

In SCIENCE news, waving CAKE in front of a stationarily-cycling barakta appears to have no effect on cadence.  (Always important to publish negative results.)
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Post by: SteveC on 19 March, 2012, 08:46:22 pm
Waiting for the operating system updates to complete on my new computer.
Can't think why the broadband link is running slowly, there are only seven machines sharing it at the moment   :facepalm:

S
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Post by: Aidan on 19 March, 2012, 09:16:42 pm
Playing with my new Ipad  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Gus on 19 March, 2012, 10:23:26 pm
Been writing my first job application in 12 years.
I've applied as a trekking or a cycling guide or both....
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Post by: rogerzilla on 21 March, 2012, 08:04:00 pm
Checking the Owayo jersey quantities I've been sent for sign-off.  As always, there are errors and I've had to send corrections.    How hard can it be to transpose figures from a spreadsheet?  Very, it seems, when there are 34 jersey types and 9 sizes to contend with!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 March, 2012, 09:11:57 pm
I appear to be in the pub....
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Post by: Mr Arch on 21 March, 2012, 11:25:47 pm
Eating sugar puffs and reading a 'Thomas the Tank Engine' book, 'Willbert The Forest Engine'. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 March, 2012, 05:31:27 am
I'm sat at Paddington Station, drinking a cup of tea and wondering where to ride for the next three hours before I need to be at work. ;D

We've just ridden up through quiet streets so Butterfly can catch a train to go on a secret mission to 'Nam.  It's been a lovely ride so far.  Think I might go through Regents Park to Hampstead Heath, and work it out from there.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 March, 2012, 06:43:58 am
Quote from: clarion on 22 March, 2012, 05:31:27 am
We've just ridden up through quiet streets so Butterfly can catch a train to go on a secret mission to 'Nam.
(http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsF/5884-812.gif)

...terminate with extreme prejudice...
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Post by: Butterfly on 22 March, 2012, 06:57:26 am
I'm now sitting on a train that seems to be having a hard time dragging itself away from Swindon. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 22 March, 2012, 07:55:28 am
Butterfly - I think I might have rumbled you!   :D

I am trying to lick dried curry sauce off the touch pad on my lap top.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 March, 2012, 08:03:41 am
Sat in a Southwark cafe drinking tea and eating scrambled egg.  I did Regents Park, Hampstead Heath, and Finsbury Park. :D
Title: Doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 March, 2012, 09:42:53 am
On a train admiring the City of Chelmsford and its dreaming office blocks glowing gold in the early morning mist.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 March, 2012, 12:54:37 pm
Watching the race unfold in the "Volta Cataluyna"  or more precisely, "Volta Ciclista A Cataluyna".

It's helping me to improve my Catalan as the site is only in Catala and Castellano.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geraldc on 22 March, 2012, 01:59:20 pm
I was cycling down Kilburn High Road when some lady from the LCC asked did I want to go sit in an HGV and have a safety talk. It was very instructional. It's pretty much sold me on the need for high viz headwear. When viewed from above at night (eg from the mirror above the door on a lorry), I must be invisible. Also got to rant in front of a camera as a message to Boris. I complained about how the bike lanes I know seem to be deposit points for dog poo and broken glass,  and I had a rant about jumping lights too. Very liberating. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 March, 2012, 03:15:21 pm
Attempting to eliminate mysterious squeaking noises from my bike by the time-honoured method of taking it to bits, thoroughly cleaning said bits, and putting it back together again.  So far, under the layers of mud and black stuff I've discovered a longer than usual chain, various sprockety things, and a wheel...

ETA: Found another wheel!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 March, 2012, 04:01:37 pm
Rebooting a server.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 March, 2012, 04:15:41 pm
Cursing updates >:(
where's my printer?
where's my picture download ?
where's my email?

they'll bloody well tealeave anything hereabouts ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 March, 2012, 07:30:48 pm
Eating curry and watching barakta calibrate her gaydar against the rose.de catalogue.

It amuses me that she got 2/3 of the way through it before realising it was in English.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Adrian on 22 March, 2012, 09:50:20 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 22 March, 2012, 06:43:58 am
(http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsF/5884-812.gif)
...terminate with extreme prejudice...
I think it might be too late by now
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 March, 2012, 10:17:58 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/CatFoodDeliveryMarch2012_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/CatFoodDeliveryMarch2012.jpg)

I just went through that lot of cat food (with a smattering of other bits) to check that it was as ordered.  After a couple of cross-checks and searches, I realised it was exactly as was on the order, confirming the alarming German efficiency of the company that I ordered it all from!

The alarming thing, is I think that there's only just over a months worth of additional food there!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 March, 2012, 10:19:36 pm
Happiness is a well fed pussy  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 March, 2012, 10:29:22 pm
Is that a toy womble, bottom left?   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 March, 2012, 10:37:40 pm
Is that a teeth & claw proof cat wrangling glove, or some sort of grooming device ?

Currently at home, having just come back from an enjoyable concert at the RLPO.  Chilling out with a glass of red & wondering what to do at the weekend. I've still got this bloody chest infection, the Amoxicillin didn't shift it so I'm now on Clarithromycin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 March, 2012, 10:42:11 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 March, 2012, 10:29:22 pm
Is that a toy womble, bottom left?   :o

No, it's a Katzenspielzeug (as is the green one). ;D

I suspect that the packet of four smaller, and twelve ever smaller ones are also Katzenspielzeug, just more diminutive ones.

Zev has been happily "killing" it for the last few minutes.  It's getting a definite five paws up (and down, and thrown across the room, and chewed ...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 22 March, 2012, 10:45:29 pm
Katzenspielzeug = awesome word!  *emails my dad*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 March, 2012, 10:52:43 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 22 March, 2012, 10:37:40 pm
Is that a teeth & claw proof cat wrangling glove, or some sort of grooming device ?

Yes, both of the above basically!

The green thing under it also is, but I've had little chance to experiment with either on Zev, since she's too busy killing and chewing the other toys.  The gloves are mainly for Kai, who is much furrier, so much more inclined towards hairballs, and needs more experimental grooming.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 March, 2012, 10:55:25 pm
Quote from: barakta on 22 March, 2012, 10:45:29 pm
Katzenspielzeug = awesome word!  *emails my dad*

The attached blurb translates it as "Cat toy", as does Google Translate, but it is quite awesome in the original German, isn't it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 March, 2012, 10:59:16 pm
It's literally "cats' play thing".  Google suggests that 'Katzenspielmaus' is also a word, though sadly not 'Katzenspiellaser'  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 March, 2012, 11:03:28 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 March, 2012, 10:59:16 pm
It's literally "cats' play thing".  Google suggests that 'Katzenspielmaus' is also a word, though sadly not 'Katzenspiellaser'  :D

I'd have thought that was Tim.....  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 March, 2012, 11:05:17 pm
Quote from: TimO on 22 March, 2012, 10:52:43 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 22 March, 2012, 10:37:40 pm
Is that a teeth & claw proof cat wrangling glove, or some sort of grooming device ?

Yes, both of the above basically!

The green thing under it also is, but I've had little chance to experiment with either on Zev, since she's too busy killing and chewing the other toys.  The gloves are mainly for Kai, who is much furrier, so much more inclined towards hairballs, and needs more experimental grooming.

I should probably get one of those for myself,  the pelt is getting a little bit out of control, but it's still too cool for a full body trim......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 22 March, 2012, 11:18:15 pm
Swearing at the telly. Need to stop watching Question Time. Or the pulsing vein in my forehead might explode all over my nice sofa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 March, 2012, 05:40:01 am
Waiting for a bus.

It seems that it is possible to leave the house without a bike, but I can't recommend it.
Title: Doing now
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2012, 06:12:50 am
@Clarion: updated misquote "a man of more than 26 years who finds himself in a car can be regarded as a failure."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 March, 2012, 07:17:29 am
Absolutely! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 March, 2012, 07:47:25 am
Feeding cats (who are now back to the serious job of sleeping), drinking coffee, reading YACF, and wondering why I seem to get up earlier at the weekends than during the week (aside from have Kai's nose shoved in my face earlier).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 24 March, 2012, 08:10:03 am
Watching Marty, Melman, Gloria and Alex in Madagascar with a 5 year old and eating/sharing toast.

Honestly, it was his idea . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 March, 2012, 08:11:50 am
Wondering if it's sandals weather under that fog...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 24 March, 2012, 08:18:12 am
cooking bacon!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 March, 2012, 11:39:31 am
I'm just fancying porridge with bananna & honey so I'm going to adjourn to the kitchen (marj has left me a map so that I can find it) & feedme :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 March, 2012, 12:54:46 pm
Sitting in the pub. Just me & the shopping. And then i'll toddle home for lunch & prolly be a cat bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 March, 2012, 01:06:30 pm
Honestly, 4 small children in 1 small pub, 3 of whom are shouty little boys, is too much. <wonders where ear plugs are, thinks should prolly go soon anyway>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 March, 2012, 01:24:56 pm
Sitting outside the Country Girl with a dog! 
Basil (of all people) with a dog?
It's a long story.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 March, 2012, 01:48:33 pm
what's her name? :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 March, 2012, 03:06:35 pm
Har Har  ::-)

Actually, it is a her.  Her name is Megan.
I'm having difficulty teaching her the concept of pavements.  There are no pavements where she is from.
Also it is finally beginning to dawn on her that she does not know everybody.  Where she's from, if she spots a tall biped mammal, it will be someone she knows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 24 March, 2012, 04:54:22 pm
I have been to my mother's house and been a cat bed to her elderly Tom cat, who struggled to jump on to my lap, but jumped off when I picked him up, only to jump back up.  He was determined to do it his way.  Unfortunately his way meant making a lovely big hole in my cashmere cardigan. #bless
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 March, 2012, 05:39:52 pm
Figuring out some memorable aide-mémoires to memorise plant common and latin names for next fridays plant ID test.

So far:

Hyacinth Bucket ringing Blue Bells while complaining about having no script = Bluebell, Hyacinthiodes nonscripta

an Ox chasing an acetate seller in a wood in saw hell = Wood-sorrel, Oxalis acetosella

Raming some allium up someones ursinum    ;D = Ramsomes, Allium ursinum  Must remember not to write Allium arsinum.....    ::-)

a potent tormenting erection = Tormentil, Potentilla erecta
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 March, 2012, 06:45:25 pm
Waiting for a train at Bristol Parkway. There is another cyclist here, and he has an uncased tuba on his rack. Not a euphemism.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:05:28 pm
We're in my favourite Italian restaurant on our way back home with a new toy 8).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 24 March, 2012, 07:11:07 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:05:28 pm
We're in my favourite Italian restaurant on our way back home with a new toy 8).

Moar information pls.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:15:05 pm
It's lovely and black and shiny :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 March, 2012, 07:17:46 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:15:05 pm
It's lovely and black and shiny :D

Ooh, a Magic 8-ball!  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 March, 2012, 07:22:30 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:15:05 pm
It's lovely and black and shiny :D

Please miss,I Know :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:24:33 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 March, 2012, 07:17:46 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:15:05 pm
It's lovely and black and shiny :D

Ooh, a Magic 8-ball!  :D
It's long and black and shiny :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 March, 2012, 09:32:18 pm
And wuvly. :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 March, 2012, 09:50:41 pm
Is it some sort of marital aid?? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 24 March, 2012, 09:53:40 pm
Surfing the interwebs and digesting an inelegant sufficiency of curry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 March, 2012, 10:05:19 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 24 March, 2012, 09:50:41 pm
Is it some sort of marital aid?? ;)

It helps our marriage ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 March, 2012, 10:13:01 pm
Does it rhyme with random?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 24 March, 2012, 11:11:35 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:24:33 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 March, 2012, 07:17:46 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:15:05 pm
It's lovely and black and shiny :D

Ooh, a Magic 8-ball!  :D
It's long and black and shiny :D

This thread is useless without pics!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 24 March, 2012, 11:19:05 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:24:33 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 March, 2012, 07:17:46 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 March, 2012, 07:15:05 pm
It's lovely and black and shiny :D

Ooh, a Magic 8-ball!  :D
It's long and black and shiny :D

i was sitting on it this afternoon! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2012, 12:19:47 am
Audax CAKE-molishing:

Fail-to-sleep, ride, bake, repeat.


Baking after midnight!  Suspicious I'm turning into CrinklyLion or something.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 March, 2012, 10:50:56 am
That's a slightly alarming thought.  Does that mean I have to turn into Kim and finally work out how the f**k to fettle the Stupid_Disk_Brakes on Valencia?

I am currently drinking coffee and Moar Coffee, footling on the interwebs, listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and rejoicing in the fact that the cold has subsided enough that I can singalong again, wondering how the FMBers are getting on, contemplating a spot of sorting out of the Den before a forum visit later in the week and potentially a spot of baking for similar reasons, and watching Cubs in PJs being unbearably cute and doing jigsaws together.

And being Just A Bit Mary Fucking Poppins.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 March, 2012, 11:13:13 am
 I think I can hear my mojo:faintly: so I'm contemplating a short bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 March, 2012, 11:14:36 am
Good plan that man!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 25 March, 2012, 11:21:43 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 March, 2012, 10:50:56 am
That's a slightly alarming thought.  Does that mean I have to turn into Kim and finally work out how the f**k to fettle the Stupid_Disk_Brakes on Valencia?

I am currently drinking coffee and Moar Coffee, footling on the interwebs, listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and rejoicing in the fact that the cold has subsided enough that I can singalong again, wondering how the FMBers are getting on, contemplating a spot of sorting out of the Den before a forum visit later in the week and potentially a spot of baking for similar reasons, and watching Cubs in PJs being unbearably cute and doing jigsaws together.

And being Just A Bit Mary Fucking Poppins.

No need to go overboard Crinkly.  Forummites should be a bit roughty toughty!  ;) 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 March, 2012, 11:23:38 am
Well, putting the shopping away so the kitchen isn't an assault course isn't a huge ask ;)

We have moved on from jigsaws to sofa-and-blanket-dens.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 March, 2012, 12:11:52 pm
We're on a train to get another new toy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 25 March, 2012, 02:20:26 pm
Sitting on the 14th train since Thursday morning, with the 5th and 6th bikes I've ridden in that time 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 25 March, 2012, 02:25:03 pm
Fettling and packing prior to Way of the Roses tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ewan Houzami on 25 March, 2012, 03:40:26 pm
Making MORE beer! This time a London Pride clone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 25 March, 2012, 06:45:10 pm
Fishining shome bottles.

Including a little Jonge jenever  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 25 March, 2012, 06:47:51 pm
eating home made chocolate ice cream that has been topped with mint chocolate Baileys. yummy  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 26 March, 2012, 03:50:48 pm
I’m working from home, in the sun, in Feline’s back garden. Throwing a ball for her dogs every so often. Feline is working on correcting the cyclist’s tan that’s appeared since the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 26 March, 2012, 04:13:16 pm
Quote from: simonp on 26 March, 2012, 03:50:48 pm
... Feline is working on correcting the cyclist’s tan that’s appeared since the weekend.


How does that work then? Is it just sunbathing with arm and leg warmers on to cover the tanned parts? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 March, 2012, 04:15:20 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 26 March, 2012, 04:13:16 pm
Quote from: simonp on 26 March, 2012, 03:50:48 pm
... Feline is working on correcting the cyclist’s tan that’s appeared since the weekend.


How does that work then? Is it just sunbathing with arm and leg warmers on to cover the tanned parts? :)

And, presumably, nothing else.

TTIUWP.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 26 March, 2012, 10:16:13 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 March, 2012, 04:15:20 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 26 March, 2012, 04:13:16 pm
Quote from: simonp on 26 March, 2012, 03:50:48 pm
... Feline is working on correcting the cyclist’s tan that’s appeared since the weekend.


How does that work then? Is it just sunbathing with arm and leg warmers on to cover the tanned parts? :)

And, presumably, nothing else.

TTIUWP.

TTIBLTTI.

I’ve just been out walking Feline’s cats and dogs:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7262/6872343208_f2b17ebb5f_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/6872343208/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/6872343208/) by SimonP2006 (http://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6037/6872754606_1edd32a144_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/6872754606/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/6872754606/) by SimonP2006 (http://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 26 March, 2012, 10:20:37 pm
I wish the bat in the light fitting would leave so we don't have to sit in the dark with the windows open all night!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 March, 2012, 08:17:11 am
Quote from: Feline on 26 March, 2012, 10:20:37 pm
I wish the bat in the light fitting would leave so we don't have to sit in the dark with the windows open all night!
Awh, how cool is that! Silly old bat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 27 March, 2012, 08:18:05 am
Which one?  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 March, 2012, 02:01:39 pm
Drinking diet coke, listening to My Chemical Romance and upgrading my Samsung Galaxy to ICS.

Oh no, I'm a geek, aren't I?

P.S. I also have my sandals on, and the beard growing is going well :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 March, 2012, 02:03:51 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 27 March, 2012, 02:01:39 pm
Drinking diet coke, listening to My Chemical Romance and upgrading my Samsung Galaxy to ICS.

Oh no, I'm a geek, aren't I?

P.S. I also have my sandals on, and the beard growing is going well :)

You are a software contractor, currently "On the Bench", and ICMFP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 March, 2012, 03:38:49 pm
One of three done, a word of warning if you are thinking of doing this.  DO NOT HAVE ANY OTHER USB DEVICES PLUGGED IN.

I have managed to rescue one that "failed" an update....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 28 March, 2012, 10:03:56 am
Trying to concentrate on a conference call AND a BIG box containing n-+1 which has just arrived.........

Trying.

Honest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: padbeat on 28 March, 2012, 10:40:51 am
Staring at an almost empty in-tray and awaiting n+1 which arrives tomorrow!I may have to finally do that Change Management essay though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 28 March, 2012, 01:03:01 pm
I am sitting in the sun by my pond wearing not very much applying Proofide to my new Brooks B68 S imperial that just arrive from SJS. I feel a test ride coming on later. It's days like this when its great to be a nightworker  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Redlight on 28 March, 2012, 01:25:02 pm
I have just finished surveying the damage from this morning's commute: four broken spokes, possibly buckled rim, and a broken chain. and I still don't know what happened :-[ buy I'm glad I was in a bus lane.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 28 March, 2012, 02:05:59 pm
Sitting in the garden, enjoying the sunshire.

I lurve this working from home lark!  :thumbsup:

Thank God we've got decent wi-fi.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2012, 02:13:57 pm
Today is not going according to plan.

I had arranged with AH to meet her in Colchester for culture, cake and cycling but had overlooked a pre-arranged visit to Maidstone to see Ellen and Martha. M isn't well, suffering from ear & throat infection. Then the call came to say that M had climbed out of her cot  and landed on her head. What should I do? I said to keep her awake. Then another call came to say that NHS Direct had said to take her to A & E in Pembury, which is not that close to Maidstone, but ambulance drivers are instructed not to take children to Maidstone A & E, apparently. So we were to go to Pembury. Then there was a collision on the A127 and we were held up for half an hour.

We arrived in Pembury. Mrs. Wow stayed, I drove back to Maidstone to collect the car seat but by the time I arrived I was told not to bother because they would get a cab. Meanwhile s-i-l had defected from his school so all the others arrived at about the same time. I'm £35 lighter on account of the taxi fare. I'm sure they could have got a bus.

Martha is fine. Has a red mark on her forehead where she head-butted the bedroom floor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 March, 2012, 02:22:27 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2012, 02:13:57 pm
Today is not going according to plan.

I had arranged with AH to meet her in Colchester for culture, cake and cycling but had overlooked a pre-arranged visit to Maidstone to see Ellen and Martha. M isn't well, suffering from ear & throat infection. Then the call came to say that M had climbed out of her cot  and landed on her head. What should I do? I said to keep her awake. Then another call came to say that NHS Direct had said to take her to A & E in Pembury, which is not that close to Maidstone, but ambulance drivers are instructed not to take children to Maidstone A & E, apparently. So we were to go to Pembury. Then there was a collision on the A127 and we were held up for half an hour.

We arrived in Pembury. Mrs. Wow stayed, I drove back to Maidstone to collect the car seat but by the time I arrived I was told not to bother because they would get a cab. Meanwhile s-i-l had defected from his school so all the others arrived at about the same time. I'm £35 lighter on account of the taxi fare. I'm sure they could have got a bus.

Martha is fine. Has a red mark on her forehead where she head-butted the bedroom floor.

Ah, well, she's achieved another rite of passage Wowbagger.  She's a girl who likes to pass her milestones, isn't she?  I 'spect her mum was in a worse state than she was.

I'm just having a little break between removing the ivy from the fence and wall beside our house.  Very good physio for the shoulder, but bad for relations with the neighbours - it seems the only thing holding the fence up, was the ivy  ::-)

You'd think I'd have learned by now, but no ...

*edited for spelling  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 March, 2012, 02:24:53 pm
Best wishes to Martha.  It happens.  Kids recover.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 March, 2012, 07:22:11 pm
I'm thoroughly P!ssed off so I'm eating my own body weight in crisps until I feel better.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 March, 2012, 08:20:10 pm
Why's that then?

I'm having a headache. Probably because there's a metric shedload of expanding custard in my heed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 29 March, 2012, 11:17:18 pm
Wishing I'd not had that last glass of grog, coz I've agreed to meet Mr.C for a ride up t'Hill tomorrow, and that means an 05:00 start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 March, 2012, 04:18:51 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 March, 2012, 08:20:10 pm
Why's that then?

I'm having a headache. Probably because there's a metric shedload of expanding custard in my heed.

I hope you feel better soon MrsP.

I'm now paying the price of eating lots of crisps - I'm feeling sick.  So I'm likely to be in another narky mood later today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 30 March, 2012, 08:52:09 am
Sitting with my head in my hands, wondering how I'm going to muster the gumption to finish my work today. And wondering why the Marketing department are asking me to interrogate customers. Someone contacts us from a gmail account; how the fuck am I supposed to find out which company they work for?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 30 March, 2012, 08:53:57 am
search on linkedin for their name and industry? Can work, unless their gmail address is 'captaintrousers' or such... :)

I'm trying to look busy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 March, 2012, 09:06:23 am
Quote from: mike on 30 March, 2012, 08:53:57 am
I'm trying to look busy.

I'm blatently not. Fuck 'em. They've had 87 weeks to find me something to do, and didn't.

I'm doing my physio exercises and poncing about on t'interwebs. What they gonna do? sack me?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 30 March, 2012, 02:00:33 pm
I'm drinking my first cup of tea of the day :o. I don't think that has happened later than 10 am in years ;D. I had a fasting blood test and then a quick visit to Coridori, but Paul Smith wasn't there so I didn't get a cup of tea :(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 March, 2012, 02:12:36 pm
Booooo! :(

Did you take the Circe up the hill?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 30 March, 2012, 02:56:42 pm
Quote from: clarion on 30 March, 2012, 02:12:36 pm
Booooo! :(

Did you take the Circe up the hill?
Yes :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 March, 2012, 04:21:07 pm
I'm trying & failing to finish packing two bikes with camping kit for the weekend's camping trip to Maersbury Marsh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 30 March, 2012, 04:25:26 pm
Relaxing. In first class on a Voyager, sipping the first beer of the day. And listening to some relaxing Tubular Bells on my headphones. On my way north to visit the girl of my dreams. Crisis, what crisis?  8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 March, 2012, 04:46:06 pm
Like Rower, enjoying a beer, but not on a train, but sat in the sun in our back garden.

I reckon I deserve it right now, after a whole of flat pack building...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 March, 2012, 06:44:25 pm
I appear to be doing work.  Since the [insert sweary ranting here] facebritain.org site appears, probably all too briefly, to be working and actually uploading I'm seeing how many of the 200-ish portraits I need to upload I can get on there before it stops working again!

But then I shall start packing and baking for a series of Silly_Bike_Adventures.  Starting tomorrow with 2 trains and (hopefully) a couple of viaducts  :D

ETA
Grarrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhh

Quote
Sorry, there has been a problem with your Request, please try again - Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity

3 and a bit classes out of 7 done.  I've been trying for over a week  ::-)

I'm going to need them viaducts, I reckon...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 30 March, 2012, 08:49:33 pm
Today I decided not to ride my bike to let my arse fully recover from last weekend. Instead, I sunburnt my arse falling asleep reading in the garden. On the up side, I can no longer see the bruises because they have gone red  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frere on 30 March, 2012, 08:59:00 pm
Deliberating whether to go for original or directors cut of Alien on Blu Ray....

Directors Cut it is then...

Frere
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 March, 2012, 09:06:42 pm
Being a bit bored on a car journey & wondering when someone will Draw Something
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 March, 2012, 10:36:50 pm
Preparing for an impromptu Freeze Your Bits Off camping trip...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 March, 2012, 12:00:56 am
Faffing.  Procrastinating.  Listening to the Singing Adams.  Thinking that I ought to get a wriggle on and pack a pannier, since I need to be at the station about half 7.  Oh, and making flapjack to take, as seems to be my habit at the moment, to forrin parts.  Well, t'other side of Those Hills is practically forrin, innit?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: kyuss on 31 March, 2012, 02:07:59 am
Listening to the Black Keys and drinking whisky. Should really go to bed. Tattoo Convention tomorrow. :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 March, 2012, 07:42:16 pm
Not being allowed to wash up :D
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 April, 2012, 07:54:27 pm
Watching Phil put my laptop back together, at which point we (he) will attempt repair the OS...
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Post by: Chris S on 02 April, 2012, 02:57:53 pm
Sitting in Bury  A&E, waiting for fboab to come back from x ray
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Post by: Feline on 02 April, 2012, 02:59:36 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 02 April, 2012, 02:57:53 pm
Sitting in Bury  A&E, waiting for fboab to come back from x ray

Eeps, not an 'off' I hope!
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Post by: Deano on 02 April, 2012, 03:01:12 pm
Bloody he'll! Hope everything's ok, Chris & (f)boab.
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Post by: clarion on 02 April, 2012, 03:21:26 pm
:( Doesn't sound great.  Best wishes.
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Post by: andrewc on 02 April, 2012, 03:37:56 pm
Fingers crossed.
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Post by: Basil on 02 April, 2012, 04:30:57 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 02 April, 2012, 02:57:53 pm
Sitting in Bury  A&E, waiting for fboab to come back from x ray

What?  :o
Is every thing OK?

Warrappened?
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Post by: Chris S on 02 April, 2012, 04:36:24 pm
She took the quick route downstairs, using her left wrist as a brake. Properly broken. Shes had it reset, and plastered, and is now back in x ray.

She is trying to convince the doctors she will be OK to ride 400km to York on Friday.
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Post by: clarion on 02 April, 2012, 04:38:37 pm
Ouchingtons Ouchouchouch!

I think riding the 400km would a be a *tad* overoptimistic.

GWS boab.  And could the fates just boabword off for a bit & Leave Her Alone!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 02 April, 2012, 04:40:39 pm
She's tough enough. But it might be an idea to listen to the quacks.

GWS boab :-*
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Post by: Chris S on 02 April, 2012, 04:41:34 pm
Gory pictures and x rays will be uploaded later.
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Post by: clarion on 02 April, 2012, 04:42:31 pm
Dean, by 'tough' do you mean 'bloodyminded'? ;D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 April, 2012, 04:42:58 pm
Oh boab-word.

Mind, it's not like she needs to steer or anything, is it? Can you borrow a pino from somewhere? Obviously she might have to develop 'bent legs on the way, but she's dead 'ard.

And yes, the fates should indeed do precisely that Clarion.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 02 April, 2012, 04:43:23 pm
Too used to riding stoker on the tandem, forgot she needed to brake and steer going down the stairs?

gws
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Post by: Deano on 02 April, 2012, 04:44:54 pm
Quote from: clarion on 02 April, 2012, 04:42:31 pm
Dean, by 'tough' do you mean 'bloodyminded'? ;D

Bloodywristed, sounds more like ;)
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Post by: marcusjb on 02 April, 2012, 04:50:28 pm
Boab!  You silly girl - I am gutted for you. 

Get well quickly - and properly.  I doubt you'll listen but don't do anything too daft (like ride a 400.....).

Look after her Chris!
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Post by: PaulF on 02 April, 2012, 05:13:13 pm
Ouch!

Get well soon.

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Post by: Kim on 02 April, 2012, 05:23:39 pm
*wince*  Bloody dangerous things stairs.

I'd suggest that riding a 400 with a wrist in plaster, even if it were structurally sound and bike control wasn't an issue, would be unwise on the basis of smell and itchiness alone.  But I'm not as bloodyminded as fboab...

GWS!
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Post by: simonp on 02 April, 2012, 05:32:11 pm
Ouch! I was cycling around for 3 weeks with a broken wrist before diagnosis then for a further 6 weeks in a cast, but I wasn't riding 400km in one go.

No need to brake or steer as a stoker, but you'll be putting weight on the arm.
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Post by: L CC on 02 April, 2012, 05:47:21 pm
2nd set of xrays show not just a simple displaced fracture, but multiple fractures on the wrist end of the bone. Surgery and Overnight stay here. We may be talking pins and screws. We're probably not talking something strong enough for 24 hrs riding on Friday. To say I'm gutted is an understatement. This could easily kibosh my whole season.
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Post by: jogler on 02 April, 2012, 05:50:19 pm
HellsBells boab :o.have you broken a mirror recently?
I hope you heal quickly & the bad luck desserts you immediatley.
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Post by: Chris S on 02 April, 2012, 05:54:11 pm
:(

Well - to keep OT; I'm at chez fboab, preparing an overnight bag.

Sigh...
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Post by: L CC on 02 April, 2012, 05:55:31 pm
A plate. With screws. O, and (stainless) steel, as they say, is real. No titanium for me :-(
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 02 April, 2012, 05:59:12 pm
Have you got those shiny pins sticking out of your skin?  They always look dead cool and wierd.

I reckon you are going to have to borrow a downwrong somehow.
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Post by: simonp on 02 April, 2012, 06:23:36 pm
fboab, I'd hoped you'd have a simple fracture. Sorry to hear it's going to need surgery. Important thing is to get your wrist functioning well.
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Post by: TimO on 02 April, 2012, 06:27:11 pm
Ouch, that's not good.  GWS fboab.

Does this mean you'll be able to go through X-Ray machines at airport and cause a "ping", and then have to be checked with a wand?


I'm a couple of orbits off finishing a months worth of data validation.  This normally takes a couple of days for thirteen to fourteen orbits [1], and is a right tedious pain. :(

Footnote [1]: around 250 million vectors of data to be inspected by eye, and some automation, for anything odd happening.
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Post by: Andrij on 02 April, 2012, 06:36:37 pm
Ocuh!  GWS, boab.  Must say I'm somewhat relieved - I feared it was bike related.


On a personal note, I'm staring at the teetering piles of work *spit* and wondering which to attack next.  Oh, look, it's now past 18:30. *sigh*
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Post by: Lady Cavendish on 02 April, 2012, 07:23:52 pm
Fboab- really sorry to hear this :( hope the surgery goes ok and GWS.
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Post by: Thing2 on 02 April, 2012, 07:29:07 pm
GWS boab!

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 April, 2012, 07:29:30 pm
Bugger, sorry to hear that boab.
Remember though, chicks dig scars ;)
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Post by: Kim on 02 April, 2012, 07:31:00 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 02 April, 2012, 05:59:12 pm
I reckon you are going to have to borrow a downwrong somehow.

Agreed.  Darkside trikes[1] with right-handed controls are cool.  Anybody got a spare one?


[1] I'm bearing in mind how well fboab got on with my attempt to teach her to ride rower40's Grasshopper, and suspect that two-wheelers may cause more problems than they solve...
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Post by: barakta on 02 April, 2012, 07:33:32 pm
Eeep Boab, sorry to read this! 

I'd also be surprised if you were well enough even on a recumbent for silly cycling adventures, a friend with similar sounding fracture to yours found he slept for the best part of a month afterwards in a sort of shock thing.  And he is the out every evening and weekend type.

Welcome to cyborg land!  Hope it's not too painful and that you heal quickly. 

Can you borrow a recumbent trike off anyone for the season? They're good fun! :D
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Post by: BrianI on 02 April, 2012, 07:56:25 pm
Ouch!  :o

Get well soon fboab! 
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Post by: Tynan on 02 April, 2012, 08:03:21 pm
omg, team captain totalled, boooo

and of course ouch and sympathies, serious bummer
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Post by: Feline on 02 April, 2012, 08:35:06 pm
Sounds bad boab, hope the surgery goes well and you get good wrist function back. Terrible timing coming this time of year especially with the plans you have (not that there's ever a good time to break bones). Put your health first though now and rest it properly, I hope you get good pain relief post-op. What a horrible thing to happen  :(
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Post by: lou boutin on 02 April, 2012, 08:36:37 pm
GWS BOAB
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Post by: L CC on 02 April, 2012, 08:44:24 pm
Thanks for all your good wishes
. I do feel rather foolish, managing to mangle bones quite so thoroughly doing something as innocuous as tripping at the top of a flight of stairs.
All I can think about is all the things I won't be able to do.
8 weeks in plaster, probably. Sob.
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Post by: Peter on 02 April, 2012, 08:55:41 pm
That's rotten luck, boab.  Even more so when you were looking forward to the Arrows so much.  Still, there may be snow....
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Post by: rogerzilla on 02 April, 2012, 09:02:20 pm
Just finished knocking selected tiles off the bathroom wall to get the old shower valve out of the wall.  Thank $DEITY I didn't plaster over the pipes too.  Anyway, I only damaged one tile I didn't mean to (I have oodles of spares saved from the original job 10 years ago) and tomorrow it'll be time for morttar to fill the hole.

The new valve will be surface-mounted with shiny pipes.  I have learned my lesson.
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Post by: LindaG on 02 April, 2012, 09:04:05 pm
Quote from: fboab on 02 April, 2012, 08:44:24 pm
Thanks for all your good wishes
. I do feel rather foolish, managing to mangle bones quite so thoroughly doing something as innocuous as tripping at the top of a flight of stairs.
All I can think about is all the things I won't be able to do.
8 weeks in plaster, probably. Sob.

Oh, hell, that's a right bummer.

Sorry to hear it boab.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 April, 2012, 09:15:00 pm
Stairs... pavements... treacherous buggers, y'know. Shall I promise.to not return the favour and not send you cake?

I am sitting in my little tiny cabin with crinklyauntie, about to set off for scotland :)
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Post by: rower40 on 02 April, 2012, 09:19:13 pm
More sympathy to boab and her b0rked wrist.

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 02 April, 2012, 09:15:00 pm
I am sitting in my little tiny cabin with crinklyauntie, about to set off for scotland :)
Sleepers FTW! (They're not all that spacious, are they?)  Have a great trip.
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Post by: tiermat on 03 April, 2012, 09:38:54 am
GWS fboab.

I am panicing about what I need to pack for my Spain trip.  I don't have as much time as I thought (flight out in 12 days) and still haven't really worked out a packing list :(
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Post by: iddu on 03 April, 2012, 09:52:09 am
Quote from: fboab on 02 April, 2012, 08:44:24 pm
All I can think about is all the things I won't be able to do.
8 weeks in plaster, probably. Sob.

KittyTFU (http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=kitten+in+plaster&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1035&bih=815&tbm=isch&tbnid=BBPJERad2q0AMM:&imgrefurl=http://suppliescentral.blogspot.com/&docid=iUh8OG07lk0PBM&imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DwUCCqk8V7E/ThDkcdEe1UI/AAAAAAAAADI/mJ-u13Ss7S0/s1600/broken_leg_kitten.jpg&w=500&h=375&ei=Ubl6T4TgLuiG0AXQxrCqCQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=313&sig=109211808645398928059&page=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=179&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0&tx=70&ty=38) :)
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Post by: Katie on 03 April, 2012, 12:20:19 pm
Backing up hard drive ready for a software update/reboot, prodding tinternets whilst it happens - don't want to get stuck into any work only to have to stop to restart the machine...
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Post by: jane on 03 April, 2012, 04:43:59 pm
boab , so sorry to hear about your wrist.  They can be tricky things, so many bones in there.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 April, 2012, 05:17:40 pm
The pandas at the zoo are getting jiggy today.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 April, 2012, 06:27:05 pm
I put that in the wrong thread.  ;D
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Post by: SteveC on 03 April, 2012, 07:25:22 pm
Sitting in an pubbe, drinking a rather nice pint of York Brewery 'Growler'.
This is what 3.6% beers should be like!

S
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Post by: tiermat on 04 April, 2012, 01:06:38 pm
Looking at the first day's riding for Spain and realising that it is somewhat easier than the day of cycling I had the other week to Settle (3000ft of climbing as opposed to 6000ft).

Feel a lot better about it now :)
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Post by: billplumtree on 04 April, 2012, 01:56:36 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 03 April, 2012, 07:25:22 pm
Sitting in an pubbe, drinking a rather nice pint of York Brewery 'Growler'.

That reminds me of what I was doing last night:  reading Bleak House.
Quote
"Sit down, my dear," said Mr. Jarndyce.  "This, you must know, is the growlery.  When I am out of humour, I come and growl here."

I think our open-plan office needs a growlery.
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Post by: jogler on 04 April, 2012, 03:31:28 pm
I'm descending into madness.
A moment ago I ventured a look on the AUK calendar & Peak Audax Perms web sites....at 300km rides :o

This from someone who has not ridden a 200km audax for 7 or 8 months ::-)
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Post by: Butterfly on 04 April, 2012, 06:07:13 pm
Quote from: billplumtree on 04 April, 2012, 01:56:36 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 03 April, 2012, 07:25:22 pm
Sitting in an pubbe, drinking a rather nice pint of York Brewery 'Growler'.

That reminds me of what I was doing last night:  reading Bleak House.
Quote
"Sit down, my dear," said Mr. Jarndyce.  "This, you must know, is the growlery.  When I am out of humour, I come and growl here."

I think our open-plan office needs a growlery.

Ooh, that's a good idea. I think I shall nominate the room 3 floors above me as the Shriekery :D. The Children and I can take it in turns!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2012, 08:44:39 am
Freezing my tits off at a cafe in regents park, having pushed loaded routers here from euston.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 April, 2012, 08:45:58 am
Waiting until it's time to go.
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Post by: Clare on 05 April, 2012, 08:59:22 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2012, 08:44:39 am
Freezing my tits off at a cafe in regents park, having pushed loaded routers here from euston.

Woodwork fettling or just too many comms devices?

 ;)

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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2012, 09:05:54 am
Ah... the joys of phone text auto-guessing :)
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Post by: BrianI on 05 April, 2012, 10:11:18 am
Being bored  :( .  Roll on end of easter holidays and back to college!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2012, 10:28:25 am
Hiding from That LonDon in a different and warmer cafe and wishing I hadn't booked such a late train back north  :-\
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Post by: clarion on 05 April, 2012, 10:47:41 am
Wishing I could go show CrinklyLion a decent cafe instead of doing all this crap on my desk and dealing with unreasonable patients.
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Post by: L CC on 05 April, 2012, 11:00:02 am
Being an unreasonable patient.
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Post by: clarion on 05 April, 2012, 11:03:09 am
I don't think wanting some water is unreasonable.

Demanding an urgent appointment for a non-urgent issue is unreasonable.  Especially if you were given one when you first called two days ago, but left before the time.  And if, when you did leave, you were offered an appointment for today, which you declined >:(
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 April, 2012, 11:10:46 am
Designing QoS policies for the network supporting a new cloud infrastructure for a bank.
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Post by: Clare on 05 April, 2012, 11:32:02 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2012, 09:05:54 am
Ah... the joys of phone text auto-guessing :)

Hmm, I thought productive vext might be involved.

 :)



I'm trying to think of somewhere to suggest you could head to with the bikes, how about the champagne bar at St Pancras?
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Post by: SandyV on 05 April, 2012, 12:35:29 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2012, 09:05:54 am
Ah... the joys of phone text auto-guessing :)
So what was the word meant to be?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2012, 12:47:23 pm
Tourers. Now in a different train station, still avoiding That LonDon, and still waiting for a train. Only a couple of hours to go...
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Post by: SandyV on 05 April, 2012, 01:08:54 pm
Ah.  Of course!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 April, 2012, 03:17:54 pm
On a train at Liverpool Street Station with bobb waiting for it to take us to Chelmsford.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2012, 03:29:10 pm
\o/ for that Kirst.

I am also, finally, on a train. Currently in Stevenage. Getting closer to home :)
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Post by: Kim on 05 April, 2012, 03:39:05 pm
Just finished sorting out my bike and arctic weather gear for tonight TNRttC...
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Post by: Ewan Houzami on 05 April, 2012, 04:43:35 pm
Just been given the once over by, and assessed for a part with Ralph Fiennes
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 05 April, 2012, 05:26:59 pm
Waiting to go to church for the Maundy Thursday service  O:-)
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Post by: TimO on 05 April, 2012, 05:40:00 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 April, 2012, 03:39:05 pm
Just finished sorting out my bike and arctic weather gear for tonight TNRttC...

Why?  I was wondering whether I should bother with a thin pair of gloves, or just stick with the mitts.


On behalf of Zev, who can't type with her paws, she just almost fell off the back of the sofa, getting up whilst still half asleep. ;D
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Post by: Kim on 05 April, 2012, 07:09:37 pm
XCweather is saying -3.  Metoffice is saying +notalot.  Which is what it did last weekend, and there was crunchy ice on the tent at 4am.

I'm anticipating coldness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 April, 2012, 08:06:16 pm
Basking in a warm glow, and chilling with a G&T and a catonlap  :smug:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 April, 2012, 08:25:07 pm
Politely asking bobb's cat Boris to put his claws away if he's going to knead my lap.

Oh, now he's lying on me and purring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 April, 2012, 08:31:00 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 05 April, 2012, 08:25:07 pm
Oh, now he's lying on me and purring.

And what about Boris?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 April, 2012, 01:58:07 am
Editing our blog before packing up ready to set off on the Carretera Austral again tomorrow, from Coyhaique towards Hornopiren and Puerto Montt! We had pancakes tonight and are feeling rather warm, full and content.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 06 April, 2012, 08:44:03 am
Dawdling.  This Voyager, diverted onto the Cross-Shitty line, is playing snooker with the signals - you've got to get a red before a colour.  And the colour is always yellow. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 06 April, 2012, 09:11:37 am
In a fowl (get it) mood after being woke up by a cockerel in our garden.  He seemed to like it there and wouldn't go home. Seriously though, I am grouchy through lack of sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 April, 2012, 10:49:31 am
About to go to Sarfend for crazy golf, seaside fun and no jellied eels.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 April, 2012, 11:58:16 am
Waiting for my train to Edinburgh to depart and trying to de-stress.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 April, 2012, 12:03:41 pm
Watching track cycling, and considering Beer.
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Post by: clarion on 06 April, 2012, 12:06:20 pm
We're on a train to Norwich.  Camping again. :D
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Post by: Andrij on 06 April, 2012, 01:46:13 pm
Approaching York station.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 April, 2012, 01:55:05 pm
Having seaside Sarfend fun with bobb. The chips were suboptimal though.
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Post by: jogler on 06 April, 2012, 02:18:10 pm
Quote from: clarion on 06 April, 2012, 12:06:20 pm
We're on a train to Norwich.  Camping again. :D

Train camping :thumbsup:
Will you be starting a new thread in "Camping It Up"?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 April, 2012, 02:19:36 pm
Unpacking lots of shopping.  Audax recovery food, mostly. 
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Post by: Kim on 06 April, 2012, 04:23:45 pm
Can haz?

~130km, of which the middle chunk was in sub-zero conditions, ought to count as audax by default.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 April, 2012, 04:30:45 pm
I don't think I'd have time to deliver before I have a Very Important Meeting in the 'spoons with lots of tired smelly people in lycra.  You could always ride over for lunch tomorrow?  I even have non-tiger bread and Kim-friendly sossidges ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 06 April, 2012, 04:33:47 pm
I've decided that I want bangers and mash for tea, so I'm currently trying to summon the motivation to walk up to Co-op and buy some spuds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 April, 2012, 04:48:25 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 06 April, 2012, 04:30:45 pm
I don't think I'd have time to deliver before I have a Very Important Meeting in the 'spoons with lots of tired smelly people in lycra.  You could always ride over for lunch tomorrow?  I even have non-tiger bread and Kim-friendly sossidges ;)

Yeahbut if I fixed my bike and rode to York, I'd only have time for about 4 hours sleep.  Might as well do a bloody arrow.   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 06 April, 2012, 06:27:19 pm
I'm sitting in a tent in Norfolk, about to wake Clarion up so we can go and have some soup in the hall. It'll be leek and potato (it always is) and yummy (it's always that too) :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 06 April, 2012, 07:15:40 pm
Relaxing after my W3D3 Couch to 5K run, contemplating going for a shower but mostly being lazy...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 April, 2012, 07:21:11 pm
Baking.  It's a bit early, but I've got quite a long list....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 April, 2012, 11:44:48 pm
I had 4 hours sleep.  But for the avoidance of doubt, I'm still not about to ride to York.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 April, 2012, 11:53:44 pm
Packing.
Off back to Waleslandshire in the morning and then later drive to Fishguard and a week in Irelandland.
So:
Razor
Pants
Phone charger
More pants.

That's it, yeah?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 April, 2012, 11:57:17 pm
Best to bring the phone, as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 April, 2012, 11:58:42 pm
Thanks  :)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 April, 2012, 12:30:13 am
Still baking, although I think the last batch is in the oven now, since it appears I won't need any Kim-Friendly-Cake so I think 3 sorts plus a couple of sorts of flapjack is probably enough.

Although I still need to do all the filling and icing and stuff...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 April, 2012, 12:39:59 am
Hmm, cake...  I think we still have some eggs, too.

No, that would be silly.  Baking tomorrow, maybe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 April, 2012, 02:52:34 am
Dunno what you're on about about there Kim.  Prime cake o'clock, this is.

Coffee cake - done.  Sorry no CCCBs, I thought I had some but apparently not :(
Chocolate and bananananana cake - done
Mildenhall cake - done
Chocolate flapjack (with stars for night-riding stars!) - done
C&W Flapjack (carrot and wensleydale, not country and western, with thanks to Mr Plumtree for the unattractive snort of laughter that particular thought brings every single time I make the stuff now) - done

So..... what now?

I think I shall make some hearty soup for the few bods who were planning to fill the gap from "drink beer until falling down" time until "get on a train and try not to sleep through hometown" time or indeed "get back on the bike and ride home" time with snoozes and recovery grub round the Den.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 07 April, 2012, 03:21:13 am
Being at home. With gurgle guts courtesy of anti-gout drugs.

If you hear a loud rumbly farty noise, clear the room.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 07 April, 2012, 09:18:05 am
Quote from: fboab on 02 April, 2012, 05:47:21 pm
2nd set of xrays show not just a simple displaced fracture, but multiple fractures on the wrist end of the bone. Surgery and Overnight stay here. We may be talking pins and screws. We're probably not talking something strong enough for 24 hrs riding on Friday. To say I'm gutted is an understatement. This could easily kibosh my whole season.

Chuff neck boab, just seen this. Hope it is progressing swell as it can.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 07 April, 2012, 10:00:24 am
Thanks J. 'tis shit, tbh.

Back o/t, I'm watching from afar my, and all the other arrow teams, trickle in to York.

I'm right jealous.
 :'(

But well done everyone who made it, and please can we have detailed stories soonas? Those of us living vicariously need grist for our mills.
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Post by: mcshroom on 07 April, 2012, 10:31:21 am
Desperately trying to learn a 7 minute solo to sing at the Easter Vigil tonight, and getting very annoyed that the Bishop's in their 'wisdom' decided to change it from the one we've sung for the last 40 years (and I know)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 April, 2012, 11:00:59 am
Reaching the last stages of the shower replacement - just got to connect the pipes together in the loft.  Irritatingly, this valve has the hot and cold pipes reversed compared to the old one.  It's going to require some serious 3D visualisation.

I love pipe benders.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 07 April, 2012, 11:10:05 am
Nomming creme eggs whilst lazing about and nursing a not really very sore head after last nights drinkimicating.

Trying to work up some momentum to cook a fry up.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 April, 2012, 12:35:12 pm
The shower lives!

I shall have to take a photo of the pipework in the loft.  It looks like two snakes having teh sex.
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Post by: why1040 on 07 April, 2012, 01:11:25 pm
Trying to get used to my new haircut!

It feels funny!
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Post by: Chris S on 07 April, 2012, 01:13:29 pm
Quote from: why1040 on 07 April, 2012, 01:11:25 pm
Trying to get used to my new haircut!

It feels funny!

Before and After pictures, or it didn't happen  ;)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 April, 2012, 01:23:35 pm
In The Three Elms with bobb waiting for our lunches.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 April, 2012, 01:53:23 pm
In The Three Elms with bobb waiting for our desserts.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 April, 2012, 01:56:26 pm
Listening to audaxers snoring  :D
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Post by: Feline on 07 April, 2012, 02:37:03 pm
At York station waiting for the train home post-arrow  :)
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Post by: jogler on 08 April, 2012, 07:50:16 am
Getting dressed in lycra for the second consecutive Sunday morning.I may be doomed....again :-\
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sean on 08 April, 2012, 09:29:47 am
Just served smoked mackerel and scrambled egg in bed (brownie points warned) Waiting for my turn in the shower, then off for a nice walk with the dog :)
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sean on 08 April, 2012, 09:31:34 am
(brownie points earned) that should have said !!!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 April, 2012, 11:45:15 am
What a splendid way to start a Sunday that sounds like.

I am nursing a very mild hangover, having fed it (veggie) sossidges and mushrooms on toast and paracetamol and much COFFEE, and have just waved off the last of this weekend's audaxers on their way with a couple of cakes hiding in the carradice.  Now a couple of hours of pootling around til m'boys come home....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 08 April, 2012, 12:30:44 pm
Wondering if I can handle the pain well enough to get to the seaside and back.
In the car.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 08 April, 2012, 12:36:11 pm
Trying to find sufficient round tuits to get on with bodging a rear mudguard onto my bike. I have a new rear light that'll be directly in the path of spray from the rear wheel and I'm not sure how sealed it is (Toplight Line Plus).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 April, 2012, 12:36:30 pm
fboab - if you do decide to go, have a splendid time.  And an ice cream.  And please to be taking photographs of you in a kiss-me-quick hat, if its that sort of seaside.

BTW my experience with The Elbow was that 3 days to a week-ish after the break was when it really hurt.  And from that point it slowly started to get less painful and my the 2-3 week point it was copable with much less meds - so long as I looked after it and was careful.  It is completely knackering hurting all the time though, so look after yourself and take it steady, hinny.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 April, 2012, 07:09:45 pm
Getting ready for my annual week in Dublin.

Unless I've missed some other posts, it looks like there will be at least three forumites there next weekend (all three trips unconnected, AFAICT).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 April, 2012, 07:23:07 pm
I'll be passing through Dublin on Monday 16th.
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Post by: Jaded on 08 April, 2012, 07:30:20 pm
About to have a bath to nurse my twinges.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 09 April, 2012, 10:29:01 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 08 April, 2012, 12:36:30 pm
fboab - if you do decide to go, have a splendid time.  And an ice cream.  And please to be taking photographs of you in a kiss-me-quick hat, if its that sort of seaside.

BTW my experience with The Elbow was that 3 days to a week-ish after the break was when it really hurt.  And from that point it slowly started to get less painful and my the 2-3 week point it was copable with much less meds - so long as I looked after it and was careful.  It is completely knackering hurting all the time though, so look after yourself and take it steady, hinny.
We didn't make it- travelling in the car was just too painful.
Did manage an ice cream though...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AndyH on 09 April, 2012, 12:35:50 pm
Slooping around in a jalabia with one eye on Casablanca and the other on YACF, drinking coffee and contemplating lighting a fire. I'm so glad it's raining  :)

BTW didn't find out obout your incident until riding the arrow fboab, but GWS. The Tandem team should have had you & Chris at the front. Masterstroke to omit telling the others about the hills MH - MM, I did that as well  ;) 
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 April, 2012, 02:24:26 am
Not sleeping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 10 April, 2012, 03:05:06 am
Quote from: Andrij on 10 April, 2012, 02:24:26 am
Not sleeping.
Ditto that   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 April, 2012, 08:53:46 am
Working in sunny (!) Dublin, contemplating where I can get my next coffee (will need vast quantities today).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 April, 2012, 09:41:12 am
Quote from: Andrij on 10 April, 2012, 08:53:46 am
Working in sunny (!) Dublin, contemplating where I can get my next coffee (will need vast quantities today).

This office is too big and too cold, but I have a large, reasonably priced and well made espresso from a cafe across the road, so things are looking up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 April, 2012, 11:31:15 am
Lunch.  Yes, I know it's a bit early, but they put the cafe in the wrong place.

We're riding back to Norwich after a wonderful long weekend camping in the Broads.  Although yesterday was pretty constant drizzle, it's been a sunny morning here for packing up.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 April, 2012, 11:33:57 am
Waiting for the KX elves to announce which platform I should be on.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 April, 2012, 11:41:47 am
Is it east coast Kirst?  I've found that the nationalrail website is very rarely wrong in its predictions for platforms.

I am listening to SmallestCub having a fab time playing with his mate that lives next door, and contemplating what we can have for lunch, and what we might do this afternoon.

Ah.... school jollydays.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 10 April, 2012, 02:25:50 pm
Resting after an unsuccessful search for a doorbell, I have found the bell push, cable and transformer, so I will have to buy one.  I did find another welder though, that makes five so far! :thumbsup:

I also hung up three chain winches and a 5:1 rope hoist to make the place tidier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 10 April, 2012, 06:25:45 pm
Waiting for my brane to catch up with my body.  My body is back in Derby, courtesy of a taxi, a steam train, a FGW HST and an X-country HST, then a brief trog up hill on the now-repatriated Orange Bling.  Which got left outside during yesterday's persistent rain and overnight, so even the chain is now orange.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 11 April, 2012, 12:14:21 pm
Waiting for a taxi.
Because we missed the bus weren't all at the bus stop when the bus came.
Because I left my phone at home, and sent No2Son to get it, and he couldn't find it.

I found it in less than 10 seconds, exactly where I said it was.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 April, 2012, 12:23:26 pm
Quote from: fboab on 11 April, 2012, 12:14:21 pm
Waiting for a taxi.
Because we missed the bus weren't all at the bus stop when the bus came.
Because I left my phone at home, and sent No2Son to get it, and he couldn't find it.

I found it in less than 10 seconds, exactly where I said it was.

 :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 11 April, 2012, 03:32:47 pm
Fracture clinic. The great unwashed. In plaster.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 April, 2012, 03:57:16 pm
Looking at my packinglist an wondering if I can some circular tuits to get it done....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 April, 2012, 04:10:09 pm
Quote from: fboab on 11 April, 2012, 03:32:47 pm
Fracture clinic. The great unwashed. In plaster.

Is that a modern adaptation of Venus in Furs?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 11 April, 2012, 04:10:49 pm
Huffing and puffing.

Severely out of breath after lending a 30' ladder to a neighbour and helping put it up so he could clear a bush growing in his gutter.

Must rest more, BP still too high.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 April, 2012, 04:12:42 pm
Waiting impatiently for the start of a SEEKRIT MISHUN which starts with a dash home then straight out again (whisper it) without a bike :o :o :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 11 April, 2012, 04:25:44 pm
Quote from: clarion on 11 April, 2012, 04:12:42 pm
Waiting impatiently for the start of a SEEKRIT MISHUN which starts with a dash home then straight out again (whisper it) without a bike :o :o :o
Only without until I meet you with the tandem! :).

I'm currently sitting in a very loud indoor play centre watching 2 of my charges go up the slope, down the slide, up the slope, down the slide, up the slope, down the slide and wondering whether it's tea time yet. Oh, they're here which means it probably is ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 11 April, 2012, 04:47:44 pm
Trying to remember what I need to pack in a camping kit given that I'm going away for a weekend, not on a mission to the Pole.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 April, 2012, 04:51:12 pm
Quote from: Julian on 11 April, 2012, 04:47:44 pm
Trying to remember what I need to pack in a camping kit given that I'm going away for a weekend, not on a mission to the Pole.

Have you seen the forecast?  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: metformin on 11 April, 2012, 05:11:02 pm
Job hunting with no success  :'(
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Post by: mike on 11 April, 2012, 05:32:21 pm
watching a massive hailstorm outside, started about 2 minutes after I finished mowing the lawn :)

See you in Rutland!
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Post by: Chris S on 11 April, 2012, 07:44:32 pm
Watching Titanic.

Yeah yeah - I know  ::-).

I'm probably busy at the weekend, so I thought I'd get a 100 year commemorative viewing in over tea tonight.

Now. The bit on the prow. Where Kate is "flying". It's very very cheesy. But it's one of those cinematic moments that will last forever,  like Jack Nicholson and the "Little Pigs" scene in The Shining, or the chestburster in Alien.

I just love it. What a Jessie  :facepalm:.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 11 April, 2012, 07:45:59 pm
Drinking beer and getting ready to kill some pretend dragons on the internet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 April, 2012, 07:59:09 pm
Thinking about having another Cwrw, looking out the window at the evening drawing in and wondering when I last checked the lights on the sardar.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 April, 2012, 08:15:13 pm
Quote from: Julian on 11 April, 2012, 04:47:44 pm
Trying to remember what I need to pack in a camping kit given that I'm going away for a weekend, not on a mission to the Pole.

It's basically the same thing, but without the ice-fishing equipment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2012, 08:47:57 pm
Playing with my new toy  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 11 April, 2012, 09:51:54 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2012, 08:47:57 pm
Playing with my new toy  :D

Which is? Are pictures required?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 11 April, 2012, 09:53:05 pm
Having a good cry  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2012, 10:07:12 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 11 April, 2012, 09:53:05 pm
Having a good cry  :'(
Oh noes ! Don't do that, you'll get teh internets all wet....  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 12 April, 2012, 08:00:50 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2012, 10:07:12 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 11 April, 2012, 09:53:05 pm
Having a good cry  :'(
Oh noes ! Don't do that, you'll get teh internets all wet....  :-\

Much needed and sparked by watching Titanic. I hope new toy is fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 April, 2012, 12:37:01 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 12 April, 2012, 08:00:50 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2012, 10:07:12 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 11 April, 2012, 09:53:05 pm
Having a good cry  :'(
Oh noes ! Don't do that, you'll get teh internets all wet....  :-\

Much needed and sparked by watching Titanic. I hope new toy is fun.
Aah, that's ok then. Blubbing at fillums is fine.

New toy is a fondleslab - Motorola Xoom. It is quite fun and hopefully will end the twisting-to-view-laptop-whilst-being-cat-bed back ache.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 April, 2012, 04:08:49 pm
Laminating an audax route sheet
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Post by: Kim on 12 April, 2012, 06:37:15 pm
Wondering if a couple of panniers of stuff is going to come as a nasty shock to barakta.   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 April, 2012, 06:53:32 pm
Feeling knackered. I've only had 2 proper nights sleep in the last 6. It's starting to catch up with me and I'm working again tomorrow night. At least I was fast on the bike today though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 12 April, 2012, 06:59:23 pm
Quote from: jogler on 12 April, 2012, 04:08:49 pm
Laminating an audax route sheet

Why?  Which one are you doing?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 April, 2012, 07:03:04 pm
Quote from: Peter on 12 April, 2012, 06:59:23 pm
Quote from: jogler on 12 April, 2012, 04:08:49 pm
Laminating an audax route sheet

Why?  Which one are you doing?

Probably the route sheet of the next audax he's intending to do.

HTH.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 12 April, 2012, 07:07:02 pm
Wow, you are such a wag!  Enjoyed your D & G reports very much, by the way.
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Post by: peliroja on 12 April, 2012, 07:08:37 pm
Sitting in a BED  :D in a hostel in La Junta, Chile, recovering from a hard few days cycling and nursing a cold caught from MATE (the drink!!!)-sharing with an Argentinian. It's pouring outside so for once I'm glad not to be under canvas.  We've just done our washing in the shower like all professional bike tourers and are blogging while eating soggy biscuits.  Bliss!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 April, 2012, 07:13:20 pm
Teaching the boy to iron.

I know, I know, lots of you think ironing is a big fat waste of time.

But I like smooth crisp linen and my shirts to be smooth. So No1Son is learning a life skill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 April, 2012, 07:17:54 pm
That reminds me, I need to locate a steam iron somewhere in this tiny town to renew the waterproofing of my Event fabric rainjacket (which has totally let me down recently,  and very annoyingly). I wish I'd never given up on goretex!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 12 April, 2012, 07:19:53 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 April, 2012, 06:53:32 pm
Feeling knackered. I've only had 2 proper nights sleep in the last 6. It's starting to catch up with me and I'm working again tomorrow night. At least I was fast on the bike today though.

:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 12 April, 2012, 07:21:17 pm
Talking Emily through a panic sleeping-bag-upgrade by SMS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 April, 2012, 07:24:45 pm
Just sent barakta on an experimental ride around the block with her sleeping gear, clothes and several dummy tins of beans in panniers.  Result: inconclusive (Cycled okay, but wobbled scarily once she got off.  Has back pain from lifting the trike.)

But she did manage to deliver an audax entry form to the post box in the process.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 April, 2012, 07:49:45 pm
Quote from: Peter on 12 April, 2012, 06:59:23 pm
Quote from: jogler on 12 April, 2012, 04:08:49 pm
Laminating an audax route sheet

Why?  Which one are you doing?

this

http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/12-736/
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Post by: Peter on 12 April, 2012, 08:40:20 pm
Looks good.  All the best!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 April, 2012, 09:52:08 pm
Listening to Feist.  This may involve a certain degree of singingalong....


And baking :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 12 April, 2012, 09:54:47 pm
Trying to get enough energy to get out of this chair and go upstairs to bed. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 12 April, 2012, 10:32:20 pm
I've arrived home after visiting my oldest friend, we were friends in nursery school.  I haven't seen her for about 7 years, so we had a lot of catching up to do. 
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 April, 2012, 02:04:12 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 April, 2012, 09:52:08 pm
And baking :D

Couple of coffee cakes are in the freezer from last weekend's bakefest, chocolate flapjack made and decorated, and 4 other sorts of cake baked, 2 of which have been decorated. 

I reckon the rest can wait til the morning :D

I tell you what, baking is remarkably therapeutic.  And it's a good job I know a lot of hungry cyclists or never mind the size of a house, I would be the size of an entire terrace!
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Post by: why1040 on 13 April, 2012, 01:55:43 pm
Wishing I could have a nap...suddenly REALLY tired!   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 April, 2012, 03:07:36 pm
Due to not being able to get out of work tomorrow,  I'm sitting on the Galway to Dublin bus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 16 April, 2012, 03:20:57 pm
Sitting on the ferry to Brodick with the sun shining
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 April, 2012, 03:25:07 pm
Sitting in an office on the outskirts of York watching the sky get greyer and greyer  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 April, 2012, 03:26:03 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 16 April, 2012, 03:20:57 pm
Sitting on the ferry to Brodick with the sun shining

Suddenly come over all green with envy...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 16 April, 2012, 03:32:47 pm
Sitting at my desk eating a pink glittery cake :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 April, 2012, 09:19:05 am
I'm editing the distances between turns on a Peak Audax Perm route sheet to reflect the fact that I'm starting at Radway Green rather than Dean Row.
Then I shall laminate the sheets.

ETA  & I've just noticed that the Brevet Card is printed in accordance with my planned start point as opposed to the "formal" start point of Dean Row as per the website.
Thankyou Mr. Wigley :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 April, 2012, 10:16:42 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 11 April, 2012, 09:53:05 pm
Having a good cry  :'(

(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg82/IllegalCombatAnt/21ltz84.gif)


.... wondering how to break the news to Louboutin that sometimes the conjunction of her sig image and message can be at odds....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 April, 2012, 03:42:14 pm
Putting together possible plans for my hols in June - an off-road C2C in Scotland is currently looking rather appealing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 17 April, 2012, 04:34:12 pm
Hiding from the rain in the park, under a tree that's big enough for one bike, one tandem, 3 children and me!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 April, 2012, 05:57:33 pm
feeling cold
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 April, 2012, 05:58:50 pm
Going to the garage to give the Trek a coat of looking at in readiness for tomorrow's ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 17 April, 2012, 08:35:57 pm
Quote from: Ham on 17 April, 2012, 10:16:42 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 11 April, 2012, 09:53:05 pm
Having a good cry  :'(

(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg82/IllegalCombatAnt/21ltz84.gif)


.... wondering how to break the news to Louboutin that sometimes the conjunction of her sig image and message can be at odds....

Whoops, I know.  I don't post on bad news treads because of 'laughing dog'.  It makes me smile, so I dont want to get rid of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 19 April, 2012, 06:01:11 am
06:00

Listen to each drop of rain
Whispering secrets in vain

Contemplating train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 19 April, 2012, 08:58:24 pm
Drinking witbier
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 April, 2012, 09:04:12 pm
Coughing a lot and feeling very wheezy. I need to find my inhaler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 April, 2012, 09:05:19 pm
Scheming
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 April, 2012, 09:15:36 pm
Being intrigued as to what the scheming might be about...

And drinking coffee, footling on the interwebs, and playing fetch with my next door neighbours cat (no joke - she really does fetch!) whilst spending the evening that my boys are away at their dad's babysitting for someone else's four year old.  I know how to live it up, me.

Mind, since they've catsat for me for all of my Silly_Bike[less]_Adventures since September, I reckon they've probably got a fair bit of credit in the favours bank!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 April, 2012, 09:20:52 pm
Scheming sourdough bred / caek
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 April, 2012, 09:25:11 pm
Scheming about baking?  One of my favourite sorts of scheme!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 20 April, 2012, 11:55:10 am
Having meatballs and macaroni before jumping into a shower.  Then I'm off to drive my "pony" and myself to Warwickshire somewhere for Riding Club Camp, which is going to be phenomenal fun!

Just to be safe, I've brought several changes of clothes, blankets etc as the weather is...changeable!  But nothing is that bad when you can put dry socks on!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 April, 2012, 11:58:12 am
Doing Yet Another Blood-Sugar Test before I go and have some lunch.

Also, marvelling at the sight of blue sky outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 April, 2012, 05:23:29 pm
Killing time before this evening's bike ride (sadly, neither of the FNRtsomewhere).  Even worse, I'm doing so in the office as by the time I can get the usual suspects moved on to a pub it will be time for me to get on my bike.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 20 April, 2012, 05:53:20 pm
Waiting for the rain to stop so I can go out on my bike.
Title: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 20 April, 2012, 07:00:02 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 19 April, 2012, 08:58:24 pm
Drinking witbier

+13
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 April, 2012, 07:15:11 pm
Drinking coffee, listening to boys playing in the street while their bath is running.  S'good.  Welcome to the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 20 April, 2012, 07:32:07 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 20 April, 2012, 05:53:20 pm
Waiting for the rain to stop so I can go out on my bike.

Got bored waiting so went out anyway. Crashed (but the bikes OK:) ), hit a new top speed for the Pugsley, went over 500 miles for the year and got covered in mud. Now clean and sipping a cold beer. All in all a good start to the evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 April, 2012, 07:33:02 pm
Setting up the Apple TV.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 20 April, 2012, 07:37:27 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 20 April, 2012, 07:32:07 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 20 April, 2012, 05:53:20 pm
Waiting for the rain to stop so I can go out on my bike.

Got bored waiting so went out anyway. Crashed (but the bikes OK:) ), hit a new top speed for the Pugsley, went over 500 miles for the year and got covered in mud. Now clean and sipping a cold beer. All in all a good start to the evening.

Oh and  I got chased by a dog. A bull terrier type which made the ride somewhat more aerobic than planned ???. But, despite the dog and the crash, still a good ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 April, 2012, 07:39:07 pm
Recovering from a hard session on the turbo and listening to some righteous dub (not as good as bangin' techno for spinning along to, but good enough)
Title: Re: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 20 April, 2012, 10:20:14 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 20 April, 2012, 07:00:02 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 19 April, 2012, 08:58:24 pm
Drinking witbier

+13

And Duvel now, via dinner and a nice glass of Duoro.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 20 April, 2012, 10:26:25 pm
Working. Waiting for the lady I'm babysitting for to come home so I can go and hoping I don't get as wet on the way home!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 April, 2012, 10:27:27 pm
I hope that too.  Have you left a damp patch on her sofa? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 April, 2012, 10:29:39 pm
Talking to bobb about the late Bert Weedon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 20 April, 2012, 10:36:43 pm
Quote from: clarion on 20 April, 2012, 10:27:27 pm
I hope that too.  Have you left a damp patch on her sofa? ;D
No, I took my trousers off and put them over a (very hot) radiator for a bit. Hurrah for craghoppers quick drying material!  My shoes are still on the radiator though.
Title: Re: Re: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 21 April, 2012, 12:51:37 am
Quote from: Oaky on 20 April, 2012, 10:20:14 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 20 April, 2012, 07:00:02 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 19 April, 2012, 08:58:24 pm
Drinking witbier

+13

And Duvel now, via dinner and a nice glass of Duoro.

+g&t*N
+Singapore sling
Title: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 21 April, 2012, 12:58:44 am
Quote from: Oaky on 21 April, 2012, 12:51:37 am
Quote from: Oaky on 20 April, 2012, 10:20:14 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 20 April, 2012, 07:00:02 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 19 April, 2012, 08:58:24 pm
Drinking witbier

+13

And Duvel now, via dinner and a nice glass of Duoro.

+g&t*N
+Singapore sling

And,  finally, a Cointreau with one ice cube , swirling, for the use of.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 21 April, 2012, 08:48:32 am
Trying to wake myself up (only had six hours) and talk myself into going out on a leisure ride.

Only 25 ish miles, mostly flat.  But it's raining  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 April, 2012, 08:49:42 am
I'm waiting.  It's very very boring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 21 April, 2012, 10:02:01 am
Sat in work to finish a document, as another project has the designers visiting next tues - thurs, I need to review their drawings on Mon and then go on leave.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 April, 2012, 11:22:06 am
We're passing through Shenfield, on a train driven, it would seem, by Norman Lovett.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 April, 2012, 11:28:58 am
Laundry. Lots and lots of laundry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 21 April, 2012, 12:49:20 pm
Just completed an on-line c# test as part of the preamble for a job interview next week.

I hate interviews.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 21 April, 2012, 01:42:03 pm
Watching football (Arsenal vs Chelsea) in a Dutch Irish pub and hoping both sides lose :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 21 April, 2012, 01:48:49 pm
About to eat nutella butties! I procured two jars from the local supermarket in Puerto Montt. There is a nutella queue and it disappears as soon as the shelf is stocked!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 April, 2012, 02:30:35 pm
Thinking about making some date  scones & some bred.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 April, 2012, 02:57:54 pm
Basking in the self satisfied glow after donating a whole load of books to a charity shop!   :smug:
Title: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 21 April, 2012, 03:20:40 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 21 April, 2012, 01:42:03 pm
Watching football (Arsenal vs Chelsea) in a Dutch Irish pub and hoping both sides lose :demon:

Now watching the main attraction: Toon v Potters

If you are avoiding scores don't look in the spoiler!

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 21 April, 2012, 03:34:38 pm
Finishing booking camp sites for LonJOG - then I move onto my solo tour from JOG to Mallaig straight after it.
Title: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 April, 2012, 04:22:20 pm
Quote from: Oaky on 21 April, 2012, 03:20:40 pm
And Newcastle are 2-0 up :):):)
[/spoiler]

which channel?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 April, 2012, 04:29:42 pm
Digesting a date scone and watching ER while being a cat bed and waiting for the bred to rise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 21 April, 2012, 05:18:04 pm
Something Dutch - Sport 1 HD plus 1 IIRC
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 April, 2012, 05:20:00 pm
Watching Weather happening and waiting for faffers to stop faffing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 21 April, 2012, 05:20:13 pm
All it needs now is for QPR to beat Spuds and it will be a perfect set of results.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bloomers100 on 21 April, 2012, 05:58:41 pm
Bet you wish we were there  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 21 April, 2012, 06:08:22 pm
Relaxing.
This (http://www.niederegger.de/epages/Niederegger.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Niederegger/Categories/Marzipanwelt/Marzipan_Club/Rezepte&Page=3#pr10125) is in the oven. It's much much much more difficult indulging in baking cakes with only one working hand.
Is it beer oclock?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 April, 2012, 06:09:20 pm
Quote from: fboab on 21 April, 2012, 06:08:22 pm
Relaxing.
...
Is it beer oclock?

Yes, and has been for hours.  You have some catching up to do!  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 April, 2012, 06:16:42 pm
Quote from: bloomers100 on 21 April, 2012, 05:58:41 pm
Bet you wish we were there  ;D

If I win the Lottery I shall have an executive box at SAINT JAMES' PARK

did you hear that Mr sports direct Ashley ? >:(
it's SAINT JAMES' PARK
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 21 April, 2012, 06:19:51 pm
Quote from: fboab on 21 April, 2012, 06:08:22 pm
This (http://www.niederegger.de/epages/Niederegger.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Niederegger/Categories/Marzipanwelt/Marzipan_Club/Rezepte&Page=3#pr10125) is in the oven. It's much much much more difficult indulging in baking cakes with only one working hand.
That looks rather wonderful--recipe snaffled for later!  :D

Quote
Is it beer oclock?
What a splendid idea!  Although I probably ought to go and finish making the bread first.

We (MrsC and I) have been putting our spare bedroom-cum-office back together after it was decorated.  I now have a full size computer (and more importantly, the one with all the files on!) working again.  We also have spare space on our bookshelves, having weeded the collection as we were moving them back in.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 21 April, 2012, 06:23:30 pm
Quote from: jogler on 21 April, 2012, 06:16:42 pm
Quote from: bloomers100 on 21 April, 2012, 05:58:41 pm
Bet you wish we were there  ;D

If I win the Lottery I shall have an executive box at SAINT JAMES' PARK


Oh and Exeter fan :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 April, 2012, 06:28:14 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 21 April, 2012, 06:23:30 pm
Quote from: jogler on 21 April, 2012, 06:16:42 pm
Quote from: bloomers100 on 21 April, 2012, 05:58:41 pm
Bet you wish we were there  ;D

If I win the Lottery I shall have an executive box at SAINT JAMES' PARK


Oh and Exeter fan :P

no no no you little :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 21 April, 2012, 06:34:16 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 21 April, 2012, 06:23:30 pm

If I win the Lottery I shall have an executive box at SAINT JAMES' PARK

Oh and Exeter fan :P
[/quote]
Apostrophe Error
The ground in Exeter doesn't have one!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 21 April, 2012, 06:48:11 pm
Quote from: fboab on 21 April, 2012, 06:08:22 pm
This (http://www.niederegger.de/epages/Niederegger.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Niederegger/Categories/Marzipanwelt/Marzipan_Club/Rezepte&Page=3#pr10125) is in the oven. It's much much much more difficult indulging in baking cakes with only one working hand.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2012-04-21184109.jpg)
Smells pretty darn good.
Have to wait for a while though, I said I'd wake him with 'tea's ready' at 8.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 April, 2012, 07:45:51 pm
That looks great :p
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 21 April, 2012, 07:54:24 pm
Quote from: fboab on 21 April, 2012, 06:48:11 pm
Quote from: fboab on 21 April, 2012, 06:08:22 pm
This (http://www.niederegger.de/epages/Niederegger.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Niederegger/Categories/Marzipanwelt/Marzipan_Club/Rezepte&Page=3#pr10125) is in the oven. It's much much much more difficult indulging in baking cakes with only one working hand.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2012-04-21184109.jpg)
Smells pretty darn good.
Have to wait for a while though, I said I'd wake him with 'tea's ready' at 8.

That looks might interesting to me slaver........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 April, 2012, 02:04:33 am
Wondering if I'll fall back asleep before my alarm goes off at 05:00 and how I'll feel at that time.  Hopefully the once-a-year opportunity will provide sufficient motivation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 22 April, 2012, 09:25:07 am
Quote from: fboab on 21 April, 2012, 06:48:11 pm
Quote from: fboab on 21 April, 2012, 06:08:22 pm
This (http://www.niederegger.de/epages/Niederegger.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Niederegger/Categories/Marzipanwelt/Marzipan_Club/Rezepte&Page=3#pr10125) is in the oven. It's much much much more difficult indulging in baking cakes with only one working hand.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2012-04-21184109.jpg)
Smells pretty darn good.
Have to wait for a while though, I said I'd wake him with 'tea's ready' at 8.

Trying to find out where fboab lives so I pay a visit. That looks soon yummy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 22 April, 2012, 09:26:29 am
Sitting in the garden with my iPad drinking tea and listening to the duckies :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 April, 2012, 11:10:00 am
Texting my friend to tell her I'm too poorly to take part in her birthday lunch today  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 22 April, 2012, 11:14:24 am
Trying to remove a stubborn freewheel, what I had assumed was the correct socket actually removed the cover and scattered ball bearings over my patio :facepalm:. It looks like there's no way to remove the body from the hub with undue force. It's soaking in GT85 and I'm having a coffee before I commence round 2.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 22 April, 2012, 11:17:58 am
Booking tickets for Pirates: an Adventure with Scientists
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 22 April, 2012, 12:30:49 pm
Quote from: RJ on 22 April, 2012, 11:17:58 am
Booking tickets for Pirates: an Adventure with Scientists

You should enjoy that. Best I'm I've seen in ages (mind you most films I've seen in ages have been with my seven year old).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 April, 2012, 12:34:32 pm
Preparing my lunch.
If it's looking less gloomy in a Leeds-ward direction later on, I think a quick blast on the fixed might be in order.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 April, 2012, 12:39:23 pm
I'm doing an excellent impression of a couch potatoe who will spend the next xxxx hours watching the football on Sky Sports & BBC
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 22 April, 2012, 01:35:23 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 22 April, 2012, 11:14:24 am
Trying to remove a stubborn freewheel, what I had assumed was the correct socket actually removed the cover and scattered ball bearings over my patio :facepalm:. It looks like there's no way to remove the body from the hub with undue force. It's soaking in GT85 and I'm having a coffee before I commence round 2.

Well freewheel remains as stubbornly attached but a little Googling shows that this is common for the specific model of freewheel. Even the Park Tools method is destructive. Just need to borrow a vice and I should be able to get it off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 April, 2012, 01:43:07 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 22 April, 2012, 01:35:23 pm
Well freewheel remains as stubbornly attached but a little Googling shows that this is common for the specific model of freewheel. Even the Park Tools method is destructive. Just need to borrow a vice and I should be able to get it off.
What make is the freewheel? (please don't  say 'White Industries', 'cos I'm thinking of getting one of their two-speed freewheels, and a Surly 'Dingle', for the other Genesis)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 22 April, 2012, 02:31:01 pm
Quote from: interzen on 22 April, 2012, 01:43:07 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 22 April, 2012, 01:35:23 pm
Well freewheel remains as stubbornly attached but a little Googling shows that this is common for the specific model of freewheel. Even the Park Tools method is destructive. Just need to borrow a vice and I should be able to get it off.
What make is the freewheel? (please don't  say 'White Industries', 'cos I'm thinking of getting one of their two-speed freewheels, and a Surly 'Dingle', for the other Genesis)

It's a 'Dicta' - no sniggering at the back - also sold as a Diamond back. The White Industries (singlespeed, don't know about two speed) has a 'proper' 4 spline removal point which is separate from the cover, plusitvdoesnt seem to mind getting wet. All in all the WI is a great pice of kit. Any guess for what I'll be replacing the Dicta with?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rr on 22 April, 2012, 07:00:51 pm
Seeing if Mini can get the top note in Bohemian Rhapsody.

Sent from my GT-S5570 using Tapatalk 2
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 22 April, 2012, 08:48:31 pm
Backing up some stuff to the world's slowest NAS drive (6 hours and counting) so I can nuke this PC and reinstall everything.  As the kids are now using the Internet, I'll also configure it to protect them from the sort of stuff I look at.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 22 April, 2012, 10:10:58 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 22 April, 2012, 08:48:31 pm
Backing up some stuff to the world's slowest NAS drive (6 hours and counting) so I can nuke this PC and reinstall everything.  As the kids are now using the Internet, I'll also configure it to protect them from the sort of stuff I look at.

I see your (frankly pathetic) claim and raise you backing up some stuff from the world's slowest NAS drive. Two weeks of three days and it crashed before three and a half days to back up.


That was just the media directory.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 23 April, 2012, 01:55:02 pm
Eating salad with a spork whilst my charges are having a brilliant time in the Diana playground, which is almost deserted. Most of London's children must dissolve.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 April, 2012, 03:48:24 pm
Excellent!  I'm jealous.  I'm trying to put my head straight after covering a set of KPIs in a meeting about the new Contract. :-\

Tea now, I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 April, 2012, 04:06:37 pm
I'm trying to draw a route on Bikely for a 200km DIY Perm starting from the Co-Op half a km away from home
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 April, 2012, 04:21:31 pm
I'm devising a somewhat shorter than 200km route for tonight - pizza for lunch was a bad idea and my current blood glucose levels reflect that! Sod the turbo, tonight I'm having a proper ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 April, 2012, 04:25:24 pm
Worrying about the condition of my bottom bracket.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 23 April, 2012, 04:29:02 pm
been painting my front door  twice and waiting for it to dry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 23 April, 2012, 04:33:21 pm
Quote from: jogler on 23 April, 2012, 04:06:37 pm
I'm trying to draw a route on Bikely for a 200km DIY Perm starting from the Co-Op half a km away from home
Something very similar, but a) bikely I have always found pants; b) I probably shouldn't ride it and c) My nearest co-op is several miles away, so I have a GPS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 23 April, 2012, 04:33:39 pm
Getting my little finger bandaged  :-[   At least it's just about stopped bleeding :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 April, 2012, 05:16:26 pm
Quote from: fboab on 23 April, 2012, 04:33:21 pm
Quote from: jogler on 23 April, 2012, 04:06:37 pm
I'm trying to draw a route on Bikely for a 200km DIY Perm starting from the Co-Op half a km away from home
Something very similar, but a) bikely I have always found pants; b) I probably shouldn't ride it and c) My nearest co-op is several miles away, so I have a GPS.

Did you ask Katy about riding a 200? Did you explain the concept of RRTY and how your world will end if you don't get a 200k ride in before 30/4 ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 April, 2012, 05:23:57 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 23 April, 2012, 05:16:26 pm
Quote from: fboab on 23 April, 2012, 04:33:21 pm
Something very similar, but a) bikely I have always found pants; b) I probably shouldn't ride it and c) My nearest co-op is several miles away, so I have a GPS.

Did you ask Katy about riding a 200? Did you explain the concept of RRTY and how your world will end if you don't get a 200k ride in before 30/4 ?

Wrist aside, it's 200k on no 'bent legs.  That's audacious, even if you avoid anywhere with proper geography.  Can't you get your mum to write you a sick note?   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 23 April, 2012, 05:59:21 pm
Quote from: Kim on 23 April, 2012, 05:23:57 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 23 April, 2012, 05:16:26 pm
Quote from: fboab on 23 April, 2012, 04:33:21 pm
Something very similar, but a) bikely I have always found pants; b) I probably shouldn't ride it and c) My nearest co-op is several miles away, so I have a GPS.

Did you ask Katy about riding a 200? Did you explain the concept of RRTY and how your world will end if you don't get a 200k ride in before 30/4 ?

Wrist aside, it's 200k on no 'bent legs.  That's audacious, even if you avoid anywhere with proper geography.  Can't you get your mum to write you a sick note?   :o
MemSec also broke his wrist late last year, I don't think he'd see it my way, no matter how convincing the forgery of my mum's handwriting.
My world may just have to end. Maybe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2012, 06:06:30 pm
Hase Pino.  There's someone you can hire one off in York.  I'm sure you could finangle a flat 200 gps diy from here!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 April, 2012, 06:12:14 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2012, 06:06:30 pm
Hase Pino.

...As long as you're reasonably sure you won't fall off it and risk further wrist b0rkage.  Trikes are one thing, silly shaped tandems are another matter.  While the dark side may have cookies, it's nice to be able to be a fine upstanding citizen from time to time as well as a bent lowlife.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 April, 2012, 06:55:58 pm
Recovering from a hypo  :-\
Guess who thought he didn't need to eat before setting out earlier ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 April, 2012, 07:26:01 pm
Having just eaten *checks packaging* 305g of pizza I'm trying to decide what to eat next.  I'm also wishing I had bought two pizzas instead of just the one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 23 April, 2012, 07:26:54 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 23 April, 2012, 07:26:01 pm
Having just eaten *checks packaging* 305g of pizza I'm trying to decide what to eat next.  I'm also wishing I had bought two pizzas instead of just the one.
That's a real bugger.
Nothing in the fridge?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 23 April, 2012, 07:27:09 pm
Running a bath, then an early night.

6am  :o wading bird survey tomorrow morning!  Should be fun   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 April, 2012, 07:31:21 pm
I've just downloaded the Chessbase application to my android phone. It has access to a huge online database and I've found quite a few games played by my brother in law.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 April, 2012, 07:34:31 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 23 April, 2012, 07:26:54 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 23 April, 2012, 07:26:01 pm
Having just eaten *checks packaging* 305g of pizza I'm trying to decide what to eat next.  I'm also wishing I had bought two pizzas instead of just the one.
That's a real bugger.
Nothing in the fridge?

Fridge still pretty full following Saturday's shopping, just can't make up my mind what to eat for Dinner #2.  If I had bought two pizzas I wouldn't have to waste valuable eating time 'thinking'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 23 April, 2012, 08:50:21 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 April, 2012, 06:55:58 pm
Recovering from a hypo  :-\
Guess who thought he didn't need to eat before setting out earlier ...

I hope you're ok now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 23 April, 2012, 08:56:15 pm
You take care with that stuff can be serious.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 April, 2012, 02:52:20 pm
Filling in an SC application form, AGAIN....

This is due to previous employers being lax and not transferring my clearance so it had lapsed without me knowing*

To be fair though, it would expire in October of this year anyway so would have to go through it all again then.

*Whilst working on Govt. projects, no less  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 April, 2012, 09:17:00 pm
Using Fairy Power Spray to remove some poorly applied acrylic paint from a scale model I'm fettling together.

Amazing stuff.  It strips the paint off with ease, and doesn't melt the plastic either.   ;D

I wonder if it will also clean my dirty oven tray?   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 25 April, 2012, 11:21:53 am
Looking at all the coats/jackets in my house to see if there's ANY I can do up myself.
(It's raining and I want to go for a ride)

Not so far.
 :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 April, 2012, 11:35:55 am
Watching the cats, who are fascinated by the window cleaner, well, cleaning the windows :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 25 April, 2012, 11:53:20 am
Lunch (suitably low-GI, of course)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 April, 2012, 01:10:43 pm
Quote from: fboab on 25 April, 2012, 11:21:53 am
Looking at all the coats/jackets in my house to see if there's ANY I can do up myself.
(It's raining and I want to go for a ride)

Not so far.
 :-\
Can you do them up yourself before you put them on and then put them on over your head?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 April, 2012, 02:17:53 pm
Watching barakta clearing her desk in a more than slightly huffy manner.  The smart money is on excavating the minicom, probably for banking purposes...


ETA:

Quote from: Asterisk
Outgoing TextDirect call for "NatWest Fraud" <1800108453003986> from "Minicom" <205>

*sighs pre-emptively*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 April, 2012, 02:29:19 pm
Installing Office 2010.

This might take a while :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 25 April, 2012, 03:18:44 pm
nothing  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 April, 2012, 03:21:30 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 25 April, 2012, 02:29:19 pm
Installing Office 2010.

This might take a while :)

Well, that was quicker than expected, considering I was using an ISO shared over the network and Virtual Clone Drive
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 25 April, 2012, 07:05:53 pm
Trans-Atlantic computer maintenance.   I haven't worked on my parents' PC since February, so this may take a while...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 April, 2012, 07:19:04 pm
I have started sorting my stuff for Friday night.I know this may seem premature but tomorrow & Friday will be time-poor & I don't want to be doing a last minute sortout on Friday evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 April, 2012, 07:23:13 pm
Having an eye socket headache. I bloody hate those.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 April, 2012, 08:49:18 pm
Installing Linux Mint 12 on my laptop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 26 April, 2012, 09:13:42 pm
Trying not to drop the phone in the bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 April, 2012, 09:14:22 pm
Deciding what to put in a letter to a friend  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 April, 2012, 09:53:17 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 26 April, 2012, 08:49:18 pm
Installing Linux Mint 12 on my laptop.

Damn.  Boots OK, keyboard work, but not mouse/trackpad.  May be moving over to the Grumble or Rant thread shortly...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 April, 2012, 07:35:24 pm
Mrs. B's yoga class tonight. 
I've been dropped at the "creche" and she'll collect me on the way home.
:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ewan Houzami on 29 April, 2012, 02:28:31 pm
Fixing punctures. And listening to a violin piece on R3. Sounded Bachy so I stayed listening and realised it's the D Minor Partita 1004. The violinist is now on to the Chaconne bit. Funnily enough the last time I tuned in to R3 in the middle of the night, they played the Chaconne - which is nice as it's pretty much my fave piece of classical music and would be my desert island disc of choice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 April, 2012, 02:41:53 pm
Digesting the results of an all-you-can-eat morning of conspicuous consumption,the highlight of which was a roast chicken dinner as only marj does 'em :thumbsup:.Very soon there will be rhubarb crumble & custard.Proper custard ftw.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frere on 29 April, 2012, 06:55:58 pm
On train bound for Bristol, just leaving Mordor Central, after a weekend's training course in Manchester. The tops of tower blocks are lost into the low lying drizzle. For moments, thought I was passing through Didcot, until I glanced at the canals and temples of consumerism amidst the post industrial wastes.

Frere
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 April, 2012, 01:48:37 pm
Firming up a menu for Sunday.

So far we have:
Burgers (my own, special, gluten free recipe)
Ribs (done in a Kansas style)
Pulled pork (ditto)
spicy garlic mushrooms (mushrooms, paprika and garlic)
roasted peppers
Spanish cheese board (I shall have to go and get more Iberico cheese, as TLD and Mrs T have eaten the lump I got on Saturday, it is REALLY nice)  Torslanda, I got some more of that Norwegian Yorkshire Blue, just for you.
veggy paella
snags
chorizo in red wine
Prawn parcels (prawns and cream cheese with leeks softened in butter, wrapped in filo pastry then cooked until the pastry is crispy)

If I can get hold of some there will Bull Negre to go with the cheese and bread.  Also, again if I can get hold of some, I shall be making Bacalau croquettes.

Now all I have to do is working out timings so that I can enjoy a nice ride out to the pub, and be back in time for everything to be cooked for those guests not cycling.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 30 April, 2012, 07:31:44 pm
Backing up the mother-in-law's "My Documents" folder from her home PC onto the NAS for posterity (I'll probably burn a DVD later).  It feels a bit creepy, hacking into someone else's computer*.  On the positive side, she looks as if she'll probably be able to use a laptop in due course (she can draw faces and things with her working hand), so she can have it all back then.


*I have an excellent Administrator account password-blanking boot disk
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frere on 30 April, 2012, 08:10:41 pm
Settled down to watch Braquo, a french policier.

Frere
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 01 May, 2012, 12:04:38 am
Being quite furious!   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 01 May, 2012, 10:39:55 am
Writing a review of "Cyclopedia" by William Fotheringham, because it's one of the most infuriating books about cycling I've ever read.   It's not about cycling; it's entirely and obsessively about racing and competitive cycling, which would be less annoying if the book didn't repeatedly present itself as being comprehensive ("It's all about the bike", "If it's on the bike, it's on the book" etc.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 01 May, 2012, 10:47:00 am
Nodding off at my desk wondering if I can warrant another coffee.

Wondering if its worth eating anything or whether its totally pointless knowing I'm going to throw it straight up again.

Pacifying myself with the thought its nearly a 3 day weekend :) :) :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 May, 2012, 10:49:38 am
@ itsbruce: I feel particularly annoyed that it hijacks (almost) the title of Cycleopedia, which was a comprehensive and informative overview of a wide variety of human powered vehicles available.  Produced, I believe, by the same team who did BCQ.

I picked up the new tome in the hope of finding something similar, but I was disappointed.  Probably not able to judge the content for its own sake after that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 01 May, 2012, 10:50:24 am
I have that other book, which is wonderful. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 01 May, 2012, 11:06:21 am
Drying out (http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/ad227/kaytee_13/Icons/Emoticons/smiley_raining.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 01 May, 2012, 11:07:00 am
I'm hungry but have forgot my lunch, so I am trying to decide if I should go outside in the rain to the shop over the road from the office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 01 May, 2012, 11:13:23 am
It's decided, I neeeeeeeed Pain au Chocolat
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 May, 2012, 02:32:37 pm
Writing up a tour report whilst being watched by Twix and Oreo.

This is an advance as they normally hide under the bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 May, 2012, 02:33:32 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 May, 2012, 02:32:37 pm
Writing up a tour report whilst being watched by Twix and Oreo.

This is an advance as they normally hide under the bed.

It's called 'working under close supervision from The Management'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 May, 2012, 02:51:47 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 01 May, 2012, 02:33:32 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 May, 2012, 02:32:37 pm
Writing up a tour report whilst being watched by Twix and Oreo.

This is an advance as they normally hide under the bed.

It's called 'working under close supervision from The Management'.

I think it's more "do you have food? If so we will have it, NOW!"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 May, 2012, 03:33:26 pm
Cooking, in preparation for Sunday (yes the ribs and the pork really do need that long cooking!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 04 May, 2012, 03:44:49 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 04 May, 2012, 03:33:26 pm
Cooking, in preparation for Sunday (yes the ribs and the pork really do need that long cooking!)

What are you cooking - a heffalump ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 May, 2012, 03:45:53 pm
Watching the live feed for the local election results, and talking about David Cassidy with bobb.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 04 May, 2012, 03:47:27 pm
Never knew those two used to be together.  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 May, 2012, 04:42:05 pm
Repeating to myself the immortal words of Lance-Corporal Jones.  DON'T PANIC!

Not sure it's helping...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 04 May, 2012, 04:44:02 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 04 May, 2012, 03:33:26 pm
Cooking, in preparation for Sunday (yes the ribs and the pork really do need that long cooking!)
Sunday?  Not monday?

Edit: just re-read your pm - SUNDAY!

Pillock here only read first two lines.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 May, 2012, 04:57:22 pm
Trying to conjure up the requisite reserves of arsed to go down the gym.
Conjuring not going too well so far.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 04 May, 2012, 05:06:23 pm
Looking for somewhere to go to photo the steam trains running north from Stafford just after 8am tomorrow.....

Don't think I will stand here....

http://g.co/maps/ru5qq

Not sure what he is doing...... :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jacomus on 04 May, 2012, 05:28:58 pm
Wondering if it is bad of me to be upset that I haven't found myself on tubecrush yet... :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 May, 2012, 06:38:36 pm
De-beading some of my 'excess' tyres so that Arch can make belts or summat out of them.

Taking the bead off a folding tyre is surprisingly difficult, since a new Stanley knife blade will cut through kevlar pretty easily - steel-beaded tyres are much easier!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 May, 2012, 07:25:25 pm
Listening to the clumping of shod feet on the laminate floor of the flat downstairs. Sigh.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 May, 2012, 07:42:59 pm
Sitting in an Indian restaurant in Ullapool waiting for my starter.

Just had a pint in the Argyll Hotel, £3.75!   I'm spoilt in Liverpool ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 May, 2012, 07:49:39 pm
Quote from: essexian on 04 May, 2012, 05:06:23 pm
Looking for somewhere to go to photo the steam trains running north from Stafford just after 8am tomorrow.....

Don't think I will stand here....

http://g.co/maps/ru5qq

Not sure what he is doing...... :facepalm:

Seeing a man about a fence post?  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 May, 2012, 07:51:03 pm
Saying "Jings, Crivvens, and Help Ma Boab" at the lack of time left on my college course, and the excess of work still to be done......    :o :o :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 05 May, 2012, 07:41:26 am
Going to Weymouth to look at a replacement car.  It had better be good.

FWIW, the insurance paid out the Glass's value for the old car without any hassle.  I was anticipating a stupid initial offer and then a fight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 05 May, 2012, 08:53:46 am
Having slept nearly 12 hours solid, I'm now sitting in bed, drinking tea, reading the forum with 'Upstaies Downstairs' on tv in the background.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 May, 2012, 02:22:12 pm
Sitting in Maggie's Cafe at Camusnagual trying to get warm & dry.  Freezing wind and sleet coming over from Ullapool.
Tea, soup & cake. being consumed.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 May, 2012, 06:21:32 pm
Sitting cross legged at the roadside In late afternoon sun. Looking across to the islands I've just been riding on
;-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 May, 2012, 07:22:07 pm
Cooking dinner, drinking G&T, soundtrack is 65 Days Of Static.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 05 May, 2012, 07:38:32 pm
Drinking shandy, listening to Pulp's Different Class, intermittently stretching my knees.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 May, 2012, 07:56:53 pm
Peering at a GPS track of North Yorkshire, while the words "Fucking Howardian Hills, no one told me about those. There was a 17%. That's like, fucking chevrons" echo in my brain...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andygates on 05 May, 2012, 07:57:47 pm
Celebrating getting That Van to run again (Scrapheap Challenge style with blood and smoke) with beer and pizza.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 May, 2012, 12:23:36 am
Feeling wide awake.

Body clock fail (sigh).  Welcome back to night shifts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 May, 2012, 01:59:17 am
In a tent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 May, 2012, 02:44:49 am
Playing at YouTube DJ at Dakar Motos in Buenos Aires, with our friend Mick. Currently playing: Pink Floyd. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 May, 2012, 08:39:07 am
Quote from: Jaded on 06 May, 2012, 01:59:17 am
In a tent.
Hardy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 06 May, 2012, 04:15:52 pm
Sitting in the garden drinking bucks fizz (and wearing fleece btw)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 06 May, 2012, 08:14:59 pm
Just finished editing the route from Friday's FNRttC on GPSies for the third time.  Why are all the GPS routing websites made of varying degrees of fail? (rhetorical question).  I've tried various ones over the years, and they all tend to do bizarre things at one time or another.  I must get around to writing my own, that way I'll know who to blame for the faults, and at least it will have a decent editor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2012, 08:24:17 pm
Dying of thirst. Made a pizza with parma ham, goats cheese & campers. Too much salt!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Frere on 06 May, 2012, 08:32:23 pm
Waiting for Homeland.

Frere
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 May, 2012, 09:46:24 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2012, 08:24:17 pm
Dying of thirst. Made a pizza with parma ham, goats cheese & campers. Too much salt!
Is that 'cos the campers were sweaty?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2012, 09:50:45 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 06 May, 2012, 09:46:24 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2012, 08:24:17 pm
Dying of thirst. Made a pizza with parma ham, goats cheese & campers. Too much salt!
Is that 'cos the campers were sweaty?
Bloody autocorrect!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 07 May, 2012, 09:28:54 am
Languishing in bed.
Ahhhhhh
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 07 May, 2012, 09:59:46 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2012, 08:24:17 pm
Dying of thirst. Made a pizza with parma ham, goats cheese & campers. Too much salt!

Makes a note to stay off the moors up there...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 May, 2012, 03:21:57 pm
Quote from: fboab on 07 May, 2012, 09:28:54 am
Languishing in bed.
Ahhhhhh

I'm still in bed - but not by choice. Attishoooo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 07 May, 2012, 03:28:30 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 May, 2012, 07:56:53 pm
Peering at a GPS track of North Yorkshire, while the words "Fucking Howardian Hills, no one told me about those. There was a 17%. That's like, fucking chevrons" echo in my brain...

I remember thinking exactly the same riding back from Pickering on the first Whitby ride.

That isn't on a route for a ride on Saturday is it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 May, 2012, 03:34:08 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 07 May, 2012, 03:28:30 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 May, 2012, 07:56:53 pm
Peering at a GPS track of North Yorkshire, while the words "Fucking Howardian Hills, no one told me about those. There was a 17%. That's like, fucking chevrons" echo in my brain...

I remember thinking exactly the same riding back from Pickering on the first Whitby ride.

That isn't on a route for a ride on Saturday is it?
I'm guessing that the 17% bit will either be the drop down into Hovingham, Caulkey's Bank (between Hovingham and Nunnington; it's a bastard of a climb) or one of the Castle Howard rollercoasters - it's amazing how many people get caught out by those :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 07 May, 2012, 05:24:07 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 07 May, 2012, 03:28:30 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 May, 2012, 07:56:53 pm
Peering at a GPS track of North Yorkshire, while the words "Fucking Howardian Hills, no one told me about those. There was a 17%. That's like, fucking chevrons" echo in my brain...

I remember thinking exactly the same riding back from Pickering on the first Whitby ride.

That isn't on a route for a ride on Saturday is it?

I could have told you but you didn't ask :demon:

My preference for this

http://www.highergrangefarm.fsnet.co.uk/PeakAudax/mont.htm

appears ever more sensible ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 May, 2012, 05:39:44 pm
Sitting on the 17.40 from Fenchurch St having just finished the fig rolls. I.m also admiring the idyllic pastoral scene that has been painted on the bog door. Pity it still stinks of shit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 May, 2012, 06:05:31 pm
Due to some problem or other this train is being sent round the Grays loop. We've just been overtaken by s Eurostar train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 07 May, 2012, 10:00:44 pm
Sitting in the bar on a ferry to Dutchland
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 08 May, 2012, 12:26:37 am
Still here but going to bed soon. Currently being delayed because I'm watching (cylindrical) Bessel functions getting excited in the remain of my beer pitcher by the ship's engines
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 May, 2012, 09:45:46 am
I'm going slightly mad.....I must be 'cause I've sent off an entry form to Mike Wigley to do two Peak Audax Perms
The Full Monty 300
LLanfairgogo 400

 :o

all this may be over-ambitious but my recent 200km has given me a bit of a boost & these Perms will provide an incentive.


I've also re-discovered the CTC BCQ & am planning on bagging Ticknall & Marston Montgomery (Derbyshire) in the near future

Additionally I shall be sorting myself out to submit DIY Perms from home.Travelling to start venues will be increasingly difficult soon.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 May, 2012, 12:32:19 pm
Sitting at the top of the Bealach na Ba, admiring the view & eating cheese.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 08 May, 2012, 12:36:12 pm
Ooh, well done :thumbsup:

For those of us thinking of touring round there next month, how long did it take?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 08 May, 2012, 12:41:03 pm
Studying for a test that I need to ace otherwise I might soon be looking for a new job.  :-\
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 May, 2012, 02:59:50 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 08 May, 2012, 12:36:12 pm
Ooh, well done :thumbsup:

For those of us thinking of touring round there next month, how long did it take?

2 1/2 hours from the campsite at Applecross. I did have a few breaks but the 24" gear was not used :-)

I can't remember if it was harder coming up the other way or not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 08 May, 2012, 05:27:37 pm
Waiting for a train at gretna green station....alone
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 May, 2012, 05:39:59 pm
Cooking dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 May, 2012, 07:13:19 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 May, 2012, 09:45:46 am


Additionally I shall be sorting myself out to submit DIY Perms from home.

There is SO much info it's almost difficult to see the wood for the trees.I reckon I'll be able to ride 200km quicker than I can sort out a DIY .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 May, 2012, 11:53:32 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 May, 2012, 07:13:19 pm
There is SO much info it's almost difficult to see the wood for the trees.I reckon I'll be able to ride 200km quicker than I can sort out a DIY .

Only one way to find out...   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 May, 2012, 12:42:06 am
Reading the bottom half of the internet (actually, the bottom half of YACF which is probably more likely situated in the bottom 1% of the internet) when I should really be tucked up in bed asleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 May, 2012, 11:14:24 am
Looking at tweed samples.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 09 May, 2012, 11:28:58 am
Trying to decide if the headache is bad enough to warrant some more paracetamols.  Hoping it will pass so I can get on with some brain activity thinking. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 May, 2012, 11:49:08 am
Quote from: Andrij on 09 May, 2012, 11:14:24 am
Looking at tweed samples.

Preparing early for next year?

Lumitwill FTW! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 May, 2012, 11:49:38 am
Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 09 May, 2012, 11:28:58 am
Trying to decide if the headache is bad enough to warrant some more paracetamols.  Hoping it will pass so I can get on with some brain activity thinking. :-\
This has just reminded me that I forgot to put Arch's bag o' butchered tyres into the car this morning  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 May, 2012, 11:58:14 am
Quote from: clarion on 09 May, 2012, 11:49:08 am
Quote from: Andrij on 09 May, 2012, 11:14:24 am
Looking at tweed samples.

Preparing early for next year?

Lumitwill FTW! :thumbsup:

Availability of £ + time to manufacture means I may not have the suit until next year!  I exaggerate slightly, but these things do take time - and the array of options is doing my head in.  Just a shame nothing ever happened with the idea of resurrecting the CTC tweed...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 09 May, 2012, 01:55:20 pm
Bimbling round the flat and watching The Iron Lady.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 09 May, 2012, 03:24:50 pm
Grabbing a quick lunch before returning to the yard to look after my still ill horsey  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: snail on 09 May, 2012, 03:27:38 pm
Uploading adult-themed fiction and sulking about my poorly knee as cyclists zoom past the front window, laughing merrily.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 May, 2012, 04:21:15 pm
Audax homework.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 09 May, 2012, 04:24:59 pm
just finished watching the Giro TTT, quite good actually.  :thumbsup:
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sean on 11 May, 2012, 02:29:42 am
Just home from work and watching today's ( its still today's because I've not been to bed yet) 5th stage of the giro. It's beginning to make me wonder how hard it is going to be to ride in a large group. I've only ever been out on my own but I've signed myself up for a couple of charity rides and can't expect to have the road all to myself !!!
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Post by: Jules on 11 May, 2012, 09:15:37 am
Sitting in school hall awaiting start of 7 year olds class assembly. The noise!

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Post by: LindaG on 11 May, 2012, 12:00:12 pm
Thinking about getting up.
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Post by: Andrij on 11 May, 2012, 12:04:32 pm
Hoping a banananananana will suffice for lunch.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 May, 2012, 12:38:02 pm
Just about to go out for lunch with my lovely wife  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 11 May, 2012, 12:45:18 pm
On a train to York, realising that I've forgotten CL's keys. Again.
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Post by: interzen on 11 May, 2012, 12:53:40 pm
Having a well earned cup of tea after having spent most of the morning beating LDAP servers into submission.
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Post by: Feline on 11 May, 2012, 12:55:35 pm
Feeling inconveniently ill. I'm riding a local 100k tomorrow and the Bryan Chapman 600 in a week. This is bad timing!
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Post by: tiermat on 11 May, 2012, 03:02:55 pm
Quote from: interzen on 11 May, 2012, 12:53:40 pm
Having a well earned cup of tea after having spent most of the morning beating LDAP servers into submission.

My commiserations, I spent ~18months doing just that, throw in Certification servers, windows, linux, Black Diamonds and (eventually) AIX and you had a recipe for my own personal circle of Hell.....
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Post by: jogler on 11 May, 2012, 04:11:37 pm
Executing a unilateral declaration of POETS day
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 12 May, 2012, 03:15:46 am
Waiting for teenagers to calm down enough so I can go to bed
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 12 May, 2012, 03:56:38 am
Still waiting ...
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 12 May, 2012, 04:25:42 am
Still waiting
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Post by: Andrij on 12 May, 2012, 05:25:40 am
Oh dear :(  Since they'll wake you up earlier than you'd like, why not wake them up even earlier?  Why suffer alone. ;)


As for me, getting ready to hop on the Moulton and tackle some north London hills.
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Post by: Gus on 12 May, 2012, 07:01:48 am
Having a coffee break at work trying to motivate myself for the last 4 hours work.
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Post by: PaulF on 12 May, 2012, 08:51:55 am
About to try to find the puncture on the Pugsley.
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Post by: BrianI on 12 May, 2012, 08:52:22 am
Having a coffee afore tackling a metric shedload of college work today.
 Pity, as it's a braw sunny day oot.....
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 12 May, 2012, 09:46:29 am
Quote from: Andrij on 12 May, 2012, 05:25:40 am
Oh dear :(  Since they'll wake you up earlier than you'd like, why not wake them up even earlier?  Why suffer alone. ;)


As for me, getting ready to hop on the Moulton and tackle some north London hills.
They didn't go to sleep
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Post by: Wendy on 12 May, 2012, 10:07:09 am
Oops! They will do, and then you can get your revenge. :)
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Post by: tiermat on 12 May, 2012, 10:07:38 am
I am feeding Dreamies to my employer the cat....
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 12 May, 2012, 10:09:12 am
Unfortunately not. We have to go help at a school fare soon, so just chucking them out on the street
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 May, 2012, 10:31:34 am
Quote from: BrianI on 12 May, 2012, 08:52:22 am
Having a coffee afore tackling a metric shedload of college work today.
 Pity, as it's a braw sunny day oot.....
If it's any consolation at all, you're not the only one with a pile of things to do today  :-\
Hoping I might be able to get out for an hour or so this evening, though.
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Post by: SteveC on 12 May, 2012, 10:49:42 am
Waiting for the freezer to de-frost and the bread to rise.
Then we have the joys of Yeovil--the tip, Tesco's and Boot's  :-\

The only cycling related activity is (possibly) cleaning the bike and switching it to full summer configuration.

S
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Post by: PaulF on 12 May, 2012, 11:04:39 am
Quote from: PaulF on 12 May, 2012, 08:51:55 am
About to try to find the puncture on the Pugsley.

Well found the puncture :thumbsup: but also found a massive rip in the tyre:( which didn't cause he puncture. Fortunately I have a spare tyre so will relegate that one to sand/snow use.
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Post by: PaulF on 12 May, 2012, 11:06:06 am
Quote from: SteveC on 12 May, 2012, 10:49:42 am

The only cycling related activity is (possibly) cleaning the bike and switching it to full summer configuration.

S

I think we now all know who to blame when it starts raining again :D
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 12 May, 2012, 12:50:46 pm
Sitting on the first of many trains back to Liverpool, drinking Orkney Dark Island.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 May, 2012, 12:54:57 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 12 May, 2012, 11:04:39 am
Quote from: PaulF on 12 May, 2012, 08:51:55 am
About to try to find the puncture on the Pugsley.
Fortunately I have a spare tyre so will relegate that one to sand/snow use.
You could always give it to Arch so she can make a belt out of it.
Or at least try to make a belt out of it - or even several belts, come to think of it ;D
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Post by: Basil on 12 May, 2012, 01:06:37 pm
Wondering where on earth this summer has suddenly turned up from.
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Post by: SteveC on 12 May, 2012, 01:33:19 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 12 May, 2012, 11:06:06 am
Quote from: SteveC on 12 May, 2012, 10:49:42 am

The only cycling related activity is (possibly) cleaning the bike and switching it to full summer configuration.

S

I think we now all know who to blame when it starts raining again :D

Haven't started yet!  (Note the 'possibly')

 :smug:
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Post by: simonp on 12 May, 2012, 01:38:28 pm
It’s my doing that the weather’s turned nice. y’ see, I went for an eye test on Thursday; I decided that the very slightly change in one eye didn’t merit another £500 pair of specs, but I decided to get a pair of new sunglasses, as my old ones are from quite a bit older prescription; as I was about to leave, I joked that this would result in the rain continuing for weeks. However, I failed to factor for the 1-2 week wait for the glasses to be made. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 May, 2012, 02:09:02 pm
I'm about to put a new chain on the tandem.
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Post by: L CC on 12 May, 2012, 02:15:39 pm
On the train to That London.
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Post by: BrianI on 12 May, 2012, 02:27:09 pm
Pondering college essay on habitat management for a farm to improve and enhance it's habitats for increasing biodiversity on the site.
To think, 16 years ago I'd be finish off my first year at uni studying Electrical and Engineering..   ;D

I could tell you how creating skylark plots would create a better habitat for skylarks on arable fields, but I think I've forgotten all I was taught about electrical engineering....  :facepalm:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 May, 2012, 05:07:16 pm
I am so pissed off. The sun is shining, I should have been riding a mini audax around the sun soaked Gloucester lanes and then returning to fettle my garden. Instead I've spent most of the day in bed feeling like crap, and because I feel faint whenever I try to stand up I can't even mow my foot-long grass. Grrrrrr.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sean on 12 May, 2012, 06:29:43 pm
Just finished remodelling the fish pond, I've been at it since 9:30 this morning. It is now a little bigger and a little deeper and looking good, even if I do say so myself.
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Post by: SteveC on 12 May, 2012, 06:51:13 pm
Cooking curry.  If I'd realised it was going to take over two and a half hours I might not have agreed with the choice of menu!
But it is smelling good.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 May, 2012, 06:58:09 pm
Also cooking.  Jacket spuds, to eat with cheese and houmous and cottage cheese and half a dozen sorts of salad-type things - tomato and mozzerella, herb salad with feta and olives, pasta/pesto/pine nuts/avocado, vegetable-y couscous, homemade mustard-y spud salad, homemade coleslaw - and there's some crisps and dips and nice french bread and oatcakes and wensleydale and nibbly stuff like that. 

Since that sounds remarkably like it might contain some vits and mins and be borderline healthy, I am about to make a humungous gurt big bread and butter pud to follow.

Them there audaxers had better be hungry!
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Post by: jogler on 12 May, 2012, 07:09:33 pm
^^^
it's made me hungry reading that wonderfull menu.

We are having cheese&sossidge sarnies ftw.

ETA
I would have been worth the effort of entering a Wiggy ride just for a share in the CrinklyFeast
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 12 May, 2012, 08:12:08 pm
The curry was worth the effort.  MrsC particularly liked the chutney (apple, sultana and spices - mostly chilli).
It is, however, a real shame that York is quite so far away.  246 miles on a cheap mountain bike is probably a bit much, even for a feast like that!

S
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Post by: Basil on 12 May, 2012, 08:14:30 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 May, 2012, 05:07:16 pm
Instead I've spent most of the day in bed feeling like crap, and because I feel faint whenever I try to stand up I can't even mow my foot-long grass. Grrrrrr.

Sorry to hear this Feline.

But on the plus side, thank god I didn't accuse a good looking young woman dressed in cycling gear (but sans bike as far as I could see), who seemed to be looking for someone/thing on Swansea Station, of being you.
She looked as if she should have been someone from here, and I felt she looked somewhat like what I remember you look like from various pics on this forum.
Luckily, I needed to board my train and I decided to leave her un-molested.
Correct decision it would seem.
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Post by: Ham on 12 May, 2012, 10:04:14 pm
Wondering whether my MiL's neighbours will complain if I start testing the Burglar Alarm I fitted today.  As I concluded they wouldn't be impressed at 20:00, I have to surmise that not all will have the advantage of a similar quantity of incohol so it will probably be be best left till the morning. All looks OK, anyway and the walk test is fine.

Wonder how 08:00 will work?
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Post by: andrewc on 12 May, 2012, 10:07:34 pm
Just got home after being on trains since 12:00 :(     The last 2 hours were made particularly hellish by a variety of obnoxious drunks  >:(

Microwave curry & red wine I think, I can't be bothered cooking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 12 May, 2012, 10:30:07 pm
Thinking myself accursed that it's a beautiful night to be riding the Severn Across but that I needed to stay in That London for my M-i-L's 80th birthday celebrations.
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Post by: bloomers100 on 12 May, 2012, 10:31:13 pm
Exploring the sounds of Kurt Elling. This is my stuff, anyone else into it, or can suggest any similar artists.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sean on 13 May, 2012, 09:34:51 am
I'm off to Lincoln in a bit to watch some of the 2012 grand prix event taking part there.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 May, 2012, 01:27:57 pm
Smelling bread baking in the oven, being a cat bed and awaiting the inevitable snooze that will accompany the F1.
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Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2012, 02:33:09 pm
Discussing the Flehmen response with one of the CrinklyCats.
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Post by: David Martin on 13 May, 2012, 03:46:53 pm
After having got the car to the garage (A toyota Aygo was in hindsight not the best choice of towing vehicle in a town as hilly as Dundee) I have settled down to watch the Giro before pedalling out to Broughty Ferry to give a talk on the Dundee and Newtyle railway to the Angus Railway Group at the Royal Tay Yacht Club.
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Post by: interzen on 13 May, 2012, 03:56:09 pm
Trying to stay awake.
"Non-drowsy formula" my arse  >:(
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Post by: Jaded on 13 May, 2012, 08:22:54 pm
About to be quizmaster in the pub quiz  :o
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Post by: Feline on 13 May, 2012, 08:51:33 pm
Quote from: Basil on 12 May, 2012, 08:14:30 pm
Quote from: Feline on 12 May, 2012, 05:07:16 pm
Instead I've spent most of the day in bed feeling like crap, and because I feel faint whenever I try to stand up I can't even mow my foot-long grass. Grrrrrr.

Sorry to hear this Feline.

But on the plus side, thank god I didn't accuse a good looking young woman dressed in cycling gear (but sans bike as far as I could see), who seemed to be looking for someone/thing on Swansea Station, of being you.
She looked as if she should have been someone from here, and I felt she looked somewhat like what I remember you look like from various pics on this forum.
Luckily, I needed to board my train and I decided to leave her un-molested.
Correct decision it would seem.

Maybe I have a Welsh double! But yes, randomly addressing a a female in lycra as 'feline' might not have been taken too well  ;D

I dragged myself out into the garden and mowed the lawn this evening, and now I'm absolutely knackered from the effort. The over-long grass kept jamming my mower and requiring clearing with a big stick. Im soooo glad I did it though because it looks like it will rain a lot over the next few days and any more grass would require a strimmer to cut!
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Post by: Kim on 14 May, 2012, 12:23:44 am
Drying off having removed the smell of Pendolino from my person.   :sick:
(This is doubly impressive, as it was a Voyager.)
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Post by: Torslanda on 15 May, 2012, 04:14:37 pm
Sitting in the dentist's waiting for a root canal
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Post by: PaulF on 15 May, 2012, 04:23:22 pm
Sitting on a Eurostar, deliberating on an appropriate reply to an email I've just recieved. Most of the potential  so far fall into the category of "career limiting" ???
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Post by: tiermat on 16 May, 2012, 02:55:31 pm
QA'ing a metric shitload of servers, for the third time :(
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Post by: jogler on 16 May, 2012, 05:12:00 pm
Perusing OS Landranger maps to determine a route from home to Long Itchington
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Post by: Kim on 16 May, 2012, 05:31:44 pm
I just carried 45kg of shopping home in the trailer.  It was, as teethgrinder might say, good training.

I also note my bike's stopped squeaking.
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Post by: PaulF on 16 May, 2012, 05:40:53 pm
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PaulF:
Sitting on a Eurostar, deliberating on an appropriate reply to an email I've just recieved. Most of the potential  so far fall into the category of "career limiting" ???

Back on the Eurostar on the way home :thumbsup:

Not replied to that mail but discovered that my feeling about the sender are well shared.
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Post by: Butterfly on 16 May, 2012, 05:51:10 pm
Watching Tom and Jerry with my charges.  :)
The oldest one is off sick today so we're taking advantage.
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Post by: Kim on 16 May, 2012, 11:02:00 pm
Quote from: IRC
22:59:33 <kim> barakta: are you watching a programme about dentists?
22:59:41 <kim> can hear drilling noises coming from your head
22:59:48 <barakta> bfains urgery
22:59:52 <kim> ah, phew
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 17 May, 2012, 01:06:04 am
I have just replaced all the wooden door knobs on my kitchen cupboards and drawers with stainless steel ones. This is because my Border Collie has a penchant for chomping on knobs in the night. I can now open all my drawers again without pulling on wooden stubs with screws sticking out. Yay!
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Post by: Adrian on 17 May, 2012, 09:22:30 am
Quote from: Feline on 17 May, 2012, 01:06:04 am
I have just replaced all the wooden door knobs on my kitchen cupboards and drawers with stainless steel ones. This is because my Border Collie has a penchant for chomping on knobs in the night. I can now open all my drawers again without pulling on wooden stubs with screws sticking out. Yay!
But what about the dog's teeth?
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Post by: Feline on 17 May, 2012, 12:57:58 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 17 May, 2012, 09:22:30 am
Quote from: Feline on 17 May, 2012, 01:06:04 am
I have just replaced all the wooden door knobs on my kitchen cupboards and drawers with stainless steel ones. This is because my Border Collie has a penchant for chomping on knobs in the night. I can now open all my drawers again without pulling on wooden stubs with screws sticking out. Yay!
But what about the dog's teeth?

I decided not to remove them ... yet  ;D
She finds steel less satisfying to chomp than wood. Hopefully she won't now displace her activity to the cupboard doors themselves or the walls!
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Post by: lou boutin on 17 May, 2012, 04:21:33 pm
I'm just back from a private tour of the Tate Modern and afternoon tea.  Some times my job has perks.
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Post by: Chris S on 17 May, 2012, 04:26:30 pm
Drinking weak tea with a Nuun chaser.
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Post by: Clare on 17 May, 2012, 04:35:07 pm
Quote from: Feline on 17 May, 2012, 01:06:04 am
...my Border Collie has a penchant for chomping on knobs in the night.


 :o :o :o

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 May, 2012, 04:37:38 pm
Wishing it was home time.
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Post by: jogler on 17 May, 2012, 04:42:56 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 17 May, 2012, 04:26:30 pm
Drinking weak tea with a Nuun chaser.

I rather envy your Rock&Roll lifestyle
 ;)

hope you gws
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Post by: andygates on 17 May, 2012, 07:51:36 pm
Celebrating ebay alchemy: Boil jumping stilts and a wetsuit for a week and they turn into a top-end Gore Alp-X waterproof and some summer bib shorts.  Nice after-work trying-on session in the LBS.  You don't get that at Wiggle.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 May, 2012, 08:44:28 am
Waiting at home to take cat to the vet.

Cat is lying on sofa dribbling urine into an old towel.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 May, 2012, 08:53:20 am
Quote from: mrcharly on 18 May, 2012, 08:44:28 am
Waiting at home to take cat to the vet.

Cat is lying on sofa dribbling urine into an old towel.
Ooh dear, hope kitteh is ok.
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Post by: lou boutin on 18 May, 2012, 09:08:08 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 18 May, 2012, 08:53:20 am
Quote from: mrcharly on 18 May, 2012, 08:44:28 am
Waiting at home to take cat to the vet.

Cat is lying on sofa dribbling urine into an old towel.
Ooh dear, hope kitteh is ok.

Ditto what Mrs Pingu said.  That happened to my cat and it turned out that she was constipated - she had a lazy bowel.  They gave her an enima, kept her in pussycat hospital for a night and now she is as right as rain.  I hope it's something simple.
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Post by: L CC on 18 May, 2012, 09:08:56 am
Baking sloth-jacks for Mr Smith to get him round the BCM.
Making sure I drip no snot, and OCD level handwashing may also be occurring.
I've poisoned him once this week, twice might be a death knell for our friendship.
 :facepalm:
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Post by: Wombat on 18 May, 2012, 09:13:31 am
Using up my 15 mins of free wifi on east coast trains (on the way to York) at the most worthwhile activity, i.e. looking round YACF...

I'm hungry!  Only had breakfast half an hour early, but I want lunch now.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 May, 2012, 10:42:00 am
Learning about sonoluminescence and bubble science.

Who'd have thunk that I'd be interested in learning more about science, and in particular chemistry, at my age?  FWIW chem was the one science subject at school that I hated.
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Post by: interzen on 18 May, 2012, 10:46:41 am
Planning rides  :o
A couple of 100km 'looseners' during my Jubilee weekend holiday (I've taken the preceding Thursday and Friday off) and then, fitness and motivation permitting, 200, 300 and 400km rides over the course of my two weeks off mid-June. 600km tentatively pencilled in for the tail-end of August.

I can't help thinking that the last time I planned anything like this I ended up with a written-off  car and seriously restricted mobility for about 3 months after  :-\
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 May, 2012, 10:48:21 am
Sitting at desk returned from vet. Cat prob has blocked urethra. intravenous fluids, express bladder, see what he's like this arvo. 

Wallet is sitting in corner making whimpering noises.
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Post by: interzen on 18 May, 2012, 10:49:42 am
Quote from: tiermat on 18 May, 2012, 10:42:00 am
Who'd have thunk that I'd be interested in learning more about science, and in particular chemistry, at my age?  FWIW chem was the one science subject at school that I hated.
I loved chemistry at school - it was the only subject I got an A in at O-level. Mind you, our teacher was totally, utterly, bat-shit crazy - practicals in particular tended to be very entertaining, often in unexpected ways.

OTOH, our physics teacher could have bored all four legs off an Arcturan megadonkey and I just flat-out hated biology (good teacher, but the subject material was profoundly dull)
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Post by: Chris S on 18 May, 2012, 10:52:50 am
Sulking.

ETA:
Quote from: fboab on 18 May, 2012, 09:08:56 am
Baking sloth-jacks for Mr Smith to get him round the BCM.
Making sure I drip no snot, and OCD level handwashing may also be occurring.
I've poisoned him once this week, twice might be a death knell for our friendship.
 :facepalm:

Don't fret. At this rate, you'll be eating them anyway... :(
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Post by: clarion on 18 May, 2012, 11:05:03 am
Why?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 May, 2012, 11:08:05 am
Quote from: clarion on 18 May, 2012, 11:05:03 am
Why?

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=55705.msg1233720#msg1233720
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 18 May, 2012, 11:08:34 am
Quote
I loved chemistry at school - it was the only subject I got an A in at O-level. Mind you, our teacher was totally, utterly, bat-shit crazy - practicals in particular tended to be very entertaining, often in unexpected ways.

We must have had the same teacher... I still have the scars on my wrist after being blown up during a practical.
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Post by: interzen on 18 May, 2012, 11:12:02 am
Quote from: essexian on 18 May, 2012, 11:08:34 am
Quote
I loved chemistry at school - it was the only subject I got an A in at O-level. Mind you, our teacher was totally, utterly, bat-shit crazy - practicals in particular tended to be very entertaining, often in unexpected ways.

We must have had the same teacher... I still have the scars on my wrist after being blown up during a practical.
Reminds me of a little saying:

"If it explodes, smells or changes colour then it's chemistry. If it's green and/or wriggles then it's biology. If it doesn't work, it's physics"

;D
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Post by: tiermat on 18 May, 2012, 11:33:32 am
IZ, that sums up my science teachers, are you sure you didn't go to the same school as me? :D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 May, 2012, 08:55:23 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 18 May, 2012, 10:48:21 am
Sitting at desk returned from vet. Cat prob has blocked urethra. intravenous fluids, express bladder, see what he's like this arvo. 

Wallet is sitting in corner making whimpering noises.
Awwh poor thing, how is kitteh?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 18 May, 2012, 08:58:48 pm
I am wondering how to convert an old worm drive chain winch into a motor driven cable winch.
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Post by: jogler on 18 May, 2012, 09:31:36 pm
I'm preparing for tomorrow's ride.
Grolsch
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: sean on 19 May, 2012, 11:07:42 am
I'm just waiting for my 1st attempt at blueberry muffins to finish baking :)
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Post by: LindaG on 19 May, 2012, 11:15:00 am
Eating an iced finger bun wot Daisyhill gave me.

Congratulating myself on my good taste in friends.
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Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2012, 11:32:49 am
you're supposed to be eating the bun,not Daishilly ::-)
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Post by: LindaG on 19 May, 2012, 11:35:44 am
Bun is now Buns.  Plural.   ::-)
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Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2012, 11:36:39 am
once is not enough eh?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 May, 2012, 11:39:46 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 19 May, 2012, 11:35:44 am
Bun is now Buns.  Plural.   ::-)

share?  I do like a nice iced bun.  Mind, it'd be a bit of a trek....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 19 May, 2012, 11:40:49 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 19 May, 2012, 11:39:46 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 19 May, 2012, 11:35:44 am
Bun is now Buns.  Plural.   ::-)

share?  I do like a nice iced bun.  Mind, it'd be a bit of a trek....

You lot can keep your hands off my buns, thank you very much  :P :P
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Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2012, 11:50:36 am
warming my hands in anticipation :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 May, 2012, 01:54:47 pm
Being amused by how much I like iced buns even though they're just bread with icing on. But I do like them.

Also, I am cooking. I have made an aubergine & okra spicy masala, I am currently making a tangy chickpea curry, and when that is done I will make a thakkali payaru curry - black eyed beans with spinach and tomato, and my favourite five-lentil mix dhal. It'll all be portioned up for the freezer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 19 May, 2012, 02:54:23 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 19 May, 2012, 01:54:47 pm
Being amused by how much I like iced buns even though they're just bread with icing on. But I do like them.

Also, I am cooking. I have made an aubergine & okra spicy masala, I am currently making a tangy chickpea curry, and when that is done I will make a thakkali payaru curry - black eyed beans with spinach and tomato, and my favourite five-lentil mix dhal. It'll all be portioned up for the freezer.

Kirst you made my mouth water.  Are these already in the 'recipes' thread?  Your lentil/squash casserole is already one of my staples.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 May, 2012, 04:33:52 pm
The dhal is in the recipe thread. I can add the others later if you like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 19 May, 2012, 04:47:37 pm
Relaxing.  One more college essay done and dusted.  Just 3 left to do now!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 19 May, 2012, 08:49:07 pm
Heading back home from a great wedding. Reception featured 7 bands, 4 of which the groom drummed in (not as self indulgent as it sounds I promise). It was great. Bits of bands I hadn't seen in ages, bits of much bigger bands etc.

So tired though, so we have skived off early.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 19 May, 2012, 09:00:07 pm
Watching clicker training lesson number 3 out of 19  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 19 May, 2012, 09:15:01 pm
Digesting chinese takeaway and drinking cava after a reasonably productive day studying. Have nearly worked out most of the current one and found out the final one is also not strictly necessary due to cheaters putting the answers online.

Though I'll probably still do it for the feedback/practise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 May, 2012, 09:46:31 pm
Celebrating a fantastically successful shopping trip to Glasgow and a lovely boozy lunch with my friend.

Then climbing down off the ceiling after Pingu gave me a minor turn with a poorly worded phone call.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 19 May, 2012, 10:27:29 pm
Fiddling with a Raspberry Pi, and wondering why I can't get any sounds out of it.  I've solved a keyboard problem, and I'm living with the SD card errors, but no sound is a bit annoying.

I also need to find a USB hub, since having to swap around USB drives, the keyboard and mouse, depending on which two I need, is getting a mite tedious!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 May, 2012, 11:59:34 am
Quote from: TimO on 19 May, 2012, 10:27:29 pm
Fiddling with a Raspberry Pi, and wondering why I can't get any sounds out of it.  I've solved a keyboard problem, and I'm living with the SD card errors, but no sound is a bit annoying.
On a similar note, I'm now officially waiting for my RasPi to be delivered ... I'm having it delivered to work, but I have this nasty feeling it'll turn up whilst I'm off riding crazy distances on a bicycle.

Currently, I am (re)washing all my clothes with the same stuff I use to wash my merino socks and the like - the mysterious itch I've had for the past couple of weeks is looking increasingly like an allergic reaction to my 'usual' washing powder. I also discovered that when the instructions say 'add a single capful' they mean it  - don't ask how I know this, suffice to say that lots of foam was involved  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 20 May, 2012, 02:01:52 pm
I have lost my husband to the Steam Railway Trust, which is just down the road.  So I am baking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ferret on 20 May, 2012, 02:10:17 pm
sat listening to the cricket and fantasizing about what bike I need to get next.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 May, 2012, 02:51:21 pm
I'm about to pop up to the Raddlebarn Road.  To erm.. check the progress of the re-surfacing work being done there, in case I need to re-route my commute tomorrow.
And to check the accuracy of the computer on my tourer which seems to be seriously under reporting compared to other people's readings over the camping week end. 
(For some reason I know the exact distance to a certain establishment there.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 May, 2012, 03:21:43 pm
reading how to make croissants & danish pastries. not sure this is a good idea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ferret on 20 May, 2012, 03:25:02 pm
I've been discovered :-[ now have to mow the lawn ::-) and it's my birthday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 20 May, 2012, 04:33:50 pm
Sitting down with a cup of tea, having scoured the upstairs bathroom, including cleaning mould off the ceiling, and much unspeakable filth from everywhere.

Crusty is about to have a bath  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 May, 2012, 04:36:29 pm
Re-reading my PhD thesis, which I unearthed during a clearing out session, and wondering what the hell I was on when I wrote it (caffeine and adrenaline, more than likely)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 20 May, 2012, 05:02:28 pm
Just putting on a roast dinner
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 20 May, 2012, 05:02:47 pm
Planning a shorter final two days to my big tour so that I can get back a day earlier. Now I finish the tour with an 89 mile day and a 95 mile day with camping gear :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 20 May, 2012, 05:15:16 pm
Waiting for an old college friend to turn up.  I haven't seen him in twenty years...

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 May, 2012, 05:57:08 pm
Wondering what to have for dinner...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 May, 2012, 08:25:46 pm
Quote from: ferret on 20 May, 2012, 03:25:02 pm
...and it's my birthday

Happy Birthday ferret!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: benborp on 21 May, 2012, 01:35:05 am
Watching the eclipse on http://events.slooh.com/ (http://events.slooh.com/).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 May, 2012, 02:06:15 am
Not sleeping.

Worrying.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 21 May, 2012, 12:31:20 pm
Eating quiche while a dumbass cow-orker says 'doh, you're eating quiche because you're French right'  Err no I am eating quiche because I made some yesterday and I like it.  Oh yeah, and I am not French, I just work in the Paris office from time to time.  Grrrrr!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 21 May, 2012, 12:46:13 pm
Sitting on the banks of a Scottish river having lunch. Not caught any fish yet. Two tornados have just flown over, and the Coastguard helicopter. Lovely weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 22 May, 2012, 10:45:50 am
Nursing a mild hangover and eating toast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 May, 2012, 10:47:28 am
Mainlining coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 May, 2012, 10:58:17 am
Feeling all hot and bothered despite not much in the way of clothing..... 

It's too hot! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 22 May, 2012, 11:02:54 am
Just finished 8 hours work and seriously considering taking a nap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 May, 2012, 11:03:18 am
Drawing circles on a map.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 May, 2012, 11:10:44 am
Quote from: clarion on 22 May, 2012, 11:03:18 am
Drawing circles on a map.

you are Belinda Carlisle & ICMFP

or was she a sand bunnie?
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 May, 2012, 11:17:33 am
;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 May, 2012, 11:42:40 am
I am too knackered to do anything at all today. All the jobs I need to do around the house require a working knee which I currently don't have. It seems to take me best part of a week to get over 600k audaxes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 22 May, 2012, 11:43:41 am
Stuck indoors waiting for a new hub from Virgin Media and it looks nice outside  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 May, 2012, 03:14:57 pm
<whisper> I 'm contemplating reducing the fleet as in n-1 or 2 <whisper>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 May, 2012, 07:09:10 pm
Feeling exceedingly pleased to hear the news that my parent's last guide dog puppy, who we waved goodbye to last week,
has passed all her exams and will be getting put on the guide dog breeding program!   :smug:

So she'll spend the rest of her days living as a family pet, except when it comes time to make more puppies!   :)

 :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 May, 2012, 07:11:57 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 22 May, 2012, 07:09:10 pm
Feeling exceedingly pleased to hear the news that my parent's last guide dog puppy, who we waved goodbye to last week,
has passed all her exams and will be getting put on the guide dog breeding program!   :smug:

So she'll spend the rest of her days living as a family pet, except when it comes time to make more puppies!   :)

 :smug:

That's good news  :thumbsup:
I'm never sure quite how the GDBA puppy walkers cope with giving up their puppy at the end of it's time with them. My family would be devastated! Full props to them for doing such a vital job.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 May, 2012, 07:28:48 pm
Quote from: Feline on 22 May, 2012, 07:11:57 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 22 May, 2012, 07:09:10 pm
Feeling exceedingly pleased to hear the news that my parent's last guide dog puppy, who we waved goodbye to last week,
has passed all her exams and will be getting put on the guide dog breeding program!   :smug:

So she'll spend the rest of her days living as a family pet, except when it comes time to make more puppies!   :)

 :smug:

That's good news  :thumbsup:
I'm never sure quite how the GDBA puppy walkers cope with giving up their puppy at the end of it's time with them. My family would be devastated! Full props to them for doing such a vital job.

Well, we are still missing her lots and lots :-(

But hopefully new guide dog puppy wuppy in a month or two!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 May, 2012, 07:40:07 pm
Just got in from work after passing the mother of all problems to a senior colleague.  Shit hitting the fan ? More like the high speed intersection of a sewage farm & a large wind turbine array !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 May, 2012, 07:40:14 pm
Working, and accepting the fact that I'll need to swap my dark lenses for the clear ones by the time I get to leave.   :(

At least the boss didn't object when I grabbed a beer from the kitchen just after 17:00...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 May, 2012, 07:44:05 pm
Sulking and nursing my balls after breaking the chain on my fixed as I stamped up the local steep bit.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 22 May, 2012, 08:39:44 pm
Contemplating a third pint.


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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 22 May, 2012, 08:40:55 pm
Or should that be considering?

Sod it, I'll buy and drink one.  :D

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 22 May, 2012, 09:10:35 pm
Watching Silk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 May, 2012, 09:15:02 pm
Quote from: Basil on 22 May, 2012, 07:44:05 pm
Sulking and nursing my balls after breaking the chain on my fixed as I stamped up the local steep bit.  :(

Ouch! Hope you feel better Basil
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ran doner on 22 May, 2012, 09:16:26 pm
Watching 2 young ladies play out their starring roles in "We Think We Are in TOWIE" in a nice country pub in Epping Forest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 May, 2012, 09:30:42 pm
Quote from: Basil on 22 May, 2012, 07:44:05 pm
Sulking and nursing my balls after breaking the chain on my fixed as I stamped up the local steep bit.  :(

Ouch! Are you sitting in a sink of cool water now?

Never really could work out why men's bikes have the top tube - right there in bollock range.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 May, 2012, 09:33:10 pm
Because they rarely cycle in skirts, obviously.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 May, 2012, 09:48:54 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 May, 2012, 09:33:10 pm
Because they rarely cycle in skirts, obviously.

Although I may have to tomorrow.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 May, 2012, 10:05:44 pm
Owowowowow Basil!

Hope the swelling goes down and you can confirm all is present and correct soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 May, 2012, 10:19:42 pm
Packet of frozen peas down the underpants Basil!   GWS!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 May, 2012, 10:30:43 pm
Eeps GWS Basil!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 23 May, 2012, 01:38:47 am
Sitting in a posh bar in Chicago watching the locals recover from an overdose of security during the just-finished heads-of-NATO conference, drinking a bloody expensive but flavour-free Californian Syrah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 23 May, 2012, 01:51:03 pm
Fracture clinic.
The great unwashed. In plaster.


(This post may contain elements of repetition)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 May, 2012, 02:06:07 pm
sweating
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 23 May, 2012, 02:46:42 pm
Melting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 23 May, 2012, 02:48:38 pm
Being bombarded by the print & online press
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 May, 2012, 03:00:55 pm
Waiting for home-time.   One hour only.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 23 May, 2012, 03:12:35 pm
Hoping I won't have any large dogs who can't stand to look after at work tonight, I can't weight bear on my right hind leg  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 May, 2012, 04:51:46 pm
Quote from: Feline on 23 May, 2012, 03:12:35 pm
Hoping I won't have any large dogs who can't stand to look after at work tonight, I can't weight bear on my right hind leg  :facepalm:

Which leads nicely to "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to put your dog down." ..........
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 May, 2012, 09:32:21 pm
Oh look. I appear to be in the Blacksmiths@Naburn. How can.that have happened?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 May, 2012, 09:34:01 pm
Slingshot manoeuvre around Jupiter?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 24 May, 2012, 05:18:21 pm
Melting at York station. Train back to London soon. Boo. Nice to have a few days out of London, even on a training course. Course exam passed with 100% mark, plus bonus mark for some extra bits I did. Woohoo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 24 May, 2012, 05:55:15 pm
M not happy. I had a bike fall on me this morning. The guy didn't secure it properly on the train and it fell on my seat. A lady has cluncked me on the leg with her folded brompton, a bloke cluncked me on the head with a wrench that was sticking out of his backpack and something has just bitten me on my nose and the train I am on is dealyed do to the wrong type of sun. :( :( :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 May, 2012, 06:02:14 pm
Having my dinner - bacon and hummus on rye bread. Yum!

And melting, of course.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 May, 2012, 06:28:07 pm
Preparing dinner, after having wrangled senior colleague to go on a conference call at 21:00 hrs.   He wasn't too happy, but I'm not set up to work from home (for exactly this reason!) and am not staying late in the orifice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 May, 2012, 06:31:24 pm
Printing off yet another college essay

Just two more essays to do1, then it's all over.

1 by do I mean actually write, then print, then hand in....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 24 May, 2012, 07:08:29 pm
I've had my foot run over by another bike at Euston. But at least I'm nearly home, just a couple of hours, err I mean couple of stops on the underground to go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 24 May, 2012, 07:39:08 pm
Trying to decide whether to go camping after work tomorrow or go for a long night ride.

Melting

Failing to start work on my last OU assignment particularly as the results aren't being counted anymore.

Melting.

Trying to decide whether to cook dinner or just continue grazing - I've finished the cream crackers and am very aware of the bag of Jelly Babies in my pannier.

.

.

.

Melting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 May, 2012, 07:48:05 pm
Celebrating the fact that our maps have arrived. Now we just need our hub and we'll be almost ready to set off again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 May, 2012, 08:01:40 pm
Digesting 3 home made pizzas :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 May, 2012, 10:32:44 pm
Draw something-ing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 24 May, 2012, 10:43:38 pm
Right.
Just out of the bunker, bike fettled and ready for a commute tomorrow.
Was grubby and squeaky after the BCM.

BCM600: all good training for Dark Lochnagar   the Snow Roads.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 24 May, 2012, 11:51:16 pm
Fixing bugs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 25 May, 2012, 12:03:21 am
Considering riding C2C from Newcastle in a day on Saturday. Working out whether I'd be better getting there 2 hours earlier by driving to Carlisle and getting the silly early train, or just catch the train from Whitehaven and set off back at 10am. Following wind at least (but a bit melty hot in the hills :-\)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 May, 2012, 12:08:09 am
Attempting to encourage air to circulate by means of a fan.  It's a deeply suboptimal 25.4C in the bedroom...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rhythm Thief on 25 May, 2012, 12:57:56 am
I'm in the office at work, having a cup of tea while the warehouse monkeys unload my lorry with forklifts. Once that's done I'll pick up a new trailer and go back up the M5 to Cannock with it, for the second time tonight and the eighth time this week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 May, 2012, 01:43:55 am
Using cargo-cult google skills to make up for a complete lack of mechanical engineering knowledge.

I appear to have discovered that the thingy I'm after is known as a 'ball stud', and that they're largely unobtanium in the desired size, but are often associated with gas lifts.  Surprisingly, searching for this doesn't bring up any porn.

I have, however been via craft supplies, body piercings, taxidermy equipment, R/C models and tractor parts, so it's nothing if not educational...


(Meanwhile the fan has lowered the bedroom temperature to 22.6C, so I think I'm going to call it a night.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 May, 2012, 05:55:32 am
Just back from dinner with our lovely Warmshowers hosts. Incredible hospitality!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 May, 2012, 04:37:03 pm
I thought I was bad at filing.  But I've just waded through, filed some of, and shredded the majority of, a box of papers left by a previous Practice Manager.  Note I didn't say the previous one.  No, it wasn't, and it wasn't her predecessor, either.  These papers are from 1996, FFS! :o

I feel a little better about my rubbish approach to office organisation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2012, 04:50:04 pm
Waiting for a scotrail service to depart Glasgow Central....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 25 May, 2012, 05:11:14 pm
Partaking of dinner.
Then I plan to have a nap and then perhaps head out for a ride later on ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 25 May, 2012, 05:34:23 pm
Just remembering why it is unwise to fall asleep in the garden after a night shift. Lobstered  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 May, 2012, 06:11:45 pm
At least you weren't wearing cycling mitts.  Probably.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 25 May, 2012, 06:17:23 pm
Thinking "Jings, crivvens and help ma fboab!" to myself.
This time next week I'll be all finished on my college course studying Conservation and Countryside Recreation   :o

Also pondering whether to get out on the bike bright and early tomorrow morning @ 7am for a couple of hours cycle before the weather gets too hot?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 25 May, 2012, 06:42:30 pm
Quote from: Kim on 25 May, 2012, 06:11:45 pm
At least you weren't wearing cycling mitts.  Probably.   ;D

I can confirm that I just got rid of all my silly-cycling tan lines in one fell swoop  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 25 May, 2012, 08:43:55 pm
Quote from: Feline on 25 May, 2012, 06:42:30 pm
Quote from: Kim on 25 May, 2012, 06:11:45 pm
At least you weren't wearing cycling mitts.  Probably.   ;D

I can confirm that I just got rid of all my silly-cycling tan lines in one fell swoop  ;D

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 25 May, 2012, 08:54:03 pm
Sat with my plastered leg looking at the stairs thinking they are too much effort. God damn not having a downstairs toilet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 25 May, 2012, 09:13:31 pm
Drinking Scotch and munching Jelly Babies.

Pootling about on the interwebbytubes.

Contemplating a cool bath as it's pretty toasty upstairs in this house, I guess I could decamp to the living room but there's no internet there  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 26 May, 2012, 01:59:31 am
WTF am I doing here at this time of night? Apart from not sleeping, I've an excruciating pain in my shoulder that woke me up an hour ago. I think it was caused by lifting the tandem on to the workstand on Wednsday. All I know is it's f*ing sore. Ibuprofen and diclophenac haven't helped.
Poor me.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 May, 2012, 03:53:55 am
About to eat my second Voodoo doughnut. Woolly rode home from the shop with a large, candy pink box full of them strapped to his rear rack. I'm so pleased he's in touch with his 15%. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 May, 2012, 07:54:24 am
Breakfasting in the sun and thinking that Pingu has no problem getting up at the crack of dawn to go audaxing, but can't get up early to go cycling with me :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 26 May, 2012, 08:24:51 am
Sulking: RSPCA have turned us down to adopt a cat because we live too near to a stretch of water  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 May, 2012, 08:31:48 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 26 May, 2012, 08:24:51 am
Sulking: RSPCA have turned us down to adopt a cat because we live too near to a stretch of water  :'(

That seems ridiculous.The majority of the population live within reach of some type of body of water:rivers,streams,canals,reservoirs, a bath tub,the sea.
Bit of an RSPCA own goal there I reckon.

I'm preparing breakfast in bed for wife & grand daughter
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 May, 2012, 08:35:15 am
Wishing I was still asleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 May, 2012, 08:55:58 am
Breakfasting at the Ace Cafe. Never been here before, but we're meeting folk to visit the temple later, so we thought we'd ride up. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 May, 2012, 09:01:39 am
Breakfasting outside the tent. :thumbsup:  Kilmartin circuit today
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 26 May, 2012, 09:07:38 am
Catching up on weeks of Coronation Street. I'm bored. I'm not a good patient.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 May, 2012, 09:21:21 am
I've not seen Coro for more than a decade.
have I missed anything?
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Post by: Lady Cavendish on 26 May, 2012, 09:28:03 am
Not a lot. Terry Duckworth is back!! I'm about 6-7 weeks behind on the sky plus!
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Post by: why1040 on 26 May, 2012, 10:59:53 am
Quote from: jogler on 26 May, 2012, 08:31:48 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 26 May, 2012, 08:24:51 am
Sulking: RSPCA have turned us down to adopt a cat because we live too near to a stretch of water  :'(

That seems ridiculous.The majority of the population live within reach of some type of body of water:rivers,streams,canals,reservoirs, a bath tub,the sea.
Bit of an RSPCA own goal there I reckon.

I'm preparing breakfast in bed for wife & grand daughter

My then partner and I were refused cat adoption by the RSPCA because we both worked full-time   ???

I swear they don't really want to find homes for their animals.
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Post by: interzen on 26 May, 2012, 11:07:05 am
Prepping the bike for a bit of off-road action. On fixed  ;D
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Post by: Dez on 26 May, 2012, 11:10:04 am
Sitting in the garden with my iPad and the dog, doing server maintenance.

This is the life ;D

Edit: Just as I posted that, the dog threw up at my feet after eating grass
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Post by: interzen on 26 May, 2012, 11:15:02 am
Quote from: Dez on 26 May, 2012, 11:10:04 am
Edit: Just as I posted that, the dog threw up at my feet after eating grass
Could have been worse - he could have barfed on the iPad instead :)
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Post by: delthebike on 26 May, 2012, 04:11:39 pm
The memorial flight lancaster just flew overhead.
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Post by: Jaded on 26 May, 2012, 04:23:44 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 26 May, 2012, 09:28:03 am
Not a lot. Terry Duckworth is back!! I'm about 6-7 weeks behind on the sky plus!

Got on a train with him and his bike in Hale once...
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Post by: delthebike on 26 May, 2012, 04:25:07 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 26 May, 2012, 04:11:39 pm
The memorial flight lancaster just flew overhead.
Just had the mustang and spitfire, of the BBMF, do a double circuit overhead. Lovely noise.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 May, 2012, 04:45:48 pm
Eating homemade rhubarb muffins, watching The Accidental Tourist and intermittently doing bits of housework so that everything will be done today and I can spend tomorrow in the sun.
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Post by: Wombat on 26 May, 2012, 04:47:20 pm
Quote from: why1040 on 26 May, 2012, 10:59:53 am
Quote from: jogler on 26 May, 2012, 08:31:48 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 26 May, 2012, 08:24:51 am
Sulking: RSPCA have turned us down to adopt a cat because we live too near to a stretch of water  :'(

That seems ridiculous.The majority of the population live within reach of some type of body of water:rivers,streams,canals,reservoirs, a bath tub,the sea.
Bit of an RSPCA own goal there I reckon.

I'm preparing breakfast in bed for wife & grand daughter


My then partner and I were refused cat adoption by the RSPCA because we both worked full-time   ???

I swear they don't really want to find homes for their animals.

We adopted a cat from the RSPCA, and we have a body of water in our own garden, i.e. a substantial pond.  Cats can swim, fer chrissake!
We were initially told by them that we couldn't have said kitty because we had a dog.  After showing them the pictures of our other cat and the dog sharing the dog basket, they eventualy relented.  They also asked how high our fences were.  Cats can climb trees, and this one did, repeatedly.  I'm not at all sure they know their arse from their elbow.
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Post by: delthebike on 26 May, 2012, 05:11:08 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 26 May, 2012, 04:25:07 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 26 May, 2012, 04:11:39 pm
The memorial flight lancaster just flew overhead.
Just had the mustang and spitfire, of the BBMF, do a double circuit overhead. Lovely noise.  :thumbsup:
Haven't seen the hurricane.  :(
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Post by: Kim on 26 May, 2012, 05:55:10 pm
Collapsing in front of the air conditioner with a box of antihistamines.   :'(

I've been in a cinema all day FFS, shouldn't have hayfever from that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 26 May, 2012, 06:58:20 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 26 May, 2012, 09:28:03 am
Not a lot. Terry Duckworth is back!! I'm about 6-7 weeks behind on the sky plus!

OMG how have they brought him back? Haven't his tv parents both died?
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Post by: SteveC on 26 May, 2012, 06:59:05 pm
The hay fever's been bad this year.  I can't remember the last time I took a tablet other than when dancing.  Must be several years ago. But I did this morning.

(My hay fever is largely gone nowadays, but it used to be of the "can't open the eyes in the morning 'cos the lids are stuck together with crud" level so you have my sympathy, Kim)

S
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Post by: lou boutin on 26 May, 2012, 07:01:26 pm
Quote from: why1040 on 26 May, 2012, 10:59:53 am
Quote from: jogler on 26 May, 2012, 08:31:48 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 26 May, 2012, 08:24:51 am
Sulking: RSPCA have turned us down to adopt a cat because we live too near to a stretch of water  :'(

That seems ridiculous.The majority of the population live within reach of some type of body of water:rivers,streams,canals,reservoirs, a bath tub,the sea.
Bit of an RSPCA own goal there I reckon.

I'm preparing breakfast in bed for wife & grand daughter

My then partner and I were refused cat adoption by the RSPCA because we both worked full-time   ???

I swear they don't really want to find homes for their animals.

The cat we wanted to adopt is a timid older cat and we have noisy geese, which the RSPCA think are too much for this particular cat.  Someone else is also interested in him, so hopefully he will have a new home soon. They said they happily allow us a more confident cat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 May, 2012, 07:04:11 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 26 May, 2012, 06:58:20 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 26 May, 2012, 09:28:03 am
Not a lot. Terry Duckworth is back!! I'm about 6-7 weeks behind on the sky plus!

OMG how have they brought him back? Hasnt his tv parents both died?
His son Tommy (who he sold) lives on the Street and works in the garage.
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Post by: lou boutin on 26 May, 2012, 07:06:26 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 26 May, 2012, 07:04:11 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 26 May, 2012, 06:58:20 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 26 May, 2012, 09:28:03 am
Not a lot. Terry Duckworth is back!! I'm about 6-7 weeks behind on the sky plus!

OMG how have they brought him back? Hasnt his tv parents both died?
His son Tommy (who he sold) lives on the Street and works in the garage.

Wow, I really must watch it again.  I quite liked Coronation Street.  Some of it was really funny. 
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Post by: clarion on 26 May, 2012, 07:37:54 pm
Did Gail Potter ever marry that Brian Tilsley?
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Post by: jogler on 26 May, 2012, 07:41:19 pm
How about Elsie Tanner:did she marry that Yank?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 May, 2012, 08:48:55 pm
In the interval. Elgar and Walton to go. Oh, and Parry.
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Post by: clarion on 26 May, 2012, 10:00:46 pm
Quote from: clarion on 26 May, 2012, 08:55:58 am
Breakfasting at the Ace Cafe. Never been here before, but we're meeting folk to visit the temple later, so we thought we'd ride up. :)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0463.jpg)

See how the shaft of sunlight falls upon the eggs to create a blaze of glory.
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Post by: peliroja on 27 May, 2012, 01:11:30 am
Watching Woolly build a wheel. Off for a kip before our host family gets home.
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Post by: Feline on 27 May, 2012, 03:10:20 am
Waiting to feed the last 6 riders to come into our Bude control. Soon it will be time to wake some folks up and give them breakfast  :D
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Post by: lou boutin on 27 May, 2012, 07:31:18 am
Breakfasting in the garden.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: peliroja on 27 May, 2012, 07:42:45 am
About to go to bed.   :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 May, 2012, 08:18:21 am
Preparing for a WARTY.
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Post by: essexian on 27 May, 2012, 08:21:29 am
Limping, again. Sigh.
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Post by: interzen on 27 May, 2012, 08:28:03 am
Quote from: essexian on 27 May, 2012, 08:21:29 am
Limping, again. Sigh.
Me too.
Feel like I might have tweaked a hamstring on yesterday's ride - nothing serious, but a bit uncomfortable nonetheless :(

Have taken some ibuprofen and if it feels better later on I'll head out for a quick spin round the lanes.

Right now, however, I'm having my breakfast and putting laundry out on the line.
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Post by: essexian on 27 May, 2012, 08:41:06 am
Quote from: interzen on 27 May, 2012, 08:28:03 am
Quote from: essexian on 27 May, 2012, 08:21:29 am
Limping, again. Sigh.
Me too.
Feel like I might have tweaked a hamstring on yesterday's ride - nothing serious, but a bit uncomfortable nonetheless :(

Have taken some ibuprofen and if it feels better later on I'll head out for a quick spin round the lanes.

Right now, however, I'm having my breakfast and putting laundry out on the line.

Wish your leg better soon

I have had a long standing problem with my left calf (car accident 10 years ago) which kept me off my bike for 5 years (and resulted with me putting on a large amount of weight....up to 22 stone!!!)

Its okay most of the time but yesterday I went out on my road bike for the third time this year and think I must have had a reaction to that: too much grinding and not enough spinning I guess.

I will give it a rest this AM...well have some DIY I "need" to do, and then see how it is later.
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Post by: jogler on 27 May, 2012, 09:51:24 am
Quote from: essexian on 27 May, 2012, 08:21:29 am
Limping, again. Sigh.

I sympathise having had the same problem to a greater or lesser degree for some while.Strangely it's not a problem while actually riding a bike so the solution is self evident but not wholly practical.
Added to which I developed a groin strain yesterday. ::-)
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Post by: L CC on 27 May, 2012, 10:08:28 am
Struggling to keep my eyes open.


So I'm going back to bed.
Sundays...  Ahhh...
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 27 May, 2012, 10:57:49 am
Reinstalling Max Payne 1 after all the talk at work about the new one.

It's such a good game and am rather looking forward to playing it again.
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Post by: BrianI on 27 May, 2012, 01:12:47 pm
melting.   :sick:
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Post by: interzen on 27 May, 2012, 01:20:14 pm
Listening to the cricket.
And melting.

Decided earlier that I'm not going to go out until this evening, by which time most of the road-borne lemmings I seemed to encounter this morning will be propped up in front of their TVs or something.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 May, 2012, 01:45:50 pm
Sitting on a x-country train in Glasgow Central, homeward bound.
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Post by: interzen on 27 May, 2012, 02:02:37 pm
Having just put Yet Another Load of laundry in the washer, I've now turned my attention to installing Linux on my Mac Mini.

On current form, this will likely keep me busy for the rest of the afternoon.
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Post by: Basil on 27 May, 2012, 07:28:57 pm
Having finished my dinner, I am now tackling one of those fee-yuge bags of minstrels.
 :P

ETA  I seem to have graduated from popping three at a time to four.
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Post by: TimO on 27 May, 2012, 09:36:05 pm
I just fettled the new wheel onto Vince, and then did my standard sprint up to West Crodyon Station.  It's a relatively good test of a bike, with a stretch of flat which I can sprint along, a bit of moderate uphill, followed by the same hill, only as a downhill.  Along with a handful of corners, a mini-roundabout, and set of traffic lights, it's a good road test.

Vince passed, so I'll revert to using him for the commute, rather than ['color=red]Red[/color], whom I'm nervous about leaving locked up at work (even though it's almost stored in sight of my office!), and which I don't really want to wear components out on, using it continuously for my commute.
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Post by: peliroja on 28 May, 2012, 07:45:07 am
Preparing for tomorrow's departure, direction Oregon coast. We'll be on the road again at last, hurrah!
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Post by: tiermat on 28 May, 2012, 07:48:47 am
Quote from: peliroja on 28 May, 2012, 07:45:07 am
Preparing for tomorrow's departure, direction Oregon coast. We'll be on the road again at last, hurrah!

Brilliant, have a good one.
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Post by: peliroja on 28 May, 2012, 07:53:31 am
Thanks tiermat. Let's hope leaving our lovely new friends in Portland and returning to life on the road isn't too much of a shock to the system! At least we'll have tarmac beneath our wheels for a while. :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 May, 2012, 11:08:55 am
Oooh, exciting stuf, Peli!

For my part, I am sticking to the conscious decision I made not to watch Blair giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. Although I am sure it would be a fascinating piece of theatre, I don't think my blood pressure would be able to stand it.
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Post by: jogler on 28 May, 2012, 11:38:07 am
I'm thinking it's about time I started preparing a Father-of-the-Bride speech.The wedding is on Friday
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Post by: Andrij on 28 May, 2012, 05:14:04 pm
Writing audit reports (I'm one of our company's internal auditors).  I usually wouldn't stay late to do these.  Then again, they were due by close of business Friday.  Oops!  :-[
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Post by: interzen on 28 May, 2012, 05:16:19 pm
Making sure I've got enough in the tank (blood sugar-wise) before I head out for a ride.
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Post by: why1040 on 28 May, 2012, 07:51:51 pm
Getting used to my new MacBook Pro.  I've gone straight from Leopard to Lion, so it's taking a bit of getting used to...the dragging feature is the wrong way round among other things!   ;D

Lovely and shiny though!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 28 May, 2012, 07:58:11 pm
Posting photos on FB, this might take some time (Mrs T managed to take >400 in a week!)
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Post by: Andrij on 28 May, 2012, 07:59:43 pm
Trying to not eat all the ice cream.  :-\
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Post by: interzen on 28 May, 2012, 08:09:40 pm
Recovering after a bit of this:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/545131_10150826940321636_1315512588_n.jpg)

;D
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Post by: tiermat on 28 May, 2012, 09:28:48 pm
Writing a "Rough Guide to Puerto Pollenca" for a friend who is going there on Sunday.

Oddly enough it seems to be >50% about beer, wine and food :)
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Post by: TimO on 28 May, 2012, 09:30:25 pm
Trying to get the server to boot up with a LiveUSB and then assemble, start and mount the RAID arrays.

It should be simple, but nothing like this ever is ...

Of course, if it was simple, the server wouldn't have started playing silly buggers over the weekend, for no apparent or obvious reason.
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Post by: tiermat on 28 May, 2012, 09:34:17 pm
Quote from: TimO on 28 May, 2012, 09:30:25 pm
Trying to get the server to boot up with a LiveUSB and then assemble, start and mount the RAID arrays.

It should be simple, but nothing like this ever is ...

Of course, if it was simple, the server wouldn't have started playing silly buggers over the weekend, for no apparent or obvious reason.

BTDTGTTS, including having to jerry-rig a PSU from another box so we had enough power and connectors to spin up the disks and the main board.

I then had to gingerly transfer all the data off the array, onto another server and array, so that the call centre could start work on Monday morning like nothing had a happened.  I viewed it as a pennence as I had dropped the hard drive out of another server the week before.  That server was the only one that contained some vital code, and, due to a combined cock up by the developers, backup monkey and database admin, it hadn't been backed up :)
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Post by: L CC on 28 May, 2012, 10:46:54 pm
Getting excited about Ferries.
These (http://www.atlanticferries.pt/en/index.html) ones.
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Post by: tiermat on 31 May, 2012, 02:59:08 am
At work, well got here an hour ago, it has taken me this long to get the arthritic hamster to come out of his cage to run round on his rusty wheel to make my laptop work.
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Post by: peliroja on 31 May, 2012, 03:16:48 am
On Highway 101, about to cook dinner.  :smug:
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Post by: Feline on 31 May, 2012, 01:15:24 pm
I just made a list of all the things I need to do this afternoon on my iphone todo app and sorted them in order of priority. If I keep procrastinating long enough I will run out of time to do any of them and can skip straight to 'get in shower' and 'go to yacf pub meet'  ;D
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Post by: jogler on 31 May, 2012, 01:48:05 pm
I am writing a father-of-the-bride speech.
I have decided to wing it.
The I-do bit starts at 12 noon tomorrow

There a few stressed females hereabouts.
There are couple of stressed males too but they don't include the fathers of the bride & groom 8)
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Post by: lou boutin on 31 May, 2012, 04:17:34 pm
Quote from: jogler on 31 May, 2012, 01:48:05 pm
I am writing a father-of-the-bride speech.
I have decided to wing it.
The I-do bit starts at 12 noon tomorrow

There a few stressed females hereabouts.
There are couple of stressed males too but they don't include the fathers of the bride & groom 8)

Best of luck.  You can't go wrong if you mention:
- she's always been the most beautiful girl in the world to me, but to day she is stunning
- she was a lovely child - quote funny father daughter story
- she's made her mother and I proud in lots of ways ...... (Quote a few) but today  isnthe proudest day of my life ans I was honoured to walk her down the isle knowing shenisnabout to take a new step in life with......
- say something nice about groom
- and something nice about how happy they make each other
Then the customary stuff about not loosing a daughter but gaining a son etc

Have a lovely day all.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2012, 04:20:30 pm
Quote from: jogler on 31 May, 2012, 01:48:05 pm
The I-do bit starts at 12 noon tomorrow

Is that another Apple product?

I am attempting to pack. I'm having trouble getting my head round it.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 May, 2012, 04:22:30 pm
Lying to my mum that I really like a dress she's bought for a wedding she's going to. In reality I think it's an unholy mess and 40 years too young for her.
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Post by: delthebike on 31 May, 2012, 04:24:04 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2012, 04:20:30 pm
I am attempting to pack. I'm having trouble getting my head round it.
Put it in some panniers!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2012, 04:24:58 pm
If I did that I wouldn't be able to see where I was going.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2012, 04:28:42 pm
I’m calculating how many hours it is until I can get to a (2D)* screening of Prometheus.  My Personal Prometheus Countdown (PPC) now at approx 46.5 hours and falling.


*I can’t see 3D or those stupid magic eye pictures.  I say stupid, I have no idea as I can’t see them, what I mean is stupid is me standing around trying to see them like the big lad in Mallrats when I know I can’t see them.
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Post by: Basil on 31 May, 2012, 04:32:50 pm
Working bloody hard.  I'm shifting shedloads of crap today.  Today I seem to have the power!

Well actually, I seem to be taking a short break here.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2012, 04:34:45 pm
Don't you also have the kingdom and the glory?
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Post by: Kim on 31 May, 2012, 05:08:48 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2012, 04:28:42 pm
*I can’t see 3D or those stupid magic eye pictures.  I say stupid, I have no idea as I can’t see them, what I mean is stupid is me standing around trying to see them like the big lad in Mallrats when I know I can’t see them.

I'm relatively crap at seeing stereograms, but finally got the knack thanks to there being on in one on my A-level maths textbooks.  Maths and staring vaguely into middle distance naturally going together.
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Post by: Kim on 02 June, 2012, 01:36:34 am
Off to bed in a hope that I might start tomorrow with slightly less of a sleep deficit than today.

It's the Wedding Of Doom™ in the morning.  Why would I want to be yawning with an ice-cream on the beach at Whitstable when I could spend the day on the M6 and trying not to be too embarrassing?
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Post by: peliroja on 02 June, 2012, 02:57:34 am
Cooking on a campsite in Tillamook, under an awning, while listening to the rain beat down.
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Post by: Jules on 02 June, 2012, 04:29:04 am
Eating a splendid piece of chocolate called in Strood.FNRttC

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Post by: andrewc on 02 June, 2012, 07:06:25 am
Sitting on Chester station waiting for a delayed train to Wales.  It's too early to be awake...
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Post by: Canardly on 02 June, 2012, 07:09:44 am
Watching the rain ......strewth.
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Post by: BrianI on 02 June, 2012, 07:48:54 am
Just downloading Fedora 17  :thumbsup:

Now muttering about how annoying gnome 3.4 is.

Now back in Xubuntu 12.04   :D
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 June, 2012, 08:09:15 am
Apparently the train has just hit some sheep!
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Post by: clarion on 02 June, 2012, 08:43:30 am
Sipping tea with Butterfly in a cafe at Rose Hill.  We left the FNRTTCers earlier in the ride than we had hoped for - at Rochester - because it was behind schedule after a few mechanical issues keeping the RECs busy.  So we ended up back in Sutton early for the appointment.

Now we just have to plan the extra couple of km to get us over the 100 mark.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 June, 2012, 10:09:26 am
Wondering what flowers I can buy for bees....
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 June, 2012, 11:30:58 am
Did you get some of the seeds in the giveaway? I have planted some in my window boxes but I could send you the teeny remainder in the packet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 02 June, 2012, 12:08:03 pm
Waiting for Mrs M to get dressed so we can go to the shop to order some stair carpet (wtf it's only 10 past 12....)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 June, 2012, 01:41:12 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 02 June, 2012, 11:30:58 am
Did you get some of the seeds in the giveaway? I have planted some in my window boxes but I could send you the teeny remainder in the packet.
Thanks for the offer Kirst, but I don't do seeds, too much like proper gardening!
I have returned from the garden centre with scabious and foxgloves (mine seem to have disappeared) and lupins (can't believe I haven't got any spread from next door) and salvia. But no bark cos I couldn't lift the damned packs!
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Post by: interzen on 02 June, 2012, 01:51:14 pm
Waiting, with camera poised, for the second of the Battle Of Britain Memorial flypasts (in about 10 minutes, assuming they're running to schedule)
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 02 June, 2012, 01:54:00 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 02 June, 2012, 07:48:54 am
Just downloading Fedora 17  :thumbsup:

The Splendours of the Internet #43276: Downloadable headgear.
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Post by: matthew on 02 June, 2012, 02:08:36 pm
just back from the FNRttC, trying to stay awake till a sensible time so as not to throw my sleep pattern too far out.
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Post by: simonp on 02 June, 2012, 02:11:00 pm
Watching the French Open and refactoring some code.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 02 June, 2012, 02:41:53 pm
Sitting in the cinema waiting for Prometheus to start.
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Post by: Lycra Man on 02 June, 2012, 02:45:49 pm
Sitting in the theatre, waiting for Chicago to start.
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Post by: interzen on 02 June, 2012, 02:58:52 pm
Packing the camera up - looks like the second BBMF flypast took a different flightpath from the first, so no WW2 aircraft to take pics of :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 02 June, 2012, 03:14:41 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 02 June, 2012, 02:41:53 pm
Sitting in the cinema waiting for Prometheus to start.

Booking tickets to see it later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ferret on 02 June, 2012, 03:42:20 pm
watching the Derby and sanding the front door ready for some woodstain, all I can say is the weather looks better at Epsom than  it does here
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 02 June, 2012, 03:57:13 pm
Sitting in Hyde Park at the rather optimistically named 'Fun Day'.  Only 3 hours to go. Family duty will be completed tomorrow when we've watched the old people sitting on a boat.

In the rain
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 June, 2012, 04:13:00 pm
Joy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 02 June, 2012, 04:24:33 pm
Just been watching a superb flying display by local chap. Brill. Also they had a local party for 600 kids this afternoon stayed well clear.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 June, 2012, 05:27:47 pm
Sitting on a train back to Liverpool after an enjoyable day riding Jasmine's Anglesey Lanes 100k.   I only got slightly lost on a few occasions :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 June, 2012, 05:35:43 pm
Preparing to go out for some Jazz in the Woods.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 June, 2012, 05:42:37 pm
Quote from: interzen on 02 June, 2012, 02:58:52 pm
Packing the camera up - looks like the second BBMF flypast took a different flightpath from the first, so no WW2 aircraft to take pics of :(

Here's some from two years ago for you...

 :)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/bbmf_3.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/bbmf_2.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/bbmf_1.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 June, 2012, 05:46:47 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 02 June, 2012, 05:35:43 pm
Preparing to go out for some Jazz in the Woods.

Is this a euphemism?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 June, 2012, 06:05:36 pm
No, a euphonium.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 June, 2012, 06:08:42 pm
Blowing your own trumpet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 June, 2012, 06:29:29 pm
Sitting with all the ice cubes from my freezer wrapped in a towel around my knee. Simon insisted I should ice it after our ride since it's still recovering from getting borked on the BCM 600.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 02 June, 2012, 07:50:50 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 02 June, 2012, 10:09:26 am
Wondering what flowers I can buy for bees....

Might this link help. http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=58579.msg1207076#msg1207076
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 June, 2012, 08:24:35 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 02 June, 2012, 01:41:12 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 02 June, 2012, 11:30:58 am
Did you get some of the seeds in the giveaway? I have planted some in my window boxes but I could send you the teeny remainder in the packet.
Thanks for the offer Kirst, but I don't do seeds, too much like proper gardening!
I have returned from the garden centre with scabious and foxgloves (mine seem to have disappeared) and lupins (can't believe I haven't got any spread from next door) and salvia. But no bark cos I couldn't lift the damned packs!
There really is only a teeny amount left - you'd just have to scrape up a little bit of soil and scatter them in (singing we plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land) and then cover them over again. I'll ask bobb if he wants to take them for his mum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 June, 2012, 08:27:05 pm
Right.  I was in the pub (yes, that pub) when suddenly I came all over sea food needy.  I checked the pub menu and was not impressed.  Finished my pint, made my apologies to the umpa-lumpas and spun down to the Co-op.

OK.  I has:
A pack of Young's Fish Medley (Seems to be mostly Salmon, cod, haddock) .  A Pack of Co-op Cod and Chorizo Fishcakes.  A pack of Co-op Cooked Scottish Mussels in a White Wine Sauce and a tub of Young's Greenland Prawns.  A bag of Rocket.
*checks fridge for leeks, mustard and mayo*

This  Is  Going  To  Be  Good.  8)

Oh yes, the wine?  Obv with fish, I bought a decent white Carernet Sauvignon.  ::-)

*skips off to kitchen*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 02 June, 2012, 10:28:02 pm
but Basil, right next door to that pub is a decent chippy, could that not have solved the sea food craving?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 June, 2012, 10:46:17 pm
*urrrp*  'scuse me.

No Matthew, it wouldn't.  The Dolphin is, as you say, a decent chippy, but it wouldn't have come close to the meal I have just enjoyed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 03 June, 2012, 11:19:39 am
Choosing photos from the most recent shoot

Air Ambulance in Morrisons' car park

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/air_amb.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 03 June, 2012, 11:20:55 am
Basil agreed, though I would have left the muscles out, not a seafood I enjoy.

One service sung, another to go this evening, just waiting till it is time to cook lunch, and reading up else where the various views on starting a FNRttC from the South Bank.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 June, 2012, 12:12:26 pm
Laminating the Lutudarum audax route sheet
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 03 June, 2012, 12:22:41 pm
I'm not doing nothing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 June, 2012, 12:27:02 pm
what is that you are doing then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 June, 2012, 12:34:25 pm
Sitting in the sun.
Alone.
Again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 03 June, 2012, 12:38:48 pm
Making bunting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 June, 2012, 12:49:44 pm
Miscellaneous bits of bike fettling (some of it long overdue!)

Also, shopping around for GPS units which have field-replacable batteries (ie. run on AAs or similar) and have a semi-decent battery life. This is turning out to be surprisingly difficult.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 June, 2012, 12:58:44 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 03 June, 2012, 12:34:25 pm
Sitting in the sun.
Alone.
Again.
Naturally.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 June, 2012, 01:26:49 pm
Chores...

Bloody rain - I could be cycling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 03 June, 2012, 02:04:27 pm
Watching the Jubilee River Pageant on the BBC.  I could have wandered down to the river itself, but I'm still recovering from the FNRttC, and I can probably get a far better view with the Beeb, than I could in reality.  The on-off rain didn't exactly encourage me to do the 12 mile cycle, and then find nowhere to lock my bike up and be rammed shoulder to shoulder with all the other spectators didn't exactly appeal either.

More curiousity than any particular royalness.  It should be an interesting sight to watch however.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 June, 2012, 02:07:12 pm
Thinking about where to go on my solo jaunt next month.  To console myself for being back at work in the morning after me holibobs.  Because work is what you do to fund cycling holidays.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 June, 2012, 02:10:04 pm
Waiting for a nut roast in a pub on the way to Whitstable. 80km so far and some climbing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 June, 2012, 02:10:35 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 03 June, 2012, 02:07:12 pm
Thinking about where to go on my solo jaunt next month.  To console myself for being back at work in the morning after me holibobs.  Because work is what you do to fund cycling holidays.
This is true. I get very anxious when I don't have any holidays booked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 03 June, 2012, 02:53:13 pm
Quote from: clarion on 03 June, 2012, 02:10:04 pm
Waiting for a nut roast in a pub on the way to Whitstable. 80km so far and some climbing.

You're going there again?  Clearly you're determined to get there sometime this weekend. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 03 June, 2012, 09:48:11 pm
Ripping lots of CDs. I have been appointed to provide music for the village Diamond Jubilee party tomorrow and must have music from every decade of Liz's reign.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 03 June, 2012, 11:28:10 pm
Ignoring the TV as Arch has the remote control, is sitting in front of the TV and 'My Big Fat Gipsy Wedding' is on! :facepalm:

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 03 June, 2012, 11:31:58 pm
Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 03 June, 2012, 11:28:10 pm
Ignoring the TV as Arch has the remote control, is sitting in front of the TV and 'My Big Fat Gipsy Wedding' is on! :facepalm:

Only because I'm too lazy to turn it over!

(With a tiny bit of OMG! Horror! fascination  :o)

Come on, I did just ask you if you wanted a cake in the shape of a tractor....  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 03 June, 2012, 11:38:50 pm
Anyway, it's giving me lots of ideas...

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Of things I really really don't want!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 03 June, 2012, 11:41:18 pm
Quote from: Arch on 03 June, 2012, 11:31:58 pm
Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 03 June, 2012, 11:28:10 pm
Ignoring the TV as Arch has the remote control, is sitting in front of the TV and 'My Big Fat Gipsy Wedding' is on! :facepalm:

Only because I'm too lazy to turn it over!

(With a tiny bit of OMG! Horror! fascination  :o)

Come on, I did just ask you if you wanted a cake in the shape of a tractor....  ;)
;D
And I replied that I wanted in in a shape that would fit in my mouth.....

.....No! Not like that! :o
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 04 June, 2012, 03:47:48 pm
Failing to get the strimmer started.  This may be my contribution to gardening for the year.

It's just starting to rain again anyway....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 June, 2012, 03:59:21 pm
Getting ready to head out for a quick spin on the fixed.
There may be off-road involved.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 05 June, 2012, 03:49:26 pm
Have just taken delivery of substantial bits of wood for our stove. Including 15"x2" thick oak planks, as cut from the trunk with bark attached, 6"x6" beam of oak, a trunk of oak approx 10" diameter, and a short trunk of birch. Most of it is 4' long. Lots of part turned or ready to turn blanks too.

I'll have to process it and cut them down to stove fitting bits as more is coming!  :thumbsup:

Before someone says "it could be used to make something" it is full of woodworm. So we're going to make fires with it and keep warm.  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 June, 2012, 04:09:23 pm
Sittimg on abeach with my feet in the surf, clutchimg my kimdle (not a euphamism)cotemplating how good Mallorca is for cycling and wondering how to mae it back for that purpose. That is all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 June, 2012, 04:16:27 pm
Quote from: TimO on 03 June, 2012, 02:53:13 pm
Quote from: clarion on 03 June, 2012, 02:10:04 pm
Waiting for a nut roast in a pub on the way to Whitstable. 80km so far and some climbing.

You're going there again?  Clearly you're determined to get there sometime this weekend. ;D

Yes, we rode there.  Seemed a shame not to, after not being able to get further than Rochester on Friday noght, because of an appointment back in Londonton.

Anyway, we rode there, stayed over with the outlaws, went to Canterbury and surrounding hills to the value of 50km yesterday, and are now sheltering from the rain in a cafe in Otford (Eh?  I'm sure it was warm and sunny earlier) en route along the North Downs before popping back over and home.

The last four days will have seen three 100km rides and one 50.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 05 June, 2012, 04:23:31 pm
I'm not doing nothing, I've come to the conclusion that I’m a waste of space and drain on society
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: graculus on 05 June, 2012, 04:28:52 pm
Looking out of the window and pondering change of plans for the intended walk and pub meal with friends. Although mrs graculus and I are not too bothered about the weather there are those in our group who will have a problem with muddy slippery hill sides. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 June, 2012, 04:29:52 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 05 June, 2012, 04:23:31 pm
I'm not doing nothing, I've come to the conclusion that I’m a waste of space and drain on society
I get that a lot - usually between 9am and 5pm on working days ;)

Currently, I'm trying to decide whether or not to list my now-surplus Mac Mini on fleaBay or try for a 'private' sale ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 June, 2012, 04:39:22 pm
Quote from: Ham on 05 June, 2012, 04:09:23 pm
Sittimg on abeach with my feet in the surf, clutchimg my kimdle (not a euphamism)cotemplating how good Mallorca is for cycling and wondering how to mae it back for that purpose. That is all.

You mean you are there and have not been cycling? Tut, tut....

Let me know if you need any recommendations (routes or where to hire from).

TBH though I found Catalonia nicer to cycle in, due to the lack therein of hire cars and foreign (to those shores) drivers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 June, 2012, 04:41:42 pm
And onto what I am doing right now.

Due to yet another power outage this morning (I am starting to think we live in a third world country, not North Yorkshire), I am downloading Fedora 17 i686 to try and fix my aging and wheezing DHCP server that decided it really didn't want to boot back up properly after the outage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 05 June, 2012, 04:46:52 pm
Conducting an experiment.

Which will I finish first: The Canterbury Tales or a bottle of gin?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 June, 2012, 04:48:50 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 05 June, 2012, 04:46:52 pm
Conducting an experiment.

Which will I finish first: The Canterbury Tales or a bottle of gin?
The latter, and then the former. In that order.

Although given that you're drinking gin, maybe it should be called 'Decanter-bury Tales' instead ;D

(I never really 'got' Chaucer, unfortunately)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 05 June, 2012, 06:08:58 pm
Book has been abandoned (for now).

In the mean time, trying not to let the killjoys, grumpy gits and failed revolutionaries get me down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 05 June, 2012, 06:24:16 pm
Just finished practising on the double bass (for a forthcoming performance at the town hall).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 June, 2012, 06:27:01 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 05 June, 2012, 04:41:42 pm
And onto what I am doing right now.

Due to yet another power outage this morning (I am starting to think we live in a third world country, not North Yorkshire), I am downloading Fedora 17 i686 to try and fix my aging and wheezing DHCP server that decided it really didn't want to boot back up properly after the outage.

Just finished downloading and burning it, now for the "fun" bit.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 June, 2012, 06:34:09 pm
Reinstalling Lion on my Mac Mini as a prelude to listing it on fleaBay.
After that I'll do a factory reset on my iPad 'cos that's going on fleaBay too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 05 June, 2012, 06:42:43 pm
Drinking.

To forget.





Eh?

What?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 06 June, 2012, 10:39:24 am
Reading a rather interesting article in the current issue of Singletrack - it's about trail riding in Torridon.

Let's see - I've not been to Scotland for ages, that part of the country is mind-hurtlingly beautiful even in crap weather and it might make for an interesting Pugsley Proving Ground (or for the soon-to-be-singlespeeded 1x1)

The downside? It's a bloody long way to Applecross, but even so I feel a road trip coming on  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 06 June, 2012, 06:30:45 pm
Happy about the fact I won't need to water the garden tonight.

in other words listening to it raining cats and dogs....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 07 June, 2012, 11:43:57 am
Tidying my desk - I'm leaving work at 12.00 and cycling down (in the Harris direction) to meet Wowbagger and co.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 June, 2012, 03:21:19 pm
Dripping onto the carpet in the business section of the bank.

South London appears to be sinking under a deluge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 June, 2012, 03:28:07 pm
Mucking around with a Raspberry-Pi :)  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 07 June, 2012, 08:24:56 pm
I am just downing a glass of cider having recently arrived home after a wonderful ride out to meet Wowbagger
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 08 June, 2012, 06:54:47 pm
Waiting to go to the pub to collect my dinner.  Won't be ready until 7.00. 

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 June, 2012, 07:28:05 pm
About to set off for Stockport, prior to the FNRttC tonight.  Pausing only to remember to put the recumbent seat in the car!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 08 June, 2012, 07:39:32 pm
Contemplating dust.
Dust and incompetent tile suppliers.
Dust and cooking in a microwave.
Dust and boxes, lots of them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 08 June, 2012, 07:47:30 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 08 June, 2012, 06:54:47 pm
Waiting to go to the pub to collect my dinner.  Won't be ready until 7.00. 

S
And very good it was too.  Fish and chips.  £5.  Complimentary tomato and tartare sauce sachets. Slice of lemon.  Lovely and hot when I got it home.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 June, 2012, 09:56:07 pm
Digesting chicken & salad. Drinking Rioja, listening to Zoe Keating.   Hoping that the Friday Night Riders Paddlers have a good time....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 June, 2012, 10:19:07 pm
Sitting looking at s Hebridean beach at almost sunset o'clock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 June, 2012, 02:17:41 pm
Lunching at t :smug:he Cumbrian Pantry in Alston.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 09 June, 2012, 02:46:17 pm
I've just finished making shortbread  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 June, 2012, 02:48:38 pm
Procrastinating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 June, 2012, 02:56:19 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 09 June, 2012, 02:48:38 pm
Procrastinating.

+1
I'm not even dressed yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 June, 2012, 03:01:05 pm
Running out of reasons not to go to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 June, 2012, 03:39:56 pm
Post lawn mowing beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 June, 2012, 03:39:57 pm
Post lawn mowing beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 June, 2012, 03:41:32 pm
Quote from: Basil on 09 June, 2012, 03:39:56 pm
Post lawn mowing beer.

Quote from: Basil on 09 June, 2012, 03:39:57 pm
Post lawn mowing beer.

Wow, that first beer went down quick!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 09 June, 2012, 04:01:32 pm
I am just letting my eyes recover after moderating and administrating another forum.  I went through the whole backlog of blog entries and comments removing spam and banning spammers.  I went back through 4 years of entries and hundreds of comments, now my eyes hurt and I feel a bit sick.
 :o :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 June, 2012, 04:02:35 pm
Looking long and hard at the Genesis Fortitude singlespeed 29er and trying to work out which size I'd need  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 09 June, 2012, 04:05:41 pm
Sitting polishing lovingly my cranks and chain rings. I have just removed the bottom bracket from my bike and cleaned up all the threads ready to stick the new one in. Wish me luck, I've never done this before  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 June, 2012, 06:25:31 pm
Waiting for the oven to heat up sufficiently to make pizza :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 09 June, 2012, 07:24:29 pm
It's Pimms O'Clock, and I'm just about to start cooking a Green Thai Curry
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 09 June, 2012, 07:36:48 pm
Quote from: Feline on 09 June, 2012, 04:05:41 pm
Sitting polishing lovingly my cranks and chain rings. I have just removed the bottom bracket from my bike and cleaned up all the threads ready to stick the new one in. Wish me luck, I've never done this before  ;D

I polish my crank quite regularly.

<ahem>   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 June, 2012, 07:43:49 pm
Quote from: Gaston Lagaffe on 09 June, 2012, 07:24:29 pm
It's Pimms O'Clock, and I'm just about to start cooking a Green Thai Curry

No, it's Gin O'clock - today is Word Gin Day (http://www.worldginday.com)!  8)

I'm celebrating the above and working on plans for my tour later this summer.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 June, 2012, 07:49:39 pm
Sitting in a cold church waiting for a gig to start (Martyn Joseph)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2012, 10:32:50 pm
consuming post-ride coffe & cake having just consumed post-ride sausage,chips & mushy peas.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 June, 2012, 10:56:58 pm
Shivering on Hoylake station, waiting for a train home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 09 June, 2012, 11:25:34 pm
Waiting for an email.

*presses refresh*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 June, 2012, 02:39:19 am
Drinking tea to further dilute the considerable (for me) quantity of weak beer I drank earlier - what kind of establishment serves NO hot drinks ???. It's rubbish! I think I'd probably better go to bed now though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 10 June, 2012, 02:48:42 am
Just back home after. Party.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 10 June, 2012, 10:14:55 am
I'm not doing nothing again, my life is so boring
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 10 June, 2012, 10:22:26 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 10 June, 2012, 02:39:19 am
what kind of establishment serves NO hot drinks ???

The Golding Hop in one of the most lovely and remote parts of Kent (nr Ingtham Mote). One of our friends asked for a pot of tea and the landlord replied 'what do you think we are, a restaurant?'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 June, 2012, 10:39:27 am
The Canny Man's, in Morningside, which refused to serve my friend Rhona a hot whisky because "we'd have to boil the kettle" but happily made a coffee for a regular. So, not that they won't serve hot drinks, just that they're arseholes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 June, 2012, 11:54:35 am
Quote from: her_welshness on 10 June, 2012, 10:22:26 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 10 June, 2012, 02:39:19 am
what kind of establishment serves NO hot drinks ???

The Golding Hop in one of the most lovely and remote parts of Kent (nr Ingtham Mote). One of our friends asked for a pot of tea and the landlord replied 'what do you think we are, a restaurant?'

The same visit when the landlord brought my second pint of cider to our table rather than make me wait at the bar while they put on a fresh barrel.  :smug:
Haven't been there in ages.  Must find a ride heading out that way some time this summer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 10 June, 2012, 12:32:31 pm
On the subject of hot drinks in pubs, I have always wondered why motoring clubs arrange club meets in pubs, especially ones that don't serve food, tea and coffee.
Having driven to a meet it seems stupid to only have coke (or J2O) or alcohol as the options for the evening.
A nice cafe would be much more sensible.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 10 June, 2012, 01:12:25 pm
I am currently finding out the answer to:
'So how difficult can it be changing the duvet cover on a king size duvet while sitting on the sofa with the said duvet and with no ability to stand up with it as my leg is in a cast?'

So far the answer is 'not easy!' but I have all day to get it done now.

Next question will be:
So how difficult can it be hanging up a damp, laundered duvet cover over the shower curtain rail in the bathroom to dry while still having my leg in a cast?'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 10 June, 2012, 01:19:20 pm
 :facepalm:  (but in a very affectionate good way)

Taking it easy then?

I'd suggest asking your folks to help. but I think it might be possible to lose both of them inside a kingsize duvet cover!

Have you got any nice strong clips to hand? Clothes pegs, bulldog clips etc? Might help to hold one end of the duvet in place inside the cover while you manoeuvre the rest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 June, 2012, 01:29:34 pm
I'm sipping tea at Embankment cafe, wondering of I have any more excuses not to go to the stupidmarket.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 10 June, 2012, 01:41:38 pm
Quote from: Arch on 10 June, 2012, 01:19:20 pm
:facepalm:  (but in a very affectionate good way)

Taking it easy then?

I'd suggest asking your folks to help. but I think it might be possible to lose both of them inside a kingsize duvet cover!

Have you got any nice strong clips to hand? Clothes pegs, bulldog clips etc? Might help to hold one end of the duvet in place inside the cover while you manoeuvre the rest.
Done! :thumbsup: :smug:

The faff comes tonight when I spend all night trying to get the folds and creases out of it. :facepalm:

I can't change the sheet on the mattress though, not even going to attempt that one until you get here. :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 10 June, 2012, 01:43:09 pm
Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 10 June, 2012, 01:41:38 pm
Quote from: Arch on 10 June, 2012, 01:19:20 pm
:facepalm:  (but in a very affectionate good way)

Taking it easy then?

I'd suggest asking your folks to help. but I think it might be possible to lose both of them inside a kingsize duvet cover!

Have you got any nice strong clips to hand? Clothes pegs, bulldog clips etc? Might help to hold one end of the duvet in place inside the cover while you manoeuvre the rest.
Done! :thumbsup: :smug:

The faff comes tonight when I spend all night trying to get the folds and creases out of it. :facepalm:

I can't change the sheet on the mattress though, not even going to attempt that one. :-*

Good.  I can do it when I'm over.  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 June, 2012, 01:51:33 pm
Failing to create a bootable USB drive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 June, 2012, 05:26:27 pm
Waiting for the email backlog to clear (20 min. cycle).  Usually I wouldn't care and just go home, but I'm waiting for a document I need to circulate today.  It has been sent (at least twice) so I must sit here and wait for it to clear the queue.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 11 June, 2012, 06:26:09 pm
Sitting in (yet) another hotel room, wondering how long I should wait before wandering off to find food and BEER

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 June, 2012, 11:40:52 am
Looking through a thousand databases of charities to see if I can find one which will assist someone to get a wet floor shower. No luck so far.

Also, hiccupping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 12 June, 2012, 11:55:52 am
*Hiccoughing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 12 June, 2012, 11:56:05 am
Reviewing a 145 page CFD paper  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 12 June, 2012, 11:56:45 am
Quote from: bobb on 12 June, 2012, 11:55:52 am
*Hiccoughing

BOO!!! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Karla on 12 June, 2012, 11:59:15 am
I'm having a big academic grump.  I thought I had a really good idea and had spent a couple of weeks working on it, but someone else has just published the very same idea.  Hey, at least they show that I was right.  Still, that's another thesis chapter and journal article that I don't get to write :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 12 June, 2012, 12:42:40 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 12 June, 2012, 11:40:52 am
Looking through a thousand databases of charities to see if I can find one which will assist someone to get a wet floor shower. No luck so far.

Also, hiccupping.

Wot, no DFG?  I spend a fair bit of my time on similar hunts, but for help to get people warm in winter.  And don't mention "Warm Front", unless a swift kick appeals...  The Government have made sure that scheme is no use to almost anyone, thus saving money to spend on giving it to rich old people in Winter Fuel Payments, including higher rate taxpayers.

Also, wot mcshroom said... (no, not about the CFD paper)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 June, 2012, 12:59:50 pm
It's HIGs in Scotland, not DFGs, and he only gets 80% of the cost because he's not in receipt of the qualifying benefits he would need to get 100%.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 June, 2012, 01:06:25 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 12 June, 2012, 11:56:45 am
Quote from: bobb on 12 June, 2012, 11:55:52 am
*Hiccoughing

BOO!!! ;D

I did that to barakta once.  Cured them instantly... by inducing a panic attack  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 June, 2012, 03:13:25 pm
Ordering concert tickets :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 June, 2012, 07:12:09 pm
Recovering, briefly, from the day.  By gum, that were a toughie.  And preparing to once more enter the fray.... small boy hair washing ahoy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 12 June, 2012, 08:38:05 pm
Pondering on having to get up tomorrow morning at sparrow fart o'clock (4am), so I can get up and ready for helping with a dawn wader bird survey at a local nature reserve.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 June, 2012, 08:42:57 pm
Waiting to see if Pingu's going to try to dissuade me from doing something daft on Friday or just collapse under the weight of my own apathy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 12 June, 2012, 09:09:33 pm
Drinking red wine and about to have a soak in a hot bath. Then sleep, many many sleeps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 12 June, 2012, 10:54:27 pm
I'm sitting in a railway station, got a ticket for my destination. Woo hop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 June, 2012, 11:11:54 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 12 June, 2012, 10:54:27 pm
I'm sitting in a railway station, got a ticket for my destination. Woo hop.

Are you on a tour of One Night stands? Do you have a suitcase and guitar in hand?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 12 June, 2012, 11:40:48 pm
I'm on a midnight train to nowhere. Sadly no guitar or suitcase but I know every engineer on every train, all of the children and all of their games.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 13 June, 2012, 12:15:49 am
Sodium lamps on red iron oxide paint. Crossing the Forth Bridge with a wonderful view of the lights of Rosyth. And so it would be time to head to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 13 June, 2012, 09:02:39 am
I'm thinking is this going to be a another boring day like yesterday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 June, 2012, 09:29:58 am
Waiting for our team away day to start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 June, 2012, 04:08:27 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 12 June, 2012, 08:38:05 pm
Pondering on having to get up tomorrow morning at sparrow fart o'clock (4am), so I can get up and ready for helping with a dawn wader bird survey at a local nature reserve.

And the early start was worth it, as we saw a wee fluffy wuffy lapwing chicky wicky.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 13 June, 2012, 04:23:33 pm
Is that the scientific name?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 June, 2012, 04:40:36 pm
Quote from: Julian on 13 June, 2012, 04:23:33 pm
Is that the scientific name?  ;D
No.
That would be fluffyus wuffyus lapwingus chickius ;)
We've got lapwings nesting in the field just across the railway line - fortunately, their random dive-bombing antics seem to have settled down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 June, 2012, 07:35:28 am
Waiting to see the Olympic Torch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 June, 2012, 07:57:12 am
Looking at an Islabike Rothan with a view to buying, in being Martha's 2nd birthday in less than a fortnight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 14 June, 2012, 11:52:29 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 June, 2012, 07:57:12 am
Looking at an Islabike Rothan with a view to buying, in being Martha's 2nd birthday in less than a fortnight.

Woohoo! :D

Lucky Martha :).

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Riggers on 14 June, 2012, 11:57:59 am
Trying to sort out Personal Tax details for accountants, and looking at a projected yearly pension around £1,500 per year should I wish to take it in 2016. Hhmmmmmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 14 June, 2012, 12:00:33 pm
Having an early lunch and then off for a ride before the rain comes
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 14 June, 2012, 12:43:06 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 14 June, 2012, 12:00:33 pm
Having an early lunch and then off for a ride before the rain comes
Yay! Glad you've found something to do :).


I'm taking a break from stitching GBR to a small YACF shirt so that one of my charges can be a (pretty inaccurate!) olympic cyclist at school tomorrow :). I've got a team GB flag to sew to the front. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 June, 2012, 02:21:29 pm
Packing for my, unbelievably, THIRD SBA this year!

Roll on Saturday morning, when we head off down to the Chunnel :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 June, 2012, 02:26:25 pm
Crossing my fingers and toes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 14 June, 2012, 02:51:06 pm
Sitting in front of a computer here in the corporate outpost of Cirith Ungol doing Risk Assesments.
I'm cross-eyed with it now, and the weather seems fair still.

Think I'm going to sneak off and ride home shortly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 14 June, 2012, 03:02:19 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 14 June, 2012, 12:43:06 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 14 June, 2012, 12:00:33 pm
Having an early lunch and then off for a ride before the rain comes
Yay! Glad you've found something to do :).


I'm taking a break from stitching GBR to a small YACF shirt so that one of my charges can be a (pretty inaccurate!) olympic cyclist at school tomorrow :). I've got a team GB flag to sew to the front. :)

It now says HOY on the back as well as having the team GB flag on the front and a keyring + an olympic lanyard ( ::-)) + some gold butter paper = a medal :D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 June, 2012, 03:04:19 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 14 June, 2012, 03:02:19 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 14 June, 2012, 12:43:06 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 14 June, 2012, 12:00:33 pm
Having an early lunch and then off for a ride before the rain comes
Yay! Glad you've found something to do :).


I'm taking a break from stitching GBR to a small YACF shirt so that one of my charges can be a (pretty inaccurate!) olympic cyclist at school tomorrow :). I've got a team GB flag to sew to the front. :)

It now says HOY on the back as well as having the team GB flag on the front and a keyring + an olympic lanyard ( ::-)) + some gold butter paper = a medal :D.

You, madam, are ingenious and I might just steal your idea for when TLD is doing the Olympics thing this 1/2 term....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 June, 2012, 03:37:31 pm
I am icing my knee. Since both knees has form for cycling-induced hurtiness now they have to take it in turns because I have 2 dodgy knees and only one ice pack  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 14 June, 2012, 05:12:22 pm
Just done one of those online psychometric profiling application survey things for a part time job at a local super market.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 June, 2012, 05:17:21 pm
Eating a bagel in sunny campsite just north of Eureka!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 June, 2012, 07:04:16 pm
Quote from: Feline on 14 June, 2012, 03:37:31 pm
I am icing my knee. Since both knees has form for cycling-induced hurtiness now they have to take it in turns because I have 2 dodgy knees and only one ice pack  :facepalm:

Cycling would be a lot simpler without all these knees, I reckon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 June, 2012, 07:22:01 pm
Quote from: Kim on 14 June, 2012, 07:04:16 pm
Quote from: Feline on 14 June, 2012, 03:37:31 pm
I am icing my knee. Since both knees has form for cycling-induced hurtiness now they have to take it in turns because I have 2 dodgy knees and only one ice pack  :facepalm:

Cycling would be a lot simpler without all these knees, I reckon.

Yes, I have already sacked them and told them their replacements will be titanium!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 June, 2012, 08:59:23 pm
Making fish puns on MercuryKev's facebook page.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 June, 2012, 09:12:26 pm
Sleeping bag, check.
Snacks, check.
Ti fork, check,
Rubbish weather forecast, check.
Midge hat....er no :(

Preparing for a long weekend camping....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 June, 2012, 09:13:45 pm
You'll not need the midge hat.The midges have sense enough to stay indoors when iot rains.
hth
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 June, 2012, 09:19:30 pm
Tents count as indoors, thobut.  DAHIKT.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 June, 2012, 09:28:20 pm
Haha, true kim!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 June, 2012, 09:32:27 pm
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4054/4341204339_57fd3b0cec_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4341204339/)
IMG_0044 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4341204339/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr


*makes Sideshow Bob shuddering noise*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 June, 2012, 10:37:48 pm
Draining the phone battery by listening to James Yorkston while footling on t'forum as I wait for the 10.38 TPE home on a rather blustery platform in Thirsk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 14 June, 2012, 10:42:08 pm
Watching 'Tumbledown'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 14 June, 2012, 11:28:14 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 14 June, 2012, 09:32:27 pm
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4054/4341204339_57fd3b0cec_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4341204339/)
IMG_0044 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4341204339/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr


*makes Sideshow Bob shuddering noise*
I'm now scared to go to bed as I'll have nightmares.
Also *makes Sideshow Bob shuddering noise*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 14 June, 2012, 11:36:37 pm
+1

"Yeeureeureuurrh".

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 June, 2012, 07:48:39 am
Getting ready to drive to BiL's funeral.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 June, 2012, 08:21:49 am
Avoiding work as much as possible....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 15 June, 2012, 10:44:33 am
Quote from: tiermat on 14 June, 2012, 03:04:19 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 14 June, 2012, 03:02:19 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 14 June, 2012, 12:43:06 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 14 June, 2012, 12:00:33 pm
Having an early lunch and then off for a ride before the rain comes
Yay! Glad you've found something to do :).


I'm taking a break from stitching GBR to a small YACF shirt so that one of my charges can be a (pretty inaccurate!) olympic cyclist at school tomorrow :). I've got a team GB flag to sew to the front. :)

It now says HOY on the back as well as having the team GB flag on the front and a keyring + an olympic lanyard ( ::-)) + some gold butter paper = a medal :D.

You, madam, are ingenious and I might just steal your idea for when TLD is doing the Olympics thing this 1/2 term....
Insulating tape from asda for the writing :).

Quote from: Feline on 14 June, 2012, 03:37:31 pm
I am icing my knee.

Butter or Royal?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 June, 2012, 10:52:00 am
Makes me wonder how much tape I will need for "Romero" or "Pendleton" :)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 15 June, 2012, 11:11:50 am
You might need to fatten up TLD so you have more space to write on ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 June, 2012, 11:12:22 am
Good point.

You're so clever, though. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 June, 2012, 12:17:58 am
Doing the slightly weird thing of stuffing bike shoes into a pannier, because travelling to a cycle ride by car is almost as unnatural as being organised in the morning, and I've learned from the mistakes of others.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 16 June, 2012, 12:25:06 am
I am at work and pretty pissed off with it tonight. So much retardedness going on I am becoming very cynical about people in general. Forgot to bring my antihistamines too and my eyes have flared up badly. Not much joy to look forward to either since I'm also working tomorrow night. Bring on 9am Sunday morning!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 June, 2012, 04:56:45 am
Getting ready for a Silly_Bkieless_Adeventure....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jezzasnr on 16 June, 2012, 06:11:48 am
Sat on M5 northbound waiting recovery after filling the van with petrol rather than diesel.
I is mainly a tw@t
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 June, 2012, 06:30:31 am
Sitting on Heathrow Express (under duress) wondering if I'll have time for brekkie before boarding time.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 June, 2012, 07:27:08 am
Quote from: Andrij on 16 June, 2012, 06:30:31 am
Sitting on Heathrow Express (under duress) wondering if I'll have time for brekkie before boarding time.

Plenty of time for coffee and a croissant before boarding.

Wondering if I should try to find the owner of Android#### who is 'sharing' a unsecured wifi signal and warn/thank them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 16 June, 2012, 07:39:04 am
Getting ready for a short train/ride to meet Jogler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 June, 2012, 07:41:31 am
eating porridge
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 June, 2012, 07:42:54 am
Quote from: andrewc on 16 June, 2012, 07:39:04 am
Getting ready for a short train/ride to meet Jogler.

getting ready for a ride/train to meet andrewc
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cyclone on 16 June, 2012, 08:16:41 am
Trying to summon the energy to start on the days chores interspersed with much hobbling - dishes, washing, fixing lawnmower exhaust, fencing an extended chicken patch and waiting for time to pass before I can get back on the bike.... ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 16 June, 2012, 09:07:43 am
House work
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 16 June, 2012, 09:13:56 am
Waiting for Mr R to get back from the supermarket so I can have some breakfast...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 June, 2012, 09:51:37 am
Feeling a bit icky about the realisation that the funny tickling at the nape of my neck while I was dozing on the megabus was in fact the fingers of the chap in the seat behind me, and that it felt oddly deliberate. I discovered this when I sleepily scratched the back of my neck and instead of it being the clasp of my necklace, as I'd expected, I found a hand. Personal space, people!

But I'm on an EM train heading towards St Pancras and a weekend of social and silly with lots of good ppl, some forumites and some not. Oh, and frocks. And heels. Most odd...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 16 June, 2012, 09:58:54 am
Lying in bed reading the forum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 June, 2012, 10:43:32 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 16 June, 2012, 09:51:37 am
Feeling a bit icky about the realisation that the funny tickling at the nape of my neck while I was dozing on the megabus was in fact the fingers of the chap in the seat behind me, and that it felt oddly deliberate. I discovered this when I sleepily scratched the back of my neck and instead of it being the clasp of my necklace, as I'd expected, I found a hand. Personal space, people!

Eeew!  :sick:

I suppose I'm lucky that coaches make me horribly travelsick.  From what I hear, they seem to be the transport of choice for people with personal space issues.   :hand:


Meanwhile, I'm being awake and wondering whether Postman Piers has managed to achieve the same...

News just in: he has.  Don't think we're going to make it to Brizzle by midday, though, unless he's planning on coming by parachute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 16 June, 2012, 11:39:10 am
I'm on a train on my way back from riding the first night of the Fridays LonJOG. By taking 4 trains instead of 2, I've managed to save £20 and get 4 miles closer:-).
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 June, 2012, 11:51:06 am
Relaxing in my hotel, waiting for my room.  I should have a good three hours to continue relaxing before I have to sing for my supper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 June, 2012, 12:03:58 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 16 June, 2012, 11:39:10 am
I'm on a train on my way back from riding the first night of the Fridays LonJOG. By taking 4 trains instead of 2, I've managed to save £20 and get 4 miles closer:-).

I'm not sure if that's a win.  Generally after a night ride, I want to avoid as much bikes-on-trains shenanigans as possible!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 June, 2012, 01:00:22 pm
I appear to be in a pub on the Grays Inn Road, with rower40, tiptop and Gattopardo, drinking speckled hen for breakfast. Huzzah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 June, 2012, 01:02:13 pm
I'm still not in Bristol, indeed, I'm still at home.  But I have had some lunch.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 16 June, 2012, 01:20:12 pm
I'm sitting in the Summertrees Tea Room at Kelsall waiting for lunch.
I rode from Chester to Winsford via canal towpath, quiet lanes & muddy bridleways. A few miles of A road was the only bad bit.
Met Jogler at the station and he's now riding home with my old Akto on his rack. I'm now retracing my route back homewards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 16 June, 2012, 09:40:36 pm
Lying on my hotel bed in Calais watching Le Mans having dined on scallops in garlic and drunk Hooegarden beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 16 June, 2012, 10:57:08 pm
Digesting baked potatoes and cheese. Drinking green tea. Watching the football. Writing C++.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 June, 2012, 12:31:19 am
Lying on my downmat on Meegat's floor in Bristol. I can hear Weather outside...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 17 June, 2012, 12:55:10 am
Watching Sharpe, not sleeping and feeling very irked by it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 17 June, 2012, 01:14:10 am
Drinking camomile tea whilst watching The Camomile Lawn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 17 June, 2012, 02:45:13 am
Listening to Crusty snoring in a youth hostel bunk bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 June, 2012, 06:24:12 am
Drinking coffee in Hertford's Very Finest Hotel i.e. round at my mates SteveAndMartin's gaffe.  The staff are lovely, and the rates exceptionally reasonable.  Shortly I shall consider a shower and stuff, the get chauffeured to somewhere in That LonDon.  With a cake, and a frock, and my heels in my bag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 17 June, 2012, 06:54:57 am
Trying to convince my brain that 4 hours' sleep is indeed sufficient and it's time to wake up.

Not having much luck yet!   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si_Co on 17 June, 2012, 08:57:40 am
Trying to find the enthusiasm to take a nice clean shiny bike out in the rain
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 17 June, 2012, 09:04:17 am
Lying in bed reading the forum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 17 June, 2012, 09:17:23 am
Still not sleeping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 17 June, 2012, 09:53:46 am
Letting Kai in and out.

The cat flap is locked outwards (to keep Zev in), so once he comes in, he can't get out.  He'll sit by the back door and demand to be let out, which I'll do.  A couple of minutes later there will be yowls, and he's sitting outside the door loudly demanding to be let back in, even though the cat flap, around the back of the house, would work fine.

I've done it about five times now ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 June, 2012, 11:49:18 am
I've just erected my newtome Atko on the back lawn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: AndyK on 17 June, 2012, 12:12:13 pm
Watching Man vs Food on Dave. It seems in the USA 'gourmet cooking' means 'add five pounds of cheese'.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 June, 2012, 04:39:23 pm
Enjoying a final pint of Guinness before my return from Dublin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 June, 2012, 04:45:49 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 17 June, 2012, 04:39:23 pm
Enjoying a final pint of Guinness before my return from Dublin.
Are you in the bar upstairs?  The guinness is surprisingly not bad.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 June, 2012, 04:51:31 pm
Quote from: Basil on 17 June, 2012, 04:45:49 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 17 June, 2012, 04:39:23 pm
Enjoying a final pint of Guinness before my return from Dublin.
Are you in the bar upstairs?  The guinness is surprisingly not bad.

Terminal 1, near the BMI gates. Not the best I've had, but better than most in London. In spite of spending at least a week each year over here I have yet to do the brewery tour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 June, 2012, 12:38:52 am
Pondering the large wheal on my left hip, the result of a presumed attack (I don't remember being bitten/stung, just scratching an itch and finding the lump) by some kind of Sustrans path beastie in the vicinity of Pill[1] yesterday.  It's itching like a bastard, and barakta's been making concerned noises based on some invisible redness.

My plan is to take lots of antihistamine, and ignore it.  If my leg falls off, I'll rethink that strategy, but not before then.  I learned my lesson[2] last time.


[1] Yes, I know.  I'm never going there again.
[2] As a woman under the age of about 40 I'm inherently a hysterical timewaster, so it can't possibly be infected.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 19 June, 2012, 02:55:52 am
Lying in bed intensely not asleep, despite being more tired than a tired thing...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 June, 2012, 06:20:29 am
Lying in ebd reading the forum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 June, 2012, 09:07:47 am
Sitting at the airport thinking I really, really need a holiday. Almost 8 weeks to wait though :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Riggers on 19 June, 2012, 09:49:44 am
Does anybody else think: "Hmmmm, has she lost it or what!?"

Go home Doc Squid.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 June, 2012, 10:17:33 am
Quote from: Riggers on 19 June, 2012, 09:49:44 am
Does anybody else think: "Hmmmm, has she lost it or what!?"

Go home Doc Squid.

 ??? ??? ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 19 June, 2012, 10:31:03 am
 ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Riggers on 19 June, 2012, 10:39:04 am
Ah, yes. I see what's happened here. Typing error. My secretary's totally to blame, and don't you worry, I'll be having harsh words with her immediately!!

What I meant to say was Mrs. Pingu.

There. I hope that deals with any confusion caused.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 19 June, 2012, 11:10:37 am
All is cleared up.

I do agree with you. 8 weeks waiting in an airport does seem a tad excessive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 June, 2012, 12:57:20 pm
I dunno. Changi airport is nicer than my flat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 June, 2012, 01:02:46 pm
Waiting to go to my hospital appointment
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 19 June, 2012, 02:02:37 pm
Sitting in the last cafe in England with about 40 other lonjoggers
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 19 June, 2012, 02:10:12 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 19 June, 2012, 02:02:37 pm
Sitting in the last cafe in England with about 40 other lonjoggers
*waves*

Green with envy here! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 June, 2012, 03:00:40 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 19 June, 2012, 01:02:46 pm
Waiting to go to my hospital appointment

I hope it goes well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 June, 2012, 03:40:53 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 19 June, 2012, 02:02:37 pm
Sitting in the last cafe in England with about 40 other lonjoggers

Enjoy Scotland!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 June, 2012, 03:52:17 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 19 June, 2012, 03:00:40 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 19 June, 2012, 01:02:46 pm
Waiting to go to my hospital appointment

I hope it goes well.
Thanks it did  :thumbsup:

I've got an MRI scan on Friday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 June, 2012, 03:53:12 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 19 June, 2012, 03:52:17 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 19 June, 2012, 03:00:40 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 19 June, 2012, 01:02:46 pm
Waiting to go to my hospital appointment

I hope it goes well.
Thanks it did  :thumbsup:

good-o :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 June, 2012, 04:35:57 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 19 June, 2012, 03:52:17 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 19 June, 2012, 03:00:40 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 19 June, 2012, 01:02:46 pm
Waiting to go to my hospital appointment

I hope it goes well.
Thanks it did  :thumbsup:

I've got an MRI scan on Friday

I'm glad it went well.  Good luck for Friday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 June, 2012, 07:02:38 pm
Working, and in the process watching my likelihood of joining in for Midnight Madness slipping away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 June, 2012, 08:30:04 pm
Half watching football and half watching grand designs, while My DH watches football in the living room with friends.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 19 June, 2012, 08:33:44 pm
Sitting in a pub where the footy is on in the other bar.
It's remarkably quiet, so I assume the match is a bit boring or everyone has decided it's far too nice an evening to be stuck in a stuffy pub!

S
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 19 June, 2012, 08:44:07 pm
Rather confusedly watching the football. Not my idea, but the company, pizza, beer type drinkage and nachos make it kind of worth it ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 19 June, 2012, 09:17:19 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 19 June, 2012, 08:33:44 pm
Sitting in a pub where the footy is on in the other bar.
It's remarkably quiet, so I assume the match is a bit boring or everyone has decided it's far too nice an evening to be stuck in a stuffy pub!

S
They've been much noisier since the goal!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 June, 2012, 12:39:52 am
Lying in bed reading the forum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 20 June, 2012, 12:42:08 am
Quote from: Jaded on 20 June, 2012, 12:39:52 am
Lying in bed reading the forum.

Just don't make a habit of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 20 June, 2012, 04:20:10 am
Watching a beautiful sunrise .......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 20 June, 2012, 04:44:01 am
about to take mrsmike to the airport, then drive to york and back.  Joy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 June, 2012, 09:00:21 am
Waking up in order to get myself to Sutton Coldfield, where I am going to spend the morning on the PushBikes stall fixing punctures and brakes on BSOs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 20 June, 2012, 03:14:19 pm
Watching an old video tape.
QED 'A Guide To Armageddon' from 1983.

Quite traumatic watching in its day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 20 June, 2012, 03:48:09 pm
staring at the Forth Bridge :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 June, 2012, 03:52:49 pm
DON'T JUMP  :hand:

I'll text the telephone number of the Samaritan's


actually,it's on engraved plates screwed to the handrail at regular intervals
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 June, 2012, 04:04:55 pm
Sitting up, reading the forum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 20 June, 2012, 06:58:49 pm
Feeling somewhat tired, and covered in grass, after a day strimming today,  since I got my strimmer / brush cutter license on tuesday! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 20 June, 2012, 07:29:52 pm
Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 20 June, 2012, 03:14:19 pm
Watching an old video tape.
QED 'A Guide To Armageddon' from 1983.

Quite traumatic watching in its day.

Just watched that on the Youtube.

Chilling stuff! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 June, 2012, 09:24:35 pm
Sitting in a hotel room, at another airport, wishing I was home already, thinking even harder I need a holiday and trying desperately to ignore the siren song of the minibar and snack tray.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 June, 2012, 02:08:08 pm
Thinking I probably shouldn't have ignored the "Serves 2-3" on the packaging, and instead ate the whole pack of noodles. With chicken.

(burp)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 June, 2012, 02:21:55 pm
Looking for garlic. The train is about to stop at Grantham.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 21 June, 2012, 03:43:18 pm
Cooking a roast chicken with some of the trimmings.  Trying to talk myself into a wet bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 June, 2012, 05:00:24 pm
Train spotting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 21 June, 2012, 05:08:59 pm
Drinking hot chocolate in Dalwhinne after negotiating the travesty that is the Dromocter pass awake path. It was a bit cold up there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 June, 2012, 07:02:03 am
Supping tea at Kings Cross station.  Butterfly has just gone to catch her train to York.  I'll soon be setting off home, but I'll be back here in about twelve hours to make the journey myself.

It's a bit of an odd feeling, seeing someone off at the station.  Not something I do much any more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 June, 2012, 09:12:09 am
Being grumpy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 22 June, 2012, 09:31:49 am
I'm just off for an MRI scan, good job it's not a brain scan we would be there all day  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 22 June, 2012, 09:35:02 am
Quote from: numbnuts on 22 June, 2012, 09:31:49 am
I'm just off for an MRI scan, good job it's not a brain scan we would be there all day  ;D

All the best Numbnuts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 June, 2012, 09:41:28 am
Seeing as I have an attack of ICBA I'm declaring a POETS day with immediate effect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 June, 2012, 10:29:37 am
I'm now going to laminate a route sheet jic I decide not to DNS tomorrow due to inclement weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 22 June, 2012, 07:21:12 pm
A1 North. Passenger, not driver.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 June, 2012, 07:29:28 pm
Having my tea.
Then a bit more Arduino hacking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 22 June, 2012, 07:37:30 pm
After printing off the recipe from the website, shopping for the missing ingredients (or nearest equivalent; they didn't have bay leaves so I used Baileys, that kind of thing), then a frenzy of peeling, chopping, slicing, more chopping (*), stirring, burning, staunching the arterial flow, and mixing, I'm now sitting back while the unholy mixture on the stove simmers for 90 minutes.

(*) Its one of they extremely sharp ceramic knives.  One wrong move, and you won't know it until you look at your watch half an hour later, and discover your arm's not there.

Then it'll be time to cook the pasta itself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 June, 2012, 07:47:08 pm
Drinking a very welcome pint at the Dornoch bridge inn. We should reach JOG tommorrow :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 June, 2012, 08:23:14 pm
Browsing the Ultimate Model Paint Conversion Chart:

http://www.paint4models.com/paintchart/paintconversionchart20100101d.htm (http://www.paint4models.com/paintchart/paintconversionchart20100101d.htm)

Did you know that Humbrol Light Grey Acrylic #196 has an equivalent RGB value of #DEDEDA  ?

No? Well now you do!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 June, 2012, 08:33:28 pm
I worked 60 hours this week and have been descended on my relatives. I spent hours cleaning the bathroom and laundering spare bedding and am now cooking the dinner. My mother expected her dinner on the table at 6pm. She can do one  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 22 June, 2012, 08:37:35 pm
Quote from: Feline on 22 June, 2012, 08:33:28 pm
I worked 60 hours this week and have been descended on my relatives. I spent hours cleaning the bathroom and laundering spare bedding and am now cooking the dinner. My mother expected her dinner on the table at 6pm. She can do one  ;D

What are you having ?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 22 June, 2012, 08:53:27 pm
Eating pizza and observing just how much it's made my nose run...

Rather more jalapenos on that than I was expecting!   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: seraphina on 22 June, 2012, 08:57:18 pm
Panicing about tomorow's weather forecast. Cycling Belfast to Dublin and a)the weather's shocking and b)we've hardly done any long rides for ages and are feeling woefully underprepared.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 22 June, 2012, 09:27:09 pm
Sitting in my nice warm tent thinking that I might be anti-social and miss out on the beer and food. :-[ ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 June, 2012, 10:41:43 pm
The kittehs are fighting for possession of my lap in the absence of the 2nd best lap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 23 June, 2012, 09:10:00 am
Ours stare each other out for lap possession.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 June, 2012, 09:12:05 am
Yeah, Mojo came and stood on my lower legs and just loomed until Pippin moved. They don't get on much but Mojo only wants my lap cos his man isn't here, I never normally have the pleasure of his company!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 June, 2012, 09:13:34 am
Sitting in a cafe reading the forum.

Awaiting Avalon Audaxers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 23 June, 2012, 10:01:34 am
Just risen from my bed.The laziest start to the day for years :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 June, 2012, 10:03:48 am
Nagging cubs.  So that we can go for a bike ride :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 23 June, 2012, 10:25:34 am
Taking a five minute break between putting the tent away (it's finally dry following the Jubilee holiday  :thumbsup: ) and heading into the maelstrom which is  Yeovil on a Saturday morning  :sick:.

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 23 June, 2012, 02:08:25 pm
Drinking tea, and trying to regain some nerves after just driving through some of the worst rain I've ever driven through! :o

Considering that my work vehicle has a top speed of 12mph, and usually I don't drive apart from that, driving a car on the motorway in visibility of about a yard and a half was a bit of a baptism of fire. Well, water. But that would just be a baptism, I guess.



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 June, 2012, 02:36:47 pm
Laundry.
It's actually relatively dry in York today (well, a few spits and spots but nothing like yesterday) and quite windy so I'm getting the bath towels etc. out on the line before things turn nasty again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 23 June, 2012, 03:38:29 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 June, 2012, 02:36:47 pm
Laundry.
It's actually relatively dry in York today (well, a few spits and spots but nothing like yesterday) and quite windy so I'm getting the bath towels etc. out on the line before things turn nasty again.

Ha! If I were coming back on the train today, I could look out for your washing!

I'm currently trawling the 'net, looking for figures and stuff that might suit my planned 00 scale diorama, a project that's stalled for several years, but which I might kickstart again to play with at MFWHTBAB's house.

He's having a nap, having slept patchily last night, and been on his longest outing for three weeks earlier today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 June, 2012, 04:04:07 pm
Quote from: Arch on 23 June, 2012, 03:38:29 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 June, 2012, 02:36:47 pm
Laundry.
It's actually relatively dry in York today (well, a few spits and spots but nothing like yesterday) and quite windy so I'm getting the bath towels etc. out on the line before things turn nasty again.
I'm currently trawling the 'net, looking for figures and stuff that might suit my planned 00 scale diorama, a project that's stalled for several years, but which I might kickstart again to play with at MFWHTBAB's house.
http://www.gaugemaster.com/index.html - for figures, Preiser are hard to beat, but you pay for quality (actually, they're HO scale but that's close enough for most people, myself included). If you want scenery-type things, look at the range by Noch.

I've just noticed that I have one of my OO-scale micro-layouts on the shelf above me - maybe I should actually blow the dust off and actually finish it ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 June, 2012, 04:40:58 pm
'solo debauchery' - unwinding after visiting my friend & her screaming smalls, while Pingu calls me 'git' by text for being in the pub while he's on the Mille Alba :) 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 23 June, 2012, 05:07:50 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 June, 2012, 04:04:07 pm
Quote from: Arch on 23 June, 2012, 03:38:29 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 June, 2012, 02:36:47 pm
Laundry.
It's actually relatively dry in York today (well, a few spits and spots but nothing like yesterday) and quite windy so I'm getting the bath towels etc. out on the line before things turn nasty again.
I'm currently trawling the 'net, looking for figures and stuff that might suit my planned 00 scale diorama, a project that's stalled for several years, but which I might kickstart again to play with at MFWHTBAB's house.
http://www.gaugemaster.com/index.html - for figures, Preiser are hard to beat, but you pay for quality (actually, they're HO scale but that's close enough for most people, myself included). If you want scenery-type things, look at the range by Noch.

I've just noticed that I have one of my OO-scale micro-layouts on the shelf above me - maybe I should actually blow the dust off and actually finish it ;)

Just scrolled through 74 pages of figures on Gaugemaster. Wonderful stuff. So much variety and imagination.

But not a single sodding archaeologist.

Guess what I want.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 June, 2012, 05:20:16 pm
Quote from: Arch on 23 June, 2012, 05:07:50 pm
Just scrolled through 74 pages of figures on Gaugemaster. Wonderful stuff. So much variety and imagination.

But not a single sodding archaeologist.

Guess what I want.
Sounds like you'll need to take up scalpel and paintbrush and do a bit of kit-bashing :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 23 June, 2012, 05:51:20 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 June, 2012, 05:20:16 pm
Quote from: Arch on 23 June, 2012, 05:07:50 pm
Just scrolled through 74 pages of figures on Gaugemaster. Wonderful stuff. So much variety and imagination.

But not a single sodding archaeologist.

Guess what I want.
Sounds like you'll need to take up scalpel and paintbrush and do a bit of kit-bashing :)

Yup, looks that way!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 23 June, 2012, 11:19:17 pm
drinking beer in a spoons in Wick after completing lonjog earlier today :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 24 June, 2012, 02:02:50 pm
Still sitting in Wick, suffering from a case of the can't be arseds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 June, 2012, 02:32:11 pm
I think you've earned a bit of not being arsed.
Well done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 June, 2012, 02:53:32 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 24 June, 2012, 02:02:50 pm
Still sitting in Wick, suffering from a case of the can't be arseds.

I hope you have a feeling of satisfaction &  :smug:

well done.

It's good practice for a proper E2E :demon: ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 June, 2012, 03:31:05 pm
Just got back top the house after taking TLD to the last of her dancing grade exams.

Now wait two weeks for the results...

Fingers crossed
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 24 June, 2012, 03:50:27 pm
Trying HTFU and go out for a ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 24 June, 2012, 04:36:03 pm
Waiting for cake to cool while watching John Peel's Classic Trucks series on video tape.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 June, 2012, 06:02:52 pm
Putting a desk together.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 June, 2012, 07:27:59 pm
Wondering how I can afford a different house....

http://www.stantonmortimer.co.uk/residential/properties/view/33/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 24 June, 2012, 07:31:04 pm
Washing all my cycling kit after finally making it to Thurso through the head wind
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 24 June, 2012, 07:38:47 pm
Playing with 'say hi' on my iPad. I keep saying 'je voudrais un peu de gateau sil vous plait' into the French to English translator, but it thinks I'm asking for a 'a father of four'???  Also DH has suddenly gone French deaf and is also ignoring my request.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2012, 08:35:45 pm
Wallowing in self pity and chocolate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 June, 2012, 08:44:35 pm
Resting and refuelling after reaching San Francisco! Mm, ginger granola and maple yoghurt. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 June, 2012, 09:02:29 pm
Don't forget to wear a flower in your hair :thumbsup:

Make that two,one for Woolly 'cause he can't,unless he puts it in his beard ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 24 June, 2012, 10:00:06 pm
Watching England play football in a Scottish pub surrounded by a coach party of Germans.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 June, 2012, 10:03:22 pm
Drinking wine while Crusty rubs my poor feet. Feeling a strange urge to purr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 June, 2012, 10:06:28 pm
Hunting around for the best deals of various bike stuffs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 24 June, 2012, 10:31:26 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 June, 2012, 10:06:28 pm
Hunting around for the best deals of various bike stuffs.

Temptation, thy name is ebay...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 June, 2012, 10:33:20 pm
Quote from: Ham on 24 June, 2012, 10:31:26 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 June, 2012, 10:06:28 pm
Hunting around for the best deals of various bike stuffs.

Temptation, thy name is ebay...

Just so long as I only look at bits, rather than whole bikes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 June, 2012, 08:29:51 am
Fannying about waiting for a roofer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 June, 2012, 08:38:17 am
Drinking coffee, sitting in the garden in my dressing gown.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 June, 2012, 08:57:08 am
I never knew you had a garden in your dressing gown!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 25 June, 2012, 09:00:36 am
I'm doing the washing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 25 June, 2012, 09:01:53 am
Logistics made cycling impractical today (cycle 13 miles east to Canary Wharf, sewer to all say meeting in the City then sewer to Canary a wharf before cycling home) so took the sewer all the way in. Now stupidly early so having coffee
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 25 June, 2012, 09:32:50 am
Trying to work without a voice.  I have a croak but nothing more.  I asked admin to put a message on my answer phone saying email instead of calling, I've lost my voice.  People are now emailing me to ask if I have looked in lost property for it, and where was the lat place I had it. Ha ha ha.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 June, 2012, 09:39:31 am
Trying to get my work laptop to, errr, work and looking for best prices on laptop screens for Mrs T's laptop (the two things are mutually exclusive)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 25 June, 2012, 08:06:55 pm
I'm sitting around the house with toothpaste over various parts of my face.  I have a case of geriatric acne.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 26 June, 2012, 12:29:15 am
Sitting here dreading going to work tomorrow and emailing prospective employers so that I don't have to dread going to work in the morning . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 June, 2012, 02:44:28 am
Quote from: torslanda on 26 June, 2012, 12:29:15 am
Sitting here dreading going to work tomorrow and emailing prospective employers so that I don't have to dread going to work in the morning . . .

How utterly miserable. You poor sod.  Good luck with the job search.

I am sitting down for a bit  The first time I've been able to sit with a nice cup of tea since we opened the shiny new ward and. Five shifts in seven days. Lovely cup of tea it is.

I've said it now haven't I ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 June, 2012, 03:38:44 am
Ah, I can almost taste that brew, Linda! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 June, 2012, 03:51:02 am
So could I until I posted that. Patient immrdiately desaturated. Another hour on my feet  and tea gone cold. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 June, 2012, 04:08:49 am
Oh bugger. I'd stick the kettle on for you if I could!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 June, 2012, 04:17:44 am
I bet you and Woolly are doing something cool in some gorgeous place!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 June, 2012, 04:25:13 am
In possession of hot tea. All is well B-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 June, 2012, 04:58:11 am
Good news! Enjoy it. As for us, we're being very lazy, resting in San Francisco after riding here from Portland,via Astoria and the Pacific coast. And eating loads! Key lime cheesecake for pudding. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 26 June, 2012, 07:42:34 am
About to open the signalbox for another day of pulling levers on the Bodmin and Wenford railway.  Incident-free overnight journey on board 1C99 The Night Riviera from Paddington.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 June, 2012, 08:11:21 am
I'm lying in bed spodding on an IPad. It's quite annoying because our bedroom is too far from the thin gummy for me to get a reliable signal so I have the wifi hotspot turned on on my phone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 26 June, 2012, 08:25:59 am
Nice DYAC! Defo time to get a wifi extender. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 26 June, 2012, 08:57:28 am
Waiting for the next trip to the loo (number two number one, number two number two and number two number three have been and gone).

 :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 June, 2012, 01:38:17 pm
Trying to catch Twix (the cat) to remove a tick from his ear.....

This might hurt :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 June, 2012, 03:09:49 pm
Train spotting.  (Again)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 June, 2012, 03:24:39 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 24 June, 2012, 07:27:59 pm
Wondering how I can afford a different house....

http://www.stantonmortimer.co.uk/residential/properties/view/33/

Still working it out (see I can multi-task :) )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 26 June, 2012, 07:14:31 pm
Bailed out of my very hilly ride today at Durness so caught the bike bus to Ullapool. Now on my way to get fish and chips, and to look up ferry times.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 27 June, 2012, 10:10:12 am
Sitting on the ferry to Stornoway :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 27 June, 2012, 11:22:10 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 27 June, 2012, 10:10:12 am
Sitting on the ferry to Stornoway :)
Lucky you! Have fun :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 June, 2012, 11:27:12 am
Marj & I are discuusing having electric assist retro-fitted to her Trice.
D.Tek is too far away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 June, 2012, 11:54:25 am
Quote from: jogler on 27 June, 2012, 11:27:12 am
Marj & I are discuusing having electric assist retro-fitted to her Trice.
D.Tek is too far away.

Maybe have a word with this lot, they seem to know their stuff about electrickery: 

http://www.icycle.biz/

I believe there's also an ICE dealer in Kidderminster.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 June, 2012, 12:00:09 pm
thanks Kim :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 27 June, 2012, 06:55:25 pm
Re-reading my 'notice of redundancy' letter which arrived this morning, and thinking that it's taken nearly 2 years to get to this point since Eric Pickles dropped his bombshell about the future of public audit. It doesn't take effect to the end of the year, so I've a bit of time left to polish the CV and get established with the local agencies.

Anybody want a functional test analyst specialising in accessibility ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonyh on 27 June, 2012, 07:09:23 pm
Wishing you well JS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 June, 2012, 07:33:36 pm
Best of luck to you, JStone.

I wonder if there's a vacancy for Eric Pickles' personal trainer and dietitian?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 June, 2012, 07:58:43 pm
Best wishes and good luck with the CV splurging.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 27 June, 2012, 09:18:54 pm
Good luck JStone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 27 June, 2012, 10:38:52 pm
Laying ethernet cable around the building. Surprisingly tiring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dinamo on 28 June, 2012, 01:33:20 am
Just completed the cryptic crossword in yesterdays 'i' newspaper   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 28 June, 2012, 04:41:35 am
Not sleeping
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonb on 28 June, 2012, 05:25:54 am
Ditto. Not sleeping. Up since 4am. Tough times.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 28 June, 2012, 10:27:26 am
Waiting for the Skye ferry and drying out in the terminal. There's a grt big hill between Stornoway and Tarbert that I did't expect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 June, 2012, 11:09:29 am
Trying to find a headset shim that has gone AWOL.
I know its around here somewhere, but I'm buggered if I can find it  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 June, 2012, 11:11:44 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 28 June, 2012, 10:27:26 am
Waiting for the Skye ferry and drying out in the terminal. There's a grt big hill between Stornoway and Tarbert that I did't expect.

the yacf HMRC* had that moved to that location just for you.Mr. plumtree did a recce recently.

*Hard Men&women Riders Committee
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 June, 2012, 11:16:54 am
Downloaded offline malware cleaner disks in an attempt to disinfect FiL's PC :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JonBuoy on 28 June, 2012, 12:47:21 pm
Just surveying the damage from the most impressive rainstorm that I have ever seen.  The 'heavy condensation' that we have complained about for ages was pouring out of quite a few of the office light fittings.  Most of the workshops were flooded.

The highlight was just after the real heavy stuff when a Chinook appeared just outside the office windows and looked like it was going to perform a precautionary landing in the field across the road.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 June, 2012, 12:52:49 pm
Wondering why I've had to come home from work to let a roofer in when at least 6 people in this stair don't work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 28 June, 2012, 01:20:52 pm
Quote from: jogler on 28 June, 2012, 11:11:44 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 28 June, 2012, 10:27:26 am
Waiting for the Skye ferry and drying out in the terminal. There's a grt big hill between Stornoway and Tarbert that I did't expect.
the yacf HMRC* had that moved to that location just for you.Mr. plumtree did a recce recently.

*ahem*
Quote from: billplumtree on 14 June, 2012, 01:25:55 pm
Sat 2 June
Clisham.  One hour of unrelenting ball-grinding double-bastardry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 28 June, 2012, 02:00:39 pm
I'm resting after my 27 mile ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 June, 2012, 02:04:37 pm
Lying in bed with a cup of tea and crusty. Such pleasures must end soon as he has a job from next week. But its still lovely. Tea and cuddles  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 28 June, 2012, 02:33:23 pm
Having a rest after wielding a cast iron pan, not easy on one leg.

I have cooked pasta twists with green pesto, fried onions and red and green peppers, black olives, sun dried tomatoes and feta cheese to take out to an indoor (if raining) picnic this evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 28 June, 2012, 03:57:49 pm
Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 28 June, 2012, 02:33:23 pm
Having a rest after wielding a cast iron pan, not easy on one leg.

I have cooked pasta twists with green pesto, fried onions and red and green peppers, black olives, sun dried tomatoes and feta cheese to take out to an indoor (if raining) picnic this evening.
That sounds very nice :P so what time should I come round  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 28 June, 2012, 04:51:13 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 28 June, 2012, 03:57:49 pm
Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 28 June, 2012, 02:33:23 pm
Having a rest after wielding a cast iron pan, not easy on one leg.

I have cooked pasta twists with green pesto, fried onions and red and green peppers, black olives, sun dried tomatoes and feta cheese to take out to an indoor (if raining) picnic this evening.
That sounds very nice :P so what time should I come round  ;)
It tastes lovely, very tempting to sit and eat it all but must save it to take out.
I will need to get changed into 'going out' clothes in a moment, and then pack everything in a bag, with some cider and fruit juice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 28 June, 2012, 06:11:29 pm
Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 28 June, 2012, 02:33:23 pm
Having a rest after wielding a cast iron pan, not easy on one leg.

I have cooked pasta twists with green pesto, fried onions and red and green peppers, black olives, sun dried tomatoes and feta cheese to take out to an indoor (if raining) picnic this evening.

Nom nom nom!

meanwhile, I'm waiting for some new potatoes to cook and some pre-prepared veg to roast, for my dinner. Both seem to be taking far too long!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 June, 2012, 06:13:40 pm
Waiting for a train. Most TPEs are delayed due to flooding @ Durham
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 June, 2012, 06:52:30 pm
Watching the thunderstorm. It's very good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 28 June, 2012, 09:11:19 pm
Watching Dead Poets' Society
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 28 June, 2012, 11:26:11 pm
Wondering why I haven't crashed with tiredness yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si_Co on 29 June, 2012, 08:43:11 am
Killing time till the school run is done and dusted
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 June, 2012, 05:50:47 pm
Feeling Geeky smugness. I have been channeling The power of Kim.

I flashed a DD-WRT image onto a wireless router without turning it into a brick  :thumbsup:.
I have configured my LAN and WLAN so that there is now local combined DNS and DHCP provided by said router :thumbsup:
I have configured Unison to sync some private seekrit folders (including my KeepAss database) over SSH  :thumbsup:
I have introduced my new Samsung SIII to the LAN, and it found the NAS drive and has been showing off what it can do with it  :thumbsup:
I have introduced XBMC to the LAN, and it found the NAS drive and has been showing off what it can do with it  :thumbsup:
I have installed an iPlayer plugin to XBMC and so I can now watch HIGNFY and Mock the Week  :thumbsup:

Ahh... the wonders of a Windows Free, TV Free Zone  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 June, 2012, 06:11:42 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 29 June, 2012, 05:50:47 pm
Feeling Geeky smugness. I have been channeling The power of Kim.

I flashed a DD-WRT image onto a wireless router without turning it into a brick  :thumbsup:

I don't have a particularly good track record for that one, you know...   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 June, 2012, 06:20:27 pm
Considering going to the theatre.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 June, 2012, 06:30:10 pm
Giggling at selected highlights of the GCSE history exams my friend is marking.  She's hit a rich vein of teh stupid.   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 June, 2012, 07:46:05 pm
I think you should be sharing, Kim.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 June, 2012, 07:53:16 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 June, 2012, 07:46:05 pm
I think you should be sharing, Kim.

No! Kim is All Mine! Mwahahahahaaaa...!

</barakta>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 29 June, 2012, 08:00:10 pm
Watching the rain pouring down accompanied of plenty of lightning, while sitting and enjoying an IPA  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 June, 2012, 08:02:45 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 29 June, 2012, 07:53:16 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 June, 2012, 07:46:05 pm
I think you should be sharing, Kim.

No! Kim is All Mine! Mwahahahahaaaa...!

</barakta>

Coat!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 June, 2012, 08:25:54 pm
Enjoying the interval hubbub. I think Clarion would approve of this show. Mind, I reckon I do too so far :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 June, 2012, 08:35:38 pm
I'm sure I never used to be this popular...   ::-)

Nevertheless, here are some edited highlights.  The subject is Lister and the impact of antiseptic techniques on surgery...

Quote
The Victorian people were very religious and they believed pain was felt for a reason and that reason was Jesus.
Can't argue with that, can you?

Quote
Some surgeons believed that the reason someone was ill could be due to the positioning of stars and planets and their date of birth.
I think some of them still do...

Quote
Some people still believed in anatomy.
This one's my favourite.

Quote
They did not change the way they operated because they wanted to keep their customers happy.

We then got sidetracked talking about Microsoft servers.  I can't imagine why.

ETA:
Quote
There was no internet in the late 18th Century
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Von Broad on 29 June, 2012, 08:46:42 pm
Sitting here, tired, dusty, reflecting on things, glad the week's over, still in work clothes, back door open, gentle breeze blowing through, washing away the week with various cans of Guinness,reading up on RWS recumbents (http://www.mohsen-saleh.com/2012/01/rws-recumbent.html)  and thinking about the possibility of an after life (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EuCHODIZOWI/Tx1bkAwrPFI/AAAAAAAAAZI/K7i0tOf0-dY/s1600/DSC_6721.jpg).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 29 June, 2012, 08:55:02 pm
On taxi duty tonight so waiting for the phone to ring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 29 June, 2012, 09:40:33 pm
Sitting at home relaxing after somehow getting through the derailments and line closures with a fully laden touring bike :)

I've also managed to lose about 3kg while on tour despite all the full Scottish breakfasts :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 June, 2012, 09:48:01 pm
Congratulations, McShroom!

The hill you referred to between Stornoway and Tarbert: were you travelling north to south, perchance?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 June, 2012, 09:52:37 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 29 June, 2012, 09:40:33 pm
Sitting at home relaxing after somehow getting through the derailments and line closures with a fully laden touring bike :)

I've also managed to lose about 3kg while on tour despite all the full Scottish breakfasts :D
Scottish food is health food; everybody knows that.

I am skyping bobb, and at the same time I am listening to my new CD which is my payday treat to myself. It is Hot Chocolate's Greatest Hits, because I am hip and modern.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 29 June, 2012, 10:10:14 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 29 June, 2012, 09:48:01 pm
Congratulations, McShroom!

The hill you referred to between Stornoway and Tarbert: were you travelling north to south, perchance?

It would indeed. Just as you pass from Lewis to North Harris at Loch Siophort. You climb over 200m in less than 3km according to Quo. I was fooled by the transmitter mast at the end of the first climb before it doglegs back to keep going
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 June, 2012, 12:25:56 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 June, 2012, 08:25:54 pm
Enjoying the interval hubbub. I think Clarion would approve of this show. Mind, I reckon I do too so far :)

Would I?  Oh splendid! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 30 June, 2012, 12:29:42 am
What's the play?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 June, 2012, 04:52:49 am
It was this...

http://closethecoalhousedoor.co.uk/

And it was rather good :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 June, 2012, 12:49:08 pm
I'm removing roof bars & towbar mounted cycle bracket from the Mondeo.Then it will be emptied & cleaned ready for selling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 June, 2012, 01:20:41 pm
I am on hold to the Domestic & General repair elves. 9 minutes and counting.

The dryer bit of my washerdryer isn't drying.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 30 June, 2012, 01:31:05 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 30 June, 2012, 04:52:49 am
It was this...

http://closethecoalhousedoor.co.uk/

And it was rather good :)


I'm not surprised it was good, CL.  It's a superb play and the tunes are great.  Alex Glasgow, who wrote them, was very kind to me when I was scuffling for a buck.  We met at a student demo.  If you ever watch re-runs of When The Boat Comes in, it's Alex singing the theme song.  My favourites of his are All In A Day about shipbuilding on the Tyne and As Soon As This Pub Closes about bar-room revolutionaries!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 30 June, 2012, 01:33:49 pm
Watching Letour on my computer  :smug: :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 30 June, 2012, 04:13:05 pm
Trying to get rid of this headache. Another day off wasted  :'(

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 June, 2012, 05:36:17 pm
LG, you and Mrs T, both! {{{Hugs}}}

I am, in the meantime, typing out an email to a guy in Florida who got in touch with me via CGOAB to ask for tips about Catalonia.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 June, 2012, 05:57:43 pm
About to embark on some 'emergency cookery' 'cos my blood sugar has just tanked ... still, it's teatime anyway and I was so wrapped up in what I was doing that I didn't realise it was as late as it was.

Chow down!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 30 June, 2012, 06:00:09 pm
Deliberately ignoring the Dunwich thread ‘cos I’m not riding it this year  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 30 June, 2012, 06:23:44 pm
Logging all the distances and times for LonJOG and my Hebridean tour on mycyclinglogs - that apparently adds up to 1435km :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 June, 2012, 06:42:30 pm
Contemplating going to the theatre.  Again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 30 June, 2012, 07:24:26 pm
Trying to find a way to get to NTR on Thursday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 30 June, 2012, 10:38:13 pm
Watching The Chrinicles of Roddick . It's not as good as Pitch Black.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 June, 2012, 10:54:45 pm
Comparing cycling tans with Mr Smith.
I win, because I also have wrist support tan.
You do NOT want pictures. :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 30 June, 2012, 10:57:54 pm
Quote from: fboab on 30 June, 2012, 10:54:45 pm
Comparing cycling tans with Mr Smith.
I win, because I also have wrist support tan.
You do NOT want pictures. :facepalm:

Is it the same Darth Maul effect you get with sandals?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 30 June, 2012, 11:18:29 pm
Playing Minecraft.

Drinking Scotch.

Considering putting PJs on as whilst it was too hot earlier it's not that warm anymore. I guess I could shut the windows now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 June, 2012, 11:36:39 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 30 June, 2012, 07:24:26 pm
Trying to find a way to get to NTR on Thursday
Ditto - looks like I've got a shedload of meetings next Thursday (and Wednesday too, hrmph) so getting away from the office before 5.30 is unlikely, which means that getting the 5.40(ish) train to Northallerton is even less likely, which means that getting to Northallerton for 6ish is a damn near impossibility  >:( Just to add spice, some of the meetings involve Americans, which means a 7hr time difference. Gah!

Methinks I'll either need to invent a time machine or do a bit of calendar pruning between now and then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 01 July, 2012, 12:01:23 am
wishing I was on the Dun Run  :'(

Have fun, y'all
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 01 July, 2012, 12:20:59 pm
Waiting for lunch. :thumbsup:

Just cooked it all with Arch and waiting for it to cool a little before eating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 01 July, 2012, 12:37:41 pm
Just got back from church  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 01 July, 2012, 12:45:19 pm
Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 01 July, 2012, 12:20:59 pm
Waiting for lunch. :thumbsup:

Just cooked it all with Arch and waiting for it to cool a little before eating.

And now, digesting lunch....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 July, 2012, 01:22:42 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 30 June, 2012, 07:24:26 pm
Trying to find a way to get to NTR on Thursday

YHPM
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 01 July, 2012, 07:30:41 pm
Watching Mamma Mia.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 July, 2012, 10:44:35 pm
Sitting by my tent in Brecon.
Didn't get anything like the miles I'd hoped for.  A lot to do tomorrow.
My fault for starting out late in the morning. 
That, and the visious head wind that has sapped my spirit all day.
It's not raining at the moment.  I expect it will start early a.m. So I get a lovely wet tent to pack and carry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 July, 2012, 12:35:50 am
Drugs, lots of drugs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 02 July, 2012, 08:15:26 am
going to a wedding.

No really, 10.00 on a monday morning is an entirely reasonable time to get married, oh lovely sister of mine.    ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 July, 2012, 09:13:10 am
Waiting for Serviceforce to ring me to tell me what time the washing machine repair elf will be here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 July, 2012, 10:28:29 am
Balancing the urge to devour every scrap of food available and to sleep against the need to stay awake and productive, therefore ensuring continued employment.  It's going to be a loooooong day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 July, 2012, 10:33:03 am
Quote from: Peter on 30 June, 2012, 01:31:05 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 30 June, 2012, 04:52:49 am
It was this...

http://closethecoalhousedoor.co.uk/

And it was rather good :)


I'm not surprised it was good, CL.  It's a superb play and the tunes are great.  Alex Glasgow, who wrote them, was very kind to me when I was scuffling for a buck.  We met at a student demo.  If you ever watch re-runs of When The Boat Comes in, it's Alex singing the theme song.  My favourites of his are All In A Day about shipbuilding on the Tyne and As Soon As This Pub Closes about bar-room revolutionaries!


Oh yes, I would have enjoyed that!  I've been a fan of Alex Glasgow as long as I can remember, but I've never been able to source any of his recordings.  I should have another root around the interwebs...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 July, 2012, 02:35:00 pm
I even put a mini review on MrCharly's 'last play you saw' thread, which he started after seeing it the following night :) Completely spontaneous decision to go because I was feeling rubbish and when I looked at cinema listings for summat to distract myself there was nowt that would have helped.... so I knew nowt at all about the play before seeing it.

Right now I am blearily waking up with coffee.  I was having a nap, and got woken by a phone call from the chap that owns the car that littly accidentally scratched on his way to school one day last week.  He rang to say he reckons that said scratch will polish out, and to thank us for our honesty in leaving a note (later on, once we'd got a pen and paper, and not been able to leave it because the car wasn't there, and then spotted it the following day!) with our contact details and an apology. 
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Post by: Mr Arch on 02 July, 2012, 03:35:46 pm
Laundry, and watching 'The Password Is Courage' on C4+1.
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Post by: PaulF on 02 July, 2012, 05:02:13 pm
Waiting for the fog to lift in Guernsey do that the plane that's supposed to be taking me there can land, turn round, fly to Gatwick and then take me there.

Delay currently described as 'indefinite'.

I think over time ive been delayed more going to Guernsey than everywhere else combined
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Post by: Jaded on 02 July, 2012, 05:10:54 pm
It's a secret.  :smug:
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Post by: Basil on 02 July, 2012, 06:49:38 pm
Recovering from my wettest ride ever.
I've been dryer than that taking a bath!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 July, 2012, 07:40:41 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 02 July, 2012, 05:10:54 pm
It's a secret.  :smug:
We don't want to know anyway.  :smug:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 July, 2012, 12:38:06 am
Wishing I was asleep, and phoning the local polis station. Either they've got the most unhappy dog in the world in a kennel, or one of their officers is a werewolf.

Oh, the call handler says they have no dog in the kennel tonight. Perhaps fuzzy could tell me what proportion of the country's polis are werewolves.
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Post by: Kim on 03 July, 2012, 12:43:07 am
Most of the ones who aren't vampires. (I may have watched too much Being Human.)
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Post by: L CC on 04 July, 2012, 05:03:23 pm
Fracture clinic. Been here an hour so far, expecting another hour at least.
Eaten a bag of nuts, a packet of minstrels, an apple, some cheese. Next up- skittles.
God this is boring. I really should have brought some Arrivées to litter with. There is 'Classic Bike' after all. And what more could you wish for, when contemplating ones breaks, but the visions of, erm, loveliness contained therein?
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Post by: Chris S on 04 July, 2012, 05:06:39 pm
Quote from: fboab on 04 July, 2012, 05:03:23 pm
Eaten a bag of nuts, a packet of minstrels, an apple, some cheese. Next up- skittles.

We're going to need a long hard ride1 this evening to burn that lot off!

-------
1 Of the bicycle kind...  ::-)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 July, 2012, 05:57:54 pm
Quote from: fboab on 04 July, 2012, 05:03:23 pm
Eaten a bag of nuts, a packet of minstrels, an apple, some cheese. Next up- skittles.
Did you take all that with you or are you foraging in the waiting room?  :o
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Post by: jogler on 04 July, 2012, 06:04:37 pm
maybe there is a vending machine?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 July, 2012, 06:19:47 pm
Feeling not very well :(
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Post by: L CC on 04 July, 2012, 06:42:27 pm
Quote from: jogler on 04 July, 2012, 06:04:37 pm
maybe there is a vending machine?
WHSmiths, with almost motorway-services prices. Rapacious Bastids.
Finished the skittles, had mini wispas and spent 2m30 secs with the doc.
Most of which consisted of me saying 'really? I appreciate you love spending time with me, but why do you actually need to see me again?' and him admitting that they didn't, really. FFS. They'd've had me wasting another 4 hours if I hadn't said anything.

On the plus side, I did get to see todays x-rays which shows 17 screws in the metal plate in my forearm. I thought there were only 12. Maybe they've been breeding.
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Post by: Andrij on 04 July, 2012, 07:27:09 pm
Quote from: fboab on 04 July, 2012, 06:42:27 pm
On the plus side, I did get to see todays x-rays which shows 17 screws in the metal plate in my forearm. I thought there were only 12. Maybe they've been breeding.

If they're titanium and breeding, you might make a few quid out of it.  ;D
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Post by: Paul on 04 July, 2012, 10:26:19 pm
Quote from: fboab on 04 July, 2012, 06:42:27 pm
Quote from: jogler on 04 July, 2012, 06:04:37 pm
maybe there is a vending machine?
WHSmiths, with almost motorway-services prices. Rapacious Bastids.
Finished the skittles, had mini wispas and spent 2m30 secs with the doc.
Most of which consisted of me saying 'really? I appreciate you love spending time with me, but why do you actually need to see me again?' and him admitting that they didn't, really. FFS. They'd've had me wasting another 4 hours if I hadn't said anything.

On the plus side, I did get to see todays x-rays which shows 17 screws in the metal plate in my forearm. I thought there were only 12. Maybe they've been breeding.

My standard response to most things 20th (now 21st) century, this side of the water we are surrounded by, is 'just as well we have our gun laws, because it's damn inconvenient making and carrying a bow and arrow for situations such as this'.

GWS
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Post by: nutkin on 04 July, 2012, 11:22:21 pm
Quote from: fboab on 04 July, 2012, 05:03:23 pm
Eaten a bag of nuts, a packet of minstrels, an apple, some cheese. Next up- skittles.

That all sounds quite lovely, and is probably why you spent so long in the waiting room. Next time make sure you are munching on something that reeks of garlic, or something equally noxious, so everyone else leaves the waiting room, thus ensuring you are the first person to be seen...
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 July, 2012, 12:28:17 am
I just turned the light off and got into bed prior to doing a little IPad spodding when I heard that annoying tell-tale whine and saw the little silhouetto of a mosquito appear in front of the screen. The past couple of days have borne witness to my legs being badly mauled by blood-sucking insects so I have turned the light on again in order to try to splat the bugger.
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Post by: lou boutin on 05 July, 2012, 09:51:09 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 04 July, 2012, 06:19:47 pm
Feeling not very well :(

I hope you feel better soon.

Sitting in a University Conferencing Centre that is full of Italian teenaged boys wearing sorts, deck shoes and scarves.  Only the Italian's can pull that off with style.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 July, 2012, 12:35:31 pm
I am just finishing eating lunch.
I may come to regret that later as my giblets are still feeling wrong.
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Post by: tiermat on 05 July, 2012, 01:37:17 pm
Stinking!

Just had to try and stop the garage from flooding, which involved clearing out a drain.....

A shower and thorough hand wash later I still can smell the drains....
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Post by: clarion on 05 July, 2012, 03:06:28 pm
Raining again? :o
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 July, 2012, 05:09:45 pm
On a delayed train to ntr. Fingers crossed....
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Post by: Mr Arch on 05 July, 2012, 05:53:13 pm
Sitting with my leg up to reduce the swelling after a 3+ hour wait at the hospital.
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Post by: interzen on 05 July, 2012, 05:55:01 pm
Trying to remember where I left my +7 Cricket Bat Of Cluefulness and wondering whether I could get a flight to Chicago at short notice  >:(

Also, thinking that this might be a good time to buy a Dremel (this is totally unrelated to the above)
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Post by: simonp on 05 July, 2012, 06:01:21 pm
Reading the forum on a train to London.
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Post by: PaulF on 05 July, 2012, 06:06:04 pm
Reading the forum on a plane to London :D
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Post by: simonp on 05 July, 2012, 06:15:36 pm
*looks up*
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Post by: interzen on 05 July, 2012, 06:19:12 pm
Quote from: simonp on 05 July, 2012, 06:15:36 pm
*looks up*
Try this: http://www.flightradar24.com/
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Post by: simonp on 05 July, 2012, 07:13:32 pm
Eating sushi at paddington.
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Post by: L CC on 05 July, 2012, 10:18:35 pm
I reckon in my life I've made cheese sauce, or some other white roux-type sauce, once a week since I was 18.
That's around ((43-18)*52) times.

Tonight's is absolutely rubbish.. To the point that I think I might have to throw it out. How can you get it wrong after so much practise?
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Post by: Mr Arch on 05 July, 2012, 10:53:36 pm
Trying to work out how much my foot can move.  Not much at the moment.
I can do the splits but I can't wiggle my foot. ::-)
 ;D
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 05 July, 2012, 10:58:15 pm
Quote from: interzen on 05 July, 2012, 06:19:12 pm
Try this: http://www.flightradar24.com/

That’s so good :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 July, 2012, 08:50:59 am
Quote from: fboab on 05 July, 2012, 10:18:35 pm
I reckon in my life I've made cheese sauce, or some other white roux-type sauce, once a week since I was 18.
That's around ((43-18)*52) times.

Tonight's is absolutely rubbish.. To the point that I think I might have to throw it out. How can you get it wrong after so much practise?

The cheese sauce gods are displeased and require a sacrifice, obv.
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Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 06 July, 2012, 09:44:09 am
Wondering whether my oldest friend, who I am supposed to be taking on her inaugural camping trip this weekend, will ever speak to me again… ::-)
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Post by: SteveC on 06 July, 2012, 10:28:14 am
I'm supposed to be packing the car for our week away.
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Post by: TimO on 06 July, 2012, 10:41:38 am
Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 06 July, 2012, 09:44:09 am
Wondering whether my oldest friend, who I am supposed to be taking on her inaugural camping trip this weekend, will ever speak to me again… ::-)
It'll probably depend on what the weather's like, and for that matter, the food and drink.  Is there a convenient pub nearby?


I just dropped two very unhappy cats off at my local cattery, whilst I'm away this weekend.

When I left they were huddled up, in the normal sphinx-like cat pose, side by side, which is the nearest I've ever seen them together, aside from passing each other, or mid fight.  Normally the nearest they'll get to each other, is either side of my bed, with me between them (and trapped!) and even that close is relatively unusual.
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Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 06 July, 2012, 10:55:21 am
Quote from: TimO on 06 July, 2012, 10:41:38 am
Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 06 July, 2012, 09:44:09 am
Wondering whether my oldest friend, who I am supposed to be taking on her inaugural camping trip this weekend, will ever speak to me again… ::-)
It'll probably depend on what the weather's like, and for that matter, the food and drink.  Is there a convenient pub nearby?


I just dropped two very unhappy cats off at my local cattery, whilst I'm away this weekend.

When I left they were huddled up, in the normal sphinx-like cat pose, side by side, which is the nearest I've ever seen them together, aside from passing each other, or mid fight.  Normally the nearest they'll get to each other, is either side of my bed, with me between them (and trapped!) and even that close is relatively unusual.

There are pubs, I believe, but having to break camp in the rain is what I’m dreading. OTOH, Weathersparks is being much more cheerful than yr.no…

Aww, at least the cats have each other…Cam is spoiled in that she has never been kennelled since I’ve had her, she’s clingy I tend to leave her with trusted friends and family she knows. And even more spoiled in that she came on a camping/walking trip in Norfolk last week, and is coming on this probably rainy trip this weekend.

A couple with a caravan in Norfolk had taken their cat camping, interesting concept!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 July, 2012, 12:24:16 pm
Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 06 July, 2012, 10:55:21 am


A couple with a caravan in Norfolk had taken their cat camping, interesting concept!


When we went on our first holiday to France, camping at a lakeside site, there was a French family there with their cat, it used to sit under Monsieur's chair while Monsieur fished :)
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Post by: SteveC on 06 July, 2012, 12:32:09 pm
Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 06 July, 2012, 10:55:21 am
A couple with a caravan in Norfolk had taken their cat camping, interesting concept!
We used to take our Siamese on holiday with us when I was a teenager.  She and the dog slept in the minibus (I come from a large family) while the rest of us were under canvas.

Quote
...having to break camp in the rain is what I’m dreading. OTOH, Weathersparks is being much more cheerful than yr.no…

I may have to do that three times in the next ten days.  We're spending the weekend at a morris dance do, then moving onto a conventional campsite for five nights, then on again to the Festival of History at Kelmarsh Hall on Friday.  Then of course, home.

S
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Post by: L CC on 06 July, 2012, 01:15:00 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 06 July, 2012, 12:24:16 pm
Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 06 July, 2012, 10:55:21 am


A couple with a caravan in Norfolk had taken their cat camping, interesting concept!


When we went on our first holiday to France, camping at a lakeside site, there was a French family there with their cat, it used to sit under Monsieur's chair while Monsieur fished :)

At Mildenhall in 2009 there was a chap camping with his tortoise.
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Post by: clarion on 06 July, 2012, 01:22:16 pm
Our friend Graham had his Hilleberg Nallo ruined by a cat someone brought to a campsite.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 06 July, 2012, 01:45:36 pm
Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 06 July, 2012, 09:44:09 am
Wondering whether my oldest friend, who I am supposed to be taking on her inaugural camping trip this weekend, will ever speak to me again… ::-)

What is her favourite expensivE tipple? Accidentally put a couple of bottles of it in.
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Post by: Basil on 07 July, 2012, 07:24:23 am
Drinking coffee in the sunshine.
It feels weird.
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Post by: interzen on 07 July, 2012, 10:05:54 am
Preparing to execute Operation GTFO.

It's the village carnival today, which takes place mostly at the recreation centre at the bottom end of the street - the net result is that within an hour or so the place will be choked with inconsiderate fuckwits who think that 'Residents Parking Only' doesn't apply to them. I hope they get thoroughly rained on (which is looking likely)

So I'm off up to see my parents via the LBS in Tadcaster, Chez Tiermat in Northallerton and possibly a few other places along the way.

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Post by: Mr Arch on 07 July, 2012, 04:35:04 pm
Pondering the rain.

It has been dry and sunny with a little cloud all day.  A moment ago we popped outside to just have a look in my car to see if it is still dry inside* and to check if the mushrooms growing in the carpet have spread.  It rained for the 3 minutes we were out there.  Having rushed back in it is now dry and sunny with a little cloud.  ???

Dare we pop back out to check the car is properly covered up?  Would it be fair on anyone out cycling in the area?

*The car has a mystery water leak and the passenger side carpet was flooded.  The drain plug has been pulled out and tarp has been tied over the car to keep the rain off.
However, there were mushrooms growing in the carpet around the front seat.
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Post by: Mr Arch on 07 July, 2012, 08:11:47 pm
Watching Indiana Jones and attempting to make my foot move.

My lower leg seems to have forgotten it should be under my control as it is steadfastly refusing to do more then a slightly random and limited range of twitches.

I will persist over the coming weeks and see how it improves.
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Post by: Ham on 08 July, 2012, 10:02:10 am
Got a twisted nerve, then?  ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42ej4tCM24

(for anyone that may not realise, Twisted Nerve is the title of THAT tune)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 July, 2012, 10:24:02 am
Watching yesterdays Tour stage, no thanks to all the Twitter spoilers.
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Post by: numbnuts on 08 July, 2012, 10:24:58 am
I'm just off to church  O:-)
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Post by: welshwheels on 08 July, 2012, 10:38:03 am
battling with the lawn grrr
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Post by: jogler on 08 July, 2012, 11:10:05 am
Quote from: Ham on 08 July, 2012, 10:02:10 am
Got a twisted nerve, then?  ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42ej4tCM24

(for anyone that may not realise, Twisted Nerve is the title of THAT tune)

I realise that the primary function of feet is to stop your legs fraying at the end & aesthetics are a secondary consideration but her feet look as if they have been jumped on at least three times with tehuglyboots.
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Post by: Mr Arch on 08 July, 2012, 11:32:22 am
Quote from: Ham on 08 July, 2012, 10:02:10 am
Got a twisted nerve, then?  ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42ej4tCM24

(for anyone that may not realise, Twisted Nerve is the title of THAT tune)
Yes, it is very much that scene! ;D
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Post by: Arch on 08 July, 2012, 11:55:46 am
Quote from: jogler on 08 July, 2012, 11:10:05 am
Quote from: Ham on 08 July, 2012, 10:02:10 am
Got a twisted nerve, then?  ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42ej4tCM24

(for anyone that may not realise, Twisted Nerve is the title of THAT tune)

I realise that the primary function of feet is to stop your legs fraying at the end & aesthetics are a secondary consideration but her feet look as if they have been jumped on at least three times with tehuglyboots.

It was a great boost to my confidence when I saw that scene and realised that I have much prettier feet than her.....
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Post by: jogler on 08 July, 2012, 11:57:34 am
Everything about you is much prettier than her Arch
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 July, 2012, 12:27:39 pm
Cleaning the flat because I have a warmshowers.org person staying here tonight and I'm not sure she'll like the piles of fluffdust.
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Post by: Butterfly on 08 July, 2012, 12:54:57 pm
Sitting in a cafe in Ascot gathering the nerve for nine mile ride through Bracknell forest. And hoping the sun stays out for it. I'm bored of wet feet.
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Post by: Arch on 08 July, 2012, 01:40:10 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 July, 2012, 11:57:34 am
Everything about you is much prettier than her Arch

Sweetie! ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 08 July, 2012, 03:50:46 pm
Watching the tennis in 3D.  :smug:
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Post by: numbnuts on 08 July, 2012, 04:44:07 pm
I'm getting my dinner ready chicken curry  :P
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 July, 2012, 01:11:41 pm
Feeling slightly less miserable cos I've just booked a weekend in Brussels.
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Post by: Kim on 09 July, 2012, 01:28:08 pm
Defrosting the freezer.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 July, 2012, 01:31:11 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 July, 2012, 01:28:08 pm
Defrosting the freezer.

Living the dream, eh?

Me, I am in domestic bliss servitude also, spending the day washing and drying....
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Post by: mcshroom on 09 July, 2012, 01:40:54 pm
Waiting to find out if my job upgrade (and associated pay rise) passed the board meeting on Friday. I should find out in the next hour.
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Post by: Mr Arch on 09 July, 2012, 01:42:06 pm
Just put washed laundry into tumble dryer.  Now drinking decaff tea and eating the crust cut from the 'Beryl cake' we made yesterday.
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Post by: matthew on 09 July, 2012, 02:06:43 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 08 July, 2012, 12:54:57 pm
Sitting in a cafe in Ascot gathering the nerve for nine mile ride through Bracknell forest. And hoping the sun stays out for it. I'm bored of wet feet.

Missed this, at the time I was just preparing lunch ~ 2miles down the road.

And I had enough to have served extra people.
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Post by: Butterfly on 09 July, 2012, 02:40:19 pm
Quote from: matthew on 09 July, 2012, 02:06:43 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 08 July, 2012, 12:54:57 pm
Sitting in a cafe in Ascot gathering the nerve for nine mile ride through Bracknell forest. And hoping the sun stays out for it. I'm bored of wet feet.

Missed this, at the time I was just preparing lunch ~ 2miles down the road.

And I had enough to have served extra people.

Next time I'll write louder! :D
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 09 July, 2012, 02:42:49 pm
Reporting a pothole to fillthathole.
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Post by: Andrij on 09 July, 2012, 02:52:05 pm
Developing a FAQ to cover one of my areas of responsibility here at work.  I know that, in the long term, this is a 'good thing' but TBH I can think of so many other things (even work related) I'd rather be doing.
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Post by: Basil on 09 July, 2012, 03:09:28 pm
Welcoming myself back to Brum in a certain place.  (See sig line)
And no.  I haven't been home yet.  :-)
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Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 09 July, 2012, 03:09:44 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 06 July, 2012, 01:45:36 pm
Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 06 July, 2012, 09:44:09 am
Wondering whether my oldest friend, who I am supposed to be taking on her inaugural camping trip this weekend, will ever speak to me again… ::-)

What is her favourite expensivE tipple? Accidentally put a couple of bottles of it in.

We were lucky with the weather in the end – the sun even came out for an hour or so before we broke camp, which meant the tent got to dry off a bit before we packed up. We were camped next to nice people who lent us their mallet (in return for their little grandson having lots of cuddles with the dog).

Wowbagger, after walking to Whitstable we found the rather random thing of a dog-friendly off-licence who sold us cans of strawberry-flavoured cider (after I remembered we had no bottle opener) while feeding Cam dog biscuits from a special jar on the counter. That seemed to do the trick for all three of us…

It did rain heavily overnight and in the morning, but I was prepared for that and had the Jetboil ready to go in the porch and made us cups of tea while we were still cosy in our sleeping bags.

She wants to go camping again so it must have been a successful endeavour!
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Post by: why1040 on 09 July, 2012, 07:41:12 pm
Attending the first class of an online clicker training course.  So far due to technical glitches, we've done two introductions (out of four) and lost one attendee because every time she logs in, it locks out the organiser...

But it's still interesting and I'm learning bits already!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 09 July, 2012, 07:44:19 pm
Eating the smoked salmon that 'accidentally' defrosted in the earlier freezer clean-out.   :smug:
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 09 July, 2012, 08:50:00 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 09 July, 2012, 02:42:49 pm
Reporting a pothole to fillthathole.

Thank you. Finally reported a pothole that I've been meaning to do something about for ages but keep forgetting by the time I get home.

Got a few more things to report but think one a day is enough.
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Post by: Mr Arch on 09 July, 2012, 09:00:03 pm
Enjoying a mouth wash, of the Scottish variety.
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Post by: LindaG on 09 July, 2012, 09:27:58 pm
Lying on a Travelodge bed thinking wine from a plastic tooth mug and eating a scotch egg. Moderately grim as evenings go.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 July, 2012, 09:32:22 pm
Basking in the warm glow of recovering from a sweat fest and watching the Tour while having a cup of tea.
:)
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Post by: SteveC on 09 July, 2012, 09:43:39 pm
Sitting in a tent, drinking beer, on a campsite which has free wifi!  It's not fast or particularly reliable, but it works and is free!

S
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Post by: Arch on 09 July, 2012, 09:54:24 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 09 July, 2012, 09:27:58 pm
Lying on a Travelodge bed thinking wine from a plastic tooth mug and eating a scotch egg. Moderately grim as evenings go.

I dunno, I've had worse evenings! 

I like Scotch Eggs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 09 July, 2012, 09:59:05 pm
Quote from: Arch on 09 July, 2012, 09:54:24 pm
I dunno, I've had worse evenings! 

I like Scotch Eggs.
We should get some next weekend! :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 09 July, 2012, 10:07:45 pm
Quote from: Arch on 09 July, 2012, 09:54:24 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 09 July, 2012, 09:27:58 pm
Lying on a Travelodge bed thinking wine from a plastic tooth mug and eating a scotch egg. Moderately grim as evenings go.

I dunno, I've had worse evenings! 

I like Scotch Eggs.

Yeah it would definitely be worsd without the scotch egg.  Would be better without the mushrooms in the bath though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 09 July, 2012, 10:44:53 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 09 July, 2012, 10:07:45 pm
Quote from: Arch on 09 July, 2012, 09:54:24 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 09 July, 2012, 09:27:58 pm
Lying on a Travelodge bed thinking wine from a plastic tooth mug and eating a scotch egg. Moderately grim as evenings go.

I dunno, I've had worse evenings! 

I like Scotch Eggs.

Yeah it would definitely be worsd without the scotch egg.  Would be better without the mushrooms in the bath though.

Yeah, ok, I grant you, mushrooms in the bath ain't good. I don't like mushrooms.

MFWHTBAB: That's our little trip out to town sorted for Saturday then!
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Post by: LindaG on 09 July, 2012, 10:48:26 pm
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 09 July, 2012, 11:06:38 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 09 July, 2012, 10:07:45 pm
Quote from: Arch on 09 July, 2012, 09:54:24 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 09 July, 2012, 09:27:58 pm
Lying on a Travelodge bed thinking wine from a plastic tooth mug and eating a scotch egg. Moderately grim as evenings go.

I dunno, I've had worse evenings! 

I like Scotch Eggs.
Yeah it would definitely be worse without the scotch egg.  Would be better without the mushrooms in the bath though.
Would it make you feel better to know we were cleaning the mushrooms out of my car's carpets at the weekend? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 July, 2012, 11:10:20 pm
Did you sautee them or fricassee them?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 July, 2012, 10:21:40 am
I'm laminating the routesheet for Saturday's 200km Group Perm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 July, 2012, 10:26:14 am
Washing

Sorting out clean washing ready to go to ironing lady's house.

Painting some shifters.

Trying to work out what to make for dinner tonight.

Oh and working.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 July, 2012, 10:49:57 am
Trying very hard to stay awake, having been up since 6am or thereabouts.

The usual combination of Dr.Pepper Zero and Penguin caffeinated mints isn't having its usual effect - might be time to wheel in the big guns.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 July, 2012, 10:57:22 am
Not enjoying being back at work today.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 July, 2012, 11:01:56 am
Now trying to work out which bike to take out at lunchtime.

The only bike with 'guards is my InBred, but I have ridden that so much it would be nice to ride something else.

The Holdsworth doesn't come out to play when it is wet (so may not get a game this year!)

The fixie has no guards but is ready to go.

The Ridley, ditto.

Hmmmm, might just do the fixie thing as I have only just rebuilt it and it hasn't been out yet....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 10 July, 2012, 12:36:11 pm
Creating a fire hazard at work trying to dry out my kit in time for the ride home...

<ETA>: No fire, but roasty toasty kit to get utterly soaked in for a second time today!

Oh, and I think my office may have been off-limits on account of being a bio-hazard...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 July, 2012, 12:44:31 pm
Organising a General Meeting and hoping all votes are via proxy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 July, 2012, 05:30:22 pm
Discussing with my colleagues the possible street value of the shedload of cocodamol I have in my desk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 July, 2012, 05:46:11 pm
I am on my way to that London where I will be heading for The Plough in Museum Street. There is a "social" being organised by a charity called Chess in Schools. Due to the high level of security at the normally deserted Prittlewell Station I had to buy a ticket before I travelled and missed my intended train. This has set me back by 15 minutes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 July, 2012, 05:49:56 pm
Watching people with low IQs, inappropriately dressed for a thunderstorm, walking past the flat.

There is much water. This is one of the weatheriest summers evah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 July, 2012, 07:41:03 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 10 July, 2012, 05:46:11 pm
I am on my way to that London where I will be heading for The Plough in Museum Street. ...

Had a nice lunch there on Sunday.  Sorry, can't comment on the beer - we were drinking Bloody Marys.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 10 July, 2012, 08:32:14 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 July, 2012, 10:49:57 am
Trying very hard to stay awake, having been up since 6am or thereabouts.

The usual combination of Dr.Pepper Zero and Penguin caffeinated mints isn't having its usual effect - might be time to wheel in the big guns.

Does that have the same effect as Diet Coke and Mentos?  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 July, 2012, 09:26:41 pm
Into whom should I bump while riding to the Plough Butty That. Julian. Most agreeable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 10 July, 2012, 09:49:39 pm
Wiggling my foot about and finding there is now significant increase in toe movement, albeit slightly painful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 10 July, 2012, 09:56:43 pm
Hoorah! (for movement, not pain).
 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 10 July, 2012, 09:57:25 pm
I'm dancing around the living room to Abba.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 10 July, 2012, 10:09:49 pm
Quote from: Arch on 10 July, 2012, 09:56:43 pm
Hoorah! (for movement, not pain).
 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I have no idea if what I am doing is right though.

I have just done a search for physiotherapy videos on YouTube and it could take up to a year, sometimes more, after the event.  One of the exercises is to place the ball of the foot on the ground and do gentle heel raises, except I can't due to the broken toe.

The general stretching seems ok though, one suggestion was to write the alphabet in the air with the toes to fully move the ankle in all directions.


Eeeek!  Just watched a video of the tendon repair operation. :o  So glad I didn't need that doing. :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 July, 2012, 10:16:49 pm
Movement is good.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 July, 2012, 10:37:36 pm
Paperwork.  I hate paperwork.  Listening to LOUD Janis Ian makes it marginally less soul destroying though.  Apologies to the neighbours and all that.

3 out of 4 'can't put them off any longer' tasks done  :thumbsup: One more big bastard one to go before I throw in the towel, I reckon.... after this coffee.

ETA - bloody nora, that were hard work.  Ah well, a good 4 annahalf hours til the alarm goes off.  Happy Wednesday, everybody!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 July, 2012, 11:13:03 pm
Basking in the glory of having won the pub quiz.  Yay!  Free beer.
It's about time.  We used to win it with embarrassing regularity, but it's been ages.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 July, 2012, 11:27:21 pm
Housework.

Godz it's so fecking dull, isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 July, 2012, 11:28:02 pm
I'm about to go to bed. I shall be sharing it with my wife tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 12 July, 2012, 07:37:08 am
Trying to resolve the logical inconsistency arising from the first item on my "Things To Do" list:-
"Set up a 'Things to do' list"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 12 July, 2012, 10:26:00 am
I'm blowing my nose I've got man flu
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 July, 2012, 12:02:50 pm
Swithing off Radio 2 'cause I can't be doing with Vine.I'm going to the music library on the PC
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 July, 2012, 12:11:48 pm
What's wrong with Yes Minister on 4Extra?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 July, 2012, 12:17:39 pm
Eating some sweeties that a kind forumite has sent to me (along with 2 Brooks).

I *may* share them with TLD....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 12 July, 2012, 12:27:22 pm
I'm now waiting to go to a funeral  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 July, 2012, 01:01:53 pm
Sorry to hear that, numbnuts.

I am, or have just finished, cleaning our wheelie bin.  It's not been done for over a year and has gradually gotten worse since we got our efficient machines for turning Felix into shit two cats.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 July, 2012, 01:10:33 pm
Livin' the Dream, Tiermat! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2012, 01:22:59 pm
I have recently begun the digestion process of a tin of baked beans (contents, not receptacle). I have yet to reach the effervescent stage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 July, 2012, 02:42:49 pm
Amending our Sky package to dispense with the movie channels,HD & sports channels.This will have certain advantages.....
I'll not be a Sunday couch potatoe
I'll not be up most of the night watching films
I'll have more time for cycling
I'll save some £

Win all round I reckon
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 July, 2012, 03:15:13 pm
Wondering where I put my spare pedals... ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 July, 2012, 03:16:59 pm
Just about to:

1) put the oven on
2) place a fish pie in said oven
3) go and collect TLD from school

The whirlwind starts now....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 July, 2012, 03:40:26 pm
Hoping my bowels will calm down so I can go for a ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 12 July, 2012, 03:44:12 pm
Listening to the tour on my radio having found it hiding in my desk drawer while looking for something else :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 13 July, 2012, 08:24:17 am
Lying in bed being lazy. By myself.  STARFISH!!!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 July, 2012, 09:46:33 am
Pondering on joining the muddy side with the purchase of a nice MTB!

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 July, 2012, 09:52:05 am
On hold, on the Eurotunnel booking line.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mobbsy on 13 July, 2012, 11:15:26 am
On a dull sales conference call - 'race to scale guys!'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 13 July, 2012, 12:52:30 pm
Sneezing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 July, 2012, 02:32:10 pm
Trying to summon the tuits to make scones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 13 July, 2012, 03:37:04 pm
Watching the grabber in the junkyard next to Dorking west station take the squashed bmw out of the squasher and put an alfa romeo (not one of the pretty ones) in. I like the way the only recognizable bit at the end is the numberplate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 July, 2012, 03:38:45 pm
That sounds like a great way to wind down after a stressful commute...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 13 July, 2012, 03:43:44 pm
It's cheering me up after the train pulled out a minute early as I got to the platform >:(. I would have caught it if someone hadn't been parked in front of the sign indicating which alley the station was up. Hopefully that car will be next  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 July, 2012, 03:55:25 pm
Wouldn't that be a pleasant surprise!  Hope you got on the next train OK :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 13 July, 2012, 04:03:27 pm
Quote from: clarion on 13 July, 2012, 03:55:25 pm
Wouldn't that be a pleasant surprise!  Hope you got on the next train OK :-*
No problems and the guard upgraded my ticket to what i asked for (a return) from what i was given (a day return). Andhe pointed out that the original one was dearer than it should have been so the upgrade was £5 not £10
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 July, 2012, 04:05:37 pm
:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 July, 2012, 04:21:19 pm
Looking at how much I have to do before 17:00 and despairing.  I'm also trying not to think about getting home (after some post-work socialising) to pack for my weekend 'test expedition' (100km+, camping, 100km+).

TBH, I just want to go home and sleep until Monday morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 July, 2012, 09:20:30 pm
Watching Download on Sky Arts, and thinking how old James Heield and Joey Belladonna look.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 July, 2012, 11:16:19 pm
Baking  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 July, 2012, 11:31:23 pm
Not getting an early night for an Audax o'clock start.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 14 July, 2012, 07:31:37 am
Doing a few chores  :(  before heading to London for my last bit of Olympic volunteer training.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 July, 2012, 08:01:04 am
Getting ready to cycle up to the Willows campsite near Mildenhall.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 14 July, 2012, 08:05:37 am
Mincing around with a sair lower back :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 14 July, 2012, 12:26:07 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 13 July, 2012, 11:16:19 pm
Baking  :D

Sounds good.  I could do with a nice cake, instead of back ache    :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 July, 2012, 12:49:50 pm
Waiting a few minutes before going to meet Nutkin off a train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 14 July, 2012, 10:48:07 pm
Boggling slightly at the behaviour of some multi-threaded Android code.

(UI-responsiveness stuff, not the usual kind of thread issue.  So will probably all change again once JB arrives...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 July, 2012, 11:01:22 pm
Wondering why I seem to have heard three separate firework displays tonight.  Surely there aren't that many French people living in Bournville?
Is there some other religious or civil fete today?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 July, 2012, 11:16:01 pm
Turning a pretty generous half stone of blueberry cake and lots of randomly shaped chocolate and a frankly terrifying quantity of extremely blue icing into a castle...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 14 July, 2012, 11:20:02 pm
Fettling the emergency "one-for-all" remote from the cupboard with up to date device codes, seeing as the gen-u-ine Sky+ zapper has suddenly crapped out (seemingly for good).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 July, 2012, 12:25:13 am
Preparing for a little pootle tomorrow by staying up late with a bottle Chilean Cabernat Sauvignon, a whole 6 pack of Mars Bar ice creams and rubbish from my youth on You Tube.
There is only one more round left of the first two items.
The third item is endless.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 July, 2012, 12:29:27 am
Preparing for what seems likely to be the same pootle by failing to go to bed in a timely manner.

(Barakta's out, unfortunately.  Unanticipated hormone attack means her hip's unstable and she's dosed up on comedy amounts of painkillers.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 15 July, 2012, 12:30:18 am
Quote from: Basil on 15 July, 2012, 12:25:13 am
rubbish from my youth on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWm0nXJYLmk

Am I warm?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 July, 2012, 12:50:31 am
"He kicked me"  "Right in the middle of my daily duties"
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 July, 2012, 08:37:27 am
Quote from: Kim on 15 July, 2012, 12:29:27 am

(Barakta's out, unfortunately.  Unanticipated hormone attack means her hip's unstable and she's dosed up on comedy amounts of painkillers.)

Sorry to hear this.  GWS barakta.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 July, 2012, 05:56:29 pm
I am at a pinnacle of cleanliness, at least, until my next shower.

Contrary to the old saying, this state of affairs is in no way associated with godliness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 15 July, 2012, 06:06:11 pm
Just finished cleaning the bathroom, mostly.  A quick coffee break, then I hit the kitchen a bit more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 July, 2012, 06:59:15 pm
Waiting for the oven to cook the dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 July, 2012, 07:20:56 pm
At Reigate, waiting for a train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 15 July, 2012, 08:20:49 pm
Trying to get my feet warm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 July, 2012, 11:02:40 pm
Thinking I've got these great apps that allow me to control the squeezeboxen without the remotes, but I still have to get off my arse to change the source on the amp....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 July, 2012, 11:31:02 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 15 July, 2012, 11:02:40 pm
Thinking I've got these great apps that allow me to control the squeezeboxen without the remotes, but I still have to get off my arse to change the source on the amp....

It's times like this you should ask yourself "What would Ferris do?" (and then remember that you throw like a girl before locating a suitable projectile).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 July, 2012, 11:33:24 pm
???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 July, 2012, 11:41:32 pm
Have you never seen Ferris Beuller's Day off?  Get thee to a DVD player immediately!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 16 July, 2012, 12:15:08 am
Quote from: Kim on 15 July, 2012, 11:41:32 pm
Have you never seen Ferris Beuller's Day off?  Get thee to a DVD player immediately!

... and possibly Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off-Bueller/dp/B000ERVG6G/) as well (if you can stretch to £4.09).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 16 July, 2012, 10:28:41 pm
Signing executor forms. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 16 July, 2012, 11:11:22 pm
Pushing loud noises into my ears.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 16 July, 2012, 11:15:08 pm
Waiting for my cherry cake to finish baking so I can go to bed. I had less than an hours kip last night so I need an early night if I want to have decent cycling legs in the morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 17 July, 2012, 10:28:43 am
Waiting to go to a funeral
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 17 July, 2012, 01:08:55 pm
struggling not to fall asleep at my desk.

I'm drinking coffee.
I know. Coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 July, 2012, 02:58:27 pm
Jan and I are sitting in reception at Maidstone Girls' Grammar School, having had a splendid pub lunch in the most agreeable company of Nicknack Otp. We have in the boot a polypin of Spitfire and another of Masterbrew.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 17 July, 2012, 03:20:03 pm
Did you go to the Shipwrights Arms? With Grumpy Derek? (or Tony or Graham, can't remember which)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 July, 2012, 03:27:17 pm
Molishing a raincoat for a BAHA
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 July, 2012, 03:36:10 pm
Sitting still & waiting for heartrate to settle to at-rest rate after doing 20mins on the turbo at 125bpm.It was seriously boring,only relieved by doing it on the back patio & watching the grass grow in the sun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 17 July, 2012, 03:54:55 pm
Eating free cake and drinking free coffee. On a 20 min train trip!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 17 July, 2012, 04:00:27 pm
Planning hotel stops in Catalonia :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 July, 2012, 04:51:04 pm
Noting on my calendar when to look for cheap Thalys tiquets to Brussels :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 17 July, 2012, 08:40:06 pm
Fogbound in Jersey. Managed to get into the sixth hotel that I tried!

And now the fog appears to have lifted  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 July, 2012, 12:34:33 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 17 July, 2012, 03:20:03 pm
Did you go to the Shipwrights Arms? With Grumpy Derek? (or Tony or Graham, can't remember which)

We did indeed go to the Shipwright's Arms. We were served mostly by a young lad who was much too fresh-faced to be able to do grumpy. Just before we left I asked the chap I believed to be the landlord where the  gents' was and I thought I detected a note of slight condescension in his response.

The beer and food were both very good, the company was excellent and we sat outside in warm sunshine with a herd of cattle getting very fat on the lush grass just the other side of the reed-lined creek. The only thing disturbing the peace was the occasional dull boom from Foulness Island some 15 miles due north of us.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 18 July, 2012, 01:07:38 am
Not sleeping.
Bugger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 18 July, 2012, 02:36:46 am
Quote from: fboab on 18 July, 2012, 01:07:38 am
Not sleeping.
Bugger.

Ditto. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 18 July, 2012, 03:39:05 am
going to bed in florida, where I'm spending the next 3 days for a work conference (no, I dont like the sound of that either). 

9 hour flight plus 4 hours queueing at miami airport, but just got outside a couple of [what they call] 'beers' and the world looks marginally better, now quite tired.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 18 July, 2012, 08:40:19 am
Quote from: PaulF on 17 July, 2012, 08:40:06 pm
Fogbound in Jersey. Managed to get into the sixth hotel that I tried!

And now the fog appears to have lifted  >:(

Back at the airport for take 2

Have to say work have been very supportive. My boss even e-mailed me to make sure that I have network access and offered to e-mail any files I need!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 July, 2012, 10:22:26 am
Charging camera batteries and finding out airbeds and the like ready for Friday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 18 July, 2012, 10:48:37 am
Last night....Ring, ring...." Hello, your builders here. We have had a cancellation: can we come to do your small bit of work at 10am tomorrow morning."

Me: "Yes, that's fine."

Today: rush into town (almost getting left hooked on the way: good brakes on "Jordan!") to the bank to get a cheque for the work. Back by 9.50am.

Now: Waiting for the builders who are now an hour late. Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 18 July, 2012, 11:07:48 am
nothing except blowing my nose and sneezing I've got man flu
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 20 July, 2012, 12:58:08 pm
Sitting onna bus playing with my 'phone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 20 July, 2012, 01:52:03 pm
Sitting inna railway station gotta ticket for my destination.

Wearing cycling clothes but with no bike. And trying not to do the wee wee dance when it's nearly an hour till I'm near a loo.

Getting a few strange looks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 20 July, 2012, 01:54:01 pm
I've just got back from the shops 13.65 miles round trip and now having an ice cream and tea  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 July, 2012, 02:57:39 pm
Cursing the person who scheduled a meeting for 15:00. Don't they know it's the TdF ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 July, 2012, 03:12:28 pm
Quote from: Ham on 20 July, 2012, 02:57:39 pm
Cursing the person who scheduled a meeting for 15:00. Don't they know it's the TdF ???

Same here.  One the good side, it's been delayed.  On the bad side, we'll probably start before the end of the stage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 July, 2012, 03:29:46 pm
eating caik: not just any caik,it's Marj's caik :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 July, 2012, 03:34:10 pm
Cursing the person who built one of our pieces of equipment and wondering HTF they managed to get allen bolts in somewhere I can't get an allen key.
Grrrr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 20 July, 2012, 03:57:46 pm
Ball-ended keys

I keep mean to buy myself a set.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 July, 2012, 03:59:00 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 20 July, 2012, 03:57:46 pm
Ball-ended keys

I keep mean to buy myself a set.
Is that in reply to me? Do they work then?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 July, 2012, 04:17:18 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 20 July, 2012, 01:52:03 pm
Sitting inna railway station gotta ticket for my destination.

Wearing cycling clothes but with no bike. And trying not to do the wee wee dance when it's nearly an hour till I'm near a loo.

Getting a few strange looks.

Snorting unattractively with laughter.  I know it is mean to laugh at the misfortune of others, but you paint such a picture there...
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Post by: Ham on 20 July, 2012, 04:33:11 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 20 July, 2012, 03:59:00 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 20 July, 2012, 03:57:46 pm
Ball-ended keys

I keep mean to buy myself a set.
Is that in reply to me? Do they work then?


I have these http://www.wiggle.co.uk/pedros-pro-hex-tl-wrench-set/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=base&utm_campaign=uk&utm_content=Pedros-Pedros_Pro_Hex_T%2fL_Wrench_Set (an xmas prezzie) and yes, they do. Not perfect for over-wellied stuff but very useful.

Edit: to quote " Featuring a ball end long reach/low torque end for nippy things like bottle bosses or rack mounts"
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 July, 2012, 06:57:05 pm
Hmm, will investigate...

Resting with a G&T having hoovered, disassembled the bog seat to clean in properly, disassembled the bathroom sink to unblock all the bleuch and re assembled again.
My Friday nights are well glamourous.
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Post by: Kim on 20 July, 2012, 07:40:07 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 20 July, 2012, 03:34:10 pm
Cursing the person who built one of our pieces of equipment and wondering HTF they managed to get allen bolts in somewhere I can't get an allen key.
Grrrr.

Midgets with tools that can phase through solid matter.  Common on Fiat assembly lines.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2012, 07:44:06 pm
Contemplating the rest of my packing for tomorrow's tour.
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Post by: LindaG on 21 July, 2012, 04:01:37 am
Trying to learn how to be a human being on this planet, alongside other human beings.
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Post by: Jaded on 21 July, 2012, 04:25:52 am
Being awake.
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Post by: Gus on 21 July, 2012, 06:28:27 am
working... at home as back up
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Post by: TimO on 21 July, 2012, 08:49:21 am
Considering cycling to work, so I can play with Lego.

I had my new Lego Hayabusa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa) model delivered to work, since it'll end up living on my desk.

We had zero to do with Hayabusa, but it's non-USAian competition for the Lego Space Shuttle that I've already got on my desk. ;D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 July, 2012, 08:51:16 am
You _really_ hate your job, don't you, Tim?  ;)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 July, 2012, 08:55:55 am
I'm heading for the hills, with a tent!
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Post by: Katie on 21 July, 2012, 09:02:18 am
I have a day off, so I'm sitting in my room looking at geocaching.com with the plan of going out for a ride this afternoon.
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Post by: mcshroom on 21 July, 2012, 12:38:18 pm
Sitting in a traffic jam
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Post by: Basil on 21 July, 2012, 12:41:44 pm
Listening to the cricket as I wander around the internet.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 July, 2012, 01:12:58 pm
brushing my teeth.
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Post by: Kim on 21 July, 2012, 01:19:25 pm
Wondering why my brain feels like it's hovering a couple of inches to the left of its normal inside-my-head position.
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Post by: Torslanda on 21 July, 2012, 04:25:27 pm
Sitting watching the time trial of the TdF on ITV+1 having fucked off the neighbours mightily using a CD player, a NAD amplifier and a Pink Floyd album.*

Oddly enough, now I've turned the volume down and reverted to the Sherwen/Liggett commentary, I can't hear Cheryl Cole, Rihanna or 'LMFAO' at all.

Funny, that . . .

Never mind, if it happens again later we have flat pack furniture to assemble and that's always helped by watching 'Apocalypse Now' or 'Apollo 13'  ;D

*Just as an aside to that: David Gilmour played some sublime solos on The Wall. Not just Comfortably Numb.
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Post by: LindaG on 21 July, 2012, 09:27:47 pm
Being bored in A+E. And they have Casualty on the telly! ::-)
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Post by: Kim on 21 July, 2012, 09:46:13 pm
I note that they tend to have Casualty on the telly a lot in BBC dramas.  I'm hoping that one day they'll have Casualty on the telly in Casualty.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 July, 2012, 10:30:15 pm
Lying in my tent, having just had a wee, thinking it won't  be long before I need another wee.
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Post by: clarion on 21 July, 2012, 10:35:14 pm
Perhaps you should have gone outside the tent for the wee, though.
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Post by: Basil on 21 July, 2012, 10:43:01 pm
Where are you, Wow?
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Post by: Kim on 21 July, 2012, 10:44:07 pm
Lying in his tent.  Do try to keep up...
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Post by: Basil on 21 July, 2012, 10:46:56 pm
Quote from: Kim on 21 July, 2012, 10:44:07 pm
Lying in his tent.  Do try to keep up...

 ;D
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Post by: Arch on 21 July, 2012, 11:27:16 pm
Eating some of the bread we baked earlier, and trying not to eat ALL the bread we baked earlier...
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Post by: Andrij on 22 July, 2012, 05:00:04 pm
Route planning.
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Post by: Katie on 22 July, 2012, 05:17:04 pm
Nursing a headache and contemplating a power nap before dinner.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 July, 2012, 05:30:14 pm
Thinking about turfing the kitteh off my lap so I can go make some bread dough anna rhubarb crumble.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 July, 2012, 06:50:18 pm
Trying (and failing) not to whistle along to the penny whistle lines in Michelle Shocked's 'Over the Waterfall.
I'm pretty sure it drives Pingu crazy.
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Post by: L CC on 23 July, 2012, 11:55:03 am
Looking at club records.
There are no mixed tandem records over 30 miles, and no ladies' records over 100 miles.

If that isn't an invitation I don't know what is...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 July, 2012, 01:53:18 pm
Wishing I were on my bike.  We're on a bus, stuck waiting for the bloody PE Torch to waddle past.  Hoped we'd sneaked round it, but no :(
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Post by: tiermat on 23 July, 2012, 01:55:31 pm
Just for a change, fixing servers.

For a change they are ones that I haven't broken.

Also for a change they are AIX, not Linux.

I hate AIX, overpriced idiosyncratic pile of crap that it is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 23 July, 2012, 02:10:47 pm
Waiting for some friends I'm meant to be driving to Heathrow.  Their car broke down on the way, and now they have only 35 minutes to get to Heathrow before their flight goes, and they're not here yet.  I don't think I'm going to get them there on time.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 July, 2012, 02:16:37 pm
Wondering if I can trade this body in for a new one.

I shouldn't really complain - the actually important bits work well enough - but the rest seems determined to annoy me to death, with all the grace of a supermarket BSO.

If you want me, I'll be on the loo, sneezing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 July, 2012, 02:26:36 pm
Quote from: Kim on 23 July, 2012, 02:16:37 pm
If you want me, I'll be on the loo, sneezing.

I've had hayfever that bad, too :D

srsly, GWS.
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Post by: Katie on 23 July, 2012, 08:10:59 pm
Skyping with my partner :)
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Post by: BrianI on 23 July, 2012, 08:18:27 pm
Watching a tv prog about the construction of some new fangled sports arena for some sport event which is happening in London...

And getting annoyed at all the TV adverts for products which proudly claim they are the official product of the same sport event..

So far I havent seen an advert for the official bog roll of London 2012......

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Post by: Butterfly on 24 July, 2012, 02:56:07 pm
Fretting.
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Post by: tiermat on 24 July, 2012, 03:03:30 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 July, 2012, 02:56:07 pm
Fretting.

You are not alone.

millions thousands plenty of us out her in internetland are fretting about the same thing.

Thumbs held and fingers crossed.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 July, 2012, 03:35:36 pm
Having a very lazy lunchtime outside the Lower Lode, lingering by the Severn with a sneezing Jane .  Off to the theatre this evening for a bit of culcher.
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Post by: BrianI on 24 July, 2012, 05:22:04 pm
Route planning for a car assisted mini epic MTB ride.

So far my cunning plan is to drive with bike in boot of car to Sma Glen, parking at Newton Bridge, then head for a cycle along Glen Almond.  ;D
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Post by: peliroja on 24 July, 2012, 06:07:43 pm
Making the most of our last rest day for a while. We're off to tackle the Great Divide Mountain Bike route soon!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 July, 2012, 07:27:03 pm
Sitting outside another pub with Jane, who is still sneezing. We are giving the play a miss, partly as a result of Jane's hay fever and also, after a bit of COR, you would have been able to tell, just by looking, that we are not kings.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 24 July, 2012, 07:50:40 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 24 July, 2012, 03:03:30 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 July, 2012, 02:56:07 pm
Fretting.

You are not alone.

millions thousands plenty of us out her in internetland are fretting about the same thing.

Thumbs held and fingers crossed.

Have I missed something? I mean, I usually have, and usually more thing than one, but have I missed an important something?
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Post by: Butterfly on 24 July, 2012, 11:21:02 pm
Quote from: Paul on 24 July, 2012, 07:50:40 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 24 July, 2012, 03:03:30 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 24 July, 2012, 02:56:07 pm
Fretting.

You are not alone.

millions thousands plenty of us out her in internetland are fretting about the same thing.

Thumbs held and fingers crossed.

Have I missed something? I mean, I usually have, and usually more thing than one, but have I missed an important something?

Clarion  was having his shoulder operated on. So far, all seems ok. :)

And Tiermat:  :-* Thank you.
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Post by: why1040 on 24 July, 2012, 11:34:13 pm
Wondering how long my neighbours are planning on playing music loud enough to keep me awake for...

I'm not actually in bed yet, but if it's like that when I do go, I'm going to be Grumpy.
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Post by: why1040 on 25 July, 2012, 12:51:32 am
Listening to the mosquito whining its way round my bedroom...
as a plus though, this definitely means my neighbours have stopped the racket!
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Post by: Kim on 25 July, 2012, 01:00:28 am
Somewhere in the Teetering Piles Of Crap I have a minidisc containing ambient sound recordings I made in the Zambian bush back in 1996.  I fettled a high-gain binaural microphone for the purpose (doubt they'd let that sort of thing on a plane these days), and it captured some splendid close passes by mosquitos.  If you listen through a decent pair of headphones, it's hard not to duck as the wee bastard sounds like it's going for your head.
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Post by: mcshroom on 25 July, 2012, 01:01:20 am
Fitting new cleats as I can't sleep
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Post by: Kim on 25 July, 2012, 01:02:15 am
Are you Batman?  :D
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Post by: mcshroom on 25 July, 2012, 01:06:02 am
*Tries sleeping hanging upside down1 * - no not batman (head now feels funny)

1 Well lying with my head on the floor and legs on the sofa - close enough
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Post by: L CC on 25 July, 2012, 07:28:57 am
Channelling Samson
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Post by: Jaded on 25 July, 2012, 11:24:31 am
Not looking forward to riding the brown pencil later.
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Post by: numbnuts on 25 July, 2012, 12:18:52 pm
Just going out kayaking, I could be a while
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 25 July, 2012, 12:42:44 pm
Booking Wastwater youth hostel for 3 nights.

Not the location I originally picked. Not walking distance from pub or anything similar. But best scenery. Cheapest hostel. Near to where we want to go walking.

Just hope the kids can put up with my nostalgia tripping about Wastwater (I used to work there).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 25 July, 2012, 02:20:22 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 25 July, 2012, 12:42:44 pm
Booking Wastwater youth hostel for 3 nights.

Not the location I originally picked. Not walking distance from pub or anything similar. But best scenery. Cheapest hostel. Near to where we want to go walking.

Just hope the kids can put up with my nostalgia tripping about Wastwater (I used to work there).

Ooh, when you coming over here then? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 July, 2012, 02:38:50 pm
Researching sand blasters and cabinets.

I appear to have acquired ~6 frames (not all at once) that are in need of cleaning and painting, I have a brother who haas the painting gear, and is willing and able to do the work, just need to supply a sand blaster now....
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 25 July, 2012, 02:40:05 pm
Monday, staying until Thursday.

Was intending to go near the main spots, Ambleside etc. But then I thought of the cram each morning, trying to get to somewhere to go walking. One of the walking destinations was going to be wasdale/skafell

So staying on Wastwater should avoid all that and give MsCharly some good chances to play with her camera.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 July, 2012, 09:20:52 am
Trying to get Spotify for Linux to rescan the local MP3s.

Not succeeding so far, so the albums I ripped yesterday are not showing, so I cannot copy them to my iPod (a gen6 nano, so can't use Amarok etc)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 July, 2012, 09:22:54 am
Fighting an attack from the ICBA strormtroopers
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 July, 2012, 11:48:49 am
Onna x-c train, heading north, with 3 small boys. Off onna n'adventure!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 July, 2012, 12:19:38 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 26 July, 2012, 09:20:52 am
Trying to get Spotify for Linux to rescan the local MP3s.

Not succeeding so far, so the albums I ripped yesterday are not showing, so I cannot copy them to my iPod (a gen6 nano, so can't use Amarok etc)

FIXED IT!!!

Now it is syncing >900 songs onto the iPod \o/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 July, 2012, 01:44:19 pm
Pondering on where the 4 white doves on the roof of a nearby house have came from?

Also pondering a road ride on the tourer tomorrow.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 July, 2012, 01:44:39 pm
Quote from: jogler on 26 July, 2012, 09:22:54 am
Fighting an attack from the ICBA strormtroopers

I'm winning
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Post by: Basil on 26 July, 2012, 02:21:06 pm
Sitting on a train.  Counting the number of Union Flags I spot being flown umop apisdn.
3 - 8 so far.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 July, 2012, 02:23:32 pm
Reading Basil's post and wondering how you tell when a union jack is flown umop apisdn.
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Post by: Kim on 26 July, 2012, 02:35:20 pm
The Rev explains all: 

http://revk.www.me.uk/2012/06/bad-flags.html
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Post by: Luke on 26 July, 2012, 05:11:02 pm
Sat in my tent, overlooking Holy island and in the distance, Bamburgh castle.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 26 July, 2012, 06:21:12 pm
Nice.
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Post by: Peter on 26 July, 2012, 06:45:37 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 July, 2012, 02:23:32 pm
Reading Basil's post and wondering how you tell when a union jack is flown umop apisdn.

The broader white outlining stripes on the red diagonals should be at the top.  I think a lot of the flags made these days, especially souvenir ones, have the white outlining the same width throughout.
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Post by: Basil on 26 July, 2012, 08:36:54 pm
Yes.  At top on the flag side.  On the bottom on the free side.
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Post by: Chris S on 26 July, 2012, 08:48:33 pm
About to give in to reason, and get a bowl of Ice Cream and Chocolate.
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Post by: LindaG on 27 July, 2012, 06:44:19 am
Quote from: Luke on 26 July, 2012, 05:11:02 pm
Sat in my tent, overlooking Holy island and in the distance, Bamburgh castle.   :thumbsup:

Ooh lovely.   :D
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Post by: welshwheels on 27 July, 2012, 07:07:58 am
Getting ready to go up the hospital for mrs ww c section on monday for n+1 child  to arrive  :thumbsup: It has been a hard 6 weeks with me having to take mrs w w up the hospital every evening 7 days a week for monitoring !! so after a heavy fall at 26 weeks ! waters going at 32 weeks !! 2 infections !! picked up when they kept mrs in for a week !! looks like we have finally made it  :) :)
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Post by: Ham on 27 July, 2012, 07:11:27 am
All best wishes for you all, ww
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Post by: LindaG on 27 July, 2012, 07:18:47 am
Wow.  Good luck to you and yours ww.

n+1  ;D
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Post by: Basil on 27 July, 2012, 08:35:38 am
Best wishes for the ww+1 event.
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Post by: clarion on 27 July, 2012, 09:04:40 am
Been too busy so far.  Hope it all goes smoothly from now, ww.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2012, 09:11:43 am
I've just given up on reading the Right Way to Fly Flags, as linked to by Kim, because I realised that IJDGAT.
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Post by: clarion on 27 July, 2012, 09:20:23 am
In that respect, I find my favoured flag presents few problems.
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Post by: andrewc on 27 July, 2012, 09:28:25 am
Onna train, on my way to Watlington via Stafford & Oxford.

There are several pretty young ladies on board wearing very short shorts and pastel coloured wellies!   I assume there is some sort of festival or big event on.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 27 July, 2012, 10:09:59 am
Quote from: andrewc on 27 July, 2012, 09:28:25 am
Onna train, on my way to Watlington via Stafford & Oxford.

There are several pretty young ladies on board wearing very short shorts and pastel coloured wellies!   I assume there is some sort of festival or big event on.....
You are probably going to beat me there! I shall be leaving in a while.  :)
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Post by: Kim on 27 July, 2012, 01:35:59 pm
Just finished packing the bike for Watlington.  Having some lunch and running the backups script before leaving for Mordor Central.
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Post by: numbnuts on 27 July, 2012, 02:09:42 pm
I'm resting after cleaning the car and bike
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Post by: clarion on 27 July, 2012, 02:19:16 pm
Butterfly is at Marylebone.
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Post by: andrewc on 27 July, 2012, 02:37:18 pm
Just arrived at Watlington, no one here but me and loads of rabbits. Wonder if Julian has packed her air rifle......?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 July, 2012, 07:28:45 am
Eating flapjack and drinking damson gin while basking in the sunshine and waiting the the 'spoons to open. I can see the sea!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2012, 09:31:38 am
Drinking tea and preparing to do battle with Greater Anglia, Stratford and Lpoo St to Paddington. We are off to Gower for a week on the 12.45 from Paddington to Swansea.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2012, 10:19:01 am
Thinking that this train, which serves the Olympic stadium and stops there in a few minutes, is remarkably uncrowded for this time on a Saturday morning, which gives the strong impression that those railway companies that have restricted or banned bicycles for the duration are malicious, mendacious bastards.
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Post by: welshwheels on 28 July, 2012, 09:15:37 pm
just returned from a meal just me and mrs ww 2 sons with there grandfather for the evening our last meal before the planned ceserian on monday and the planned  arrival of n+1 daughter on monday  as long as we have no complications ! fingers crossed  :)
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Post by: Arch on 28 July, 2012, 09:36:54 pm
Good luck!

I'm watching men's gymnastics, and marvelling at biceps.
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Post by: Ham on 28 July, 2012, 10:25:23 pm
sitting in purgatory or   just  be a party where  I know moody
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2012, 11:37:27 pm
I'm lying in bed in our rather cramped self-catering accommodation a couple of miles from Rhossili bay. I'm really struggling to get a signal and it seems that our daughter has given Dez's bedding to the people in the neighbouring cottage. This is not good news.

Good luck Welshwheels with your n+1!
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Post by: Kim on 29 July, 2012, 03:39:43 am
Lying in my tent wishing it had some sort of upwards porthole arrangement - I've just come back from the loo and the sky looks absolutely stunning for this close to a built up area. Two shooting stars in as many minutes!
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Post by: why1040 on 29 July, 2012, 03:59:35 am
Trying to get my digestive system to stop throwing its weight around...   :-\
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Post by: Wowbagger on 29 July, 2012, 08:28:04 am
We are preparing to go to the beach. I think it may be Mewslade.
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Post by: lou boutin on 29 July, 2012, 03:41:51 pm
I've just shouted myself hoarse, shouting at Team GB in the Women's road race. well done Lizzy.
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Post by: Kim on 29 July, 2012, 10:12:59 pm
Writing a raspbian image to a SD card, rather than anything sensible like going to bed early...
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Post by: Juan Martín on 30 July, 2012, 04:39:45 pm
Watching the women's epée competition via the BBC website. I'm impressed by the coverage that they have provided. Shortly off to try my luck with the trains.
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Post by: Andrij on 30 July, 2012, 05:23:40 pm
Fretting: my bike is now on its way to Paris, but I don't leave for another 12 hours.
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Post by: lou boutin on 30 July, 2012, 08:09:00 pm
Sulking; I've just broke the heel on my daffoldiles :-(
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Post by: Jaded on 30 July, 2012, 08:22:55 pm
Oh, that's sad.


How are the daffodils?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 July, 2012, 08:45:20 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 30 July, 2012, 08:22:55 pm
Oh, that's sad.


How are the daffodils?  ;D

Daffoldiles, as inhttp://make-upoverdose.blogspot.com/2011/03/lusting-over-christian-louboutins.html (http://make-upoverdose.blogspot.com/2011/03/lusting-over-christian-louboutins.html) not daffodils as in the flower. All be the latter is beautiful, it is not as expensive as the former or as high to fall off.
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Post by: L CC on 30 July, 2012, 09:23:16 pm
Watching the olympic opening ceremony. Fingers right on the pulse, bang on the minute, cutting edge me.
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Post by: matthew on 30 July, 2012, 09:42:13 pm
Quote from: Kim on 29 July, 2012, 03:39:43 am
Lying in my tent wishing it had some sort of upwards porthole arrangement - I've just come back from the loo and the sky looks absolutely stunning for this close to a built up area. Two shooting stars in as many minutes!

you needed my Jannu, the ventilation is a triangular patch at the top of the dome under a cover. The cover can be unhooked and folded aside.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 July, 2012, 10:33:48 pm
Reading #thingsbetterthanRiley69.

Rileyy_69 is someone on twitter who has posted some very nasty stuff about Tom Daley today - his dad would be ashamed of him, Rileyy_69 is going to drown him, that sort of stuff. Then he got the huff when it made the news, threatened to sue Sky News for saying stuff about him, and is now having the piss ripped out of him by #thingsbetterthanRiley69. Current suggestions for #thingsbetterthanRiley69 include masturbating with a cheese grater, Jedward duetting with Timmy Mallett, crocs, being the middle person in a human centipede, being masturbated by Edward Scissorhands, and comic sans.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 July, 2012, 03:02:01 pm
Looking at, and considering buying, a townhouse or apartment in Spain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 31 July, 2012, 03:14:47 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 31 July, 2012, 03:02:01 pm
Looking at, and considering buying, a townhouse or apartment in Spain.

Realising contractors get paid more than permies.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 31 July, 2012, 03:27:22 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 30 July, 2012, 10:33:48 pm
Reading #thingsbetterthanRiley69.

Rileyy_69 is someone on twitter who has posted some very nasty stuff about Tom Daley today - his dad would be ashamed of him, Rileyy_69 is going to drown him, that sort of stuff. Then he got the huff when it made the news, threatened to sue Sky News for saying stuff about him, and is now having the piss ripped out of him by #thingsbetterthanRiley69. Current suggestions for #thingsbetterthanRiley69 include masturbating with a cheese grater, Jedward duetting with Timmy Mallett, crocs, being the middle person in a human centipede, being masturbated by Edward Scissorhands, and comic sans.

According to our local news Rileyy_69 has been arrested - or at least someone's been arrested for comments about Tom Daley on twitter
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 July, 2012, 03:29:51 pm
Quote from: Ham on 31 July, 2012, 03:14:47 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 31 July, 2012, 03:02:01 pm
Looking at, and considering buying, a townhouse or apartment in Spain.

Realising contractors get paid more than permies.....

Well, yes, BUT also one of the Spanish banks has just dumped all it's repo properties, so there are metric shitload available, a lot around Alicante.  A search I did, which restricted it to <€40k brought up 995 properties!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 31 July, 2012, 03:35:14 pm
Trying to get my heartbeat back under control after a very exciting Eventing individual final!  Phew!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 31 July, 2012, 03:52:55 pm
I'm not doing nothing, God my life is so boring and tomorrow highlight is going to the doctors
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 31 July, 2012, 04:57:28 pm
Mind your own business!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 July, 2012, 07:42:07 pm
Bored.  :(
So I'm gonna watch the footingball.

Luckily, I won't have to watch more footingball tomorrow as it's quiz night.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 July, 2012, 07:51:08 pm
I say!  It seems to be going rather well already.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 31 July, 2012, 09:55:43 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 30 July, 2012, 05:23:40 pm
Fretting: my bike is now on its way to Paris, but I don't leave for another 12 hours.

 :o I would find that massively stressful. Hope it's there waiting for you in fine fettle!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 July, 2012, 11:04:41 pm
Haircut!  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 August, 2012, 07:30:30 am
(http://www.soulculture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Sine%CC%81ad-OConnor.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 August, 2012, 11:14:03 am
I'm on a train, heading out to torture myself by watching people ride bikes,.which I can't.

It would be a damn sight easier if I could, mind.  Train late, slow, and stopping between stations.  And this is not even the train heading out towards the course!

Not expecting much, so anything's a bonus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 August, 2012, 04:14:31 pm
Quote from: Kim on 31 July, 2012, 11:04:41 pm
Haircut!  :'(
Pics?

(I had about 10" taken off mine)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 August, 2012, 04:22:10 pm
Calm down, I've only had a couple of inches off to tidy up the scraggy ends and stop it catching in the rear wheel.  I'm not small and cute enough to get away with a buzzcut like Sinead O'Connor, and my hair is insufferably high maintenance at anything less than chin length.

It's still traumatic, though.  Never quite recovered from that time when I was about 8 and the hairdresser drew blood...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 August, 2012, 04:25:04 pm
sitting in an airport avoiding the telly and news websites, saving the TT for later and thinking I will have to make some bread when I get home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 August, 2012, 04:27:34 pm
Also, feeling peckish & trying to avoid scoffing the salty penguins I bought at duty free.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 August, 2012, 05:27:15 pm
Laminating an audax route sheet
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 August, 2012, 05:38:54 pm
Just got home and am wondering how long it will would be until I hear the tired old "buses" joke (re the two gold medals today)
Bloody hell, R4 came out with it as I was typing this.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 August, 2012, 06:36:21 pm
Being nibbled on by beasties.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 01 August, 2012, 06:38:40 pm
Quote from: Basil on 01 August, 2012, 05:38:54 pm
Just got home and am wondering how long it will would be until I hear the tired old "buses" joke (re the two gold medals today)
Bloody hell, R4 came out with it as I was typing this.  :facepalm:
Working out which bits of Eastern Europe are in the EU.  If the United States of Europe existed, it would be top of the Medal table.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 August, 2012, 12:13:27 am
Simon and I have finished packing panniers with tent and stuff for our trip to the Semaine Federale. Tomorrow we have a 100 mile ride to Portsmsouth followed by a night ferry crossing to St Malo. On Friday we are riding a DIY 200k audax to a campsite somewhere random in France, then on Saturday we have another 70 miles ish to get to Niort where we join the rest of Bristol CTC many of whom are going via EasyJet  :facepalm:
What with 300 miles there, 300 miles back and a lot of riding while there this should be a high mileage trip  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 August, 2012, 08:45:40 am
Hurting.

I'm quite fed up of this, really. It's now 4 months since I feckless fell down the stairs, and I'm still suffering.
Apart from anything else, the drug of choice is codeine, and I'm sick of the side effects.
Serves me right for riding for hours last night, I s'pose.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 August, 2012, 08:51:01 am
Hugs, you robust bitch, you.  Things are improving, even if slowly.  I do empathise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 August, 2012, 08:52:24 am
It gets better, promise.  The Elbow niggles a bit on occasion, but it has steadily continued to improve and I haven't been anything like as well-behaved as you about the physio and stuff.  And you are back to riding frankly silly distances remarkably quickly, y'know?  But you have my sympathy, because it is just so dull when it hurts, isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 August, 2012, 08:56:08 am
It's very wearing. It makes me grumpy & short tempered (and I wasn't exactly long tempered before) and tired, and lethargic, and depressed, and well. You both know what I'm talking about.

Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 August, 2012, 08:58:03 am
We are the broken people.  Harrumph.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 August, 2012, 09:12:15 am
Quote from: robust bitch oab on 02 August, 2012, 08:56:08 am
It's very wearing. It makes me grumpy & short tempered (and I wasn't exactly long tempered before) and tired, and lethargic, and depressed, and well. You both know what I'm talking about.

Sigh.

Get a grip.

 :-*

Just sayin', like...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 August, 2012, 09:47:50 am
I've just been downstairs, reset the hub, made a cup of tea and come back.  Without wearing my sling.  I thought it would be OK.  It wasn't. :( >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 August, 2012, 09:53:12 am
Quote from: Chris S on 02 August, 2012, 09:12:15 am
Quote from: robust bitch oab on 02 August, 2012, 08:56:08 am
It's very wearing. It makes me grumpy & short tempered (and I wasn't exactly long tempered before) and tired, and lethargic, and depressed, and well. You both know what I'm talking about.

Sigh.

Get a grip.

 :-*

Just sayin', like...
:hand:

(we don't seem to have a nnV Vnn )

It's a lot easier to get a grip if your fucking hand isn't hurting. So ner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 August, 2012, 09:59:33 am
I shall defend vigorously your right to moan, whinge and whine and generally wallow in a vat of self pity eating chocolate and snivelling sorrowfully, Rboab.

Well, I've done enough of it ;)

So, when's your next 600?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 August, 2012, 10:26:12 am
E-learning - a brainwashing course of death by powerpoint smartbuilder 'enhanced' by an audio commentary (reading the words on the screen) which also stops me from clicking next until they are finished
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 August, 2012, 10:27:50 am
Playing with a very nice fisheye lens that Mrs T bought me for my birthday.

mcshroom - I hate those, when I went to work for the OilCo in Norway, the induction involved one, with a multiple choice test at the end!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 August, 2012, 10:29:46 am
I'll get the multiple choice test in about 20 mins.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 August, 2012, 10:30:45 am
Quote from: tiermat on 02 August, 2012, 10:27:50 am
Playing with a very nice fisheye lens that Mrs T bought me for my birthday.
Camera lens (if so TPIUWP) :)
Quote
mcshroom - I hate those, when I went to work for the OilCo in Norway, the induction involved one, with a multiple choice test at the end!

Yep, coming up in about 25 minutes
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 August, 2012, 10:34:11 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 02 August, 2012, 10:30:45 am
Quote from: tiermat on 02 August, 2012, 10:27:50 am
Playing with a very nice fisheye lens that Mrs T bought me for my birthday.
Camera lens (if so TPIUWP) :)

Yes, a fisheye lens for our Nikons (I have a D60 and Mrs T has a D5000)

I fear the world might disappear into a sigularity if I take a photo of a piece of photography equipment :)

Seriously though, when I get chance I will post a pic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: urban_biker on 02 August, 2012, 10:35:40 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 02 August, 2012, 10:26:12 am
E-learning - a brainwashing course of death by powerpoint smartbuilder 'enhanced' by an audio commentary (reading the words on the screen) which also stops me from clicking next until they are finished

I remember when corporate education meant a week away at a good hotel, a few classroom sessions interspersed with coffee and biscuits and a nice lunch followed by a night out on the town.

Now its two hours spent at your desk on a PC with the phone on voicemail. No wonder I've stopped learning things!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 August, 2012, 11:29:39 am
Quote from: urban_biker on 02 August, 2012, 10:35:40 am


I remember when corporate education meant a week away at a good hotel, a few classroom sessions interspersed with coffee and biscuits and a nice lunch followed by a night out on the town.


I remember too
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 August, 2012, 12:20:34 pm
E-learning.  Hurumph.  I've renamed it E-reading.  >:(
cos that's all it is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 August, 2012, 01:07:09 pm
Quote from: Basil on 02 August, 2012, 12:20:34 pm
E-learning.  Hurumph.  I've renamed it E-reading.  >:(
cos that's all it is.

Except it isn't.  It's E-grainy-video-with-no-subtitles as well.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a thousand words are worth several hours of video.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 02 August, 2012, 05:57:04 pm
Waiting for MapInfo to either do its stuff, or fall over.  Could be some time  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 August, 2012, 06:00:15 pm
I'm trying to force my brains back into my head. They are threatening to leak out after I melted them with two solid days of coding XSLT transforms. Ugh...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 02 August, 2012, 06:53:49 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 02 August, 2012, 10:29:46 am
I'll get the multiple choice test in about 20 mins.
Was it one of those where you have to keep guessing answering until you get the 'right' answer?

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 August, 2012, 06:58:15 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 02 August, 2012, 06:53:49 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 02 August, 2012, 10:29:46 am
I'll get the multiple choice test in about 20 mins.
Was it one of those where you have to keep guessing answering until you get the 'right' answer?

S

Yes. To be fair the questions were easy, partly because I knew the subject anyway but mainly because you just pick the answer with the most jargon and Americanisms in it
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 August, 2012, 07:05:21 pm
Shaking and trying not to puke up any lungs after chasing a pair of disgustingly effortless roadies into the wind on the way back from Edgbaston at well above evens.

I nearly had them, until the gradient turned against me, at which point their combined all-up weight adding up to about the same as my bike had the predictable effect.  Bastards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 03 August, 2012, 11:25:33 am
In the Olympic stadium men's 400m hurdles: -)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 August, 2012, 11:33:10 am
On our way on jollydays!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jules on 03 August, 2012, 12:24:09 pm
Not raining where we are sitting. Cheap seats!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 03 August, 2012, 04:07:15 pm
Running a post 30km MTB ride bath.

10km of the above ride involved getting lost in the woods admiring the scenery on several fire roads I'm sure I had been down before......   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 August, 2012, 06:00:20 pm
Having explored our holiday cottage, the CrinklyClan are relaxing with, variously, coffee, biscuits, ps2, solitaire, dodgy mobile interweb connections and wasabi peas while discussing what to have for tea.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 August, 2012, 07:13:25 pm
Wondering if I should drink all of this bottle of chilled red wine that's been put in front of me as part of the "pilgrim's menu (€10.50). OK, justification found: celebration of climbing my first proper mountain. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 August, 2012, 08:16:56 pm
cutting a Snickers bar into chewable-size slices
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 August, 2012, 08:21:18 pm
Justification #2: just received a text from my bro saying he is once again employed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 August, 2012, 12:39:56 pm
Looking at the rain outside and getting ready for the train to Bristol.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 August, 2012, 12:50:03 pm
Wondering why I can't find the Grundtal spice rack on the Ikea website and wondering if they've discontinued it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 August, 2012, 01:22:54 pm
Trying to notch back from stress level 11

Holidays, #4 on the stress counter, after death, divorce and moving house.


Aaaand breeeathe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 August, 2012, 01:28:33 pm
Thinking that I really ought to go upstairs and get dressed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 04 August, 2012, 01:35:02 pm
Fettling.   Preparing to replace 9 speed Campag with 9 speed Shimano on the audax machine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 04 August, 2012, 02:16:57 pm
I've just got back from a ride and now having tea and toast
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 August, 2012, 02:37:19 pm
I'm on a train which visits Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Didcot and Reading. Have I won?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 August, 2012, 02:41:03 pm
Only if you don't have to get off at any of those places.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 August, 2012, 03:02:21 pm
Wondering what to say to console Bobb. He's just sent me an irate text, saying a couple of cyclists have just asked him if he's audaxing because he looks like he's an audaxer. He's very upset.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 August, 2012, 03:08:04 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 04 August, 2012, 03:02:21 pm
Wondering what to say to console Bobb. He's just sent me an irate text, saying a couple of cyclists have just asked him if he's audaxing because he looks like he's an audaxer. He's very upset.  ;D

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 04 August, 2012, 03:10:48 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 04 August, 2012, 03:02:21 pm
Wondering what to say to console Bobb. He's just sent me an irate text, saying a couple of cyclists have just asked him if he's audaxing because he looks like he's an audaxer. He's very upset.  ;D

Tell him to grow a beard to disguise himself  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 August, 2012, 03:21:33 pm
Looking at the Millennium Stadium from the train, where the Battling British Boys will be Battling and British tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 August, 2012, 05:03:30 pm
Feeling rather tired, and hot, after a days pitchforking and grass raking while doing voluntary work at a local nature reserve.   :D  I'll probably be stiff tomorrow.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 August, 2012, 05:20:52 pm
Quote from: Kirst on 04 August, 2012, 03:02:21 pm
Wondering what to say to console Bobb. He's just sent me an irate text, saying a couple of cyclists have just asked him if he's audaxing because he looks like he's an audaxer. He's very upset.  ;D

Get him some SPD sandals and then no one will ask again.
They'll just know :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 August, 2012, 08:02:45 am
Just finished clearing up after last night's party & barbie.

Highlight  - NSFV OAWIALS (Vegetarians, or anyone who is a little squeamish)
Before
(click to show/hide)

After
edit: After cooking but before eating  ;)
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 August, 2012, 08:38:56 am
Not much of a party if there was that much pig left!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 August, 2012, 10:11:56 am
aching all over
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 August, 2012, 01:15:24 pm
Trying to stay awake.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 August, 2012, 02:19:55 pm
Have just said goodbye to Kim.  Got to wait another hour for my train. It's still raining..... :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 August, 2012, 09:07:20 pm
I'm perusing the AUK calendar for a convenient 200km ride in October

ETA  found one: & one for November
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 05 August, 2012, 10:08:05 pm
I have been working my way through some GUI bits for the Seekrit Projekt - eventually I will have something working together and can demo it. And it might be Awesome.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 August, 2012, 01:26:06 am
Grinning at pictures of Mars, when I should be going to bed.  It's like Voyager 2 and the outer planets all over again.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 07 August, 2012, 03:09:10 am
Quote from: Kim on 05 August, 2012, 01:15:24 pm
Trying to stay awake.

Trying to go to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 07 August, 2012, 01:56:11 pm
Just completing an entry form for the Fife Art Exhibition 2012   ;D

And still waiting for my delivery from mr parcel force
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 07 August, 2012, 02:04:51 pm
Working out how I go about actually buying a house (this one (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-23099667.html)) and worrying.

Never done this before
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 August, 2012, 02:34:27 pm
Watching the EldestCub take part in the tattie Olympics at Paxton House. He just won the (plastic fork assisted) shot putt :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 August, 2012, 02:36:54 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 07 August, 2012, 02:04:51 pm
Working out how I go about actually buying a house (this one (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-23099667.html)) and worrying.

Never done this before

Finding the right house is the hardest part, the most stressful part though is dealing with solicitors, who seem to operate in there own space/time continuum, which bears no resemblance to the one you live in.

Good luck with it, if there is no chain then it should take 4 weeks or so, if there are complications (like it is built on an old pit) then expect it to take longer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 07 August, 2012, 05:36:46 pm
whisking
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 07 August, 2012, 05:38:25 pm
Sighing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 August, 2012, 05:49:47 pm
Hoovering.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 August, 2012, 07:42:57 pm
Incubating a sourdough on my lap and thinking about going and making a pastry case.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 07 August, 2012, 07:55:54 pm
eating bread&butter pudding :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 07 August, 2012, 07:58:33 pm
I'm still knackered from a silly bike ride at the weekend. A couple of crap days at work haven't helped.  Just put my rancid cycling kit in the wash  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 07 August, 2012, 10:45:40 pm
Quote from: jogler on 07 August, 2012, 05:36:46 pm
whisking
whiskying.

I know which I prefer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 August, 2012, 09:44:18 am
Heading up the a1 to edinburgh  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 August, 2012, 09:45:16 am
Teleconf, again :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 August, 2012, 12:07:28 pm
Watching cubs watching street theatre  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 08 August, 2012, 02:10:47 pm
Drying out 13 miles ride in the rain (http://i842.photobucket.com/albums/zz346/Ragen_Nelson/Smileys/depressed.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 August, 2012, 02:49:46 pm
Getting sunburnt. That's my third lot of scottish sunburn this year!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GrahamG on 08 August, 2012, 03:55:56 pm
Scratching mosquito bites.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 August, 2012, 04:32:16 pm
Perusing maps with the intent of putting a 200km DIY route together from home to Rutland Water-ish
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 August, 2012, 04:33:46 pm
Taking a short break from tour-planning to go and get Aunt Phyllis, who is coming for tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 August, 2012, 07:51:39 pm
Drinking cheap and cheerful Sauvignon Blanc. With my feet up whilst looking out of the french windows at my tent drying on the line.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 August, 2012, 08:25:05 pm
Cooking curry and scratching beastie bites.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 08:58:52 pm
Decompressing and counting the days til holiday time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 August, 2012, 09:07:34 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 08:58:52 pm
Decompressing and counting the days til holiday time.

Yeah, jobs suck don't they.

Glass of wine?  Pineapple on a stick?   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 09:13:13 pm
Bottle of wine onna stick? :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 August, 2012, 09:15:27 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 09:13:13 pm
Bottle of wine onna stick? :P
Please!  Hold the stick?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 09:21:11 pm
Choclit stick? :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 August, 2012, 09:25:06 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 09:21:11 pm
Choclit stick? :P

 ;D ;D

Just the pineapple and the wine thanks.  I'm on a diet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 09:27:21 pm
I'll eat yours then :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 August, 2012, 09:31:05 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 09:21:11 pm
Choclit stick? :P

I had to read that more than once to see it as it's written :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 09:47:02 pm
Quote from: jogler on 09 August, 2012, 09:31:05 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 09:21:11 pm
Choclit stick? :P

I had to read that more than once to see it as it's written :demon:
Nope...not getting what you're getting at at all :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 August, 2012, 09:47:58 pm
Does he think we're reading chick lit?

How rude!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2012, 09:59:14 pm
The very idea!
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Post by: welshwheels on 09 August, 2012, 11:57:42 pm
just fed the baby  :thumbsup:    and I am now Mounting my high horse regarding BROKEN BRITAIN   http://uk.news.yahoo.com/missing-child-bid-free-lift-164506698.html :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: FOR FUCK SAKE HOW LOW ARE SOME PEOPLE can't find the smilet for wankers  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 August, 2012, 12:08:42 am
Quote from: welshwheels on 09 August, 2012, 11:57:42 pm
just fed the baby  :thumbsup:   

Not chips again.  Surely?
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 August, 2012, 12:18:19 am
Not sleeping.

How does one say "shut the fuck up" in Spanish?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 10 August, 2012, 09:42:53 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 10 August, 2012, 12:18:19 am
Not sleeping.

How does one say "shut the fuck up" in Spanish?

Basta ya!
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Post by: Julian on 10 August, 2012, 09:48:24 pm
Wondering if I've poisoned the cats.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 August, 2012, 09:58:08 pm
Wielding the 'dd' command with a 95% certainty that I'm not about to force the issue of that two-year-overdue Ubuntu upgrade...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 August, 2012, 10:23:51 pm
Quote from: Julian on 10 August, 2012, 09:48:24 pm
Wondering if I've poisoned the cats.

????
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 August, 2012, 11:50:28 pm
eating chilled black cherries
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2012, 02:32:03 am
At half two in the morning?  I'm baking, of course!
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Post by: LindaG on 11 August, 2012, 02:36:52 am
Ranting.  On my coffee break. Grrrr.
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 11 August, 2012, 02:42:28 am
Vaping (Electronic cigarette) with Stapple express. A mix of flavours using State express tobacco flavour, Apple and peanut butter flavour all mixed up. Using it at a pretty high nicotine content but loving it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 August, 2012, 07:38:26 am
eating porridge

TEA ETA with a bananarama & honey
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Post by: BrianI on 11 August, 2012, 07:45:15 am
Waiting for the diclofenac potasium to kick in.

low back pain ftl   :demon:

Being old at 34 and ten twelfths sucks!
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Post by: Jaded on 11 August, 2012, 08:42:32 am
Lying in glorious utter silence. Not evn the sheep are mooing.
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Post by: jogler on 11 August, 2012, 08:46:46 am
That's 'cause they are drugged up on grass.....man ;)
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Post by: Paul on 11 August, 2012, 08:48:33 am
Trying to get the furshinlugger printer to work so I can hand out some maps for the Raspberry Pi Run.
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Post by: peliroja on 11 August, 2012, 08:51:41 am
Lying in the tent in Montana in the most mahoosive and loud thunderstorm I've ever experienced.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 11 August, 2012, 08:56:23 am
Quote from: peliroja on 11 August, 2012, 08:51:41 am
Lying in the tent in Montana in the most mahoosive and loud thunderstorm I've ever experienced.
Morning Peli.

Is it wise to be communicating electronically in a thunderstorm?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 August, 2012, 09:19:51 am
Getting ready to do a full brake job on the Pikey Old Beemer.  I am not looking forward to this, as I expect things to be rusted solid.  However, the handbrake really needs attention.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 August, 2012, 01:33:57 pm
One side (rear) done.  Everything was pretty stuck but it came apart with a bit of persuasion from Mr Mallet.  Fitting the new handbrake shoes was very confusing (it's a notoriously horrid design) but it is working (starts to engage when the lever is pulled up two clicks).  The actual main disc and pads thing took about 5 minutes, including cleaning the hub to bare metal.

The other side should be easy now I've got the hang of it.  Then it's the front, which should be a 10 minute job except that I have a drilled-out retaining screw to contend with.  Hopefully molegrips will shift the stub.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 11 August, 2012, 08:08:16 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 10 August, 2012, 10:23:51 pm
Quote from: Julian on 10 August, 2012, 09:48:24 pm
Wondering if I've poisoned the cats.

????
I once dropped a Piriton tablet and the cat got to it before I could.  Ah bugger.  Now, one Piriton tablet can floor my 75kg for hours (I only ever take one before going to bed, and only if I'm absolutely full of histamine), so what would it do to a 4kg cat?

I phoned the emergency vet number.

The vet phoned me back.  Yes, we give those tablets to cats with allergies, it's not a problem although that's a somewhat higher dose than we would use.

 ???  :thumbsup:

The cat did sleep a lot of the subsequent two days but, six or seven years later, is still fine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 August, 2012, 08:54:30 pm
Bet that doesn't work for giving the cat medication intentionally, though...
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 August, 2012, 08:42:28 am
Enjoying an espresso half way through the day's cycling. Despite expected doom and gloom, it hasn't been bad at all. And if I'm lucky this light drizzle will stop soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 August, 2012, 09:24:08 am
Sharing a full breakfast for two at the White Hart, Coggeshall after a night under ripstop and Aa 16 mile ride.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 August, 2012, 08:42:33 pm
Sitting just off the Plaza Obradoiro with a glass of vino tinto and enjoying Galician pipes (3 pipers, 2 percussionists) playing outside the neighbouring restaurants.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 August, 2012, 08:49:53 pm
Starting a forum catch-up from the Channel Tunnel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 12 August, 2012, 08:58:33 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 August, 2012, 08:42:33 pm
Sitting just off the Plaza Obradoiro with a glass of vino tinto and enjoying Galician pipes (3 pipers, 2 percussionists) playing outside the neighbouring restaurants.

Have you made it safely past the places where you only get 1" of cider in your glass and they think it's such a treat to deliver it over the shoulder that that's all you get for the next 20 minutes?

Oviedo - the town where you can't get drunk in a bar.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 August, 2012, 08:59:55 pm
Quote from: robust bitch oab on 12 August, 2012, 08:49:53 pm
Starting a forum catch-up from the Channel Tunnel.

Really?  Wow, it's The Future!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 12 August, 2012, 09:03:15 pm
Well you should know being from there :)
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 August, 2012, 09:18:50 pm
Paul, I've somehow made it through places where they put a whole bottle of wine in front of you with your 10€ dinner! I change trains in Oviedo (or is it Gijón?) on Wednesday, but no time to leave the station IIRC.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 12 August, 2012, 09:52:13 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 August, 2012, 09:18:50 pm
Paul, I've somehow made it through places where they put a whole bottle of wine in front of you with your 10€ dinner!

Go back/move in to one of these places (for this reason alone).

Quote from: Andrij on 12 August, 2012, 09:18:50 pm
I change trains in Oviedo (or is it Gijón?) on Wednesday, but no time to leave the station IIRC.

Well, maybe (with the cider rationing) that's no bad thing. Although I did find a bar with a spectacular variety of rioja wines. Not cheap, and they couldn't cook. But, after a (quite expensive) while, that didn't seem to matter.

However, please do check - are the locals the palest and unhappiest of the Spanish folk? That was my abiding impression, but I was only there for a few days.

And it rained mostly.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 August, 2012, 10:20:08 pm
TBH, the wine wasn't always that good. The locals,when I saw them, we're swarthy and pleasant enough. Remember, I've been following the Camino Frances from Roncesvalles, so not sure it's typical Spain. But I've loved it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: gordon taylor on 12 August, 2012, 11:02:02 pm
Watching the Olympics closing ceremony with Charlotte (yes, THAT Charlotte) in my living room.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 14 August, 2012, 02:46:52 am
Trying to decide whether to have a glass of wine.
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Post by: Basil on 14 August, 2012, 07:13:15 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 14 August, 2012, 02:46:52 am
Trying to decide whether to have a glass of wine.

How was it?
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Post by: tiermat on 14 August, 2012, 09:46:36 am
Installing XP on a VM so that I can run Samsung Kies to  update my phone.

Getting more and more jealous of Andrijj for his Spain trip.

Working out all the jobs I need to do today...
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Post by: Phil on 14 August, 2012, 09:53:40 am
Waiting for my bike parts to turn up so I can get building. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 August, 2012, 10:57:20 am
I'm faffing rather than getting out because I'm a bit scared
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 14 August, 2012, 10:58:53 am
Booking train tickets to York :)
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Post by: numbnuts on 14 August, 2012, 03:56:39 pm
Drinking tea just come in from a ride
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 August, 2012, 06:55:03 pm
Sitting in the hotel lounge writing in my journal and not boozing. This Hesperia is no Parador, but other than weak wifi it's good.
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Post by: Feline on 14 August, 2012, 08:54:54 pm
Revelling in sitting on an actual sofa after 13 days cycle camping. It was an epic trip and I enjoyed every minute of it, but it's also good to be home!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 August, 2012, 09:45:13 pm
On my way home after babysitting. Friends' daughter made me play princesses all night!
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Post by: SteveC on 14 August, 2012, 09:52:40 pm
Sitting in a hotel room waiting for 'Lewis' to finish so MrsC will deign to Skype
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 August, 2012, 10:16:01 pm
Wondering where the Travel Scrabble is and grumbling about the non availability of Scrabble Free for Android on UK devices.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 August, 2012, 11:21:39 am
Rooting (not in an Australian way) my S2 and installing Cyanogenmod on it, to try an fix the disappearing space issue I have....
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 August, 2012, 11:26:32 am
Being bothered by bad teeth colleague #1 who chews like an otter and is shlurping her drink, and colleague #2 who is wearing headphones to do online training but obviously can't hear that teuchter-old-man-through-the-teeth whilstling thing he does.

5 and a half hours to go.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 August, 2012, 03:35:13 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 August, 2012, 10:57:20 am
I'm faffing rather than getting out because I'm a bit scared

This.  Again.  Wally. :(
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Post by: TimC on 15 August, 2012, 03:40:13 pm
Quote from: clarion on 15 August, 2012, 03:35:13 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 August, 2012, 10:57:20 am
I'm faffing rather than getting out because I'm a bit scared

This.  Again.  Wally. :(

Once again, know exactly how you feel. Procrastinating as I type...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 August, 2012, 03:43:06 pm
I have, however, completed a diagram of the place where I was downed, ready to post to the solicitors hopefully getting some compensation out of BT, unless there are more hoops to jump through... ::-)
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Post by: Jaded on 15 August, 2012, 06:44:58 pm
Looking at a yacht in a hoolie and feeling seasick.
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Post by: Kim on 15 August, 2012, 07:18:53 pm
Quote from: clarion on 15 August, 2012, 03:43:06 pm
I have, however, completed a diagram of the place where I was downed, ready to post to the solicitors hopefully getting some compensation out of BT, unless there are more hoops to jump through... ::-)

Presumably you've got to go through the whole thing where they blame your equipment and try to charge you 140 quid for the privilege...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 August, 2012, 08:12:36 pm
Holiday G&T :)
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Post by: clarion on 15 August, 2012, 09:23:18 pm
Quote from: Kim on 15 August, 2012, 07:18:53 pm
Quote from: clarion on 15 August, 2012, 03:43:06 pm
I have, however, completed a diagram of the place where I was downed, ready to post to the solicitors hopefully getting some compensation out of BT, unless there are more hoops to jump through... ::-)

Presumably you've got to go through the whole thing where they blame your equipment and try to charge you 140 quid for the privilege...

I would not be surprised at anything they stoop to.

I nearly got taken out by a BT van earlier.  I laughed, but only because I imagined ringing RJW and saying 'Guees what else BT have done to me...' ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 August, 2012, 06:39:15 am
I am wondering where my TechNet phone charger has gone. I used it the evening before last and can't conceive of a way I left it at yesterday's camp site. Its cable is missing too. All very worrying and puzzling. My brain doesn't work properly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 16 August, 2012, 10:17:34 am
Bugger all cause the computer system at work has crashed  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 August, 2012, 11:04:52 am
Celebrating.
A*A*C, and confirmed he's off to Warwick.
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Post by: mr magnolia on 16 August, 2012, 11:08:31 am
At the other end of the education scale, sitting at work in the sun and fretting about eldest magnoliette as she gets through day 2 at High School. Some tears last night, unwilling to be explained, and anyways, its my job as a dad to fret. No doubt good practise for the teenage years ahead...

Congrats to the older student above!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 16 August, 2012, 11:11:52 am
Ignoring several fruitless and pointless helmet debates.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 August, 2012, 12:16:41 pm
Quote from: robust bitch oab on 16 August, 2012, 11:04:52 am
Celebrating.
A*A*C, and confirmed he's off to Warwick.

\o/

I am drinking coffee in LMNH.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 August, 2012, 01:23:28 pm
Congrats!

I'm fighting hairballs with sodium hydroxide.  It doesn't get much more glamorous than this.
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Post by: clarion on 16 August, 2012, 01:24:25 pm
Top news, boab! :D

I hope we have similarly good news next week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 August, 2012, 04:28:53 pm
Just before I came on here I was looking at helmets  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 16 August, 2012, 05:31:15 pm
I'm also celebrating my son's A level results. He is off to his top choice Plymouth Uni to do a degree in Graphic Design with Typography  :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 16 August, 2012, 05:34:34 pm
Splendid.  It's good to hear of young people achieving what they've worked towards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 August, 2012, 05:45:03 pm
I am currently sulking...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 August, 2012, 05:45:44 pm
Oh.  Any particular reason?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 August, 2012, 05:46:46 pm
Does there need to be a reason for a 41 yr old person-who-should-know-better to sulk? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 August, 2012, 05:54:59 pm
No.  It just bes that way some times. ;D

Quote
Don't let the problems of this world
Drive you slowly out of your mind
Just smile, look at the problem
And say it be's that way sometimes, it be's that way sometimes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 17 August, 2012, 09:53:21 am
Quote from: robust bitch oab on 16 August, 2012, 11:04:52 am
Celebrating.
A*A*C, and confirmed he's off to Warwick.

Fantastic.

We celebrated A* A* A A and a place at Birmingham.
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Post by: SteveC on 17 August, 2012, 01:43:33 pm
I'm waiting for MrsC to get home from work (she does POETS day--I've had to take the day off) so we can go off camping in South Wales!
Anyone in the Cardiff area tomorrow--we're at the St Fagans museum--not cycling!

S
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Post by: Lady Cavendish on 17 August, 2012, 01:49:31 pm
Eating chicken
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 18 August, 2012, 05:20:46 am
Trying to remind myself why exactly it is that I've woken up at 05:00 and am about to ride 13 or so miles across London for a breakfast in Paulo's cafe in East Acton.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 August, 2012, 05:24:46 am
Thinking that the early night I had last night was too early.My body clock woke me up at 0400 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 18 August, 2012, 06:48:10 am
Listening to the rain falling and wishing it would stop as I really, really, really need to go out for a cycle ride to the shops. Feeling a bit miserable too due to being over tired and fed up that I have put weight on over the last two months since getting the all clear from the cardiologist. Sigh.

Yes, I suppose I could man up and go out in the rain, but then, I would get wet.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 August, 2012, 08:23:27 am
Being smoked at on a bench outside Euston station, as I have an hour until my train and it's too hot for laps of Regents Park...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 August, 2012, 08:34:11 am
Having had my first breakfast at home for a week, I am about to pour a Nice Cup of Tea.

Today I will cycle to my brother's house for a Family Do, except that 75% of my children will be absent, either being a Matron o Honour, finishing off the move into their beautiful new house, or going to Zummerzet to visit the Aged Parent of their other half.

I believe that both my sisters will be in attendance. That will be... interesting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 18 August, 2012, 08:38:57 am
Just finished sorting out the visa waiver for my US holiday.  About to start looking for the documentation for a bit of hifi kit I bought last year and appear to have lost put somewhere safe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 18 August, 2012, 05:01:49 pm
Sweating. I'm wrapped up under a fleecy throw on the sofa, drinking hot tea. Hoping that cultivating a fever will kill off whatever bug I have.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 August, 2012, 07:59:02 pm
Travelling north towards PeterBogHorror on a train that my ticket technically might not be valid for with a bike in the (east coast) guards van that has no reservation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 August, 2012, 08:24:21 pm
What could *possibly* go wrong.

Well, apart from the obvious.

Still, it's a good night for resorting to audax tactics...   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 August, 2012, 08:53:56 pm
Not on this bike! Am now at PeterBogHorror, waiting to see what train out I can get...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 18 August, 2012, 08:55:20 pm
Listening to Ella Fitzgerald, whilst in my boxers & drinking chilled white wine.  It's too warm & sticky....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 August, 2012, 09:35:41 pm
Munching a Crunchie. 
5 large bars £1.  (No Sell-By date)

I also have a bag of 14 cream eggs (mis-wraps).  Also £1

Good old Bournville.  :thumbsup:

Yes, I no longer have access to the Staff Shop, but the Cadbury lads I drink with know what I like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 August, 2012, 09:38:27 pm
I've just had a cold shower in an attempt to relieve the excessive heat round here.

It's had the side effect that I think Mrs. Wow is safe tonight...

...but just wait until tomorrow morning! Rawwr!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 August, 2012, 09:43:07 pm
Sitting in declassified first, on an east coast service that my ticket is technically not valid for with an unbooked bike in the guards van. The real first class ppl are distinctly unhappy. I don't think it's entirely because of me...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 18 August, 2012, 09:45:28 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 18 August, 2012, 09:43:07 pm
Sitting in declassified first, on an east coast service that my ticket is technically not valid for with an unbooked bike in the guards van. The real first class ppl are distinctly unhappy. I don't think it's entirely because of me...
In my experience, the people in First class always seem to be disgruntled. It's a mystery.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 August, 2012, 09:47:06 pm
Butterfly has just beaten me too it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 August, 2012, 10:01:59 pm
You'd be unhappy if you had paid that many £ for train ticket ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Von Broad on 19 August, 2012, 12:24:52 pm
With the summer we've had, and the weather we have today, I should could be out cycling, but I really CBA, so I'm listening to the cricket instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 August, 2012, 01:00:10 pm
Sat wearing cycling clothes, not feeling terrifically enthused about the prospect of venturing out in the thunderstorm.  This plan may get shelved.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 August, 2012, 01:12:08 pm
I'm making ginger marmalade  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 19 August, 2012, 01:22:02 pm
Sitting trying not to get do down. Should be out at boats doing repairs.

Dropped MsCharly off at station. She won't be back until Dec 15 and then only for a few weeks. Her fiance was with us and the devastated empty look on his face as the train pulled out was awful.

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 August, 2012, 01:28:34 pm
Waiting for lunch to be ready. Then we're going looking for blackberries.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 August, 2012, 01:37:46 pm
I have just finished the last of the ice cream.

I ought to go for a ride and also try to find some blackberries.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 19 August, 2012, 04:31:25 pm
Working out a 200k route for the AUK dinner dart.

Amington - Stone 50k
Stone - Ironbridge 45k
Ironbridge - Leominster 59k
Leominster - Llandrindod Wells - 54k

Totals 208k & I'm quite happy with that  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 August, 2012, 04:39:50 pm
Sweating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 19 August, 2012, 04:55:23 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 August, 2012, 04:39:50 pm
Sweating.

Yep  :'( Have shower, feel coolish for about an hour then humidity comes back to find you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 August, 2012, 10:10:16 pm
Trawling van hire websites.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 August, 2012, 10:21:16 pm
Not going to bed yet for some unexplained reason.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 August, 2012, 10:23:33 pm
Contemplating baking.  It's a much better idea than housework, I think.  Not, strictly speaking, quite as necessary but that isn't the same thing at all.... plus I never normally bake when I'm a bit squiffy.  So it would probably be, like, Science, or something.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 19 August, 2012, 10:29:24 pm
Drinking sloe whisky and enjoying being in my own home with some peace and quiet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 August, 2012, 08:52:05 am
Quote from: clarion on 19 August, 2012, 01:00:10 pm
Sat wearing cycling clothes, not feeling terrifically enthused about the prospect of venturing out in the thunderstorm.  This plan may get shelved.

If that was the same one we got caught in as we left Chessington yesterday, I hope you erred on the side of caution and stayed home, it was horrible to drive in (not that it stopped the numpties on the M25 trying to break the sound barrier in the outside lane).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 August, 2012, 08:53:43 am
Wondering what else there is for breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 August, 2012, 10:22:47 am
Tiermat, we waited a bit and went for a ride in the sunshine.  There was ice cream ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 20 August, 2012, 12:07:44 pm
Quote from: robust bitch oab on 16 August, 2012, 11:04:52 am
Celebrating.
A*A*C, and confirmed he's off to Warwick.

Celebrating some more.

I've just had a phone call from No1Daughter, virtually in tears.
After 'wasting' the last couple of years doing a bit of growing up, she's been offered a place and is going to Anglia Ruskin next month.

I'm so pleased for her.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 20 August, 2012, 01:27:06 pm
excellent news. congrats
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 August, 2012, 01:50:14 pm
Oh brilliant.

Our Kid had a bit of a hiccup in his studies, but went back to college with us, and is now doing well at University.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 August, 2012, 02:05:17 pm
 :thumbsup: good news, rboab.

I am, right at this moment, thinking I must be getting old.  The having myself thrown around on rollercoasters over the weekend seems to have taken it's toll on my hips, knees and shoulders...

I mainly blame the Vampyre as I couldn't brace myself due to keeping tight hold of TLD's hand!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 August, 2012, 02:14:05 pm
Just wait 'till you holding your grand daughter's hand ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 August, 2012, 11:23:25 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 August, 2012, 02:14:05 pm
Just wait 'till you holding your grand daughter's hand ;)
and it's her stopping you from being scared.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 August, 2012, 11:29:50 pm
Well done to no. 1 daughter. Oh, and hippo bathday for t'other day, cos I forgot because i'm useless.

Right now I am, thanks to helpful east coast guards and a bit of a sprint down the platform, on the last train south from Darlo. Quite glad really, the 50ish miles I've already ridden, not to mention the large dinner and two pints, would have made riding home a bit.like hard work!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 August, 2012, 11:30:54 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 August, 2012, 11:23:25 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 August, 2012, 02:14:05 pm
Just wait 'till you holding your grand daughter's hand ;)
and it's her stopping you from being scared.
;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 August, 2012, 11:31:28 pm
I'm eating grapes and drinking tea. I'm also pretty knackered and ought to go to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 August, 2012, 11:58:10 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 August, 2012, 11:29:50 pm
Well done to no. 1 daughter. Oh, and hippo bathday for t'other day, cos I forgot because i'm useless.

Your ability to remember birthdays has some of us in awe.  I regularly manage to forget my own, and that's with an assortment of electronic wossnames to remind me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 August, 2012, 10:23:25 am
Sitting close to the phone, waiting for it to ring. Nervous.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 August, 2012, 10:27:30 am
Madge's Personal Private Secretary?A knighthood?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 August, 2012, 10:37:55 am
Quote from: jogler on 21 August, 2012, 10:27:30 am
Madge's Personal Private Secretary?A knighthood?

(puts phone down)

Much better than that. Just exchanged contracts on my house sale  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 21 August, 2012, 12:29:23 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 21 August, 2012, 10:37:55 am
Quote from: jogler on 21 August, 2012, 10:27:30 am
Madge's Personal Private Secretary?A knighthood?

(puts phone down)

Much better than that. Just exchanged contracts on my house sale  :thumbsup:.
Today will not be a Fast day, then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 August, 2012, 06:49:45 pm
wafting the smell out of my spare room / office / modelling studio.

Tamiya airbrushing thinners really does stink!   :o


**cough**
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 August, 2012, 07:05:19 pm
Drying off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 August, 2012, 07:19:07 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 21 August, 2012, 10:37:55 am
Quote from: jogler on 21 August, 2012, 10:27:30 am
Madge's Personal Private Secretary?A knighthood?

(puts phone down)

Much better than that. Just exchanged contracts on my house sale  :thumbsup:.

Jubilation!  Well done mate :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 21 August, 2012, 07:39:27 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 21 August, 2012, 10:37:55 am
Quote from: jogler on 21 August, 2012, 10:27:30 am
Madge's Personal Private Secretary?A knighthood?

(puts phone down)

Much better than that. Just exchanged contracts on my house sale  :thumbsup:.

Ah great news  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 August, 2012, 08:23:04 pm
Enjoying a cheeky "whilst the cat's away" Havana Club 7 yr old and coke.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 August, 2012, 03:35:06 am
Not sleeping. Grrr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 August, 2012, 10:01:12 am
Looking at the splendiferous view, having hoovered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 August, 2012, 10:04:09 am
Trying to get enough get up and go together to go shopping then build two servers.

I may not succeed....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 August, 2012, 02:20:32 pm
Enjoying a Taxi and an orange juice courtesy of the blood donation service.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: groucho on 22 August, 2012, 04:25:25 pm
Waiting for at least one of my '1025' clients who will ring at 16:50 to offload stuff they have just remembered before they go home!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 August, 2012, 08:34:38 pm
M'in the pub!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 22 August, 2012, 10:08:10 pm
Bouncing off the walls after finishing a fantastic session with a client who is making such awesome progress! 

Need to wind down soon as I really do need my bed, it's been a long and wonderful day!   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 August, 2012, 10:51:29 pm
Missing bobb.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 22 August, 2012, 11:01:43 pm
Plotting/planning my first tattoo. It's taken me a while but I've finally found something important enough, and a clear enough idea of how I want it to look.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 23 August, 2012, 09:43:22 am
Not going to the conference "welcome reception" because I don't want to ... And they can't make me ... So there <end of mild grump>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 23 August, 2012, 10:12:36 am
Drinking coffee :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 August, 2012, 10:18:55 am
Quote from: SandyV on 23 August, 2012, 09:43:22 am
Not going to the conference "welcome reception" because I don't want to ... And they can't make me ... So there <end of mild grump>

Quite right.
Title: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 August, 2012, 12:13:28 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 23 August, 2012, 10:12:36 am
Drinking coffee :)

Me too! Sitting outside the Tea Pot cafe in Swaffham. It's fasting day (yes, yet another on the ADF bandwagon) so no CAIK allowed :-(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 August, 2012, 12:23:00 pm
Planning my route from Cambridge to Mildenhall.  Working hard for my money.  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 23 August, 2012, 12:52:51 pm
Trying NOT to buy a new crackset for Jordan the bike despite finding what I want on sale for £47 as I have to spend all this months available money on DIY stuff. We are planning to move so are tarting the place up.   :facepalm:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 August, 2012, 02:46:27 pm
Trying, fairly unsuccessfully, to stay awake. During the more alert periods I have been contemplating purchasing the Wild Country Zephyros 2 tent, which is the same size and shape as the Terra Nova Laser Competition 2 but made with less elven material. Field & Trek have it on sale at £105 at the moment, which strikes me as being a pretty good purchase. The Laser Competition 2 is £274 from F&T.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 August, 2012, 02:53:09 pm
Tidying my desk in preparation for a sharp exit for the 15:30 to Waleslandshire.
And no way am I travelling back on a bank holiday (which I don’t get anyway as it is a non-working day for me) No, I’ve booked Tuesday as leave.

I’m hoping it will rain all w/e.  I’ll just have to ignore the lawns then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 August, 2012, 02:54:28 pm
Being bumped around on a bus in South Croydon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 August, 2012, 03:41:23 pm
Waiting for a train to arrive, well it's not due to arrive for an hour, but TLD and Mrs T are on it and I have missed them for the last 3 days.

Apparently they did some galavanting around that London last evening with Clarion and Butterfly :( < 'cos I missed it!

ETA time as the original sentence didn't make ANY sense
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 23 August, 2012, 04:10:46 pm
Getting excited about seeing Tiermat, MrsTiermat, and especially TLD!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 August, 2012, 04:18:57 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 23 August, 2012, 04:10:46 pm
Getting excited about seeing Tiermat, MrsTiermat, and especially TLD!   :thumbsup:

apparently TLD has said she is going to do your nails for you, BEWARE!!! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 23 August, 2012, 04:41:52 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 23 August, 2012, 04:18:57 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 23 August, 2012, 04:10:46 pm
Getting excited about seeing Tiermat, MrsTiermat, and especially TLD!   :thumbsup:

apparently TLD has said she is going to do your nails for you, BEWARE!!! :)

Shame there was no room in the pannier for the heated rollers
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 August, 2012, 04:46:06 pm
STARVING!  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 23 August, 2012, 08:32:44 pm
Being very grumpy.

My fatigue thingy is kicking me badly, my lower back and hips are hurting like stink even on major doses of painkillers and I'm not good at pain, particularly when tired.   :-\

Blood tests tomorrow (again). 

More normal service will be resumed when I get a grip!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 August, 2012, 08:54:46 pm
Trying to pack for Mildenhall while sweating profusely with hurty feet and back (from headset fettling earlier).

This is made especially difficult because we've deviated from my usual packing strategy, so I keep forgetting things.  I have at least managed a tent, bike shoes and a full compliment of wheels, which covers the usual things people forget when travelling to cycling events by motor vehicle.  I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 August, 2012, 09:09:09 pm
I think our pack is going quite well so far :o

Not done clothes yet, mind. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 August, 2012, 09:56:23 pm
About to start packing....  would the wellies be a good idea ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 August, 2012, 10:51:29 am
House hunting.

Sigh.

Still moving house=throwing stuff out, doesn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 August, 2012, 10:55:47 am
Quote from: andrewc on 23 August, 2012, 09:56:23 pm
About to start packing....  would the wellies be a good idea ?
NO :hand:
shimano sandals ftw,nothing resists water & then dries as efficiently as skintex ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 August, 2012, 11:56:20 am
Worrying, unnecessarily, as Mrs T, TLD and LG have just gone out on a bike ride to Roots.

Mrs T is a nervous cyclist.

TLD is only 8 and they need to deal with the route through town before they get to the quiet roads....

I shall be happy when I get the callto say they have got there!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 August, 2012, 12:04:54 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 24 August, 2012, 11:56:20 am
Worrying, unnecessarily,

As a husband & father it goes with the territory.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 August, 2012, 12:35:22 pm
Quote from: fboab on 24 August, 2012, 10:51:29 am
Still moving house=throwing stuff out, doesn't it?

And cleaning, yes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 August, 2012, 12:37:34 pm
Trying desperately to maintain my composure and (relative) sanity.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 August, 2012, 12:57:55 pm
Enjoying the sunshine and peace.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 August, 2012, 01:17:17 pm
licking the bowl
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 August, 2012, 01:49:54 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 August, 2012, 01:17:17 pm
licking the bowl

Can you not just flush, like everyone else? :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 August, 2012, 03:10:50 pm
Waiting for the baking to cool...I've volunteered to be the taste tester although it will mean sacrificing my waistline on the altar of my kitchen godess
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 August, 2012, 03:45:11 pm
Playing catch-up with the laundry now that my new washing machine is installed.

Maybe later I'll take the 1x1(1) out for a thrash round the lanes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 August, 2012, 04:53:49 pm
Missing bobb, wondering when my dad will get here and feeling gloomy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 August, 2012, 04:59:25 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 August, 2012, 03:10:50 pm
Waiting for the baking to cool...I've volunteered to be the taste tester although it will mean sacrificing my waistline on the altar of my kitchen godess

eating cake :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 August, 2012, 07:34:21 pm
Watch Vuelta A Espana and explaining to TLD the finer points of cycle racing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 24 August, 2012, 07:47:38 pm
Trying to stay awake another couple of hours...
Despite 9 1/2 hours of sleep overnight, I have only managed to be awake for about 5 hours today, but I refuse to go to bed at 8pm, that's just silly!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 August, 2012, 07:55:51 pm
No it isn't - it is Perfectly Sensible.  I have this on very good authority!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Thing2 on 24 August, 2012, 08:07:52 pm
Waiting for Eclipse to fail to install a plugin for an unspecified reason...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 24 August, 2012, 08:14:13 pm
tea and Toast
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nutkin on 24 August, 2012, 08:17:12 pm
Looking for waterproofs in anticipation of tomorrow's deluge.
The cat refuses to help.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 August, 2012, 10:12:30 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 August, 2012, 04:59:25 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 August, 2012, 03:10:50 pm
Waiting for the baking to cool...I've volunteered to be the taste tester although it will mean sacrificing my waistline on the altar of my kitchen godess

eating cake :thumbsup:

action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 August, 2012, 11:09:41 pm
Feeling rather chuffed with myself having made this:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/578858_10151000531731636_287080819_n.jpg)

(it's a bit of mood lighting with fancy colour-cycling with LEDs and other gratuitous blinky)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 25 August, 2012, 07:18:33 am
Getting ready to go to visit a garden centre  :facepalm:

Someone shoot me please, my useful life has ended. (Not my idea as you will guess).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 August, 2012, 07:23:00 am
Quote from: essexian on 25 August, 2012, 07:18:33 am
Getting ready to go to visit a garden centre  audax cake stop/control:facepalm:

Someone shoot me please, my useful life has ended. (Not my idea as you will guess).

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 25 August, 2012, 07:46:12 am
Quote from: jogler on 25 August, 2012, 07:23:00 am
Quote from: essexian on 25 August, 2012, 07:18:33 am
Getting ready to go to visit a garden centre  audax cake stop/control:facepalm:

Someone shoot me please, my useful life has ended. (Not my idea as you will guess).

 ;)

Actually, that seems a good idea....shame I am out to buy a 7 foot high tree...bit hard to get that on the back of Jordan the bike.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 August, 2012, 07:51:37 am
Making a fool of myself on some chaps trike.  2 wheels at the front...
Steer like a car he says.....
I wrote my last car off, and took his trike onto the grass by accident!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 August, 2012, 07:59:15 am
Quote from: essexian on 25 August, 2012, 07:46:12 am
Quote from: jogler on 25 August, 2012, 07:23:00 am
Quote from: essexian on 25 August, 2012, 07:18:33 am
Getting ready to go to visit a garden centre  audax cake stop/control:facepalm:

Someone shoot me please, my useful life has ended. (Not my idea as you will guess).

 ;)

Actually, that seems a good idea....shame I am out to buy a 7 foot high tree...bit hard to get that on the back of Jordan the bike.

the jogler method....

ride bike to cake stop destination*
wife drives to c.s.d.
consume cake & coffee in company of wife who pays
wife purchases some green/growy stuff & you load it into car
wife drives home
you ride home

everybody wins :thumbsup:

*referred to by those not of the faith as a garden centre
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 August, 2012, 08:05:03 am
I'm going to rustle up toast & coffee (See,I do know where the the kitchen is & what it's used for) for two & take it upstairs so that my Rock has breakfast in bed.

even if I have to wake her up to eat it :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 25 August, 2012, 08:05:22 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 24 August, 2012, 08:14:13 pm
tea and Toast

More tea and toast
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 25 August, 2012, 09:23:38 am
Watching Zev eat her breakfast, although Kai has yet to make an appearance (he'll probably turn up once she's finished, so I have to give her milk, to stop her from trying to nick his breakfast).

Once I've had my breakfast, and seen to my ablutions, I really must start the house "spring" cleaning, so I've got somewhere to put my brother and family when they come up in a couple of weeks time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 25 August, 2012, 01:14:39 pm
Shopping done. Pleasure ride done. Drink 1.25L of Innocent Smoothie, pineapple, bannannanana, and coconut, done.
And relax...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 August, 2012, 01:20:39 pm
Half-heartedly tidying up shite and cleaning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 25 August, 2012, 01:22:25 pm
Taking off my gorgeous blue nail varnish, ready for work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 25 August, 2012, 01:27:01 pm
Sitting inside watching the biblical rain and hailstones thundering down.  I've just laid a lawn though, so frequent showers interspersed with hot sunshine that makes the ground steam are probably what I need.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 25 August, 2012, 02:41:35 pm
Considering hiding under my duvet as there is Thunder and I am scared of it.  Entirely illogical of course, but doesn't change the facts!   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 25 August, 2012, 03:01:29 pm
Sort of doing work and sort of watching Charlotte manage to keep a bonfire afire despite the biblical rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 25 August, 2012, 03:56:46 pm
Quote from: Tewdric on 25 August, 2012, 01:27:01 pm
Sitting inside watching the biblical rain and hailstones thundering down.  I've just laid a lawn though, so frequent showers interspersed with hot sunshine that makes the ground steam are probably what I need.
Think I might have spotted a slight flaw in your plan there ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 August, 2012, 04:08:38 pm
Taste testing the chocolate cake :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 25 August, 2012, 10:04:01 pm
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 25 August, 2012, 08:05:22 am
Quote from: Lou Boutin on 24 August, 2012, 08:14:13 pm
tea and Toast

More tea and toast

Even more tea and toast. Bit of a theme happening I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 25 August, 2012, 10:04:12 pm
Watching Airplane, eating Thai food and trying to support a friend with girlfriend issues.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 August, 2012, 11:00:34 pm
Waiting for the cocodamol to kick in before I go to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 26 August, 2012, 05:49:29 am
Off to take the dogs for their evening stroll.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 August, 2012, 08:24:05 am
Quote from: jogler on 25 August, 2012, 08:05:03 am
I'm going to rustle up toast & coffee (See,I do know where the the kitchen is & what it's used for) for two & take it upstairs so that my Rock has breakfast in bed.

even if I have to wake her up to eat it :demon:

action replay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 August, 2012, 09:18:48 am
Waiting to go to church  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 26 August, 2012, 10:36:02 am
Quote from: TimO on 25 August, 2012, 09:23:38 am
Watching Zev eat her breakfast, although Kai has yet to make an appearance (he'll probably turn up once she's finished, so I have to give her milk, to stop her from trying to nick his breakfast).

Once I've had my breakfast, and seen to my ablutions, I really must start the house "spring" cleaning, so I've got somewhere to put my brother and family when they come up in a couple of weeks time.

Quote from: jogler on 26 August, 2012, 08:24:05 am
... action replay

Me to, having managed to procrastinate and find other things to do yesterday!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 August, 2012, 01:52:15 pm
M'onna beach :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 August, 2012, 01:30:59 pm
Train spotting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 August, 2012, 01:32:51 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 August, 2012, 01:30:59 pm
Train spotting.

I'll save you bother, Basil.
<looks out of window>
There's one
<turns back to computer>
Job done! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 August, 2012, 02:28:38 pm
Thanks.
But unless that was the Cross Country Cardiff/Nottingham, it was not the one I was waiting for.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 28 August, 2012, 02:29:06 pm
Knitting!   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 August, 2012, 02:29:33 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 August, 2012, 02:28:38 pm
Thanks.
But unless that was the Cross Country Cardiff/Nottingham, it was not the one I was waiting for.

I don't believe it was, unless it is VERY lost and ended up in North Yorks :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 28 August, 2012, 02:30:15 pm
sweating in rome.  Lovely city, but a bit hot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 August, 2012, 04:44:44 pm
Trying to pick a big spot on the back of my leg.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 August, 2012, 04:58:22 pm
Tackling the post-Mildenhall laundry mountain, and wondering where the missing hub cap from the trailer might be...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 August, 2012, 05:48:07 pm
Re-factoring my CV, not 'cos I am changing jobs, but just 'cos I haven't updated it for ~18 months, which is far too long for a contractor....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 August, 2012, 10:20:23 am
Listening to the group in the next conference room singing 'we love the everlasting love' very loudly. So loudly that we can't deliver our training.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 29 August, 2012, 10:26:04 am
Waiting to go to a hospital appointment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 August, 2012, 12:10:04 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 29 August, 2012, 10:26:04 am
Waiting to go to a hospital appointment.

I hope it goes well..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 August, 2012, 12:11:23 pm
Ditto, nn.

I am mostly faffing and procrastinating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 29 August, 2012, 01:59:33 pm
Sat in the Curious Yellow Kafé having tea and sheltering from the rain. Looking out at the Hoxtons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 August, 2012, 02:36:45 pm
Plumbing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 August, 2012, 04:08:42 pm
Cancelling direct debits, calling Customer Service Hotlines and closing accounts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 August, 2012, 04:11:23 pm
Oh.  That doesn't sound good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 August, 2012, 04:16:48 pm
Quote from: clarion on 29 August, 2012, 04:11:23 pm
Oh.  That doesn't sound good.

Pfft. Dismantling 30 years of joint finances. It's a delicate process - a bit like Kerplunk, but with far-away-asian-voices and oft repeated secret words, magic numbers and inane questions like "why are you closing this account?".

I'm planning on getting pissed tonight as an antidote.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 August, 2012, 04:17:31 pm
Waiting for my (work) laptop to reboot.

Been 20 minutes so far, any longer and I will call it a bad job and go and shower and change for the pubbe run....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 August, 2012, 04:19:48 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 29 August, 2012, 04:16:48 pm
Quote from: clarion on 29 August, 2012, 04:11:23 pm
Oh.  That doesn't sound good.

Pfft. Dismantling 30 years of joint finances. It's a delicate process - a bit like Kerplunk, but with far-away-asian-voices and oft repeated secret words, magic numbers and inane questions like "why are you closing this account?".

I'm planning on getting pissed tonight as an antidote.

Ah.  That.  Hope that goes well for you, and that both sides fulfil their respective obligations.

I feared your cards had been cloned or something.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 29 August, 2012, 04:44:52 pm
Plotting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 August, 2012, 04:45:38 pm
gruesome deaths using spacebars?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 29 August, 2012, 05:00:29 pm
Quote from: clarion on 29 August, 2012, 04:45:38 pm
gruesome deaths using spacebars?

With a side order of pink and turquoise felt pens, if the space bars don't work I'll naff them to death.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 August, 2012, 05:02:42 pm
Quote from: Clare on 29 August, 2012, 05:00:29 pm
With a side order of pink and turquoise felt pens women-specific biros, if the space bars don't work I'll naff them to death.

FTFY :)


Actually, I think you're on to something:  B0rk the springs on their spacebars.  That'll annoy them to death, even if it doesn't actually teach them a lesson.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 29 August, 2012, 06:13:29 pm
I use pink or turquoise pens whenever I am asked to proof-read anything our academics have written, the sheer horror it causes amongst their delicate artistic neurones is truly wonderful.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 August, 2012, 11:55:11 am
Onna train, just passing through Derby. *waves in the general direction of Jogler and Marj*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 August, 2012, 12:34:19 pm
Mordor Central! *waves at kim and Barakta*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 August, 2012, 12:43:12 pm
Making a second attempt to post about taking a break in my bike ride in a sea front shelter, waiting for the rain to stop and thinking that whoever the RAF helicopter and RNLI launch are looking for has been in the water a long time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 August, 2012, 12:43:47 pm
Paying my VAT bill :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 August, 2012, 12:49:14 pm
Fettling a metric fuck-ton1 of code to work with Python 3. My brain is squeaking ... it's fair to say that I was fond of exploring the darker corners of the language I think I've found a few edge-cases that the refactoring tool can't cope with.

1 - like an imperial shit-load, but bigger. And metric.

EDIT: also, fettling Linux on the iMac. Cupertino can kiss my pimply white arse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 August, 2012, 12:55:45 pm
Quote from: interzen on 30 August, 2012, 12:49:14 pm
EDIT: also, fettling Linux on the iMac. Cupertino can kiss my pimply white arse.

Much easier now that 1) Apple have gone to Intel and 2) Linux supports UEFI.  Basically pick your favourite distro and Bob is your aunty's live in lover :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 August, 2012, 01:01:00 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 30 August, 2012, 12:55:45 pm
Quote from: interzen on 30 August, 2012, 12:49:14 pm
EDIT: also, fettling Linux on the iMac. Cupertino can kiss my pimply white arse.

Much easier now that 1) Apple have gone to Intel and 2) Linux supports UEFI.  Basically pick your favourite distro and Bob is your aunty's live in lover :)
Running xubuntu on an iMac with 16Gb RAM :) A 27" main display + 20" secondary meant I had to fiddle with the godawful ATI drivers but other than that its fairly plain sailing. Sadly, as this is a work machine I need to keep my OS X partition intact but I suspect that my MBP will be fully penguin-ised in fairly short order. I'm finally returning to my roots ;D

Also, installing rEFIt means you don't have to use bizarre keystrokes and invoke the name of St.Steve to boot off A.N.Other device.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 30 August, 2012, 01:33:44 pm
Listening to the rain. First in 44 days.
Oh it's stopped
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 August, 2012, 01:46:36 pm
Quote from: SandyV on 30 August, 2012, 01:33:44 pm
Listening to the rain. First in 44 days.
Oh it's stopped
Replace 'rain' with 'sun' and you've got the current state of the UK weather in a nutshell.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 30 August, 2012, 01:50:34 pm
However it rained until about two hours before the Paralympics opening and then started again an hour afterwards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 August, 2012, 02:46:19 pm
Waiting for a PM's thought processes to catch up with the real world.

ME: emails PM to say A needs doing
Him (via IM): So what do we need?
<long conversation including multiple screen shots>
Him: So we need A doing then?

 :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 August, 2012, 02:55:51 pm
Waiting for a train at Basingstoke.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 August, 2012, 03:09:49 pm
Amazingstoke!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 August, 2012, 03:37:04 pm
Waiting in vain for the wind to die down before I go out. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 August, 2012, 03:41:24 pm
Quote from: clarion on 30 August, 2012, 03:37:04 pm
Waiting in vain for the wind to die down before I go out. :(

If only you had a sail bike.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 30 August, 2012, 03:54:05 pm
Looking at router specs to find the best one to be a  Dynamic Multipoint VPN hub with a gigabit encrypted throughput. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 August, 2012, 03:57:56 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 30 August, 2012, 03:54:05 pm
Looking at router specs to find the best one to be a  Dynamic Multipoint VPN hub with a gigabit encrypted throughput.

I have been doing this job for WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too long, that actually makes sense to me.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 August, 2012, 04:21:17 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 30 August, 2012, 03:57:56 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 30 August, 2012, 03:54:05 pm
Looking at router specs to find the best one to be a  Dynamic Multipoint VPN hub with a gigabit encrypted throughput.

I have been doing this job for WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too long, that actually makes sense to me.....
Ditto.
For something like that, I'd be perusing DrayTek's offerings ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 30 August, 2012, 06:18:36 pm
Waiting for MrsC to arrive with the shopping so we can have tea.
I'm starving.  :(
And not due to having cycled miles and miles today.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 August, 2012, 10:07:08 pm
Watching Great British Ghosts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 August, 2012, 10:09:53 pm
Procrastinating when I should be packing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 30 August, 2012, 10:19:02 pm
Trying to find one of my favourite settings of the Nunc Dimittis and failing.  It's not Stanford, it's not Howells, it's not Brewer, but it's quite a common one. 

What I should be doing is looking up caselaw for tomorrow...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 August, 2012, 11:47:13 pm
Pretending to be young in a field withThat Deano,  LindaG, and LindaG's mate amanda. We have seen (well, heard) The Futureheads and found the.minging portaloos and are now drinking red.wine whilst loitering without tents.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 August, 2012, 11:53:52 pm
Getting to the bottom of barakta's ongoing computer woe.  Intermittent memory errors; my favourite.

This compares favourably to minging portaloos, but I think I'd otherwise prefer to be loitering in a field.  That computers aren't fun any more ruins my chances in the pretending to be young stakes, too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 August, 2012, 02:51:54 am
I'm reading the paper, drinking.fruit tea, listening to David Mitchell on the radio, and wondering whether to take more painkillers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Steph on 31 August, 2012, 04:06:57 am
Last night shift. Looking forward to a weekend off with no acting!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 31 August, 2012, 05:53:13 am
Waiting a couple of minutes for the gym to open
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 August, 2012, 10:37:13 am
Quote from: interzen on 30 August, 2012, 04:21:17 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 30 August, 2012, 03:57:56 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 30 August, 2012, 03:54:05 pm
Looking at router specs to find the best one to be a  Dynamic Multipoint VPN hub with a gigabit encrypted throughput.

I have been doing this job for WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too long, that actually makes sense to me.....
Ditto.
For something like that, I'd be perusing DrayTek's offerings ...

Cisco ASR1001 was my choice in the end. A bargain at £21,000 list price ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 August, 2012, 10:53:16 am
Quote from: pcolbeck on 31 August, 2012, 10:37:13 am
Quote from: interzen on 30 August, 2012, 04:21:17 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 30 August, 2012, 03:57:56 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 30 August, 2012, 03:54:05 pm
Looking at router specs to find the best one to be a  Dynamic Multipoint VPN hub with a gigabit encrypted throughput.

I have been doing this job for WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too long, that actually makes sense to me.....
Ditto.
For something like that, I'd be perusing DrayTek's offerings ...

Cisco ASR1001 was my choice in the end. A bargain at £21,000 list price ...
If it's someone elses money, buy two.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 31 August, 2012, 11:14:14 am
Waiting for the post lady and then going out for a ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 August, 2012, 11:26:44 am
Taking photos of Apple keyboards and mice in preparation for listing my own on eBay ... and waiting for a whole bunch of test code to finish running.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 August, 2012, 01:01:31 pm
Quote from: interzen on 31 August, 2012, 10:53:16 am
Quote from: pcolbeck on 31 August, 2012, 10:37:13 am
Quote from: interzen on 30 August, 2012, 04:21:17 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 30 August, 2012, 03:57:56 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 30 August, 2012, 03:54:05 pm
Looking at router specs to find the best one to be a  Dynamic Multipoint VPN hub with a gigabit encrypted throughput.

I have been doing this job for WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too long, that actually makes sense to me.....
Ditto.
For something like that, I'd be perusing DrayTek's offerings ...

Cisco ASR1001 was my choice in the end. A bargain at £21,000 list price ...
If it's someone elses money, buy two.

Actually I specified four of them for this job.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 August, 2012, 01:37:41 pm
Digesting a lurverly lunch of leek and potato soup and a huge steak, so rare that a vet and half an hour would see it back on it's feet again.

Oh and a pint of Gun Dog.

If you want me I'll be in the corner, asleep :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 August, 2012, 01:38:05 pm
Wishing I was asleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 31 August, 2012, 01:50:31 pm
Trying not to sleep (at my desk).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 August, 2012, 05:26:15 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 31 August, 2012, 11:14:14 am
Waiting for the post lady and then going out for a ride
tandem or solos?
 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 August, 2012, 06:39:32 pm
Waiting for my blood sugar levels to return to something approaching normal.
Then I'm off to buy packing material for saddles and such.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 August, 2012, 06:43:16 pm
Disinfecting a pair of water bottles I left filled up with electrolyte stuff a month ago.   Boiling water & Milton should kill whatever had started to evolve in there.... I hope.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 31 August, 2012, 07:34:09 pm
I bought a TV today.

So I'm watching Game of Thrones in full 1080p wonder.

WHERE ARE MY DRAGONS?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 31 August, 2012, 08:58:32 pm
I watching a recorded episode of Inspector George Gently & it's called Northern Soul.
Terrific soundtrack :thumbsup:
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 August, 2012, 09:07:58 pm
Sitting on the floor of a train on my way to York. My reserved seat is at the other end of the carriage from the bike space... :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 31 August, 2012, 11:52:11 pm
Onboard sleeper leaving Euston for Glasgow. Mull, Skye, Lewis here I come.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 September, 2012, 03:07:55 am
Despite a very clear plan to not be doing exactly this, I appear to be drinking red wine at 3am... wish me luck getting up for a bike ride in the morning!
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 September, 2012, 03:28:58 am
Enjoy it! We are at Northallerton, fettling Rower40's front light.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 September, 2012, 08:43:10 pm
Looking forward to going to bed shortly, kidneys be damned.

(How can I drink so much water and still be so dehydrated?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 September, 2012, 09:11:31 pm
I am drinking very good beer at a pound a pint. I like desert islands.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iainj837 on 02 September, 2012, 12:40:32 am
I should be going to sleep as I am on @ 7 am maybe after another brew
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 September, 2012, 09:12:52 am
Getting excited about hopefully seeing Oscar Pistoriuos in the T44 200m final tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 September, 2012, 09:27:27 am
Re-entering the land of the living after sleeping for 17 hours :o

Then sorting out this morning's music for the choir
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 02 September, 2012, 02:37:41 pm
Sat drinking hot chocolate on Iona looking out back to the Ross of Mull. Very glad of a bright breezy day to dry the clothes that got soaked through riding 40 miles into the wind and rain yesterday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 September, 2012, 02:40:43 pm
Procrastinating.
Also digesting the news that a family friend (and one of my father's former commanding officers) died yesterday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 September, 2012, 02:56:35 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 02 September, 2012, 09:27:27 am
Re-entering the land of the living after sleeping for 17 hours :o

I thought my 16 hours (minus 20 mins of loo visits and saying goodbye to barakta) was a lot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 02 September, 2012, 03:13:17 pm
Trying to summon the enthusiasm to put the garage back together. (Not literally rebuild, you understand--I've been using the pressure washer, which is a rare event so required moving a vast amount of stuff to get to it).

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 September, 2012, 11:13:25 pm
Drinking tramp wine in a smelly marquee whilst waiting for the after hours "secret" set to start. Pretending to be young inna field is quitebgood fun!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 September, 2012, 12:26:08 pm
Waiting for some bread to bake in the hope I may get some lunch eventually. Listening to the gardener trimming the hedge.
Basking in the warm glow of having the kittehs back.
Waiting for Sainsburys to deliver the yogurt knitting ingredients.
Oh, and washing.
Lots of washing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 September, 2012, 12:55:36 pm
Recovering from a pizza overdose :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 03 September, 2012, 02:19:47 pm
No such thing interzen.

Trying to summon the energy to unpack after my weekend away in the New Forest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 03 September, 2012, 02:50:46 pm
Waiting for a delivery
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 September, 2012, 03:53:42 pm
Eating my lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 September, 2012, 04:09:23 pm
Clambering out of my sick bed.   I've been feeling sh!te since Friday and I need more lemsip...    :(
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 03 September, 2012, 04:23:32 pm
Swearing very silently inside my head...the rest of the week with my mother wasn't part of the plan at all! She has only been here a couple of hours and she's already driving me insane! Argh!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 September, 2012, 04:27:47 pm
Wondering whether or not I can justify spending £300 on some hardcore winter footwear1 (and silently cursing Charlie The Bikemonger for much the same reason ;) )

1 - http://45nrth.com/products/category/softgoods
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 September, 2012, 05:24:21 pm
Gosh!   Lemsip sure is powerful stuff.  In the last half hour I've had two calls.   One repeat business and one new client to whom I have been recommended.   Beginning to get really busy with paying punters recently.   :)     :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 03 September, 2012, 05:35:17 pm
Sat in my tent on the west coast of the ross of mull, its a tad breezy out the (forecast gale force winds), the tent is flexing a bit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 03 September, 2012, 05:40:19 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 03 September, 2012, 02:50:46 pm
Waiting for a delivery
still waiting  >:(  I don't think it will come tonight
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 September, 2012, 05:51:12 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 03 September, 2012, 05:40:19 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 03 September, 2012, 02:50:46 pm
Waiting for a delivery
still waiting  >:(  I don't think it will come tonight
Let me guess ... it's the Home (non)Delivery Network that are supposed to be delivering (if so, I feel your pain)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 03 September, 2012, 06:02:47 pm
Assembling a new HP  Designjet 111 printer!  It is a trifle heavy.... at least it came with a Torx driver for the screws required to assemble all the roll feed trickery.  Next step, power it up, install assorted cartridges, and then try to install the software.  I am prepared for the usual HP standard of garbage with that bit.  We shall see...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 September, 2012, 06:21:45 pm
Mordor central, and we are mostly snoring and being smelly. *waves at Kim and Barakta* (and apologises for the smell...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 September, 2012, 06:30:55 pm
I'm being hungry and waiting for the call to dinner.

Today it's mackerel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 September, 2012, 06:49:44 pm
Self-medicating with a jar of nutella.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 September, 2012, 07:15:11 pm
Quote from: matthew on 03 September, 2012, 05:35:17 pm
Sat in my tent on the west coast of the ross of mull, its a tad breezy out the (forecast gale force winds), the tent is flexing a bit!

*jealous*
Title: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 September, 2012, 08:18:24 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 September, 2012, 06:21:45 pm
Mordor central, and we are mostly snoring and being smelly. *waves at Kim and Barakta* (and apologises for the smell...)

It's okay, neither of us are in Birmingham. Barakta is in That London, and I'm sat in Banbury station stinking of eau de randonneur, with a view to catching the 2054...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 September, 2012, 04:11:56 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 28 August, 2012, 05:48:07 pm
Re-factoring my CV, not 'cos I am changing jobs, but just 'cos I haven't updated it for ~18 months, which is far too long for a contractor....

same here but it's so long since the last update it's written in Latin ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 September, 2012, 04:17:36 pm
Quote from: jogler on 04 September, 2012, 04:11:56 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 28 August, 2012, 05:48:07 pm
Re-factoring my CV, not 'cos I am changing jobs, but just 'cos I haven't updated it for ~18 months, which is far too long for a contractor....

same here but it's so long since the last update it's written in Latin ;D

The postage cost on clay tablets is horrendous, isn't it? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 September, 2012, 09:30:31 pm
I find that they are too heavy for the carrier pigeons
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 04 September, 2012, 10:07:15 pm
Making chutney

EDIT:  12 jars, and rather tasty already  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 September, 2012, 11:39:41 pm
Mantling a computer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iainj837 on 04 September, 2012, 11:53:49 pm
Deciding where to go on my camping trip next year
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 September, 2012, 10:03:04 am
Onna conf call :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 September, 2012, 10:06:18 am
And planning a BBQ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 September, 2012, 10:06:54 am
Having the piano tuned.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 September, 2012, 10:08:05 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 05 September, 2012, 10:06:54 am
Having the piano tuned.

Is that an euphemism?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 September, 2012, 10:08:48 am
Quote from: tiermat on 05 September, 2012, 10:08:05 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 05 September, 2012, 10:06:54 am
Having the piano tuned.

Is that an euphemism?

No, it's a piano. An euphemism is a bloody great big brass instrument.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/EuphoniumAndTuba_wb.jpg/200px-EuphoniumAndTuba_wb.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 September, 2012, 10:11:30 am
Ba-doom, and indeed, Tish!

Thankyou, I'm here all week, try the Veal, it's great....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 05 September, 2012, 10:26:36 am
Negotiating some editing work!  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 September, 2012, 11:37:12 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 05 September, 2012, 10:08:48 am
Quote from: tiermat on 05 September, 2012, 10:08:05 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 05 September, 2012, 10:06:54 am
Having the piano tuned.

Is that an euphemism?

No, it's a piano. An euphemism is a bloody great big brass instrument.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/EuphoniumAndTuba_wb.jpg/200px-EuphoniumAndTuba_wb.jpg)

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 September, 2012, 11:41:22 am
Working out if I should head back into town, en velo, natch, to get the part that they said they couldn't get, then texted me 10 minutes after I got back to say it had arrived!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 September, 2012, 11:47:21 am
Any excuse for a bike ride :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 September, 2012, 12:51:52 pm
Trying to assuage my irritation at Smug.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 September, 2012, 01:43:35 pm
Wrestling with ICBA.
Currently one fall each
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 September, 2012, 01:58:15 pm
Quote from: jogler on 05 September, 2012, 01:43:35 pm
Wrestling with ICBA.
Currently one fall each

Would that be Ignatius Cholmondely Balls-Ache, perchance?

I hear he's fond of a bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 September, 2012, 03:40:18 pm
Quote from: jogler on 05 September, 2012, 01:43:35 pm
Wrestling with ICBA.
Currently one fall each

I won,2 falls to 1.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 September, 2012, 11:00:37 am
Eating the PERFECT post-ride recovery food.

Toast with PB and jam.

Trouble is I should, really, have gone a bike ride first :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 September, 2012, 11:01:50 am
;D  Well, go on a bike ride, then, ya numpty!  Then you can have it all over again. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 September, 2012, 11:18:45 am
Wish I could, especially as it's a beautiful day out there, but NO! I have conf calls all day, and in between them I have to build some servers....

I hate it when work gets in the way of what you really want to do :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 September, 2012, 11:52:09 am
Trying to track down an "off by one" bug in some code that parses an xml spreadsheet. Sadly the spreadsheet seems to think that blank cells can be (a) no cell element at all, (b) a cell element but no content, (c) a cell element with an "index" attribute that somehow magically makes it another cell.

Sigh. This on a fasting day too.

I'M HUNGRY!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 September, 2012, 12:00:06 pm
resting after riding,then I shall eat & ride again
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 06 September, 2012, 12:07:02 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 06 September, 2012, 11:00:37 am
Eating ...Toast with PB and jam.

Are you eating toast and jam with me, or eating me with toast and jam?

If the latter then you must be hungry...   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 September, 2012, 12:15:52 pm
Babysitting a very very bright uni student.

"That SPI cable you've made up is awfully long. I think you'll get voltage problems."

"Ah, the device won't boot with your cable in. Getting random noise. Maybe the cable is too long?"  Fetches hardware engineer.

"That cable is too long."

He's a really amiable bloke and has an IQ that is possibly double mine. But doesn't do things the easy way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 06 September, 2012, 12:22:15 pm
If your electronics experience is mostly digital stuff -- especially using CMOS devices -- I reckon it's pretty easy to get into a mindset of wires carrying platonic ideals of logic levels, rather than frail, delicate voltages and currents.  I wish I'd played with more analog stuff when I was young.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 September, 2012, 12:57:53 pm
The odd thing is that he has lots of experience of Real Life Electronics.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 06 September, 2012, 01:04:07 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 06 September, 2012, 12:57:53 pm
The odd thing is that he has lots of experience of Real Life Electronics.
Maybe so, but sometimes common sense rarely gets a look in and the obvious is hidden in plain sight.
I had the exact same problem with a project I'm currently working on - a magnetometer was returning bizarre results. Turned out that it was because the cable on the I2C bus was too long. Shorten the cable and bingo, sensible results.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 September, 2012, 03:35:18 pm
HANK MARVIN

I'm off to the kitchen.
If It's edible & stationary I shall eat it.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 06 September, 2012, 04:47:10 pm
Sitting in the beer garden of The Hoop in Stock with Wowbagger, who has just confidently assured me that his Brooks B17 Champion Special is not yet broken in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 06 September, 2012, 07:15:30 pm
Hiding in my tent from the rain and midges. Have food and have dried out from the riding this afternoon, though so not too bad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 September, 2012, 10:35:33 pm
Suspecting I'm in the wrong place tonight :(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 September, 2012, 12:05:52 am
Audax homework.  It appears that Staffordshire isn't flat.  This came as a shock to me last time too...  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 September, 2012, 12:06:52 am
Going for a much-needed shower and some much-needed sleep. Goodnight!  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 07 September, 2012, 12:13:03 am
Yeah, good night, Wow!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 September, 2012, 09:30:03 am
Waiting for a phone call.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 07 September, 2012, 11:18:42 am
Thinking about procrastinating. I'llprobably put that off till after lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 07 September, 2012, 01:38:01 pm
Not packing to go on holiday.

For some reason I find the process of packing for holidays rather stressful--no idea why.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 07 September, 2012, 03:03:04 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 07 September, 2012, 01:38:01 pm
Not packing to go on holiday.

For some reason I find the process of packing for holidays rather stressful--no idea why.
The main bag is now packed.  Just the 'toys' to do (computers, cameras, books, musical instruments...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 September, 2012, 03:36:29 pm
Busily doing everything and everything that makes me too busy to write something for a colleague who has wound me up.  I could write the document for her, but unfortunately I much too busy at the moment and she's going to have to wait.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 September, 2012, 10:11:42 pm
Drinking a very good ale in the form of a bottle of Old Hooky, from that Oxfordshire.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 September, 2012, 07:43:50 pm
Enjoying a lovely glass of port with Radio3 set on Loud.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 09 September, 2012, 11:54:40 am
I appear to be still in bed, which is not quite part of the plan!

I'm meant to be at the stables giving my horse copious amounts of attention as he has been sorely neglected1 for 10 days!  I'm just really tired.


1 For sorely neglected, read looked after admirably by my friend and yard owner
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 September, 2012, 12:13:48 pm
Trying to recover enough[1] to start work.

[1] Last night we had one of our infamous BBQs, which involved me spending all day preparing food and all evening drinking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 09 September, 2012, 04:51:29 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 09 September, 2012, 12:13:48 pm
Trying to recover enough[1] to start work.

[1] Last night we had one of our infamous BBQs, which involved me spending all day preparing food and all evening drinking.

With the Lefe Blonde at 6.6% ABV I hope you didn't overindulge. Have you got a bag of frozen peas on your head?  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 09 September, 2012, 05:51:42 pm
Listening to the rain bouncing off my tent and planning the next stage of my trip. Harris tomorrow and tues. Lewis to follow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 09 September, 2012, 06:21:16 pm
Watching Aristocats and eating Swedish sweeties   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 September, 2012, 06:24:19 pm
Recovering from a very taxing ride and contemplating a shower.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 September, 2012, 06:32:37 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 09 September, 2012, 12:13:48 pm
Trying to recover enough[1] to start work.

[1] Last night we had one of our infamous BBQs, which involved me spending all day preparing food and all evening drinking.

Update, managed to get enough where-with-all to start work, have the three nodes of the cluster talking to one another, but they are missing something slightly vital, for a database cluster.  That is shared storage.  It has apparently been ordered, but not made available yet...

Oh well, at least I am getting double time for this. :)  :thumbsup:
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 09 September, 2012, 06:38:00 pm
I'm sat in a holiday lodge in the lakes, been on the mountain bike most of the day and I'm knackered. It's also just started to rain very heavily!

I'm also sat here slagging vodafones crap iPad sim card service!

Apart from that life is good :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 September, 2012, 07:28:54 pm
Noting a barakta-shaped bundle of towels sleeping on the bed, and wishing I could do the same.  Really need to eat something and empty the washing machine first, though.
Title: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 09 September, 2012, 11:45:06 pm
Quote from: matthew on 09 September, 2012, 05:51:42 pm
Listening to the rain bouncing off my tent and planning the next stage of my trip. Harris tomorrow and tues. Lewis to follow.
Say hello to Harris for me. Not been back, sadly, since our honeymoon in (February...) 1999...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 10 September, 2012, 01:12:18 pm
Waiting to go to hospital to have a cyst removed from my groin  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 September, 2012, 02:08:40 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 10 September, 2012, 01:12:18 pm
Waiting to go to hospital to have a cyst removed from my groin  :-[

Ooh nasty :(. Hope it goes well.

I'm trying to stay awake and work up the energy to do stuff so that people can see that I've done stuff (important job when all children that I have on a certain day are at school). I doesn't have to be much, it just has to be visible :).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 September, 2012, 02:40:30 pm
Coughing and snotting and sneezing and probably infecting everyone in this train carriage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 September, 2012, 04:14:57 pm
Wondering why the Pet Shop Boys are playing at the Olympic parade thing, and being really really really glad it isn't bloody Coldplay again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 10 September, 2012, 05:10:01 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 10 September, 2012, 01:12:18 pm
Waiting to go to hospital to have a cyst removed from my groin  :-[
Dam I thought they were going to remove it today, it was only an assessment so now have to wait until 5th December  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 10 September, 2012, 06:54:43 pm
Helping my son pack for uni. He was gob smacked when I suddenly produced a new set of bedding, towels, kitchen stuff, food, new bike tyres, tubes, pump and a printer/scanner for him to take.

He was totally unprepared (and is too laid back to be bothered by that) but suddenly has everything he needs and is really excited about going. His sister just can't wait for him to leave home  ;D
I'm going to miss him though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 10 September, 2012, 07:31:33 pm
Putting together a financial portfolio to take to the mortgage adviser tomorrow morning
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 10 September, 2012, 07:43:23 pm
Feeling like shit after virtually 36h awake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 10 September, 2012, 10:06:10 pm
Realising that my brain has given up for the night and is refusing to work properly.

Boing!  Time for bed!   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 11 September, 2012, 10:55:12 pm
I've just plotted out my route to watch Thursday's TOB stage.
Amington-Tamworth-Hints-Weeford-Shenstone-Wall-Pipehill-Woodhouses-Creswell Green-Gentleshaw-Cannock Wood-Rawnsley-Pye Green-Broadhurst Green-Brocton-(Watch the tour of Britain)-Milford-Tixall-Great Haywood-Little Haywood-Colwich-Colton-Blithbury-Hamstall Ridware-Yoxall-Barton under Needwood-Walton on Trent-Rosliston-(Caik stop)-Botany Bay-Grangewood-Netherseal-Chilcote-No Man's Heath-Austrey-Newton Regis-Shuttington-Amington-Pubbe  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 12 September, 2012, 02:06:41 pm
There are a lot of places known to audaxers in that route Fungus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 12 September, 2012, 10:13:28 pm
Today I drove my son to uni with a car full of his stuff (including his bike).
I took him shopping for a couple of things he still needed and upgraded his mobile phone for him in the hope he will actually call me.
I bought him a giant mixed grill in a pub he probably won't be able to afford to eat in ever again in the hope he will now survive on his own cooking with no ill effects at least for the next 48 hours.
I left him behind all alone standing in the street waving at me.
His little 'apartment' has 7 rooms with a communal kitchen and none of the other students in it had yet arrived.
I was worried he was all alone in his little room feeling lonely and lost.
I texted him to ask him how it was going.
He has already met up with some 2nd year students he had been chatting to on Facebook and is at a pub quiz and sounds like he has a had a few drinks. Sounds like I don't need to worry about him any more (but how do I change a habit of 18 years?)  :-\

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/1A12785E-6313-49F9-A3B6-48B12B7443F3-9143-0000138D54550880.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/5967B364-A7BB-4FA1-972D-6A216621E5C3-9143-0000138D4DBE4996.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/916290F9-F896-4111-AE47-3283BD6F77D5-9143-0000138D466AEE20.jpg)
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Post by: Pingu on 12 September, 2012, 10:27:24 pm
Watching Smack The Pony on 4music. Wonderfully silly  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 12 September, 2012, 10:44:05 pm
Feeling sad.
This was to have been ready by easter 2014:
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-19570676

It's been a hard road to get to this particular dead end.
Magnoliette1 would have been going into S3, magnoliette2 into S1, and magnoliette3 poised in P6 when the new school opened. Feck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 September, 2012, 01:34:39 am
@feline
Hard isn't it?
BTDT x 2
WTFU
 
He'll be fine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 13 September, 2012, 08:46:13 am
Trying to decide if I should leave the youth hostel today. Forecast of gales for tonight in Lewis doesn't bode well for being under canvas tonight. Getting soaked getting to the campsite doesn't enthuse either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 September, 2012, 10:26:45 am
The desktop PC won't boot up;it stops partway so atm I'm kicking & thumping various bits of it untill I find the sweet spot.Rhat's as much IT as I do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 September, 2012, 12:29:43 pm
Quote from: Basil on 13 September, 2012, 01:34:39 am
@feline
Hard isn't it?
BTDT x 2
WTFU
 
He'll be fine.

You mean children actually leave home at some point? :o

Forgive my scepticism...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 13 September, 2012, 01:17:55 pm
Now in Stornoway, have opted for staying in the bunk house tonight. Will judge weather forecast before switching to canvas tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 September, 2012, 01:32:01 pm
Quote from: clarion on 13 September, 2012, 12:29:43 pm
Quote from: Basil on 13 September, 2012, 01:34:39 am
@feline
Hard isn't it?
BTDT x 2
WTFU
 
He'll be fine.

You mean children actually leave home at some point? :o

Forgive my scepticism...

Oh yes, they do leave home.

Then the buggers come back again aged 28.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 13 September, 2012, 01:56:43 pm
Contemplating how to manage my immediate priorities:

Set 1: 1 Major panic + 3 urgent items + all afternoon conference calls at work
Set 2:  Contemplating how to get a pass for a week cycling trip next spring
Set 3: The new Terry Pratchett that has arrived half hour ago

Tough, huh?

no contest
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 13 September, 2012, 02:25:31 pm
Calculating whether I can afford to quit my job and bicycle touring for 5 months next year ;D or I have to stay.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 13 September, 2012, 10:37:48 pm
Enjoying my new Galaxy Tab...    8) 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 September, 2012, 10:41:25 pm
Shower then bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 14 September, 2012, 08:14:56 am
Trying to avoid starting the crashing boredom that is work...

Oh well, close down YACF, and go and clock on....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 14 September, 2012, 08:31:17 am
Wondering whether a rusty spoon, Charlotte's axe, or Mr. Larrington and THE BEAR are the best tools for a particular job. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 September, 2012, 08:32:36 am
Bring all three and present them as the only options?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 September, 2012, 09:29:28 am
Aching.
Everywhere.
Including in places where I didn't think it was possible to ache.

Think I might have overdid it just a tad yesterday ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 September, 2012, 11:22:22 pm
Eating spelt in a tent beneath the South Downs. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 14 September, 2012, 11:28:21 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 September, 2012, 11:22:22 pm
Eating spelt in a tent beneath the South Downs. :)

Ooooh, whereabouts?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 September, 2012, 10:51:10 am
Getting ready to attack my off-road training loop on the singlespeed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 15 September, 2012, 12:59:05 pm
I'm away dog/house sitting, the first job this morning was to fish out a large koi carp from the owners pond as it had died sometime during the night and then dig a large hole in the woods and bury it, I won't tell the owners until they come home no point spoiling their holiday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 15 September, 2012, 04:31:52 pm
In the pub watching the rugby  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 September, 2012, 05:44:45 pm
Sitting down. I've made ten pomanders and two lasagnes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 15 September, 2012, 09:40:47 pm
Eating cottage cheese with pineapple.  Still not the biggest fan of cottage cheese, but the pineapple makes it eatable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 September, 2012, 10:14:49 pm
Quote from: Julian on 15 September, 2012, 09:40:47 pm
Eating cottage cheese with pineapple.  Still not the biggest fan of cottage cheese, but the pineapple makes it eatable.

Is that from "Closer" ?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 September, 2012, 10:16:17 pm
I've now had a shower & a few hours kip after last nights ride.  Having a rather late meal, some mackerel fillets have been nommed & a pan of pasta is bubbling away on the stove.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 16 September, 2012, 01:45:14 am
preparing to go to work. Driving drunk people home  :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 September, 2012, 06:36:10 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 14 September, 2012, 11:28:21 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 September, 2012, 11:22:22 pm
Eating spelt in a tent beneath the South Downs. :)

Ooooh, whereabouts?


Sorry, didn't see your response.  It was at the campsite in Washington.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 September, 2012, 08:20:05 pm
Hiccoughing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 16 September, 2012, 08:28:10 pm
Planning a silly bike ride for Wednesday morning and wondering if getting a train at 6.02am is really, really something I want to do just to save £15.

Oh and wondering why the BBC, Met Office and Met Check all have different weather forecasts for Wednesday  :facepalm:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 September, 2012, 09:15:04 pm
Wondering when my new wheel from Spa Cycles will arrive, and digesting my pork cheeks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 16 September, 2012, 09:21:06 pm
Wondering what else I can throw out. I love throwing stuff out. Problem is, if you are always an anti-hoarder, you end up not having all that much left to throw on special throw-out occasions such as moving home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 16 September, 2012, 09:32:06 pm
You can come and help me throw stuff out. I'm a mega hoarder and have far too much crap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 16 September, 2012, 10:30:47 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 16 September, 2012, 09:32:06 pm
You can come and help me throw stuff out. I'm a mega hoarder and have far too much crap.

/me Looks round at teetering piles of crap

Er, so am I, and I'll be moving house soon :-\

Ooh, I didn't know the / me IRC code worked on here  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 September, 2012, 11:25:28 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 16 September, 2012, 10:30:47 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 16 September, 2012, 09:32:06 pm
You can come and help me throw stuff out. I'm a mega hoarder and have far too much crap.

/me Looks round at teetering piles of crap

Er, so am I, and I'll be moving house soon :-\

Ooh, I didn't know the / me IRC code worked on here  :)

/me discovered that by accident a while ago...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dez on 16 September, 2012, 11:29:33 pm
I've been at the Friends of the Earth local groups conference at Imperial College this weekend and have just finished cleaning up the Award Ceremony video, which I live streamed. It was hosted by Clive Anderson and Jon Canter and can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thg9WyD-47M
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 17 September, 2012, 10:36:12 am
Seething...

Just damned well seething...

Might be best to keep out of my way today, eh?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 17 September, 2012, 12:38:12 pm
Making lists of what to pack for Africa - and wondering whether we really need to take all of the suggested first aid/health stuff if we're mainly going to major urban and tourist areas?  (I probably will anyway) Only 3 sleeps now!

Oh, and waiting for an international conference call to start - why have I drawn the short straw 3 times now and won the 10pm local timeslot?  I'm not good at this time of night. 
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 17 September, 2012, 12:46:23 pm
Listening to Slade.

Forgot how good they were. Some cracking songs, apart from 'that one'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 17 September, 2012, 03:24:58 pm
Picking my head off the floor after reading a quote for removing the Unwelcome Leylandii from our garden.  (don't think the quoted price is unfair, but even so, oooof).

More positively, once the tree's gone we might be able to fit in a tandem-sized shed...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 17 September, 2012, 03:42:27 pm
Ranting at work colleagues
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 September, 2012, 07:25:24 pm
Perusing my moth ID books to figure out what that dark moth with white patches was, and what that yellowey moth with goldey patches was which I found on a moth survey today at a local nature reserve...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 18 September, 2012, 07:12:59 am
Raging and raging at City of Edinburgh Councils continuing and constant FAILURE to properly and coherently provide a new school for the 1200 childer of Portobello High. Eejits of the first order.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 September, 2012, 10:04:30 am
Searching for hotels/pensions/B&Bs along the route for April's Catalan jaunt :)
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Post by: numbnuts on 18 September, 2012, 01:28:46 pm
I've just come back from a short ride, now having a cup of tea
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Post by: Andrij on 18 September, 2012, 02:00:23 pm
Resisting (barely) the urge to cause DETH.
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 18 September, 2012, 03:14:30 pm
Still packing. Never again will I allow my collection of pingfuckits, brackets and parts thereof, and unidentifiable but probably necessary power and USB leads to become so out of control.
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Post by: mr magnolia on 18 September, 2012, 05:45:22 pm
Quote from: Sergeant Pluck on 18 September, 2012, 03:14:30 pm
Never again will I allow my collection of pingfuckits, brackets and parts thereof, and unidentifiable but probably necessary power and USB leads to become so out of control.
Yes you will.
It's an unavoidable hell.
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Post by: BrianI on 19 September, 2012, 04:41:55 am
Drinking coffee at silly o'clock in the morning, so I'm awake ready for silly o'clock drive to college, to catch the college minibus at 6:30am for a field trip to Abernethy forest.   :D
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Post by: tiermat on 19 September, 2012, 10:23:21 am
Needing more coffee.

Building yet another server.

Planning hotels/B&Bs/pensions for next April.

Must go out to the garage and get a card with the email address of the pension I stayed at in April.

Not cycling :(

At least the migrane/bad headache has gone!
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Post by: Peter on 19 September, 2012, 10:30:52 am
Quote from: bumper on 17 September, 2012, 12:46:23 pm
Listening to Slade.

Forgot how good they were. Some cracking songs, apart from 'that one'.

"That one"'s pretty good, too.  You've just heard it too often.  It's very well constructed, musically.
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Post by: bumper on 19 September, 2012, 10:38:06 am
Quote from: Peter on 19 September, 2012, 10:30:52 am
Quote from: bumper on 17 September, 2012, 12:46:23 pm
Listening to Slade.

Forgot how good they were. Some cracking songs, apart from 'that one'.

"That one"'s pretty good, too.  You've just heard it too often.  It's very well constructed, musically.

But listening to it in September is asking too much when you're The Grinch!
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Post by: tiermat on 19 September, 2012, 11:20:09 am
3 years ago I travelled Xthousand miles to escape my own, personal, circle of hell that is "So here it is...."[1], only to walk into a Big W on the first day (the airline had left our bags in Germany, so we needed undies and the like) to hear it blasting out of the speakers.  I screamed and ran out of the store!

[1] Australia, we had gone to see friends, but my excuse was that I wanted to escape Slade and Cliff Richard for one year in my life, it didn't flaming well work!
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Post by: clarion on 19 September, 2012, 11:23:08 am
I think the point is not to listen to it at Christmas.  It's a good song and a stonking (and stomping) tune.
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Post by: Torslanda on 19 September, 2012, 11:24:59 am
In Wyoming or Oregon the odds are that you won't hear it.

Or Cliff Richard. Bonus  :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 19 September, 2012, 11:32:54 am
Quote from: torslanda on 19 September, 2012, 11:24:59 am
In Wyoming or Oregon the odds are that you won't hear it.

Or Cliff Richard. Bonus  :thumbsup:

I am starting to get paranoid about it, so you can guarantee I would hear it in the first store I walk into in ButtKiss, Wyoming...
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Post by: Chris S on 19 September, 2012, 06:11:40 pm
Waiting for a stored procedure to finish building a table that is a representation of three other, rather large (more than 3m rows) tables.

(drums fingers)

(looks out of window)

(checks cinema listings)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 September, 2012, 06:13:02 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 19 September, 2012, 06:11:40 pm
Waiting for a stored procedure to finish building a table that is a representation of three other, rather large (more than 3m rows) tables.

(drums fingers)

(looks out of window)

(checks cinema listings)

Has another shave.
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Post by: hatler on 20 September, 2012, 07:00:45 am
Now sitting peacefully having been awoken at 4.30 by mini-hatler bursting into our room and shouting "MY FLOOR'S ALL WET !!"

Split cistern in the loft conversion.

Dang.

A lot of the house is very damp.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 September, 2012, 07:37:05 am
I am in a surprisingky uncrowded commuter train heading towards That London. I suspect it will fill up at the next three stations.

I an bloody glad I don't have to do this every day.
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Post by: Dinamo on 20 September, 2012, 07:42:43 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 September, 2012, 07:37:05 am
I am in a surprisingky uncrowded commuter train heading towards That London. I suspect it will fill up at the next three stations.

I an bloody glad I don't have to do this every day.

..... and me, but I'm heading from That Brizzle place, soon be at Didcot  !!!
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Post by: matthew on 20 September, 2012, 07:59:21 am
In tent listening to the rain outside and cursing as it means striking a wet tent again. :-(
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 20 September, 2012, 01:02:18 pm
Getting ready for the trip to Bath where I shall be seeing Half Man Half Biscuit for the second time this year. Regalia packed for the evening's entertainment. Pringles £1.85.
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Post by: tiermat on 20 September, 2012, 01:08:56 pm
Working out the best way to get to The Cockpit in Leeds, ready for 12th October when I shall be going to see Terrorvision therein.
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Post by: clarion on 20 September, 2012, 02:04:37 pm
Sitting in the waiting room after my physio appointment waiting for the pain in my hand to subside enough to go home.
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Post by: Andrij on 20 September, 2012, 03:32:17 pm
Struggling with a severe case of CBA. :-\
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Post by: numbnuts on 20 September, 2012, 05:29:27 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 20 September, 2012, 03:32:17 pm
Struggling with a severe case of CBA. :-\
??? <goes off to google> Ah now I know  ;)
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Post by: Gus on 20 September, 2012, 07:08:29 pm
Sold my Steamroller frame  :(
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Post by: mrkwr on 20 September, 2012, 07:30:14 pm
At Hen & Chicken Bedminster for Rob Penn talk - anyone else here?
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Post by: Polar Bear on 21 September, 2012, 09:10:27 am
Breakfast at the Long Itch Diner.

Great cycling weather  :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 September, 2012, 09:18:46 am
I have just changed a nappy for the first time in about 24 years.

That's if you discount geriatric nappies.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 September, 2012, 09:32:55 am
It is now Drawing Time. There are coloured pens. Red seems to be predominant and, although there is some ambidexterity, I think things are less sinister tha they might be. Mostly dextrous in fact.
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Post by: tiermat on 21 September, 2012, 09:36:58 am
Managing to upset my brother by asking him an innocent question....

Jeez, family, eh?
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Post by: jogler on 21 September, 2012, 09:46:44 am
Sometimes it's a salvation that you are able to choose your friends,n'est pas?
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Post by: clarion on 21 September, 2012, 11:32:33 am
Eating lunch, waving in the direction of Captain Scarlet, and hoping my bike doesn't feel too homesick
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Post by: Andrij on 21 September, 2012, 12:39:40 pm
Struggling to find some motivation.
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Post by: jogler on 21 September, 2012, 12:44:34 pm
I am administering CPR to my wallet following interaction between a licencse to print money place garage & a Volvo
 :o
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 September, 2012, 12:51:20 pm
We have been for a walk along the path by the Medway, picked a few blackberries, which we ate, although they weren't that good, fed some ducks, a pair of Canada geese and a black-headed gull, watched a few moorhens, a green woodpecker and some tiny fish, and then walked home. Martha was fallling asleep in her push chair by the time we got back, but it was lunch time before it was nap time. She fell asleep in an armchair as I was preparing her lunch (beans on toast) and I had to wake her up for her to eat it. Then it was nap time. The procedure is that I am supposed to sit with her until she falls asleep but the sticking point with this strategy is that she couldn't get to sleep because I kept snoring.

Looking after small children is an exhausting occupation. How is it that Butterfly always manages to look so radiant?
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Post by: andrewc on 21 September, 2012, 01:24:53 pm
Having a day off work, wandering around a grey Liverpool playing with a new camera. Listening to an old guy busking, "Sketches of Spain" on trumpet. Very good, he thinks the new toy is a Leica, very well spoken, a story there..

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Post by: Kim on 21 September, 2012, 01:50:56 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 21 September, 2012, 12:51:20 pm
How is it that Butterfly always manages to look so radiant?

Ready brek?   :D
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Post by: tiermat on 21 September, 2012, 01:59:45 pm
POETS day!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: essexian on 21 September, 2012, 02:03:05 pm
Trying to remove and replace a broken floor tile....... this is likely to end up with a rant. (its taken me five hours so far and not even 20% has been removed: what do they set these things in????!!!!).  :facepalm:
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Post by: mcshroom on 21 September, 2012, 02:15:15 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 21 September, 2012, 01:59:45 pm
POETS day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Considering your office location - where do you intent to PO to? :)
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Post by: Andrij on 21 September, 2012, 02:18:05 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 21 September, 2012, 01:59:45 pm
POETS day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please to be convincing my boss.
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Post by: tiermat on 21 September, 2012, 02:23:07 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 21 September, 2012, 02:15:15 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 21 September, 2012, 01:59:45 pm
POETS day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Considering your office location - where do you intent to PO to? :)

Doonstairs :)
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Post by: ian on 21 September, 2012, 09:36:40 pm
Floating around at 10,971 metres at 811 kph drinking aquavit donated by a boisterous group of Norwegians.
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Post by: SteveC on 21 September, 2012, 09:40:05 pm
Sitting in a friend's flat about 20 miles outside Brussels, drinking the last bottle of the local beer.
Tomorrow we go home.   :'(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 September, 2012, 09:45:36 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 21 September, 2012, 09:40:05 pm
Sitting in a friend's flat about 20 miles outside Brussels, drinking the last bottle of the local beer.
Tomorrow we go home.   :'(
Which one?
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Post by: Feline on 21 September, 2012, 09:45:58 pm
I am cooking the dinner. Riverford, those lovely organic veggies people, brought me leeks today (among other things), so I thought I would do an epic quantity of leek and potato soup and freeze some of it.
It is gunna be leek, potato and finger soup. I have no clue where the little bit of my finger nail and flesh beneath actually went. I can only conclude that:
a) My Santoku knife is very sharp
b) I have already consumed enough wine not to really feel the fact I sliced a bit of myself into the dinner
c) I am the new culinary version of nutty cyclist

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/21CA5816-7664-42BA-B07F-E27CB0A5ED1D-867-00000103E0F63CFD_zps6f148afc.jpg)
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Post by: SteveC on 21 September, 2012, 10:03:07 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 21 September, 2012, 09:45:36 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 21 September, 2012, 09:40:05 pm
Sitting in a friend's flat about 20 miles outside Brussels, drinking the last bottle of the local beer.
Tomorrow we go home.   :'(
Which one?
Witkap Pater, from Ninove
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 September, 2012, 10:08:45 pm
Mmmm, we brought a pile of that home last month. Only 5 wks til a boozy Brussels weekend beckons :P
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 September, 2012, 10:10:52 pm
BTW -calling Feline ....put the big sharp knife away and call for a dirty pizza.
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Post by: reddo on 22 September, 2012, 06:47:08 am
Ow ow ow. Feline. Ow  :o

What am I doing? Psyching myself up to go to work. First... Heathrow....  :facepalm:
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Post by: Basil on 22 September, 2012, 08:01:41 am
Freezing
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Post by: Feline on 22 September, 2012, 10:25:29 pm
My finger still hurts  ;D
I got soil in it today doing the gardening and it hurt when I washed it.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 22 September, 2012, 11:49:07 pm
Laying in my hammock listening to the traffic and hoping it doesn't rain too much tomorrow.
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Post by: peliroja on 23 September, 2012, 07:58:24 am
Off to bed, having made a batch of chocolate brownies to share with our hosts and friends tomorrow. Some crumbly bits at the sides may already have been consumed.  :-[
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Post by: L CC on 23 September, 2012, 07:59:04 am
Languishing
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 September, 2012, 08:10:04 am
Drinking coffee, and contemplating decorating a cake.
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Post by: reddo on 23 September, 2012, 10:32:03 am
Filling in time before going to work this evening.
Internet, gym, Bradley Wiggins book, also, best keep an eye on the weather.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 September, 2012, 10:36:24 am
Party preparations.  Better decorate his cake, really!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 September, 2012, 11:13:13 am
Drinking coffee and contemplating a trip to Esortiaw.
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Post by: Kim on 23 September, 2012, 01:38:12 pm
Marking Bi Visibility Day by staying indoors and sulking.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2012, 03:45:42 pm
Being a cat bed in the sun and thinking about having another cup of tea being as I am in the middle of the thirst equivalent of a bonk (and rather grumpy).
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 September, 2012, 03:50:32 pm
Trying to explain to my husband that if the washing is hanging out in our garden, it's our washing, so fetching in when it rains is a good idea.  I didn't realise it was our washing doesn't work with me. 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2012, 04:28:37 pm
Being irritated by a tic / twitch in my leg that won't stop.
Also, drinking moar tea and trying to resist eating the last date scone (Pingu will prolly be unimpressed if he finds out I ate that one too).
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 September, 2012, 04:47:40 pm
Watching Downton Abbey for the second time today. SDD2 missed it last week so watched it with her, now watching it with DH who also missed it last week. 
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 September, 2012, 04:48:43 pm
Recovering.
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Post by: Basil on 23 September, 2012, 05:25:25 pm
Quote from: Kim on 23 September, 2012, 01:38:12 pm
Marking Bi Visibility Day by staying indoors and sulking.

Ah.  So that's why you were wearing no hi viz stuff yesterday.  Wrong day?
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Post by: mcshroom on 23 September, 2012, 05:44:46 pm
Fitting a new toilet seat
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Post by: tiermat on 24 September, 2012, 12:37:08 pm
Booking hotels, or trying to, this task is not assisted by manyana and language differences...
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Post by: welshwheels on 24 September, 2012, 07:30:57 pm
just booked a week in cornwall for the family early next year  :thumbsup:    the kids seem to think we need to go on a all incluisive break to Turkey :hand: I personally cant think of anything worse to hot stuck in a resort !! (message to kids  when you are paying you can go wherever you want ) mkay


#Iloveastaycation
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Post by: lou boutin on 24 September, 2012, 09:00:00 pm
I'm missing the gratuitous cat picture threat.  I'm definitely in need of an injection of kitty cuteness.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 24 September, 2012, 10:26:01 pm
Going round and round in circles trying to decide what bike to buy as my current one isn't great for long distance.

I think I need to a) go to sleep b) work out what I actually want from new bike c) work out what I can afford & d) start yet another new bike thread.

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Post by: Kim on 24 September, 2012, 10:50:56 pm
Wondering why I've done so little camping this year.  It's not the weather, at least not if you judge it by the conditions I have camped in...
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Post by: reddo on 25 September, 2012, 10:06:45 am
Contemplating going back to sleep before "part 2" of work this arvo.
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Post by: tiermat on 25 September, 2012, 10:09:44 am
Feeling:

a) tired
b) sick
c) pissed off @ HR and agency.

Time to close down[1], me thinks :(

[1] Blow Up The Outside - Soundgarden springs to mind
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Post by: clarion on 25 September, 2012, 10:10:34 am
GWS, T.
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Post by: iainj837 on 25 September, 2012, 01:18:21 pm
just finished weekly checks cleaned rear cassette and chain
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 September, 2012, 05:29:36 pm
Cooking sausages.
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Post by: Chris S on 25 September, 2012, 09:56:59 pm
Waiting for 10pm. Then I can have more drugs!
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Post by: Feline on 25 September, 2012, 10:36:40 pm
Just got back from my aquafit class. I think I need a new swimming costume. I felt a bit out of place amongst the back one-piece brigade in my 1990's Baywatch-cut Speedo!
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Post by: BrianI on 26 September, 2012, 06:18:50 am
Listening to the thunder and heavy rain.
Not looking forward to the 30 mile drive to college :-/

If only we had star trek teleporters, life would be so much easier!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 26 September, 2012, 06:38:01 am
Trying to work up the oomph to get on and cycle to work. Have bailed and taken the car the past two days, which I don't regret given how windy it's been, but today's meant to get better so ought to make the effort.

Being put off by how windy it sounds right now though.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 September, 2012, 06:47:32 am
Quote from: BrianI on 26 September, 2012, 06:18:50 am
If only we had star trek teleporters, life would be so much easier!   :thumbsup:

Funnily enough, m'boys make a similar comment quite often....  :D
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Post by: reddo on 26 September, 2012, 10:52:20 am
I'm filing my nails so I don't break them loading the bags later on.
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Post by: Kim on 26 September, 2012, 02:48:37 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 September, 2012, 06:47:32 am
Quote from: BrianI on 26 September, 2012, 06:18:50 am
If only we had star trek teleporters, life would be so much easier!   :thumbsup:

Funnily enough, m'boys make a similar comment quite often....  :D

Hell no, have you seen how often those things malfunction in weird and interesting ways?  They make cars look like a sensible idea.
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Post by: tiermat on 26 September, 2012, 02:55:11 pm
Quote from: Kim on 26 September, 2012, 02:48:37 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 September, 2012, 06:47:32 am
Quote from: BrianI on 26 September, 2012, 06:18:50 am
If only we had star trek teleporters, life would be so much easier!   :thumbsup:

Funnily enough, m'boys make a similar comment quite often....  :D

Hell no, have you seen how often those things malfunction in weird and interesting ways?  They make cars look like a sensible idea.

I have read Stephen King's take on what can go wrong, put me off, even if someone invented one tomorrow, there is no way you would get me to "ride" it....

ETA It was called "The Jaunt" originally published in a magazine then re-printed in Skeleton Crew.  Yes I read all the literary greats in my teens, Stephen King, Sven Hassel et al :)
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Post by: jogler on 26 September, 2012, 03:59:42 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 26 September, 2012, 02:55:11 pm
  Yes I read all the literary greats in my teens, Stephen King, Sven Hassel et al :)

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: welshwheels on 26 September, 2012, 09:14:44 pm
listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWcvHYDmkY   


RIP MR ANDY WILLIAMS
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 26 September, 2012, 09:42:19 pm
Ah, that's why one of my friends on facebook has posted a dozen of his songs in a row.

RIP indeed.
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Post by: andrewc on 26 September, 2012, 10:31:52 pm
Plotting bike routes through places in Utah with names like "Solitude", then loading them into my GPS and copying them to a paper map as well.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 September, 2012, 12:01:31 am
Plotting Jollydays.  I have tix for a gig, a plentiful supply of orange cardboard to collect, and a reservation for a couple of nights stay in Hertfordshire's Finest Hotel :D
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Post by: reddo on 27 September, 2012, 12:28:38 am
Chilling before going to bed after being thumped over the Alps by some rattling clouds.   :P
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Post by: Feline on 27 September, 2012, 05:40:38 am
I am cursing myself for not having an inhaler in the bag I bought to work with me tonight. I've spent the last 5 hours struggling to breathe, and have another 4 hours until I can go home and use my salbutamol. Asthma sucks  >:(
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Post by: Wombat on 27 September, 2012, 08:14:09 am
I thought that was the problem, that it didn't suck or blow properly?   ::-)

Sorry to make light of your problems, but that was unmissable.  Hope the rest of the session goes as calmly as possible.
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Post by: tiermat on 27 September, 2012, 08:18:43 am
Reading Spanish newspapers

Filling in online forms, for work purposes.

Considering what to add to a FAK, as mine hasn't been checked since I last went on tour.
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Post by: RJ on 27 September, 2012, 10:45:05 am
Compiling a table of Scottish deer forests, areas, dates and stuff ...

... as one does  ;)

(Some of them were/are ***huge***)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 September, 2012, 10:57:02 am
Trying to get to work...
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Post by: clarion on 27 September, 2012, 11:00:27 am
Swimming?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 September, 2012, 11:07:16 am
On a bus that is half an hour late, before the diversion route. Fortunately my boss agreed that I should go for a 2 hours earlier than usual bus in an attempt to get to site on time. Regretting not deciding to ride now, tbh. But I don't know how much my two normal route (10 miles or 15 miles) are affected. And didn't want to end up on the a64.
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Post by: reddo on 27 September, 2012, 11:17:39 am
Ooh feline, empathise.  :-[
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Post by: citoyen on 27 September, 2012, 11:47:25 am
Laughing myself stupid reading this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Father_Ted_characters#Minor_characters

I was prompted to look this up after reading that there's a character in next week's episode of the excellent Moone Boy (http://sky1.sky.com/sky1hd-shows/moone-boy) called Fr Linehan, which got me reminiscing about Craggy Island's finest...

d.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 September, 2012, 11:52:15 am
Ah yes, the Ebula Conundrum sketch :D
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Post by: reddo on 27 September, 2012, 01:12:03 pm
Sitting in the BA Lounge in Geneva. Going home. Woo hoo!  ;D
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Post by: L CC on 27 September, 2012, 03:53:53 pm
Typing termination letters.
One chap's asked that I don't post his, his wife 'wont react well'.
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Post by: bumper on 27 September, 2012, 10:35:14 pm
I've just given a hedgehog a large slug. It was sat on the driveway as I turned in on the mtb.

I'm also just going to check my bike because some **** has just clipped my front wheel on a roundabout and driven off. Managed to stay on but still have the adrenaline pumping! Knob came up behind, then alongside and cut across the front of me to turn left, at a fair speed too. Their back bumper just hit my front wheel.

I'm going to have a drink too, for medicinal purposes!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 September, 2012, 10:36:40 pm
Well done for staying alive, Bumper.  Enjoy the drink.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 27 September, 2012, 10:39:55 pm
Ta!

Bike seems ok.


Talisker or Dalwhinnie?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 September, 2012, 10:45:16 pm
No Laphroaig? :o

OK, Talisker then.  No ice.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 27 September, 2012, 10:47:31 pm
Talisker for two then.

Cheers Basil!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 September, 2012, 07:23:53 am
Ranting on the book of face. My youngest cousin (21) got a speeding fine letter yesterday. His facebook page is full of people telling him to ask for photographic evidence it was him, because if the photo doesn't prove it's him, he gets the fine as the registered keeper but not the points as there's no proof it's him. I have ranted a bit about people who are mature enough to hoon a ton of metal & glass & explosive round the streets should be mature enough to take their punishment when they're caught.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 28 September, 2012, 01:25:40 pm
Baking tarts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 September, 2012, 01:39:49 pm
Breaking Implementing a server change that I was supposed to do yesterday, but I did on the wrong server, which then broke a $LARGE_CO's database :(

Fingers crossed this time :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 September, 2012, 05:01:34 am
carking it
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 30 September, 2012, 08:19:10 am
pre-family-visit tidying. i want to go back to bed  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 30 September, 2012, 08:30:36 am
Deciding whether to ride or wash the bikes
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 30 September, 2012, 09:18:56 am
Watching several hundred women set off on the Brighton Cycletta event - everything from very blingy soot to BSOs dragged out of the shed for the occasion.

And it is brilliant.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 September, 2012, 09:33:38 am
I'm wondering where to go today. I think I might pootle over to my brother's place.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 September, 2012, 10:22:25 am
Watching ' something for the weekend', eating crisps and dip and mentally preparing myself for something.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 October, 2012, 09:58:50 am
Last minute packing for midday departure to York.  1 hour wait at Tamworth - we could risk a 6 minute turnaround but I'd rather not.

Hope they serve decent coffee in Tamworth.  We would venture out normally but we''re hamstrung with audax bikes and huge rucksacks making it less convenient.

See you later York  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 02 October, 2012, 01:18:47 pm
Celebrating another milestone in my life on my own  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 October, 2012, 01:24:42 pm
Aw, numbnuts, happy birthday.  I haven't looked at the calendar for a few days.  Hope it improves from here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 02 October, 2012, 01:39:36 pm
Numbnuts, you're not on your own.  Happy birthday  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 October, 2012, 03:09:00 pm
Coughing my guts up. This is the first full-blown lurgy I have had in ages and it is stopping me riding my bike or getting to the gym  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 October, 2012, 03:15:42 pm
Happy Birthday Numbnuts!
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 02 October, 2012, 03:16:59 pm
Just ogling Rachael on countdown!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 October, 2012, 03:17:49 pm
I'm lying in bed picking bits of dried soup out of my hair. And playing with my phone. The glamour!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 October, 2012, 03:19:09 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 02 October, 2012, 01:18:47 pm
Celebrating another milestone in my life on my own  :'(

On which note, I've made a tactical decision about my upcoming one of those.  As for my birthday this year I am mostly getting an unpleasant medical procedure, I've decided to celebrate my 33⅓ birthday on February 8th, instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 October, 2012, 03:35:25 pm
Quote from: Kim on 02 October, 2012, 03:19:09 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 02 October, 2012, 01:18:47 pm
Celebrating another milestone in my life on my own  :'(

On which note, I've made a tactical decision about my upcoming one of those.  As for my birthday this year I am mostly getting an unpleasant medical procedure, I've decided to celebrate my 33⅓ birthday on February 8th, instead.

Will there be a revolution? :)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 October, 2012, 03:38:34 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 02 October, 2012, 03:35:25 pm
Quote from: Kim on 02 October, 2012, 03:19:09 pm
On which note, I've made a tactical decision about my upcoming one of those.  As for my birthday this year I am mostly getting an unpleasant medical procedure, I've decided to celebrate my 33⅓ birthday on February 8th, instead.

Will there be a revolution? :)

I wasn't planning on breaking any records...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 October, 2012, 03:39:57 pm
Counting down the minutes until I can have more drugs to try and smother this headache. Damn lurgy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 October, 2012, 05:07:09 pm
Sweating & cursing  >:(

Top Tip - If you like doing complex 3-D puzzles then you can have hours of endless fun fitting your bike into an S&S Backpack case (http://www.sandsmachine.com/ac_back.htm).   It may look a cinch in the diagrams (http://www.sandsmachine.com/p_i_seq.htm), but real life and a chunky tourer with racks etc make things different.  I have to remove the fork to get mine in the case.

I've done this before....but can't quite remember how....   I'll take photo's so I don't need to work it out again at the end of the trip.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 October, 2012, 05:22:40 pm
Waiting for my cow-worker to finish the world's longest dump so that I can get at my bike gear.
Now I know how she affords the big mortgage on contractor pay, poo and get paid overtime for it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 October, 2012, 05:48:52 pm
Pondering my day old stubble. 

Fed up of ingrowing beard hairs caused by daily shaving with cheap ass electric shaver.

So pondering complementing my studenty long hair with studenty designer stubble.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 02 October, 2012, 07:09:54 pm
Downloading a new Jeppesen database.  :smug:

Quote
world's longest dump

So she'd be "Mrs Pongy" then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 October, 2012, 08:05:10 pm
Quote from: reddo on 02 October, 2012, 07:09:54 pm
Downloading a new Jeppesen database.  :smug:

Quote
world's longest dump

So she'd be "Mrs Pongy" then?


It was a bit whiffy, yes. I forsook my pre-commute wizz because I've seen what she eats and had no desire to lift the lid  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 03 October, 2012, 11:56:37 am
Slowly losing the will to live in a sales and operations planning meeting at a posh hotel near Coventry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 October, 2012, 12:39:35 pm
Wishing it was next Friday already.

Doesn't help that I have just seen, via bookface, that the gig is sold out!

Good job I got my tickets when they first went on sale, isn't it? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 October, 2012, 01:40:54 pm
Sorting out my sock drawer.

Living life on the edge :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 October, 2012, 02:12:51 pm
you can afford socks? :o

it must be rock 'n roll
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 October, 2012, 02:19:52 pm
I'm folding leaflets.

It's not the most exciting activity I've ever engaged in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 03 October, 2012, 02:35:08 pm
Listening to a talk by an inspector from the health and safety exec. It's actually quite interesting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 October, 2012, 03:05:56 pm
Quote from: jogler on 03 October, 2012, 02:12:51 pm
you can afford socks? :o

it must be rock 'n roll
 ;D

I never said anything about there being socks in there, did I? :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 October, 2012, 04:20:42 pm
Now having an argument about applying entitlement certificates to servers that are not internet facing, so such things are useless (the certs that is, not the servers) and also pointing out that the way the certs are delivered means I cannot get them from the meagre info I have been given (an email with a URL and an order number on it).

Also thinking what we should have for dinner....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 03 October, 2012, 04:25:25 pm
Getting ready to sneak out for an assignation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 October, 2012, 04:29:17 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 03 October, 2012, 04:25:25 pm
Getting ready to sneak out for an assignation.

Close quarters, with a knife, or long range with a sniper rifle? :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 03 October, 2012, 05:27:21 pm
Spending an interesting afternoon reading this site:

http://pathetic.org.uk/

Well researched and full of interesting information IMHO.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 October, 2012, 06:51:31 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 03 October, 2012, 01:40:54 pm
Sorting out my sock drawer.

Living life on the edge :)

Admiring sox.  Not Tiermat's tho....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 October, 2012, 07:05:23 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 03 October, 2012, 04:29:17 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 03 October, 2012, 04:25:25 pm
Getting ready to sneak out for an assignation.

Close quarters, with a knife, or long range with a sniper rifle? :D

wine.women & whoopeee? :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 October, 2012, 07:06:14 pm
Drying off in the shower after some traditional Mancunian weather...
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 03 October, 2012, 08:39:31 pm
Watching Kenny Everett singing toyah, brilliant!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 October, 2012, 11:06:30 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 03 October, 2012, 04:29:17 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 03 October, 2012, 04:25:25 pm
Getting ready to sneak out for an assignation.

Close quarters, with a knife, or long range with a sniper rifle? :D

My guess is close quarters with weapon of choice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 October, 2012, 01:16:41 am
I've just finished watching My So-Called Life (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108872/).  This is an achievement, as I missed it entirely when it was originally broadcast, and in spite of having the DVD boxset kicking around for umpty years, never seemed to get round to watching it.

It is, and I say this without a hint of irony, like so 1990s.

I can't quite work out whether being a teenager was actually like that or not.  I mean, obviously not being American helps, but the way that the Token Gay Character reminds me of someone who was at the time a very close friend suggests that it was at least as realistic a representation of the era as Dark Season (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101074/) is.

Red hair and Doc Martens, though.  That'll never catch on.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 04 October, 2012, 08:14:40 am
waiting for city link to turn up....and no it's not a bike
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 04 October, 2012, 01:04:05 pm
Bad side - I'm on hold with Blizzard Entertainment's tech support department.

Good side - they provide a freephone number which even works with Skype, so I can sit here with a comfortable headset on instead of holding a phone to my ear :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 October, 2012, 09:35:19 am
Getting ready to go to Darlo with m'boys, off onna n'adventure with That Deano.  Which has been a good year and a half in the planning, since we've failed miserably at our previous attempts at this particular adventure, so it's quite a different plan to the original since it involves more Cub and less bike than originally, but hopefully just as much steam-powered beardy goodness (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=48745.msg973422#msg973422).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 October, 2012, 11:08:02 am
My civic duty, voting in the 2012 US General Election (via absentee ballot).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 October, 2012, 11:34:27 am
Being properly lurgied so domestic godessing. This involves making caramelised red onion n goats cheese tarts and knitting some yogurt.
During which process I found out that the seal on the new food flask I made yog in last time is not a sealed unit and was hiding some nasty old milky stinky shit from the last batch :sick: ^1000
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 October, 2012, 11:34:36 am
If Romney wins, I shall be deporting all Republican voters when I become President of the UK.

Should increase the average IQ significantly. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 October, 2012, 11:49:32 am
Good thing I'm not a Republican (except when in Ireland ;) ).

You may be pleased to know there are still Socialist candidates for the US Presidency (along with a few other parties).  Unfortunately the only time most people learn of the other candidates is when they see their ballot papers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 06 October, 2012, 12:11:58 pm
Sitting in the pub. Contemplating our (minor) injuries. Wondering whether this tandem malarkey is worth it. Hating the swallow. That sort of stuff.
(ducked the free hub. Again.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 October, 2012, 12:17:50 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 06 October, 2012, 11:49:32 am
Good thing I'm not a Republican (except when in Ireland ;) ).

Though I know we disagree on a lot of political issues, I know you're too intelligent and compassionate to vote for the GOP.

Quote
You may be pleased to know there are still Socialist candidates for the US Presidency (along with a few other parties).  Unfortunately the only time most people learn of the other candidates is when they see their ballot papers.

Yes.  It's a dull discussion in this country.  Dem v Rep with barely any difference. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: marcusjb on 06 October, 2012, 12:21:08 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 06 October, 2012, 12:11:58 pm
Sitting in the pub. Contemplating our (minor) injuries. Wondering whether this tandem malarkey is worth it. Hating the swallow. That sort of stuff.
(ducked the free hub. Again.)

Oh no!

Hope the injuries are minor.

Same hub or is it a new one?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bobb on 06 October, 2012, 12:26:59 pm
Packing my rucksack full of stuff I probably won't need for tonight's Dusk 'til Dawn. I've successfully mounted a light on my magic hat which I'm quite pleased about. I now have enough lights to guide an aeroplane down...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 October, 2012, 12:33:55 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 06 October, 2012, 12:11:58 pm
Sitting in the pub. Contemplating our (minor) injuries. Wondering whether this tandem malarkey is worth it. Hating the swallow. That sort of stuff.
(ducked the free hub. Again.)

Oops!  Hope it passes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 06 October, 2012, 01:23:58 pm
Sitting on top of Thornthwaite Crag. Looking through the mist rising out of the Troutbeck valley, down to Windermere and the shining sea. Listening to the wing-beats of ravens in the silence. And eating cheese butties
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 06 October, 2012, 01:40:38 pm
Packing and panicking!   And my Dad doesn't want to give me a lift to Manchester airport tomorrow, so I'll have to get the early train  :(   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 October, 2012, 01:45:12 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 06 October, 2012, 12:11:58 pm
Sitting in the pub. Contemplating our (minor) injuries. Wondering whether this tandem malarkey is worth it. Hating the swallow. That sort of stuff.
(ducked the free hub. Again.)

Think about the cake that awaits your return to joglerville...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 October, 2012, 02:36:49 pm
Wondering if this flu jab is still making me feel bleurgh, or whether I just need to HTFU and make the most of the lack of weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 October, 2012, 04:04:09 pm
Weeding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 06 October, 2012, 05:23:53 pm
Feeling rather tired after a day tree felling, coppicing and log pile building.  Rather tired arms after a day playing with a billhook!  And a blister on my palm too.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 October, 2012, 05:27:55 pm
Reading about respiration.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 October, 2012, 06:04:59 pm
Waiting for my pastry to warm up enough that I can roll it out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 06 October, 2012, 06:10:58 pm
Playing with my microphone again :)

This is the result: -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgX2VFnpaH8&feature=share&list=UUhJryltqMXSic39-ZXyH_ww (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgX2VFnpaH8&feature=share&list=UUhJryltqMXSic39-ZXyH_ww)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 October, 2012, 06:16:35 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 06 October, 2012, 06:10:58 pm
Playing with my microphone again :)


Lovely  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 October, 2012, 06:19:12 pm
Mrs. Wow says "Not bad for a Yorkshire lad, that!"  ;)

I say "Well done!"

Who were the instrumentalists?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 October, 2012, 06:29:04 pm
Onna train, being glad that my spectacular prat fall appears to have resulted in plenty of mud, including left shoulder, arm and specifically elbow, but only mild discomfort and definitely no broken bone. Oh, and an incredibly muddy backside and quite a lot of laughter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 06 October, 2012, 06:31:40 pm
Waiting for the disassembled parts of my rear brake to cool so I can put it back together. Drying it out in the oven is handy  :thumbsup:

Hoping that will cure the lack of opening after closing as if it's the cable I'm a bit stuck as I haven't a spare.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 06 October, 2012, 06:47:43 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 06 October, 2012, 06:10:58 pm
Playing with my microphone again :)
This is the result: -
Does that translate to Angel bread?  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 October, 2012, 06:49:27 pm
Trolling CMD's twitter account. Josie Long told me to do it so it's all right.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 06 October, 2012, 06:56:06 pm
Quote from: delthebike on 06 October, 2012, 06:47:43 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 06 October, 2012, 06:10:58 pm
Playing with my microphone again :)
This is the result: -
Does that translate to Angel bread?  ???

Pretty much. It's usually translated as 'The angelic bread'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panis_Angelicus
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 October, 2012, 07:30:37 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 06 October, 2012, 06:29:04 pm
Onna train, being glad that my spectacular prat fall appears to have resulted in plenty of mud, including left shoulder, arm and specifically elbow, but only mild discomfort and definitely no broken bone. Oh, and an incredibly muddy backside and quite a lot of laughter.

Sure that you aren't bleeding profusely from somewhere and haven't noticed on account of all the mud?

Not that I'd ever do such a thing, you understand...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 October, 2012, 07:42:59 pm
No blood, much mud.  I had a mildly terrifying minute while I sat there thinking "shit, that was my left arm..." and waiting to see how much it hurt.  Then realised it was sore, but not _that_ sore.  And then realised how spectacularly muddy bits of me, especially my arse, were.  Then we all got the giggles so badly I'm astonished we didn't all end up on our arses in the mud!  I think there will be bruises.  And that, for the first time in aaaaaaages, tonight will be a co-codomol night!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 October, 2012, 08:20:08 pm
Star gazing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 October, 2012, 08:50:10 pm
Gosh!  A shooting star. :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 October, 2012, 08:54:59 pm
Ouch, Crinkly!

We're about to go mountain biking in Forest Park (http://www.forestparkconservancy.org/forest-park/).  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 October, 2012, 08:57:03 pm
Don't do what the bears do!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 October, 2012, 09:00:10 pm
I very frequently do what the bears do!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 October, 2012, 09:02:14 pm
But only at 9.30?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Fohat on 06 October, 2012, 09:08:36 pm
bidding on a shimano crankset on ebay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Fohat on 06 October, 2012, 09:16:54 pm
I won. Hurrah. £26 posted can't be bad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 07 October, 2012, 02:09:26 pm
Using X-country's Free WiFi on board train 221123 (so it says on the welcome page).  In soft class.  Noise-cancelling headphones with some nice tunes playing gently.
Just chillin'.
And using NationalRail's live departure boards to predict that I can make a nominal negative-time connection at That York.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 October, 2012, 02:16:20 pm
Wave as you pass?

And when are you guys coming out to play oop north again?  Been too long!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 07 October, 2012, 02:29:41 pm
Change of plan thanks to those live departure boards.  Now all I have to do at York is to wave, not change train!
(Now using East Coast's free WiFi.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 07 October, 2012, 02:35:40 pm
Making passport photos.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 October, 2012, 03:20:24 pm
Cleaning all the mud and crap off the 1x1 after today's little bridleway excursion.
Once I've done that, I'll look at cleaning all the mud and crap off me.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 07 October, 2012, 05:21:44 pm
Watching a couple of juv. greenfinches feeding on my window ledge. They must have been a very late brood because they look really young compared to the others.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 07 October, 2012, 05:40:33 pm
Just off for a poo, since you ask.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 08 October, 2012, 11:16:32 am
Eating the second half of my breakfast grapefruit!

Brain fog meant that I ate the first half and completely and utterly forgot about the second half!   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 October, 2012, 11:20:09 am
Explaining to a slave trader why I hate Java so much ... it's his own fault for asking in the first place  :demon:

To quote Vic Reeves: "You wouldn't let it lie!"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 08 October, 2012, 11:20:40 am
Trying to find a way to get on with work and avoid Terry Pratchett's latest (now half read) that does not involve this forum. Failing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 October, 2012, 11:29:37 am
Quote from: Ham on 08 October, 2012, 11:20:40 am
Trying to find a way to get on with work and avoid Terry Pratchett's latest (now half read) that does not involve this forum. Failing.
Are you referring to 'Dodger'?
If so, is it any good? Dunno whether it's me, but PTerry has been on a major roll since the announcement of the embuggerance.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 08 October, 2012, 11:39:56 am
Yes I am and yes it is, based closer to fact than many, developing some more rounded characters that TP often does. (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/06/quite-likely-the-worst-job-ever/ is an interesting background read)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 October, 2012, 11:44:11 am
Quote from: Ham on 08 October, 2012, 11:39:56 am
Yes I am and yes it is, based closer to fact than many, developing some more rounded characters that TP often does. (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/06/quite-likely-the-worst-job-ever/ is an interesting background read)
I feel a lunchtime trip to WH Smith coming on, in that case ... :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 08 October, 2012, 12:34:27 pm
Waiting for city shity link to turn up
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 October, 2012, 01:35:40 pm
Missing the anti biggot demo in Brum due to currently doing a bit of train spotting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 08 October, 2012, 06:52:43 pm
Listing my (dead) car on ebay.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 08 October, 2012, 06:59:25 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 08 October, 2012, 06:52:43 pm
Listing my (dead) car on ebay.
Which I obviously seriously undervalued as I now have 8 messages offering me cash right now. Ooops.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 08 October, 2012, 07:04:13 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 08 October, 2012, 06:59:25 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 08 October, 2012, 06:52:43 pm
Listing my (dead) car on ebay.
Which I obviously seriously undervalued as I now have 8 messages offering me cash right now. Ooops.
Now it's getting silly. How can it possibly be worth that, in 10 minutes?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 October, 2012, 08:49:24 pm
Listening to some very loud snoring coming from the next room....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 08 October, 2012, 09:20:19 pm
Sppokily, I am listening to Miss Z the younger's snores coming through the ceiling.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrkwr on 08 October, 2012, 09:51:00 pm
Drinking Bengal Lancer in the Cambridge Arms

No snoring here
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 October, 2012, 09:52:46 pm
The snoring was feline in origin by the way, not avian.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 08 October, 2012, 10:28:38 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 08 October, 2012, 07:04:13 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 08 October, 2012, 06:59:25 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 08 October, 2012, 06:52:43 pm
Listing my (dead) car on ebay.
Which I obviously seriously undervalued as I now have 8 messages offering me cash right now. Ooops.
Now it's getting silly. How can it possibly be worth that, in 10 minutes?

Caveat vendor, there are some seriously sharp practices abound in the motor world, and through that into eBay. The most common trick wuld be a trade dealer calls up and promises you £full-price or £full*110%. When they turn up, they say, sorry now I can see it it is only worth £full*50% and hope that the power of brandishing cash works its wonders. That's the most honest of the ploys, there are others. If you can, and you are receiving suspect purchasing calls, don't meet them at your home, either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 October, 2012, 08:30:34 am
+1 to wot Ham says.

I am currently downloading V4L drivers for my Philips DVB card, as the current ones (bundled with the kernel) are causing bad signal drop out.  I have checked the cabling and aerial, all good so must be the kernel module.

I see pain in my future.... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 October, 2012, 08:36:37 am
Lying in my lovely bed drinking lovely coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 October, 2012, 09:18:11 am
Trying to regain some feeling in my feet
40 minute ride + $BLOODY_COLD air temperature + 12-15mph of windchill = frozen little piggies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 October, 2012, 09:37:38 am
Praying to the train gods, hoping for decent toilets.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 09 October, 2012, 07:15:38 pm
Thinking about going for a run.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 October, 2012, 07:55:51 pm
Getting the singlespeed ready for tomorrow and emailing the LBS to ask them to order me a new cassette joint for Genesis the Orange.

Much as I'd love to ride in on Pugsley, I suspect I might succumb to the temptation of riding over wandering students rather than around them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 October, 2012, 08:17:00 pm
Digesting meat.

That's it.  That was my dinner.  A fee-yooogue sirloin.  Nothing else, just the steak. Very rare. [1]
Oh, and a bottle of not-at-all-bad-for-the-price Romanian Merlot.

[1] "Knock its horns off, wipe its arse and drag it through a warm kitchen.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 09 October, 2012, 10:31:16 pm
I did much the same yesterday, Basil  :)

I do get on well with high protein meals...that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Cut its horns off, wipe its arse and show it a very hot pan so the outside is nicely seared and the inside is blue for me please ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 09 October, 2012, 10:51:42 pm
MrsC has difficulty in persuading French restaurants that she really does mean that rare, despite being English!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 October, 2012, 12:28:54 am
We have just moved the piano three rooms away. It was Very Hard Work but it's worth it. I didn't realise how damp the wall was behind the piano, and now it's not against an outside wall so that will be a great improvement. It also means I can play it without disturbing Dez. I think Bechstein model IVs weigh about 400lb.

My wrist hurts now.

I have just played a couple of Beethoven sonatas. They are just wonderful. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 October, 2012, 08:20:35 am
Quote from: SteveC on 09 October, 2012, 10:51:42 pm
MrsC has difficulty in persuading French restaurants that she really does mean that rare, despite being English!

I have a problem getting ENGLISH restaurants to accept I want it that rare.

To me it should be "give it half an hour and a good vet and it'll be back on it's feet"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 10 October, 2012, 10:39:04 am
The only place in London where I've managed to get a steak as blue as I actually enjoy it was Gaucho.  It was delicious and I could quite happily have moved in...

Not a place I can afford to go to regularly though... ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 10 October, 2012, 09:01:54 pm
After having the raging lurgy for 10 days or so I am now recovered and making the most of my new gym membership. I am trying all the different kinds of classes to see which are best. In terms of the best (most knackering) workout spinning followed by spin & abs takes top prize. Today I had an hour with a personal trainer and then a pilates class this evening. The personal trainer certainly gave me a good workout although he was puzzled at my stamina for cardio stuff ( I told him I did a bit of cycling although not very fast  ;) ) and how fast I was on the rowing machine  ;D

Pilates was exercise without breaking a sweat. I am not sure how much it has done for me, although I may discover this when I try and sit up in bed in the morning. There are several kinds of classes I have not yet tried, although my Polar watch is telling me I have overtrained in Zone 3 this week and should definitely not do any more high intensity training for 3 days. So I will go out on the bike tomorrow and not wear the polar watch  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 10 October, 2012, 10:27:59 pm
I'm un-earthing my full winter kit for a ride in to work tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 11 October, 2012, 03:07:35 am
I am having fun with a neat bit of Java script that is allowing me to hack the play and skip count of tracks in my iTunes  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 October, 2012, 10:39:45 pm
Dripping, yawning, and listening to LOUD Macy Gray on the 22.30 TPE homeward bound. Good pubbe runne that, if ever so slightly damp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 11 October, 2012, 10:55:18 pm
Studying the Pomodoro technique, for experimentation tomorrow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 October, 2012, 11:06:29 pm
Pandering to my inner 14 year old and watching videos about angsty vampires with questionable taste in women.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 11 October, 2012, 11:36:41 pm
Listening to very, very drunk people on the train. Quite funny, seems to be boiling down to drunk pompous ARSE vs. drunk lush 30 yrs his senior. My money was on her, but he just proposed which makes it more interesting...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 11 October, 2012, 11:50:45 pm
Trying to decide whether to go out with the CTC in the morning. I haven't seen them all in ages and they are top chaps.  But on the other hand maybe I should be a good wifey and tidy the house and make something yummy for Crusty's tea. Hmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 October, 2012, 07:53:12 am
LG - go for a ride and then, invigorated by so doing, just do one room and cook something nommy.  SMART targets :)

I am mostly drinking coffee and trying to summon gumption.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 October, 2012, 09:21:29 am
Wishing I was dead/still in bed/some combination of the two.

Today has 'one of those days' writ large all over it, even if it is a Friday.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 12 October, 2012, 09:59:26 am
Removing wallpaper :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 12 October, 2012, 11:05:23 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 October, 2012, 07:53:12 am
LG - go for a ride and then, invigorated by so doing, just do one room and cook something nommy.  SMART targets :)

I am mostly drinking coffee and trying to summon gumption.

You're such a grown-up  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 12 October, 2012, 12:29:33 pm
Quote from: Ham on 08 October, 2012, 11:20:40 am
Trying to find a way to get on with work and avoid Terry Pratchett's latest (now half read) that does not involve this forum. Failing.

It's like Deja Vu all over again, Amazon have plopped A Blink of the Screen through my door. All those Josh Kidby illustrations. 2 TP in one year....mmmm

NO! LEAVE IT CLOSED! STEP AWAAAAAY FROM THE BOOK!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 October, 2012, 12:43:07 pm
I'm alone in the office so there will be no Jeremy Vine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 12 October, 2012, 12:48:05 pm

Trailing back and forth to the loo. Wincing. Shivering. That kind of thing.

Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 12 October, 2012, 01:25:43 pm
Packing the car for a camping weekend.  Latest in the year I've ever been under canvas! 

We're going to be at this (http://www3.hants.gov.uk/basing-house/bh-eventsdetail.htm?id=167998).
I'll be cooking for most of the time.  Do come and say hello!

S
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 12 October, 2012, 01:29:51 pm
Does this mean that tomorrow you will be lugging a cannon to the top of the church tower?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 12 October, 2012, 01:31:40 pm
Cor that looks like brilliant fun! :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 October, 2012, 01:46:52 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 12 October, 2012, 12:48:05 pm

Trailing back and forth to the loo. Wincing. Shivering. That kind of thing.

Sigh.

GWSby five o'clock :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 12 October, 2012, 02:38:27 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 12 October, 2012, 12:48:05 pm

Trailing back and forth to the loo. Wincing. Shivering. That kind of thing.

Sigh.
Oh poor you GWS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 12 October, 2012, 03:19:01 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 12 October, 2012, 02:38:27 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 12 October, 2012, 12:48:05 pm

Trailing back and forth to the loo. Wincing. Shivering. That kind of thing.

Sigh.
Oh poor you GWS

Thank you  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 October, 2012, 03:22:54 pm
GWS LG  :-*

I am attempting to come down from a somewhat stressful 'morning' at work.

S'the weekend.  Woo hoo.  Or something.... #needstheduvetnow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 12 October, 2012, 04:04:32 pm
Trying to wake up...

Due to lack of spoons, I had to have an afternoon nap, and now I feel as though I've been hit with a small shovel.  All I want to do is curl back up and go back to dreamland...I am in fact more tired than I was when I laid down for said nap!   ::-)

Early night again tonight!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 October, 2012, 09:55:36 pm
Playing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Echoes on YouTube way too loud for the neighbours at this time of night.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 October, 2012, 11:02:04 pm
Laughing at this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19921055
Especially the turning all the lights off to locate the sound part ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 12 October, 2012, 11:31:09 pm
Drinking wine after collecting the Bloke from the airport.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 13 October, 2012, 09:37:37 am
Waiting for the last riders at the 230km checkpoint, the last one on the Audax Gatton Gambol 300. Exchanging waves with the local constabulary as they pass on their 30 minute circuit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 October, 2012, 10:44:24 am
Aching a bit, then aching some more, then just for a change, aching again.

Really, I should know better, but couldn't resist getting to the front last night and jumping around like an idiot.

Terrorvision have a lot to answer for, and Leeds Cockpit needs a better air circulation system (there was literally condensation dripping off the ceiling last night!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 October, 2012, 03:02:42 pm
Marvelling at the huge amount of inkjet ink still in the CISS system I've fitted my HP Photosmart premium last year!   :thumbsup:

Cheap printer consumables ftw
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 October, 2012, 03:17:50 pm
Handing over my work to some other poor sod to deal with....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 16 October, 2012, 07:04:46 pm
I'm feeling surprisingly chirpy having had very little sleep for 2 days because of working night shifts, then coming home this morning and hitting the gym, taking the dogs out with the bike and then fettling the garden. It is very much easier to stay awake until bedtime to try and reset my body clock if I keep active and busy. If I can last out until 11pm before I pass out then  can enjoy some daylight for the next 3 days before I have to do it all again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 16 October, 2012, 07:31:19 pm
Listening to maudlin music while Crusty watches football. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 16 October, 2012, 08:05:23 pm
What football? All I can see is a referee throwing a ball at puddles :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 16 October, 2012, 08:08:29 pm
I wouldn't know.  It's just me, Bob and Blind Willie McTell in here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 16 October, 2012, 08:17:11 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 12 October, 2012, 01:25:43 pm
Packing the car for a camping weekend.  Latest in the year I've ever been under canvas! 

We're going to be at this (http://www3.hants.gov.uk/basing-house/bh-eventsdetail.htm?id=167998).
I'll be cooking for most of the time.  Do come and say hello!

S
It was fun!  But we didn't lug any cannons up any towers (but I may suggest that to our conductor of artillery).
It was also cold overnight. Frost on the tent may be very pretty but...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 October, 2012, 08:41:49 pm
Relaxing (well, making an attempt to) with some Handel on the stereo and a glass of Connemara in my hand.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 October, 2012, 09:15:34 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 12 October, 2012, 11:02:04 pm
Laughing at this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19921055
Especially the turning all the lights off to locate the sound part ;D

Ah! Harwich for the continent, Frinton for the incontinent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 17 October, 2012, 06:15:13 pm
Drinking another cappuccino in Uzhhorod, Ukraine waiting for the pax.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 October, 2012, 06:54:09 pm
Digesting my dinner, wishing my legs would stop aching (shut up, legs!) and slowly coming to the realisation that I'm going to have to go and do some shopping later on  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 17 October, 2012, 07:06:48 pm
Dressed for cycling, with bike tyres pumped up, batteries charged, lights on bike, etc., listening to the torrential downpour outside & thinking that this cycling lark is overrated.

[edit]
Mrs B just came in from her (cut short) run, dripping, & saying that it's like running in a shower. She says the road conditions are awful. Thunder & lightning, too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 October, 2012, 07:37:57 pm
Just finished compiling an email to my LBS asking them to price me up a 17.5" Genesis Fortitude 29er with sundry additional mods (ie. a decent saddle, for a kickoff)

I haven't actually sent the email off ...

... yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 October, 2012, 08:24:26 pm
Running a bath after a hard day "studying" at college.

By "studying" I mean having a braw day exploring Glen Clova, Glen Doll and Corrie Fee looking at visitor motivation and distribution.

Corrie Fee is certainly an amazing sight to behold!   :o

And we saw some golden eagles, a white tailed sea eagle, and some ravens.

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 17 October, 2012, 08:51:43 pm
Upon my return from IKEA, flat pack chest of draws and shelving unit erection is underway.

I love flatpacks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 17 October, 2012, 09:29:25 pm
Marking undergrad practical writeups. Oh the joy...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 October, 2012, 10:09:15 pm
Quote from: reddo on 17 October, 2012, 06:15:13 pm
Drinking another cappuccino in Uzhhorod, Ukraine waiting for the pax.  :)

Nice city, from what I can remember (been 20 years).  Enjoy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 18 October, 2012, 09:15:47 am
Unfortunately, we didn't stay. Had to go to Kiev.
However, from what we saw it was nice and the people were great.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 October, 2012, 09:43:16 am
Considering if I *need* a Salsa Warbird.

Currently against it are these things:
No mudguard/rack mounts
Only takes 38s
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 October, 2012, 10:08:00 am
Quote from: tiermat on 18 October, 2012, 09:43:16 am
Considering if I *need* a Salsa Warbird.
I've been considering the same, but the orange version (of course) - decided that I'd much rather have a Fargo instead (Ti for preference, but I'd quite happily settle for the regular version, even if it isn't orange)

Quote
Currently against it are these things:
No mudguard/rack mounts
Only takes 38s
Well it is a full-on, race-ready 'cross bike ...

I'm currently pricing up Genesis 29ers and resprays for the 1x1
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 October, 2012, 10:35:45 am
Buying a new frame  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 18 October, 2012, 11:09:14 am
Quote from: tiermat on 18 October, 2012, 09:43:16 am
Considering if I *need* a Salsa Warbird.

Currently against it are these things:
No mudguard/rack mounts
Only takes 38s

hmm

Quote
Intentional tube shaping results in improved power transfer, steering control, and rider comfort.

Unintentional tube shaping normally results in abraded epidermis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 October, 2012, 03:16:46 pm
Being tired and emotional.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 18 October, 2012, 03:38:19 pm
Cooking sausage rolls
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 October, 2012, 07:28:51 am
Summoning gumption to get ready and ride to work.  It's about 7 miles, and the traffic isn't kind on the narrow lanes so it is to one's advantage to be confident t take primary and able to put the power down (FSVO that, anyway) in places.

My leg is currently slightly sore, just sitting down at the PC.

This could be interesting!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 October, 2012, 01:55:27 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 19 October, 2012, 07:28:51 am
Summoning gumption to get ready and ride to work.  It's about 7 miles, and the traffic isn't kind on the narrow lanes so it is to one's advantage to be confident t take primary and able to put the power down (FSVO that, anyway) in places.

My leg is currently slightly sore, just sitting down at the PC.

This could be interesting!

I have a commute like that - or at least, two miles or so of it are like that. It happens on a Monday.

This term, so far on all but one of the Mondays the weather has been so crap that I got the car out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 October, 2012, 01:59:03 pm
Smelling of cat diarrhoea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 October, 2012, 02:06:56 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 19 October, 2012, 01:59:03 pm
Smelling of cat diarrhoea.

Do you get that at Boots? Is it in the men's toiletries section?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 19 October, 2012, 02:12:14 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 19 October, 2012, 02:06:56 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 19 October, 2012, 01:59:03 pm
Smelling of cat diarrhoea.

Do you get that at Boots? Is it in the men's toiletries section?
It'll never catch on ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 October, 2012, 05:56:18 pm
Who thought musk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk) would catch on?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 October, 2012, 11:09:44 am
Resting with a cup of tea, having just made pecan pie and a quiche case.
Also, grumbling about no-show tradesmen and listening to a screaming cat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 October, 2012, 11:38:30 am
I am knackered. Got in from a second loooong night shift. Even a triple shot of coffee hasn't livened me up. I've gone to the lengths of putting the bedding in the washing machine to prevent me giving in to the temptation of going to bed. I've got too much housework I need to do today and am working again tomorrow night, sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 October, 2012, 02:54:05 pm
Missing my train.
Bugger.
 
Best have a second pint and a pudding, I guess.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 October, 2012, 03:33:21 pm
Just remember to pay for your 1st class upgrade on the next train at the first opportunity ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 October, 2012, 03:52:41 pm
:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 23 October, 2012, 11:55:03 am
Wondering if my parcel will arrive between 12:15 and 13:15, as advised in the interlink express email....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 23 October, 2012, 06:52:17 pm
Using my non-3G iPad using my Samsung phone for wi-fi. It was a piece of cake to set that up too, which surprised me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 October, 2012, 08:17:29 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 23 October, 2012, 11:55:03 am
Wondering if my parcel will arrive between 12:15 and 13:15, as advised in the interlink express email....

What are you?  New?
 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 October, 2012, 08:38:42 pm
Cursing the fact that the owner of my LBS has just emailed me to let me know that he has a nice, green B17 Standard in stock which, he assures me, will look absolutely splendid on my new Genesis frame.

Bastard! He's right and he knows it ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 October, 2012, 11:44:19 am
Lying in bed drinking coffee and not feeling sleep deprived. It's bloody lovely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 October, 2012, 11:54:39 am
Having my lunch, drinking coffee and not feeling like I want to go on an office-wide rampage wielding a blunt instrument.

I can only attribute this elevated mood to the fact that I rode in this morning ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 October, 2012, 05:26:11 pm
Mostly having the start of a migraine...

Warm bath in darkened bathroom beckons......   :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 October, 2012, 05:32:39 pm
Quote from: Basil on 23 October, 2012, 08:17:29 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 23 October, 2012, 11:55:03 am
Wondering if my parcel will arrive between 12:15 and 13:15, as advised in the interlink express email....

What are you?  New?
 ;)

Much to my suprise, it did arrive promptly at 12:35! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 October, 2012, 06:07:23 pm
Musical bikes with the Genesisisissisises.

I need to prepare the orange Genesis for work tomorrow 'cos I'll need to use panniers, meaning that I also need to put the yellow Genesis away. However, just to make life interesting I plan to do some work on the green Genesis tonight meaning I've got to get the frame out of its box and manoeuvre it around the other Genesisisisses and the Surlys.

I really wish I'd bought a house with a sodding garage ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 October, 2012, 06:44:33 pm
I just removed almost a kilo (yes, I weighed the bucket of water before and after) of Tunnel Ride mud from my bike   :o

Most of this consisted of an extra set of mudguards, moulded out of mud, inside the usual mudguards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 25 October, 2012, 12:39:37 am
Plotting a Garmin route into Bristol for a BTOTC ride tomorrow. Yippee, I can get out on the bike again  :thumbsup:
(I hope my legs don't punish me for spinning class and pilates tonight.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 October, 2012, 12:56:22 am
I'm about to take the dog for his evening emptying.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 25 October, 2012, 06:34:55 am
Wearing my 35 year old birthday suit...  It's getting a little ragged round the edges now though.....   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 25 October, 2012, 10:34:07 am
Cleaning up after a front brake fettle - no more squeakiness, yay!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 25 October, 2012, 10:55:32 am
Feeling a bit of a berk right now as I cried in the vets! Yes, a 20 stone “hard as nails" (…yeah right) bloke crying over a cat! Oh, and it was good news of sorts!

Perkins, one of our kittens (okay 2 years old but still our baby) as Feline Leukaemia which is causing him some problems with his lymph glands and digestive system. He has been down recently so the vet wanted to see him. The bad news, his illness is getting worse as we knew it would, but she wants to see him again in three to four months time.  That’s good news as I was expecting him to leave us before then, so for some reason, I cried.

Think I will sack a few people this afternoon. That will cheer me up!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 25 October, 2012, 07:40:06 pm
Contemplating on my having to get up at starling fart o'clock tomorrow morning.  Field trip to Mar Lodge Estate, leaving college *sharp* at 7am!   :o
Should be a grand day out, even with the early start...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 25 October, 2012, 11:13:04 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 25 October, 2012, 07:40:06 pm
Contemplating on my having to get up at starling fart o'clock tomorrow morning.  Field trip to Mar Lodge Estate, leaving college *sharp* at 7am!   :o
Should be a grand day out, even with the early start...

Have a great day Brian  :)  The course is still going well then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 25 October, 2012, 11:54:33 pm
I'm repeatedly rewinding the same track, just because of one chord change that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: why1040 on 26 October, 2012, 07:22:29 am
Wondering wtf I woke up at 4 and haven't been able to go back to sleep!

I'm ridiculously tired, but just can't sleep!   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 October, 2012, 09:02:32 am
Sitting in Schipol waiting for a train to Brussels and planning what chocolates I'm going to buy in the Galler shop.

Also, thinking that 1 cup of tea since 4am is not sufficient...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 October, 2012, 09:44:35 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 26 October, 2012, 09:02:32 am
Sitting in Schipol waiting for a train to Brussels and planning what chocolates I'm going to buy in the Galler shop.

Also, thinking that 1 cup of tea since 4am is not sufficient...

Have you tried Pierre Marcolini (http://www.marcolini.be/)?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 October, 2012, 10:09:55 am
I'm so grateful that my job doesn't entail all that airport stuff. 

I'm importing my friend's exhaustive collection of James CDs onto my computer.  I've had them since August so it's about time.

I keep finding stuff that other people have lent me today.  I need to start giving it back!

Coffee filter thingies, CDs, books, arm warmers, more books, that tenner ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 26 October, 2012, 11:40:59 am
Sitting watching the snow flurries and contemplating a move into a warmer room.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 October, 2012, 11:43:42 am
Having my lunch (blood sugar tanked, hence early eats)

There are only 8 of us in today, so it's quite a convivial atmosphere hereabouts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 26 October, 2012, 11:49:39 am
Contemplating going out in the garden to sort out the mess left by last nights storm. The parasol and cast iron base are half way across the lawn, there is a wooden garden table in the pond, and my dog-proof electric fence around the pond has been knocked asunder by the debris. I knew I should have put the garden furniture away in the shed last week  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 26 October, 2012, 06:03:55 pm
It's been a day of fettling and swearing at things.
So having a relaxing glass of vino.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 26 October, 2012, 10:43:29 pm
signing off for a week in the Dordogne... bye all

I hope there is no Internet in the gite......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 27 October, 2012, 11:36:51 am
At work waiting for the go-ahead to shut down our electrical installation for biennial maintenance. It's a lovely day here in London and I would much rather be doing something different!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 October, 2012, 05:00:15 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/logs.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 27 October, 2012, 05:01:50 pm
I suppose you've got to do something to relieve the tension of the last 90 minutes.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 October, 2012, 05:08:52 pm
Indeed!!!

If you were listening to it, there's a storm up here ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 October, 2012, 05:12:50 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 27 October, 2012, 05:00:15 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/logs.jpg)

I see you're hoping for only a two week winter, then.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 27 October, 2012, 05:18:15 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 27 October, 2012, 05:08:52 pm
Indeed!!!

If you were listening to it, there's a storm up here ;)

Aye, I was multi-tasking. 1 window for teh radio, another for forums and the like and the big telly for flicking between live footy/live rugby/Gillette Soccer Saturday.

Just an ordinary afternoon really. Except there were a few more plod in town than usual. Oh, and Gordon is selling his shop. Nothing to do with the economic climate of course, his customers have gone because of abuse. Apparently.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 October, 2012, 05:28:19 pm
Interesting. Nothing to do with selling cheese either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 27 October, 2012, 05:33:29 pm
No. As you could have guessed, he's put a notice up in his window explaining it all.  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 October, 2012, 06:23:35 pm
Waiting for the feeling in my toes to return.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 October, 2012, 06:43:40 pm
Regretting having chicken and mixed bean vindaloo for lunch  :-\
This evening's turbo training session had a bit more 'turbo' than usual  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 October, 2012, 12:06:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 26 October, 2012, 09:44:35 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 26 October, 2012, 09:02:32 am
Sitting in Schipol waiting for a train to Brussels and planning what chocolates I'm going to buy in the Galler shop.

Also, thinking that 1 cup of tea since 4am is not sufficient...

Have you tried Pierre Marcolini (http://www.marcolini.be/)?

I had one of their fancy cakes last time we were here,  I thought it was a wee bit poncy though.

And it was pleasure, not business LG (if only I could get some business trips to Brussels I'd be quite happy)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 28 October, 2012, 04:50:23 pm
Delayed at york station. In bound trains caught behind a breakdown. 16:57 now expected 17:20. Could be worse the 15:29 expected 16:49!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 28 October, 2012, 05:37:56 pm
Now on route south, delayed enough to be annoying but not enough to go in search of the fabled Crinkly Den of Fine Cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 28 October, 2012, 05:47:34 pm
Another bloody tech aircraft...
Well - only the anti ice system. Rather important this time of year.  :facepalm:
Maybe I should put that in the "what have you broken today?" thread....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 October, 2012, 06:03:36 pm
Quote from: matthew on 28 October, 2012, 04:50:23 pm
Delayed at york station. In bound trains caught behind a breakdown. 16:57 now expected 17:20. Could be worse the 15:29 expected 16:49!
Thought it seemed a bit quiet earlier on, even for a Sunday1

1 - my house backs onto to ECML, sort of, so I tend to notice the absence of trains now rather than their presence.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 October, 2012, 06:42:12 pm
Resting, after many Belgian beers in Brussels :P
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 October, 2012, 02:48:21 am
Lying in my tent at Bryce Canyon watching the pasta cook and wondering about another beer.

Another beautiful days riding :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 October, 2012, 06:02:09 am
Getting ready for going away on jollydays.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 October, 2012, 12:24:01 pm
Waiting for my inbox to reload itself (2 hrs and counting and it's still got another 6 months worth of mail to download) so I can restart the pooter and find out if that's fixed Word or not.
<twiddles thumbs>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 October, 2012, 01:01:43 pm
Having had only half a breakfast this morning (just the one shredded wheat) I am now frustratingly delayed in the quest for lunch: I had a dental appointment at 11.45 and, on the spur of the moment, my man decided to fill two teeth. I am therefore giving the fillings a couple of hours' hardening time prior to munching lunch.

The fillings are, of course, the left side: there are decided gaps amongst the molars on my right side.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 October, 2012, 01:04:50 pm
Rookie mistake that.  Always eat a full meal before going anywhere near a dentist.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 October, 2012, 01:08:44 pm
Quote from: Kim on 30 October, 2012, 01:04:50 pm
Rookie mistake that.  Always eat a full meal before going anywhere near a dentist.
I always try to get the first appointment of the day when I go to the dentist - that way not only have I had my breakfast, but in the intervening couple of hours prior to lunch the fillings have time to settle. The other essential pre-dentist snack is 1200mg of ibuprofen1 - by the time you're out of the chair its just starting to kick in, hence little or no post-operative pain once the lidocaine wears off.

The biggest problem for me isn't eating, but drinking - after a trip to the dentists I'm usually gagging for a coffee  :-\

1 - your dosage will vary. I'm a big lad ... I took amitryptyline prior to having my root canal done. Hilarity ensued as I dozed off in the chair with the dentist giving it six-nowt with the BFO drill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 October, 2012, 01:15:43 pm
Ah, I'd always go for late afternoon.  So that should they end up giving me 3x the usual dose of anaesthetic (to no obvious effect), I can go straight to bed to sleep it off for the next 24 hours.   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 October, 2012, 01:16:29 pm
I'm well-'ard and didn't have any anaesthetic for my fillings. Besides, I have put on an awful lot of weight recently, hence the half-breakfast. There will also be a half-lunch and a half-dinner. The later I leave them, the better, up to a point, of course.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 30 October, 2012, 01:41:38 pm
Filling out a visa form so I can go into Sudan
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 October, 2012, 01:56:10 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 30 October, 2012, 01:16:29 pm
I'm well-'ard and didn't have any anaesthetic for my fillings.
I tried that once.
It took about 10 seconds for me to discover that I wasn't as well 'ard as I thought I was  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 30 October, 2012, 02:11:01 pm
Sitting near the front of a Mordor to Nottingham train, listening to The Machine That Goes Ping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 October, 2012, 12:35:07 pm
Still waiting for all my emails to reload (ha, ha, ha) and wondering when 2nd tier IT support are going to contact me....i.e. how long are Word and Excel going to be knackered for.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 October, 2012, 12:36:41 pm
Waiting for the oven cleaner to do its job.  Which it won't, because it never works and I'll need a Brillo pad  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 31 October, 2012, 12:37:59 pm
Printing out my routesheet for the upper Thames audax on Saturday  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 October, 2012, 02:11:09 pm
Sitting in Xray outpt waiting room, waiting for radiologist to stick a gert needle in me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 October, 2012, 02:31:48 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 31 October, 2012, 12:36:41 pm
Waiting for the oven cleaner to do its job.  Which it won't, because it never works and I'll need a Brillo pad  :(

I found that degreaser (proper industrial solventy kind, not the stuff that smells of lemons) is surprisingly effective at cleaning cookers.  If you can stand the fumes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 31 October, 2012, 02:44:41 pm
Quote from: Kim on 31 October, 2012, 02:31:48 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 31 October, 2012, 12:36:41 pm
Waiting for the oven cleaner to do its job.  Which it won't, because it never works and I'll need a Brillo pad  :(

I found that degreaser (proper industrial solventy kind, not the stuff that smells of lemons) is surprisingly effective at cleaning cookers.  If you can stand the fumes.

High concentration NaOH solution is pretty good as well, though not exactly 'safe' for the cleaner if you're not careful.

I wonder if a steam cleaner would do any good?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 October, 2012, 02:49:09 pm
NaOH is what makes Mr Muscle work, isn't it?

Hydrolysis certainly beats detergent on oven grime.  Though I eschew it except when deposits are at stake, as the slightest whiff sets my asthma off in a serious way.

My preferred method is to clean the hob little and often with boring detergent and elbow grease, and ignore the oven entirely.  Has worked well enough so far.
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Post by: mcshroom on 31 October, 2012, 02:56:35 pm
It is, although my previous uses of it have been using AnalaR grade lab reagent. Outside of Mr Muscle concoctions and chemicals 'liberated' from water laboratories, you can buy caustic drain unblockers which are usually NaOH crystals quite cheaply (£2.50 for 500g at boots).

Again it has only ever been deployed for end of tenancy inspections. Otherwise I just wipe the cooker out with kitchen roll to take the worst off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 31 October, 2012, 03:01:29 pm
Eating a second lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 October, 2012, 05:20:38 pm
Quote from: Kim on 31 October, 2012, 02:49:09 pm

My preferred method is to clean the hob little and often with boring detergent and elbow grease, and ignore the oven entirely.  Has worked well enough so far.

My method exactly.
Except that the first bit would read "little and not very often".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 October, 2012, 05:35:10 pm
Cleaning the oven is for lusers. Lining it with Lakeland oven liner sheets and washing them now and again is a much more sensible plan.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 31 October, 2012, 05:43:34 pm
Drying off after a wet day up the Pentland Hills on a college trip.

Edit. Now running a hot bath so I can get hot n wet!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 October, 2012, 05:46:00 pm
Sitting in the back of the house with all lights in the front turned off.
Not answering the door bell.

/grumpy old git.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 October, 2012, 05:46:42 pm
Going to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 31 October, 2012, 05:49:34 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 October, 2012, 05:35:10 pm
Cleaning the oven is for lusers. Lining it with Lakeland oven liner sheets and washing them now and again is a much more sensible plan.

I had this same cunning plan, the only thing is I would need to clean the oven floor to fit the liner in the first place, which I haven't yet managed to motivate myself to do. My last oven got as bit skanky but I avoided ever cleaning it by it breaking down and replacing it with a new clean one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 31 October, 2012, 05:57:14 pm
Quote from: Basil on 31 October, 2012, 05:46:00 pm
Sitting in the back of the house with all lights in the front turned off.
Not answering the door bell.

/grumpy old git.

Me too!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 October, 2012, 06:15:01 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 31 October, 2012, 05:57:14 pm
Quote from: Basil on 31 October, 2012, 05:46:00 pm
Sitting in the back of the house with all lights in the front turned off.
Not answering the door bell.

/grumpy old git.

Me too!

I wouldn't mind if it was just small children and their hovering, concerned parent.  But 9 times out of 10 it is a gang of hulking great yoofs who grunt "Trick or Treat, Mate?".
I then get my front windows egged if I don't feel like giving them that £lots.
 >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 31 October, 2012, 06:43:14 pm
Defending my house against marauding hordes of zombies, witches, warlocks and kittens ???

We don't have a doorbell but wiring the knocker to a live circuit seems to be helping :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 October, 2012, 07:09:06 pm
Quote from: Basil on 31 October, 2012, 05:46:00 pm
Sitting in the back of the house with all lights in the front turned off.
Not answering the door bell.

/grumpy old git.

Shouldn't you be holed up in the Country Girl?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 October, 2012, 07:12:30 pm
Quote from: Kim on 31 October, 2012, 07:09:06 pm
Quote from: Basil on 31 October, 2012, 05:46:00 pm
Sitting in the back of the house with all lights in the front turned off.
Not answering the door bell.

/grumpy old git.


Shouldn't you be holed up in the Country Girl?

Actually, yes.  It's quiz night, but not until later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 31 October, 2012, 08:17:02 pm
Burning sheds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 October, 2012, 09:19:36 pm
In the words of Johnny Kidd, Achin' All Over. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 October, 2012, 10:15:52 pm
Recovering from 2 hours playing the piano.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 November, 2012, 01:46:35 pm
Looking at the Audax calendar...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 November, 2012, 03:50:10 pm
Preparing for tomorrow's workshop at $regulator (no, not Regulator).  Only slightly less painful than DIY dentistry.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 November, 2012, 05:49:25 pm
Waiting for bobb. He should be here in a minute.
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Post by: Ewan Houzami on 01 November, 2012, 05:53:06 pm
Still getting over Danny Baker's show being axed on BBC London. I'm furious and sad.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 November, 2012, 07:59:30 pm
Sitting, slightly muddily, on a northern bus train to Leeds, thinking hurrah for NSAIDs and looking forward to some rather fine bruises and, quite possibly scabs. I may have managed a real CrinklySpecial of a.prat fall on Armpied beach. But appear to have a full set of working elbows, knees, ankles etc. Thumb is a bit dodgy, but with 2 brufen and 2 paracetamol on board seems up to texting so I reckon it's just soft tissue...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 November, 2012, 08:18:05 pm
Wondering where the hell all my zip-ties have got to.

Having sorted out the cabling for the brakes on the green Genesis, all that remains is to zip-tie the cable to the handy braze-ons which have been thoughtfully provided for cable-retention purposes. Or rather, I would if I could remember where the sodding zip-ties actually were.

I have a feeling that I've tidied them up into a place so safe that I've completely forgotten where it is.

Also, wishing that the new IT director of $VERY_LARGE_CUSTOMER would die in a fire - thanks to him, it's likely that spare time is going to be at a premium for the next 10-14 days due to our transatlantic counterparts making promises on our behalf without actually telling us first  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 November, 2012, 08:40:24 am
Hoping that the dentists, when I phone them at 9 am, will have an emergency slot for me. I'm certain I broke an already dodgy molar yesterday and I'm sure it needs to come out. I've been living on Ibuprofen and I hate taking pain killers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: urban_biker on 02 November, 2012, 08:48:07 am
Quote from: Feline on 31 October, 2012, 05:49:34 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 October, 2012, 05:35:10 pm
Cleaning the oven is for lusers. Lining it with Lakeland oven liner sheets and washing them now and again is a much more sensible plan.

I had this same cunning plan, the only thing is I would need to clean the oven floor to fit the liner in the first place, which I haven't yet managed to motivate myself to do. My last oven got as bit skanky but I avoided ever cleaning it by it breaking down and replacing it with a new clean one.

And I thought it was just me.  I always take these "self-cleaning" ovens at their word. Unfortunately they only self-clean certain parts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 November, 2012, 08:49:29 am
OvenU.

They are the answer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 November, 2012, 09:11:38 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 02 November, 2012, 08:40:24 am
Hoping that the dentists, when I phone them at 9 am, will have an emergency slot for me. I'm certain I broke an already dodgy molar yesterday and I'm sure it needs to come out. I've been living on Ibuprofen and I hate taking pain killers.

9.55 appointment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 November, 2012, 09:53:32 am
Waiting for the rain to stop so I can take the protection off and do some preparing before I administer a good filling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 03 November, 2012, 04:00:58 pm
Quote from: interzen on 01 November, 2012, 08:18:05 pm
Wondering where the hell all my zip-ties have got to. ...

I dunno, but I thought we were getting a  bit low at work, so I bought a thousand the other day (four different sizes and five different colours!)


I've just been playing with my new Teensy 3s.  It took a while, because Teensy Loader wouldn't "see" the Teensy, but eventually I worked out that the Beta version of Teensyduino has a built in version of Teensy Loader which it invokes automagically when you upload a sketch.  Having the older (incompatible) version of Teensy Loader running, meant it didn't load up it's Teensy Loader, because it thought it was already up.  Cured by killing Teensy Loader, and just let Teensyduino do its thing automagically.

Then a minor bit of head scratching before I worked out that they've also moved the LED onto Pin 13 (instead of Pin 11 on the Teensy 2, and Pin 6 on the Teensy 2+).  I'm not even going to look at touching any of the other hardware pins! (yet)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 November, 2012, 06:57:49 pm
I'm about to go out for a free firework display as I notch up a few miles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 November, 2012, 07:27:32 pm
Trying, and failing to figure out a way of reconfiguring my kitchen so I can have chest level ovens without losing worktop space.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 November, 2012, 07:56:39 pm
Kicking Crusty's ass on the Wii.

Ho yuss   :smug:

I am a champion golfer I am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 November, 2012, 08:03:30 pm
Cleaning up after a fettling session and quick rip round the block on the newly-built Genesis singlespeed.

Then, once I've had something to eat, I intend to go and do some grocery shopping - most folks are either parked in front of the TV or in the pub, so the shopping experience becomes rather more bearable as a result :)
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Post by: mr magnolia on 03 November, 2012, 08:13:24 pm
Getting all the scores wrong on strictly. And waiting for Merlin to start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 November, 2012, 11:48:02 pm
Suffering after inflicting a total ambition:ability mismatch on myself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 November, 2012, 06:14:41 pm
Wondering for the 2nd night where on earth I left my winter boots in the spring.
Looking in dark corners with a head torch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 November, 2012, 06:19:07 pm
Wishing this lurgy would work out which organs to infect and get on with it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 05 November, 2012, 06:27:17 pm
I've just had a chat with my daughter about how we can save electricity and gas. She had no concept of the difference between me leaving a light with a low energy bulb in it on when we are all out, and leaving the kitchen and utility room lights on all night (8x50w halogens!). I have LED replacement bulbs on order to massively reduce that now. She seemed very unimpressed that I am planning on turning the TV off at the switch in future.

I am considering shutting the main pond filter pump down over the winter months when I don't feed the Koi, and always shutting down the PC when going to bed unless it's doing some stupid download or upgrade.

I have just switched my electricity and gas provider to get a 2 year fixed tariff. I worked out in the past 12 months I have spent £1800 on combined fuel. That is more than I am prepared to spend this coming year especially since there are now only 2 of us living here most of the time.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrkwr on 05 November, 2012, 11:01:29 pm
Finishing up a pint of Bengal Lancer before getting chucked out of Cambridge Arms
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrkwr on 05 November, 2012, 11:02:15 pm
And wondering whether I can face more Mahler 5 rehearsals ...
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Post by: BrianI on 06 November, 2012, 01:23:41 pm
Writing an exceptionally dry homework essay on the "Support Mechanisms for Biodiversity Conservation in the UK"
So dry it is, I can't even add pretty pictures to liven it up..... 1/4 of the way through the assignment, and ~1200 words!   :o
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Post by: mr magnolia on 06 November, 2012, 11:45:00 pm
Removing sweary words from a variety of client-directed emails what I will send soon in advance of tomorrows bust ups...
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Post by: mr magnolia on 07 November, 2012, 01:47:23 am
Now I'm swearing at the Altura 'feature' that let's you change your bike briefcase thing from a rack with a dimension of x to one with a dimension of y tube diameters.
I need to use the other bike due to borked back wheel, but I don't like the need to lose fingers, blood and patience in doing a simple thing like changing the little grey clamp bits on the briefcase. Almost ranting now.
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Post by: PaulF on 07 November, 2012, 03:25:28 am
Not sleeping :(
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Post by: madcow on 07 November, 2012, 08:10:56 am
Sitting in a very pleasant Italian deli /cafe eating bacon sandwich with great coffee. Probably hasn't changed since my Dad was in London in the late 60's. Just been quoted £19.50 for Light breakfast in the Russell hotel next door. F knows what the full English option costs. I know where I shall have breakfast tomorrow.
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Post by: mr magnolia on 07 November, 2012, 06:14:49 pm
Sitting on a train from Falkirk to embra, feeling tired.
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Post by: Butterfly on 07 November, 2012, 07:47:52 pm
Sitting on a train feeling glad that I'm not peddling the tandem into a headwind  :smug:
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Post by: Kim on 07 November, 2012, 07:52:58 pm
Coughing, mostly.
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Post by: L CC on 07 November, 2012, 08:16:50 pm
Suffering.
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Post by: Kim on 07 November, 2012, 08:17:50 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 07 November, 2012, 08:16:50 pm
Suffering.

With or without points?
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Post by: L CC on 07 November, 2012, 08:36:41 pm
Without. With pints (of cranberry juice and sodium citrate).
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Post by: Feline on 07 November, 2012, 08:39:06 pm
I am on a train heading North. Survived but didn't really see Mordor central, and will be in Leeds in an hour or so. I have to say I find train travel pretty stressful (because of all the people, I'm an anti-social gig dontyaknow). The nice chilled half a bottle of wine I decided to bring with me is making it an altogether more pleasant experience though!

I have a nice Travelodge room and a 2 day conference in Harrogate to look forward to. I would much rather be going there to ride an Audax thobut!
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Post by: Kim on 07 November, 2012, 08:39:31 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 07 November, 2012, 08:36:41 pm
Without. With pints (of cranberry juice and sodium citrate).

Ah, sympathy.  I had some of that last week, but it's now turned into a chest infection.  A marginal improvement.
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Post by: Feline on 07 November, 2012, 08:41:56 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 November, 2012, 08:39:31 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 07 November, 2012, 08:36:41 pm
Without. With pints (of cranberry juice and sodium citrate).

Ah, sympathy.  I had some of that last week, but it's now turned into a chest infection.  A marginal improvement.

+1
I lost the fight with mine and am taking dog antibiotics currently.
You have my sympathies!
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 November, 2012, 08:43:51 pm
 :o

I've heard of people taking horse tranquillisers, but dog antibiotics?
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Post by: Kim on 07 November, 2012, 08:45:04 pm
They keep much longer than normal antibiotics.  No bugger will take them.
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Post by: Feline on 07 November, 2012, 08:48:36 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 07 November, 2012, 08:43:51 pm
:o

I've heard of people taking horse tranquillisers, but dog antibiotics?

It's clavulanic acid potentiated amoxycillin, I could go get the same on the NHS or just pay for my own and save teh NHS the cost and trouble. The brand I have is apparently palatable for dogs but I find it tbh a bit yeasty/marmitesque, but if you'd ever had this condition you would understand why that is the lesser of 2 evils  ;D
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 November, 2012, 09:20:51 pm
I have just unblocked the gully outside the kitchen.  By far the simplest way is by hand.  It is best to do this in the dark.  Then wash your hand 5 times and finish with anti bacterial gel.
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Post by: Adrian on 07 November, 2012, 09:35:33 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 November, 2012, 08:45:04 pm
They keep much longer than normal antibiotics.  No bugger will take them.
Very good
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 November, 2012, 09:48:13 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 07 November, 2012, 09:35:33 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 November, 2012, 08:45:04 pm
They keep much longer than normal antibiotics.  No bugger will take them.
Very good
Isn't that the Red Dwarf joke about dog milk?
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Post by: Kim on 07 November, 2012, 11:01:06 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 07 November, 2012, 09:48:13 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 07 November, 2012, 09:35:33 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 November, 2012, 08:45:04 pm
They keep much longer than normal antibiotics.  No bugger will take them.
Very good
Isn't that the Red Dwarf joke about dog milk?

It is indeed.  I had just watched the latest episode of the same.  It was crap.
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Post by: madcow on 08 November, 2012, 09:08:06 am
Waiting @ Kings X for platform announcement. First time in new extension , absolutely amazing , ten times better than old concourse . Not sorry to see the old frontage being taken down, even if it has been ever present for as long as I can remember.
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Post by: tiermat on 08 November, 2012, 06:28:56 pm
Killing zombies whilst waiting for a train. If you have an iphone or an android phone, get Dead Trigger.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 November, 2012, 06:37:12 pm
Wishing I was off to the pub :(

Have a pint for me, T?
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Post by: LindaG on 08 November, 2012, 07:00:58 pm
wishing Crinkles was comingto the pub.
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Post by: Bledlow on 08 November, 2012, 07:06:29 pm
Sewing buttons back on.
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Post by: Kim on 08 November, 2012, 07:08:28 pm
IRTA "sewing buttocks back on"
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Post by: Basil on 08 November, 2012, 08:12:54 pm
Sitting on the last bus out of Carmarthen, waiting for it to actually go.
Come on mate.  Let's go.  I'm hungry.
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Post by: jogler on 08 November, 2012, 08:16:35 pm
In 1976 I installed the air conditioning serving the computer room in Camarthen County Hall in Camarthen:unsuprisingly.
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Post by: Feanor on 08 November, 2012, 08:21:37 pm
I'm 'mission control', directing Mrs. F back home from Embra via twisty country roads over the phone.

The A90 main road to Aberdeen is blocked in both directions by some serious muppetry at Stonehaven.
She's been stuck for 3 hours now.

I've directed her onto back-roads I normally cycle on, but which look too improbably small for a rat-run.
I've taken her to places called Tewel, and onto the Auchenblae road, and then via Swanley to the Slug road and hence home.
I like the sound of those names!
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Post by: billplumtree on 08 November, 2012, 08:21:52 pm
Quote from: jogler on 08 November, 2012, 08:16:35 pm
In 1976 I installed the air conditioning serving the computer room in Camarthen County Hall in Camarthen:unsuprisingly.

Oh, I dunno.  It's news to me  ;D
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Post by: BrianI on 09 November, 2012, 06:43:09 am
Surprisingly looking forward to today's college field trip to Longannet power station!   ;D
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 09 November, 2012, 07:18:57 am
Sitting, waiting for the kitchen fitters to arrive so they can prolong my torture for another day.

Just having a coffee before I have no electricity and water for god knows how many hours. I've currently got no central heating, cooker, fridge, washing machine, sink, floor, radiators, light fitting, sockets!  The list is endless and the arseholes think its funny that it won't be done this week and the house is full of plaster!
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Post by: tiermat on 09 November, 2012, 11:04:52 am
Emailing friends from the last contract, finding out that they are not replacing me this quarter, which is interesting....

Also getting on a writing documentation that is sadly lacking for this project.  Simple things like how to build stuff and how it all hangs together, the stuff you would normally want...
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Post by: Bledlow on 09 November, 2012, 11:29:58 am
Quote from: madcow on 07 November, 2012, 08:10:56 am
Sitting in a very pleasant Italian deli /cafe eating bacon sandwich with great coffee. Probably hasn't changed since my Dad was in London in the late 60's. Just been quoted £19.50 for Light breakfast in the Russell hotel next door. F knows what the full English option costs. I know where I shall have breakfast tomorrow.
Reminds me of when Mrs B & I stayed in the Langham Hotel a few years ago, when one of my step-cousins held his wedding reception there. We woke next morning, looked at the breakfast menu & prices, said 'bugger that' & went outside. Down a back street behind the hotel was an Italian cafe with what looked like original 1960s decor (re-fashionable without expenditure!  :thumbsup: ) serving excellent & reasonably priced breakfasts, both Italian & English. Busy, & a lot of the customers were obviously regulars.
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Post by: Basil on 09 November, 2012, 11:48:36 am
Sitting in the cafe in Llandysul.  I was rather late setting off on my Friday breakfast ride.  I only just got here before it fills up with lunchtimers.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 November, 2012, 12:40:49 pm
Reading the complete Thursday Night threads, both of them, and realising just what wonderful friends I have.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 November, 2012, 12:41:18 pm
I was supposed to be having a nice back massage at 12:30. But I only just remembered that now :(
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Post by: Ewan Houzami on 10 November, 2012, 01:02:25 am
Watching Florence and the Machine on BBC red button. Shooting at the Rivoli Ballroom - about 500yds from my gaff! Now I know what all the OB and satellite trucks were doing parked up outside.
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Post by: Valiant on 10 November, 2012, 07:59:11 am
engineering the sound system  for A:M Ultra at Fire
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 November, 2012, 11:07:30 am
Drinking tea procrastinating about buying an iPad.
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Post by: BrianI on 10 November, 2012, 11:40:31 am
Having a coffee after completing week 4 run two of the NHS Couch to 5K program.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Basil on 10 November, 2012, 01:13:54 pm
Wincing at what has happened to my cards after a trip to Carmarthen with Mrs. B
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Post by: Jurek on 11 November, 2012, 09:31:15 am
Trying to decide where to ride and which bike to take.
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Post by: PaulF on 11 November, 2012, 09:33:51 am
Quote from: Jurek on 11 November, 2012, 09:31:15 am
Trying to decide where to ride and which bike to take.

Me too!
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Post by: interzen on 11 November, 2012, 10:46:55 am
I, on the other hand, am not ... I think I pulled a calf muscle during an impromptu dismount on yesterday's ride so I think I'm going to take it easy (or easier) today.

Besides which, I've still got to clean large chunks of North Yorkshire bridleway off the bike  :-\
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 November, 2012, 12:34:33 pm
Waiting for my hair to dry off a bit so that I can venture outside and beat my commuter gears into submission for the second time this week.
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Post by: reddo on 11 November, 2012, 04:05:26 pm
Right now? Enjoying a glass of Banrock Station Sparkling rose. I've cleaned the bike from yesterday's ride at Rutland and other chores.  ;D
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Post by: tiermat on 11 November, 2012, 04:26:29 pm
Waiting for a kid's birthday party to finish so I can be chauffeur again...

There is a lovely bottle of Rioja in the kitchen, with my name on it, and I can't touch it yet :(
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Post by: reddo on 11 November, 2012, 04:31:48 pm
Aww Tiermat, I'll have another glass of rose bubbles for you.  :thumbsup:
Here to help.  O:-)
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Post by: tiermat on 11 November, 2012, 04:32:43 pm
Quote from: reddo on 11 November, 2012, 04:31:48 pm
Aww Tiermat, I'll have another glass of rose bubbles for you.  :thumbsup:
Here to help.  O:-)

Thanks, but you are not :)
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Post by: Ewan Houzami on 12 November, 2012, 11:45:12 am
Dremelling out the rust from the holes in the cast iron caps on my gas hob to improve flow.

Living. The. Dream. Oh yes.
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Post by: mike on 12 November, 2012, 05:18:44 pm
sitting in my undercrackers in a hotel room in frankfurt, trying to cool down a bit after a long day in an overheated conference hall. Got about 30 minutes then i'm back into a suit & 'on parade' for dinner with clients.

Deep joy.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 12 November, 2012, 05:37:52 pm
Quote from: mike on 12 November, 2012, 05:18:44 pm
sitting in my undercrackers in a hotel room in frankfurt

A truly haunting vision!
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Post by: mcshroom on 12 November, 2012, 06:53:35 pm
Gluing my Ixon back together after an unplanned light-surface interaction on the commute home today.
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Post by: Basil on 12 November, 2012, 07:50:52 pm
Not watching a DVD that Mrs. B is watching about lifting slings and techniques.  ???
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Post by: Andrij on 12 November, 2012, 07:52:39 pm
Seeing a light at the end of a tunnel.
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Post by: Basil on 12 November, 2012, 09:10:10 pm
Hmm.  We've moved on DVD wise.
Mrs. B is going out soon to see some teenage werewolf film with the work peeps.  She was told she should watch the earlier films in order to "get it".  (Twilight something or other?)
Personally, I think I enjoyed the Manual Handling thing from earlier this evening more.  :hand:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 November, 2012, 09:14:16 pm
Basil, put the teaspoon down, you may find yourself wanting to scoop out your eyeballs....
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Post by: Red on 12 November, 2012, 09:20:27 pm
Trust me, no amount of watching any of the earlier Twilight films will help any of the later films make sense. There is no 'getting it', beyond the horrifying realisation that you've just wasted several hours of your life that you're never going to get back.
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Post by: Basil on 12 November, 2012, 09:26:31 pm
Thanks Mrs. P, but I've got it covered.  Sitting right down the other end of the living room, browsing YACF, headphones on for Youtube prog rock.

Akcherly, Mrs. B. doesn't particularly want to go next week  It just that she doesn't want to look like a grumpy git at work.
Me, I don't have that problem.  Everyone at my workplace knows I'm a grumpy git.  :smug:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 November, 2012, 09:36:38 pm
Listening to Mrs. Wow's half of a telephone conversation with her sister. It sounds as though someone's died.

Edit: I think I've worked it out now. Not family, but someone who was a close family friend years ago. No immediate northward trek required.
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Post by: Andrij on 12 November, 2012, 09:57:50 pm
Eating nutella straight out of the jar.  It's been one of those days...
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Post by: Tim Hall on 12 November, 2012, 10:07:33 pm
Watching Hill Street Blues on 4od.
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Post by: Kim on 12 November, 2012, 10:32:43 pm
Coughing and wishing it was bedtime.
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Post by: BrianI on 13 November, 2012, 01:18:13 pm
aqdsm,ireingf thje colzsynhew4ses olf mm,hy nmwew m on tyanwe we4xtyreem e m,iot5t5sa!  qwarem, bnuitr nmoltr trop ngfol9od fdopre rtiy6u0pinfg.

Which translates to "admiring the cozyness of my new Montane  Extreme Mitts!  Cosy, but not too good for typing in."   ;D

I have a few epic field trips coming up at college next term, including a day up the Cairngorm plateau in February!  So a good excuse to buy new goodies!
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Post by: Butterfly on 13 November, 2012, 01:25:19 pm
Ooh, lovely :D. You college course sounds brilliant :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 13 November, 2012, 10:38:54 pm
Googling late Anglo Saxon history on Wikipedia to work out some family tree details for a novel I'm trying to write.  You have to check dates from primary sources and a few details here and there to be sure of accuracy (as different linked pages contradict each other as they cite different sources) but there's an awful lot of legwork done for you.

Edit:  The Wiki account of the Battle of Hastings is appalling however.
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Post by: Kim on 14 November, 2012, 11:49:06 am
Watching the binmen spill rubbish all over the road.
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Post by: Ewan Houzami on 14 November, 2012, 01:01:34 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 November, 2012, 09:57:50 pm
Eating nutella straight out of the jar.  It's been one of those days...

Here's something to cheer you up - Everyday is a day for eating Nutella straight out of the jar! </wonka>
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Post by: numbnuts on 14 November, 2012, 01:12:05 pm
Feeling that I have let myself down big time, I was going to do something and I chickened out at the last minute  :-[
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Post by: Andrij on 14 November, 2012, 01:14:10 pm
Quote from: Goldilocks on 14 November, 2012, 01:01:34 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 November, 2012, 09:57:50 pm
Eating nutella straight out of the jar.  It's been one of those days...

Here's something to cheer you up - Everyday is a day for eating Nutella straight out of the jar! </wonka>

I like the way you think.  :)  Sadly, if I follow that advice I'd have to give up eating all other foods or end up as wide as I am tall.
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Post by: Tewdric on 14 November, 2012, 01:16:09 pm
Sitting in the pub with a pint, having just ordered a fat boy's lunch, and having ridden 50km round MoNmouthsire this morning.  Free wifi too so have brought the iPad with me. The  Brommie is sitting folded up next to me.  Mrs Tewdric is at work and the boys are at nursery.  Things have been worse...
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Post by: RJ on 14 November, 2012, 02:22:05 pm
On the way to my train, taking advantage of $EvilCoffeShop$'s free wi-fi and trying to work out if their sound system's 80's hit is "Going Underground" (Jam), or "Happy Hour" (Housemartins)  :-\
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Post by: Chris S on 14 November, 2012, 06:48:47 pm
Worrying  :-\
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Post by: RJ on 14 November, 2012, 08:40:04 pm
It was a busy coffee shop and a shite sound system, but even so, yes - worrying  ;)
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Post by: Oaky on 16 November, 2012, 02:35:09 pm
Sipping Sauvignon Blanc in the BA lounge at Schiphol... much more civilised than my last Schiphol-related entry...

Quote from: Oaky on 09 March, 2012, 02:01:05 pm
Sitting in Murphy's "Irish" Bar in Schiphol airport.

ETA: one advantage of the BA lounge over the "Irish" bar is that I can get Guinness in here.  Another advantage is that I don't have to pay (directly).
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Post by: Basil on 16 November, 2012, 08:06:59 pm
Well, two minutes ago.  Standing in the pouring rain, trying to encourage a stupid mut to have a pee.  >:(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 November, 2012, 08:27:29 pm
Listening to Dez argue with Mrs. Wow. She has just bought a new computer (her old one wouldn't work after some changes to Flash, which meant that she could no longer watch ancient episodes of Morse and Bother Cadweil). It's a Mac Mini and it appears that it's now manufactured by BMW because it's bigger than her old Mac Mini. Mrs. Wow's desk is so completely concealed by wool that there's nowhere to fit the computer. Dez is impatient to get it set up ("It's teh roolz that new copumters have to be set up straight away") but Mrs. Wow is getting quite tetchy because it means that the Sherlock Holmes style filing system she employs is being disturbed.
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Post by: reddo on 16 November, 2012, 08:52:04 pm
Drinking a G&T  :thumbsup:
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Post by: TimO on 17 November, 2012, 09:35:40 am
About to investigate my front and back door locks, to see what size the Euro Profile cylinders are, so I can see about getting some snap proof ones.

It does slightly amuse me, that the lock makers came up with a naff design, presumably not thinking that burglars would actually use force on locks to break them.  Most inconsiderate.  This does give them another market though, selling exactly the same sort of lock to everyone a second time.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 17 November, 2012, 09:38:02 am
Awaiting the would-be baton bearers.
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Post by: Jurek on 17 November, 2012, 01:15:38 pm
Having cycled to the bank and the stupormarket this morning I am reflecting on how utterly wonderful a thing cycling is.

Extraordinary what six days off the bike can do for ones appreciation of bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 17 November, 2012, 02:03:19 pm
Awaiting the start of the AGM.
Danial has just had an apple which smells lovely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 November, 2012, 02:33:20 pm
Bugger me.  I'm out on my bike again! (Well, currently 'refreshing' myself outside a pub. :-) )
That's every day this week that I've been for a non-utility ride.  Most un-Basil like.  I should spend more time away from Brum.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 November, 2012, 03:29:01 pm
Having been to work, had a late lunch and then a couple of restorative swift halves, I can feel a little eyelid inspection coming on...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 17 November, 2012, 05:35:51 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 17 November, 2012, 01:15:38 pm
Having cycled to the bank and the stupormarket this morning I am reflecting on how utterly wonderful a thing cycling is.

Extraordinary what six days off the bike can do for ones appreciation of bike.

Not riding to the New! Shiny! job then?

Same boat here, thobut. I did a lot of driving this week and bugger all cycling. So this morning up out at early doors for some quality drizzly miles.

Now cogitating whether I should make a fish pie or some kind of green fishy curry for dinner.
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Post by: Jurek on 17 November, 2012, 05:55:15 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 17 November, 2012, 05:35:51 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 17 November, 2012, 01:15:38 pm
Having cycled to the bank and the stupormarket this morning I am reflecting on how utterly wonderful a thing cycling is.

Extraordinary what six days off the bike can do for ones appreciation of bike.

Not riding to the New! Shiny! job then?

Same boat here, thobut. I did a lot of driving this week and bugger all cycling. So this morning up out at early doors for some quality drizzly miles.

Now cogitating whether I should make a fish pie or some kind of green fishy curry for dinner.

I was going to give it a week before I start disturbing the workforce with Lycra™.
Which takes us to next Monday. I took the Monster Kryptonite in last Wednesday and left it there.
Unfortunately, on Monday my commute will be by train and plane.
Seems my services are required in Palma de Mallorca.
I'd rather be on the bike.
No, really. Honest.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 November, 2012, 06:46:28 pm
Jurek, you can cycle to my office on Monday, I'll take your flight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 18 November, 2012, 09:37:56 am
Quote from: Andrij on 17 November, 2012, 06:46:28 pm
Jurek, you can cycle to my office on Monday, I'll take your flight.

See, the helpfulness and generosity that is so typical of this forum. ;D


I need to set the washing machine going, to give me clean clothes for next week, and raid Sainsburys for more chemicals to wash those clothes, and clean toilets etc.  I seem to have got plenty of food, but a lot of the stuff which you would be ill advised to eat, is a bit on the low side.

After that I need to do some DIY.  Part of my hallway, and under the stairs is very dingy and difficult to see, so I've got some lights, and I'm going to run a fused spur off of a mains socket.  However, I'm worried that the timer I got for this, isn't going to work, because it only has a two wire connection, and possibly relies on a small leakage current through the lamps for power. If that's the case, the low energy bulbs I'm planning on using, may bugger up the operation.  I think I'll have to wire it up with some flex first, and demonstrate to myself that it'll work OK, before I start knocking holes in the wall!

... oh, and I need to finish treating the back gate, so it's slightly less likely to immediately rot away, or at least no more than it has already.  At some point I need to do some repairs to it (which may verge on rebuilding it from scratch!), but I think that's best left until the spring.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 November, 2012, 08:51:04 pm
Defrosting the freezer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 18 November, 2012, 09:55:33 pm
Watching Guy Martin.  By 'eck, chief.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 November, 2012, 10:10:10 pm
Watching The Killing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 19 November, 2012, 12:23:45 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 18 November, 2012, 08:51:04 pm
Defrosting the freezer.
Rock and Roll, baby
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 19 November, 2012, 02:45:52 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 19 November, 2012, 12:23:45 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 18 November, 2012, 08:51:04 pm
Defrosting the freezer.
Rock and Roll, baby

When I was packing up for the builders last weekend, and it occurred to me that I would need to do the same seeing as they would be unplugging it and moving it and it would melt all over the floor, there was MUCH wailing and gnashing of teeth.

It took an age. I promised myself I would do it more frequently in future. Which, of course, I won’t.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 November, 2012, 02:49:55 pm
In the projection room at the BFI
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 November, 2012, 02:55:24 pm
Booking Spanish hotel rooms, when I should really be working (but waiting for a process to finish so may as well use the time productively)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 November, 2012, 04:18:53 pm
Checking that the Country Girl still exists (well, I've been away for 12 days), checking that they still sell BEER

And, ooh look, they've got free wifi.  Hmm, this could get messy.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 November, 2012, 10:07:43 am
Procrastinating. I have to do the 360 Feedback  :sick: for the two weakest members of my (thankfully now ex) team.

I'm hoping if I wait long enough I'll find something nice to say.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 21 November, 2012, 07:31:03 pm
Lounging about in the Holiday Inn, where it is ten quid for wifi but there is a shit-hot 3g signal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 November, 2012, 08:06:37 pm
Huh?  Do hotels normally charge for wi fi?
That's a bit crap, isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 November, 2012, 08:31:03 pm
£10 is cheap! Sometimes I have to pay £15 (yes, I'm looking at you, Marriott)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 November, 2012, 08:49:41 pm
Waiting for Rufus....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 November, 2012, 10:21:47 am
Killing time before my trip to the optician.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 November, 2012, 10:22:52 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 November, 2012, 08:49:41 pm
Waiting for Rufus....

He never turns up!

Oh....

Hang on...

That's Godo, sorry, as you were :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 22 November, 2012, 10:55:10 am
Quote from: tiermat on 22 November, 2012, 10:22:52 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 November, 2012, 08:49:41 pm
Waiting for Rufus....

He never turns up!

Oh....

Hang on...

That's Godo, sorry, as you were :)

No need to wait

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm_cFzVAoo8

Shit, I think I was AT that gig, definitely saw them in 74 and Chaka Khan was wearing that outfit....

Turn that volume up!

edit: no, I wasn't there
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 November, 2012, 12:11:36 pm
Trying to make my body work, and get to Aston without the aid of a bicycle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 22 November, 2012, 12:58:50 pm
Looking for my glasses.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 22 November, 2012, 01:02:30 pm
are they on your head?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 22 November, 2012, 01:09:12 pm
Sadly no, that was the 19th place I looked!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 22 November, 2012, 01:10:52 pm
Underneath your book? 

In the bathroom? 

Where you took off/put on your jumper?

Down the back of the sofa? 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 November, 2012, 03:10:46 pm
Killing time at the hairyport
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 22 November, 2012, 04:03:17 pm
Downloading Mountain Lion--so if I disappear for some time, you will all know why

Edit:  it's now saying 6 hours to download, so I don't suppose I will be installing it tonight!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 23 November, 2012, 12:25:00 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 22 November, 2012, 01:10:52 pm
Underneath your book? 

In the bathroom? 

Where you took off/put on your jumper?

Down the back of the sofa?

Admiring the view! Specs found in lever arch file in the engineering office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 November, 2012, 12:49:50 pm
Looking at the weather forecast and thinking that tomorrow will be a very good day to make marmalade and play the piano.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 23 November, 2012, 12:50:10 pm
Hoping I'm not going to end up with the nickname "Brian Nae Squirrels"   :facepalm:
Helped college lecturer with a red squirrel survey. The transect route I walked is supposed to be red squirrel central.
Except I didn't see any at all!   :(

Although a student from previous year also ended up with "Nae Squirrels" nickname, and is now warden for a local nature reserve......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 November, 2012, 02:15:25 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 23 November, 2012, 12:50:10 pm
Hoping I'm not going to end up with the nickname "Brian Nae Squirrels"   :facepalm:
Helped college lecturer with a red squirrel survey. The transect route I walked is supposed to be red squirrel central.
Well there's your problem right there - Sod's Law in action.
If its any consolation, I've suffered something broadly similar - there was an article in the local paper, complete with photos, stating that several hundred waxwings had descended on York; have I actually seen one? Not bloody likely - plenty of evidence of their passage (ie. rowan trees which formerly had loads of berries on them but are now stripped bare) but no actual birds.

Quote
Although a student from previous year also ended up with "Nae Squirrels" nickname, and is now warden for a local nature reserve......
I'd call that a good sign ;)
It's also the first place I'd go looking for red squirrels - maybe he abducted them all in order to avenge the people who called him "Nae Squirrels" :)

Friday's here ... can you tell?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 November, 2012, 02:27:43 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 23 November, 2012, 12:50:10 pm
Hoping I'm not going to end up with the nickname "Brian Nae Squirrels"   :facepalm:
Helped college lecturer with a red squirrel survey. The transect route I walked is supposed to be red squirrel central.
Except I didn't see any at all!   :(

Although a student from previous year also ended up with "Nae Squirrels" nickname, and is now warden for a local nature reserve......

Where are you? Get yourself some nuts :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 23 November, 2012, 09:03:32 pm
Quote from: Juan Martín on 23 November, 2012, 12:25:00 pm
Admiring the view! Specs found in lever arch file in the engineering office.

You didn't see any squirrels in there, did you?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 23 November, 2012, 09:09:24 pm
I am currently pissing off my children. As I've had years of practise I'm now getting pretty darn good at it.
Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 November, 2012, 09:14:00 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 23 November, 2012, 12:50:10 pm
Hoping I'm not going to end up with the nickname "Brian Nae Squirrels"   :facepalm:
Helped college lecturer with a red squirrel survey. The transect route I walked is supposed to be red squirrel central.
Except I didn't see any at all!   :(

Although a student from previous year also ended up with "Nae Squirrels" nickname, and is now warden for a local nature reserve......

No.  Not Red Sqiggle Central at all.  They knew there were no sqiggles there.  Just like last year.  They were testing how honest you were.
You did well.

HaHa! *points*
Brian no sqiggles

 :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 23 November, 2012, 09:38:15 pm
Right now? I'm looking for red squirrels. Did I come to the wrong place?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2012, 06:25:42 am
Hey Torlsanda, Tiernat - look, a squirrel!

I am currently drinking coffee, faffing on the internet and wondering what I've forgotten to pack for a quick overnight to That LonDon, prior to setting off walking to the station and the joys of the Megabus.

Have mollusc and bank card.  Anything missing but crucial can be sorted between those two, I think.  I hear they have shops and everything down there!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 November, 2012, 09:58:20 am
Taking tea in bed with Mojo while waiting to see if the frost is going to disappear. Stroking hot kitteh belleh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 24 November, 2012, 11:27:33 am
Watching my son''s first ski lesson
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2012, 02:56:05 pm
Woodwork.  I hate woodwork.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 November, 2012, 03:07:08 pm
Running a temperature,coughing & sneezing.
This is not an attempt to solicit sympathy.It is clear evidence that bloke's can & do multi-task
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 24 November, 2012, 03:48:42 pm
Facing up to the grim reality that tomorrow I'll be buying another weekly travelcard as the sprained wrist  sustained on this ride (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=65112.msg1351288#msg1351288) has conspired successfully to keep me off the bike.

Going out on the fixer this morning wasn't the smartest of moves.

Meh!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 November, 2012, 04:37:36 pm
Feeling somewhat tired  and feeble after a days hedge laying.
Note to self, need to work on bill hook action...

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8057/8213451805_246580cffe_z.jpg)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 24 November, 2012, 05:03:27 pm
Im am sorting out the bath combined filler / overflow / waste pop-upper which has obviously leaking for years, as the ceiling below it just bulged downward and started dripping.

On account of it being a filler and the overflow and the popper-upper, it's quite a complicated item, with lots of functions that need to be kept seperate.   Which they were not.   Water from the filler was passing into the overflow, and the overflow is not sealed properly against the outside of the bath, on account of a seal being missing.
 
The incompetent monkeys who installed it have assembled it all wrong; it clearly has no hope of sealing the way they did it.   Furthermore, their cack-handedness had rolled an important o-ring out of it's seat, and buggered to o-ring too.   Just as well they'e not building rockets.

Needless to say, access is damn near impossible and I'm nae a happy monkey.
Am hoping to avoid lifting the bath out of it's enclosure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2012, 06:05:27 pm
Disk diagnostics.

I'm really living the dream today.  Just need a blocked drain for the full set.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 24 November, 2012, 06:28:06 pm
Drinking tea, watching Big Bang Theory and having my feet warmed by the kitteh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2012, 06:54:04 pm
Just discovered I missed a local cycling event because Facebook.   >:(

I suppose that's almost as bad as drains.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 November, 2012, 08:06:26 pm
Quote from: Kim on 24 November, 2012, 06:54:04 pm
Just discovered I missed a local cycling event because Facebook.   >:(

I suppose that's almost as bad as drains.

What?  What? What?
What did we miss?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2012, 08:10:25 pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/473925852627593/

That's last month's, as linked from birminghamcyclist.  This month's is a login page, as linked from nowhere.  I was assuming it would be tomorrow, and planned to use it as an excuse to drag barakta out for the first time since September.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 November, 2012, 08:21:02 pm
As a non Face-ache type, can I ask you to give me a shout next time?  Might not be around, but if I am, it would be nice to see the two of you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2012, 08:48:21 pm
I'm also a non face-ache type.  That's the problem.  But will do if I find out about another one.  May recruit barakta (who is).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 24 November, 2012, 08:58:31 pm
Drinking crap coffee on the train back to Swinedun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 25 November, 2012, 01:44:50 pm
I should first say

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxYYPziLdR4

Squirrel!

... and then I'm going to pop into B&Q in search of some suitable fixings to go into a hollow wooden ceiling (without having to dismantle said ceiling), so I can fix some lights to it, finishing off something I started last weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 25 November, 2012, 02:26:35 pm
The film from yesterday is just in the fixer.  Then I'll see if I've got anything.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 November, 2012, 06:11:03 pm
Waiting for a train in a rainy Dorking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 25 November, 2012, 06:27:48 pm
Reading the minute book of the Conservators of the Ashdown Forest (1923-1931). There goes n hours of my life. Fascinating stuff. No, really.

I heart the interwebs.

Edit:

See, you get to read this sort of thing:

Quote
The Ranger reported that he had found on the Forest in a shack with the clothes of Weller, the homeless and half
witted vagabond who frequents the Forest, a loaded gun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 25 November, 2012, 06:36:29 pm
Waiting for the piece of pork which is in the oven to cook.  I've taken it out once, started to carve it, then decided that it wasn't ready.  Sigh.

it's still not ready...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 November, 2012, 07:12:39 pm
Watching people who really ought to know better discover that - shockingly - there are geeky women on the internet.

I mean, seriously, where else did they expect them to be?   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 25 November, 2012, 07:27:17 pm
feeling thoroughly hedge layed out, after a weekends hedge laying, on a 2 day  hedge laying course.
Hawthorn splinters!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wendy on 25 November, 2012, 07:33:56 pm
Quote from: Kim on 25 November, 2012, 07:12:39 pm
Watching people who really ought to know better discover that - shockingly - there are geeky women on the internet.

I mean, seriously, where else did they expect them to be?   :facepalm:

I put my lollerskates on and went round the room!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 25 November, 2012, 07:50:55 pm
Drinking bubbles after a fun little ride.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 25 November, 2012, 08:49:42 pm
Quote from: reddo on 25 November, 2012, 07:50:55 pm
Drinking bubbles after a fun little ride.  :thumbsup:
Me too. Although mine are in lemonade so probably nicer :D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 25 November, 2012, 09:09:07 pm
Just finishing my notes in respect of a business rates tribunal for a client in the morning.   Should be interesting though I don't think that he stands a chance, and I've told him so.   I'm simply doing his bidding though I'll give it my best of course.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 November, 2012, 10:27:45 pm
Waiting for about 100 of Butterfly's photos to upload to t'web.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 November, 2012, 10:41:22 pm
Working :(

Damned databases are so slow at importing, what should have taken a few hours over the weekend has turned into an all nighter :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 November, 2012, 11:01:10 pm
Drinking gin, watching the Mighty Boosh and thinking this will seem like a good idea in the morning....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 November, 2012, 12:01:49 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 November, 2012, 03:07:08 pm
Running a temperature,coughing & sneezing.
This is not an attempt to solicit sympathy.It is clear evidence that bloke's can & do multi-task

I'm still multi tasking to the extent that I'm taking an enforced day off work.I can't remember when I last did this:it is some years.At least seven by my reckoning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 November, 2012, 12:59:58 pm
Watching Family Guy episodes and waiting for a database to sort itself out...

Oh and being freezing cold
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 November, 2012, 01:03:57 pm
Trying to get warm in bed. Having passed out on the sofa after work this morning and woken up feeling like cack with the shape of the TV remote pressed perfectly into my face. Hnph.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 November, 2012, 02:07:03 pm
Wardialling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 26 November, 2012, 06:42:43 pm
Being forced to drink soup after fainting at work!  I'm not sure why it is important that I have soup!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 26 November, 2012, 08:10:42 pm
Strewth. That's no good.  :o

Right now? Consuming bubbles. On hols :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 26 November, 2012, 08:15:52 pm
Getting every question wrong on University Challenge (I'm not usually this bad), and trying to work out why the York team have a large rubber duck on the table.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 26 November, 2012, 08:20:12 pm
Human league have just been a musical question on UC. I was very excited. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 26 November, 2012, 08:31:57 pm
Trying to decide whether to buy one Carradice bag, two Carradice bags or no Carradice bags. I keep changing my mind.  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 November, 2012, 08:50:02 pm
Buy all options.  That way you'll get it right.  :thumbsup:
Of course, that also means you'll have three bags.  Expensive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Carradice bag lady on 26 November, 2012, 08:56:34 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 26 November, 2012, 08:31:57 pm
Trying to decide whether to buy one Carradice bag, two Carradice bags or no Carradice bags. I keep changing my mind.  ???
Buy 2 of course
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 November, 2012, 08:59:27 pm
Buy two, and then buy none.  On average you'll have only bought one, which I'm sure anyone will agree is perfectly reasonable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 26 November, 2012, 10:16:29 pm
Well that's one bag bought anyway. I think it's a Barley but the listing doesn't actually say. Has a slight tear in one of the seams but it's only in the flap of the side pocket so will have a go repairing that.

I've just remembered there was another question I was going to ask the seller but have bought and paid for it now...bugger. Oh well, sure it'll be fine.

ETA What I meant to ask him was the inside a drawstring top or not, I think it might not be, so cue me worrying about things escaping. I guess I either get a thin bag to sit in the Barley or add a drawstring top myself.

How difficult is sewing cotton duck?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 27 November, 2012, 06:54:07 am
A Barley does have a drawstring closure

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 27 November, 2012, 08:32:24 am
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 26 November, 2012, 10:16:29 pm
Well that's one bag bought anyway. I think it's a Barley but the listing doesn't actually say. Has a slight tear in one of the seams but it's only in the flap of the side pocket so will have a go repairing that.

I've just remembered there was another question I was going to ask the seller but have bought and paid for it now...bugger. Oh well, sure it'll be fine.

ETA What I meant to ask him was the inside a drawstring top or not, I think it might not be, so cue me worrying about things escaping. I guess I either get a thin bag to sit in the Barley or add a drawstring top myself.

How difficult is sewing cotton duck?

Depends on how good the duck is at sewing! ;-)   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2012, 09:00:43 am
Pretending to be awake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 November, 2012, 09:03:45 am
Quote from: Kim on 27 November, 2012, 09:00:43 am
Pretending to be awake.

Me too, an essential when trying to (still) fix a database.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 27 November, 2012, 09:27:05 am
Just took (bmw) car to have new heated rear windscreen fitted. Flippin' expensive.  :jurek: That'll learn me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 27 November, 2012, 09:31:01 am
I'm actively participating in an Audax Australia national committee meeting conference call.  Multi-tasking FTW.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 November, 2012, 12:15:14 pm
Fine tuning the day2 route of our trip to Catalonia, as there are a couple of tunnels where bikes are not allowed, but luckily there is an alternative route, though longer, it is flat and runs next to the lake.  This classes as a win all round, I would say.

Must remember my insect repellent! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 27 November, 2012, 12:19:21 pm
The call has just finished. 3 hours!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 November, 2012, 09:51:22 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 26 November, 2012, 08:15:52 pm
Getting every question wrong on University Challenge (I'm not usually this bad), and trying to work out why the York team have a large rubber duck on the table.

I haven't seen UC lately, but the presence of the rubber duck I would have thought is obvious: it's transport home afterwards.

I am currently imbibing a bottle of Timothy Taylor Landlord as a well-deserved treat after having been one of the last shoppers to leave Waitrose this evening, and having delivered Phyllis's shopping to her prior to bringing ours home.

Must have an early night because I'm getting up at 6 a.m. in order to have methotrexate alendronic acid and breakfast prior to catching a train three trains to Ipswich, whence I will be cycling home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 28 November, 2012, 10:23:18 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 27 November, 2012, 12:15:14 pm
Fine tuning the day2 route of our trip to Catalonia, as there are a couple of tunnels where bikes are not allowed, but luckily there is an alternative route, though longer, it is flat and runs next to the lake.  This classes as a win all round, I would say.

Must remember my insect repellent! :)

Reading and smiling  ;D
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 November, 2012, 08:59:36 am
Having a cuppa around the corner from my office while I review my presentation for an interview at 9:30.  I *hate* interviews.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 November, 2012, 09:00:14 am
Quote from: Andrij on 29 November, 2012, 08:59:36 am
Having a cuppa around the corner from my office while I review my presentation for an interview at 9:30.  I *hate* interviews.

Good Luck!
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 November, 2012, 09:37:41 am
Waiting...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 November, 2012, 09:44:21 am
All the best of British, Andrij

I, on the other hand, am doing the same thing I have done everyday this week, i.e. trying (and failing so far) to fix this bloody database!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 November, 2012, 09:45:57 am
Hope it's going well, Andrij.

And, Tiermat, I hope it goes well this time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 November, 2012, 10:14:44 am
Me too, Clarion as my day of tomorrow depends on me fixing it today :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 November, 2012, 10:51:48 am
Did I mention I hate interviews?

Thanks for the messages.  The start was delayed because one of the panel had to handle some urgent press queries.  I know what my strong and weak  points were, just hope that I presented a better option than the person who's doing the job (as a stop-gap measure) at the moment.  Thankfully won't have to wait long - they plan to appoint before the end of the week, so this month's office drinks will be either celebration or drowning of sorrows.

Tiermat, good luck with the database.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 29 November, 2012, 11:09:09 am
Hope it works out, Andrij
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 November, 2012, 01:17:08 pm
Calming down, having just spotted $BigBoss in the corridor and told him in no uncertain terms what an incompetent bunch of nincompoops his team up North are.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 November, 2012, 01:23:39 pm
Posting this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 November, 2012, 02:05:07 pm
Data-wrangling
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Post by: Basil on 29 November, 2012, 02:54:47 pm
Shuting down my 'puter and
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 29 November, 2012, 04:47:58 pm
Onna conf call with the States, two similar groups. My slide deck? 4 slides. Theirs? sixty effing eight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 29 November, 2012, 08:36:26 pm
Trying to summon up the will to fire up Eclipse and do Androidy stuff after several weeks of long days doing *shudder* winformy stuff in *double shudder* vb.net rather than just mindlessly, "reading teh internets".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 November, 2012, 01:59:52 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 29 November, 2012, 08:59:36 am
Having a cuppa around the corner from my office while I review my presentation for an interview at 9:30.  I *hate* interviews.

Results are in:  :'(

Any further comment will most likely be continued in a different thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 November, 2012, 02:43:25 pm
Trying to persuade a colleage to nip over the road to Tesco and buy us a bottle of red wine to help us through the afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 November, 2012, 02:54:37 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 30 November, 2012, 01:59:52 pm

Results are in:  :'(

Any further comment will most likely be continued in a different thread.

So they're obviously idiots.  You wouldn't want to work with idiots, would you?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 November, 2012, 03:05:27 pm
One and only comment I'll make here.

I've been employed by the 'idiots' for the last five years and have no desire to leave.  I applied for a position within the company which would have resulted in changing sectors and moving up a level.  There are other plans afoot (under the same roof).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 30 November, 2012, 03:25:58 pm
Andrij  :( bummer.

What am I doing? Studying for my sim recurrent next week. 7 days... 6 days in the "lurching cave of terror"....  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 November, 2012, 06:01:50 pm
waiting for the moon to rise up (http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/w3r3wolv3s/Werewolf_by_Zikes.gif) and then go out with my telescope
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 30 November, 2012, 06:22:01 pm
Just signed the online petition regarding Leveson and written to my MP. He's a new Tory MP, so I don't expect him to stick his neck out, but worth a try anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 November, 2012, 07:15:37 pm
I'm in the man creche.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 December, 2012, 03:54:08 pm
Being in exile in bed because I'm not allowed to be in the room when Crusty's watching televised sport. I can't help it if I snort and giggle every time Lou Reed or Brian Jones get the ball. It's the tight leather trousers and shambling gait. Being thrown off my own sofa. It has come to this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 December, 2012, 05:01:54 pm
Preparing myself mentally for a trip to the dentist and stocking up on mouthwash, painkillers etc. - OK, so the appointment isn't until Thursday but at least it keeps me from noticing the current mouth-related discomfort1 which is driving me up the sodding wall.

I've also decided that the offending tooth is coming out - it'll be better in the long run even if I will have to fork out to have a bridge fitted once the extraction site has healed.

1 - fortunately, since the tooth has had RCT there's none of the usual Excruciating Dental PainTM but the attendant swelling is a bit uncomfortable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 01 December, 2012, 05:15:08 pm
Trying and failing to get on with my next OU assignment (due in Thursday). I didn't do that well on the last one which has disheartened me rather than spurring me on and I'm currently just plain stuck on a couple of the question.

Not helped by poorly written questions. How can I use my answer from part i when the question is only split into parts a & b? And no, it doesn't even mean part a (as the errata for the assignment claims) as there are no calculations in that section, I think part b was meant to be split into subsections i & ii but someone has lost the formatting. I'm paying a lot of money for this, I'd have hoped the proof reading was better.

Not helped by the feedback from the last assignment not entirely making sense, need to email my tutor about that to clarify.

And frustrated by one of the other tutors on the OU forums answering someone elses question with "well I'd mark it like this but check with your own tutor as they might do it differently" - surely they should all be marking to the same hymn sheet??

Botheration.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 December, 2012, 05:19:11 pm
Multitasking, me!

Creating DVDs for a workmate of Mrs T, copying a video to the Popcorn Hour for us to watch and cooking burgers for us to consume whilst watching said movie.

I'm tired just thinking about it all! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 December, 2012, 07:22:32 pm
Cutting up my skiddies.I may change my forum name to Nicholas ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 01 December, 2012, 07:24:54 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 December, 2012, 07:22:32 pm
Cutting up my skiddies.I may change my forum name to Nicholas ;D

I have no idea what any of that meant, but I hope you are having fun :D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 December, 2012, 07:29:44 pm
A translation for Butterfly

I'm cutting up my underpants.I may change my forum name to nicker-less

hth
 :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 December, 2012, 07:37:49 pm
Shredding your shreddies?

Why?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 December, 2012, 07:58:21 pm
The ballroom floor has collapsed so I've been treated to some new kaks :thumbsup:

The old stuff has been laundered & cut into rags for bike cleaning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 December, 2012, 08:07:23 pm
Entering Audaxes.

Looking forward to more daylight and less ice, skogg, rain, and numb bits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 December, 2012, 08:12:11 pm
Hiding from Merlin.
I've reached the point now where I can actually sit with Mrs. B and watch Strictly Come Dancing with her.(Not sure how worried I should be about that).
But I draw the line at Merlin.  I've retired to the other room and left her the rest of the bottle of wine for company.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 December, 2012, 08:21:13 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 December, 2012, 08:07:23 pm
Entering Audaxes.

Looking forward to more daylight and less ice, skogg, rain, and numb bits.

On 15th December sunset begins receding, after 5 consecutive days at 3.51 pm.

Sunrise remains at 8.06 for 10 days, finally advancing on 5th January.

It's a really grim time of year, but in 5 weeks there will be a definite difference.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 December, 2012, 08:45:31 pm
Looking up various bits of info pertinent to next year's planned Unbelievably Silly Bike AdventureTM

Pleasantly surprised by the cost of the requisite travel insurance, even with the extra that gets added on 'cos I'm diabetic.
The cost of flights to Canada? Not so much - it's a bit bloody expensive, eh?

Also, American visas - getting the information that I need is like pulling teeth, although admittedly matters are  complicated by the fact that I'd be entering the US overland and leaving on an aeroplane, but even so ...

The biggest challenge remains, though: getting work to agree to letting me have 6 weeks off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 01 December, 2012, 10:55:41 pm
Editing some Croatian English text ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 01 December, 2012, 11:13:51 pm
I read that as eating and was mightily confuzzled.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 December, 2012, 11:17:19 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 01 December, 2012, 11:13:51 pm
I read that as eating and was mightily confuzzled.
"Eating your words" - not just a figure of speech any more ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 December, 2012, 11:33:09 am
Putting up the Xmas decos.

Well I'm doing the tricky stuff and TLD is dressing the tree.

Obviously we have MTV on with classic Xmas songs :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 02 December, 2012, 11:34:29 am
Making Christmas decorations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 December, 2012, 11:53:48 am
Just edited an old GPS route for a quick semi-investigative bimble.  Much swearing was involved over the poor design and implementation of the editor, but that's an old story.  At some point I'll write a better one ...

Off shortly for a 25 miles (or so) bimble.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 December, 2012, 01:11:39 pm
I am worrying about my cat Rico.

He has been a bit quiet all week, mostly sleeping in his radiator bed upstairs which I put down to the shit cold weather. Then on Thursday he was sick a couple of times. While I was working the night shift on Friday night my daughter phoned me to tell me some stinking bloody fluid had come out of his rear end and he was really not himself. Unable to leave work until the end of my shift, I got home yesterday morning to find something very putrid all over his rear end and bedding which I bathed off thinking it was probably an abscess, then he legged it out of the cat flap before I could give him any drugs or decide what to do next!

He finally came home just before I had to go back in to work in the afternoon so I took him in to work with me. He was dehydrated and really pretty poorly. It turned out he had haemorrhagic gastroenteritis and was a bit jaundiced too. He spent the night on a drip which he finally managed to dislodge at 5am so I've bought him back home with me looking much better. I'm now very worried that he will go downhill again. Hopefully the antibiotics will now do the trick, but he won't eat anything for me yet  :(

Poorly Rico. He doesn't normally have cross eyes.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/CCF9AEEA-E2BC-44E0-9DEE-4274E51EC8D1-10499-00000F7C140CB4D5.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 December, 2012, 01:19:32 pm
Poor Rico. I think that is what Pippin had a few months ago. She wouldn't eat for a start either, even though she appeared to be feeling lots better. We had to make the Royal Canin convalescence powder stuff up for her and I basically spent the whole of that weekend feeding it to her little and often. To begin with I could only get her to lick it off my fingers but after a couple of feeds like that she decided it tasted nice so started lapping it up herself. I think by the end of the 2nd day she was eating real food again.
Hope he's better soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 02 December, 2012, 02:06:28 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 02 December, 2012, 01:19:32 pm
Poor Rico. I think that is what Pippin had a few months ago. She wouldn't eat for a start either, even though she appeared to be feeling lots better. We had to make the Royal Canin convalescence powder stuff up for her and I basically spent the whole of that weekend feeding it to her little and often. To begin with I could only get her to lick it off my fingers but after a couple of feeds like that she decided it tasted nice so started lapping it up herself. I think by the end of the 2nd day she was eating real food again.
Hope he's better soon.

I may have to do that too. I opened a £2 can of Hills a/d and tried to tempt him with it, but Kiri came in and scoffed the lot before I could stop her  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 02 December, 2012, 04:16:04 pm
Poor Rico. :(  They do seem to all to easily get into a state where they feel so ill, that they won't eat or drink, which makes them feel more ill etc

I've also discovered that having two cats makes it much harder to see if someone has been eating when you've been out, since the other one will be inclined to scoff any nice food that someone has left. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 December, 2012, 01:24:02 pm
Recovering from an emergency tooth extraction :-\

As Sod's Law dictates, I could murder a bag of crisps now ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 03 December, 2012, 11:46:07 pm
Thinking that it looks like the weather forecasters are right and it might be 41 at home today for the fourth day of Summer  :o
It was 35 at 8am!

So VeloYellow has taken Meg the (aged) Whippet and Gerald the (aged) Rat to his airconditioned work and we have left lots of water and ensured access to the coolest areas under the house for  Blue the (middle-aged) Greyhound.

Still, it should be cooler tomorrow - only 35. 
 
ETA:  Well, they weren't quite right!

(http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy155/sandyvigar/04121242degrees.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 December, 2012, 09:25:57 am
Hoovering.

Roomba'ing.

Well. I'm working. But I can hear the Roomba pottering about the flat doing its thing. They should make one that whistles tunelessly. Actually, on second thoughts - perhaps not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 05 December, 2012, 04:50:13 pm
I'm standing up as I've just had a cyst removed from where the sun don't shine  :-[ and no cycling for the next 8 days  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 05 December, 2012, 05:59:16 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 04 December, 2012, 09:25:57 am
Hoovering.

Roomba'ing.

Well. I'm working. But I can hear the Roomba pottering about the flat doing its thing. They should make one that whistles tunelessly. Actually, on second thoughts - perhaps not.

I came in from work this morning to catch Roomba in the act of humping the base of the cat scratching post  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 December, 2012, 05:59:52 pm
At least it wasn't humping the cat...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 05 December, 2012, 06:01:52 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 December, 2012, 05:59:52 pm
At least it wasn't humping the cat...

It usually has a particular affinity for Simon's Macbook Pro charging cable. The cats can out run it (they are utterly convinced it is chasing them)  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 05 December, 2012, 07:08:17 pm
Quote from: Feline on 05 December, 2012, 06:01:52 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 December, 2012, 05:59:52 pm
At least it wasn't humping the cat...

It usually has a particular affinity for Simon's Macbook Pro charging cable. The cats can out run it (they are utterly convinced it is chasing them)  ;D


You need to show them the youtube clip of a cat sitting atop a moving roomba. :-D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 December, 2012, 07:44:43 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 05 December, 2012, 07:08:17 pm
You need to show them the youtube clip of a cat sitting atop a moving roomba. :-D


The feline equivalent of riding a sandworm...   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 05 December, 2012, 10:27:03 pm
Eating cheese and tomato sandwiches in a Belfast hotel, feeling slightly peeved that the flight arrived 25mins early, which means I could have caught the last bus to Derry instead of staying here and getting up *early* tomorrow to get the first bus of the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 05 December, 2012, 10:44:46 pm
Trying to finish my OU assignment (due tomorrow).

I've at least got an answer for everything now, just need to neaten up/reword where incoherent/add references. If previous form is anything to go by this will take far longer than I expect it to/think it should.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 06 December, 2012, 07:18:55 am
Feeling a bit sick on a bouncy bus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 December, 2012, 10:07:33 am
Trying to persuade boab (and myself, TBF) that riding a 200 this evening/overnight to make use of a milder (though wetter) slot of weather is a Good Idea.

She called me a 'nutter'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 December, 2012, 10:31:55 am
Phew. After much googling, I found a forecast that says Sunday will be milder. We're off the hook  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 06 December, 2012, 01:49:01 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 06 December, 2012, 10:07:33 am
Trying to persuade boab (and myself, TBF) that riding a 200 this evening/overnight to make use of a milder (though wetter) slot of weather is a Good Idea.

She called me a 'nutter'.
I did not.
O alright, I did. I also said "Are you TG?"
 :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 December, 2012, 01:54:10 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 06 December, 2012, 10:31:55 am
Phew. After much googling, I found a forecast that says Sunday will be milder. We're off the hook  :thumbsup:.

Oooh, I've got one of those too.  And my winter boots have arrived.  Might be able to wrap up this 100k challenge without resorting to extreme measures.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 06 December, 2012, 06:28:42 pm
Pondering the fact that 3 people out of my college class of 12 have had / or are off with winter vomiting bug.
Hoping I'm not going to be next.   :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 06 December, 2012, 06:37:12 pm
Just finished making 5Kg of fatball for the birdies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 December, 2012, 08:20:15 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 06 December, 2012, 06:28:42 pm
Pondering the fact that 3 people out of my college class of 12 have had / or are off with winter vomiting bug.
Hoping I'm not going to be next.   :sick:

Yeeesss...  :-\

As an emitophobe, it obviously...

(washes hands)

...hasn't escaped my notice that...

(applies alcohol hand cleaner)

...reported cases of Norovirus are up 64%...

(washes hands again)

... this year. Fingers crossed for you. (And me).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 06 December, 2012, 10:06:33 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 06 December, 2012, 08:20:15 pm

(applies alcohol hand cleaner)


See, I get using hand gel against germs. It's the people that use it in the lab rather than washing their hands, we use chemicals (I know, rather a vague term), can't see that gel is going to do a thing somehow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 December, 2012, 04:39:14 pm
On the bus home from Xmas do, rather pissed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 December, 2012, 04:40:11 pm
And on a moving vehicle that took several attempts!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 07 December, 2012, 05:14:03 pm
Flapping.  Somehting newsworthy has clattered into my mailbox and colleagues are all out at Xmas lunch  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 07 December, 2012, 05:15:20 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 07 December, 2012, 04:40:11 pm
And on a moving vehicle that took several attempts!

Damn shame the vehicle wasn't actually going anywhere, eh?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2012, 05:17:23 pm
Attempting to dry off before going out again for Critical Mass.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 December, 2012, 05:25:05 pm
*looks at clock*

It's almost beer-thirty and colleagues are still glued to their desks, so at the moment I am waiting - impatiently.  If this situation doesn't change soon I shall get on my bicycle and go home. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 December, 2012, 05:27:28 pm
I'm home now, I'll have you know!

(either that or I'm in the Matrix and my corporeal self is in a ditch somewhere).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 08 December, 2012, 04:40:38 pm
Right now? Relaxing back at the hotel after the sim recurrent check passed. Yesterday's sim was cut short because I picked up a 24 hour gut bug making me rather nauseous. Not good in a full motion sim... My colleague got crook a a couple of hours later.  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 08 December, 2012, 05:32:25 pm
Browsing for baffies. 
Owie chilblain on toe  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 09 December, 2012, 01:23:50 am
Watching alien 3 on the box & I've just posted this on facebook:

OK!  Any of you fuckin motons who hate cyclists here's a challenge for you.  Get your lazy fat arses on a saddle & try getting out on the roads for one week as a proper cyclist/commuter & see how your attitude changes when people in two tonne of steel treat you like shit.  The challenge is there!

I allowed myself to get slightly wound up in my local  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 December, 2012, 06:15:57 am
Debating whether to ride out to Shenfield to meet up with Central London CTC or go back to bed 'til late morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si_Co on 09 December, 2012, 07:00:29 am
^^ Yes thinking very hard about wether or not to go out in this gale, have planned a route to a hill featured here : http://www.spincyclemag.com/
but from the amount of debris flying around the garden I'm really not sure  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 December, 2012, 01:03:45 pm
Trying and failing to find a new pair of glacier glasses that will accept my ridiculous prescription. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 December, 2012, 10:02:53 am
Failing to get a canon digicam to connect over firewire to my win7 laptop at all.  It just isn't noticing it.  Since there isn't another machine with a firewire port anywhere in the place, we're going to have to resort to the crappy usb webcam which doesn't fit a tripod.  And I forgot to put the gaffer tape in my bag.  Boo hiss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 December, 2012, 11:51:26 am
Aching.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 December, 2012, 07:06:03 pm
Writing audit reports. *yawn*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 11 December, 2012, 01:00:55 am
I am reading about bloom filters and count-min sketches for efficient sorting and cataloguing of large scale data. It might have some interesting applications for my work.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 11 December, 2012, 03:06:02 am
Looking at an empty line diagram for <redacted> Underground line and watching the first train come out of the depot.  Doing line management admin stuffs until everything starts moving again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 11 December, 2012, 08:33:55 am
Wondering how best to manage the process of holding the sick bowl for two childer, keeping them quiet, and sorting the stuff I should be doing *elsewhere*.
Wondering how I got lumbered for this gig while Mrs m and magnoliette 2 skip off into the crispy dawn. On my birthday8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 December, 2012, 01:47:21 pm
Just taken the dog out for a shit.

No wonder she was whining, it was a two bagger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 December, 2012, 01:51:44 pm
Quote from: mr magnolia on 11 December, 2012, 08:33:55 am
Wondering how best to manage the process of holding the sick bowl for two childer, keeping them quiet, and sorting the stuff I should be doing *elsewhere*.
Wondering how I got lumbered for this gig while Mrs m and magnoliette 2 skip off into the crispy dawn. On my birthday8)

My sympathies, Mr M.

Our night last nigth was spent looking after a terrified TLD during her first bout, at the tender age of 8 3/4, of serious sickness.  I think I managed about 1 hours sleep in total, not all in one contiguous lump!

TLD is getting better, though, she is managing to keep down sips of warm water with Maple Syrup dissolved in it (no honey in the house so Maple Syrup has to suffice).  Cold water has a habit of returning after 30 minutes or so, lukewarm water stays down (made with 3/4 cups of cold. 1/4 cup boiling water)

Back to work for me tomorrow, Mrs T is taking over care duties then, as I have an important meeting to attend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 11 December, 2012, 03:19:36 pm
Having a post NHS-Couch-to-5K-week-5.1 run coffee!   :D
Yay for unpadded winter bib tights being great for cold weather running!   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 11 December, 2012, 05:42:48 pm
Sitting in a cold hotel room waiting for MrsC to come on line so we can Skype.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 11 December, 2012, 08:27:00 pm
Sitting in Ter Brugge, a bar in Amsterdam, reading by candlelight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 December, 2012, 11:56:27 pm
Watched PAtrick Moore and now watching Simon and Garfunkel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 December, 2012, 10:28:40 am
Paying myself a bonus.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 December, 2012, 10:35:36 am
Being cold and thinking about having a coffee to warm up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 December, 2012, 11:26:20 am
Fixing Database replication.  AGAIN!

FFS, it amazes me (though it shouldn't after 20+years in this game) how many multi-million pound businesses run on backends that are just not fit for purpose...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 13 December, 2012, 12:02:30 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 13 December, 2012, 11:26:20 am
Fixing Database replication.  AGAIN!

FFS, it amazes me (though it shouldn't after 20+years in this game) how many multi-million pound businesses run on backends that are just not fit for purpose...

Ohhhh I think the backends ARE fit for the purpose, just not the job they are meant to be doing ...they mostly supposed to be working as managers, but they are more successful as backends.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 December, 2012, 12:04:15 pm
Quote from: Ham on 13 December, 2012, 12:02:30 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 13 December, 2012, 11:26:20 am
Fixing Database replication.  AGAIN!

FFS, it amazes me (though it shouldn't after 20+years in this game) how many multi-million pound businesses run on backends that are just not fit for purpose...

Ohhhh I think the backends ARE fit for the purpose, just not the job they are meant to be doing ...they mostly supposed to be working as managers, but they are more successful as backends.

 ;D  took me a second or two, and a couple of re-reads to work that one out!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 13 December, 2012, 12:05:14 pm
Waiting to go to hospital to have my stitches removed from where the sun don't shine  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 13 December, 2012, 02:46:07 pm
Ooh nasty! Hope it's all healing well :).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 December, 2012, 03:55:42 pm
Trying to understand how I felt absolutely fine walking back from Xmas lunch (#2 of the season) but now that I'm at my desk I feel a bit 'spry' (some might say 'pissed').
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 13 December, 2012, 03:56:23 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 13 December, 2012, 02:46:07 pm
Ooh nasty! Hope it's all healing well :).
Home now and sitting well sort of comfortable, have to wait another seven day before I can go back on the bike
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 December, 2012, 03:59:51 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 December, 2012, 03:55:42 pm
Trying to understand how I felt absolutely fine walking back from Xmas lunch (#2 of the season) but now that I'm at my desk I feel a bit 'spry' (some might say 'pissed').


It's just your natural joie de vivre reaching the surface.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 December, 2012, 04:52:19 pm
Quote from: clarion on 13 December, 2012, 03:59:51 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 December, 2012, 03:55:42 pm
Trying to understand how I felt absolutely fine walking back from Xmas lunch (#2 of the season) but now that I'm at my desk I feel a bit 'spry' (some might say 'pissed').


It's just your natural joie de vivre reaching the surface.

Merci beaucoup!  ;D  Now all guilt has been banished.

In less than ten minutes we're off to leaving drinks for Chocolate Teapot (mentioned elsewhere).  I am reassured in the knowledge that people in other teams will also not be mourning his departure (most of the laydeez found him a bit creepy).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 13 December, 2012, 05:44:39 pm
Dnacing in the kitchen while looking for the xmas dinner tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 December, 2012, 06:30:29 pm
I should be doing college work.
However I'm now installing rigs of rods http://www.rigsofrods.com/content/ (http://www.rigsofrods.com/content/), since I somehow ended up watching videos of Tatra 8x8 trucks doing off road fun on youtube.....

Now muttering about it now compiling on ubuntu...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 13 December, 2012, 06:41:31 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 13 December, 2012, 06:30:29 pm
I should be doing college work.
However I'm now installing rigs of rods http://www.rigsofrods.com/content/ (http://www.rigsofrods.com/content/), since I somehow ended up watching videos of Tatra 8x8 trucks doing off road fun on youtube.....

And now this is exactly what I'm doing  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 December, 2012, 07:21:32 pm
I'm dying :(
Terminal man-flu
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 December, 2012, 07:31:36 pm
GWS!

I am listening to Kate Rusby, drinking coffee, and eating chocolate buttons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 13 December, 2012, 07:46:20 pm
Wrapping presents, watching 1977 ToTP, on my way to fetching another bottle. It will be a little chilled out the cellar, though.

edit: OH WOW!!!! Dancing Camels!!! I have to share.... I haven't laughed at the TV so much for ages...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=gg7WG6tCbrw

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 December, 2012, 08:05:02 pm
We are about to make a Dundee cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 13 December, 2012, 08:49:00 pm
Quote from: jogler on 13 December, 2012, 07:21:32 pm
I'm dying :(
Terminal man-flu

Sympathy.

Had that for two weeks now.

Every time I think I'm better I'm forced to raid the whisky cellar again a few hours later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 December, 2012, 11:06:03 pm
Quote from: Ham on 13 December, 2012, 07:46:20 pm
Wrapping presents, watching 1977 ToTP, on my way to fetching another bottle. It will be a little chilled out the cellar, though.

edit: OH WOW!!!! Dancing Camels!!! I have to share.... I haven't laughed at the TV so much for ages...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=gg7WG6tCbrw

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 December, 2012, 11:15:33 pm
Taking the michael out of my snoring kitteh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 13 December, 2012, 11:31:15 pm
Deciding that since the cat has brought a gift (mouse) into the house and let it loose (alive and well) in the dining room that she can stay down there for the night rather than sleep on my bed in the hope that she will recapture said gift and dispose of it by morning.

I guess that at 15 she's a bit past learning that bringing mice in alive will mean she doesn't get to sleep on a warm bed tonight.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 13 December, 2012, 11:38:30 pm
Lying in bed sneezing and playing with  my phone to an accompaniment of a Snoring Juggler and the hiisssssss of The Wedding Present from his headphones. How the heck does he fall asleep to that?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 December, 2012, 09:53:20 am
About to go and dig the bike rack (Car, for use of) out of the garage and fettle bikes into useable state ready for tomorrow.

The first of those might take a while as I believe it is buried under bikes!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 December, 2012, 10:12:10 am
Watching the rain radar in the hope of being able to go and get my breakfast.  There is a gap approaching West Wales, but it seems to be getting smaller as it gets nearer.
Oh well, I don't mind getting wet on home legs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2012, 11:17:46 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 13 December, 2012, 08:05:02 pm
We are about to make a Dundee cake.

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/17953-2/DSC09071.JPG)

The dee is Dun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 December, 2012, 08:01:14 pm
I'm in the Man Creche, which is also the Chinese Take Away.
Wonderfully, the King's Arms, Llandysul and Dan 'I Sang are actually the same establishment.  How wonderful is that?
Oh well, time to take my pint, collect my special chow mein and go out front with the smokers to intercept the Mrs. B drive by.  (She sometimes forgets which week it is)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 14 December, 2012, 09:06:20 pm
Thawing out.
It's cold in Moscow. The wind chill's a bitch!  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 December, 2012, 10:46:06 pm
In the Edinburgh Arms at the second gig of the evening, with 5 forumites. It doesn't _quite_ have the same quality as the first. Altho it has a certain something...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 December, 2012, 11:05:37 pm
Digging around on the web, looking for present ideas.  I've bought and acquired five so far, but two of those come under the really silly, very small category.  I think I'll have a raid on Fortnum & Mason, Stanfords, the Science Museum and National History Museum shops, and the Conran Store on the morrow (or possibly on Monday).  Between them, I should be able to find a handful of other daft and/or interesting presents.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2012, 11:09:48 pm
I have just finished a pint of ESB and I'm following it up with an A' Bunadh. I detect that I might have a cold coming and with our choir's Christmas Concert tomorrow I want to keep my throat in good condition.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2012, 12:51:07 pm
I've cleaned and filled the bird feeders, got all my darkroom equipment together in the shed except for the enlarger which is sitting in my hall, and now I'm making date and walnut cake, alone. Should have had a friend over but she's got the lurgy.
Wondering if Pingu's delurgified enough to make me some lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 December, 2012, 01:12:00 pm
Just got back from a walk and now having tea with two mince pies  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 December, 2012, 03:22:01 pm
Sharpening knives and making a list*



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*The two things are unrelated, I needed to sharpen all the kitchen knives as they were getting blunt, and the list is a shopping list for Xmas dinner :)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qmsqakAXODQ/UM3g3lv3lJI/AAAAAAAAC8I/A63GKqTqBQQ/s791/20121216_145421%280%29.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 December, 2012, 05:22:36 pm
Recovering from a session on the turbo and trying to decide what the hell to have for my dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 December, 2012, 10:06:15 am
A cup of tea anna biskit. Having just about cleared the carnage from last night's meal for 12....... (at it since 6)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 December, 2012, 12:09:15 pm
We are both off work sick today. Sniffles from one side of the room, sniffles from the other. There's probably a big black X on the front door!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 December, 2012, 09:40:10 pm
Procrastinating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 December, 2012, 09:42:26 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 17 December, 2012, 09:40:10 pm
Procrastinating.

Can't you put that off until tomorrow?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 17 December, 2012, 09:43:30 pm
Avoiding Christmas decorations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 December, 2012, 09:51:09 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 17 December, 2012, 09:40:10 pm
Procrastinating.

I caught up with loads of that today. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 December, 2012, 09:54:35 pm
Reading pages of 'easy-to-read' Lawyerspeak and thinking that my second year module on Formal Specification wasn't that bad really.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 December, 2012, 07:43:51 am
Wondering why the milkman is only ever late on days when I've completely run out of milk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 December, 2012, 07:55:49 am
Wondering why this thread won't disappear off the top of the "Recent Unread" list, even though I have opened it 5 times!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 18 December, 2012, 09:10:02 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 17 December, 2012, 09:40:10 pm
Procrastinating.

I'm procrastinating furiously.  Probably should be a law against that.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2012, 10:16:39 am
Quote from: Basil on 18 December, 2012, 07:43:51 am
Wondering why the milkman is only ever late on days when I've completely run out of milk.

Isn't that the only possible criterion for deciding on when the milkman is late?  :P

I'm about to do some cycling errands, of which there will be a few today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 December, 2012, 12:54:48 pm
Feeling like I'm sitting in a sauna. My internal thermostat appears to be b0rked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2012, 01:58:18 pm
Being squeaked at by an attention-seeking dog. He's lying on his big cushion with his left back leg sticking in the air, waiting for a tickle. If I turn and look at him, the squeaking stops. If I say "dog" the tail revolves in a clockwise direction.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 December, 2012, 01:59:44 pm
What happens if you say "cat"?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 18 December, 2012, 02:06:53 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 18 December, 2012, 12:54:48 pm
Feeling like I'm sitting in a sauna. My internal thermostat appears to be b0rked.
Can we come to a compromise? I can't warm up - the heating is currently on 21.5, I am wearing a vest and long-johns under my polo neck and fleece lined trousers and I'm covered in a blanket. If I give you 3 cold degrees, can you send 3 warm ones down here?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 18 December, 2012, 02:37:34 pm
*insert Three Degrees joke here*

Maybe.

I'm Giving Up, Giving In.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 December, 2012, 02:40:38 pm
Feeling a little bereft, as there are only three bikes on the living room.

OK, it's because there's one in the cupboard under the stairs and 4 in my bedroom, but it doesn't look _right_ somehow.  On the bright side - Christmas tree space!  Woo hoo!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 18 December, 2012, 02:48:52 pm
Sitting with 2 colleagues in Hannover airport. Three others are in cafe, but we pretended to be checking in just to escape the endless stream of undiluted BS emanating from our Marketing manager.
Departure area is full of elderly Turkish women , most of them fairly distressed . Probably going back to Turkey for Christmas and leaving families( ie grandchildren) in Germany.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 18 December, 2012, 03:37:52 pm
Digesting a Tesco Finest short crust apple tart.

The woman on the running podcast did say to have a piece of fruit after running......   O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 December, 2012, 03:47:43 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 18 December, 2012, 02:06:53 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 18 December, 2012, 12:54:48 pm
Feeling like I'm sitting in a sauna. My internal thermostat appears to be b0rked.
Can we come to a compromise? I can't warm up - the heating is currently on 21.5, I am wearing a vest and long-johns under my polo neck and fleece lined trousers and I'm covered in a blanket. If I give you 3 cold degrees, can you send 3 warm ones down here?
Mine is set to 17.5 (but I think that's a lie, must liberate a thermometer some time) and I'm sitting in a t-shirt. My name is not nuttycyclist and this is not normal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 December, 2012, 09:09:48 am
Bracing myself for a day of food shopping and housework.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 20 December, 2012, 10:09:57 am
Dying of manflu.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2012, 07:12:50 pm
Quote from: TimC on 20 December, 2012, 10:09:57 am
Dying of manflu.

BTDTGTTS in the last 10 days.
I now believe in reincranation.
GWS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 20 December, 2012, 07:20:21 pm
Quote from: jogler on 20 December, 2012, 07:12:50 pm
Quote from: TimC on 20 December, 2012, 10:09:57 am
Dying of manflu.

BTDTGTTS in the last 10 days.
I now believe in reincranation.
GWS

Ta. Got a urinary infection too (yeah; eeewwww!) so I doubt there'll be much to leave to medical science!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 December, 2012, 08:05:28 pm
OMG! A pilot who has to pee every 3 minutes!

(stays on the ground)

GWS TimC  :thumbsup:

"Speedbird 242, turn left heading two niner zero, descend to three thousand feet".

"Er... yeah.... give us a sec, he's in the loo."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 20 December, 2012, 08:12:04 pm
Running a bath.
\o/ Skools out for xmas!

(Except I probably ought to do some fettling to my graded unit over the festive season.....)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 20 December, 2012, 09:23:45 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 20 December, 2012, 08:05:28 pm
OMG! A pilot who has to pee every 3 minutes!

(stays on the ground)

GWS TimC  :thumbsup:

"Speedbird 242, turn left heading two niner zero, descend to three thousand feet".

"Er... yeah.... give us a sec, he's in the loo."

S'ok Chris, I'm being ill in my own time. I'm on leave, natch. Still, I got two months off work this summer when I fell off my bike, so I guess it's fair. Been a bad year for health, though. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 December, 2012, 09:25:41 pm
Quote from: TimC on 20 December, 2012, 09:23:45 pm
S'ok Chris, I'm being ill in my own time.

Oh dear. That's even worse!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 December, 2012, 09:37:35 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 20 December, 2012, 08:05:28 pm
OMG! A pilot who has to pee every 3 minutes!

(stays on the ground)

Beware the red ice!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 December, 2012, 09:38:26 am
Suffering with man-flu, lack of sleep AND a hangover.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 21 December, 2012, 10:26:37 am
Tidying my desk on my last working day before redundancy  :(

But the final payslip (with 12-months redundancy pay) was a joy to behold  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 December, 2012, 04:19:30 pm
taste-testing Marj's mince pies :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 21 December, 2012, 04:56:32 pm
Treating my head lice.  A very special thank-you present from a patient.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 21 December, 2012, 05:09:28 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 21 December, 2012, 04:56:32 pm
Treating my head lice.  A very special thank-you present from a patient.

Ooh the glamour of a career in nursing!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 21 December, 2012, 05:10:09 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 21 December, 2012, 05:09:28 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 21 December, 2012, 04:56:32 pm
Treating my head lice.  A very special thank-you present from a patient.

Ooh the glamour of a career in nursing!

Yeah.  You don't see that on bloody Casualty do you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 December, 2012, 05:44:31 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 21 December, 2012, 05:10:09 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 21 December, 2012, 05:09:28 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 21 December, 2012, 04:56:32 pm
Treating my head lice.  A very special thank-you present from a patient.

Ooh the glamour of a career in nursing!

Yeah.  You don't see that on bloody Casualty do you.

My (Ex) SiL (12 years in A&E) once said to me, "I've been puked on, bled on, punched, scratched and sworn at. Not bad for a day's work."  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 21 December, 2012, 06:13:41 pm
Packing presents.  The first one took a while, because it's too big to go in a pannier, so will be strapped on the rack, and the forecast for tomorrow is 'orrible.  It's got multiple layers of cardboard and bin liners, to make sure it'll survive!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 December, 2012, 06:32:15 pm
Recovering.

The Cubs have just completed their Christmas shopping.  Next up, tea, baths, then wrapping!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 December, 2012, 09:54:17 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 December, 2012, 06:32:15 pm
Recovering.

Yeah, that.

Stocked up on important smoked salmon apocalypse-survival supplies in the middle of christmas supermarket hell.  Then an unidentified carton of Kim-friendly orange juice (I had rather a lot of them) leaked inside the trailer on the way home.  So I abandoned it for barakta to investigate and switched to panniers for the other shopping, which involved a smaller and less important circle of supermarket hell.  Had a brief chat with an old lady on a well-loved Raleigh at the giant Sheffield stands outside Sainsburys, and did my good deed for the day by switching someone's bike light off.

That done, and noting barakta had the sticky mess well in hand, I turned my attention to the card left by the APC door ninja while I was out.  Their phone system prompted me to press 1 and then enter the consignment number.  I pressed 1 and it waited three seconds, then said goodbye and cleared down.  Wondering if it was some sort of out-of-band DTMF signalling issue with the ATA that drives the downstairs phones, I tried another known-good extension, and then my mobile, to the same effect.  Concluded that their phone system was evidently not as good as mine.

So I decided to take the path of least resistance, and battle my way across middle earth (including the annoying one-way system at Digbeth, but not - for a refreshing change - anything with 'Queensway' in the name) in search of a depot that wasn't where my Garmin expected it to be.  A bit of voodoo navigation lead me to a well labelled APC artic parked outside a poorly labelled APC warehouse.  Parcel retrieved, I retraced by steps, observing someone who may or may not have been drunk (hard to tell with those shoes) getting in a car and starting to drive, and some nutter with less spacial awareness than a second year robotics project trying to do a U-turn on the Pershore Road.

Nevertheless, I got home in one piece, showered and remembered to eat something, so I think that's a net win.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 December, 2012, 10:15:46 pm
 Watching Fargo  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2012, 11:09:40 pm
Reading Kim's posts with relief. 
I was informed in the pub tonight that there was "Woman Down" on the Raddlebarn Road this afternoon.

No further information, but it doesn't appear to have been the kim, thank deity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 December, 2012, 11:19:12 pm
Nope, not been near the Raddlebarn Road today.   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2012, 11:23:46 pm
 :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 December, 2012, 02:12:27 am
Watching Depeche Mode videos on youtube.

"why?" is only one of many questions this eveningmorning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 22 December, 2012, 07:02:14 am
Checking the traffic for the route to Gatwick, waving goodbye for a week

(http://www.londondailyphoto.com/images/wave1.gif)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 December, 2012, 08:36:49 am
Eating three shredded wheat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 22 December, 2012, 08:40:21 am
Waiting for my egg bacon and chips.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 22 December, 2012, 11:30:56 am
Listening to the rain on the roof whilst avoiding the last of the Christmas shopping. And hoping that the weather will put lots of people off going to town...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 22 December, 2012, 11:41:05 am
Drinking tea, stressing about the fact we are leaving the Christmas food shop till Christmas Eve, looking forward to hotel and meal in Brighton to celebrate me and my girlfriend's six year anniversary, and coughing (stupid cold).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 22 December, 2012, 05:09:26 pm
Still in sodding gatwick airport,availing myself of maccy-d's free wi-fi, with the prospect of a night in a hotel. That'll teach me for being smug :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2012, 07:40:26 am
SCIENCE.
At my kitchen table at half seven on a Sunday morning  :facepalm: (in the hope that if the weather picks up next week I get out on my bike).
Once I've closed this window anyway....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 23 December, 2012, 07:46:11 am
Packing up 200 booklets I printed and folded last night into a shoe box to deliver them, and trying to learn some weird Rutter torture pieces for tomorrow night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2012, 08:05:20 am
Awaiting Mrs. Wow's full state of consciousness and deciding where to go for a ride today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 December, 2012, 08:07:50 am
Coffee no. 3.  Running a bath.  Summoning gumption.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 December, 2012, 09:05:43 am
Languishing in bed, browsing the interwebs and listening to a Northumbrian gale hammering rain against the windows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 December, 2012, 09:10:23 am
Well, at least it's an infinitely superior Proper Northern Gale ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 23 December, 2012, 09:27:59 am
Pondering the lack of soapage & toothpaste, which will mean I'll need to brave the ubermarket along with the rest of the xmas mad shoppers.
Also need a 20L food safe tupperware box to soak a new bit of mopani drift wood for my fish tank....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2012, 09:29:00 am
Digesting mid-science porridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 23 December, 2012, 09:30:56 am
Drinking tea and then off to church
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 December, 2012, 12:54:50 pm
Just hoovered tea off the dining room carpet.  Trying to wake up enough to take my bike for a post-fettling test ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2012, 12:56:15 pm
Dancing round the room like a happy nutcase cos I've finished writing my paper and have sent it to my not boss for him to put red pen all over it. :D

This means I can stop shitting myself and relax now  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 23 December, 2012, 01:11:27 pm
Wrapping. Mr Smith is helping by dispensing sellotape and providing cheesy Christmas choons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 December, 2012, 01:18:45 pm
Having a brake after chopping wood for the log burner and before clearing the chicken coop out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 23 December, 2012, 01:21:44 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 23 December, 2012, 01:18:45 pm
Having a brake after chopping wood for the log burner and before clearing the chicken coop out.
Caliper, v, disc or shooting?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 December, 2012, 01:38:52 pm
I really should wear my glasses when I am typing :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 24 December, 2012, 06:56:03 am
Being hungover. Idiot that I am. Grain and grape last night. :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 December, 2012, 07:36:09 am
Coffeex2.

Summoning gumption.
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Post by: andrewc on 24 December, 2012, 08:01:37 am
Reading news & forum while still in bed. Got to get up, go out & do last minute shopping!   Then change bed & tidy flat :-(

Staying in bed sounds a better idea..
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Post by: Polar Bear on 24 December, 2012, 08:25:00 am
Trying to figure out how come Mlle PB is ready over an hour early.   Something must be afoot...    :D
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Post by: Juan Martín on 24 December, 2012, 08:50:35 am
In the office. On my own. Where is everyone?
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Post by: andrewc on 24 December, 2012, 09:03:36 am
Have progressed to a vertical position.  Now drinking coffee.  At least I'm not at work today  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 24 December, 2012, 11:03:01 am
About to go and trudge to the hospital in the rain.

Taking bets on the type of crash on the screen in the therapy services waiting area.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 December, 2012, 11:05:23 am
Thinking about wandering up to my mate's flat to feed her cats.
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Post by: interzen on 24 December, 2012, 11:10:54 am
Killing time.

There are three of us in today, and I suspect that this will dwindle rapidly to zero at some point after lunch as there's little in the way of 'real' work being done.
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Post by: andrewc on 24 December, 2012, 11:12:03 am
In a cafe, waiting for coffee & breakfast. My first choice had carols & a queue. This one is playing Chris de Burgh and is nearly empty....
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2012, 11:14:55 am
Thinking that things are a bit shit at the moment.

Quite apart from Jan's ankle, I dropped into our local art shop this morning to buy her a little something: she used to be a pretty accomplished water colour artist years ago, but has let it slip, so I thought I'd kick-start her hobby again by buying her a new set of brushes. There was a tin of sweets on the counter and the shop assistant offered me one, which I accepted. It was a toffee of some sort and part way through chewing it there was that tell-tale crunch of tooth on filling...

Dental appointment after Christmas, I think.
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Post by: interzen on 24 December, 2012, 11:20:25 am
Quote from: andrewc on 24 December, 2012, 11:12:03 am
In a cafe, waiting for coffee & breakfast. My first choice had carols & a queue. This one is playing Chris de Burgh and is nearly empty....
Probably the best demonstration of 'cause and effect' that you're likely to find.
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Post by: winnet on 24 December, 2012, 11:42:43 am
Listening to 15 year old son whinging

G
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Post by: Kim on 24 December, 2012, 12:39:29 pm
Quote from: Kim on 24 December, 2012, 11:03:01 am
Taking bets on the type of crash on the screen in the therapy services waiting area.

Blank screen with frozen scrollbar at the bottom.  Clock displaying 5:29PM, which is exactly what it said two weeks ago.  Half a headline involving whales on the ticker.

Wonder if it'll be the same in three weeks?
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Post by: SteveC on 24 December, 2012, 12:40:36 pm
Printing the question sheets for the pub quiz on Thursday.  It's usually the last Tuesday of the month but for some reason everyone couldn't make that evening.
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Post by: Aidan on 24 December, 2012, 12:42:58 pm
Working for another hour or so. Was planning a couple of hours out on the bike but its 5 degrees and heaving it down at the minute. I may slob in front of the telly and eat chocolates instead   8)
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Post by: Basil on 24 December, 2012, 12:48:48 pm
I've just picked up the hire car.
Eating a sandwich and drinking coffee while #1 son fills it with boxes bags and bottles.
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Post by: Andrij on 24 December, 2012, 01:08:04 pm
Working my last hour until...

Thursday.

There have been rumours of a hostelry visit after we close up shop.  I vaguely recall last years visit.  :demon:
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Post by: interzen on 24 December, 2012, 01:09:01 pm
Watching it rain.

And rain.

And rain.

And rain.

Tonight's planned thrash round the lanes will be replaced by a session on the turbo, especially as most of the lanes I'd planned to thrash round are evidently underwater.
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Post by: numbnuts on 24 December, 2012, 05:44:05 pm
I'm just off to the first Mass of Christmas  O:-)
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Post by: LindaG on 24 December, 2012, 06:18:19 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 24 December, 2012, 05:44:05 pm
I'm just off to the first Mass of Christmas  O:-)

Oh, lovely!  Enjoy it numbnuts.  Bittersweet, holy night that this is.

I'm getting prepped for a night shift.
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Post by: matthew on 24 December, 2012, 06:24:13 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 24 December, 2012, 05:44:05 pm
I'm just off to the first Mass of Christmas  O:-)

Just back from the second crib service, (I was only sidesman for one so wasn't at the first)

back to church in 4 hours to sing with the choir at the 11pm - midnight communion.  O:-)
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Post by: jogler on 24 December, 2012, 07:04:24 pm
I'm thoroughly enjoying "Carol's From Kings".So far most of my favourites have been sung :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 24 December, 2012, 07:17:25 pm
Cooking spicy lamb with rice, drinking red wine, listening to jazz, looking guiltily at the pile of unwrapped presents.... ;D
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Post by: interzen on 24 December, 2012, 07:29:49 pm
Getting ready for a session on the turbo.

My entertainment of choice during said sessions is usually E4(+1) - two episodes of 'How I Met Your Mother' followed by 'The Big Bang Theory' means I won't have my session rudely interrupted by Hollyoaks1

1 - which entails stopping, finding the remote, changing channel and then starting again.
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Post by: Basil on 24 December, 2012, 08:44:07 pm
Relaxing in the bosoms of my family.  ;D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 December, 2012, 10:22:56 pm
Spent the afternoon visiting family. Tonight I went to the pub for a couple of hours where the main topic of conversation was how long you should leave a bird before plucking, partridge can be plucked warm but pheasant should be left to go cold or yoy will bruise the breast it seems. Now I just have a few presents to wrap then I am done for the evening.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 24 December, 2012, 11:37:31 pm
Drinking a pint or two of water having just got back from visiting the MiL and watching silly TV whilst eating chinese takeaway and drinking a selection of drinks.  :thumbsup:

Looking forward to a quiet Christmas day with just my other half. As much fun as last year was it'll be nice just doing a meal for two rather than 14 people (using three ovens, five hobs and ALL the pots and pans).
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Post by: PAC on 24 December, 2012, 11:41:50 pm
Wrapping presents lastminute.com  ;D
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Post by: Kim on 24 December, 2012, 11:47:55 pm
Fending off the christmas boredom with a boxset of The West Wing.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 24 December, 2012, 11:52:50 pm
Drinking a glass of port, with added spruce needles.

#hazards_of_sitting_by_the_christmastree
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Post by: SteveC on 24 December, 2012, 11:54:54 pm
Recovering with a Belgian beer or two following our traditional carolling round the next village. 
About fifty songs, on our feet for three and three-quarter hours. Five mince pies, mulled wine and a 'sprout and black pudding in beer batter on a cocktail stick'.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 25 December, 2012, 05:01:31 am
Having a snatched coffee break. It's a pretty busy night. Took on a complicated patient and he's kept me on my toes.
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Post by: mike on 25 December, 2012, 05:35:00 am
Drinking tea, unable to sleep.  Idiot.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 05:40:11 am
Trying to convince myself to get out on the bike.
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Post by: lou boutin on 25 December, 2012, 06:18:44 am
Awake with excited kids. The youngest is 17 and normally you can't remove them from bed for love nor money
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Post by: Butterfly on 25 December, 2012, 06:40:23 am
Tgl must be excited - he doesn't normal get up before 11 and he's about now! Mind you, excitement is manifesting as 'grumpy'   ;D
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Post by: jogler on 25 December, 2012, 07:35:03 am
I'm preparing breakfast in bed for Marj :)
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Post by: Butterfly on 25 December, 2012, 07:42:34 am
Aw, that's nice jogler   :-*
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Post by: Juan Martín on 25 December, 2012, 07:44:59 am
Getting ready to drive up to Ely to have lunch with my mother. Hoping to see Marco before he sets off on a reciprocal course for Christmas with Mrs Marco's family. Fuel efficient it ain't! 
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Post by: delthebike on 25 December, 2012, 07:47:41 am
Quote from: jogler on 25 December, 2012, 07:35:03 am
I'm preparing breakfast in bed for Marj :)
Quote from: Butterfly on 25 December, 2012, 07:42:34 am
Aw, that's nice jogler   :-*
It is nice but Jogler would be better off using the kitchen!  :facepalm:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 December, 2012, 08:03:45 am
The waters off ! Wondering how long before Yorkshire Water fix it and how we are going to do Christama dinner with no water. bugger.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2012, 08:34:52 am
Quote from: pcolbeck on 25 December, 2012, 08:03:45 am
The waters off ! Wondering how long before Yorkshire Water fix it and how we are going to do Christama dinner with no water. bugger.

Must be a hosepipe ban.

I'm eating shredded wheat before taking a cup of tea to Jan in her makeshift bedroom (no, not a lowly stable).
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Post by: clarion on 25 December, 2012, 08:36:26 am
I'm taking a break from swapping the brakes over on my Romany.
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Post by: jogler on 25 December, 2012, 08:40:01 am
Quote from: delthebike on 25 December, 2012, 07:47:41 am
Quote from: jogler on 25 December, 2012, 07:35:03 am
I'm preparing breakfast in bed for Marj :)
Quote from: Butterfly on 25 December, 2012, 07:42:34 am
Aw, that's nice jogler   :-*
It is nice but Jogler would be better off using the kitchen!  :facepalm:

I'd need a map to find it ::-)
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Post by: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 08:43:03 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 05:40:11 am
Trying to convince myself to get out on the bike.

*Looks out of window at the biblical event outside*

How's that going, then?
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 25 December, 2012, 08:45:46 am
Lying in bed about to call the kids in Budapest, where they have a white christmas and went sledging yesterday.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 09:31:51 am
Quote from: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 08:43:03 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 05:40:11 am
Trying to convince myself to get out on the bike.

*Looks out of window at the biblical event outside*

How's that going, then?

As well as can be expected.
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Post by: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 09:39:15 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 09:31:51 am
Quote from: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 08:43:03 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 05:40:11 am
Trying to convince myself to get out on the bike.

*Looks out of window at the biblical event outside*

How's that going, then?

As well as can be expected.

Indoors, warm, dry and toasty? ;)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 December, 2012, 09:47:53 am
Waiting for my brother to wake up so we can open our presents. Walking past his bedroom door shouting "wake up, we want to open our presents" has had no effect.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2012, 09:51:05 am
The dishwasher is loaded and on. The table is mostly clear. I've found some clothes for Mrs. Wow. Must tie up the rubbish sacks and put some new ones in the bins. Then, dog walk.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 25 December, 2012, 09:51:42 am
I am looking forward to Yule lunch at my sister's, which will be a sober affair for me for the first time in 30+ years, as I shall drive back after and cram in as many episodes of The Killing as I can. Lovely festive viewing!
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Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 09:56:44 am
Quote from: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 09:39:15 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 09:31:51 am
Quote from: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 08:43:03 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 05:40:11 am
Trying to convince myself to get out on the bike.

*Looks out of window at the biblical event outside*

How's that going, then?

As well as can be expected.

Indoors, warm, dry and toasty? ;)

Bingo!  Thought that last one may lose the -y and gain a -ed.
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Post by: andrewc on 25 December, 2012, 10:06:05 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 09:56:44 am
Quote from: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 09:39:15 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 09:31:51 am
Quote from: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 08:43:03 am
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 05:40:11 am
Trying to convince myself to get out on the bike.

*Looks out of window at the biblical event outside*

How's that going, then?

As well as can be expected.

Indoors, warm, dry and toasty? ;)

Bingo!  Thought that last one may lose the -y and gain a -ed.

Cheers Andrij!
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Post by: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 10:06:29 am
Just finished my scrambled eggs & smoked salmon, and wondering whether or not I should pop the cork on one of the bottles of Sourdet-Diot that are lurking in the fridge.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 25 December, 2012, 10:35:51 am
Just put the beef joint in the slow cooker. Now drinking a mug of tea before I prepare After8 pancakes and open a bottle of Cava.

Then to work out a plan of attack for the rest of the Christmas meal as I haven't actually wokred out what need cooking in what order.

Wouldn't mind a quick spin on the bike butwind is gusting to over 40mph here which is too much to be fun. I may end up needing to repair next door's already slightly broken fence at this rate. It should be their problem and not mine but can't see them doing anything given that their recycling bin blew down the road a week ago trailing rubbish and they've not even fetched the bin back.
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Post by: Butterfly on 25 December, 2012, 10:41:12 am
Lying on the sofa deciding that I ought to go and get dressed and rummage in the fridge and see what to cook for lunch drinking the tea that clarion has just brought me and putting off drastic decisions about lunch. :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2012, 10:56:10 am
Oh, I forgot to mention: I think the Mayans were probably right. It has hardly stopped raining since 20th and the forecast is full of rain for at least the next 5 days, and probably into eternity. 617mm so far this year.
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Post by: jogler on 25 December, 2012, 10:56:19 am
similarly

Quote from: Butterfly on 25 December, 2012, 10:41:12 am
Lying on the sofa deciding that I ought to go and get dressed

 ;)

ETA & eating mince pies :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2012, 10:58:12 am
Still hoping to cycle to y brother's place, but I've got a feeling that when I need to set off (about 11.30) normal rainfall will be resumed and I won't be arsed.
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Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2012, 11:00:42 am
Quote from: pcolbeck on 25 December, 2012, 08:03:45 am
The waters off ! Wondering how long before Yorkshire Water fix it and how we are going to do Christama dinner with no water. bugger.

Oh noes! Any news?
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 25 December, 2012, 11:50:27 am
Digesting pancakes and getting ready to start the main cooking.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 25 December, 2012, 11:59:44 am
Listening to Michael Bublé's Christmas cd....

.....and feeling my soul dying inside.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 December, 2012, 12:22:44 pm
Hooray the waters back on, Christmas is saved if a little behind schedule !!!!!  Many thanks to the engineers and workmen who came out on Christmas morning to fix the burst water main (just finding it took them a couple of hours this being a very rural location). Also thanks to the very informative and helpful call center staff at Yorkshire Water who kept ringing us to let us know how it was going and how long they thought it would take to fix.  I'm off for a shower now and then its peeling spuds.
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Post by: Kim on 25 December, 2012, 12:28:24 pm
Just got up to find barakta asleep on the computer room floor.  It seems she was up till about 8am watching West Wing DVDs.  I've sent her to bed.
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Post by: Clare on 25 December, 2012, 12:35:22 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 25 December, 2012, 12:22:44 pm
Hooray the waters back on, Christmas is saved if a little behind schedule !!!!!  Many thanks to the engineers and workmen who came out on Christmas morning to fix the burst water main (just finding it took them a couple of hours this being a very rural location). Also thanks to the very informative and helpful call center staff at Yorkshire Water who kept ringing us to let us know how it was going and how long they thought it would take to fix.  I'm off for a shower now and then its peeling spuds.


Hoorah for Yorkshire Water.

Enjoy your relaxed schedule Christmas.
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Post by: Clare on 25 December, 2012, 12:53:09 pm
Being vacuumed.

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Post by: rafletcher on 25 December, 2012, 12:55:50 pm
Digesting the poached eggs on toast, and toast & marmalde we had for lunch, before setting off in an hour or so to my stepsons place for the main meal of the day. I've just been texted to take some tarragon with me!
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Post by: andygates on 25 December, 2012, 12:58:29 pm
Laughing at the cat's tail-thrashing as she watches the pot-roast (now having filled the flat with seared-beef pong) disappear into the oven and GO AWAY!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 December, 2012, 01:00:21 pm
Our oven has very big glass doors. Roasting a bird is like cat TV, ours just sits in font of the cooker watching it.
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Post by: andrewc on 25 December, 2012, 01:08:41 pm
Looking out at the rain,  waiting for my lift to the parents house for dinner etc.
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Post by: LindaG on 25 December, 2012, 01:25:30 pm
Drinking tea in bed enjoying the peace. Lovely.
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Post by: clarion on 25 December, 2012, 01:26:57 pm
Pottering between bike fettling, tidying up and browsing the internet for elusive KWC nuggets. 

Butterfly is dressed and cooking dinner :D
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Post by: Kim on 25 December, 2012, 01:35:09 pm
Watching the weather rapidly deteriorate.
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Post by: clarion on 25 December, 2012, 01:36:28 pm
While here in Londonton, the thunder, lightning, sleet and Biblical rain having been exhausted, the sun is out and there is blue sky.  Hope it lasts till we get out on the bike to Brixton.
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Post by: Kim on 25 December, 2012, 01:41:09 pm
It seems to be teriorating again for now.  Rainfall radar suggests that it won't last though.  Not sure if I can actually be arsed to go for a ride.
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Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2012, 01:47:09 pm
We've just managed a fresh 4 mile walk between downpours.  Very well timed indeed.
Rain radar is not so useful here as it is in Brum. 
In Brum you get a good picture of what's coming, or going.  Here, it looks like nothing's immediately on its way and then stuff just bubbles up out of nowhere.
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Post by: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 01:57:06 pm
Quote from: clarion on 25 December, 2012, 01:36:28 pm
While here in Londonton, the thunder, lightning, sleet and Biblical rain having been exhausted, the sun is out and there is blue sky.  Hope it lasts till we get out on the bike to Brixton.
If such skies remain I shall endeavour to haul my @§§  up the hill to the White Hart in Crystal Palace on the fixer for a fruit based drink with some friends.
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Post by: andrewc on 25 December, 2012, 02:47:34 pm
Now at parents for today & tomorrow. Had to go back to mine as I'd forgotten my wash bag with specs & contact lenses etc.
Hungry....
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Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2012, 03:11:22 pm
Just burnt my wrist basting the spuds.  Ow.
Oh well, at least it's traditional.  I do that every year.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 03:19:58 pm
Plotting a route to the Mill Hill NW7 for tomorrow.  In addition to no Tube, my host has just informed me there is no Thames Link either.  It's a choice of maybe getting a bit wet on the bike, or at least two hours using three buses - each way.

The trip home will be interesting.
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Post by: LindaG on 25 December, 2012, 05:30:17 pm
Having my breakfast.  Missing my kids.  Wondering what will face me tonight.
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Post by: Domestique on 25 December, 2012, 05:36:53 pm
Back from work, knackered, waiting for dinner, then do it all again in the morning.
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Post by: Thing2 on 25 December, 2012, 06:29:10 pm
Carefully watching the oven having just put the goose back in. The first attempt resulted in flaming fowl due to part of it overhanging the roasting dish, and dropping fat everywhere...  :o :o :o :o
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Post by: PaulF on 25 December, 2012, 06:32:39 pm
Digesting :)
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Post by: LindaG on 25 December, 2012, 06:33:59 pm
Setting off for work. Here we go again!  :)
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Post by: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 06:42:51 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 25 December, 2012, 06:33:59 pm
Setting off for work. Here we go again!  :)
Respect.
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Post by: L CC on 25 December, 2012, 06:43:50 pm
*belch*

Restraint? Not quite  :-\
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 25 December, 2012, 06:45:34 pm
Quote from: •ó°₩°ò• on 25 December, 2012, 11:59:44 am
Listening to Michael Bublé's Christmas cd....

.....and feeling my soul dying inside.
I had to endure the TV Buble special at my sister's. I could do so for 15 minutes then left. And, very generous as it was to invite me, had I known they'd all had the norovirus in the days leading up to today, I would've kept clear.
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Post by: mike on 25 December, 2012, 06:47:23 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 25 December, 2012, 06:43:50 pm
*belch*

Restraint? Not quite  :-\

+1. 
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 25 December, 2012, 07:47:15 pm
Digesting chocolate and wine having watched Dr Who and a Top Gear Bond cars special.

Considering more chocolate and wine.

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Post by: hellymedic on 25 December, 2012, 07:54:03 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 03:19:58 pm
Plotting a route to the Mill Hill NW7 for tomorrow.  In addition to no Tube, my host has just informed me there is no Thames Link either.  It's a choice of maybe getting a bit wet on the bike, or at least two hours using three buses - each way.

The trip home will be interesting.

113 from Marble Arch to Edgware goes through parts of NW7 and is pretty slick, sticking as it does to the A41.
Where's your host?
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Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 08:16:27 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 25 December, 2012, 07:54:03 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 03:19:58 pm
Plotting a route to the Mill Hill NW7 for tomorrow.  In addition to no Tube, my host has just informed me there is no Thames Link either.  It's a choice of maybe getting a bit wet on the bike, or at least two hours using three buses - each way.

The trip home will be interesting.

113 from Marble Arch to Edgware goes through parts of NW7 and is pretty slick, sticking as it does to the A41.
Where's your host?

My host is 5-10 min. walk from Mill Hill Broadway rail station.  I'm coming from E12.  IIRC the suggested buses were from here up to Walthamstow, then on towards Barnet, with the third bus getting me to within spitting distance of of her place.

Now that I'm done feeding I'm looking at maps again.  Heading up the A1 looks tempting, but exploring less busy options.
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Post by: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 08:35:02 pm
Waterproofs.

Bike.

Arrive to acclaim of 'hardcore'.

Journey home?

You're on your own (you'll be fine - just steer clear of the tube :P)
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Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2012, 08:57:34 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 08:35:02 pm
Journey home?

You're on your own (you'll be fine - just steer clear of the tube :P)

Not an issue tomorrow, 'thanks' to Bob Crow.  >:( >:( >:(
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Post by: jogler on 26 December, 2012, 09:09:11 am
I'm in recovery mode from yesterday's excess of food & drink ( all sorts of both).A recovery ride scoff seems like a good idea ;D
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Post by: BrianI on 26 December, 2012, 09:22:06 am
Having my pre gonna get wet in rain ride coffee. 
Rest of week is forecast gales and rain, so better get out today!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 December, 2012, 11:35:17 am
Today is our doing nothing but vegging and watching TV day. Christmas day we have loads of relies round and the TV doesn't get switched on and tomorrow we go visiting my parents and sister and her family. Today we gave a quite day, eat left overs and veg out. I shall find a nice old film to watch and see if it is possible to get sozzled just by eating chocolate liqueurs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 26 December, 2012, 11:47:33 am
I think the last few days/weeks/months caught up with me this morning.  I was convinced I'd only just heard the heating come on when MrsC asked if I was a 'nearly awake human' as it was twenty past nine!  The heating comes on at 6.40!
So I don't think we'll be doing a lot today. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 26 December, 2012, 11:56:06 am
One's having a little tiffin whiles watching Jonny Depp in Pitates of the Carribean 4 :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 December, 2012, 12:09:56 pm
Watching in astonishment at the quantity of water currently falling out of the sky.  :o
Will this never end?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 December, 2012, 01:23:07 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 26 December, 2012, 09:22:06 am
Having my pre gonna get wet in rain ride coffee. 
Rest of week is forecast gales and rain, so better get out today!   :thumbsup:

Now having a post ride chai tea.
No rain or anything!   :thumbsup: 46km in the bag.

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 26 December, 2012, 02:01:03 pm
Listening to Wiggo and Weller on 6 music.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 December, 2012, 02:06:38 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 December, 2012, 12:09:56 pm
Watching in astonishment at the quantity of water currently falling out of the sky.  :o
Will this never end?

This.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 26 December, 2012, 02:09:22 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 25 December, 2012, 08:35:02 pm
Waterproofs.

Bike.

Arrive to acclaim of 'hardcore'.

Journey home?

You're on your own (you'll be fine - just steer clear of the tube :P)

More to the point, steer clear of Brent Cross Torture Chamber, which will be mobbed by 'bargain'-chasing motorists.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 December, 2012, 02:23:06 pm
Quote from: Kim on 26 December, 2012, 02:06:38 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 December, 2012, 12:09:56 pm
Watching in astonishment at the quantity of water currently falling out of the sky.  :o
Will this never end?

This.

A tad damp in Liverpool as well.  Staying inside with a fat tortoiseshell moggy on my lap seems far more sensible than going out.

http://twitter.com/andrewxclark/status/283952098524160004/photo/1
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 26 December, 2012, 04:13:06 pm
No rain here - yet.

Tea and toast in bed. Leaving some crumbs so Crusty knows I was here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 26 December, 2012, 04:42:17 pm
Had my Mum and Stepdad round for traditional cold meat n mash boxing day meal. Now relaxing with a beer and comteplating a nice hot bath.

I'd like to get some miles in whilst I'm off work but the weather is, and forecast to be, absolutely poo. Both high winds and lot of rain.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 26 December, 2012, 04:54:02 pm
Eating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 December, 2012, 01:35:24 am
Considering what I shall eat to assist in the process of sobering up, considering all my local purveyors of greasy comestibles are shut.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 27 December, 2012, 10:23:19 am
I'm working, but at least I'm working at home. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 December, 2012, 11:00:43 am
Having a quiet day, TLD and Mrs T both have colds/sore throats and Mrs T's dad has norovirus so we are not going far, just in case.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 December, 2012, 11:46:56 am
Currently alternating between the following, in no particular order:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2012, 11:50:41 am
We have returned from the fracture clinic and Mrs. Wow has broken the habit of a lifetime along with her ankle, and is plastered before lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 December, 2012, 11:55:23 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2012, 11:50:41 am
We have returned from the fracture clinic and Mrs. Wow has broken the habit of a lifetime along with her ankle, and is plastered before lunch.
That's all very well, but what are they going to do about her ankle? <b'dum-tisssh>

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 27 December, 2012, 01:34:51 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 26 December, 2012, 01:23:07 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 26 December, 2012, 09:22:06 am
Having my pre gonna get wet in rain ride coffee. 
Rest of week is forecast gales and rain, so better get out today!   :thumbsup:

Now having a post ride chai tea.
No rain or anything!   :thumbsup: 46km in the bag.

 ;D

Were you on the A92 between Glenrothes & Freuchie?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 27 December, 2012, 03:44:23 pm
Nae cycling for me today.
Looks even icier than yesterday.
Main roads were OK yesterday, but back roads were icy, and got worse as the sun went down and the temperature sank from highs of +2 down to -3.

I've spent most of the day servicing 8 pairs of skis in the freezing garage.
Would have been quicker if one hadn't needed major ptex base repairs  :-\

Now warming up inside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 27 December, 2012, 03:55:11 pm
Surfing crud catcher site to see how to put the rear crud catcher back on...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 27 December, 2012, 04:32:37 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 27 December, 2012, 01:34:51 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 26 December, 2012, 01:23:07 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 26 December, 2012, 09:22:06 am
Having my pre gonna get wet in rain ride coffee. 
Rest of week is forecast gales and rain, so better get out today!   :thumbsup:

Now having a post ride chai tea.
No rain or anything!   :thumbsup: 46km in the bag.

 ;D

Were you on the A92 between Glenrothes & Freuchie?

Not me! I took in the delights of Kelty, Cleish (with the cool phone box library), then back home past Knockhill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 December, 2012, 05:51:57 pm
Finally enjoying a complete family.  #2 Son had to work Christmas Day and Boxing Day in Carmarthen.  I've just collected him and we are about to commence on Christmas Day Dinner number two.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 27 December, 2012, 06:09:39 pm
Quote from: Basil on 27 December, 2012, 05:51:57 pm
Finally enjoying a complete family.  #2 Son had to work Christmas Day and Boxing Day in Carmarthen.  I've just collected him and we are about to commence on Christmas Day Dinner number two.  :thumbsup:

Have a lovely time with your family Basil.

I'm tent shopping.  Our car camping tent has given up the ghost and wants replaced.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 December, 2012, 09:34:26 pm
Enjoying the hospitality in Virgin first class.    :thumbsup:

Train is rather late though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 27 December, 2012, 09:40:18 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 27 December, 2012, 06:09:39 pm
Quote from: Basil on 27 December, 2012, 05:51:57 pm
Finally enjoying a complete family.  #2 Son had to work Christmas Day and Boxing Day in Carmarthen.  I've just collected him and we are about to commence on Christmas Day Dinner number two.  :thumbsup:

Have a lovely time with your family Basil.

I'm tent shopping.  Our car camping tent has given up the ghost and wants replaced.

Oooh. What are you getting? :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 27 December, 2012, 09:48:53 pm
Wondering if the answer is "more beer."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 December, 2012, 09:53:31 pm
Sounds like a likely answer to me  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 27 December, 2012, 09:54:31 pm
Quote from: Julian on 27 December, 2012, 09:48:53 pm
Wondering if the answer is "more beer."

Depends on the question* but it usually is.



* - If the question was "Would you like more beer or some Gevrey Chambertin?" then the answer would be different.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 December, 2012, 09:55:44 pm
If you can pronounce the words intelligibly that's usually a good answer  ;)

Unless you are working tomorrow....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 27 December, 2012, 09:58:46 pm
Huh? I can't find many tents that meet my specs at all really. I just want the old tent but without the holes in the seams.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 December, 2012, 10:09:40 pm
I am faffing on the internet because I should be doing housework.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 December, 2012, 11:25:07 pm
Whereas I'm faffing on the internet because I've got an audax o'clock start in the morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 December, 2012, 11:27:46 pm
I'm going for the ultimate procrastination technique.

It involves henna.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 December, 2012, 11:30:59 pm
I considered that one earlier, actually, but decided I'd save it for something to do while not being able to ride a bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 December, 2012, 11:35:20 pm
Browsing used art books* on Ebay, and wondering why the sidebar is showing me a badge saying 'i love my rampant rabbit vibrator"  ???

* no, not that sort of "art"....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 27 December, 2012, 11:55:17 pm
Eating Thornton's, drinking Leffe Ruby with Black Grouse chasers (might be the other way round) and watching 'The Men Who Stare at Goats', having already watched 'Apollo 13' and eaten a curry from the Tandoori Plaza in Heywood

I iz phat . . .

And I have no idea about your ebay page Andrew.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 December, 2012, 11:59:34 pm
I appear to have green-stinky-camel-poo on my head.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 December, 2012, 10:07:30 am
Basking in the warm glow of having fixed all the minor stuff my not boss wrote over the paper (i.e. not screeds of red pen) and knowing I can relax for the rest of the holidays :)
Thinking I might go back to bed to let my porridge digest enough to go to the gym.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 December, 2012, 10:37:10 am
Cleaning.

Dull dull dull dull.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 December, 2012, 10:43:27 am
I just picked Zev and Kai up from the cattery, and they're busy wandering about the house checking things out, with occasional little questioning meows!

I really need to hit the house tornado fashion, it's suffered from even more lax housework than usual in the lead up to Christmas, followed by a couple of days finding stuff for Christmas travel, and wrapping up parcels.  The state of disarray is not good, and that's even by my somewhat easy going standards. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 December, 2012, 12:21:42 pm
Putting off moving bikes around to get to my Romany to finish the fettling I started before Christmas :-\

Lunchtime, I think.

But I'll put some socks on first, as my feet are getting cold.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 28 December, 2012, 01:01:37 pm
Time slicing.
I am trying to tidy up the garage with the eventual aim of putting new shelves in and throwing out a lot of the junk we've acquired over the last decade or so.
I am also copy typing my diary (such as it is) from a series of notebooks (which were always intended to be temporary) on the computer.
This might not be the most efficient way of completing either task, but the after effects of last night (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=45576.msg1385243#msg1385243) have reduced my concentration and will power somewhat. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 December, 2012, 01:06:28 pm
Still cleaning.

Still dull.
Title: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 28 December, 2012, 01:35:59 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 December, 2012, 01:06:28 pm
Still cleaning.

Still dull.
We won't be able to alleviate that for you, sorry. You'll have to make do with waves till the hostelling weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 28 December, 2012, 01:40:04 pm
Sorting, filing and deleting emails.  I've reduced my Inbox from 3,500 to 150 and my Sent items from 6,300 to 980!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 December, 2012, 02:06:14 pm
Having a little sit down, having made a veggie shepherd's pie, a pot of dhal and an apple crumble, and hoping bobb will be so pleased with the food he won't notice the flat is filthy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 December, 2012, 02:36:58 pm
Converting some films* with Handbrake and copying them to a SD card so I can watch them on my tablet.

*In now real order, they are:
All About My Mother
Barcelona
Biutiful
The Amazing Spiderman
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Pitch Perfect
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 December, 2012, 03:08:52 pm
Not cleaning.

Laundry.

Almost as dull!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 December, 2012, 03:11:11 pm
Waiting for the Android SDK to finish downloading onto the newly fettled Babbage Engine, whilst at the same time sorting out various bits of electronic componentry to list on fleaBay.

If it's still dry out in an hour or so, I'm heading out for a ride otherwise it'll be an hour on the turbo in front of the telly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 December, 2012, 03:24:31 pm
Wondering if we'll be sent home early today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Karla on 28 December, 2012, 03:45:40 pm
Primary Components Analysis.  It's a  mindf*ck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 December, 2012, 04:41:51 pm
Being in a really good mood.  No, seriously.  I am. 

I don't have to go to work for nearly a week.

Coincidence?  Who knows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 December, 2012, 04:43:45 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 28 December, 2012, 03:24:31 pm
Wondering if we'll be sent home early today.

Obviously not.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 December, 2012, 08:28:03 pm
Manually calculating sector boundaries and partitioning a hard drive remotely while recovering from a general anaesthetic and stoned on tramadol.  I may have found the sysadmin equivalent of the Ballmer Peak.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 December, 2012, 08:47:54 pm
Recovering from a rather long drive with the last of the Beer before Dry January.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 December, 2012, 08:55:06 pm
I could do with a dry January, but it's nothing to do with alcohol consumption. I'm just pissed off with all this rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 28 December, 2012, 10:04:03 pm
Eating all the chocolate biscuits while Chris is in the bath.

Rock & Roll.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 December, 2012, 10:08:13 pm
Quote from: boabacca on 28 December, 2012, 10:04:03 pm
Eating all the chocolate biscuits while Chris is in the bath.

Rock & Roll.

Ah well. I'm drinking all the beer, so there  :).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 December, 2012, 02:16:46 pm
Ah... more food/drink related stuff.

I'm listening to boab making, and waiting patiently for, brunch.

Brunch - it's breakfast, but with booze  :thumbsup:
</homer>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 December, 2012, 03:56:22 pm
Booking hotels! First night of tour now sorted!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 29 December, 2012, 04:05:12 pm
Quote from: Mr Bunbury on 28 December, 2012, 03:45:40 pm
Primary Components Analysis.  It's a  mindf*ck.

Is that different to principal component analysis?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Karla on 29 December, 2012, 04:23:23 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 29 December, 2012, 04:05:12 pm
Quote from: Mr Bunbury on 28 December, 2012, 03:45:40 pm
Primary Components Analysis.  It's a  mindf*ck.

Is that different to principal component analysis?

I think that amply demonstrates the state of my mind post PCA   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 29 December, 2012, 04:49:09 pm
Downloading camera apps for my Samsung phone whilst listening to Bobby Womack on
Gilles Peterson's Radio 6 show.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 December, 2012, 06:36:20 pm
Drinking coffee & listening to Chapelle du Roi performing works by Thomas Tallis.   

The flat is _not quite_ clean and tidy, but I can see the floor again.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 29 December, 2012, 06:38:13 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 29 December, 2012, 06:36:20 pm
Drinking coffee & listening to Chapelle du Roi performing works by Thomas Tallis.   

The flat is _not quite_ clean and tidy, but I can see the floor again.......

Great stuff, Andrew (the music, not the floor).  Did you hear Style Antico on the radio just before Christmas?  Excellent non-warbling reformation stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2012, 06:53:24 pm
Drinking ESB whilst grilling sausages.

Does life get any better?  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 December, 2012, 06:57:17 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2012, 06:53:24 pm
Drinking ESB whilst grilling sausages.

Does life get any better?  :P

Drinking ESB whilst cooking sausages at a gorgeous, sunwarmed campsite.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 December, 2012, 07:08:32 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 29 December, 2012, 06:57:17 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2012, 06:53:24 pm
Drinking ESB whilst grilling sausages.

Does life get any better?  :P

Drinking ESB whilst cooking sausages at a gorgeous, sunwarmed campsite.....

... camped next to the Stockholm Naturists Ladies choir, away on their holihobs and getting ready for a sing song.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 December, 2012, 07:47:48 pm
Watching Superstars on BBC1.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 29 December, 2012, 07:49:01 pm
Watching You've Been Framed.  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 December, 2012, 08:38:05 pm
Retro-fettling a Bluetooth radio onto my Mk.1 GPS logger/tracker - a run of The Big Bang Theory has just finished on E4 so there's no reason for me to watch the telly any more tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 December, 2012, 08:47:04 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 29 December, 2012, 07:49:01 pm
Watching You've Been Framed.  :hand:

Is that still going?  I'd have thought YouTube would have made it redundant.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 December, 2012, 09:00:54 pm
Quote from: Kim on 29 December, 2012, 08:47:04 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 29 December, 2012, 07:49:01 pm
Watching You've Been Framed.  :hand:

Is that still going?  I'd have thought YouTube would have made it redundant.
Sadly not, especially as it now means that there are shows devoted to the bottom 10% of YouTube ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 30 December, 2012, 08:30:17 am
Listening to wind and rain.   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2012, 10:07:52 am
Also listening to wind and looking at frost, and thinking that I shall go to the gym while that penguin goes out on his bike, for I am clearly a wuss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 30 December, 2012, 10:16:19 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2012, 10:07:52 am
Also listening to wind and looking at frost, and thinking that I shall go to the gym while that penguin goes out on his bike, for I am clearly a wuss.

I have opted to stay in bed whilst clarion is out for a ride today, so even wussier!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2012, 10:21:28 am
Tending to the injured.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 30 December, 2012, 10:43:08 am
How is the patient?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2012, 11:16:26 am
Not a model one. Complaining a lot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 30 December, 2012, 11:20:29 am
Aww :(. Poor Mrs Wow. (and you!)

I hope she feels better soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 30 December, 2012, 11:39:05 am
Jibbling photos from the windows and Death ride. 
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 December, 2012, 12:10:00 pm
Sitting in a Thames side hostelry in Richmond with clarion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 30 December, 2012, 12:13:31 pm
Digesting bacon, eggs & toast.  Wondering whether or not to have a 2nd coffee.   :)

Putting off fettling my leaky track pump...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 30 December, 2012, 12:20:55 pm
Applying the baby oil prior to heading south on teh shiny one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 December, 2012, 01:51:04 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 30 December, 2012, 08:30:17 am
Listening to wind and rain.   >:(
This.
Although much more of the latter than the former.
The main reason I'm not going out, apart from being a wuss, is that having had a touch of the lurgy over Ch******s, the last thing I want is to get soaked and catch another cold.

There's also the fact that a large chunk of the route I'd use is currently underwater.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 30 December, 2012, 01:55:11 pm
Feeling smug that I mucked out the chickens *before* it began heaving with rain. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2012, 02:19:50 pm
Being bloody knackered.
3 weeks with no exercise and a bit of lurgy in between is a long time apparently.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 30 December, 2012, 02:39:36 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 30 December, 2012, 12:20:55 pm
Applying the baby oil prior to heading south on teh shiny one.

<euphemism boggle overload>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 December, 2012, 04:02:05 pm
Eating Marj's chocolates
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 December, 2012, 04:03:09 pm
Cooking curry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 30 December, 2012, 04:22:13 pm
Quote from: jogler on 30 December, 2012, 04:02:05 pm
Eating Marj's chocolates
Eating MrsC's chocolates (we shared a box of Green and Black's mini-bars and she's given me her almond one as she doesn't really like nuts.

[size=pt]OK, why did she marry me then?[/size]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 30 December, 2012, 06:27:36 pm
Watching the Queen in 3D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 31 December, 2012, 07:31:54 am
Getting ready to drive 120 miles each way to see a panto….. (it starts at 1.30pm!)


Oh yes I am!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 31 December, 2012, 07:37:53 am
Pondering the yearly gas & elec usage which Ive logged on imeasure http://imeasure.org.uk (http://imeasure.org.uk)

1,866KW of electrickery
5,937KW of gasserage

Which according to the website gives my abode an energy efficiency rating of E   >:(
Must do better in 2013!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jon P on 31 December, 2012, 07:57:06 am
Quote from: essexian on 31 December, 2012, 07:31:54 am
Getting ready to drive 120 miles each way to see a panto….. (it starts at 1.30pm!)


Oh yes I am!
This always strikes me, eg even organisations with 'green' credentials totally rely on or actively encourage tourism, which necessarily involves burning up vast amounts of fossil fuels and therefore contributing to the ongoing wrecking of the planet - we all do it, I'm happy enough to accept lifts to get around when available when the only alternative is the train.  Most people I know, ie affluent baby-boomers, think nothing of driving around all weekend every weekend like there's no tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 31 December, 2012, 10:02:30 am
Quote from: BrianI on 31 December, 2012, 07:37:53 am
Pondering the yearly gas & elec usage which Ive logged on imeasure http://imeasure.org.uk (http://imeasure.org.uk)

1,866KW of electrickery
5,937KW of gasserage

Which according to the website gives my abode an energy efficiency rating of E   >:(
Must do better in 2013!

You can't get the energy efficiency of your house from your consumption.  Consumption as much to do with how you use it, as the efficiency of the house.  You are doing pretty well on consumption, in our 1930's 2 bed house with 2 people and a messy dog in it, we managed 1850KWh of elec, and 8332 of gas.  We are far from profligate, and well below the national average, which is as well considering I work as an energy efficiency officer.  Average combined energy bills seem to be well over £1200 these days.  I do wonder what some people do with it...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 31 December, 2012, 10:42:05 am
Eating eggy bread and fried tomatoes with the childer in 'another room'
Nemone on't radio.
Prolly about 3 mins peace left...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 December, 2012, 11:49:31 am
Prepping a certain yellow bicycle1 for tomorrow's NYD ride (putting air in tyres, hacking some kind of luggage carrying capability onto it etc.)

1 - as opposed to one that's orange, green or has comically fat tyres.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 December, 2012, 11:52:06 am
That reminds me, IZ, I need to put mudguards on the Ridley ready for tomorrow (I don't fancy riding the Inbred tomorrow and although the forecast is for no rain the roads are still going to be wet)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 December, 2012, 11:58:43 am
Waiting for the grill to turn bread into toast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 31 December, 2012, 12:25:41 pm
I've come into work to check the post & emails for 'stuff that shouldn't wait till we're back on Monday' and am now procrastinating as badly as when they pay me to work.

O well. At least there's pies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 31 December, 2012, 01:33:53 pm
Whilst boab is out eating pies working really hard, I'm tidying the flat, doing laundry, planning a ride, washing up, fettling an unhappy tandem, and fretting about Dry January.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 31 December, 2012, 02:30:56 pm
Drinking my second bottle of bud, to the magnoliettes horror.
They are making olivers roasted vegie vindaloo for later, under my clear direction. Well, its currently clear. I think they are worried about the next 12 hours or so...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 December, 2012, 02:53:38 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 31 December, 2012, 11:52:06 am
That reminds me, IZ, I need to put mudguards on the Ridley ready for tomorrow (I don't fancy riding the Inbred tomorrow and although the forecast is for no rain the roads are still going to be wet)
Unfortunately, I'm going to have to be 'that guy' and ride guardless, particularly as I want to do this ride on the fixed and taking the mudguards off the orange bike is a non-trivial task.

An attempted fettle to purchase and fit mudguards was an epic failure 'cos the LBS is shut today - guess I should have checked their opening times first  :facepalm:
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2012, 03:04:28 pm
Sitting in Bold St Coffee, eating a cheese & bacon panini and drinking Columbian pour over.

Bagged a nice jacket & pair of trousers in the M&S sale, then hit Tesco just as they were moving all their good meat to the reduced counter. I'm not going to have room in the freezer!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 31 December, 2012, 04:12:57 pm
I'm supposed to be making sure that we're all ready for the morris team's New Year's Eve party.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 31 December, 2012, 06:15:57 pm
Trying to find my spoke key. It's hiding, and I really need to do something about the flappy spokes in my rear wheel. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 December, 2012, 07:08:00 pm
@Phanta, it's behind ths sofa!

I am drinking San Miguel and watching Tintin.

As I have said elsewhere I shall, later, be having a drop of Catalan red to toast future tours and a drop of Calvados in memory of the best week of this year!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 December, 2012, 07:31:36 pm
We were supposed to be going to a neighbour's house for drinks but Miss Z the younger has thrown a strop and gone to bed early, so I am babysitting while Mrs Z and Miss Z the elder go  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2012, 07:47:40 pm
So Roger's browsing smut on the internet.

I have just eaten bacon butties and a bowl of chicken soup and I'm now consuming a large mug of tea whilst marvelling smugly at the wonder of the Internet and this forum: in the space of 15 minutes a ride was born, complete with pub stop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 31 December, 2012, 07:48:50 pm
Looking longingly at the bottle of 15yo The Glenlivet that #3 has just given me for christmas.   Must resist...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2012, 07:54:59 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 31 December, 2012, 07:48:50 pm
Looking longingly at the bottle of 15yo The Glenlivet that #3 has just given me for christmas.   Must resist...

 Surely any New Year non drinking resolutions are not operative until midnight  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 31 December, 2012, 09:02:25 pm
Keeping an eye on the 15 teenagers who are having a new years eve party in my house
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 31 December, 2012, 09:04:13 pm
Reflecting.2012 really was very different to how I thought it would be.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 31 December, 2012, 09:08:45 pm
Bon courage Lady C.

I am also hoping for a better year next year. I'm spending some quality time with my journal tonight. Deciding whether blue/black or brown ink is more appropriate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: John Henry on 31 December, 2012, 09:13:26 pm
Contemplating the fact that in under three hours, my wife will be saying 'you turn 40 this year!'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2012, 09:27:54 pm
Looking at a 1/2 empty glass of Chianti and thinking I really shouldn't open another bottle.... ::-)

Hark! The first firework has just gone off outside.

2012 was an OK year for me, 2 good tours, family were OK.  Work is crap and may get crapper in 2013, if I don't lose the job I'm doing, I'll have to take over the workload from colleagues who lose theirs.  I don't think I'm in immediate danger of the dole queue though.

A dear friend had some terrible times this year  :(  , hopefully 2013 will be better for her.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2012, 09:29:21 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 31 December, 2012, 09:08:45 pm

I am also hoping for a better year next year. I'm spending some quality time with my journal tonight. Deciding whether blue/black or brown ink is more appropriate.

I have some Diamine "Sepia" which is rather lovely, kind of a golden brown colour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 31 December, 2012, 09:43:00 pm
I'm topless.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 31 December, 2012, 09:47:55 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 31 December, 2012, 09:43:00 pm
I'm topless.

You've lost your hat in the wind?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 31 December, 2012, 09:51:20 pm
Lying under a duvet, with the cat watching 2012s greatest Olympic moments. In peace whilst everyone else is out at a party. i'm so rock n roll.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2012, 09:56:54 pm
Just finished the Chianti, whilst reading "Quicksilver" and listening to PJ Harvey at anti social volumes..
Life is good...   :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 December, 2012, 11:25:52 pm
Watching Hootenany, looks like a half decent line up this year. Currently jools and his orchestra with Betty Levene.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2012, 11:28:05 pm
Preparing a bike for tomorrow's ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: arvid on 31 December, 2012, 11:30:31 pm
Waiting for the noise to stop so I can sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2012, 11:31:11 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2012, 11:28:05 pm
Preparing a bike for tomorrow's ride.

Anyone would think this was a cycling forum ........ ::-)

I fear that if I was to ride my velocipede tomorrow I may end up with some blue suited chap asking me to blow into something....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2012, 11:32:55 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 31 December, 2012, 11:31:11 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2012, 11:28:05 pm
Preparing a bike for tomorrow's ride.

Anyone would think this was a cycling forum ........ ::-)

I fear that if I was to ride my velocipede tomorrow I may end up with some blue suited chap asking me to blow into something....
I haven't had any alcohol today. I shall have a wee dram on the stroke of midnight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ferret on 31 December, 2012, 11:48:10 pm
waiting to go to bed,
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2012, 11:56:47 pm
Charging a glass.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 January, 2013, 12:08:23 am
Standing outside in the cold watching fireworks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 01 January, 2013, 12:57:20 am
Finishing off some Chambord'd bubbles whilst thinking I ought to get some sleep if I'm to get up for my 8am bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 January, 2013, 01:00:51 am
Reading the Guardian. WTF? NFN?  Oompa Loompas sought over assault (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/31/oompa-loompas-sought-city-assault)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2013, 08:39:57 am
Quote from: andrewc on 01 January, 2013, 01:00:51 am
Reading the Guardian. WTF? NFN?  Oompa Loompas sought over assault (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/31/oompa-loompas-sought-city-assault)
They sound more like vermicious knids to me.

I have:-

had breakfast, tended the injured, set off the dish washer and washing machine, done some hand washing up, provided Mrs. Wow with numerous clean articles of clothing the precise nature of which I shan't divulge in public and left her a flask of near-boiling water so that she can make herself coffee without boiling the kettle.

In about 20 minutes I shall make for the train. I could set off for Wickford by bike and get there in time, but ICBA and it's only £4.15 return whereas it's £4.25 for a single ticket. That would mean I would actually be wasting money to go one way only.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 January, 2013, 08:59:00 am
Going back to bed.
Had next to no sleep thanks to the local yoof and their bloody fireworks so I'm now in sleep-catchup mode.

I should be getting ready for a ride but my brain has other ideas  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 01 January, 2013, 09:04:58 am
I'm just off to church
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 January, 2013, 10:47:41 am
Watching the birdies at my brother's and willing the sqrl to appear.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 01 January, 2013, 10:50:42 am
Sitting on the sofa, looking at beautiful blue skies and thinking I should have found some oomph to go out, but failing that, I can hang the blanket that has just finished washing on the line, which is nearly as good :D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 January, 2013, 10:56:42 am
Eating a bowl of cereal & drinking coffee.

It's dry & the sun has come out, so a short urban bimble may happen, just so I can say I've been out!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 01 January, 2013, 11:20:07 am
Wasting away another day, without Margaritas, waving to AWL, preparing for a short visit to Hatton Farm inna car, the sum total of the day's activity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 01 January, 2013, 11:33:06 am
Eating cold pizza for breakfast and drinking hot tea. I did not make my 8am ride as only just awake but will get out by lunchtime and do a few miles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 01 January, 2013, 11:34:53 am
Just having a post NHS Couch to 5K week 7 run 1 coffee.
I wonder if I should sign up for Park Run this year? 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 01 January, 2013, 01:51:35 pm
About to go to B&Q for a speculative wander around the hardware sections, to see what they've got that I can use as tie-down points on the trailer.  I could drill some more holes in it, but I'm worried that this would weaken it, and usage could cause more damage.  There must be something which I can bolt to the underside, and which can then easily attach things like rope, bungees and strapping to.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 January, 2013, 01:56:11 pm
Partaking of an extremely late breakfast having a) caught up on the sleep I didn't get last night and b) just finished an hour on the turbo. I'm still tired, but in a good way this time.

I'm still monumentally pissed off that I wasn't able to go on the NYD ride (in fairness, if I had gone I'd have been truly miserable company1) and even more pissed off that some bastard was still letting fireworks off at 9.30am ... FFS, why?!

1 - well, more miserable than usual.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 01 January, 2013, 01:59:00 pm
Quote from: interzen on 01 January, 2013, 01:56:11 pm
Partaking of an extremely late breakfast having a) caught up on the sleep I didn't get last night and b) just finished an hour on the turbo. I'm still tired, but in a good way this time.

I'm still monumentally pissed off that I wasn't able to go on the NYD ride (in fairness, if I had gone I'd have been truly miserable company1) and even more pissed off that some bastard was still letting fireworks off at 9.30am ... FFS, why?!

1 - well, more miserable than usual.

Because she/he couldn't find the matches till they'd sobered up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 January, 2013, 02:01:14 pm
Quote from: Peter on 01 January, 2013, 01:59:00 pm
Because she/he couldn't find the matches till they'd sobered up.
There's probably more truth in that than you think ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 01 January, 2013, 02:05:31 pm
Delaying writing my essay...
Didn't go for a ride (glorious day) as have been battling a cold that kept me from work over the last 6 days. (Can't work with blocked ears)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 January, 2013, 03:12:08 pm
Feeling knackered.
Today I have:
Pruned 6 apple trees (3 of them espalier style) and one pear tree.
Completed the chopping and sawing of my collection of small logs and stacked them under cover for winter 2013/2014.  This is the stuff I find locally on walks etc.  Anything over 3" dia.  They are for starting the fire before the big logs go on.
Walked the dog and Mrs. B for 5 miles.
Not cycled at all.  So I am already behind my target for the year.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 01 January, 2013, 06:01:37 pm
Cooking, doing my accounts and faffing about beautifying my immigration blog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 January, 2013, 03:38:12 am
  Not sleeping. No point trying to turn my sleep cycle round now. Back on nightshift from tomorrow.
This is so not funny.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 January, 2013, 04:55:04 am
Coughing and sneezing.    :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 02 January, 2013, 03:25:01 pm
Cleaning my oven. Rock and roll  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 02 January, 2013, 08:38:54 pm
1. I am scoffing Chinese carry out and beer, and wondering if I'm supposed to be drinking the beer after, or before, the red wine. (I've had the wine already, so it's too late)
2. Mrs m is at ikea, buying stuff that will fill the space we created in today's clear out...
3. I am wondering if it can really be true that I have to go to work again tomorrow while the rest of the crew lozzack in their pits?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 02 January, 2013, 10:15:51 pm
Drinking a gin and tonic.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 03 January, 2013, 12:10:04 am
Suffering from bottom plague. 

Unpleasantness hidden behind spoiler tags.  It's horrible.

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 03 January, 2013, 04:15:13 pm
Just finishing off a 25,000 year journey through the UK's landscape history. Just fettled together nice illustrative time lines using inkscape.   :D
Interesting stuff this college course!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 January, 2013, 06:05:13 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 03 January, 2013, 12:10:04 am
Suffering from bottom plague. 

Unpleasantness hidden behind spoiler tags.  It's horrible.

(click to show/hide)
Ah, this seems like the perfect time to mention the now Legendary (the capital letter is justified, believe me!) Singletrack Picolax ThreadTM - http://singletrackworld.com/2009/02/the-picolax-thread-returns/ ;D

(if you're feeling delicate of bowel still, read this whilst sitting on the throne. Seriously!)

Anyhoo ...

Currently I am waiting for Windoze 7 to download the usual interminable numbers of updates it requires now that I've (re)installed everything on my spankingly new, super-duper, monolith-like 256Gb SSD.

I still need to transfer various virtual machine images off my NAS, but that can wait until the updates have finished and I can have a thrash on the turbo whilst everything is copying over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 January, 2013, 07:16:01 pm
Applying tactical Scotchlite to barakta's recently-repaired hearing aid.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 January, 2013, 10:44:12 pm
Listening to The Clash after "tidying up" the cupboard where the tools, bike stuff and camping gear live.

Does any man really need 3 sleeping bags ?  Or 3 tents ?   And WTF am I doing with a hairdryer ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 January, 2013, 10:49:39 pm
Given that the weather theme for 2013 hasn't been established yet, any of those items may turn out to be useful....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 January, 2013, 10:56:55 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 January, 2013, 10:49:39 pm
Given that the weather theme for 2013 hasn't been established yet, any of those items may turn out to be useful....

When the apocalyptic floods drown Birmingham, Barakta, yourself and other survivors can be snug and warm in tents pitched on my 4th floor balcony, and dry your hair via an extension cord  :thumbsup:

If _my_ place ever gets flooded we'll need an Ark.    "B" version of course.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 03 January, 2013, 11:57:44 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 January, 2013, 07:16:01 pm
Applying tactical Scotchlite to barakta's recently-repaired hearing aid.

Wise woman! I applied tactical Scotchlite to tyre levers to aid retrieval after nocturnal faerie visits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 January, 2013, 12:19:05 am
Quote from: hellymedic on 03 January, 2013, 11:57:44 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 January, 2013, 07:16:01 pm
Applying tactical Scotchlite to barakta's recently-repaired hearing aid.

Wise woman! I applied tactical Scotchlite to tyre levers to aid retrieval after nocturnal faerie visits.

Exactly that.

The thing about a BAHA is that it's black[1], expensive, completely non-waterproof and attached to a quick-release mechanism in order to prevent skull injury during jumper removals, DAI-cable-forgettings or over-enthusiastic hugs.  This makes it a pingfuckit of the highest order.  Of course, it usually starts feeding back when pingfuckited, but if you can hear well enough to direction-find that, you probably don't need one...

A little bit of black Scotchlite on the sides is hardly noticeable in normal light, but has proven to work wonders when lurking under a desk.


[1] NHS beige is also available.  It makes bus drivers speak clearly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 January, 2013, 01:14:04 am
Having packed, and showered, and collected christmas gifts together, and laid out clothes for the morning, and ensured all necessary electronics are stealing barrovian electrons, and set an alarm... I _think_ we are ready for a quick getaway from the ex-iCLs tomorrow after breakfast so I'm off to bed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 04 January, 2013, 07:11:41 am
Looking for new jobs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 04 January, 2013, 07:37:30 am
The early commute.  First time since September 20th 2007.

I need a bike for this - 13 miles each way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 04 January, 2013, 09:58:22 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 04 January, 2013, 07:11:41 am
Looking for new jobs.
Good luck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 January, 2013, 11:31:02 am
Suffering from man-flu, again, and listening to "Around the World by Bicycle" by Thomas Stevens, on audiobook from Librevox.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 January, 2013, 12:55:22 pm
Trying to figure out how to get to somewhere in deepest Norway by a Sunday evening without having the leave Aberdeen on Saturday.
I might *just* be able to do it, but it would involve leaving the 'deen at 0530 Sun and going via Frankfurt ???

Nothing like having conferences in places that are easy to get to.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 04 January, 2013, 01:07:17 pm
Trying not to snigger at the fact that I have just ordered a new Smeg dishwasher.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXKlC8ph7mM
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GrahamG on 04 January, 2013, 01:38:08 pm
Trying to shake off the caffeine overdose
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 January, 2013, 06:25:50 pm
Waiting for that penguin to come and model his (replacement) xmas pressie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 04 January, 2013, 08:25:53 pm
Drinking sake.
Essay finished. I can celebrate...  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 January, 2013, 08:27:50 pm
As I can't pack while eating dinner I'm rebuilding my laptop.(OS install on new drive, restore backup).  Priorities, eh?  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 04 January, 2013, 11:53:42 pm
Lunch break.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 05 January, 2013, 01:36:28 am
I just finished reorganising my study bike room into a new layout that accommodates at least 4 bikes and all their accessories in there while allowing me to get at everything. I created 2 bin bags of stuff for charity in the process. I really ought to consider selling some of the bike stuff I'm not using and will probably never use again.

It feels good to have a purge and I now have room in there for n+2  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 January, 2013, 09:06:06 am
My washerdryer packed in on Tuesday so I'm spending Saturday morning in the launderette. W00t.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 January, 2013, 09:15:23 am
My washing machine is perfectly functional but I'm still tempted to take the laundry to the launderette. Nothing beats handing over sticky clothes and picking them up washed dried and folded several hours later.

(auto corrected stinky to sticky, but y' know, it still works.)

Right now I'm nursing the back ache that has returned with my return home. Can you get psychosomatic back pain?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2013, 09:20:16 am
I am drinking coffee at Shenfield station.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 January, 2013, 11:12:31 am
I just temporarily moved a second bike into the bathroom, and got a bookshelf up the stairs onto the landing, until I can clear some space in one of the bedrooms for it (and I can't get the bikes out of the bathroom until it's shifted, so that's an incentive to sort the bedroom out!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 05 January, 2013, 12:04:09 pm
Trying to find somewhere that has the Carradice Bagman 2 Expedition QR in stock, everywhere seems to be sold out. A few of the sport version about but not sure if my Nelson will fit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 January, 2013, 12:15:38 pm
Wondering if I should join the Soroptimists. I think my feminism should include working to make the lives of women and girls better.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 January, 2013, 12:49:26 pm
Just about to fit a new SATA card into my desktop machine, then I'm off out for a spin on the Green Machine.

Methinks there will be mud  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 January, 2013, 01:15:43 pm
Just finishing my post lunch coffee.

Then the joys of finishing off starting a college essay which is due in on thursday.....   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 05 January, 2013, 01:30:02 pm
Listening to men with chainsaws cutting down our walnut tree.  :'(
It was the wrong tree in the wrong place, but I will miss it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 05 January, 2013, 02:45:49 pm
Procrastinating. I'm reading a book on Astro Navigation (and trying to decide whether I should buy a sextant) instead of getting on with writing 4.5 hours of workshops for students to experience programming.

..d
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: veloboy on 05 January, 2013, 02:48:18 pm
Sitting in my local SE London pub, consoling myself over a failed LEL entry!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 05 January, 2013, 02:48:28 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 05 January, 2013, 02:45:49 pm
Procrastinating. I'm reading a book on Astro Navigation (and trying to decide whether I should buy a sextant) instead of getting on with writing 4.5 hours of workshops for students to experience programming.

..d

If you're asking that question, you should get one.

Then set your students some navigational problems to code up...
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: veloboy on 05 January, 2013, 02:49:05 pm
The beer (here) is really good though (as is the Whitebait!) :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 January, 2013, 02:54:13 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 05 January, 2013, 02:48:28 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 05 January, 2013, 02:45:49 pm
Procrastinating. I'm reading a book on Astro Navigation (and trying to decide whether I should buy a sextant) instead of getting on with writing 4.5 hours of workshops for students to experience programming.

..d

If you're asking that question, you should get one.

Then set your students some navigational problems to code up...

Excellent answer!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: interzen on 05 January, 2013, 03:31:59 pm
Washing large chunks of North Yorkshire off both myself and the bike.

I think my next ride out will be on Pugsley ...
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Post by: reddo on 05 January, 2013, 03:32:59 pm
@BrianI, I guess you don't want to hear about me finishing an essay that's due on Tues? No, I thought not.

Right now? Uploading my first ride of the year to strava. A nice pleasant little jaunt in the countryside.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: De Sisti on 05 January, 2013, 04:13:46 pm
Cooking lasagna, boiled potatoes and red cabbage.
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Post by: tiermat on 05 January, 2013, 04:19:00 pm
Taking our Xmas decos down, that's it folks, over for another year :)
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 05 January, 2013, 04:54:34 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 05 January, 2013, 04:19:00 pm
Taking our Xmas decos down, that's it folks, over for another year :)

Same here. I much prefer putting them up to taking them down...
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Post by: mr magnolia on 05 January, 2013, 04:56:14 pm
Just down from the loft having put them away again here too. House looks bare.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 January, 2013, 05:07:28 pm
Recovering from 1st 'proper' ride since the 10th of Nov, having had 90 mins sleep with my cat. I'm pooped  :-[
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Post by: tiermat on 05 January, 2013, 05:38:49 pm
Now ripping a couple of DVDs for watching on my tablet.

Today's choices are Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) and The Bicycle Thieves.
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Post by: L CC on 05 January, 2013, 05:52:30 pm
Ironing.

Just so's we have a second heat source.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 05 January, 2013, 05:55:39 pm
Quote from: mr magnolia on 05 January, 2013, 04:56:14 pm
Just down from the loft having put them away again here too. House looks bare.

Our living room does feel bigger today!
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Post by: Ewan Houzami on 06 January, 2013, 08:33:55 am
Degassing 5 gallons of pinot noir.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2013, 09:03:14 am
Spodding on here when I should be tidying the kitchen.
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Post by: Wombat on 06 January, 2013, 11:05:07 am
Quote from: tiermat on 05 January, 2013, 05:38:49 pm
Now ripping a couple of DVDs for watching on my tablet.

Today's choices are Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) and The Bicycle Thieves.

Being really dense, but what software, and what file format do you use for doing that?  I haven't even got around to seeing about recording stuff from iplayer to watch later.  I really musyt apply myself to that.  I miss the days when it was easy to crack your own (as in, I bought it, I want to watch it on more than one device of my own) protected DVD and write a copy that missed off all the crap, so you could just watch the film without 15 irrelevant trailers and a load of crap.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 January, 2013, 11:08:27 am
Procrastinating, putting off housework, drinking coffee, sneezing and being pestered by an attention sump moggy.  Those last two are probably related...
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Post by: jogler on 06 January, 2013, 12:33:50 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 06 January, 2013, 11:08:27 am
Procrastinating,

same here.I feel that I may actually doze off to sleep :o
it's an age thing
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Post by: Gus on 06 January, 2013, 01:27:59 pm
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/gus69/IMG_0067_zpsa0c1a463.jpg)

Packing for 4 months travel, I have a couple of rounds to go, before I am there.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 January, 2013, 01:31:25 pm
Dismantling a tree.  Then I'll need to clean up all the needles and stuff, and can move the bikes back into the bike shed downstairs instead of parking them in my bedroom.
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Post by: Ewan Houzami on 06 January, 2013, 01:44:16 pm
Quote from: Gus on 06 January, 2013, 01:27:59 pm
Packing for 4 months travel, I have a couple of rounds to go, before I am there.

You lucky, lucky, bastard. I'm deeply envious!
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Post by: LindaG on 06 January, 2013, 02:12:12 pm
Quote from: Goldilocks on 06 January, 2013, 01:44:16 pm
Quote from: Gus on 06 January, 2013, 01:27:59 pm
Packing for 4 months travel, I have a couple of rounds to go, before I am there.

You lucky, lucky, bastard. I'm deeply envious!

Jinx!
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Post by: Wombat on 06 January, 2013, 02:18:04 pm
Scanning some 127 format B+W negs I must have taken in about 1964 of a hovercraft show at Lee on Solent.  I was given a book on the history of hovercraft for Christmas, and seeing a few of the photos in it, I thought I must have some of my own.  Evidently I have...
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Post by: Butterfly on 06 January, 2013, 03:32:08 pm
Having a rest after a morning spent attacking the Teetering Piles Of Crap TM Crinklylion. Progress is gradual but definite :).
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Post by: Jurek on 06 January, 2013, 03:36:03 pm
Having a late lunch of Tomato & Basil soup, prior to giving the Pomp its weekly fettle.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 January, 2013, 03:41:38 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 06 January, 2013, 03:32:08 pm
Having a rest after a morning spent attacking the Teetering Piles Of Crap TM Crinklylion. Progress is gradual but definite :).

Hurrah!

Remember - tackle one, achievable bit.  Be ruthless.  Sort into 3 boxes/piles - the "deal with as soon as I've demolished this TPoC", the "keep and deal with asap" and the "bin/recycle".  Get rid of the bin/recycle pile today if you possibly can - the feeling of relief as unnecessary crap leaves your home forever is truly magnificent.  I have genuinely found the diminishing of the TPsofC to be a liberating experience.  And I haven't got a lot more to go, although it has taken about a year to get here.
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Post by: LindaG on 07 January, 2013, 03:44:32 am
Having a cup of tea and having a bit of a grieve for the lovely patient I just lost.

Ho hum.
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Post by: Butterfly on 07 January, 2013, 06:47:05 am
 :( {Hugs} Linda.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 January, 2013, 08:10:59 am
Ah, LG.  At least they had The Best Nurse with them.  Hugs from over this way too.
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Post by: Kim on 07 January, 2013, 06:43:09 pm
Listening to barakta be a ranty feminist at her mum...
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Post by: TimO on 07 January, 2013, 08:08:09 pm
Watching some of the handful of 3D Blurays I've been squirreling away.  I've watched some of Avatar, all of Puss in Boots, and I'm currently watching John Carter.  They're all rather impressive.

I suspect the films which contain a lot of CGI/Animation work the best, since they easily allow the filming of broad images with lots of depth.

It was generally a couple of quid more expensive to buy the 3D versions, but so far, it's been worth it.

Admittedly some of this will be down to the new screen being over twice the size of my previous one, but whilst a bit gimmicky, it is rather neat seeing depth in an image.  It's amusing seeing how much of the footage is clearly done to allow 3D imagery, which I hadn't always noticed watching the 2D versions previously.

I do need to work out how to mount the screen properly on the wall now.  A decent heavy duty flexible support is going to cost a not insignificant amount, and need to be bolted up damned well!
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Post by: TimO on 08 January, 2013, 08:52:59 am
Digging out stuff for travelling tomorrow, so I don't need to check luggage in, and can entirely use carry on.  This does mean digging out some camping Nalgene containers that are less than 100ml, for toiletries.  I need to remember to buy some roll on deodorant.

I'm also wandering around the house, preparing to take the cats to the cattery, without looking like I'm about to take the cats to the cattery!  I'm not even touching the carriers, because that's a dead giveaway.
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Post by: Andrij on 08 January, 2013, 01:44:05 pm
Waiting to board my flight back to London. 
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Post by: LindaG on 08 January, 2013, 01:44:42 pm
Picking paint splatters off my face.
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Post by: tiermat on 08 January, 2013, 01:56:49 pm
Thinking about family holidays whilst waiting for a backup script to finish running.
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Post by: interzen on 08 January, 2013, 02:35:50 pm
Scrutinising 1:25000 scale maps of the area where my parents live - I see many opportunities for off-road mayhem and singlespeed shenanigans1  :thumbsup:

1 - There is snow forecast for the weekend, apparently. Unfortunately, it's unlikely to be enough to make it worth my while to take Pugsley.
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Post by: icenutter on 08 January, 2013, 02:54:39 pm
I could spend ages just looking at maps. Fascinating.
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Post by: David Martin on 08 January, 2013, 08:22:34 pm
Deciding whether to make good on a threat.  My son keeps playing the horrible NightCore remix so I went searching, blew off th edust and threatened him with some ancient history
(click to show/hide)
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Post by: David Martin on 08 January, 2013, 11:26:30 pm
I'm being sidetracked by the #overlyhonestmethods hashtag on twitter.. Where Scientists own up to how their research is really done..
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Post by: reddo on 09 January, 2013, 05:50:30 pm
Contemplating tomorrow's evil early start. Although, not as bad as today's evil(er) early start.
36 hours off afterwards is the sweetener.  :P
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 January, 2013, 06:00:54 pm
Digesting dinner and a glass of vino.
Smacking my lips and thinking it's a good thing there's no chocolate coated peanuts in the mini-bar.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 09 January, 2013, 09:37:20 pm
Grumping at bike parts that don't fit and pondering finding someone with a rack to stretch me out so they do.
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Post by: LindaG on 11 January, 2013, 10:08:14 am
Self medicating with coffee and five varieties of chocolate comestible.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 January, 2013, 10:09:50 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 11 January, 2013, 10:08:14 am
Self medicating with coffee and five varieties of chocolate comestible.

 :thumbsup:

Hope you've brought enough for EVERYONE!!!
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Post by: LindaG on 11 January, 2013, 10:11:03 am
Quote from: tiermat on 11 January, 2013, 10:09:50 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 11 January, 2013, 10:08:14 am
Self medicating with coffee and five varieties of chocolate comestible.

 :thumbsup:

Hope you've brought enough for EVERYONE!!!

Why are you coming round?  :D ;D :D
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Post by: tiermat on 11 January, 2013, 10:14:12 am
Yes, LG, we'll ALL be there in 5 minutes....
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Post by: andrewc on 11 January, 2013, 01:50:19 pm
Standing outside in the cold. Our fire alarm has been going on & off for the last hour.
Fire brigade have been & gone.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 11 January, 2013, 02:10:47 pm
A brief interlude from fuzzy felts. Miss Dan the Younger has been ill all week, but is recovered enough for more than cbeebies now.
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Post by: TimO on 11 January, 2013, 02:59:55 pm
Finishing off a late lunch, whilst waiting for the cattery to open, so I can pop around there and pick up Zev and Kai.  They're likely to be a mixture of annoyed that they got sent to prison on holiday, again, only a short while after getting out of their enforced Christmas visit, and relief that I've turned up to let them back out again.
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Post by: Jaded on 11 January, 2013, 03:02:44 pm
Sitting in A&E at Gloucester Royal marvelling at how gloriously incompetent and institutionalised they are.

The NHS needs management. This is shit.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 January, 2013, 03:42:59 pm
I appear to be working.

So I've managed so far this week to finish an hour and  half late twice, to still be working for three hours after getting home on time once, and to work about 4 hours late once.  In a 4 day week.

There have been too many crises this week.
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Post by: LindaG on 11 January, 2013, 04:01:29 pm
Giving the dog house a spring clean. Looks like I'm spending another night in there. Tiermat's left it pretty tidy tho.
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Post by: essexian on 11 January, 2013, 05:37:41 pm
Booking a hotel for the night before the London to Brighton cycle ride in June.... well the Travelodge room was very cheap and she who is control said I could go, so its now booked.

The last time I cycled over 55 miles..... oh only about 25 years ago so best get practicing!

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Post by: interzen on 11 January, 2013, 06:53:03 pm
Trying to figure out Plan B.
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Post by: veloboy on 11 January, 2013, 07:34:26 pm
Just came off my bike on the way home tonight in Bloomsbury - HARD on the deck!! Moderate speed send a right turning, but suspect diesel (or brine). My right wrist feels rather messed up. Right knee too. Icing it at home :-|
The vino certainly helps ;-)
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Post by: mcshroom on 11 January, 2013, 08:05:23 pm
Quote from: veloboy on 11 January, 2013, 07:34:26 pm
Just came off my bike on the way home tonight in Bloomsbury - HARD on the deck!! Moderate speed send a right turning, but suspect diesel (or brine). My right wrist feels rather messed up. Right knee too. Icing it at home :-|
The vino certainly helps ;-)


Ouch :(

Hope the wrist is just complaining rather than anything worse.

Oh, and how's the bike? :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 January, 2013, 08:09:11 pm
Listening to my cat snoring loudly under my chair.
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Post by: jogler on 11 January, 2013, 08:20:35 pm
I think I'm being coerced,in the nicest possible way, by a female otp into revving up my audax mojo.
You know who you are.
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Post by: LindaG on 12 January, 2013, 03:31:26 am
Quote from: veloboy on 11 January, 2013, 07:34:26 pm
Just came off my bike on the way home tonight in Bloomsbury - HARD on the deck!! Moderate speed send a right turning, but suspect diesel (or brine). My right wrist feels rather messed up. Right knee too. Icing it at home :-|
The vino certainly helps ;-)

How you doing?
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Post by: Andrij on 12 January, 2013, 03:59:41 pm
Waiting for a sparky to arrive.

The Landlord had some electrical work done a few weeks ago.  Now a proper sparky is supposed to come around to certify things.  This sparky is in no danger of ruing the reputation of tradesman: he was to be here between 15:00 and 16:00.  I highly doubt he will arrive in the next minute.  ::-)
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Post by: padbeat on 12 January, 2013, 04:15:25 pm
I'm fettling a pair of Plus Fours from 2 pairs of charity shop tweed trousers.  ;D

There's a night race we're doing in a couple of months called The Mighty Deerstalker which involves a 10 mile night run over hills and through rivers, followed by a piss-up in a marquee in the grounds of Traquair House. Obviously, the dress code is tweeds, so yellow Plus Fours are clearly indicated! And I've managed to fettle a pair of coed shorts to do the actual run in for extra bad taste points.
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Post by: Andrij on 12 January, 2013, 05:24:18 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 January, 2013, 03:59:41 pm
Waiting for a sparky to arrive.

The Landlord had some electrical work done a few weeks ago.  Now a proper sparky is supposed to come around to certify things.  This sparky is in no danger of ruing the reputation of tradesman: he was to be here between 15:00 and 16:00.  I highly doubt he will arrive in the next minute.  ::-)

Finally come and gone.  Peace returns and I can get back to Don Giovanni.
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Post by: Ewan Houzami on 12 January, 2013, 05:34:51 pm
Caning series 3 of Breaking Bad.
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Post by: Kim on 12 January, 2013, 09:45:15 pm
Aching.
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Post by: tiermat on 12 January, 2013, 09:52:25 pm
Deciding if I should go to bed yet. The combination of a long drive, a costco shop, a big tea and 3 beers has made me rather sleepy!
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Post by: Oaky on 12 January, 2013, 10:08:54 pm
Waiting.
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Post by: LindaG on 12 January, 2013, 10:11:11 pm
Drinking tea in bed listening to the hiiiisssssssss of Allo Darlin onCrusty's headphones.
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Post by: Basil on 12 January, 2013, 10:18:46 pm
Beering
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Post by: Ham on 13 January, 2013, 09:44:48 am
Having an interstitial warm up during a fettling session in the NOT SO SEERKIT BUNKER. Picture frames, bikes, bird stuff all on the very cold agenda.
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Post by: reddo on 13 January, 2013, 04:51:05 pm
veloboy, you ok? Nothing broken I hope.

Just trying to reboot the brain after 6 hours of special airport online training...  ???
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Post by: TimC on 13 January, 2013, 04:57:10 pm
Preparing for night two of a three-night simulator block. Already my brain has exploded.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 13 January, 2013, 04:58:53 pm
Trying to find a roundtuit and sort the Sno bike out given the forecast for the next few days. Struggling as it means manhandling two bikes and a workstand round a not very big kitchen. Plus the bikes and stand are in the shed at the moment and will be cold. And one of them is at the back of the shed behind mower and bags of compost.
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Post by: tiermat on 13 January, 2013, 05:02:33 pm
Booking holidays :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 January, 2013, 05:19:06 pm
 >:( Preparing the doghouse.
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Post by: reddo on 13 January, 2013, 05:53:46 pm
TimC, feel your pain....  :o
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Post by: Andrij on 13 January, 2013, 06:12:22 pm
Trying to figure out how to copy today's track from my eTrex onto my computer while contemplating options for dinner.
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Post by: Feline on 13 January, 2013, 06:21:00 pm
Feeling nauseous. Norovirus, you are a bastard, but my weight loss is going unexpectedly well for this time of year. I've managed to eat (and stay down) only 2 oatcakes and a croissant in 3 days.
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Post by: Andrij on 13 January, 2013, 06:21:20 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 January, 2013, 06:12:22 pm
Trying to figure out how to copy today's track from my eTrex onto my computer while contemplating options for dinner.
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Post by: Jurek on 13 January, 2013, 06:22:36 pm
Just stopped from Sunday Kitchen Challenge.....

Sunday Kitchen Challenge (to the uninitiated)  involves making six weekday lunches, in two varieties (one of them cooked), in addition to making eight portions of Chilli con carne (or some other re-heatable dish) for squirelling away in the freezer for use at a later occasion.
The challenge is to get all of the above done and dusted in two hours, or less.
I've just about managed it - all bar waiting for the chilli to cool before I can bag it into Jurek-sized portions, before I freeze it.

Frikkin' cold for riding out there today!
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Post by: tiermat on 13 January, 2013, 07:01:19 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 13 January, 2013, 05:19:06 pm
>:( Preparing the doghouse.

I am sure LG will let you use it tonight, she gave it a spring clean yesterday.

YACF, the only cycling club that doesn't have a club house, but a doghouse.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 January, 2013, 07:25:37 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 13 January, 2013, 07:01:19 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 13 January, 2013, 05:19:06 pm
>:( Preparing the doghouse.

I am sure LG will let you use it tonight, she gave it a spring clean yesterday.

It's not for *me*! I'm sure Pingu will appreciate the cleanliness though  :demon:
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Post by: David Martin on 13 January, 2013, 10:32:48 pm
Putting together funding applications for the cyclepath project. At about 10k for a mile, that seems pretty good value. Plotting every fallen tree or other feature onto a 1:1250 map took some time, but now we can quote exactly what we want done.

And we saw a red squirrel as well when surveying :) And a dead buzzard :(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 13 January, 2013, 10:45:48 pm
I'm changing the oil in a Rohloff hub.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 14 January, 2013, 01:00:59 am
Coughing, snotting and NOT sleeping.    :(
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Post by: Polar Bear on 14 January, 2013, 06:36:47 am
Quote from: Polar Bear on 14 January, 2013, 01:00:59 am
Coughing, snotting and NOT sleeping.    :(

Still awake...    :(  :(  :(  :(  :(
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Post by: dasmoth on 14 January, 2013, 10:05:40 am
Wishing I'd thought to pick up some gloves on my way out of the house this morning.
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Post by: tiermat on 15 January, 2013, 01:15:28 pm
Listening to a teleconf and looking at properties in Spain.
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Post by: Chris S on 15 January, 2013, 03:45:39 pm
Trying and failing to concentrate on work. Being distracted by snowmageddon outside.
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Post by: tiermat on 15 January, 2013, 04:18:47 pm
Now modifying GPX routes for Spain for April, so that we go straight to the Hotel, rather than around the houses :)
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Post by: Feline on 15 January, 2013, 04:38:54 pm
Waiting for my house to warm back up again. I had the patio door and kitchen window replaced earlier on so there were great holes in the house for a couple of hours or so. It's now up to 15C in the lounge so I still need a base layer!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 15 January, 2013, 05:28:10 pm
Feeding carrot peel, one slice at a time, to a dog.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 January, 2013, 07:17:55 pm
Just finished watching the ep of ER where Dr Greene dies, so feeling a bit  :'(  now
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Post by: tiermat on 15 January, 2013, 08:04:58 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 15 January, 2013, 07:17:55 pm
Just finished watching the ep of ER where Dr Greene dies, so feeling a bit  :'(  now

That is one of my fave episodes, along with the one where the young boy dies and the nurse sings "Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)" at his funeral.
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Post by: mcshroom on 17 January, 2013, 10:13:43 pm
Trying to decide whether to remove the mudguards from the bike to allow more snow clearance or not to bother.
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Post by: interzen on 17 January, 2013, 10:36:41 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 17 January, 2013, 10:13:43 pm
Trying to decide whether to remove the mudguards from the bike to allow more snow clearance or not to bother.
Don't bother.
Seriously.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 17 January, 2013, 10:46:15 pm
Thawing my fingers, having been in the SEECRIT BUNKER fitting spiky tyres to The Boy's cast off MTB ready for tomorrow.

Next: find a pair of Dachsteins.
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Post by: Feanor on 17 January, 2013, 10:55:07 pm
Also thawing fingers.

Have been repairing the air compressor, a cheapie job bought 10 years ago from a cow-orker who was beamed up to the mothership in Houston, TX.   As it was 240v, it was no use to him any more.

The air pressure regulator simply asploded into many parts a couple of weeks ago, on account of it being constructed from aluminium of the same gauge as carry-out resturants use for their foil trays.   Machine Mart had the exact part for £7, with £2 shipping.  And then a £10 shipping surcharge for being a non- London postcode.
Anyways, new part arrived, and lots of scrubbing of threads with a wire brush, application of PFTE tape and we're up ad running and air-tight again.
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Post by: Basil on 17 January, 2013, 10:57:52 pm
Trying to remember cycling back from the pub in the snow.
Oh well.  I seem to be here, and I seem to be in one piece.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 17 January, 2013, 10:59:43 pm
Fighting with the annual accounts. This is always a great source of stress but this year more so. Our backup system died a couple of weeks ago and we have replaced it with something which so far gives me only read permissions to my files. Dez is currently upgrading something called "firmware" and is "jailbreaking" the device. All of this makes me very paranoid indeed.

Apart from that I am eating Jarlsberg with crackers. Soon I will be drinking tea.

And congratulations Basil!
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Post by: mcshroom on 17 January, 2013, 11:04:16 pm
Quote from: Basil on 17 January, 2013, 10:57:52 pm
Trying to remember cycling back from the pub in the snow.
Oh well.  I seem to be here, and I seem to be in one piece.  :thumbsup:

Have you checked the bike made it home?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 January, 2013, 11:06:08 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 17 January, 2013, 11:04:16 pm
Quote from: Basil on 17 January, 2013, 10:57:52 pm
Trying to remember cycling back from the pub in the snow.
Oh well.  I seem to be here, and I seem to be in one piece.  :thumbsup:

Have you checked the bike made it home?

er....  which one was I on?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 17 January, 2013, 11:09:11 pm
Quote from: Basil on 17 January, 2013, 11:06:08 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 17 January, 2013, 11:04:16 pm
Quote from: Basil on 17 January, 2013, 10:57:52 pm
Trying to remember cycling back from the pub in the snow.
Oh well.  I seem to be here, and I seem to be in one piece.  :thumbsup:

Have you checked the bike made it home?

er....  which one was I on?

I'd guess the wet snowy one
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 January, 2013, 11:15:51 pm
Got it!  Yes the snow melting off the pannier is making a puddle in the hall.
The pannier also seems to contain not only shirt, pants and socks, but another big bag of cream eggs.  Seems I've been drinking with the Cadbury lads.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 January, 2013, 11:16:26 pm
Quote from: Basil on 17 January, 2013, 11:06:08 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 17 January, 2013, 11:04:16 pm
Have you checked the bike made it home?

er....  which one was I on?

If you arrive at the pub tomorrow and notice that someone there has a bike a lot like one of yours, you know what happened...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 17 January, 2013, 11:24:58 pm
I finally filed my tax return. Sadly my tax refund this year is a measley £50 so I won't be able to buy N+1 with it .... damn!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 January, 2013, 11:48:43 pm
Quote from: Feline on 17 January, 2013, 11:24:58 pm
I finally filed my tax return. Sadly my tax refund this year is a measley £50 so I won't be able to buy N+1 with it .... damn!

Maybe a Tesco special?

Or an n+0.5?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 17 January, 2013, 11:52:17 pm
Quote from: interzen on 17 January, 2013, 10:36:41 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 17 January, 2013, 10:13:43 pm
Trying to decide whether to remove the mudguards from the bike to allow more snow clearance or not to bother.
Don't bother.
Seriously.

Decided just to raise the front one a little (which it needed anyway really)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 18 January, 2013, 12:30:43 am
Quote from: Kim on 17 January, 2013, 11:48:43 pm
Quote from: Feline on 17 January, 2013, 11:24:58 pm
I finally filed my tax return. Sadly my tax refund this year is a measley £50 so I won't be able to buy N+1 with it .... damn!

Maybe a Tesco special?

Or an n+0.5?

I might spend it on a tyre  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 January, 2013, 09:08:55 am
Trying to stop quivering after somebody decided to rearrange the front of the car a little while I was in it :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2013, 09:10:21 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 18 January, 2013, 09:08:55 am
Trying to stop quivering after somebody decided to rearrange the front of the car a little while I was in it :(

Ouch, having been in that situation, it's not nice, is it? As long as you are ok, the car can be repaired or replaced.

Great big virtual hugs for you Mrs P {{{{HUGS}}}}
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cyclone on 18 January, 2013, 09:17:48 am
trying to raise the courage to roll about in the snow under the discovery to continue the fixing process....s'only -3 at the moment  :-\.    Might get out for a dozen kilometers later on  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 January, 2013, 09:20:06 am
Quote from: tiermat on 18 January, 2013, 09:10:21 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 18 January, 2013, 09:08:55 am
Trying to stop quivering after somebody decided to rearrange the front of the car a little while I was in it :(

Ouch, having been in that situation, it's not nice, is it? As long as you are ok, the car can be repaired or replaced.

Great big virtual hugs for you Mrs P {{{{HUGS}}}}

Thank you tiermat, I am fine, the young man responsible was very apologetic and it appears to be in a fit enough state to get us to Embra tonight to go on hollybobs tomorrow (hopefully!).
Here's hoping he does cough up when I come to get it fixed...... OTOH our new car is allegedly getting built in March.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 18 January, 2013, 10:40:34 am
Diclofenac. May move on to the last of the codeine if this keeps up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 18 January, 2013, 04:05:54 pm
Warming up after walking to the post office and backing both cars down onto our (rather steep) drive.
And been updating websites and twitter streams for stuff which has been cancelled due to the weather (RSPB field trip on Sunday, concert in Wimborne tonight) and letting people know about stuff which is still happening (concert in South Petherton tonight).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 20 January, 2013, 10:43:57 am
Having a second cup of tea to wash down the eggs benedict I've just scoffed at the Alpino cafe in Chapel Market.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 January, 2013, 11:01:52 am
Arguing with tld about maths homework again! No I will not just give you the answer, but I will explain how to get the answer.
Title: Re: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 20 January, 2013, 11:25:14 am
Quote from: tiermat on 20 January, 2013, 11:01:52 am
Arguing with tld about maths homework again! No I will not just give you the answer, but I will explain how to get the answer.
Hohoho!
I'm about to start the same process with magnoliette the elder!
It's a job to explain that high school maths is about the problem solving process, and that doing the sums is just the end of the process...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 January, 2013, 11:30:27 am
Housework.  Dull, dull, dull!  Loud KT Tunstall on the headphones and see if I can singalong loud enough to provoke comment from the neighbours :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 January, 2013, 11:42:29 am
Contemplating a cycling sabbatical (except for a commitment to Crinklylion) for however long the mood takes me & considering an alternative past-time.

atm a revival of interest in Roman history in Britain is favourite.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 20 January, 2013, 12:58:02 pm
I'm baking shortbread  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 20 January, 2013, 01:19:31 pm
Fixing cateye computer and being bored.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 January, 2013, 02:01:17 pm
Posting stuff for sale, now must go through the wheel collection and decided which I am keeping and which I can sell.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 January, 2013, 02:18:58 pm
Downloading data from OpenStreetMap

Seems like the best way to get map tiles in a reliable manner1 is to generate them yourself, so that's precisely what I'm going to do - I've even bought another Babbage Engine to act as a tile renderer/server2

1 - Sod's Law dictates that the most popular applications for generating data for offline use are actually blocked by OSM's servers because of the loads they generate  ::-)
2 - currently weighing up the pros and cons of allowing external access to a select few.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 January, 2013, 02:36:05 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 20 January, 2013, 11:01:52 am
Arguing with tld about maths homework again! No I will not just give you the answer, but I will explain how to get the answer.

Taking that approach with my brother's degree-level coursework (yes really!) was probably the final straw in losing any favour I may have had with my parents.  I spent a whole afternoon teaching him how and why to apply Ohm's law and similar, rather than giving him all the answers in about 10 minutes.

I was shocked when I found out 6 months later that this wasn't what I was supposed to have done.   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 20 January, 2013, 02:47:25 pm
A sudden deluge of work means the rest of the day at the pooter.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 20 January, 2013, 03:01:54 pm
Oh, the weather outside is frightful...so we are indoors, I am internetting and the husband is deep in NCIS, season 2.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 20 January, 2013, 05:14:01 pm
Watching Ski Sunday.
Still need to pack for the tour tomorrow...
Have vacuumed the house  O:-) and went for a ride.
Took the MTB on my short road route as I figured it was the better tool for the task.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 20 January, 2013, 06:55:14 pm
Trying to decide on hot bath, or college homework....
   ???

-- edit --   Brane not working, so running a bath
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 20 January, 2013, 08:45:12 pm
Just packed my bike gear away. I was going out but it's snowing heavily again and it's blowing horizontally! It's still fairly deep here in parts so this fresh stuff isn't welcome.

I don't mind riding on snow but hate riding in it, it stings my eyes and face too much to make it worth going. I couldn't see where I was going the other night. I kept closing my eyes for longer than I should really to help with the icy pain, not very safe!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 20 January, 2013, 09:41:27 pm
Owwwww, I just poked myself in the eye.

I've only had two glasses of Scotch, I shouldn't be that clumsy yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 20 January, 2013, 09:56:14 pm
Refreshing the work website in the vain hope that we will be closed due to severe weather. I can live in hope can't I?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 January, 2013, 11:12:16 pm
Basking in the glory of coming third in the Pub Quiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 January, 2013, 08:39:19 am
Having been woken at silly o'clock (7 is far far too early when I am not at work) by Mrs T, stumbling about the bedroom, getting ready for work, I have decided to go and make ANOTHER coffee.

Anybody else want one whilst I am making?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 21 January, 2013, 08:49:42 am
back at home having sat on 3 different trains at Royston station.  2 hours well spent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 21 January, 2013, 08:58:06 am
Lying in bed, safe in the knowledge that the kids' schools are closed and I don't need to get them up. Any minute now I'll look out of the window to check how much mor snow we have.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 21 January, 2013, 09:15:47 am
Just arrived in the office. I didn't expect to be able to get here at all but the trains were running pretty well...until a broken down train ahead of us delayed everything by about an hour on the approaches to London Bridge. I feel like I have had enough today already!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 21 January, 2013, 07:03:38 pm
Standing on a full commuter train out of London. Someone insisted on giving up their seat fpr my grandad. And three people offered me their seats. I thought you London lot were all supposed to be barstards?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 January, 2013, 07:19:03 pm
Watching the new Babbage Engine importing OpenStreetMap data.

It truly is about as interesting as it sounds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 January, 2013, 07:53:09 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 21 January, 2013, 07:03:38 pm
Standing on a full commuter train out of London. Someone insisted on giving up their seat fpr my grandad. And three people offered me their seats. I thought you London lot were all supposed to be barstards?

They were probably foreign. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 January, 2013, 07:56:57 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 21 January, 2013, 07:53:09 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 21 January, 2013, 07:03:38 pm
Standing on a full commuter train out of London. Someone insisted on giving up their seat fpr my grandad. And three people offered me their seats. I thought you London lot were all supposed to be barstards?

They were probably foreign. ;)

Don't Blitz Spirit rules apply whenever a centimetre of snow falls upon the capital?  Could be that...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 21 January, 2013, 10:02:06 pm
Considering going out for a late night snow ride :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 January, 2013, 10:57:02 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 21 January, 2013, 10:02:06 pm
Considering going out for a late night snow ride :)
I'd probably consider doing the same were it not for the fact that most of the snow is now, in fact, incredibly corrosive, slushy gunge. I have no intention of subjecting Pugsley to that, and will probably ride the singlespeed to work tomorrow instead.

Instead, I'm multitasking: importing OSM data into the 'puter (still) and tidying up the worst of the living room in readiness from a visit from a BT engineer on Wednesday, after which I will hopefully have high-fibre broadband.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 January, 2013, 11:04:12 pm
Feeling fraught after submitting 90% of a tax return, knowing that I've not included the income from our partnership and needing to go back and do it again tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 January, 2013, 11:48:22 pm
Quote from: interzen on 21 January, 2013, 10:57:02 pm
Instead, I'm multitasking: importing OSM data into the 'puter (still) and tidying up the worst of the living room in readiness from a visit from a BT engineer on Wednesday, after which I will hopefully have high-fibre broadband.

Is that the kind that rapidly turns to shit?   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Meegat on 21 January, 2013, 11:55:18 pm
Generating quantities of snot previously unknown to humankind.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 January, 2013, 12:21:11 am
Quote from: Meegat on 21 January, 2013, 11:55:18 pm
Generating quantities of snot previously unknown to humankind.  :(

What, even barakta?  Ohdear...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 January, 2013, 09:22:44 am
Quote from: Kim on 21 January, 2013, 11:48:22 pm
Quote from: interzen on 21 January, 2013, 10:57:02 pm
Instead, I'm multitasking: importing OSM data into the 'puter (still) and tidying up the worst of the living room in readiness from a visit from a BT engineer on Wednesday, after which I will hopefully have high-fibre broadband.

Is that the kind that rapidly turns to shit?   ;D
Dunno about that, but I'm hoping that blockages will be kept to a minimum ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 22 January, 2013, 09:29:44 am
Duvet Day  :D Our systems in work have been done since last Friday  :facepalm: so productivity is down to zero. Annual leave and Gilmore Girls on DVD  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 22 January, 2013, 10:07:23 am
Putting my tent up  :o











in the lounge ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 11:00:34 am
Just got off a telephone interview and need to ring the agency, but it went so shittily that I don't even know if I can be bothered...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 22 January, 2013, 11:06:00 am
Quote from: numbnuts on 22 January, 2013, 10:07:23 am
Putting my tent up  :o











in the lounge ;)

Blimey, you need to get your bathroom plumbing sorted out!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 January, 2013, 11:07:58 am
Remotely fettling the OpenStreetMap-processing Babbage Engine.

It has been rendering tile data since yesterday evening, which isn't necessarily an issue as I expected the initial run to take a couple of days. However, it turned out that two of the CPU cores are throttled by default  ::-)

Well, they ain't throttled any more ...  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 02:13:14 pm
Cutting up wood and building a fire.

The house will be nice, warm and snug for when Mrs T and TLD return tonight :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 22 January, 2013, 03:18:03 pm
Forcing myself to go into central London for a meeting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 03:36:21 pm
Now playing with different desktops on my linux laptop.

Sugar is delightfully simplistic, a bit too simplistic for me, though.
Gnome (3) is ok
KDE is an old dog that needs taking out back and shooting
MATE wins!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 January, 2013, 03:41:40 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 03:36:21 pm
Now playing with different desktops on my linux laptop.

Sugar is delightfully simplistic, a bit too simplistic for me, though.
Gnome (3) is ok
KDE is an old dog that needs taking out back and shooting
MATE wins!
So you didn't play with Unity, then  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 03:49:17 pm
Quote from: interzen on 22 January, 2013, 03:41:40 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 03:36:21 pm
Now playing with different desktops on my linux laptop.

Sugar is delightfully simplistic, a bit too simplistic for me, though.
Gnome (3) is ok
KDE is an old dog that needs taking out back and shooting
MATE wins!
So you didn't play with Unity, then  :demon:

You wouldn't get me going anywhere near Ubuntu, not out of choice, anyways :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 05:52:40 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 11:00:34 am
Just got off a telephone interview and need to ring the agency, but it went so shittily that I don't even know if I can be bothered...

Update on this.

It is obviously only me that thought it went badly, as they want me back in for a face-to-face.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 January, 2013, 06:12:56 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 05:52:40 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 11:00:34 am
Just got off a telephone interview and need to ring the agency, but it went so shittily that I don't even know if I can be bothered...

Update on this.

It is obviously only me that thought it went badly, as they want me back in for a face-to-face.
As is often the case.
I left the second interview for my current job firmly convinced that I'd screwed it up - I received a call offering me the job on the bus home.

Just goes to show ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 January, 2013, 08:48:10 pm
That's promising.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 22 January, 2013, 09:58:24 pm
Marvelling at the magic of the new fangled media centre.  A gazzilion CD tracks ripped to flac and being served up in random order. The Saw Doctors have just been followed by Pete Seeger. Next up Teenage Dirtbag as performed by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 January, 2013, 01:36:36 am
1.30 am.  I iz baking.  Because tomorrow I shall see YACFers and it is now cake o'clock.  For the first time in aaaaaaaaages.


Fuck me, that's better.  *must bake more*

ETA
(http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/69611_10151332466281839_137423751_n.jpg)
 :D :D :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 January, 2013, 07:46:46 am
We are about to eat porridge in preparation for Mrs. Wow having her cast removed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 January, 2013, 09:09:26 am
The cast has died and Jan has just had her photo taken.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 January, 2013, 02:39:00 pm
Lamenting the fact that OT students aren't properly taught anatomy these days (sample conversation with current student - "I broke a bone near my elbow a few years ago, I don't know the name of it"*) and as a result, beginning to put together a basic anatomy tutorial. Management say I'm not allowed to use cadavers.








* It's just occurred to me that perhaps he didn't even mean in his arm - "near" the elbow could easily be a rib.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 January, 2013, 02:48:37 pm
Finishing last bits of packing for camping barn weekend.

MUST REMEMBER CORKSCREW...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SandyV on 26 January, 2013, 09:35:14 pm
in the comms centre for the Audax Alpine Classic at Bright.  4.5 hours into the 250 and no incidents so far - let's hope it continues.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 January, 2013, 09:44:35 pm
Getting ready for a DIY 200. Might be a wet start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 January, 2013, 12:34:11 am
This weekend I've been starring in a video.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 January, 2013, 12:26:34 pm
Having knitted the yoghurt and left the dough on the boiler I'm being a cat bed before the Sainsburys dude brings me food.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2013, 09:35:56 pm
Wondering what to do about a birthday, having buggered up my original plan of forrin weekends with... too much other forrin travel.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 29 January, 2013, 09:37:23 pm
Not hanging up the washing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 January, 2013, 09:38:26 pm
Me too!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 29 January, 2013, 09:48:13 pm
Completing my tax return amid disruptions form paying clients. 

Even better, no tax to pay and a refund to come.   :thumbsup:

I might consider buying myself one of those Spa Cycles audax frames except I'd rather not have the carbon fork.   D'ya think they'd p/ex me a steel one?
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: howieduck on 29 January, 2013, 11:39:39 pm
Doing what I've been doing for more than 2 weeks now. Just coughing, coughing and blowing my nose !
Damn germs!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 30 January, 2013, 03:09:14 pm
Having a text fight with Shyumu!   :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 30 January, 2013, 08:26:29 pm
Playing with google maps and working out a fantasy tour round all five national capitals of the British Isles. Apparently it's about 1000 miles including the two ferry rides - hmm.

Very rough route here (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=London&daddr=53.038169,-0.9644942+to:53.7095709,-1.059965+to:53.8085263,-1.097029+to:54.1026309,-1.3019325+to:54.7010707,-1.8659008+to:Edinburgh+to:55.8707212,-3.4007638+to:55.7326486,-3.6582802+to:Belfast+to:54.4416059,-5.998753+to:Dublin,+Ireland+to:52.9693957,-6.0170462+to:Cardiff+to:london&hl=en&ll=54.241156,-1.689148&spn=0.66929,1.766052&sll=54.5418,-1.892395&sspn=0.664404,1.766052&geocode=FYfwEQMdPQ3-_yl13iGvC6DYRzGZKtXdWjqWUg%3BFVlMKQMdckjx_ynFY3wNJsh5SDGatCD6Llb7sg%3BFQKLMwMdg9Pv_ynfoMAwvxd5SDGA-d2JTElTSQ%3BFY4NNQMdu0Lv_yn55c-GZjx5SDEi5PkJlPua7w%3BFWaKOQMdVCLs_ykjf_IlIrV-SDF-7-ySyB6ASA%3BFQ6sQgMdVIfj_ylN2ChCJSx8SDGRD_GE9Q0pLw%3BFWTHVQMd1VnP_ykjJpilALiHSDEnF-d8exTyZA%3BFQGFVAMdxRvM_ylhowB5TMOHSDGMTHUJ0KdTnw%3BFahpUgMd2C3I_yldtI0FXQqISDHh3QIIfyEv-g%3BFaUWQQMdeIOl_yk7itDX_f9gSDExxcfvLBZXLg%3BFYW2PgMdX3ek_ylBc5nC3hphSDHloqyViILS2A%3BFa0NLgMdqnmg_ykvrCfqgA5nSDGgcTGXqccACg%3BFbM_KAMd6i-k_ykfuXsTKLdnSDHX-kcrp4_aXQ%3BFe2LEQMdrn3P_yn1U-w01AJuSDEOZ4Zl2wY0FA%3BFYfwEQMdPQ3-_yl13iGvC6DYRzGZKtXdWjqWUg&dirflg=w&doflg=ptk&mra=dpe&mrsp=5&sz=9&via=1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10,12&t=m&z=9)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 30 January, 2013, 08:45:33 pm
Just submitted the tax return.

Bath and early night methinks - lots on at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mmmmartin on 30 January, 2013, 08:53:10 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 30 January, 2013, 08:26:29 pm
Playing with google maps and working out a fantasy tour round all five national capitals of the British Isles. Apparently it's about 1000 miles including the two ferry rides

linky no worky.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 30 January, 2013, 08:57:51 pm
Quote from: mmmmartin on 30 January, 2013, 08:53:10 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 30 January, 2013, 08:26:29 pm
Playing with google maps and working out a fantasy tour round all five national capitals of the British Isles. Apparently it's about 1000 miles including the two ferry rides

linky no worky.

It's working for me, though takes a while to load. Otherwise try this one http://goo.gl/maps/LTjdr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 31 January, 2013, 03:19:41 pm
Packing my bag for the start of a tour tomorrow.
Relaxing (sort of) after submitting my assignment. Phew.
Good luck for all those racing against those deadlines...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 January, 2013, 04:11:32 pm
Enjoying the warm glow of hyper-drive Internet access :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 31 January, 2013, 05:05:42 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 31 January, 2013, 04:11:32 pm
Enjoying the warm glow of hyper-drive Internet access :)

So they came at last ...

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 January, 2013, 05:16:50 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 31 January, 2013, 04:11:32 pm
Enjoying the warm glow of hyper-drive Internet access :)
Good, innit? Whilst I haven't reached the giddy heights of 34Mbps that Sky reckoned I might get, I'm still getting 27-28Mbps down and 10Mbps up consistently. I'd call that a win  :thumbsup:

I've just finished fettling the central heating - looks like the mid-position valve is buggered, meaning that if I want to have heating I have to have hot water too; the trick, evidently, was to turn the boiler thermostat down and the hot-water cylinder thermostat up to keep things running.

Of course, since the MPV is busted I can't use the room thermostat as the valve isn't receiving instructions to switch over into 'central heating only' mode, but I can live with that as a temporary fix until the gas man turns up on Tuesday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 31 January, 2013, 08:59:51 pm
laughing at this idiot lol :facepalm:   <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=3202263888783"
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 01 February, 2013, 11:58:21 am
Sitting, waiting for my bike to be delivered.

It's going to be a long wait, I've just found out it hasn't been posted yet!!
I've worked over all week so I could be in for it and prep it :(

The couriers don't deliver on Saturday either but on the plus side the delivery driver lives in the next street and he'll bring it tomorrow if its at the depot :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 February, 2013, 12:18:51 pm
Quote from: interzen on 31 January, 2013, 05:16:50 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 31 January, 2013, 04:11:32 pm
Enjoying the warm glow of hyper-drive Internet access :)
Good, innit? Whilst I haven't reached the giddy heights of 34Mbps that Sky reckoned I might get, I'm still getting 27-28Mbps down and 10Mbps up consistently. I'd call that a win  :thumbsup:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/2478098196.png)  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 February, 2013, 12:26:26 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 February, 2013, 12:18:51 pm
Quote from: interzen on 31 January, 2013, 05:16:50 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 31 January, 2013, 04:11:32 pm
Enjoying the warm glow of hyper-drive Internet access :)
Good, innit? Whilst I haven't reached the giddy heights of 34Mbps that Sky reckoned I might get, I'm still getting 27-28Mbps down and 10Mbps up consistently. I'd call that a win  :thumbsup:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/2478098196.png)  :thumbsup:
To be fair, you can probably spit at the Northallerton exchange (and score a direct hit without wind assistance) from your place ...

I'm more than happy with what I'm getting given that although the exchange is about 4.5km away in terms of riding distance, the cable run between my house and the exchange is nearly twice that(!)

Along these lines, I am currently beating OpenVPN into submission and importing yet more OSM data onto the BFO Server.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 February, 2013, 06:13:03 pm
I suprise myself by perusing the AUK calendar.I'm supposed to be having a sabbatical.It's that Peter's fault;writing up his Mere 200 ride report. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 February, 2013, 07:07:39 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 February, 2013, 06:13:03 pm
I suprise myself by perusing the AUK calendar.I'm supposed to be having a sabbatical.It's that Peter's fault;writing up his Mere 200 ride report. ;D
One of these days I really ought to consider bringing my sabbatical to an end ...

... 6 years could be construed as overdoing it a bit.
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 02 February, 2013, 08:24:33 am
Quote from: bumper on 01 February, 2013, 11:58:21 am
Sitting, waiting for my bike to be delivered.

It's going to be a long wait, I've just found out it hasn't been posted yet!!
I've worked over all week so I could be in for it and prep it :(

The couriers don't deliver on Saturday either but on the plus side the delivery driver lives in the next street and he'll bring it tomorrow if its at the depot :)

****ING GREAT!!

It's now been misrouted and is in a different part of the country!

Translated that means that Kevin who is on minimum wage and doesn't care a toss was talking to Steve whilst handling my box. In the confusion of multitasking conversation and cardboard manhandling they have put my bike in a wrong cage which has ended up on a completely different truck heading towards the other side of the country.

The couriers solution to this.............. Ring us on Monday to see where it is :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 02 February, 2013, 06:41:20 pm
Waiting for Revolution to start... :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 February, 2013, 07:53:07 pm
Trying to fettle my server.  First challenge is to figure out where to plug in the additional HDD I recently picked up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 February, 2013, 10:43:48 pm
Watching my team beat Chelsea whilst eating black forest gateaux & drinking Grolsch.
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 February, 2013, 09:50:16 am
Digesting the pig and chicken products that breakfast was built from and girding myself for the day of running arpundafter the birthday girl (TLD is 9 today, where did it go?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 February, 2013, 10:37:41 am
Quote from: jogler on 02 February, 2013, 10:43:48 pm
Watching my team beat Chelsea whilst eating black forest gateaux & drinking Grolsch.
 :thumbsup:

I thought that you were a Stoke fan, or am I confusing you with somebody else?

I see France beat a world XI yesterday...   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 03 February, 2013, 10:41:35 am
Not riding.
Downside of a tandem- only takes one to be ill for two to not ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 February, 2013, 10:47:40 am
Quote from: Polar Bear on 03 February, 2013, 10:37:41 am
Quote from: jogler on 02 February, 2013, 10:43:48 pm
Watching my team beat Chelsea whilst eating black forest gateaux & drinking Grolsch.
 :thumbsup:

I thought that you were a Stoke fan, or am I confusing you with somebody else?

I see France beat a world XI yesterday...

The Magpies displaced the Potters in my affections circa 1975.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 February, 2013, 02:17:41 pm
Quote from: interzen on 01 February, 2013, 07:07:39 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 February, 2013, 06:13:03 pm
I suprise myself by perusing the AUK calendar.I'm supposed to be having a sabbatical.It's that Peter's fault;writing up his Mere 200 ride report. ;D
One of these days I really ought to consider bringing my sabbatical to an end ...

... 6 years could be construed as overdoing it a bit.

6 years doesn't suprise me 'cause atm I feel like one side of my brain is upfrit but 'tother side CBA,with my body adopting a neutral,a.k.a. lazy,stance in the mind games war.
I've also parted with 8 bikes in the last year with little or no regret:not a good precursor wrt enthusiasm.

Having said all that I am looking forward to doing a Tamworth audax with one of the yacf lady's ladies* :)

*  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 03 February, 2013, 04:31:08 pm
Having completed my weekly pre-commute tyre fettle, to rid the rubber of shards of glass, I'm having a glass of champagne seeing, as a bottle was *accidentally* opened last night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: her_welshness on 03 February, 2013, 04:37:34 pm
Filling in a personal statement for a job application and watching the rugby.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 03 February, 2013, 05:17:25 pm
Saying b0ll0x!

One of the afore-mentioned fettled wheels has just gone BANG! in the other room - and I thought I was done with spanners for today :(

Impressive noise, though  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 03 February, 2013, 05:52:10 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 03 February, 2013, 05:17:25 pm
Saying b0ll0x!

One of the afore-mentioned fettled wheels has just gone BANG! in the other room - and I thought I was done with spanners for today :(

Impressive noise, though  :thumbsup:
Sorted  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 February, 2013, 10:59:28 pm
I have been mostly perusing train timetables and hotel booking sites and Making Plans.  Taking m'boys on a one night holiday to Newcastle.  Well, we have some unused open return half tix..... so cheap advances there and a discount premier inn and jobs a good'un for under 40 quid.

I've also been sorting out logistics and booking trains and stuff for assorted other adventures in the next month or two.

Next I need to ponder whether to buy a new Big Tent for Deershed festival so that I can sleep in a separate space to the wriggly octopus boys.  Well, it's a good excuse.  But is it frankly ridiculous to buy what is, effectively, a car-camping tent when I don't have a car or even a driving licence? 

*ponder, ponder*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 03 February, 2013, 11:01:48 pm
Admiring how cherubic Charlotte looks when she's asleep.  It's uncanny.

And waiting for her to find this post and kill me ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 February, 2013, 11:04:17 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 February, 2013, 10:59:28 pm
Next I need to ponder whether to buy a new Big Tent for Deershed festival so that I can sleep in a separate space to the wriggly octopus boys.  Well, it's a good excuse.  But is it frankly ridiculous to buy what is, effectively, a car-camping tent when I don't have a car or even a driving licence? 

I expect there's someone around here with one you could borrow, shirley?

I mean, you could borrow ours, only it got borrowed a few years ago and hasn't been seen since...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 February, 2013, 11:13:25 pm
Quote from: Julian on 03 February, 2013, 11:01:48 pm
Admiring how cherubic Charlotte looks when she's asleep.  It's uncanny.

And waiting for her to find this post and kill me ;D

Charlotte, cherubic?
(click to show/hide)
Frankly, I can't see the resemblance.

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 February, 2013, 11:24:00 pm
Quote from: Julian on 03 February, 2013, 11:01:48 pm
Admiring how cherubic Charlotte looks when she's asleep.  It's uncanny.

This phenomenon seems to be quite common.  My brother was a textbook demonstration of it in his obnoxious teenage years.  Apparently I fail miserably on account of my habit of sleeping with my eyes open, and occasionally forgetting to breathe.


Maybe we need a thread for photos of people sleeping (under non-audax conditions)?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 03 February, 2013, 11:28:49 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 03 February, 2013, 11:13:25 pm
Quote from: Julian on 03 February, 2013, 11:01:48 pm
Admiring how cherubic Charlotte looks when she's asleep.  It's uncanny.

And waiting for her to find this post and kill me ;D

Charlotte, cherubic?
(click to show/hide)
Frankly, I can't see the resemblance.

 ;)

You obviously knew better than to link to a picture of a classical putto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putto), which is what most people would associate with the word "cherub".

Good save...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2013, 11:29:00 pm
Quote from: Julian on 03 February, 2013, 11:01:48 pm
Admiring how cherubic Charlotte looks when she's asleep.  It's uncanny.

And waiting for her to find this post and kill me ;D

TTIUWP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2013, 11:35:56 pm
With Dez's help I have started off a new backup regime for the rather archaic way we hold our files on a server. I am also about to take the dog out, which is normally Dez's job in the evening, because Dez is working until almost 2 a.m. He's doing something for the Orstrilians.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 February, 2013, 11:40:15 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 February, 2013, 11:04:17 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 February, 2013, 10:59:28 pm
Next I need to ponder whether to buy a new Big Tent for Deershed festival so that I can sleep in a separate space to the wriggly octopus boys.  Well, it's a good excuse.  But is it frankly ridiculous to buy what is, effectively, a car-camping tent when I don't have a car or even a driving licence? 

I expect there's someone around here with one you could borrow, shirley?

I mean, you could borrow ours, only it got borrowed a few years ago and hasn't been seen since...

Well, it's £54 quid for a 2 bedroom portable mansion that weighs in at about 12annahalf kg.  There's a couple or three occasions coming up when it might actually be handy for us to have a slightly more palatial temporary abode and without too much having to trek around carrying the thing.  Realistically I'm not going to be cycle-camping with the pair of them for a bit, until the eldest can sherpa rather more weight and either the littly is riding solo or I can afford a decent tandem - at which point our tent needs will be a bit different.  But we could use this to camp, comfortably, anywhere within a short walk/affordable taxi fare of a station.  Separate bedrooms would slightly compensate the Eldest for me decreeing that he is still a bit too young for a separate tent in most circumstances.  And camping with small people is MUCH easier in a tent that you can stand up in.



(Oh, and Charlotte being cherubic.... bless :D)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 February, 2013, 11:57:16 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 February, 2013, 11:40:15 pm
Well, it's £54 quid for a 2 bedroom portable mansion that weighs in at about 12annahalf kg.  There's a couple or three occasions coming up when it might actually be handy for us to have a slightly more palatial temporary abode and without too much having to trek around carrying the thing.

Yeah, that's pretty much how we ended up with one too.  Hard to argue with, really...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 February, 2013, 07:15:14 am
Long term loan of my canvas palace?  We never use it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 February, 2013, 09:40:22 am
Garnering my colleagues' support for a campaign for a three-day weekend. Everyone's in favour and some are requesting we go for four days instead. Anyone else want to join?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 February, 2013, 09:41:12 am
I'd like a 7 day weekend, please, but on the same money I am getting now :)

Can you arrange that for me, please?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 February, 2013, 10:15:26 am
I've got a 6 day weekend coming up.  Starts this Thursday.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 February, 2013, 10:34:28 am
I'll go for anything longer than 2 days :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 04 February, 2013, 10:53:37 am
Currently repairing Microsoft office....

Let me rephrase that...

Currently running the Microsoft Office repair utility, the other is beyond mortal man's abilities
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 February, 2013, 11:34:46 am
Quote from: jogler on 03 February, 2013, 02:17:41 pm
Quote from: interzen on 01 February, 2013, 07:07:39 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 February, 2013, 06:13:03 pm
I suprise myself by perusing the AUK calendar.I'm supposed to be having a sabbatical.It's that Peter's fault;writing up his Mere 200 ride report. ;D
One of these days I really ought to consider bringing my sabbatical to an end ...

... 6 years could be construed as overdoing it a bit.

6 years doesn't suprise me 'cause atm I feel like one side of my brain is upfrit but 'tother side CBA,with my body adopting a neutral,a.k.a. lazy,stance in the mind games war.
The spirit is willing, but the body (currently) much prefers riding offroad and getting extremely muddy. I'm told that such things are all part and parcel of being human.

Or, to put it another way, Audax riding really doesn't 'do it' for me any more although being pragmatic they would make good training rides for next year's1 Silly Bike Adventure. Lack of people to ride with is a factor, too2

1 - was to be this year's SBA, but now postponed due to logistic problems beyond my control.
2 - or rather, people willing to put up with me for n hours in the saddle. For various values of n.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 04 February, 2013, 01:07:09 pm
Taking a break from shredding the contents of a shelf-full of bulging lever arch files - one of the mind-numbingly tedious tasks that I've been putting off for years, and  which is now firmly on the critical path before redecorating the back room can commence. Why did I ever think it was important to keep such stuff? Some of it's so old it's almost of historical interest - a receipt for two bags of coal delivered to a previous house back in 1984 (£5.40 each)?
Unfortunately a lot is also personal - not state secrets, but wouldn't want anyone to find it blowing around on the tip.

Oh good, the thermal cut-out on the shredder has just re-set, so off I go again with the next batch ...

Six bin sacks-full so far - anyone in Bristol want some fresh hamster bedding?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 04 February, 2013, 01:11:48 pm
Cleaning muddy bikes in the bath. Clean bikes are now drying out on the balcony. The bath is FILTHY and is going to take twice as long to clean as the bikes :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 February, 2013, 01:41:35 pm
Next time clean the bikes on the balcony.  The evidence/run-off should dry before the downstairs neighbours come home from work. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 February, 2013, 01:53:14 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 04 February, 2013, 01:41:35 pm
Next time clean the bikes on the balcony.  The evidence/run-off should dry before the downstairs neighbours come home from work. ;)
Yebbut Sod's Law dictates that the time you decide to do that is also the time that the neighbours downstairs decide to sit out on the balcony with a nice cup of tea ... :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 February, 2013, 07:00:41 pm
Doing some college home work which involves colouring in!  Even better, you are allowed to go outside the lines too!   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 04 February, 2013, 07:01:14 pm
http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/pacman_flash/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 04 February, 2013, 07:12:43 pm
Making meatballs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 February, 2013, 07:27:45 pm
Restoring the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to its rightful place on my map server.

My sincere apologies to Luxembourgers everywhere - if someone1 hadn't pointed out 'the blank bit underneath Belgium' to me I'd never have noticed!  :-[

1 - thank $DEITY for beta testers. Developers can't be trusted with anything ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 February, 2013, 07:31:35 pm
Experimenting in the kitchen. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Anyone else smell burning?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 04 February, 2013, 08:16:10 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 04 February, 2013, 01:11:48 pm
Cleaning muddy bikes in the bath. Clean bikes are now drying out on the balcony. The bath is FILTHY and is going to take twice as long to clean as the bikes :facepalm:
Done that once, and once only.
I Will Never Do It Again.

For this, there is a reason.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ferret on 04 February, 2013, 08:23:29 pm
watching a program on BBC 4 about the Russian T34 tank
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 February, 2013, 08:39:11 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 04 February, 2013, 07:01:14 pm
http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/pacman_flash/

Ear worms, anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AEoXhRc8ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AEoXhRc8ws)

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 February, 2013, 08:44:20 pm
Homework supervision-nagging-and-whip-cracking.

Again.

Grump.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 February, 2013, 08:53:41 pm
Emily often comes round here to do her homework.Apprently there is more carrot & less stick at grannies house :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 February, 2013, 09:10:14 pm
I just could have done without finding out about 2 (possibly three) bits of homework tonight.  One due tomorrow, one on Wednesday (and one thing that he assures me isn't unfinished-in-class-work-that-needs-completeing-at-home but I'll need to go and check tomorrow).  *sighs*

Now I am listening to the pained expressions of anguish of an actually quite good mathematician trying to do maths homework that he was probably set last Thursday, when he should be in bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 February, 2013, 09:39:00 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 February, 2013, 09:10:14 pm
Now I am listening to the pained expressions of anguish of an actually quite good mathematician trying to do maths homework that he was probably set last Thursday, when he should be in bed.

Well at least it's not poetry.   :-\

(My pained expressions at being made to do poetry homework finally jumped the shark at around EldestCub's age, when by means of procrastination I wrote a poem about how much I hated poetry homework.  One of my biggest regrets is not having the guts to hand it in.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 February, 2013, 09:46:02 pm
He was trying to find a lowest common denominator in order to order fractions.
4/16  2/6  3/4   1/2  6/10  and  1/8 
It sounded a little like childbirth.

I went for writing all the various fractions on scrap paper pieces and playing higher-lower which tool approximately one minute.  No, it isn't what they've been doing in their maths lessons but it was half past fecking 9 and he was knackered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 February, 2013, 11:06:15 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 February, 2013, 09:46:02 pm
He was trying to find a lowest common denominator in order to order fractions.
4/16  2/6  3/4   1/2  6/10  and  1/8 

I just took an embarrassingly long time to work that out.  I blame tiredness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 February, 2013, 11:09:53 pm
Yeah - that was his problem too!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 04 February, 2013, 11:50:51 pm
Wondering why my doghouse is so cold and draughty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 05 February, 2013, 12:24:19 am
I am admiring the mahoosive 3D HD TV, Apple TV and Blu Ray DVD player that just moved into my house. Oh, and their owner  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 05 February, 2013, 10:12:49 am
Sitting in the phone queue for our internal helldesk. Apparently my call is "very important to them" as they tell me every 30 seconds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 05 February, 2013, 10:42:14 am
I'm not doing nothing  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 February, 2013, 11:18:09 am
Trying to warm my feet up.

One of the (many) sucky things about diabetes - my core temperature could be stratospheric but I'd still have cold bloody feet  >:( Once the gas man has finished doing his thing, I'm going to go for a little walk to get the circulation going.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 05 February, 2013, 11:28:17 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 04 February, 2013, 11:50:51 pm
Wondering why my doghouse is so cold and draughty.
what have you done now?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 05 February, 2013, 11:39:27 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 February, 2013, 09:46:02 pm
He was trying to find a lowest common denominator in order to order fractions.
4/16  2/6  3/4   1/2  6/10  and  1/8 
It sounded a little like childbirth.

I went for writing all the various fractions on scrap paper pieces and playing higher-lower which tool approximately one minute.  No, it isn't what they've been doing in their maths lessons but it was half past fecking 9 and he was knackered.

I confess I've never seen a formal method for working this out. Had to look it up.
Is the cub being taught method 2 as described in this link?
http://www.helpwithfractions.com/math-homework-helper/least-common-denominator/ (http://www.helpwithfractions.com/math-homework-helper/least-common-denominator/)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 February, 2013, 02:27:46 pm
Quote from: interzen on 05 February, 2013, 11:18:09 am
Trying to warm my feet up.

One of the (many) sucky things about diabetes - my core temperature could be stratospheric but I'd still have cold bloody feet  >:(

To be fair, the stratosphere isn't exactly warm by body temperature standards :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 February, 2013, 02:29:42 pm
Drinking a Nice Cup of Tea and when I've finished it I will go to see Aunt Phyllis, who wants me to help her fill in a form.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 February, 2013, 02:31:16 pm
Trying to decide, do I do 26* 1 1/4 or 26* 1 3/8 rims (and tyres) on the Fenton?

The latter would be the same as original (although it had tubs on from new, and I am changing it clinchers) the former is potentially easier to get tyres for, though.  The latter I can get the right rims with the right number of holes, the former I can only seem to find 36 hole ones (I need one 32 and one 40 hole) to be able to re-use the hubs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 February, 2013, 09:21:03 pm
Feeling really quite happy after skype-ing my daughter for the last hour.  She looked really well, and was cheerful.  She was rolling fags the whole time which is unfortunate, but we were getting excited about seeing each other for the first time in three years.  Roll on August.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 February, 2013, 09:23:02 pm
Ahh, that's nice.  Hope it goes well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 February, 2013, 09:24:31 pm
Quote from: Basil on 05 February, 2013, 09:23:02 pm
Ahh, that's nice.  Hope it goes well.

Thanks Basil  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 February, 2013, 09:31:20 pm
:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 05 February, 2013, 09:37:08 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 05 February, 2013, 09:21:03 pm
Feeling really quite happy after skype-ing my daughter for the last hour.  She looked really well, and was cheerful.  She was rolling fags the whole time which is unfortunate, but we were getting excited about seeing each other for the first time in three years.  Roll on August.
That's really lovely, Lindagordinho.  :)
Young Miss eck is, also unfortunately, partial to the occasional rolly-up but, if she's your daughter, what the hell?
Graduation Day, June 2010 (http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6121/5933001999_918c75b240_n.jpg)  ::-) ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 February, 2013, 09:41:39 pm
Quote from: eck on 05 February, 2013, 09:37:08 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 05 February, 2013, 09:21:03 pm
Feeling really quite happy after skype-ing my daughter for the last hour.  She looked really well, and was cheerful.  She was rolling fags the whole time which is unfortunate, but we were getting excited about seeing each other for the first time in three years.  Roll on August.
That's really lovely, Lindagordinho.  :)
Young Miss eck is, also unfortunately, partial to the occasional rolly-up but, if she's your daughter, what the hell?
Graduation Day, June 2010 (http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6121/5933001999_918c75b240_n.jpg)  ::-) ;D

 ;D ;D ;D

I often wonder what the point of breastfeeding and organic baby food was   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 February, 2013, 09:52:20 pm
Excellent  :thumbsup:.
Eck, I see a picture of someone who has discovered that they are their own person, and that they are at ease with that.

Later developments will, er, develop.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 February, 2013, 09:53:21 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 February, 2013, 09:46:02 pm
He was trying to find a lowest common denominator in order to order fractions.
4/16  2/6  3/4   1/2  6/10  and  1/8 ...

Isn't the obvious brute force approach to just multiply all of the denominators by all of the other denominators? (and obviously the numerator by the same set, minus the original denominator of that fraction).

ie you get:

4*(6*4*2*10*8)/(16*6*4*2*10*8)
2*(16*4*2*10*8)/(16*6*4*2*10*8)
3*(16*6*2*10*8)/(16*6*4*2*10*8)
1*(16*6*4*10*8)/(16*6*4*2*10*8)
6*(16*6*4*2*8)/(16*6*4*2*10*8)
1*(16*6*4*2*10)/(16*6*4*2*10*8)

15360/61440
20480/61440
46080/61440
30720/61440
36864/61440
7680/61440

Which is then trivially sortable. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 February, 2013, 10:00:07 pm
Quote from: TimO on 05 February, 2013, 09:53:21 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 February, 2013, 09:46:02 pm
He was trying to find a lowest common denominator in order to order fractions.
4/16  2/6  3/4   1/2  6/10  and  1/8 ...

Isn't the obvious brute force approach to just multiply all of the denominators by all of the other denominators?

Yes.  Well, it is if you're of a computer science persuasion, anyway.  I started doing that then realised it probably wasn't what the junior school maths lot would have in mind, and opted for the same sort of frustratingly non-algorithmic method that we were taught to use at A-level for integration: Staring at it for a bit, cancelling where appropriate, then pulling the answer out of thin air.

I can't help thinking that a Chinese Room approach to maths teaching would have made life a lot less complicated...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 05 February, 2013, 10:07:20 pm
Wondering where I'm going to get my post chilli-con-carne chocolate fix from ???

There's bugger all to be found in this household.
I cannot be asked to venture out.
And I don't feel profligate enough to have some delivered by my local mini-cab firm.
Meh!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 05 February, 2013, 10:07:52 pm
Quote from: Basil on 05 February, 2013, 09:52:20 pm
Excellent  :thumbsup:.
Eck, I see a picture of someone who has discovered that they are their own person, and that they are at ease with that.

Later developments will, er, develop.  :)
Aw, Basil, that is so right.
Later developments? So far so good.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 05 February, 2013, 10:56:06 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 February, 2013, 10:00:07 pm
Quote from: TimO on 05 February, 2013, 09:53:21 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 February, 2013, 09:46:02 pm
He was trying to find a lowest common denominator in order to order fractions.
4/16  2/6  3/4   1/2  6/10  and  1/8 ...

Isn't the obvious brute force approach to just multiply all of the denominators by all of the other denominators?

Yes.  Well, it is if you're of a computer science persuasion, anyway.  I started doing that then realised it probably wasn't what the junior school maths lot would have in mind, and opted for the same sort of frustratingly non-algorithmic method that we were taught to use at A-level for integration: Staring at it for a bit, cancelling where appropriate, then pulling the answer out of thin air.

I can't help thinking that a Chinese Room approach to maths teaching would have made life a lot less complicated...
Start by simplifying the fractions 4/16 = 1/4, 2/6 = 1/3 and 6/10 = 3/5

Take all the denominators, 4, 3, 4, 2, 5, 8

set aside any that are factors of one of the others, in this case 4, and 2 to reduce the set to 3, 8, 5

Multiply out to get 120

now multiply each denominator and numerator by the required amount to get to the X/120

a)30/120, b)40/120, c)90/120, d)60/120, e)72/120 and f)15/120

reorder largest first: c) e) d) b) a) f)

translate back to original fractions:
3/4, 6/10, 1/2, 2/6, 4/16, 1/8

I admit to initially not simplifying the fractions which leads to working in X/240 and more faff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 February, 2013, 07:41:05 am
He got to trying /80 very quickly, having spotted in about 2 seconds that _nearly_ all of em would work with that.  Then noticed /6 and, I suspect, thinking "I'm too tired for 6x80 and then working out the equivalents!" couldn't get past the mental block and change direction.  Had he simplified them first it would have simplified his life!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 February, 2013, 11:19:04 am
Finally getting around to listing bikes and frames on eBay.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 February, 2013, 12:07:18 pm
Quote from: matthew on 05 February, 2013, 10:56:06 pm

set aside any that are factors of one of the others, in this case 4, and 2 to reduce the set to 3, 8, 5

very similar to the multiplication of primes technique, but yours is simpler (since it doesn't involve finding the primes, which can be a non-trivial exercise).

Any maths-sparks here that know this?  For a given number, is there only one set of primes that produce that number when multiplied together?

Quote from: matthew on 05 February, 2013, 10:56:06 pm
I admit to initially not simplifying the fractions which leads to working in X/240 and more faff.
Ditto
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 06 February, 2013, 12:44:39 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 06 February, 2013, 12:07:18 pm

Any maths-sparks here that know this?  For a given number, is there only one set of primes that produce that number when multiplied together?


Yes they are unique for each number and termed the prime factors e.g. 8 = 2*2*2, 12=3*2*2 or 289=17*17. Any other set of factors e.g. 12=6*2 or 4*3 is only part way there as in these cased 6 and 4 are not prime and factorising these will both lead to 2*2*3.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 February, 2013, 01:07:18 pm
ty

Ain't numbers wierd?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 06 February, 2013, 01:14:40 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 06 February, 2013, 01:07:18 pm
ty

Ain't numbers wierd?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number

Yes. Yes they are - what other explanation could there be for the existence of, say, surreal numbers? :) Not to mention things like this:

(http://foximaging.com/store/images/mathtee-getreal.jpg)


Had my A-level maths teacher not been the Spawn of Satan I could have easily ended up studying mathematics instead of theoretical physics. In particular I find number theory to be absolutely fascinating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 06 February, 2013, 01:23:41 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 06 February, 2013, 12:07:18 pm
Quote from: matthew on 05 February, 2013, 10:56:06 pm

set aside any that are factors of one of the others, in this case 4, and 2 to reduce the set to 3, 8, 5

very similar to the multiplication of primes technique, but yours is simpler (since it doesn't involve finding the primes, which can be a non-trivial exercise).

Yes this is a slight short cut though, change 6/10 to 7/10 so that the fraction does not simplify and my set would become 3, 8, 10 and suggest working with 240 where we know 120 works.

There is need for an additional step to ask after excluding those numbers which are factors of another: if in the reduced list of denominators there are shared factors? In the modified case both 8 and 10 share the factor 2 which is therefore only needed once in the Lowest Common Multiple and so you can have 3*8*10 / 2 = 120.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 February, 2013, 01:46:31 pm
Now waiting for my music client to catch up with the fact that I have removed ALL spaces from filenames in my MP3 collection.  It is currently busy removing ~20K tracks, then will be busy adding ~20K tracks...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 06 February, 2013, 07:19:00 pm
I'm scoffing jam roly poly pud & custard & thinking that I'll give up cycling & take up gratuitous scoffing as an alternative hobby ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 07 February, 2013, 09:10:20 am
But do enough cycling and the scoffing isn't gratuitous, it's fuel.

Also your likely to live (and scoff) for longer.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 07 February, 2013, 10:48:41 am
Copying data off a friend's son's hard disk onto my little backup drive.  Said PC had got itself into a never-ending reboot loop, whatever we tried.  the disc when attached to my PC showed several bad sectors and errors, which it claimed to fix.  So, do I throw it away or try for a reformat and then rebuild his PC from scratch....

I must confess I hadn't realised that if you stick in an extra disc that has bad sectors, then Windows goes straight to chkdsk and attacks them, as soon as my PC boots up.

As is usual for a 14 year old boy, its structure is a mess.  How can he ever find anything again, its all over the place?  Said boy is more into fixing traction engines that PC's, it must be said.

Norton is now getting into the act, and is NOT PLEASED wth the disc.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 February, 2013, 11:16:01 am
Trying to stay awake whilst enduring (which is precisely the right word) a training course on Adobe's DPS system - I was late to bed last night, had trouble sleeping and the course material is soul-crushingly dull.

I'm stuck in said course until 5.30 (with a break for lunch) which means I'll not be able to do tonight's pub ride and hence break 1000km for the year :(

Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 11:28:41 am
Planning a trip to Mull.

I've decided I'm not waiting for summer. I'm not taking a phone, laptop, iPad or any other form of communication. I don't want to speak to anyone for a week at least, especially anyone I know through work!

I'm just making a camping list, then I'm picking a date.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 07 February, 2013, 11:30:50 am
Fuming impotently over Cameron's response to the Frances report.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 February, 2013, 11:31:30 am
Quote from: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 11:28:41 am
Planning a trip to Mull.
Get to Oban, get ferry to Craignure, tell world+dog to get stuffed for n days. Simples :)

I'm considering a trip to Islay and Jura for pretty much the same reasons.

I really need to go back to Mull, though - I love the place to bits. The only downside is now that I'm teetotal the Mishnish Arms in Tobermory loses a lot of its appeal  :'(
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 11:36:59 am
Quote from: interzen on 07 February, 2013, 11:31:30 am
Quote from: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 11:28:41 am
Planning a trip to Mull.
Get to Oban, get ferry to Craignure, tell world+dog to get stuffed for n days. Simples :)


Spot on!

You must have a little tipple at least once when you're there. My hip flask is permanently in the camping gear, purely for medicinal purposes you understand. Just to keep the chill off at night ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 February, 2013, 11:44:12 am
Quote from: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 11:36:59 am
Quote from: interzen on 07 February, 2013, 11:31:30 am
Quote from: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 11:28:41 am
Planning a trip to Mull.
Get to Oban, get ferry to Craignure, tell world+dog to get stuffed for n days. Simples :)


Spot on!

You must have a little tipple at least once when you're there. My hip flask is permanently in the camping gear, purely for medicinal purposes you understand. Just to keep the chill off at night ;)
Sadly, my dysfunctional pancreas means that alcohol is pretty much a no-no, which is doubly painful if I go to Islay because I was a big fan of Islay malts; the smokier/peatier the better.

I can recommend the distillery tour at Tobermory if you haven't done it - last time I did it they were doing free samples during the tour :)
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 12:13:15 pm
Love the distillery tours. Well, love the tasting at the end :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 February, 2013, 12:27:51 pm
Meanwhile, back at the bat-cave, I am on hold to Trez, trying to sort out my gift vouchers that I got for Xmas.

This might tale a while...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 07 February, 2013, 12:53:16 pm
Quote from: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 12:13:15 pm
Love the distillery tours. Well, love the tasting at the end :)

The tasting is an important part but as a Biochemical Engineer, the fermentation process is highly interesting.

When at Bladnoch a couple of years ago I ended up with a one to one tour due the lack of demand. This resulted in being able to ask questions about the stills that the guide couldn't answer.

When I was in Tobermory last year the cruise ship was in port so the tours were heaving. Talasker later in the same trip was less busy but still too busy for awkward questions.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 07 February, 2013, 01:33:00 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 07 February, 2013, 10:48:41 am
Copying data off a friend's son's hard disk onto my little backup drive.  Said PC had got itself into a never-ending reboot loop, whatever we tried.  the disc when attached to my PC showed several bad sectors and errors, which it claimed to fix.  So, do I throw it away or try for a reformat and then rebuild his PC from scratch....

I must confess I hadn't realised that if you stick in an extra disc that has bad sectors, then Windows goes straight to chkdsk and attacks them, as soon as my PC boots up.

As is usual for a 14 year old boy, its structure is a mess.  How can he ever find anything again, its all over the place?  Said boy is more into fixing traction engines that PC's, it must be said.

Norton is now getting into the act, and is NOT PLEASED wth the disc.
ccleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner)) and testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk))
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 01:39:55 pm
Quote from: matthew on 07 February, 2013, 12:53:16 pm
Quote from: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 12:13:15 pm
Love the distillery tours. Well, love the tasting at the end :)

The tasting is an important part but as a Biochemical Engineer, the fermentation process is highly interesting.

When at Bladnoch a couple of years ago I ended up with a one to one tour due the lack of demand. This resulted in being able to ask questions about the stills that the guide couldn't answer.

When I was in Tobermory last year the cruise ship was in port so the tours were heaving. Talasker later in the same trip was less busy but still too busy for awkward questions.

Surprised you can remember any of it :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 February, 2013, 02:07:18 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 07 February, 2013, 01:33:00 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 07 February, 2013, 10:48:41 am
Copying data off a friend's son's hard disk onto my little backup drive.  Said PC had got itself into a never-ending reboot loop, whatever we tried.  the disc when attached to my PC showed several bad sectors and errors, which it claimed to fix.  So, do I throw it away or try for a reformat and then rebuild his PC from scratch....

I must confess I hadn't realised that if you stick in an extra disc that has bad sectors, then Windows goes straight to chkdsk and attacks them, as soon as my PC boots up.

As is usual for a 14 year old boy, its structure is a mess.  How can he ever find anything again, its all over the place?  Said boy is more into fixing traction engines that PC's, it must be said.

Norton is now getting into the act, and is NOT PLEASED wth the disc.
ccleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner)) and testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk))

Before messing about with that, I'd run the disk manufacturer's diagnostic tool to see if there was a physical problem with the disk.  If so, it goes back under warranty, or to the bin, as appropriate.  If the disk's okay and it's just filesystem corruption, then either that or a reformat and reinstall, depending on which you consider to be least effort.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 07 February, 2013, 05:13:31 pm
Currently trying to print out instructions for a mapping activity on this weekend's Cub Spy Camp
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 07 February, 2013, 06:05:35 pm
Drinking a cup of tea before having a shower. Went on a rather muddy ride around Sundon Hills... Fun but knackering.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 07 February, 2013, 06:09:54 pm
Drinking a beer before flying. It always helps...

Mind you, when I landed here at 0745 this morning, the three guys ahead of me at the coffee shop seemed miffed that they couldn't get a glass of red wine until 1130.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 07 February, 2013, 07:36:19 pm
Quote
Drinking a beer before flying. It always helps...

Yeah not allowed to do that. The CAA tends to frown at that sort of thing.   O:-)
Doesn't stop the Ruskies though.  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 07 February, 2013, 09:51:17 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 February, 2013, 02:07:18 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 07 February, 2013, 01:33:00 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 07 February, 2013, 10:48:41 am
Copying data off a friend's son's hard disk onto my little backup drive.  Said PC had got itself into a never-ending reboot loop, whatever we tried.  the disc when attached to my PC showed several bad sectors and errors, which it claimed to fix.  So, do I throw it away or try for a reformat and then rebuild his PC from scratch....

I must confess I hadn't realised that if you stick in an extra disc that has bad sectors, then Windows goes straight to chkdsk and attacks them, as soon as my PC boots up.

As is usual for a 14 year old boy, its structure is a mess.  How can he ever find anything again, its all over the place?  Said boy is more into fixing traction engines that PC's, it must be said.

Norton is now getting into the act, and is NOT PLEASED wth the disc.
ccleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner)) and testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk))

Before messing about with that, I'd run the disk manufacturer's diagnostic tool to see if there was a physical problem with the disk.  If so, it goes back under warranty, or to the bin, as appropriate.  If the disk's okay and it's just filesystem corruption, then either that or a reformat and reinstall, depending on which you consider to be least effort.
That's what I did, using the Maxtor utility.  Its now reformatted and repartitioned, waiting to go back in the crappy PC with the dreadful cheap case that was a shit to assemble when I built it for him 4 years ago.  His dad bought the cheapest case he could, to go with the remains of my old PC.  I did tell him I'd be off down to Novatech for a new disc if it failed tests. I think it was just suffering from 14 yr old boy operator error.
Now YACF'ing on a Nexus tablet while watching clydesdales on reply.  I fancy a drink...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 08 February, 2013, 05:27:35 pm
Trying to persuade myself to leave this wonderful soft bed and go to work. Don't wanna. Snice ere. Swarm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 08 February, 2013, 05:30:49 pm
Eating a tub of lemon & coriander humous which was reduced to 15p in Tesc*s  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 February, 2013, 05:42:19 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 08 February, 2013, 05:27:35 pm
Trying to persuade myself to leave this wonderful soft bed and go to work. Don't wanna. Snice ere. Swarm.

You'll be back there soon.  Hope it's a peaceful shift.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 08 February, 2013, 08:16:16 pm
Quote from: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 01:39:55 pm
Quote from: matthew on 07 February, 2013, 12:53:16 pm
Quote from: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 12:13:15 pm
Love the distillery tours. Well, love the tasting at the end :)

The tasting is an important part but as a Biochemical Engineer, the fermentation process is highly interesting.

When at Bladnoch a couple of years ago I ended up with a one to one tour due the lack of demand. This resulted in being able to ask questions about the stills that the guide couldn't answer.

When I was in Tobermory last year the cruise ship was in port so the tours were heaving. Talasker later in the same trip was less busy but still too busy for awkward questions.

Surprised you can remember any of it :D
It was a three week tour of the western islands, Tobermory was late in week one, Talasker was near the end of week three.  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 08 February, 2013, 09:58:43 pm
Split and packed the tandem in the hope of a vaguely-early departure tomorrow...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 08 February, 2013, 10:01:24 pm
Realising I don't have much of a clue about buying furniture/interior design/any sense of style, and trying to book up on these (ok except the style bit) ready for hopefully moving house soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 February, 2013, 10:02:58 pm
Drinking beer & listening to choral music.    I should have gone to see the Joe Stilgoe Trio tonight (yes, Richard's sprog) but am ghastly with cold and didn't feel like it. 

Effing Ticket Quarter wouldn't give me a refund  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 February, 2013, 10:06:46 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 08 February, 2013, 10:01:24 pm
Realising I don't have much of a clue about buying furniture/interior design/any sense of style, and trying to book up on these (ok except the style bit) ready for hopefully moving house soon.

Design ?   Style  ?    What are these words ?

 A couple of coats of white paint, a few comfy chairs, a load of Ikea Billies, a fridge for the beer and a good hifi.   Sorted  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 08 February, 2013, 10:08:13 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 08 February, 2013, 10:06:46 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 08 February, 2013, 10:01:24 pm
Realising I don't have much of a clue about buying furniture/interior design/any sense of style, and trying to book up on these (ok except the style bit) ready for hopefully moving house soon.

Design ?   Style  ?    What are these words ?

 A couple of coats of white paint, a few comfy chairs, a load of Ikea Billies, a fridge for the beer and a good hifi.   Sorted  :thumbsup:

Pretty much where I'm heading. ;D

The walls are already sort of ok though (but not white)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 February, 2013, 11:41:14 pm
Yes, but make sure you go for the functional Ikea bookcases and comfortable sofa/chairs, not the other way around....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 February, 2013, 04:45:52 am
Not Billy; Leksvik.  More stable when (over) loaded. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 09 February, 2013, 11:15:00 am
Eating marmalade on toast whilst looking at the sea in one direction and, enviously, at cyclists going past on Joy lane, in the other.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 09 February, 2013, 11:19:07 am
Waiting for EDF to arrive to either change our electric meter or look at it so they can come back and change it later. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 09 February, 2013, 01:57:09 pm
Trying to motivate myself to get my motivation to finish a college assignment on the development of soils.

mud fight, anyone?   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 09 February, 2013, 03:05:53 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 09 February, 2013, 11:19:07 am
Waiting for EDF to arrive to either change our electric meter or look at it so they can come back and change it later.
They didn't show. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 09 February, 2013, 05:05:29 pm
As they is French they woz obviously preparing to watch the rugby on TV right now....  Mrs W is downstairs shouting at the TV right now, hence I am up here with the PC. 

Not my favourite supplier...

Now what I should be doing is learning French, but what I AM doing is idling on YACF...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 February, 2013, 07:16:12 pm
Coughing, which hurts my ribs, sneezing & snuffling.  I've not wanted to do anything all day, not even eat, which for me is most unusual  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 09 February, 2013, 08:06:41 pm
Deciding whether my thighs have thawed enough to shower. 2 hours is surely long enough?
They're still quite cold  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 February, 2013, 09:15:11 pm
When they get like that, the shower's about the only thing that /can/ thaw my thighs...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 09 February, 2013, 09:17:17 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 February, 2013, 09:15:11 pm
When they get like that, the shower's about the only thing that /can/ thaw my thighs...

Is that better than an oil heater? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 February, 2013, 09:27:11 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 09 February, 2013, 09:17:17 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 February, 2013, 09:15:11 pm
When they get like that, the shower's about the only thing that /can/ thaw my thighs...

Is that better than an oil heater? :)

Yes, although I'll always think of it fondly...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 09 February, 2013, 09:32:17 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 February, 2013, 09:15:11 pm
When they get like that, the shower's about the only thing that /can/ thaw my thighs...
Nah, it sets of the itching. I have to let them thaw first.
I'm starting to think they're not metabolically active and therefore I could get the NHS to have them removed, like any other benign but awkward growth...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 10 February, 2013, 10:58:59 am
Mooching around, listening to music and feeling sorry for myself :( Family away for the weekend so I'd planned some long guilt free rides and some jobs round the house. But the cold I thought I'd shaken is back with a vengeance and it hasn't stopped raining all weekend. On the plus side the new Low album is rather good :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 February, 2013, 11:18:25 am
I will soon be setting off for London, with a Brompton, on which I will hie me to the Vauxhall Griffin for singing. It seems I'm billy-no-mates this evening so I'll probably come straight home afterwards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 10 February, 2013, 01:41:52 pm
(http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/535921_10151242795737031_325085530_n.jpg)  ...........................wondeing how people manage to mix these 2 up  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 10 February, 2013, 01:48:48 pm
Horses == fast cows, innit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 February, 2013, 03:19:16 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 10 February, 2013, 01:48:48 pm
Horses == fast cows, innit.
If the recent revelations about burger contents are any indication they're obviously not quite fast enough.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 February, 2013, 03:45:19 pm
Fixing the internet, again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 10 February, 2013, 04:01:37 pm
Sitting with Crusty on the sofa drinking coffee playing with my phone while he watches rugby. Domestic contentment. But only while the coffee lasts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 February, 2013, 04:02:47 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 10 February, 2013, 03:45:19 pm
Fixing the internet, again.

Thanks for the quick repair - it's working fine down here.  :thumbsup:

Who broke it this time?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 February, 2013, 04:05:59 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 10 February, 2013, 04:02:47 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 10 February, 2013, 03:45:19 pm
Fixing the internet, again.

Thanks for the quick repair - it's working fine down here.  :thumbsup:

Who broke it this time?
My dad, probably - just given him a new computer.

Apologies for any inconvenience :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 February, 2013, 04:25:38 pm
Wishing I'd bought another ratchet clamp, and cleaning PVA glue off my clothes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 February, 2013, 04:30:26 pm
The last 3 days washing up.... :-[       I'm actually doing it in batches because I feel so utterly crap  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 February, 2013, 04:46:51 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 10 February, 2013, 04:02:47 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 10 February, 2013, 03:45:19 pm
Fixing the internet, again.

Thanks for the quick repair - it's working fine down here.  :thumbsup:

Who broke it this time?

I have no idea, I wasn't here, honest guv'nor! Big boys did it and ran away.  OK, then it might have been due to me moving the WAP to another segment of the network, and the switches (yes multiple) getting all in a tizzy.

One day I am going to rip everything out and replace with a proper, structured network.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 10 February, 2013, 04:57:28 pm
Procrastinating.  I'm meant to be working but it's Sunday and I don't want to...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 10 February, 2013, 05:36:06 pm
Avoiding studying which is silly as my assignment is due Thursday.

Worrying having read about problems regarding front disc brakes and QR skewers as that's what my new bike comes with. Are bolted skewers a drop in replacement and are they safer?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 February, 2013, 07:35:15 pm
Skewers which take an allen key (or something more exotic) are readily available as a security device.  I've never had a problem with them on my disc braked bike.  Other than having to have the relevant tool, I don't find them any slower than quick releases, especially on forks with lawyer lips.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 February, 2013, 07:40:31 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 10 February, 2013, 05:36:06 pm
Avoiding studying which is silly as my assignment is due Thursday.

Worrying having read about problems regarding front disc brakes and QR skewers as that's what my new bike comes with. Are bolted skewers a drop in replacement and are they safer?
If you want to give an allen-key skewer a try before you commit yourself let me know, as I think I've got a spare one in the bits box.

I'm not aware of any problems with using QR skewers with disc brakes, but having said that one of the first things I do is dump them in favour of allen-key skewers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 February, 2013, 07:52:36 pm
And as phantasmagoriana will point out, not all QR skewers are the same.  I assume the issue with disc brakes is lack of clamping force, in which case an internal-cam skewer will fare better than an external-cam one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 10 February, 2013, 09:25:18 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 February, 2013, 07:40:31 pm

I'm not aware of any problems with using QR skewers with disc brakes, but having said that one of the first things I do is dump them in favour of allen-key skewers.

Remember uk.rec.cycling? A bloke on there, Russ Pinder, broke his back after losing a front wheel from a QR equipped disc braked bike.  James Annan wrote an article about a proposed mechanism for such a failure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 10 February, 2013, 10:31:11 pm
Eeeep, so I assume bolt fixing is a better choice then due to being able to clamp harder? Which is fine but a) still could work undone if a bastard tight QR can come undone and b) it's a carbon fork, surely it doesn't want to be done up too tight?

Though now I think about it surely the dropout won't be carbon so maybe not a problem doing things up v tight?

I know I'm probably being overworried here but that's sort of what I do.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 February, 2013, 10:53:27 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 10 February, 2013, 09:25:18 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 February, 2013, 07:40:31 pm

I'm not aware of any problems with using QR skewers with disc brakes, but having said that one of the first things I do is dump them in favour of allen-key skewers.

Remember uk.rec.cycling?
I'd be lying if I said I didn't ...

Quote
A bloke on there, Russ Pinder, broke his back after losing a front wheel from a QR equipped disc braked bike.  James Annan wrote an article about a proposed mechanism for such a failure.
That one passed me by, I'm afraid. Given that I went into self-imposed cyber-isolation sometime in the late 90s this isn't really surprising.

As for bolt-on skewers on carbon forks, I ran my old Marin Point Reyes like that for a good 6 years and never had any problems, at least not until the frame decided to crack. Unless you're running Stupid Light[tm] carbon forks I doubt very much that the dropouts will be carbon. Certainly all the carbon forks I've had have had metal dropouts, more than likely alloy.

My preference for bolt-on skewers is more from a security standpoint than anything else, having learnt the lesson the hard way when I worked at York Uni - some scrotes managed to get into the locked cycle cage behind the Electronics department and pinched the skewers out of the wheels of my (then) Audax bike; clearly they planned to come back for the rest later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 10 February, 2013, 11:01:46 pm
Wondering whether I'll make it back to Londres tomorrow.
I'm in Whitstable, it is snowing hard and blowing a hooly. ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 February, 2013, 11:11:17 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 10 February, 2013, 09:25:18 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 February, 2013, 07:40:31 pm

I'm not aware of any problems with using QR skewers with disc brakes, but having said that one of the first things I do is dump them in favour of allen-key skewers.

Remember uk.rec.cycling? A bloke on there, Russ Pinder, broke his back after losing a front wheel from a QR equipped disc braked bike.  James Annan wrote an article about a proposed mechanism for such a failure.
Interesting.
I have also had a disc braked wheel come loose and throw me. Is that the same Russ Pinder we have here?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 February, 2013, 11:23:10 pm
As ever, Sheldon (RIP) had something to say on the subject of disc brakes and q/r skewers:

http://sheldonbrown.com/skewers.html

There's even a link there to the stuff that James Annan wrote.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 February, 2013, 11:53:24 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 February, 2013, 11:23:10 pm
As ever, Sheldon (RIP) had something to say on the subject of disc brakes and q/r skewers:

http://sheldonbrown.com/skewers.html

There's even a link there to the stuff that James Annan wrote.

And the stuff James wrote has a link to his current web page.  They are still in Japan, some nice tour pics  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 February, 2013, 10:26:24 am
Playing "Guess how many watchers actually bid" on eBay.

And fretting about going for a blood test @ the docs :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 11 February, 2013, 10:38:53 am
Panicking!!!

We have our first viewing (our house is on the market) this afternoon and the place is not clean!  :o  Best get on and finish my work work and get down to it.

Lets hope we get an offer as we have found the place we want to move to....its opposite a graveyard so no problems with the neighbours (we hope!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 February, 2013, 10:51:25 am
Prepping the lovely OrangeGina (checking brakes, putting air in the tyres, remembering how to use gears etc.) and then I'm going to have a pedal up into town to pick up some orange cardboard for Wednesday night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2013, 10:58:24 am
Wondering if the gasman's going to come back for his flue gas sniffer pole thingy...

ETA: He did.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 11 February, 2013, 12:36:05 pm
I'm watching the snow  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 February, 2013, 02:13:04 pm
Thawing out.
It looks quite pleasant out there, but it's still bloody cold (and quite windy too)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 11 February, 2013, 11:38:05 pm
I'm thinking I really need to make an appointment at the doctors. I've had a little lump in my armpit for a while now and monitored it to see if it will go away. It hasn't. Unfortunately my GP won't be able to say its fine either. I'm too busy to be worrying about a biopsy right now ... Meh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 12 February, 2013, 12:06:52 am
L. it might just be a cyst.  It was with me.  Good luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 13 February, 2013, 11:39:17 am
Ditto. Blocked sweat glands are very common.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 13 February, 2013, 11:48:49 am
Quote from: Feline on 11 February, 2013, 11:38:05 pm
I'm thinking I really need to make an appointment at the doctors. I've had a little lump in my armpit for a while now and monitored it to see if it will go away. It hasn't. Unfortunately my GP won't be able to say its fine either. I'm too busy to be worrying about a biopsy right now ... Meh.

I’ve had that, a few years back. I can’t even remember what its official name was (I did show a GP and without any tests she said it was nothing to worry about and eventually it went away on its own). So your GP may be able to put your mind at rest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 13 February, 2013, 01:04:30 pm
Thanks guys. I've made an appointment for Friday. I would have done a fine needle aspirate on it myself and stuck it under the microscope, but I figured it would be difficult to do one handed and could possibly hurt too much to do to myself. I'm hoping I don't need to be referred for the hassle factor. It's not a lymph node so I'm not super worried. If it was on a dog I would think it was a cyst.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 13 February, 2013, 02:32:33 pm
Waiting for the boiler service man to come
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 February, 2013, 02:33:30 pm
Trying to stay awake.
To say that my heart isn't in it today would be a chronic understatement  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 February, 2013, 02:37:50 pm
About to go to work, bus also looking forward to the arrivival of friends...  :thumbsup:
Title: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 13 February, 2013, 02:50:21 pm
Having a rest after lugging a new bed and mattress up the stairs and bringing the old one* down them.

The old one isn't two years old, it's a memory foam mattress that my wife really, really wanted and I really, really, really, really hated!

Looking forward to a good nights sleep now :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 13 February, 2013, 08:48:37 pm
At a scout group executive meeting and quickly losing the will to live. Why can't people stick to the point and STFU?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 14 February, 2013, 10:41:31 am
nuddy housework!   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 14 February, 2013, 10:48:11 am
Eating Twiglets(TM)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 14 February, 2013, 07:02:43 pm
Ordering a chinese take-away for valentine's day

<-- romantic, me
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 February, 2013, 08:10:08 pm
Cleaning up after a singularly infuriating brake-fettling session.

Valentine's Day can go pound sand up it's wazoo .... romantic? Me? Naaah ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 14 February, 2013, 10:17:25 pm
Brown Turbo saddle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2013, 10:18:19 pm
Wanting to punch a certain someone repeatedly in the face until the Bad stops.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 February, 2013, 10:19:26 pm
Windows Update.

A strange game.  The only winning move is not to play.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Noodley on 14 February, 2013, 10:21:04 pm
Wondering whether to drink the can of cider in the fridge or go to bed...  :-\ ???

 O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 14 February, 2013, 11:51:46 pm
Cruising along the M1 nearing the end of a very long day punctuated with visits to Russellm and Valiant.   Two true gentlemen.  Thank you very much indeed chaps   Very much appreciated  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 February, 2013, 11:53:14 pm
Waiting for my hearing to return ...

Just got back from seeing Robin Guthrie (ex-Cocteau Twins et.al) in York - fantastic gig, playing what can best be described as 'guitar-based ambient', but in this case 'ambient' does not necessarily equate to 'quiet' because, bugger me, it was loud.

Most enjoyable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 16 February, 2013, 11:23:26 am
Hanging about, waiting for sisters wedding to kick off. Flower girl frocks ready:
 http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/mrmagnolia/Snapbucket/?action=view&current=8547FC2E-orig_zps8f8a77c6.jpg

Time for me to pop my own skirt on shortly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 February, 2013, 11:33:42 am
Laundry  :-\
I'm getting it out of the way now so I can (potentially) spend more time riding the bike, 'cos it's lovely outside at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 February, 2013, 11:47:27 am
Feeling stupid for wussing out of the audax this morning on account of freezing fog and possible ice.  It's not looking to bad now.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 February, 2013, 01:52:20 pm
Quote from: Kim on 16 February, 2013, 11:47:27 am
Feeling stupid for wussing out of the audax this morning on account of freezing fog and possible ice.  It's not looking to bad now.  :(

The feeling of guilt after a DNS is proportional to the ease with which the original DNS decision was taken ;).

So - if you wrangled over it for an hour, tested the road surface, pored over xcweather reports along the route, before making the DNS decision, there shouldn't be too much guilt now. If you poked your head out from under the covers, muttered "meh", and turned over for another three hours kip - yup, you should be wracked with guilt now!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 February, 2013, 02:18:18 pm
Flapping a wee bit.
I'm convinced I own a copy of The Beatles "Please Please Me" album (on CD actually) but I cannot find it. :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 16 February, 2013, 02:50:03 pm
Quote from: jogler on 16 February, 2013, 02:18:18 pm
Flapping a wee bit.

 :o I read that all wrong! :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 February, 2013, 03:13:01 pm
What did you read it as?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 February, 2013, 03:35:25 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 16 February, 2013, 01:52:20 pm
So - if you wrangled over it for an hour, tested the road surface, pored over xcweather reports along the route, before making the DNS decision, there shouldn't be too much guilt now. If you poked your head out from under the covers, muttered "meh", and turned over for another three hours kip - yup, you should be wracked with guilt now!

Hmm, how about both?

I did all the xcweather and feeding alternative routes for ice and flooding into the Garmin and stuff last night.  I even got as far as establishing that the class of train that would get me not particularly near the start was trike friendly.

The I woke up at morning o'clock, observed that the temperature was zero and that the road surface was hidden behind the freezing fog, and went back to bed...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 16 February, 2013, 03:52:24 pm
Nice and sunny in the middle of the day is no recompense for landing on your arse on ice at early O'Clock . I'm becoming expert in these matters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 February, 2013, 04:54:23 pm
Pondering if I've got everything I need sorted out & packed ready for tomorrows Tour of East Lothian Audax.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 February, 2013, 05:37:04 pm
Comforting TLD.

Why?

Well, we were coming back from her ballet practice (she has a mock exam on Friday) when we saw a little bit of a commotion up ahead (we were in the car).

There's a guy running around with no shirt on, people chasing after him etc etc.

We turn onto the road into town and 3 police vans come hurtling the other way.  We stop to allow the traffic to sort itself out and see that the miscreant is in the carpark level with our car, hiding behind a wall.

Lots of shouting, people running about, police included.  TLD, understandably (especially so bearing in mind the incident a couple of years ago) gets very very upset.  She wouldn't get out of the car at the supermarket, and needed hand holding and lots of cuddles all the way around.

Poor little mite is going through the horrible, horrible, "What if this" stage in her head.

tonight might be a long night...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 16 February, 2013, 05:49:13 pm
Poor TLD. Give her a hug from me.

You alright, Tiermat?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 February, 2013, 05:52:56 pm
Hugs to all of you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 16 February, 2013, 09:41:53 pm
Oh no. Poor TLD.

Tell her I haz pressie for her.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 17 February, 2013, 10:48:07 am
A lie-in, crossaints for breakfast and on my second mug of tea. Fine Audax recovery :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 17 February, 2013, 05:25:20 pm
Idling here, after uploading my photographs I took earlier of Princess Anne's most intimate parts.  ;D ;D

I am of course referring to the SRN4 hovercraft named after said royal lady...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 17 February, 2013, 08:13:32 pm
Thanks all, just seen your good wishes. I am fine, but spent the time walking around the supermarket shaking like a dog shiteing razor blades.

We had a lovely meal out last night (just me and Mrs T) and a brilliant day today in Whitby. tld spent the evening with the best babysitter in the world, who sat patiently with her and talked through what happened. It wasn't a case of we couldn't be bothered, because we spent all the time before we went out talking about it, it was more a case that I knew that the view of someone completely detached from it would help. Oh and the fact she is a child care worker as her day job helps
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 17 February, 2013, 11:10:22 pm
Realising just how much crap I have accumulated over the last 4 years and musing over whether boxing it up or skipping large portions if it would be the better option.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 17 February, 2013, 11:11:22 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 17 February, 2013, 11:10:22 pm
Realising just how much crap I have accumulated over the last 4 years and musing over whether boxing it up or skipping large portions if it would be the better option.

Box it up and keep it in the loft.  It can be sorted later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 17 February, 2013, 11:12:17 pm
I think I chose that option for some of it last time I moved :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 17 February, 2013, 11:13:05 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 17 February, 2013, 11:12:17 pm
I think I chose that option for some of it last time I moved :-\

Nobody died, right?  So that was a good decision.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 February, 2013, 06:54:25 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 17 February, 2013, 11:11:22 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 17 February, 2013, 11:10:22 pm
Realising just how much crap I have accumulated over the last 4 years and musing over whether boxing it up or skipping large portions if it would be the better option.

Box it up and keep it in the loft.  It can be sorted later.

We moved in here in 1986.There is a tea chest which was put in the loft at that time & has not been emptied or moved since.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 18 February, 2013, 07:12:35 am
In Milan for fashion week!*

*Or, more accurately, in Milan and discoverIng that it's fashion week
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 February, 2013, 09:44:01 am
Amusing myself by relieving my grumpiness at filling in my sickness form for HR for the day I was off last week by putting "headache, pharyngitis, otalgia, rigors" in the "reasons" book and hoping they have to look it up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 February, 2013, 09:49:12 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 February, 2013, 09:44:01 am
Amusing myself by relieving my grumpiness at filling in my sickness form for HR for the day I was off last week by putting "headache, pharyngitis, otalgia, rigors" in the "reasons" book and hoping they have to look it up.
Surely you could have chosen a more technical term for 'headache' (eg. cephalalgia?) just to get a full house? :)

Right now I am trying to fight off the Black Dog with a big stick. Not entirely sure I'm succeeding .... and it being Monday certainly doesn't help.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 February, 2013, 09:51:40 am
Quote from: interzen on 18 February, 2013, 09:49:12 am

Right now I am trying to fight off the Black Dog with a big stick. Not entirely sure I'm succeeding .... and it being Monday certainly doesn't help.

I admitted defeat in that fight last night.  Didn't turn my alarm on.

I wish the black dog would just piss off and leave me alone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 February, 2013, 09:57:01 am
Quote from: interzen on 18 February, 2013, 09:49:12 am

Surely you could have chosen a more technical term for 'headache' (eg. cephalalgia?) just to get a full house? :)
Couldn't think of a term for headache!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 18 February, 2013, 03:31:25 pm
I'm reading the documentation for business to business messaging. Most exciting - not.

Nice to know that they offer an extension to exchange beef traceability data though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 18 February, 2013, 06:55:49 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 18 February, 2013, 09:51:40 am
Quote from: interzen on 18 February, 2013, 09:49:12 am

Right now I am trying to fight off the Black Dog with a big stick. Not entirely sure I'm succeeding .... and it being Monday certainly doesn't help.

I admitted defeat in that fight last night.  Didn't turn my alarm on.

I wish the black dog would just piss off and leave me alone.

Whats going on?  I had a severe visitation from said canine overnight and this morning, working out ways to end it all without messing things up for Mrs W, as I got out of bed.  It seems to be dissipating now, but I'm still seriously awry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 18 February, 2013, 07:18:10 pm
I'm sat at my desk with a very full glass of champagne (OK, probably Sainsbury's best fizzy white wine), left over from a party to celebrate one of our Professors getting a CBE for services to Physics.

The modern PostGrad does a very poor job of partaking of freebies, there's quite a bit of food and booze left over.  I couldn't bear the thought of a glass of bubbly being thrown away, so brought it downstairs to drink as the evening progresses.  Five Six glasses of wine type stuff shouldn't preclude me from cycling home, should it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 February, 2013, 07:29:36 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 18 February, 2013, 06:55:49 pm
Whats going on?  I had a severe visitation from said canine overnight and this morning, working out ways to end it all without messing things up for Mrs W, as I got out of bed.  It seems to be dissipating now, but I'm still seriously awry.
I just feel like hammered shit.

Even my usual lunchtime walk didn't do much to lift my spirits despite the fact that the sun actually put in an appearance - I've been half-tempted to throw a sickie but despite having innumerable reasons why I could go off sick (diabetes is good for something, I suppose) it's just not a 'me' thing to do (never done it before, not going to start now)

Even working at home isn't an option for the next couple of days since we've got a couple of potential resellers visiting from Japan and the Powers That Are want bums on seats. Not that working at home would solve much, mind, since it'd take away the one thing that I think I need, to whit interaction with other human beings and salespeople.

Damned if I do, damned if I don't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 February, 2013, 10:28:29 am
Struggling against the temptation urge to eat before my 11:00 meeting.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 February, 2013, 10:49:44 am
I should really fettle my bike, and do a zillion jobs.  CBA thobut.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 20 February, 2013, 11:04:16 am
I'm dying with man flu and really out of breath due to my emphysema
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 February, 2013, 07:01:22 pm
Making bobb's birthday cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 20 February, 2013, 07:12:54 pm
Snotting. Damn lurgy sneaking up on me, glad I had a tailwind home or it would have been tough.

Dinner's nearly ready though so that should help.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 20 February, 2013, 07:23:55 pm
We just had the freestanding cooker out from he wall for the first time in 11 years, to try and trace the recent burning plastic/Bakelite smell when the oven is used.  Electrical connection was fine with no sign of overheating (it only smells when the oven gets hot anyway, not when power is applied).  Gave it all a clean on the outside, and also the wall where grease had run down it  :sick:

Still smells.  I will have to give it a deep clean inside at the weekend. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 20 February, 2013, 07:33:58 pm
People watching in Milan.  Lots if very tall, very thin, very grumpy looking young women. Who must be models.

Fortunately balanced by an equal number of attractive real people.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 21 February, 2013, 05:53:10 pm
Drinking a glass of "Quirky Bird" red vino. Delish and rather appropriately named.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 February, 2013, 05:55:26 pm
Waiting for the painkillers to kick in and being thoroughly fucking miserable at the same time.

Times like this I wish I was a drinker - instead I have to try and drown my kidneys in tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 22 February, 2013, 11:07:47 am
Novelty wedding gift preparations: having done the initial pile sort, now about to divvy up into sets and really hoping I haven't lost any tiles...

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8375/8497727780_2254871703.jpg)

ETA: Phew!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 February, 2013, 11:59:34 am
Trying to warm up after returning from a funeral.  Dressed in completely inappropriate clothing for cold weather cycling.  I'm now sitting in coat, woolly hat, mitts and I'm still shivering.
Still, as someone remarked to me, "He'd have wanted you to turn up on your bike."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 February, 2013, 12:29:37 pm
Quote from: nikki on 22 February, 2013, 11:07:47 am
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8375/8497727780_2254871703.jpg)

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 February, 2013, 01:24:30 pm
Mourning N-1, the Day One has just been collected.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 February, 2013, 01:37:51 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 February, 2013, 01:24:30 pm
Mourning N-1, the Day One has just been collected.
Can lend you one of mine if you like  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 22 February, 2013, 05:41:53 pm
Repairing the cardboard box from the boat's vacuum cleaner.

Using much more effort than the job deserves  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 22 February, 2013, 06:50:49 pm
Chris S & I are having a Smith Celebratory Weekend.

Will Smith.

Now that I have discovered he's the same age as me, I'm starting the weekend by daydreaming of what I would have done with him at school.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 February, 2013, 06:57:46 pm
Bogwash?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2013, 07:29:17 pm
Quote from: nikki on 22 February, 2013, 11:07:47 am
Novelty wedding gift preparations: having done the initial pile sort, now about to divvy up into sets and really hoping I haven't lost any tiles...

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8375/8497727780_2254871703.jpg)

ETA: Phew!
That looks interesting....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2013, 07:30:33 pm
Resting, with a cat on lap and a well earned G&T after a vist to the gym, a moderate amount of DIY aaand a lil bit o' housework.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 22 February, 2013, 07:34:24 pm
Eating many many biscuits. Took my dinner bowl downstairs and suddenly remembered the packet I'd bought yesterday...I don't think it'll last long  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 February, 2013, 07:35:17 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2013, 07:29:17 pm
Quote from: nikki on 22 February, 2013, 11:07:47 am
Novelty wedding gift preparations: having done the initial pile sort, now about to divvy up into sets and really hoping I haven't lost any tiles...

<fascinating pic>

ETA: Phew!
That looks interesting....

Certainly does!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 22 February, 2013, 08:14:56 pm
Quote from: clarion on 22 February, 2013, 07:35:17 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2013, 07:29:17 pm
Quote from: nikki on 22 February, 2013, 11:07:47 am
Novelty wedding gift preparations: having done the initial pile sort, now about to divvy up into sets and really hoping I haven't lost any tiles...

<fascinating pic>

ETA: Phew!
That looks interesting....

Certainly does!

I think it's going to be an 'interesting' kind of a wedding.

For starters, I have a growing suspicion one of the bridesmaids might have 4 legs and a tail... Also, we've been asked to wear a badge depicting a Scrabble tile with either the bride or the groom's initial on.

It's anyone's guess what happens after that, but just on the off-chance there may be a quiet moment during the meal, there are now 300+ more tiles in British Sign Language and an assortment of other fonts for guests to, er, write rude words with, or something :)

Table tiles now apportioned and the bride and grooms's personal set sanded and bagged.

What am I doing right now? I'm thinking it might be time for FOOD!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 February, 2013, 02:07:39 pm
Being knackered having spent the last 3.5 hrs doing beastly DIY. And I feel slightly lurgified too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 23 February, 2013, 04:23:12 pm
At an interesting wedding. Now the ringbearer's finished having a wee in the garden we're throwing a rope at her.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 February, 2013, 04:25:21 pm
Quote from: nikki on 23 February, 2013, 04:23:12 pm
At an interesting wedding. Now the ringbearer's finished having a wee in the garden we're throwing a rope at her.
Fell in the fish pond, did she? :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 February, 2013, 05:03:52 pm
Getting a bit frustrated at my first ever I type phone owning experience.
They're a bit of a pain really, aren't they?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 February, 2013, 05:13:13 pm
Quote from: Basil on 23 February, 2013, 05:03:52 pm
Getting a bit frustrated at my first ever I type phone owning experience.
They're a bit of a pain really, aren't they?

Yeah, they're rubbish.  If rather useful.

It's all been downuphill since the Nokia 6310i and Psion 5mx.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 February, 2013, 07:50:08 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 February, 2013, 01:24:30 pm
Mourning N-1, the Day One has just been collected.

Now N-2, the Pinarello went today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 February, 2013, 07:56:18 pm
Drooling over the pictures of the Salsa carbon fattie from the Frostbike show.

The fork is weapons-grade fugly, but I don't care .... apparently the 'high-end' build will be rocking SRAM XX1 and be sub-25lbs :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 23 February, 2013, 08:03:29 pm
Tiermat has something happened that you would like to share?  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 February, 2013, 08:08:45 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 February, 2013, 07:56:18 pm
Drooling over the pictures of the Salsa carbon fattie from the Frostbike show.

The fork is weapons-grade fugly, but I don't care .... apparently the 'high-end' build will be rocking SRAM XX1 and be sub-25lbs :o

Lalalaaaaa I am NOT listening...

Quote from: Canardly on 23 February, 2013, 08:03:29 pm
Tiermat has something happened that you would like to share?  :o

Not much, just needbto trim the stable, still hurts though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 February, 2013, 08:18:01 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 23 February, 2013, 08:08:45 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 February, 2013, 07:56:18 pm
Drooling over the pictures of the Salsa carbon fattie from the Frostbike show.

The fork is weapons-grade fugly, but I don't care .... apparently the 'high-end' build will be rocking SRAM XX1 and be sub-25lbs :o

Lalalaaaaa I am NOT listening...
$2600 for frame and forks - what's the going rate for kidneys these days?

Anyhoo, it still has the 170mm rear end which is a dealbreaker for me so I'm hoping that Surly bring out a disc version of the CrossCheck at some point. I'd be all over that.

Or a Moonlander  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 23 February, 2013, 10:45:36 pm
Wondering whether to get rid of my Enigma once and for all and buy a sensible lightweight tourer with space for mudguards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 24 February, 2013, 11:17:32 am
Quote from: interzen on 23 February, 2013, 04:25:21 pm
Quote from: nikki on 23 February, 2013, 04:23:12 pm
At an interesting wedding. Now the ringbearer's finished having a wee in the garden we're throwing a rope at her.
Fell in the fish pond, did she? :)

Visual updates:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8511/8503418726_faeee6744b.jpg)
and
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8106/8503419256_68335cfa89.jpg)

So all pretty much as (un)expected!  :thumbsup:

(Tile-making photos here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikki_pugh/sets/72157632829658998/detail/) for those who are into Scrabble/lasers)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 24 February, 2013, 11:25:08 am
Settling down to a day of legal work at the pooter.   Fortunately it's brass monkeys out there and toasty warm in here.   :-\

Have to do something to keep the wolves from the door.    :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 24 February, 2013, 12:28:46 pm
having a coffee and then do the ironing  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 February, 2013, 12:44:09 pm
Miscellaneous bits of bike fettling in a possibly vain attempt to put off having to go into town. This is doomed to failure as I have run out of tea and need to go into town to get more.

Still, I've had a session on the turbo this morning so maybe a bimble round town isn't such a bad idea after all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 February, 2013, 12:47:46 pm
Trying to source a swan neck to flange ball adaptor so that I can use my towball cycle carrier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Littlesox on 24 February, 2013, 01:15:29 pm
Longing for some warmer weather
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 February, 2013, 01:36:33 pm
Getting ready to go into town.

My delaying tactics failed and I'm gagging for a decent cup of tea, so I guess I'll have to go out and actually buy some.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 24 February, 2013, 07:32:04 pm
Sitting in The Halfway House just up the steps from Waverley station, drinking Cally Best waiting for the 8 pm train south to NTR.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 February, 2013, 03:33:33 am
Not sleeping >:(. Oh dear, I'm going to be grumpy later...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 26 February, 2013, 04:30:18 am
Having fun with this (http://hsmaker.com/harlemshake.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yacf.co.uk)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 February, 2013, 04:51:39 am
I'm wondering what I'm doing up at silly o'clock
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Valiant on 26 February, 2013, 05:55:02 am
The same as me?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 February, 2013, 09:03:41 am
Opening a dialogue regarding a jersey design (some will know what this is about, others will be well and truely in the dark :) )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 February, 2013, 09:35:33 am
Quote from: tiermat on 26 February, 2013, 09:03:41 am
Opening a dialogue regarding a jersey design (some will know what this is about, others will be well and truely in the dark :) )

WOW! A quick response or what? Emailed a certain place at 09:01 and received a reply at 09:11 (it may become apparent, later, just why I needed to email this particular company).

The outcome of this email has been that they are happy for us to do this.

Other assistance has been offered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 26 February, 2013, 10:01:59 am
Still waiting in for a heating engineer to perform a boiler service, before heading townwards. Resolutely leaving my cycling gear ON and the oyster card on the shelf. Doesn't get better the more you look outside does it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 26 February, 2013, 11:09:13 am
Building a database for a specific bacterium for one of the research groups..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 26 February, 2013, 12:04:44 pm
'Rebranding' our documentation, specifically the online help. This should be easy, as it is theoretically controlled by css.


However the css is built from a spaghetti of xml, python and haystacks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 26 February, 2013, 03:21:39 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 26 February, 2013, 12:04:44 pm
This should be easy, as it is theoretically controlled by css.

Hahahahahahaha! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 26 February, 2013, 03:37:55 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 26 February, 2013, 12:04:44 pm
'Rebranding' our documentation, specifically the online help. This should be easy, as it is theoretically controlled by css.


However the css is built from a spaghetti of xml, python and haystacks.

Currently thanking the saint of web developers, whoever they are, who wrote firebug.

Oh, and nested DIVs are the work of stan
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 February, 2013, 03:54:53 pm
Watching the clock...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 26 February, 2013, 04:26:02 pm
Well, I spent 45 minutes putting things into envelopes, 20 minutes removing them again, 2 seconds changing the postcode on a document, reprinting 40+ copies and a further 45 minutes at stuffing.

FFS. I am a Moron, completely lacking in eptitude.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 February, 2013, 04:46:00 pm
BTDT :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 26 February, 2013, 05:47:19 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 26 February, 2013, 09:03:41 am
Opening a dialogue regarding a jersey design (some will know what this is about, others will be well and truely in the dark :) )

Apparently sitting in the dark ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 February, 2013, 06:03:29 pm
Waiting for a meeting to start but I think it might be inquorate. In which cade I will go home to my lonely bobbless flat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 26 February, 2013, 08:17:54 pm
Wishing I were in Didcot ???

Because then I could get in the car and go home. Instead I'm stuck on a train outside Maidenhead because the piece of string that controls the signal has snapped. .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 February, 2013, 08:34:25 pm
Going to bed.

Today has been fucking dreadful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 February, 2013, 08:37:48 pm
Sorry to hear that.  My day's been pretty shit, too.  Hope tomorrow is better for you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 February, 2013, 09:01:30 pm
Quote from: clarion on 26 February, 2013, 08:37:48 pm
Sorry to hear that.  My day's been pretty shit, too.  Hope tomorrow is better for you.

And for you too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 26 February, 2013, 09:29:21 pm
Still working :(

The only good side to this is that it's in Barcelona. Which is more exciting than Berkshire.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 26 February, 2013, 09:30:18 pm
Hope tomorrow is better for those who haven't been happy today
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 28 February, 2013, 09:59:22 am
Quote from: mrcharly on 26 February, 2013, 12:04:44 pm
'Rebranding' our documentation, specifically the online help. This should be easy, as it is theoretically controlled by css.


However the css is built from a spaghetti of xml, python and haystacks.

Doing it all over again, with knobs on, now that the marketing department has provided 'feedback'.

Can you make those pink and lose the grey from there, make that background 70% grey.

Oh and that list should be black to match the other text. The list. The list of hyperlinks do you mean?  You want all links in the online help to look identical to the adjacent text?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 February, 2013, 10:38:02 am
I am about to mend a puncture.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 February, 2013, 10:42:58 am
Perusing this website

http://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/home.html

£danger
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 February, 2013, 10:49:04 am
Worrying about friends.

that's what they are there for though, aren't they? So you can care enough to worry about them when they are not in a good place?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 March, 2013, 05:42:14 am
Not slept really.  I spent about an hour or so watching videos.  Porn?  No, people on YouTube talking about old Minolta SLRs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 01 March, 2013, 06:33:20 am
Trying very hard not to throw up again and wanting some fecking sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 01 March, 2013, 06:49:40 am
Woke up late, trying to get moving so I can cycle in. Need to leave soon to do so. Can't move. Don't want to drive though  :-\

Can't I just go back to bed for the day?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 March, 2013, 08:42:48 am
Quote from: barakta on 01 March, 2013, 06:33:20 am
Trying very hard not to throw up again and wanting some fecking sleep.

Much sympathy.  I'm stary-eyed tired right now, and need to get ready for work shortly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 March, 2013, 08:46:30 am
Feeling a little worse for wear. My own fault though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 March, 2013, 08:51:37 am
Sympathy for you nonetheless...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 01 March, 2013, 09:20:48 am
In the Cadbury factory trying to decide whether to peer through the window of the Special Incident Room or not. I can only be disappointed, right?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 March, 2013, 09:44:24 am
Icing my knee. No, with frozen peas, not sugar and butter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 March, 2013, 09:51:57 am
Watching the clock, and I've only been here about 20 minutes :(

TGIF etc.etc.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 01 March, 2013, 09:52:43 am
Contemplating my life as a Dilbert character.

I've been asked to make the footers dark grey text on a medium grey background.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 March, 2013, 09:55:25 am
Quote from: mrcharly on 01 March, 2013, 09:52:43 am
Contemplating my life as a Dilbert character.

I've been asked to make the footers dark grey text on a medium grey background.
Careful you don't tread in any leadership ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 March, 2013, 10:29:59 am
Feeling a bit peckish now that I can smell the eggs/bacon/sausage rolls everyone is eating in the office around me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 March, 2013, 01:15:52 pm
Waiting for my boss to come back from the pub so we can do my PRD.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 March, 2013, 01:47:36 pm
Finally having lunch.

Also, debating whether to whinge/rant or just MTFU and get on with things.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 01 March, 2013, 01:55:13 pm
Buying some rather interesting identification guides from the Field Studies Council website:
http://www.field-studies-council.org/publications/your-publications.aspx (http://www.field-studies-council.org/publications/your-publications.aspx)   :thumbsup:
Currently in my basket are the following publications:
OP136 Grasses    
OP50 Woodland plants
OP68 Guide to grassland plants 1
OP46 Moorland Plants    
OP127 Lichens of heaths and moors
OP74  Lichens on twigs
OP78 Rocks

 8)

 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 March, 2013, 01:56:25 pm
Stuffing tissue up my nose.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 01:57:47 pm
This new kind of techy-game, Kim, a bit like stuffing two pencils up your nose, your underpants on your head, sitting the corner going "Wibble"?

I am trying to build up the TUITs to go out to the garage and shuffle bikes about and stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 March, 2013, 02:16:30 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 01:57:47 pm
This new kind of techy-game, Kim, a bit like stuffing two pencils up your nose, your underpants on your head, sitting the corner going "Wibble"?

No, just trying to stop the blood escaping.

I've seen enough Sci-Fi drama to know that's usually a symptom of overusing your powers of telepathy/telekinesis/superhuman intelligence/etc, but I'm starting to wonder if it's actually because I've been sneezing too much.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 02:17:41 pm
Quote from: Kim on 01 March, 2013, 02:16:30 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 01:57:47 pm
This new kind of techy-game, Kim, a bit like stuffing two pencils up your nose, your underpants on your head, sitting the corner going "Wibble"?

No, just trying to stop the blood escaping.

I've seen enough Sci-Fi drama to know that's usually a symptom of overusing your powers of telepathy/telekinesis/superhuman intelligence/etc, but I'm starting to wonder if it's actually because I've been sneezing too much.

Or, if you watch the latest series of "Being Human" you are being removed as the manager of a hotel so that a vampire can take over...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 02:37:05 pm
Now, having received an email from a forumite, I am contemplating buying a Cajón...

You know who you are, and you are a bad, bad man :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 March, 2013, 02:40:58 pm
Isn't that basically a packing crate you thump?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 02:42:20 pm
Superficially, yes :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 01 March, 2013, 02:45:51 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 02:37:05 pm
Now, having received an email from a forumite, I am contemplating buying a Cajón...

You know who you are, and you are a bad, bad man :)

you know what goes with that?  An umbrella and a tea party
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 March, 2013, 02:46:42 pm
http://www.thecajondrumshop.com/index.php

 O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 02:57:34 pm
Quote from: interzen on 01 March, 2013, 02:46:42 pm
http://www.thecajondrumshop.com/index.php

 O:-)

GIT!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 01 March, 2013, 03:00:38 pm
When played well, those are amazing.

But they're not as easy to play well as one of my friends thinks ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 March, 2013, 03:35:21 pm
Don't you want a Rumba Box like The Best Live Band Ever, The Jolly Boys?  It's basically an oversized mbira you sit on, but it makes the most wonderful bass notes.  Miking it up was a challenge and a pleasure.  One of several occasions when a performer has mentioned that my teching had achieved something no one had ever managed to do before (see also: Billy Bragg, Catsfield Steamers, Hull Truck, M6 etc) :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 March, 2013, 04:14:32 pm
Semi seriously thinking of giving up on this exasperating moving house travesty and investing the deposit in a bike instead
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 01 March, 2013, 04:16:06 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 01 March, 2013, 04:14:32 pm
Semi seriously thinking of giving up on this exasperating moving house travesty and investing the deposit in a bike instead

Ah, it'll all be worth it in the end mcshroom.  When you've got a living room lined with snoring forumites full of beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 March, 2013, 04:29:01 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 01 March, 2013, 04:16:06 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 01 March, 2013, 04:14:32 pm
Semi seriously thinking of giving up on this exasperating moving house travesty and investing the deposit in a bike instead

Ah, it'll all be worth it in the end mcshroom.  When you've got a living room lined with snoring forumites full of beer.

Yeah, but I'm supposed to be giving my notice in for my current place today, I'm supposed to be moving a week today. An hour ago my solicitor informed me she hasn't managed to resolve a couple outstanding issues (because the other solicitor is dragging their feet) and couldn't yet confirm that she would advise the mortgage company to lend on the property.

It's taken nearly 6 months to get this far and I'm getting more than a little exasperated.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 March, 2013, 05:27:44 pm
Looking for another job ...

(apropos of this: Monster, whoever told you that interstitial adverts were a good idea should be stabbed through the eyes with blunt knitting needles. And then really hurt.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 01 March, 2013, 06:10:40 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 02:37:05 pm
Now, having received an email from a forumite, I am contemplating buying a Cajón...

You know who you are, and you are a bad, bad man :)

You think that'll get her to dance for you???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 March, 2013, 06:12:57 pm
Quote from: Ham on 01 March, 2013, 06:10:40 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 02:37:05 pm
Now, having received an email from a forumite, I am contemplating buying a Cajón...

You know who you are, and you are a bad, bad man :)

You think that'll get her to dance for you???
There's only one way we'll find out ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 March, 2013, 09:17:42 pm
The cooker is going to have to go, although last weekend's fix has improved it immeasurably.

There is a Belling range cooker which looks great and has good reviews, but they've given it a side opening door on the right which needs 60mm of clearance where we only have 35mm.  Luckily I can cut an inch off an overhanging worktop and steal space on the left to move the cooker away from the unit on the right.  Irritating, but better than paying another £100 for a Smeg cooker which isn't anywhere near as good (looks impossible to keep clean, and NO CLOCK!).

It will be nice to have a cooker with two smaller ovens (and a grill too) which heat up in 5 mins, rather than one mahoosive one which takes 20 minutes.  Should save a fair bit of electricity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 March, 2013, 03:13:20 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 01 March, 2013, 03:00:38 pm
When played well, those are amazing.

But they're not as easy to play well as one of my friends thinks ....
But, as I found out during my trip into town this arvo, they sound fucking awful in the hands of someone who thinks they can play one ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 02 March, 2013, 03:26:23 pm
Quote from: interzen on 02 March, 2013, 03:13:20 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 01 March, 2013, 03:00:38 pm
When played well, those are amazing.

But they're not as easy to play well as one of my friends thinks ....
But, as I found out during my trip into town this arvo, they sound fucking awful in the hands of someone who thinks they can play one ...
Quite!  My friend has a similar lack of talent.  A good sense of rhythm would seem to be a prerequisite!
The one time I have heard one played really well was at a party at Wells Cathedral School.  I've done a barn dance as an end of year party for the last four or five years for their 'middle' school (GCSE year and the previous one).  Some of the kids have a band which plays in the break, when we get to attack the barbecue.  One year there was a girl sitting at the edge of the stage and it looked as if she was just watching the band very intently.  I could hear a bass part in the music, but there was no bass guitar or similar.  Then I realised she what she was sitting on and just what she was capable of doing with it!  But the cathedral school does have just a bit of a reputation for music!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 March, 2013, 03:32:03 pm
Cooking. I've done a batch of Moroccan chickpea & spinach soup, and one of Bengal Lancers' soup. Now I'm going to start on the curries and stews.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 March, 2013, 03:35:20 pm
I'm alternating between cooking and laundry - just put another loaf of rye bread into the oven and another load of miscellaneous bedding into the washing machine.

Various stuffs are currently hanging on the washing line - it's a nice day with a bit of a breeze so I'm going to make the most of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: dasmoth on 02 March, 2013, 03:37:33 pm
Procrastinating between spells of tidying and rearranging furniture.

I reckon it might be easier to buy a bigger house...  But I guess we'd have to excavate all the junk really useful stuff for that, too...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 02 March, 2013, 04:16:06 pm
Waiting for the last results to 'come off' the analyser so that I can bu**er off home
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2013, 04:19:07 pm
Just filled in http://road.cc/content/news/77368-study-cycling-and-disease-needs-you and wondering if it's even possible to design a cycling-related survey that isn't irritatingly flawed.

Good to see they've thought of recumbents.  But not gloves   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 March, 2013, 04:19:40 pm
Recovering.

Not from a hard bike ride.

But from lunch @ the Pear Tree Farm in York*.

I should have stopped at the main course, which was really nice (chicken smothered in chili then cheese), but no, I HAD to try a dessert...

Think I may need to undo my top button and lie down for a while!

*Not strictly speaking in York, it's at Monk's Cross, has not one but two lots of sheffield stands and outside tables.  I suspect it may end up being the end point of an evening ride at some point :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 March, 2013, 04:23:32 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 02 March, 2013, 04:19:40 pm
I should have stopped at the main course, which was really nice (chicken smothered in chili then cheese), but no, I HAD to try a dessert...
Good, aren't they?

Quote
*Not strictly speaking in York, it's at Monk's Cross, has not one but two lots of sheffield stands and outside tables.  I suspect it may end up being the end point of an evening ride at some point :)
Secure(ish) bike parking is available just across the road if you happen to know someone with the combination for the door locks. Just saying, like ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 March, 2013, 04:58:27 pm
Quote from: Kim on 02 March, 2013, 04:19:07 pm
Just filled in http://road.cc/content/news/77368-study-cycling-and-disease-needs-you and wondering if it's even possible to design a cycling-related survey that isn't irritatingly flawed.
I bet you didn't get the question about erectile disfunction.  ;D

Quote
Good to see they've thought of recumbents.  But not gloves   ???
They don't seem to have thought about rib injury either
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2013, 05:01:32 pm
Quote from: Basil on 02 March, 2013, 04:58:27 pm
Quote from: Kim on 02 March, 2013, 04:19:07 pm
Just filled in http://road.cc/content/news/77368-study-cycling-and-disease-needs-you and wondering if it's even possible to design a cycling-related survey that isn't irritatingly flawed.
I bet you didn't get the question about erectile disfunction.  ;D

No, but I saw one about testicular cancer.

And gerwinium OTP told them he was a vegetarian, to then be asked how much fish he eats a week.  Wonder if he got the red meat one?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 02 March, 2013, 07:51:32 pm
Making Catalan market salad (courtesy of the fat lipped, lispy one from Essex) whilst listening to Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibiton.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 March, 2013, 08:53:20 pm
The Family Boab have just put Hair (the movie) on.

I've not seen it before.

What. The. Veritable. Fuck?  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 March, 2013, 09:00:20 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 02 March, 2013, 08:53:20 pm
The Family Boab have just put Hair (the movie) on.

I've not seen it before.

What. The. Veritable. Fuck?  :o
For the article on That Wiki:

Quote
Hair is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama and film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. The hippies introduce him to their environment of marijuana, LSD, unorthodox relationships and draft dodging.

Late 70s adaptation of a Vietnam-era musical ... 'nuff said.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2013, 09:06:08 pm
Change the hair and drugs slightly and it's basically audax...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 March, 2013, 09:15:43 pm
Er, OK...

http://youtu.be/1wCtvco1FRU

Just like audax.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 March, 2013, 10:04:46 pm
I like Hair.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 March, 2013, 12:52:22 pm
Having a clearout, in the absence of anything better to do.
I found a CD containing the final version of my PhD thesis (dated 1998) and have just spent an instructive few minutes trawling through the source code ...

... and wondering what the hell I was on when I wrote it  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 March, 2013, 03:36:58 pm
Backups.

Just discovered that the offline backups script hasn't been doing anything since I upgraded the disks in the server and forgot to create a directory.  Oops.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 03 March, 2013, 03:44:37 pm
Procrastinating about mucking out the chickens.

And contemplating which exactly of his human rights I would most like to deprive Mr Grayling of, since he doesn't think he needs any.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 03 March, 2013, 03:49:43 pm
I should think that freedom of speech, self determination and procreation will be near the top of the list.  :demon:


All of which could be achieved by rendering him to a third country for detention without trial and questioning under duress.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 March, 2013, 05:00:53 pm
Attacking a jar of nutella.  It will not end well for either of us.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 03 March, 2013, 05:50:16 pm
Waiting for fresh, treated water in the fish tank to clear before returning the two fish who are currently swimming around a glass flower pot, giving me dirty looks.

Update: Fish are now back where they belong swimming around happily looking for poo to eat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 March, 2013, 03:18:35 am
Not sleeping, and have been for the last hour.  At this point I've given up.  I think I'll go into the office early today (but not yet!).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 04 March, 2013, 08:40:54 am
Mouth-breathing. Nosebleed. Hmph.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 March, 2013, 08:54:56 am
Quote from: Andrij on 04 March, 2013, 03:18:35 am
Not sleeping, and have been for the last hour.  At this point I've given up.  I think I'll go into the office early today (but not yet!).

All that time and only managed to be at my desk for 08:30.  Guess my faffing skills are 'improving'.  ::-)

OTOH, I did leave in time to do the 20+ km version of my commute, and thanks to the tailwind managed it at an average of 25.25kph.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 March, 2013, 09:33:27 am
Rapidly coming to the conclusion that the first mistake I made today was getting out of bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 March, 2013, 09:35:09 am
Quote from: interzen on 04 March, 2013, 09:33:27 am
Rapidly coming to the conclusion that the first mistake I made today was getting out of bed.

Situation Normal for me!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 March, 2013, 11:09:36 am
I know what you mean.  I woke up again about six, and am now on the train to work. ::-)

Still, the kitchen's a bit cleaner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 March, 2013, 07:19:32 pm
Booking a table at one of our favourite restaurants for Mothers Day. Only it's not on Sunday, it for Saturday, as everywhere is full (or not open, as is the case with this one) on Sunday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 March, 2013, 01:25:51 pm
Now dealing with HMRC, trying to clear up the cockups my accountants have made :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 March, 2013, 01:55:34 pm
Browsing my nice shiny new "Field Study Council" identification guides which came in the post today!   :smug:
Just waiting on my 10x hand lens to come in the post, then some happy time going on nature walks to id lichens, plants, flowers, grasses using the aforementioned guides!

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 05 March, 2013, 01:59:31 pm
Crying!

See my foam roller post.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 05 March, 2013, 02:37:35 pm
Having a headache in Hatfield and wishing I was at home asleep.

Sometimes I love this job.... at times like this, I hate it.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 March, 2013, 02:58:29 pm
Fighting a losing battle against utterly clueless slave traders  ::-) (including one who has pitched the same job at me *four* times despite me telling them that a Microsoft house probably won't have a great deal of use for someone with nearly 20 years of Linux experience)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 06 March, 2013, 06:20:13 pm
I'm just about to find something large and heavy to hit my wife over the head with later.

She's turned on the dishwasher and put something in it that's rattling and vibrating, she's also just gone out and hasn't got to listen to it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 06 March, 2013, 06:23:35 pm
Getting ready to go to the pub.
Also wishing I wasn't teetotal - after the asshattery that I had to put up with today I could do with several stiff drinks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 March, 2013, 06:25:01 pm
I'll buy you a lime and soda IZ. 

I'm still at work.... but that's OK, cos I'm going to get a lift to the pub!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 06 March, 2013, 08:59:55 pm
Drinking coffee outside Gare du Nord ,waiting for colleagues to arrive from London.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 07 March, 2013, 08:05:11 am
Quote from: madcow on 06 March, 2013, 08:59:55 pm
Drinking coffee outside Gare du Nord ,waiting for colleagues to arrive from London.

Every so often one of these posts triggers a memory - and touches jealousy.

Back in the eighties, my favourite hotel in Paris was one of those odd dumps you found then - perfectly clean, with curious, windy staircases with wrought iron balustrades. Lashings of hot strong coffee with bread, croissant and jam for breakfast, all for around £10 a night. It was in the Rue de Paradis, the pottery and porcelain street just around the corner from where you're sitting. Hotel Paradis. Several guests had the privilege ;)

Oh yes.

It closed years back :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 07 March, 2013, 08:29:49 am
I am in Guyancourt.
Unfortunately working in our French office all day .
 Arrive 8.30 for a 10.30 meeting!!!!!!!!!  Keen or what?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 07 March, 2013, 08:41:57 am
So far today I've had my bike fall over (on me) in the train, been told off for not having it in the (full to aisle-blocking) bike spaces, dropped my pannier down the stairs at the station (via my shins), somehow managed to twist the bars out of alignment, twisted my ankle and had a ladies issue I don't want to share.
And the toothache's back.

FFS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 March, 2013, 10:27:12 am
Thinking that everyone at my work appears to be having some sort of mid-life crisis!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 March, 2013, 11:33:02 am
Waiting to see if there's a train Southern don't cancel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 07 March, 2013, 12:23:07 pm
Having had to take the car in to work this morning (not being in Kim's league, I can't carry four patio chairs on my bike) I have come home at lunchtime to switch back to the bike.  And it is raining.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 March, 2013, 02:24:50 pm
Quote from: clarion on 07 March, 2013, 11:33:02 am
Waiting to see if there's a train Southern don't cancel.

Ended up relying on the generosity of First Capital Connect to get me to work.  Let's face it: If your service is worse than FCC, then...then...well, you're probably Southern, in fact.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 07 March, 2013, 10:22:12 pm
Baking a malted chocolate CAKE, to take to work tomow

(melting the chocolate that forms part of the covering in a minute)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 10 March, 2013, 12:57:50 pm
Taking a break to drink tea and down some scrambled eggs on toast.

What from?  I hear you ask...

...

...

...

The re-birth of Mlle PB's audax machine.   The first rebuild in our recovery from the burglary and bike butchery in November last year.   The bike frame is new:  Impatience drove the purchase of a new Thorn Audax mk3 frame so it's RIP Brevet, hello Super Lamb Banana!      :thumbsup:     ;D      8)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 March, 2013, 01:08:03 pm
Oh good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 March, 2013, 01:48:02 pm
Off back to bed, soon, as the antibiotics the doc gave me are playing havok with my stomach, leading to a lack of sleep :(

At least the new fridge freezer has arrived so I don't have to stay awake for that!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyUncle on 10 March, 2013, 02:35:57 pm
Driving a 1953 08 class diesel electric train at the NRM  ;D :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 March, 2013, 02:53:19 pm
Quote from: CrinklyUncle on 10 March, 2013, 02:35:57 pm
Driving a 1953 08 class diesel electric train at the NRM  ;D :thumbsup: ;D
Ssshhhh ... don't tell Arch! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 March, 2013, 10:37:09 am
Getting ready for the Openreach engineer who is coming to upgrade my ADSL to Infinity later today.  Much ripping out of old extension cable & shifting furniture away from the wall.   Got to tidy the place up a bit as well in case he reports back that I'm a slob!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 March, 2013, 10:44:03 am
Hating the weather and arthritis in equal measures.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 11 March, 2013, 01:07:02 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 March, 2013, 02:53:19 pm
Quote from: CrinklyUncle on 10 March, 2013, 02:35:57 pm
Driving a 1953 08 class diesel electric train at the NRM  ;D :thumbsup: ;D
Ssshhhh ... don't tell Arch! :)

Hmm, starts to have ideas about a wedding present for Arch and MFWHTBAB, considering the senior folk I know at NRM..... sadly the director has gone, to be replaced with some "man from the ministry".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 March, 2013, 02:20:39 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 11 March, 2013, 10:37:09 am
Getting ready for the Openreach engineer who is coming to upgrade my ADSL to Infinity later today.  Much ripping out of old extension cable & shifting furniture away from the wall.   Got to tidy the place up a bit as well in case he reports back that I'm a slob!

Well that was painless. He turned up 2 hours before* the start of the job, moved the master socket for me and I'm now getting 72M download and 9M upload.  Just got to move all the furniture back.

*No, he didn't know I was BT staff untill he arrived.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Poly Hive on 11 March, 2013, 02:37:20 pm
Posted new pictures of bees eating fondant on my web site. Bit of a gentle hint to make sure colonies have enough food in this cool spell.

PH
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 March, 2013, 06:20:47 pm
Trying to finish up my notes from Friday's meeting, but struggling.  I *could* leave it for tomorrow, but there are all the other things that should have been finished by now, plus whatever new stuff comes up in the mean time.  I really could use a whole day of uninterrupted work to get some stuff done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 March, 2013, 06:21:13 pm
Watching paint dry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 March, 2013, 06:22:12 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 March, 2013, 06:21:13 pm
Watching paint dry.

Wanna trade?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 March, 2013, 07:52:15 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 11 March, 2013, 06:20:47 pm
Trying to finish up my notes from Friday's meeting, but struggling.  I *could* leave it for tomorrow, but there are all the other things that should have been finished by now, plus whatever new stuff comes up in the mean time.  I really could use a whole day of uninterrupted work to get some stuff done.

Going home.  I still have one more agenda item to write up but I've lost the will to live.  Maybe I'll get in a bit earlier tomorrow...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 11 March, 2013, 09:35:41 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 11 March, 2013, 06:20:47 pm
Trying to finish up my notes from Friday's meeting, but struggling.  I *could* leave it for tomorrow, but there are all the other things that should have been finished by now, plus whatever new stuff comes up in the mean time.  I really could use a whole day of uninterrupted work to get some stuff done.
I know the feeling, I ended up in the office for 6.5 hours on Saturday, but it got me three days ahead on the documents for this week, so I stand a chance of finishing up alright before I am parachuted into another project next week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 12 March, 2013, 08:38:42 am
Waiting for spring
On the number 2 bus
Gyle-bound again
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 March, 2013, 11:46:59 am
Stripping down the Holdsworth.

After lunch I shall be building up the summer project.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 12 March, 2013, 04:26:00 pm
Trying and failing to work out how to reserve an area of memory via a u-boot script.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 12 March, 2013, 04:52:08 pm
Just wrapped my bars with.........




Blue Brooks leather tape!


My wife bought it and gave it to me today because she was sick of me moaning about how expensive it was and I was too tight to buy it.


I can see a few more expensive moans in the near future :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 12 March, 2013, 05:19:10 pm
I went through Didcot.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 March, 2013, 05:36:55 pm
Cooking tea - gammon steaks.  The EldestCub is Very Happy Indeed with this plan.  Littly is a little more ambivalent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 12 March, 2013, 08:22:21 pm
I'll have littly's gammon if he doesn't want it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 12 March, 2013, 08:52:56 pm
Just finished cutting out circles to make straw hangers for Mrs Wunja's Rainbows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 March, 2013, 06:29:37 pm
Hoovering the hoover.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 March, 2013, 06:36:45 pm
Feeling ill  >:(

It's not often I get sick, but when I do it totally floors me - not 'appy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 March, 2013, 06:39:42 pm
Looking like a cupcake covered in shocking pink icing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 13 March, 2013, 08:25:52 pm
Waiting in A and E. Again. *sigh*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 March, 2013, 08:52:30 pm
:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 March, 2013, 09:01:24 pm
Over a glass of wine, pondering the sensibility of pressing ahead with my LEL plan.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 March, 2013, 09:05:28 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 March, 2013, 09:01:24 pm
Over a glass of wine, pondering the sensibility of pressing ahead with my LEL plan.

Of course it's not sensible man, why else would you want to do it?

Have you entered? Right, well - you're riding then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 March, 2013, 09:14:57 pm
Yes, I was 'lucky' and got a spot.  And I know it's not sensible in the common understanding of the word.  Neither was cycling Bordeaux to Santiago de Compostela in 12 days last year.

I'm 4-5kg above my weight at the start of the year, ridden fewer kms in all of 2013 than I did in January 2012, off the bike at least 1.5 wks late April / early May, not ridden so much as a 200 since 2010.  Things don't look very promising from here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 13 March, 2013, 09:35:23 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 March, 2013, 09:14:57 pm
Yes, I was 'lucky' and got a spot.  And I know it's not sensible in the common understanding of the word.  Neither was cycling Bordeaux to Santiago de Compostela in 12 days last year.

I'm 4-5kg above my weight at the start of the year, ridden fewer kms in all of 2013 than I did in January 2012, off the bike at least 1.5 wks late April / early May, not ridden so much as a 200 since 2010.  Things don't look very promising from here.

So they can only get better then. JFDI.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 13 March, 2013, 09:39:44 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 13 March, 2013, 08:25:52 pm
Waiting in A and E. Again. *sigh*

Wrist again? Or something else?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 13 March, 2013, 09:53:16 pm
Wrist is ok now mainly. I'm just sick :(

Andrijj you have loads of time yet. Get on with the plan.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 14 March, 2013, 04:04:35 pm
About to enter an area of Middle Earth known locally as Digbeth...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 March, 2013, 04:35:23 pm
Allergy attack.  Excavated 5 years worth of undisturbed dust in the bedroom.  *swallows piriton*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 14 March, 2013, 04:47:39 pm
Trying to fight off nasty cold type thing. Failing.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 March, 2013, 05:40:53 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 14 March, 2013, 04:04:35 pm
About to enter an area of Middle Earth known locally as Digbeth...
Damn.  Only just seen this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 14 March, 2013, 07:48:58 pm
Watching Debbie Harry in a little stripy number from 1978!

EDIT
now it's legs and co. wearing very little!

I need to change channels quickly!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 14 March, 2013, 09:17:38 pm
Quote from: Juan Martín on 14 March, 2013, 04:47:39 pm
Trying to fight off nasty cold type thing. Failing.  :(

I read that as Ealing. AISMPS·
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 March, 2013, 09:41:16 pm
Listing non-dreary Scottish bands for bobb. Well, not so much listing them for bobb as listing them at him.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 March, 2013, 09:46:21 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 March, 2013, 09:41:16 pm
Listing non-dreary Scottish bands for bobb. Well, not so much listing them for bobb as listing them at him.
How many are you up to so far?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 March, 2013, 09:48:43 pm
Quite a lot. It's quicker to list dreary ones - Del Amitri, Simple Minds, Texas. The Blue Nile aren't dreary, they're sophisticated.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 14 March, 2013, 09:53:11 pm
Quote from: Basil on 14 March, 2013, 05:40:53 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 14 March, 2013, 04:04:35 pm
About to enter an area of Middle Earth known locally as Digbeth...
Damn.  Only just seen this.

I'll be entering the twilight zone again tomorrow at about 15:00...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 March, 2013, 07:43:11 am
Quote from: Polar Bear on 14 March, 2013, 09:53:11 pm

I'll be entering the twilight zone again tomorrow at about 15:00...

What are you doing?  Earning a living or something?
Are you able to present yourself at the Anchor (http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/13/1337/Anchor_Inn/Digbeth) or somewhere similar for a quick one after 5 ish?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 15 March, 2013, 08:03:29 am
Collecting a bicycle frame as part of the fleet restoration project.

Hoping to pick up the frame at 3 so unfortunately not. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 15 March, 2013, 08:06:37 am
Quote from: Kim on 14 March, 2013, 04:35:23 pm
Allergy attack.  Excavated 5 years worth of undisturbed dust in the bedroom.  *swallows piriton*

Apparently household dust is 90% dead skin cells.....

 :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: loadsabikes on 15 March, 2013, 08:12:47 am
Building up the courage to wrestle the lathe off the trailer and get it into the bunker.
Paging Mrs Miggin, Miggins to the weight lifting area! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 15 March, 2013, 08:17:10 am
Avoiding starting work, although I've already written 3 work emails...

What sort of lathe, Loadsabikes?  Mine weighed about 140Kg, so it was cramped in my workshop with 3 of use lifting it onto the bench.  I cannot grasp how life can be possible without a lathe...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 15 March, 2013, 10:50:33 am
Gears and brakes on Super Lamb Banana*.   Then guards, bottle cages and she's good to go.

My pet name for Mlle PB's Thorn Audax mk3.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 March, 2013, 10:57:16 am
1) dealing with an poorly, irate, shouty, teary nine year old
2) sneezing, lots, due to a cold
3) feeling shit
4) Needing to write a build document :(

That'll do for now
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 March, 2013, 11:09:24 am
Still trying to get over the shock/horror/surprise* of my ex turning up for an interview yesterday  :o Mind-screw doesn't even begin to describe it, especially as I'm currently bumping along the bottom of my manic-depressive cycle ..

* - delete as applicable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 15 March, 2013, 11:12:49 am
I'm waiting for the post lady  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 15 March, 2013, 11:16:18 am
Quote from: interzen on 15 March, 2013, 11:09:24 am
Still trying to get over the shock/horror/surprise* of my ex turning up for an interview yesterday  :o Mind-screw doesn't even begin to describe it, especially as I'm currently bumping along the bottom of my manic-depressive cycle ..

* - delete as applicable.

So did they get the job?

That must have been so freaky S. Not a nice surprise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: loadsabikes on 15 March, 2013, 11:19:02 am
Quote from: Wombat on 15 March, 2013, 08:17:10 am
Avoiding starting work, although I've already written 3 work emails...

What sort of lathe, Loadsabikes?  Mine weighed about 140Kg, so it was cramped in my workshop with 3 of use lifting it onto the bench.  I cannot grasp how life can be possible without a lathe...
Myford Super 7 ............. and you are correct, life is not possible without a lathe.
But it is in now and with very little swearing amazingly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 March, 2013, 11:23:00 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 15 March, 2013, 11:16:18 am
Quote from: interzen on 15 March, 2013, 11:09:24 am
Still trying to get over the shock/horror/surprise* of my ex turning up for an interview yesterday  :o Mind-screw doesn't even begin to describe it, especially as I'm currently bumping along the bottom of my manic-depressive cycle ..

* - delete as applicable.

So did they get the job?
Nope.
It would have been deeply ironic for a number of reasons if she had taken the job, but there were better candidates (apparently). One of the directors did ask me if it would be awkward if she did work here ::-)

Quote
That must have been so freaky S. Not a nice surprise.
It's the sort of thing I could have done without at 4.30 on a Thursday afternoon, certainly, and it's probably a good job I don't keep any booze in the house as a couple of stiff drinks would have been needed for me to reassert my grip on reality.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 March, 2013, 01:11:33 pm
Recovering from the comprehensive going over my mentor gave my presentation  I'll be giving at conference next Tuesday.

Having a bite to eat before I pick up the new Pingumobile
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 March, 2013, 10:43:59 am
Waiting for it to stop raining before I set out on a ride to Lichfield.

The rain radar seems to suggest it should be about half an hour.  Only trouble is; it's been suggesting that for well over an hour now.  The trailing edge of the rain area currently passing over Brum seems to be expanding.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 16 March, 2013, 10:46:49 am
Waiting to warm up before having a shower.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 16 March, 2013, 10:48:05 am
Waiting for my relief to turn up so that I can go home and go back to bed from which I reluctantly emerged at 3:30am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 March, 2013, 01:26:30 pm
Trying to persuade the heating to come on by telekinesis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 March, 2013, 01:39:35 pm
Cake for breakfast. We should get married more often.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 March, 2013, 02:17:52 pm
Running a nice hot bath, after a rather cold morning planting Red Squirrel saplings1 in the snow.....


1That's tree saplings to improve habitat connectivity for the benefit of Red Squirrels, not sapling Red Squirrels......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 16 March, 2013, 02:30:31 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 16 March, 2013, 02:17:52 pm
Running a nice hot bath, after a rather cold morning planting Red Squirrel saplings1 in the snow.....


1That's tree saplings to improve habitat connectivity for the benefit of Red Squirrels, not sapling Red Squirrels......

Tut. Everyone knows sqirls lay eggs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 March, 2013, 02:41:15 pm
*searches amazon for red sqrl eggeses, saplings, seeds, bulbs...*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 02:49:18 pm
Recovering.

Decided to bite the bullet and do half an hour of intervals on the turbo - net result, I feel like someone has shot me through the kneecaps1 and I don't feel like I want to hurl the bike through the living room window.

I'll call that a win.

1 - I'm not used to riding with gears, but since the fixed is now incompatible with the turbo2 I don't really have a lot of choice.
2 - The toggle chain on the S3X interferes with things. Life would be much easier if it used a cassette-joint arrangement like the Alfine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 March, 2013, 05:18:45 pm
Quote from: Kim on 16 March, 2013, 01:39:35 pm
Cake for breakfast. We should get married more often.

True
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 March, 2013, 07:42:58 pm
Cake is always good. Wedding cake for breakfast extra good.

I am in the Studio at York Theatre Royal, waiting for a random pick play to start. Which I think is quite impressive to say that at 18:03 I was at Yarm station with a bike, and wearing PE kit. I wonder what I'm about to watch?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 March, 2013, 08:10:10 pm
Getting my head around freeware, open source mapping software, along the lines of Tracklogs ££, and Memory Map£££

So far I've got QLandkarte GT up and running on my linux mint box, and it is happily running with streaming maps from google (maps, satellite & terrain), Open cycle map, open street map, Talkytoaster 1:50K mapping.
Currently downloading 50m elevation data for teh UK...   :)

--edit-- Seems the UK elevation data is a whole world of confusing file formats.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 March, 2013, 09:13:33 pm
Quote from: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 02:49:18 pm
Recovering.

Decided to bite the bullet and do half an hour of intervals on the turbo - net result, I feel like someone has shot me through the kneecaps1 and I don't feel like I want to hurl the bike through the living room window.

I'll call that a win.

1 - I'm not used to riding with gears, but since the fixed is now incompatible with the turbo2 I don't really have a lot of choice.
2 - The toggle chain on the S3X interferes with things. Life would be much easier if it used a cassette-joint arrangement like the Alfine.

Try using rollers?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 09:59:32 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 16 March, 2013, 08:10:10 pm
--edit-- Seems the UK elevation data is a whole world of confusing file formats.....
Get used to it - this would be a fairly good description of GIS data in general; I'm currently psyching myself up to start importing SRTM data onto my OpenStreetMap tile-server - I've got a feeling that it's going to get very ugly, very quickly.

You could do a lot worse than spending £13 on a copy of this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/OpenStreetMap-Using-Enhancing-Free-World/dp/1906860114/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1363471128&sr=8-3 (I have a copy, and it's very good)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 10:00:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 16 March, 2013, 09:13:33 pm
Quote from: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 02:49:18 pm
Recovering.

Decided to bite the bullet and do half an hour of intervals on the turbo - net result, I feel like someone has shot me through the kneecaps1 and I don't feel like I want to hurl the bike through the living room window.

I'll call that a win.

1 - I'm not used to riding with gears, but since the fixed is now incompatible with the turbo2 I don't really have a lot of choice.
2 - The toggle chain on the S3X interferes with things. Life would be much easier if it used a cassette-joint arrangement like the Alfine.

Try using rollers?
You, sir, are a laugh a minute ...  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 March, 2013, 10:03:14 pm
Quote from: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 10:00:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 16 March, 2013, 09:13:33 pm
Quote from: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 02:49:18 pm
The toggle chain on the S3X interferes with things. Life would be much easier if it used a cassette-joint arrangement like the Alfine.
Try using rollers?
You, sir, are a laugh a minute ...  ;D

N+1
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 March, 2013, 11:39:08 pm
Quote from: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 10:00:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 16 March, 2013, 09:13:33 pm
Quote from: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 02:49:18 pm
Recovering.

Decided to bite the bullet and do half an hour of intervals on the turbo - net result, I feel like someone has shot me through the kneecaps1 and I don't feel like I want to hurl the bike through the living room window.

I'll call that a win.

1 - I'm not used to riding with gears, but since the fixed is now incompatible with the turbo2 I don't really have a lot of choice.
2 - The toggle chain on the S3X interferes with things. Life would be much easier if it used a cassette-joint arrangement like the Alfine.

Try using rollers?
You, sir, are a laugh a minute ...  ;D

Quote from: Kim on 16 March, 2013, 10:03:14 pm
Quote from: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 10:00:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 16 March, 2013, 09:13:33 pm
Quote from: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 02:49:18 pm
The toggle chain on the S3X interferes with things. Life would be much easier if it used a cassette-joint arrangement like the Alfine.
Try using rollers?
You, sir, are a laugh a minute ...  ;D

N+1

Glad to be of help ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 17 March, 2013, 09:58:27 am
Quote from: Kim on 16 March, 2013, 10:03:14 pm
Quote from: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 10:00:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 16 March, 2013, 09:13:33 pm
Quote from: interzen on 16 March, 2013, 02:49:18 pm
The toggle chain on the S3X interferes with things. Life would be much easier if it used a cassette-joint arrangement like the Alfine.
Try using rollers?
You, sir, are a laugh a minute ...  ;D

N+1

Indeed. Clearly you need a Moonlander.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 18 March, 2013, 10:03:46 am
I'm just about to start painting  :) ..................my flat :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 March, 2013, 10:08:10 am
Phoning the helldesk. Wonder if I'll get Mr Larrington.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 18 March, 2013, 09:54:44 pm
I'm daydreaming, again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 March, 2013, 06:01:10 am
Practicing.
Wishing there were tea in my room.

Presenting to conference in.... 2.5hrs  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 19 March, 2013, 06:14:39 am
you'll be fine.  Go and get a cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 19 March, 2013, 10:10:20 am
Feeling sorry for myself. AKA 'normal state'.

Actually discovering that typing with one eye closed feels really wierd. Off to eye clinic tomorrow to have remaining rust  sliced from my eyeball by sadistic, underpaid, overworked nurse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 19 March, 2013, 10:31:52 am
Taking the new work decision making tool for a spin (or is it roll?)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/483688_10151303920126636_1956671382_n.jpg)

Bazinga!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 March, 2013, 04:14:47 pm
All is good, might even deserve a cheeky wee G&T later... :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 19 March, 2013, 06:10:37 pm
Waiting for Mr Smith to drive me home. Post-extraction, I'm fit for nothing but scaring small children with my bloody mouth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 March, 2013, 08:44:57 pm
Looking forward to 11:02 a.m. tomorrow (http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html).  Surely winter must be over now?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 March, 2013, 09:21:24 pm
Plotting a Very Silly Bikeless Adventure.  Very silly indeed....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 19 March, 2013, 09:21:58 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 19 March, 2013, 09:21:24 pm
Plotting a Very Silly Bikeless Adventure.  Very silly indeed....

Ooh, do tell!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 March, 2013, 09:27:08 pm
2 gigs in one weekend.  One in Manchester, one in That LonDon.  Which will involve 6 trains.... and two random overnight impostions.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 19 March, 2013, 09:32:06 pm
Scanning several hundred old family photographs that recently came to light.  Many are from Egypt and Cyprus during WWII where MIL's then future husband served.  Her first husband died in a Japanese POW Camp.  Many are from mid 1930's through to the early 1960's with my wife and her brothers & sisters as kids.  Basically part of four generations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 March, 2013, 09:33:35 pm
Being tired and hoping that this evening's random knee injury (teabags leapt out at me as I stepped down into the kitchen) isn't going to cause problems with the start of the nocturnal silly bike adventure season...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JohnP on 19 March, 2013, 09:35:15 pm
... whilst listening to around 60 Madeleine Peyroux tracks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 19 March, 2013, 10:13:52 pm
Contemplating spending.

200-ish beer tokens on a new turbo trainer because of course it is a problem with the kit that can be sorted out with a new gadget, not me.

200-ish for an new Alfine coz I have b0rked mine. And then, a wheel? a hub and spokes/rim to build? just the insides? how about an 11 speed Di2 instead? 600 odd reasons why not

Maybe a new bike, but then what so I do with the Pompetamine without building it up again?

Any of those "anded" instead of "ored" become more spendy than I want.

All the while nursing a rather nasty toothache until I get to the dentist tomorrow.

Meh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 March, 2013, 09:49:16 am
Suffering from a sever case of CBA.  In the mean time, I'm trying not to look at my 'To do' list as I fear I may faint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 March, 2013, 03:57:32 pm
Sitting in airport 1 of 3.
*twiddles thumbs*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 March, 2013, 05:08:10 pm
Struggling with day of having to wear a brace :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 March, 2013, 05:16:24 pm
Trying to fight off the urge to have a crafty snooze.

I'm absolutely bone-tired but know full well that if I have an hour's kip now the chances of me sleeping properly tonight will rapidly approach zero.

(I'm also miffed that I lost the lunchtime Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock tournament ;) )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 March, 2013, 01:26:05 pm
Just about to join a teleconf.

this should be interesting due to my previous post ^

Just don't expect me to say anything that starts with S.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 21 March, 2013, 01:37:18 pm
Having a nice cup of tea after spending three hours at Stafford General A&E…. no not for me thankfully.

My morning was booked solid with work but upon finding my 80 year old neighbour had been attached by her dog, a trip to A&E was called for: her children live over 100 miles away so she had no one to take her.

Stafford General has had some crap press over the last year: I haven’t followed the story so can’t say if its justified. However, I have always found them first rate as they were today. My neighbour was seen by triage within 5 mins and by an A&E worker 10 mins later. Her arms are now bandaged up and she is at home resting. I’ll check in for her later to make sure she is okay.

As for work…. I think that can wait…. Another cup of tea is calling!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 21 March, 2013, 02:28:27 pm
Quote from: interzen on 20 March, 2013, 05:16:24 pm
Trying to fight off the urge to have a crafty snooze.

I'm absolutely bone-tired but know full well that if I have an hour's kip now the chances of me sleeping properly tonight will rapidly approach zero.

an hour's too long for a nap, 10-20 minutes is plenty to hit the 'refresh' button without messing with normal sleep pattern (source:  many naps)

my first boss had a bed in one of the storerooms and would send anyone he saw yawning for a 10 minute nap.  It was his only redeeming feature.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 21 March, 2013, 07:48:36 pm
Sitting here listening to the KLF, wondering whether I should continue to do so, or whether I should go and get jiggy with my supper in the kitchen, whilst I continue to listen to the KLF.

Common sense suggests that the latter should have it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 March, 2013, 08:11:54 pm
Stuffed full of food & moderately pissed.
Whisky, red wine & champagne.
Ones mother isn't 75 every day... :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 21 March, 2013, 08:14:31 pm
That is rather nice that you were able to share that with your mum Andrew.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 22 March, 2013, 08:06:17 am
Just about to depart to the solicitors, where I shall spend the morning discussing governance within the new NHS, and then the afternoon will be spent at a golf club discussing LGBT health.  I love weird Fridays like this...  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 March, 2013, 09:23:54 am
Quote from: Regulator on 22 March, 2013, 08:06:17 am
Just about to depart to the solicitors, where I shall spend the morning discussing governance within the new NHS, and then the afternoon will be spent at a golf club discussing LGBT health.  I love weird Fridays like this...  :thumbsup:
Chuck a couple of G&Ts in there and you've got a full house of acronyms :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 22 March, 2013, 10:42:43 am
Waiting for the carrot cake to cook.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 22 March, 2013, 10:46:13 am
Arguing with belgians.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 22 March, 2013, 10:50:28 am
Quote from: mike on 22 March, 2013, 10:46:13 am
Arguing with belgians.


I don't why but I read this line as: "Arguing with Vogons."

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 March, 2013, 10:51:41 am
I imagine the difference is marginal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 March, 2013, 10:56:53 am
Just back from the Docs. I took a bit of a telling re: The State of my Hands.

Apparently, having cold dead hands for hours (Cold wet audaxes, Raynaud's and insufficient glovage) is not a Good Thing, and can lead to unpleasantness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 March, 2013, 11:01:49 am
Is less insufficient glovage the only answer?  I don't suffer from it, but there seem to be a lot of people who have Reynaud's, and it sounds nassty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 March, 2013, 11:03:57 am
Quote from: clarion on 22 March, 2013, 11:01:49 am
Is less insufficient glovage the only answer?  I don't suffer from it, but there seem to be a lot of people who have Reynaud's, and it sounds nassty.

Not sure. I'll let you know after The Dean 300 tomorrow ;).

I didn't tell the doctor about that, natch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 March, 2013, 11:07:49 am
FWIW, Chris, my hands are the things that suffer the most, at times, even after a short ride I can be in agony for hours (not quite got to the days bit, yet, and don't intend to).

The only glovesI have found that are a) properly warm and b) properly waterproof (i.e. don't fill up from the inside as well as the outside) are the Spesh Sub-zero gloves.  Not cheap, but very very good (if you can put up with looking like Mr Spock :) )
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Post by: clarion on 22 March, 2013, 11:09:24 am
Quote from: Chris S on 22 March, 2013, 11:03:57 am
Quote from: clarion on 22 March, 2013, 11:01:49 am
Is less insufficient glovage the only answer?  I don't suffer from it, but there seem to be a lot of people who have Reynaud's, and it sounds nassty.

Not sure. I'll let you know after The Dean 300 tomorrow ;).

I didn't tell the doctor about that, natch.

Good luck with that.  And I won't say a word to the doc ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 March, 2013, 12:38:54 pm
Watching the clock.

I'm at work until 13:00, after which I head down to Gatwick then jet off to sunny Dublin for the weekend.
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Post by: Wombat on 22 March, 2013, 12:41:46 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 22 March, 2013, 11:03:57 am
Quote from: clarion on 22 March, 2013, 11:01:49 am
Is less insufficient glovage the only answer?  I don't suffer from it, but there seem to be a lot of people who have Reynaud's, and it sounds nassty.

Not sure. I'll let you know after The Dean 300 tomorrow ;).

I didn't tell the doctor about that, natch.

Are you on calcium inhibitors, Chris?  Mrs W has them for her Reynauds, and it makes a lot of difference.  she got the impression that not all GPs twig how effective they can be.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 March, 2013, 01:20:43 pm
Looking at properties on espc.com and wondering who would want a shower in their bedroom http://www.espc.com/properties/details.aspx?pid=320462&sid=8146465826
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 March, 2013, 01:31:09 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 March, 2013, 01:20:43 pm
Looking at properties on espc.com and wondering who would want a shower in their bedroom http://www.espc.com/properties/details.aspx?pid=320462&sid=8146465826

The shower's the thing you take issue with?
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Post by: tiermat on 22 March, 2013, 01:37:40 pm
Looking forward (not!) to getting home and having to fettle a b0rked disc in the firewall :(

My own fault, I should have done it weeks ago, the first time it failed, but, like many others, I have a distinct lack of circular tuits...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 March, 2013, 01:47:43 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 March, 2013, 01:20:43 pm
Looking at properties on espc.com and wondering who would want a shower in their bedroom http://www.espc.com/properties/details.aspx?pid=320462&sid=8146465826
I'll grant you that it's a bit different from your usual en-suite, but my biggest issue would be the decor -  I mean, seriously, WTF?!

It's not massively different from the setup that my sister has in her place, although hers is wheelchair accessible and, as far as I know, she doesn't have butterflies plastered over every surface. Or sky blue curtains.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 March, 2013, 02:44:45 pm
Well yes, the decor is obviously someone's idea of a sick joke, but it's much easier to deal with than a shower cubicle in the bedroom!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 March, 2013, 03:30:30 pm
Explaining "gesundheit" to my grand-daughter.
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Post by: mcshroom on 22 March, 2013, 04:27:00 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 March, 2013, 02:44:45 pm
Well yes, the decor is obviously someone's idea of a sick joke, but it's much easier to deal with than a shower cubicle in the bedroom!

My flat in Reading had a shower in the bedroom. There was a toilet on the other side of the wall so they used the same pipe for both. You do get used to it.

I'm trying to work out why our site sent us all home. Granted South Cumbria is pretty messed up with snow and gales, but there's nothing really on the ground round here and not really any different to four or five other winter storms we've had this year other than the precipitation being of the white variety. I'll take a free POETS day but it really was an overreaction.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 March, 2013, 04:33:08 pm
Shower cubicle in the bedroom doesn't seem completely unreasonable.  I mean, my visits to the shower inevitably involve a trip to the bedroom before and after in order to jibble clothing.

Bog in the bedroom is a line too far.  Even with my weak bladder.
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Post by: mcshroom on 22 March, 2013, 04:37:09 pm
Yeah that would have been a bit too far for me
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Post by: clarion on 22 March, 2013, 05:01:08 pm
Waiting for a chance to give someone a bollocking.  I don't need to have two complaints about the same person on the same day.  And I certainly don't need to be dealing with one when I should be going home in advance of a weekend with two very early starts at work >:(
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Post by: davelodwig on 22 March, 2013, 07:44:02 pm
Watching kittens

http://new.livestream.com/FosterKittenCam/TheCosmoFosters (http://new.livestream.com/FosterKittenCam/TheCosmoFosters)

They've just had a funny five minutes jumping all over the place.
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Post by: TheLurker on 22 March, 2013, 08:18:31 pm
Recovering from a tense week at work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: davelodwig on 22 March, 2013, 08:19:09 pm
Quote from: TheLurker on 22 March, 2013, 08:18:31 pm
Recovering from a tense week at work.

Watch the kittens, they'll make it better.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 March, 2013, 08:28:25 pm
Watching the warm up act. He's doing a great job. He's going to make the headliner look great.
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Post by: jogler on 22 March, 2013, 08:55:30 pm
Quote from: Marj on 22 March, 2013, 10:42:43 am
Waiting for the carrot cake to cook.

Eating Marj's carrot cake which cooked successfully
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 23 March, 2013, 11:03:22 pm
Feeling like the queen of the world because I got a free bottle of Sancerre out of the six-year-old wine waiter. Whilst being treated like a tramp because I passed out in the car after drinking a bottle of Sancerre. Swings and roundabouts eh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 March, 2013, 11:46:39 pm
Watching the criggid in the pud. :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 24 March, 2013, 06:50:00 am
Not looking forward to driving to Coventry bearing in mind the number of numbnuts who do not seem to understand the basic physical properties of frozen water. Currently, the M1 is closed in both directions slightly north of my last junction. With the volume of early Sunday morning traffic that shows real dedication to the task. I do feel sorry for anybody caught up in that who might be suffering a life changing time.
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Post by: BrianI on 24 March, 2013, 07:43:19 am
Contemplating cramming before tomorrows plant biology exam.....    >:(
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Post by: LindaG on 24 March, 2013, 07:49:44 am
Having another nosebleed. Damn. Supposed to be going out chasing waterfalls in a minute. Loo roll up the nose is not the look I was going for.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 March, 2013, 10:26:49 am
Window shopping. Unexpected bonus when I finally opened the pay slip today.
The lure of n+1 is strong....
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Post by: BrianI on 24 March, 2013, 11:27:54 am
Hating plant biology!   >:(

Xylems, phloems, thylakoid membranes, Photosynthesis involving Calvin cycles (why no Hobbes cycles?), and vascular bundles......   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 March, 2013, 12:58:31 pm
Laminating an audax route sheet & one of Marj's knitting patterns
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Post by: Kim on 24 March, 2013, 01:11:02 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 March, 2013, 12:58:31 pm
Laminating an audax route sheet & one of Marj's knitting patterns

Top tip: don't get them mixed up, or you'll be riding round in circles all day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 24 March, 2013, 01:16:49 pm
Quote from: Kim on 24 March, 2013, 01:11:02 pm
Quote from: jogler on 24 March, 2013, 12:58:31 pm
Laminating an audax route sheet & one of Marj's knitting patterns

Top tip: don't get them mixed up, or you'll be riding round in circles all day.

A purl of wisdom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 March, 2013, 01:25:48 pm
Actually it's part of a plan to ride a bike & knit simultaneously.It involves a tandem.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 March, 2013, 03:29:48 pm
Waiting for my flight back to Blighty. Not all gone to plan this weekend, but still worth the trip.
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Post by: Dibdib on 24 March, 2013, 03:32:00 pm
Sneezing and hiding under a blanket.
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Post by: interzen on 24 March, 2013, 03:34:13 pm
Listing stuff in eBay ... woo-flippin'-hoo ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 March, 2013, 05:56:44 pm
Watching an AA man attempt to persuade a taxi with a lump hammer...
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Post by: dasmoth on 24 March, 2013, 05:58:40 pm
Painting.

Including some areas that have been patches of bare plaster for more years than I care to think about!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 March, 2013, 10:12:11 pm
Reflecting.

On an evening that had considerable echoes of this (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=49826.msg1015528#msg1015528).

Boab: you are hereby forbidden from storing (or the placing thereof) anything on the roof of my car.  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 25 March, 2013, 08:54:30 am
Quote from: Chris S on 24 March, 2013, 10:12:11 pm
Reflecting.

On an evening that had considerable echoes of this (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=49826.msg1015528#msg1015528).

Boab: you are hereby forbidden from storing (or the placing thereof) anything on the roof of my car.  :-*
Sorry.
 :-[
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Post by: numbnuts on 25 March, 2013, 09:47:16 am
Just about to start painting again, it's a good job I don't live in a big house
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 25 March, 2013, 09:50:26 am
Spreadsheets. Lots of spreadsheets.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 26 March, 2013, 02:02:16 pm
Wasting time.

I have no work to do but I can't leave as I have a meeting at 4.00 p.m.

I've already cleared my desk and my drawers.  I've backed up my files and deleted the folders that don't need archiving.

I'm up to date with my emails and I've set the out of office.

I have another two days of being bored to come...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 March, 2013, 02:10:23 pm
Watching someone who has taken a total of about 6 minutes to park their car on a patch of frozen slush outside.  Initially I assumed they were having traction problems, on account of the wheelspin, but it later transpired that they couldn't tell were the kerb was (the ice causing a false-positive of the "wait till the back of the car goes up" reversing sensor), and seemed lacking in spacial awareness.

They've managed it now, though, and are now peering concernedly at the front wheel...
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Post by: BrianI on 26 March, 2013, 05:19:10 pm
Unwrapping teh shinies!

Shinie new Garmin Etrex 20!   :thumbsup:

Although probably not going to have much time to use it, what with being extremely busy with college studies   :(
Also trying to not get in a tizz about the amount of college work needing done, combined with my other commitments (swan surveys, squirrel surveys, volunteering at local nature reserve.....)

 :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 26 March, 2013, 09:10:45 pm
Cursing the central heating boiler for choosing to break down now  >:(

Working earlier this evening, correctly showing demand on CH & HW timers, but nothing doing.

20yr old Potterton Prima 60, regularly serviced.

Huddled round gas fire the in lounge, hoping it's some form of cut-out temporarily tripped, & see what happens in the morning.
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Post by: mcshroom on 26 March, 2013, 10:16:21 pm
Editing the recording of yesterday's choral performance. Unashamedly starting with my big solo  :smug:

http://youtu.be/QGOd-nACm5k
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 27 March, 2013, 09:42:56 am
Waiting for the man from U.N.C.L.E. car insurance breakdown cover to come and fettle my car, which has decided to be non functional and non starting in a typical italian Fiat Fix It Again Tomorrow style....

Google searches gives all sorts of possibilities, from defective ECU, through to duff starter motor (doesn't sound like it, as the engine does turn over, just not fire up), duff crank shat sensor or defective temperature sensor.  BAttery replaced a couple of months ago.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 27 March, 2013, 11:44:16 am
Quote from: BrianI on 27 March, 2013, 09:42:56 am
Waiting for the man from U.N.C.L.E. car insurance breakdown cover to come and fettle my car, which has decided to be non functional and non starting in a typical italian Fiat Fix It Again Tomorrow style....

Google searches gives all sorts of possibilities, from defective ECU, through to duff starter motor (doesn't sound like it, as the engine does turn over, just not fire up), duff crank shat sensor or defective temperature sensor.  BAttery replaced a couple of months ago.

And the man from Del Monte  RAC found a car which started first time, with a couple of intermittent faults found in the alternator & coolant sensor... Faults cleared and no further action to be taken.....   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 March, 2013, 11:58:14 am
Watching a blue bar crawl slowly across a screen......
Finally being forced to upgrade my office PC from friendly old XP to this new fangled Windows 7.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 27 March, 2013, 12:14:53 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 27 March, 2013, 11:44:16 am
And the man from Del Monte  RAC found a car which started first time, with a couple of intermittent faults found in the alternator & coolant sensor... Faults cleared and no further action to be taken.....   ???

I had that experience yesterday. Expensive (DETH) rattle coming from the engine department. Took it to the garage and all running sweetly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 March, 2013, 10:22:32 am
Conducting an experiment in domestic plumbing involving boiling vinegar.Pongy odour :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 March, 2013, 11:57:31 am
Basking in the  :smug: feeling of succes thanks in no small part to my beautiful assisstant :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 29 March, 2013, 01:14:05 pm
Just uploading my ride to Strava. Have a rare late start for work so decided to do something healthy and active. I was out on the MTB as the pot holes are horrendous around here. Still a lot of snow out on the trails though, all good fun.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 29 March, 2013, 01:46:18 pm
I'm bleeding my brakes on the cube. A small bottle of fluid was over £10, a litre was £18 :O

I tried to get Citroën lhm fluid but the main dealer had none in stock :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 29 March, 2013, 02:31:41 pm
Downloading lots of updates for Guitar Pro and Garage Band while I can use a snooper-dooper hotel connection - 3 or 4 gigs in less than an aeon!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 29 March, 2013, 02:57:49 pm
Just signed up a new client.   I almost didn't open the office today but in I came.   What a result!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 29 March, 2013, 03:00:31 pm
I've also put new bar tape on the fixed today and give it a wipe over.

I'm not impressed with Deda tape!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 29 March, 2013, 06:31:25 pm
Mopping up the claret which has issued forth from my hand, having perforated the skin with needle file whilst fabricating a cable guide from brass.
I'd forgotten what a b@st@rd file-clogging material brass is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 March, 2013, 11:22:53 pm
Being crap and faffing instead of cracking on with stuff.  Like baking.  Or packing.  Or laundry...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 March, 2013, 01:17:51 am
1:15am on Easter Saturday.  When the nutters are riding their bikes silly distances (in some cases, to end up in a pub less than two miles away from where they started) and sensible people are tucked up under duvets hiding from the chilly world.  What might I be doing?  Guess?  Hmmm....

Yup, it's cake o'clock!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 March, 2013, 06:58:51 am
Having a beery head.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 30 March, 2013, 08:22:30 am
Breakfast in bed :)
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Post by: Vince on 30 March, 2013, 11:12:55 am
Warming up
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Post by: Littlesox on 01 April, 2013, 06:33:43 am
Drinking tea for England.

"Oh, what a fantastic cup. How does he do it?. That's his third this morning. This has to go down in history. The fans love it"

Err...sorry, got a bit carried away there.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 April, 2013, 12:10:41 pm
Trial packing my panniers for Catalonia.

Everything fits into two front rollers! YAY!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 April, 2013, 12:29:34 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 April, 2013, 12:10:41 pm
Trial packing my panniers for Catalonia.

Everything fits into two front rollers! YAY!

Well, that takes care of the coffee machine and associated bits.  You should consider a change of clothes and some toiletries, too. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 April, 2013, 12:40:56 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 01 April, 2013, 12:29:34 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 01 April, 2013, 12:10:41 pm
Trial packing my panniers for Catalonia.

Everything fits into two front rollers! YAY!

Well, that takes care of the coffee machine and associated bits.  You should consider a change of clothes and some toiletries, too. ;)

Why? That's what hotels are for :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 April, 2013, 12:50:31 pm
Lying on the settee under a duvet - somewhat lurgified and feeling a Bit Crap  :(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 01 April, 2013, 01:09:02 pm
Working.

When my current secondment is over I'm never working shifts or bank holidays again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 April, 2013, 01:24:15 pm
Basking in the warm happeh of finally getting out on my bike, and digesting Crinklyflap. :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 01 April, 2013, 02:03:18 pm
Drinking coffee and thinking about how best to analyse my Mass Spec data. This will involve gnarly SQL queries, the precies crafting of which is dependent ont he amount of coffee I can consume.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 01 April, 2013, 02:47:12 pm
Baking raisin bread and eating chocolate
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2013, 09:13:35 pm
Wondering which of us has vexed The Gods...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 April, 2013, 09:27:42 pm
Considering spending the bank holiday audaxing in Forfar
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 02 April, 2013, 09:01:43 am
Thinking "What shall I do today?"


'Bugger all' seems to be my main plan for now...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 April, 2013, 09:26:30 am
Quote from: Regulator on 02 April, 2013, 09:01:43 am
Thinking "What shall I do today?"


'Bugger all' seems to be my main plan for now...

That's rather ambitious.  I bet you don't even make it through the population of Cambrdidge, never mind "all". ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 April, 2013, 09:27:26 am
Clearing windowsills so that we can have new windows installed  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 02 April, 2013, 09:32:13 am
Waiting for my eggs florentine.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 April, 2013, 09:39:01 am
Hurrah!  We are enjoying not being burnt to a crisp.
(http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2013/4/2/229857/default/v2/1-1-762x428.jpg)
http://news.sky.com/story/1072642/fort-william-fire-highlands-blaze-near-homes
It got fairly close last night and, as our holiday "cottage" is situated between the loch and the hill that was burning, and on the road that joins Corpach to Fort Bill, we got a several of flyovers from the fire service helicopter bucketing water and a number of drive-bys from the tenders as they went from one end of the fire to t'other. 

Hurrah for the Scottish Fire Service.  Job well done.
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Post by: Jurek on 02 April, 2013, 09:43:50 am
Kinda puts my breakfast into perspective .....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 April, 2013, 09:52:22 am
Well, I am _now_ waiting for my scrambled eggs...  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 02 April, 2013, 09:54:39 am
I'm wondering how a wildfire can start in th Scottish hills in this weather..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 02 April, 2013, 10:00:50 am
Feeling good after riding home from work in the sun the long way. Followed by a cup of tea and a nice hot shower. And then chilling in my lovely bed. It's great this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 April, 2013, 10:11:53 am
Quote from: David Martin on 02 April, 2013, 09:54:39 am
I'm wondering how a wildfire can start in th Scottish hills in this weather..

We went over to Nevis Range yesterday and the ground is incredibly dry.  Apparently Fort Bill hasn't had significant precipitation for weeks.  And I managed to get sunburnt yesterday.... no OK, I can as ourfriendMartin said, get sunburnt by a low energy lightbulb.  But it was positively warm....

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 02 April, 2013, 10:00:50 am
Feeling good after riding home from work in the sun the long way. Followed by a cup of tea and a nice hot shower. And then chilling in my lovely bed. It's great this.

Nearly summer.  Fab, innit?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 02 April, 2013, 06:06:05 pm
Watching wagons and coaches reversing onto the Hull-Zeebrugge ferry.
Got a meeting in Brussels office tmorrow . Bollocks to getting a Eurostar at 8am, I shall be taking a leisurely breakfast whilst my colleagues are jammed in like sardines.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 April, 2013, 06:27:56 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 02 April, 2013, 09:54:39 am
I'm wondering how a wildfire can start in th Scottish hills in this weather..

Muirburn (aka Heather burning) gone wrong? 
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Post by: interzen on 02 April, 2013, 06:32:41 pm
Wondering if I should buy myself an Angry Birds cycling jersey ....

... if that won't (re)summon my mojo then nothing will.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 April, 2013, 06:39:43 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 02 April, 2013, 06:27:56 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 02 April, 2013, 09:54:39 am
I'm wondering how a wildfire can start in th Scottish hills in this weather..

Muirburn (aka Heather burning) gone wrong? 

If it's like in Sanquhar yesterday then arson
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 02 April, 2013, 07:42:04 pm
Waiting for MiL to get off the phone so we can finish watching Jonathon Creek we recorded yesterday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 April, 2013, 08:11:17 pm
Quote from: interzen on 02 April, 2013, 06:32:41 pm
Wondering if I should buy myself an Angry Birds cycling jersey ....
You can get Angry Birds cycling Jerseys?
Angry is the only thing this Bird does better than Fat...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 April, 2013, 08:29:21 pm
Being disturbed at the Philpott fire specials being on practically every channel on 'cooncil telly' this evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 April, 2013, 09:09:13 pm
Quote from: madcow on 02 April, 2013, 06:06:05 pm
Watching wagons and coaches reversing onto the Hull-Zeebrugge ferry.
Got a meeting in Brussels office tmorrow . Bollocks to getting a Eurostar at 8am, I shall be taking a leisurely breakfast whilst my colleagues are jammed in like sardines.

No chance to load up with several 100 kilos of lovely Belgian beer on the Eurostar  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 April, 2013, 09:10:09 pm
Being sad none of my customers are based in Brussels....again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 April, 2013, 12:47:10 am
Waiting to be seen in A+E. And feeling silly and vulnerable in my uniform with all the bleeders and limpers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 03 April, 2013, 06:26:04 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 03 April, 2013, 12:47:10 am
Waiting to be seen in A+E. And feeling silly and vulnerable in my uniform with all the bleeders and limpers.
May we ask what you've done?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 April, 2013, 07:44:20 am
just finished checking then printing a tree load of paperwork in order that I can help an ageing couple submit their health and welfare lpa applications this morning.

I had to wait until April 1st for 'new' forms but there is very little or no difference from the previous ones.    Bah, humbug!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 April, 2013, 09:23:34 am
Quote from: fboab on 03 April, 2013, 06:26:04 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 03 April, 2013, 12:47:10 am
Waiting to be seen in A+E. And feeling silly and vulnerable in my uniform with all the bleeders and limpers.
May we ask what you've done?

Nothing glamorous. Big asthma attack at work. Embarrassing and will lead to another sickness disciplinary. Hurray!

Nebulisers. Steroids.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 April, 2013, 11:17:13 am
And now I am breathing. In. And out. And in. And out. And in.

This is harder work than you'd think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 03 April, 2013, 11:21:22 am
Shit, LG. Been there, done that, although thankfully never at work. I hope it eases up quickly.

As for me... I'm sitting here gobsmacked at having NOT been conned by my car insurance company. 28 years old, upgraded from a clapped-out old Mazda to a nearly-new BMW, and they only wanted an extra hundred quid to cover me until November.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 April, 2013, 11:22:58 am
Quote from: Dibdib on 03 April, 2013, 11:21:22 am
Shit, LG. Been there, done that, although thankfully never at work. I hope it eases up quickly.

As for me... I'm sitting here gobsmacked at having NOT been conned by my car insurance company. 28 years old, upgraded from a clapped-out old Mazda to a nearly-new BMW, and they only wanted an extra hundred quid to cover me until November.

They deserve a name-check for that don't they?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 03 April, 2013, 11:34:23 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 03 April, 2013, 11:22:58 am
Quote from: Dibdib on 03 April, 2013, 11:21:22 am
Shit, LG. Been there, done that, although thankfully never at work. I hope it eases up quickly.

As for me... I'm sitting here gobsmacked at having NOT been conned by my car insurance company. 28 years old, upgraded from a clapped-out old Mazda to a nearly-new BMW, and they only wanted an extra hundred quid to cover me until November.

They deserve a name-check for that don't they?

I suppose so! First Central insurance. (I'd even increased my annual mileage too)

Of course, I'm now sitting here wondering what to do with the afternoon off work I'd taken to sort it all out... Sod it, I'm going to go for a ride :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 April, 2013, 01:07:51 pm
I am creating CD ISOs to build servers from.

Quite why I should do this, I don't know as:

1) I hate the place that I am doing them for
2) They have confirmed this morning that they will NOT be extending my contract
3) They have the slopiest of shoulders so anything I send the permies to look at just comes straight back to me!
4) Did I mention I hate them?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 03 April, 2013, 01:15:04 pm
Flacing some Jarre.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 April, 2013, 01:18:13 pm
GWS LG
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 April, 2013, 01:19:42 pm
Yes, indeed, GWS LG.

In other news I am freezing my nuts off due to new windows being fitted today (whilst I am still making those build CDs etc...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 April, 2013, 01:20:29 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 03 April, 2013, 11:17:13 am
And now I am breathing. In. And out. And in. And out. And in.

This is harder work than you'd think.

I think there should be points for this sort of thing.  A sort of Audax Asthma Award.  What it would lack in competition it would make up for in potential for endless threads debating how to calculate the balance between air temperature, pollen count, presence of a dog at a control and so on, and whether peak flow was a valid measurement for AAA purposes...

GWS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 03 April, 2013, 02:25:22 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 03 April, 2013, 09:23:34 am
Nothing glamorous. Big asthma attack at work. Embarrassing and will lead to another sickness disciplinary. Hurray!

Nebulisers. Steroids.

GWS LG!   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 April, 2013, 02:34:03 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 03 April, 2013, 11:34:23 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 03 April, 2013, 11:22:58 am
Quote from: Dibdib on 03 April, 2013, 11:21:22 am
Shit, LG. Been there, done that, although thankfully never at work. I hope it eases up quickly.

As for me... I'm sitting here gobsmacked at having NOT been conned by my car insurance company. 28 years old, upgraded from a clapped-out old Mazda to a nearly-new BMW, and they only wanted an extra hundred quid to cover me until November.

They deserve a name-check for that don't they?

I suppose so! First Central insurance. (I'd even increased my annual mileage too)

Of course, I'm now sitting here wondering what to do with the afternoon off work I'd taken to sort it all out... Sod it, I'm going to go for a ride :)

Do a few km for me lad!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 03 April, 2013, 06:08:00 pm
Printing off a college assignment, and filling in an AssFronticepiece   :o
Not so many college assignments to do now! 

-- edit --
And another getting spat out the printer!   ;D  Might be able to justify a cheeky bike ride to myself tomorrow, seeing as it is the easter holidays and all....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 April, 2013, 06:09:16 pm
Proofreading barakta grinks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 April, 2013, 08:25:59 am
*nerd alert*

downloading some geocache coordinates into my shiney new etrex 20, so that I can do some geocaching / mtb riding!   :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 April, 2013, 08:54:45 am
Just about to send an email that may well just mark the end of my contract with this client.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 April, 2013, 12:51:55 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 04 April, 2013, 08:54:45 am
Just about to send an email that may well just mark the end of my contract with this client.

Oooh, that sounds juicy....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 April, 2013, 01:02:52 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 04 April, 2013, 12:51:55 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 04 April, 2013, 08:54:45 am
Just about to send an email that may well just mark the end of my contract with this client.

Oooh, that sounds juicy....

If only it was so.

Boringly it was a, more diplomatically put, "I asked for this 2 weeks ago, you guys gave me no input and now you are shouting at me for not getting it done" kind of email, along with a rough appraisal of how shit their documentation is (which is a truth universally accepted within this company) and a simple question among the lines of "How the hell am I supposed install a bespoke app that has no documentation?"

The outcome, a short time later, was an email from someone else with a PDF of the proper install instruction along with a list of dependencies.  Only what I had been asking for over the last 3 months!

Idiots!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 April, 2013, 01:06:54 pm
They obviously respond well to the application of cluex4 then!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 April, 2013, 01:08:22 pm
If I tell you the main antagonists in this case are in Swindon, would it surprise you?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ewan Houzami on 04 April, 2013, 01:28:57 pm
Clearing out a cupboard that has been used pretty much as a dumping ground for junk since I moved here fifteen years ago. It's taking a fair bit longer than I hoped because I keep unearthing forgotten about keepsakes, photos, and mementos - making me stop to have a little reminisce and wonder where my life's gone. And my hair.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 04 April, 2013, 05:48:38 pm
Been reading about dyslexia. Now drinking wine.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 04 April, 2013, 06:18:17 pm
Thinking it was a bad idea to go on hunger strike fasting today
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 April, 2013, 06:23:23 pm
Eating motorway services fare.  :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 April, 2013, 07:12:48 pm
Wondering, if I think about it hard enough, if Pingu will make my bicyclops be my friend again while I'm in 'merica.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 April, 2013, 02:37:48 am
Being awake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 05 April, 2013, 03:47:46 am
Still up trying to get a grant proposal finished. Done 1 all nighter, a 3 am, a 4 am and this in the last week trying to get it done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 April, 2013, 08:31:31 am
Putting on weight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 April, 2013, 08:37:54 am
Tossing up between college "Graded Unit" assignment  :sick: , or a day up in the Ochil hills  :D.
Looks to braw a day for sitting in front of puter, so I'm packing my gear for a braw day out...   :thumbsup:

I'm also currently marvelling at how marvellous QLandkarte GT is for route planning on linux.  Amazing stuff. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 April, 2013, 10:39:51 am
Making blueberry pancakes for breakfast.

I _like_ cooking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 05 April, 2013, 11:28:05 am
Kneeling on the floor with my laptop on the coffee table as this seems to be the best position for today :-\. It would be easier if the coffee table wasn't so slippery.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 05 April, 2013, 11:40:41 am
I've now found that if I put the gymball in front of the coffee table I can lean on that, which works better :).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 April, 2013, 05:32:26 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 05 April, 2013, 08:37:54 am
Tossing up between college "Graded Unit" assignment  :sick: , or a day up in the Ochil hills  :D.
Looks to braw a day for sitting in front of puter, so I'm packing my gear for a braw day out...   :thumbsup:

I'm also currently marvelling at how marvellous QLandkarte GT is for route planning on linux.  Amazing stuff.

And a grand day out it was!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 April, 2013, 05:45:06 pm
Feeling a bit sad :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 05 April, 2013, 07:24:38 pm
Why's that Tiermat?


Been reading about attachment theory all afternoon. So i've attached myself to a glass of champagne. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 April, 2013, 07:29:55 pm
Post gym gin and pizza digestion :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 April, 2013, 12:50:54 am
Drinking cheap wine, listening to old music and gettin' maudlin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 06 April, 2013, 07:35:54 pm
Just poked the weather gods in the eye by having a BBQ.
Hailstorm just came through!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 April, 2013, 10:50:29 am
Looking at sofas on the internet. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 April, 2013, 10:59:14 am
I'm about to write a letter to a pal whose wife died last week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 07 April, 2013, 01:25:30 pm
Just listed n-1 (Aravis) for sale on here. Off for a walk with MiniGB and MrsGB and then I'll be back to list n-2 (Colnago) for sale on here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 07 April, 2013, 02:53:06 pm
Having a rest after filling in forms. Nearly done the form and have gathered all the required documents I think. Just need to check a couple of dates.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 07 April, 2013, 02:59:40 pm
Having a break from my uni assignment. Might go and kill some weeds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 08 April, 2013, 08:46:57 am
Sitting placed in perfect statis between the force vectors of (a) several hundred post-hol work emails, (b) preparation for next week's ( making for the eeek!! part of week) jaunt, (c) tidying a pile of teetering crap (given that the inverse square applies, the cr@p can of course be located very very very nearby)

I suspect a cup of tea and a biscuit might help retain the balance.

It's a skill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 April, 2013, 09:58:59 am
Saying goodbye to the Big Blue sofa, much used during its lifetime for kipping on by several OTP, and celebrating the departure of the nasty nasty windows.  And thinking about sticking a jumper on, although I need to head into town soon and sort some money stuff out to pay for the unfortunately-rather-more-tricky-than-we-had-hoped repair to the leaky roof.

This week is going to be expensive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 08 April, 2013, 10:14:57 am
at heathrow.  Off to chicago for a week of work, then home via a weekend on the west coast to meet my new niece (who will be 2 weeks old by then)  I hate flying but this is a *good* reason to do it  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 08 April, 2013, 03:04:34 pm
Aaah that's really nice.  I hope you'll be a good uncle!  A good uncle is without price  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 April, 2013, 03:47:49 pm
Train spotting.

It seems very quiet on here atm.  I guess what everyone else is doing is rushing off to the politics board. 
They're welcome to it.

*doesn't look*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 08 April, 2013, 05:36:39 pm
Have had that area on ignore for some time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 April, 2013, 07:14:04 pm
Quote from: Basil on 08 April, 2013, 03:47:49 pm
It seems very quiet on here atm.  I guess what everyone else is doing is rushing off to the politics board. 
They're welcome to it.

I rushed off for a bike ride instead.  Much more pleasant, even with the knee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2013, 07:15:24 pm
Unbearably quiet.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 07:19:08 pm
I'm currently nursing a bruised foot.

The cleat on my sidi boot has been pushing the backplate through the shoe. I didn't realise this until a ball of fluid has appeared on my foot . It seems to hurt more now I've noticed the swelling :(

Still on the bike tonight for a ride though, last one before my trip :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2013, 07:23:47 pm
I am so glad that we have a pomposity and other boring issues board.   

In real life news:   I'm currently preparing supper with a lot of mushrooms and minced beef.   Left my lunch behind today so I'm more hungry than usual.   I then have to have a minor fettle so I can start cycle commuting tomorrow.    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 07:29:17 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2013, 07:23:47 pm
I then have to have a minor fettle so I can start cycle commuting tomorrow.    :thumbsup:

That'll be the reason for the rain and wind tomorrow then :p
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2013, 07:33:49 pm
Nope.  Forecast here improving.    :thumbsup:    Almost cannot wait  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 07:36:35 pm
I hope your inner barometer is correct.

Commuting on a new bike?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 April, 2013, 07:37:40 pm
Quote from: itsbruce on 08 April, 2013, 05:36:39 pm
Have had that area on ignore for some time.

+1
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 April, 2013, 07:42:34 pm
Faffing.  And shivering, a little.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2013, 08:04:33 pm
Quote from: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 07:36:35 pm
I hope your inner barometer is correct.

Commuting on a new bike?

Sort of.  I'll be using the re-framed audax machine whilst I build the commuter special.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 08:27:09 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2013, 08:04:33 pm
Quote from: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 07:36:35 pm
I hope your inner barometer is correct.

Commuting on a new bike?

Sort of.  I'll be using the re-framed audax machine whilst I build the commuter special.  :)

What frame did you get?

Commuter special build ........... intriguing!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 April, 2013, 08:57:02 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 08 April, 2013, 07:42:34 pm
Faffing.  And shivering, a little.

Ill, or windowless?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2013, 09:09:15 pm
Quote from: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 08:27:09 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2013, 08:04:33 pm
Quote from: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 07:36:35 pm
I hope your inner barometer is correct.

Commuting on a new bike?

Sort of.  I'll be using the re-framed audax machine whilst I build the commuter special.  :)

What frame did you get?

Commuter special build ........... intriguing!

It is a very special frame.   Remember our burglary adn bike destruction in November?   Russellm very kindly donated me a marvellous black Thorn Audax Mk1? frame and forks.    I stripped down the destroyed ti Airbone Carpe Diem and built up the Thorn.   It has the sportier Reynolds 531c forks I had made for the Airborne as both machines have 1 inch head tubes, and in fact, a full set of components from the Airborne bar the rear brake which was flappy canti on the Airborne and replacement cables where they'd suffered damage.   He has a bonus of a tubus fly bought from tewdric of this parish last year and never got round to fitting to Airbie for obvious reasons.  :( 

I call him Satan.   I say 'him' though I haven't really consciously sexed a machine before.   :o    He rides easily as well as Airbie did although he seems a tad more flexible in the rear triangle.   The black reflective and the carbon effect chainstay protector are for his beautifully demonic frame.   :thumbsup: 

I suppose I should post a piccie but I never get it right and have to faff around for bloody ages.   Why can't we just send a piccie to the forum like we can to faceache?   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 08 April, 2013, 09:29:19 pm
Send it to faceache, then copy it and put it in img tags?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 10:13:57 pm
Satan :D It's more satisfying building your own monster!
You're attached to 'him' already Mike!

You've got my email address, send a pic to me and I'll add it to members bikes if you like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 08 April, 2013, 10:24:11 pm
Clicking the big red pink button.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 April, 2013, 11:23:26 pm
Err.  Is that a euphemism, or something?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 April, 2013, 12:41:43 am
Chilling before dinner (in USania) and post a several of beers having mentored my charge through her first ever conference presentation.
If this is what having kids feels like I dunno how you all do it. I was well stressed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 09 April, 2013, 05:51:53 am
Quote from: Basil on 08 April, 2013, 03:47:49 pm
Train spotting.

It seems very quiet on here atm.  I guess what everyone else is doing is rushing off to the politics board. 
They're welcome to it.

*doesn't look*

Theres a politics board???  I can't see it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 09 April, 2013, 07:52:31 am
Quote from: Basil on 08 April, 2013, 11:23:26 pm
Err.  Is that a euphemism, or something?

*snort*
Hah! No, but that's going to make me smile the next time I submit a funding application  ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 April, 2013, 07:53:30 am
Quote from: BrianI on 09 April, 2013, 05:51:53 am

Theres a politics board???  I can't see it!

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=56904.msg1167028#msg1167028
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 09 April, 2013, 06:22:49 pm
Pro loitering: 5 hours plus and counting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 09 April, 2013, 09:26:45 pm
Aching after digging, and pondering jockey wheels.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 April, 2013, 10:22:50 pm
Chilling post presentation. Was a bit of a pain as the A/V monkey didn't make sure the mic level was right so I had to shout to make myself heard to the people 4 rows back.
About to hit the mall.......  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 09 April, 2013, 10:36:35 pm
Trying not to be grumpy about how I'm only just home after a meeting went ONANDONANDONANDON.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 April, 2013, 12:14:42 pm
Eating cold pizza for breakfast. There are a *lot* of jalapenos.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 10 April, 2013, 01:56:43 pm
Admiring the poshest bike parts box in all of existence.

No, not a Campag Anniversary box, but a, believe it or not, Fortnum and Mason's hamper box* :)

*I bought a basket case, last year, from a guy down south.  Via several different forumites it has only just made it's way up North.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Guy on 10 April, 2013, 02:07:11 pm
Playing with the x-wing I've just made out of bulldog clips, paperclips and a dead biro.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 11 April, 2013, 05:01:08 pm
Sitting in a small, windowless (and, it has to be said, slightly smelly) hotel room in Rome, trying to decide what we want to do this evening
 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 11 April, 2013, 05:02:15 pm
Trying to reconnect with my motivation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 11 April, 2013, 05:05:25 pm
Hoping I'll be able to fettle the battery on my e-reader.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 11 April, 2013, 05:13:29 pm
Sitting in the office, trying to get back into the document I am supposed to be writing. Also looking outh the window at a beautiful spring day and wishing I had brought the bike with me this morning to ride home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 11 April, 2013, 08:34:05 pm
Re-scheduling the next 6 months. And swearing.
I'm much better at the second than the first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 April, 2013, 08:43:36 pm
Trying to summon the energy to cook something.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 12 April, 2013, 01:13:32 pm
Thinking I shouldn't have went for that run, this morning...
Now feel the onset of a migraine....   :sick:

Darkened room I think for me.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 April, 2013, 01:14:51 pm
Going to bed for 40 winks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 April, 2013, 04:51:17 pm
Feeling very spacey. The cat didn't agree with my plan and the number of winks was seriously curtailed.
Am thinking that cheese n jam sarnies might be on the dinner agenda, on the basis that it doesn't involve burny or scorchy. Just have to watch out for stabby.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 12 April, 2013, 08:12:53 pm
Digesting a rather large plate of calamari. Another early start tomorrow.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 12 April, 2013, 08:20:38 pm
Trying to decide whether or not to get up early in the morning ("early" being relative) to go on Swindon RC's "development" cafe run.

Pros:
- I need to up my mileage, and having a group to chase will spur me on
- It'll be nice to cycle with new people for a change instead of on my own

Cons:
- I'm fat'n'slow, and will feel stupid getting dropped
- It's EARLY and I like my bed too much
- I think it's going to rain
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 12 April, 2013, 09:41:14 pm
Being totally p'd off with the weather. Night ride tonight but has been wanging down so opening the malt instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 12 April, 2013, 09:43:56 pm
Convalescent YouTube viewing.

Coveting shiny space suit armour.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8385/8642953193_56fbdd3d79_o.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 12 April, 2013, 11:31:27 pm
Editing this evening's recording of my Sons BB group pipe band as they march through Lochee: https://soundcloud.com/david-martin-113/parade-through-lochee-medley

They are one of the best youth pipe bands in Scotland and there is some great tenor and side drumming in the second medley.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 12 April, 2013, 11:42:18 pm
Eating sour dough bread with funny french butter whilst drinking cheap red wine,
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Post by: Jurek on 13 April, 2013, 09:27:33 am
Waiting for scrambled egg with chorizo. Nom.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 April, 2013, 11:14:44 am
Girding myself for some bike fettlage.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 13 April, 2013, 11:33:36 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 10 April, 2013, 12:14:42 pm
Eating cold pizza for breakfast. There are a *lot* of jalapenos.

Hooray it isn't just me!  Ms Weasel thinks I am a freak* for liking cold Chinese food for breakfast.


*There are probably other reasons.
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Post by: tiermat on 13 April, 2013, 12:21:10 pm
Packing!

Bike done, panniers done (after a fashion), hand luggage done.

I will now spend from here until Thursday worrying that I have forgotten something!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 April, 2013, 11:44:29 pm
Watching Brian Eno in his spangly hooker jacket on BBC 4  ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 13 April, 2013, 11:49:08 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2013, 09:09:15 pm
Quote from: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 08:27:09 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2013, 08:04:33 pm
Quote from: bumper on 08 April, 2013, 07:36:35 pm
I hope your inner barometer is correct.

Commuting on a new bike?

Sort of.  I'll be using the re-framed audax machine whilst I build the commuter special.  :)

What frame did you get?

Commuter special build ........... intriguing!

It is a very special frame.   Remember our burglary adn bike destruction in November?   Russellm very kindly donated me a marvellous black Thorn Audax Mk1? frame and forks.    I stripped down the destroyed ti Airbone Carpe Diem and built up the Thorn.   It has the sportier Reynolds 531c forks I had made for the Airborne as both machines have 1 inch head tubes, and in fact, a full set of components from the Airborne bar the rear brake which was flappy canti on the Airborne and replacement cables where they'd suffered damage.   He has a bonus of a tubus fly bought from tewdric of this parish last year and never got round to fitting to Airbie for obvious reasons.  :( 

I call him Satan.   I say 'him' though I haven't really consciously sexed a machine before.   :o    He rides easily as well as Airbie did although he seems a tad more flexible in the rear triangle.   The black reflective and the carbon effect chainstay protector are for his beautifully demonic frame.   :thumbsup: 

I suppose I should post a piccie but I never get it right and have to faff around for bloody ages.   Why can't we just send a piccie to the forum like we can to faceache?   :facepalm:

You're doing quite well on demonic names, aren't you? Mind you, I think Satan is a bit effete compared to Margaret Hilda...
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Post by: Basil on 13 April, 2013, 11:53:49 pm
Falling asleep in the pub.
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Post by: LindaG on 14 April, 2013, 05:35:44 am
Being awake. Feeling sad. Drinking tea.
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Post by: clarion on 14 April, 2013, 06:13:17 am
Oh.dear.  sorry you're feeling sad.  Have a hug from here.
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Post by: Feline on 14 April, 2013, 11:49:05 am
Sat in the pub in Shrewsbury about to eat battered fish for breakfast. We are both feeling a bit trashed after yesterday's Yr Eledyyd 300. Simon is still wearing the stinky jersey he wore yesterday since he didn't pack anything else, and its damp. I think we still have our 1000 yard stares. Not going to get much done today, even driving home seems to require more energy than we have right now!
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Post by: LindaG on 15 April, 2013, 05:38:28 am
Quote from: clarion on 14 April, 2013, 06:13:17 am
Oh.dear.  sorry you're feeling sad.  Have a hug from here.

Thanks Clarion.
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Post by: tiermat on 15 April, 2013, 06:00:09 pm
Feeling like I am going to throw up!

:(

It's not a bug, it's nerves...
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Post by: nikki on 16 April, 2013, 09:21:25 pm
Writing a 4000-word essay for my MA.

Yesterday I had 2500 words.
This morning I had a .doc with a few pages of notes.
Now I have a lounge floor covered in scrawled on pieces of card.

Can someone give the flux capacitor a kick please - I think it' stuck in reverse.   :facepalm:
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Post by: Basil on 16 April, 2013, 09:24:08 pm
Stick to it Nikki - you can do it.
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Post by: nikki on 16 April, 2013, 09:27:59 pm
*salutes* Thanks, will try!

I even vacuumed the carpet before carefully tearing the index cards down to size one at a time.
I'm displacement activity-ing hard on this one!
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Post by: Basil on 16 April, 2013, 09:32:24 pm
*Tries a different tack*
(click to show/hide)
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Post by: Kim on 16 April, 2013, 09:34:43 pm
Having a headache and seriously considering going to bed early.  Which is still better than essay deadlines.
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Post by: nikki on 16 April, 2013, 09:39:35 pm
*coughing fit brought on by unexpected laughter*
*feels light-headed*
*has a bit of a lie down*


Quote from: Kim on 16 April, 2013, 09:34:43 pm
Having a headache
s'cos of all the shouting 'round 'ere, innit.

Basil! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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Post by: BrianI on 17 April, 2013, 09:11:18 pm
Heading to bed, and contemplating the fact that I'll need to be up, before sparrow fart time.
2 day college trip to Speyside, leaving college at 6am.....   :o
Friday will be 4am   :o rise from the youth hostel, so we can all head out to watch a Capercaillie lek.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 April, 2013, 09:14:08 pm
Half-heartedly sorting out the bomb site that is the CrinklyKitchen.  We haven't quite recovered from our mild infestation of builders yet.
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Post by: tiermat on 17 April, 2013, 09:18:34 pm
Winding down, watching Spartacus and thinking I should, really, gonto bed due to early o'clock start tommorrow.

Beer first, though!
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Post by: Dibdib on 17 April, 2013, 09:19:47 pm
Drinking a beer and eagerly awaiting the televisual return of my personal hero and saviour, Don Draper.
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Post by: Jaded on 18 April, 2013, 05:06:48 pm
Sorting through piccies from the visits of the last two days. Hooray for organisations that help refugees, the dispossessed, the bullied, the excluded, the ill and needy. And for the people that work in them and the people that help fund them.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 18 April, 2013, 05:22:07 pm
Failing to remove a sprocket. >:(
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Post by: Dibdib on 18 April, 2013, 05:39:38 pm
ordering my train tickets for next friday's Brighton FNRttC. SO excited :D
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 18 April, 2013, 05:51:26 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 18 April, 2013, 05:22:07 pm
Failing to remove a sprocket. >:(

...and succeeding. :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 April, 2013, 06:27:57 pm
Online shopping. 

Kim-friendly orange juice.
All The Cheese.
Some other random stuff.
That'll do!
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Post by: reddo on 18 April, 2013, 08:02:09 pm
nikki, I feel your pain. Just submitted my 2500 word thematic analysis assignment. Phew. (A day late though so can't be too smug)
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Post by: Basil on 18 April, 2013, 08:48:04 pm
Recovering from a surfeit of trains.
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Post by: nikki on 18 April, 2013, 11:00:22 pm
Quote from: reddo on 18 April, 2013, 08:02:09 pm
nikki, I feel your pain. Just submitted my 2500 word thematic analysis assignment. Phew. (A day late though so can't be too smug)

Hope you don't get hammered too hard for the day late and you can still allow yourself some smugness when the marks come back!

I've got a structure to aim for and about 1800 words, so hopefully I'm heading in the right direction now...
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Post by: andrewc on 18 April, 2013, 11:04:16 pm
Drinking whisky, after a hard day on a hotel room floor with a rubber doll and an evening listening to Chopin, Mozart & Bartok.
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Post by: reddo on 19 April, 2013, 09:11:10 am
Thanks Nikki, I did warn my tutor it would be late but she told me not to worry as most of the class had asked for a week's extension!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 April, 2013, 12:49:48 pm
Watching men in tiny pants jump off stuff.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 19 April, 2013, 02:17:00 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 18 April, 2013, 11:04:16 pm
Drinking whisky, after a hard day on a hotel room floor with a rubber doll[ and an evening listening to Chopin, Mozart & Bartok.

Boggle. Or did you sing "Stayin' alive" while you were with said doll?  (acksherly, I got told "Pop goes the weasel" works just as well).
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 April, 2013, 03:24:19 pm
Nellie the elephant here.
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Post by: clarion on 19 April, 2013, 03:26:16 pm
TGL, being as conformist as he is, and also having a fairly comprehensive knowledge of bpm rates of metal songs, chose a different track when he did his BLS training a couple of weeks back.

'We don't need no steenking beegees!'
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Post by: Basil on 19 April, 2013, 07:02:28 pm
I have been deposited in the Man Creche.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 April, 2013, 07:10:38 pm
Having the post gym, why isn't my tea ready this instant, perma-nommage
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Post by: Vince on 19 April, 2013, 07:41:55 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 19 April, 2013, 03:24:19 pm
Nellie the elephant here.

+1

So long as it isn't The Dickies version
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCGYiD-nDu0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCGYiD-nDu0)
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Post by: Jaded on 19 April, 2013, 08:12:52 pm
Looking at today's photos from a fantastic centre that provides sessions for people with learning difficulties.

Got to choose the best from the last three days.
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Post by: BrianI on 21 April, 2013, 10:41:20 am
Having a Dissertation Headache.    >:(

I think most of the content is present and correct, just needs polished up before draft submittal on the 1st of May.
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Post by: numbnuts on 23 April, 2013, 08:33:24 am
Waiting for my taxi to take me to court
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Post by: BrianI on 23 April, 2013, 07:47:13 pm
After today's graded unit tutorial, I realised I've been barking up the wrong tree....
Hmmm..  7000 odd words so far of not entirely correct, but not entirely wrong either.....

Think I've been overegging the pudding and overcomplicating what I'm supposed to be doing for the graded unit.  (integrated management of Mar Lodge Estate)
Looks like I've been going into *way* too much nitty gritty detail, so I get lost in  the Caledonian Pine forest of waffle and repetition....   :facepalm: 
Hopefully should fettle it all over the next few days to get a nice draft in for the 1st of May...



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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 April, 2013, 07:55:12 pm
Nothing a bit of chainsaw work won't cure eh? ;)
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Post by: BrianI on 23 April, 2013, 11:49:55 pm
Now backing up pen drive to hard drive & usb drive, and going to BED!  <yawn smiley>
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Post by: GrahamG on 24 April, 2013, 08:00:20 am
In a departure from my usual role, I'm currently manning the reception at work - complete with telephone headset thing and cheery morning smiles!
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Post by: reddo on 24 April, 2013, 10:18:29 am
Sitting in the BA lounge at Kiev Boryspil.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Andrij on 24 April, 2013, 10:33:43 am
Quote from: reddo on 24 April, 2013, 10:18:29 am
Sitting in the BA lounge at Kiev Boryspil.  :thumbsup:

I miss Kyiv.  :'(
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Post by: tiermat on 24 April, 2013, 10:36:47 am
Sunning myself on a Catalonian beach and catching up on emails.

The latter may take a while and, I suspect, will be easier with a cold beer to hand :-)
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Post by: Polar Bear on 24 April, 2013, 10:40:33 am
Just finished preparing a Power of Attorney and now about to iron a shirt ready to go and see the client.   Oh, I guess that I should have some breakfast too...
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Post by: reddo on 24 April, 2013, 07:27:03 pm
Andrij, I was supposed to be in Moscow but ran out of duty. So stopped in Kyiv.  :thumbsup: I like the Ukrainian people.  ;D

Now home.  :)
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Post by: jogler on 24 April, 2013, 07:29:42 pm
I'm dying of man flu
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Post by: Polar Bear on 24 April, 2013, 07:39:57 pm
Sitting in probably the best beer pub in Coventry waiting for a friend to turn up.  He refers me lots of business so buying him beer is no hardship    ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 April, 2013, 09:03:32 pm
I am on the night shift, attending to daughter and grandson. He's a splendid little chap.
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Post by: Basil on 24 April, 2013, 09:28:36 pm
Sitting out the modern music section of the pub quiz.
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Post by: Kim on 24 April, 2013, 10:31:41 pm
They'll be back to sport and ex-prime-ministers shortly, no doubt.

(I'm rubbish at pub quizzes.)



I'm being tired and feeding my knee diclofenac.  Yesterday's comedy sunburn is a painful lost cause, other than giving nikki the giggles when I accidentally spraypainted my fingers yellow.
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Post by: Vince on 24 April, 2013, 10:36:59 pm
Making inclinometers for an activity on  Cub camp....

... and laminating EVERYTHING
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Post by: Julian on 24 April, 2013, 10:40:01 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 23 April, 2013, 08:33:24 am
Waiting for my taxi to take me to court

Hope everything's okay, NN?
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Post by: Julian on 24 April, 2013, 10:40:56 pm
Drinking WINE, noshing tuna salad and reading case papers for the world's most incompetent drug dealers.  It reads like a Guy Ritchie film script.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 April, 2013, 05:27:30 am
Still being a paediatric and maternity nurse. I've got most of the day doing this. Son-in-law is on paternity leave but has a job interview. His parents will look after Martha and take her out for most of the day. I will continue to attend to the needs of mother and baby.
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Post by: mr magnolia on 25 April, 2013, 08:50:16 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 April, 2013, 12:49:48 pm
Watching men in tiny pants jump off stuff.
Were you in the commie?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 April, 2013, 09:55:15 am

Going to Earls Court for a trade fair.  Day out, really.
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Post by: nikki on 25 April, 2013, 10:00:17 am
Quote from: Kim on 24 April, 2013, 10:31:41 pm
Yesterday's comedy sunburn is a painful lost cause, other than giving nikki the giggles when I accidentally spraypainted my fingers yellow.

Battenburg hands!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: mike on 25 April, 2013, 10:20:06 am
watching the world go by in a cafe in that london.  Colleague should be here shortly, then I've got to become Captain Cheerful and go to a meeting. Sigh. 
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Post by: Vince on 25 April, 2013, 10:34:12 am
on hold to the phone company. :(
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Post by: graculus on 25 April, 2013, 10:34:40 am
Having a break from sorting out the screw and nail storage in the garage. What did I ever need 3/8 inch woodscrews for? Or 1/2 inch panel pins? Why are the 2 inch round nails stored in five different places?
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Post by: tonyh on 25 April, 2013, 01:14:22 pm
Quote from: graculus on 25 April, 2013, 10:34:40 am
What did I ever need 3/8 inch woodscrews for? Or 1/2 inch panel pins?

Uses can easily be discovered for these items by throwing them away.
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Post by: graculus on 25 April, 2013, 01:52:42 pm
Too true.
I have yet to figure out a way to fool the universe at large into believing that I have binned them and then waiting for the application to turn up.
Schrodinger's cat may have to be invoked.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 April, 2013, 10:11:51 am
Making many, many phone calls to find out who will move the consumer unit in a council tenant's house so that she can have a stairlift fitted. People who plan to get old in a house with stairs - make sure your meters and other gubbins are not at the bottom of the stairs. Or at least buy your house and then Homeworks will do it as part of the associated works.
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Post by: L CC on 26 April, 2013, 11:53:19 am
David Ruffley MP (http://www.davidruffleymp.com/about-david) is knocking on doors in the street here.
I've been told not to answer the door if he knocks here as I would spit on him.

Correction- he's too important to press the bells/ knockers, one of his posse is doing that for him.

I might have to 'nip out' and spit on him in the street. It is lunchtime, after all.

ETA: http://order-order.com/2013/03/04/david-ruffley-staff-saga-you-wont-like-him-whens-angry/

Knobber.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 April, 2013, 01:12:38 pm
Quote from: mr magnolia on 25 April, 2013, 08:50:16 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 April, 2013, 12:49:48 pm
Watching men in tiny pants jump off stuff.
Were you in the commie?
Yeah. See the watersports thread in the Sporting Life department.
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Post by: Butterfly on 26 April, 2013, 01:28:44 pm
Sitting in the café at St Helier hospital, killing time till my next appointment.
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Post by: Chris S on 26 April, 2013, 02:02:44 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 26 April, 2013, 01:28:44 pm
Sitting in the café at St Helier hospital, killing time till my next appointment.

Ah... the "Wedding Cake"
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Post by: Dibdib on 26 April, 2013, 02:18:55 pm
Going for a pre-FNR disco nap!
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Post by: reddo on 26 April, 2013, 02:23:03 pm
Enjoying a cup of tea after a long MTB ride. :)
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Post by: Basil on 26 April, 2013, 02:24:36 pm
Not what I am supposed to be doing.
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Post by: nikki on 26 April, 2013, 05:59:40 pm
Having another push at the MA essay.

I just typed the phrase "one of the iPaq PDA devices mentioned up thread".

I think I may possibly be spending too much time procrastinating on here :)
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Post by: Wombat on 26 April, 2013, 09:05:24 pm
Lying on a bed in the holiday inn express in Alwalton, groaning 'cos I have eaten way too much in the Cuckoo, and had 2 pints of broadside, to wash the most excellent food down.  The staff were lovely, but could not provide two wheelbarrows and strong men to carry us back to the hotel. 
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 26 April, 2013, 09:41:40 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 24 April, 2013, 07:39:57 pm
Sitting in probably the best beer pub in Coventry waiting for a friend to turn up.  He refers me lots of business so buying him beer is no hardship    ;D
Ooh, what's it called & where is it?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2013, 11:33:50 am
Playing bike space roulette. 11.39 GC, which end might it be? Nobody at york station is prepared to hazard a guess...
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Post by: Ham on 28 April, 2013, 01:53:28 pm
Bemoaning Grippehomme and NOT looking forward to driving to the edge of the known universe Pitsea on very tedious familial duty. Ho hum.

edit: there has to be a joke about putting the pits into Pitsea but IT ISN'T FUNNY... OK???
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Post by: SteveC on 28 April, 2013, 02:30:31 pm
I should be outside gardening, but I'm knackered and I've come in for a break.
Best get back out there...
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Post by: BlackSheep on 28 April, 2013, 04:46:43 pm
Wondering if I should wish "good luck for the Giro", to the guy who's sat (under one of his yellow Pinarellos and a 2012 maillot jaune) in the far corner of Tolo's bar
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Post by: jogler on 28 April, 2013, 04:51:12 pm
Combating the puncture fairy yet again >:(

I've had more deflations in the last seven weeks than in the previous seven years;or more even.
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Post by: andrewc on 28 April, 2013, 04:54:52 pm
Family Sunday lunch. Cannelloni, Rioja, my mothers fascist rantings...
:-(
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Post by: mike on 30 April, 2013, 08:07:54 pm
trying to send a fax. I think it's been about 3 years since I got the machine out of the drawer..
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Post by: Kim on 30 April, 2013, 11:00:55 pm
Quote from: mike on 30 April, 2013, 08:07:54 pm
trying to send a fax. I think it's been about 3 years since I got the machine out of the drawer..

Ooh, retro.

We've still got one of those.  You have to put a bit of tension on the paper roll as you turn it on, otherwise it locks up with an error '3'.  It last got used for Nyan Fax (http://www.tomscott.com/nyanfax/).

(And before anyone asks, I won't be installing Li+ cells and a GSM card and bringing it to a YACF gathering any time soon.)
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Post by: BrianI on 01 May, 2013, 12:37:32 pm
Trying to get my head around meiosis, diploid gamates, Mendalian inheritance (is that when Mendalion Man's son inherits a 6" gold Mendallion from his Mendallion man father?   ???) so I can do a college essay on principles of inheritance and evolution...

Now I remember why I never chose to do Higher biology at high school.....  More technobabble than a dodgy sci fi series.
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Post by: Vince on 01 May, 2013, 01:18:42 pm
Getting frustrated

Now my client has upgraded to an OS of the current decade, I can't install any of the critical applications I need to fulfill my role. :(
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Post by: peliroja on 01 May, 2013, 01:27:00 pm
Relaxing after a nice pootle this morning with Mum and Woolly. And getting ready to go out delivering leaflets.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 01 May, 2013, 11:35:55 pm
Trying, and failing to finish my last assignment for this OU module. I know how it works (I think) but trying to write it down in a coherent form is proving very difficult.

Oh well, it's due in tomorrow so just have to get something written and hope for the best.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 May, 2013, 07:07:10 am
Summoning gumption.  With a side order of coffee.
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Post by: Basil on 02 May, 2013, 07:47:10 am
Wondering how the hell I managed to do this (embarrassingly self inflicted last night  :-[ ) without even leaving a mark on the walking trousers I was wearing.


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/1367453762_zps4f2dcea4.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/1367453762_zps4f2dcea4.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 May, 2013, 08:04:23 am
The answer might depend on where you were wearing your trousers.

Just how many beers had you consumed? ;)
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Post by: Butterfly on 02 May, 2013, 09:09:55 am
Quote from: clarion on 02 May, 2013, 08:04:23 am
The answer might depend on where you were wearing your trousers.

Just how many beers had you consumed? ;)
In the Country Girl?
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Post by: IanDG on 02 May, 2013, 09:13:51 am
Trousers rolled up? Cider? Bells, stag horns and pig bladders? Are you a secret Morris Dancer?

It was the 1st of May after all ;)
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Post by: Basil on 02 May, 2013, 09:50:11 am
I'm afraid that Clarion and Butterfly have it.  Err Windy, not.

Trying to get an errant foot back onto the spinning pedal (fixed) I didn't pay enough attention to where I was going.

No biggy.  Leg painful but not damaged.  Very hurty rib cage which is more worrying.  Dented spectacle case.

Bike is, of course, fine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 May, 2013, 11:42:21 am
Hope all heals soon (including spectacle case, though that may be overoptimistic).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 02 May, 2013, 11:58:23 am
Trying to resist the temptation to ask Butterfly/Clarion how things are progressing. 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 May, 2013, 11:59:46 am
Oh, y'know, sorta getting there slowly...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 May, 2013, 12:06:31 pm
Feeling more than a bit blue.

DAMN! Snap out of it...

Maybe turning off the Pearl Jam might help?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 May, 2013, 12:08:15 pm
Maybe.  But Barney the Dinosaur won't improve your mood.  I find a bit of the blues helps me cheer up, oddly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 May, 2013, 12:16:06 pm
FUCK IT!

I'm going out on the bike tonight, and going for a pint, even if I go on my own...

BTW that is not intended as a snipe at anyone, just I, honestly, thought today was going to be, in the words of Snoop Dog, A Good Day.

So far it is far from it...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 02 May, 2013, 12:16:20 pm
Quote from: clarion on 02 May, 2013, 12:08:15 pm
Maybe.  But Barney the Dinosaur won't improve your mood.  I find a bit of the blues helps me cheer up, oddly.

Me too, listened to a lot of blues this week. My theory is to listen to music about someone in a worse place than yourself and then things don't seem too bad. Jackie Leven cds are good when I'm down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 May, 2013, 12:20:51 pm
Right, so knocked Pearl Jam on the head.

Switched to KoRn, their DubStep album "The Path of Totality"

I find LOUD, fast music picks me up, usually.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 02 May, 2013, 09:55:41 pm
Restarting the netbook after installing an SSD. Oh, its started...  Eeek, that was quite quick.  I've heard of faster, but 32seconds to get Win7 home premium up and running ain't bad.  I've never taken a netbook apart before, they're a bit thin and bendy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 May, 2013, 10:01:00 pm
Procrastinating
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 May, 2013, 10:33:27 pm
Wishing for a quick death. A carp day/evening, back to hotel too late for food, no alternatives nearby. Trying to unwind with a guinness in the bar, then Graham f-ing Norton comes up on the telly. Shoot me now, please!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 May, 2013, 11:04:17 pm
Uploading audax tracks onto my gps and printing out route sheets :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 03 May, 2013, 12:00:25 am
I am filling the new pond I just spent a week building. I don't know exactly how many litres it holds yet but I've got a meter on the hose so I may have some idea by tomorrow. The only problem is if it takes more than 18 hours to fill I will have needed to have left for the Brevet Cymru by then  :facepalm:

I've been in a bit of a hurry to get it done because the fish are unhappy in their paddling pool on the patio and are madly trying to jump out. They keep face planting on the net over it  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 03 May, 2013, 12:10:30 am
Eating the last piece of birthday cake. After a night when I drank far too much beer with one priest and two potential priests and a couple more lovely mates who I love.

I don't think it was probably necessary to say the word 'penis' quite so many times. But at the time it seemed important.

Oh dear.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 03 May, 2013, 08:10:35 am
Quote from: Kim on 02 May, 2013, 10:01:00 pm
Procrastinating

I'm going to do that in a short while
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 May, 2013, 10:31:41 am
Organising stuff for Sunday.

Meat all ready, cables found for various sets of speakers, just now need to do the setup and test.  Big Screen WII FTW!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 May, 2013, 10:33:07 am
Quote from: tiermat on 03 May, 2013, 10:31:41 am
Meat all ready, cables found for various sets of speakers

That says so much about you :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 May, 2013, 10:36:26 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 May, 2013, 10:33:07 am
Quote from: tiermat on 03 May, 2013, 10:31:41 am
Meat all ready, cables found for various sets of speakers

That says so much about you :D

What? That I am turning into another Valiant? :D

PS I will get around to answering your text, in a minute, once my brain stops being so scattered! :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 May, 2013, 10:46:18 am
Hand-hacking the Ubuntu bootloader on a G5 Power Mac - if I only achieve one thing today it'll be to release this machine from the shackles of Cupertino.

When/If I sort it out I'll get back to doing route planning for next week's excursion to Dalby.

It's not nearly as much fun as it sounds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 May, 2013, 03:47:22 am
Laundry.

Dratted small child climbing into my bed and then wetting it.  Cost me 25 quid in duvet launderage last time.  And that was only a couple of weeks back :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 May, 2013, 06:18:23 am
Not sleeping, obviously!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 04 May, 2013, 09:35:21 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 May, 2013, 03:47:22 am
Laundry.

Dratted small child climbing into my bed and then wetting it.  Cost me 25 quid in duvet launderage last time.  And that was only a couple of weeks back :(

We bought a new duvet last month on the grounds that it was cheaper than getting the old one cleaned!  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 May, 2013, 09:41:50 am
Right now I'm feeling exceedingly  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 May, 2013, 11:09:34 am
Why?  Cause you haven't wet the bed for over a week?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 May, 2013, 12:12:46 pm
It's longer than a week.
ftw
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 May, 2013, 12:24:55 pm
Polishing up my dissertation draft, which I got feedback on!

Pretty much good, just a few bits to expand and polish up.

 :smug:

Should look well polished and shiny by the time I hand the final version in on the 17th!   8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ewan Houzami on 04 May, 2013, 05:03:13 pm
Racking me dandelion wine. Should be ready for Xmas, which as we all know will be upon us in the blink of an eye.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 04 May, 2013, 11:56:31 pm
Quote from: Goldilocks on 04 May, 2013, 05:03:13 pm
Racking me dandelion wine. Should be ready for Xmas, which as we all know will be upon us in the blink of an eye.

Merry christmas

Opps I suffer from premature congratulation.

Also its May.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 May, 2013, 08:47:52 am
having a nuddy coffee! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 May, 2013, 10:44:55 am
Procrastinating.

It's a lovely day for a ride but I just can't seem to summon the enthusiasm to actually *do* it - matters weren't helped by the vast numbers of PODs1 I encountered on the trip to Te$co and back  :-\

That, plus the fact that my legs still ache a bit as a result of having ridden the fixed for the first time in ages last week.

1 - Potential Organ Donors. You know, the sort of folk who brush the cobwebs off their BSOs when the sun comes out and have the same degree of road sense as a stunned haddock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 05 May, 2013, 11:18:32 am
Sitting waiting for Mrs Aidan to get ready, while wistfully looking at the lovely weather outside.  Cant go out on the bike though as we are taking FIL for lunch for his 77th birthday , which is today.

Might get a bimble out  later on :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 May, 2013, 01:16:34 pm
Cooking
Cleaning
Cooking
Cleaning
Drinking a beer
Cooking some more
Cleaning some more...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 May, 2013, 01:42:37 pm
Putting the 29er into full-on bikepacking mode whilst at the same time studiously ignoring the fact that the front tyre is flatter than a flat thing. Reducing tyre pressure for off-road riding is a Good Thing, but obviously completely flat tyres cross the boundary into 'taking the piss' territory (unless it's a fat bike. Which it isn't)

Also, laundry, although I notice that the sky has darkened considerably since I put my duvet covers out on the line ...  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 05 May, 2013, 02:59:53 pm
Nothing I should have gone out for a ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 05 May, 2013, 03:04:32 pm
Avoiding the garden.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 05 May, 2013, 03:14:58 pm
Watching the Giro whilst wearing my cycling gear (too knackered to change)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 05 May, 2013, 08:03:09 pm
Relaxing after a week of singing (around 25 hours, plus 3 days of my day job). The two of us have finished a bottle of wine each, and a third has just been requested.  Been good week, but tiring. Could use a holiday after this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 05 May, 2013, 09:01:03 pm
Quote from: Clare on 05 May, 2013, 03:04:32 pm
Avoiding the garden.


Aching.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 05 May, 2013, 09:14:42 pm
Slow 20 miles but now have a rack on the poo bike.

Now what to do.  Green tea chai.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 06 May, 2013, 12:41:35 am
Now am I the only one kneading some bread?  On my stainless steel kitchen thingy.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 06 May, 2013, 01:20:51 pm
Lounging around on the sofa at my partner's place, thinking about going home again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 06 May, 2013, 01:33:30 pm
Having a BBQ in the garden and drinking too much wine
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 06 May, 2013, 01:34:46 pm
Just finished sweeping out and folding up the tent which didn't make it to Rutland, and trying to summon the energy to do the same for the tent which I had to buy on the way to did make it to Rutland.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 May, 2013, 01:41:05 pm
Reminisicing with my colleagues about the Wombles. Marissa's favourite Wombles song was Minuetto Allegretto.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 06 May, 2013, 01:59:17 pm
Having a cup of tea before putting everything back in the now slightly-dejunked shed - there's now a huge pile of stuff which will be going for recycling on Wednesday.

It's probably a sign that I've got my priorities right that the shed's contents are being organised around the presence of two bikes - when one of the bikes is a Pugsley, things get very interesting very quickly ...

EDIT: Now having a cup of tea to celebrate the fact that I've finished putting stuff in the shed and made the recycling pile even bigger  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 06 May, 2013, 09:00:59 pm
Drinking wine in the back garden so I can tell myself I enjoyed the bank holiday. I should still be at work documenting an awkward conversation with a consultant surgeon. But frankly, I couldn't be arsed  and left on time i instead.

It smells like spring out here and I need to plan some serious camping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 May, 2013, 08:34:10 am
Packing clothes for 3 days and a bike, ready to head off to Cambridgeshire tomorrow.

It's going to be hard, but I am sure we can manage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 07 May, 2013, 08:47:52 am
Sitting at work with the sun shining down and wondering why I didn't take the day off.

Lovely ride in though :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 07 May, 2013, 09:03:19 am
Recovering from inhaling the dust from soluable vitamin C tabs Aaaaaaaaaaachoooooooo!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 07 May, 2013, 10:49:16 am
Feeling a little sorry for myself but at least catching up on all the essential trashy magazines.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: GrahamG on 07 May, 2013, 10:52:46 am
I'm being a receptionist (covering for someone). Even have the little ear piece bluetooth telephone thing!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 May, 2013, 11:41:42 am
Waiting to be picked up for lunch then dropped off at the airport.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 07 May, 2013, 12:15:43 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 07 May, 2013, 11:41:42 am
Waiting to be picked up for lunch then dropped off at the airport.

Still waiting.  At this rate we'll be heading straight to the airport.  I'm not that bothered about grabbing a bite at the airport, but did want to spend a bit more time with my friends, preferably over a meal, not rushing about like we have been most of last week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 07 May, 2013, 06:56:52 pm
Laughing. A Lot. At the puerile antics of The Simpsons - Season 23, Tree House of Horror.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 07 May, 2013, 07:09:41 pm
Waiting to go out for a night ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 07 May, 2013, 09:54:46 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 07 May, 2013, 07:09:41 pm
Waiting to go out for a night ride

Details please?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 07 May, 2013, 09:56:21 pm
Listening to Wank Music1.

BTW: I assume the Recorder Choir equivalent of this is Blow Job music.

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1 Any music that involves (a) a guy (probably middle-aged), (b) a guitar solo, (c) a cum-face; c.f. Dave Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, Chris Rea, Jimmy Hendrix... etc etc
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 07 May, 2013, 09:59:10 pm
Quietly Celebrating Wigans defeat against Swansea, Villa are pretty much safe now

Lying on the sofa trying to summon up the ability to get upstairs
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 May, 2013, 09:14:46 am
Having a cup of tea after having loaded the dishwasher and the breadmaker with their necessary ingredients and waiting for the Porcelfarce van with its cargo of Y-front trailers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 08 May, 2013, 09:18:41 am
Feeling ill and pant-less.

It's not just a feeling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 08 May, 2013, 09:41:22 am
Quote from: fboab on 08 May, 2013, 09:18:41 am
Feeling ill and pant-less.

It's not just a feeling.

Crumbs! That's just how I felt yesterday! ;D (Until all focus was lost again ::-))
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 May, 2013, 04:37:58 pm
Frequently examining a timekeeping device.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 08 May, 2013, 06:15:06 pm
Am now pant-ed. And feeling much better for it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 08 May, 2013, 06:32:27 pm
Craving food and feeling very low. Surprised at how closely linked my eating is with my emotional levels. Not happy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 May, 2013, 07:19:22 am
Trying to summon the gumption for a Friday commute onna Thursday that feels like a Wednesday. 

Don't wanna go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 May, 2013, 05:18:39 pm
And now I'm looking at the trees blowing and the pissing down rain and trying summon the gumption for the ride home.

It says something about my working relationship with the sites that nobody batted an eyelid at me spending the day in jeans and jersey and even ended up teaching in lycra - because I walked in the door and got greeted with a query and never got a chance to change, twice!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Thing2 on 10 May, 2013, 05:19:36 am
Eating a delayed tea, having prepared all the veg for the veggie bean soup needed for the 45+ riders on the the weekend 600km ride. The control is at a campsite, which makes the preparation particularly important...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 May, 2013, 07:32:19 am
Baking cheese scones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 10 May, 2013, 09:26:48 am
Preparing to embark on my first bike-with-shed-loads-of-stuff-strapped-to-it ride.

I'm not sure whether I'm more nervous about the downhill between here and Kim's house or the uphill between Birmingham and everything else.

Note to self: check rear brake before I leave...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 May, 2013, 03:38:54 pm
Ah... platform 11, my old friend. No bike, not heading north, how odd. Drinking coffee and idly wondering if Arch will be aiming for the same train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DrMekon on 11 May, 2013, 12:35:18 am
Sulking that I'm having to DNS a 300 tomorrow due to family nonsense. I need to suck it up, but I could quite easily be stroppy all weekend, despite knowing it won't get me anywhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 11 May, 2013, 05:05:10 pm
Watching NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html), where two astronauts are tidying up after fettling a new ammonia pump onto the ISS to solve a leak with the cooling system (so, you can still suffer from the fairy in space :) ).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 11 May, 2013, 05:12:41 pm
Quote from: TimO on 11 May, 2013, 05:05:10 pm
Watching NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html), where two astronauts are tidying up after fettling a new ammonia pump onto the ISS to solve a leak with the cooling system (so, you can still suffer from the fairy in space :) ).
Bookmarked!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LEE on 11 May, 2013, 07:39:30 pm
Can you guess what I did today?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyjYoB1PXXs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyjYoB1PXXs)

Give up?

I was in here

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 11 May, 2013, 08:52:53 pm
Wondering what I'll find in my box of delights tomorrow morning.   :thumbsup:

(Skinner moth trap out overnight for a moth survey....)

-- edit -- Only one wee hebrew character 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 12 May, 2013, 12:51:53 pm
Printing the final final version of college dissertation.   :smug:
Feel sorry for some class mates who haven't even handed in their first draft yet, with the final deadline due on the 17th May.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 May, 2013, 02:17:12 pm
Waiting for a bus. My weekend has involved (counts on fingers) 2 buses,  6 trains, 5 train companies, 1 tram, 2 lifts, 2 spare rooms, 2 forumites (and one forumite by proxy), a little light TFL-ing, 2 gigs, 5 acts, 2 completely splendid breakfasts cooked for me, 3 eating outs including a fine meal of four curries and a rather splendid veggie mezze, a park or two, weather ranging from gloriously sunny to distinctly Mancunian and rather a lot of fun. Plus five pubs, including The Famous Cock. Oh, and a trip to Bar and some ginger marble which by rights belong in the "Have you been out" thread, except for no bikes being involved.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 12 May, 2013, 04:40:49 pm
Playing GeoGuessr (http://geoguessr.com/). It's rather addictive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 12 May, 2013, 05:57:35 pm
Still giggling at the sight of my 5'3" mother on my men's large bike on my turbo trainer. Impressed that she could reach the pedals, her legs are clearly longer than they look!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 May, 2013, 06:00:01 pm
Feeling ever so sleepy.  Which is odd, as I thought I'd slept quite well last night in the tent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 May, 2013, 07:26:03 pm
Eating curry on a ferry. Later I will hae ice cream made by Ben and Jerry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 12 May, 2013, 10:45:40 pm
Filling in the forms for Leigh Day relating to my crash 6 weeks ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Karla on 12 May, 2013, 10:48:03 pm
(http://dsc.ijs.si/mgasperin/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/thesiswriting.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 May, 2013, 11:12:53 pm
After a weekend off, realising I'm looking down the barrel of 13 Auk points in next three weekends  :o.

Look out legs!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 13 May, 2013, 09:22:58 am
Quote from: Illegal Combat Ant on 12 May, 2013, 04:40:49 pm
Playing GeoGuessr (http://geoguessr.com/). It's rather addictive.

Indeed ...  quite pleased with my third attempt (http://www.geoguessr.com?v=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%3D%3D)... I think I need to stop now
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2013, 03:36:41 pm
Contemplating attaching a heartrate monitor to barakta next time she has to phone the bank.  And them sending them the graphs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 May, 2013, 05:29:43 pm
Saying "sod it!"* to college work for this eveing, and getting my lycra on for a nice muddy evening mtb ride / geocaching trip!

* I'm well ahead of schedule, will need to be in tomorrow to wait on parcel arriving, so might as well get oot this evening!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 13 May, 2013, 05:35:14 pm
Lunch break. At last.  I've been running on fumes and Thorntons Continental for about six hours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 May, 2013, 07:03:08 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 13 May, 2013, 05:35:14 pm
Lunch break. At last.  I've been running on fumes and Thorntons Continental for about six hours.

Ah. The story of someone on "a late".

When most people are getting pissed in front of Eastenders, LindaG is at lunch.

Thank the gods (once again) that I avoided the scourge of shift-work, in what passes as my "career".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 May, 2013, 07:05:43 pm
Simultaneously watching Game of Thrones and looking out of the window.

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The Weather Gods just showed up in Diss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 13 May, 2013, 07:07:35 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 13 May, 2013, 07:05:43 pm
Simultaneously watching Game of Thrones and looking out of the window.

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The Weather Gods just showed up in Diss.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 May, 2013, 07:14:16 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 13 May, 2013, 07:07:35 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 13 May, 2013, 07:05:43 pm
Simultaneously watching Game of Thrones and looking out of the window.

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The Weather Gods just showed up in Diss.

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 :thumbsup: Excellent!

Fboab and I are big fans of the audiobooks - where the chapters are set POV by character. Except for Hodor, who never gets one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 13 May, 2013, 07:27:14 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 13 May, 2013, 07:07:35 pm

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;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 14 May, 2013, 08:47:55 pm
Watching the football. 90 mins of stress and an elevated heart rate..... Must count as 'training' right.....

I hope this relegation nonsense all ends tonight, I can't be doing with double stress on Saturday!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 May, 2013, 09:10:45 pm
We have visitors in the form of two German ladies we met on the ferry. I think they are a bit shell-shocked by the standard of driving in Essex, having taken 7 hours to cycle here from Great Totham.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 14 May, 2013, 09:25:51 pm
POPPING CHAMPAGNE!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Dibdib on 14 May, 2013, 09:47:03 pm
Minor internal existential grumbling. Going to soak in the bath, read some Harry Potter and generally turn my brain off for a bit.
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Post by: SteveC on 14 May, 2013, 10:52:22 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 14 May, 2013, 09:25:51 pm
POPPING CHAMPAGNE!!!!!!!!!!
Any particular reason?
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Post by: Gattopardo on 14 May, 2013, 11:15:26 pm
crying
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 May, 2013, 06:37:40 am
Hope that it helped, Gattopardo, and that today is a brighter one.

I am listening to rain, and summoning gumption. 
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Post by: Lady Cavendish on 15 May, 2013, 07:06:27 am
Quote from: SteveC on 14 May, 2013, 10:52:22 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 14 May, 2013, 09:25:51 pm
POPPING CHAMPAGNE!!!!!!!!!!
Any particular reason?

Arsenal beat Wigan- Villa survive in the premiership for another season.

My head hurts this morning.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 May, 2013, 07:34:22 am
Onna train to Embra
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Post by: reddo on 15 May, 2013, 10:00:07 am
Psyching myself up to go to work. Just submitted my essay (TMA) on time. Yippee.
Warm in Moscow, 29 deg C!! Last time I was here it was -17C!!
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Post by: numbnuts on 16 May, 2013, 05:40:05 pm
Waiting for it to get dark (http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h330/Robbert_Bapalapashamalamadingdong/smiley_bat.gif) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Robbert_Bapalapashamalamadingdong/media/smiley_bat.gif.html) then going out for a ride to test my lights  8)
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Post by: Dibdib on 16 May, 2013, 09:23:25 pm
thawing out. tonight's post-work ride strayed a little further into the evening than I'd planned, and I was a little underdressed.

I have warm pizza inside me, and soon I'll be reading my kindle in a hot bath. bliss.
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Post by: Ham on 17 May, 2013, 03:59:12 am
finding out all about the nhs out of hours service at first hand (no, not me ). it stinks as much as this waiting area does.
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Post by: BrianI on 17 May, 2013, 12:43:24 pm
Feeling a touch too hot and bothered.....
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Post by: tiermat on 17 May, 2013, 12:44:31 pm
Trying my hardest to stay awake, after a 5AM start.  2 more hours and I'll be off up the road.

Just. Two. More. Hours...

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz WAH?
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Post by: SteveC on 17 May, 2013, 06:23:15 pm
Waiting for the Canadian relatives to turn up.  They were running about forty minutes late when they phoned...
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Post by: Basil on 17 May, 2013, 06:33:44 pm
Having a panic attack.  I just went to the cupboard to get out a new jar of marmite, and there wasn't any.  :o
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 May, 2013, 06:35:00 pm
Listening to my lapdancer going "BONG".  I am on call this week :(
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Post by: BrianI on 18 May, 2013, 12:50:09 pm
Wearing my nice not shiny new Brazilian Tarp Hat!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 18 May, 2013, 01:19:03 pm
Trying to overclock my brain with sugar and caffeine during the interval at Deaffest. Last film was a mixture of sign language and spoken German, which was too brain-melty.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 May, 2013, 01:24:19 pm
Booking stuff, packing stuff and generally not feelinglike doing same (too tired)

Need all my energy for our trip to M'bro Town Hall tonight.
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Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2013, 02:11:39 pm
I am perusing the local OS Landranger map,looking for roads on topography shown with close contours. :o
 eg:- Ellastone to Farley.I couldn't get up this last year.I don't mean I had to stop for a breather or walk up it.I simply could not turn a pedal at less than halfway.I turned round & came home :-[
I'm now considering another attempt soon.
I must be un-well ;D
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Post by: BrianI on 19 May, 2013, 02:30:48 pm
Running a bath.
Sciatica / low back pain ftl   >:(
Supposed to be bagging Ben Macui on thursday with college.....
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Post by: reddo on 19 May, 2013, 02:53:46 pm
Listening to my hubby do his ironing.  :smug:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 May, 2013, 03:35:06 pm
Phorographing Pedallers on Parliament as they arrive. Seen one Ordinary and one unicycle.
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Post by: mcshroom on 19 May, 2013, 04:38:52 pm
Aching
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Post by: Basil on 20 May, 2013, 10:08:54 pm
Munching chocolate buttons.  I have about a bazoolion1 mini packets that da Cadbury Lads gave me in the pub tonight.  :D

1 Rapidly diminishing
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Post by: jogler on 20 May, 2013, 11:15:24 pm
Quote from: Basil on 20 May, 2013, 10:08:54 pm


1 Rapidly diminishing

Save some for Friday night
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Post by: andrewc on 21 May, 2013, 07:56:57 am
Laying in my tent, listening to the wind and watching the trees swaying. It's a cold grey morning. Time to get bike kit on and pack up camp.
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Post by: Dibdib on 21 May, 2013, 06:17:29 pm
Enjoying an après-work beer in the sunshine outside LMNH and then pottering back to a train station.
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Post by: Vince on 21 May, 2013, 08:06:00 pm
Attending a meeting in the dark, because the lights in the building all turn off at 9pm.
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Post by: mcshroom on 21 May, 2013, 08:11:18 pm
Trying to find my pedal spanner
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Post by: Chris S on 21 May, 2013, 08:17:52 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 21 May, 2013, 08:11:18 pm
Trying to find my pedal spanner

It's over there -------->
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 May, 2013, 08:56:00 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 21 May, 2013, 08:11:18 pm
Trying to find my pedal spanner
Ours is in the hall, waiting for me to return from stupidly hot place and stick the pedals on the bike for a test ride, if that's any help?
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Post by: andrewc on 21 May, 2013, 08:59:05 pm
Lying in my tent after eating pasta with black pudding & peppers. Must do a food shop tomorrow.
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Post by: tonyh on 21 May, 2013, 10:09:10 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 21 May, 2013, 08:17:52 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 21 May, 2013, 08:11:18 pm
Trying to find my pedal spanner

It's over there -------->

I looked.

It's probably past my bedtime.
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Post by: mcshroom on 21 May, 2013, 10:18:58 pm
Nope not there, not over <--------------there either :(

Oh well. The new bike now has a rack, pump and bottle cage. Still need to replace the stock flats though (I really should have told the shop to leave them off and wouldn't have this problem).
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Post by: Kim on 21 May, 2013, 10:20:24 pm
If they're new then you might be able to get them off with a small adjustable...
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Post by: mcshroom on 21 May, 2013, 10:48:38 pm
Unfortunately the mechanic at Evans was very thorough at tightening them. On the good side though, I've just managed to remove them with a 17mm normal spanner and a piece of pipe. New pedals now on :)
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Post by: LindaG on 22 May, 2013, 10:54:05 am
Drinking coffee in bed. Goodness, there was a lot of beer in that beer last night.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 22 May, 2013, 11:08:09 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 21 May, 2013, 10:48:38 pm
Unfortunately the mechanic at Evans was very thorough at tightening them. On the good side though, I've just managed to remove them with a 17mm normal spanner and a piece of pipe. New pedals now on :)

17mm? All mine are 15mm. I don't have a pedal spanner, just a normal 15mm spanner. OK, two 15mm normal spanners. The end of one is somewhat flared having been used on a seized pedal.
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Post by: mcshroom on 22 May, 2013, 12:09:01 pm
They weren't 17mm, but I have an old 17mm spanner that's a bit thinner than my 15mm spanner and so it fitted pedal flats better despite being a bit too big.
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Post by: Oaky on 22 May, 2013, 01:09:38 pm
Waiting for the optimum point in my daily post-lunch onset of drowsiness to get myself a nice cup of coffee.
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Post by: interzen on 22 May, 2013, 01:29:42 pm
Celebrating the fact that my Alfine-11 is going to a good home  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 22 May, 2013, 02:11:46 pm
I'm having a little tete-a-tete with my mojo
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Post by: interzen on 22 May, 2013, 03:36:13 pm
Quote from: jogler on 22 May, 2013, 02:11:46 pm
I'm having a little tete-a-tete with my mojo
Good luck with that.

Me and my mojo haven't been on speaking terms for quite a while now ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 May, 2013, 03:46:28 pm
The 18 y.o cerebral part of my mojo is responding very well.
The 60 y.o physical part of my mojo is being less co-operative.
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Post by: matthew on 22 May, 2013, 06:19:30 pm
Just spent 15 minutes with a colleague looking at photos and discussing the frame he built on a Dave Yates course a couple of weeks ago.

Disk braked tourer. Jealous doesn't quite cover it.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 May, 2013, 06:40:05 am
Being excited cos I'm going to see bobb today.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 May, 2013, 07:17:07 am
I am doing grand-daddy things. I like it. It is good.
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Post by: cornelius on 23 May, 2013, 09:32:40 am
Looking out the window at a very stormy sea and wondering when the ducklings will hatch.
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Post by: Andrij on 23 May, 2013, 10:14:15 am
Listening to the hail falling in the City.  I guess it beats fire & brimstone.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 May, 2013, 10:44:27 am
I am wearing the Eternal Badge of Grandfatherhood in the form of a small patch of regurgitated breast milk on my right shoulder.
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Post by: Jaded on 23 May, 2013, 10:54:25 am
Going to Bolton.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 May, 2013, 12:27:05 pm
Feeling a bit spaced out. Being a cat bed. Frowning at the weather outside and wondering how many layers I should apply to go out.
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Post by: Dibdib on 23 May, 2013, 12:29:50 pm
Trying (and struggling, but currently succeeding) to avoid the doughnut stand in the canteen downstairs. :-(
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Post by: tiermat on 23 May, 2013, 01:09:49 pm
Geeing myself up for a mad couple of days.

Early start tomorrow to complete some work during a maintenance window (again)

Then 4 different airports in 18 hours! Plus > 200 miles of driving.  At some point, before Sunday, I may get to sleep!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 May, 2013, 01:13:10 pm
Eating lunch with Martha.
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Post by: jogler on 23 May, 2013, 04:28:58 pm

I've just failed

Quote from: Dibdib on 23 May, 2013, 12:29:50 pm
to avoid the doughnut stand in the canteen downstairs. kitchen :-(

 ::-)
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Post by: Vince on 23 May, 2013, 04:35:14 pm
I'm currently trying to resist pressing the amazon spendy button for a Garmin Edge 800.
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Post by: Jaded on 23 May, 2013, 05:26:58 pm
Coming back from Bolton
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Post by: matthew on 23 May, 2013, 07:14:47 pm
Sat in minor injuries at heatherwood small scalp wound has become very tender, hard and hot.
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Post by: L CC on 24 May, 2013, 08:08:22 am
Enjoying that exhilarating combination of smug and shaky, from a PB on the rower.
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Post by: LindaG on 24 May, 2013, 08:46:50 am
Wearing a red dress with the express intention of giving the finger to this sad grey day.
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Post by: Feline on 24 May, 2013, 01:45:43 pm
I am sitting in a garage while my brakes and suspension springs get replaced. They picked a bad day for knackeration since we are supposed to be driving to Scotland later on!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 May, 2013, 01:54:05 pm
Cuddling a sleeping infant.
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Post by: BrianI on 24 May, 2013, 06:13:41 pm
Preparing to turn my back garden into a blue light zone tonight.
Weather looks promising for moth surveying,
So out with the actinic moth trap!   :D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 May, 2013, 10:22:15 pm
Just watching 24hrs in A&E, and they just snapped back a really badly dislocated knee.
Yuck. I'd rather see gore than limbs or joints pointing in the wrong direction.
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Post by: Ham on 25 May, 2013, 05:06:05 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLBKOcUbHR0

(sings) Cat-a-lonia here I come...

(waves) bye!
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Post by: BrianI on 25 May, 2013, 09:03:54 am
Quote from: BrianI on 24 May, 2013, 06:13:41 pm
Preparing to turn my back garden into a blue light zone tonight.
Weather looks promising for moth surveying,
So out with the actinic moth trap!   :D

Hmpfh.

Just one wee White-shouldered House-moth Endrosis sarcitrella which wouldn't stay still to take a decent photo of.....
Didn't help that it was a full moon last night... Shakes fist at moon.....
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Post by: andrewc on 25 May, 2013, 09:27:35 am
Sitting in Penzance railway station waiting for the first of a series of trains back to Liverpool. It's going to be a long day.

I'm wondering if having prunes with yoghurt followed by muesli at the YHA was a sensible thing to do....
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Post by: matthew on 25 May, 2013, 09:32:12 am
sitting in the office, contemplating the 12 or so documents I need to update and issue by friday.

Meaning they need to be ready for others to check and review by COP Tuesday.  :facepalm:
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Post by: Basil on 25 May, 2013, 10:07:16 am
Eating breakfast in Banbury
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Post by: Andrij on 25 May, 2013, 11:26:30 am
Quote from: matthew on 25 May, 2013, 09:32:12 am
sitting in the office, contemplating the 12 or so documents I need to update and issue by friday.

Meaning they need to be ready for others to check and review by COP Tuesday.  :facepalm:

I have similar on the cards for today and tomorrow, but at least I can do it from home.  Good thing the weather is rubbish.  Oh, hold on, it's actually rather nice.  >:(
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Post by: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2013, 11:30:32 am
Deciding to move and if I should remove all the paint from a frame to get back to bare metal and then paint the frame with clear laquer
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Post by: jogler on 25 May, 2013, 01:50:44 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 25 May, 2013, 09:27:35 am
Sitting in Penzance railway station waiting for the first of a series of trains back to Liverpool. It's going to be a long day.

I'm wondering if having prunes with yoghurt followed by muesli at the YHA was a sensible thing to do....

the sensible thing to do would have been to stay in Cornwall.....
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Post by: jogler on 25 May, 2013, 01:51:51 pm
just cut the lawns
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 May, 2013, 03:59:37 pm
Sitting in the sun, feeling warm and full of happeh, if a little tired after a 5hr bike building marathon.
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Post by: BrianI on 25 May, 2013, 06:19:20 pm
Going for a bit of swanning around this evening with spotting scope & binoculars.
Any babby swans yet?  Hope so!

--edit --
No babbies yet.... 
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 May, 2013, 06:33:06 pm
It's been a fairly expensive day, since I signed the paperwork for a new car (I've seen it; it's all still wrapped up, off the boat from Japan) and also ordered a sofa and armchair.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 May, 2013, 08:10:28 pm
No seats in the new car?
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Post by: Andrij on 25 May, 2013, 08:59:55 pm
Correcting errors in six* pages of OCR'd text.  I'm beginning to think I would have been better off typing it all out myself.

*15 pages scanned, turned into 6 of formatted text
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Post by: interzen on 27 May, 2013, 01:59:39 pm
Playing 'Dwarf Fortress'1 - naturally, hilarity has ensued and time seems to have flown by.

1 - dubbed 'the most complex video game ever devised' - think of 'The Sims' but with added booze, socks, hilarious ways to die and actual playability. All rendered in glorious ASCII.
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Post by: interzen on 27 May, 2013, 02:01:48 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2013, 11:30:32 am
Deciding to move and if I should remove all the paint from a frame to get back to bare metal and then paint the frame with clear laquer
If it's a steel frame, don't bother.

Years ago, I asked Dave Yates about the possibility of having a custom frame with a lacqer-over-bare-metal finish. He said that it wasn't a good idea - either him or Joe Waugh had done it on one of their bikes and it didn't end well when the lacquer invariably got chipped and the frame started to rust ...

Of course, if its stainless steel ....
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Post by: woollypigs on 27 May, 2013, 02:17:09 pm
Quote from: interzen on 27 May, 2013, 02:01:48 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2013, 11:30:32 am
Deciding to move and if I should remove all the paint from a frame to get back to bare metal and then paint the frame with clear laquer
If it's a steel frame, don't bother.

Years ago, I asked Dave Yates about the possibility of having a custom frame with a lacqer-over-bare-metal finish. He said that it wasn't a good idea - either him or Joe Waugh had done it on one of their bikes and it didn't end well when the lacquer invariably got chipped and the frame started to rust ...

Of course, if its stainless steel ....
I did that to my bike, somewhat hence the name, Stella, since it looked like the inside of a can of beer. It looked well nice I really liked the weldings and raw steel. I only spray can the lacqer on so it didn't last long before the rust started to show. Though that said I saw a bike that was just rust and it kinda looked cool. I needed up repainting the frame with Hammerite and never saw any rust after that.
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Post by: woollypigs on 27 May, 2013, 03:50:15 pm
Drinking tea, cricket on the radio and being amused by Peli's voice or rather the lack there off. Poor gal she is still sick and sick thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 28 May, 2013, 09:13:28 pm
Listening to a rather creative blackbird. I think it's been listening to human noises, such as car horns (of the playing a tune kind).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 May, 2013, 11:24:42 pm
Considering putting the shopper on the Turbo trainer and turning the i-Pod up to 11
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 May, 2013, 11:48:06 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 24 May, 2013, 10:22:15 pm
Just watching 24hrs in A&E, and they just snapped back a really badly dislocated knee.
Yuck. I'd rather see gore than limbs or joints pointing in the wrong direction.

That's what they did to shyumu's ankle.

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 28 May, 2013, 11:24:42 pm
Considering putting the shopper on the Turbo trainer and turning the i-Pod up to 11

This may involve burning a playlist.  Ho yuss.
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Post by: Kim on 28 May, 2013, 11:49:09 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 28 May, 2013, 11:24:42 pm
Considering putting the shopper on the Turbo trainer and turning the i-Pod up to 11

Raleigh Shopper?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 May, 2013, 11:50:21 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 May, 2013, 11:49:09 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 28 May, 2013, 11:24:42 pm
Considering putting the shopper on the Turbo trainer and turning the i-Pod up to 11

Raleigh Shopper?

Sadly not.  Dawes Geneva.  With hub gear.  Hopefully the turbo won't melt the gear.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 28 May, 2013, 11:53:06 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 28 May, 2013, 11:48:06 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 24 May, 2013, 10:22:15 pm
Just watching 24hrs in A&E, and they just snapped back a really badly dislocated knee.
Yuck. I'd rather see gore than limbs or joints pointing in the wrong direction.

That's what they did to shyumu's ankle.

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 28 May, 2013, 11:24:42 pm
Considering putting the shopper on the Turbo trainer and turning the i-Pod up to 11

This may involve burning a playlist.  Ho yuss.

Any suggestions?  The only 'definite' is 'Don't Save Me' by Haim which I LOVE and was written for me I reckon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 May, 2013, 11:54:43 pm
Maybe we should have a who's-had-the-least-appropriate-bike-on-a-turbo-trainer thread?

Points awarded for hub gears, unusual wheel sizes, knobbly tyres and suspension.  Points deducted for fettling or physiotherapy.
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Post by: Deano on 28 May, 2013, 11:56:46 pm
Shopping by Pet Shop Boys. Obviously.
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Post by: LindaG on 29 May, 2013, 12:03:09 am
Quote from: Deano on 28 May, 2013, 11:56:46 pm
Shopping by Pet Shop Boys. Obviously.

No.  That's an awful song.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 29 May, 2013, 12:04:24 am
Quote from: Kim on 28 May, 2013, 11:54:43 pm
Maybe we should have a who's-had-the-least-appropriate-bike-on-a-turbo-trainer thread?

Points awarded for hub gears, unusual wheel sizes, knobbly tyres and suspension.  Points deducted for fettling or physiotherapy.

Come to think of it, the rear tyre's flat.  Does that get points?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 29 May, 2013, 12:05:00 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 29 May, 2013, 12:04:24 am
Quote from: Kim on 28 May, 2013, 11:54:43 pm
Maybe we should have a who's-had-the-least-appropriate-bike-on-a-turbo-trainer thread?

Points awarded for hub gears, unusual wheel sizes, knobbly tyres and suspension.  Points deducted for fettling or physiotherapy.

Come to think of it, the rear tyre's flat.  Does that get points?

Scars, probably.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 29 May, 2013, 12:13:55 am
Quote from: Deano on 29 May, 2013, 12:05:00 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 29 May, 2013, 12:04:24 am
Quote from: Kim on 28 May, 2013, 11:54:43 pm
Maybe we should have a who's-had-the-least-appropriate-bike-on-a-turbo-trainer thread?

Points awarded for hub gears, unusual wheel sizes, knobbly tyres and suspension.  Points deducted for fettling or physiotherapy.

Come to think of it, the rear tyre's flat.  Does that get points?

Scars, probably.

I've got plenty already.  They'd just blend in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 29 May, 2013, 12:18:19 am
Not sleeping  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 29 May, 2013, 02:29:59 am
Being at work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 29 May, 2013, 03:23:02 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 29 May, 2013, 02:29:59 am
Being at work.

What are you doing?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 29 May, 2013, 12:12:05 pm
Listening/Ignoring a CBT on intellectual property and copyright. Just in case I have lost my integrity since I listened to it last year.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: daeno on 29 May, 2013, 12:23:36 pm
Digesting mega-garlicky pasta [burf] :-P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 29 May, 2013, 01:21:02 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 29 May, 2013, 12:13:55 am
Quote from: Deano on 29 May, 2013, 12:05:00 am
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 29 May, 2013, 12:04:24 am
Quote from: Kim on 28 May, 2013, 11:54:43 pm
Maybe we should have a who's-had-the-least-appropriate-bike-on-a-turbo-trainer thread?

Points awarded for hub gears, unusual wheel sizes, knobbly tyres and suspension.  Points deducted for fettling or physiotherapy.

Come to think of it, the rear tyre's flat.  Does that get points?

Scars, probably.

I've got plenty already.  They'd just blend in.

Ooh late night self-pity! Always a winner.

Now I'm thinking of taking the Tourer to the LBS to get its brakes sorted. Also riding along the beach in Ravenglass then pressure washing the sand off may not have been the best thing for the bottom bracket. So maybe a service would be a good idea. I have a week off in June needs planning for.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 29 May, 2013, 01:32:52 pm
I'm supposed to be working but instead I'm planning cycle tours (I still can't decide where to go and whether to do a camping tour or a big long audaxy one, or just do a set of day rides round the Lakes from home)

I've two weeks before I set off so a decision at some point might be useful ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 29 May, 2013, 02:36:55 pm
I'm doing nothing except getting bored, I should have gone for a ride but weather man said rain  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 May, 2013, 02:52:50 pm
jobhunting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 29 May, 2013, 09:41:00 pm
Taking my daughters laptop apart to clean the vomit out of it after a rather sudden attack of unwell upwell. The washed and cleaned keyboard is now drying off before being reinstalled. The screen bezel has been removed, excavated and replaced. Not a pleasant job.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 May, 2013, 09:50:42 pm
Ewwwh!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 29 May, 2013, 10:01:54 pm
Very much so. But all better now as I sit with a cup of tea in front of cycling on the tellybox.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 May, 2013, 10:10:47 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 29 May, 2013, 09:41:00 pm
Taking my daughters laptop apart to clean the vomit out of it after a rather sudden attack of unwell upwell. The washed and cleaned keyboard is now drying off before being reinstalled. The screen bezel has been removed, excavated and replaced. Not a pleasant job.
I think I would have siphoned off any critical data and claimed on the insewerance  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 29 May, 2013, 10:19:07 pm
The excess is more than it would cost to replace (We have a very good refurbished laptop emporium which does suitable machines for general domestic use) and it only had a light dunking. It is easier to clean than servicing a sturmey archer hub :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 29 May, 2013, 10:21:31 pm
I iz not marking exam scripts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 29 May, 2013, 10:22:41 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 29 May, 2013, 03:23:02 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 29 May, 2013, 02:29:59 am
Being at work.

What are you doing?

Fettling train crew.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 30 May, 2013, 02:52:06 am
Contemplating another cup of tea and chocolate digestive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 30 May, 2013, 03:27:28 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 30 May, 2013, 02:52:06 am
Contemplating another cup of tea and chocolate digestive.
Ooh, good idea!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 May, 2013, 08:28:35 am
Twiddling thumbs before heading off to the dentist.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 30 May, 2013, 03:29:14 pm
Trying to revise for an exam....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 May, 2013, 07:04:48 pm
Testing the emergency bivvy for size.

It fits two people1, so we only need to take one.



As long as they like each other, don't have bad breath, and neither of them wriggle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 May, 2013, 07:11:56 pm
Attempting to fettle fboab's bicycle mounted MP3 player thingy.  Getting it to work was the easy bit, as it started blaring out tunez as soon as I opened it and an important looking spring flew across the room.  Getting it to stop working at full volume was a game of super disco hunt-the-pingfuckit.

I'm now getting botchy with the hot-melt glue...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 May, 2013, 07:17:10 pm
Quote from: Kim on 30 May, 2013, 07:11:56 pm
Attempting to fettle fboab's bicycle mounted MP3 player thingy.  Getting it to work was the easy bit, as it started blaring out tunez as soon as I opened it and an important looking spring flew across the room.  Getting it to stop working at full volume was a game of super disco hunt-the-pingfuckit.

I'm now getting botchy with the hot-melt glue...

 :thumbsup:

Get down on it, Kim!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 30 May, 2013, 07:24:37 pm
Feeling like death warmed up. I thought yesterday I seemed to be lacking energy. Now I know why.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 30 May, 2013, 07:27:46 pm
waiting for mrsmike then going to the pub!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 30 May, 2013, 07:32:37 pm
Quote from: mike on 30 May, 2013, 07:27:46 pm
waiting for mrsmike then going to the pub!!
Time must be moving slooooowly for you, Mike. :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 May, 2013, 07:36:20 pm
It is half past bedtime. So we're on a bus, setting off on another adventure. Indoor camping at at Granny Annie's ftw!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 May, 2013, 07:37:35 pm
Waiting until it gets dark then going out for a ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 30 May, 2013, 07:43:16 pm
Reading a thread about some obscure danish tv show with naked women  ???
and
trying to find a flight from Pisa or Rome to Cph next monday evening.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 30 May, 2013, 08:07:17 pm
Unveiling further mysteries concerning rail travel and pricing in the UK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 30 May, 2013, 10:06:55 pm
Just finished sorting beds out for Jaded and his mate who are visiting tomorrow :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 30 May, 2013, 11:19:57 pm
Thinking that the feeling of having rubbed Vicks on my feet - following some online advice i found -is an odd one. (But it seems to be helping my cough and sore throat.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 30 May, 2013, 11:31:07 pm
Testing a stored magic smoke device for it's ability to decant the magic sunlight that was carefully stored into two smaller magic smoke storage devices that can then power a camera. So far so good, if only I could remember what the blinky lights mean.

It's a Maplin 9Ah battery charging two AA batteries in a Freeloader battery charger. When the adaptor arrives I can test the ability of the Freeloader supercharger to charge the big battery. This then will be key to Rachel being able to keep her camera going in the wilds of Mongolia.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 30 May, 2013, 11:38:46 pm
Trying to get into Cyclechat but it's broken
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 30 May, 2013, 11:53:36 pm
Trying for the depot record in the "How far can I propel my wheely chair backwards" event.

Currently only at 3m 62cm - tricky to get higher than that as it necessitates making it through a doorway behind me, which is only just slightly narrower than the chair width itself - then you have to be sure to have enough 'way' still on the chair to make it over the small metal ridge where the surface changes from lino (or some such) to carpet, while at the same time kicking away the box of enginnering works timetables propping the door open.

*checks train service is still ok*

"Everything's fine"

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 30 May, 2013, 11:57:03 pm
Reading an article on Professional Mobile Radio and how it works. I has learned something today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kathy on 30 May, 2013, 11:57:32 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 30 May, 2013, 11:53:36 pm
Trying for the depot record in the "How far can I propel my wheely chair backwards" event.

Currently only at 3m 62cm - tricky to get higher than that as it necessitates making it through a doorway behind me, which is only just slightly narrower than the chair width itself - then you have to be sure to have enough 'way' still on the chair to make it over the small metal ridge where the surface changes from lino (or some such) to carpet, while at the same time kicking away the box of enginnering works timetables propping the door open.

*checks train service is still ok*

"Everything's fine"



 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 May, 2013, 12:03:50 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 30 May, 2013, 11:53:36 pm
Trying for the depot record in the "How far can I propel my wheely chair backwards" event.

What's the ruling on fire extinguishers?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 12:09:19 am
Quote from: Kim on 31 May, 2013, 12:03:50 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 30 May, 2013, 11:53:36 pm
Trying for the depot record in the "How far can I propel my wheely chair backwards" event.

What's the ruling on fire extinguishers?

CO2 extinguishers probably don't give out enough thrust to compensate for the extra weight of carrying them - given the initial rolling resistance. I would probably get more of a boost throwing something as heavy away from me in a forwards direction I would imagine?

*plans next test run*

Edit:  Also non-emergency discharge of extinguishers is a sacking offence.  I did once actually get to put out a fire with one once, back when I worked at the Science Museum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2013, 12:11:00 am
Do you have fans and large sheets of cardboard to act as sails?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 May, 2013, 12:14:54 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 12:09:19 am
CO2 extinguishers probably don't give out enough thrust to compensate for the extra weight of carrying them - given the initial rolling resistance. I would probably get more of a boost throwing something as heavy away from me in a forwards direction I would imagine?

This sounds like a job for Jem Stansfield...

On a related note, you can get a surprising amount of pressure (if not actual thrust) from a London Underground water fire extinguisher if you miscalculate the expansion ratio by an order of magnitude while illicitly refilling one using dry ice as a propellant...  (DAHIKT)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 12:15:35 am
No fans sadly, space is too enclosed as well.  It's all about the thrust...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 31 May, 2013, 12:23:04 am
we used to race wheely chairs around the lab. If the work was quiet the chemist would visit haematology and there was a fixed route around the lab that you had to negotiate without feet touching the floor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 12:23:21 am
Quote from: Kim on 31 May, 2013, 12:14:54 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 12:09:19 am
CO2 extinguishers probably don't give out enough thrust to compensate for the extra weight of carrying them - given the initial rolling resistance. I would probably get more of a boost throwing something as heavy away from me in a forwards direction I would imagine?

This sounds like a job for Jem Stansfield...

On a related note, you can get a surprising amount of pressure (if not actual thrust) from a London Underground water fire extinguisher if you miscalculate the expansion ratio by an order of magnitude while illicitly refilling one using dry ice as a propellant...  (DAHIKT)

That would work!

*checks service*

"How the feck did a train suddenly become 1114.5 minutes late?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2013, 12:25:11 am
It's to do with a glitch in the space-time continuum when people are using backward thrust to move swivel chairs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 12:40:03 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2013, 12:25:11 am
It's to do with a glitch in the space-time continuum when people are using backward thrust to move swivel chairs.

It's ok - it was an engineer's train coming out late - normally trains get late in an increment of 30 seconds at a time (at least according to the system we have) and you can see it happen and do something about it (cry, moan, worry, that sort of thing) so it's a sudden "WTF" when that happens.  Anyway I checked the number and it's got a big SEP field around it as it's not from my depot...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2013, 12:42:00 am
Meanwhile, having just got into bed, I am wondering how long this sodding cold weather is going to last.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 31 May, 2013, 08:12:13 am
Quote from: David Martin on 30 May, 2013, 11:31:07 pm
Testing a stored magic smoke device for it's ability to decant the magic sunlight that was carefully stored into two smaller magic smoke storage devices that can then power a camera. So far so good, if only I could remember what the blinky lights mean.

It's a Maplin 9Ah battery charging two AA batteries in a Freeloader battery charger. When the adaptor arrives I can test the ability of the Freeloader supercharger to charge the big battery. This then will be key to Rachel being able to keep her camera going in the wilds of Mongolia.

Let us know how you get on!  charging camera batteries that are more than 5v seems to be a major problem.  Charging AAs from a supercharger and the little charger module thingy seems to work (sort of, in our dull climate), but what I'd really like is a solar charging solution for 7.2v DSLR batteries.

Me, feeling quite good considering I'm at work, as I've found the local crop of cygnets, and have taken photos of the 7 little fluffy bundles with their parents from a safe and non-intrusive location.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 May, 2013, 08:26:54 am
Sitting in bed with coffee "staying out of the way" as Mrs B rushes around being late for work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 May, 2013, 09:34:41 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2013, 12:42:00 am
Meanwhile, having just got into bed, I am wondering how long this sodding cold weather is going to last.

Wondering what constitutes cold weather in Baggerland as it's lovely up here, for a change.

Counting time until lunchtime clock off, a lovely massage and thence to the festival of BEER.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 31 May, 2013, 02:04:10 pm
Having a fish naming ceremony. We have 3 new Koi and Simon who is home sick has named them Patch, Dave and Seraphina. I think Seraphina is possibly male from his body shape but at this small size it's hard to be sure.

I also went Audax food shopping on the way home from work this morning. The fridge is stuffed with epic quantities of food for the Kernow & SW 600 tomorrow night  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 31 May, 2013, 02:13:01 pm
Quote from: Feline on 31 May, 2013, 02:04:10 pm
We have 3 new Koi and Simon who is home sick has named them Patch, Dave and Seraphina.

Sorry, this is a mistake. We have discovered the hard way that only fish called Nev survive. (Currently have Nev and Mini Nev in the tank)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 31 May, 2013, 02:14:45 pm
Contemplating the presentation I have just given, where it took longer to get everyone on the call than the presentation. The last person dialed in just after I had completed the final slide.  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 May, 2013, 03:26:54 pm
Quote from: Feline on 31 May, 2013, 02:04:10 pm
Having a fish naming ceremony. We have 3 new Koi and Simon...

:o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Manotea on 31 May, 2013, 06:00:39 pm
I've been working on a design problem.

I've said, "Eureka, I've cracked it" about a thousand times now.

But this time, I think I really have.

Pretty please with a cherry on top.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 31 May, 2013, 07:33:46 pm
Browsing Bat Detectors.
Had a college field trip with Local Bat Woman & Bat Detectors.
Much fun was had watching bats coming out of their roost and listening to their calls.
Quite fancy getting my own detector!   :D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2013, 08:43:44 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 31 May, 2013, 09:34:41 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2013, 12:42:00 am
Meanwhile, having just got into bed, I am wondering how long this sodding cold weather is going to last.

Wondering what constitutes cold weather in Baggerland as it's lovely up here, for a change.

Counting time until lunchtime clock off, a lovely massage and thence to the festival of BEER.

It was cold enough for Mrs. Wow's and my hands to be a shock to each other's torsos. It had been cold and dank for a couple of days. THe outdoor temperature was about 11°C but the indoor temperature wasn't a great deal higher, or so it seemed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 31 May, 2013, 09:21:34 pm
Listening to the clunking of youths arriving at the youth hostel. My youths are young enough to be in bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 May, 2013, 09:37:57 pm
I am on a train for my third consecutive Friday Night Ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 10:19:44 pm
I am trying for a new depot record overnight by trying to seee just how many cups of tea one man can consume in a given eight hour period.  Two so far...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 01 June, 2013, 12:04:54 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 10:19:44 pm
I am trying for a new depot record overnight by trying to seee just how many cups of tea one man can consume in a given eight hour period.  Two so far...

Yeahbut, what depot, and what trains do you fettle in between times?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 01 June, 2013, 03:59:20 am
Quote from: mr magnolia on 01 June, 2013, 12:04:54 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 10:19:44 pm
I am trying for a new depot record overnight by trying to seee just how many cups of tea one man can consume in a given eight hour period.  Two so far...

Yeahbut, what depot, and what trains do you fettle in between times?

Would rather not say.  That way you don't know which bit is my fault...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 June, 2013, 08:23:07 am
I'll ask Rower40 which depot
You can always maintain that "nothing happened"
 :demon:
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 June, 2013, 11:59:33 am
I'm contemplating the various methods of travelling to Moffat & back...
car
train
bike
train/bike combo
 :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 June, 2013, 12:17:53 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 31 May, 2013, 07:33:46 pm
Browsing Bat Detectors.
Had a college field trip with Local Bat Woman & Bat Detectors.
Much fun was had watching bats coming out of their roost and listening to their calls.
Quite fancy getting my own detector!   :D



We haz one. It makes :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 June, 2013, 02:15:55 pm
Waiting for new HBOOT to be flashed to my phone to get S-OFF.
Wondering if it's going to work or if I'll be going down the shops to buy a new phone later  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 June, 2013, 02:29:34 pm
Nothing appears to have happened for the last 16 mins. I am going for a wander in the garden.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 June, 2013, 02:59:32 pm
Waving at various Teifi Travellers (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=70897.msg1470194#msg1470194) as they pass.

I think the last group of 4 (well 3 then 1) were the back of the field.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 June, 2013, 03:10:38 pm
I'm fettling my camping kit
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 June, 2013, 04:17:08 pm
Contemplating my brick that used to be a phone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 01 June, 2013, 07:26:19 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 June, 2013, 08:23:07 am
I'll ask Rower40 which depot
You can always maintain that "nothing happened"
 :demon:
 ;D

It's only my fault for another 20 days.  Then, after I go back to planning things, it becomes my fault again in about ten years time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 01 June, 2013, 07:46:47 pm
Wondering when the spots in front of my eyes will stop dancing. I bought a bag of 20 3W white LEDs for a project and decided to test one to see just how bright it is. Dump 4.8V across it and the answer is 'Very bright indeed'. It reduces to 'very bright' with a 1.5 ohm resistor.

Then discovered that I had bought non-latching SIPO shift registers (74HC164) (which isn't so good when you need latching ones). Fortunately eBay comes to the rescue and for less than the cost of a couple of beers, a pack of 10 of the right sort (74HC595) is heading my way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 01 June, 2013, 10:37:32 pm
Quote from: Wunja on 31 May, 2013, 02:13:01 pm
Quote from: Feline on 31 May, 2013, 02:04:10 pm
We have 3 new Koi and Simon who is home sick has named them Patch, Dave and Seraphina.

Sorry, this is a mistake. We have discovered the hard way that only fish called Nev survive. (Currently have Nev and Mini Nev in the tank)

There is an optional safe name: Brian works well for a plecostomus (saving your grace)

As for myself at the moment I am multi-contemplating:

- The last week in Catalonia, rather cold and wet, not as good as the cycling week a few weeks ago, but you could have guessed that

- How handy it is having both a Wife AND a Daughter when Barbra Streisand is performing at the O2 tonight

- the many pages of forum messages,  and the comparative merit of "mark all read"

- the 80 bottles of wine I've just bottled from previous bulk buying in France

- Ullage & the angels share

- Tinto for 1E40 with the bottle left on the table

- When can I get back to Catalonia...........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 June, 2013, 11:43:07 am
Trying to grind through a pile of work so I can enjoy my conference next week without having to do anything on an evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 June, 2013, 12:25:20 pm
House cleaning
Singlespeed fettling
Getting myself in the right frame of mind (if there is such a thing) for going back to work tomorrow.

In that approximate order. There may be gardening later on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 02 June, 2013, 01:21:19 pm
Quote from: jogler on 01 June, 2013, 03:10:38 pm
I'm fettling my camping kit

 more fettling of the same
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 June, 2013, 01:46:02 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 May, 2013, 11:54:43 pm
Maybe we should have a who's-had-the-least-appropriate-bike-on-a-turbo-trainer thread?

Points awarded for hub gears, unusual wheel sizes, knobbly tyres and suspension.  Points deducted for fettling or physiotherapy.
For the latter part of last year and the early part of this, I had my yellow Genesis on the turbo. It was in fixed-gear mode at the time (prior to refitting the S3X, which isn't turbo-compatible because of the toggle-chain) - if I wanted gears, I used the orange Genesis instead (Alfine 8-speed) - strangely enough, with the shape of the Alfine cap nuts being what they are, the bike was held in *very* securely.

Knobbly tyres doesn't work - trust me on this.

I really wanted to try the turbo+fatbike combo - unfortunately, the roller on the turbo wasn't nearly wide enough. Odd, that ... Pugsley + rollers has been done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC7QGFyOXlE
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 June, 2013, 10:32:18 pm
Contemplating whether dodgems are linear or exponential...

(Nikki will be along in a minute to tell me to go to bed.  She hasn't quite worked out that I'm always like this.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 02 June, 2013, 10:45:47 pm
Kim! I told you to go to bed an hour ago! *waggles finger in a stern manner*

I've worked out that the only chance I have of stopping your brain from putting curious things in front of my brain is if you GO TO SLEEP!

When I grow up I want a fractal dodgem.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 June, 2013, 10:47:07 pm
Just put a pot of coffee on. Think I will have to pull an all nighter to finish this work. Oh well I can sleep on the plane tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 02 June, 2013, 11:59:32 pm
Quote from: nikki on 02 June, 2013, 10:45:47 pm
Kim! I told you to go to bed an hour ago! *waggles finger in a stern manner*

I've worked out that the only chance I have of stopping your brain from putting curious things in front of my brain is if you GO TO SLEEP!

When I grow up I want a fractal dodgem.

Wait, how would a fractal dodgem work?

*mind blown*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 03 June, 2013, 12:02:27 am
Quote from: Deano on 02 June, 2013, 11:59:32 pm
Quote from: nikki on 02 June, 2013, 10:45:47 pm
Kim! I told you to go to bed an hour ago! *waggles finger in a stern manner*

I've worked out that the only chance I have of stopping your brain from putting curious things in front of my brain is if you GO TO SLEEP!

When I grow up I want a fractal dodgem.

Wait, how would a fractal dodgem work?

*mind blown*

It's definitely going to keep turning in one direction eternally.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 03 June, 2013, 12:06:41 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 10:19:44 pm
I am trying for a new depot record overnight by trying to seee just how many cups of tea one man can consume in a given eight hour period.  Two so far...
So how did it go?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 June, 2013, 12:07:22 am
Quote from: Deano on 02 June, 2013, 11:59:32 pm
Wait, how would a fractal dodgem work?

I tried to sketch one, but my pen ran out :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 03 June, 2013, 09:48:46 am
Quote from: Deano on 02 June, 2013, 11:59:32 pm
Quote from: nikki on 02 June, 2013, 10:45:47 pm
Kim! I told you to go to bed an hour ago! *waggles finger in a stern manner*

I've worked out that the only chance I have of stopping your brain from putting curious things in front of my brain is if you GO TO SLEEP!

When I grow up I want a fractal dodgem.

Wait, how would a fractal dodgem work?

*mind blown*

You see, this is the problem. That and simultaneously being stuck on whether "Logarithmic Dodgem" would work best as a band name or an album title.

Then she'll casually drop in a genius Toksvig-for-the-next-Doctor-Who comment and carry on with sanding some plywood. It's most distracting.
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Post by: numbnuts on 03 June, 2013, 10:22:21 am
Washing clothes and carpets
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 03 June, 2013, 04:50:02 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 03 June, 2013, 12:06:41 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 31 May, 2013, 10:19:44 pm
I am trying for a new depot record overnight by trying to seee just how many cups of tea one man can consume in a given eight hour period.  Two so far...
So how did it go?

Only eight.  Works out at only one/hour, poor effort really.
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Post by: LindaG on 03 June, 2013, 07:33:45 pm
I am leaving work half an hour early. Two days off now. Oh yes.
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Post by: DrMekon on 03 June, 2013, 09:23:42 pm
Drinking espresso and marking MSc essays. Meant to do it today, but got a load of REF (http://www.ref.ac.uk/) admin thrown my way with a short turn around required. Had hoped to clear my desk/push some work into next week and get a ride out into the Dales whilst the weather is nice. Not going to happen. Instead, looking at a late night and maybe an allnighter, and still won't get around to resubmitting a paper or starting to write up the analysis of another.

Boo hoo.
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Post by: Vince on 03 June, 2013, 09:37:32 pm
Watching an interesting program on BBC4 on automata
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 03 June, 2013, 09:42:21 pm
Failing to do any more revision for my Intro to Engineering exam tomorrow. Rather a bit nervous as it's my first exam in six years.

I think I'll be ok, I only need 52% to get 70% overall for the module but it really depends on the questions asked. Luckily it's a case of picking from a choice of questions so hopefully at least some of them will be answerable.

And it's an afternoon exam so should have a bit of cramming time in the morning, but I am still nervous.
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Post by: David Martin on 03 June, 2013, 11:42:56 pm
Dodgems are not logarithmic or exponential but instead go by the square root of time if you are wondering to where they will wander. (according to Einstein and assuming that dodgems act as a brownian motion system but one which has tea and cakes afterwards - would that then be a precameliid system?)

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Post by: Kim on 04 June, 2013, 12:18:27 am
To put rest to the dodgems debate, I found a numerical solution last night on Friendface.  They are in fact £1.50
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Post by: mcshroom on 04 June, 2013, 12:20:22 am
Isn't that only per gill?
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Post by: Vince on 04 June, 2013, 11:50:32 am
Trying to decide if the piece of metal I found in my mouth originated from a tooth or the chicken sandwich I was eating.  :o
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Post by: matthew on 04 June, 2013, 12:04:11 pm
Trying to report two potholes, one in each carriage way of the A30 at Sunningdale. They are between the barriers of the level crossing so fillthathole suggests networkrail are responsible. However NR are only concerned about the rubber mats between the tracks.

Tried the Highways Agency as the OS maps lable the A30 as A30(T) but they claim to only be responsible for inside the M25 and Devon / Cornwall.

So back to RBWM and see if they can get anything done. :demon:
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Post by: billplumtree on 05 June, 2013, 11:24:56 am
Sitting in the sun on a Calmac ferry, watching Skye go past
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Post by: jogler on 05 June, 2013, 11:56:59 am
Quote from: billplumtree on 05 June, 2013, 11:24:56 am
Sitting in the sun on a Calmac ferry, watching Skye go past

calling Crinklylion
Crinklylion to the green "u r a Git "phone in reception please
 ;D
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Post by: tiermat on 05 June, 2013, 12:08:07 pm
Hanging like a b*stard.

Combination of no dinner last night (my fault) and 3 pints of IPA (new landlord's fault)

Headache and feel sick :(
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Post by: interzen on 05 June, 2013, 12:11:20 pm
Cleaning up after a quick fettle - the 1x1 now has its new handlebars fitted, but unless I get creative with routing it looks like I might have to fit a longer hose on the front brake.

Also discovered that the chainring I always thought was a 34T turns out to be a 36T - that explains such a lot  ::-)

Now off to order a 34T chainring from the Bikemonger.
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Post by: numbnuts on 05 June, 2013, 12:15:04 pm
Just off to clean the car
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Post by: Vince on 05 June, 2013, 02:52:01 pm
Eating a limited edition Magnum Creme Brule. Nomnomnom :)
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 05 June, 2013, 05:14:31 pm
Quote from: Wunja on 05 June, 2013, 02:52:01 pm
Eating a limited edition Magnum Creme Brule. Nomnomnom :)

Are they limited in number becuase you're eating them all?  ;D
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Post by: Vince on 05 June, 2013, 06:51:40 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 05 June, 2013, 05:14:31 pm
Quote from: Wunja on 05 June, 2013, 02:52:01 pm
Eating a limited edition Magnum Creme Brule. Nomnomnom :)

Are they limited in number becuase you're eating them all?  ;D
That was when I was working in the factory and developed a three magnum a day habit!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: BrianI on 05 June, 2013, 07:12:52 pm
Registering for this new fangled Universal Jobmatch

Big Brother is indeed watching you search for jobs.... 

and replying with
"Error  There was an unexpected problem processing your request." when trying to log in....   ::-)
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Post by: jogler on 05 June, 2013, 08:15:32 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 05 June, 2013, 07:12:52 pm
Universal Jobmatch

 It's absolute rubbish.
Quote from: BrianI on 05 June, 2013, 07:12:52 pm
and replying with
"Error  There was an unexpected problem processing your request." when trying to log in....   ::-)

It's been like that for almost two weeks ::-)


It's a device for THEM to monitor your attempts to find a job.
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Post by: Basil on 08 June, 2013, 01:11:40 pm
Watching the criggid in the pub.
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Post by: jogler on 08 June, 2013, 01:33:14 pm
I've just been playing with my new Trangia
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Post by: woollypigs on 08 June, 2013, 01:58:34 pm
Learning to cook and now cooking gear ... Jogler is this a mid life crises I see here or are you planning to elope or the Zombie Apocalypse ? If you want some tips and tricks do ask Peli she is a brilliant cook on the Trangia :)
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Post by: numbnuts on 08 June, 2013, 02:23:21 pm
Soaking up the rays  :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 June, 2013, 03:56:24 pm
The Cubs and I have some bags packed.  With ham sandwiches and cheese sandwiches and chocklit and nananaba muffins and flapjack plus a stray mildenhall cake and an odd st clements cake that were lurking in the freezer.  A flask of tea, two of coffee.

I think we'll go see if we can find any audaxers who might like them.
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Post by: BrianI on 08 June, 2013, 04:23:59 pm
melting while browsing yacf in the nud.
It's too hot!   :sick:
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Post by: interzen on 08 June, 2013, 04:34:04 pm
Getting ready to have a nap.
Once said nap has taken place, there will be crepuscular, fixed-gear, off-road shenanigans.
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Post by: nikki on 08 June, 2013, 05:23:39 pm
Deckchair, very warm shins and plans for rhubarb chutney.
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Post by: Chris S on 08 June, 2013, 06:05:13 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 08 June, 2013, 04:23:59 pm
melting while browsing yacf in the nud.
It's too hot!   :sick:

You need to come to Norfolk. Cold, grey and windy here; 11c currently.
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Post by: andrewc on 08 June, 2013, 06:05:26 pm
Sitting in The Morpeth Arms after a wander through Tate Britain. Wondering how Londontown dwellers cope with the price of BEER!

£4.24 for this pint and I've just spilt some down my front :-(

A pint in a Liverpool real ale pub is £2.80 - £3.20 by comparison.
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Post by: jogler on 08 June, 2013, 06:21:14 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 08 June, 2013, 01:58:34 pm
Learning to cook and now cooking gear ... Jogler is this a mid life crises I see here or are you planning to elope or the Zombie Apocalypse ? If you want some tips and tricks do ask Peli she is a brilliant cook on the Trangia :)

 my mid life crisis occurred a couple of decades ago.I'm sorting my camping kit to be  as I've wanted it for sometime.
I've noted your advice to ask Peli for tips :thumbsup:
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 08 June, 2013, 06:26:17 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 08 June, 2013, 06:05:26 pm
Sitting in The Morpeth Arms after a wander through Tate Britain. Wondering how Londontown dwellers cope with the price of BEER!

£4.24 for this pint and I've just spilt some down my front :-(

A pint in a Liverpool real ale pub is £2.80 - £3.20 by comparison.
Find yerself a Sam Smiths pub there & drink their passable bitter for <£2.50...
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Post by: numbnuts on 08 June, 2013, 06:37:27 pm
I've just got back from church and now cooking dinner
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Post by: Lady Cavendish on 08 June, 2013, 06:47:24 pm
Just got home after a week in hospital for the end of the GP qualifying :)
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Post by: Kim on 08 June, 2013, 07:00:09 pm
Enjoying the mixture of solder fumes and surprisingly high quality audio...
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Post by: andrewc on 08 June, 2013, 07:20:50 pm
Sitting in St Johns, Smith Square waiting for the music to start. Elgar, Vaughan-Williams & Lloyd.

I was just wandering around and found the place by accident! A little too late to grab a Pre concert meal though.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 June, 2013, 09:07:27 pm
Flashing a custom ROM to a new phone.
Sphincter clenching commencing in 3, 2, 1.....
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Post by: jogler on 08 June, 2013, 09:08:33 pm
scoffing Marj's carrot cake :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 08 June, 2013, 09:09:12 pm
About to be served Jelly & Cream.
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Post by: Kim on 08 June, 2013, 09:09:26 pm
Deciding that soldering is overrated, and maybe I should take up spoon carving (just as soon as the burns have healed).
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Post by: clarion on 08 June, 2013, 09:27:33 pm
Any current that can't get through connector block ain't worth having ;)
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Post by: David Martin on 08 June, 2013, 10:25:45 pm
Just packing up the boxes of electrickery and putting them away after building a prototype of a desktop version of Genome Scroller (http://genomescroller.org) that uses coloured LEDs moving in sequence instead of a graphical display and runs off a Raspberry Pi instead of a few large workstations with ratehr expensive graphics cards. I only released one lot of magic smoke and appear to have unfortunately bought yet another batch of DIP ICs which I need magnifying glasses to read the labels of. I really should have been running the LEDs through Darlingtons rather than powering direct from the Pi (via a line of SIPOs)

The ultimate aim is to upgrade to about 2000 1.5W RGB LEDs and build an installation through the atrium of our new building. I *think* I have got it all designed OK so that it would work :)
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Post by: clarion on 09 June, 2013, 09:44:10 am
We're Onnatrain to Chichester, taking Nye to his first Clarion ride.  He's not actually riding yet, despite being (obv) the most talented prodigy evah, nor do we have a trailer sorted out yet (they are dashed expensive, aren't they), but he will be oohed and ahhed over at the start, before Butterfly takes him by train to the lunch stop in Emsworth.  I hope TMN is there.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 June, 2013, 10:13:04 am
Wondering which of the random pots of shit cluttering up my mum's kitchen I could have stuck my thumb in that would explain why the skin is peeling off it  :-\
That'll teach me to try and tidy up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 09 June, 2013, 12:50:26 pm
Quote from: Kim on 08 June, 2013, 09:09:26 pm
Deciding that soldering is overrated, and maybe I should take up spoon carving (just as soon as the burns have healed).
Soldering irons are quite good at embelishing your carved sppons should you wish to combine the activities... still just as hot and dangerous.
(We bought a pyrography iron some years ago and whist it didn't quite have solder crossed out and pyrography written in crayon, it did look identical!)
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Post by: mcshroom on 09 June, 2013, 01:06:35 pm
Looing at a C2C cyclemap and considering doing something very silly this evening. SNRCtC anyone?
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Post by: LindaG on 09 June, 2013, 01:51:44 pm
Quote from: clarion on 09 June, 2013, 09:44:10 am
We're Onnatrain to Chichester, taking Nye to his first Clarion ride.  He's not actually riding yet, despite being (obv) the most talented prodigy evah, nor do we have a trailer sorted out yet (they are dashed expensive, aren't they), but he will be oohed and ahhed over at the start, before Butterfly takes him by train to the lunch stop in Emsworth.  I hope TMN is there.

Awwws of approval at this. Taking a camera?
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Post by: interzen on 09 June, 2013, 02:21:24 pm
Trying very hard to stay awake1 and also trying not to scratch the acres of nettle rash on my legs as a result of yesterday's bit of bushwhacking/COR.

The latter is considerably harder than the former.

1 - This is despite having a Piriton sandwich for my supper last night; the incessant itching meant that I never really got off to sleep 'properly' and my manner of rising this morning (well, technically afternoon) was comparable with that of a corpse from a pond.
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Post by: reddo on 09 June, 2013, 03:00:23 pm
All of the above sounds a lot more fun (even the anti scratch attempts) than frantically revising for an exam tomorrow. I keep telling myself "I am doing this for fun". Next day off to Farnborough for 6 days of thrill filled fun in the "Lurching cave of terror" (aka flight simulator. No not the game from microsoft, but the multi million dollar/pound/euro 3 axis full motion thing of evil)

 :o
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Post by: interzen on 09 June, 2013, 03:04:39 pm
6 days in a flight simulator? Serious business ;)

Good luck with the exam, thobut ...
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Post by: interzen on 09 June, 2013, 03:15:48 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 09 June, 2013, 01:06:35 pm
Looing at a C2C cyclemap and considering doing something very silly this evening. SNRCtC anyone?
And why not, as Barry Norman might say.
I'm hoping to have a crack at the off-road version (St.Bees Head to Robin Hood's Bay) later on in the summer if time and work permit.
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Post by: reddo on 09 June, 2013, 03:45:59 pm
Quote
6 days in a flight simulator? Serious business

Good luck with the exam, thobut ...
Ta muchly. The exam's something "new". ie haven't written an essay in anger for over 20 years!  :o

Yup, 6 joyful days... :P It's normally 3 sessions + 1 day of groundschool but my colleague (aka crash buddy) is coming back after being a year off for various reasons. Fortunately he's ex-RAF 32 squadron so should "be pretty good"...
Whereas my sim practice consisted of a couple of London City approaches last week.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Dibdib on 09 June, 2013, 04:10:47 pm
Today I am mostly hiding from the sun and nursing my comedy Rule #7 (http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#7) tan lines.

Good luck with the exam, Reddo  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2013, 04:19:44 pm
Quote from: reddo on 09 June, 2013, 03:00:23 pm
but the multi million dollar/pound/euro 3 axis full motion thing of evil)

 :o

ho YES :thumbsup:

we used to be allowed a play in one at RAF Valley after we had serviced the air conditioning equipment.Crashed & burnt/drowned several times depending on where The Controller pressed the "FuelEmpty" panic button in the control room  ::-)
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Post by: interzen on 09 June, 2013, 04:22:49 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 09 June, 2013, 04:10:47 pm
Today I am mostly hiding from the sun and nursing my comedy Rule #7 (http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#7) tan lines.
I think I've currently got Rule #7 nettle rash, then - there's certainly a distinct demarcation line between my usual programmer's pallor and the nettled/semi-tanned skin that starts just above my knees.

I've just had a quick fettle of the TrailMonsterTM - which meant putting a double layer of cork tape on the curvy bits of the Mary bars, adjusting the brake levers (definitely need a longer hose for the front brake :( ) and the other assorted odds and sods that need doing whilst I'm waiting for the new rear wheel.

Was half tempted to sit out in the back garden with a cuppa, but since the back garden is now largely in shade and the wind has dropped, the biting critters are out in force  >:( Might have to go for a stroll round the village instead.
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Post by: Chris S on 09 June, 2013, 04:25:24 pm
The funniest thing a nerdy tech like me can do is introduce a slight delay between the display through the "windows" and the movement of the cabin - so there's something of a visual/motion disconnect.

As long as you're not the person who has to clear up the mess afterwards. This was a lesson learned early on by those programming "rides" on static roller-coasters.
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Post by: SteveC on 09 June, 2013, 04:46:20 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 09 June, 2013, 04:25:24 pm
The funniest thing a nerdy tech like me can do is introduce a slight delay between the display through the "windows" and the movement of the cabin - so there's something of a visual/motion disconnect.

As long as you're not the person who has to clear up the mess afterwards. This was a lesson learned early on by those programming "rides" on static roller-coasters.
Only been in a helicopter sim, and they didn't turn the motion on, but seeing the 'horizon' at a seriously wrong angle didn't do my stomach any good!  My colleagues in the 'back' (actually a separate room) were 'flying' the thing.  Fortunately no mess was involved!
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Post by: reddo on 09 June, 2013, 05:05:33 pm
Oh I can attest to that.  :sick:
The lurching cave doesn't have to be "that" accurate on the ground so taxiing is a right PITA. Guaranteed to make any one crook. There was a sim in Sydney, a Dash 8, oh boy, taxiing had to be kept to an absolute minimum or else the pilots were seriously ill. Not a good start....

The peripheral vision graphics are what "get" me. It's just not "right" and if it's "turbulent" (ie the checky's a bastard) I can feel quite green.

But when the check's done and there's a nanosecond of playtime, that's when it's fun.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Vince on 09 June, 2013, 10:39:47 pm
Quote from: jogler on 09 June, 2013, 04:19:44 pm
Quote from: reddo on 09 June, 2013, 03:00:23 pm
but the multi million dollar/pound/euro 3 axis full motion thing of evil)

 :o

ho YES :thumbsup:

we used to be allowed a play in one at RAF Valley after we had serviced the air conditioning equipment.Crashed & burnt/drowned several times depending on where The Controller pressed the "FuelEmpty" panic button in the control room  ::-)
I had a school trip to Brize Norton in about 79/80. There was a Hercules flight simulator, which consisted of a 3 dimensional model of the area on the wall which had a TV camera that could track across it, its progress controlled by the cockpit controls. There were scars across the model where the TV camera had been crash landed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 09 June, 2013, 10:46:19 pm
At the Polaria museum in Tromso they have a nice film of a plane flying over Spitzbergen (Svalbad). This is a full wrap round screen and the flight includes some wingtip flying up gorges and through gaps in ridges. Cue a conference where we have all had a wine reception before being ushered in to watch the video.

Interesting!
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Post by: reddo on 10 June, 2013, 07:04:57 pm
Phew. Exam done. Haven't written an essay in exam conditions for many many years.
Thanks for all your well wishes.  :thumbsup:

Now I have plenty of time to get on the bike(s) :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 June, 2013, 07:10:34 pm
I'm intrigued.

Essay you say?

"Explain in 5,000 words or more, why a First Officer should be paid more than a Grade II ATCO at NATS?"  :demon:

(Just kidding stirring)  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 10 June, 2013, 08:33:58 pm
Damn! You said "more".  ;D

Which unit do you work at? Probably chatted to you.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 June, 2013, 08:46:24 pm
Quote from: reddo on 10 June, 2013, 08:33:58 pm
Which unit do you work at? Probably chatted to you.  :thumbsup:

No. You won't have.

But that doesn't mean I didn't have an involvement.

Whenever I go there to work (which isn't that often), a chap points a gun at my face at the gate, early O'Clock in the morning, and someone runs a mirror under my car - all in a "Welcome Back" kinda way. Yay!

That's all I'm sayin'  :D
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Post by: jogler on 10 June, 2013, 08:51:03 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 10 June, 2013, 08:46:24 pm


Whenever I go there to work (which isn't that often), a chap points a gun at my face at the gate, early O'Clock in the morning, and someone runs a mirror under my car - all in a "Welcome Back" kinda way. Yay!


I used to get all that at RAF Carlisle.

I got so pi$$ed off with it one Sunday morning when they wouldn't let me in I got a bit lippy & ended up in the gaurdhouse ::-)
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Post by: reddo on 10 June, 2013, 08:55:44 pm
Yep, get that treatment at a few RAF bases or at Dublin...
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Post by: mcshroom on 10 June, 2013, 08:58:23 pm
They don't wave the guns around as much now, but I get pretty similar each day on the way into work
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Post by: Andrij on 10 June, 2013, 09:00:46 pm
At the moment, I am consuming too much wine and cheese.
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Post by: Vince on 10 June, 2013, 09:39:28 pm
Watching yesterday's grand prix.
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Post by: Lady Cavendish on 11 June, 2013, 11:10:15 am
Just finished an A level economics exam with a migraine. Bleurgh.

2 more exams this week. I'm going to stop collecting A levels after this year though, I never do anything with them, and although I find things interesting, I think I've done all the good ones now. Apart from maybe mandarin, I want to speak mandarin.

I'm considering another degree (law) but I think work is just too much in the way now.

*off to bed*
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Post by: Basil on 11 June, 2013, 12:08:36 pm
Wasting my time and your taxes in an airless room in Nottingham.
 
Oi.  Mr. It's all about me.   For dog's sake shut up occasionally.
 
Oh crap.  You're this month's Chair.
We're doomed.
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Post by: GothonaBrompton on 11 June, 2013, 02:46:32 pm
Watching from a 4th floor office in London at the helicopter circling round Piccadilly and Soho areas.  StopG8 protest today.  Our building is on their list.
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Post by: L CC on 11 June, 2013, 07:24:45 pm
Downside of living in town- we've just had a door to door chugger.

Quote from: fboab
No, no no no no
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Post by: Gus on 11 June, 2013, 07:31:55 pm
Writing job applications and packing for Vätternrundan and the ride to it.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 12 June, 2013, 07:04:54 am
.....sitting on a train soon bound for Liverpool. Deep Joy.
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Post by: Lady Cavendish on 12 June, 2013, 08:38:20 am
Applied Business A level today. 2nd of the 3 this week. I feel 18 again. (Shame I don't look it.) I was a bit more nervous when I did my 'real' A levels though.
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Post by: tiermat on 12 June, 2013, 09:39:49 am
Writing documentation.

That does imply the plural, though, doesn't it? Fraid not, it's the same document that I have been working on, in far too many iterations, for the last week and a bit.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 June, 2013, 09:01:03 pm
I appear to be listening to recordings of steam trains travelling on jointed track.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 June, 2013, 08:49:41 am
Marvelling at how crap the universal jobmatch site is.....
You are supposed to keep a log of all the jobs you apply for.
Except all the vacancies link to external websites, thus not updating your list of jobs you have applied for on your universal jobmatch profile   >:(
But at least doing it all online saves paper.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 14 June, 2013, 05:31:10 pm
Watching The Simpsons on Russian TV in a St Petersburg hotel room, trying not to think of the 15- hour train ride tomorrow.
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Post by: mr magnolia on 15 June, 2013, 10:27:17 am
Quote from: Salvatore on 14 June, 2013, 05:31:10 pm
Watching The Simpsons on Russian TV in a St Petersburg hotel room, trying not to think of the 15- hour train ride tomorrow.

<<Jealous>>

I'm pondering clearing up after 5 girls-worth of breakfast waffle mayhem.  Its dance show pandemonium weekend at maison magnolia!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 June, 2013, 10:31:20 am
Still trying to get to sleep from last night. Anaesthetics suck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 15 June, 2013, 11:54:28 am
Quote from: Kim on 15 June, 2013, 10:31:20 am
Still trying to get to sleep from last night. Anaesthetics suck.

Anaesthetics take a few days to get over in my experience, you have my commiserations.  Hope you feel a little better later xx
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 15 June, 2013, 01:18:24 pm
Swapping out the cracked bath.  The old one is on the patio, and I'm about to fit the cradle, waste and taps to the new one.  It's a double-ended bath with the taps against the wall, which is not easy.  Fortunately it is exactly the same as the old bath so the carefully bent pipework is all re-usable.

Broke 3 tiles due to a hidden bracket which I assume my f-i-l put there, and had been tiled over.  Fortunately I have spares.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 16 June, 2013, 02:29:20 pm
Giving my reduced in price and  looking unloved Bargain Bonsai from Aldi a good watering & feed.
Fingers crossed it'll recover as it's looking a bit poorly at the moment!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 16 June, 2013, 04:32:10 pm
Eating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 June, 2013, 06:09:48 pm
Heading home on the bus.

We've spent a fantastic afternoon at Streatham Kite Festival, during which I may have found a supplier for my drug of choice - Indian fighter kites.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 16 June, 2013, 08:32:26 pm
Shaking my accoustic guitar, trying to get a plectrum out of the sound box. Grrr!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 16 June, 2013, 09:40:52 pm
Phew. At home now after 6 days in the sim....  :o
Knackered. Good for another 6 months now.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 June, 2013, 04:36:16 pm
Having a sick day. Ice Cold In Alex has just started. It's the first decent thing that's appeared on the telly all day!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 June, 2013, 10:56:28 am
Alternating between work and not-work.

Work involves making sense of, and parsing, a mahoosive chunk of XML that is returned by one of our servers whilst non-work consists of a roughly equal split between looking at the Tour Divide leaderboard (and feeling bummed because I wasn't able to do it this year) and having unsound thoughts about a possible n+11

1 - 'Proper' fixed-gear 29er so I don't have to faff around swapping wheels on the GreenMachine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 19 June, 2013, 07:11:29 pm
Moping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 19 June, 2013, 07:17:20 pm
Speccing up a possible n+1 ...
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Post by: matthew on 19 June, 2013, 07:22:26 pm
Sitting in the office killing time before I get the next train home and windering how much of a fight I shall have at Ascot today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 19 June, 2013, 07:40:08 pm
Relaxing with a glass of wine before going to bed for a 5am show (at work).
Today I sorted out the garage and made it far more functional. :D

Hubby however, sat on the couch and drank a beer. (He did cook din dins)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 June, 2013, 07:59:54 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 19 June, 2013, 07:11:29 pm
Moping.
Proffering tea an cake
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 June, 2013, 08:00:23 pm
Waiting for a penguin to come home so I can have dinner
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 June, 2013, 08:06:02 pm
Eating skittles to celebrate having done the online shopping.  Random foods will arrive at the Den tomorrow evening.

And summoning the gumption to get out the door....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 June, 2013, 08:12:08 pm
Sitting outside. At a pub. Outside. In the open. In summer clothes!! Outside!

OMG!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 June, 2013, 08:42:44 pm
Sitting on the terrace at the Thistle hotel Heathrow drinking a bottle of wine surrounded by French OAPs. The hotel is a bit rundown but the terrace is fantastic. it's about 70m from the runway and we are all watching the planes land at 30 second intervals. Every time an Air France one lands there is much excitement,
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 19 June, 2013, 09:01:30 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 19 June, 2013, 08:12:08 pm
Sitting outside. At a pub. Outside. In the open. In summer clothes!! Outside!

OMG!
It's a glitch in the Matrix, Mr. Anderson ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 19 June, 2013, 10:58:56 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 19 June, 2013, 07:59:54 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 19 June, 2013, 07:11:29 pm
Moping.
Proffering tea an cake

Ah, thanks MrsP.  I got over myself and went round my friend's house to play with her puppy.  Which was a bit like tea and cake only cuddlier and nibblier and incredibly lovable. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 20 June, 2013, 06:54:31 am
Bored at work and waiting for more of you lot to wake up and be interesting!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 June, 2013, 07:03:31 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 20 June, 2013, 06:54:31 am
Bored at work and waiting for more of you lot to wake up and be interesting!

OK, I'm up, but don't place any bets on me being interesting - I'll leave that to someone else.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 June, 2013, 07:15:04 am
Well, I'm up, but I'm still at that staring glumly into the top of a cup of coffee stage.  Not very entertaining, I'm afraid.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 June, 2013, 07:23:19 am
And I'm dragging myself into some semblance of functionality so I can go in to work early via a site to reboot their somewhat miserable server.... must go.  Soon.  Very soon.  After this coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 20 June, 2013, 08:15:04 am
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 20 June, 2013, 06:54:31 am
Bored at work and waiting for more of you lot to wake up and be interesting!
I'm bored at work most days. This lot don't help enough, unfortunately.

Back to the OP: Looking at job sites. Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 20 June, 2013, 09:30:22 am
Ok, day just got more interesting.  About to be interviewed by a TV crew, doing a programme on one of the people here.  Can't say more than that but it sounds dreadful.  I shall be deadpan and tired.

Edit: They thought again and decided against interviewing me  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 June, 2013, 10:26:51 am
Anyone wanting to interview me today would get all they deserved.

I'm currently pretending the migraine heading in is something else entirely.

Unsuccessfully.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 20 June, 2013, 10:39:41 am
Thinking of (and worrying about) our friends in Bareges, a village on the Tourmalet devastated by flooding (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=73051.0).   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 June, 2013, 11:01:26 am
Waiting to see if I will be picked as a juror in a rape trial.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 June, 2013, 11:47:36 am
Still waiting. They asked all the potential jurors to leave the court for 20 minutes while they did some law stuff. That was 90 minutes ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 20 June, 2013, 11:56:07 am
I don't think "Good luck" seems appropriate in this sort of situation, so best wishes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 June, 2013, 12:22:53 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 19 June, 2013, 08:00:23 pm
Waiting for a penguin to come home so I can have dinner

Regurgitated krill?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 June, 2013, 12:26:26 pm
Setting up a meeting with Attila the Hungarian
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 June, 2013, 12:43:59 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 June, 2013, 12:22:53 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 19 June, 2013, 08:00:23 pm
Waiting for a penguin to come home so I can have dinner

Regurgitated krill?
Har! No, thai green curry as it happens
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 June, 2013, 12:44:41 pm
Grumbling about my orange being crap.
I hate it when fruit is crap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 June, 2013, 12:47:37 pm
I'm waiting for my temperature to come down.

Hot flushes -  what? ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 June, 2013, 12:48:29 pm
Looking at the weather forecast and wondering what there is to do in Tain, in the rain.
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Post by: mcshroom on 20 June, 2013, 01:10:13 pm
Isn't there a big distillery just outside Tain? I'm sure we rode past there last year
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 June, 2013, 01:13:28 pm
Mmm yes, but I've been to loads already and I don't even like whisky ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 20 June, 2013, 01:58:10 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 20 June, 2013, 12:48:29 pm
in Tain, in the rain.

Does it fall on the plain, in the main?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 20 June, 2013, 02:14:29 pm
Baking a cake  :P
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 June, 2013, 03:17:34 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 June, 2013, 11:47:36 am
Still waiting. They asked all the potential jurors to leave the court for 20 minutes while they did some law stuff. That was 90 minutes ago.
They kept us waiting for over 2 hours because of administrative problems. We weren't allowed to go anywhere in case they needed us back in a hurry so we were standing/sitting in the corridor with no access to food or water from half ten till after half twelve. Once they got us in they balloted the jury and got the 15, then read in the indictment out which had so many charges it took 15 minutes to read them all out.  :o Then they had a break so the jury could get sorted and 2 were released so 2 more had to be balloted - and then they had to read the full indictment out again, which took another 15 minutes.  :o So by the time the non-chosen were released, we were tired, hungry, thirsty, grumpy and very very glad not to be picked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Arch on 20 June, 2013, 03:45:07 pm
Sewing carrier bags onto a skirt.

Just another normal day...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 20 June, 2013, 07:56:41 pm
Writing questions for the pub quiz next week.  So if you want an unfair advantage and are good at hacking...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 June, 2013, 08:14:21 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 20 June, 2013, 12:44:41 pm
Grumbling about my orange being crap.
I hate it when fruit is crap.

I know where there's an orange that's probably worse...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 June, 2013, 08:55:28 pm
Quote from: Kim on 20 June, 2013, 08:14:21 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 20 June, 2013, 12:44:41 pm
Grumbling about my orange being crap.
I hate it when fruit is crap.

I know where there's an orange that's probably worse...
Me too.  It lives in my phone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 21 June, 2013, 02:03:32 am
I've given up lying in bed with a searchlight torch trying to spot the mossie that's buzzing around.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 21 June, 2013, 02:16:02 am
Feeling awake as my insides don't feel right, so grumbling away.
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Post by: Vince on 21 June, 2013, 09:23:03 am
Eating lunch to stave off morning bordom and because all todays meetings are during lunch time :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 June, 2013, 09:56:03 am
Fighting what feels like a losing battle with the two Ds (diabetes and depression)  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 21 June, 2013, 10:04:31 am
On another call with Attila the Hungarian


It shouldn't, but it really tickles me
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 June, 2013, 10:30:40 am
For a second day I am suffering from a serious case of CBA.    :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 June, 2013, 10:45:37 am
Resenting being at work instead of sitting in a court reading my book.  ;D

Also, envying bobb who has been cycling down hill for over ten miles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 June, 2013, 10:50:23 am
Quote from: Andrij on 21 June, 2013, 10:30:40 am
For a second day I am suffering from a serious case of CBA.    :(
This. Oh so very much.
Doesn't help that it's incredibly grey and 'orrible outside.

First day of summer, indeed ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 21 June, 2013, 11:06:53 am
Quote from: Andrij on 21 June, 2013, 10:30:40 am
For a second day I am suffering from a serious case of CBA.    :(

If only it was only the second day...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 21 June, 2013, 11:12:53 am
Well into a second week here. :(
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Post by: mcshroom on 21 June, 2013, 11:20:36 am
Sneazing
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Post by: L CC on 21 June, 2013, 11:33:06 am
Quote from: clarion on 21 June, 2013, 11:12:53 am
Well into a second week here. :(

At least the second decade. In fact, my life is a long string of CBA, briefly interspersed with moments of enthusiasm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 June, 2013, 12:08:57 pm
Faffing.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 June, 2013, 12:21:17 pm
Quote from: Kim on 21 June, 2013, 12:08:57 pm
Faffing.

Me too.

Which, given the state the Den is in is probably not a good idea.  One more coffee, then housework....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 21 June, 2013, 01:05:20 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 June, 2013, 12:21:17 pm
Quote from: Kim on 21 June, 2013, 12:08:57 pm
Faffing.

Me too.

Which, given the state the Den is in is probably not a good idea.  One more coffee, then housework....

Do you need help with the faffage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l7nNwj8YPw

No? oh.
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Post by: matthew on 21 June, 2013, 01:07:17 pm
Preparing to review the formatting of 40 documents totalling 1500 pages, and trying to work out how I leave the office by 15:10 to get home before Ascot turns out.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 21 June, 2013, 01:23:38 pm
Having spent the morning in an abortive attempt to fit a woodworking vice to a bench I am about to have some lunch and then go shopping.

Of course it isn't a five minute job to fit a very heavy, grease covered object single-handed to a bench that wasn't designed for it..  It was just blind optimism that made me think it would be.  There aren't even any instructions that I would have ignored.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 21 June, 2013, 01:46:16 pm
Trying to cheer myself up after a very demoralising and negative hospital appointment by eating a piece of amazingly indulgent chocolate cake made by a colleague with incredible baking skills. It's almost helping. #chocolateheaven
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Post by: peliroja on 21 June, 2013, 01:49:37 pm
Chocolate cake therapy sounds just the ticket. Sorry to hear about the rubbish appointment, Lady C. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 June, 2013, 02:22:12 pm
Not being pleased about being at work on a Friday.

Trying to cure my hunger by contantly putting money in the snax machine.  (It's not working)

Wondering what to do now that a particular application appears to have fallen over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 June, 2013, 02:23:15 pm
Clock watching.

Waiting for <near-enough> 15:30 to roll around so I can drive 3 hours to get home.

Damn clock appears to be going backwards :(
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Post by: LindaG on 21 June, 2013, 02:24:35 pm
Emptying the loft.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 21 June, 2013, 03:20:13 pm
Vacillitating between packing up my office for the move and doing some data analysis, having wild thoughts about RFID tagging haggis for ecological surveys and wondering if it will stop raining by 4pm when I am due at a barbecue.

And doing all this hard work with a cold.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 June, 2013, 05:06:45 pm
Listening to the soft quacking of ducks in the garden at our B&B
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 21 June, 2013, 05:33:21 pm
Waiting for my flight to be called. I just love flying the redeye home :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 June, 2013, 05:38:47 pm
Seriously considering going for a rip round the lanes once I've had something to eat ...
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Post by: matthew on 21 June, 2013, 06:18:38 pm
reviewing documents at home. Penalty for beating the Ascot crush on the train was ~25 documents to review for formatting etc.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 21 June, 2013, 07:35:36 pm
Now waiting for the luggage of a person who was taken ill to be found and 'offloaded'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 June, 2013, 07:37:45 pm
Beering.
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Post by: sojournermike on 21 June, 2013, 07:50:47 pm
Working... Wanting my beer and curry  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 21 June, 2013, 08:11:21 pm
Not gardening.  Just cba this evening...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 June, 2013, 08:29:36 pm
Going through the books on my Amazon wishlist and adding them to a list on my library account so that I can reserve them when I've read all the ones I'm currently waiting to be available for me, then removing them from my Amazon wishlist so I don't accidentally buy them. I was just adding everything straight to my reservation requests with the library until it occurred to me that if they all came in at once, I'd struggle to read them all at once!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 June, 2013, 08:31:41 pm
Indulging in a facepalm moment having just discovered that the disc rotors I ordered earlier today are, in fact, the wrong size - my somewhat addled brain managed to mistake 160 for 180 :facepalm:

Sorting out an exchange isn't an issue, but it's an extra bit of (admittedly self-inflicted) faff I could do without right now.

Hey ho.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 21 June, 2013, 08:40:14 pm
Re-hydrating inappropriately after The Day From Hell at work today, whilst watching the sun set over some red-tiled rooftops.
Is it my imagination or is it setting a little earlier this evening?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 21 June, 2013, 10:12:58 pm
Still recovering from taking my nearly 16 year old on a birthday shopping trip. I think I would rather be in hell than in Primark. Thank god that's over for another year!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 21 June, 2013, 10:18:58 pm
Quote from: Feline on 21 June, 2013, 10:12:58 pm
Still recovering from taking my nearly 16 year old on a birthday shopping trip. I think I would rather be in hell than in Primark. Thank god that's over for another year!
;D
Choice!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 21 June, 2013, 11:30:19 pm
Hoping the rain outside clears soon so I can set off on my C2C attempt. Don't fancy starting in heavy rain and sqally wind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 22 June, 2013, 06:19:39 am
Doing the last shift of my secondment (hoping for a quiet day).

Edit:  So please post more pictures of cats or something to cheer me up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 22 June, 2013, 09:11:08 am
Loafing on my friend's sofa waiting for last night's coffee to re-heat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 22 June, 2013, 09:44:33 am
Summoning the wherewithall to cut the grass
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 22 June, 2013, 09:46:57 am
Musing over the fact that my licence fee paid fro someone to work out the length of the runway in Fast and Furious 6 ::-) on the BBC news site FFS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23005848
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 June, 2013, 09:49:44 am
Finishing my breakfast then heading off to take care of the various chores that need to be done - first order of business, drop something off at the LBS.

At some point, I plan to catch up on some of the sleep I haven't had over the past day or two.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 June, 2013, 09:54:55 am
Trying to fix and Android tablet.

Not mine, thankfully, but a neighbours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 22 June, 2013, 10:08:36 am
Failing to fettle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 June, 2013, 10:38:35 am
Not going out to get a hair cut.
It's raining, so it might be a good time to go - I sort of hope that less people feel inclined to leave the house just now, so there may not be too many people waiting.
I hate the sitting waiting bit.  A three day old copy of the Birmingham Mail, a couple of tatty car mags (not even decent ones), a jar of lollipops for the smalls. (I'd really like a lollipop), but worst of all, having to sit and watch while the barber and the other customers in front of me engage in that easy style bloke conversation that I just can't do.
Watching while the barber "styles" cutting off all of someone's hair.  What the hell is all the faffing about?  He's going to have that bloke "no hair" hair cut.  Just get on with it!  And now the mirror bit.  ::-)  Why?  What's he going to say?  "No I don't like it.  Can you put it all back on again?"
Then when it's my turn.  The barber will try a few blokey opening gambits.  I try to respond but I either have no idea what he's taking about, or if I do, I have virtually no interest or knowledge.

Just cut my hair.  Don't talk to me.


Oops, looks like this should have been in the grumble thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 June, 2013, 12:28:31 pm
Sitting at Greystoke cycle cafe drinking tea and choosing cake. I think at othis speed c2cinnaday will have to wait. Off to Caldbeck next :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tonyh on 22 June, 2013, 12:29:21 pm

I'm admiring Basil's post!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: howieduck on 22 June, 2013, 12:35:17 pm
Taking my nan (89) to visit my sister (41) in the hospice.
Much as I love my nan, I do wish it was the other way round!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 June, 2013, 01:03:12 pm
A week-and-a-bit's worth of accumulated laundry.

And, bang on cue, as the first load finished it started to bloody well rain  >:(

EDIT: and cleaning the worst of the cack off the Green Machine in preparation for tomorrow's bit of sociability.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 22 June, 2013, 11:40:37 pm
Watching 'Only when I laugh'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 June, 2013, 08:01:04 am
Eating a sodidge sandwich.

For any Danny Baker fans, I should inform you that it's neither red nor brown sauce.
Mustard!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 June, 2013, 08:30:15 am
Waiting for the cattery to open, so I can deliver two mildly annoyed cats.

Kai is annoyed because I put a board and car battery in front of the cat flap, so he can't return to the "wild" after his breakfast, and Zev is annoyed because Kai hasn't buggered off outside, where he's supposed to be, and not in her domain, aka the house.

They're not really aggravated, since there's no blood and fur flying, but Zev has found a location to sit, where she can keep an eye on him, and he'll mild growl when I wander past him.

The cattery opens at ten, so I just hope that they'll keep themselves this easily available when I need to grab them, and put them into their carriers!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 23 June, 2013, 09:53:30 am
Sat in Work!!!  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 23 June, 2013, 05:10:38 pm
Resting following some extensive de-wallpapering of my living room, and pricing up various options to replace flooring, wall covering. etc.

Wish I knew what I was doing, but there's only one way to find out!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 24 June, 2013, 09:57:09 pm
Putting together a couple of job applications and rewriting my CV to english, somehow it's
slightly more time consuming than I thought.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 26 June, 2013, 12:15:15 am
Just doing that little 'eeeeee!' thing that goes around your head when youve just made 4 different interlocking travel/accommodation bookings for 5 people, 4 of whom will make your life hell if you've got the dates wrong... (its two cans of San Miguel that helps you along the road to actually taking the plunge and commit the card!)

so, lets drive from edinburgh to plymouth, via a family stopover in york and lets eurocamp brittany for a week and then go to Paris for 3 days to be there for the end of the no.100 Tour.  Fab. Then lets go to zeebrugge and hop over to Hull and thus back up north to sunny Embra.

Ok, lets just blur over the first bit of the trip and concentrate on the bit after Roscoff...

Haven't been to Brittany for a long while - mrs m used to go there with her family, when younger, and I've cycled there a few times with, er, a previous lady, when I too was much younger and working in Devonland  *whistles nonchalantly*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 June, 2013, 12:36:22 am
Turning off teh shiny and uploading the day's code to the fileserver, so the backup fairy sees it.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 26 June, 2013, 01:16:20 am
Wondering why I have such aweful concentration.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 26 June, 2013, 01:27:34 am
Followed by burning my plastic coffee bean grinder as electric hob are a fucking pain.

So dinner.  Boil in the bag cheesy peas or spicy paneer
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 June, 2013, 07:11:31 am
Attempting to read yacf, smoke an fag, drink coffee and use electric razor all at the same time.
I hope I remember that I have half an un-shaved face when I finish typing this.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 June, 2013, 08:07:46 am
Quote from: mr magnolia on 26 June, 2013, 12:15:15 am
Just doing that little 'eeeeee!' thing that goes around your head when youve just made 4 different interlocking travel/accommodation bookings for 5 people, 4 of whom will make your life hell if you've got the dates wrong... (its two cans of San Miguel that helps you along the road to actually taking the plunge and commit the card!)

so, lets drive from edinburgh to plymouth, via a family stopover in york and lets eurocamp brittany for a week and then go to Paris for 3 days to be there for the end of the no.100 Tour.  Fab. Then lets go to zeebrugge and hop over to Hull and thus back up north to sunny Embra.

Ok, lets just blur over the first bit of the trip and concentrate on the bit after Roscoff...

Haven't been to Brittany for a long while - mrs m used to go there with her family, when younger, and I've cycled there a few times with, er, a previous lady, when I too was much younger and working in Devonland  *whistles nonchalantly*

Does this help?

http://en.tourdemanche.com/
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Post by: Ham on 26 June, 2013, 10:37:41 am
Quote from: Ham on 21 June, 2013, 10:04:31 am
On another call with Attila the Hungarian


It shouldn't, but it really tickles me

On another call. It appears Attila is a common name in Hungary land
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 June, 2013, 10:54:56 am
Quote from: Ham on 26 June, 2013, 10:37:41 am
Quote from: Ham on 21 June, 2013, 10:04:31 am
On another call with Attila the Hungarian


It shouldn't, but it really tickles me

On another call. It appears Attila is a common name in Hungary land

Went to Uni with an Attila (emphasis on 1st syllable, we were told).  He was the only Attila in his 'crowd', but they all swore that it was a common name over there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 June, 2013, 12:18:15 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 June, 2013, 07:11:31 am
Attempting to read yacf, smoke an fag, drink coffee and use electric razor all at the same time.
I hope I remember that I have half an un-shaved face when I finish typing this.  :facepalm:

I never realised you were a white van man...   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 June, 2013, 12:41:38 pm
Quote from: Kim on 26 June, 2013, 12:18:15 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 June, 2013, 07:11:31 am
Attempting to read yacf, smoke an fag, drink coffee and use electric razor all at the same time.
I hope I remember that I have half an un-shaved face when I finish typing this.  :facepalm:

I never realised you were a white van man...   ;D
;D

However, I'm nowhere near their league.  To be even close, I'd also have to have some sort of ranty phone-in program on the radio plus a copy of the Daily Wail open on my lap.
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Post by: Jaded on 26 June, 2013, 01:52:46 pm
Right.

I'm off to get wood.
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Post by: clarion on 26 June, 2013, 01:57:22 pm
It wasa the mention of the Daily Mail, wasn't it?  Come on now, you're among friends.  You can confess.
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Post by: Kim on 26 June, 2013, 01:59:12 pm
Watching someone park one of those Car2Go cars outside.  Note for Basil: I'm not in a pub.
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Post by: Basil on 26 June, 2013, 02:09:13 pm
Congratulations.  You're the only person I know who has ever seen one moving.  :D
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 26 June, 2013, 03:10:05 pm
Ooh! Page 666!  This should really be a more beastly thread.
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Post by: Chris S on 26 June, 2013, 03:15:02 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 26 June, 2013, 03:10:05 pm
Ooh! Page 666!  This should really be a more beastly thread.

Definitely an Omen.
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Post by: tiermat on 26 June, 2013, 03:18:06 pm
Trying to fix an issue with a Java Tomcat application

Might be less painful just to go outside and shoot myself...
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Post by: Andrij on 26 June, 2013, 03:19:57 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 26 June, 2013, 03:10:05 pm
Ooh! Page 666!  This should really be a more beastly thread.

 :demon:


HTH
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 June, 2013, 03:36:33 pm
Considering buying a 'season pass' for this year's Proms.

I always intend to go to more of these, but usually only manage a handful.  I'm thinking if I take the plunge and buy a season pass I'll have plenty of incentive to go - I'd start saving money from the 40th concert.  I also need to consider that I won't be around for the last week of concerts.  (And before you ask, the pass is not transferable - you have to submit passport photos to purchase.)
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Post by: Gattopardo on 26 June, 2013, 04:26:23 pm
Attempting to gain the gumption to go to the Science Museum late, which this evening is about humour.
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Post by: David Martin on 26 June, 2013, 07:25:59 pm
Trying to track a plane online that is heading from Beijing to Ulaan Batur.
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Post by: Chris S on 26 June, 2013, 08:28:19 pm
Very very much regretting eating tea  :sick:.

 :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 June, 2013, 11:30:18 am
The whole office has ground to a halt for five minutes to watch a fox scamper across the waste ground outside.
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Post by: tiermat on 27 June, 2013, 11:33:57 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 June, 2013, 11:30:18 am
The whole office has ground to a halt for five minutes to watch a fox scamper across the waste ground outside.

We had something similar last week, but in our case it was an idiot in an Audi who had left his handbrake off, so it had rolled across the car park and into someone else's car.

The whole of this floor had to come down to our end of the building to look out of the window at it!
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Post by: Ham on 27 June, 2013, 11:35:41 am
Quote from: tiermat on 27 June, 2013, 11:33:57 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 June, 2013, 11:30:18 am
The whole office has ground to a halt for five minutes to watch a fox scamper across the waste ground outside.

We had something similar last week, but in our case it was an idiot in an Audi who had left his handbrake off, so it had rolled across the car park and into someone else's car.

The whole of this floor had to come down to our end of the building to look out of the window at it!

Electric handrakes ftw  :demon:
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Post by: Kim on 27 June, 2013, 12:01:50 pm
Voodoo programming.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 June, 2013, 12:51:38 pm
Watching Sharapova and De Brito on iPlayer.

I had to turn the volume down. FFS  :facepalm:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 June, 2013, 04:35:05 pm
Twiddling my thumbs in Stavanger airport.....delayed
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Post by: Basil on 27 June, 2013, 06:16:32 pm
Enjoying the thought that I have just broken up until a week Monday.
Between now and then I will have done my annual ride to Wales, done some camping in the Lake District and walked up a mountain with the boys.

I've worked out when I'll start the ride.  It will be "When it stops raining.", which will probably be late tomorrow or just after midnight.
I need to invent an alarm clock that I can set to "No more rain".
It will probably involve seaweed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 June, 2013, 12:54:58 am
Quote from: Basil on 27 June, 2013, 06:16:32 pm
I need to invent an alarm clock that I can set to "No more rain".

*peers at interweb-connected rain guage*

*peers at Raspberry Pi*

*hands Basil seaweed*

*goes to bed*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 28 June, 2013, 03:10:39 am
working in Chicago.  Ten past nine (pm) and we've got a bid for China to finish off in the next hour.  Then it's beer o'clock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 June, 2013, 06:45:05 am
Quote from: mike on 28 June, 2013, 03:10:39 am
working in Chicago.  Ten past nine (pm) and we've got a bid for China to finish off in the next hour.  Then it's beer o'clock.

is that $/sq. mile or per head of population?

Big numbers in either case.

If your bid wins will you be President/King/whatever?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 June, 2013, 10:05:51 am
Quote from: jogler on 28 June, 2013, 06:45:05 am
Quote from: mike on 28 June, 2013, 03:10:39 am
working in Chicago.  Ten past nine (pm) and we've got a bid for China to finish off in the next hour.  Then it's beer o'clock.

is that $/sq. mile or per head of population?

Big numbers in either case.

If your bid wins will you be President/King/whatever?

Chairman.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 28 June, 2013, 10:22:25 am
Quote from: mike on 28 June, 2013, 03:10:39 am
working in Chicago.  Ten past nine (pm) and we've got a bid for China to finish off in the next hour. 

How much you offering for each plate?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 28 June, 2013, 01:28:05 pm
I'm house/doggy sitting until Monday afternoon, the area is crap, but the money is good.
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Post by: Vince on 28 June, 2013, 01:35:16 pm
Listening to music suggested by the tune association thread
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Post by: tiermat on 28 June, 2013, 01:42:18 pm
Looking at the carp weather and thinking "I have a 3 hour drive in that!"

Currently not raining, but it has been, on and off, all day :(  I hate driving in rain, it brings out the idiots.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 28 June, 2013, 02:34:11 pm
Staring at the same weather and trying not to pack my winter gear for tomorrows audax. It is going to be dry and sunny tomorrow*!






*or else
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 June, 2013, 02:35:57 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 28 June, 2013, 02:34:11 pm
It is going to be dry and sunny tomorrow*!






*or else

No, you're OK. It will be.  I've ordered it for my ride.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 28 June, 2013, 02:39:07 pm
MiniGB fell asleep on me on the bus on the way home from swimming, carried her to a coffee shop and she's had an hour and a half sleep on a sofa whilst I've caught up with t'Internet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 June, 2013, 02:41:44 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 June, 2013, 02:35:57 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 28 June, 2013, 02:34:11 pm
It is going to be dry and sunny tomorrow*!






*or else

No, you're OK. It will be.  I've ordered it for my ride.  :thumbsup:

YAY! the sun is trying to escape now! At least in Cambs it is...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 June, 2013, 02:44:18 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 28 June, 2013, 02:34:11 pm
Staring at the same weather and trying not to pack my winter gear for tomorrows audax. It is going to be dry and sunny tomorrow*!

A load of us are going to be indoors in West Bromwich, so you're probably in luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 28 June, 2013, 03:45:43 pm
Riding my bike in the goods lift.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 June, 2013, 03:46:44 pm
Quote from: nikki on 28 June, 2013, 03:45:43 pm
Riding my bike in the goods lift.

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 June, 2013, 03:47:35 pm
Quote from: nikki on 28 June, 2013, 03:45:43 pm
Riding my bike in the goods lift.

Is this you?

(http://www.goinggoingbike.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Riding-small-bike.jpg)
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Post by: nikki on 28 June, 2013, 03:52:53 pm
No.

I'm wearing jeans  ;D
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Post by: clarion on 28 June, 2013, 04:08:52 pm
Aha!  But you don't deny the co-respondent shoes! ;D
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Post by: nikki on 28 June, 2013, 04:54:24 pm
They're my best ones!
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Post by: interzen on 28 June, 2013, 05:55:37 pm
Cleaning the kitchen floor.

Times like this I'm very glad that Shimano don't use DOT fluid in their hydraulic brakes ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 June, 2013, 06:06:42 pm
I've just put the camera battery on charge & will subsequently checking the settings & flash in preperation for photographing MemSec's maurauders.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 June, 2013, 07:15:29 pm
Looking at the world wide window and wondering why I'm having yoyo emotions.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 June, 2013, 11:55:12 pm
Having a last cup of coffee before setting off on a long ride to South West Wales at midnight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 June, 2013, 11:58:47 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 June, 2013, 11:55:12 pm
Having a last cup of coffee before setting off on a long ride to South West Wales at midnight.

Cor, have fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 June, 2013, 12:02:28 am
Quote from: Basil on 28 June, 2013, 11:55:12 pm
at midnight.

So how come I'm still here, faffing?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 June, 2013, 12:04:12 am
Quote from: Basil on 29 June, 2013, 12:02:28 am
Quote from: Basil on 28 June, 2013, 11:55:12 pm
at midnight.

So how come I'm still here, faffing?

Are you, by any chance, in the pub?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 29 June, 2013, 12:09:02 am
Quote from: Basil on 29 June, 2013, 12:02:28 am
Quote from: Basil on 28 June, 2013, 11:55:12 pm
at midnight.

So how come I'm still here, faffing?

No overtaking rule for night rides, innit.


Have a great ride, Basil.


(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 June, 2013, 12:45:02 am
I rather wish I was doing an Exciting Solo Night Ride. The trouble is, riding round here is a bit boring.

Never mind. Next week I will be riding up to Tan Hill with lovely people.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ewan Houzami on 29 June, 2013, 12:45:25 am
Arguing with some tosser on the Graeme Obree article in the Telegraph comments while having an emotional 'where's my life gone?' experience watching Portishead at Glasters on the telly. Jeez. Twenty years ago...

Is there a Glastonbury thread somewhere?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 29 June, 2013, 04:44:49 am
last preparations for yet another 300 km sportive  :-\ but I've only slept 1,5 hours so it must be a warm up for LEL
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 29 June, 2013, 06:11:53 am
Just getting ready for first ride for 7 or 8 weeks. It will be a very gentle pootle, but  so been looking forward to it
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 June, 2013, 06:49:49 am
Not Sleeping. This is deeply suboptimal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 29 June, 2013, 08:38:51 am
Well it was the one day this week I had an opportunity for a lie in but got woken at 8am by next door screaming at her kids. Again. They're solid brick walls ffs.

So I'm loading Minecraft up and mooching around on here.

I'm going to have to say something but it's been over a year now, should have said something far sooner but I hate confrontation and had hoped they might realise they were being inconsiderate poops.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 June, 2013, 10:01:23 am
Just woke up on the train. Wondering if I was snoring. *waves in the general direction of joglerville, and that of rower40 and tiptop*
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Post by: andrewc on 29 June, 2013, 10:16:48 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 29 June, 2013, 10:01:23 am
Just woke up on the train. Wondering if I was snoring.

I thought that was my trick  ;)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 29 June, 2013, 11:33:48 pm
I am lying in Jane's bed waiting for Mrs. Wow to join me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 June, 2013, 11:55:05 pm
I'm sufficiently tired and eye-strained that I thought the above post was by andrewc when I first read it...
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Post by: andrewc on 30 June, 2013, 12:18:38 am
Quote from: Kim on 29 June, 2013, 11:55:05 pm
I'm sufficiently tired and eye-strained that I thought the above post was by andrewc when I first read it...
You made me spill BEER Kim !  Lol.
Me, with Jane & Mrs Wow ! With my reputation !

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 30 June, 2013, 12:27:09 am
Inna pub, drinking BEER , listening to Led Zeppelin, relaxing after doing 3  weeks ironing & 3 _months_ housework..
Slovenliness is an easy habit to fall into....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 30 June, 2013, 08:00:46 am
Only 8am and I'm melting already. Suspect I might be ill. Boo.

But apart from that, I'm watching yesterday's MotoGP and ripping a DVD box set to the 'puter so I can watch them on my tablet in bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 June, 2013, 08:20:01 am
Smugly digesting breakfast. Just 200K to do today, in sunny sunny sun. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas summer. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 June, 2013, 09:30:35 am
Sorting the camera & a chair to take up position at km470.4 on the Holl 600 route.Sun cream will be needed :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 30 June, 2013, 09:37:07 am
Drinking coffee in Easingwold.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 June, 2013, 09:42:11 am
Sitting in Jane's garden thinking that this is too warm for a long bike ride. Luckily we are doing a short one and there will be tea, cake and ice cream.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 30 June, 2013, 10:06:43 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 30 June, 2013, 09:42:11 am
Sitting in Jane's garden thinking that this is too warm for a long bike ride. Luckily we are doing a short one and there will be tea, cake and ice cream.

Sitting doing sweet FA as the weather is too bad for a bike ride (wind <50mph gusts and horizontal showers) :(

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 30 June, 2013, 10:12:05 am
Relaxing now that my daughter's birthday sleepover guests have departed. Only two of them, but I'm glad it wasn't more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 June, 2013, 10:17:06 am
After consuming eeenormous breakfast, (any breakfast at all is unusual for me), I am considering 2nd poo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 30 June, 2013, 10:19:15 am
My double Monsoon Malabar espresso saw to that a while ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 June, 2013, 02:19:25 pm
Just had 13 hours sleep.  And I'm still tired.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 30 June, 2013, 02:49:26 pm
I have my feet up, recovering after a weekend camping with the Cubs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 June, 2013, 03:11:36 pm
I just threw three teaspoons in the bin, instead of washing them.  Brain obviously isn't working.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 June, 2013, 05:00:20 pm
I'm cooking my dinner  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 June, 2013, 06:21:18 pm
Waiting for my dinner to appear, and wondering how my experimental sourdough is going to turn out this time....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 30 June, 2013, 07:18:00 pm
Looking at the photos of my baby brother's farmhouse renovation in the Haute Pyrenées. It's wonderful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 June, 2013, 07:51:58 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 30 June, 2013, 07:18:00 pm
Looking at the photos of my baby brother's farmhouse renovation in the Haute Pyrenées. It's wonderful.

Feeling a tiny bit jealous and wondering why I don't have any rellies living anywhere useful...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 June, 2013, 07:57:19 pm
Half watching Grease on Film 4. It's the Beauty School Dropout bit just now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 01 July, 2013, 08:55:46 am
Whilst waiting for my car to be sorted I have wandered into my new office and started unpacking. Then I will find a coffee and collect the car, start packing and go on holiday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 July, 2013, 06:54:03 pm
I am about to go to my pilates class, for which I must try to stay awake..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 01 July, 2013, 06:59:59 pm
Regretting eating a whole 170g Toblerone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 July, 2013, 10:44:57 pm
Listening to loud music in the dark*    The volume control on the amp is only at 10 o'clock and I can feel the bass through the floor.  In all the time I've lived in this flat I'm surprised I've only had 2 complaints about noise  ;D  1930's purpose built flats, good sound insulation.

* Apart from the monitor and the comforting glow of the valves..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 03 July, 2013, 02:39:13 pm
I'm about to start removing all of my clothing so that I can dance naked around the house and garden.

For the first time in my working life I've got a refund coming from HMRC because I overpaid in January. Tonight I'm looking at new bikes, new shoes and holidays on the interwebs!

The bad news is I won't have it for approx. six weeks :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 03 July, 2013, 02:55:26 pm
I've just baked a cake
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 July, 2013, 08:10:22 am
Listening to it raining datsun cogs   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 04 July, 2013, 02:43:28 pm
Sitting under the trees beside the Walter Scott monument in Embra.   2 hours to kill before the next train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 04 July, 2013, 02:47:29 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 June, 2013, 07:51:58 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 30 June, 2013, 07:18:00 pm
Looking at the photos of my baby brother's farmhouse renovation in the Haute Pyrenées. It's wonderful.

Feeling a tiny bit jealous and wondering why I don't have any rellies living anywhere useful...

Ah I empathise. My first wife was Irish (from the republic). She had few relatives, all of them in Ireland. Must have been the only one!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 July, 2013, 08:12:49 pm
Enjoying the company of my lads, a plate of chilli, a couple of pints of Black Sheep and a warm evening outside the Old Dungeon Ghyll in Great Langdale.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 04 July, 2013, 11:49:08 pm
Top place to be Basil. 

Just got home - left Orkney YESTERDAY !!! :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 05 July, 2013, 06:06:44 am
Recovering after enduring the life-draining dispair that is airport security.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 July, 2013, 11:32:49 am
Waiting for a locksmith.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 July, 2013, 11:37:58 am
Locked out?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 05 July, 2013, 11:55:41 am
Considering applying for a job in Orkney.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 July, 2013, 11:56:52 am
Quote from: clarion on 05 July, 2013, 11:37:58 am
Locked out?

Nah. Just lost my spare key.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 July, 2013, 12:06:40 pm
Wishing I didn't spend all day sitting in an office full of women that fucking hate each other. ;(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 July, 2013, 12:07:19 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 05 July, 2013, 11:56:52 am
Quote from: clarion on 05 July, 2013, 11:37:58 am
Locked out?

Nah. Just lost my spare key.

Oh bother.  Hope he turns up soon and sorts you out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 July, 2013, 12:20:26 pm
Waiting for something to be delivered ....

... then I'm going out for a bijou ride-ette.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 05 July, 2013, 12:43:47 pm
Quote from: clarion on 05 July, 2013, 12:07:19 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 05 July, 2013, 11:56:52 am
Quote from: clarion on 05 July, 2013, 11:37:58 am
Locked out?

Nah. Just lost my spare key.

Oh bother.  Hope he turns up soon and sorts you out.

Sorted. And I charmed a tenner off the price as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 05 July, 2013, 02:01:44 pm
Hoping I've finished stabbing myself with gear cables for now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 July, 2013, 03:18:32 pm
Multitasking.

Room 1 Laptop - work . Room 1 Desktop/monitor 1- YACF. Room 1 Desktop/mointor 2 - Tdf.  Room 2 TV - Tennis.

And they say men can't multitask. Pah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 July, 2013, 03:58:30 pm
And I now have a conference call open as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 July, 2013, 04:02:38 pm
Quote from: Ham on 05 July, 2013, 03:58:30 pm
And I now have a conference call open as well.

Working in your underpants with a beer on the go?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 05 July, 2013, 05:19:34 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 05 July, 2013, 04:02:38 pm
Quote from: Ham on 05 July, 2013, 03:58:30 pm
And I now have a conference call open as well.
Working in your underpants with a beer on the go?
BTDTGTTS (except for the beer bit)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 05 July, 2013, 05:23:57 pm
I love only working 4 days a week.

I'm watching tennis at home whilst MiniGB has a well earned nap. We spent the morning playing in the paddling pool and beach area in Bishop's Park. Nothing beats running around in cold water in your pants (MiniGB liked doing that too).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 05 July, 2013, 05:35:04 pm
Just did a big shop, for the Brompton, and loaded up the office fridge with drinks and yoghurts to keep me going for a week or two, as well as my supper on the train down to Devon for the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 July, 2013, 06:18:11 pm
Playing Dwarf Fortress ... and trying to decide what to have for my tea once my blood sugars have dropped a bit more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 05 July, 2013, 10:29:31 pm
Drinking wine and relishing it. We have just moved into a new place and the garden was *interesting* when we arrived:

hay meadow
bindweed
dock
the hugest and drunkest Pyrocanthus I have ever seen
f*****g ivy
brambles
giant ornamental grass, don't know what it is but it has spread well and is a bugger to shift.

Anyway, we have moved from a large 3 bed house with a double garage to a small 3 bed house with a single garage. The process of getting sorted has to be done in a particular order and the garden had to be sorted so the garage can be sorted then the house can be sorted.

So after a day of graft we now have:

a lawn
a number of shrubs which were hidden under the bindweed
docks without seedheads
the second hugest and drunkest Pyrocanthus I have ever seen
rather ill f*****g ivy
trained blackberries
two raised beds planted with the runner and french bean plants and squish plants which were taking up annoying space in the garage.

and I have a glass of wine  :D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 July, 2013, 10:41:20 pm
Don't suppose you want to do ours?

It's armpit high with - to use the technical term - green stuff.

Some spiky.  Some stings.  Lots causes sneezing.  There are also bees.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 05 July, 2013, 10:50:04 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 July, 2013, 10:41:20 pm
Don't suppose you want to do ours?

It's armpit high with - to use the technical term - green stuff.

Some spiky.  Some stings.  Lots causes sneezing.  There are also bees.

Sounds familiar!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 05 July, 2013, 10:51:15 pm
Bees are good.

Spiky and stingy green stuff - hmm I already have forearms which suggest I have been self harming, have you seen the spikes on a Pyrocanthus?


Have you considered the standard action, a gallon of petrol and a match?

How about a strimmer party?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 05 July, 2013, 10:55:48 pm
Our neighbour pointedly lent us her strimmer to use this weekend ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 05 July, 2013, 11:10:18 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 05 July, 2013, 10:55:48 pm
Our neighbour pointedly lent us her strimmer to use this weekend ;D

 ;D

and are you going to?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 05 July, 2013, 11:24:49 pm
Quote from: interzen on 05 July, 2013, 06:18:11 pm
Playing Dwarf Fortress ... and trying to decide what to have for my tea once my blood sugars have dropped a bit more.

You a diabetic?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 July, 2013, 11:46:36 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 05 July, 2013, 11:24:49 pm
Quote from: interzen on 05 July, 2013, 06:18:11 pm
Playing Dwarf Fortress ... and trying to decide what to have for my tea once my blood sugars have dropped a bit more.

You a diabetic?
Yup.
And a Dwarf Fortress-aholic ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 July, 2013, 12:11:51 am
Quote from: Clare on 05 July, 2013, 10:51:15 pm
Bees are good.

I remain sceptical, at least in the specific sense. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=73496.0)


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Spiky and stingy green stuff - hmm I already have forearms which suggest I have been self harming, have you seen the spikes on a Pyrocanthus?

On the end of the tail, right?  For swinging around in a seems-a-bit-violent-for-a-herbivore sort of way?


Quote
Have you considered the standard action, a gallon of petrol and a match?

Frequently.  Bit worried about collateral damage.


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How about a strimmer party?

Inviting hippy friends round for a bike/computer/etc fettling session in exchange for destructive gardening seems to work reasonably well.  Need to befriend more hippies.  Or sabotage the tech of the ones I've got.

Last time I attacked it on my own, I ended up with a nasty horsefly bite, so I seem to be avoiding it neurotically in the same way as that stretch of road where the woman tried to steer my bike with her wing mirror.

Minor victory over the vegetation in the front garden today (which is harder to be avoidant about, as too many stingers mean I can't use my SPD sandals) using a combination of power tools, Doc Martens and directed propane.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 06 July, 2013, 12:29:40 am
You need a scythe
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 06 July, 2013, 04:50:32 am
or a Readymix truck
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 06 July, 2013, 10:58:01 am
Quote
Quote
Spiky and stingy green stuff - hmm I already have forearms which suggest I have been self harming, have you seen the spikes on a Pyrocanthus?

On the end of the tail, right?  For swinging around in a seems-a-bit-violent-for-a-herbivore sort of way?

Yeah, we keep ours in the shed, it growls at the neighbour's grandchildren.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 06 July, 2013, 07:04:29 pm
So lacking in any motivation.  Help.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 06 July, 2013, 07:36:28 pm
Rehydrating. IPA's isotonic I'm sure ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 July, 2013, 07:49:25 pm
Also re-hydrating.  After driving from the Lake District to Brum for coffee and cake, and then from Brum to West Wales for this beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 06 July, 2013, 08:25:24 pm
Catching up on two-and-a-half weeks of YACF activity after doing an emergency paid job for a neighbour with a bad tenant earlier.    Seriously, I was not going to go back into the office before Monday...    :-\   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 July, 2013, 12:38:14 am
Worrying about a hole saw and not going to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 July, 2013, 07:25:59 am
Getting ready to go on a looooooong car journey to a big car park :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 07 July, 2013, 07:32:35 am
Quote from: Kim on 07 July, 2013, 12:38:14 am
Worrying about a hole saw and not going to bed.

It's not worth fretting over...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 July, 2013, 11:46:45 am
Tidying up the house - the living room looks like I've been keeping goats in there.
Also, cooking next weeks lunches (chicken and bacon risotto) and doing my laundry, which includes yesterday's rather manky cycling kit (it was touch and go whether or not I should bother washing my shorts or just drag them behind the bins and have them shot)

This is mostly a diversionary tactic - I'm going to go out for a ride, but I'd rather do it later when a) it's cooler and b) there are fewer Potential Organ Donors on the road.

EDIT: Also poring over Bing Maps1 to try and find ways to put more off-road into my commute. Given where I live and where I work, plus the general geography of York being dominated by a pair of rivers, this is proving to be quite tricky.

1 - Yes, really. Bing Maps is much better than Google Maps because it's not Google and also has OS mapping. Mind you, the reason it works so well is probably because Bing Maps is based on MultiMap, who were borged by the Great Satan of Redmond.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 July, 2013, 12:01:13 pm
Sweating like a pig that knows he's forbreakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 July, 2013, 12:12:40 pm
Pigs don't sweat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 07 July, 2013, 01:06:58 pm
Not cycling. Grrr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 07 July, 2013, 01:08:49 pm
Drinking a post-lunch coffee, watching the TdF, playing with my phone, and feeling happy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 07 July, 2013, 01:24:08 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 07 July, 2013, 01:08:49 pm
Drinking a post-lunch coffee, watching the TdF, playing with my phone, and feeling happy.

Hurrah for happy :D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 07 July, 2013, 02:13:09 pm
Melting and trying to summon up some enthusiasm to do some spanner wielding fettling of the Spare Parts bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 July, 2013, 02:28:20 pm
Watching the tennis and hoping Alec Salmond will take the opportunity to batter David Cameron around the back of the heid.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 08 July, 2013, 11:25:41 am
Melting. It's 31oC in here already and my side of the building goes up rapidly when the sun gets round here in the afternoon. :(

Don't wanna be here, would much rather be on my bike right now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 July, 2013, 11:30:48 am
Whereas I'm wondering when/if the cloud is going to lift - it's already warming up, and if the cloud does burn off then I suspect it will rapidly become Bastard HotTM

It was quite a fresh ride in this morning, which was nice, but I'm not sure if I can get used to the fixed gear + SPD sandals combo; I'm more used to wearing carbon-soled MTB shoes and whilst it'd be nice to get my toes brown the sandals just feel a bit *too* flexy.

Also, pruning some of the excess foliage off my chilli plants.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 08 July, 2013, 07:44:00 pm
Quote from: clarion on 07 July, 2013, 12:12:40 pm
Pigs don't sweat.
Yes they do.

But not enough to cool them down. Just enough to make them smell?
More info (http://www.livescience.com/32118-do-pigs-sweat.html)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 July, 2013, 12:17:51 am
Waiting for dd to finish (forgot to use pv, so I've no idea how long it's going to take) so I can go to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 July, 2013, 12:49:45 am
Wishing we'd not left the upstairs light on all evening, and window open.  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 09 July, 2013, 01:01:46 am
Wishing that my PC monitor had not just died.  Looks like a CRT gun failure.  Now have one monitor, two PCs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 July, 2013, 07:37:24 am
Being amazed that I began last week's ride to Wales in leg warmers.

OK, I did set off at midnight, but still?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 July, 2013, 09:23:12 am
Quote from: fboab on 08 July, 2013, 07:44:00 pm
Quote from: clarion on 07 July, 2013, 12:12:40 pm
Pigs don't sweat.
Yes they do.

But not enough to cool them down. Just enough to make them smell?
More info (http://www.livescience.com/32118-do-pigs-sweat.html)

Thank you for that interesting correction. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 July, 2013, 09:51:04 am
Off to collect the keys to Woolly n Peli Towers!  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 July, 2013, 09:51:36 am
Loading up on steroids and antihistamines.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 July, 2013, 09:53:31 am
Quote from: peliroja on 09 July, 2013, 09:51:04 am
Off to collect the keys to Woolly n Peli Towers!  :D

w00t!!! YAY!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 09 July, 2013, 09:54:06 am
About to go into 2 hours of meetings. Bleurgh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 July, 2013, 09:55:46 am
Sweating me nadgers off ...

Foggy at home this morning, dressed accordingly.
Got to the University, no more fog. Bastard Hot.
Did the remaining 5 miles to work without divesting myself of legwarmers etc.

Hilarity ensues.

On the plus side, my chilli plants are obviously loving all this sunshine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 09 July, 2013, 02:10:16 pm
Melting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 09 July, 2013, 02:11:49 pm
Meleting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 July, 2013, 02:50:26 pm
Watching paint dry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 July, 2013, 07:24:42 pm
Making a caek :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Thing2 on 11 July, 2013, 08:04:07 pm
Waiting while the tandem shop replace some headset bits. We exploded our last one... well a sealed bearing cartridge anyway .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 July, 2013, 08:39:38 pm
Testing a theory by performing a statistical analysis of all the Primrose Hills on Streetmap...


ETA: In conclusion, hills called Primrose Hill aren't especially likely to be north-facing, but do tend to be proper hills in cycling terms, outside of areas where the local definition of 'hill' is over-egged (That London, Vale of York, Fens, etc).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 July, 2013, 11:41:05 am
Working from home a coffee shop in Ilford.  Today we're testing business continuity and disaster recovery plans, so got a call early in the morning to say 'office is inaccessible because of X'.  No problem, I have my laptop, can work from home.  Except there's now a fault with my phone line and I have no internet access at home.  But that's OK, BT will sort it in 3 working days.  ::-) 

So here I sit on Ilford Broadway (oh, the glamour) drinking way too many iced mochas.  But at least there's a decent breeze blowing in and I was able to lock up my bike across the road from me.  Just another two hours and a bit before they take down our network for the afternoon - then I can go home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 July, 2013, 07:13:50 pm
It's a weekend of firsts.  The Little Duck's first camping trip, and, right now, his first trip to the Ace Cafe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 12 July, 2013, 10:59:15 pm
Woo Hoo for Nye's first night under canvas!

I'm in a hot sweaty pub listening to the Blind Monk Trio lay down some smokin jazz... :-)

A pity about the smell wafting from the toilets... :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 12 July, 2013, 11:52:33 pm
Wondering whether to make more gin and toniks
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 13 July, 2013, 06:59:32 am
Woke up early so lounging around in bed, playing with the cat and waiting to get up for the local club run.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 July, 2013, 08:38:25 am
Just-in-time planning, as barakta isn't surfacing for the Gentle Cycling ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 July, 2013, 09:12:07 am
Quote from: Kim on 13 July, 2013, 08:38:25 am
Just-in-time planning, as barakta isn't surfacing for the Gentle Cycling ride.

I turned out for one of those a couple of months ago.  I was greeted by the organiser with, "Oh, you look like a serious cyclist."  Said in a sort of accusing way.  ???
I'm not sure what he meant.  I was on my battered pub fixed, no lycra - just Humvee 3/4 and a jacket.
I'm not sure what made him think I was different to everyone else.  Maybe the SPDs and lack of yellow tabard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 13 July, 2013, 09:31:12 am
Drinking tea and grumbling at yet again being woken up by Foghorn Leghorn and her husband screaming at each other.

Ought to be getting out on an LEL preparation ride but tempted to mooch about for a bit first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 July, 2013, 09:40:50 am
Getting ready to wash the car - I'm having a day off the bike today.

Last night was the first time I've driven it for about a fortnight and since I tend to park under a tree the car is now covered in dust, pollen, blobs of nectar and assorted other less savoury, avian-derived substances.

Since I don't have a lawn to mow1, car washing is one of the few Great British Summer Rituals that I can indulge in.

1 - I do have a hedge in the front garden, though. It may be attacked with Mr. Hedge Trimmer later on when the hedge trimmer battery has charged up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 13 July, 2013, 11:58:30 am
Drinking a milkshake next to the Humber Bridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 13 July, 2013, 12:00:47 pm
Having a break in the process of tidying the garage in the vain hope that there will be some space to put parts of the kitchen which is being delivered on Monday!
As we were moving the bikes out, MrsC said 'do you ever ride this one?'  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 July, 2013, 12:06:13 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 13 July, 2013, 12:00:47 pm

As we were moving the bikes out, MrsC said 'do you ever ride this one?'  :o

Placate her with those three little words;

handbags and shoes
 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 July, 2013, 05:58:35 pm
We're sitting in a field with a calm(ish) baby, trying to stay in the shade
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 July, 2013, 06:21:39 pm
Today in Bournville, I saw the smallest person on the smallest Like a Bike (is that what they're called?) I've ever seen.
Never too early, guys.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 July, 2013, 07:12:05 pm
Itching like a crack whore needing another hit.  Two bites and its driving me mad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 13 July, 2013, 07:20:54 pm
Enjoying the interval at TLD's dance show. These kids are such a hoot. It's great fun  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andyoxon on 13 July, 2013, 07:26:38 pm
About to get the meat on the BBQ, drinking a cup of tea and admiring my newly laid turf - hoping it won't eventually shrivel and die.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 July, 2013, 07:31:24 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 13 July, 2013, 07:20:54 pm
Enjoying the interval at TLD's dance show. These kids are such a hoot. It's great fun  ;D

 :thumbsup:

Is it cooler tonight?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 13 July, 2013, 08:24:09 pm
Sitting in the garden trying to work out whether implementing TCP/IP over licensed UHF frequencies for broad area data acquisition on a private network is remotely feasible in a cost-effective way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 13 July, 2013, 08:53:03 pm
Waiting for the cricket highlights to appear on Channel 5's website.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 13 July, 2013, 10:10:06 pm
Fucksake. Still not available - I'm watching the ECB's highlights instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 July, 2013, 10:12:01 pm
Recovering from a hot day's painting. Who knew choosing colours to match varying shades of off-white could be such an undertaking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 July, 2013, 11:03:12 pm
Peering at the route for tomorrow's audax and wondering whether I actually want to retrace half the route I rode today in yet more oppressive heat.   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 July, 2013, 11:51:13 pm
Now my bites hurt when I walk..or should that be put weight on my legs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 14 July, 2013, 02:44:40 am
I'm sitting in my favourite tent, feeding the little duck and listening to claion snoring and occasional owl hoots.

Quote from: Gattopardo on 13 July, 2013, 11:51:13 pm
Now my bites hurt when I walk..or should that be put weight on my legs.

Rotten,  aren't they?  I've got a few that are driving me nuts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 14 July, 2013, 09:26:38 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 14 July, 2013, 02:44:40 am
I'm sitting in my favourite tent, feeding the little duck and listening to claion snoring and occasional owl hoots.

Quote from: Gattopardo on 13 July, 2013, 11:51:13 pm
Now my bites hurt when I walk..or should that be put weight on my legs.

Rotten,  aren't they?  I've got a few that are driving me nuts.
 

I like the idea of a favourite tent. ;D

The bites are worse and seem to be swelling, standing up makes the bites pulse, feeling like the areas are going to explode.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 14 July, 2013, 07:14:09 pm
Suspending a pasta bowl above the kitchen worksurface utilising only the power of a spoon and essence of porridge.
(Didn't do any washing up yesterday; apparently the kitchen got quite hot.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 14 July, 2013, 07:49:50 pm
I didn't know that Clarion could do Owl hoots?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 July, 2013, 09:51:51 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 14 July, 2013, 07:49:50 pm
I didn't know that Clarion could do Owl hoots?

Twit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 14 July, 2013, 10:29:55 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 13 July, 2013, 07:31:24 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 13 July, 2013, 07:20:54 pm
Enjoying the interval at TLD's dance show. These kids are such a hoot. It's great fun  ;D

 :thumbsup:

Is it cooler tonight?

It was very comfortable. A shame nobody ate their bow tie this time though. I was looking forward to that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 14 July, 2013, 10:37:23 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 14 July, 2013, 10:29:55 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 13 July, 2013, 07:31:24 pm
Quote from: Lindagordinho on 13 July, 2013, 07:20:54 pm
Enjoying the interval at TLD's dance show. These kids are such a hoot. It's great fun  ;D

 :thumbsup:

Is it cooler tonight?

It was very comfortable. A shame nobody ate their bow tie this time though. I was looking forward to that.

Now I want to know what this about.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 15 July, 2013, 10:40:44 am
On tenterhooks waiting to see how much the rent's going to go up by and whether that means I'm house-hunting or not. :-/

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 July, 2013, 10:44:23 am
Recovering from the effects of my stupid idea that I could do a little gardening damage limitation in this morning's heat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 July, 2013, 10:57:23 am
Typing up minutes of meetings :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 15 July, 2013, 11:03:47 am
Channelling my inner Auntie Helen: investigating a trip to Germany.

AH: don't be surprised if you get a flurry of PMs shortly for advice/translation services...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 15 July, 2013, 02:34:49 pm
Wrangling with the Crapita Business Travel system.

Intuitive it is not! ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 15 July, 2013, 02:44:38 pm
Sitting on a delayed megabus which stinks of chemical toilets...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 15 July, 2013, 08:00:20 pm
Dying (well, catching my breath) after playing frisbee in the park.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 July, 2013, 08:01:20 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 15 July, 2013, 08:00:20 pm
Dying (well, catching my breath) after playing frisbee in the park.

Ultimate?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 15 July, 2013, 08:04:41 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 15 July, 2013, 08:01:20 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 15 July, 2013, 08:00:20 pm
Dying (well, catching my breath) after playing frisbee in the park.

Ultimate?

Indeed. Murtagh had his "I'm too old for this shit" list in Lethal Weapon; I have the "I'm too fat for this shit" list.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 15 July, 2013, 09:04:34 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 July, 2013, 09:51:51 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 14 July, 2013, 07:49:50 pm
I didn't know that Clarion could do Owl hoots?

Twit.

Twhooo?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 July, 2013, 09:12:25 am
Quote from: Canardly on 15 July, 2013, 09:04:34 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 July, 2013, 09:51:51 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 14 July, 2013, 07:49:50 pm
I didn't know that Clarion could do Owl hoots?

Twit.

Twhooo?

Who?  You Y'twit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 16 July, 2013, 10:54:00 am
http://xkcd.com/1106/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 16 July, 2013, 11:21:32 am
Procrastinating and making an elastic band rubber ball instead of doing what I should be.  :facepalm:

I've gone back to work just over a week into a 4 week sick note and my emails are already so out of control I don't have a clue where to start. And I think it was all just a bit too ambitious.

Maybe spending the afternoon asleep in the sunshine is a better idea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 16 July, 2013, 12:28:34 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 16 July, 2013, 11:21:32 am


I've gone back to work just over a week into a 4 week sick note



I did that after a couple of weeks in hospital nearly a decade ago & on reflection it was not in my best interests;initially

An interesting by-product of my absence from work was that my then boss declared he was having a holiday because he was cream crackered by dealing with my work load & upon his return an additional staff member was subsequently recruited
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bazzerp on 16 July, 2013, 07:00:49 pm
Listening to Jazz on FMR 101 - Fine Music Radio, in Cape Town - via iTunes.

Much like the UK 50 years ago - Jazz is still popular here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 July, 2013, 07:38:24 pm
Quote from: jogler on 16 July, 2013, 12:28:34 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 16 July, 2013, 11:21:32 am


I've gone back to work just over a week into a 4 week sick note



I did that after a couple of weeks in hospital nearly a decade ago & on reflection it was not in my best interests;initially

An interesting by-product of my absence from work was that my then boss declared he was having a holiday because he was cream crackered by dealing with my work load & upon his return an additional staff member was subsequently recruited
Lady Cavendish, go straight home and stay there until your GP signs you back as fit to be at work.

Jogler, a friend of mine had spent months telling her boss that they needed more staff in the team and the manager kept saying everything was fine and she just needed to prioritise. After months and months of this, the manager agreed to spend a week shadowing my friend so that she could see how busy - or not - it really was. The manager went home at lunchtime on the first day and was off sick for a week, citing exhaustion. And as my friend pointed out, it had been a comparatively quiet morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 July, 2013, 07:35:11 am
Pondering on what nature of beastie I heard crunching / scratching in the bedroom last night....
I hope it wasn't Mothra!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bhoWfC1L9k   ??? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 17 July, 2013, 07:41:08 am
10 minutes guitar practise before going to work !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 17 July, 2013, 11:50:14 am
about to go to lunch with the person who took my last job, effectively elbowing me out of a company I'd been with for 10 years... She's asked to meet up, I have no idea why but it should be 'interesting'. 

[mustn't punch, mustn't punch, mustn't punch, mustn't punch]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 17 July, 2013, 01:06:04 pm
Waiting for high tide and then out kayaking
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 July, 2013, 01:16:51 pm
Quote from: mike on 17 July, 2013, 11:50:14 am
about to go to lunch with the person who took my last job, effectively elbowing me out of a company I'd been with for 10 years... She's asked to meet up, I have no idea why but it should be 'interesting'. 

[mustn't punch, mustn't punch, mustn't punch, mustn't punch]

Gets popcorn... awaits story
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 17 July, 2013, 02:19:01 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 July, 2013, 01:16:51 pm
Quote from: mike on 17 July, 2013, 11:50:14 am
about to go to lunch with the person who took my last job, effectively elbowing me out of a company I'd been with for 10 years... She's asked to meet up, I have no idea why but it should be 'interesting'. 

[mustn't punch, mustn't punch, mustn't punch, mustn't punch]

Gets popcorn... awaits story

turns out my old job wasnt as much fun as she thought it'd be, and she wants me to hire her into my current place! 

why yes Judith, I'd love to hire you.  Lets do that, and then in a year or so you can take this job too!  Cheeky cow.


Was it naughty of me to tell her that I couldnt hire her direct from her current job because of a non-hiring agreement I'd signed when I left, and encourage her to quit soon so we could have 'a proper discussion' about it? 

At least I got a good laugh out of it, and she paid for a very nice lunch with wine I know she cant claim on expenses (because I wrote the expenses policy)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 July, 2013, 04:15:22 pm
Cor, the brass neck of some people!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 July, 2013, 04:16:52 pm
Giving serious consideration to destroying the sun.  It's the only way to be sure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 July, 2013, 04:40:36 pm
Mike...you were astronomically more polite than I would have been.
I would have suggested that she buggered off to get pregnant;but not in so many words.Two to be precise.
I'd also make it known to her current employer that she has asked if you will employ her so that she can leave them.
 :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 18 July, 2013, 10:48:46 am
Wondering if 10:45 is too early to taste the newly acquired Barcelino, a Catalan red, Lidl's @ £4.50.

I have Great Expectations for this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 July, 2013, 10:49:49 am
Quote from: Ham on 18 July, 2013, 10:48:46 am
Wondering if 10:45 is too early to taste the newly acquired Barcelino, a Catalan red, Lidl's @ £4.50.

I have Great Expectations for this.

I have had that one before, it is VERY nice.

If you are saying they have re-stocked, I shall have to visit on my way home :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 July, 2013, 10:54:44 am
Fighting down the urge to kill several people ...  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Karla on 18 July, 2013, 10:58:18 am
planning my food shop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=qqlEb53txP8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: howieduck on 18 July, 2013, 11:05:35 am
Turning the living room into a bedroom, the bedroom into a living room and generally preparing the house for my sister to come home from the hospice tomorrow. I'm going  to be fit for nothing by then but they will only fund day care so let's hope she sleeps at night! Oh! And I need to learn how to use the hoist as she walked out of the house but now is non weight bearing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 18 July, 2013, 11:22:15 am
Quote from: Ham on 18 July, 2013, 10:48:46 am
Wondering if 10:45 is too early to taste the newly acquired Barcelino,

nope,gotoit
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 18 July, 2013, 11:51:13 am
Quote from: howieduck on 18 July, 2013, 11:05:35 am
Turning the living room into a bedroom, the bedroom into a living room and generally preparing the house for my sister to come home from the hospice tomorrow. I'm going  to be fit for nothing by then but they will only fund day care so let's hope she sleeps at night! Oh! And I need to learn how to use the hoist as she walked out of the house but now is non weight bearing.

Here's hoping the transition goes smoothly and things go as well as they can.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: howieduck on 18 July, 2013, 11:58:01 am
Thank you Linda. I'm sure all will go well. I have moved 300 miles to sleep on the floor on a lilo to support her and my nieces through this. And be here with my eldest niece until she goes off to Uni in 2014 and we all decamp 300 miles back to my home!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LindaG on 18 July, 2013, 12:03:57 pm
Quote from: howieduck on 18 July, 2013, 11:58:01 am
Thank you Linda. I'm sure all will go well. I have moved 300 miles to sleep on the floor on a lilo to support her and my nieces through this. And be here with my eldest niece until she goes off to Uni in 2014 and we all decamp 300 miles back to my home!

Wow. Howieduck: Respect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 July, 2013, 12:12:29 pm
Quote from: howieduck on 18 July, 2013, 11:58:01 am
Thank you Linda. I'm sure all will go well. I have moved 300 miles to sleep on the floor on a lilo to support her and my nieces through this. And be here with my eldest niece until she goes off to Uni in 2014 and we all decamp 300 miles back to my home!
Much respect from me, also.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si_Co on 18 July, 2013, 12:52:50 pm
Settling in  to watch the TdF
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 18 July, 2013, 12:56:28 pm
Waiting for someone to setup a new LUN on the storage array so I can deploy some firewall appliances. So far the change request has been rejected twice due to some small detail being incorrect. So that's 4hours down the pan today and counting ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 July, 2013, 03:18:23 pm
1) Melting
b) Finding stuff out for the weekend (did I mention we are going to deershed? I did? Oh. Good.)
III) Melting
····) About to go and collect TLD from school so we can go shopping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 July, 2013, 04:18:55 pm
Basking in the love of the seven of my colleagues who were able to help themselves to an ice lolly from the box of 8 I just went and got, and basking in the disappointment of the remaining dozens who weren't quick enough. Sadly Lidl only had one box of fruit pastille lollies left so bringing more wasn't an option.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 18 July, 2013, 04:21:43 pm
We have also just had an office ice cream run. It's all about the popcorn cornettos.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 July, 2013, 04:23:19 pm
I decided not to buy cornetto-type things as my new boss is gluten-intolerant and I see no need to antagonise her!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 July, 2013, 04:27:51 pm
I was going to the gym, but as I'm sweating just sitting at my desk, I don't think I can be arsed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 18 July, 2013, 07:16:20 pm
Packing fudge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 July, 2013, 07:22:53 pm
Quote from: nikki on 18 July, 2013, 07:16:20 pm
Packing fudge.
:o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 18 July, 2013, 07:32:29 pm
Quote from: Basil on 18 July, 2013, 07:22:53 pm
Quote from: nikki on 18 July, 2013, 07:16:20 pm
Packing fudge.
:o

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 July, 2013, 08:33:02 pm
Thinking that the Sunday ride to the Crooked House might be fun.  I may have to put off re-homing the bloody dog until Monday.

Thinks:  "Hmm, canal tow paths and cycle paths. " :(

Maybe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: davelodwig on 18 July, 2013, 08:36:06 pm
Tenuously packing for the dun run.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 July, 2013, 08:42:27 pm
Faffing, procrastinating and being disorganised.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 18 July, 2013, 10:26:35 pm
listening to loud music with all the windows open, in my boxers......    it's too damn hot !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 18 July, 2013, 10:58:57 pm
Hand washing a cycling top after discovering the remains of a gel and a flat Snickers bar in the back pocket.
nom nom
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 July, 2013, 01:31:13 am
Quote from: Basil on 18 July, 2013, 08:33:02 pm
Thinking that the Sunday ride to the Crooked House might be fun.  I may have to put off re-homing the bloody dog until Monday.

Thinks:  "Hmm, canal tow paths and cycle paths. " :(

Maybe.

Just got back and spotted that, and was having similar thoughts.

To be fair, this is a good week to be riding the towpaths.  They've dried out and are mostly negotiable without the aid of knobblies.

And I *do* need to take a tape measure to the repaired section in the middle of the tunnel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 19 July, 2013, 09:20:15 am
Quote from: andrewc on 18 July, 2013, 10:26:35 pm
listening to loud music with all the windows open, in my boxers......    it's too damn hot !

you have windows in your boxers :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mayham on 19 July, 2013, 11:12:24 am
Recovery day in the office today, a few beers too many yesterday.. Haven't managed to do much at all this morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 July, 2013, 06:39:14 pm
Quote from: jogler on 19 July, 2013, 09:20:15 am
Quote from: andrewc on 18 July, 2013, 10:26:35 pm
listening to loud music with all the windows open, in my boxers......    it's too damn hot !

you have windows in your boxers :o

See through underwear.......... ;)


Why yes, I am a major shareholder in Mindbleach.com   However did you guess /

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 20 July, 2013, 01:35:23 am
Quote from: andrewc on 19 July, 2013, 06:39:14 pm
major shareholder

*salutes*  ;)

Currently lying awake with toothache, and I've ran out of painkillers. In a grump.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 July, 2013, 06:53:41 am
Wishing I were still asleep.  I'm completely knackered after an 'interesting' week at work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 July, 2013, 07:45:17 am
Trying to warm-boot my body in the hope of a bike ride.

Bugger all sleep because the temperature was all over the place.

But there's cloud out there!  Cloud!   :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 20 July, 2013, 09:25:43 am
Preparing to follow my sister down the aisle.
So far the amounts of depilation and breakfast bacon-ing are not entirely dissimilar to what I imagine will be taking place in the lead-in to LEL...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 20 July, 2013, 12:19:56 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 20 July, 2013, 01:35:23 am
Currently lying awake with toothache, and I've ran out of painkillers. In a grump.

Good news: Went to tesco at 2am so I have painkillers now. Lots of them.

Bad news: It's getting worse. Absolute agony. I made the mistake of trying to eat something and now even rubbing novocaine into it isn't helping.

Ugly news: MY FACE.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 July, 2013, 01:41:17 pm
CTT

CakeTaste-Testing.

The lemon meringue is 5star+ as is the Carrot cake.
The Marj standard prevails :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 July, 2013, 01:45:14 pm
Debating a quick pedal over to Te$co to pick up some antihistamines (Co-op in the village doesn't have any) - there's every indication that the Skipwith Common midges had a bloody field day on last night's crepuscular bushwhacking ride - my legs are itching like buggery  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 July, 2013, 03:57:27 pm
Recovering from a weekend of too much beer, not enough sleep and a sun that was too hot.

Sleep might be on the cards any minute now!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 July, 2013, 04:07:38 pm
Watching 'Skyfall' and rather enjoying it.

Javier Bardem - best Bond villian EVAH!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 21 July, 2013, 04:47:34 pm
Waiting for the last sample of today's workload to to process so I can finish, get out of the lab and into the sun (yes it's even shining in Stornoway)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 21 July, 2013, 05:59:55 pm
Quote from: interzen on 21 July, 2013, 01:45:14 pm
Debating a quick pedal over to Te$co to pick up some antihistamines (Co-op in the village doesn't have any) - there's every indication that the Skipwith Common midges had a bloody field day on last night's crepuscular bushwhacking ride - my legs are itching like buggery  :(

Oh, does buggery itch, then?  Maybe I won't try it, after all...   O:-) O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 July, 2013, 06:11:22 pm
Back in civilisation.  Sitting with the dog INSIDE the pub.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 21 July, 2013, 06:30:29 pm
Drinking a nice cold glass of white whilst pizza cooks. Working out what needs doing preLEL and pottering round ont' web.

In just my pants cos it's blooming hot upstairs  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 July, 2013, 06:35:08 pm
TTIUWP
 
No, actually, scratch that.  Please don't bother.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 July, 2013, 06:40:34 pm
Quote from: Basil on 21 July, 2013, 06:11:22 pm
Back in civilisation.  Sitting with the dog INSIDE the pub.

This may have been a tactical error on your part.  You missed the driest and best-illuminated (a boat came through with a BFO searchlight thing) ride through the Netherton Tunnel yet.

Also some excellent comedy off-roading ("we're nearly at the pub, just a couple of km of railway ballast path, brambles, nettles and technical singletrack to go"); spectacularly silly Sustrans gates; hedgerow porn; socks; bread; motorbikists; horses; That Bastard Hill Up To Blackheath; a diagonal pub; mild drizzle; sunshine and a general and conspicuous absence of mud.

(Optimists on three wheels will be pleased to hear that the reinforcement works haven't narrowed the path to the point of being impassable.)


ETA:  I appear to have acquired black country feet (just missing the hobbit hair):

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/IMG_3909.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 July, 2013, 06:57:53 pm
Ironing my shirt and troosers before tomorrows interview.  /fx dons Iron man costume.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 July, 2013, 07:21:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 21 July, 2013, 06:40:34 pm
Quote from: Basil on 21 July, 2013, 06:11:22 pm
Back in civilisation.  Sitting with the dog INSIDE the pub.

This may have been a tactical error on your part.  You missed the driest and best-illuminated (a boat came through with a BFO searchlight thing) ride through the Netherton Tunnel yet.

Also some excellent comedy off-roading ("we're nearly at the pub, just a couple of km of railway ballast path, brambles, nettles and technical singletrack to go"); spectacularly silly Sustrans gates; socks; bread; motorbikists; horses; That Bastard Hill Up To Blackheath; a diagonal pub; mild drizzle; sunshine and a general and conspicuous absence of mud.

(Optimists on three wheels will be pleased to hear that the reinforcement works haven't narrowed the path to the point of being impassable.)


ETA:  I appear to have acquired black country feet (just missing the hobbit hair):

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/IMG_3909.sized.jpg)

One Ring Hairband to rule them all, One Ring  Hairband to find them,
One Ring  Hairband to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
 ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 July, 2013, 08:06:50 pm
Tee hee.  Kim is now  officialy a Yam Yam.
Actually, I would have liked to have joined the ride, but it would have meant locking the (bloody) dog in the house for (however long you were out).

Actually, I seem to remember the pub being more trapezoid.
Although tbf, my recollection is rather vague for obvious pub related reasons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 July, 2013, 08:35:23 pm
It's brilliant, you feel pissed simply by walking through the door.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 21 July, 2013, 10:08:45 pm
eating cake & drinking Grolsch
yumyuminmytum :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 July, 2013, 10:15:40 am
Heading off for my job interview.
Spectacles, test articles, wallet and watch all checked and ready!

 :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 22 July, 2013, 10:49:51 am
Nice to seean efficient list containing spectacles&testicles :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mayham on 22 July, 2013, 10:50:42 am
Good luck man! I'm in the office, sweating like hell!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 July, 2013, 08:33:44 pm
Listening to Daniel Barenboim conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin in Wagner's Das Rheingold while putting my bedroom back together.  Also wondering if I should have another G&T.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 22 July, 2013, 10:54:12 pm
I am watching the smelly noisy death of 1000 bugs in my new UV bug zapper. My kids who both work in pub catering kitchens when not studying are not impressed  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 22 July, 2013, 10:56:52 pm
Quote from: Kim on 21 July, 2013, 08:35:23 pm
It's brilliant, you feel pissed simply by walking through the door.

Haven't read the earlier posts, this has to refer to the Crooked House (Glyn Arms)? Do they still serve Banks'  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 22 July, 2013, 11:01:59 pm
Reading papers on voice recognition to see whether it would be possible to distinguish individual bats as a way to estimate populations and ranges semi-automagically.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 July, 2013, 11:06:16 pm
Quote from: windy on 22 July, 2013, 10:56:52 pm
Quote from: Kim on 21 July, 2013, 08:35:23 pm
It's brilliant, you feel pissed simply by walking through the door.

Haven't read the earlier posts, this has to refer to the crooked house? Do they still serve Banks'

It does indeed.  Sadly I've no idea what a Banks' is - presumably something beery.  Attention to this sort of detail is what Basil was supposed to come along for.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 22 July, 2013, 11:18:05 pm
The Banks' brewery was just down the road from my student digs. A wonderful aroma to wake up to  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 24 July, 2013, 08:37:39 pm
Taking over the living room floor laying out LEL kit and trying to work out what I'm forgetting and if there's anything there I don't need to take (I am somewhat prone to overpacking).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 24 July, 2013, 08:47:33 pm
Fettling my portable technology in preparation for leaving for Thailand tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 July, 2013, 09:04:58 pm
Going 'awwh' at the Tasmanian Devils on (whisper it) itv.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 July, 2013, 09:15:19 pm
Weeping quietly after reading this:

http://www.pedalingnowhere.com/gear/surly-ecr-adventure-bikes/

The ECR is exactly the sort of bike I'm trying to turn my orange Genesis High Latitude into ...  ::-)

(nice pic of the new 'Straggler' too, for those who like their bikes purple and with disc brakes)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 July, 2013, 09:27:02 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 July, 2013, 11:06:16 pm
Quote from: windy on 22 July, 2013, 10:56:52 pm
Quote from: Kim on 21 July, 2013, 08:35:23 pm
It's brilliant, you feel pissed simply by walking through the door.

Haven't read the earlier posts, this has to refer to the crooked house? Do they still serve Banks'

It does indeed.  Sadly I've no idea what a Banks' is - presumably something beery.
Correct - brewed in Wolverhampton.
When I was a student, I don't think there was a pub in Aberystwyth which didn't serve at least Banks' Bitter (personally, I hated the stuff - my poison of choice was draught Bass)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 July, 2013, 09:33:44 pm
I think my next bike may well be a Straggler.  If it rides as well as a Cross Check, has disc brakes, but can take a hub gear, I don't really have an excuse not to buy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 24 July, 2013, 09:36:53 pm
As for me, I'm worrying that I'm being overoptimistic in setting up the fixed for the commute tomorrow.  Hoping to manage three days this week (Tues; Thurs; Fri).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 July, 2013, 09:42:43 pm
Attempting to titrate piriton to find the point where I stop scratching, without actually falling asleep...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 July, 2013, 09:43:49 pm
Quote from: clarion on 24 July, 2013, 09:33:44 pm
I think my next bike may well be a Straggler.  If it rides as well as a Cross Check, has disc brakes, but can take a hub gear, I don't really have an excuse not to buy.
Apparently it does, yes indeed and absolutely. Respectively. It is, for all intents and purposes, the disc-based Cross Check that the masses (including myself) have been badgering Surly for.

If I weren't so attached to my Genesis Day Ones then I'd be pre-ordering a Straggler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 24 July, 2013, 10:42:08 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 24 July, 2013, 08:37:39 pm
Taking over the living room floor laying out LEL kit and trying to work out what I'm forgetting and if there's anything there I don't need to take (I am somewhat prone to overpacking).

Hmmm, I haven't even packed snacks yet and I'm nearly at 6kg of stuff. Do you think anyone would notice if I used the motorbike instead of the pedally one?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 24 July, 2013, 10:52:47 pm
Quote from: clarion on 24 July, 2013, 09:33:44 pm
I think my next bike may well be a Straggler.  If it rides as well as a Cross Check, has disc brakes, but can take a hub gear, I don't really have an excuse not to buy.

And it's purple! :D

Space and funds and other mundanities permitting, I hope the Straggler will be my next bike too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 25 July, 2013, 01:57:23 am
Thinking I should go to bed. LEL tracks all in Garmin now along with route from the hotel to the start  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 July, 2013, 08:33:22 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 24 July, 2013, 10:52:47 pm
Quote from: clarion on 24 July, 2013, 09:33:44 pm
I think my next bike may well be a Straggler.  If it rides as well as a Cross Check, has disc brakes, but can take a hub gear, I don't really have an excuse not to buy.

And it's purple! :D

That's not a positive in my book. ;D  May get it sprayed.

Quote
Space and funds and other mundanities permitting, I hope the Straggler will be my next bike too.

I hope there comes a time when we can compare Stragglers on a ride. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 July, 2013, 09:15:36 am
Quote from: clarion on 24 July, 2013, 09:36:53 pm
As for me, I'm worrying that I'm being overoptimistic in setting up the fixed for the commute tomorrow.  Hoping to manage three days this week (Tues; Thurs; Fri).

Well, that worked better than expected.  Hope no one throws in an unecxpected hill or headwind on the way home tonight. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 25 July, 2013, 09:19:02 am
Waiting from The Man From Uncle Scottish Power to arrive to service my boiler (sometime between 8 am and 1pm).
Listening to precipitation persisting down.
Watching Tamiya Acrylic Paint drying on my 1:24 Scale VW Samba Bus
Browsing emails
Entering moth survey results into spreadsheet
and
washing laundry.


--edit-- Boiler man been - boiler serviced, needs new divertor valve :-/ Which will get fitted sometime between 1pm and 6pm tomorrow....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 25 July, 2013, 12:06:40 pm
From the M74 I have just "driven" into Moffat & thru' to the Moffat Academy,courtesy of Streetview.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 25 July, 2013, 12:17:03 pm
Doing a happy dance.

Not only did my Revelate Viscacha seatpack and my Thomson seatpost collar turn up today (complete with a wee bag of Haribo in each) but I also manage to score a set of Sharks 'Top Trumps' cards  :thumbsup:

Sharks are cool :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 July, 2013, 02:22:33 pm
Being bored with writing up minutes, and wanting to go for a bike ride to a park where I can sleep in the dappled shade of a tree.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 July, 2013, 02:45:35 pm
Snoozing in the dappled shade of a tree in our garden.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 July, 2013, 02:46:37 pm
I used to like you, Basil.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 July, 2013, 03:08:39 pm
If it makes you feel any better, Clarion, one of the clouds isn't small white and fluffy like the others.  It's dark and ominous looking, and it appears to be heading this way.
I guess my best course of action would be to take the washing off the line to ensure that it doesn't rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 25 July, 2013, 08:01:35 pm
Preparing the moth trap!   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 25 July, 2013, 09:23:48 pm
Spending a delightful evening in Stowmarket station. Again.

You know, it's all well and good having a compensation payment system for late running trains, but in practice what it means is, if your connecting train is running a bit late, the connectee will leave, whatever. Even if you're half way over the fucking bridge to the other platform - will they hold it to let you on?  Will they fuck. Not if it means incurring fines.

Oh. Sorry. The rant thread is over there ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 July, 2013, 09:30:55 am
Quote from: BrianI on 25 July, 2013, 08:01:35 pm
Preparing the moth trap!   :)

Got loads of Large Yellow Underwings and an ominous amount orange swifts   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 July, 2013, 10:39:27 am
Just been checking out the accommodation for the next seven days as I'm away house/doggy sitting  up to now it's looking good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 July, 2013, 11:30:52 pm
Listening to Laura Cantrell and catching up on the forum in my teeny tiny tent on an Essex school playing field.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 27 July, 2013, 12:06:28 am
Watching '24 Hour Party People' - it's rather good, and the soundtrack is awesome.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 27 July, 2013, 04:51:22 pm
Sitting down with a cup of tea after painting the Bulk Application of Therapetic Homeopathy room. I'll finish tidying up in a moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 27 July, 2013, 05:27:04 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 27 July, 2013, 04:51:22 pm
Sitting down with a cup of tea after painting the Bulk Application of Therapetic Homeopathy room. I'll finish tidying up in a moment.

You should have used homeopathic paint for in there - just a dot in the corner and Hey Presto! you've redecorated! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 27 July, 2013, 05:31:22 pm
Sitting in the hall at Loughton having loaded about 500 bags for the bag drops!! Back in the morning for the rest and to wave everyone off :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 27 July, 2013, 08:09:49 pm
Lying in a tent at loughton watching lightning illuminate my tent as the rain rattles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 July, 2013, 12:43:01 am
Near Uzes south of France quite pissed listening to music on YouTube with my brother inlaw. just had to respond to a shriek from Mrs Pcolbeck and remove a scorpion from the bedroom. That's a first. Think I will sleep on the sofa in the lounge tonight as she has just doused the bedroom in more insect killer spray than the average US agent orange drop in Vietnam.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 July, 2013, 12:47:48 am
Listening to the rain in a tent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2013, 04:59:24 am
Listening to the rain outside a Woollypeliry from inside a Woollypeliry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 July, 2013, 08:14:39 am
Sitting in the rain at the start of my ride back to Brum, thinking "This is bloody typical."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 July, 2013, 09:47:56 am
Just had oxfam breakfast rolls and coffee. Sat in the sunshine, going to pack up camp drop stuff at home and come back - thunder storms predicted for this evening.
Living only 10 miles away from Womad has its advantages  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 28 July, 2013, 11:17:44 am
Investigating different ways of bodging luggage onto the mountain bikes - since my Viscacha seatpack has been sent back for replacement and my old SQR Tour and Bagman are en-route to new homes I've sort of painted myself into a corner. Oops!

Experiments with an 8L Alpkit drybag and the straps from my Salsa Anything cages are looking promising ... if nothing else, it'll encourage me travel light :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 July, 2013, 12:42:20 pm
I'm in the Tafarn Jem.
I'm drinking coffee!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 28 July, 2013, 01:59:01 pm
On the train home from Loughton. The 6am coffee after the 3:30 am start is wearing off. Must not sleep through my stop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 July, 2013, 04:23:43 pm
Just about to cook tea, having sorted out bike and clothes for this week and fettled a neighbours' bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 July, 2013, 05:19:25 pm
Wishing I'd not eaten all those chips yesterday and keeping an eye on my armchair audax window, while waiting for my body to return to normal service.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 July, 2013, 05:59:52 pm
Waiting at stop m on tubwell row in Darlo for a bus to Barnie. Race you there LELers! Will a bike be quicker than a london bus, the central line, the m25/m1, an EYMS bus, a tpe train, an Arriva bus and a wander up the hill?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 28 July, 2013, 06:03:00 pm
Sitting in the bar at the Delhi Hyatt Regency reading this and feeling a little stiff after a fairly quick 50 miles yesterday at the Essex Castles ride. No, there hasn't been much sleep involved. AND I've been to the gym today!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 July, 2013, 07:02:18 pm
Camped just after Passing Breacon.  Now in pub with sirloin steak and pint of something Cornish.
Bored with getting wet, I might just pop over to Hereford tomorrow and grab a train.
Oh good, that means it's OK to have another pint (or two).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 July, 2013, 07:58:16 pm
Sweating, after riding back from the parents in a waterproof.  Managed to dodge the thunder & lightning though.  On the fixie for the first time in months,  only tried to freewheel once.... :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 July, 2013, 10:50:45 pm
Lurking in some woods, waiting for bagpipers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 28 July, 2013, 10:55:25 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 28 July, 2013, 10:50:45 pm
Lurking in some woods, waiting for bagpipers.

sad (plenty on Edinburgh Prices Street)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 July, 2013, 03:49:03 pm
And the circle is squared.
I'm sitting in the Country Girl.  Fresh (not) back from Wales.  I probably stink, but as I've just got off at University station, it seemed rude not to call in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 29 July, 2013, 04:50:27 pm
Feeding dogs, fish and rabbits
my turn soon (http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff473/texaslady1960/emoticons/bf-mesvorksmiley.gif) (http://s1237.photobucket.com/user/texaslady1960/media/emoticons/bf-mesvorksmiley.gif.html)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 July, 2013, 04:52:35 pm
Quote from: Basil on 29 July, 2013, 03:49:03 pm
And the circle is squared.
I'm sitting in the Country Girl.  Fresh (not) back from Wales.  I probably stink, but as I've just got off at University station, it seemed rude not to call in.

Admit it, you brought this weather with you, didn't you?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 July, 2013, 04:54:55 pm
Yes.  Impressive, isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 July, 2013, 07:19:07 pm
Have helped.feed.a.thousand cyclists saturday, sunday and today. Got an hour and a half off... just.had.best.shower EVER now.sleep!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 30 July, 2013, 03:43:28 am
Finished cleaning the kitchen @ Barnard Castle control. Floor cleaned as well.
Bob P has finished all the washing and CL is busy making sausage sarnies like there's no tomorrow. A few southbound riders gone through but don't expect many more before daylight .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 July, 2013, 05:27:07 am
Not sleeping.  And I may have just committed to buying a camera.  If so, I've got off lightly - last time I ended up buying a bicycle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 30 July, 2013, 05:44:29 am
Working out trains home from Thirsk, and wondering how to get my left luggage back from Loughton.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 30 July, 2013, 09:57:30 am
Getting ready to come out of retirement, just like other great people. As in getting ready to work again after a two year break from working life.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 30 July, 2013, 10:02:18 am
Trying not to scratch an inflamed cleg bite, waiting for The Man From Uncle Scottish Power to fix my c/h boiler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 July, 2013, 10:52:02 am
Watching the rain
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 July, 2013, 11:02:27 am
Wondering when I managed to tread in some dog poo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 31 July, 2013, 05:38:01 am
Sitting in  Bangkok Airways airport lounge waiting for our slightly (<2hrs) delayed internal flight to Chiang Mai, enjoying their hospitality and cake, utilising the slowternet (as everyone else seems to be doing this, too).  A cut above the standard UK  (and, to be fair, mostly everywhere else) sit on your arse and stew, it's only a couple of hours.

I think I'll head over to the Bridges Gallery thread, now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 July, 2013, 08:05:12 am
Trying to stay awake after three very long days at the Pocklington control on LEL (snores)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 July, 2013, 08:30:12 am
I'm holding a sleeping baby who had a rough night for some reason.  He needed the sleep, as did his mum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 August, 2013, 09:40:55 am
Pondering if:
(a) Man From Scottish Power will get the right part
(b) Will turn up to fit the correct part
(c) Will actually fix the boiler....

 >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 August, 2013, 11:51:44 am
Preparing food for tomorrow...

I may take a bit of time over this.

Beer may be involved :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 August, 2013, 12:21:25 pm
Thinking about Good Reasons to have Moved to Yorkshire.
#1 nice old ladies strike up conversations with you in the street, call you love and ask how far you're going on your bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 August, 2013, 12:27:53 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 02 August, 2013, 12:21:25 pm
Thinking about Good Reasons to have Moved to Yorkshire.
#1 nice old ladies strike up conversations with you in the street, call you love and ask how far you're going on your bike.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 August, 2013, 12:47:01 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 02 August, 2013, 12:21:25 pm
Thinking about Good Reasons to have Moved to Yorkshire.
#1 nice old ladies strike up conversations with you in the street, call you love and ask how far you're going on your bike.

They're probably trying to work out if they've got enough time to break into your house.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 August, 2013, 12:56:47 pm
I', thinking about lunch but I have only just taken the loaf out of the breadmaker and it's too hot to cut at the moment.

Perhaps I ought to potter into the town and visit the bank and get some rail tickets out of the machine in Southend Victoria.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 02 August, 2013, 01:47:00 pm
After a week of doggie sitting I'm waiting for the owners to come home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 August, 2013, 02:23:13 pm
Reading case law on DPA in the case of the deceased.  I thought it was a lot simpler than it seems to be. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mayham on 02 August, 2013, 02:38:12 pm
Waiting for that time when everybody gets up and walks home ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 August, 2013, 02:43:45 pm
Quote from: clarion on 02 August, 2013, 02:23:13 pm
Reading case law on DPA in the case of the deceased.  I thought it was a lot simpler than it seems to be. :(

Seems to me that the exemption in the principal piece of case law could apply to any case ::-)

Of course, the problem is that we're in between the DPA and the FOIA.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 August, 2013, 03:02:18 pm
Erm, don't you have legal bods to consult for an informed opinion?   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 August, 2013, 04:18:59 pm
Still waiting on heating engineer.....

 >:(

and watching high voltage electrickery on that youtube!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 August, 2013, 04:52:34 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 02 August, 2013, 03:02:18 pm
Erm, don't you have legal bods to consult for an informed opinion?   ???

Ha.

Ha.

Ha.

I wouldn't ask our solicitors (a very large national firn) how to sharpen a pencil.  They file things in a black hole, and never answer a question.

EDIT: TBF, that's been my experience with every solicitor I've ever come across in my professional life.  I once asked one for a legal opinion on an important technical legal question, and his response was 'Perhaps you could tell us what you think.'  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 August, 2013, 07:30:26 pm
Preparing our 2012-2013 accounts for Mrs. Wow's Carer's Allowance claim. We have never been this early before.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 August, 2013, 09:09:42 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 02 August, 2013, 04:18:59 pm
Still waiting on heating engineer.....

 >:(

and watching high voltage electrickery on that youtube!   :thumbsup:

He came at 5pm.
He spent 3 hours replacing diverter valve & gubbins.
He left at 8pm, with the boiler still showing the same fault.....

 >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 August, 2013, 10:56:28 pm
I have just returned from a nocturnal dip in rather windier conditions than I anticipated. I am now enjoying a bottle of Copper Dragon Golden Pippin, part of a holiday present to myself when we were in Skipton last week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 August, 2013, 11:05:11 pm
Standing outside the Caledonia looking at a daisy chain of hipsters on the floor...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 August, 2013, 11:22:50 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 02 August, 2013, 11:05:11 pm
Standing outside the Caledonia looking at a daisy chain of hipsters on the floor...
All you need now is a strimmer  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 August, 2013, 11:25:41 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 02 August, 2013, 11:05:11 pm
Standing outside the Caledonia looking at a daisy chain of hipsters on the floor...

Is it unreasonably shiny and a bit slack?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 August, 2013, 11:35:04 pm
Just got chatting to them and they were on last months DunRun! 8 hours as well!
One chap asleep with his head in his mates lap. Rather sweet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 03 August, 2013, 12:48:34 am
Necking HUGE amounts of opiates and praying for the pain to F...ing ease for once in this 17 1/2 year migraine/hangover/traumatic Brain Injury.
And playing target practice with the squeezing of Projectile blood from my middle finger!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 03 August, 2013, 02:55:40 am
Sitting in Las Vegas airport waiting for London flight, having just been upgraded to Club World class 8)

Pass the Champers...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 August, 2013, 09:54:58 am
Drinking tea in bed.

Aren't beds, as in real beds with duvets and pillows and everything rather than airbeds, plastic chairs or benches, just brilliant? And as for tea... marvelous stuff. Ahhh.... bliss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 03 August, 2013, 10:01:47 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 August, 2013, 09:54:58 am
Drinking tea in bed.

Aren't beds, as in real beds with duvets and pillows and everything rather than airbeds, plastic chairs or benches, just brilliant? And as for tea... marvelous stuff. Ahhh.... bliss.

Keep going, you deserve it :)

I'm measuring windows for curtains and playing musical chairs with my different audio devices.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 August, 2013, 11:22:52 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 August, 2013, 09:54:58 am
Drinking tea in bed.

Aren't beds, as in real beds with duvets and pillows and everything rather than airbeds, plastic chairs or benches, just brilliant? And as for tea... marvelous stuff. Ahhh.... bliss.

I find that the biggest advantage of a real bed over a downmat is that it is much easier to get out of at bladder o'clock. Many's the time I've had to practise my pilates in order to escape from my cocoon in a tent, and then wandered out with a silk liner attached to one foot. With a bed, sit up, swivel, stand up and it's done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 03 August, 2013, 12:02:21 pm
Treating myself to something cool and refreshing from a Marlborough (NZ) vineyard, having just switched off the industrial strength strimmer - and I was right - last year there was a bench in the undergrowth which passes for my garden - I've just found it again  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 August, 2013, 01:31:54 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 August, 2013, 11:22:52 am
I find that the biggest advantage of a real bed over a downmat is that it is much easier to get out of at bladder o'clock.

I find the biggest advantage of a real bed over a downmat at bladder o'clock is that it tends to be closer to the loo, with less Weather in the way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 August, 2013, 01:48:59 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 August, 2013, 01:31:54 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 August, 2013, 11:22:52 am
I find that the biggest advantage of a real bed over a downmat is that it is much easier to get out of at bladder o'clock.

I find the biggest advantage of a real bed over a downmat at bladder o'clock is that it tends to be closer to the loo, with less Weather in the way.

You are obviously better at forward* planning than I am. I hadn't thought that far ahead.

*Why forward planning? What is backward planning? Shouldn't it just be planning?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 August, 2013, 03:35:57 pm
Watching the criggid en pub.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 03 August, 2013, 03:57:02 pm
Looking at a kitter and a katter exploring  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 August, 2013, 08:14:20 pm
Feeling pleasantly lazy, listening to.the wind in the.trees and the.sounds of washing up being done by someone else while drinking pink.fizz :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 03 August, 2013, 08:27:37 pm
chilling out after a house full of kids have just left after my daughters first birthday  :thumbsup: we also had a cake smash which was a hit  ;D some pics here https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27087.125
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 August, 2013, 11:21:04 pm
Quote from: welshwheels on 03 August, 2013, 08:27:37 pm
my daughters first birthday  :thumbsup:

Blimey!  Doesn't time fly?

Anyway
Right now, I am mostly constructing a BT.  It was supposed to be a BLT but the L looked a bit iffy, so I chucked it in the compost bin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 04 August, 2013, 01:33:37 am
Waiting for Monster to leave my system so I can go to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 04 August, 2013, 01:44:14 am
Wide awake and having egg and chips as I'm hungry
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 04 August, 2013, 01:59:46 am
Currently torn between "exhausted" and "OMFG my face hurts".

I've actually logged into my work email after a week off, to triage the worst of the nonsense and distract myself while I wait for the codeine to kick in or to collapse on the sofa.

And the moral of the story is to look after your teeth, kids, and don't clench your jaw when you're timetrialling.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mayham on 05 August, 2013, 08:18:34 am
Waiting for the IT guy to make sure my computer can work at normal speed..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 August, 2013, 08:30:48 am
Back at work: 357 emails.

I wouldn't mind so much but they must be at least 80% headed straight to the bin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 05 August, 2013, 09:02:59 am
My boss went away for six weeks. His autoreply said that he wouldn't read any email whilst he was away and all would be deleted upon his return unread. If you needed to contact him or had material that was important then contact his secretary on xxxx.

Monday morning. Coffee brewed. Winding up to sorting out my third year class schedules.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 August, 2013, 09:04:21 am
Fixing Corosync issues.

I HATE Corosync, with a real real passion.  Do me a favour, if you need a cluster, use a REAL cluster suite, ok?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 05 August, 2013, 10:02:22 am
I'm not doing nothing just wasting time  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 05 August, 2013, 10:23:31 am
Quote from: David Martin on 05 August, 2013, 09:02:59 am
My boss went away for six weeks. His autoreply said that he wouldn't read any email whilst he was away and all would be deleted upon his return unread. If you needed to contact him or had material that was important then contact his secretary on xxxx.

Monday morning. Coffee brewed. Winding up to sorting out my third year class schedules.

I was reading about this strategy a day or three ago. I decided that, ultimately, its an arrogantly unprofessional approach. What would be the result of saying you were going to chuck out all the post that arrives while on holiday?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 05 August, 2013, 12:40:52 pm
If you were to get 5000 bits of post that you then had to sort through then it might be an appropriate response *if* every letter had a reply automatically sent saying it would not be read.

Is it any less professional than spending the next few weeks frantically trying to catch up on email? That is why there is a default reply and an alternative path for stuff that is critical.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 August, 2013, 12:42:37 pm
The difference between email and physical post is that you can get the computer to do a lot of the 'opening' and sorting for you.  Even with Outlook.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 August, 2013, 11:13:39 am
I'm turning my misfortune of health into an opportunity to clear some of the crap off The World's Slowest Laptop.  Not as easy as it might seem (partly because it's so slow).  Some programmes don't allow you to remove them.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 August, 2013, 11:17:29 am
Quote from: clarion on 06 August, 2013, 11:13:39 am
I'm turning my misfortune of health into an opportunity to clear some of the crap off The World's Slowest Laptop.  Not as easy as it might seem (partly because it's so slow).  Some programmes don't allow you to remove them.  >:(

Try CCleaner for removing programmes, freeing up space, etc.  It's one of my standard tools for sorting out troublesome computers of family and friends.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 August, 2013, 11:18:10 am
Taking a break from lawn-mower wrestling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 August, 2013, 02:54:28 pm
Encoding movies into a format suitable for use on a tablet.

When I get home at the weekend I will be able to then stick them on a USB stick to bring down south with me to watch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 August, 2013, 03:07:45 pm
About to go for a little pootle up to Bolton Abbey.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 August, 2013, 03:36:04 pm
Flinching at people who should know better spelling 'programs' in the British style.  It's a homophone.   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 August, 2013, 06:20:36 pm
That'd be me.

When I first wrote a programme, that's exactly what it was.  I can't be held responsible for Septic illiteracy, and I flinch myself when I see people spelling it the USanian way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 07 August, 2013, 04:12:42 pm
Being insulted by Mrs Ham.

"You're a scruffbag, you need to buy some new shirts and shorts" (cf members gallery)


It appears that post argy-bargy (subsequent to a **** up by an agent) and more of Teh Internets than I would prefer to use on hols, we have been upgraded for most of next week to what may amount to one of the better hotel rooms anywhere in the world. It has its own bit of beach and swimming pool. Rack rate is around £1,000 gbp (in Thailand !!) per night.  Oh. And it appears that they are going to throw in the Honeymoon Package, too ...  whatever that is, my mind has boggled. Oh. And chocolates. But even if they call it a sweet, there's no mention of CAEK, so dunno how good it can be, chucking in the free bubbly doesn't compensate for that.

I may be a little out of place in my current attire. I'm not entirely certain why I should care.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 07 August, 2013, 04:54:23 pm
With all the roses, champagne, chocolates and baby oil in the special package, surely you aren't going to be that dressed anyway?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 07 August, 2013, 07:33:52 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 24 July, 2013, 10:52:47 pm
Quote from: clarion on 24 July, 2013, 09:33:44 pm
I think my next bike may well be a Straggler.  If it rides as well as a Cross Check, has disc brakes, but can take a hub gear, I don't really have an excuse not to buy.

And it's purple! :D

Space and funds and other mundanities permitting, I hope the Straggler will be my next bike too.

Hmm, they're £1600... (http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/surly-straggler-complete-bike-3988-p.asp)

I hope the frameset's available separately. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 07 August, 2013, 07:36:49 pm
Eh?  Are the tubes filled with pound coins or summat?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 07 August, 2013, 07:42:25 pm
I'd want purple pound coins for that money.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 August, 2013, 10:52:38 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 07 August, 2013, 07:33:52 pm
Hmm, they're £1600... (http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/surly-straggler-complete-bike-3988-p.asp)

I hope the frameset's available separately. :-\
I'd be surprised if it isn't - you'd probably still be looking at the thick end of £400 though (the closest comparison would be with the Ogre, and that's £450 F+F)

I'd take the initial pricing with a pinch of salt, given that the Cross Check complete is under a grand ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 August, 2013, 12:27:58 pm
ISTR a Crosscheck from BC was under £700.  I can't understand how what they describe as a Crosscheck with disc brakes can be twice the price.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 08 August, 2013, 01:13:02 pm
I'm baking bread
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 08 August, 2013, 01:15:15 pm
£400 F&F is more what I was expecting.

I don't think I'd want to buy a complete bike anyway - for one thing they don't seem to have a triple option (and a 36t small ring is in no way small enough), and they just aren't purple enough. I like the idea of putting as much 90s-style anodised bling on there as possible (and I've already got a stash of suitable splash tape), so I'd end up spending even more replacing bits! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 August, 2013, 01:25:54 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 08 August, 2013, 01:15:15 pm
£400 F&F is more what I was expecting.
And you'd be right (and it turns out that my spies were correct ;) ) - http://www.ison-distribution.com/english/product.php?part=FMSUG42A

Not available until the end of September, though.

If the final price is £1600 (and Ison's site suggests it is,  but then that's no real indication of anything) then they could be shooting themselves in the foot - I could get myself a Fargo for less ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2013, 04:35:54 pm
Waiting for it to stop hosing it down so that I can get on bike my and get the hell out of dodge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 August, 2013, 05:31:59 pm
Eating in a Shaftesbury Ave Italian before heading off to the theatre.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 August, 2013, 07:01:42 pm
I've been safely deposited in the Man Creche by Mrs. B while she goes to the energetic leaping about in the water thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 August, 2013, 07:17:39 pm
Arranging to pick up a bed from Freegle. It doesn't appear to be at all scuzzy. Let's hope that is the case.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 09 August, 2013, 07:33:32 pm
Packing for a fortnight away.
I hate packing. Don't know why, but I do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 August, 2013, 08:11:38 pm
Enjoying renewed hearing. Boy the old hearing aid must have been well and truely fubared, I can, now, hear EVERYTHING! !!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 09 August, 2013, 08:13:04 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 09 August, 2013, 08:11:38 pm
Enjoying renewed hearing. Boy the old hearing aid must have been well and truely fubared, I can, now, hear EVERYTHING! !!!

Sounds good  :D

Don't worry, I'll find my own coat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 August, 2013, 08:20:32 pm
Fettling barakta's trousers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2013, 08:38:36 pm
Is that what they call it these days?

Sorry, I'll get my coat  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 09 August, 2013, 08:50:57 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 09 August, 2013, 07:33:32 pm
Packing for a fortnight away.
I hate packing. Don't know why, but I do.
Well, 'tis done. Have no idea what the net access will be like en France, so play nicely while I'm gone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2013, 09:03:13 pm
I shall start my packing tomorrow, I think
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 August, 2013, 09:30:00 pm
Another weekend, another Travelodge. It's all glamour for us.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 09 August, 2013, 09:50:31 pm
 ::-)

Can't you two get a room or somethi...



...oh, hang on.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 August, 2013, 08:36:20 am
Being an SR widow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 10 August, 2013, 10:05:36 am
Wondering how many people really want to know what a (nearly) £1,000 a night hotel room gets you. That many, huh?  :demon: Well I'm going to tell you anyway. Seeing as I'm sitting here in the gentle shade of eucalyptus trees with a glass of beer, contemplating the detached stone built private residence for two behind me (no, not a cave you troglodytes) with its panoramic glass wall open, looking at the sea and hearing the breakers. No people. Just around 30 miles of beach. later on this evening the smell of the jasmine hedge in full flower will become rather pleasant. I might even go for a dip in our 15m private pool. At some point I will doubtless have to move the rose petals off the bed.

I'm quite pleased we ante'd up the £80 / night for our original booking that got screwed up. I could get used to this. I must get someone to go and get my coat.

:smug:

edit:

I forgot to add the clincher if you were wavering about lashing out yourself. When you get back from a little jaunt on your provided for free bike BSO, all hot and sweaty after 30k in 30+ degrees, as you pass through reception (actually a huge open granite arch) you get handed a glass of ice cold proper lemon(and lime)ade and a freezing cold towel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 10 August, 2013, 10:25:40 am
Trying to find my tape measure so that I can measure up my bit of broken dead vegetable and then buy a replacement. This should then allow me to molish a new section fro the broken bed and un-break it.

Also wondering why they can't use standardised parts which would make this far easier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 10 August, 2013, 12:36:58 pm
Sitting in the car park at Eurotunnel. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 August, 2013, 01:24:32 pm
Examining what may be the first evidence for intelligent life at HMRC.  Of course it might turn out to be an instrumentation error or a simple chemical reaction caused by the presence of lawyer's letters in a methane-rich environment...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 August, 2013, 01:28:54 pm
Trying to summon up the energy to go out - having suffered from more pancreatic dysfunction than normal over the past few days I feel absolutely hammered flat.

Matters aren't helped by the fact that although it's quite warm out, it's also somewhat grey and 'orrible.

Bleah  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 August, 2013, 01:34:50 pm
Thinking that the pate I'm having on my toast smells like dog food :(

Trying not to get too comfortable as I need to go and give my bike it's pre-hollybobs wash.

Wondering if the dust all round my cats face is biscuit crumbs or litter dust....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 August, 2013, 04:15:42 pm
Being all rock and roll, after falling asleep, now washing the inside of the hoover and the filters.  Even washing some chains, in the bathroom sink with boiling water and cheap shower gel.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 August, 2013, 06:15:58 pm
Steeling myself to sell some cameras and equipment.

*gulp*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 August, 2013, 06:26:20 pm
Quote from: clarion on 10 August, 2013, 06:15:58 pm
Steeling myself to sell some cameras and equipment.

*gulp*

Oh no!  :(


Anything that will work with a Nikon D80?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 10 August, 2013, 06:35:40 pm
Looking at my bike. Looking at maps of the surrounding London areas. Looking at my bike. Still not feeling motivated to get out cycling tomorrow. Don't want to have to deal with trains. Don't want to have to deal with London. Turbo trainer is definitely NOT the answer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 August, 2013, 06:40:02 pm
G'wan.  Hop on a train heading out east tomorrow.  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 August, 2013, 06:54:35 pm
Pippa, where were you thinking?

Listening to some CD's through a lovely old reciever and a CD player and some small ariston monitors.

Does this count as fettling, as I finally put them together and actually attached power to them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 10 August, 2013, 06:56:50 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 10 August, 2013, 06:54:35 pm
Pippa, where were you thinking?

Well that's the thing. I'm not. I feel like I *should* go cycling. I'm just not sure I *want* to go cycling. So I'm thinking about sitting on my sofa instead  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 August, 2013, 06:59:00 pm
Does the sofa involve cake?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 August, 2013, 07:04:22 pm
Would probably involve wine.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 August, 2013, 07:14:32 pm
Waiting for my last public transport of the day and looking forward to seeing Cubs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 August, 2013, 07:20:54 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 10 August, 2013, 06:26:20 pm
Quote from: clarion on 10 August, 2013, 06:15:58 pm
Steeling myself to sell some cameras and equipment.

*gulp*

Oh no!  :(


Anything that will work with a Nikon D80?

Um... I could do you a nifty accessory rangefinder.  Or a light meter or two...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 10 August, 2013, 07:27:03 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 10 August, 2013, 06:56:50 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 10 August, 2013, 06:54:35 pm
Pippa, where were you thinking?

Well that's the thing. I'm not. I feel like I *should* go cycling. I'm just not sure I *want* to go cycling. So I'm thinking about sitting on my sofa instead  ;D

ride to here [stevenage-ish], pub lunch then train home??
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 10 August, 2013, 09:10:43 pm
Doing three (well about to, for the last one) very pleasurable things : reproofing our walking boots, adding new roads/paths/tracks to OSM and eating Peli's very yummy home cooked food.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 August, 2013, 12:44:17 am
Lying in bed in the highlands after a manic journey mash-up, a 90th birthday party lunch, and dinner at one of Bonnie Prince Charlie's pads. Marvelling at how we missed that deer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: welshwheels on 11 August, 2013, 07:41:42 am
looking in to our family finances  :( it's a sad state of affairs I might go out on the bike before our money situation puts me in a bad mood for the day
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 11 August, 2013, 02:10:42 pm
 :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 August, 2013, 02:22:50 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 10 August, 2013, 06:56:50 pm
I feel like I *should* go cycling. I'm just not sure I *want* to go cycling. So I'm thinking about sitting on my sofa instead  ;D
That's a fairly accurate summation of how I feel right now.

Even if I did want to go cycling I've got absolutely no bloody idea *where* ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 August, 2013, 04:18:06 pm
Quote from: interzen on 11 August, 2013, 02:22:50 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 10 August, 2013, 06:56:50 pm
I feel like I *should* go cycling. I'm just not sure I *want* to go cycling. So I'm thinking about sitting on my sofa instead  ;D
That's a fairly accurate summation of how I feel right now.

Even if I did want to go cycling I've got absolutely no bloody idea *where* ...

Shop, for reduced price cake....well yum yums and raspberry and custard lattice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 11 August, 2013, 04:42:00 pm
Quote from: Pippa on 10 August, 2013, 06:56:50 pm
I feel like I *should* go cycling. I'm just not sure I *want* to go cycling. So I'm thinking about sitting on my sofa instead  ;D

Same here (and yesterday as well :-\). I got as far as pumping the tyres up, but it's a bit windy outside. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 August, 2013, 04:49:54 pm
Feel a bit sick....anyone want some yum yums as I'm not going to eat anymore.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 August, 2013, 05:07:39 pm
Resting my back after a whole afternoon of weeding.
1% of the garden looks a whole lot better.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Squarewheels on 11 August, 2013, 07:51:21 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 11 August, 2013, 04:49:54 pm
Feel a bit sick....anyone want some yum yums as I'm not going to eat anymore.

I was always told that there are children starving in the Sudan - you could post them there :-X.

Currently contemplating how so many biscuits disappeared so quickly... >:(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 11 August, 2013, 07:55:09 pm
Just posted/emailled three audax entries to finish off the year (well one DIY still needs some planning).

100km(ish) rides planned for six of the next eight weekends - two calendar events, two DIYxGPSs and two FNRttCs. I feel tired just thinking about it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 August, 2013, 08:03:09 pm
Quote from: Squarewheels on 11 August, 2013, 07:51:21 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 11 August, 2013, 04:49:54 pm
Feel a bit sick....anyone want some yum yums as I'm not going to eat anymore.

I was always told that there are children starving in the Sudan - you could post them there :-X.

Currently contemplating how so many biscuits disappeared so quickly... >:(.

After throwing up, and having a hypo the yum yums have been eaten.  Not had a yum yum in years and at 9p a packet I thought why not.  The yum yums are a bit bland.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2013, 08:35:54 pm
My ex MiCL used to buy those.

I don't actually like them.

But they are carb and lard coated in sugar so of course if they are in the house, I eat them.

I'm glad that never happens in my life any more :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 August, 2013, 09:06:13 pm
If they contained lard they might taste of more than bland.

Oh and I hate you crinklylion  :-* as I'm having a strong craving for battered deep fried cheese (as you had the other day) as you said it tasted good.  What is worse I have never had it just imaging it's awesome melty goodness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Squarewheels on 11 August, 2013, 09:41:00 pm
Sounds like a heart attack on a plate - also sounds dangerously tasty  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 11 August, 2013, 09:44:02 pm
Mmm, deep-fried cheese.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 11 August, 2013, 10:41:11 pm
Cannot be worse for you than deep fried Haggis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2013, 11:53:56 pm
I heartily recommend it :)

I am currently faffing when I should be packing for the three of us to go on An Adventure.  Tomorrow...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 12 August, 2013, 12:02:18 am
I'm waiting to see if the Ride London ballot opens tonight.
Helen is convinced that it is tonight, I think it's tomorrow.
She's currently "having a lie down" which is what I'd prefer to be doing.

I've got a bit of a cold so, when I woke up this morning, I felt awful and (this is how serious my "condition" is) I didn't want to go for a bike ride.
I'll probably feel rough tomorrow and back to normal by Tuesday.
No drama.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 August, 2013, 12:11:57 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2013, 11:53:56 pm
I am currently faffing when I should be packing for the three of us to go on An Adventure.  Tomorrow...

That's okay, I'm faffing about packing for Another Adventure on Wednesday (on the sensible basis that if I don't pack before the CrinklyAdventure, I'm likely to end up in wettest Wales without any trousers).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 12 August, 2013, 12:14:07 am
Quote from: Andrew Br on 12 August, 2013, 12:02:18 am
I'm waiting to see if the Ride London ballot opens tonight.
Helen is convinced that it is tonight, I think it's tomorrow.
She's currently "having a lie down" which is what I'd prefer to be doing.

I've got a bit of a cold so, when I woke up this morning, I felt awful and (this is how serious my "condition" is) I didn't want to go for a bike ride.
I'll probably feel rough tomorrow and back to normal by Tuesday.
No drama.

It is open.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 12 August, 2013, 12:25:04 am
Quote from: Kim on 12 August, 2013, 12:11:57 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2013, 11:53:56 pm
I am currently faffing when I should be packing for the three of us to go on An Adventure.  Tomorrow...

That's okay, I'm faffing about packing for Another Adventure on Wednesday (on the sensible basis that if I don't pack before the CrinklyAdventure, I'm likely to end up in wettest Wales without any trousers).

Make sure they aren't camoflage.....you;ll never find them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 August, 2013, 12:28:46 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 12 August, 2013, 12:25:04 am
Quote from: Kim on 12 August, 2013, 12:11:57 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2013, 11:53:56 pm
I am currently faffing when I should be packing for the three of us to go on An Adventure.  Tomorrow...

That's okay, I'm faffing about packing for Another Adventure on Wednesday (on the sensible basis that if I don't pack before the CrinklyAdventure, I'm likely to end up in wettest Wales without any trousers).

Make sure they aren't camoflage.....you;ll never find them.

It's okay.  about 95% of my clothing is BLACK.  So I'll never find them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 12 August, 2013, 12:37:19 am
Quote from: Andrew Br on 12 August, 2013, 12:02:18 am
I'm waiting to see if the Ride London ballot opens tonight.
Helen is convinced that it is tonight, I think it's tomorrow.
She's currently "having a lie down" which is what I'd prefer to be doing.

I've got a bit of a cold so, when I woke up this morning, I felt awful and (this is how serious my "condition" is) I didn't want to go for a bike ride.
I'll probably feel rough tomorrow and back to normal by Tuesday.
No drama.

It was open tonight (I thought "Midnight Monday" would be tomorrow) and we've both registered.
They've including an interesting and cynical "if you don't get in 1st time, donate your entry fee and you'll be in a secondary ballot" thing this time.
However much I loved the ride this year, I'm leaning towards Jane's view of this event.
Still hoping I get in next year though.
Hypocrite ? Yes, I think so  :-[

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 August, 2013, 11:23:04 am
At the doctors' surgery, waiting for my 1040 appointment.

The woman for the 1010 has not long gone in.

Glad I stopped to buy a paper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 August, 2013, 12:15:58 pm
Not clicking on the Schrödinger's birthday thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Darwin on 12 August, 2013, 07:58:07 pm
Multitasking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 August, 2013, 02:10:31 am
Heading towards dozy by the soft glowing light of the house LED display and the accompaniment of some Cub snoring from the front room which they are sharing with a number of velocipedes, some of which have chains of above average length. Our day has.involved a.xc train, light sabres, soldering, playing with arduinos, a.park, the death slide, hitting nature with a stick, ice cream, trike.riding that brought a brummie fixie hipster to an admiring halt, appearing on live tv, curry and building motors.

The Cubs are in 7th heaven :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 August, 2013, 07:42:20 am
Looking like I've been punched in the left eye by Rocky with my left eye practically swollen shut....

Looks like yesterdays midge bite on my eyelid, wasn't in fact a midge but a clegg!   >:(

Hopefully the antihistamine I took this morning will kick in soon.....


oh, and waiting for heating engineer again
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 August, 2013, 02:46:04 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 13 August, 2013, 02:10:31 am
Heading towards dozy by the soft glowing light of the house LED display and the accompaniment of some Cub snoring from the front room which they are sharing with a number of velocipedes, some of which have chains of above average length. Our day has.involved a.xc train, light sabres, soldering, playing with arduinos, a.park, the death slide, hitting nature with a stick, ice cream, trike.riding that brought a brummie fixie hipster to an admiring halt, appearing on live tv, curry and building motors.

The Cubs are in 7th heaven :D
:D How's Edinburgh the dragon?

I have been for a swim and I'm about to go and give blood. Mcbobb has gone for a bike ride.
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Post by: David Martin on 13 August, 2013, 09:52:42 pm
Cogitating on which lady chemist this reminds me of?

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K06P0Pi_5pU/UgjyVTIjQrI/AAAAAAAABSY/ZZZBlxLFWw0/s1600/sci-minifig-official.jpg)

Any one we know?
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Post by: David Martin on 13 August, 2013, 09:54:30 pm
It would o very nicely with my lego mass spectrometer
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 August, 2013, 10:02:27 pm
She's gonna have big guns walking round with 5 L flasks in each hand :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 13 August, 2013, 10:03:29 pm
Bidding farewell to Google Apps. The big G knows enough about me as it is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 August, 2013, 10:18:30 pm
Tom Ravenscroft just read out my tweet and then it all went radio silence. I think I b0rked their main frame  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 August, 2013, 03:16:54 pm
Clinging to the seat of a train as it slogs through soggy Shropshire. Not sure what this vertigo is about...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 August, 2013, 03:33:06 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 13 August, 2013, 10:03:29 pm
Bidding farewell to Google Apps. The big G knows enough about me as it is.
:thumbsup:

For non-work I've been Chocolate Factory-free for a while now - all my Android devices are rooted and cleared of G-branded spyware.

Unfortunately, for work purposes some misguided fool at work has decided that saving money is more important than security  and/or privacy.

It hasn't occurred to them that there are ways to share documents etc. which don't involve the Great Satan of Mountain View (and I'm not talking about Dropbox either - I trust them as far as I could physically spit Scotland)

They call me paranoid - I used to work as a sysadmin; paranoia's part of the job description.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 14 August, 2013, 03:42:04 pm
Quote from: interzen on 14 August, 2013, 03:33:06 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 13 August, 2013, 10:03:29 pm
Bidding farewell to Google Apps. The big G knows enough about me as it is.
:thumbsup:

For non-work I've been Chocolate Factory-free for a while now - all my Android devices are rooted and cleared of G-branded spyware.

Unfortunately, for work purposes some misguided fool at work has decided that saving money is more important than security  and/or privacy.

It hasn't occurred to them that there are ways to share documents etc. which don't involve the Great Satan of Mountain View (and I'm not talking about Dropbox either - I trust them as far as I could physically spit Scotland)

They call me paranoid - I used to work as a sysadmin; paranoia's part of the job description.

It's taken me literally all day but I've managed to finally get all of my mail (about 1.5gb, going back about ten years) out of my Google Apps account and into a nice mbox-format directory in Thunderbird. Next job is to go through all (28,000 or so) of them, delete the junk, and move the rest onto my new supplier's server.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 August, 2013, 06:02:06 pm
We're recruiting QA monkeysmuch needed extra bodies for our subcontinental office - A while ago I was asked to put together a short test to gauge applicants knowledge of Python (the programming language as opposed to the comedy troupe, but either's good) which I duly did.

The first lot of responses are in and I'm currently working my way through them.

Jesus.
H.
Tapdancing.
Christ.

:facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 14 August, 2013, 11:48:32 pm
Having a txt conversation with my daughter who is upstairs.

Her: "Pls can you turn down your cheesy music, love you 😁 x"
Me: "Erm I passed ur message on to Simon, owner of said cheeezz xx"
Her: "Hehe tell him to start listening to more 'recent' music guys its not the 70s/80s anymore (ps gangnam style isn't cool) 👻 x"

 ;D  :facepalm:
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 15 August, 2013, 12:07:46 am
Critiquing daughter's essay as she writes it. Google docs/sharing is rather good for this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 15 August, 2013, 01:17:35 am
Still going . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 August, 2013, 01:21:51 am
Listening to large quantities of water fall on my tent. I've just realised how much the effect benefits from stereo hearing; with one ear it sounds a lot like a running tap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 15 August, 2013, 12:06:51 pm
Trying to summon up enough mojo to ride my bike to a lunch date. G-maps says 3.8 miles, 21 minutes by bike. Or 9 minutes in the car. I just know I'm going to wimp out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 15 August, 2013, 01:38:26 pm
Comparing meerkats for cheaper car insurance.   :)
and trying to find cycling mojo.   :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 August, 2013, 11:28:07 pm
Tent under siege from gastropods.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 August, 2013, 11:35:52 pm
Getting excited about camping.

And hoping  there aren't many gastropods where we're going.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 15 August, 2013, 11:36:40 pm
Blowing Mr Cuddles up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 18 August, 2013, 01:49:03 pm
Sitting outside the tent in the sunshine and feeding the baby   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 August, 2013, 02:03:05 pm
Laundry.

I really ought to go out for a ride, but my arms ache (obviously still need to work on upper body strength for more 'technical' rides, but I guess that's the price I pay for riding fully rigid bikes on less-than-ideal surfaces) and I'm damned if I'm going to sit idle.

Since it's also quite windy I might as well take advantage of the fact and dry stuff out on the washing line.

Quality time may be spent in the back garden with a cup of tea later on, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 August, 2013, 03:17:22 pm
About to eat my own body weight in fried food at OK Diner, A1 South.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 August, 2013, 12:45:29 pm
Looking at photos of Catalonia, then lookin gout of the windows, then letting out a big SIGH........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 19 August, 2013, 12:48:09 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 19 August, 2013, 12:45:29 pm
Looking at photos of Catalonia, then lookin gout of the windows, then letting out a big SIGH........

Cheer up. Madrid is forcast to be 40 degrees tomorrow. I think I would rather have some grey dampness than that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 August, 2013, 12:50:12 pm
Quote from: Wunja on 19 August, 2013, 12:48:09 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 19 August, 2013, 12:45:29 pm
Looking at photos of Catalonia, then lookin gout of the windows, then letting out a big SIGH........

Cheer up. Madrid is forcast to be 40 degrees tomorrow. I think I would rather have some grey dampness than that.

Yebbut La Seu D'Urguell is similar forecast to here, just less windy and better cycling :(

PS Madrid is <spit> part of the other lot... :) ;)
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Post by: numbnuts on 19 August, 2013, 03:28:15 pm
I should be doing the ironing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 August, 2013, 03:38:56 pm
Tidying up now dry camping kit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 20 August, 2013, 09:29:58 am
Looking at the forum in an attempt to be doing something that is not what I am supposed to be doing (ie work at work)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 20 August, 2013, 08:52:30 pm
Lou!  Hi!  Haven't seen you in ages!

*waves madly*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 August, 2013, 09:09:52 pm
Planning a possible attack on the northern half of the Pennine Bridleway (Kirkby Stephen to Hebden Bridge, more or less) for the later part of September.

Looking at the gradient profile, I'll find out of my I've got my gearing1 right in fairly short order, and descents described as 'steep, with stone setts' could be interesting on a fixed gear2 ...

1 - 36x17 'road' gear, 34x19 'trail' gear, 24" bailout gear
2 - I'm a cautious descender. I have no desire to add to my already large collection of prosthetic teeth.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 21 August, 2013, 09:20:43 am
Watching the house two doors burn....... (and no, not hiding the petrol can).

Got to say the Fire Service were here extremely quickly and put what seemed to be a major fire out without any hassle.

Now wondering what caused the fire which has taken out all the windows.... some wag has suggested it was an electrical fire caused by faulty wiring bypassing the meter.......

Sigh, so the "fun" is over, best do some work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 21 August, 2013, 09:47:32 am
Trying not to eat my lunch. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 21 August, 2013, 10:39:57 am
Waiting for the post lady and then off kayaking
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 22 August, 2013, 05:14:31 pm
Being bothered by one of our "pets."

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5467/9571516848_5770375b20_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/9571516848/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/9571516848/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr


(Sorry about the poor quality photo).
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 August, 2013, 05:36:48 pm
Onna bus with 2 Cubs and 2 extras, on our way to the cinema...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 22 August, 2013, 06:03:12 pm
Quote from: essexian on 22 August, 2013, 05:14:31 pm
Being bothered by one of our "pets."

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5467/9571516848_5770375b20_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/9571516848/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/9571516848/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr


(Sorry about the poor quality photo).
Isn't that Jurek's friend?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 22 August, 2013, 10:29:58 pm
Sunburnt. Drunk on free booze. Waiting for sleep to stop eluding me...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 August, 2013, 10:54:59 pm
Wondering why nobody has thought to make a calendar of Silly Sustrans Gates...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 23 August, 2013, 09:05:31 am
Quote from: Kim on 22 August, 2013, 10:54:59 pm
Wondering why nobody has thought to make a calendar of Silly Sustrans Gates...

Because it would be too hard to pick just twelve. Although it could always be one of those page-per-day calendars...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 August, 2013, 09:37:51 am
Watching the clock and sweating me taters off because, yet again, the aircon in the building is fooked  ::-)

And I've only been here about 5 minutes ... even for a Friday, this isn't a good start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 August, 2013, 09:53:08 am
Sitting in a train at Liverpool, about to begin the long journey to Ely for Mildenhall. It's horribly humid today.
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Post by: Butterfly on 23 August, 2013, 09:55:43 am
Sitting on a train at West Croydon, hoping that we'll end up in Mildenhall.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 August, 2013, 10:15:52 am
Have just been told the train carriages were labelled incorrectly and the one I'm in gets dumped at Chesterfield.
I'm going to have to move the bike at an intermediate station :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 23 August, 2013, 10:19:37 am
Quote from: andrewc on 23 August, 2013, 10:15:52 am
Have just been told the train carriages were labelled incorrectly and the one I'm in gets dumped at Chesterfield.
I'm going to have to move the bike at an intermediate station :-(

It would be OK if you were dumped on a Chesterfield...  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 August, 2013, 01:51:07 pm
Onna bus listening to the pisshead swear and whinge about how long it is taking to go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 August, 2013, 02:13:13 pm
Doing the update dance with Windows 7.

Again.

Fortunately, its virtualised so I can get on with other stuff but all the same it's bloody annoying.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 23 August, 2013, 03:08:55 pm
Got home from a sweaty 60 miles to find I'd locked myself out. Damn.

So I'm in the pub, rehydrating with Growler till mrsMike returns in an hour or so. What an awful shame.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 23 August, 2013, 03:27:02 pm
Sitting in hospital, Kendal, and getting really wound up because I was supposed to be in the operating theatre Four hours ago and nothing is happening yet!
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Post by: clarion on 23 August, 2013, 03:29:11 pm
Hope they get a move on, then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 23 August, 2013, 04:38:09 pm
Sitting in a cheap hotel in northern France on the last full day of the holiday.
Tomorrow I get the joys of the M20, M25, M3 and A303, on a bank holiday weekend, in the rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 23 August, 2013, 06:35:40 pm
Sitting in a very sticky office, trying to get a test case written, that I foolishly promised to do before going on holiday.
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Post by: Ham on 23 August, 2013, 07:42:29 pm
Baking cake3, in preparation for Miss Ham's Birthday Barbie on Sunday (which will also involve a pig on a stick)
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Post by: mcshroom on 23 August, 2013, 08:28:39 pm
Sitting on a train heading for that London
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 23 August, 2013, 10:25:12 pm
Quote from: clarion on 23 August, 2013, 03:29:11 pm
Hope they get a move on, then.
They changed plans and ended up doing some needles under X-Ray conditions so that's why they were so late.
I'm home now and hoping they don't need to do the bone fusion thing anytime soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 24 August, 2013, 02:06:04 am
After a warm and humid evening sat outside the pub in the rain (under an awning) following a pretty good conference I am now running the following having not done so for a while.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo rpi-update

Hopefully this will make things hum along a bit better.

And considering final year project options - one of the students is the boyfriend of one of the tuesday night regular chain gang ladies.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 24 August, 2013, 02:31:11 am
Well that didn't go according to plan. Reboots but doesn't come back online.. Maybe something is borked..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 24 August, 2013, 06:53:58 am
Still sitting the the cheap hotel in France (although we have been outside of the room in the meantime!).
Trouble is, it's ten to eight local and MrsC is still asleep. When with the irritation of being woken be less than the irritation of having missed breakfast?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 24 August, 2013, 07:04:05 am
Two wrong answers, but yes. Brekkie missing lasts longer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 24 August, 2013, 07:49:53 am
Quote from: Ham on 24 August, 2013, 07:04:05 am
Two wrong answers, but yes. Brekkie missing lasts longer.
Fortunately she woke of her own accord at 8.01 and breakfast has been partaken of.

We now have to look forward to the delights of the M25 on a wet bank holiday Saturday... :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 August, 2013, 08:05:11 am
Eating first breakfast in my tent, whilst listening to the rain and a very vocal Nye!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 24 August, 2013, 08:07:36 am
Quote from: andrewc on 24 August, 2013, 08:05:11 am
Eating first breakfast in my tent, whilst listening to the rain and a very vocal Nye!
Are you sure Clarion hasn't rolled over to his injured side?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 24 August, 2013, 10:32:28 am
I've just been looking at my new helmet(http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h31/Scrapbook_Designer/Smilies/brick.gif) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Scrapbook_Designer/media/Smilies/brick.gif.html)



OK OK it's for kayaking
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 August, 2013, 12:25:38 pm
Standing outside the Commie Pool while the fire alarm goes off, really glad I was in a class and not the pool when we had to leave.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 24 August, 2013, 04:41:55 pm
Idly searching the web for purple bits that I can buy when/if I get a Surly Straggler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 24 August, 2013, 04:43:56 pm
Watching hockey penalty shoot out
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Post by: interzen on 24 August, 2013, 04:47:34 pm
Whereas I'm searching the web for somewhere that will sell me some nice, fat 29er-friendly slicks at a sensible price. This is turning out to be surprisingly tricky - you'd almost think that Schwalbe had discontinued the 29er version of the Big Apple ...

... and also considering making something for my dinner since play has been abandoned for the day at The Oval and there's bugger all else on the radio worth listening to.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 24 August, 2013, 04:54:45 pm
Quote from: Wunja on 24 August, 2013, 04:43:56 pm
Watching hockey penalty shoot out

Yep, normal result. The Germans won.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 24 August, 2013, 06:03:50 pm
About to put a newly acquired Cuisipro grater (http://graters.cuisipro.com/en/4-Sided-Box-Grater-with-bonus-Ginger-Base-plu74-6850.html) through its paces - I'd gone to John Lewis to test drive a mattress or two, but was drawn towards teh shiny in the basement kitchen department.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 24 August, 2013, 09:03:03 pm
Watching the Cav. bio on ITV4
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 26 August, 2013, 11:03:16 am
I've upgraded this netbook to Mint 15 (very easy now I've worked out how to backup Thunderbird) so it's just downloading a gazillion updates.

I like Mint - it has only two problems:

1. No drivers are available for my two scanners - Windows XP for ever there.
2. It crashes all the time on the upstairs PC due to an unstable video card driver.  Does anyone have a cheap PCI-Express graphics card they don't want?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 August, 2013, 11:25:32 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 26 August, 2013, 11:03:16 am
I've upgraded this netbook to Mint 15 (very easy now I've worked out how to backup Thunderbird) so it's just downloading a gazillion updates.

I like Mint - it has only two problems:

1. No drivers are available for my two scanners - Windows XP for ever there.
Have you checked the compatibility list on the SANE website? http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html - the caveat here is that I can't remember the last time I actually scanned anything, but I did check that my all-in-one was compatible when I bought it.

Quote
2. It crashes all the time on the upstairs PC due to an unstable video card driver.  Does anyone have a cheap PCI-Express graphics card they don't want?
Not just at the moment, but eBuyer tend to have a decent range of PCIe cards for around £20-30 - useless for gaming, but plenty good enough for 'regular' use. Alternatively, you might want to see if hardware acceleration is enabled and, if so, disable it and see if that does any good.
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Post by: BrianI on 26 August, 2013, 08:09:17 pm
Wearing one latex rubber glove on my left hand, as well as an A1/P2 Respirator.

Kinky!

(actually for airbrushing a plastic model kit....)
/me airbrushes rogerzilla Tamiya Sky Grey
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 26 August, 2013, 09:04:59 pm
Have an old acer aspire one that I really need to upgrade to a new operating system but cant seem to decide what to install on it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 August, 2013, 08:20:52 am
Standing.  Yes, standing, thank you, able bodied City workers. :(  On a train twenty minutes later than the cancelled one I got up early to get, hoping I won't be too late for my orthopaedics appointment.  This morning hurts.
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Post by: Ruth on 27 August, 2013, 09:38:04 am
Feeding les crumbs from my pain au chocolat to les sparrows at Paris CDG  :D
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Post by: mcshroom on 27 August, 2013, 09:52:33 am
Bon Voyage! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 August, 2013, 10:22:32 am
Yes, Ruthie, enjoy, we will be waiting with baited breath to hear your tales of run ins with bears and mooses.

In the meantime I am trying to find a local tyre place that isn't going to charge me an arm and a leg for a couple of Michelin Pilot Sport 3s in 205/50R17W93.  Hitting a kerb at 30mph at $SILLY_O_Clock this morning hasn't helped one of them...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 August, 2013, 03:13:26 pm
I took a day off and went to Stourhead.  I got there before everyone else and took a couple of rolls of film.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 August, 2013, 09:30:22 pm
I have just about finishing preparing a bike and luggage for a week's camping in Pembrokeshire.

There will be beaches, islands, pubs, coastal paths and maybe even a new avatar photo! :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 August, 2013, 10:44:32 pm
Trying to make sense of barakta's homework, with the frustration of a concerned parent trying to infer the grid method for the first time, with only some error-prone marking to go on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chabang on 29 August, 2013, 09:27:36 am
Wondering what to do today... fell no motivation at all at the moment. Trouble with my girlfriend, job sucks. Looking forward to the weekend and hope for good weather and a little tour then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 August, 2013, 12:19:01 pm
Not going for a bike ride, because I've just realised I have a hospital appointment this afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 August, 2013, 05:55:04 pm
Crafting forms to go along with the 'issue resolution and change management' procedure I've drafted.  Wishing I could hand this sort of thing over to someone else.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: The_Mikey on 29 August, 2013, 06:21:32 pm
Drinking tea in the garden.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 29 August, 2013, 06:32:50 pm
Tidying up a bit. Not particularly quickly or effectively though. Mostly just faffing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 29 August, 2013, 11:47:53 pm
Filling in the form to apply to the local council to run a day of criterium races in the local park (Balgay for those that are interested. It will introduce people to the idea of a rather lumpy 1km crit with no sharp turns[1])


[1] in a horizontal direction.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 August, 2013, 07:35:41 pm
Watching Grease. It's the Greased Lightning bit just now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 August, 2013, 09:00:12 pm
Enduring the X Factor :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 August, 2013, 09:10:19 pm
Sharon Osbourne's hair is the same colour mine went thanks to a packet of Toners & Shaders after a perm, in (roughly) 1984.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 01 September, 2013, 01:54:45 pm
procrastinating. I should drag the bike out into the wind for a few miles to measure a new TT course.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 September, 2013, 02:35:11 pm
Leaving Johnstonebridge services, for those of an Audax pit stop spotters persuasion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 01 September, 2013, 04:32:53 pm
Sitting in my sis's garden necking a third (or is it fourth?) bottle of Veuve, in honour of my niece's birthday and her recently acquired position with the VSO. Hic!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 02 September, 2013, 01:01:34 pm
Listening to inane music on the hell desk number.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 02 September, 2013, 01:04:19 pm
About to go and take Woolly his lunch in the LBS. (He works there, he doesn't just go there to eat his lunch.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 September, 2013, 08:24:25 pm
Pondering on what delights i'll find in my moth trap tomorrow.
dons mothman costume.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 03 September, 2013, 09:53:23 am
Thinking I probably should do the 100k perm I got a card for ages ago but never got round to riding. Maybe next week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 03 September, 2013, 12:25:39 pm
Day two of four of an international teleconfrence set for Bahrain times.

today I at least have a laptop here, unfortunately it is connected to the projector.

Thank goodness for extending rather than duplicating the screen so that I can look at YACF without the others in the room knowing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 September, 2013, 03:23:57 pm
Just dispatched the Virgin Media chuggers with a swift "work pays for my broadband" (seems to be the quickest way to get rid of them, unless you really want to argue about what does and doesn't count as fibre optic).

Which left me thinking, since 'chugger' is a portmanteau of 'charity' and 'mugger', it isn't strictly accurate when they're using chugging tactics to sell things for a business.  'Buggers' anyone?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 03 September, 2013, 10:29:55 pm
Looking this up:
http://www.wikihow.com/Unclog-a-Toilet

It's not idle curiosity, unfortunately.


It's at times like this I wish I was still married to someone I don't like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 September, 2013, 10:44:15 pm
Yup, that's one of the few situations where I'll be the first to suggest getting a man in...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 03 September, 2013, 11:09:26 pm
* looks nervous *

Erm... I'm busy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 September, 2013, 12:45:40 am
A three stage attack. Drain cleaner ("do not use on toilets"), followed by (lots of) hot water, followed by plunging.

They owe me. Good golly do they owe me. None of the 3 young people who use that toilet seemed anywhere near grateful enough that I just spent 45 minutes working away at their waste up to my elbows in excrement.

I feel like I'll never get clean, or rid of the smell.

It is now working, btw.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 September, 2013, 12:48:32 am
Yuk.  You have my sympathy, as I have cleared several toilets, both at home and work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 04 September, 2013, 02:10:34 am
Quote from: fboab on 04 September, 2013, 12:45:40 am
A three stage attack. Drain cleaner ("do not use on toilets"), followed by (lots of) hot water, followed by plunging.

They owe me. Good golly do they owe me. None of the 3 young people who use that toilet seemed anywhere near grateful enough that I just spent 45 minutes working away at their waste up to my elbows in excrement.

I feel like I'll never get clean, or rid of the smell.

It is now working, btw.

If you don't use the loo, why worry?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: The_Mikey on 04 September, 2013, 07:17:56 am
Idling over a bowl of muesli and a cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 04 September, 2013, 07:25:46 am
Quote from: matthew on 03 September, 2013, 12:25:39 pm
Day two of four of an international teleconfrence set for Bahrain times.

today I at least have a laptop here, unfortunately it is connected to the projector.

Thank goodness for extending rather than duplicating the screen so that I can look at YACF without the others in the room knowing

And now day three. I wish those in the meeting would learn to use the microphones properly, we can hear less than half and distinguish half of that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 04 September, 2013, 08:01:30 am
YACF'ing, when I should really be about to start work properly.  At least I'll be ahead of most of the others here, who drift in (clocking in on the way) and then fire up their PC's and wait 10 minutes for them to boot (no, that's not a joke) and have a cup of tea, and then think about work. at least I get mine going for YACF'ing, then clock in later and I'm off and running from when I've clocked in...  I tend to be first one in, in our department, and possibly the entire building.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 04 September, 2013, 09:02:26 am
Quote from: fboab on 03 September, 2013, 10:29:55 pm
Looking this up:
http://www.wikihow.com/Unclog-a-Toilet

It's not idle curiosity, unfortunately.


It's at times like this I wish I was still married to someone I don't like.

Did you get rid of the monstrous blue turd?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 04 September, 2013, 09:49:54 am
Quote from: fboab on 03 September, 2013, 10:29:55 pm
Looking this up:
http://www.wikihow.com/Unclog-a-Toilet

It's not idle curiosity, unfortunately.


It's at times like this I wish I was still married to someone I don't like.

A quick and (not usually too) dirty solution is to wrap a carrier bag around the bog brush and plunge vigorously using that.

Works better with a round-headed brush not one shaped like a shoe horn, and clears nine out of ten blockages IME. Can splash a bit, especially if you manage to set up a standing wave in the bowl.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 September, 2013, 10:16:53 am
Quote from: Jaded on 04 September, 2013, 09:02:26 am
Quote from: fboab on 03 September, 2013, 10:29:55 pm
Looking this up:
http://www.wikihow.com/Unclog-a-Toilet

It's not idle curiosity, unfortunately.


It's at times like this I wish I was still married to someone I don't like.

Did you get rid of the monstrous blue turd?
If only it had been a monstrous blue turd. I imagine they smell pleasantly blue, and ozone-y.

Further details are unnecessary, but I found myself very pleased that my parents had sent to No1Son the humourous gift of a pump-style plunger. My own retro styled plunger has quite a short handle and would have led to even more gagging than I actually did.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Squarewheels on 04 September, 2013, 08:58:44 pm
TMI, I reckon  :sick:.

Did it growl?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 06 September, 2013, 11:27:26 am
Not packing (I seem to post this a lot in this thread)  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 September, 2013, 11:55:17 am
Wondering why I chose the exact moment a small but intense area of rain was overhead to ride to the café in Llandysul.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 06 September, 2013, 12:03:08 pm
Doing a google search for a gross of Mk II Jelly Nails, customer requirements, for the use of.

Customers, who'd have 'em
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 September, 2013, 01:28:08 pm
Waiting for a burger at Ryka's cafe, Boxhill.  I'd like to say we've just ridden a circuit of the Surrey Hills, but, since we just went for a damp wander to the stepping stones, it'd be stretching the truth a bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 September, 2013, 01:35:06 pm
Realising that my <crap> manager is among the returnees from the company jolly (that I wasn't even invited to) that has sloped off home early.

That means I'll be out the door a little early today  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 06 September, 2013, 01:54:10 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 06 September, 2013, 11:27:26 am
Not packing (I seem to post this a lot in this thread)  ???
I have now finished packing. As well as all the camping gear (MrsC likes to camp in a reasonable level of luxury) and all the re-enactment stuff, there is also a complete PA system in the car.
<completely non-cycling related plug>
If anyone is at a loose end in the Reading area over the weekend, we'll be at this (http://www.mapledurham.co.uk/events/events/full_article.php?e=90)
</completely non-cycling related plug>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 September, 2013, 07:36:28 pm
Man Creche.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 06 September, 2013, 11:55:38 pm
Sitting on a park bench under the trees. Watching the little boats on Lake Ontario as the sun goes lower.  There are ducks, a wind turbine, dogs, bicycles, joggers ...

And the lapping waves going swish swish swish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 07 September, 2013, 11:15:32 am
Waiting for The Boy. We're going on a bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 September, 2013, 12:58:58 pm
Feeling like hammered shit - I had my medications changed recently and various withdrawal and other side-effects are coming home to roost with a vengeance  :sick: Admittedly, a stupendously late night (or rather, early morning) last night hasn't helped matters (and it's not like I was doing anything fun, either)

Sadly, there's not a lot I can do but let nature take its course but I really can't get used to the feeling that my head is going to fall off if I move too quickly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 07 September, 2013, 01:16:37 pm
Working :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 September, 2013, 02:26:16 pm
Attempting to summon the motivation to do the dishes and clean the bathroom. I'd have more luck summoning Nyarlathotep and asking him to dance for me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 September, 2013, 03:33:59 am
Not sleeping, that's for sure.  My shoulderblade hurts and I'm getting shooting pains down my arm, so i just can't settle.  At least I'm making myself a tiny bit useful, mind, by deploying my expert baby winding skills.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 08 September, 2013, 12:06:18 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 September, 2013, 02:26:16 pm
Attempting to summon the motivation to do the dishes and clean the bathroom. I'd have more luck summoning Nyarlathotep and asking him to dance for me.

Oh, Ry'leh?

Well, if you'd like to leave a message (http://lolthulhu.com/2007/12/15/hai-its-nyarlathotep/)...   :demon: ;D :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 08 September, 2013, 12:31:39 pm
Listening to Charlotte playing the guitar, updating a website and waiting for someone to PLEASE answer my urgent email that they were going to be around all day today to deal with...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 08 September, 2013, 01:37:28 pm
Watching 22 men driving around in circles until the German wins
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 September, 2013, 08:59:34 am
Waiting for a bus and getting a bit upset about the person hit by a train in Croydon.  I know next to nothing about the incident, but I'm still upset about it, especially knowing that, to the passengers collected around this station and, I expect, all the others in the area, the victim is just a frustrating inconvenience.

Prednisolone may be a factor in my feelings.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 September, 2013, 06:17:40 am
Looking for the trousers I wore Saturday evening.  Pretty certain I was wearing them when I got home (would have been a bit cold otherwise) but can't see to find them anywhere.   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 September, 2013, 06:33:35 am
Quote from: Andrij on 10 September, 2013, 06:17:40 am
Looking for the trousers I wore Saturday evening.  Pretty certain I was wearing them when I got home (would have been a bit cold otherwise) but can't see to find them anywhere.   ???

Found!  :)  I was beginning to worry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 September, 2013, 06:55:00 am
Sitting in a dew damp tent waiting for the kettle to boil so I can put the porridge on....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 September, 2013, 07:16:04 am
Quote from: andrewc on 10 September, 2013, 06:55:00 am
Sitting in a dew damp tent waiting for the kettle to boil so I can put the porridge on....

Good morning Andrew. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 September, 2013, 07:32:11 am
Good morning Sir. Breakfast ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 September, 2013, 07:36:46 am
No thanks Andrew.  I don't do breakfast.
Coffee anna fag, I'm afraid.

Enjoy today's ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 September, 2013, 07:58:39 am
Quote from: Basil on 10 September, 2013, 07:36:46 am
Coffee anna fag, I'm afraid.

Breakfast of champions....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 10 September, 2013, 12:22:19 pm
Just received a Parcelforce delivery. Today's parcel is male. "Mind, he's a bit heavy he is".
The parcel I had last week however was female. "Shall I put her in there for you?"
One of these days I'm going to ask a Bristolian how exactly you can tell!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 10 September, 2013, 12:59:08 pm
Quote from: Feline on 10 September, 2013, 12:22:19 pm
Just received a Parcelforce delivery. Today's parcel is male. "Mind, he's a bit heavy he is".
The parcel I had last week however was female. "Shall I put her in there for you?"
One of these days I'm going to ask a Bristolian how exactly you can tell!

Male parcels

(http://endlesscyclesonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Funny-Lycra-Cycling-Pants.jpg)

HTH
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 September, 2013, 02:12:29 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 10 September, 2013, 06:33:35 am
Quote from: Andrij on 10 September, 2013, 06:17:40 am
Looking for the trousers I wore Saturday evening.  Pretty certain I was wearing them when I got home (would have been a bit cold otherwise) but can't see to find them anywhere.   ???

Found!  :)  I was beginning to worry.

Were they on your legs?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 10 September, 2013, 09:42:33 pm
Watching a rerun of The Last Leg because I missed it due work.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 September, 2013, 11:27:30 pm
Quote from: clarion on 10 September, 2013, 02:12:29 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 10 September, 2013, 06:33:35 am
Quote from: Andrij on 10 September, 2013, 06:17:40 am
Looking for the trousers I wore Saturday evening.  Pretty certain I was wearing them when I got home (would have been a bit cold otherwise) but can't see to find them anywhere.   ???

Found!  :)  I was beginning to worry.

Were they on your legs?

Since Saturday? :o 

No.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 September, 2013, 10:12:37 am
Relaxing at the side of the River Avon, Eckington Bridge to be exact. Sadly it's overcast & dull today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 September, 2013, 10:31:31 am
Relaxing after a busy morning spent puppy walking, toileting, training, tickling and playing. We're now doing 'ignoring'. She is exhausted and flat out on her Aldi dog bed on the kitchen floor, cuddling Aldi, her monkey. (Can you tell where we've been shopping?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 11 September, 2013, 10:32:57 am
Lidl?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 September, 2013, 10:36:32 am
Eating fresh coconut cake and discussing the deliciousness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 September, 2013, 12:36:14 pm
Just finished a "Hungry Hen" at a cafe in Bishops Cleeve.
Yet another cracking fryup?
Yet another cholesterol fest. ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 11 September, 2013, 12:41:12 pm
Sitting with my ears full of Otex and bulked-up wax, deaf as a post, waiting to have them syringed tomorrow. I shall see if I can reclaim the wax plugs from the nurse. Must be massive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 September, 2013, 05:34:10 pm
Lots that I should be doing so start by smarting my self up with a facial hair trim, then clean the bathroom, then tidy and vacuum the abode, using my favourite dyson, and then maybe a shower and then who knows.....probably cook some sitr fry and then....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 September, 2013, 05:43:39 pm
You've a favourite Dyson?  How many have you got?

Psst.  It's bikes you're supposed to have more than one of.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 September, 2013, 05:55:36 pm
Dysons are a bit like bikes.  It's always best to have a couple of spares for when your main Dyson isn't working properly and you can't be bothered fettling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 September, 2013, 06:01:06 pm
IME Dysons spend a lot of time hors de combat, so it's as well to waste your money on a spare to back up the money you've wasted on the first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 11 September, 2013, 06:08:24 pm
I'm just fettling the mtb ready for its visit to Scotland next week. I'm having a struggle trying to decide if I should take a road bike instead but the mtb is winning 60/40.

Looks like it may be slightly muddy :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 September, 2013, 06:10:25 pm
I've got two Dysons, but rather than one for each floor, it's one for each Country.
One's not very good, the other's rubbish.

Yes we fell for the advertising hype.  Bugger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 September, 2013, 06:48:39 pm
Yes I have two dysons, both brought back from the dead.

There are usual problems with dysons, if you have a t15 torx screwdriver no problem is a major issue.  The motors are similar to ones in a henry nothing is designed to last any more.  They have a 5 year guarantee what more could you want?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 September, 2013, 07:29:43 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 11 September, 2013, 06:48:39 pm
There are usual problems with dysons, if you have a t15 torx screwdriver no problem is a major issue.  The motors are similar to ones in a henry nothing is designed to last any more.  They have a 5 year guarantee what more could you want?

Something a bit more resilient in the face of vast amounts of long human hair.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 September, 2013, 07:53:29 pm
Lying in my tent at Somerford Keynes , listening to the rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 September, 2013, 07:59:49 pm
Quote from: Basil on 11 September, 2013, 06:10:25 pm
I've got two Dysons, but rather than one for each floor, it's one for each Country.
One's not very good, the other's rubbish.

Which Country is which?

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 September, 2013, 08:10:55 pm
I'm saying nothing, me.
 :-X
 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 11 September, 2013, 09:27:56 pm
Standing on the observation deck of the CN Tower. No queues today. Can't think why that would be.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 12 September, 2013, 12:44:24 am
Discovered that pork pies and sausage rolls taste awesome with marmite,
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 12 September, 2013, 01:04:09 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 12 September, 2013, 12:44:24 am
Discovered that pork pies and sausage rolls taste awesome with marmite,


Dipping a sausage roll into a pot of Marm's... has a little "Moment" and blows chunks at the thought of it all!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 12 September, 2013, 01:07:42 am
Fretting! The consultant stuffed the camera tube up me nose and down me throat today. As well as "Various Sphincter issues" I have a "Cyst on the Larynx that looks fairly benign". Referred on to three different consultants for Follow up investigations, (Gulp! = not practical)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 12 September, 2013, 01:29:40 am
Quote from: Pedaldog on 12 September, 2013, 01:04:09 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 12 September, 2013, 12:44:24 am
Discovered that pork pies and sausage rolls taste awesome with marmite,


Dipping a sausage roll into a pot of Marm's... has a little "Moment" and blows chunks at the thought of it all!

Spread the marmite with a knife on the pork pie or sausage roll
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 September, 2013, 09:57:37 am
I'm just getting myself together after reliving an unpleasant experience.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 September, 2013, 10:01:36 am
Quote from: clarion on 12 September, 2013, 09:57:37 am
I'm just getting myself together after reliving an unpleasant experience.

Manly hugs, Clarion, it's difficult, isn't it, but, hopefully, worth it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 12 September, 2013, 10:03:08 am
Quote from: clarion on 12 September, 2013, 09:57:37 am
I'm just getting myself together after reliving an unpleasant experience.
*Passes large Mug'o'Tea*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 12 September, 2013, 10:24:55 am
Having a coffee break in between setting up a product shoot. Reshoot: screwed up yest with mismatched colour temps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 12 September, 2013, 01:35:50 pm
Just sorting out my gown hire & graduation photos for my graduation on the 4th October!   :smug:  :thumbsup: (HNC Countryside and Environmental Management)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 September, 2013, 01:53:18 pm
How exciting, Brian! Congratulations!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 12 September, 2013, 01:54:38 pm
Nice one Brian. We will of course need pictures.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 September, 2013, 02:46:04 pm
Go Brian!

Meanwhile I am building servers whils listening to Anthrax at mega volumes!

Sometimes I just love being a Sysadmin :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 September, 2013, 02:55:27 pm
Sharing a meeting room with a sleepy wasp.  Nearly put my hand on it when it landed on my hair a moment ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 12 September, 2013, 02:58:58 pm
Trying my first tapatalk post.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 September, 2013, 05:48:57 pm
Eating crap to banish a hangover
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 12 September, 2013, 10:36:22 pm
Sitting in my tent being dive bombed by Daddy Long Legs & listening to the rain.

Quite a lot of rain by the sound of it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 September, 2013, 11:11:02 pm
Wondering what to do with my day off, which I booked thinking that I'd need it to travel to the YACF camp. 

I suspect it will involve the washing machine, the vacuum cleaner, various heavy duty cleaning squirty things, garden refuse bags and the Country Girl.
Hopefully in that order.  Any other order just wouldn't work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 September, 2013, 11:14:54 pm
You might end up with a very clean pub...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 September, 2013, 10:55:17 am
Feeling worn out after a morning of puppy walking, playing and training! She's now flat out on her bed. Phew.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 13 September, 2013, 10:57:52 am
Feeling the relief of having found my headtorch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 13 September, 2013, 11:02:45 am
Waiting to go home  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 September, 2013, 11:04:34 am
Having a migraine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 September, 2013, 11:07:24 am
Quote from: Basil on 12 September, 2013, 11:11:02 pm
Wondering what to do with my day off, which I booked thinking that I'd need it to travel to the YACF camp. 

I suspect it will involve the washing machine, the vacuum cleaner, various heavy duty cleaning squirty things, garden refuse bags and the Country Girl.
Hopefully in that order.  Any other order just wouldn't work.

You could just start with the Country Girl, and see how it goes from there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 September, 2013, 11:42:53 am
Quote from: clarion on 13 September, 2013, 11:07:24 am

You could just start with the Country Girl, and see how it goes from there.

Yeah, right.  And we all know how much, washing, cleaning and garden fettling1 will get done then, don't we?

1  I can't actually call it gardening.  In fact, "Damage Limitation" would be a more accurate term.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 September, 2013, 11:46:16 am
But, post-CG, you might not care so much.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 September, 2013, 12:57:29 pm
Eating a chocolate and cherry swiss roll rouladé.

This I will follow with a Strawberry and white choc muffin.

Yes, I have just been to the canteen, damn them for making such lovely cakes :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 13 September, 2013, 10:43:48 pm
Testing out the Android equivalent of Siri, demonstration to Mrs Ham.

"Where can I find wine?"

   "There are several locations within one mile" Up pops a map. Pretty cool, eh?

"Where can I find chocolate?"
   "There are several locations within twenty miles" <cue splurting>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 14 September, 2013, 12:10:36 am
As is usual for the night before a long, overnight, sleep- deprived ride, I am failing miserably in the feeling sleepy stakes. :@

I have resorted to the second finest cognac in the house.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 14 September, 2013, 12:42:58 am
Listening to some drunk lairy kids chuck bottles around in the street outside. Drinking hot chocolate. And wonsering how to turn the heating on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 September, 2013, 01:02:51 am
I'm listening to the rain, thinking about friends under canvas in Hampshire or on the road in Essex, and wishing I were asleep.  It's been a long, tough, week.  And I'm not tough.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 September, 2013, 01:08:52 am
I'm listening to the rain, thinking about friends under canvas in Hampshire or on the road in Essex, and wishing I were asleep.  It's been a long, tough, week.  And I'm not tough.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 14 September, 2013, 01:19:30 am
Quote from: clarion on 14 September, 2013, 01:08:52 am
I'm listening to the rain, thinking about friends under canvas in Hampshire or on the road in Essex, and wishing I were asleep.  It's been a long, tough, week.  And I'm not tough.

Have a big hug pet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: davelodwig on 14 September, 2013, 06:05:48 am
Getting my stuff together before heading for a train to take me to that London for the Scout Association AGM.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 September, 2013, 07:42:55 am
I am sitting in the Rose restaurant with The Fridays, having met them for the last 6 miles or so of their ride to Southend. They had a good deal of Weather. I am in longs, having noticed that the temperature here has dropped 5 degrees since 1 am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 14 September, 2013, 08:20:20 am
Sitting on a train to Yarm. There are 4 other bikes on board, which is somewhat unexpected for this time on a Saturday!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 15 September, 2013, 01:12:35 am
Has just tidied my kitchen draws and finally cleared a drawer for cutlery.  Even washed a couple of ikea style crates for clearing the tidying on on top of the fridge.

 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 15 September, 2013, 02:24:22 am
Deciding if I should try a lightly perforated backing sheet to make a few chips...or chipped potatoes coated in gram flour and then baked on the perforated sheet to see if it is any good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 September, 2013, 02:43:24 am
Trying to figure out what I've clicked to get classical music with Russian commentary to play on my computer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: arvid on 15 September, 2013, 04:05:11 am
Waiting for riders of my 400km BRM. Who thought a 9am start was a good idea?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 September, 2013, 12:04:35 pm
Wondering how I managed to sneeze with such force into my hand that I bust my lip on my thumbnail?  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 September, 2013, 12:08:25 pm
Fighting with National FRail's website ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 15 September, 2013, 03:18:27 pm
Wondering why I just spent £2-50 in Esquires coffee shop at Ambleside. The profit these places make from seLling such Crap must have them laughing all the way to their accountant!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 15 September, 2013, 03:28:04 pm
Laughing in their tax haven.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 September, 2013, 03:46:48 pm
Just flushed the toilet while the train was in the station. I believe that's what you're supposed to do in Reading.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: The_Mikey on 15 September, 2013, 05:05:08 pm
Having a headache in the kitchen and feeling sleepy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 16 September, 2013, 09:09:53 am
Lying in my tent outside Winchester, looking up at a perfect blue sky and thinking about packing up & getting moving again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 September, 2013, 09:16:11 am
I'm doing the washing - well the machine is
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 16 September, 2013, 11:09:29 am
If I was lying in my tent looking upwards, I would expect to see the tent roof. Are you a tad worried by seeing sky?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 September, 2013, 11:11:56 am
Well, it's my day off. So guess where I might be?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 September, 2013, 12:37:38 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 16 September, 2013, 11:11:56 am
Well, it's my day off. So guess where I might be?

Well, if I have to guess, it'll be multiple choice...

1) On the moon
b) On a beach in the Bahamas
III) At work...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 September, 2013, 02:02:02 pm
just made some orange and ginger marmalade
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 16 September, 2013, 02:57:11 pm
Thinking that Tilley looks cute in her t-shirt. It's better than a cone of shame, anyway. (She's got a dodgy spay scar and so is on antibiotics, poor love.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 16 September, 2013, 03:02:28 pm
Trying to sort out a visa application for Dubai
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 17 September, 2013, 08:27:02 am
On the way to the dentist..... my second visit in 35 years.

Wish me, and my wallet, good luck please (nothing actually wrong with my teeth but they are a little "green" in colour so need a good polish).

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 17 September, 2013, 09:01:33 am
Trying to decide between a new Audax frame/fork and a Nikon D600 (or a Spa Ti Audax frame AND a D7100).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 September, 2013, 12:43:15 pm
Watching the office and the lab getting emptier of stuff and peoples, and stupidly feeling a wee bit emotional :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 September, 2013, 06:41:18 pm
Real Man Stuff.

Stuck in the cellar with a computer updating wines.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 September, 2013, 06:42:24 pm
In my PiJimJams before 7pm. Have I been norty?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 18 September, 2013, 11:27:08 pm
Drinking Belgian beer & listening to Sigur Ros.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 September, 2013, 01:10:40 am
Sorting photos of Tim Smit and Camila Batmanghelidjh.

Two fascinating speakers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 September, 2013, 05:59:20 pm
Sitting in a very small campsite listening to gigging giggling noises from the hedge and Not Being Rained On.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 September, 2013, 06:06:12 pm
Quote from: Kim on 19 September, 2013, 05:59:20 pm
Not Being Rained On.

Blimey.  You're brave.  You've gorn and done it now.
Sleeping in your rainlegs may save you, but that's going to be a tad uncomfortable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 20 September, 2013, 02:04:31 am
BBQ ribs in New York. Bloody lovely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 September, 2013, 08:07:53 am
Just struck me that if you could assemble one life out of the best bits from everyone here it would be bloody brilliant.

Of course, the reverse is true, too.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 20 September, 2013, 09:02:38 am
Sitting in a very empty office. Look like the rest of the world decide to WFH and didm't tell me :(

Still, the stationary cupboard is MINE Mwahahahahaha.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 September, 2013, 10:24:01 am
Quote from: Wunja on 20 September, 2013, 09:02:38 am
Sitting in a very empty office. Look like the rest of the world decide to WFH and didm't tell me :(

Still, the stationary cupboard is MINE Mwahahahahaha.

That's because it is a stationary cupboard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 September, 2013, 10:25:11 am
Doing a sort of slow motion square dance with tents.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 20 September, 2013, 10:32:04 am
Office population has now doubled and the cupboard is moving again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 20 September, 2013, 11:19:33 am
Quote from: Wunja on 20 September, 2013, 09:02:38 am
Sitting in a very empty office. Look like the rest of the world decide to WFH and didm't tell me :(

Still, the stationary cupboard is MINE Mwahahahahaha.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-05-04/  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 20 September, 2013, 01:39:42 pm
Cobbling together a route for tomorrow that goes through A and B in the correct order and at the right time of day, but doesn't use any of the roads we used last week (and the week before) to get from A to B. And doesn't have many hills, skoggy lanes or right turns.

Roll on October.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 September, 2013, 02:17:53 pm
Working from home.

In other words, recovering from a session on the turbo, getting one bike ready for a ride tomorrow and another (different) bike ready for Sunday. In that approximate order.

Maybe I'll go for a walk later on ...

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 September, 2013, 02:47:46 pm
Quote from: interzen on 20 September, 2013, 02:17:53 pm
Working from home.

In other words, recovering from a session on the turbo, getting one bike ready for a ride tomorrow and another (different) bike ready for Sunday. In that approximate order.

Maybe I'll go for a walk later on ...

Can you head a bit north and fit some new tyres to the Dave Yates, whilst you are at it, pump up the tyres on the Ridley.  Then if you could have a look to see if I have any spare HTII bottom brackets, I would appreciate it, thanks...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 September, 2013, 04:19:55 pm
About to go for a walk up to the village Co-op and get my sister a birthday present.

This isn't quite as sad as it sounds: they're selling big tins of Swizzell's sweeties (probably something to do with C*******s, given the proliferation of mince pies that have also appeared) and that's exactly the sort of thing she likes ... also, the chances of me eating them are somewhere on the far side of nil - even if pancreatic dysfunction didn't preclude such a thing, I don't really like them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 20 September, 2013, 08:53:16 pm
Cleaned up and repaired a sony tv receiver thing, the issue was dust and cleaned the connectors and a couple of dry joints that were quickly repaired.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 21 September, 2013, 02:01:55 am
Now feel like I'm going to be sick.  As in throw up...wonder what caused it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 September, 2013, 01:46:53 pm
Sitting in clarion's local...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 September, 2013, 02:12:43 pm
Sitting outside the Euston Tap with 2 hours until my train home. This could get expensive....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 September, 2013, 04:29:43 pm
Quote from: Kim on 21 September, 2013, 01:46:53 pm
Sitting in clarion's local...
Digesting a burger from aforementioned establishment ... It sounds like quarry blasting in my stomach regions.

Totally worth it, though.

Also, sorting out the bike for tomorrow's excursion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 September, 2013, 06:02:13 pm
Setting up tents in a garden somewhere in Northumberland.  Good job it's a large garden.  It looks like a mini festival.
Chum's 60th birthday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 September, 2013, 06:44:04 pm
Wearing very RED trousers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 21 September, 2013, 06:47:23 pm
TT (or perhaps another) IUWP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 September, 2013, 07:05:38 pm
ACHING! See "Welcome to Yorkshire, Wooly and Peli"

Trying to find enough energy to cook the steak sandwich I bought the makings for on the way home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 25 September, 2013, 04:27:14 pm
Listening to two of my cow-orkers talking about symmetric cryptography and trying very hard not to piss myself laughing ....

... neither of them have the faintest idea what they're talking about, and it's beneath their dignity to ask the person in the office who does know something about crypto (ie. me) for help because I happen to work in QA.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 25 September, 2013, 04:39:06 pm
Trying to get my head around n-way set-associative caches
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 September, 2013, 04:44:15 pm
Wondering how many of my staff my boss can piss off in one afternoon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 25 September, 2013, 08:38:10 pm
Recovering after a bit of a ride at Woburn.  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 September, 2013, 10:43:07 am
Polishing my shirt and ironing my shoes for this afternoons interview with G4S for a casual event safety steward position....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 26 September, 2013, 10:46:25 am
Trying to find a way to describe 'because it doesn't make that much difference exactly where we stick it we think it would be good to have it there' in a way that sounds like there is a good sound scientific case behind that choice of position.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 26 September, 2013, 10:50:41 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 26 September, 2013, 10:46:25 am
Trying to find a way to describe 'because it doesn't make that much difference exactly where we stick it we think it would be good to have it there' in a way that sounds like there is a good sound scientific case behind that choice of position.

Ah, the good old "We've made the decision, now write a justification."

"Using Mode statistical methods indicates that location X is ideally suited to our purpose."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 26 September, 2013, 04:37:02 pm
Standing at Carstairs station, digesting the pint just imbibed in the station hotel. Can't afford to miss this 1635 train as would have to wait for the 20.27.

It's now 1636...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 September, 2013, 04:36:20 pm
Ordering flight pizza (sans round, flat turds) via the wonders of the internet. I wonder what Howard Hughes would have made of being able to do such things...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 September, 2013, 09:00:54 pm
Sitting on the train to Ghent, trying not to fall asleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 28 September, 2013, 09:25:22 pm
Taking a break between episodes 4 and 5 of The Killing/

Bath time now.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 29 September, 2013, 10:15:58 am
Streaming World Champs on BBC and sorting out bike bits I can sell.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 September, 2013, 10:57:33 am
Playing Dwarf Fortress in an attempt to keep my brain (and by extension the rest of me) active.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 29 September, 2013, 12:56:31 pm
~Feeling pissed off because instead of sitting in a nice country pub, having led a ride there, I'm at home with inflamed sinuses & a sore throat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 29 September, 2013, 02:28:48 pm
Just got back from delivering youngest to Uni :thumbsup:

Just about to go and continue sorting the latest N+1 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 29 September, 2013, 03:04:51 pm
Looking at the bike bits I have and wondering where to sell them.  Also how can I have amassed so many things that I really should sell as I don't use them.

The sea and phones don't like each other.  So strip and a clean in iso alcohol and hopefully it will come back to life.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 September, 2013, 09:41:01 am
Adjusting poorly to a different time zone.  Hopefully sorted by tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 September, 2013, 05:56:35 pm
Working out the feasibility of a winter tour (which may contain traces of off-road) north of the border ... ideally in a manner which doesn't involve selling a major organ to get to, say, Inverness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 October, 2013, 02:06:54 pm
Reading PCI-DSS and DoD IT security standards.

I knew I needed some sleep, but this is taking it a bit far :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 01 October, 2013, 02:30:21 pm
Suffering from what feels like a hangover but haven't had an alcoholic drink in over a week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 October, 2013, 02:39:51 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 01 October, 2013, 02:30:21 pm
Suffering from what feels like a hangover but haven't had an alcoholic drink in over a week.
I still get things like that, and it's over 10 years since I last touched anything remotely alcoholic.

Meantime, having been into town at lunchtime to pick up some train tickets I'm now saying incredibly ranty things about hipsters on FacePalm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 07:58:58 pm
Throwing myself upon the mercy of the court.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 October, 2013, 08:21:23 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 07:58:58 pm
Throwing myself upon the mercy of the court.  :facepalm:

Eh? What?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 08:26:42 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 01 October, 2013, 08:21:23 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 07:58:58 pm
Throwing myself upon the mercy of the court.  :facepalm:

Eh? What?!

I am appealing a Fixed Penalty Notice. To do this, I have to subject myself to a summons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 01 October, 2013, 08:35:02 pm
Having a couple of beers in the Yeoman Warder's Club at the Tower of London!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 October, 2013, 08:36:52 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 08:26:42 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 01 October, 2013, 08:21:23 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 07:58:58 pm
Throwing myself upon the mercy of the court.  :facepalm:

Eh? What?!

I am appealing a Fixed Penalty Notice. To do this, I have to subject myself to a summons.

Blimey. Good luck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 01 October, 2013, 10:13:26 pm
And I just got to watch the key ceremony! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 02 October, 2013, 12:54:11 am
Quote from: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 08:26:42 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 01 October, 2013, 08:21:23 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 07:58:58 pm
Throwing myself upon the mercy of the court.  :facepalm:

Eh? What?!

I am appealing a Fixed Penalty Notice. To do this, I have to subject myself to a summons.

What did you do?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 02 October, 2013, 12:55:11 am
Quote from: interzen on 01 October, 2013, 02:39:51 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 01 October, 2013, 02:30:21 pm
Suffering from what feels like a hangover but haven't had an alcoholic drink in over a week.
I still get things like that, and it's over 10 years since I last touched anything remotely alcoholic.

Meantime, having been into town at lunchtime to pick up some train tickets I'm now saying incredibly ranty things about hipsters on FacePalm.

Wouldn't mind but I don't get hangovers.  This was odd.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 02 October, 2013, 01:02:02 am
Listening to the rain on the roof and waiting for it to start dripping into the bucket.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 October, 2013, 01:54:02 am
Quote from: Tewdric on 01 October, 2013, 10:13:26 pm
And I just got to watch the key ceremony! :)

Not envious, not at all...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 02 October, 2013, 01:58:31 am
What is the key ceremony?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 October, 2013, 06:55:33 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 02 October, 2013, 12:54:11 am
Quote from: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 08:26:42 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 01 October, 2013, 08:21:23 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 07:58:58 pm
Throwing myself upon the mercy of the court.  :facepalm:

Eh? What?!

I am appealing a Fixed Penalty Notice. To do this, I have to subject myself to a summons.

What did you do?

Quote from: Chris S on 15 September, 2013, 08:12:58 pm
Dear The Police,

If you're going to designate a residential parking zone a "No Waiting" zone because of an event in the town, you need to actually tell the residents in advance.

You cannot turn up in the early hours of a Sunday morning, plonk down some bollards and dubious signs saying "Cars parked overnight will be towed away" and then issue tickets to the car owners who are STILL ASLEEP IN THEIR BEDS.

I parked my car there Friday evening. There were no signs anywhere. Not a one. Nothing to say I would need to move my car before Sunday morning.

So I'm sure you can guess where you can cram this fucking Fixed Penalty Notice.  >:(.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 02 October, 2013, 08:26:17 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 02 October, 2013, 01:58:31 am
What is the key ceremony?

Didn't you ever watch Blue peter as a child?  It was always on there, or so it seemed, interspersed with Advent Crown instructions and the story of Marie Antoinette.

It's the locking up of the Tower of London:

Halt, who comes there?
The keys
Whose keys?
Queen Elizabeth's keys
Pass Queen Elizabeth's keys.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 02 October, 2013, 08:39:32 am
Quote from: Chris S on 02 October, 2013, 06:55:33 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 02 October, 2013, 12:54:11 am
Quote from: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 08:26:42 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 01 October, 2013, 08:21:23 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 01 October, 2013, 07:58:58 pm
Throwing myself upon the mercy of the court.  :facepalm:

Eh? What?!

I am appealing a Fixed Penalty Notice. To do this, I have to subject myself to a summons.

What did you do?

Quote from: Chris S on 15 September, 2013, 08:12:58 pm
Dear The Police,

If you're going to designate a residential parking zone a "No Waiting" zone because of an event in the town, you need to actually tell the residents in advance.

You cannot turn up in the early hours of a Sunday morning, plonk down some bollards and dubious signs saying "Cars parked overnight will be towed away" and then issue tickets to the car owners who are STILL ASLEEP IN THEIR BEDS.

I parked my car there Friday evening. There were no signs anywhere. Not a one. Nothing to say I would need to move my car before Sunday morning.

So I'm sure you can guess where you can cram this fucking Fixed Penalty Notice.  >:(.

I was hoping for something more interesting/fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 02 October, 2013, 08:41:33 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 02 October, 2013, 08:26:17 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 02 October, 2013, 01:58:31 am
What is the key ceremony?

Didn't you ever watch Blue peter as a child?  It was always on there, or so it seemed, interspersed with Advent Crown instructions and the story of Marie Antoinette.

It's the locking up of the Tower of London:

Halt, who comes there?
The keys
Whose keys?
Queen Elizabeth's keys
Pass Queen Elizabeth's keys.

Obviously not,  :o  Cos i iz forin  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 02 October, 2013, 09:09:33 am
Preparing to take the absolute P**s out of a colleague when he eventually arrives at work. He commutes from London Paddington to Reading, only he got on the train to Swansea....






First stop Swindon.  :facepalm:  ;D

It will be 10:00 when he finally gets to the office having got back from Swansea to Reading and then out to Winnersh Triangle. Does anyone care to suggest suitable witty remarks or should we just be sympathetic for the unplanned visit to that pit named Swindon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 October, 2013, 09:15:15 am
Is he the office (Melinda) Messenger Boy?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 02 October, 2013, 05:40:37 pm
Fettling my new broadband, and wishing I had a family bag of crisps to speed the process along.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 October, 2013, 05:41:38 pm
Just back from a pootle with barakta for the first time in ages.  Her trike still works, but not so much the legs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 02 October, 2013, 06:10:19 pm
That is brilliant news Kim.  Give her a big thumbs-up from me.  Only one way to improve the legs!  I get my spare bed at the weekend, maybe she and I can encourage each other as lapsed cyclists who wanna be cyclists?

Also, I found my disaster movie box set, which I was planning to give to you the other week, but it was in one of the mountain of cardboard boxes.  But no longer!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 October, 2013, 06:11:25 pm
Having my first beer in nearly a fortnight.
Yum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 02 October, 2013, 06:12:26 pm
I might join you in that Basil, old chum.

Right, we haz broadband.

Now to do the magic things to my SMART bfo telly wot I don't understand.  So I can get more thingies on it, apparently.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 October, 2013, 06:19:34 pm
Investigating whether a solicitor who instigated action on behalf of a vulnerable person without instruction and without a suitably appointed litigant friend can be brought to book in any way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 October, 2013, 06:20:07 pm
Careful Ruthy.  This could get messy.  I intend to sleep all the way to Waleslandshire tomorrow.

I'll just have this one for you 'cos you deserve it.
(anna hug)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 October, 2013, 06:25:18 pm
I'll join you if I may.

Buttocks up!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 October, 2013, 06:35:43 pm
You're very welcome, Wow.  :thumbsup:

Anyone else up for a virtual piss up?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 October, 2013, 08:13:19 pm
Watching Patriot Games.

Seems fitting, under the circumstances.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 02 October, 2013, 08:25:52 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 02 October, 2013, 06:25:18 pm
I'll join you if I may.

Buttocks up!
Quote from: Basil on 02 October, 2013, 06:35:43 pm
You're very welcome, Wow.  :thumbsup:

Anyone else up for a virtual piss up?

Quote from: Chris S on 02 October, 2013, 08:13:19 pm
Watching Patriot Games.

Seems fitting, under the circumstances.

*passes the laphroaig

Patriot Games is great.  Clear And Present Danger is better.

Here's to Iain Banks, everyone!

*raises glass
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 October, 2013, 08:29:28 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 02 October, 2013, 08:25:52 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 02 October, 2013, 06:25:18 pm
I'll join you if I may.

Buttocks up!
Quote from: Basil on 02 October, 2013, 06:35:43 pm
You're very welcome, Wow.  :thumbsup:

Anyone else up for a virtual piss up?

Quote from: Chris S on 02 October, 2013, 08:13:19 pm
Watching Patriot Games.

Seems fitting, under the circumstances.

*passes the laphroaig

Patriot Games is great.  Clear And Present Danger is better.

Here's to Iain Banks, everyone!

*raises glass

Yes! And, Tom Clancy!

 :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 02 October, 2013, 08:31:18 pm
Absolutely!

To Tom Clancy.

*sips damned good single malt
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 October, 2013, 08:33:59 pm
OMG! Samuel L Jackson looks about 20!!  ;D

I forgot he was in it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 02 October, 2013, 08:36:50 pm
Yebbut wasn't he great in that movie?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 02 October, 2013, 08:44:19 pm
I is drinking whisky con limon and trying not to fall asleep at the 'puter, do not want to wake with qwertyitis tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 02 October, 2013, 08:45:42 pm
Too much limon in that Clare.

Have some of this.

*passes damned good single malt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 02 October, 2013, 09:02:33 pm
Soz Ruthie, I don't do neat whisky, can't stand it  :o I could pass it on to Vernon he has better taste than me. I lurve whisky con limon but I do at least recognise that you might as well use cheap shit whisky if you're going to drown it in limon.

We got approached by a posh looking woman at Heathrow this morning, saying "Ken Ay help you?" "Yes" I said "Where's the cheap blended stuff?" I should have asked where the fucking teabags were.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 02 October, 2013, 09:04:35 pm
Quote from: Clare on 02 October, 2013, 09:02:33 pm
Soz Ruthie, I don't do neat whisky, can't stand it  :o I could pass it on to Vernon he has better taste than me. I lurve whisky con limon but I do at least recognise that you might as well use cheap shit whisky if you're going to drown it in limon.

We got approached by a posh looking woman at Heathrow this morning, saying "Ken Ay help you?" "Yes" I said "Where's the cheap blended stuff?" I should have asked where the fucking teabags were.

Heh  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 October, 2013, 10:45:24 pm
I am tempted to sip some single malt.

This could be a mistake, having already had a sherry, a bottle of Thomas Hardy and two other ales (Ringwood 49er and London Pride).

Soddit. Let's be sociable.

Cheers!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 October, 2013, 10:50:36 pm
Quote from: Basil on 02 October, 2013, 06:20:07 pm
Ruthy. 

Bugger.
Sorry Ruthie
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 October, 2013, 10:54:18 pm
Gosh, they sell laphroaig at the Country Girl.
Sorry, I can't join you though.  Basil on single malt inna pub would not be a good idea.  I've gone home and am about to retire to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 October, 2013, 10:55:18 pm
Whisky in pubs is more damaging to the bank balance than it is to the liver or brain, in my experience.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 03 October, 2013, 02:16:12 am
Wishing I had ruthies malt and comfy sounding bed....300 thread count...... Do you have kittens?

Full of veddette and could drink more...want cuddles and snogs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 03 October, 2013, 04:26:36 am
Kittens?  You must be joking.  My lungs dislike kittens.  I expect my bedlinen does too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 03 October, 2013, 07:00:17 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 02 October, 2013, 08:25:52 pm
Patriot Games is great.  Clear And Present Danger is better.

Watching that one tonight :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 October, 2013, 07:16:52 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 03 October, 2013, 07:00:17 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 02 October, 2013, 08:25:52 pm
Patriot Games is great.  Clear And Present Danger is better.

Watching that one tonight :)

The Print Screen scene is a classic...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 03 October, 2013, 08:14:34 pm
Watching the Gromit Auction
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 October, 2013, 10:15:55 am
Getting dolled up for my college graduation ceremony...   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 05 October, 2013, 06:58:31 pm
Trying to decide which household toolbox item I should attempt to eat my dinner with. Life would be so much easier if I hadn't forgotten my spork...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 October, 2013, 07:00:06 pm
I'm in the bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 October, 2013, 07:07:39 pm
Having partaken of a particularly weird shower*, I am now awaiting the others before we go to the pub for dinner.

*the shower has three settings for water jets: one out of the ceiling, the normal nozzle, and a number of very fine jets between waist and chest height which sting rather when they assail the most delicate portion of a chap's anatomy. There is also an FM radio in the shower, which is a bit pointless because it's inaudible above the noise of the water.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 October, 2013, 07:08:07 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 05 October, 2013, 06:58:31 pm
Trying to decide which household toolbox item I should attempt to eat my dinner with. Life would be so much easier if I hadn't forgotten my spork...

Screwdriver's the classic, but multimeter probes as chopsticks are cooler.

Anything designed for plastering/grouting is cheating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 05 October, 2013, 07:10:21 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 October, 2013, 07:08:07 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 05 October, 2013, 06:58:31 pm
Trying to decide which household toolbox item I should attempt to eat my dinner with. Life would be so much easier if I hadn't forgotten my spork...

Screwdriver's the classic, but multimeter probes as chopsticks are cooler.

Anything designed for plastering/grouting is cheating.

Ooh - thanks, had forgotten about the grouting stuff in the shed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 05 October, 2013, 08:48:55 pm
Lying starfish in a double bed ALL FOR MEEEEE in a B and B in the New Forest. X factor on tv with noone to moan at me for watching trash.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 October, 2013, 09:07:21 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 05 October, 2013, 06:58:31 pm
Trying to decide which household toolbox item I should attempt to eat my dinner with. Life would be so much easier if I hadn't forgotten my spork...

I once cut my mouth on a chisel in similar circumstances.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 05 October, 2013, 09:16:14 pm
In the end, I found a mini houseplant trowel and fork (I don't think I'd ever actually used then for plants), which were ok. Not the best eating experience, but better than a screwdriver our chisel,I think. (Note to self: ALWAYS carry a spork. :facepalm:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 October, 2013, 10:47:57 pm
Listening to Sounds of the 80s on Radio 2.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 October, 2013, 10:49:44 pm
I also remember eating a yoghurt with a screwdriver.

It kinda worked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 05 October, 2013, 11:32:20 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 05 October, 2013, 08:48:55 pm
Lying starfish in a double bed ALL FOR MEEEEE in a B and B in the New Forest. X factor on tv with noone to moan at me for watching trash.  :thumbsup:

Oh, top night out there Lady C!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 October, 2013, 02:05:05 pm
Eating a free first class sarnie, drinking free first class coffee and generally lowering the tone. Worth the extra 70p that...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 06 October, 2013, 05:03:56 pm
I hope your pinkie was out at the regulation 70deg CL?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 06 October, 2013, 06:26:21 pm
Quote from: clarion on 05 October, 2013, 10:49:44 pm
I also remember eating a yoghurt with a screwdriver.

It kinda worked.

Screwdrivers are for putting screws into a cork so you can extract said cork with a mole wrench.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 06 October, 2013, 06:26:34 pm
Dealing with a rucksack full of meths-contaminated kit that junior has just brought back from a DoE expedition.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 06 October, 2013, 07:05:07 pm
Sounds like he's been doing a Duke ay Glesca award.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 06 October, 2013, 07:11:44 pm
Aye, one of them let slip about trying to remove the bitrex and colour by pouring it through some breid as a filter :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 07 October, 2013, 10:21:00 am
Into the second hour of a phone conference. My ear is now quite flat!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 October, 2013, 01:58:49 pm
Trying to fix a Kerberos problem, on a server that wasn't built by me, but by a guy in another timezone, who left over a year ago and didn't write any documentation on it, apart from a short email that has only just come to light!

Wish me luck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 07 October, 2013, 03:32:12 pm
Into the fourth hour of a conference and lost the will to live. Currently gnawing down to the wrist bone. Not very tasty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 07 October, 2013, 06:31:44 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 02 September, 2013, 01:04:19 pm
About to go and take Woolly his lunch in the LBS. (He works there, he doesn't just go there to eat his lunch.)
And nommy it was too, thanks :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 October, 2013, 09:19:21 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 07 October, 2013, 06:31:44 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 02 September, 2013, 01:04:19 pm
About to go and take Woolly his lunch in the LBS. (He works there, he doesn't just go there to eat his lunch.)
And nommy it was too, thanks :)

Has he not been home since?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 October, 2013, 09:33:22 pm
Quote from: Ham on 07 October, 2013, 03:32:12 pm
Into the fourth hour of a conference and lost the will to live. Currently gnawing down to the wrist bone. Not very tasty.
Need more ketchup, obviously.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 07 October, 2013, 11:37:02 pm
Basking in glory.  Not only did we win the quiz, also won the 25 quid flyer after.  Heh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 October, 2013, 02:46:21 pm
Reading ISO27001:2013.

Yes it is as boring as it sounds zzzzzzzzzzz
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 08 October, 2013, 03:11:21 pm
After completing a task expected to last about a day in about half an hour (and informing the project lead), working on my looking-busy-in-front -of-a-computer l33t skillz
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 08 October, 2013, 04:17:52 pm
Remotely listening into a meeting.

I think the presenters are at one end of a long conference room and the mirophone at the other. They are very quiet so I have the phone volue at max..

Occasionally someone next to the microphone coughs.

My ear hurts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 October, 2013, 02:31:28 pm
Watching Animaniacs. :-D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 October, 2013, 07:43:26 pm
Wanting to found a League of Non-Aligned Cyclists:

Quote from: TimC on 09 October, 2013, 07:32:29 pm
This road features in many, many club rides, sportives, charity rides, and general, non-aligned cycling - and even, I dare say, the occasional Audax.

Who's with me?   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 October, 2013, 07:57:47 pm
I would, but then we'd be aligned, which kinda undermines the project. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 09 October, 2013, 08:30:34 pm
Losing the will to live at a scout exec meeting. Contrary to popular belief, there is no CAIK at this one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 09 October, 2013, 08:40:50 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 09 October, 2013, 08:30:34 pm
Losing the will to live at a scout exec meeting. Contrary to popular belief, there is no CAIK at this one.
Well that is that idea out of my head, sorry Scouts of Yorkshire you need to find another volunteer.

What I'm doing now: Listening to Peli tunefully humming loudly away in the kitchen while cooking up something that most definitely smells awfully nice!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 09 October, 2013, 09:27:28 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 October, 2013, 07:43:26 pm
Wanting to found a League of Non-Aligned Cyclists:

Quote from: TimC on 09 October, 2013, 07:32:29 pm
This road features in many, many club rides, sportives, charity rides, and general, non-aligned cycling - and even, I dare say, the occasional Audax.

Who's with me?   :D

Paging wobbly john... paging wobbly john
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 09 October, 2013, 11:49:50 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 09 October, 2013, 08:40:50 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 09 October, 2013, 08:30:34 pm
Losing the will to live at a scout exec meeting. Contrary to popular belief, there is no CAIK at this one.
Well that is that idea out of my head, sorry Scouts of Yorkshire you need to find another volunteer.

What I'm doing now: Listening to Peli tunefully humming loudly away in the kitchen while cooking up something that most definitely smells awfully nice!

Woolly, I'm sure there'll be CAIK in Yorkshire. Anyway, only the really bad people get to go to Exec meetings - they're the sort of management committee of the scout group. The fun stuff is open to everyone. Go on, you've got so much to offer them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 10 October, 2013, 10:43:20 am
Wot Tim said.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 10 October, 2013, 03:27:00 pm
Creating a work of fiction, though it's cunningly pretending to be a project resource plan.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 October, 2013, 09:07:23 pm
Watching a news piece about the building of a ski resort in North Korea.
*bonkers*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 October, 2013, 06:22:14 am
About to have a snooze, then a shower, before the day shift come in.

My maintenance window work is now done, I can relax.

I am, for once, hugely relived that we deal with an office in Germany, as I emailed a guy over there, just a minute ago, and got an almost immediate reply!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 October, 2013, 09:33:41 am
Watching the last few episodes of breaking bad season 4....deciding if I should have some spaghetti as my body has no idea what time it is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 October, 2013, 10:44:41 am
Decided to go with a spicy sauce, chilli oil, a few chillies (seed and skin) some very fine sliced garlic and some thick pulpy tinned whole tomatoes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 11 October, 2013, 01:13:54 pm
Procrastinating. Looking at YACF, avoiding painting or doing anything useful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 11 October, 2013, 02:07:08 pm
Looking for a knitting pattern. This (http://www.rapha.cc/womens-knitted-winter-hat/?cm_mmc=email-_-111013-_-img-_-womenswinterhat) is lovely, but my wallet can't cope with Rapha.
Also. Blue & Yellow. Hmmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 October, 2013, 05:10:09 pm
Still not been to sleep, but the rain has changed any idea of me going out.  So to do things on the list I have instead got an original xbox out and started playing splinter cell.

Great use of my time hey.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 11 October, 2013, 05:36:36 pm
Sorting out car and home insewerance - almost done :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 11 October, 2013, 05:48:23 pm
Quote from: fboab on 11 October, 2013, 02:07:08 pm
Looking for a knitting pattern. This (http://www.rapha.cc/womens-knitted-winter-hat/?cm_mmc=email-_-111013-_-img-_-womenswinterhat) is lovely, but my wallet can't cope with Rapha.
Also. Blue & Yellow. Hmmm.

CathyG bought a particularly fetching hat from Carlisle Tesco on the Carlisle-Newcastle ride that is fairly similar to the Rapha design.
IIRC, it is a less "chunky" knit, it has a small skull and cross-bone logo (AArrhh !), is grey and wasn't very expensive.
It also fitted nicely under her helmet.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 11 October, 2013, 05:51:08 pm
Getting ready to go out drinkin' and eatin' with a mate  :D

Whatever shall I wear ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 12 October, 2013, 08:35:49 am
Quote from: Andrew Br on 11 October, 2013, 05:48:23 pm
Quote from: fboab on 11 October, 2013, 02:07:08 pm
Looking for a knitting pattern. This (http://www.rapha.cc/womens-knitted-winter-hat/?cm_mmc=email-_-111013-_-img-_-womenswinterhat) is lovely, but my wallet can't cope with Rapha.
Also. Blue & Yellow. Hmmm.

CathyG bought a particularly fetching hat from Carlisle Tesco on the Carlisle-Newcastle ride that is fairly similar to the Rapha design.
IIRC, it is a less "chunky" knit, it has a small skull and cross-bone logo (AArrhh !), is grey and wasn't very expensive.
It also fitted nicely under her helmet.

Do you have one of these fboab?

http://www.bobjacksoncycles.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=99&products_id=531
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 12 October, 2013, 12:51:14 pm
I'm listening to The Now Show!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 October, 2013, 01:32:22 pm
Being a bit sad cos I over poached the eggs and they didn't make runny goodness all over the toast :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 October, 2013, 04:55:33 pm
Listening to The Stones Forty Licks and making curry. And dancing a bit. In a Mick Jagger stylee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 October, 2013, 06:54:47 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 12 October, 2013, 08:35:49 am
Quote from: Andrew Br on 11 October, 2013, 05:48:23 pm
Quote from: fboab on 11 October, 2013, 02:07:08 pm
Looking for a knitting pattern. This (http://www.rapha.cc/womens-knitted-winter-hat/?cm_mmc=email-_-111013-_-img-_-womenswinterhat) is lovely, but my wallet can't cope with Rapha.
Also. Blue & Yellow. Hmmm.

CathyG bought a particularly fetching hat from Carlisle Tesco on the Carlisle-Newcastle ride that is fairly similar to the Rapha design.
IIRC, it is a less "chunky" knit, it has a small skull and cross-bone logo (AArrhh !), is grey and wasn't very expensive.
It also fitted nicely under her helmet.

Do you have one of these fboab?

http://www.bobjacksoncycles.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=99&products_id=531
My Flabber is ghasted. (Can you wear Bob Jackson on a Longstaff?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 12 October, 2013, 06:58:56 pm
Quote from: fboab on 12 October, 2013, 06:54:47 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 12 October, 2013, 08:35:49 am
Quote from: Andrew Br on 11 October, 2013, 05:48:23 pm
Quote from: fboab on 11 October, 2013, 02:07:08 pm
Looking for a knitting pattern. This (http://www.rapha.cc/womens-knitted-winter-hat/?cm_mmc=email-_-111013-_-img-_-womenswinterhat) is lovely, but my wallet can't cope with Rapha.
Also. Blue & Yellow. Hmmm.

CathyG bought a particularly fetching hat from Carlisle Tesco on the Carlisle-Newcastle ride that is fairly similar to the Rapha design.
IIRC, it is a less "chunky" knit, it has a small skull and cross-bone logo (AArrhh !), is grey and wasn't very expensive.
It also fitted nicely under her helmet.

Do you have one of these fboab?

http://www.bobjacksoncycles.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=99&products_id=531
My Flabber is ghasted. (Can you wear Bob Jackson on a Longstaff?)

Can't see why not  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 12 October, 2013, 10:11:41 pm
Installing Arch Linux on my PC to dual boot with Windows 7. I have been Linux free for 6 months but cant cope anymore ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 October, 2013, 05:34:31 am
Listening to the deer traipsing about in my parents' back garden.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 13 October, 2013, 05:37:02 am
Audax O'Clock. Ugh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 October, 2013, 09:20:58 am
Just back from walking Tilley, eating toast, feeling virtuous at having picked up after three dogs, when I only have one! (Yes, I washed hands between 'picking up' and eating toast.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 13 October, 2013, 09:41:58 am
Drinking tea, listening to the rain and staying warm beneath the duvet.   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 October, 2013, 11:50:28 am
Drinking some rather nice coffee that #1 son bought me from Harrods on his visit to That London, whilst watching the kitten crash around doing little leaps at things that aren't there.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 October, 2013, 12:58:52 pm
Assorted household chores, having just returned from the LBS to negotiate boxing-up and shipping of a bike.

Had a session on the turbo earlier as it's squally and 'orrible outside - I don't mind wet and I don't mind windy. Combine the two and I'd much rather stay indoors and do something (relatively) productive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 October, 2013, 01:28:50 pm
Sneezing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 October, 2013, 01:43:46 pm
Quote from: Basil on 13 October, 2013, 11:50:28 am
Drinking some rather nice coffee that #1 son bought me from Harrods on his visit to That London, whilst watching the kitten crash around doing little leaps at things that aren't there.  :D
Nice to see that there's at least one person using the internet for its intended purpose rather than as a vector for cat videos ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 October, 2013, 03:19:36 pm
Feeling a bit weepy.

My family home, now my dad's house, has had farm fields at the back of it since it was built in 1901. My grandad rented half a field as his allotment and hen run, and when I was a kid, my other grandad bought my mum half a dozen apple trees, a mixture of cookers and eaters, which she planted in the allotment. They cropped well for a few years, then they got trampled by escaping cows and took a while to recover, and then cropped well every year since. But now the fields have been sold off and ripped up for housing and my dad's just posted a picture on facebook of the last pies ever to be made from apples from those trees. I wish he had thought to see about digging the trees up and trying to replant them somewhere else.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 05:59:26 pm
Quote from: Kim on 13 October, 2013, 01:28:50 pm
Sneezing.

Bless you.

Drinking coffee after eating 4 slices of toast, two with marmalade and two with lemon curd.  Now in an hours time I shall take my blood glucose level to see what it is and if I'm still diabetic. :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 06:51:18 pm
After an hour 9.1  so looking diabetic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 October, 2013, 06:55:27 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 06:51:18 pm
After an hour 9.1  so looking diabetic.
Depends on what the reading was before you ate.
TBH, if I was back in high single figures an hour after shifting toast + marmalade/lemon curd I'd be quite happy ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 07:13:42 pm
My start figure was 5.0mmol then ate the food.  Should not be going above 7mmol if non diabetic.  Also took my metformin as i'd just had breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 October, 2013, 07:23:55 pm
After a noisy play-fight with the dog I'm drinking beer.

Usually in the evening Morphy has some energy to burn off so he finds his tennis ball and challenges me to take it from him. There the follows a lot of noisy growling, muffled barking, bouncing up and down and hysterical wagging, and that's just from him. I've discovered that he's ticklish! I tickle his ribs and he turns and tries to bite my fingers. Then he comes for a lean and a stroke for a few seconds of calm, and then it's back to the noisy boys' games. He's in the second half of his 10th year but he still be haves like a puppy a lot of the time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 07:49:30 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 07:13:42 pm
My start figure was 5.0mmol then ate the food.  Should not be going above 7mmol if non diabetic.  Also took my metformin as i'd just had breakfast.

Hour later and 8.4mmol so diabetic or not?
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Post by: Basil on 13 October, 2013, 08:06:38 pm
Watching Nigel Kennedy at this year's proms on youtube.  (Lark Ascending)

Great stuff.  He may look a twat, but still, great stuff.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 08:48:10 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 07:49:30 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 07:13:42 pm
My start figure was 5.0mmol then ate the food.  Should not be going above 7mmol if non diabetic.  Also took my metformin as i'd just had breakfast.

Hour later and 8.4mmol so diabetic or not?

After 3 hours 5.5mmol.

So what do people think diabetic or not?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 October, 2013, 08:58:17 pm
That a diagnosis from the internet based on no knowledge of your medical history, 3 readings and a couple of bits of toast isn't very meaningful?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 09:18:49 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 13 October, 2013, 08:58:17 pm
That a diagnosis from the internet based on no knowledge of your medical history, 3 readings and a couple of bits of toast isn't very meaningful?

From my stand point, also using wholemeal toast, I am diabetic as even by taking medicine that lowers blood glucose levels I exceeded 7mmol an hour and two hours after a meal.  Therefore I fit the criteria.

Next I shall try some Lidl dark chocolate and ginger christmas biscuits....this is for science I'll have you know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 October, 2013, 09:21:55 pm
Enjoying a final local beer (Dortmunder Gold, Great Lakes Brewery) before the long flight home.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 13 October, 2013, 09:24:15 pm
Contemplating the scotch whisky collection.   
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 October, 2013, 09:27:04 pm
Wondering why I'm sneezing such a lot, and cursing the fact I finished the anti histamines last week :(
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Post by: Ruth on 13 October, 2013, 10:15:54 pm
They must have changed the diabetic numbers.  In my day anything between 7 and 11 after a meal was 'normal'.  We try and maintain BMs below 7 in everyone in intensive care though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 October, 2013, 10:18:27 pm
Messing arround with my new Arch Linux install tryin to get the fonts and colours just so.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 10:44:50 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 October, 2013, 10:15:54 pm
They must have changed the diabetic numbers.  In my day anything between 7 and 11 after a meal was 'normal'.  We try and maintain BMs below 7 in everyone in intensive care though.

Believe that may have been the time that  diabetes was seen as a curse or as a touch of the sugars.  But having seen the damage that diabetes can do to sight and organs I want mine to be as close to a non diabetics range as possible.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 13 October, 2013, 10:46:21 pm
But non-diabetics can go up as high as that post-prandial.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 11:16:13 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 October, 2013, 10:46:21 pm
But non-diabetics can go up as high as that post-prandial.

Tighter control means less complications and makes me more stable mood wise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 13 October, 2013, 11:23:47 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 11:16:13 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 October, 2013, 10:46:21 pm
But non-diabetics can go up as high as that post-prandial.

Tighter control means less complications and makes me more stable mood wise.

That's great GP.  You know yourself better than anyone else, and you know how to manage yourself.  Just carry on, in that case.  Complications of diabetes are teh suck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 11:27:17 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 October, 2013, 11:23:47 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 13 October, 2013, 11:16:13 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 October, 2013, 10:46:21 pm
But non-diabetics can go up as high as that post-prandial.

Tighter control means less complications and makes me more stable mood wise.

That's great GP.  You know yourself better than anyone else, and you know how to manage yourself.  Just carry on, in that case.  Complications of diabetes are teh suck.

The complications have killed a few members of my family with damaged heart muscle dieing and kidney issues.  It is a real fear of mine.  Mine managed to damage some bits of my brain as I was undiagnosed for quite a bit.
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Post by: Ruth on 13 October, 2013, 11:29:21 pm
I knew that, actually.  You don't seem so damaged as to be truly dysfunctional though.  Just hurting, and in need of healing. 
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Post by: interzen on 14 October, 2013, 10:04:00 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 October, 2013, 10:15:54 pm
They must have changed the diabetic numbers.  In my day anything between 7 and 11 after a meal was 'normal'.  We try and maintain BMs below 7 in everyone in intensive care though.
They have.
Several times.

The rule of thumb I was given was to 'be in single figures 2 hours post-prandial', although that's going to depend an awful lot on what the meal actually consists of - generally, though, I seem to manage it largely because I tend not to eat a big meal unless my blood glucose is between 5.0 and 6.0 mmol/l. When you take your medication is a fairly major factor too (not so much with metformin but definitely with gliclazide - take that stuff at the wrong time and it's Hello Hypo time)

Longer term, an HBa1c of <= 7.5% is considered optimal (although the trend seems to be to use American units now, I still think in terms of percentages)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 October, 2013, 12:31:26 pm
Sitting in an office in Limburg, having, since 04:00 BST, travelled by BMW 7 series, Airbus A319 and Mercedes E-Class.

Need sleep, now, though!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 October, 2013, 12:50:02 pm
Digesting lunch.

There's a reason why we almost always have a full house on Mondays - one of the directors generally cooks something (and he's very good at it, too). Today it was Caribbean curry made with chillis grown on the windowsills of this very office, plus rice and beans.

Bloody lurrvly it was, too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 14 October, 2013, 01:32:36 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 14 October, 2013, 12:31:26 pm
Sitting in an office in Limburg, having, since 04:00 BST, travelled by BMW 7 series, Airbus A319 and Mercedes E-Class.

Need sleep, now, though!

Any fat ladies in evidence? Tiger Mountains? Strategy?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 October, 2013, 02:17:33 pm
Just back from a long walk with the dog where she had a good run around (and came back to me  :D ) and then on to visit Woolly at work. You cannot imagine what a huge step forward this is for a reactive pup who spends most of her time at the end of the lead doing meerkat impressions and launching herself at anything that moves (and much that does not). 

 :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 October, 2013, 02:21:12 pm
Quote from: Ham on 14 October, 2013, 01:32:36 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 14 October, 2013, 12:31:26 pm
Sitting in an office in Limburg, having, since 04:00 BST, travelled by BMW 7 series, Airbus A319 and Mercedes E-Class.

Need sleep, now, though!

Any fat ladies in evidence? Tiger Mountains? Strategy?

Number of Fat Ladies: 0
Tigers: 0
Mountains: one or two, might just be big hills, though :)
Strategy*: You are having a Giraffe, aren't you?

*This WILL be the subject of a PM rant, later...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 October, 2013, 06:29:37 am
I appear to be lesson planning....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 15 October, 2013, 09:52:20 am
Preparing to play heck with our leccy provider who appear to have set up two accounts for our house, one for each of us. And they got my name wrong. And they want their money twice.

I have little tolerance for such incompetence!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 15 October, 2013, 05:27:46 pm
Travelling on a trans pennine express train to Scarborough. Glad I booked First class as satanard is rammed.

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Post by: Kim on 15 October, 2013, 06:05:41 pm
Feeling like an idiot because I went for a bike ride and completely forgot I had a nurse's appointment.
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Post by: matthew on 15 October, 2013, 06:07:23 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 15 October, 2013, 06:29:37 am
I appear to be lesson planning....
what's that phrase about completeing homework the night before it is due?  :demon:  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 15 October, 2013, 06:08:35 pm
In the uni library trying to persuade myself to do a bit of studying/essay planning after a day of lectures. Not sure it's particularly realistic tbh, particularly considering I put in a very long day at work yesterday and will probably have to do so again tomorrow.

What have I done?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 October, 2013, 08:07:55 pm
Quote from: matthew on 15 October, 2013, 06:07:23 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 15 October, 2013, 06:29:37 am
I appear to be lesson planning....
what's that phrase about completeing homework the night before it is due?  :demon:  ;)

Depends on if it's your own homework or someone else's, dunnit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 17 October, 2013, 04:44:54 pm
Mopping up tea from my nose after nearly choking  :'(
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Post by: Basil on 17 October, 2013, 04:58:23 pm
Being stuck in Brum until tomorrow morning. >:(
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Post by: andrewc on 17 October, 2013, 09:30:37 pm
Sitting in FACT in Liverpool, trying to stretch my legs a bit during the interval.

Watching a broadcast of Othello at the National Theatre.  It's a long one and I can't stretch out enough .

Bloody good so far.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 October, 2013, 11:57:43 pm
Emulating a BGP problem on Cisco routers using GNS3 to help a college out. Got it sorted now I think.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 October, 2013, 11:05:41 am
Awaiting a taxi to start another instance of "Trains, Planes and Automobiles".  Should take ~7 hours in total to get home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 18 October, 2013, 08:28:17 pm
Well, not right now, but a moment ago, I was stood up in the middle of a commuter train in Didcot, singing the Internationale.

No, I was not drunk.

Yes, I was calming a baby.

I did Solidarity Forever while I was on.
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Post by: CrinklyUncle on 19 October, 2013, 12:23:10 pm
Riding bromptons around York train station car park
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 October, 2013, 01:17:39 pm
Quote from: clarion on 18 October, 2013, 08:28:17 pm
Well, not right now, but a moment ago, I was stood up in the middle of a commuter train in Didcot, singing the Internationale.

No, I was not drunk.

Yes, I was calming a baby.

I did Solidarity Forever while I was on.
I can only imagine the post other people on that train are making on their preferred fora.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 October, 2013, 02:53:40 pm
Looking at a stunning view, listening to nothing. Utter silence.
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Post by: interzen on 19 October, 2013, 02:55:08 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 19 October, 2013, 02:53:40 pm
Looking at a stunning view, listening to nothing. Utter silence.
Faffing with dynamos, eWerks and whatnot, listening to the washing machine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 19 October, 2013, 03:26:23 pm
Taking a break having spent the last hour or so sorting lunch and dinner for tomorrow and dinner for Monday.
Trying to work out whether I have time for anything worthwhile between now and when I have to start getting ready for tonight's gig (just over half an hour).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 October, 2013, 03:50:44 pm
De-frosting the freezer.  Oh what fun.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 October, 2013, 09:46:50 pm
Drinking Butty Bach, being full of good food, whilst attending an excellent party a few miles the right side of the Severn Bridge, as a guest at a house not unfamiliar to a fair few forummers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 19 October, 2013, 10:15:17 pm
Watching tv and drinking green tea suspect I might be awake for a while...hopefully.
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Post by: Vince on 20 October, 2013, 10:57:54 am
Ona train to Schiphol, then ona plane to Istanbul.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 October, 2013, 11:59:41 am
Trying to motivate myself to buy sealant from the DIY shed and go sort the shower cubicle out. God, I hate that job.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 October, 2013, 08:52:44 pm
Mrs. Wow and I have just spent an excellent weekend at the house of the splendid gentleman and cyclist formerly known as Mal Volio, OT very P. There was great conviviality, cheese and Butty Bach, as well as a cat which weighs 1.5kg more than his lightest bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 October, 2013, 09:29:31 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 October, 2013, 08:52:44 pm
as well as a cat which weighs 1.5kg more than his lightest bike.

I have a new ambition in life.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 October, 2013, 09:32:54 pm
Bought myself some web hosting to go with the domain name I have owned for 10 years +.
Teaching myself CSS and starting to build the website. Once I get the basic layout right I will add Wordpress.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 October, 2013, 09:36:01 pm
Quote from: Kim on 20 October, 2013, 09:29:31 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 October, 2013, 08:52:44 pm
as well as a cat which weighs 1.5kg more than his lightest bike.

I have a new ambition in life.   :thumbsup:

But a moggy 1.5kg heavier than your lightest bike would be a leopard...

How would that go down in Silly Oak?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 October, 2013, 10:21:42 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 October, 2013, 09:36:01 pm
Quote from: Kim on 20 October, 2013, 09:29:31 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 October, 2013, 08:52:44 pm
as well as a cat which weighs 1.5kg more than his lightest bike.

I have a new ambition in life.   :thumbsup:

But a moggy 1.5kg heavier than your lightest bike would be a leopard...

How would that go down in Silly Oak?

It'd solve the rat problem without the aid of a single wheeliebin, I'll wager.

I could call it Greebo...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 October, 2013, 10:36:36 pm
I reckon it would solve the dog problem.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 October, 2013, 07:48:56 pm
Making cake.
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Post by: David Martin on 21 October, 2013, 08:18:04 pm
Pondering the constuction of a leyden jar, or an aluminium foil and baking paper capacitor for teaching capacitance. Nothing like shocking the students (literally) to keep them awake.

I've already put together an electroscope (Tesco finest jam jar, bit of bent brazing wire and some aluminium foil) with a tribolectric charger (polypropylene pipe, bit of bent wire as a charge capture and some insulating tape.)
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Post by: David Martin on 21 October, 2013, 09:50:09 pm
And here it is.. Leyden jar next. They can be a bit scary, but at least  I know the charger works.

http://youtu.be/Gkpbre032-8

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 21 October, 2013, 10:09:50 pm
I look forward to reports of your Tesla coils.
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Post by: David Martin on 21 October, 2013, 11:11:45 pm
Leyden jar - otherwise known as a milk bottle wrapped in silver foil and filled with warm salty water.

Can store enough charge for a wee zap.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3717/10411016596_85fdeaf9bc_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/10411016596/)
Milk bottle leyden jar. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/10411016596/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr

Yes that is a stainless spoon in the top as an electrode.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 22 October, 2013, 10:10:17 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 October, 2013, 10:36:36 pm
I reckon it would solve the dog problem.

A fair bit of the student problem too, I'll warrant...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 October, 2013, 03:40:07 pm
<SIGH> Once again, installing some software that is so far out of my field that it is over the river, out the far side of town and well on it's way to the next county.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 22 October, 2013, 03:50:15 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 21 October, 2013, 11:11:45 pm
Leyden jar - otherwise known as a milk bottle wrapped in silver foil and filled with warm salty water.

Can store enough charge for a wee zap.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3717/10411016596_85fdeaf9bc_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/10411016596/)
Milk bottle leyden jar. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/10411016596/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr

Yes that is a stainless spoon in the top as an electrode.
I thought you needed to line the container as well as put something on the outside?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 22 October, 2013, 04:38:37 pm
Looking at a stunning view, listening to nothing. Utter silence. Waiting for FedEx.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 22 October, 2013, 05:51:06 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 22 October, 2013, 03:50:15 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 21 October, 2013, 11:11:45 pm
Leyden jar - otherwise known as a milk bottle wrapped in silver foil and filled with warm salty water.

Can store enough charge for a wee zap.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3717/10411016596_85fdeaf9bc_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/10411016596/)
Milk bottle leyden jar. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/10411016596/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr

Yes that is a stainless spoon in the top as an electrode.
I thought you needed to line the container as well as put something on the outside?

That is why you use brine inside. That pushes right to the edge and holds plenty of charge. Anyhow, it worked at home, see how it goes tomorrow morning.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 October, 2013, 08:07:45 pm
You can tell how bored I am with no computer at home this week.  I'm watching bloody football.
It took me about half an hour to find the remote.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 October, 2013, 08:33:51 pm
Bloody hell, I'd have knitted my own computer out of beetles by now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 22 October, 2013, 10:14:56 pm
I am having to re-book new accommodation in Tulsa, because the US-based corporate cockwomble who was supposed to do it didn't.

Since I fly out on Thursday ( 2 days time ) I find that the places I choose are full.
So I'm down to the low-end stuffs now.

I'm basing my choices on bike routes to the Experimental Test Area where I'm working. ( I have a rental bike booked: at my expense, not the Mothership, sadly. )

Oh: I've just found a slightly up-market and convenient place that has rooms...
<Books, even though it's outwith corporate policy>

Eat that, mofos...

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 22 October, 2013, 10:28:23 pm
And now, I'm considering rides around Tulsa.
Last time, I did a 200k diy which was dull as ditchwater.

I've been plotting various DIY options.
I did come up with a possible 400k one-way into Tulsa.

I would call it "24 hours from Tulsa" if I rode it :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 October, 2013, 01:41:37 pm
Composing a subtle "Stop messing up my project" email.

May all be in vain as some of the subtly may get lost in translation...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 October, 2013, 01:52:44 pm
Oddly, I'm composing a 'get out of my face and let me do my job' email.  I'm hoping for subtlety, but there's no guarantee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 October, 2013, 02:48:24 pm
I'm about to cycle, shirtsleeved, to my afternoon school. 18.2°C here atm. And the rain has stopped!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 23 October, 2013, 02:54:42 pm
11 degrees and absolutely stair-rodding it down in Skiptonia. I've just been running about on a very soggy rec getting the dog to chase me. She had a whale of a time. She's discovered she particularly loves to run backwards and forwards and backwards again through wet, muddy ditches, then collapse in a panting heap in the middle of the ditch. Quite hilarious.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 October, 2013, 07:34:50 pm
Now to finish my cup of tea and then go to Waitrose to do Phyllis's shopping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 24 October, 2013, 07:11:46 am
Now to think on all the things I want from the states.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 October, 2013, 07:45:03 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 24 October, 2013, 07:11:46 am
Now to think on all the things I want from the states.....

A balanced budget, the closure of Gitmo, repeal of snooping laws, pulling out of the Middle East, the end to extra-judicial killings.  Is that a good start?   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 October, 2013, 07:53:39 am
Quote from: Andrij on 24 October, 2013, 07:45:03 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 24 October, 2013, 07:11:46 am
Now to think on all the things I want from the states.....

A balanced budget, the closure of Gitmo, repeal of snooping laws, pulling out of the Middle East, the end to extra-judicial killings.  Is that a good start?   ;D

That will do nicely, sir!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 24 October, 2013, 12:40:56 pm
Waiting for a courier to pick up a parcel...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 October, 2013, 11:56:52 pm
Busy tweaking dot files so that as many applications as possible have the same colour scheme on my Linux box. I may be getting a bit anal about this ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 26 October, 2013, 09:19:34 am
Heading into that london for a mornings ambling about with the camera before mrsMike arrives for a large and splendid lunch,  then we're off to a show. M'birthday treat, innit.

If anyone fancies a coffee borough-market-ish this am, ping me...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 October, 2013, 09:34:15 am
I'm waiting for the washing machine to finish so I can switch off the power, and dive into its scuzzy cubby hole to rewire the crappy socket the landlord installed.  Probably needs replacing.

Means we can't get to the Woolwich Tunnel/Ferry fun.  Nor to meet up with Mike & MrsMike.

Not happy >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 October, 2013, 10:01:26 am
Actually, sod that.  We're heading out to meet you, Mike, but it might be a while.  We should  reach Blackfriars about 1110, and we'll walk along the embankment.  Where will you be?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 October, 2013, 10:18:06 am
I happen to be heading that way as well.  I'll give you a shout in an hour or so.

EDIT: about to head out the door and noticed the time.  By the time I get in I assume mike & Mrs mike will be off to lunch and I won't have that much time until my first appointment.  That's the price I pay for faffing. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 26 October, 2013, 11:36:37 am
Working out how to install software under Fedora. Not intuitive, but seemingly straight forward.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 October, 2013, 11:39:14 am
At Borough now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Julian on 26 October, 2013, 01:06:08 pm
Listening to inspiring speakers at Feminism in London.  It's going well so far!  Fingers crossed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 26 October, 2013, 01:20:36 pm
Have you spotted shyumu jr yet?  She'll be the really enthusiastic one ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 October, 2013, 02:07:27 pm
Sitting in a café in Ghent, or Gent, waiting for some sandwiches after rather too many kilometres on a tso. The first one had no front changer and so few teeth on its middle chain ring that the chain jumped off within 20 metres of the cycle hire place. We took it back and got another one. I think we might be taking it back o the train as the saddles are none too wonderful and I didn't bring any cycling gloves with me.

We are enjoying some lovely warm sunny weather, although the wind made progress difficult for a time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 October, 2013, 02:10:31 pm
Yay for feminists! :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 26 October, 2013, 02:28:45 pm
Well, spending time with Mike was more pleasant than sitting under a worktop mending a dodgy socket. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 27 October, 2013, 12:05:41 am
Quote from: clarion on 26 October, 2013, 02:28:45 pm
Well, spending time with Mike was more pleasant than sitting under a worktop mending a dodgy socket. ;D

blimey, that's quite the nicest endorsement I've had...

nice to see you three too!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 October, 2013, 12:23:39 am
Watching the last bit of The Shining. REDRUMREDRUMREDRUM
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 27 October, 2013, 04:06:34 pm
Listening to the wind outside working itself up into one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 October, 2013, 10:03:09 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 October, 2013, 12:23:39 am
Watching the last bit of The Shining. REDRUMREDRUMREDRUM

[Simpsons]

Homer: No beer and no TV make Homer somethingsomething
Marge: Go Crazy?
Homer: Don't mind if I do

[/Simpsons]

In the meantime I am taking a large group of pigeons (metaphorical)and placing a rather large feline (again, metaphorical)in the middle of them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 28 October, 2013, 10:40:55 am
Quote from: tiermat on 28 October, 2013, 10:03:09 am
... I am taking a large group of pigeons (metaphorical)and placing a rather large feline (again, metaphorical)in the middle of them.

To be followed by introducing a quantity of un-processed solid waste to the rotating ventilation apparatus, I presume? :demon: ;D :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 28 October, 2013, 11:03:09 pm
That thing where you have to get out from under a duvet that's nice and warm to go into the other room and check the soldering iron isn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 October, 2013, 11:25:58 pm
Quote from: nikki on 28 October, 2013, 11:03:09 pm
check the smoldering iron isn't.

FTFY
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 October, 2013, 12:18:10 pm
Obeying an order from one of our directors, viz:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/9247_10151667676361636_1569106870_n.jpg)

The contents of the container looks a bit like this:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1379905_10151667681101636_1391439278_n.jpg)

Well. it'd be rude not to ...

(and before anyone asks, no I didn't eat all of it)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 29 October, 2013, 01:29:03 pm
... just the 3/4s that are missing in that picture :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 October, 2013, 01:46:05 pm
I got in to work on Monday having been out on Thurs & Fri to find that 1/4 of my birthday cake was uneaten and had gone mouldy.
Ingrates.
That's the last time I'll take an entire cake into that office. At least I know when the cake goes to Pingu's work the tin will come back empty the same day!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 29 October, 2013, 01:52:50 pm
Waiting for my lunch to cook.  I was hoping to have a lunch date so I could show off my haircut, but it wasn't to be.

I'll just have to eat lunch by the window and hope for the best.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 29 October, 2013, 02:00:03 pm
Persuading R to draw graphs in an XKCD stylee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 October, 2013, 02:17:05 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 29 October, 2013, 01:29:03 pm
... just the 3/4s that are missing in that picture :P
*burp*

If you hear an explosion later on, chances are it's my pancreas ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 October, 2013, 02:20:29 pm
Quote from: David Martin on 29 October, 2013, 02:00:03 pm
Persuading R to draw graphs in an XKCD stylee.
If you can get it to do the Dwarf Fortress Learning Curve then I shall officially be Impressed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: epa611 on 29 October, 2013, 03:55:28 pm
Bored - trying to kill time until the end of this final week of my notice in this job. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 29 October, 2013, 08:47:47 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 October, 2013, 01:46:05 pm
I got in to work on Monday having been out on Thurs & Fri to find that 1/4 of my birthday cake was uneaten and had gone mouldy.
Ingrates.
That's the last time I'll take an entire cake into that office. At least I know when the cake goes to Pingu's work the tin will come back empty the same day!

We do our best  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 29 October, 2013, 09:05:58 pm
Wondering if Mrs m is correct, and I have really turned into a senile old goat...

1645. Pay £13 for new swimming goggles at pool.
1725. Leave pool armed with goggles, towels, 4 childer.
1735 arrive home. Count goggles. FFS, where is the new ones?

This was the last piece in my jigsaw of goggle replacement arrangements following the as yet unexplained disappearance of the entire family goggle supply following our Turkish trip a couple of weeks ago. I've just spent another £13 at the pool whilst pretending to be there only for associated water polo reasons with one of the other childer. Goat. Senile or otherwise.:-[

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 October, 2013, 09:10:11 pm
Have you checked that you're not wearing them?  That's where the senility really kicks in...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 29 October, 2013, 09:11:02 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 October, 2013, 11:25:58 pm
Quote from: nikki on 28 October, 2013, 11:03:09 pm
check the smoldering iron isn't.

FTFY

I should probably get around to moving all those plastic component bags to somewhere that's not right next to the stand...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 29 October, 2013, 09:15:01 pm
Digesting a plate of nachos. (Home made)  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 29 October, 2013, 09:41:56 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 October, 2013, 01:46:05 pm
I got in to work on Monday having been out on Thurs & Fri to find that 1/4 of my birthday cake was uneaten and had gone mouldy.
Ingrates.
That's the last time I'll take an entire cake into that office. At least I know when the cake goes to Pingu's work the tin will come back empty the same day!

Inform you colleagues that they are not going to get cake ever again due to the in ability to consume it. There are starving cyclist that cycle miles just for cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 October, 2013, 09:34:49 am
Quote from: nikki on 29 October, 2013, 09:11:02 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 October, 2013, 11:25:58 pm
Quote from: nikki on 28 October, 2013, 11:03:09 pm
check the smoldering iron isn't.

FTFY

I should probably get around to moving all those plastic component bags to somewhere that's not right next to the stand...
That's what floors are for, IME.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 October, 2013, 11:01:35 am
Surfing the interwebz on my phone while I wait for a compulsory e-learning module to load on my work laptop. Ten minutes so far...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 October, 2013, 05:37:18 pm
Half-heartedly tidying and cleaning a bit.

I bloody hate this time of year.  It's my other sister's annual 3 week holiday...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 31 October, 2013, 05:41:59 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 31 October, 2013, 05:37:18 pm
Half-heartedly tidying and cleaning a bit.

I bloody hate this time of year.  It's my other sister's annual 3 week holiday...

No dirt thief :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 31 October, 2013, 05:43:01 pm
Being a misanthropic git and ignoring the Trick or Treaters. :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 31 October, 2013, 06:54:51 pm
Freecycled a broken record player and bag of cables.  Juggling stuff round the flat and assembling the PC for Clarion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 31 October, 2013, 07:25:55 pm
Quote from: spesh on 31 October, 2013, 05:43:01 pm
Being a misanthropic git and ignoring the Trick or Treaters. :demon:
I put a 'sorry no trick or treat' sign up. I'm not sure if it worked as the door bell rang several times - although I think that was because a neighbour's is compatible. It certainly doesn't generally respond to our button. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 31 October, 2013, 07:28:56 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 31 October, 2013, 07:25:55 pm
Quote from: spesh on 31 October, 2013, 05:43:01 pm
Being a misanthropic git and ignoring the Trick or Treaters. :demon:
I put a 'sorry no trick or treat' sign up. I'm not sure if it worked as the door bell rang several times - although I think that was because a neighbour's is compatible. It certainly doesn't generally respond to our button. ::-)

With me being the Victor Meldrew of the street, no one has attempted to knock here ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 31 October, 2013, 07:32:45 pm
Enjoying the lack of trick-or-treaters (flats have their advantages).

And the actual proper internet connection, for the first time in six weeks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 October, 2013, 09:11:55 pm
Oh... I didn't notice anyone knocking.  But then I've had earphones in and Amy Rigby quite loud most of the evening...

I have fettled the Cubs' room, and done all bar one load of the laundry with assorted bedding and towels currently drying on radiators ready for tomorrow, and folded and put away the laundry mountain.  Next... my room.  Blimey, housework is dull.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 October, 2013, 09:15:58 pm
There seems to be some unwritten rule round here - no pumpkin in the window/on display = no trick or treaters.

Not sure if it's a universal thing but it seems to do the trick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 October, 2013, 10:22:47 pm
One year, #2 son and I retired to the back of the house and turned off all lights in the front.  But then I found that I needed to nip over the road for fags.
When I got back I realised I'd not got my keys on me
So I rang the door bell.
Nothing
I rang again.
Still nothing.

I realised what was happening.  Son didn't know I'd gone out and was just ignoring the door bell.

Much long and repeated door bell ringing.
Still nothing.

Lean on bell until son appears looking quite worried.

"Sorry", we both said to each other.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 31 October, 2013, 10:39:48 pm
I decided to answer the door for the first time this year, instead of hiding in the dark as normal. I even bought some sweets to give out.

I had a grand total of one trick or treater come to the front door - and now have a lot of sweets left :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 October, 2013, 10:42:18 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 31 October, 2013, 10:39:48 pm

I had a grand total of one trick or treater come to the front door - and now have a lot of sweets left :)

Ding dong.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 01 November, 2013, 01:00:09 am
Releasing the trapped smoke from a dell computer  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 November, 2013, 10:50:43 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 31 October, 2013, 06:54:51 pm
... assembling the PC for Clarion.

Quote from: Gattopardo on 01 November, 2013, 01:00:09 am
Releasing the trapped smoke from a dell computer  :facepalm:

Are these two related? :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 November, 2013, 11:12:57 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 01 November, 2013, 01:00:09 am
Releasing the trapped smoke from a dell computer  :facepalm:
I'd call that a mercy killing.

I am currently waiting for Shitty Link to come and collect a rather large box containing a hi-fi amplifier.

I think I know where the inspiration for 'Waiting for Godot' came from  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 01 November, 2013, 11:27:19 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 31 October, 2013, 10:39:48 pm
I decided to answer the door for the first time this year, instead of hiding in the dark as normal. I even bought some sweets to give out.

I had a grand total of one trick or treater come to the front door - and now have a lot of sweets left :)
My trick when in Birmingham was to bake a big chocolate cake. The kids got something their mums had to let them eat that night, mum got to take the sweets away for another day, and I generally had 3/4 of a cake left after the few kids called by.  :thumbsup:

As to right now, I am on overtime! restructuring a test report writen by another office as a stream of conscious and trying to remove certain key words the client does not want to see used. :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 01 November, 2013, 11:31:32 am
Quote from: interzen on 31 October, 2013, 09:15:58 pm
There seems to be some unwritten rule round here - no pumpkin in the window/on display = no trick or treaters.

Not sure if it's a universal thing but it seems to do the trick.

That seemed to be the deal down my way too. I was outside swearing at fettling the car and heard one group of youngsters go past "Not that one, there's no pumpkin".  There was actually, they just didn't see it.  Went out a bit later, so left a bowl of sweetage on the door step, which was satisfyingly emptier when I got back.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 November, 2013, 11:36:15 am
SAD hitting and wishing I could go home RIGHT NOW!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 November, 2013, 12:12:58 pm
Beating seven shades of shit out of Mrs. B's dishwasher in a final Kill Or Cure attempt to fix it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 01 November, 2013, 05:48:01 pm
Sitting in Dublin airport drinking a pint of Kilkenny to celebrate. Revenge is best served cold.
I can't wait to see the look on my former colleagues' faces when my new position  is announced.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 November, 2013, 06:06:44 pm
^aw come on, we need the full juicy story!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now
Post by: madcow on 01 November, 2013, 06:17:02 pm
When I get home and probably not disclosed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 November, 2013, 06:29:22 pm
Singing along to Abba in 'jamas anna cardie, eating stew, drinking beer.  After a nice after-work nap. 

This must be like the start of a weekend for normal people, is it?  I worked so many Friday nights over the last 10 years I honestly don't ever remember doing this.  An evening off work, two more days (and three nights!) off work, it's bloody fantastic!  With the added bonus that if I try to meet up with any mates, most of them won't be out at work.

I think I might like this 'weekend' thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 November, 2013, 06:41:16 pm
:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 November, 2013, 06:57:43 pm
A little experiment. The instant coffee in my pot has stopped dissolving properly, so I'm drying it out in the oven the same way we used to dry reagents in the lab (100oC for 1 hour).

I'm hoping to get properly dissolving coffee again but it may do nothing, or just burn the coffee granules.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 November, 2013, 07:01:38 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 01 November, 2013, 06:57:43 pm
A little experiment. The instant coffee in my pot has stopped dissolving properly, so I'm drying it out in the oven the same we we used to dry reagents in the lab (100oC for 1 hour).

I'm hoping to get properly dissolving coffee again but it may do nothing, or just burn the coffee granules.

I challenge you to write up this experiment in the style of a Y7 science pupil.

"First we found a beaker ... "
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 November, 2013, 07:06:16 pm
Right, so I need to forget all units, draw some wobbly diagrams in pencil and draw a graph with pointy lines then ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 November, 2013, 07:16:06 pm
Alternatively, do a really neat and accurate writeup that reveals a catastrophic failure of understanding what the experiment was supposed to achieve.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 November, 2013, 07:19:05 pm
Quote from: Kim on 01 November, 2013, 07:16:06 pm
Alternatively, do a really neat and accurate writeup that reveals a catastrophic failure of understanding what the experiment was supposed to achieve.
So that'll be writing it up in the style of a science undergraduate, then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 November, 2013, 07:42:50 pm
Quote from: interzen on 01 November, 2013, 07:19:05 pm
Quote from: Kim on 01 November, 2013, 07:16:06 pm
Alternatively, do a really neat and accurate writeup that reveals a catastrophic failure of understanding what the experiment was supposed to achieve.
So that'll be writing it up in the style of a science undergraduate, then.
1. Put soggy coffee in glass petri dish and placed in oven at 110C
2. Went to pub for a pint while it dried.
3. Had a few more and forgot about speriment.
12ty. Fell out of pub at 1630, returned to lab to find fire alarm going off. Ends.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 November, 2013, 07:52:19 pm
Just about to be picked from the Man Creche by Mrs. B after her aqua fit session.  My departure will reduce the number of customers by 50%.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 November, 2013, 07:52:49 pm
Well the initial results were 'interesting'.

Firstly the coffee on the surface looked pretty similar to when it went in.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YaMzRUHym4k/UnQEUbXgoVI/AAAAAAAABuk/h_HnBuXCvW4/w737-h553-no/2013-11-01+19.21.13.jpg)

I sampled some, and this didn't dissolve any better than it had done before going in the oven, but still tastes like (instant) coffee.

There was another side effect though: -
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ju2gsOYMPDU/UnQDlGazkKI/AAAAAAAABuU/y33KT9yZz-A/w414-h553-no/2013-11-01+19.25.48.jpg)
I hadn't anticipated this, but apparently freeze-dried coffee had a melting point of slightly below 100oC. The granules at the bottom had melted and reformed into a sort of bitumen-like substance. Once re-solidified the mixture was stuck pretty firmly, and due to the much lower surface/volume ratio it is now soaking in the sink while slowly dissolving in an excess of hot water (it's stuck firmly in the beaker at present).

I've sampled some of the matrial from that beaker with a spoon and the wet sample looks like this: -
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2Z9YoUtQxP0/UnQD5iOZOvI/AAAAAAAABuc/P8Zq_QviOMo/w737-h553-no/2013-11-01+19.31.46.jpg)

Conclusions: -
1. Heating instant coffee does not make it dissolve any better
2. Coffee melts!
3. The resultant solidified material may be a suitable material for pot-hole repairs :)

Recommendations: -
1. Don't put instant coffee in the oven
2. The author should buy some more coffee

:D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 November, 2013, 08:00:03 pm
3. Don't buy instant coffee in the first place.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 November, 2013, 08:00:58 pm
3. Instant coffee is fine.

Just invite me more often to keep up your stock  turnover.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 01 November, 2013, 08:32:09 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 01 November, 2013, 07:01:38 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 01 November, 2013, 06:57:43 pm
A little experiment. The instant coffee in my pot has stopped dissolving properly, so I'm drying it out in the oven the same we we used to dry reagents in the lab (100oC for 1 hour).

I'm hoping to get properly dissolving coffee again but it may do nothing, or just burn the coffee granules.

I challenge you to write up this experiment in the style of a Y7 science pupil.

"First we found a beaker ... "

That is actually in the late C18th style of the anatomists. 'Taking a rabbit, I laid the jugular bare and stopped the blood with twine around the vessel.'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 November, 2013, 08:45:21 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 01 November, 2013, 07:01:38 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 01 November, 2013, 06:57:43 pm
A little experiment. The instant coffee in my pot has stopped dissolving properly, so I'm drying it out in the oven the same we we used to dry reagents in the lab (100oC for 1 hour).

I'm hoping to get properly dissolving coffee again but it may do nothing, or just burn the coffee granules.

I challenge you to write up this experiment in the style of a Y7 science pupil.

"First we found a beaker ... "

Right: -

Heating up Coffee

What we did was heat up coffee to see if it would dissolve faster. We got a beaker and put some coffee granules in it and then we put it in a cooker at 100 for an hour and then we took it out again and waited for it to get cold.

It looked like coffee but it didn't do it any faster than it did before. It tasted like it did.

We turned the beaker over and the coffee stuck in it. It had melted. It was really hard to get the coffee out of the beaker and it was really sticky and hard so we put water in it in the sink. We got some out with a spoon and it looked really sticky and we had to wash it off. :)

Quote from: Ruthie on 01 November, 2013, 08:00:58 pm
3. Instant coffee is fine.

Just invite me more often to keep up your stock  turnover.
Always welcome  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 November, 2013, 08:50:12 pm
 ;D ;D ;D

Perfect!   ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 01 November, 2013, 10:45:52 pm
Please make allowances for my having being invited out to the pub this afternoon. It was against my better judgement but I went along anyway and I had several pints (all TT Landlord in the best pub for beer in Chorlton CH) followed by an invitation to drink fine red wine back at the house of the friends who had initially led me astray.
Let's gloss over the vision of me running around their sofa trailing a "cat toy" chased by their cats. The furry little buggers took turns in a "relay" stylee to chase the aforementioned "toy".

Context having been set, let's get the point; mchshroom as you're someone who will, one day, win the Noble prize for ridding the world of bad nuclear stuff, I'm surprised that you didn't think to use the magic of nothing vacuum to recover your coffee.
Seriously mate, it's a powerful tool although you do have to make sure that you choose the correct glassware. The wrong choice can be spectacular, although not in a good way. DAMHIKT.
When you're accepting the Nobel prize having utilised a vacuum process to "do good shit and stuff with nasty shit and stuff"*, I don't want any thanks but a quick reference to this thread on YACF would be nice.
Unless there's serious money in it, in which case I'd like 10%. Or a life-time supply of Cabernet Sauvignon and fine malt.

* I didn't want to get too technical for the people with a life non-chemists amongst us.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 November, 2013, 11:07:17 pm
;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 November, 2013, 11:32:34 pm
Having a Lidl/Aldi moment.  Eating black olives (straight from the jar), some sort of smokey cheese I've never heard of and smoked salmon (straight from the packet)
No plates involved.
Nom!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 01 November, 2013, 11:44:38 pm
Lying in bed listening to the wind.  :-X
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 02 November, 2013, 02:18:47 am
Quote from: Jaded on 01 November, 2013, 11:44:38 pm
Lying in bed listening to the wind.  :-X

Dutch oven?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 02 November, 2013, 02:19:34 am
Quote from: Basil on 01 November, 2013, 11:32:34 pm
Having a Lidl/Aldi moment.  Eating black olives (straight from the jar), some sort of smokey cheese I've never heard of and smoked salmon (straight from the packet)
No plates involved.
Nom!
Are you making crumbs?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 November, 2013, 03:34:29 am
Considering leaving a mildly passive aggressive note on the windscreen of someone who parks like a fud...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 November, 2013, 05:40:20 am
Ugh. Audax O'Clock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 02 November, 2013, 10:57:33 am
Inhaling Scone and CAIK at waterperry gardens. Upper thames audax innit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 November, 2013, 06:33:46 pm
Trying to suss out what I'm going to do car-wise now that my current lease is nearly up (finishes early January)

It's one of those situations where I need to speak to someone to get an idea of what the options are, but I can't do that until Monday. In the meantime, I is doing my research.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 02 November, 2013, 06:36:43 pm
Looking forward to a subdued journey back from Stirling to Portobello.
98+ waterpolo, played2, lost2...
:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 02 November, 2013, 06:51:09 pm
Waiting fot twc to start...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 November, 2013, 07:05:40 pm
Drinking ale at the Narrowboat pub, Skipton, in the esteemed company of Woollypigs otp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 02 November, 2013, 07:09:42 pm
drinking a v. nice glass of vino waiting for dinner friends to arrive so we can tuck into the monster chicken biryani i spent the afternoon making while i watched the rugby.  My first go at a biryani, it smells fantastic...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 November, 2013, 07:21:00 pm
Drinking wine and waiting for the final pizza of the evening to cook.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 November, 2013, 07:22:43 pm
Drinking wine (there seems to be a common thread forming here) and feeling warm and cosy after a very autumnal 200 audax.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 November, 2013, 07:31:57 pm
Just to ruin it.  I'm drinking Cwrw.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 02 November, 2013, 07:37:23 pm
Quote from: Basil on 02 November, 2013, 07:31:57 pm
Just to ruin it.  I'm drinking Cwrw.
And just to beat it whilst it's down, I'm drinking tea ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 02 November, 2013, 07:55:21 pm
And I'm going for Budweiser, now we are home...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 November, 2013, 08:00:37 pm
Quote from: mr magnolia on 02 November, 2013, 07:55:21 pm
And I'm going for Budweiser, now we are home...

There's always one person who takes things too far.  :hand:  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 02 November, 2013, 08:02:32 pm
Sitting on my uncomfortable sofa being grumpy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 02 November, 2013, 08:08:54 pm
Listening to 'Here Comes The Sun' by the Beatles.  Because every time I'm on my bike, and it's spring, and you can smell it in the air, I find myself singing that song.  It makes me happy to hear it  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 02 November, 2013, 08:19:24 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 02 November, 2013, 08:00:37 pm
Quote from: mr magnolia on 02 November, 2013, 07:55:21 pm
And I'm going for Budweiser, now we are home...

There's always one person who takes things too far.  :hand:  :sick:

I like to push the boundaries.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 02 November, 2013, 09:38:54 pm
To get this thread back on track, I'm also drinking wine while I wait for MoTD to start.
I'm sure that it will have a happy ending  ;)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 November, 2013, 11:38:06 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 02 November, 2013, 07:05:40 pm
Drinking ale at the Narrowboat pub, Skipton, in the esteemed company of Woollypigs otp.

Not the Woolly Sheep?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 03 November, 2013, 11:04:15 pm
To continue the sheep theme. Learning a song that keeps going back to the refrain 'All we like sheep'

I'm sure Handel was having a laugh when he wrote this one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 November, 2013, 11:36:35 am
Ironing my trousers and shirt before my first paid working shift, in like, 3 years!   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 04 November, 2013, 11:38:40 am
Good luck Brian!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 November, 2013, 11:41:53 am
Hope it goes really well, there, Brian.  Concentrate on the ironing and not the foruming. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 November, 2013, 12:17:59 pm
Quote from: clarion on 04 November, 2013, 11:41:53 am
Hope it goes really well, there, Brian.  Concentrate on the ironing and not the foruming. ;D

Thanks! Had to consult thon tube of you to find out techniques for ironing shirtage.....    :facepalm:

All ready to go now.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 November, 2013, 12:33:13 pm
So long as the visible bits are free of creases, and you didn't burn too many holes, you'll be fine ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 November, 2013, 02:08:22 pm
Recovering from a fabulous ride to Bolton Abbey and back over Barden Road with 1400 feet of climbing. My legs and lungs were screaming but my heart was singing!  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 November, 2013, 02:23:44 pm
More metaphorical cats and pigeons.

Plus a bit of metaphorical slinging of muck at air circualtion devices...

Wish me luck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 November, 2013, 03:53:09 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 04 November, 2013, 02:08:22 pm
Recovering from a fabulous ride to Bolton Abbey and back over Barden Road with 1400 feet of climbing. My legs and lungs were screaming but my heart was singing!  ;)

I've walked Barden Road, past the gloriously named Stank, in both directions, but I've only ever ridden down the long hill into Wharfedale.  My favourite view.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 November, 2013, 04:19:04 pm
Wondering how barakta has managed to wear out a chain in under 1200 miles   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 November, 2013, 04:22:39 pm
Sheer POWAH!!!!!!!!1!1!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 November, 2013, 04:29:21 pm
If she does it again, I'm buying her a fixie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 November, 2013, 05:16:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 November, 2013, 04:19:04 pm
Wondering how barakta has managed to wear out a chain in under 1200 miles   :o
I think that's about what ours do, on the tandem. Sheer Power. No other explanation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 November, 2013, 05:17:32 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 November, 2013, 04:19:04 pm
Wondering how barakta has managed to wear out a chain in under 1200 miles   :o

Er, how many of those 1200 miles were ridden by the Kim?  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 November, 2013, 06:03:41 pm
Quote from: Basil on 04 November, 2013, 05:17:32 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 November, 2013, 04:19:04 pm
Wondering how barakta has managed to wear out a chain in under 1200 miles   :o

Er, how many of those 1200 miles were ridden by the Kim?  :demon:

About 250.

I get about 5000 miles from a chain on the Streetmachine with a broadly similar maintenance regime.  IIRC Auntie Helen gets something like 2500-3000 on the same kind of trike, with minimal cleaning.

Must be sheer power.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 November, 2013, 07:47:41 pm
Being freaked out by Munchkins.

What. The. Veritable. Fuck?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 November, 2013, 05:51:23 am
Kim, isn't the Streetmachine's chain further above the skog?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 November, 2013, 06:07:10 am
Quote from: fboab on 04 November, 2013, 05:16:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 November, 2013, 04:19:04 pm
Wondering how barakta has managed to wear out a chain in under 1200 miles   :o
I think that's about what ours do, on the tandem. Sheer Power. No other explanation.
That's where we are going wrong. Our chains last for ages.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 November, 2013, 08:46:41 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 05 November, 2013, 06:07:10 am
Quote from: fboab on 04 November, 2013, 05:16:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 November, 2013, 04:19:04 pm
Wondering how barakta has managed to wear out a chain in under 1200 miles   :o
I think that's about what ours do, on the tandem. Sheer Power. No other explanation.
That's where we are going wrong. Our chains last for ages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xroRNBvvF9M

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 November, 2013, 09:03:41 am
Intermittently watching Some Men dismember the large eucalyptus tree that used to stand in my daughter's neighbour's garden, but for the past week or so has been lying mostly across hers.

Its weight was supported by a high brick wall at the bottom of her garden, but since the chain saws have been at work, it is now resting on my daughter's relatively flimsy wooden shed. The roof has broken, but still one of The Men was standing on the shed roof, chain saw buzzing away, completely oblivious to the imminent danger of man and tree crashing all the way through the roof.

I was very impressed by the general lack of helmets and protective gloves. One of them was wearing hi-viz, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 November, 2013, 09:33:01 am
Trying to make the dog's food more palatable through the addition of grated carrot. She's gorn orf her kibble.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 November, 2013, 09:34:31 am
Raising Change Requests, just for *ahem* a change :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 05 November, 2013, 12:27:01 pm
Waiting for the "quick setting" filler in the back and sides of the hole I chased out first thing today to set properly, so that I can drill the holes for the wall plugs for securing the pattress box for the new room thermostat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 November, 2013, 12:48:33 pm
Quote from: clarion on 05 November, 2013, 05:51:23 am
Kim, isn't the Streetmachine's chain further above the skog?

Somewhat, on account of the larger rear wheel.  On the other hand, it has a front wheel kicking up skog in front of it, while the trike doesn't.  Actually, I suppose the trike spends more time on cyclepaths, which will be significant.

It could also be some combination of a KMC vs SRAM thing, a barakta pushing higher gears thing, or a bendier chainline thing (the drive-side idler deflects the chain significantly in all gears on the ICE, whereas the SMGT's has a smaller deflection and disengages entirely in some combinations).  I predict the next chain will last a bit longer, if only because the hub motor will bypass the chain drive for a proportion of the work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 November, 2013, 03:12:22 pm
Putting together an entry for my camera clubs monthly competition, with the topic of "Nature".

I wonder if mine will be the clubs one and only entry of a macro of a Hebrew Character moth?   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 November, 2013, 03:20:31 pm
Xmas shopping!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 05 November, 2013, 09:49:24 pm
Replying to this thread of course.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 05 November, 2013, 09:59:04 pm
Baking malted chocolate CAIK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 November, 2013, 10:03:58 pm
Eating something my son left for me.  (It was his turn to cook, but he was due to be out before I would get home)

It's not a curry, but he seems to have used some serious fresh chillies.

I love it when your cheek bones sweat.  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 November, 2013, 10:37:38 pm
Quote from: Basil on 01 November, 2013, 12:12:58 pm
Beating seven shades of shit out of Mrs. B's dishwasher in a final Kill Or Cure attempt to fix it.

Oh, in case anyone was wondering.  It turned out to to be kill, not cure.  >:(

Bugger, that's cost me!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 November, 2013, 07:28:11 am
Feeling sad cos bobb is on his way back south.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 November, 2013, 09:30:12 am
Quote from: Basil on 05 November, 2013, 10:37:38 pm
Quote from: Basil on 01 November, 2013, 12:12:58 pm
Beating seven shades of shit out of Mrs. B's dishwasher in a final Kill Or Cure attempt to fix it.

Oh, in case anyone was wondering.  It turned out to to be kill, not cure.  >:(

Bugger, that's cost me!

I had a similar experience with an iPod Classic at the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Guy on 06 November, 2013, 01:58:30 pm
I'm about to disappear orft to another building before the phones go mad. My cow-orker has managed to break* a vital bit of the local intranet :facepalm:

*i.e. delete :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 November, 2013, 08:34:21 pm
I'm watching a man make pots on BBC4. It's very relaxing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 06 November, 2013, 10:00:00 pm
Missing Crusty rather a lot  :(

Time for bed I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 07 November, 2013, 01:31:37 am
Went out for a small cycle in the rain.

A seven mile round cycle, am amazed how unfit I am.  Where has my fitness gone?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 07 November, 2013, 02:24:49 am
Have some Heinz chili and garlic sauce, have had the sauce with prawns before.  So am going to try it with pork, but am going to mix the pork and the sauce in a bowl and leave it to marinade in the fridge with some onions and carrots.  Was thinking should I just add a few carrots and onions to the marinade or just the meat and marinade the veg with a dash of chilli oil and soy sauce?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 07 November, 2013, 06:55:27 am
There are lots of people about at around 5 in the morning, when it is dark.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 07 November, 2013, 10:23:19 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 07 November, 2013, 01:31:37 am
Went out for a small cycle in the rain.

A seven mile round cycle, am amazed how unfit I am.  Where has my fitness gone?

Wherever your fitness went, you are now seven miles closer to it.

Quote from: Gattopardo on 07 November, 2013, 02:24:49 am
Have some Heinz chili and garlic sauce, have had the sauce with prawns before.  So am going to try it with pork, but am going to mix the pork and the sauce in a bowl and leave it to marinade in the fridge with some onions and carrots.  Was thinking should I just add a few carrots and onions to the marinade or just the meat and marinade the veg with a dash of chilli oil and soy sauce?


Put the onions in the marinade with the meat.  Steam the carrots and have them on the side with a little bit of butter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 November, 2013, 10:30:50 am
Being prodded in the leg by a wet nose belonging to something which is demanding my attention. Woolly's still upstairs, enjoying his morning off, so it can't be him.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 07 November, 2013, 10:55:03 am
Quote from: peliroja on 07 November, 2013, 10:30:50 am
Being prodded in the leg by a wet nose belonging to something which is demanding my attention. Woolly's still upstairs, enjoying his morning off, so it can't be him.

Woolly got a wet nose?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 07 November, 2013, 11:01:58 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 07 November, 2013, 10:23:19 am

Wherever your fitness went, you are now seven miles closer to it.

Think a swap from the crap hybrid to the fixie might help


Quote from: Ruthie on 07 November, 2013, 10:23:19 am
Put the onions in the marinade with the meat.  Steam the carrots and have them on the side with a little bit of butter.

Went with the onion in with pork, quite like stir fried carrots.  Carrots are fine sliced and then soft and a little crispy outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 November, 2013, 12:39:52 pm
Listing stuff on Freecycle.

Already managed to get shot of two pairs of floor-standing speakers so far today  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 09 November, 2013, 02:18:07 pm
It's saturday, a fine autumnal saturday with the crisp of the first frosts, a clear blue sky and no wind. What am I doing? Sitting in my office in the basement at work marking student work. However I was led astray by Radio 3 which led to an impulse purchase of a box set of 9 Bach Christmas CD's. Instant rip and I can listen to them before they arrive in the post. So the music is up loud, the coffee maker is in full swing, a best clarks all night bakery [1] steak and gravy pie has been consumed and there isn't too long to go befoer I get through the first heap.

..d



[1] I was thinking of finding an acronym that works with CMOTD but couldn't quite get there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 November, 2013, 02:28:17 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 07 November, 2013, 10:55:03 am
Quote from: peliroja on 07 November, 2013, 10:30:50 am
Being prodded in the leg by a wet nose belonging to something which is demanding my attention. Woolly's still upstairs, enjoying his morning off, so it can't be him.

Woolly got a wet nose?
'Flu season, innit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 November, 2013, 02:39:08 pm
Quote from: interzen on 09 November, 2013, 02:28:17 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 07 November, 2013, 10:55:03 am
Quote from: peliroja on 07 November, 2013, 10:30:50 am
Being prodded in the leg by a wet nose belonging to something which is demanding my attention. Woolly's still upstairs, enjoying his morning off, so it can't be him.

Woolly got a wet nose?
'Flu season, innit.
Could depend where it has been.

I have been spending a happy morning watching two cybermen demolish my aunt's asbestos garage, put into double-sealed bags and take it away. Since then I have consumed a Craster kipper, which was excellent, but I wish I'd had two. The rest of lunch consisted of bread with peanut butter and some with raspberry jam. There are some who mix jam and peanut butter on the same slice but I am not amongst them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 November, 2013, 05:06:49 pm
Counting chevrons on tomorrow's tandem route  :facepalm:.

This could end in tears/tantrums/puke (tick as applicable).

55km per loop (two loops planned) - 980m climb per loop. Needless to say, this won't be East of the Meridian.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 November, 2013, 05:28:44 pm
Throwing away masses and masses of STUFF
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 09 November, 2013, 09:48:11 pm
Quote from: interzen on 09 November, 2013, 12:39:52 pm
Listing stuff on Freecycle.

Already managed to get shot of two pairs of floor-standing speakers so far today  :thumbsup:

Bugger missed out on speakers ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 09 November, 2013, 09:49:54 pm
Quote from: Basil on 09 November, 2013, 05:28:44 pm
Throwing away masses and masses of STUFF

Anything interesting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 November, 2013, 10:28:40 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 09 November, 2013, 09:49:54 pm
Quote from: Basil on 09 November, 2013, 05:28:44 pm
Throwing away masses and masses of STUFF

Anything interesting

I assure you that "anything interesting" would have been listed in "Free To A Good Home".

I decided to empty the hall cupboard of coats and scarves and only put back stuff I actually wear.  This lead me on to emptying every wardrobe and drawer I own and making piles of shapeless T shirts, jumpers with holes in the elbows/with paint on, underpants older than my children, jeans with only one leg, odd socks, very odd socks (of the Xmas gift variety), appalling ties, rubbish shirts, odd gloves, stuff that is just naff, and anything I've not worn in the last two years.
Luckily there is one of those clothes recycling bins at the end of my road.  I had to make an awful lot of journeys.  Heaven know what the neighbours thought I was doing.
The appalling and naff stuff in good condition will go to the charady shop next week.
 
(I found an unused pair of Lidl/Aldi cycling shoes I didn't know I had.  :thumbsup:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 10 November, 2013, 07:06:32 am
Acting as an impromptu bed for a poorly baby who's kept his mum awake most of the night.

At least he ate his breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 10 November, 2013, 05:30:14 pm
Comparing a 1930s-vintage OS map of Mos Eisley Spaceport Pompey with a more recent street atlas, to see just how much urban renewal was wrought by the Luftwaffe and the city planners in my local area. There are quite a number of streets that are now either somewhat truncated, or don't even exist any more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 November, 2013, 05:58:07 pm
Sitting in my flat being grumpy, but failing as it doesn't work if noone else knows you are grumpy. :facepalm

Quite surprised how grumpy being with out the telly computer combo is making me.

Also sore throat and runny nose is making me more grumpy than usual.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 November, 2013, 05:58:33 pm
Waiting for my dinner to be delivered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 November, 2013, 05:59:59 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 November, 2013, 05:58:33 pm
Waiting for my dinner to be delivered.

Meals on wheels work at weekends ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 November, 2013, 06:07:34 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 10 November, 2013, 05:59:59 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 November, 2013, 05:58:33 pm
Waiting for my dinner to be delivered.

Meals on wheels work at weekends ;)
I bloody well hope so - my blood sugar is currently 3.9mmol/l which is getting into hypo territory for me.

There may be a pre-emptive raid on the snack tin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 November, 2013, 06:41:35 pm
Embrocation after an hour and a half in the bath.


O My. That's hot. And lovely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 November, 2013, 07:52:59 pm
Wondering where barakta has got to.  She's not logged in to the server, and isn't responding to email or SMS.  Suspect alien abduction.  Or some sort of epic university power outage, again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 12 November, 2013, 06:20:04 pm
Tearing up strips of aluminium foil to be used in rain maker kits for the Rainbows. If that fails I can use it as a chaff radar counter measure
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 12 November, 2013, 09:40:03 pm
Sitting in the Pompey Ibis waiting for my dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 November, 2013, 11:10:15 am
Bricking it in the dentist's waiting room.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 15 November, 2013, 11:23:40 am
Watching one of our goldfish pass away. He's been doing it for two days now.

He did do this once before and revived so not given up all hope.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 November, 2013, 02:04:22 pm
Quote from: Basil on 15 November, 2013, 11:10:15 am
Bricking it in the dentist's waiting room.

I don't know why I do that.  I've just had two completely pain, or even discomfiture free fillings.  The only pain is in my wallet.

Well, I do know why.  As a young man in the 60s I had a most horrendous experience with no pain killer that left me completely traumatised.  It's something I guess I'll never get over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 November, 2013, 06:44:34 pm
Listing assorted (non-cycling) Stuffs on Freecycle.

As a tat-disposal system it works very well indeed but, by Poseidon's salty bunghole, the Freecycle website is absolute crap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 November, 2013, 04:05:52 am
With the aid of a cup of tea, contemplating that sleep is overrated as a concept.

Sometimes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 November, 2013, 08:59:35 pm
Watching HIGNFY and wondering WTF Brandreth was on.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 November, 2013, 11:58:42 pm
Oh dear god(ish thing).  Somebody help me!  I'm settling down in bed to listen to the cricket.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 23 November, 2013, 09:54:01 am
I'm sitting with a coffee watching the redwings strip the hawthorns bare.

They're noisy little buggers!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 24 November, 2013, 12:20:19 am
Waiting for one of my scouts to stop throwing up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 November, 2013, 09:59:33 am
Waiting for the oven to heat up so I can make scones, while I wait for the shops to open so I can go and buy stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 24 November, 2013, 02:27:26 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 24 November, 2013, 12:20:19 am
Waiting for one of my scouts to stop throwing up.

That's a fairly civilised time. My cubs usually wait until 3am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 November, 2013, 03:16:57 pm
Following the protests in Kyiv and elsewhere - shades of 2004.  Obviously TPTB have no sense of irony, announcing their decision to kow-tow to Moscow on the anniversary of the Orange Revolution.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 November, 2013, 12:00:20 pm
Almost ready to go to a funeral and realising I've left my toothbrush at home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 November, 2013, 12:00:58 am
In bed realising I have to get up at 6.30 so that younger son can get to Essex Uni to deliver a 2 pm lecture on political theory to fresh-faced undergraduates.

You know you are getting old when your son's students don't get references to "Yes Minister".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 27 November, 2013, 11:43:53 pm
Eating cheese.
Probably not my greatest choice of food at 23:45 and heading bedwards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 November, 2013, 11:49:10 pm
Quote from: mr magnolia on 27 November, 2013, 11:43:53 pm
Eating cheese.
Probably not my greatest choice of food at 23:45 and heading bedwards.

Here's the link you'll need tomorrow. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=13224.msg235540#msg235540)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 November, 2013, 09:27:28 am
Fretting, having just dropped our dog Tilley off at the vet's for x-rays, under general anaesthetic, to check her dodgy shoulders and elbows  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 30 November, 2013, 10:08:45 am
I appear to be alone in Gorbals, having totally missed the start of a ride I was supposed to be going on. :-\ Trying to find my way home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 30 November, 2013, 11:02:08 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 30 November, 2013, 10:08:45 am
I appear to be alone in Gorbals, having totally missed the start of a ride I was supposed to be going on. :-\ Trying to find my way home.

Ah! I have some advice for you. You know those toy policemen these days? Don't ask them, you can't trust a special like an old time copper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 30 November, 2013, 11:04:04 am
Quote from: Ham on 30 November, 2013, 11:02:08 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 30 November, 2013, 10:08:45 am
I appear to be alone in Gorbals, having totally missed the start of a ride I was supposed to be going on. :-\ Trying to find my way home.

Ah! I have some advice for you. You know those toy policemen these days? Don't ask them, you can't trust a special like an old time copper.

I got home! Loads of policemen about but I didn't ask any. They were keeping streets closed because of the helicopter crash.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 November, 2013, 11:09:30 am
Having a session on the turbo now that my internals have settled down.

Not as good as a proper ride but better than nothing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 30 November, 2013, 11:57:53 am
Getting my stuff together. Have completed the Bike Cleaning task x 2. Have completed the Fire Wood cutting task. Have completed the Wardrobe Moving task.  About to go for a ride. Scenic could be the watchword - Leith Hill and White Down are the intended destinations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 30 November, 2013, 12:01:50 pm
Waiting. We have friends coming for dinner. Therefore MrsC is in the kitchen. Experience has taught me that, under these circumstances, the best place to be is not-in-the-kitchen. But, once she's done with the CAEK  :smug: I need to get in there to finish making the bread. So I don't really have time to do anything else and certainly nothing out in the sunshine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 30 November, 2013, 01:18:52 pm
Putting off grouting some tiles. I like tiling but hate grouting ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 November, 2013, 01:57:42 pm
Throwing barakta's finest drugs at the solid mass of pain where my face used to be.  I'm not sure that ears and sinuses are an improvement on lungs, in terms of lurgy destinations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 30 November, 2013, 06:26:24 pm
Sitting in the Chris Hoy Velodrome waiting for revolution2 to kick off!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 30 November, 2013, 06:40:23 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 30 November, 2013, 12:01:50 pm
Waiting. We have friends coming for dinner. Therefore MrsC is in the kitchen. Experience has taught me that, under these circumstances, the best place to be is not-in-the-kitchen. But, once she's done with the CAEK  :smug: I need to get in there to finish making the bread. So I don't really have time to do anything else and certainly nothing out in the sunshine.
Now waiting for said friends to actually arrive.  (Is that a car outside?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 November, 2013, 06:48:32 pm
Waiting for the oven to heat up.
I thought I'd been dead clever setting it to come on while we were out. But while the timer sprung and the temperature dial was set at the right temperature, I failed to set the Off/light/oven/grill knob to anything other than off.
Arse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 30 November, 2013, 09:42:24 pm
Just finishing the annual calendar.   Just need to pay for it now...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 01 December, 2013, 07:07:05 pm
Oh noes!
I iz in charge of Sunday Dinner!

Mrs F has had to rush off to Glesgey on account of a helicopter crashing into a pub.
Her law firm has been instructed by one of the involved parties, and it's her department's area of expertise.
As head of department, she's got to go get the team assembled in the Glasgow office.

So it's Keep It Simple Sunday Dinner:
Steak and chips.
Even I can manage that.






Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 December, 2013, 02:28:59 pm
Just bumming around because I had two days' random holiday to use up or lose.  I was going to go out on the bike but then got an e-mail saying Yodel (woman in Ford Puma) was going to deliver a parcel, and now it's too late because the kids will be back from school in half an hour.

I have updated the satnav software in the car and cleaned the interior, done about 200 press-ups and other random exercises and made the sauce for tonight's dinner, because it's the dentist just before 5pm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 02 December, 2013, 04:02:59 pm
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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 December, 2013, 06:33:57 pm
Dentist was a success from my POV because my teeth are apparently all good.  Mrs Z has been ordered to floss and to go back for a scale and polish, which shows you these new-fangled electric toothbrushes aren't all they're cracked up to be.

I've never flossed (my teeth are so close together that it's impossible anyway) and never used an electric brush  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 02 December, 2013, 07:21:40 pm
Trying to write an obituary. My least favourite aspect of running an e-newsletter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pixieannie on 02 December, 2013, 08:08:02 pm
Finally getting round to logging back onto YACF and thinking about doing some cycling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 December, 2013, 08:09:08 pm
Quote from: pixieannie on 02 December, 2013, 08:08:02 pm
Finally getting round to logging back onto YACF and thinking about doing some cycling.

Cor, ello there!

Cycling eh?  Not sure we do that here...   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 December, 2013, 08:19:04 pm
All cycling cancelled until Spring.....   we'll have to entertain ourselves with Smut instead  :P

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 03 December, 2013, 11:12:47 am
Invigilation. The online exam system threw a hissy fit. The wrangler is on strike. Cue frantic printing of exam papers. System restored and tested at the last minute. Now idling away the hours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 December, 2013, 02:24:04 pm
Trying, and so far failing, to get my head around Data Domains, Data De-Duplication, RMAN and backups.

<SIGH> It's going to be a long day....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 03 December, 2013, 03:55:24 pm
Sitting on a train watching that London disappear into the distance.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 December, 2013, 08:41:58 pm
Sitting next to the oven, (it's my turn tonight) being highly amused and entertained by Daf (a 16 week old cat) as he attempts to kill my shirts through the washing machine glass door.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2013, 09:37:44 pm
Quote from: Basil on 03 December, 2013, 08:41:58 pm
Sitting next to the oven, (it's my turn tonight) being highly amused and entertained by Daf (a 16 week old cat) as he attempts to kill my shirts through the washing machine glass door.
This post is useless without pictures!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SimonA on 03 December, 2013, 09:52:25 pm
Sat listening to Counting Crows 'August and Everything After' with the woodburner wound up trying to write up some annual appraisals.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2013, 09:59:31 pm
Think you would be better using the appraisals in the wood burner...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 December, 2013, 10:12:29 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2013, 09:37:44 pm
Quote from: Basil on 03 December, 2013, 08:41:58 pm
Sitting next to the oven, (it's my turn tonight) being highly amused and entertained by Daf (a 16 week old cat) as he attempts to kill my shirts through the washing machine glass door.
This post is useless without pictures!

Sorry.  Cooking and kitten enjoying is as much multi tasking as this bloke can manage. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2013, 10:18:05 pm
Aw.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 03 December, 2013, 11:22:29 pm
Emailing the folks from whom I ordered a load of woodworking and plastering tools to request a returns number for a couple of delivered items that aren't up to scratch.

One expansive bit with a badly chipped cutter that looks like a manufacturing defect (the other cutter supplied with the bit has a nice sharp edge all the way across, and an auger drill set featuring one bit with a tip bent through 90 degrees. Oh, and the condition of the packaging suggests to me that it might have been returned once already.

Mind you, to get all the bits I've ordered from Wickes and Screwfix would have cost me around £100 more. You pays yer money...  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 December, 2013, 06:48:43 pm
Washing the washing machine at a gazillionty degrees C to try to get rid of the ick.
Eating all the nibbly things in the house cos Pingu's not going to be home for aaaages.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 04 December, 2013, 06:52:24 pm
Quote from: SimonA on 03 December, 2013, 09:52:25 pm
Sat listening to Counting Crows 'August and Everything After' with the woodburner wound up trying to write up some annual appraisals.

Sat listening to The Black Angels with the woodburner wound up and the central heating turned off to see if I can get away with just using the burner to heat enough of the house.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 December, 2013, 09:15:37 pm
Summoning the energy to put away the shopping that the nice man in the van just delivered - and delivered despite the best efforts of my bank, who flagged the transaction as possibly fraudulent and declined payment.  Bah.  I mean, really, me buying a shedload of groceries (including barakta-rated milkstuffs and kim-friendly orange juice and 10 quids worth of cheese and a kilo anna half of frozen prawns) is just such an unusual sort of transaction, isn't it?

Hurray for the lady in store who rang to tell me and left a message, and (once I'd sorted out the bank) the nice chap in the call centre who when told 'my mobile company charge me 14p a minute to call your freephone number - can you get 'em to call me pls?' got a message to said lady who did indeed call me back and sort it out within 10 minutes.

I'll even forgive them for subbing a white chocolate orange for the proper one, I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 06 December, 2013, 10:19:02 pm
enjoying a glass of surprisingly good wine at chicago airport.  Boarding delayed by an hour.. super. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 December, 2013, 10:24:32 pm
Thinking my gums are all sore after today's scale & polish :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 07 December, 2013, 03:04:41 pm
Contemplating that I may have miscalculated. My task for the afternoon is to cook a full Christmas dinner for quite a few folk. The wimmin have gone shopping and left me to my own devices. I have stuffed a turkey and lobbed it in an oven. I have also gone for a walk and found a man creche. And black sheep. And banks. And woodfords wherry. And 49er. and London pride. Ooooooops. I suspect that I may need to set auto pilot.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 07 December, 2013, 03:23:27 pm
A VAT Return.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 07 December, 2013, 03:54:18 pm
I've just put the Christmas tree up
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 07 December, 2013, 03:58:59 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 07 December, 2013, 03:54:18 pm
I've just put the Christmas tree up

Up what?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 December, 2013, 04:08:55 pm
Waiting for Warrender Baths Club 125 Anniversary Gala to start. The 70s team for the men's decade relay includes one Wilkie,D.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 07 December, 2013, 05:48:47 pm
Quote from: Basil on 07 December, 2013, 03:58:59 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 07 December, 2013, 03:54:18 pm
I've just put the Christmas tree up

Up what?

Jenkins'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 07 December, 2013, 06:10:37 pm
I am just writing the message you will shortly see here.

Then I shall go away and have tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 December, 2013, 08:08:14 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 December, 2013, 04:08:55 pm
Waiting for Warrender Baths Club 125 Anniversary Gala to start. The 70s team for the men's decade relay includes one Wilkie,D.
But he was a no-show because of the air traffic thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 December, 2013, 08:17:14 pm
Sorting out the to-do list for the various tradespeople and whatnot that I'll be dealing with on Monday.

This list includes: a British Gas engineer (who'll probably tell me that my boiler and CH pump are dying by inches), a plumber (who thinks he's quoting for a new pump but will now be quoting for a new CH system. I have Decided) and a bloke who'll (hopefully) putting a light and some flooring in the loft (to facilitate possible fitment of new boiler in loft) and, no doubt, taking one look at my comedy loft hatch and telling me that a 'permanent' ladder won't happen. Presumably after he stops laughing at it.

I also have an appointment at the bank to discuss funding the above. And a new shed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 07 December, 2013, 08:32:14 pm
Quote from: interzen on 07 December, 2013, 08:17:14 pm
Sorting out the to-do list for the various tradespeople and whatnot that I'll be dealing with on Monday.

This list includes: a British Gas engineer (who'll probably tell me that my boiler and CH pump are dying by inches), a plumber (who thinks he's quoting for a new pump but will now be quoting for a new CH system. I have Decided) and a bloke who'll (hopefully) putting a light and some flooring in the loft (to facilitate possible fitment of new boiler in loft) and, no doubt, taking one look at my comedy loft hatch and telling me that a 'permanent' ladder won't happen. Presumably after he stops laughing at it.

I also have an appointment at the bank to discuss funding the above. And a new shed.

And the greatest of these is love a new shed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 December, 2013, 08:36:30 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 07 December, 2013, 08:32:14 pm
Quote from: interzen on 07 December, 2013, 08:17:14 pm
Sorting out the to-do list for the various tradespeople and whatnot that I'll be dealing with on Monday.

This list includes: a British Gas engineer (who'll probably tell me that my boiler and CH pump are dying by inches), a plumber (who thinks he's quoting for a new pump but will now be quoting for a new CH system. I have Decided) and a bloke who'll (hopefully) putting a light and some flooring in the loft (to facilitate possible fitment of new boiler in loft) and, no doubt, taking one look at my comedy loft hatch and telling me that a 'permanent' ladder won't happen. Presumably after he stops laughing at it.

I also have an appointment at the bank to discuss funding the above. And a new shed.

And the greatest of these is love a new shed.
Oh yes.
If the bank play nice there may even be enough money left over after the CH and whatnot to have a new base laid for an 8x4 ... it will be my new Man Cave.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 07 December, 2013, 09:15:37 pm
listening through loads of music on the interweb and trying to find something new-ish that I like & can use.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 08 December, 2013, 07:08:12 pm
Quote from: Ham on 07 December, 2013, 03:04:41 pm
Contemplating that I may have miscalculated. My task for the afternoon is to cook a full Christmas dinner for quite a few folk. The wimmin have gone shopping and left me to my own devices. I have stuffed a turkeys and lobbed it in an oven. I have also gone for a walk and found a man creche. And black sheep. And banks. And woodfords wherry. And 49er. and London pride. Ooooooops. I suspect that I may need to set auto pilot.....
.

Nope, no miscalculation it all went   absolutely perfectly, the whole thing ... included the added Yorkshires. Nobody apart from me knew they had been supposed to have pigs in blankets anyhow.. Frankly that constitutes a home run in my book. Slept well :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 December, 2013, 12:05:01 pm
Not getting much work done while keeping an eye on things in Kyiv.  The situation is getting tense.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 December, 2013, 11:39:25 am
Just ordered the Christmas Goose. From a proper Norfolk chap.

"Ar. Oi fink oi gawt a foo left..."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 December, 2013, 11:54:57 am
Quote from: Chris S on 11 December, 2013, 11:39:25 am
Just ordered the Christmas Goose. From a proper Norfolk chap.

"Ar. Oi fink oi gawt a foo left..."

Further proof Norfolkers (?) were blown there from the West Country?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 December, 2013, 11:56:22 am
I am trying to decide if I 1) hold out until 1pm to go and have "Christmas" lunch at the other works canteen on site, or 2) just say soddit and get something to eat now...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 11 December, 2013, 12:09:35 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 11 December, 2013, 11:39:25 am
Just ordered the Christmas Goose. From a proper Norfolk chap.

"Ar. Oi fink oi gawt a foo left..."

Ah, the flat vowels of Norfolk as opposed to the aggressive vowels of the black country.

Norfolk:            Hoomun
Black country:   Yewman

 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 December, 2013, 12:34:42 pm
Cleaning up after re-roofing the shed.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 December, 2013, 10:53:56 pm
Sitting in the dark due to a lack of the right kind of light bulb.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 December, 2013, 11:20:25 pm
Sorting out the birth pains of a CLT.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 12 December, 2013, 10:01:10 am
Passing the time in a dentists waiting room, with  gently thawing hands from the ride in civvies... No gloves either
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 12 December, 2013, 01:15:06 pm
Involuntarily reacquainting myself with what I ate for dinner last night and trying to stay hydrated. I think the bug that has been stalking me since last Tuesday is winning at the moment  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 December, 2013, 01:15:38 pm
Putting together a spec for n+1 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 December, 2013, 02:45:41 pm
Preparing to go trainspotting.

"Ping, ping, ping pong."   Bye 'puter.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Snakehips on 12 December, 2013, 03:34:32 pm
Admiring my Christmas decorations ........

(http://images.yudu.com/item_files/1515659/BirdBoxBerries.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 December, 2013, 05:42:05 pm
That moment when a following police car turns on their lights and one iteration of the siren to get your attention?

So you pull over, and five minutes later you're being breathalysed and then bundled into the back of the police car?

Well, that.

No - not ME!! Down there in the street outside my flat!! -------->
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 13 December, 2013, 02:40:50 am
enjoying the feeling of general non-correctness in the rib area that precedes full-on acceptance of broke-nes
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 13 December, 2013, 02:43:22 am
the longer I test these parameters, the more I think it might ache (or worse) tomorrow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Guy on 13 December, 2013, 11:06:58 am
Drinking tea and eating mince pies

nom nom nom
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Post by: tiermat on 13 December, 2013, 11:14:34 am
Recovering from Death by Powerpoint...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 December, 2013, 12:38:19 pm
Listening to the sounds of complicated wood-butchery coming from the loft - it now has a proper floor, a proper light and a ladder. Early next week it will also contain a new boiler  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 December, 2013, 01:03:46 pm
Looking for a power supply.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 December, 2013, 01:04:32 pm
Checking train times and wondering what I've forgotten to put in my bag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 December, 2013, 02:22:37 pm
TPE northbound heaďing thru NTR. *waves in the direction of the dragons*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 13 December, 2013, 08:08:34 pm
Wondering whether I can be bothered going for a ride in the morning. Heavy rain and 25mph winds forecast. On the plus side, it's not icy... :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 December, 2013, 08:10:48 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 13 December, 2013, 02:22:37 pm
TPE northbound heaďing thru NTR. *waves in the direction of the dragons*

Waves back, I suspect a little too late :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ray 6701 on 13 December, 2013, 08:13:10 pm
At the works Christmas party with a load of people that I have nothing in common with.
At least there's  a free bar  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 13 December, 2013, 08:21:38 pm
Having dropped Mrs Ham off at her works purgatory do, making the acquaintance of a certain Chianti Classico. Very pleased to meet you, I'm sure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 December, 2013, 08:53:03 pm
Awaiting slurred summons from Mrs. B, at which point I will drive to Newcastle Emlyn to release her from her work do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 December, 2013, 08:35:31 am
Quote from: tiermat on 13 December, 2013, 08:10:48 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 13 December, 2013, 02:22:37 pm
TPE northbound heaďing thru NTR. *waves in the direction of the dragons*

Waves back, I suspect a little too late :)

EC service southbound. *waves again in the general direction of them dragons*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 14 December, 2013, 12:13:32 pm
Moving bikes round the flat and noting that even they will need a bit of fettling before putting them back on the road
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 December, 2013, 12:42:21 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 14 December, 2013, 12:13:32 pm
Moving bikes round the flat and noting that even they will need a bit of fettling before putting them back on the road
I've been doing this - sort of.
Now that my shed has a roof again, I'm in the process of moving various odds and ends out of the kitchen and back into the shed - got heating engineers fitting a new boiler on Tuesday so they need access to the kitchen radiator to drain the system down. I've also updated the inventory of Stuff I need to get Pugsley back on the road and the additional bits for n+1.

After lunch, it's a recycling run ...
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 December, 2013, 01:00:15 pm
Onna TPE northbound. With three chiddlers this time... just stopped to let the fast train pass us. Which means we're just about to pass through NTR. So... *waves again at the dragons and hopes the poorly ones are feeling better*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 14 December, 2013, 01:05:44 pm
Putting the Xmas decorations up. Twiddling with twinkly lights and cursing at the tree
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2013, 01:10:21 pm
Warming some proprietary soup and making a pot of tea ready for lunch time.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 December, 2013, 06:28:07 pm
NTR. Southbound onna TPE with 3 tired children all reading magazines and eating chocolate coins. *waves at dragons for the last time this weekend*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 December, 2013, 06:51:43 pm
Back in Birmingham, admiring the collection of "You were out" cards.
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Post by: Chris S on 14 December, 2013, 07:10:30 pm
Making a yummy and delicious tea for a weary Randonneur.
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Post by: mike on 14 December, 2013, 07:30:12 pm
@the palladium waiting for Dame Edna.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 14 December, 2013, 10:04:03 pm
Pondering why the (presumably tired) batteries that I originally put into my new and only Xmas "flashy light" decoration showed red with glimpses of blue and green whereas freshly charged (or not  ;) ) Eneloops allow a whole spectrum of colours.
I'm sure someone will be along shortly to inform me.

On balance, I think that I preferred the red/subtle blue-green. I'd certainly not miss the orange/purple/yellow/white and I wish the flashing would calm the fuck down.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 December, 2013, 10:13:25 pm
Quote from: Andrew Br on 14 December, 2013, 10:04:03 pm
Pondering why the (presumably tired) batteries that I originally put into my new and only Xmas "flashy light" decoration showed red with glimpses of blue and green whereas freshly charged (or not  ;) ) Eneloops allow a whole spectrum of colours.
I'm sure someone will be along shortly to inform me.

On balance, I think that I preferred the red/subtle blue-green. I'd certainly not miss the orange/purple/yellow/white and I wish the flashing would calm the fuck down.

Not knowing the design of the decoration, I can but guess, but shorter wavelength (white, blue) LEDs need more voltage than longer wavelength (red) ones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 14 December, 2013, 11:58:25 pm
Quote from: Kim on 14 December, 2013, 10:13:25 pm


Not knowing the design of the decoration, I can but guess, but shorter wavelength (white, blue) LEDs need more voltage than longer wavelength (red) ones.

You haven't disappointed me Kim  :)  :thumbsup:

(And I was thinking along similar (shorter) lines.)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 14 December, 2013, 11:59:53 pm
And will there be pics of said decoration? Sounds interesting.
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Post by: nikki on 15 December, 2013, 05:13:30 pm
Watching Count Duckula.
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Post by: clarion on 15 December, 2013, 05:19:04 pm
;D  I'm still yet to do that
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Post by: nikki on 15 December, 2013, 05:52:29 pm
Voiced by David Jason and theme tune by Mike Harding! I had no idea!

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Post by: clarion on 15 December, 2013, 06:09:31 pm
Mrs 'Arding's Kid is brilliant.  And very funny on FB.

I hadn't realised Jason had contributed voice talent to Duckula as well.
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Post by: Kim on 15 December, 2013, 06:44:06 pm
Quote from: clarion on 15 December, 2013, 06:09:31 pm
Mrs 'Arding's Kid is brilliant.  And very funny on FB.

I hadn't realised Jason had contributed voice talent to Duckula as well.

He did Dangermouse as well, IIRC.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 16 December, 2013, 11:47:38 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 14 December, 2013, 11:59:53 pm
And will there be pics of said decoration? Sounds interesting.

No (camera) flash:-

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2835/11410479054_5ae20e0a5e_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/31668252@N05/11410479054/)
PC160187 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/31668252@N05/11410479054/) by Chocolatebike1 (http://www.flickr.com/people/31668252@N05/), on Flickr

With camera flash:-

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5521/11410477086_d288224a68_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/31668252@N05/11410477086/)
PC160180 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/31668252@N05/11410477086/) by Chocolatebike1 (http://www.flickr.com/people/31668252@N05/), on Flickr

Awesome isn't it ?  ::-)





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Post by: tiermat on 18 December, 2013, 09:52:46 am
Just been and liberated my D-lock from the bike stands, ready to take home to service* over the Xmas holibobs.

*By service I mean applying liberal amounts of grease and WD40 to prevent the lock from freezing or sticking, as this lock stays at work.
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Post by: bumper on 18 December, 2013, 12:01:10 pm
I was eating a slice of toast but someone has just walked past the window I'm sat at swinging a BIG dog turd in a bag! 

I didn't see a dog so it's ran off ahead or he has a sick fetish. Think I'll leave my break and get back to work now.
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Post by: clarion on 18 December, 2013, 02:46:13 pm
Having had a baby fall sweetly asleep on me, we went up the embarrassingly moderate hill to our local friendly fruit and veg purveyors.  We bought a load of stuff for him and us, then wandered back down.

I'm breathing like a broken steam engine, and have retired to bed for a nap.

Convalescence can be so very slow and tedious.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 December, 2013, 07:57:01 pm
Thinking it sounds a bit frikkin' horrible out there...
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Post by: Tim Hall on 18 December, 2013, 08:42:02 pm
Reading the infowars website.  Gah. Grade A fruitloops.
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Post by: Kim on 18 December, 2013, 08:43:18 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 18 December, 2013, 07:57:01 pm
Thinking it sounds a bit frikkin' horrible out there...

Likewise.  A large quantity of horizontal bouncy rain just hit...
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Post by: Pingu on 18 December, 2013, 10:09:07 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 December, 2013, 08:43:18 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 18 December, 2013, 07:57:01 pm
Thinking it sounds a bit frikkin' horrible out there...

Likewise.  A large quantity of horizontal bouncy rain just hit...

That's a proper breeze now.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 December, 2013, 10:10:36 pm
A proper breeze that's got us looking at the ceiling in a worried manner....
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Post by: Ham on 19 December, 2013, 08:05:04 am
Waiting impatiently for someone in Yorkshire to read my thread https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=78767.0 and reply. Yes I know it has only been a couple of hours but I'm excited.
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Post by: tiermat on 19 December, 2013, 08:17:47 am
Quote from: Ham on 19 December, 2013, 08:05:04 am
Waiting impatiently for someone in Yorkshire to read my thread https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=78767.0 and reply. Yes I know it has only been a couple of hours but I'm excited.

Go and have another look at it :)
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Post by: Pingu on 19 December, 2013, 09:39:47 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 18 December, 2013, 10:10:36 pm
A proper breeze that's got us looking at the ceiling in a worried manner....

Yay! We still have a roof  :thumbsup:
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Post by: mcshroom on 19 December, 2013, 10:38:49 am
Counting down the hours - now less than 6 until I'm on Christmas hols :D
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Post by: tiermat on 19 December, 2013, 10:59:09 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 19 December, 2013, 10:38:49 am
Counting down the hours - now less than 6 until I'm on Christmas hols :D

Ditto, but midday tomorrow is the start of my hols.  Having said that it's the dept Xmas lunch today so no work will get done this afternoon!
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 19 December, 2013, 11:55:15 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 19 December, 2013, 10:38:49 am
Counting down the hours - now less than 6 until I'm on Christmas hols :D

Me too - no work then until 6th Jan! :D
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Post by: mcshroom on 19 December, 2013, 11:57:17 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 19 December, 2013, 11:55:15 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 19 December, 2013, 10:38:49 am
Counting down the hours - now less than 6 until I'm on Christmas hols :D

Me too - no work then until 6th Jan! :D

snap :D

Oh - and I missed you getting your new job, so a belated congratulations :)
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Post by: spesh on 19 December, 2013, 12:02:57 pm
Unpacking the latest DIY-related delivery. As well as quite a bit of timber, I now have what appears to be several acres of bubblewrap.  :D

I also now have no excuse not to crack on with some weapons-grade fettling of the stairs and landing this Christmas.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 19 December, 2013, 12:03:07 pm
 I don't actually have a new job - just an extension to the current one...means I have a few months longer to find something permanent, though.
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Post by: SteveC on 19 December, 2013, 03:50:09 pm
Sitting at home having finished work for the year.
Of course, now I just have to tackle the long list of things to do at home...
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Post by: IanDG on 19 December, 2013, 07:48:14 pm
Finished packing the car before a trip south for xmas. House to myself, eating a takeaway curry (it's going to be windy on the Minch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minch) tomorrow), drinking Schiehallion and listening to Mark Riley on Radio 6 :)
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Post by: tiermat on 20 December, 2013, 09:03:40 am
Counting down the hours, 3 to go!!!
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Post by: SteveC on 20 December, 2013, 09:04:47 am
Wrapping pressies for MrsC (as she's still at work until 1.00).
Then (as per yesterday's post) starting on the long list of things-to-be-done.
(What was that about a holiday?)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 December, 2013, 09:22:20 am
Steeling myself to go to the awfulmarket ...
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Post by: SteveC on 20 December, 2013, 09:31:40 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 20 December, 2013, 09:22:20 am
Steeling myself to go to the awfulmarket ...
That's next on the list  :facepalm:
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Post by: numbnuts on 20 December, 2013, 01:02:37 pm
I've just made 36 mince pies  :P
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Post by: Chris S on 20 December, 2013, 01:40:07 pm

(Waits for Numbnuts' next post)

Quote from: numbnuts
I've just eaten 36 mince pies  :P
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Post by: Vince on 20 December, 2013, 02:29:23 pm
(Waits for Numbnuts' next post)

Quote from: numbnuts
I've just been sick  :P
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 December, 2013, 02:46:25 pm
Laughing. See above.
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Post by: numbnuts on 20 December, 2013, 06:15:16 pm
3 down 33 to go  ;D
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Post by: spesh on 20 December, 2013, 06:48:55 pm
Laughing. See above.
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Post by: Aidan on 20 December, 2013, 07:45:06 pm
Well an hour ago I was having a quick ten minutes getting the Holdsworth ready for a DIY 100 tomorrow.  quick check of the front wheel shows its not turning very well. Front brake seized, on, solid. Aaargh.!!

Luckily ;D I have more than one bike. So the Soma has been taken off turbo duties, rear wheel changed, tyres pumped up, Carradice and lights swapped over, more lights on charge for an early start, chain oiled and a quick check over done and already to go!   :thumbsup:

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Post by: Andrew Br on 21 December, 2013, 03:48:16 pm
I'm drinking low alcohol Erdinger while I listen to the football on the radio (we're currently winning 2-0).
The reason for my relaxation is that I've done 95% of the food and drink shopping for Xmas.
I would have had a pint in the pub but it didn't look like there were any seats and the place was full of 4x4s prams.
Dogs in a pub, good; babies/kids in a pub, bad.

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Post by: Kim on 21 December, 2013, 04:14:42 pm
Watching astronauts muck about with cable ties and taking care to remember where they put the spanner.
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Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2013, 04:25:07 pm
Quote from: Andrew Br on 21 December, 2013, 03:48:16 pm
Dogs in a pub, good; babies/kids in a pub, bad.

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2013, 08:58:52 pm
Munching free chocolate.  Sadly a rarer event than it used to be.
Bloody Americans.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 22 December, 2013, 06:36:48 am
Eating porridge and wondering why I audax.
In a few minutes, I'm going to HTFU and get dressed before I set off.
Expect a moan-fest later this evening/tomorrow morning.

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Post by: rabbit on 22 December, 2013, 07:49:53 am
Sitting in bed painting my nails with glitter (before our club fancy dress ride), drinking tea and reading rouleur.
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Post by: T42 on 22 December, 2013, 08:18:43 am
Digesting my breakfast pasta before setting off for my favourite coffee shop (60k through the hills, 40k on the flat).
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Post by: Chris S on 22 December, 2013, 06:05:57 pm
Quote from: Kim on 21 December, 2013, 04:14:42 pm
Watching astronauts muck about with cable ties and taking care to remember where they put the spanner.

Can you tell which one is George Clooney?
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 December, 2013, 08:37:07 pm
Wishing I could dance like Shaky.
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Post by: Canardly on 22 December, 2013, 09:10:31 pm
Regretting the fact that I am in work tomorrow.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 22 December, 2013, 09:53:42 pm
Quote from: Andrew Br on 22 December, 2013, 06:36:48 am
Expect a moan-fest later this evening/tomorrow morning.

Well that's not happened  :thumbsup:

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Post by: tiermat on 24 December, 2013, 09:41:12 am
Spent the last hour and a half food shopping, now planning the Boxing Day lunch, as we are having lunch tomorrow at my parent's house.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 24 December, 2013, 09:45:39 am
Enjoying the duvet and thinking about breakfast.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 24 December, 2013, 09:47:29 am
Quote from: Polar Bear on 24 December, 2013, 09:45:39 am
Enjoying the duvet and thinking about breakfast.   :thumbsup:

Arse! Bacon!
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Post by: Polar Bear on 24 December, 2013, 09:57:27 am
Bacon with scrambled eggs in fact.   8)
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Post by: Palinurus on 24 December, 2013, 10:42:20 am
'working' in a meeting room to escape the christmas music in the office.
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 24 December, 2013, 11:11:47 am
Watching santa flying over Russia on santa tracker :)

i should be doing some work really  ;)
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Post by: Basil on 24 December, 2013, 11:12:11 am
Being a bit bored.  I can't pick the hire car van up until 12.  Everything is packed and waiting except Daf who will be put into his cat box at the last minute.
It's going to be interesting to see how he gets on with Pearl the Old Grumpy cat and with Megan the Border Terrier.  At the moment he is a four month old thug.  I'm guessing Pearl and Megan will get that sorted out pretty quickly.
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Post by: Wombat on 24 December, 2013, 12:33:28 pm
Basil,
Is there a reason why your moglet is named after a Dutch truck manufacturer? 
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Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2013, 12:10:45 am
Quote from: Wombat on 24 December, 2013, 12:33:28 pm
Basil,
Is there a reason why your moglet is named after a Dutch truck manufacturer?
;D

His name is actually Dafydd.  Or Daf for short.
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Post by: Ruth on 25 December, 2013, 04:41:53 am
Luxuriating in the prospect of having Christmas Day AND Boxing Day off work! 

How lovely.  A couple of extra days off to spend with my son, just being at home with no plans whatsoever.  Time away from the Frantic  :)
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Post by: jogler on 25 December, 2013, 05:21:07 pm
Destroying all the good work I've done wrt weight loss in the last 6 months

Eating & drinking in accordance with the traditions of the season;a.k.a. scoffing food & swigging wine in excess ;D
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Post by: Andrew Br on 25 December, 2013, 05:37:29 pm
We're waiting for the veg to cook while the chicken is resting.
We may also have had a drink or two.
Plus the iPlod is plugged into the "big" system and it's on random.
I haven't heard anything that I don't like yet.

Love my speakers/pre-amp  :)
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Post by: tiermat on 25 December, 2013, 07:27:16 pm
Listening to a bloody Furby Boom witter away in the dining room. I love my brother, I really do, but he tries that when he buys TLD such things for Christmas!
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Post by: Torslanda on 25 December, 2013, 07:44:16 pm
Want a laugh?

The wife bought the boys a keyboard - EACH - for Chrimbo. Cacophony FFS!
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Post by: andrewc on 25 December, 2013, 09:13:15 pm
Hiding in my old bedroom at my parents while Downton Abbey is on one TV and something loud & shouty is blaring from the other.
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Post by: SteveC on 25 December, 2013, 09:16:10 pm
Waiting for the end of East Enders (which is probably the 'loud and shouty' andrewc mentioned) so I can go and start sorting the kitchen out.
It was an excellent goose dinner, but there seems to be an awful lot of washing up...  :-\
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Post by: Butterfly on 25 December, 2013, 10:07:59 pm
Quote from: torslanda on 25 December, 2013, 07:44:16 pm
Want a laugh?

The wife bought the boys a keyboard - EACH - for Chrimbo. Cacophony FFS!

That's what headphones are for!  :)
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Post by: SteveC on 25 December, 2013, 10:10:33 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 25 December, 2013, 09:16:10 pm
...but there seems to be an awful lot of washing up...  :-\

It wasn't too bad. We've even cleaned the oven a bit.   :o
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2013, 11:23:11 pm
Coming to terms with the excessive amount of alcohol that I have consumed and drinking tea to alleviate the symptoms. I need another 2 pints of water, at least, to stave off tomorrow's hangover.
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Post by: clifftaylor on 26 December, 2013, 08:31:22 am
Getting ready to go to work. I *heart* working for the NHS.
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Post by: T42 on 26 December, 2013, 08:56:44 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 25 December, 2013, 10:07:59 pm
Quote from: torslanda on 25 December, 2013, 07:44:16 pm
Want a laugh?

The wife bought the boys a keyboard - EACH - for Chrimbo. Cacophony FFS!

That's what headphones are for!  :)

Yeah - then you can make A wear the 'phones connected to B's machine and vice versa.
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Post by: T42 on 26 December, 2013, 09:04:11 am
As to what I'm doing... seeking peace from the chattering horde downstairs would just about describe it. I'd be off on the bike but it's pissing down out there.

What I'm doing? Contemplating an other cup of Java.
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Post by: tiermat on 26 December, 2013, 09:10:00 am
Quote from: torslanda on 25 December, 2013, 07:44:16 pm
Want a laugh?

The wife bought the boys a keyboard - EACH - for Chrimbo. Cacophony FFS!

You win!

Did you not need to come and collect some parts from me? ;)
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Post by: peliroja on 26 December, 2013, 10:12:48 am
Entertaining a hyper dog, which should be convalescing, with a frozen cow's hoof while I sup tea, eat flapjack and let Woolly have a lie-in.

Good luck to anyone working today!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2013, 10:24:05 am
Waiting for my alendronic acid to take effect before I eat anything, and wondering about the drive to Maidstone tomorrow, given the nature of the current flooding and tomorrow's forecast, and whether it would be better to go today.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 December, 2013, 10:26:34 am
Presents all wrapped and sorted into piles or bags to take to Granddad's this morning/to go to Grannie's today/take to the exMiCL's tomorrow/the one to post... Welly boots found ready for this afternoon's dog walk.  Just waiting for m'boys who are being collected by CrinklyUncle and CrinklyAuntie before they all come here to collect me and we set off for Alternative Christmas Day :)
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Post by: Jaded on 26 December, 2013, 10:38:32 am
Producing an evil wind.
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Post by: jogler on 26 December, 2013, 10:47:28 am
Depleting Marj's mince pie mountain
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jaded on 26 December, 2013, 11:02:47 am
Planning the Boxing Day footer match trip.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 27 December, 2013, 10:18:31 am
Wondering whether travelling back north today is a good idea.
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Post by: L CC on 27 December, 2013, 10:39:48 am
Pretending to work at work.

At least it's only for another couple of hours.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 27 December, 2013, 12:31:30 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 27 December, 2013, 10:18:31 am
Wondering whether travelling back north today is a good idea.

Decided it's not. Playing with cats instead.
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Post by: interzen on 27 December, 2013, 12:49:41 pm
Gazing in awe at next door's fence - it's a constant source of wonder that it has managed to stay upright, especially after the winds which tore the roof off my shed a couple of weeks ago. It sways and creaks alarmingly when someone so much as farts within 400yds of it, yet still it stays upright.

Also, preparing to sally forth to B&Q for MDF primer and wood glue - the loft hatch isn't going to paint itself.
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Post by: andrewc on 27 December, 2013, 01:54:58 pm
Back at home after escaping from the parents!  Listening to the wind whistle around my 4th floor flat and about to change the battery in the smoke alarm as it keeps beeping!
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Post by: Moose57 on 27 December, 2013, 01:58:14 pm
Looking out the window and hoping I am getting out on bike tomorrow.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 December, 2013, 02:00:37 pm
Packing and generally getting ready for a trip across country to visit my exMiCL with the Cubs.
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Post by: peliroja on 27 December, 2013, 03:19:35 pm
Laughing (again) at #shitxmasduvets (http://storify.com/rhodri/shit-xmas-duvets-2013)  ;D
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Post by: Charlotte on 27 December, 2013, 09:14:14 pm
Ripping my CDs to FLAC and rediscovering lost albums  :)
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Post by: Andrij on 27 December, 2013, 09:36:27 pm
Packing for New Year's Eve on the Continent.  I have around 12 hours before I need to leave for the station, so no idea why I'm in such a rush...  ::-)
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Post by: tiermat on 28 December, 2013, 10:57:23 am
Hanging, as in too much alcohol consumed last night hanging.

Also not looking forward to having to go to my older brother's house this afternoon.
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Post by: peliroja on 28 December, 2013, 11:19:51 am
Trying to keep a dog quiet. She has way too much energy for her two dodgy legs and won't settle. I'm exhausted.
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Post by: Vince on 28 December, 2013, 12:02:07 pm
I have this image of Tilley with both fore legs in plaster casts leaping around like Spotty Dog from the Wooden Tops. (I know there are no casts, but can't shift the image)
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Post by: peliroja on 28 December, 2013, 12:57:06 pm
Ha, I had to google woodentops.

She likes to spring around, this dog, especially after making a deposit. She's crate-trained, but too much time in her crate and she scratches madly at the sides. There is only so much relaxation training and clicker games I can cope with! Argh.

Thankfully, she is now flat out in front of the fire. Woolly is a calming influence (on both of us).
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 December, 2013, 01:31:32 pm
Prodding my black and swollen finger and wondering why it feels like I've shut it in a door. I have no recollection of any finger trauma this morning!
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 28 December, 2013, 01:44:28 pm
Wishing, in my post-xmas, post-viral state, that I had heeded the old maxim: never trust a fart.
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Post by: Basil on 28 December, 2013, 03:01:12 pm
Just finished asset stripping the turkey and have filled three boxes.  Good white meat, good brown meat and bits and bobs of meat.  There will be turkey and ham pie. :D (As mentioned, I believe, in the "Signature Dishes" thread.
The remaining carcass is about to go into the pressure cooker.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 December, 2013, 06:49:40 pm
I have just made my first Sugru fix. Made a new knob for the oven clock which has been broken since we moved in 7 yrs ago.
It feels like it ought to be a rite of passage, popping one's Sugru cherry...
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Post by: Moose57 on 28 December, 2013, 10:28:30 pm
I are mainly getting a little tipsy ;D
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Post by: David Martin on 28 December, 2013, 11:16:53 pm
Waiting for the oven to cool down so I can remove the heating element to test whether it is broken. (Yes the oven is hot because the mince pies were then cooked in the top oven instead of the main oven - an interesting experience.)

I may find some throat medicine to assuage the tickle in my throat.
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Post by: Lady Cavendish on 29 December, 2013, 01:28:27 pm
Waiting for an x ray in minor injuries *sigh*

It will be icy out there then!!!! 3 of us out of 8 came off on the club run, and we stuck to A roads! All 3 in the same half mile to a mile stretch on the A40  ::-)  :facepalm:
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Post by: rabbit on 29 December, 2013, 06:15:54 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 29 December, 2013, 01:28:27 pm
Waiting for an x ray in minor injuries *sigh*

It will be icy out there then!!!! 3 of us out of 8 came off on the club run, and we stuck to A roads! All 3 in the same half mile to a mile stretch on the A40  ::-)  :facepalm:

Oh that sucks.  Hope it's nothing too serious.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 29 December, 2013, 09:29:24 pm
Not long back from a 12 hour round trip to Newcastle with #1 son.   He is very happy with the outcome.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 30 December, 2013, 09:47:47 am
Waiting to see a doctor (again)
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Post by: clarion on 30 December, 2013, 10:07:40 am
...aaand being nebulised
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2013, 10:28:04 am
Oh dear :( hope you're better soon.
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Post by: BrianI on 30 December, 2013, 12:36:40 pm
:-(  Getter better soon, Clarion!

Me, I'm googling "NEUKUNDEN-GESCHENK", which I'm apparently getting in my rose bikes dynamo hub + light order.   ???
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Post by: mcshroom on 30 December, 2013, 12:41:47 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 30 December, 2013, 12:36:40 pm
:-(  Getter better soon, Clarion!

Me, I'm googling "NEUKUNDEN-GESCHENK", which I'm apparently getting in my rose bikes dynamo hub + light order.   ???

"New customer gift" is, I think,  a pretty rough approximation. In my case it was a small black rucksack with the rose logo printed on it.

GWS Clarion
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 December, 2013, 03:59:59 pm
Wishing it was a)home time or b) spring. Either would do.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2013, 04:19:19 pm
A short while ago I tried to post from the top of the London Eye but it didn't seem to work. Now drinking coffee near the National Theatre. A meal soon and then off to Fascinating Aida
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Post by: clarion on 30 December, 2013, 04:20:21 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 30 December, 2013, 12:41:47 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 30 December, 2013, 12:36:40 pm
:-(  Getter better soon, Clarion!

Me, I'm googling "NEUKUNDEN-GESCHENK", which I'm apparently getting in my rose bikes dynamo hub + light order.   ???

"New customer gift" is, I think,  a pretty rough approximation. In my case it was a small black rucksack with the rose logo printed on it.

GWS Clarion

They calling you a Kund? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2013, 04:58:37 pm
Still waiting for John Lewis to deliver our new fridge freezer and take the dead one away....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 30 December, 2013, 05:14:38 pm
Still waiting for delivery of my new 'puter...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2013, 05:26:47 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2013, 04:58:37 pm
Still waiting for John Lewis to deliver our new fridge freezer and take the dead one away....

We're just discussing whether they're going to come in the middle of making dinner, eating dinner, or baking bread.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2013, 07:06:37 pm
Full of food and now in the Qeh foyer. The food at Raymond Blanc was ok - we plumped for the pre-show bargain - but the service was v. Slow. Glad we arrived earlier than our booked time. The couple on the table near us were on the point of walking out.
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Post by: BrianI on 31 December, 2013, 12:32:20 pm
Caffeinating myself before this evenings fun and games working at the Hogmany Street party...  9 hour shift at double time \o/ = loads of money for n+1 fund!
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Post by: Basil on 31 December, 2013, 12:47:25 pm
Sitting in my local, enjoying a lunch timer, in the company of my dog.
What a civilised area this is.   :D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 December, 2013, 01:45:19 pm
Being a cat bed. I'm glad I took my broken light back to JLP mid morning, cos' it's bloody horrible out there now!
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Post by: mcshroom on 31 December, 2013, 01:57:26 pm
Relaxing. My parents have just departed for home after staying for a few days which was nice but now I've reached the end of all the things I have booked for December/Christmas. Feels weird not to have something I have to do for once :)
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Post by: Ham on 31 December, 2013, 02:08:34 pm
Wondering when I can stop playing at being at work. Now I think.
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Post by: clarion on 31 December, 2013, 02:21:14 pm
Quote from: clarion on 30 December, 2013, 05:14:38 pm
Still waiting for delivery of my new 'puter...

This. :(
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Post by: Andrew Br on 31 December, 2013, 02:39:23 pm
Quote from: Basil on 31 December, 2013, 12:47:25 pm
Sitting in my local, enjoying a lunch timer, in the company of my dog.
What a civilised area this is.   :D

Jealous.
I'm hoping that it's just a holiday fad that so many kids are going into the decent pubs around here but I fear that it isn't.
I didn't stop for a drink last night 'cos the pub was full of kids.

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Post by: mr magnolia on 31 December, 2013, 02:47:14 pm
Looking forward to scoffing drunkenly the Moroccan vegetable tagine that I've just made with the magnoliettes, and hoping it looks something like Mrs m imagined it might do; something we will find out when her work finishes and it's too late to do another as it's time to go out and party.
See you on the beach!
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Post by: Basil on 31 December, 2013, 04:05:42 pm
Quote from: Basil on 31 December, 2013, 12:47:25 pm
Sitting in my local, enjoying a lunch timer, in the company of my dog.
What a civilised area this is.   :D
In case there are some of you who are not OK with the old tradition of dogs in pubs, I should point out that I was in the Bar1 (remember them?). If you're not comfortable with grumpy old, welly wearing locals and their dogs, you can go and share the Lounge2 with its hoards of hyper active screaming children.  :demon:

1 Yes, this is a proper pub.
2 It's even got a carpet!
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Post by: Jaded on 31 December, 2013, 04:37:40 pm
On a tube to that London to see some fireworks.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 December, 2013, 04:46:50 pm
Wondering how I can have cold hands and feet sitting under 2 doubled up fleece blankets, and a cat.
I reckon the cat is sucking all the warmth out of my extremities.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 December, 2013, 04:48:06 pm
Also wondering how long it will be before my brother gets home and gets the squirrel going so that it will be all nice and toasty by the time we get there.
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Post by: woollypigs on 31 December, 2013, 04:59:33 pm
Quote from: Basil on 31 December, 2013, 04:05:42 pm
Quote from: Basil on 31 December, 2013, 12:47:25 pm
Sitting in my local, enjoying a lunch timer, in the company of my dog.
What a civilised area this is.   :D
In case there are some of you who are not OK with the old tradition of dogs in pubs, I should point out that I was in the Bar1 (remember them?). If you're not comfortable with grumpy old, welly wearing locals and their dogs, you can go and share the Lounge2 with its hoards of hyper active screaming children.  :demon:

1 Yes, this is a proper pub.
2 It's even got a carpet!

There was 2 dog in my local last night, trying to out sleep each other. One of these days I'll be the one with a flat cap on and a dog next to me sipping a pint of mild, yesterday I was only one down on that list.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 31 December, 2013, 05:02:19 pm
Tidying the house, cooking chili con carne and veg curry, checking the booze supplies, ...
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 December, 2013, 05:14:22 pm
Bimbling around on the internet, still in my jammies, having sent a convenient proto-teen out into the cold to do the very important jobs like getting some milk.  Considering what sort of takeaway to have for tea when the proto-teen returns and contemplating possibly sorting out some house-y stuff.  In a bit.  After another coffee.

Our first Proper Lazy Day at home with the Cubs of this holiday.  It's blinking lovely.
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Post by: Vince on 31 December, 2013, 05:43:37 pm
Listening to the continuous crackle of fireworks. After midnight it will sound like a bad day in Ypres.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 31 December, 2013, 06:27:00 pm
Quote from: clarion on 30 December, 2013, 04:20:21 pm
They calling you a Kund? ;D
Kuntz, surely?!
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Post by: Polar Bear on 31 December, 2013, 08:54:10 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 31 December, 2013, 05:02:19 pm
Tidying the house, cooking chili con carne and veg curry, checking the booze supplies, ...

And the doors are open.   Unless you get your sorry arses round here pronto I have to wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous new year.

See you next year ...    :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 December, 2013, 11:14:42 pm
Watching a SmallestCub trying very hard indeed to not be tired.

They negotiated a late bedtime for them both so that we can skype our friends that we _always_ spend NYE with but can't this year due to inconvenient geography and prohibitively expensive flights.  Big'un is currently in the bath (should prob go check he hasn't fallen asleep actually!) and the littly is tucked up on the sofa with my gigantic wooly scarf as a blanket and the DS.  And droopy eyelids...
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Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2013, 11:27:48 pm
Listening to Anouar Brahem* playing "Astrakan Cafe" while supping the last of a bottle of Aussie Shiraz.    I had planned to go to the pub which had a band on, but felt tired & shivery so went to bed for a bit and then didn't feel like going out.

He's doing a mini tour next year, but in Belgium  :(  I'm wondering about a weekend in Brussels or Ghent.....
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 31 December, 2013, 11:54:56 pm
Semi hallucinating :thumbsup:
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Post by: Vince on 01 January, 2014, 12:57:13 am
Still listening to the continuous crackle of fireworks, now occasionally interspersed with fire engine sirens.
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Post by: Jaded on 01 January, 2014, 03:49:08 am
About to go to bed after a splendid evening. A fight, lots of thumpy music, thunderous fireworks and a pretty good view.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 01 January, 2014, 09:06:30 am
Surprisingly, I'm eating breakfast and wondering where the weather is.
I suppose it'll be along later.

Happy New Year peeps  :)

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Post by: Canardly on 01 January, 2014, 11:23:51 am
Listening to the wind work its way up to fifty plus mph.
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Post by: Basil on 01 January, 2014, 11:31:21 am
Looking at the vast expanse of white that used to be green in my signature line and wondering whether I can be bothered with all that again this year.
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Post by: Ruth on 01 January, 2014, 11:32:33 am
Reviewing every e-mail, personal message and text I sent last night to make sure I didn't embarrass myself too much.
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Post by: Kim on 01 January, 2014, 04:18:30 pm
Being cold on platform 3 of Derby station.
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Post by: Canardly on 01 January, 2014, 05:08:35 pm
Quote from: Kim on 01 January, 2014, 04:18:30 pm
Being cold on platform 3 of Derby station.

What,  you have found a train running Today?
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Post by: Kim on 01 January, 2014, 06:43:58 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 01 January, 2014, 05:08:35 pm
Quote from: Kim on 01 January, 2014, 04:18:30 pm
Being cold on platform 3 of Derby station.

What,  you have found a train running Today?

Several of them.  They all seem to terminate at Derby.

We eventually arrived in Mordor Central via a slow and somewhat unusual route, where barakta prescribed a bus for the final leg of the journey.   :sick:
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Post by: rafletcher on 01 January, 2014, 08:43:43 pm
Watching telly whilst trying not to think about tomorrow too much...
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Post by: Dibdib on 01 January, 2014, 09:23:50 pm
Beginning to get back into cycling, brain before body, by reading yacf, messing around with Strava and generally fettling gadgets.
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Post by: mcshroom on 01 January, 2014, 09:36:54 pm
Welcome back Dibdib :D
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Post by: nikki on 01 January, 2014, 11:00:47 pm
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7438/11695710975_6a3bdf0e12.jpg)

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Post by: nikki on 01 January, 2014, 11:03:26 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 01 January, 2014, 09:23:50 pm
Beginning to get back into cycling, brain before body, by reading yacf, messing around with Strava and generally fettling gadgets.

Aye, welcome back!

Saw your Strava stats tweet: have you really not been out on your bike since whenever that chart shows? Gosh! I had no idea!
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Post by: Dibdib on 01 January, 2014, 11:12:31 pm
Nope. Epic mojo fail. Was on the turbo for a while the other day for the first time in months. I need to swallow a hefty dose of HTFU and get on with it :)
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Post by: nikki on 01 January, 2014, 11:18:49 pm
Go for it!
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Post by: Andrew Br on 02 January, 2014, 12:26:41 am
Quote from: Andrew Br on 01 January, 2014, 09:06:30 am
Surprisingly, I'm eating breakfast and wondering where the weather is.
I suppose it'll be along later.

Happy New Year peeps  :)

The weather did arrive.
It wasn't great on the way to the pub.
It was fantastic on the way back.

Breakfast was good as well.

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Post by: marcusjb on 02 January, 2014, 03:59:12 am
Waiting for the incoming Nor'Easter
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 January, 2014, 09:33:45 am
About to put away the shopping....
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Post by: Vince on 02 January, 2014, 09:45:24 am
Trying to find out how to get a company phone fixed or replaced
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Post by: numbnuts on 02 January, 2014, 10:02:00 am
Running back and forth to the loo  :-[
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Post by: clarion on 02 January, 2014, 10:16:04 am
Sitting wearing a hospital gown and a fetching pair of paper boxer shorts with a hole in the back, waiting for a second nurse to try to get a canula in.
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Post by: andrewc on 02 January, 2014, 11:44:32 am
Quote from: clarion on 02 January, 2014, 10:16:04 am
Sitting wearing a hospital gown and a fetching pair of paper boxer shorts with a hole in the back, waiting for a second nurse to try to get a canula in.

Remember Mrs Pingus advice........  ;)

Hope it's over quickly and all's good.
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Post by: clarion on 02 January, 2014, 12:55:07 pm
All finished with minimal trauma.  Friendly team.
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Post by: PaulR on 02 January, 2014, 01:12:11 pm
...and on a more trivial level, I'm wasting time and seeing how may threads will show me as the last person to have posted something.

I have some work to do, but no motivation.  Particularly with that sunshine outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 02 January, 2014, 01:14:24 pm
Taking some more time off.
I went back to work today  :(
My boss said 'I thought you weren't coming back until Monday'.
We mulled this over for a couple of minutes.
Then I went home.
Yay!!!!
\0/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulR on 02 January, 2014, 01:16:52 pm
Did you set off for a bike ride and simply forget that you weren't supposed to be at work? 

I nearly forgot I was supposed to be at work - I could so easily have carried on, and would probably have reached Cambridge for lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 02 January, 2014, 01:17:57 pm
Just about to go mountain biking, finishing in the pub!    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 02 January, 2014, 01:18:59 pm
Quote from: PaulR on 02 January, 2014, 01:16:52 pm
Did you set off for a bike ride and simply forget that you weren't supposed to be at work? 

I nearly forgot I was supposed to be at work - I could so easily have carried on, and would probably have reached Cambridge for lunch.
I wish I had - unfortunately I went in by train (still trying to figure out exactly why) and regretted it the minute the sun came up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 02 January, 2014, 01:21:43 pm
Brought my bike in to perform sugru on it and now covered in tyre muck and fighting a powerlink. Gnyarghnghyargh.




All the best with whatever's going on for you, Clarion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 January, 2014, 01:23:43 pm
Waiting for the next train.   Thanks to three so-called Fast Ticket machines crashing in succession I got to the platform just as the doors were locked.

Grrrr ...   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 January, 2014, 01:33:47 pm
Now on train going to see #2 son.   He's off to the bottom of earth for 6 months on Sunday.

Happy adventuring son.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 January, 2014, 09:07:43 pm
Staring at a muddy Mountain bike and trying to decide whether it's worth chaining it up in the back garden and hoping the rain will clean it off a bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 03 January, 2014, 12:05:50 pm
Wearing my pinny, while doing annual house work for the year, while waiting on my order from rose bikes to arrive!

ETA - parcel arrived.  Got nifty wee backpack as my NEUKUNDEN-GESCHENK too!  :thumbsup:

Now to figure out spoke sizes and get rim & spokes ordered to fettle together my dynohub wheel!   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 03 January, 2014, 01:21:30 pm
Having been driven indoors from the garage where bad light stopped play (a passing thunderstorm made it so dark, I could no longer see to work), I'm eating lunch and watching sheets of hail and rain sweep past the window on squally winds. Cracking weather  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 January, 2014, 04:43:32 pm
Taking down the decorations for another year :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 January, 2014, 08:16:52 pm
Pumping iron, having finally decided I can afford some upper body muscle as I don't do much climbing these days and apparently it helps prevent broken bones if you have an off.  Biceps are about the easiest and most pointless muscles to build up.  After a couple of months of press-ups my shoulders are about two inches wider too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 07 January, 2014, 03:15:16 am
Being kept awake by toothache.  The worst I've had in a long time.

If I pace around, the pain is almost tolerable, but if I lie down to try and sleep,  the pain is unbelievable. Not quite sure why that is.

I hope my dentist has an emergency appointment available tomorrow.
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Post by: Jaded on 07 January, 2014, 05:32:33 am
Also being awake through pain.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 January, 2014, 06:42:46 am
You pay good money for that in Soho.
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Post by: Dibdib on 09 January, 2014, 09:06:22 pm
On hold with Sky Teevee Towers to cancel my service. In their defence I've had it half price for a while to try to retain a customer but it's still an extravagance I can't justify.

Netflix here I come :)

Quote from: rogerzilla on 06 January, 2014, 08:16:52 pm
Pumping iron, having finally decided I can afford some upper body muscle as I don't do much climbing these days and apparently it helps prevent broken bones if you have an off.  Biceps are about the easiest and most pointless muscles to build up.  After a couple of months of press-ups my shoulders are about two inches wider too.

RZ, if you ever feel like climbing again I'll happily belay for you (on the easy punterish stuff I can wrestle up) :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 January, 2014, 09:48:50 pm
Wishing I hadn't come out to the pub.  Everyone's talking complete bollocks and it's just annoying.
Should've been home in Waleslandshire by now but due to floods I have to wait until tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 10 January, 2014, 12:21:10 pm
In a two and half hour phone conference, for which my interest/input will be about 2 minutes....

... but I don't know which two minutes.

:yawn:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RichForrest on 10 January, 2014, 12:23:45 pm
Put the mic on mute and play games on the mob' phone  ;D

I'm sat here with all my camping gear ready to go out. Found out the meet is cancelled  :(
Debating whether to go anyway, someone else may turn up  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 January, 2014, 04:26:55 pm
Thawing out.
Although it's not what I'd consider 'cold' outside (Garmin was reading around 4C all the way round) I'm definitely feeling it a bit now that I'm indoors.

I feel that copious quantities of tea might be the order of the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 10 January, 2014, 05:59:17 pm
Finally were forecast some decent weather on a Saturday, so I'm digging out my walking gear* and getting excited about my first fell walk for far too long tomorrow :D

*Which seems to have dispersed itself as widely as possible
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 January, 2014, 06:11:51 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 10 January, 2014, 05:59:17 pm
Finally were forecast some decent weather on a Saturday, so I'm digging out my walking gear* and getting excited about my first fell walk for far too long tomorrow :D

*Which seems to have dispersed itself as widely as possible
The clue is in the name - it's gear, which walks (duh!  ::-)  ;) )
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Post by: mcshroom on 10 January, 2014, 06:32:03 pm
I decided against the phrase 'seems to have grown legs' when I typed that ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 January, 2014, 06:53:47 pm
Im sitting on a train with the little duck waiting for a platform at Victoria. So far it's taken an hour and a half to do a 40 minute journey.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 January, 2014, 07:01:23 pm
EldestCub and I have been watching cosmic rays....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 January, 2014, 07:08:45 pm
Waiting to see what my insides are going to do next - having just thrown up on Mellis Common.

(I blame the antibiotics)

(Sorry, Mellis Common.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 January, 2014, 08:33:20 pm
Pondering which bike I should ride tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 January, 2014, 09:25:57 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 10 January, 2014, 08:33:20 pm
Pondering which bike I should ride tomorrow.

This.


Also having an allergic reaction to laptop innards.  I hate laptops.  Dear people who might at some point want me to fix their computer:  Get a fucking desktop.  Especially if you're going to drop it, spill things on it, sleep with it, feed the keys to your pet and generally use it as a hoover.  In fact, you'd probably be better off with a Casio calculator.  Or an abacus.  Though I'd probably still get questions about how one of the rods is a bit loose and for some reason it only works properly in base 9.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 January, 2014, 09:35:45 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 10 January, 2014, 08:33:20 pm
Pondering which bike I should ride tomorrow.
I was doing this, until I decided I'm going to take the newly re-braked 1x1 out for a spin tomorrow and do the half-fat-singlespeed ride on Sunday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 10 January, 2014, 09:37:23 pm
Lusting over bikes (well actually just one bike) I can't afford.

It's not even particularly unobtanium - actually fairly standard - but I'm pretty sure it or something similar will be my next bike and I just want it now.

*hides the credit card*

(edit: crap, it's available on 24 months 0% finance too. willpower fail imminent.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 January, 2014, 12:37:59 pm
I have spent the morning dealing with Aunt Phyllis issues.

I went fence inspecting: recent storms have done a splendid demolition job on her old one and the new one was completed yesterday. Being on a corner, all three fences were hers and needed replacing, along with the vehicle gates. I was very impressed with the job done and, using my power of attorney, paid the bill over the phone. I also logged into her bank account and checked her balances and transactions. The Barclays online banking facility is crap compared to the Co-op's.

After this coffee, I'll go out an empty the dog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 January, 2014, 01:16:26 pm
Really looking forward to getting off these antibiotics.  :sick:
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Post by: Kim on 11 January, 2014, 11:47:51 pm
Really looking forward to going to bed.
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Post by: tiermat on 12 January, 2014, 09:51:39 am
Watching "Battle Castle with Dan Snow" about Malaga castle.

Those medieval Spaniards were nasty buggers!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 January, 2014, 11:49:04 am
Finally got around to taking the Dave Yates out of the car...

Not a Happy Bunny...

Dynohub shot
Forks fubar'd
Paintwork scratched to hell

:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 January, 2014, 11:56:42 am
Quote from: tiermat on 12 January, 2014, 11:49:04 am
Finally got around to taking the Dave Yates out of the car...

Not a Happy Bunny...

Dynohub shot
Forks fubar'd
Paintwork scratched to hell

:(
It's clobberin' time ....  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 12 January, 2014, 02:57:10 pm
In Moscow.... Day of standby used to great effect.
Assignment completed and submitted and a cheeky little gym sesh done too.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 12 January, 2014, 05:15:34 pm
About to leave for day 2 of a 3-day simulator beasting. Why are they always at stupid times of day? Yesterday's was 2130-0500, tonight's 18:30-0100 then the next one on Tuesday at 0400-11:30. then two days' sleep. I hope. No wonder I can never get out on the bike!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 January, 2014, 06:29:58 am
Waiting for a gate while cursing the cat for waking me up at 3am. Pass the tokens.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 13 January, 2014, 06:41:45 am
Eating porridge and drinking tea and trying to get motivated to go to work. I don't want to and I've got to go in early as I've got the dentist this afternoon and I really don't wanna do that either  :-\

Feh, can't I just go back to bed?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 January, 2014, 08:08:07 am
Hurting...
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Post by: Ruth on 13 January, 2014, 08:59:56 am
Oh you poor old dragon  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 January, 2014, 09:25:49 am
Thanks, Ruthie.

I am feeling like I felt before my extended stay at Norhtampton General, 11 years ago.

I am heading up to the Friarage in an hour or so to see what can be done :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 13 January, 2014, 10:42:35 am
:(

/me sends virtual coffee to tiermat
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 January, 2014, 10:53:28 am
Quote from: tiermat on 13 January, 2014, 09:25:49 am
Thanks, Ruthie.

I am feeling like I felt before my extended stay at Norhtampton General, 11 years ago.

I am heading up to the Friarage in an hour or so to see what can be done :(
If it involves administering beatings to the guilty party/parties, please don't hesitate to let me know ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 January, 2014, 12:26:27 pm
Well the good news is that the magic machines that go ping can't find anything wrong inside me, so it's all muscular.  Doesn't stop me feeling like I am going to lose my lunch* all the time.

*This does, of course, pre-suppose that I have had lunch, or any food come to that :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 15 January, 2014, 10:01:01 am
Sitting with a canula in my hand waiting for an injection.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 15 January, 2014, 01:45:43 pm
Seething....

Ford, you are a bunch of useless lying tossers!  On what universe is it considered normal for a car to fill up with rainwater whilst still under warranty, and not be covered by that warranty?  And when the customer (me) is charged £200 to fix that leak, and then it leaks again even worse, how do you manage to think that is not a serious problem?  At this rate I will be re-delivering the car back to them, without benefit of slowing down when I get to their HQ (I hope its got a glass frontage).  Cunts, the lot of you...

And Trading standards, you are about as useful as, as, as Ofgem.  Thats the biggest insult I can think of, apart from Yodel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 January, 2014, 08:28:54 pm
Trying to figure out why the kitchen light that apparently blew this morning doesn't work any more. It's a light with a bulb in it FFS, there shouldn't be any fuse to blow....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 16 January, 2014, 03:50:22 am
What sort of a bulb? If it's a low-voltage halogen then there's going to be a transformer hiding somewhere, and they blow too ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 January, 2014, 05:40:34 pm
Those also do a good line in oxidising the crap out of their contacts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 16 January, 2014, 06:28:07 pm
Digesting supermarket cheese and tomato pasta, that was preceded by a Jack d and coke, ona bus between Derry and Belfast.
0700 flight in, 2100 flight out - long day, no bicycles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: shyumu on 16 January, 2014, 07:07:30 pm
JustSitting with Mrs Muppet in A&E. Broken arm innit. Ho hum. Staff wonderfully caring and kind. How on earth do they continue to be so pleasant with so many challenging visitors to deal with.

Home soon and 6 weeks of recovery ahead. So pleased it was just a simple fracture.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 January, 2014, 07:24:17 pm
Quote from: jsabine on 16 January, 2014, 03:50:22 am
What sort of a bulb? If it's a low-voltage halogen then there's going to be a transformer hiding somewhere, and they blow too ...

The previous bulb was a bog std ES 60w incandescent. The 2 new bulbs are 42w (55 equiv) Phillips Eco Classic Bulb which are the incandenscent lookalikes with what appears to be a teeny halogen inside. These should work OK, no?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 January, 2014, 07:27:26 pm
Yes, should just work...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 January, 2014, 07:39:32 pm
There doesn't appear to be anything else inside the light fitting and there certainly wasn't a transformer box. I think it was just wired up to the same circuit as the rest of the kitchen lights so dunno why it's not working. Spose I'll have to buy a different sort of bulb to check.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 January, 2014, 08:02:16 pm
It's not unknown for dodgy ES caps not to screw all the way down.  Useless bloody things.

Or the new lamp could be a dud.  Multimeter time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 16 January, 2014, 08:58:15 pm
Sitting in the Wrong Seats at the RLPO. Concert sold out so I'm in the choir stalls _behind_ the orchestra. This feels Wrong!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 January, 2014, 09:00:45 pm
Tried 2 new lamps, but they were bought at the same time. Found an old spotlight with an ES. That didn't work either :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 16 January, 2014, 10:52:19 pm
Shyumu, the reason why they can be so pleasant is because every now and then, they get a patient that's nice and grateful. Sort of recharges their batteries.

TimC, how's the sim?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 January, 2014, 08:37:22 am
I'm sat on a train stuck in Streatham station.  Second day running a train has just stopped. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 17 January, 2014, 03:26:10 pm
Putting together a 60 minutes advanced spinning program.

8 minutes warm up
18 minutes long tempo with 3 minor climbs
3 minutes gruelling standing climb
12 minutes pyramide
16 minutes hill that gets steeper the first 8 minutes
and for the final
4 minutes TABATA  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 January, 2014, 03:45:09 pm
Quote from: Gus on 17 January, 2014, 03:26:10 pm
Putting together a 60 minutes advanced spinning program.

8 minutes warm up
18 minutes long tempo with 3 minor climbs
3 minutes gruelling standing climb
12 minutes pyramide
16 minutes hill that gets steeper the first 8 minutes
and for the final
4 minutes TABATA  :demon:

and writing out my job application for http://www.thesufferfest.com/

I think you missed that out
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 January, 2014, 04:28:12 pm
Sitting in the car outside my daughter's house with a sleeping grandson. He is a remarkably difficult child to persuade to go to sleep. This way, I get some spodding time as, even though I have parked in the road, your typical Maidstone terraced house is within wifi range of the car.

Damned prescient, those Victorians.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 17 January, 2014, 06:07:07 pm
Quote from: Ham on 17 January, 2014, 03:45:09 pm
Quote from: Gus on 17 January, 2014, 03:26:10 pm
Putting together a 60 minutes advanced spinning program.

8 minutes warm up
18 minutes long tempo with 3 minor climbs
3 minutes gruelling standing climb
12 minutes pyramide
16 minutes hill that gets steeper the first 8 minutes
and for the final
4 minutes TABATA  :demon:

and writing out my job application for http://www.thesufferfest.com/

I think you missed that out

 :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 17 January, 2014, 07:01:41 pm
Quote from: reddo on 16 January, 2014, 10:52:19 pm
TimC, how's the sim?

Simmy. Done and dusted now! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 17 January, 2014, 09:42:56 pm
Attaching myself to electrodes and intermittently thumping my leg.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 18 January, 2014, 11:14:35 am
Fartage. A lot of fartage.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 January, 2014, 11:21:20 am
Feeling sad about Mikaeel Kular.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 January, 2014, 12:43:36 pm
Trying to sort out my life.  It's very boring and irritating (the sorting out) and very much in danger of procrastination.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 January, 2014, 01:05:42 pm
Work-related stuff.
I'm doing it now because I can be fairly confident that I can do what I need to get done with minimal disruption. Also means I get to have a lie-in on Monday  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 18 January, 2014, 05:18:12 pm
Taking a break from the house-fettling. Messy fun with a pointing gun! #DIYwithDoctorSeuss
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 January, 2014, 12:39:29 pm
Sitting in a cafe after the first (downhill) half of the first ride of the year.  Particularly exciting because our Little Duck rode in a seat on the back of Butterfly's bike.

I'll be surprised if we make 5km.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 January, 2014, 12:40:20 pm
:D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 January, 2014, 12:59:19 pm
Just going to fix a slow puncture
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 January, 2014, 02:06:32 pm
Quote from: clarion on 19 January, 2014, 12:39:29 pm
Sitting in a cafe after the first (downhill) half of the first ride of the year.  Particularly exciting because our Little Duck rode in a seat on the back of Butterfly's bike.

I'll be surprised if we make 5km.

That is very good indeed. I shall raise a cup of tea!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 January, 2014, 02:17:30 pm
Trying to summon up the will to go out into the pissing rain for a trip to the not-very-super-market.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 January, 2014, 02:20:36 pm
Building a blackberry and apple pie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 19 January, 2014, 02:26:40 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 January, 2014, 02:06:32 pm
Quote from: clarion on 19 January, 2014, 12:39:29 pm
Sitting in a cafe after the first (downhill) half of the first ride of the year.  Particularly exciting because our Little Duck rode in a seat on the back of Butterfly's bike.

I'll be surprised if we make 5km.

That is very good indeed. I shall raise a cup of tea!

It was five miles, as it happens.  Doesn't count towards SR, but it was a ride, and nobody inflictedc GBH on me.

Which was nice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 January, 2014, 05:47:43 pm
I appear to have programmed some fairy lights to act as a giant thermometer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 January, 2014, 05:51:22 pm
That sounds v cool!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 January, 2014, 06:06:29 pm
It's quite pretty, but just a lash-up to test some code, really.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 19 January, 2014, 06:28:40 pm
Ripping an enormous stack of CDs into FLAC. Should have been done a long time ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 19 January, 2014, 06:51:34 pm
Exactly the same thing as last week - wrangling Ikea with a dodgy screwdriver.

Except this time on another continent.

Snowing here. Beautiful  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 20 January, 2014, 12:59:26 am
Sounds like you need to get a less dodgy screwdriver :)

I'm currently not sleeping as I left my C25k session too late and I haven't calmed down yet :(

As I can't sleep I'm trying to plan a Dover-Durness ride for September instead :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 20 January, 2014, 01:45:16 am
Different dodgy screwdriver.

What's C25k? Something to do with Warhammer?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 January, 2014, 09:03:22 am
Waiting in another clinic.  The eternal outpatient.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 20 January, 2014, 09:18:54 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 20 January, 2014, 01:45:16 am
Different dodgy screwdriver.

What's C25k? Something to do with Warhammer?

C25k is short for "Couch to 5k" (link) (http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/c25k/Pages/couch-to-5k.aspx). It's a nine week plan to go from not running to being able to jog for 30 mins (which should be about 5km). I've just finished week 1 so have quite a way to go yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 January, 2014, 09:36:07 am
Counting my toes to see if they're all there - even with two pairs of woolly socks and my MW81s my feet are still bloody freezing.

Stoopid diabetes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 20 January, 2014, 10:36:04 am
Watching a Little Duck splash about in the swimming pool :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 January, 2014, 01:14:28 pm
Watching a tiny ickle spider, that I discovered clambering through my hair, trying to climb up my desk phone...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 20 January, 2014, 02:54:15 pm
Trying to find a random gig in Toronto to drag the kids to.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 20 January, 2014, 04:13:59 pm
I'm contemplating going for another run despite the fact that my legs wouldn't bend much this morning and my muscles feel like they're bulging out of the skin.
It never used to hurt so much but, because it's hurting, it must be doing me some good. Right ?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 January, 2014, 05:52:12 pm
Watching people stare nervously at a spectrum analyser...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 20 January, 2014, 11:33:51 pm
Thawing out with a coffee and a Laphroaig quarter cask.

Howies baselayers layered up with their wool-filled jacket were toasty warm. Sadly they only cover one down to the top of the hip. So today I really did learn how it feels to freeze one's arse off. Jeans just don't do the job when it's -11. But my feet were nice and warm in my normal walking boots. A merino buff kept my face warm even when the condensation froze to a solid ice mask on the outer layer. Expensive down mitts - worth every penny.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 January, 2014, 11:41:51 pm
Trying not to get too wound up - when I dug my phone out of my seatpack earlier there was a voicemail from the doctors surgery asking me to call them back (not really practical at 9pm ...)

Given the timing of the message (just after 4pm) it's probably just them saying that they now have the results of the KUB X-ray I had done last week. Either way, it would seem my coping mechanisms are shot to buggery.

Hey ho.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 21 January, 2014, 08:36:18 am
Taking advantage of the 90 minutes free WiFi at Terminal 5 and trying to decide whether I'm caffeine-deprived enough to spend $LOTS on a Starbucks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 January, 2014, 09:21:31 am
Sitting in the dentists waiting room, listening to the sound of the drill next door.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 January, 2014, 09:36:49 am
Quote from: andrewc on 21 January, 2014, 09:21:31 am
Sitting in the dentists waiting room, listening to the sound of the drill next door.......

Those rooms should really be sound-proofed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 January, 2014, 04:29:28 pm
My dentist leaves the door open!  Although his treatment room is upstairs not near the (ground floor) waiting room and I've never heard anybody else's treatment impinging on the 'experience' when I'm either in said waiting room or indeed in the chair.

On which note....

Currently I am waiting for the feeling to return to approximately half my head and trying to drink, preferably without spillage, a celebratory warm coffee in honour of the fact that I no longer have a human-visible hole in a front tooth or x-ray-visible holes in two others.  Why is it that if you need 3 jabs they are always in entirely different bits of your mouth?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 January, 2014, 05:28:26 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 January, 2014, 04:29:28 pm
Why is it that if you need 3 jabs they are always in entirely different bits of your mouth?
My understanding, from my frequent trips to the dentist to have recalcitrant teeth pulled, is that it not only depends on which nerve needs numbing up but also the whether the buccal (edge facing the inside of the cheek) or lingual (t'other side) is being treated.

(when we don't talk about cycling, for both my dentist and her husband1 are cyclists, she indulges my curiosity about the havoc she's wreaking inside my mouth)

1 - he does not own a Pinarello.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 January, 2014, 06:25:14 pm
Trying to thaw out my right hand.
Just cycled hone with less than the optimum number of gloves.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 January, 2014, 07:16:32 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 January, 2014, 04:29:28 pm
My dentist leaves the door open!  Although his treatment room is upstairs not near the (ground floor) waiting room and I've never heard anybody else's treatment impinging on the 'experience' when I'm either in said waiting room or indeed in the chair.

On which note....

Currently I am waiting for the feeling to return to approximately half my head and trying to drink, preferably without spillage, a celebratory warm coffee in honour of the fact that I no longer have a human-visible hole in a front tooth or x-ray-visible holes in two others.  Why is it that if you need 3 jabs they are always in entirely different bits of your mouth?

Yuck!  I only had 1 done.  A previously filled rear upper molar lost part of it's filling over a week ago.  I suspect I may have crunched a cough sweet when I had a sore throat.  Luckily it wasn't hurting.

He was going to start without a local  :o  I soon put him right on that score! 

 " I must not fear.
    Fear is the mind-killer.
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
    I will face my fear.
    I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
    Only I will remain."

Litany against dentists..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 21 January, 2014, 10:19:44 pm
Quote from: interzen on 20 January, 2014, 09:36:07 am
Counting my toes to see if they're all there - even with two pairs of woolly socks and my MW81s my feet are still bloody freezing.

Stoopid diabetes.

Oh, you have nerve issues?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 21 January, 2014, 10:24:31 pm
Quote from: interzen on 20 January, 2014, 09:36:07 am
Counting my toes to see if they're all there - even with two pairs of woolly socks and my MW81s my feet are still bloody freezing.

Stoopid diabetes.
Oi, you little thief and here I was blaming the washing machine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 22 January, 2014, 10:15:53 am
Sitting on a train heading off to do a number of things including a pass by meet and greet with our external qa auditor for our certificate renewal. I have however just found out that she has arrived in our Manchester base instead of the Lanarkshire one that she should be at.
Good to know that fallibility exists everywhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: shyumu on 22 January, 2014, 03:20:59 pm
Gosh.  Just watched Simon Caberet (http://www.phuket-simoncabaret.com/).  The gentlemen who thought of booking this caberet act for our sales meeting has wicked sense of humour.

[Edit: All is not what it seems]
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg53/shyumu/caberet02_zps1225d7ed.jpg) (http://s245.photobucket.com/user/shyumu/media/caberet02_zps1225d7ed.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 January, 2014, 03:47:34 pm
Quote from: Basil on 21 January, 2014, 06:25:14 pm
Trying to thaw out my right hand.
Just cycled hone with less than the optimum number of gloves.   :(
Not your drinking hand, is it?
Or are you am-beer-dextrous?

I'll get me coat ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 January, 2014, 06:28:25 pm
Collating data.

Did you know that in 2013, I had 78 species of moth visit my moth trap over the year, giving a total of 283 moths?

And now for the award ceremony.
<fx drum rolls>

In first place, with 99 moths, was the Large Yellow Underwing.  In joint second place, with 17 moths each, were the Double Square Spot (Scottish variant) and the Heart and Dart.  Finally, coming up the rear in 3rd place was the Small Angle Shades with 16 moths over the year.

<fx applause>

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 January, 2014, 06:30:05 pm
And how does that match up with what you might have expected?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 January, 2014, 06:44:43 pm
Quote from: clarion on 22 January, 2014, 06:30:05 pm
And how does that match up with what you might have expected?

Good question Clarion!   :) Must research further.  Anyway I have submitted my data to the local county moth recorder, so we'll see what he makes of it!   :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 22 January, 2014, 07:09:25 pm
Quote from: shyumu on 22 January, 2014, 03:20:59 pm
Gosh.  Just watched Simon Caberet (http://www.phuket-simoncabaret.com/).  The gentlemen who thought of booking this caberet act for our sales meeting has wicked sense of humour.

[Edit: All is not what it seems]
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg53/shyumu/caberet02_zps1225d7ed.jpg) (http://s245.photobucket.com/user/shyumu/media/caberet02_zps1225d7ed.jpg.html)

I've just watched the video embedded in the website.
I'm almost certain that the song chorus is 'Simon, Simon; Simon Carradice...'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 23 January, 2014, 01:20:05 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 22 January, 2014, 06:28:25 pm
<fx drum rolls>

In first place, with 99 moths, was the Large Yellow Underwing.  In joint second place, with 17 moths each, were the Double Square Spot (Scottish variant) and the Heart and Dart.  Finally, coming up the rear in 3rd place was the Small Angle Shades with 16 moths over the year.

Are you ringing them? If not how do you know it wasn't just the same moth visiting many times?
;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 January, 2014, 01:21:40 pm
Do they have telephones?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 26 January, 2014, 06:21:57 am
Audax o'clock; I'm eating porridge and wondering why I do this.
In case of doubt, it's not because I enjoy it.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 26 January, 2014, 01:35:28 pm
Feeling a bit smug and grateful that I'm not riding a 200 today.

Also feeling stuffed having got outside an indecently large stack of low-carb blueberry pancakes, with bacon on the side. (burp).

More coffee? Fuck yes  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 26 January, 2014, 02:09:35 pm
putting off several things.  Last nights beer & curry are not sitting happily enough to risk moving more than 1/4 mile  from the loo, so it might have to be the ergo or turbo this afternoon.  But i'm sure there's plenty of distractions to keep me busy for a bit yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 January, 2014, 05:13:26 pm
Doing a passable impression of Kofi Annan, again...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 January, 2014, 05:36:01 pm
Getting mightily pissed off.

1. I am suffering from a cold, despite the fact that my larynx had not fully recovered from the Christmas lurgy.

2. I have submitted my tax return and I owe HMRC a little over £500. I am not unhappy about that bit.

3. We cannot submit Mrs. Wow's tax return until she finds the Magic Piece of Paper with her login details so that we can log into her account. This requires vast amounts of upheaval as she searches the places that she has not managed to search for a little over a year. There about 4 New Zealands on her desk in the form of wool. This does not help.

4. I also have a toothache.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 January, 2014, 07:34:19 pm
Trying to wake up after an after dinner snooze that turned into a full on sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 26 January, 2014, 07:56:43 pm
Debating whether or not to open a bottle of wine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 26 January, 2014, 08:30:23 pm
Aching.
Plus I'm feeling the temptation of either red wine or even single malt.
Think I'll have an isotonic sports drink a low alcohol Erdinger while I think about it.
Did I mention that I was aching ?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 January, 2014, 09:04:39 pm
Sitting in a pub, drinking Orval. I've just been to a rather fine performance by the Emerson Quartet. Haydn, Mozart, Shostakovich. It should be on Radio 3 in the near future.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MarkA on 26 January, 2014, 09:45:25 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 January, 2014, 05:36:01 pm
Getting mightily pissed off.

1. I am suffering from a cold, despite the fact that my larynx had not fully recovered from the Christmas lurgy.

2. I have submitted my tax return and I owe HMRC a little over £500. I am not unhappy about that bit.

3. We cannot submit Mrs. Wow's tax return until she finds the Magic Piece of Paper with her login details so that we can log into her account. This requires vast amounts of upheaval as she searches the places that she has not managed to search for a little over a year. There about 4 New Zealands on her desk in the form of wool. This does not help.

4. I also have a toothache.


I have found that if you can't find these details - or possibly never applied for them in the first place - who knows - and apply for new details - you get an extension until 15th Feb.  why they can't allow you to recover the details on line I have no idea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 28 January, 2014, 07:06:11 pm
Dancing round the kitchen to Womack& Womack, thanks to a little bit of copyright crime. It's only a little bit because when it came out in (OMG I'M SO OLD) 1988 I owned it on cassette (Google it, kids) and listened to it on repeat in my Goods In office on my Walkman (again, Google will help). I can sing along with every word, and my funky moves are just as naff now as they were then.
Less likely to be interrupted by random tractor drivers these days thobut.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 January, 2014, 08:21:42 pm
Building a fee-yuge shepid's pie.
Yes, it is a shepherd's pie.  Not a cottage pie.
However, inspired by Boab, I am now checking YouTube for Womack & Womack for son and lodger embarrassing kitchen dancing. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 28 January, 2014, 08:24:44 pm
If it makes any difference at all to your enjoyment of their music, I can report that , in a business renowned for its plentiful share of gits, Womack and Womack turned out to be lovely people. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 January, 2014, 08:30:06 pm
Never did them.  Er, iykwim.
But good to hear.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 January, 2014, 08:44:40 pm
Creating a leaflet for our nascent Community Land Trust.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 January, 2014, 10:09:45 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 January, 2014, 08:21:42 pm
Building a fee-yuge shepid's pie.
Yes, it is a shepherd's pie.  Not a cottage pie.
However, inspired by Boab, I am now checking YouTube for Womack & Womack for son and lodger embarrassing kitchen dancing. :thumbsup:

Urrrp!

Actually Footsteps on the Dance Floor didn't have the desired effect on son and lodger,  They bloody joined in.  :facepalm:
I had to play the trump card of James Brown's Sex Machine to subject them to the full on horror of potato mashing Dad Dancing.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 28 January, 2014, 10:17:42 pm
Ordering a groupset, frame, fork, headset. Preparing a new bike I have promised for a friend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 January, 2014, 01:06:20 am
Acting my age and taking a cup of cocoa up to bed. I'm not yet hard-core enough to have graduated onto Horlicks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 29 January, 2014, 08:19:32 am
Contemplating the dilatory effect on work of making another cuppa before buckling down. It'd help me concentrate, wouldn't it?

Yeah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 29 January, 2014, 08:47:20 am
Preparing for my first training session on the long road to running London 2015.   5 mile walk keeping a strong pace.

Typically, it's just started to rain.  Oh well, got to be done.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 29 January, 2014, 08:49:11 am
Quote from: Basil on 28 January, 2014, 10:09:45 pm
I had to play the trump card of James Brown's Sex Machine to subject them to the full on horror of potato mashing Dad Dancing.  :thumbsup:
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 January, 2014, 08:56:34 am
Trying, and failing, to wake up after a night of close to zero sleep due to pain.

Not looking forward to a car/plane/car combo trip to Germany, arriving about 20:00 CET.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 January, 2014, 09:27:16 pm
Waiting for the Wave Pictures to start....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 29 January, 2014, 11:45:05 pm
Well I have an OU assignment due tomorrow so of course I'm typing it up/working out the answers now  ::-) One day I'll learn.

Though this one is going better than the last one  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: shyumu on 30 January, 2014, 08:30:38 am
Wondering if I'll spot a yacf-ite I know is also at Schipol right now. Gate D6 is fairly compact and bijou, with travellers to most parts of the UK here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 January, 2014, 11:38:24 am
Drinking coffee and awaiting a taxi to take me to Frankfurt airport ready to head back to the UK, so it's not me you'll be looking for, shyumu :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2014, 01:02:57 pm
Having a discussion with my colleague about adding "risk of meteor strike" to all our manual handling risk assessments from now on. Although the frequency of the hazard would fall into the "weekly/infrequently" category (for they are one), the risk of fatality would be very high. This gives us a risk rating of 13 on the risk chart, which requires immediate action. What immediate action can we take to reduce the hazards posed by the risk of a meteor striking a property at the exact moment our carers are doing a manual handling task, and how do we get Bruce Willis's phone number?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 January, 2014, 01:27:10 pm
Resting, just spent an hour on the turbo trainer  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 January, 2014, 02:29:47 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2014, 01:02:57 pm
Having a discussion with my colleague about adding "risk of meteor strike" to all our manual handling risk assessments from now on. Although the frequency of the hazard would fall into the "weekly/infrequently" category (for they are one), the risk of fatality would be very high. This gives us a risk rating of 13 on the risk chart, which requires immediate action. What immediate action can we take to reduce the hazards posed by the risk of a meteor striking a property at the exact moment our carers are doing a manual handling task, and how do we get Bruce Willis's phone number?

Bruce Willis is rubbish at meteors (keep him in reserve for terrorist incidents that may in fact be elaborate heists[1]).  Sean Connery's your man.


[1] What do they score on your risk chart?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 January, 2014, 02:35:03 pm
Quote from: Kim on 30 January, 2014, 02:29:47 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2014, 01:02:57 pm
Having a discussion with my colleague about adding "risk of meteor strike" to all our manual handling risk assessments from now on. Although the frequency of the hazard would fall into the "weekly/infrequently" category (for they are one), the risk of fatality would be very high. This gives us a risk rating of 13 on the risk chart, which requires immediate action. What immediate action can we take to reduce the hazards posed by the risk of a meteor striking a property at the exact moment our carers are doing a manual handling task, and how do we get Bruce Willis's phone number?

Bruce Willis is rubbish at meteors (keep him in reserve for terrorist incidents that may in fact be elaborate heists[1]).  Sean Connery's your man.


[1] What do they score on your risk chart?
Or Dr. Evil.
He has giant frickin' lasers. And sharks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 30 January, 2014, 04:03:16 pm
Quote from: interzen on 30 January, 2014, 02:35:03 pm
Quote from: Kim on 30 January, 2014, 02:29:47 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2014, 01:02:57 pm
Having a discussion with my colleague about adding "risk of meteor strike" to all our manual handling risk assessments from now on. Although the frequency of the hazard would fall into the "weekly/infrequently" category (for they are one), the risk of fatality would be very high. This gives us a risk rating of 13 on the risk chart, which requires immediate action. What immediate action can we take to reduce the hazards posed by the risk of a meteor striking a property at the exact moment our carers are doing a manual handling task, and how do we get Bruce Willis's phone number?

Bruce Willis is rubbish at meteors (keep him in reserve for terrorist incidents that may in fact be elaborate heists[1]).  Sean Connery's your man.


[1] What do they score on your risk chart?
Or Dr. Evil.
He has giant frickin' lasers. And sharks.
But that would assume that EG is working in an extinct volcano.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 January, 2014, 04:12:26 pm
Well she'd better risk assess that, too.  Manual handling can be severely disrupted by hydrogen sulphide or pyroclastic flows.  At a minimum the lair will need an extinction certificate signed by a registered vulcanologist.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 30 January, 2014, 04:39:12 pm
Day 2 of 3 for an intense work related training course.

I've just sat down from presenting an outline governance structure for a project, using powerpoint.

My Project? Project Couilles, the Project lead? Sean Connerie, ably assisted by Cole Salaud and Ben Sheiser

I kept a straight face, we all have to amuse ourselves in little ways.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2014, 09:03:25 pm
Quote from: Kim on 30 January, 2014, 02:29:47 pm
Bruce Willis is rubbish at meteors (keep him in reserve for terrorist incidents that may in fact be elaborate heists[1]).  Sean Connery's your man.


[1] What do they score on your risk chart?
He did reasonably well in Armageddon. I'm not sure Sean Connery has any exshperienshe of meteorsh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 January, 2014, 09:11:57 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2014, 09:03:25 pm
Quote from: Kim on 30 January, 2014, 02:29:47 pm
Bruce Willis is rubbish at meteors (keep him in reserve for terrorist incidents that may in fact be elaborate heists[1]).  Sean Connery's your man.


[1] What do they score on your risk chart?
He did reasonably well in Armageddon. I'm not sure Sean Connery has any exshperienshe of meteorsh.

 :o

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079550/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2014, 09:13:16 pm
That looksh aweshome.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 30 January, 2014, 09:18:56 pm
Quote from: shyumu on 30 January, 2014, 08:30:38 am
Wondering if I'll spot a yacf-ite I know is also at Schipol right now. Gate D6 is fairly compact and bijou, with travellers to most parts of the UK here.

Quote from: tiermat on 30 January, 2014, 11:38:24 am
Drinking coffee and awaiting a taxi to take me to Frankfurt airport ready to head back to the UK, so it's not me you'll be looking for, shyumu :)

It wash was me.

My phone battery died so I couldn't arrange to meet you shyumu, sorry.  Had a pedicure and a chair massage instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 January, 2014, 09:35:14 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2014, 09:13:16 pm
That looksh aweshome.

Yup.  Sean Connery was busting meteors when Bruce Willis was still being nagged by his mum to wear a clean vest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 January, 2014, 10:12:02 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 30 January, 2014, 09:18:56 pm
Quote from: shyumu on 30 January, 2014, 08:30:38 am
Wondering if I'll spot a yacf-ite I know is also at Schipol right now. Gate D6 is fairly compact and bijou, with travellers to most parts of the UK here.

Quote from: tiermat on 30 January, 2014, 11:38:24 am
Drinking coffee and awaiting a taxi to take me to Frankfurt airport ready to head back to the UK, so it's not me you'll be looking for, shyumu :)

It wash was me.

My phone battery died so I couldn't arrange to meet you shyumu, sorry.  Had a pedicure and a chair massage instead.

I thought it might be, shame I didn't get work to organize my flights via Schipol and we could have had a Thursday night social ride, without the bikes, and during the day...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RJ on 31 January, 2014, 02:42:04 pm
Doing a quick and dirty write-up of an edge-of-desk thing that won't otherwise see the light of day for years - all prompted by archetypal tomfoolery on the part of sundry guardians of the countryside.  Ho hum.

(Where to send the finished article? Or should I split it up into short notes? Gah!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 January, 2014, 02:44:57 pm
Getting ready to go home, I have sorted the Oracle issue that it took another person 2 days to not fix, so I think I deserve POETS day....

Not that it will be POETS day by the time I get home, of course, but the thought is there! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 31 January, 2014, 02:48:18 pm
Still waiting for the drain person from United Utilities (who was originally going to be here before 1pm) :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 January, 2014, 04:32:29 pm
Going to dry off in the shower...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 31 January, 2014, 06:18:42 pm
Cooking.  Just mixing the meat with the spices has made the kitchen smell incredible.  Accompanied by some stonking anthems on 6 Music ('scuse me while I kiss the sky), and a nice bottle of red.

Need to pace the drinking with the cooking or this could all go horribly wrong.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 31 January, 2014, 06:38:45 pm
Digesting stir-fried chicken and veg.
Our new cooker, which we've had since the beginning of August, has a wok-burner1 in the middle. It works very well.
Why, then, have I only used it twice?

1) A burner for putting a wok on, not for burning woks (before the pedants get here).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 31 January, 2014, 08:22:03 pm
Comfort eating: Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream.

Good thing I'm not on a diet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 February, 2014, 09:03:16 am
Languishing in bed after being up at audax-o'clock, dressed, and then deciding not to go. Haven't managed to get back to sleep because of the throbbing jaw, which makes me think it was probably a wise decision.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 01 February, 2014, 09:11:45 am
Quote from: fboab on 01 February, 2014, 09:03:16 am
Languishing in bed after being up at audax-o'clock, dressed, and then deciding not to go. Haven't managed to get back to sleep because of the throbbing jaw, which makes me think it was probably a wise decision.

Ouch. Feel better soon :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 February, 2014, 10:40:30 am
Oh poo.  GWS.

Yeah, good decision.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 February, 2014, 12:39:40 pm
Ooh, nasty. GWS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 February, 2014, 01:05:13 pm
Fainted at the butchers. Pain now spread to ear as well as jaw. Drugs having little effect.


(I'm hardly ever ill, so even minor things I really really get the most out of. It's a fecking toothache!  :facepalm: )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 February, 2014, 01:10:25 pm
Bad thing.  Take care.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 February, 2014, 01:12:56 pm
Quote from: fboab on 01 February, 2014, 01:05:13 pm
Fainted at the butchers. Pain now spread to ear as well as jaw. Drugs having little effect.
Sounds a lot like a dental abscess. Don't ask how I know this ....  :o

You have my utmost sympathy - at the risk of stating the mind-buggeringly obvious, it might be worth seeing if you can get an emergency appointment with a local dentist assuming that there is one near you; at very least they'll be able to give you something stronger than typical OTC painkillers to tide you over until a 'proper' examination - if they suspect an abscess they may give you metronidazole too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 February, 2014, 01:21:06 pm
I went yesterday 'zen, nothing on the x-rays and we couldn't pinpoint which tooth. He's got me on Metronidazole, amoxicillin, sudafed AND the pain killers. He thinks there's a chance it might be sinus/cheekbone rather than tooth. When I relayed this news pathetically to No1Daughter she gave me a horror story of "a guy at my work who had an infection in his cheekbone and had weeks off work and eventually they had to do like surgery to drain the pus out of the bone and he couldn't talk because he couldn't work his jaw properly, and had weeks and weeks off work because the really, like, killer antibiotics he was on made him, like, really woozy, and it's not like he was shitting us because he came in to see 'Tasha and he was green and off his tits, and, he's not a stoner."
I comfort myself with the fact her work is McDonalds, and therefore these TakeABreak stories are Real Life there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 February, 2014, 01:28:26 pm
Yeah it was sinus infection that got me. Incredible pain. Who knew your teeth, your eyes and your ears were all coonected - via the neck? Hopefully the antibiotics will kick in soonish fboab.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 01 February, 2014, 01:34:07 pm
sitting sulking and nursing a hurty shoulder  :(  using the time constructively though, devising some DIY routes on Autoroute. done a couple of corkers so far :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 February, 2014, 01:38:14 pm
Quote from: fboab on 01 February, 2014, 01:21:06 pm
I went yesterday 'zen, nothing on the x-rays and we couldn't pinpoint which tooth.
Ah, right - an abscess would have most definitely shown up on an X-ray.

This being the case, I'd go along with 'sinus infection' too - if it is, I'd imagine that the antibiotics and whatnot would shift it fairly soon although you've got the intervening unpleasantness to deal with in the meantime. Sadly, the 'drinking yourself into a coma' option isn't really viable with metronidazole  :sick:

Hope it sorts itself out, whatever it is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 01 February, 2014, 03:33:27 pm
I too had a sinus infection a few years ago; at the time I was working on a veterinary journal and previously had been editing an article that contained xrays showing how the teeth and sinuses are connected so I had a good idea of where the toothache was coming from. With sinus pain it generally gets worse if you bend forward (ie lower your head).

Sadly for me it was a viral infection so the ABs made not a jot of difference and I just had to rest a lot and let it get better in its own time, which, although very unpleasant, was not too dramatic. Hope you get on top of it soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 February, 2014, 04:40:58 pm
Hmm...I've had a slightly achy ear on and off for the last few weeks, which over the last couple of days has become more on than off and seems to be including my lower jaw in the fun. I hope there isn't going to be an escalation into something really horrid....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 02 February, 2014, 12:27:32 am
Just finished clearing up after a about 20 teenagers taking over the house.

It as Junior's 16th last week, and we did a 'family thing' last weekend.
This weekend, it was his turn to invite his crowd back to Lowe Towers for the first time since going to the High School.
Much Finger Food and soft drinks provided.
We were banished to a remote wing of the old pile, under strict orders not to appear unless further food service was required.

I pretended not to look at the young ladies, and all seemed to go well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 February, 2014, 02:39:26 pm
We've all that to look forward to (again).

Right now, we're at a cafe, having already ridden further than either of us has yet this year, on our way back from Quaker Meeting in Croydon (our first time there).  We were made to feel very much at home.  Friends are very Ffriendly. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 February, 2014, 03:22:13 pm
Having found that staying in bed was much easier than getting up, I didn't join today's local ride.  So I've just been out for a wander around on the fixed.  As the C Girl were advertising the fact that all Six Nations matches would be screened, I timed my ride for a three o'clock arrival.  Only to find bloody football. 
 :( >:(

Yeah.  'coz that's never bloody on, is it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 February, 2014, 04:59:01 pm
Well, I got them to change it after the football match.
Wish I hadn't bloody bothered now.
 :facepalm:

OK.  I'm in the wrong thread, aren't I?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 03 February, 2014, 11:52:05 am
Watching semi-submersible barges sailing along the Maas.

For example....
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/2012-10-31124227.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 February, 2014, 01:26:38 pm
Wondering where on earth 10 years have gone!

That and missing TLD and Mrs T.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 February, 2014, 04:30:12 pm
Now working up the courage to build bridges where needed and to burn the ones I never want to tread again...

Phase one of that was telling my older, drunken, wastrel brother to "Go F*ck himself" and telling him to "NEVER talk to me again"

Next step is a nice one, I need to re-connect with friends...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 February, 2014, 04:31:11 pm
Interesting combinations of steps.

And VHB to the VIP TLD! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 February, 2014, 09:04:27 pm
I'm working out how to do all the stuff we've been doing about shape and repetition and angles and stuff in logo, but using Scratch.  Since that way we can embed the maths bit, not have to worry about the 'what did I have to do?' bit, and hopefully everyone can get to grips with the scratch interface at the same time.  Well, that's the theory....

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 04 February, 2014, 10:16:27 am
Relaxing after compressing a design workshop from 2 hours down to 25 minutes. It would have been 10 minutes, but questions were asked (and answered!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 04 February, 2014, 03:30:35 pm
trying to get git working on a virtualbox
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 February, 2014, 04:07:21 pm
Getting ready to make like a French polisher and varnish ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 04 February, 2014, 05:48:36 pm
Listening to CBT on how to apply for visas

<edited to add - That's Computer Based Training>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil Tomlinson on 04 February, 2014, 07:56:55 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 02 February, 2014, 12:27:32 am
Just finished clearing up after a about 20 teenagers taking over the house.

It as Junior's 16th last week, and we did a 'family thing' last weekend.
This weekend, it was his turn to invite his crowd back to Lowe Towers for the first time since going to the High School.
Much Finger Food and soft drinks provided.
We were banished to a remote wing of the old pile, under strict orders not to appear unless further food service was required.

I pretended not to look at the young ladies, and all seemed to go well.

Kirsty was right...............you are a bad man!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 04 February, 2014, 08:14:21 pm
Quote from: Wunja on 04 February, 2014, 05:48:36 pm
Listening to CBT on how to apply for visas

<edited to add - That's Computer Based Training>

I did boggle initially. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 February, 2014, 08:26:48 pm
Quote from: clarion on 04 February, 2014, 08:14:21 pm
Quote from: Wunja on 04 February, 2014, 05:48:36 pm
Listening to CBT on how to apply for visas

<edited to add - That's Computer Based Training>

I did boggle initially. ;D

Having been involved in more than one visa application process, I can easily accept another explanation of CBT...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 February, 2014, 02:13:34 am
Being fricking knackered.
Got to hotel at 9pm last night (or 3am in my brain).
Woke up at 4am. Did presentations all day. Resisted urge to slap my mentor round the head with a heavy object when he said he could tell I was crashing, twice, the first time begin before my afternoon cup of tea.
Had early dinner and traded moans with a leftpondian counterpart. Trying to stay awake for another hour so I don't wake up at 4am again.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 05 February, 2014, 10:49:36 am
Packing for a (probable overnight +) 2nd trip to hospital in 6 days. *sigh* *charges kindle*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 05 February, 2014, 12:39:31 pm
Good luck LadyC.

Me, I'm currently dripping. It's just a la'l bit wet out
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 February, 2014, 12:51:35 pm
Also dripping, having just got back in from a three mile dog empty.
That's about my maximum limit in wellies with non-tactical socks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 05 February, 2014, 01:35:15 pm
Making spinning programs for tomorrow.

I've just learned that due to sick instructors I've been given 3 hours of it.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 February, 2014, 11:36:48 pm
Sampling Rod Hull and his entourage of drama students for our new doorbell system.

Forumites of a certain age will understand.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 February, 2014, 11:07:36 pm
Sitting at one end of my "open plan" living area and enjoying the garlic & chilli smells wafting from the other...

Listening to Clifford Curzon playing Schubert on the stereo,  with a pleasant shiraz buzz on......

Reading "Lavinia" by Ursula Le Guin..

Life is fairly good.....    :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 08 February, 2014, 11:16:00 pm
Having a break from ripping CDs to FLAC... and ripping DVDs to ISOs instead.

(and probably at some point ordering a couple more terabytes of storage)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 February, 2014, 11:21:55 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 08 February, 2014, 11:16:00 pm
Having a break from ripping CDs to FLAC... and ripping DVDs to ISOs instead.

(and probably at some point ordering a couple more terabytes of storage)

Fondles his vinyl & CD's ,  there, there, don't worry, the nasty man won't get you............. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 08 February, 2014, 11:35:50 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 08 February, 2014, 11:21:55 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 08 February, 2014, 11:16:00 pm
Having a break from ripping CDs to FLAC... and ripping DVDs to ISOs instead.

(and probably at some point ordering a couple more terabytes of storage)

Fondles his vinyl & CD's ,  there, there, don't worry, the nasty man won't get you............. ;)

In my defence, the computer talks to a "proper" stereo... albeit a cheap Cambridge Audio amp and some nearly-20-year-old Mission speakers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 08 February, 2014, 11:42:39 pm
Baking and watching crappy DVD's
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 February, 2014, 11:47:12 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 08 February, 2014, 11:35:50 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 08 February, 2014, 11:21:55 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 08 February, 2014, 11:16:00 pm
Having a break from ripping CDs to FLAC... and ripping DVDs to ISOs instead.

(and probably at some point ordering a couple more terabytes of storage)

Fondles his vinyl & CD's ,  there, there, don't worry, the nasty man won't get you............. ;)

In my defence, the computer talks to a "proper" stereo... albeit a cheap Cambridge Audio amp and some nearly-20-year-old Mission speakers.

I think a fellow forumite once described the act of playing an LP as the hifi equivalent of the Japanese tea ceremony......... ;D

I'm currently buying books on Kindle, purely because I've got the equivalent of 4 full  Ikea Billies in a small flat, and unread books on most horizontal surfaces, but if/when I move somewhere bigger I'm back to paper, ....   fondles.... strokes.......sniffs........ :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 February, 2014, 11:55:12 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 08 February, 2014, 11:47:12 pm
I think a fellow forumite once described the act of playing an LP as the hifi equivalent of the Japanese tea ceremony......... ;D

By which I extrapolate that playing a CD is like fumbling around with unfamiliar coffee apparatus first thing in the morning when caffeine-deprived.

(I do have terrible luck with CD drives though.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 February, 2014, 12:20:48 am
Quote from: Kim on 08 February, 2014, 11:55:12 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 08 February, 2014, 11:47:12 pm
I think a fellow forumite once described the act of playing an LP as the hifi equivalent of the Japanese tea ceremony......... ;D

By which I extrapolate that playing a CD is like fumbling around with unfamiliar coffee apparatus first thing in the morning when caffeine-deprived.

(I do have terrible luck with CD drives though.)

Early morning caffeine deprivation........That's what FM radio is for.....        CD would be more akin to a fully automated Nespresso machine using those capsule things....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 09 February, 2014, 12:28:34 am
Quote from: andrewc on 08 February, 2014, 11:47:12 pm

I think a fellow forumite once described the act of playing an LP as the hifi equivalent of the Japanese tea ceremony......... ;D


Ooooh, I do like that, who said that?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 February, 2014, 11:04:04 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 09 February, 2014, 12:28:34 am
Quote from: andrewc on 08 February, 2014, 11:47:12 pm

I think a fellow forumite once described the act of playing an LP as the hifi equivalent of the Japanese tea ceremony......... ;D


Ooooh, I do like that, who said that?

pcolbeck, on this thread (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=46254.msg913958#msg913958)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 09 February, 2014, 11:04:34 am
Listening to an actual CD in an actual CD player, just for Andrew C:

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23853117/YACF/20140209%20CD%20Player.jpg)

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 February, 2014, 11:55:43 am
Quote from: Dibdib on 09 February, 2014, 11:04:34 am
Listening to an actual CD in an actual CD player, just for Andrew C:

 ;D ;D

Good choice  :thumbsup:   I've not played that in ages!     Must give that or "Mystery White Boy" a spin later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 09 February, 2014, 12:43:12 pm
Drinking tea in a Darlo café with Slowcoach. I'm having such a lovely time :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 09 February, 2014, 01:15:03 pm
Listening to the wind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 February, 2014, 01:40:22 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 09 February, 2014, 12:43:12 pm
Drinking tea in a Darlo café with Slowcoach. I'm having such a lovely time :-)

 :thumbsup:    Lovely people deserve lovely times.   

About to have a shower & shave before I pop over to the parents for Sunday lunch.     Jeff Buckley playing in the background.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 09 February, 2014, 01:51:12 pm
I'm just off to play on the turbo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 February, 2014, 01:53:30 pm
Spending rather a lot of money on smoke alarms.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 February, 2014, 04:40:26 pm
Thinking 'is it time for bed yet?'
Zzzzzznngh
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 10 February, 2014, 03:28:52 am
Thinking that insomnia is a bad thing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 10 February, 2014, 04:15:58 am
Quote from: Wunja on 10 February, 2014, 03:28:52 am
Thinking that insomnia is a bad thing
Me too
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 10 February, 2014, 10:12:04 am
Just booking my wedding  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 10 February, 2014, 12:06:20 pm
Just removed a large poo from the floor in the vets waiting area. Not mine I must add!

I'm sitting typing this so I don't have to give eye contact to anyone. My dog has pooped on this floor for the past ten years. I think he knows when the boosters due and stores some just for here.

I've got another ten minutes before his appointment, Christ it's embarrassing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 10 February, 2014, 02:41:12 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 10 February, 2014, 10:12:04 am
Just booking my wedding  :)

Now that belongs in the good news thread.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 10 February, 2014, 06:22:27 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 10 February, 2014, 10:12:04 am
Just booking my wedding  :)

 :thumbsup:

What I am doing is being still at work trying to show interest in a contract "page turn" exercise, started at 17:00, currently on page 30/200.......

Drove to work today in the certain knowledge I'll be here for a long while yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 10 February, 2014, 08:31:14 pm
Page 49. I don't think I can stand the excitement.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 11 February, 2014, 08:16:21 am
Wondering why the tube folk have to choose to have their strike on the one day when I need to get from Waterloo to St Pancras in a set time, with a fixed start and end time...  any other visit to London, I could just have started earlier, but not this time.  This is not going to get my Valentine's Day weekend in Paris off to a good start, if I miss the eurostar thursday lunchtime...

Sympathy a bit limited.  I've had to face organisational restructure and the consequent redundancy, so can you...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 February, 2014, 08:32:55 am
Right now I'm inwardly screaming "I don't wanna bloody work!" and contemplating another boring day of 3D modelling sewer systems. No, wait, it's district heating at present. Hell, maybe I can connect them à la Brazil.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 11 February, 2014, 09:43:07 am
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 10 February, 2014, 10:12:04 am
Just booking my wedding  :)
Woah! you snuck that in.

Have fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 February, 2014, 09:48:33 am
Watching. The. Bloody. Rain.

Whilst the northern Wastes haven't been as badly affected as darn sarf appears to have been, the view out the window is still monumentally depressing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 11 February, 2014, 09:51:56 am
Quote from: fboab on 11 February, 2014, 09:43:07 am
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 10 February, 2014, 10:12:04 am
Just booking my wedding  :)
Woah! you snuck that in.

Have fun.

Yep- all done now, can't be doing with any of this huge wedding faff. Kefalonia, August, all I need to do is turn up with a dress and a groom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 11 February, 2014, 09:57:56 am
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 11 February, 2014, 09:51:56 am
Quote from: fboab on 11 February, 2014, 09:43:07 am
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 10 February, 2014, 10:12:04 am
Just booking my wedding  :)
Woah! you snuck that in.

Have fun.

Yep- all done now, can't be doing with any of this huge wedding faff. Kefalonia, August, all I need to do is turn up with a dress and a groom.
:thumbsup:
(You could probably get away without the dress, in an emergency  :D )
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 February, 2014, 09:59:05 am
Tandem required.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 11 February, 2014, 10:03:01 am
Being sick  :sick: but I  watch/sleep to the olympics.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 11 February, 2014, 12:21:06 pm
Quote from: fboab on 11 February, 2014, 09:57:56 am
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 11 February, 2014, 09:51:56 am
Quote from: fboab on 11 February, 2014, 09:43:07 am
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 10 February, 2014, 10:12:04 am
Just booking my wedding  :)
Woah! you snuck that in.

Have fun.

Yep- all done now, can't be doing with any of this huge wedding faff. Kefalonia, August, all I need to do is turn up with a dress and a groom.
:thumbsup:
(You could probably get away without the dress, in an emergency  :D )

Cycling kit should do? Congrats, LC!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 February, 2014, 12:57:56 pm
Drinking my post-prandial cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2014, 01:27:11 pm
Installing smoke alarms.

PSA: Anyone not tested theirs recently?  Need to buy some 9V batteries?  You know what to do...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 11 February, 2014, 01:30:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 February, 2014, 01:27:11 pm
Installing smoke alarms.

PSA: Anyone not tested theirs recently?  Need to buy some 9V batteries?  You know what to do...

My fire alarm test is sometimes also known as 'cooking steak'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2014, 01:33:43 pm
We have a toaster with a faulty eject mechanism for the purpose, though these days toast tends to get burnt under the grill, as it's mostly consumed in combination with cheese.

Handily the new system incorporates a test button on the unit that sits at barakta's bedside, so the whole lot can be tested without resorting to inept cookery or ladders.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 11 February, 2014, 03:09:41 pm
Not doing what I should really be doing.   Motivation to work is pretty low just now.   

 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 11 February, 2014, 03:41:04 pm
Having a nice sit down and a cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 February, 2014, 03:59:20 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 February, 2014, 01:27:11 pm
PSA: Anyone not tested theirs recently? 

No, I've not tested my PSA (http://prostatecanceruk.org/information/prostate-problems/psa-test) lately :o

I can get a free one for Christmas, though :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 February, 2014, 06:37:54 am
On a bus, leaving pock and contemplating how right Mr Yorkston is...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 16 February, 2014, 05:14:09 am
Not sleeping: apparently kept awake by the sound of no howling wind and rain whatsoever.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 February, 2014, 07:21:51 am
Savouring the heady delights of clearing up dog's vomit before breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 February, 2014, 07:34:24 am
And arising out of the above, wondering what the hell I have done with the bottle of squirty antibacterial stuff manufactured by Flash and probably more designed for cookers that dog's vomit, but it was all I could lay my hands on at the time.

Oh well, I've found another bottle of probably-more-suitable Waitrose anti-bacterial cleaner and used that as well, so at least we now have one clean patch on the kitchen floor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 February, 2014, 09:55:05 am
Having just been to the gym for the first time in far too long, feeling a bit tired and wibbly, actually.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 February, 2014, 10:02:56 am
Having a coffee before going to church
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 16 February, 2014, 12:20:44 pm
sitting looking out of the window at blue sky and a slight breeze, and feeling thoroughly pissed off while i prepare for a big meeting tomorrow :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 February, 2014, 01:12:37 pm
Listing stuff on the 'bay.
This entails the usual round of taking photos of things and then writing descriptions that make them sound like the best thing since sliced bread.

Next up is taking the front mech off Pugsley so I can get a decent photograph of it prior to doing the listing.

Later, I may go for a walk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 16 February, 2014, 01:39:40 pm
Looking at next weekend's audax route while waiting for the washing machine to finish.
When that's done I'm riding to the wilderness north MCR to Helen's.
I'm not feeling too enthusiastic about the ride but it's only 10 miles and, if I drive, I'll hit the M60 during the rush-hour tomorrow morning  :hand:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 16 February, 2014, 02:32:44 pm
I've just regreased my hope bb. It's the first time I've done this one and it's got different grease in than my others. They usually have blue grease, this has got the crappy white stuff. I 'hope' they aren't cutting corners, especially when I think of the price I paid for it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 16 February, 2014, 02:35:29 pm
Just back from walking the dog (not mine) in Dulwich Park.
Which was rammed.
People (and dogs) queueing to get in.
I may've exaggerated a little in that last sentence. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 February, 2014, 09:29:47 am
I am just having a gentle spod after having loaded Ruthie's dishwasher.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 21 February, 2014, 11:29:52 am
Have you let Ruthie back in yet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 February, 2014, 11:43:57 am
She is now. :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 February, 2014, 11:16:41 am
Watching a live feed from Ukraine's Parliament. Fascinating.

Don't think I'll ge tmuch done today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 February, 2014, 11:30:20 am
Quote from: Andrij on 22 February, 2014, 11:16:41 am
Watching a live feed from Ukraine's Parliament. Fascinating.

Don't think I'll ge tmuch done today.

If the violence gets too much for you, you can always turn over to the Rugby or some Boxing :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 February, 2014, 11:52:26 am
Doing laundry, mostly.
I've just finished tweaking the riding position on the Croix de Fer and put some Proofide on the underside of the saddle. I'd forgotten how unpleasant it smells  :sick:

I'm also wondering whether Brooks have considered licensing their leather dressing method to the space agencies - I swear to $DEITY that the surface of a new B17 is damn near frictionless.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 February, 2014, 12:00:14 pm
Stinking.

Bit of a sweaty workout, that was. Thank goodness for Tesco Multi-Action wipes. Mmm... lemony-fresh!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 February, 2014, 12:28:05 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 22 February, 2014, 11:30:20 am
Quote from: Andrij on 22 February, 2014, 11:16:41 am
Watching a live feed from Ukraine's Parliament. Fascinating.

Don't think I'll ge tmuch done today.

If the violence gets too much for you, you can always turn over to the Rugby or some Boxing :)

The violence got too much days ago.

A good friend's mate is among the dead.  Those killed haven't all been identified yet.  Right now I can't face looking at the list for fear of finding a familiar name.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 February, 2014, 12:29:43 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 22 February, 2014, 12:28:05 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 22 February, 2014, 11:30:20 am
Quote from: Andrij on 22 February, 2014, 11:16:41 am
Watching a live feed from Ukraine's Parliament. Fascinating.

Don't think I'll ge tmuch done today.

If the violence gets too much for you, you can always turn over to the Rugby or some Boxing :)

The violence got too much days ago.

A good friend's mate is among the dead.  Those killed haven't all been identified yet.  Right now I can't face looking at the list for fear of finding a familiar name.

Ah yes, that's a mess. Sorry - I thought you were referring to the Parliament goings on, not the protests outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2014, 12:30:37 pm
^ :(

Me, I'm making frittata :P
And thinking that Pingu's not going to be very happy when he sees the envelope the postie brought for him by recorded delivery. Still, it makes a change from me....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 February, 2014, 12:54:02 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 22 February, 2014, 12:00:14 pm
Stinking.
That.
I'm currently smelling a bit feral myself on account of first having had a thrash on the turbo to get the position on the Croix de Fer sorted and then taking it for a few laps round the village to get the brakes bedded in.

Granted, this was an easier than it was on either of the fixed MTBs ('accelerate to 15-20mph and then brake' is easier said than done on something with off-road gearing in terrain that could charitably be called 'flat') but it was still fairly sweaty work. 'Course, the plus side is that the Croix now stops on the proverbial dime  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 22 February, 2014, 12:58:29 pm
I'm doggie/house sitting until Monday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 February, 2014, 10:04:02 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/1393105738_zpsd12d93af.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/1393105738_zpsd12d93af.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 February, 2014, 10:07:37 pm
Staring at a mountain bike and wondering if I should get it ready for a ride tomorrow, then flicking back to the weather forecast and laughing.
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/forecast/egremont

There is no chance my mate will ride in that - now I've just got to decide whether I'm mad enough :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 23 February, 2014, 08:04:23 am
Listening to high wind and rain, pondering whether I'm nutty enough to really go and play Robin Hood in the woods? Think it may be a social visit to pay annual membership fees instead....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 23 February, 2014, 08:17:47 am
Trying to recover from the shock of getting out of bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 23 February, 2014, 01:44:12 pm
Seriously considering spending the rest of today watching Game of Thrones, drinking beer and eating junk.

That's bad, right?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 February, 2014, 01:50:59 pm
I'm tidying the house, which presently involves making the living room look more like a living room and less like a workshop. Easier said than done with three bikes in there (plus two in the kitchen and another in the shed)

Later I need to dismantle the singlespeed prior to transportation to my parents place - means I'll have a bike 'on site' for when I do training rides in Hamsterley and thereabouts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 23 February, 2014, 04:12:50 pm
Waiting at hove station for a train back to Croydon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 February, 2014, 04:48:13 pm
Trying to work out which is the most sensible place to go for a gig.... Hebden Bridge on a school night, with probable added babysitter required, or Aldershot on a Saturday.  Hmmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 February, 2014, 09:08:43 pm
Sitting outside the Coeur De Lion (which claims to be Bath's smallest pub) with a pint anna fag, watching a small sweet little rat going about his business.  We're only about 5 feet apart, but he seems totally un-fased by our proximity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 23 February, 2014, 09:24:43 pm
Trying to work out what drug Jonathan Meades is on.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 February, 2014, 06:30:57 pm
Arsing around with OSPF and conditional BGP.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 February, 2014, 08:59:41 pm
24 hours later.  Doing exactly the same thing outside the same pub.
No sign of little ratty though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 February, 2014, 09:00:07 am
Preparing for the big bumper birthday trip to Bamberg (Germany) :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 February, 2014, 09:53:10 am
Sitting in the sunshine by the river in Bath.  Doggie poo bag at the ready.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 25 February, 2014, 12:03:41 pm
Quote from: Basil on 25 February, 2014, 09:53:10 am
Sitting in the sunshine by the river in Bath.  Doggie poo bag at the ready.

Sitting by the river in the bath, with a doggie poo bag at the ready?   ???  ;)

Me, I'm doing a bit of fettling to rebuild my 2005 lemond etape into a single speeder.....   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 25 February, 2014, 12:10:17 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 February, 2014, 04:48:13 pm
Trying to work out which is the most sensible place to go for a gig.... Hebden Bridge on a school night, with probable added babysitter required, or Aldershot on a Saturday.  Hmmm.

Surely there is no question to which the answer can be "Aldershot" unless its "where would you least like to go this evening?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 February, 2014, 01:17:03 pm
Updating my phone to KitKat.

Fingers crossed...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 February, 2014, 01:23:22 pm
Eating cake in Wells.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 25 February, 2014, 01:31:47 pm
Wells?

Gutters running down the centre of the street and a gun fight in Somerfield.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 25 February, 2014, 01:34:10 pm
Quote from: Basil on 25 February, 2014, 01:23:22 pm
Eating cake in Wells.

You lucky git.  I love Wells.

I'm toasting pitta bread for lunch, after which I may go for a bike ride  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 25 February, 2014, 01:59:09 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 25 February, 2014, 12:03:41 pm
Quote from: Basil on 25 February, 2014, 09:53:10 am
Sitting in the sunshine by the river in Bath.  Doggie poo bag at the ready.

Sitting by the river in the bath, with a doggie poo bag at the ready?   ???  ;)

Me, I'm doing a bit of fettling to rebuild my 2005 lemond etape into a single speeder.....   :)

Awww, no rear wheel :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 February, 2014, 06:09:19 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 25 February, 2014, 12:10:17 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 23 February, 2014, 04:48:13 pm
Trying to work out which is the most sensible place to go for a gig.... Hebden Bridge on a school night, with probable added babysitter required, or Aldershot on a Saturday.  Hmmm.

Surely there is no question to which the answer can be "Aldershot" unless its "where would you least like to go this evening?"

Yes, there is one other....

"Just how much do you want to see the utterly devine Krystle Warren perform?  I mean, seriously.... how far might you go?"

Cheap-ish travelodge nearby... train fares are steep though.  *dilemma*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 25 February, 2014, 06:20:50 pm
Hebden Bridge is a great venue.

And it's in Hebden Bridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 February, 2014, 06:25:00 pm
I know.  But it's a school night.  And a Cub night.

*dilemma*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 February, 2014, 08:20:15 pm
Up to my neck in PCB design.

I'm at the stage where the auto-router does a mostly non-stupid job, and I'm debating how much effort I really need to expend on making this pretty...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 25 February, 2014, 08:23:11 pm
Cursing a PCB designer, whilst I try to replace some rusted resistors.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 25 February, 2014, 08:52:25 pm
Funnily enough, I just completed this PCB.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Random/EGSE_V2_CompletedPCBLayout_Corrected3_480.png) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Random/EGSE_V2_CompletedPCBLayout_Corrected3.png)

The Gerbers will go off for manufacture tomorrow, although I'm going to look very carefully at the checking information, since the last time we sent off a PCB design, we managed to forget most of the ground plane!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 February, 2014, 10:01:09 pm
While Mrs. B is watching telly, I'm amusing myself with some heavy prunning of my pm in-box.   O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 26 February, 2014, 08:04:06 pm
Getting ready for my next SBA  :D :D :D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 27 February, 2014, 02:22:22 pm
Twiddling my thumbs, gazing out of the window, and watching deadlines slip by while waiting for network connectivity to be restored. Major outage at the data centre, apparently, and been down since around 10 this morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 February, 2014, 02:41:50 pm
Quote from: Michael Fassbender on 26 February, 2014, 08:04:06 pm
Getting ready for my next SBA  :D :D :D :thumbsup:
I have no idea what that means, so I'm pretending Michael's getting an award (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Silver+Buffalo+Award). Please don't kill my fantasy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 February, 2014, 02:51:55 pm
Quote from: fboab on 27 February, 2014, 02:41:50 pm
Quote from: Michael Fassbender on 26 February, 2014, 08:04:06 pm
Getting ready for my next SBA  :D :D :D :thumbsup:
I have no idea what that means,

Simulating being arsed?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 27 February, 2014, 03:03:03 pm
I'd venture I have an idea :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JStone on 27 February, 2014, 03:53:21 pm
Quote from: JStone on 27 February, 2014, 02:22:22 pm
Twiddling my thumbs, gazing out of the window, and watching deadlines slip by while waiting for network connectivity to be restored. Major outage at the data centre, apparently, and been down since around 10 this morning.

Boo hiss - blockage cleared and electrons flowing again. Back to work  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 27 February, 2014, 05:54:19 pm
Searching for a compass. Seems a slightly ironic activity
Title: Calling Crinklylion!
Post by: Ruth on 27 February, 2014, 07:21:17 pm
Quote from: Basil on 27 February, 2014, 02:51:55 pm
Quote from: fboab on 27 February, 2014, 02:41:50 pm
Quote from: Michael Fassbender on 26 February, 2014, 08:04:06 pm
Getting ready for my next SBA  :D :D :D :thumbsup:
I have no idea what that means,

Simulating being arsed?

Help me out here oh teeny redhead!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 February, 2014, 07:22:43 pm
Silly Bike Adventure, of course!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 27 February, 2014, 07:25:17 pm
Cheers, m'dear   :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 27 February, 2014, 07:28:21 pm
Noting that I have more bike projects than working bikes that I like.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 February, 2014, 07:31:56 pm
Ah.
Ok, just to be sure.  Is that a silly adventure on a bike, or an adventure on a silly bike?

Or is it both?  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 February, 2014, 07:58:52 pm
Traditionally I've used it to describe silly adventures involving a bike.  I have noticed that this not infrequently involves silly bikes though... and I reckon either version works!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 February, 2014, 08:48:52 pm
Watching "American Beauty".

Quote of the Day: "Never underestimate the power of denial."

It's the story of my life  :facepalm:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 February, 2014, 08:49:58 pm
Trying to finish the edit of the photos of three gigs TGL played.

Eyes tired.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 February, 2014, 09:11:16 pm
Waiting for Casual Sex Iin the Basement.

 :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 27 February, 2014, 09:48:09 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 27 February, 2014, 09:11:16 pm
Waiting for Casual Sex Iin the Basement.

 :demon:
This intrigues.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 February, 2014, 12:55:23 am
Quote from: Jurek on 27 February, 2014, 09:48:09 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 27 February, 2014, 09:11:16 pm
Waiting for Casual Sex Iin the Basement.

 :demon:
This intrigues.

Now with review!
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=38629.msg1649702#msg1649702
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 28 February, 2014, 09:47:51 pm
Drinking a pint of mellow local bitter in a country house in Northumberland whike I wait for mcshroom to arrive. My tent is pitched, my downmat is CPR'd, and this is mysecond pint. Oh, and there's a band. Should this be in the First World Problems thread?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 March, 2014, 09:46:59 am
I'm standing next to my bike on a train headed for an Architecture Ride.  I think we can manage that pace :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 March, 2014, 06:48:09 pm
Sitting in a Persian restaurant, drinking Italian beer & listening to Sinatra on their PA.
Will shortly be walking back to the jazz festival for the 3rd gig of the day. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 March, 2014, 06:56:01 pm
Moving bikes around.

I've got a couple of sparkies coming round on Monday to replace my (very) old-skool fusebox with a shiny, new distribution board with RCDs and the like. Given that they'll need access to the cupboard where the electrickery meter and whatnot live, I guess I'd better move Pugsley out of the way ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 01 March, 2014, 08:32:12 pm
Marking student work. 150 marginally different lay summaries of my good friend Janet's paper on the Neanderthal genome gets rather wearing.  I was seriously toying with a random number generator and then remark the ones who appeal.. but thought better of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 01 March, 2014, 08:45:39 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 01 March, 2014, 06:48:09 pm
Sitting in a Persian restaurant, drinking Italian beer & listening to Sinatra on their PA.
Will shortly be walking back to the jazz festival for the 3rd gig of the day.

Don't go any where near those sheep related crunchy shiny ball things.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 March, 2014, 11:45:08 am
I am at an STUC women's weekend school on understanding economics from a gendered perspective. We are discussing whether someone should consider setting up a new, women's political party.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 March, 2014, 04:59:46 pm
Leaving a dismal Milton Keynes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 March, 2014, 05:58:23 pm
Quote from: clarion on 02 March, 2014, 04:59:46 pm
Leaving a dismal Milton Keynes.
It must have been having a good day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 March, 2014, 08:28:32 pm
Well, how could it not have been having one of the best days in its entire history, having had Butterfly and the Little Duck visiting?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 March, 2014, 10:17:41 pm
Just sitting down with a large Cognac after 4 jazz gigs today.   I'm feeling too tired to go to the after festival party at a local hotel so have come home to listen to some of the music I bought.

2 gigs were in the Capstone theatre, which has comfy seats.  2 were in the Cornerstone theatre which has hard plastic monstrosities!  Worse than a new Brooks....  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2014, 10:26:28 pm
Watching a joke.  On Top Gear.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 03 March, 2014, 10:29:56 pm
Making soup and drinking too much wine.

<tomcruise>Sometimes, you just gotta say ...</tc>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 03 March, 2014, 10:36:39 pm
And reminiscing about walking back to the car on Saturday night, by the light of our head torches and the stars.  We were knackered, but it was bloody lovely.  Northern skies.  Wow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 March, 2014, 11:02:31 pm
Listening to Get The Blessing (http://www.theblessing.co.uk/) on ORANGE vinyl wot I bought yesterday.

Have drunk wine,  now on brandy,   Michael Fassbender's post now has me thinking back to American desert night skies... Wow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 03 March, 2014, 11:11:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlmMumA0CMU
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 March, 2014, 11:32:35 pm
 :-*

GET THE BLESSING - The Word for Moonlight is Moonlight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xub74o1gNC0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xub74o1gNC0)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 03 March, 2014, 11:35:26 pm
The recent posts remind me of this:- http://youtu.be/aTxg-15TfHg

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 03 March, 2014, 11:44:59 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 03 March, 2014, 11:32:35 pm
:-*

GET THE BLESSING - The Word for Moonlight is Moonlight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xub74o1gNC0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xub74o1gNC0)

That's lovely.  Trumpets and horns playing in thirds, plus impro, absolutely beautiful.  Thanks andrewc.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 March, 2014, 12:09:49 am
An excellent band, and touring the UK in March (London, Birmingham, Bristol, Warwick, Sheffield, Clitheroe) details on their website.

I also loved this lot.  Unfurl (http://www.oliviolin.com/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UEQzCujd9I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UEQzCujd9I)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 04 March, 2014, 06:59:17 am
Getting ready to go to Dudley on business for the day.....

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 04 March, 2014, 07:02:28 am
Having awoken very early, I'm taking it very slow getting up, since last week, when I went into work this early, I had a very very minor off, which nevertheless resulted in my taking two days off work, because I was in so much pain from the bruising!  I've got no strong incentive to cycle amongst the brainless commuters again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 March, 2014, 04:35:29 pm
Dealing with the day by putting pickled onion Monster Munch onto the ends of my fingers and walking them along the desk making monster noises.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 March, 2014, 05:50:28 pm
 Wondering whether EG's monster noises would make me go
Aw, bless.
Or
 :o   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rabbit on 04 March, 2014, 05:53:46 pm
Press ups. After heavish squats and pull ups.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 March, 2014, 07:15:34 pm
Focusing. 
I think the dilation drops have worn off. About time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rabbit on 05 March, 2014, 09:16:57 am
Waiting, yet again, for a client in the hideous place that is Slough
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 March, 2014, 09:56:08 am
Feeling ill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 05 March, 2014, 12:46:31 pm
Back from my run and about to price up and order building materials for a suspended storage floor in the attic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 05 March, 2014, 02:18:32 pm
Screwing up the courage to stop faffing about & get back to work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 March, 2014, 02:28:26 pm
Discovering that no matter how excessive the current calls on my time were, it really, really could have got worse. And has.

That'll be the end of my participation here for a week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 05 March, 2014, 03:02:36 pm
Oh bugger.  Hope it all clears soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 05 March, 2014, 03:05:35 pm
Reviewing a 50-slide powerpoint presentation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 06 March, 2014, 10:38:09 am
Drinking lovely coffee and listening to the radio.

A proper day off, pottering about, is really nice  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 06 March, 2014, 11:15:24 am
Trying to get my head round an adult woman actually dressing up as a golliwog and not thinking it might cause offence.  :o

And then happily sharing pictures of herself in said costume. :o :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 06 March, 2014, 11:24:13 am
Writing a proposal to unleash an army of robot spiders at work ;D

(http://www.dvice.com/sites/dvice/files/styles/blog_post_media/public/t8%20spider%20bot.jpg)

Well I think they're cute :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 March, 2014, 11:56:44 am
I hope they won't be powered by 'local resources'.  (though that would be cool) 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 06 March, 2014, 03:18:16 pm
Successfully loaded some uni software onto a Windows computer (Lenova). New territory as I haven't had any thing to do with Windoze since 2004. :)

Also built up a new Keiser M3 spin cycle. I know I know, this is a bicycle forum but my reasoning for the spin bike is as thus.
1. Want something nice and easy to jump on for a quick blast, regardless of the weather.
eg, mental block whilst writing an essay.
2. I could have bought a turbo trainer and used the lovely sooty but, I am slowly trying to get the bloke into bikes and at the moment, he's not into them at all. Plus he's far too heavy to get on the sooty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 March, 2014, 03:24:19 pm
Quote from: reddo on 06 March, 2014, 03:18:16 pm
I know I know, this is a bicycle forum

I'm fairly sure it's not.  Though having wheels is generally encouraged.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 06 March, 2014, 05:04:50 pm
Don't worry, in the shed there's a lovely Trek hard tail MTB and a really nice Spesh Roubaix.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 06 March, 2014, 07:22:18 pm
Using this GIF to goad a friend into joining me on an audax in a couple of weeks:

(https://24.media.tumblr.com/ced3b10ca17bec0173e09f615ac000e6/tumblr_myxj7uyKMH1totc25o1_500.gif)

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ran doner on 06 March, 2014, 07:30:12 pm
Is there one which says "a cup a tea" or "a slice of caik" interspersed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 12 March, 2014, 10:44:28 pm
Finishing working, yet again about now, from an 7:30 start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 13 March, 2014, 08:31:42 pm
Sitting in the dark as the power's gone off
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 13 March, 2014, 09:30:36 pm
I'm disappointed in you mcshroom, I'd have expected you to rub a couple of sticks together by now and have your stove lit with dinner bubbling away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 March, 2014, 09:35:25 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 13 March, 2014, 08:31:42 pm
Sitting in the dark as the power's gone off

Given the location of your employment I'd expect you to glow in the dark sufficiently to not be in the dark :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 13 March, 2014, 09:36:40 pm
Could have. Chippy was easier though :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 14 March, 2014, 06:53:24 pm
Watching formula one practice. Discovered it on one of the Dutch channels. Its very odd as there is no commentary, consequently I have no idea what is going on, except cars are going round in circles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 14 March, 2014, 07:30:29 pm
Drying my bike shoes in front of the fire... Probably shouldn't have left it until this evening to clean them, considering I need them tomorrow morning!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 March, 2014, 09:34:27 pm
I'm watching Stewart Lee. It's making my brain hurt in an existential quandary sort of way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 15 March, 2014, 12:54:28 pm
Hiding from the wind in a café in Whitley bay. It's strong and againsterly at the moment. Makes for slow progress.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 15 March, 2014, 01:38:49 pm
Tidying my little home office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 16 March, 2014, 09:59:49 am
Contemplating a stroll to the bike shop to taunt myself errrm fondle the shiny things hmmm "try to make some decisions" about an 1+1 :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 16 March, 2014, 10:01:29 am
Suffering with a mild migraine and wishing that I was out cycling instead.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 March, 2014, 12:46:50 pm
Checking the facilities and consequently parking like a fud.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/1394971762_zpsc20036c5.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/1394971762_zpsc20036c5.jpg.html)

On my way back from collecting Bodger's my trailer.  I thought it would be rude not to call in at the Country Girl.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 17 March, 2014, 09:16:16 am
Fixing Oracle, again.... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 March, 2014, 08:57:26 pm
Isn't it meant to need the blood of a virgin? There's your problem.

That and Larry Ellison.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 March, 2014, 09:47:49 pm
Picking up a ticket for One Night Stanshall (http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/1870).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 March, 2014, 09:40:05 pm
Spodding at a chademo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 20 March, 2014, 11:45:00 am
Sitting in Mech Eng's Computer Aided Manufacturing lab CAMing a game for the students for next week. This means baby-sitting a laser cutter and using the time to mark projects.

..d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 20 March, 2014, 12:33:23 pm
Sitting in Gregg's in St Andrews drinking coffee and trying to dry out a bit
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 March, 2014, 01:16:27 pm
Having a giggle at the bloke in my $Megacorp who sent his system access request to $everyone and the number of people who are "Reply All"-ing, of course with the addition of one who says "please stop replying all". By replying all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 March, 2014, 05:30:18 pm
Wondering if Pingu's found a mcshroom yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 21 March, 2014, 05:46:17 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 21 March, 2014, 05:30:18 pm
Wondering if Pingu's found a mcshroom yet.
I'll keep a look oot our windae for him in case he gets really lost.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tewdric on 21 March, 2014, 10:02:57 pm
Not going to bed early because The Italian Job has just started on more 4 +1
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 March, 2014, 12:40:09 pm
Wrangling Java, my idea of a nightmare....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 25 March, 2014, 06:38:06 pm
Having a nosebleed  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 25 March, 2014, 10:05:24 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 March, 2014, 06:38:06 pm
Having a nosebleed  >:(
Oh no! Hope it's stopped.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 26 March, 2014, 01:00:59 pm
Changed the blade on the mower and just having finished mowing the 'lawn' (stretch of the imagination - Joggers has a lawn)   now watching hailstones the size of marbles hammer down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 March, 2014, 02:11:31 pm
Making mince pies  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 26 March, 2014, 02:35:03 pm
In March?  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 26 March, 2014, 02:44:12 pm
.... procrastinating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 26 March, 2014, 03:26:48 pm

Quote from: numbnuts on 26 March, 2014, 02:11:31 pm
Making mince pies  :P
Quote from: fuzzy on 26 March, 2014, 02:44:12 pm
.... procrastinating.

That's OK, you have 9 months before you need mince pies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 26 March, 2014, 03:37:02 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 26 March, 2014, 02:44:12 pm
.... procrastinating.

I was going to do that tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: shyumu on 26 March, 2014, 04:57:26 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 25 March, 2014, 10:05:24 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 March, 2014, 06:38:06 pm
Having a nosebleed  >:(
Oh no! Hope it's stopped.

Has it stopped yet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 26 March, 2014, 06:30:12 pm
Quote from: shyumu on 26 March, 2014, 04:57:26 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 25 March, 2014, 10:05:24 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 March, 2014, 06:38:06 pm
Having a nosebleed  >:(
Oh no! Hope it's stopped.

Has it stopped yet?

Yeah it's stopped.  But I'm thinking of having another one.

You have pm, shyumu.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: shyumu on 26 March, 2014, 06:39:55 pm
Ah. Ha. Well I suggest toilet paper in the appropriate place. Then set fire to it. See how he likes that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 March, 2014, 09:31:39 pm
Sitting at home in Llandysul (well near it) wondering whether the Wednesday night ride made it to the Country Girl in time to get a table.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 26 March, 2014, 10:36:29 pm
Feeling a bit pished.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 March, 2014, 10:42:26 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 March, 2014, 09:31:39 pm
Sitting at home in Llandysul (well near it) wondering whether the Wednesday night ride made it to the Country Girl in time to get a table.

Don't know.  I got sucked into PCB design and almost forgot it was raining.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 March, 2014, 03:34:53 pm
Drowning my lurgy in lemsip.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 March, 2014, 08:27:49 pm
Procrastinating, because I need to repair a puncture (a job I really hate). I need the bike tomorrow so will probably end up doing it at midnight. :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 March, 2014, 02:49:21 am
Wondering how it is that I am in front of a computer at almost 3 am when everyone else went to bed hours ago.

I think I fell asleep after a surfeit of Adnam's Broadside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 29 March, 2014, 06:07:55 am
Waiting on a garage forecourt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 March, 2014, 07:31:16 am
Making porridge
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 March, 2014, 11:34:46 am
Sitting outside Moeder Lambic Fontainas, it's a gorgeous sunny day.
Sipping a Lambic Cantllon and waiting for a cheese & meat platter....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 29 March, 2014, 11:36:43 am
Not riding my reccy of the Penrith ride as I've just woken up :-[

It'll be new to all it looks like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 29 March, 2014, 12:54:57 pm
Now clearing the front room so I can lay the new flooring. There's more stuff in here than I thought
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 March, 2014, 01:02:33 pm
Still in Moeder Lambic, the Cantillon was followed by a Val Dieu blonde. I'm now on a Chocolate Stout, but the chap at the next table has started smoking. :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 March, 2014, 01:58:29 pm
Intermission in concrete laying
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 29 March, 2014, 03:11:48 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 29 March, 2014, 02:49:21 am
Wondering how it is that I am in front of a computer at almost 3 am when everyone else went to bed hours ago.

I think I fell asleep after a surfeit of Adnam's Broadside.

A perfectly acceptable way to go.... I may do the same this evening, after I have stopped pissing about in here and actually done the computing task I should be doing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 29 March, 2014, 03:13:30 pm
Quote from: jogler on 29 March, 2014, 01:58:29 pm
Intermission in concrete laying

Why did I read that as strictly NSFW, i.e. intromission in concrete laying?  That is probably an officially recognised fetish, but I'm an innocent boy, so I wouldn't know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 March, 2014, 04:36:25 pm
Resting;job done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 March, 2014, 04:38:23 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 29 March, 2014, 03:13:30 pm
Quote from: jogler on 29 March, 2014, 01:58:29 pm
Intermission in concrete laying

Why did I read that as strictly NSFW, i.e. intromission in concrete laying?  That is probably an officially recognised fetish, but I'm an innocent boy, so I wouldn't know.

I give up.
Why did you read it as....
"strictly NSFW, i.e. intromission in concrete laying?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 March, 2014, 08:05:52 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 29 March, 2014, 11:34:46 am
Sitting outside Moeder Lambic Fontainas, it's a gorgeous sunny day.
Sipping a Lambic Cantllon and waiting for a cheese & meat platter....
Mega jealous!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 March, 2014, 08:33:51 pm
Wearing socks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 March, 2014, 09:43:19 pm

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 March, 2014, 08:05:52 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 29 March, 2014, 11:34:46 am
Sitting outside Moeder Lambic Fontainas, it's a gorgeous sunny day.
Sipping a Lambic Cantllon and waiting for a cheese & meat platter....
Mega jealous!

There was a lovely Judas at A la Morte Subite later as well.....

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 30 March, 2014, 05:34:03 am
Eating porridge at (audax o'clock)2.
Annoying that, I could have done with another hour in bed.
I had a degree of enthusiasm about this ride yesterday ie I was looking forward to it.
The pull of bed right now is very strong ...............

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 30 March, 2014, 03:56:15 pm
Sitting outside Brasserie Egalite in St Gilles, sipping a Taras Boulba and watching the world go by.
Just been around the Horta museum. Lovely. If my parents had dragged me around it as a child I'd have moaned & sulked!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 30 March, 2014, 03:59:16 pm
Sitting on a train leaving York on my way home. Wine tonight I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 30 March, 2014, 05:31:22 pm
Hercule Stout at 9%.....
I blame Pingu, I remember him mentioning it.....
2 guys have just walked out of the bar carrying a black & gilt Egyptian style statue.... Slightly surreal.  It made a change from the blow up dolls you occasionally see dragged around Liverpool.
The stag/hen parties don't appear to have discovered Brussels yet. It's a civilised place to drink.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 March, 2014, 06:11:26 pm
Digesting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 30 March, 2014, 07:03:26 pm
Cooking pasta, chilling some wine, listening to the new Elbow album.

AND IT'S SEVEN O'CLOCK AND IT'S LIGHT.

Oh, yes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 March, 2014, 07:05:40 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 30 March, 2014, 07:03:26 pm
AND IT'S SEVEN O'CLOCK AND IT'S LIGHT.

Oh, yes.

So it is!  Yesterday's audax-o-clock start followed by a night under canvas means I've yet to notice the missing hour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 30 March, 2014, 08:39:27 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 30 March, 2014, 05:31:22 pm
Hercule Stout at 9%.....
I blame Pingu, I remember him mentioning it.....

Don't mention it  :)

By the way: git!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 30 March, 2014, 11:20:14 pm
Failing to go to bed despite the fact I'm really tired - because going to bed will just mean getting up to go to work tomorrow and I can't face it  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 31 March, 2014, 12:59:39 am
Waiting up and offering words of encouragement to my daughter via the WWW, as she labours away on here history essay.  Her time zone is an hour ahead.

Word count down to 2000. Just page numbers needed for citations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 March, 2014, 04:49:48 am
Have been trying to fix a datacentre outage since 1:00am and I'm on holiday :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 31 March, 2014, 11:32:58 am
Enjoying a day off and being very lazy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 31 March, 2014, 11:40:33 am
Spending what should've been a nice annual leave day, tidying up so that an estate agent can come and photograph my house.  So my landlord can sell it.  Which means I'll have to move house.  Again.  FFS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 March, 2014, 12:18:39 pm
Train spotting.
Oh well, I'll be on my way back again on thursday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 March, 2014, 12:22:51 pm

Quote from: Ruthie on 31 March, 2014, 11:40:33 am
Spending what should've been a nice annual leave day, tidying up so that an estate agent can come and photograph my house.  So my landlord can sell it.  Which means I'll have to move house.  Again.  FFS.

Oh that sucketh mightily. You've not been there very long either,  have you?
Hope you find somewhere nice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 March, 2014, 01:20:13 pm
Sitting in the shade on Rue de Rollebeek. It's 22C here!
Washing down Lapin a la Gueze with a cool Hopus.

Train home leaves Brussels at 6, I hope this journey is smooth & trouble free!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 31 March, 2014, 02:12:24 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 31 March, 2014, 12:22:51 pm

Quote from: Ruthie on 31 March, 2014, 11:40:33 am
Spending what should've been a nice annual leave day, tidying up so that an estate agent can come and photograph my house.  So my landlord can sell it.  Which means I'll have to move house.  Again.  FFS.

Oh that sucketh mightily. You've not been there very long either,  have you?
Hope you find somewhere nice.

Thanks Andrew.  You sound like you're having a nice time.  Which is nice  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulR on 31 March, 2014, 02:13:03 pm
Wondering what "tax-dogging" is.
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/11114544.Leader_accused_of_not_acting_against_tax_dogging_councillors/?ref=rss (http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/11114544.Leader_accused_of_not_acting_against_tax_dogging_councillors/?ref=rss)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 31 March, 2014, 03:19:05 pm
Quote from: PaulR on 31 March, 2014, 02:13:03 pm
Wondering what "tax-dogging" is.
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/11114544.Leader_accused_of_not_acting_against_tax_dogging_councillors/?ref=rss (http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/11114544.Leader_accused_of_not_acting_against_tax_dogging_councillors/?ref=rss)

It’s when corporations royally fuck ordinary people by not paying their fair share of tax?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 31 March, 2014, 05:19:22 pm
I'm sat in queue position 16 for someone to sort out a problem they should have solved last time I called. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 31 March, 2014, 05:27:30 pm
Cooking a spag bol, drinking Shiraz and loving this daylight thing!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 March, 2014, 06:01:12 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 31 March, 2014, 03:19:05 pm
Quote from: PaulR on 31 March, 2014, 02:13:03 pm
Wondering what "tax-dogging" is.
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/11114544.Leader_accused_of_not_acting_against_tax_dogging_councillors/?ref=rss (http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/11114544.Leader_accused_of_not_acting_against_tax_dogging_councillors/?ref=rss)

It’s when corporations royally fuck ordinary people by not paying their fair share of tax?
You, sir, win the Internet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 March, 2014, 08:20:00 pm
Currently, I am multi-tasking - eating my dinner and wrestling with SenseTalk, a 'programming' language which describes itself as 'a highly readable, English-like scripting language', so I can get our Indian team's scripts to talk to my networked logging system. Before they start work tomorrow  :facepalm:

Readable it may be, but writing it is a monumental pain in the arse - there's so much syntactic sugar that I needed to take my medication before I started working with it. In other words, it's generally fucking awful if you're used to 'real' programming languages.

On the plus side, it's nice to be doing an all-nighter again and I get to have a lie-in tomorrow as a result  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 31 March, 2014, 11:15:27 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 31 March, 2014, 11:40:33 am
Spending what should've been a nice annual leave day, tidying up so that an estate agent can come and photograph my house.  So my landlord can sell it.  Which means I'll have to move house.  Again.  FFS.

Isn't the canonical response to make as much of a mess as you possibly can? So that the photos look shit, so your landlord can't sell, so you don't have to move?

Of course, if you either like your landlord or dislike the house, this may not be rational behaviour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 31 March, 2014, 11:46:52 pm
Section 21 notice and losing your deposit means you clean that stuff up. And play nice. At least it does in this house.

Anyway, I couldn't/can't sleep again, so I'm looking at bike luggage. It's a bit meh, except this:
(click to show/hide)
and I can't really see me managing to persuade Mr Smith that this will help us up the devils armpit or whatever monster climbs it is in a fortnight.
If anyone tells me to just get a Carradice I will make them sleep in its mouldy crumb infested cotton duck. While swinging from a tree. From their leather bar tape.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 31 March, 2014, 11:50:24 pm
Quote from: fboab on 31 March, 2014, 11:46:52 pm
If anyone tells me to just get a Carradice I will make them sleep in its mouldy crumb infested cotton duck. While swinging from a tree. From their leather bar tape.
Revelate Designs - 'nuff said.

http://www.backcountrybiking.co.uk/product-category/revelate-designs-gear/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 April, 2014, 12:01:07 am
There's nothing on there that is suitable for our needs.
No velcro- velcro destroys shorts. There's not much room on my seatpost anyway as it has suspension. I want rack mounted, have pockets/ dividers, be expandable, rigid yet light.  I can wield a sewing machine, it might come to that.
£126 for velcro, webbing and a dry bag? You're having a laff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 April, 2014, 12:08:27 am
Quote from: fboab on 01 April, 2014, 12:01:07 am
There's nothing on there that is suitable for our needs.
No velcro- velcro destroys shorts. There's not much room on my seatpost anyway as it has suspension. I want rack mounted, have pockets/ dividers, be expandable, rigid yet light.  I can wield a sewing machine, it might come to that.
http://www.pennineoutdoor.co.uk/fabrics - have at it. They seem to have expanded their range to fittings and whatnot since I last looked.

I did consider going down the MYOG route a while back for bikepacking gear, and I know of a few people who have with varying degrees of success, but given that I can wreak havoc with something as simple as a screwdriver, putting me in charge of something with moving parts and stabby bits would likely end up with me being stitched to the table.

Or worse.

Quote
£126 for velcro, webbing and a dry bag? You're having a laff.
Import duty, innit?
Alpkit do the same sort of stuff for less money.
Or rather, they would if they ever had it in stock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 April, 2014, 12:13:30 am
Quote from: fboab on 01 April, 2014, 12:01:07 am
There's nothing on there that is suitable for our needs.
No velcro- velcro destroys shorts. There's not much room on my seatpost anyway as it has suspension. I want rack mounted, have pockets/ dividers, be expandable, rigid yet light.

Arkel Tailrider would fail on the velcro and not costing silly money tests, unfortunately.  Which is a shame, as it's quite sexy by the (admittedly fairly low) standards of rack bags.

Not sure what you're doing with the velcro that shorts damage is an issue thobut?  I'm assuming limited arse to bag clearance, combined with sproingy seatpost...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 April, 2014, 12:18:20 am
Fat thighs innit. Velcro rack attachments eat my shorts (as I think someone yellow once said).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 April, 2014, 11:10:25 am
In spooky coincidence style, someone got on the train this morning with this very bag.
Quote from: fboab on 31 March, 2014, 11:46:52 pm
(click to show/hide)
It's not quite as pretty in the flesh.

I'm going to try knocking something together with this:
(click to show/hide)
Hi vis, innit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 01 April, 2014, 11:16:17 am
Quote from: fboab on 01 April, 2014, 11:10:25 am
In spooky coincidence style, someone got on the train this morning with this very bag.
Quote from: fboab on 31 March, 2014, 11:46:52 pm
(click to show/hide)
It's not quite as pretty in the flesh.
Looks perfect for beating off dissuading rogue tandem followers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 01 April, 2014, 02:33:27 pm
Waiting for someone to come and unblock our drain.

Google translate of their company's website came up with the following:
Quote
Call me now! One of our staff will contact you shortly. Your constipation is resolved as quickly as possible.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 01 April, 2014, 02:49:58 pm
Resting after an hour on the turbo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 01 April, 2014, 03:26:57 pm
Steeling myself before going out on (gasp!) a bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 April, 2014, 03:32:07 pm
House-hunting  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 01 April, 2014, 03:33:42 pm
Listening to a man push a small rotating chain flail down the drain.

Why is it that as soon as the toilet is unavailable, nature makes demands on your bladder? (That's rhetorical and doesn't need an answer!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 01 April, 2014, 03:39:14 pm
Trying very hard to stay awake. Just about succeeding but it's tough going.

Last night's marathon hacking session has caught up with me and is demanding payment with interest.

Despite the fact that it's glorious outside, I'll probably forgo an evening ride in favour of a session on the turbo - at least that way there's relatively little risk of waking up in a ditch wondering where the hell I am.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2014, 10:23:59 pm
Procrastinating...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 April, 2014, 10:41:07 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 01 April, 2014, 03:32:07 pm
House-hunting  :(

Not going well then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 April, 2014, 11:10:26 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 01 April, 2014, 10:41:07 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 01 April, 2014, 03:32:07 pm
House-hunting  :(

Not going well then?

No.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 April, 2014, 11:47:32 pm
:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 03 April, 2014, 12:38:49 am
Listening to the wind howling outside. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 03 April, 2014, 07:57:36 am
Grinding my way through a 4 hour online training course where I have to listen to a badly encoded American voice explain every slide.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 April, 2014, 09:09:27 am
Waiting for the next inspiration to surface from my hindbrain. There should be one along at 10:15.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 03 April, 2014, 09:48:22 am
Suffering cramped undercarriage.

When getting my stuff ready last night, I did the usual routine- polo shirt from the wardrobe, work socks and riding socks from the sock drawer, shorts and base layer from the shorts and base layer drawer, undercrackers from the undercracker drawer.

Cycling stuff dumped in the bathroom, civvies downstairs.

On exiting the shower at work this morning, towelling off and getting dressed, I discovered a pair of No.2 sons pants had snuck into my undercrackers drawer.

He is 10 stone wet through if he's lucky.

My meeting in Wycombe might be attended via home to release the tension ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 April, 2014, 10:10:34 am
Last day of packing.  I've just cleaned out the cupboard under the stairs, the back of which hasn't seen daylight since 2002.  Kerrr-ist.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 April, 2014, 12:22:58 pm
^^^^
there is a tea chest in our loft that was deposited there when we moved in....27 years ago.I don't have a clue what it contains ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 03 April, 2014, 02:03:43 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 03 April, 2014, 09:48:22 am
Suffering cramped undercarriage.

When getting my stuff ready last night, I did the usual routine- polo shirt from the wardrobe, work socks and riding socks from the sock drawer, shorts and base layer from the shorts and base layer drawer, undercrackers from the undercracker drawer.

Cycling stuff dumped in the bathroom, civvies downstairs.

On exiting the shower at work this morning, towelling off and getting dressed, I discovered a pair of No.2 sons pants had snuck into my undercrackers drawer.

He is 10 stone wet through if he's lucky.

My meeting in Wycombe might be attended via home to release the tension ::-)

.... and I can now breathe and swing low again :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 03 April, 2014, 02:46:47 pm
Being absolutely ucking lazy.
I'm not going to shift my ar$e for anything.Not even to reach for the tv remote control or put the kettle on or to make a brew or to turn the radio on or reach for the newspaper or open the locknlock box containing Marj's cake or......
 :o
whooooaa,hang about & hang onamin..
I must be ill.
I'd best ring for an ambulance.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 April, 2014, 07:47:00 pm
Sitting alone in the Fox pub, Maidstone, where I seem to have been waylaid by a pint of Young's Special at £2.90, while awaiting the arrival of a locksmith.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Littlesox on 03 April, 2014, 08:11:47 pm
Gloating over the fact that on my ride home from work today, I was only a minute slower than Kristain House over a 6 mile Strava segment.

Pro rider on 10k bike vs 51 year old asthmatic ex-smoker on £800 Giant Defy in full winter trim on his way home from work.

Hussar !

(Mind, I bet he didn't collapse in a heap and throw up outside the bank in Wem High Street afterwards like I did).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 April, 2014, 08:23:40 pm
Back in the pub. The excellent Mr. Dury is wielding his rhythm stick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 03 April, 2014, 08:37:07 pm
A locksmith?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 April, 2014, 10:19:23 pm
A colleague of my daughter's locked herself out when they were going to their head teacher's retirement bash. I volunteered to wait for the locksmith. He took less than 15 seconds to open the front door and charged £65+vat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 05 April, 2014, 01:48:07 pm
Eating lunch outside the Pantheon.

And gloating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 April, 2014, 01:57:17 pm
Absolutely, completely sweet FA.
I have, as they say, reached some sort of equilibrium. My ground state.

My mood has dropped like a piano down a lift shaft and I really can't be arsed to do anything. In fact, the only things I've achieved thus far today are a) some shopping and b) posting a boxful of schwag to torslanda ...

Actually, that's not strictly true - I'm cooking a HBFO beef casserole for next week's lunches but it's a fairly hands-off affair at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 April, 2014, 01:59:50 pm
Sitting around a frikkin airport, 6 hrs later than I should have been, again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 05 April, 2014, 02:00:32 pm
Corporation Tax return

oh joy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 April, 2014, 02:04:19 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 05 April, 2014, 01:48:07 pm
Eating lunch outside the Pantheon.

And gloating.

Sounds like a fine way to spend an afternoon. Enjoy yourself  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 05 April, 2014, 08:27:01 pm
Baking a CAEK.

Noteworthy because it's my first in, I think, about five years. (baked, not eaten, obviously.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 April, 2014, 01:46:21 pm
'urtin'

My first Physioterrorist visit today.

NOBODY told me it would hurt that much....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 07 April, 2014, 03:36:47 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 07 April, 2014, 01:46:21 pm
'urtin'

My first Physioterrorist visit today.

NOBODY told me it would hurt that much....

It's when the Physioterrorist looks you in the eye and says "this might hurt" and then digs her thumbs knuckle deep into previously firm flesh that it gets interesting. Or so it seemed at the time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 April, 2014, 03:40:39 pm
I just spent an insane amount of money on a bulk order of seemingly discontinued hair products.  That should give us another year or so to track down a non-sneeze-inducing alternative.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 April, 2014, 03:42:21 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 07 April, 2014, 03:36:47 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 07 April, 2014, 01:46:21 pm
'urtin'

My first Physioterrorist visit today.

NOBODY told me it would hurt that much....

It's when the Physioterrorist looks you in the eye and says "this might hurt" and then digs her thumbs knuckle deep into previously firm flesh that it gets interesting. Or so it seemed at the time.

The worst bit is that I have to go back on Friday!

The good side of it is that although the pain, currently, is on the left, it's the right that's tight (compensation pain).  His bashing about has made it move easier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 07 April, 2014, 03:43:43 pm
procrastinating...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 08 April, 2014, 12:31:30 am
Quote from: andrewc on 05 April, 2014, 02:04:19 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 05 April, 2014, 01:48:07 pm
Eating lunch outside the Pantheon.

And gloating.

Sounds like a fine way to spend an afternoon. Enjoy yourself  :thumbsup:

Thank you, Andrew.  It was a wonderful afternoon, I will remember it for ever.  Just so special, I still can't take in how OLD that place is.  I think I'm in love with Rome, what a gorgeous city.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 April, 2014, 06:54:29 am
Preparing to rip off plaster, crawl around under the floor and whack my fingers more frequently than I whack the masonry nails...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 08 April, 2014, 07:08:05 am
It's my 45th (how?) so as well as the usual endless list of things that need fixing in the new house, I'm taking the kids out for lunch and a nice meal this evening (not with the wife!).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 April, 2014, 07:28:50 am
Best wishes to you Dog.

And what I'm doing now is,  gazing gloomily into the top of a mug of coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 08 April, 2014, 07:45:40 am
Getting ready to go to a meeting in Birmingham. In the 12 years I have worked for this mob (almost wrote: The Mob) we have never had a meeting outside of that London, so its nice not to have to travel a long distance.

It's also nice that I can cycle home afterwards (although it will be my longest ride of the year and I have woken up this morning with a sore back).  :thumbsup:

So if you see a very fat bloke on a black Ridley panting their way north along the canal early evening, that will be me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 April, 2014, 08:52:12 am
Quote from: Basil on 08 April, 2014, 07:28:50 am
Best wishes to you Dog.

 :facepalm:

Hmm.  I seem to have fallen foul of autocorrect or something.

What I wrote was "Best wishes to you Rog"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 April, 2014, 11:25:38 am
Updating OpenSSL on a few boxes :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 April, 2014, 11:36:27 am
Quote from: Basil on 08 April, 2014, 07:28:50 am
And what I'm doing now is,  gazing gloomily into the top of a mug of coffee.
This.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 08 April, 2014, 11:38:19 am
I'm watching that Student Nurses programme, and some poor sod is trying to get some obs off an unco-operative four year old.  Absolutely hilarious  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 08 April, 2014, 11:40:56 am
Filling out an application form so I can go do something not police related.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 April, 2014, 12:01:25 pm

Quote from: Ruthie on 08 April, 2014, 12:31:30 am
Quote from: andrewc on 05 April, 2014, 02:04:19 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 05 April, 2014, 01:48:07 pm
Eating lunch outside the Pantheon.

And gloating.

Sounds like a fine way to spend an afternoon. Enjoy yourself  :thumbsup:

Thank you, Andrew.  It was a wonderful afternoon, I will remember it for ever.  Just so special, I still can't take in how OLD that place is.  I think I'm in love with Rome, what a gorgeous city.

Jealous. Never been, it's on the list though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 08 April, 2014, 12:27:53 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 08 April, 2014, 11:40:56 am
Filling out an application form so I can go do something not police related.

Just hit the send button  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 08 April, 2014, 01:36:22 pm
Getting frustrated with offshore automatons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 08 April, 2014, 05:18:13 pm
(http://i60.tinypic.com/21o9bww.jpg)

In fookin Blackpool. Goddam. Fook
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 08 April, 2014, 07:22:28 pm
Laminating the route sheet for Saturday's Essex Bridge audax.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Biggsy on 08 April, 2014, 07:27:38 pm
What am I doing right now?  On the computer, procrastinating, as usual.  I've got photography, eating, drinking, vacuuming, cleaning, tidying, repairing and hair-washing to do.  As usual.

What a silly thread.  I've just wasted another couple of minutes!  And, dear reader, you've just wasted another couple of seconds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 08 April, 2014, 07:57:24 pm
On the penultimate train of a very mixed-mode day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 08 April, 2014, 09:00:19 pm
Waiting for a loopy number of photos (OK only about 250) to upload to DropBox
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 10 April, 2014, 08:20:45 am
Having breakfast in a 'Brewer's Fayre' in Scotland.

I am nothing if not classy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 10 April, 2014, 09:47:13 am
Doing the "Phoned the DWP to close my claim for JSA as I'm starting full time work as a Postie on Monday" happy dance!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 April, 2014, 12:40:34 pm
Boogie away!  Well done  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 11 April, 2014, 06:39:23 am
Top news Brian.  Best wishes.

I'm drinking tea and basking in my post 'early morning run' glow.     O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 April, 2014, 01:00:35 pm
In my mind's eye I am molishing a DIY roof rack for a tandem using whatever I have in the garage that is useful/appropriate 'cause I don't have the £ for what I'd really like which is one of these

http://www.pendle-bike.co.uk/shopping/standard-tandem-rack.php
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 11 April, 2014, 01:43:59 pm
More job hunting.

2 jobs applied for today :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 April, 2014, 01:49:40 pm
Troubleshooting a Java issue.

I am not sure whether I have ever said this, here, but I HATE JAVA!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 April, 2014, 01:53:23 pm
Refactoring my plans for this summer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 April, 2014, 02:14:49 pm
Seething

Due to an unreasonable answer to a simple question regarding invoices and payment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 April, 2014, 04:05:50 pm
Invoice thing, sorted, I hope.

Now thinking about moving.  Not far, though, just up the road to a much larger house, with HUGE garden...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 April, 2014, 07:36:57 am
Packing for my usual week-and-a-bit in Dublin.  No rush, still have just over two hours before I need to be out the door.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 12 April, 2014, 07:38:37 am
Drinking tea prior to meeting up with Jane to go to Stratford  Velodrome for Bespoked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 12 April, 2014, 07:54:56 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 11 April, 2014, 01:43:59 pm
More job hunting.

2 jobs applied for today :thumbsup:

Good luck with the job hunting fuzzy!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 12 April, 2014, 08:17:31 am
Waiting for a lift.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 April, 2014, 08:19:35 am
Feeling like shit, due to zero sleep last night :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 April, 2014, 06:33:39 pm
Feeling rather pleased with myself .

Took the 1x1 out for a few laps of the village to get the brakes bedded in, mainly to escape the sounds of complicated destruction emanating from next door1.

When I got back, I crossed paths with the guy who'd bought the place (who, as it happens, lives in the next street - I walk past his house when I go up into the village) who introduced himself and we had a bit of a chinwag (including apologies from him for the noise) and I managed to completely avoid getting The Fear and clamming up like I normally do when facing people I don't know. Nice guy, and I spent a while talking shop with his father who used to work in the chemical industry (he used to design chemical plants, my PhD involved writing code to simulate explosions in same)

One step forward, and a small-scale 'fuck you' to the brainweasels.

1 - having see what he managed to accomplish today, to whit: completely gutting the kitchen and bathroom and removing the airing cupboard, given the typical standard of 70s/80s housing stock I'm surprised the place didn't collapse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 13 April, 2014, 01:18:49 pm
Watching TV. Pro cyclists vs cobbles
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 13 April, 2014, 01:23:33 pm
Quote from: Vince on 13 April, 2014, 01:18:49 pm
Watching TV. Pro cyclists vs cobbles

Sartre was wrong. Hell isn't other people; it's the Arenberg.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 April, 2014, 01:28:44 pm
Cookin' ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 13 April, 2014, 01:59:56 pm
Getting ready to view a house.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 13 April, 2014, 02:39:03 pm
Working.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 13 April, 2014, 04:55:54 pm
Moi aussi.
Corporation Tax return
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 13 April, 2014, 05:30:06 pm
Today I have

 
Managed the whole day without a walking stick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 13 April, 2014, 07:46:34 pm
Playing Tetris with Teetering Piles of CrapTM in the spare room. Not sure if I'm making things better or worse :/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 April, 2014, 07:55:28 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 April, 2014, 01:59:56 pm
Getting ready to view a house.

We did that at 10.30 today.

How did your viewing go?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 13 April, 2014, 07:57:02 pm
OK.  It's a good house.

It's too soon to be looking really, but there's a story behind this viewing which is far too tedious to relate.

How about you?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 13 April, 2014, 07:57:46 pm
You could buy this house?  It'd be convenient for MrsT's job, and Reid Street's a lovely school.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 April, 2014, 08:20:32 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 April, 2014, 07:57:02 pm
OK.  It's a good house.

It's too soon to be looking really, but there's a story behind this viewing which is far too tedious to relate.

How about you?

Good. We could buy yours, but this one is nicerer...

http://m.zoopla.co.uk/#/for-sale/details/32570712?search_identifier=9745b372649aadf808f0420bb280030d
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 13 April, 2014, 08:48:55 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 13 April, 2014, 02:39:03 pm
Working.

Still working ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 13 April, 2014, 09:03:30 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 13 April, 2014, 08:20:32 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 April, 2014, 07:57:02 pm
OK.  It's a good house.

It's too soon to be looking really, but there's a story behind this viewing which is far too tedious to relate.

How about you?

Good. We could buy yours, but this one is nicerer...

http://m.zoopla.co.uk/#/for-sale/details/32570712?search_identifier=9745b372649aadf808f0420bb280030d

It's enormous!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mr magnolia on 14 April, 2014, 12:41:16 am
Lounging on the top bunk of a sleeper cabin. Somewhere around alnwick, according to phone. Middle Magnoliette in the bunk below, other Magnoliettes and Mrs m in adjacent cabins. Nice bottle of Innis and Gunn warming the insides.  Off to see London before the border closes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 14 April, 2014, 02:20:51 am
Thinking that it has been a very long while since I found myself awake at this time for no real good reason and no real expectation of going to sleep. If it is as long again till the next time I won't mind too much.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 14 April, 2014, 08:48:06 am
Quote from: BrianI on 12 April, 2014, 07:54:56 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 11 April, 2014, 01:43:59 pm
More job hunting.

2 jobs applied for today :thumbsup:

Good luck with the job hunting fuzzy!

Thanks.

It is annoying how job hunting can get in the way of work ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 April, 2014, 08:54:30 am
Not getting a boiler fitted.  So close.  We actually got to the point of actual plumbers/gas fitters on site.  Who have travelled from Donny to discover that they can't, legally, install a boiler where the job sheet tells them to.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 April, 2014, 09:18:41 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 April, 2014, 09:03:30 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 13 April, 2014, 08:20:32 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 April, 2014, 07:57:02 pm
OK.  It's a good house.

It's too soon to be looking really, but there's a story behind this viewing which is far too tedious to relate.

How about you?

Good. We could buy yours, but this one is nicerer...

http://m.zoopla.co.uk/#/for-sale/details/32570712?search_identifier=9745b372649aadf808f0420bb280030d

It's enormous!!!

Its a house, club house and camp ground all in one! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 April, 2014, 10:02:16 am
Trying to warm my feet up.

It was deceptively chilly at 8.30am, and about 4 miles in it became rather obvious that I'd picked the wrong shoes to wear - doesn't look like the MW81s will be going into hibernation just yet. Brrrrr!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 April, 2014, 10:15:58 am
Wondering if I should put all the TPoCs back where they were, given that theoretically there'll be some more gas fitters coming on Wednesday to try again...

...and _really_ hoping that we have a source of hot water (either the current majorly flaky one or a new one, don't much care, but something!) for the invasion of Easter Arrowers at the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 April, 2014, 11:42:23 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 14 April, 2014, 10:15:58 am
...and _really_ hoping that we have a source of hot water (either the current majorly flaky one or a new one, don't much care, but something!) for the invasion of Easter Arrowers at the weekend.

Having just dealt with our Hazmat bag (OK - it's just a drybag, but it's sealable - and that's the important thing) full of cycling clothes from the Elenydd, I can understand your concerns  :sick:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 15 April, 2014, 02:05:00 pm
Trying not to pick scabs  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 15 April, 2014, 08:08:13 pm
Caffeine buzz, existential angst, and a craving for pizza.

Not a great combination, tbh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 15 April, 2014, 08:24:06 pm
Checking my e-mails before turning in for an early night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 15 April, 2014, 08:33:32 pm
Winding down after dear Don Black's funeral.  A wonderful turnout of getting on for 200 people.  A peloton of 40 plus cyclists followed the casket to the humanist service; the crematorium park was a riot of cherry blossom.  VC 167 still couldn't shake the habit of a lifetime and were immediately on the front of the group!

All the best Don - you leave a lovely family and many fond memories to your other friends

Peter
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 16 April, 2014, 12:45:43 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 11 April, 2014, 01:43:59 pm
More job hunting.

2 jobs applied for today :thumbsup:

I have just had a phone call inviting me to an interview :thumbsup:

Initial suitability interview where the personnel lady and facilities manager will test my technical knowhow for a caretaker position at a special needs school before shortlisting for the real thing.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 April, 2014, 12:54:08 pm
Quote from: Peter on 15 April, 2014, 08:33:32 pm
All the best Don - you leave a lovely family and many fond memories to your other friends
Gosh - that's put quite a downer on the day; I wasn't aware that he'd passed away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 April, 2014, 06:27:53 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 14 April, 2014, 11:42:23 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 14 April, 2014, 10:15:58 am
...and _really_ hoping that we have a source of hot water (either the current majorly flaky one or a new one, don't much care, but something!) for the invasion of Easter Arrowers at the weekend.

Having just dealt with our Hazmat bag (OK - it's just a drybag, but it's sealable - and that's the important thing) full of cycling clothes from the Elenydd, I can understand your concerns  :sick:.

Oh frabjous day!  Callooh! Callay!

We can haz boiler.  Hot water and heating seem to happen.  Complete chaos and loads of mess to clear up because I told the two guys to leave stuff where it was and go home after they'd put the floorboards and carpets back in two rooms, moved the cabin bed back into place, replaced all the boxing in and hoovered up the worst of it after having worked basically non-stop all day - the first one was here before 8 this morning and only just left, and his colleague's day was only about an hour shorter.  I've done a quantity of tea/coffee making, biscuit provision and bacon buttie-making that would do our average audax control proud too :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 16 April, 2014, 07:22:54 pm
Your's is not an average audax control CL; it's way better than average  :)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 April, 2014, 08:30:02 pm
Doesn't have a hill immediately afterwards, for a start...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 16 April, 2014, 10:30:01 pm
Eating Cheese on toast while wearing a dress suit and unfastened bow tie. Second choral performance complete :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 16 April, 2014, 10:54:12 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 16 April, 2014, 10:30:01 pm
Eating Cheese on toast while wearing a dress suit and unfastened bow tie. Second choral performance complete :smug:

How did it go?

Is there a recording?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 16 April, 2014, 11:02:43 pm
It went well - the acoustics in tonight's church (mine) were much better than Monday and this drew out an even better performance from the choir than the first one :D.

There is a recording, though not mine so I need to get hold of a copy. Should hopefully have it on Friday :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 16 April, 2014, 11:08:30 pm
I am contemplating whether to raid the cupboard full of alcohol after what has been a pretty poor day. Though it was made good by the music group practice for Sunday. Belting out 'Thine be the Glory' on alto sax at top volume from the organ loft whilst accompanied by the organist was rather good fun. Though all the sound goeas out so all you hear is a quiet whimper, the others in the main body of the church claimed it was rather loud (all stops out). I had done a peak flow test in the lab this morning - this was way harder.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 16 April, 2014, 11:35:28 pm
I'd love to have a music group at our Easter services. I'd imagine Thine be the Glory would be a powerful piece with some brass in the mix :)

I'm currently trying to swat up on this for the Vigil service on Saturday: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyEAsiDjFP4
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 17 April, 2014, 09:47:44 am
Trying to stay awakeListening to a endless discussion on pricing for internet sales
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feline on 17 April, 2014, 01:58:21 pm
I'm am deciding what Audaxes to enter in a bid to restart my cycling career  ;D
I've been pretty sick this year one way or another, and 2 weeks ago put my back out so badly I've done pretty much nothing since. So really no miles on the bike to speak of since December. I had planned on a quiet season partly to make it up to my daughter for last year doing LEL and partly to get a few things done around the house and garden instead. But I've taken it way way too far!

I don't normally ride 100's at this time of year so it will make a change to do some new stuff. I've just entered 6 rides so now I need to get fit enough for them  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 17 April, 2014, 02:11:03 pm
Quote from: Vince on 17 April, 2014, 09:47:44 am
Trying to stay awakeListening to a endless discussion on pricing for internet sales

Still going on  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 17 April, 2014, 02:58:22 pm
Sitting outside the Euston Tap with a fine pint of Marbles :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 April, 2014, 04:29:13 pm
I'm being very pleased I have a phone with a mute button, as I am on a conference call with some leftpondians, and one guy keeps saying "m'kay?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 April, 2014, 04:39:01 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 17 April, 2014, 02:58:22 pm
Sitting outside the Euston Tap with a fine pint of Marbles :-)
I'd send it back and ask for a pint of beer instead ...

B'dum, and indeed, tish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 April, 2014, 05:08:30 pm
About to get left in the Man Creche for an hour or so while Mrs B gets all energetic in the pool.  Feels odd to do this on a Thursday evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 17 April, 2014, 05:47:10 pm
Watching 'Fantastic Voyage' and resting my sore feet.  It's a hilarious film, but it doesn't mean to be  ;D ;D ;D

It's like they thought they were making a tremendously worthy film, like 'An Inconvenient Truth', but their imagining of future technology was so far off it makes me giggle.  And they're all so pompous!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 17 April, 2014, 05:48:43 pm
Waiting to go to church it's the Maundy service
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 April, 2014, 06:58:03 pm
Attempting to get the Den into something resembling order after the plumbers and electrician.  Upstairs is done.... quite a lot to do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 April, 2014, 07:02:06 pm
Waiting for food to cook and contemplating the relative merits of glove thicknesses.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 17 April, 2014, 07:37:13 pm
Trying to understand the dark art of audax-style turn-by-turn navigation on a Garmin eTrex.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 April, 2014, 07:55:24 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 17 April, 2014, 07:37:13 pm
Trying to understand the dark art of audax-style turn-by-turn navigation on a Garmin eTrex.

If you're using autorouting, drop routepoints in the middle of each section of road you want to go down, rather than at junctions (it'll work those out for itself and give you nice arrows).  Density of routepoints will be determined by the map and how much your audax route disagrees with the routing algorithm.

Use proximity alarm waypoints for controls.

Probably worth having a track uploaded too, as a backup.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 April, 2014, 12:09:25 am
Kitchen cleaning....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 April, 2014, 01:47:51 am
Well, that one's done.  And the rest of the shopping (which has been stacked in a corner waiting for me being able to get into cupboards for about a week) put away.

Now... bathroom or sleep.  Hmmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 April, 2014, 05:39:59 pm
Eating cheese.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 April, 2014, 05:43:37 pm
Studiously avoiding the fact that everywhere apart from the living room is now clean and tidy, which means I need to address the TPoCs in the living room next.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 18 April, 2014, 09:04:50 pm
Feeling Happy Tired after a successful week at work, getting all my training done. Bruised toenail, which I think I'll lose, due to a combination of too long toenails, and my lack of walking fitness...    :'(

Anyway, training went well (did the whole delivery myself today, with my work coach just keeping an eye on me  :thumbsup:), and I  will be piloting the HCT solo on my very own round as from next week!   ;D

3 day weekend, so a bit of R&R in order! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 18 April, 2014, 11:44:25 pm
Getting tense about going to bed despite the fact I'm tired and want to sleep. Stoopid brane  :-\ And it's not like this is the first time this has happened.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 April, 2014, 12:08:43 am
Baking.  Well, it is Easter.  And therefore traditional. So much more important than cleaning, and anyway there's a bike or two too many knocking around in the living room for efficient workflow.  That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Chocolate and nanaba cake done, and two sorts of flapjack (one of them suitable for vegans).  Hmm.  Shall I do something else?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 19 April, 2014, 08:27:15 am
Downloading Xubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 April, 2014, 09:29:16 am
Recovering from a dough kneeding session.  I decided to make today's bread entirely by hand as a thereputic sort of thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 19 April, 2014, 09:31:43 am
Eating CrinklyCake in York.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 19 April, 2014, 01:55:43 pm
I was assembling an Erde trailer but the cheeky chappies at the French factory have omitted a captive nut, meaning I can't complete the job and need a replacement side panel.  Zut alors!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 19 April, 2014, 02:51:25 pm
Waiting for a bus home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 April, 2014, 02:57:19 pm
Wondering which part of my statement 'tell me what you're doing for lunch' my brother didn't understand and wondering if I'm going to have a) 2 lunches or b) no lunches and be plastered after 1 pint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 April, 2014, 03:04:47 pm
And he looked upon the lawn,
and he saw that it was good.   :smug:
And he looked upon the other lawn,
And thought "Oh bugger".   :(

Think I'll crack open a bottle of Old Speckled Hen and sit here in the sun for a while first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 19 April, 2014, 05:14:39 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 19 April, 2014, 09:31:43 am
Eating CrinklyCake in York.
Am feeling jealous, would love to be in York eating CrinklyCake, but they audax puts me off ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 April, 2014, 07:38:20 pm
Needing sleep and hurting...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 April, 2014, 01:10:23 pm
Getting ready to go and look at some little trains at York Model Railway Show.

Hopefully, I'll also avoid bankrupting myself in the process.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 April, 2014, 01:13:10 pm
The Cubs got taken there yesterday.  They both came home with all their spending money intact - so have set you A Good Example!

(actually it was because there wasn't anything available to purchase that they could afford with what was in the purse and, what with being 6 and 12, they don't have plastic money but y'know...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 April, 2014, 01:16:10 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 20 April, 2014, 01:13:10 pm
The Cubs got taken there yesterday.  They both came home with all their spending money intact - so have set you A Good Example!

(actually it was because there wasn't anything available to purchase that they could afford with what was in the purse and, what with being 6 and 12, they don't have plastic money but y'know...)
Ah, but they don't have a dormant layout in the 'spare' room which is desperately in need of rolling stock either ...

I suspect I shall triumph if I deliberately limit my ability to carry stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 April, 2014, 08:10:10 pm
Spending some quality time with my favourite person in llandysul.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/IMG_20140420_191700_zps181e95a7.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/IMG_20140420_191700_zps181e95a7.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 April, 2014, 05:28:38 pm
Comfort eating :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 21 April, 2014, 05:52:11 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 21 April, 2014, 05:28:38 pm
Comfort eating :(

Oh  :(

Have a big internet hug instead MrsP.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 21 April, 2014, 05:55:43 pm
Sorting photos, it's a very long process.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 April, 2014, 06:04:28 pm
Recovering from a catastrophic case of Le Bonque.
Don't think I've ever been so glad to see a branch of Mucky D's
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 21 April, 2014, 06:41:40 pm
Fitting box shadows under a menu.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 21 April, 2014, 06:42:32 pm
Thinking I really should clean the bike, and the car, and me after getting muddy this afternoon, but that would involve leaving the sofa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 21 April, 2014, 06:47:00 pm
Trying to diplomatically guide negotiations between a Brooks saddle and a Specialized seatpost.

I predict a riot.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 21 April, 2014, 06:50:19 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 21 April, 2014, 06:47:00 pm
Trying to diplomatically guide negotiations between a Brooks saddle and a Specialized seatpost.

I predict a riot.
It's not very pretty I tell thee ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 21 April, 2014, 07:06:38 pm
Quote from: interzen on 21 April, 2014, 06:50:19 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 21 April, 2014, 06:47:00 pm
Trying to diplomatically guide negotiations between a Brooks saddle and a Specialized seatpost.

I predict a riot.
It's not very pretty I tell thee ...

No.

There's blud.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 April, 2014, 07:27:14 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 21 April, 2014, 05:52:11 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 21 April, 2014, 05:28:38 pm
Comfort eating :(

Oh  :(

Have a big internet hug instead MrsP.

Thanks Ruthie. Now I just need everyone at work to stop being horrible to each other, it's bloody ghastly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 21 April, 2014, 09:33:34 pm
Being ill.

I've been fettling all day and the lurgy has caught up with me.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 April, 2014, 12:43:54 pm
Ditto.  Utterly spoonless.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 April, 2014, 07:39:46 pm
Just looking at two pics i have been sent, by that torslanda bloke. The pink bike looks effing FANTASTIC with it's owners name decals on it.

You'll have to wait to see it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 22 April, 2014, 08:13:43 pm
Getting over the lurgy.

It has taken eight days!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 April, 2014, 08:14:44 pm
Animating some !!SCIENCE!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 April, 2014, 08:18:46 pm
Quote from: interzen on 22 April, 2014, 08:14:44 pm
Animating some !!SCIENCE!!

Go on then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 April, 2014, 09:32:36 pm
Grinding my teeth at the UKIP twat on C4 news
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 April, 2014, 10:10:43 pm
Contemplating 3 lessons that need planning for tomorrow.

Hmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 April, 2014, 10:15:10 pm
Looking at RSF rides and my calendar and seeing if I can get a fit
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 April, 2014, 05:07:02 pm
Sitting in on a teleconf that is proving the point that empty vessels make most noise.

A dangerous situation when technical problems are concerned...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wal on 24 April, 2014, 07:46:15 am
Revising a chapter  to appease the structural violence which is imposed on my thinking from the academic bubble...  ::-) and wishing I was loading the bike for a trip to Perth along the banks of the Tay... Mmmm...

BTW...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 24 April, 2014, 08:28:28 am
just loaded the bike for the drive up to Rydal and 5 nights in the lake district.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 24 April, 2014, 01:43:01 pm
Bruising. In a bizarrely linear manner.  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 24 April, 2014, 01:45:33 pm
Quote from: Vince on 17 April, 2014, 09:47:44 am
Trying to stay awakeListening to a endless discussion on pricing for internet sales
Groundhog Day!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 April, 2014, 01:51:59 pm
Watching the emergency services in action.

I was idly humming along to the beat frequency of some of Silly Oak's perpetual alarms, when I noticed students in their pajamas doing something with a bucket outside the house across the road, and then the smoke coming from inside.

I grabbed an extinguisher and my keys and ran out, to be stopped from crossing the road by a large fire engine parking in my path.  Firepersons sprang forth, armed with hoses and breathing apparatus, and put an end to the source of the smoke in about the time it took their colleague to lay out some road cones.  On the basis that my 1kg dry powder extinguisher now looked a bit pathetic, I went back inside where it was neither on fire, nor raining.

They've since cleared the house of smoke with a Big Industrial Fan™, removed the cooker to the front garden and given it an excessively thorough hosing down and half-arsed disassembly, and played sokoban on the double-parked street with the second fire engine and ambulance which arrived while all this was going on.  It was all pleasingly efficient, and I think the ambulance was just a formality.

A pair of unimpressed looking housemates have just turned up with heavy bags, and gone into the house.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 25 April, 2014, 03:40:04 pm
Looking out of the window, contemplating my impending ride home thinking "Thank f**k I'm waterproof!"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 April, 2014, 05:55:30 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 25 April, 2014, 03:40:04 pm
Looking out of the window, contemplating my impending ride home thinking "Thank f**k I'm waterproof!"

Yes,  my 2 mile walk home was a bit wet.  Today's clothes are in a pile on the bathroom floor.    I'm probably going to start sneezing & sniffling in the middle of tonight's Michael Nyman concert  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 April, 2014, 02:08:34 pm
Waiting to be screened for abdominal aortic aneurysm (?)
Blimey.  When you reach a certain age there's a constant stream of invitations to be screened for this, that and the other thing.
At least this one doesn't involve catching poo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 April, 2014, 05:26:55 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 April, 2014, 02:08:34 pm
At least this one doesn't involve catching poo.

Yet  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 28 April, 2014, 05:36:24 pm
Basil meant that one didn't mean catching poo. The Bowel Cancer screen no doubt did.
Basil, being a bloke, won't have had the boobsquashin' c*ntwatchin' c*ntscrapin' treats I've had in the last year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 April, 2014, 05:53:13 pm
That's right.  I've had the bowel cancer one twice.  It's not pleasant, is it?
This one was fine.  A bit of jelly on the chest and abdomen and an ultra sound scan.
Instant results.  All clear.   :thumbsup:

I'm also not pregnant.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 28 April, 2014, 06:03:35 pm
Cold jelly on the belly is just gooey, no more.
(A ruptured aortic aneurysm will spoil your year, if you survive it.)

I have not had the poo-catching, being a bit younger, just the flexible sigmoidoscopy followed by a colonoscopy. These (and their preparations) are not fun but are pretty trivial compared to the treatments for the diseases these things can stop in their tracks.

A recent cab driver told me how his teenage son had died of bowel cancer.
Puts things into perspective.

Glad to hear you've been given the all-clear, basil.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 28 April, 2014, 06:34:43 pm
Those bowel screening letters are known locally as 'A birthday card from Prof Steele'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Graeme on 28 April, 2014, 07:43:18 pm
Nibbling parmasan cheese.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 April, 2014, 09:22:06 pm
Quote from: Graeme on 28 April, 2014, 07:43:18 pm
Nibbling parmasan cheese.

Mmm... cheese that smells like sick. Niiiiice  :thumbsup:

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 28 April, 2014, 09:25:51 pm
Anyway. Shush you lot, I'm trying to watch Game of Thrones.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 April, 2014, 10:12:01 am
I am, currently, re-learning the Hayes command set.

It's the 1990's all over again :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 April, 2014, 10:32:55 am
Working out of Starbucks at Monks Cross on account of there being nowhere to park at work .... or at least nowhere to park that won't attract an £80 fine.

The fact that their WiFi doesn't require me to give up any personal data to log in very much overrides the fact that their coffee is shit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 April, 2014, 12:43:41 pm
Dribble-testing a new glue gun.  It seems pleasingly continent so far, unlike the old one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 29 April, 2014, 12:51:16 pm
Drinking green tea and trying to stay away from the coffee.

I'm off coffee for this week given I have to get up at 2.30am on Saturday to ride to the Brevet Cymru and I figure this will be easier if I can be getting to sleep a bit earlier this week.

I don't have significant withdrawal symptoms yet, having had my last coffee on Sunday. A slight headache is all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 29 April, 2014, 01:48:53 pm
I think there's a lot of caffeine in green tea. It certainly keeps partner awake.
(Caffeine doesn't really keep me awake)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 April, 2014, 01:52:29 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 29 April, 2014, 01:48:53 pm
I think there's a lot of caffeine in green tea. It certainly keeps partner awake.
(Caffeine doesn't really keep me awake)
Depends on the age of the tea when it was picked - given that green tea is generally made from the buds, rather than full leaves, it generally contains quite a bit of caffeine. The exact level depends on the type of tea.

So, green tea < coffee, but green tea =/= caffeine free.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 29 April, 2014, 02:00:53 pm
Oh indeed, green tea's caffeine content is very variable and depends on brewing time, technique/ developmental stage age tea leaves etc.
It's NOT caffeine-free and might not be suitable for those avoiding caffeine as part of a pre-ride 'taper'.
Then there's caffeine in Irn Bru...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 May, 2014, 01:43:19 am
Waiting for a train. Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day at the chalk face...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 01 May, 2014, 05:11:52 am
Just about to go up the local hill to do some dancing.
A merry May to one and all!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 May, 2014, 09:39:45 am
On a study day 're management of neuromuscular conditions in adults. Am presenting a session on equipment later. Feeling sleepy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 01 May, 2014, 01:35:08 pm
Drinking coffee in an attempt to warm up. Did no one tell the weather that May's not the middle of winter? :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 May, 2014, 01:57:10 pm
You have moved to the frozen North :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 May, 2014, 05:47:38 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 May, 2014, 09:39:45 am
On a study day 're management of neuromuscular conditions in adults. Am presenting a session on equipment later.
Could have been better, fizzled out a bit at the end, but that's an accurate representation of how I feel about what I'm achieving with that particular person anyway.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 May, 2014, 11:20:21 am
Writing a shell script, with variable substitution, to stop and start services.

Oh what a seat of the pants life I lead!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Blazer on 02 May, 2014, 06:41:36 pm
Awaiting the arrival of Hummers (and Mrs Hummers). I assume it will be a quiet and subdued affair :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 02 May, 2014, 06:45:46 pm
Having a nice cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 02 May, 2014, 07:34:22 pm
Feeling a bit too full, having eaten most of the food in Forfar. :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pancho on 03 May, 2014, 08:06:02 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 31 March, 2014, 11:40:33 am
Spending what should've been a nice annual leave day, tidying up so that an estate agent can come and photograph my house.  So my landlord can sell it.  Which means I'll have to move house.  Again.  FFS.

You don't have to let them do viewings, you know. You have a contract and until it ends (well, until they have an order for possession, actually), you have the right to "quiet enjoyment" and can tell them to poke off. And that's true even if they've put a clause in the contract that says you must allow viewings.

Some landlords (and tenants) really don't understand the legal context they are operating within.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Luke on 03 May, 2014, 11:08:00 am
I'm currently getting my arse kicked by hayfever.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 03 May, 2014, 02:39:18 pm
Figuring out why scooty is not running right.

Then back to frame attacking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 May, 2014, 09:11:24 pm
Sitting in the gloaming of my slightly more fettled garden than it was earlier, fellating a well deserved bottle of Old Speckled Hen, listening to Wol doing his thing.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 03 May, 2014, 09:15:54 pm
Applying calamine lotion and preparing Piriton sandwiches for my dinner.

Bloody nettles  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 May, 2014, 10:32:01 pm
Yawning.    I had a headache so went for a little lie down..... 2 1/2 hours ago.       Supper is going to be late tonight..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 03 May, 2014, 11:29:57 pm
Sitting in Dallas-Fort Worth Airport awaiting a flight connection. They're playing the same muzak as the waiting room you go to when you die.

There's a woman opposite doing some strange needlework thing that requires a large wooden frame. I think I'd like to break wind. There's another woman with a Starbucks cup so large that I think if she fell in we'd have to call the coastguard. This is ennui. Mind skittering uselessly like a housefly against a window. It's a weird property of airports.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 03 May, 2014, 11:53:34 pm
Ian take a ride around the train, try to find the biggest cowboy hat on the helpful volunteers, well that was what we did when there :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 04 May, 2014, 10:18:45 am
Coffee break before routing some steps I am making out of some lovely 30mm thick oak.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 04 May, 2014, 02:02:21 pm
Procrastinating - I really should be getting the car ready for driving down to my parents'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 04 May, 2014, 03:35:33 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7363/13918111898_a1903a3829_z.jpg)

a) not what I should be doing
b) speculative route-planning
c) getting mighty fed up of being cooped up
d) all of the above
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 May, 2014, 07:24:16 pm
Quote from: nikki on 04 May, 2014, 03:35:33 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7363/13918111898_a1903a3829_z.jpg)

Oooh  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 May, 2014, 07:30:33 pm
Quote from: nikki on 04 May, 2014, 03:35:33 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7363/13918111898_a1903a3829_z.jpg)

a) not what I should be doing
b) speculative route-planning
c) getting mighty fed up of being cooped up
d) all of the above

 :o.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 04 May, 2014, 08:49:38 pm
I have the beginnings of A Plan.

Waiting now for cycling fitness, nice weather, and knowing how much time I've got for keeping going until the coast ...and coming back again.

Will report back in due course   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 May, 2014, 10:35:36 am
Killing time at Scotch Corner services ...

... and waiting for my nerves to unwind so I can recommence battle with the A1.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 May, 2014, 10:39:37 am
Just about to get dressed and go out for a little pootle around the park  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 05 May, 2014, 12:41:43 pm
Killing time in Dundee. Allowing 5 hours to pootle the 20 miles back from Forfar turns out not to have been necessary, even with my propensity to faff/get lost/be generally slow because I'm carrying a big rucksack of stuff.

Dundee doesn't appear to do cycle parking, at least not in useful locations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 May, 2014, 12:45:28 pm
Quote from: nikki on 04 May, 2014, 08:49:38 pm
I have the beginnings of A Plan.

Waiting now for cycling fitness, nice weather, and knowing how much time I've got for keeping going until the coast ...and coming back again.

Will report back in due course   :)

Will this plan require any assistants in its execution?  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 05 May, 2014, 12:46:57 pm
Trying to force myself to do some work.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 05 May, 2014, 12:47:53 pm
Digesting a large plateful of risotto & a surfeit of prawns

ETA ...and lamenting that I have a 2 o'clock appointment elsewhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 05 May, 2014, 02:49:30 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 05 May, 2014, 12:45:28 pm
Quote from: nikki on 04 May, 2014, 08:49:38 pm
I have the beginnings of A Plan.

Waiting now for cycling fitness, nice weather, and knowing how much time I've got for keeping going until the coast ...and coming back again.

Will report back in due course   :)

Will this plan require any assistants in its execution?  8)

For maximum entertainment value: almost certainly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 May, 2014, 06:52:40 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 05 May, 2014, 12:41:43 pm
be generally slow

<lantern rouge>Not much evidence of that as you hooned past me on Saturday! :) <lantern rouge>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 05 May, 2014, 08:53:57 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 05 May, 2014, 06:52:40 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 05 May, 2014, 12:41:43 pm
be generally slow

<lantern rouge>Not much evidence of that as you hooned past me on Saturday! :) <lantern rouge>

Ah, but on Saturday I hadn't done a 200 the day before - and wasn't carrying a big rucksack full of stuff (must fettle pannier rack next time...:facepalm:).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 06 May, 2014, 12:26:50 am
About to have a shave.

Having spent a weekend amongst the Hipsters of Bristol - it's clear that Peak Beard is here, and I need to get rid of the fuzz. OMG - there were beards every-fucking-where. What a load of plonkers.

It's coming on to summer now FFS. Summer plumage chaps, OK?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 06 May, 2014, 04:49:28 am
Quote from: Chris S on 06 May, 2014, 12:26:50 am
About to have a shave.

Having spent a weekend amongst the Hipsters of Bristol - it's clear that Peak Beard is here, and I need to get rid of the fuzz. OMG - there were beards every-fucking-where. What a load of plonkers.

It's coming on to summer now FFS. Summer plumage chaps, OK?

Before and after pics ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 08 May, 2014, 07:43:09 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 03 May, 2014, 11:53:34 pm
Ian take a ride around the train, try to find the biggest cowboy hat on the helpful volunteers, well that was what we did when there :)

I'd done the train. I'm bored with airport trains. It'll be a sad day when Dulles finally decommission the weird transports. Google tell me they are mobile lounges (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_lounge). If, like me, you often pretend you're an astronaut, they're the ideal way to travel terminal-to-terminal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 08 May, 2014, 08:21:43 pm
Failing to find my digital caliper. Need to size a seatpost for my hack bike (the frame for which I've just collected), but I really don't trust a ruler!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 May, 2014, 08:23:31 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 08 May, 2014, 08:21:43 pm
Failing to find my digital caliper. Need to size a seatpost for my hack bike (the frame for which I've just collected), but I really don't trust a ruler!

Measure circumference with a bit of thread and apply Maths?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 08 May, 2014, 08:33:01 pm
It's the seat tube inside diameter I need to measure, so that might get tricky...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 08 May, 2014, 09:04:20 pm
Measure internal circumference with a bit of sticky tape, and apply maths?

Might give you enough precision to distinguish between (say) 27.0 and 27.2mm, given you'll only have to get to a resolution of about 0.65mm not 0.2. Will almost certainly get you close enough to apply the noble art of bodgery and a beer can shim, as long as you round down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 May, 2014, 12:33:37 am
Helping the Met Office debug[1] their Android app, when I should be in bed.


[1] Appears to be an off-by-one error in the dates when used between 00:00BST and 01:00BST.  And it still says it's going to rain at Long Itchington.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 May, 2014, 12:40:31 am
Oh dear! Saturday is looking very wet, isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 09 May, 2014, 01:37:33 am
Quote from: nikki on 04 May, 2014, 03:35:33 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7363/13918111898_a1903a3829_z.jpg)

a) not what I should be doing
b) speculative route-planning
c) getting mighty fed up of being cooped up
d) all of the above

You'll be going past my mum's....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 09 May, 2014, 07:02:29 am
Wearing my 108 t shirt
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 09 May, 2014, 07:37:07 am
Getting ready for work without electricity as the power's gone off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 09 May, 2014, 07:38:17 am
Having a pre-camp printathon
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 May, 2014, 09:15:41 am
Sitting in my flat looking out at the rain  :o    I'm waiting in for a BT engineer who's supposed to be looking at the intermittent fault on my broadband,  then I'll be off to the station & Long Itchington.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 09 May, 2014, 12:35:14 pm
Brewing some freshly ground coffee after getting home from a half day's work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 May, 2014, 12:58:37 pm
I brewed fresh ground coffee for the Openreach chap. He pronounced my line perfect, but remade all the connections in the cab & swapped my modem/router out for a new one. I'll see if it still keeps cutting out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 09 May, 2014, 01:48:39 pm
Looking up how Snails "do it like they do on the Discovery Channel", so to say  :-[

Well I was mowing the lawn and had to move a pair whch were being very friendly with each other. Half an hour later they were still "at it"

Think I need to get out more!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 09 May, 2014, 05:21:04 pm
Trying to talk myself into a bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 May, 2014, 07:13:21 pm
*engages Mummy Voice*

*deploys the Stern Teacherly Stare*

Young lady, go for a bike ride!


(apart from anything else - being told to do something is a good way of figuring out if you really do want to do it, or if you  _really_ don't.  Flipping a coin can have a similar clarifying effect sometimes...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lordy on 09 May, 2014, 08:26:51 pm
Waiting for masterchef to start (aka, slowly wasting my life and nearing my final breath)!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 09 May, 2014, 08:39:23 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 09 May, 2014, 07:13:21 pm
*engages Mummy Voice*

*deploys the Stern Teacherly Stare*

Young lady, go for a bike ride!


(apart from anything else - being told to do something is a good way of figuring out if you really do want to do it, or if you  _really_ don't.  Flipping a coin can have a similar clarifying effect sometimes...)

I did really want to go for a bike ride, with my Other Stern Mummy (who you know CL, but who is not of this parish).  I got my fancy dress on, and everything, but when I got to her place she couldn't be arsed so we drank tea instead.   :-\

Hey, ho.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 May, 2014, 08:55:17 pm
Hey - you got out the door and you got TEA. Double win!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 10 May, 2014, 08:34:48 am
Waiting to walk down into the village for ParkRun. MrsC (who stewards) has already left in the car. I don't want to get there too early as I use the walk as a warm-up. (or should this be in the First World Problems thread?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 10 May, 2014, 02:03:44 pm
Watching the mildly repulsive Matthew Fort having his car washed by a gang of Albanians

(http://i57.tinypic.com/63yr8m.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rabbit on 10 May, 2014, 02:26:03 pm
Sat on the lat pull machine at the gym in an effort to self flagellate after getting up late and being too much of a wimp to brave the Welsh gales on a Cambrian permenant. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pancho on 10 May, 2014, 03:23:47 pm
Working. Just fallen victim to being ignorant of H&S regs regarding lone working. I've been "reported up the command chain, sir" having been caught working by security without having forms signed in triplicate. Apparently, it's a "very grave matter" which will be "treated seriously".

And I have to phone in to report that I'm either alive or dead every hour. Apparently, it's supposed to be every 15 mins - but I rebelled.

FFS. I hope I don't end up working here too much.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 11 May, 2014, 02:11:03 pm
Looking at potential new frames (getting too annoyed with the raleigh) and trying not to end up with a whole new bike instead. This one's very tempting though :-\
http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/products/revolution-audax
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 May, 2014, 04:07:41 pm
Trying to find my USBWerk.
Prior to taking the green bike to the LBS for reforking, I removed the USBWerk and put it in a safe place.
So bloody safe that I've completely forgotten where it is  >:(

On the plus side, at least the house is getting tidied during the course of the search.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 May, 2014, 04:08:57 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 11 May, 2014, 02:11:03 pm
Looking at potential new frames (getting too annoyed with the raleigh) and trying not to end up with a whole new bike instead. This one's very tempting though :-\
http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/products/revolution-audax
Croix de Fer's available as frame and forks. Just sayin' ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 11 May, 2014, 04:31:17 pm
Trying and failing to get a 5000 word essay finished.

I get why Personal Development is important. I do. But I am no good at writing about it. Far too nebulous. Give me something technical over this any day.

I well over the word count in one section and well under in another and I just don't know what to say.  :-\ Don't want this dragging into the working week but I'm really struggling today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 11 May, 2014, 04:34:05 pm
Quote from: interzen on 11 May, 2014, 04:08:57 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 11 May, 2014, 02:11:03 pm
Looking at potential new frames (getting too annoyed with the raleigh) and trying not to end up with a whole new bike instead. This one's very tempting though :-\
http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/products/revolution-audax
Croix de Fer's available as frame and forks. Just sayin' ...
..and lovely they are too, but I'm looking for a road bike frame at the moment and don't have any disk wheels/brakes to fit on a Croix de Fer. Currently looking at the Holdsworth soot frames (http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FRHOTRCAFR/holdsworth-trentino-carbon-frameset) on Planet X :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 11 May, 2014, 06:15:09 pm
Sat in London city departures checking to see if anyone had suggestions for Edinburgh yet for me to eat somewhere interesting tonight, and they don't :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 May, 2014, 06:19:27 pm
Quote from: Ham on 11 May, 2014, 06:15:09 pm
Sat in London city departures checking to see if anyone had suggestions for Edinburgh yet for me to eat somewhere interesting tonight, and they don't :(

Try The Dogs.

Great food, dead central and not expensive
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 May, 2014, 06:19:56 pm
Quote from: Ham on 11 May, 2014, 06:15:09 pm
Sat in London city departures checking to see if anyone had suggestions for Edinburgh yet for me to eat somewhere interesting tonight, and they don't :(
Check again and stop your jibberjabber.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 11 May, 2014, 06:28:04 pm
 
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 May, 2014, 06:19:56 pm
Quote from: Ham on 11 May, 2014, 06:15:09 pm
Sat in London city departures checking to see if anyone had suggestions for Edinburgh yet for me to eat somewhere interesting tonight, and they don't :(
Check again and stop your jibberjabber.

 :thumbsup:  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 13 May, 2014, 08:05:17 pm
Wishing I was out on my regular Tuesday night ride. Predictably, as I'm not, it's warm and sunny.

Instead, I appear to be eating non-stop. :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 13 May, 2014, 10:39:55 pm
I am rereading a dissertation in preparation for a viva tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 May, 2014, 11:03:14 pm
Stalking my B in L on YouTube.
Ex Battlefield Band
Ex House Band
Ex Patrick Street
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 14 May, 2014, 07:36:01 am
Importing piccies of Hula Dancing wot I have took.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 14 May, 2014, 10:00:06 am
Resting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 May, 2014, 10:45:23 am
On a conference call, that's currently scoring 1/10 for excitement.

It only gets a "1" because one of the participants is working from home, and is clearly doing his washing up  ::-).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 15 May, 2014, 08:08:52 am
Having a really nice morning.  I don't start work till 9am, so had a lie-in, am about to have a second cup of tea, and I made my lunch last night so don't need to do that.

Watching the breakfast news hurrah!  (not so the contents of the news  :'( )

I'm running the trauma list this afternoon, I hope today stays as chilled as this  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 May, 2014, 03:27:08 pm
Watching the Giro, I shall miss these chilled out afternoons when I am back at work tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 May, 2014, 03:50:13 pm
Listening to the dulcet tones of my duodenum enthusiastically contracting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 May, 2014, 03:51:05 pm
Getting more and more wound up about those fucking idiots in Prudhoe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 15 May, 2014, 04:01:35 pm
Catching up on #3 cub and his exploits on his travels.   He seems to have got himself a long-term girlfriend from Nottingham whom he met in Australia, and he leaves NZ next week for a month over in leftpondian.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 15 May, 2014, 04:05:18 pm
Coffee break  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 May, 2014, 04:28:22 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 15 May, 2014, 03:51:05 pm
Getting more and more wound up about those fucking idiots in Prudhoe.

I will say one thing.

NEVER. AGAIN.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 15 May, 2014, 05:23:53 pm
Don't bother going back, t.

I'm looking at maps, and ruing (not for the first time) that the A66 over Stainmore isn't really ridable, at least not at the time I'll be there.

Richmond-Hawes-Sedbergh-Firbank-Meal Bank looks the likeliest route. I can't be bothered with the track over Sleightholme Moor, and going through Grains o't'Beck adds too much distance, even though I could call in at Tebay services for a fry-up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 May, 2014, 05:30:46 pm
Looking out of the window for the first time in 4 days and discovering that someone appears to be building us a moat.

Or reinforcing the pavement to better withstand all the motor traffic.

One of those, anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 16 May, 2014, 11:21:31 am
I'd go with the moat. You might be able to get your MP to clean it once it's done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 May, 2014, 01:01:16 pm
Dealing with idiots and Purchase Ledger, again!

When will this idiocy end?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 May, 2014, 01:28:34 pm
Sadly they're filling the moat with unbroken paving slabs.

Construction method doesn't look like it's going to survive much pavement parking, which makes me wonder why they're bothering.  It's almost as if there were an election coming up...

On the plus side, one of them is aligning the slabs with a Giant Anime Mallet™.  It's making a delightful sproinging sound.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 May, 2014, 01:48:32 pm
Drinking tea and eating mince pies after my 25 mile ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 17 May, 2014, 05:46:11 am
Recovering from a Sonoma and Nappa Valley wine tasting trip,hic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 17 May, 2014, 08:21:23 am
Failing to get in touch with #3 cub in Auckland whilst getting ready for a 'day of hell' in London with #1 cub.

Hull should be a fairly quiet place at tea time as the majority of the city will either be in London or Manchester ...

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 May, 2014, 10:15:21 am
Trying to decide what to do with myself this morning. Was going to go into town but have neither room in the freezer for more fish, and wandering round clothes shops is not appealing just now. Have got to wander out for a massage at one but if I don't move my arse now I will be full of apathy by then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 17 May, 2014, 10:40:36 am
Sat at work, with two CAD technicians, they are churning out the drawings and I am checking them. Aim is to have 10 ready by the end of the day and am ~ 50% of the way there. 3 ready and 4 so darn close.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 May, 2014, 11:36:15 am
Eating lemon roulard,made by my very own Kitchen Godess :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 May, 2014, 02:53:17 pm
Sitting at the garden table on yet another break during the lawn mowing process, wishing I could open a beer. 
I can't.  I'm tonight's nominated driver for Mrs B's birthday bash.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 May, 2014, 03:58:30 pm
Recovering from quite a hard massage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 May, 2014, 04:10:13 pm
Eating cheese.  Too hot for rainlegs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 May, 2014, 05:03:07 pm
Multitasking.
Cooking my dinner and cleaning up after two-anna-half bikes-worth of fettling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 17 May, 2014, 09:57:32 pm
Necking a serious number of Opiates to try and batter teh Hedayk into some sore of submission for an hour or two. 18 Year Migraine is getting a bit annoying now!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 18 May, 2014, 09:14:46 pm
Waiting for the washing machine to finish. Then I can go to bed
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 18 May, 2014, 10:29:14 pm
Wondering if I should try another saddle due to Sorearsesis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 19 May, 2014, 10:07:00 am
On a train going to Longbridge but have a call at Berkswell first.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 19 May, 2014, 10:11:06 am
Counting down the minutes until 4pm Wednesday, after which I have a well-earned break from this morass of bad-vibes and general douchebucketry.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 May, 2014, 10:13:02 am
Needing sleep, but stuck at work.

Going to BBQ on a Sunday evening is not the best plan in the world, especially when said BBQ involved copious amounts of beer and a large jug of Mojito...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 19 May, 2014, 02:07:00 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 19 May, 2014, 10:07:00 am
On a train going to Longbridge but have a call at Berkswell first.

Sitting in Costa in Longbridge awaiting my appointment ... 

The wifi is free  \0/ \0/ \0/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 May, 2014, 04:26:20 pm
*Waves at PB as I pass through Longbridge onna class 170*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 May, 2014, 04:27:52 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 19 May, 2014, 02:07:00 pm

Sitting in Costa in Longbridge

My god, you live the high life!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 19 May, 2014, 07:36:06 pm
Searching for Boy Wunja's study notes for To Fill a Mocking Bird. Natch they haven't been seen for a week, and the exam is tomorrow.  :facepalm: >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 19 May, 2014, 11:43:31 pm
Fretting instead of sleeping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 20 May, 2014, 02:22:28 am
Has he appeared?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 20 May, 2014, 02:26:33 am
Sitting wishing all my ghosts would just fuck the fuck off and then I might  be able to get some sleep . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 20 May, 2014, 02:30:28 am
You need pac man.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 20 May, 2014, 03:19:29 am
Sitting downstairs after having a cup of tea and some Weetabix I was intending to have for brekkie, and thinking how I am going to hold it all together when I meet  my boss, who has just offered  my job to someone else,  at 9 a.m .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 20 May, 2014, 05:16:53 am
Fingers crossed for you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 May, 2014, 11:00:41 am
Sat in the waiting room of a garage, waiting for my car. It was supposed to be ready for 11. I wandered back at 10.55 to see them only just moving the bloody thing!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 May, 2014, 12:49:28 pm
Quote from: Vince on 19 May, 2014, 07:36:06 pm
Searching for Boy Wunja's study notes for To Fill a Mocking Bird. Natch they haven't been seen for a week, and the exam is tomorrow.  :facepalm: >:(
Racism is bad, standing up to people who are wrong can be a bit scary, be nice to mean old ladies because they might be drug addicts, never let anyone dress you up as a ham.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 20 May, 2014, 12:57:17 pm
Wondering if the students are making a really big round of toast, or whether we're going to get firemen again...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 20 May, 2014, 01:00:17 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 May, 2014, 12:49:28 pm
Quote from: Vince on 19 May, 2014, 07:36:06 pm
Searching for Boy Wunja's study notes for To Fill a Mocking Bird. Natch they haven't been seen for a week, and the exam is tomorrow.  :facepalm: >:(
Racism is bad, standing up to people who are wrong can be a bit scary, be nice to mean old ladies because they might be drug addicts, never let anyone dress you up as a ham.
Reclusive people are not evil
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 20 May, 2014, 01:03:56 pm
Quote from: Basil on 19 May, 2014, 04:27:52 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 19 May, 2014, 02:07:00 pm

Sitting in Costa in Longbridge

My god, you live the high life!

Certainly do.  And with the finest company too.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rabbit on 21 May, 2014, 08:20:11 am
Sat in Folkstone services after a 4 am start. Hoping to see the sea after work :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 May, 2014, 09:12:46 am
Wondering where I can get some sort of dimension-bender* so I can make a room bigger without knocking any walls down.





*Captain Jack won't do, I'm afraid.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 21 May, 2014, 11:04:17 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 May, 2014, 09:12:46 am
Wondering where I can get some sort of dimension-bender* so I can make a room bigger without knocking any walls down.





*Captain Jack won't do, I'm afraid.

There is a foolproof method, it takes eight weeks. Find eight large cardboard cartons folded flat. Each week open out one and put it in the room. After the eight weeks, take them all out and throw them away. You are guaranteed to appreciate the extra space.

HTH
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 May, 2014, 12:40:22 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 May, 2014, 09:12:46 am
Wondering where I can get some sort of dimension-bender* so I can make a room bigger

I think it's called London  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 22 May, 2014, 02:42:38 am
Can't seem to find sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 May, 2014, 07:30:32 am
Listening to the rain and summoning the gumption for going to work...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 May, 2014, 08:41:20 am
Maybe this should be in the bad news thread, but I CBA to find it...

Today I am in Prudhoe.

In an office I hate, it was built in the '80's and not updated since then.

It's pissing down with rain.

My left leg is still intermittently hurting.

I am here to work with a the Server Support guys, who are all off on holiday today.

The person I report in to in on holiday.

The other person I report to is the person who, when he asked me to email him some details last week I pointed out that I had emailed them to him 2 weeks ago and he should check his email, replied with "I don't care, I don't care about that, I don't fucking care about that".  Do you think I actually have any motivation to assist him?

It's fucking well raining.

My leg hurts.

All in all today is more than a bit shit,
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 22 May, 2014, 08:42:50 am
Quote from: Kim on 22 May, 2014, 12:40:22 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 May, 2014, 09:12:46 am
Wondering where I can get some sort of dimension-bender* so I can make a room bigger

I think it's called London  :-\

Perusing the property p0rn pages in the ES yesterday, there's an 8 foot wide house in Dartmouth Hill for a princely £450k. I hope that's bigger on the inside. My bathtub is bigger than that.

Our builders have somehow managed to fit the contents of our living room in the summer house (aka shed with windows and porch). I probably can't sit on the sofa though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 May, 2014, 09:37:05 am
About to leave Upminster.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 22 May, 2014, 09:58:54 am
Taking a break from doing a recce n Open Runner of Sunday week's 600k. Supplied route sheet is terse, to say the least.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 22 May, 2014, 01:36:21 pm
It is intermitedly raining in London.  Should I just man up and accept getting wet and wear T shirt and dirty shorts in matching yellow?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 May, 2014, 02:03:40 pm
Waving madly to Ruthie, from a train pulling into Darlington.

  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 22 May, 2014, 03:35:20 pm
Say hello to Ruthie from me...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 23 May, 2014, 12:36:55 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 22 May, 2014, 02:03:40 pm
Waving madly to Ruthie, from a train pulling into Darlington.

  :thumbsup:

Aw!

Waving madly to where the Wows Bagger were yesterday  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 24 May, 2014, 08:34:18 am
Alternately packing for a re-enactment event and getting ready for ParkRun. We're going to get wet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 May, 2014, 10:11:59 am
job hunting....again ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 24 May, 2014, 10:22:15 am
Listening to the rain bouncing off the conservatory roof, and still wondering what to do with myself today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 May, 2014, 10:35:06 am
Quote from: jogler on 24 May, 2014, 10:11:59 am
job hunting....again ::-)

Good luck  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 24 May, 2014, 11:07:19 am
Gurning!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 May, 2014, 11:26:27 am
Preparing myself to face the madd(en)ing crowds in town ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 24 May, 2014, 01:04:08 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 24 May, 2014, 10:35:06 am
Quote from: jogler on 24 May, 2014, 10:11:59 am
job hunting....again ::-)

Good luck  :-*

thanks for that,especially the  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 24 May, 2014, 01:16:26 pm
Listening to the bouncing rain and trawling posts here. Oh it has stopped......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 24 May, 2014, 01:22:58 pm
Watching the giro adverts on Eurosport.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 May, 2014, 02:20:20 pm
Recovering from the aforementioned trip into town - it wasn't as bad as it could have been, largely because there was water coming out of the sky by the bucketload.

Also discovered that a hypo feels very similar to a caffeine high, and when they both occur at the same time it is a uniquely unpleasant experience  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 May, 2014, 02:28:52 pm
Sharpening pencils.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 24 May, 2014, 04:43:38 pm
Relaxing after a successful wrestling with plumbing components under the kitchen sink.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 May, 2014, 05:11:58 pm
Researching (and worrying a little about) my commute to my new job which will start on 11 June. Skipton to Leeds, three days a week. Possibly bike-assisted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 24 May, 2014, 05:17:30 pm
Groaning in pain in my smelly bed. Feel so ill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 24 May, 2014, 05:52:10 pm
Quote from: interzen on 24 May, 2014, 02:20:20 pm
Recovering from the aforementioned trip into town - it wasn't as bad as it could have been, largely because there was water coming out of the sky by the bucketload.

Also discovered that a hypo feels very similar to a caffeine high, and when they both occur at the same time it is a uniquely unpleasant experience  :sick:

You got a touch of the sugars?

Does it make you feel very disorientated?  Almost like a brain fog?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 May, 2014, 05:56:44 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 24 May, 2014, 05:52:10 pm
Quote from: interzen on 24 May, 2014, 02:20:20 pm
Recovering from the aforementioned trip into town - it wasn't as bad as it could have been, largely because there was water coming out of the sky by the bucketload.

Also discovered that a hypo feels very similar to a caffeine high, and when they both occur at the same time it is a uniquely unpleasant experience  :sick:

You got a touch of the sugars?

Does it make you feel very disorientated?
Caffeine high plus hypoglycaemia feels like a bit how I imagine an out of body experience might feel.
And not in a good way, either.

Self inflicted, though - my blood sugar was a bit high this morning so I took my pills and went out without having anything to eat, although it didn't stop me having 3 mugs of espresso beforehand - hence the caffeine high as well  :facepalm: The hypo was easily remedied with the aid of Ikea's rather delicious blueberry juice, although I'm still feeling a bit spaced from all the coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 24 May, 2014, 05:58:36 pm
Have a bank hoilday clear out of stuff on freecycle, some of the responses are unbelievably rude.

Wondering if certain people have me on ignore and wondering why if they do....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 May, 2014, 10:51:47 pm
Watching vids on youtube of a group I used to perform with, including some from my days.  Having a bit of a trip down memory lane, but trying not to note how many members have passed away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 25 May, 2014, 12:57:02 am
Not sleeping :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 25 May, 2014, 01:10:34 am
Quote from: Vince on 25 May, 2014, 12:57:02 am
Not sleeping :(

Join the club.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 25 May, 2014, 01:12:19 am
Quote from: Vince on 25 May, 2014, 12:57:02 am
Not sleeping :(
Ditto.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2014, 01:46:17 am
And me makes 4.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T3DM on 25 May, 2014, 07:51:58 am
Been up since 5 with my 3 month old who has conveniently gone back asleep so I'm watching wheeler dealer replays on discovery turbo. The joys of fatherhood
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2014, 05:01:13 pm
Now you are just bragging that you had sex 12 months ago ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2014, 05:02:56 pm
Quote from: interzen on 24 May, 2014, 05:56:44 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 24 May, 2014, 05:52:10 pm
Quote from: interzen on 24 May, 2014, 02:20:20 pm
Recovering from the aforementioned trip into town - it wasn't as bad as it could have been, largely because there was water coming out of the sky by the bucketload.

Also discovered that a hypo feels very similar to a caffeine high, and when they both occur at the same time it is a uniquely unpleasant experience  :sick:

You got a touch of the sugars?

Does it make you feel very disorientated?
Caffeine high plus hypoglycaemia feels like a bit how I imagine an out of body experience might feel.
And not in a good way, either.

Self inflicted, though - my blood sugar was a bit high this morning so I took my pills and went out without having anything to eat, although it didn't stop me having 3 mugs of espresso beforehand - hence the caffeine high as well  :facepalm: The hypo was easily remedied with the aid of Ikea's rather delicious blueberry juice, although I'm still feeling a bit spaced from all the coffee.

What drugs you on?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T3DM on 25 May, 2014, 07:25:50 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2014, 05:01:13 pm
Now you are just bragging that you had sex 12 months ago ;)
never again..... :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 25 May, 2014, 07:52:25 pm
You will be fine in another twenty years or so.... ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 25 May, 2014, 08:05:33 pm
Quote from: T3DM on 25 May, 2014, 07:25:50 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2014, 05:01:13 pm
Now you are just bragging that you had sex 12 months ago ;)
never again..... :-\

Oh, bless.  You will sleep again grasshopper.  Eventually.

I can't decide whether to go for my 'mates rated' £300 moving charge, including someone driving the van and lifting stuff for me, or to pay £179.00 to hire a van for the weekend and do it myself with the help of my strapping son.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 25 May, 2014, 08:07:48 pm
And the help of the darling kind SlowCoach, of course  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T3DM on 25 May, 2014, 09:15:08 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 25 May, 2014, 07:52:25 pm
You will be fine in another twenty years or so.... ::-)


Quote from: Ruthie on 25 May, 2014, 08:05:33 pm
Quote from: T3DM on 25 May, 2014, 07:25:50 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2014, 05:01:13 pm
Now you are just bragging that you had sex 12 months ago ;)
never again..... :-\

Oh, bless.  You will sleep again grasshopper.  Eventually.

I can't decide whether to go for my 'mates rated' £300 moving charge, including someone driving the van and lifting stuff for me, or to pay £179.00 to hire a van for the weekend and do it myself with the help of my strapping son.

He's our second we have a 3yr old as well. Wouldn't change it for the world!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 May, 2014, 09:17:52 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 25 May, 2014, 07:52:25 pm
You will be fine in another twenty years or so.... ::-)

No.  The buggers move back in again in their late 20s.   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2014, 09:48:08 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 May, 2014, 08:05:33 pm
Quote from: T3DM on 25 May, 2014, 07:25:50 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2014, 05:01:13 pm
Now you are just bragging that you had sex 12 months ago ;)
never again..... :-\

Oh, bless.  You will sleep again grasshopper.  Eventually.

I can't decide whether to go for my 'mates rated' £300 moving charge, including someone driving the van and lifting stuff for me, or to pay £179.00 to hire a van for the weekend and do it myself with the help of my strapping son.

Does mates rates mean you doing lifting or packing?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2014, 10:15:42 pm
Do whichever one is the least likely to be more stressful. Lack of stress is worth £121 if that is the better option!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 May, 2014, 10:25:56 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2014, 10:15:42 pm
Do whichever one is the least likely to be more stressful. Lack of stress is worth £121 if that is the better option!

This.

As to whether herding a random man is more or less stressful than dealing with a van hire company, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.

(My experience is the moving of stuff element is relatively straightforward, and the real stress involved in moving hose comes from dealing with estate agent incompetent scamming weasel bastards, the sorting and packing of things, and the body-breaking allergy-inducing cleaning.  If I were in a position to throw money at the problem, I'd start by getting some cleaners in.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 25 May, 2014, 10:47:32 pm
Quote from: Kim on 25 May, 2014, 10:25:56 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2014, 10:15:42 pm
Do whichever one is the least likely to be more stressful. Lack of stress is worth £121 if that is the better option!

This.

As to whether herding a random man is more or less stressful than dealing with a van hire company, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.

(My experience is the moving of stuff element is relatively straightforward, and the real stress involved in moving hose comes from dealing with estate agent incompetent scamming weasel bastards, the sorting and packing of things, and the body-breaking allergy-inducing cleaning.  If I were in a position to throw money at the problem, I'd start by getting some cleaners in.)

My cleaner just had a baby.  How selfish is that?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 25 May, 2014, 11:49:29 pm
I'd vote for the cheaper removals and spend the balance on a professional cleaner. The cleaning of a rental house at the end of a tenancy always seems to be a mammoth task, however clean you keep your house IME.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 25 May, 2014, 11:53:38 pm
This is why I hate being expected to behave like a grown-up.

Responsibility totally sux.

Emathonium.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 26 May, 2014, 10:31:27 am
Glumly reading weather forecasts..... :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 26 May, 2014, 02:30:48 pm
Quote from: Basil on 25 May, 2014, 09:17:52 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 25 May, 2014, 07:52:25 pm
You will be fine in another twenty years or so.... ::-)

No.  The buggers move back in again in their late 20s.   :facepalm:
You mean they actually leave before their late 20s? !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 26 May, 2014, 03:09:35 pm
Quote from: T3DM on 25 May, 2014, 09:15:08 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 25 May, 2014, 07:52:25 pm
You will be fine in another twenty years or so.... ::-)


Quote from: Ruthie on 25 May, 2014, 08:05:33 pm
Quote from: T3DM on 25 May, 2014, 07:25:50 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 25 May, 2014, 05:01:13 pm
Now you are just bragging that you had sex 12 months ago ;)
never again..... :-\

Oh, bless.  You will sleep again grasshopper.  Eventually.

I can't decide whether to go for my 'mates rated' £300 moving charge, including someone driving the van and lifting stuff for me, or to pay £179.00 to hire a van for the weekend and do it myself with the help of my strapping son.

He's our second we have a 3yr old as well. Wouldn't change it for the world!!

Ha ha ha sleep....hey they will cause you worry and heart ache till you die.  Or at least I did, from not telling them where I am going to seeing me unhappy and stressed.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 May, 2014, 03:43:15 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 26 May, 2014, 02:30:48 pm
Quote from: Basil on 25 May, 2014, 09:17:52 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 25 May, 2014, 07:52:25 pm
You will be fine in another twenty years or so.... ::-)

No.  The buggers move back in again in their late 20s.   :facepalm:
You mean they actually leave before their late 20s? !

Another generation ago, i know, but i left at 18, returning only for a week whilst i waited for my flat to be ready (after leaving the former Mrs T). My older brother, however, didn't fully leave home until he was in his 30's!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T3DM on 26 May, 2014, 06:15:51 pm
I moved out at 18 to America lived there for a year then come home and moved in with my Mrs at 21 I think haven't been back since accept to visit
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 26 May, 2014, 06:16:55 pm
Thinking about Nigel Farage.  And what his spitting image puppet would have looked like.  Because he already looks like his own Spitting Image puppet.  What would they have done with that?

<ponders>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 26 May, 2014, 06:18:58 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 26 May, 2014, 03:43:15 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 26 May, 2014, 02:30:48 pm
Quote from: Basil on 25 May, 2014, 09:17:52 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 25 May, 2014, 07:52:25 pm
You will be fine in another twenty years or so.... ::-)

No.  The buggers move back in again in their late 20s.   :facepalm:
You mean they actually leave before their late 20s? !

Another generation ago, i know, but i left at 18, returning only for a week whilst i waited for my flat to be ready (after leaving the former Mrs T). My older brother, however, didn't fully leave home until he was in his 30's!

Yeah, I've a returned 23 year old.  The good thing is, you can send them out for beer/wine to the corner shop.  The bad thing is, they talk politics at you when you just want to listen to The Archers and roast a chicken.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 May, 2014, 06:24:30 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 26 May, 2014, 06:16:55 pm
  Because he already looks like his own Spitting Image puppet

Bloody hell.  You're right Ruthie.   ;D

Thanks.  I am now having a mirthful moment.

By the way, chez nous, his name is always pronounced Farridge.  It works wonderfully well if you employ a brummie accent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 26 May, 2014, 06:45:09 pm
I'd probably make him up as a red nosed Cheshire Cat and a slightly slurry speech pattern and a big union flag somewhere. Covers the 'grinning loon' and the 'man with a pint' angles IMHO.

Here's someone else's take on it - link (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nigel-Farage-UKIP-Spitting-Image-style-caricature-garden-gnome-sculpture-/331209286326?nma=true&si=0l3QKO5JqaI%252FCD6O85aXy1svdEo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 26 May, 2014, 06:54:07 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 26 May, 2014, 06:16:55 pm
Thinking about Nigel Farage.  And what his spitting image puppet would have looked like.  Because he already looks like his own Spitting Image puppet.  What would they have done with that?

<ponders>

Made him look 'normal'. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 May, 2014, 09:04:14 pm
Wishing I was at home  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 May, 2014, 09:05:52 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 26 May, 2014, 09:04:14 pm
Wishing I was at home  :-\
Wishing I wasn't at home ... swapsies?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 May, 2014, 09:13:11 pm
Confused about where home is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 26 May, 2014, 09:16:30 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 May, 2014, 09:13:11 pm
Confused about where home is.
Wherever you lay your hat. Duh!

;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 May, 2014, 10:28:53 pm
Being a bit fartey.   :-[

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 27 May, 2014, 10:16:15 am
Being a bit arty-farty. Or would like to be, anyway...

Sat in the uni canteen waiting to find out what time our assessed presentations are. And where.
Considering everything has to be wrapped up by 2pm, they're leaving it a bit late, methinks.

If I get "needs more detail" feedback from the presentation, that's going to be a bit ironicannoying
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 May, 2014, 10:22:36 am
Sitting at my desk listening to the rain.   Lovely.

Now, do some work PB. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 May, 2014, 12:57:11 pm
Trying to assemble some oomph despite the sound of rain outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 27 May, 2014, 01:21:50 pm
It is grey and horrible and getting the gumption to go out.

The only thing that I am looking forward to riding the cadenza.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 27 May, 2014, 02:58:47 pm
Amazing how I can get side tracked ;)

So it has stopped raining, should I go out and risk it starting to rain again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 May, 2014, 03:00:46 pm
I am feeling grotty, third day in a row...

I have looked at the bikes, but that is as far as I got!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 27 May, 2014, 03:20:49 pm
Still waiting...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 27 May, 2014, 06:12:18 pm
Wet.  Wet from the rain and wet from sweat...not nice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 May, 2014, 06:18:55 pm
Quote from: nikki on 27 May, 2014, 10:16:15 am
Being a bit arty-farty. Or would like to be, anyway...

Sat in the uni canteen waiting to find out what time our assessed presentations are. And where.
Considering everything has to be wrapped up by 2pm, they're leaving it a bit late, methinks.

If I get "needs more detail" feedback from the presentation, that's going to be a bit ironicannoying

Quote from: nikki on 27 May, 2014, 03:20:49 pm
Still waiting...

It's not a wrap yet then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 27 May, 2014, 07:24:25 pm
Quote from: clarion on 27 May, 2014, 12:57:11 pm
Trying to assemble some oomph despite the sound of rain outside.

Found some grains of oomph and took my cameras to where it wasn't raining (Brighton) for a short outing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 May, 2014, 07:27:36 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 27 May, 2014, 06:12:18 pm
Wet.  Wet from the rain and wet from sweat...not nice.

Same here.

Well, now wet from shower, which is altogether preferable.

Not an enjoyable ride, but needed some miles in my legs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 May, 2014, 07:41:38 pm
All you poor, wet people....

Have a tweet to cheer you up..

https://twitter.com/andrewxclark/status/471356273142022144
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 27 May, 2014, 07:42:41 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 27 May, 2014, 07:41:38 pm
All you poor, wet people....

Have a tweet to cheer you up..

https://twitter.com/andrewxclark/status/471356273142022144

What's that blue coloured stuff ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 27 May, 2014, 07:50:08 pm
Watching the YouTube vid of the WobblyWorkshop gas fired oscilloscope :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 27 May, 2014, 07:55:19 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 27 May, 2014, 06:18:55 pm
Quote from: nikki on 27 May, 2014, 10:16:15 am
Being a bit arty-farty. Or would like to be, anyway...

Sat in the uni canteen waiting to find out what time our assessed presentations are. And where.
Considering everything has to be wrapped up by 2pm, they're leaving it a bit late, methinks.

If I get "needs more detail" feedback from the presentation, that's going to be a bit ironicannoying

Quote from: nikki on 27 May, 2014, 03:20:49 pm
Still waiting...

It's not a wrap yet then?

Finally did the 10 min presentation at 5pm. After being up since 5ish and having driven 90 miles before waiting for 8 hours. It hasn't been the most productive of days...

Done now though.

*zonk*

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 May, 2014, 09:04:47 pm
Feeding, watering and generally looking after a penguin with a bonky on the conky.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 27 May, 2014, 09:14:11 pm
Listening to the rain outside while savouring the lingering taste of strawberries.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 May, 2014, 09:49:13 pm
Stuffing Minstrels into my mouth in (at least) threes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 27 May, 2014, 10:24:35 pm
Writing a long email to my mother-in-law about vampires and kitchen worktops and outlying circumstances not usually covered in kitchen designs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 27 May, 2014, 10:30:31 pm
Yawning
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 28 May, 2014, 07:11:31 am
Thinking if I take a little longer over this cuppa it MIGHT stop raining......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 28 May, 2014, 11:39:49 am
Quote from: Ham on 28 May, 2014, 07:11:31 am
Thinking if I take a little longer over this cuppa it MIGHT stop raining......

It didn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 28 May, 2014, 06:29:11 pm
Trying to find a free Saturday in the next couple months with sensible access times to Holy Island that match up with trains out of Berwick. I want to ride the rough sections of NCN1 round there on the MTB after my trip on the tourer in March.

I'm starting to think I need to plot everything on a graph to get it all to match - or the gentleman upstairs is tempting me to spend a weekend on pilgrimage.

Anyone know how pessimistic Northumberland CC are with their crossing times?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 May, 2014, 06:43:24 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 27 May, 2014, 09:04:47 pm
Feeding, watering and generally looking after a penguin with a bonky on the conky.
Poor Pingu. Hope he heals quickly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 May, 2014, 06:52:42 pm
Mrs. P.  Are you digging the scars?   :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 28 May, 2014, 06:56:39 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 28 May, 2014, 06:29:11 pm
Trying to find a free Saturday in the next couple months with sensible access times to Holy Island that match up with trains out of Berwick. I want to ride the rough sections of NCN1 round there on the MTB after my trip on the tourer in March.

I'm starting to think I need to plot everything on a graph to get it all to match - or the gentleman upstairs is tempting me to spend a weekend on pilgrimage.

Anyone know how pessimistic Northumberland CC are with their crossing times?

Not very much leeway at all at all I'm afraid  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 May, 2014, 07:00:59 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 May, 2014, 06:52:42 pm
Mrs. P.  Are you digging the scars?   :demon:

Of course!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 28 May, 2014, 07:07:01 pm
looking forward to bed time.  All this walking about for a living can't be good for you!   :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 May, 2014, 07:15:31 pm
Thinking about heading to the shop to buy some condensed milk, so I can make coconut ice! (I should probably buy some chocolate to coat it, too.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 28 May, 2014, 07:38:35 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 28 May, 2014, 06:56:39 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 28 May, 2014, 06:29:11 pm
Trying to find a free Saturday in the next couple months with sensible access times to Holy Island that match up with trains out of Berwick. I want to ride the rough sections of NCN1 round there on the MTB after my trip on the tourer in March.

I'm starting to think I need to plot everything on a graph to get it all to match - or the gentleman upstairs is tempting me to spend a weekend on pilgrimage.

Anyone know how pessimistic Northumberland CC are with their crossing times?

Not very much leeway at all at all I'm afraid  :-\

Hmm. I'll start looking at accommodation then. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 May, 2014, 08:13:40 pm
Collecting swarf, having spent a productive afternoon making holes in things.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 28 May, 2014, 08:15:55 pm
Thinking I need a cycle tour somewhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 28 May, 2014, 08:27:32 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 28 May, 2014, 06:29:11 pm
Trying to find a free Saturday in the next couple months with sensible access times to Holy Island that match up with trains out of Berwick. I want to ride the rough sections of NCN1 round there on the MTB after my trip on the tourer in March.

I'm starting to think I need to plot everything on a graph to get it all to match - or the gentleman upstairs is tempting me to spend a weekend on pilgrimage.

Anyone know how pessimistic Northumberland CC are with their crossing times?

They allow a fair bit of leeway to allow for idiots chancing it.

I wouldn't take risks with the incoming tide, but I crossed with the outgoing tide about an hour before the official safe crossing, at just after sunset. It was gorgeous.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 28 May, 2014, 08:39:54 pm
Quote from: Deano on 28 May, 2014, 08:27:32 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 28 May, 2014, 06:29:11 pm
Trying to find a free Saturday in the next couple months with sensible access times to Holy Island that match up with trains out of Berwick. I want to ride the rough sections of NCN1 round there on the MTB after my trip on the tourer in March.

I'm starting to think I need to plot everything on a graph to get it all to match - or the gentleman upstairs is tempting me to spend a weekend on pilgrimage.

Anyone know how pessimistic Northumberland CC are with their crossing times?

They allow a fair bit of leeway to allow for idiots chancing it.

I wouldn't take risks with the incoming tide, but I crossed with the outgoing tide about an hour before the official safe crossing, at just after sunset. It was gorgeous.

Thanks :)

I think I'm changing plan and will drive up on the Friday evening and camp instead which opens up far more options. 12th July's looking pretty good for that, with Access until 1pm and exit from 7:30pm so should be able to sight-see during the day and leave in the evening while it's still light :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 28 May, 2014, 09:10:27 pm
In February I crossed about ten minutes before the council safe crossing time (incoming tide), pulled into a cafe on the island and ordered a cuppa. There was a different set of crossing times on the wall, and the bus driver was just ordering a massive full English, before he was going to drive off. He was still scoffing it when I left.

It's a lovely place. I really enjoyed the island when the tide was in and we were cut off from the mainland.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7392/12890301995_5d6b1b9105_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/kD5aG8)Lindisfarne (https://flic.kr/p/kD5aG8) by dean.clementson (https://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 29 May, 2014, 06:11:38 am
I'm eating porridge at audax o'clock after another sleepless night. Sigh.
It's currently raining although the forecast promises that it will dry up here in the next hour and it should be fine in Eccleshall by the time we get there.
I say "we" because I'm riding with Peter OTP  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 May, 2014, 11:39:03 am
Quote from: Andrew Br on 29 May, 2014, 06:11:38 am
I'm eating porridge at audax o'clock after another sleepless night. Sigh.
It's currently raining although the forecast promises that it will dry up here in the next hour and it should be fine in Eccleshall by the time we get there.
I say "we" because I'm riding with Peter OTP  :thumbsup:

my bold

that's my patch so I'll have a word about seeing to the weather for you ;)

ETA are you doing an audax Perm?the Eccleshall 200 perhaps?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 29 May, 2014, 12:14:12 pm
Cutting the spanner bit off a Brooks spanner and bodging it into a front rack bracket light.

They're bloody hard to cut!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 29 May, 2014, 12:38:22 pm
I have to pitch some new product thing to the mothership bridge in an attempt to get the necessary investment and I've been told by boss that this is probably not the time for another presentation given by mustelids with post-it notes. He has a point. This senior management gig is for bonafide grown-ups and not stuffed toys no matter how articulate they are.

So, I've just invented Pragmatic Cat and the Corporate Klingon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 May, 2014, 02:03:09 pm
A.F-A. & have been doing so since 11 o'clock.
I have been lounging like a lizard on the lounge sofa & don't expect much to change in the immediate future.
There are a number of roundtoits & iimys but whilst the spirit is willing,the flesh is weak.
Keep calm...carry on ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 29 May, 2014, 07:54:41 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 28 May, 2014, 07:15:31 pm
Thinking about heading to the shop to buy some condensed milk, so I can make coconut ice! (I should probably buy some chocolate to coat it, too.)

...and feeling a bit sick having eaten it all. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 29 May, 2014, 08:57:53 pm
Quote from: jogler on 29 May, 2014, 11:39:03 am


...... that's my patch so I'll have a word about seeing to the weather for you ;)

ETA are you doing an audax Perm?the Eccleshall 200 perhaps?

You didn't too badly jogler; there was some light rain near Eccleshall but not enough to need a waterproof  :thumbsup:.
It was the Eccleshall Perm.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 29 May, 2014, 10:33:43 pm
When I feel ready to a 200km  again I have the Eccleshall Perm as the ride of choice:starting in Eccleshall for several reasons,one of which is the proximity of the town itself.

I hope the day went well for you.

ETA just seen & read your comments in "have you been out today"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 May, 2014, 09:40:47 am
Sitting eating my brekky on the top step in the sun, listening to the swifts and enjoying the post gym glow. In an hour I shall toddle off for a massage and thence into town to make my barnet freakishly purpoo once more. I love flexi Fridays.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 May, 2014, 09:51:30 am
Waiting, in a nearby coffee shop, for my rental van.
Why do they always do this?
Bastards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 30 May, 2014, 11:03:51 am
Arriving back at the office after attending the local greasy spoon and buying the team breakfast to celebrate my impending retirement.

Bacon and mushroom baguette and HP sauce. Hmmmmmm  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Moultonaught on 30 May, 2014, 11:31:32 am
Sitting waiting in the queue in the barber's. Admiring my new-ish bike outside!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 May, 2014, 11:33:22 am
Cogitating...
shall I det dressed or goto Tesco's in peejays & dressing gown?
 :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 30 May, 2014, 01:23:05 pm
Quote from: jogler on 30 May, 2014, 11:33:22 am
Cogitating...
shall I det dressed or goto Tesco's in peejays & dressing gown?
 :demon:

Nekkid?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 30 May, 2014, 03:01:59 pm
not a pretty sight Fuzzy :hand:

Now I am measuring up for a new TV.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 30 May, 2014, 03:13:56 pm
Just said goodbye to a long term colleague and good work mate who is on holiday for my last week in the office :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 30 May, 2014, 07:35:25 pm
Dealing with one of those life defining decisions ...

... do I go fell walking or cycling tomorrow? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 May, 2014, 07:44:19 pm
I'm in the man crèche with #1 son.   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 30 May, 2014, 08:02:26 pm
Quote from: Moultonaught on 30 May, 2014, 11:31:32 am
Sitting waiting in the queue in the barber's. Admiring my new-ish bike outside!

Would that be the very nice machine that you rode at Long Itch?   Lovely machine that.   Envy wibble from here.   I really wanted to try it out but thought that might be a bit rude.

Pressing BUY on train tickets from Rugby to Harwich Intl and return to coincide with out ferry bookings for WoollyGusLand.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 30 May, 2014, 08:53:44 pm
Quote from: Basil on 30 May, 2014, 07:44:19 pm
I'm in the man crèche with #1 son.   :D

Is that the creche with those special hand operated life saving pumps? (how did you type the grave?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 May, 2014, 08:58:01 pm
Attempting to digest spam fritters.
Despite being bookended by a bike ride, it still sounds like there's quarry blasting going on in my stomach regions.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 May, 2014, 10:46:26 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 30 May, 2014, 08:53:44 pm
Quote from: Basil on 30 May, 2014, 07:44:19 pm
I'm in the man crèche with #1 son.   :D

Is that the creche with those special hand operated life saving pumps? (how did you type the grave?)

I didn't.  I just typed the correct letters and my nexus did it automagically.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 01 June, 2014, 05:39:21 am
Eating porridge and contemplating today's Hills and Plains of Cheshire audax.
I'm riding with CathyG (not otp) and I'm rather looking forward to it.

It doesn't look like we'll need jogler's help with the weather  ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 01 June, 2014, 08:22:25 am
Quote from: Andrew Br on 01 June, 2014, 05:39:21 am


It doesn't look like we'll need jogler's help with the weather  ;D

At one time I contemplated this

http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/14-999/

& although circumstances conspired to prevent me from riding I did,pro-actively,arrange the weather accordingly.
There was a bit left over from Saturday so I left it on deposit for the remainder of the weekend in the general area.
You may benefit from this plus the interest acrueing ;)

IYCDEWB,BEWBS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 June, 2014, 12:28:43 pm
Waving madly from Darlington Station and wondering where Ruthie lives now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 June, 2014, 01:08:01 pm
Quote
Catching up on the forum on a long train ride wondering

A) What Pingu has done to his beak,

B) Where Ruthie has moved to

And

C) whether it is worth our while waving to Ruthie when we stop at Darlington in a few minutes or whether it will be a futile gesture because she now lives somewhere else.

I tried to post the above earlier and was surprised when it failed to appear.

I seem, somehow, to have sent it to Basil as a PM.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 June, 2014, 02:13:07 pm
Ah, Wowbagger, you're perhaps unaware that I have been asked to moderate all posts from your account.  Anything you post will automatically be redirected to my in box. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 June, 2014, 02:21:28 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 01 June, 2014, 12:28:43 pm
Waving madly from Darlington Station and wondering where Ruthie lives now.

In the same place, m'dear, until mid July  :-* :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 June, 2014, 02:34:56 pm
We are still on that train. It is looking Hertfordshirish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 June, 2014, 02:37:31 pm
Where ceramic artists buy drinks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 June, 2014, 06:44:39 pm
Recovering after an afternoon of gardening damage limitation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 02 June, 2014, 08:04:15 pm
Watching some lovely tits on the telly!




On Springwatch :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 June, 2014, 08:31:48 pm
Quote from: bumper on 02 June, 2014, 08:04:15 pm
Watching some lovely tits on the telly!




On Springwatch :thumbsup:

Has Michaela's beaver come out yet?*

*This may be one of those things you needed to see to believe that it was said...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 02 June, 2014, 08:33:16 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 02 June, 2014, 08:31:48 pm
Quote from: bumper on 02 June, 2014, 08:04:15 pm
Watching some lovely tits on the telly!




On Springwatch :thumbsup:

Has Michaela's beaver come out yet?*

*This may be one of those things you needed to see to believe that it was said...

No but they've just had black cock on ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 June, 2014, 09:50:57 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 02 June, 2014, 08:31:48 pm
Quote from: bumper on 02 June, 2014, 08:04:15 pm
Watching some lovely tits on the telly!




On Springwatch :thumbsup:

Has Michaela's beaver come out yet?*

*This may be one of those things you needed to see to believe that it was said...

I'm not sure she could believe that she'd said it ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 June, 2014, 09:52:30 pm
Chris Packham's face said he couldn't believe what he had just heard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 02 June, 2014, 09:56:02 pm
Her beaver was out tonight btw.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 June, 2014, 12:58:57 pm
Cutting my toe nails

Running a thorough clean through the washing machine, using Vanish as we have no liquid bleach in the utility room (and Vanish is just powdered bleach anyway)

Waiting from some fly spray to disappate in the lounge, I was trying to watch TV but kept getting buzzed by a really annoying fly.

Think I'll throw on a jacket and go for a bike ride, I need to get something for tonight's dinner anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 June, 2014, 01:33:47 pm
Scanning negs and considering shaving for a second time (need to leave a gap after taking off a significant amount of beard before shaving it smooth).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 June, 2014, 01:48:50 pm
Nothing.  And I'm doing it rather well, if I do say so myself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 03 June, 2014, 02:43:21 pm
Resting after an hour on the turbo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 03 June, 2014, 09:35:56 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 03 June, 2014, 02:43:21 pm
Resting after an hour on the turbo

Wow! Well done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jane on 04 June, 2014, 07:44:25 am
Eating the best kipper I have ever tasted. (Well, the bottom half of it anyway). (http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n488/saoirse50/imagejpg1.jpg) (http://s1136.photobucket.com/user/saoirse50/media/imagejpg1.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 June, 2014, 08:38:53 am
Looks like a fyne breakfast Jane ..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 04 June, 2014, 09:53:09 am
Food always tastes better outdoors.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 June, 2014, 10:01:03 am
Deciding that, as it isn't going to stop raining until well after lunch, we'll just dress appropriately and go to the beach anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 June, 2014, 08:01:24 pm
Worrying about my kitteh again  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 04 June, 2014, 08:04:50 pm
Was suposed to be getting the gorilla suit out for a friends birthday in East London...failing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 June, 2014, 01:17:16 pm
Falling asleep in the car at Leeds Castle having come here with the grandchildren. They were fast asleep when we got here so Mrs. Wow and I had our lunch. At least we haven't parted with any money.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 June, 2014, 02:07:46 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 05 June, 2014, 01:17:16 pm
Falling asleep in the car at Leeds Castle having come here with the grandchildren. They were fast asleep when we got here so Mrs. Wow and I had our lunch. At least we haven't parted with any money.

That'll be the one that's nowhere near Leeds, and isn't a proper castle?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 June, 2014, 02:41:47 pm
Probably. I haven't seen it yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 June, 2014, 03:02:54 pm
Dealing with YET ANOTHER OpenSSL issue...

<sigh>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 05 June, 2014, 03:08:55 pm
Getting ready to close everything down prior to my last ride home as a copper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 05 June, 2014, 04:39:06 pm
Contemplating a major photo editing session having gone down to Southsea Common to watch (and photograph) the Red Arrows. Even after I've weeded out all the shots that are out-of-focus or showing nothing but sky, I'm still going to have quite a lot to work through...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 05 June, 2014, 05:19:39 pm
So you'll just have to make do with this for now...



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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 05 June, 2014, 06:54:27 pm
:D

Me - playing with my new impulse-buy coffee machine. Looks like it's smart enough to know to run when it has water in it, but dumb enough to accept turning the power on at the mains as a method of starting it, so paired with a timer plug I should get fresh coffee in the morning :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 05 June, 2014, 08:19:21 pm
Damn Yuppys ( Im working on my curmudgeon)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 06 June, 2014, 09:36:53 am
Summoning up the courage to delete rafts of de-scoped content from the design document I sweated blood over last month :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 06 June, 2014, 09:42:52 am
Remember to keep the original. The LAW OF SOD says the client will want that scope back in again in 6 months time.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 June, 2014, 02:01:35 pm
"Can I have my PAC Code?"
.......
"What can I offer to get you to stay with us?"

"<cheap deal>"
"How about this special deal for existing customers?"
"That's the same deal offered in the shops and £10 more than I spend now."
"Oh"

Revises offer, giving me a whole £3 discount. I feel valued. Not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 06 June, 2014, 05:55:54 pm
Standing inna pubbe drinking a pint of Hop Timist. 
Unwise as I've had very little to eat today, inappropriate given current events at work....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 June, 2014, 07:20:57 pm
Drinking tea, cooking dinner and swearing at the freezer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 June, 2014, 07:28:29 pm
Admiring n+1.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 June, 2014, 07:29:12 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 06 June, 2014, 07:28:29 pm
Admiring n+1.  :D

TTIUWP!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 June, 2014, 07:27:16 am
I am sitting in the car in the car park at Wickford Station. I woke up in a lot of pain and, unable to sleep, I  decided to explore the charging point that was installed a month or so ago. The view isn't great, being a brick wall the other side of which is the station platform. However, there is free wifi, courtesy of The Cloud.

I don't know whether I am supposed to pay for this parking or not: TPTB have made things beautifully confusing. The EV charging bays double up as disabled bays and are away from the main car park. However, I am not intending to leave the car so if a parking attendant does turn up and expect me to buy a ticket I shall just bugger off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 08 June, 2014, 09:48:48 pm
Watching my extensive bruising mature, as I contemplate my first ever attempt at caving today.  It was awesome.  Loved it.  And now there is pain.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 June, 2014, 09:50:54 pm
^^^ This.
Although my bruising came about as a result of an unplanned and uncontrolled dismount rather than investigating holes in the ground.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 June, 2014, 11:02:35 pm
Yes, pain here too.  Due to mucking about on a poorly-adjusted tandem with a mildly inappropriate (understatement) saddle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 June, 2014, 11:10:50 pm
There is a lot of pain in the past few posts.

Keep balm and carry on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 09 June, 2014, 12:35:38 am
Prevaricating over an order for more bags to go on the bike to enable off road and over night without a heavy rucksack.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2014, 04:46:46 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 08 June, 2014, 09:48:48 pm
my first ever attempt at caving today.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 June, 2014, 04:55:31 pm
Having a lie down to recover from a spot of vacuuming. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2014, 05:05:16 pm
I'm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhkbDMISl8&feature=kp

to talk to HMRC

I might need a shave before I'm through ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 09 June, 2014, 05:58:30 pm
Sitting, sweating and waiting for the promised deluge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 09 June, 2014, 06:03:03 pm
Just taking a break from my electrician exploits and having a cuppa before I put carpets and furniture back. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2014, 06:30:07 pm
Cogitating.....do we have enough £ for a holiday?
 :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 June, 2014, 08:43:30 pm
Starting to think about a cycling holiday for this year:
* Hadrian's Wall / C2C (Newcastle start/finish); or
* 'Ireland' (Dublin start/finish)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 10 June, 2014, 10:49:48 am
I've had a day off work today to shovel 8 tonnes of crushed slate into a wheelbarrow and down my drive into the back garden.

The slate was ordered and paid for last week for Yesterday but they couldn't deliver so I arranged it for the first drop today.


Guess what......


I'm still sitting and waiting for it!! I've just phoned and they've tried to fob me off with some shit excuse. If it's not here by noon I've told them to cancel it. To rub salt into the wound the truck has delivered to another house at the top of my street. Why are 90% of the companies in this country useless fuckers?

EDIT: they've just phoned to ask if I want it all dropping loose on the pavement/road instead of bags. 8fucking tonnes of loose slate on a narrow road, are they for real!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 10 June, 2014, 05:09:05 pm
Cooking toad in the hole
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 10 June, 2014, 05:39:56 pm
Contemplating the consumption of ice cold beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 10 June, 2014, 05:41:26 pm
Killing time before I go and view another house.  And sniffing the smell of roasting beef from the oven.  Mmmmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 June, 2014, 08:41:58 pm
Hacking around the Raspberry Pi's conspicuous lack of DPMS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 10 June, 2014, 09:27:18 pm
Recovering from shoveling the slate into the back garden. It's all moved, raked out and washed clean. I just have 36 stone slabs to lay now, they can wait a bit longer ( just don't tell my wife ).

My bike isn't going out tonight. It did ask me for trip out but I told it to **** off and I've hung it back up :thumbsup:

Just off to the fridge for a well earned, freezing cold beer (or 2 ).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 10 June, 2014, 09:54:00 pm
So having shifted 8 tonnes by hand, how would you have liked to have been a Navvi shifting 30 tons a day?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 10 June, 2014, 10:21:55 pm
8 in 3hrs isn't bad, plus I carried every load 100m on a slope. There's a difference just shoveling on the spot, it's easy to scoop shovel, slate isn't the easiest of things to load onto a shovel either.

Plus I wasn't being paid to do it and were out of the dark ages  ;)

Next time I have a delivery, I'll know who to ask for help :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 11 June, 2014, 07:46:01 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 10 June, 2014, 09:54:00 pm
So having shifted 8 tonnes by hand, how would you have liked to have been a Navvi shifting 30 tons a day?

Wusses. One my summer jobs as a student was unloading 25 kg blocks of sheep food from the conveyor belt and onto the pallet. It wasn't far, but that was around 60 tonnes over a 12 hour shift. I slept well.

On the night shift we'd speed up the machine so we could finish early and either nap or race forklift trucks around the factory.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 June, 2014, 11:40:37 pm
I am at Thurrock services sitting in a plugged-in car. So far it has charge 64% in 24 minutes.

I am just being a skinflint now: there is plenty of charge to get me home but I am enjoying freeloading electrons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 June, 2014, 11:47:20 pm
That reminds me - I took the opportunity to inspect one of those charging stations on the way back from York.  I reckon those ground fault errors might have something to do with the array of muffin fans venting upwards through a grille at a 45 degree angle.   :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 June, 2014, 10:08:20 am
Trying to summon up the energy to make my 94th (approx) visit to the tip since being released from the Gulag :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 12 June, 2014, 10:16:07 am
Waiting for a phone call.  And waiting, and waiting, and waiting.  Doing that 'staring at the phone' thing you do when you're a teenager and gave your number to a boy for the first time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 12 June, 2014, 11:24:16 am
For some reason I don't remember giving my number to boys as a teenager ;), but you need to go and do something like cook or have a bath or something else that's a pain to stop in the middle of and they'll ring right in the middle of it.

A watched potphone never boilsrings.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 12 June, 2014, 05:22:52 pm
Wrangling technology when I should be out on my bike :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 12 June, 2014, 06:23:46 pm
Recovering from self-imposed poisoning due to a rather too-good night out in Pasadena. A new health regime begins on Monday...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 June, 2014, 08:11:32 pm
Charging at Thurrock services. So far the car has charged 43% in 13 minutes.

I'm a bit disappointed I have to charge, actually, as I left home this morning with 100% charge and after 79.9 miles we still had 27% of a battery left, which would have been plenty to get us home (23 miles or so) but we have another 30 miles to do this evening as we are taking Morphy to my brother's for the weekend.

It is now up to 50% in 18 minutes abd is beginning to slow down. Once Mrs. Wow returns from powdering her nose I shall stop the charge and we can bugger off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 June, 2014, 08:18:43 pm
Removing a mixture of sunblock and flies from my arms ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 12 June, 2014, 08:56:53 pm
Sipping G and T complete with lemon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 June, 2014, 08:58:10 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 June, 2014, 08:11:32 pm
It is now up to 50% in 18 minutes abd is beginning to slow down. Once Mrs. Wow returns from powdering her nose I shall stop the charge and we can bugger off.

"If someone got the top chemists in the universe together and locked them in a room for a year with the mission, 'Find us the ultimate fuel', after a year, they'd say 'We've invented petrol'."

#thingsscientistssay
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 June, 2014, 08:59:28 pm
Now try it with physicists   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 12 June, 2014, 09:03:13 pm
Petrol burns far more efficiently than physicists ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 12 June, 2014, 09:07:07 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 June, 2014, 08:59:28 pm
Now try it with physicists   :D

Cold Fusion exists! I've seen it:

1. On the News
2. In Back to the Future
3. In a Gary Taubes' essay
4. On Star Trek

#physicists
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 12 June, 2014, 09:10:48 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 12 June, 2014, 08:56:53 pm
Sipping G and T complete with lemon lime.
FTFY ;)

Yes, I am drinking a G&T while perusing a guide on cycle touring in Ireland.  That, and trying not to rant at a fried over her mono-syllabic 'reply' to a message I sent earlier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 12 June, 2014, 11:42:39 pm
Looking at the computer, so much to do and no inclination to do anything apart from cry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 13 June, 2014, 12:06:35 am
Looking for a map (OS Explorer OL6) so I can go playing on the MTB after work tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 13 June, 2014, 09:11:42 am
Trying to find the correct combination of blinds, shutters and curtains, that allows me to see my monitor, without glare and without turning on the lights.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 13 June, 2014, 09:13:59 am
If it's like mine it involves a line of strategically placed post-it notes
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 13 June, 2014, 10:05:06 am
Watching some men chop down my giant fir tree. The botanist in me is angry. He's like the Hulk. Well, he's green at least. Not so big, otherwise he wouldn't fit inside, because I'm not all that big on the outside. I'd be the human equivalent of the Hulk's pants which, of course, never split.

Anyway, I liked the tree but it had fallen over and was being held up by other trees. Bloody wind. I also have to replace 22 fence panels. Or rather pay a grown-up to replace them. I have no skillz. I call an electrician if a circuit breaker flips. At least I know where my soil pipe is now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: RW on 13 June, 2014, 11:53:22 am
Sitting outside a bar in Nerac on my second Hoegarden and thinking about lunch in a few minutes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 June, 2014, 01:11:05 pm
In another airport drinking crap earl grey tea. I need a shower.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 13 June, 2014, 02:10:20 pm
Waiting for MrsC to finish listening to the Archers, so we can go away for the weekend.
(Off topic plug: any one in Malmesbury over the weekend? I will be besieging the place! There may be gunpowder involved  :o :thumbsup:)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 June, 2014, 06:58:15 pm
Inna pubbe sipping a cool pint while waiting for a friend. Wearing shorts, sandals & a very colourful shirt. It's too hot !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 June, 2014, 07:33:22 pm
Getting an early start on World Gin Day (http://worldginday.com).  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 June, 2014, 07:42:00 pm
Man crèche.

Oh my dog!  "Crèche".  I'm not posing, honest.  The Nexus did it automagically.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 June, 2014, 08:05:23 pm
Perusing the EldestCub's first full report from secondary.  Not bad.  Gives the impression that his teachers mostly like him, which is a good start :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 13 June, 2014, 08:17:04 pm
At the 3rd attempt this week, I am updating the software on my Blackberry. The interweb cools down a bit after 5 or 6 pm..
Just been told today that the BBs will probably be replaced with Google Nexus phones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 June, 2014, 08:42:06 pm
Quote from: madcow on 13 June, 2014, 08:17:04 pm
At the 3rd attempt this week, I am updating the software on my Blackberry. The interweb cools down a bit after 5 or 6 pm..
Just been told today that the BBs will probably be replaced with Google Nexus phones.

http://youtu.be/RXsH-6eLvwg

 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 June, 2014, 10:35:20 pm

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 13 June, 2014, 08:05:23 pm
Perusing the EldestCub's first full report from secondary.  Not bad.  Gives the impression that his teachers mostly like him, which is a good start :)

How could anyone _not_ like. EldestCub?
He's a splendid young chap!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 13 June, 2014, 10:37:24 pm
Well, exactly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 June, 2014, 12:30:40 am
Quote from: Chris S on 12 June, 2014, 08:58:10 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 June, 2014, 08:11:32 pm
It is now up to 50% in 18 minutes abd is beginning to slow down. Once Mrs. Wow returns from powdering her nose I shall stop the charge and we can bugger off.

"If someone got the top chemists in the universe together and locked them in a room for a year with the mission, 'Find us the ultimate fuel', after a year, they'd say 'We've invented petrol'."

#thingsscientistssay
What's the good of petrol? You have to haved a dedicated time-wasting stop just to fill the car up.

We arrange to stop for lunch and the car charges while we are eating.

Meanwhile, I am lying in a tent justbsouth of Oxford litening to a thunderstorm that is very likely to keep me awake for some time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 June, 2014, 06:13:27 am
Considering how best to assemble a DIY tandem rack with the stuff in the garage & shed & minimum further expense of proprietary parts.
 :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 14 June, 2014, 10:30:07 am
Cursing.  I cut a mortice 27mm too high having forgotten to allow for the decking.  The only consolation is that it won't show when I cover up my error.  The tenon fitted beautifully too :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 14 June, 2014, 01:40:19 pm
Trenching and laying SWA cable. Tis warm work indeed today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 14 June, 2014, 04:31:45 pm
Replacing calories consumed whilst riding by drinking coffee & eating a vanilla slice& & I know where the crisps are hidden ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 14 June, 2014, 05:41:29 pm
Wondering if 'it'll fit the studded tyres' is a good enough reason to build a new pompino*. :-\

I may be doing a N-1+1 if I do as I won't need two fixed/singlespeeds so the Trek District may be off to a new home.


*Yes, thinking about winter on the warmest day of the year so far ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 14 June, 2014, 06:27:16 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 14 June, 2014, 05:41:29 pm
Wondering if 'it'll fit the studded tyres' is a good enough reason to build a new pompino*. :-\


I reckon so (I'm tempted too, as they're reduced at present... :facepalm:). I'm annoyed though, because they were briefly reduced further to £120 last weekend, and I deliberated for too long so missed the deal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 June, 2014, 06:54:04 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 14 June, 2014, 05:41:29 pm
Wondering if 'it'll fit the studded tyres' is a good enough reason to build a new pompino*. :-\
Actually, it's just the universe telling you you need a fat bike ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 14 June, 2014, 06:56:19 pm
Fat bikes don't really help that much on sloping roads covered in ice though
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 14 June, 2014, 08:02:09 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 14 June, 2014, 06:56:19 pm
Fat bikes don't really help that much on sloping roads covered in ice though

They can if you get the right tyres (http://fatbikes.com/45nrth-dillinger-tire.html)... ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Arch on 14 June, 2014, 08:06:17 pm
Just took some recycling boxes outside ready to be washed in the morning prior to using to bring more of Arch's stuff over from York as part of her house move.

Earlier on today we fetched three bikes, one bike frame, a Brompton, and a trike over from her secret bunker to my my secret bunker. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 14 June, 2014, 08:14:30 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 14 June, 2014, 08:02:09 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 14 June, 2014, 06:56:19 pm
Fat bikes don't really help that much on sloping roads covered in ice though

They can if you get the right tyres (http://fatbikes.com/45nrth-dillinger-tire.html)... ;D
And if you can afford them ...

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 June, 2014, 12:06:18 am
Audax homework.

I've left it till the last minute due to mucking about with computers, and it's due in the morning.

It's almost taking my mind off the size and general itchiness of my left shin, which suffered a beastie bite at some point in the last day or so.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 15 June, 2014, 02:44:38 am
Not sleeping :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 15 June, 2014, 03:15:57 am
Same.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 15 June, 2014, 03:37:20 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 15 June, 2014, 03:15:57 am
Same.
:(

I've decided I won't be sleeping for a while, so I'm looking at campsites for the C2C.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 15 June, 2014, 07:53:59 am
Dragging my ass downstairs to concoct the Inlaw Paw's breakfast.

Once that's done I'll be working on the route for our Dunkirk-Perpignan Diagonale. Fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 June, 2014, 08:12:07 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 15 June, 2014, 02:44:38 am
Not sleeping :(

Yeah, I did a lot of that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 15 June, 2014, 09:27:07 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 15 June, 2014, 02:44:38 am
Not sleeping :(

I find that on at least two or three occasions per annum I comfortably miss a night's sleep.
If I could predict the insomnia I could do something usefull with the time
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Thing2 on 15 June, 2014, 12:39:12 pm
Sitting in a car park waiting for riders finishing the Davis 600. We were silly enough to volunteer for the 1am - 6am shift....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 15 June, 2014, 12:54:41 pm
Sat outside a café on Whitehaven harbour with a coffee while the garage fit two new tyres to the car.*

*First attempt said 'tyres on the cat' which would have been funnier :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 15 June, 2014, 01:11:53 pm
Quote from: Kim on 15 June, 2014, 08:12:07 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 15 June, 2014, 02:44:38 am
Not sleeping :(

Yeah, I did a lot of that.

Me three till you got up... Suspect we spent the night kicking one another :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 15 June, 2014, 02:05:18 pm
Waiting for Picasa to finish indexing lots of pictures.  This follows hard on the heels of giving up on trying to reinstall Olympus ib, which is unto a fetid pile of dingo's kidneys.  The reinstall was needed because it just Stopped Working.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 15 June, 2014, 05:41:20 pm
Supposed to be tidying flat and getting rid of stuff on freecycle.  Why can I not just throw things away.

Ended up going back to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 June, 2014, 06:03:21 pm
Being absolutely exhausted after some serious tree surgery.  Ladders, ropes, borrowed big FO bow saw.  Then sorting it afterwards.  Stuff big enough for splitting for logs.  Smaller stuff that will be cut into lenght for logs.  Next size down for small logs and then thinner stuff and then the kindling.
I am absolutely knackered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 June, 2014, 06:46:13 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 15 June, 2014, 12:54:41 pm
Sat outside a café on Whitehaven harbour with a coffee while the garage fit two new tyres to the car.*

*First attempt said 'tyres on the cat' which would have been funnier :)

My uncle adopted a well-hard[1] semi-feral cat that took a liking to a stack of racing car tyres in his garage as a place to sleep.  This was fine until the car was ready to use them.


[1] He liked being brushed with a wire brush.  You had to wear welding gloves to prevent blood loss on approaching him, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 15 June, 2014, 07:00:14 pm
Trying to muster up the energy for a shower.  Cup of tea first.  My, there's a lot of grit in my hair.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 June, 2014, 07:15:08 pm
Perhaps I'm getting a little long in the tooth for tree climbing.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps745a6b19.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps745a6b19.jpg.html)

Still, of the three very large boughs I took off, I managed to be sitting on none of them.   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 15 June, 2014, 08:13:32 pm
Discovering that pistachio shells do add smoke to a barbie, just not in a good way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 June, 2014, 08:48:03 pm
Debating which to invest in first: citizenship, or a Brompton?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 June, 2014, 08:51:04 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 15 June, 2014, 08:48:03 pm
Debating which to invest in first: citizenship, or a Brompton?

Bromptons should really come with citizenship by default...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 June, 2014, 08:51:17 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 15 June, 2014, 08:48:03 pm
Debating which to invest in first: citizenship, or a Brompton?

Brompton.

Oh come on, you knew that.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 June, 2014, 08:58:36 pm
Quote from: Kim on 15 June, 2014, 08:51:04 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 15 June, 2014, 08:48:03 pm
Debating which to invest in first: citizenship, or a Brompton?

Bromptons should really come with citizenship by default...

That might be a bit too easy. 

But considering two of my three bikes are a Hewitt and a Moulton, I think I should get citizenship if I add a Brompton to the fleet.  ;D

EDIT:  I propose the following formula: Brompton + Moulton + OtherBritishBrand = automatic citizenship.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 16 June, 2014, 01:24:10 pm
Trying to notch out a 2" paving slab for a cable entry with an electric angle grinder and it damn well keeps on raining heavily every five mins.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 16 June, 2014, 09:21:31 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 15 June, 2014, 08:48:03 pm
Debating which to invest in first: citizenship, or a Brompton?

 :hand: Moulton.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 June, 2014, 09:27:31 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 16 June, 2014, 09:21:31 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 15 June, 2014, 08:48:03 pm
Debating which to invest in first: citizenship, or a Brompton?

 :hand: Moulton.

As previously stated, already own a Moulton.  Yes, it's in the shop, but that cost is insignificant in comparison to UK citizenship or a Brompton.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 June, 2014, 09:35:44 pm
Sitting outside the pub because my team won't allow me to remain at the table during the Modern Music round.  ;D
Still, I get kudos during the Old Bugger's Music round later on tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 16 June, 2014, 09:41:50 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 June, 2014, 09:27:31 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 16 June, 2014, 09:21:31 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 15 June, 2014, 08:48:03 pm
Debating which to invest in first: citizenship, or a Brompton?

 :hand: Moulton.

As previously stated, already own a Moulton.  Yes, it's in the shop, but that cost is insignificant in comparison to UK citizenship or a Brompton.

Sorry, more moultons....a pletora of moultons???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 16 June, 2014, 09:42:30 pm
Quote from: Basil on 16 June, 2014, 09:35:44 pm
Sitting outside the pub because my team won't allow me to remain at the table during the Modern Music round.  ;D
Still, I get kudos during the Old Bugger's Music round later on tonight.

Bach?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 16 June, 2014, 09:44:47 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 16 June, 2014, 09:42:30 pm
Quote from: Basil on 16 June, 2014, 09:35:44 pm
Sitting outside the pub because my team won't allow me to remain at the table during the Modern Music round.  ;D
Still, I get kudos during the Old Bugger's Music round later on tonight.

Bach?
Gesundheit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 19 June, 2014, 10:42:45 pm
Writing my Father of the Bride speech.  No rush, not needed until Saturday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 19 June, 2014, 11:11:06 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 19 June, 2014, 10:42:45 pm
Writing my Father of the Bride speech.  No rush, not needed until Saturday.
Done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 20 June, 2014, 07:03:03 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 19 June, 2014, 10:42:45 pm
Writing my Father of the Bride speech.  No rush, not needed until Saturday.

I did mine off the cuff when the time came.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pippa on 20 June, 2014, 09:45:00 pm
Sitting in the pub at Wyke Down campsite/farm/pub. Having some wine before going to pitch the tent for a mini weekend away from that London.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 June, 2014, 09:54:32 pm
I think we know that pub :-)
Nice weekend for it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 June, 2014, 09:55:20 pm
Watching Celebrity Mastershit and guessing Amanda was going through, which she has.

Wondering why Phil Vickery doesn't look like Phil Vickery.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 June, 2014, 09:56:07 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 20 June, 2014, 09:54:32 pm
I think we know that pub :-)
Nice weekend for it.

Indeed.

Hope you sleep through the farting and snoring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 21 June, 2014, 01:41:12 am
Itching like a drug addict going through withdrawal.

While watching Airplane 2....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 June, 2014, 12:37:12 pm
Watching the binmen laugh in the face of health and safety.

They've picked up the rubbish that spilt, though, so I'm not complaining too much.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 25 June, 2014, 08:31:37 pm
Sitting snuggled with my youngest, watching NCIS (I know, I know!) whilst Mrs Torslanda - she of the horned helmet and heavy metal breastplate - prepares my birthday tea . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 28 June, 2014, 11:16:21 am
Sneezing. Garden fettling in high grass pollen season is not the most sensible thing I've attempted
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 June, 2014, 04:50:17 pm
Supposed to be cleaning and tidying the folding bike.  So far very little as I walk past it in the kitchen.

Need some energy instead of apathy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 30 June, 2014, 12:19:54 am
Looking for new domestic appliances.  Mine don't fit in my new place.

As a strategy for getting to sleep it's not great.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 30 June, 2014, 09:09:53 am
Waiting to go home as I've been doggie sitting for the last seven days
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 30 June, 2014, 11:12:39 am
'kernel panic. Unable to mount rootfs device "null"'

That's the computer. Accurately describes me, too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 July, 2014, 07:01:51 pm
Procrastinating. Need to give myself a kick up the backside and get out for an evening ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 01 July, 2014, 08:22:47 pm
Having yet another trip to a and e. Gets boring sometimes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 01 July, 2014, 09:12:14 pm
Planning a ride from Betws-y-Coed to my mum's place in Prestatyn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 01 July, 2014, 09:50:21 pm
Summoning up the gumption to take this poorly foot upstairs and put it in the bath with the rest of me. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 01 July, 2014, 10:37:14 pm
Scoffed 2 pretzels and 2 packs of dates for dinner.  This may cause an issue later, hopefully no 3am Hypos to awake me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 03 July, 2014, 04:20:48 pm
Measuring Wilkinson's syphoning equipment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 July, 2014, 04:35:14 pm
Spodding in my daughter's back room while Mrs. Wow entertains the grandchildren in the front room.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 03 July, 2014, 11:01:20 pm
Whee, packing for another camping trip. And by bike rather than car this time.

Admittedly it's only the second time I've made it camping this year but that's already better than last year  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 04 July, 2014, 10:29:31 am
Watching a chimney grow on the vertical extension of the house over the road.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 04 July, 2014, 10:51:49 am
Taking advantage of the fact that it's a bit blowy outside (and hasn't started raining ... yet) by washing bedsheets and the like.

I really need to go out for a spin but can't seem to summon the enthusiasm at the moment. Could be worse, I suppose, I could be at work ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 04 July, 2014, 10:53:20 am
Packing the car before we had off to the Rapha Tempest via Middlewich to pick up the campervan that we've hired  :thumbsup:
I'm sure I'm going to leave something behind.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 04 July, 2014, 11:12:49 am
Eating a chocolate filled donut.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 04 July, 2014, 06:49:05 pm
Recovering from a nasty bout of M$Word wrangling for MrsC.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 July, 2014, 06:51:20 pm
Wheezing and sulking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 July, 2014, 07:22:05 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 July, 2014, 06:51:20 pm
Wheezing and sulking.

 :(  Hope you are feeling 110% soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 July, 2014, 08:20:32 pm
Self medicating with Muscle Relaxant (with ice and slice of lemon) after having just driven home to Llandysul from Oberursel. 
Well, actually I've only driven from Thames Ditton today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 04 July, 2014, 09:08:57 pm
Deleting the very very very many job applications in my email account folder entitled Job Applications
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 July, 2014, 02:55:24 pm
Trying to work out if I can fit everything I need for a weeks tour into 1 bar bag and 1 carridice SQR thingy.

I have a feeling I might just be able to, might require some rationalising of the equipment taken, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 09 July, 2014, 03:07:40 pm
Just finished baking 36 mince pies, there not just for Christmas  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 09 July, 2014, 04:04:15 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 09 July, 2014, 02:55:24 pm
Trying to work out if I can fit everything I need for a weeks tour into 1 bar bag and 1 carridice SQR thingy.

I have a feeling I might just be able to, might require some rationalising of the equipment taken, though.

Use the Bob The Builder mantra...

"can we do it?"
"yes we can"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 10 July, 2014, 11:12:57 am
Pretending to be 'out'

Somebody is knocking on the door, he's holding a leaflet. I don't want my guttering/roof/tree/driveway fixing so ****off!

This plan may not work, he walked past and saw me sitting on my ipad. Nosey wanker.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 July, 2014, 11:22:43 am
En est en grève.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 10 July, 2014, 12:05:34 pm
I'm engaged in some proactive planning wrt carbo loading j.i.c. I do a ride of decent distance tomorrow or Saturday.

I've put a couple of bottles of Peroni in the fridge for Ron.....L8-ron
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 10 July, 2014, 12:08:03 pm
Just changed all the bedding on my bed. Takes a bit more planning with 1.sommet working arms
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 10 July, 2014, 12:29:36 pm
Gathering together the various odds and sods that need posting, pending a trip to the Post Office a bit later on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 10 July, 2014, 01:09:01 pm
Warming up my wheel building-fu, in anticipation of the the arrival of a new rim for the fixer.  At least it's not dished.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 10 July, 2014, 04:33:14 pm
Doing my expenses and trying to figure out where I misplaced 600 Rand. It's possible I sleepwalked and hired a zebra. It's also possible that Travelex miscounted – I thought it sounded a bit low when I cashed it in, but it was 6.30am and I was for all intents and purposes asleep. Oh well. There's no category in our mothership expenses system for stuff-you-can't-remember. There's not one for the somnambulistic hiring of wild animals in the furtherance of our business goals either. I should do a Powerpoint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 July, 2014, 02:45:10 pm
Fettling,in the sun :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 11 July, 2014, 04:22:47 pm
I'm house, dog, chicken and fish sitting ths weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 11 July, 2014, 04:32:30 pm
Having a wee cup of herbal tea before going out to watch The Handlebards with mchsroom, Jane notp, and The Boy  :D

Picnic is packed, drinks are chilled, got tickets.  Marvellous.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Thing2 on 11 July, 2014, 04:36:31 pm
Waiting for our flight to Denver, which is delayed.  :(

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 11 July, 2014, 05:11:59 pm
Quote from: Thing2 on 11 July, 2014, 04:36:31 pm
Waiting for our flight to Denver, which is delayed.  :(

That's to give them time to send your luggage to Phoenix.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 11 July, 2014, 08:25:16 pm
I've just prep'd the Longstaff for a ride to Derby tomorrow.
While I'm there I shall give this place

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=83478.msg1706090#msg1706090

a coat of looking at.

It's also very likely that I'll call at the rail station booking office to buy a ticket from Stoke to Manc.Piccadilly
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 July, 2014, 08:40:54 pm
Fighting off swarms of flying ants.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 11 July, 2014, 08:47:38 pm
Watching some 80s tunes on bbc4.

God they look young, and poorly dressed, and they need a haircut* ;D


*not just on one side of their heads either!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 11 July, 2014, 09:01:14 pm
Idly clicking through this site of webness: http://theworstthingsforsale.com/

It's funny and horrifying in equal measure, and a very valid reason for nuking organisations like Kickstarter from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 July, 2014, 09:03:14 pm
WritingTyping a letter.  Once I'm sure what I want to say, I may actually write it out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 July, 2014, 11:19:04 pm
Preparing for a swim in the wild outdoors tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 July, 2014, 05:45:43 pm
Watching Pete pretend to snooze in his new bed - after three goes, I've got one he'll deign to go near. And uploading a video of him playing with  dangly-feathers-on-a-stick toy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 12 July, 2014, 06:15:54 pm
Waiting for a thunderstorm which may or may not happen (with forecast 25-30mm of rain) or not. Humidity is very uncomfortable atm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 July, 2014, 06:25:12 pm
It's been unpleasantly humid here too all day. I'm enjoying the breeze that came with the rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 July, 2014, 11:30:39 am
Shedding tears over my kitteh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 13 July, 2014, 11:35:07 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 13 July, 2014, 11:30:39 am
Shedding tears over my kitteh.

:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 13 July, 2014, 11:45:48 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 13 July, 2014, 11:30:39 am
Shedding tears over my kitteh.

Hugs Mrs P  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 13 July, 2014, 12:20:25 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 13 July, 2014, 11:30:39 am
Shedding tears over my kitteh.

:(
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Post by: Kim on 13 July, 2014, 12:30:44 pm
 :(
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Post by: andrewc on 13 July, 2014, 12:44:15 pm
Sorry to hear that Mrs P  :(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 13 July, 2014, 03:59:41 pm
Thinking about the fact that I have not cycled the 120+ miles that I normally would have done this weekend, and that now that I have got my arse into gear to go for a short ride, the weather is looking decidedly threatening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 13 July, 2014, 04:04:48 pm
Listening to the cricket and feeling rather relieved that I didn't go down to Trent Bridge this morning - it started well enough but is now definitely a bit on the 'Zzzzzzz' side, even by Test cricket standards.
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Post by: peliroja on 13 July, 2014, 05:17:02 pm
Sorry, Mrs P. :(
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Post by: Dibdib on 13 July, 2014, 05:22:09 pm
Big hugs, Mrs P.
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Post by: Basil on 13 July, 2014, 05:46:27 pm
Sad times.  Hugs.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 July, 2014, 07:22:08 pm
Oh, um. She's still here, but....
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Post by: peliroja on 13 July, 2014, 07:24:13 pm
Hard times, Mrs P. Hugs and gentle scratches to little Pippin.
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Post by: Ruth on 15 July, 2014, 06:17:01 am
In theory, I'm reading the office before packing the last bits of my life, as I move house today.

In practice - looking at pictures of baby elephants in the womb  :facepalm:
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Post by: mcshroom on 15 July, 2014, 08:47:41 am
Hope everything goes smoothly today Ruthie. :)
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Post by: Canardly on 15 July, 2014, 10:55:10 am
Summoning up the energy to cut the garden hedges sigh....
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Post by: peliroja on 15 July, 2014, 11:35:37 am
Hoovering the washing machine. Oh, the joys of having pets.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 July, 2014, 12:52:09 pm
Twitching.  Alway do on a Tour rest day.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 15 July, 2014, 02:05:46 pm
Being totally underwhelmed at Sight Village in Birmingham.

This is I guess a good thing.   I obviously have enough usable sight negating the need for the clunky and bulky technology.

Pity the stand banners are generally not exactly low vision friendly.  :(
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Post by: ian on 15 July, 2014, 06:11:39 pm
Observing kitchen grot. Mould and ickery from condensation behind cupboards and appliances, while awaiting the arrival of Mr Asthma and his wheezy friends. Aspergillus spores are my kryptonite. They'll be blasting it clear tomorrow with Captain Steam and sugar soaping what's left into oblivion before repainting. To avoid this, I'm going to Didcot.
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Post by: barakta on 15 July, 2014, 07:51:23 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 15 July, 2014, 02:05:46 pm
Being totally underwhelmed at Sight Village in Birmingham.

This is I guess a good thing.   I obviously have enough usable sight negating the need for the clunky and bulky technology.

Pity the stand banners are generally not exactly low vision friendly.  :(
Shame I missed you - but work's been too too completely fecking mad and manic to justify escaping out to Sight Village today.  I'm thinking of nipping over tomorrow afternoon (on my day off) to buy coffee for a supplier person who's helping me with EPIC complex stuffs. 

I hear from those wot have been going for years that it isn't as good as it used to be in the good/bad old days and it's mostly commercial commercialness and has lost its community and supportive feel.

I've shockingly never managed to go before this year...

As for technology it is very difficult to get any nuance out of "open day" style events cos really you need a chat with a clued up person who will listen and believe you when you say despite Visual Acuity of "not much" you can still read print at X size and mobilise around areas (or in your case cycle) with not much issues - like partially deaf people you end up not liking the assistive tech more than you need it.  These days a lot of folk are just using regular tools on their win/mac system to adapt stuff as they go or zooming the size up with a monster screen.  Both VI folk I know at work now use monster screen and low res cos they'd prefer to use residual vision. 

Hell my vision's not officially bad with glasses but CTRL+Scroll is my best friend along with changing word's background colour on bad days...
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Post by: Ruth on 15 July, 2014, 09:48:04 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 15 July, 2014, 08:47:41 am
Hope everything goes smoothly today Ruthie. :)

Thanks McBandit  :-*

I don't know about smoothly. If it hadn't been for Daisyhill it wouldn't have gone at all. But 'tis done.

Note to self: you are vicious and eevul under stress. Watch your mouth  :-\
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Post by: mcshroom on 16 July, 2014, 12:25:39 pm
Well glad it's done then, and aren't we all like that when stressed :)

I'm currently speeding north on the ECML on the way home and getting ready to wave at lots of forumites as I pass through York, NTR and Darlo :D
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Post by: mcshroom on 16 July, 2014, 12:46:27 pm
Thought making a zero minute connection at Doncaster was too good to be true. Now stuck outside York station* waiting for the track circuits to be fixed :(

*Waves manically in the direction of the Crinklyden :)

[Eta]Now passing through Darlo. Waving in the direction of Ruthie's new house (I think) :)
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Post by: interzen on 16 July, 2014, 01:51:20 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 16 July, 2014, 12:46:27 pm
Thought making a zero minute connection at Doncaster was too good to be true. Now stuck outside York station* waiting for the track circuits to be fixed :(
That would explain the recently increased frequency of trains in general going past my bedroom window ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 July, 2014, 02:18:22 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 15 July, 2014, 06:17:01 am
In theory, I'm reading the office before packing the last bits of my life, as I move house today.

In practice - looking at pictures of baby elephants in the womb  :facepalm:
Are they washing cars?

I am nursing a snotty grandson. He is not well and is being very clingy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 July, 2014, 02:35:34 pm
Watching le Tour, obv.
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Post by: fields5069 on 16 July, 2014, 03:06:54 pm
Just about to collect my daughter from school! Then back to pretend work until I can justify shutting the lapdog down. Then the real lapdog will take over my lap, before I take him for a walk and maybe go for a short ride / tighten pedals / tighten cranks / worry about creaking which is probably the BB if it's nothing else and maybe I shouldn't ride 28 miles to work in the morning.
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Post by: jogler on 16 July, 2014, 06:38:25 pm
I can relate to this....

Quote from: Ruthie on 15 July, 2014, 09:48:04 pm
Note to self: you are vicious and eevul under stress. Watch your mouth  :-\

but,thanks to the influence of a good woman I managed to be less than my usual grumpy hostile bastard self this afternoon when I suspected that a bloke wearing spurs & riding a horse was equivocating wrt my car & the size of my wallet.

Quote from: mcshroom on 16 July, 2014, 12:25:39 pm
and aren't we all like that when stressed :)

I have an NVQ in that discipline.


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Post by: Ham on 16 July, 2014, 07:36:17 pm
[img]https://picasaweb.google.com/112931931188633879938/YACF?authkey=Gv1sRgCLbUvN2VkOLQgAE#6036728846232334882[img]

Picture hasn't worked but I have just complained that my chilli idly didn't have much if any...... Chilli. This might have been a bad move.
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Post by: Andrij on 16 July, 2014, 08:01:03 pm
Quote from: Ham on 16 July, 2014, 07:36:17 pm
[img]https://picasaweb.google.com/112931931188633879938/YACF?authkey=Gv1sRgCLbUvN2VkOLQgAE#6036728846232334882[img]

Popping in to the Ruskin on your way home?
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Post by: Ham on 16 July, 2014, 08:10:26 pm
Could do, in the fleece at the moment happy to roll back if you fancy one .. Call if you do
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Post by: mcshroom on 17 July, 2014, 12:43:36 pm
Sitting in the back garden drinking coffee, listening to TMS and reading about a man taking on the 1914 Giro route. I suppose there are good sides to being signed off work broken. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 July, 2014, 12:59:11 pm
Catching up with the text commentary of the cricket - you could play snooker on that wicket   :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 17 July, 2014, 02:53:43 pm
Organising an appointment with my GP surgery to have the staples out of my arm, after confirming with the hospital ward I was on that it should have been organised automagically but wasn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 July, 2014, 03:14:20 pm
Me?  Oh, I'm just cleaning cat poo out of the carpet.

We don't have cats. >:(
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Post by: delthebike on 17 July, 2014, 03:16:34 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 July, 2014, 03:14:20 pm
Me?  Oh, I'm just cleaning cat poo out of the carpet.

We don't have cats. >:(
It came through the Nye flap in the back door!  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 17 July, 2014, 03:19:49 pm
It came in on the wheel of Nye's buggy, to be exact.  From where it had been left on the doorstep. >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 17 July, 2014, 07:59:08 pm
Applying Sudocrem where the others cannot reach.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 17 July, 2014, 08:32:05 pm
Marinading in Banana Boat Aloe after sun lotion.   Carelessly got sunburned arms today.   :(   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 17 July, 2014, 08:50:33 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 17 July, 2014, 07:59:08 pm
Applying Sudocrem where the others cannot have no desire to reach.

ftfy
 ;)
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Post by: Canardly on 17 July, 2014, 09:17:48 pm
TVM  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 17 July, 2014, 09:48:30 pm
I hope your Tyranno sore ar$e becomes extinct very soon ;D
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Post by: spesh on 18 July, 2014, 12:29:23 am
Listening to what sounds like one hell of a thunderstorm that's inbound.
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Post by: Clare on 18 July, 2014, 12:39:26 am
Yes, it's a cracker isn't it. This could last a while.
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Post by: Jaded on 18 July, 2014, 02:11:27 am
Just passed us, along with the loudest thunderclap I've heard for many years. It was three miles away, roughly, so it will be interesting to see if our friends who live on the top of a hill three miles away in that direction are still there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 18 July, 2014, 07:40:40 am
I'm sitting here watching it pouring down, where's today's heat wave ???

No thunder yet!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 July, 2014, 08:27:54 am
Watching people who'd dressed for 32'c heat scatter as a very loud and enthusiastic thunderstorm breaks over them. Bit early in the day for this nonsense, what?

Sure is going to feel steamy once the sun comes out  :o

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 18 July, 2014, 06:07:44 pm
Slowly melting whilst musing over weather predictions which are outlining something akin to Noah's flood tonight, with 'continental' (i.e. Spanish or Greek type) storms. Mmmmm. Oh and with red pink lightning due to red dust from the Atlas mountains or some such. Last night was fairly interesting and noisy ...........so......? Course we are taking a cycling group to a a river festival on Sunday and the forecast is pants.  :(
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Post by: Steph on 18 July, 2014, 09:00:57 pm
Watching the lightning build up....and awaiting Monday, when I fly to Cuba.
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Post by: Canardly on 18 July, 2014, 09:05:47 pm
Oooh enjoy!
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Post by: jogler on 18 July, 2014, 09:14:26 pm
I'm checking out the efficiency of the various lights in my collection in preparation for after dark commuting.

ETA & contemplating the economies or otherwise of acquiring a decent battery charger & the appropriate quantity of the various sizes of re-chargeable batteries
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 18 July, 2014, 09:28:06 pm
Watching the light show over the North Downs.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 July, 2014, 10:27:31 pm
Listening to some very noisy weather.
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Post by: Kim on 18 July, 2014, 10:41:32 pm
Watching southerners talk about the weather, and wishing we had some.
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Post by: mcshroom on 18 July, 2014, 10:42:37 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 July, 2014, 10:41:32 pm
Watching southerners talk about the weather, and wishing we had some.
Same here. Just looks like it's due to be generally soggy here tomorrow but nothing exciting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 July, 2014, 10:51:13 pm
+1. Not all of it, just a little
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 July, 2014, 10:55:12 pm
Considering cake....
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Post by: Ruth on 18 July, 2014, 10:56:20 pm
Where's my thunderstorm?

I wanna thunderstorm!
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Post by: Gattopardo on 18 July, 2014, 11:04:27 pm
Here, last night and a few rumblings today.
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Post by: spesh on 18 July, 2014, 11:11:09 pm
Compared with last night's apocalyptic light-show, tonight's one is being a bit of a tease so far...
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Post by: interzen on 18 July, 2014, 11:14:56 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 18 July, 2014, 10:56:20 pm
Where's my thunderstorm?

I wanna thunderstorm!
This.
The wind has dropped over the past couple of hours and the air's so thick you could cut it into cubes and build houses with it. Matters aren't helped by the fact that  something has been spread on the fields on the other side of the railway line and it stinks to high heaven.

I'm pretty much resigned to tomorrow being an absolute washout, so if I am going to be stuck indoors then I want a decent light show by way of compensation.

ETA: a thunderstorm might shut the gobby cow next door up too - she has a voice that would etch glass and her laughing friends sound like someone running a chainsaw through a herd of camels.
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Post by: Basil on 19 July, 2014, 12:29:37 am
Lying in my bed, listening to The Chimes of Freedom Flashing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 July, 2014, 12:36:13 am
Licking the spoon...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 July, 2014, 12:52:44 am
Had some good thunder and let's-build-an-ark-stylee rain around 3am Friday in E17, but Fri pm into Sat am in GU22 has consisted of two flashes of lightning, a half-hearted shower and a plethora of mosquitoes.  I predict I will be Eated as soon as I turn the light off chiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 19 July, 2014, 06:47:06 am
Wondering where the storm went and watching 'real' time lightning strikes on

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 19 July, 2014, 11:07:03 am
We had thunders and lightnings all last night (or that what it felt like)
However, doing ParkRun this morning we realised that it hasn't cooled down nor has the humidity reduced.
Soggy
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Post by: jogler on 19 July, 2014, 11:50:48 am
I'm listening to legs & brain having a dialogue to try to reach a mutual consent wrt rrty
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 July, 2014, 02:23:57 pm
Listening to moar thunder. It's like the tropics here - kicks off mid-afternoon in the steamy heat. Loving it (from indoors).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 July, 2014, 02:37:45 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 20 July, 2014, 02:23:57 pm
Listening to moar thunder. It's like the tropics here - kicks off mid-afternoon in the steamy heat. Loving it (from indoors).
We're at the 'steamy heat' stage ATM - it's been spitting in a half-hearted way but what's needed is a thunderpocalypse like the one which stopped me sleeping last night; it was lovely and fresh this morning as a result but now it's absolutely stifling.

Also listening to the cricket - seems the thing to do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 July, 2014, 02:37:50 pm
Digesting whitebait and veal Holstein.

BURP.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 20 July, 2014, 07:54:00 pm
Sitting in my new backyard with a well-earned glass of chilled white.

The family next door have their bathroom window open, and it's the kids' bath time.  Dad is telling the kids a story while they're in the bath.  He's doing the voices, and everything  ;D ;D ;D  So bloody cute.

I wish my kids had had a dad like that  :)
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Post by: Ruth on 20 July, 2014, 07:55:18 pm
Is there anything more infectious than a small child giggling helplessly?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 20 July, 2014, 07:58:00 pm
"Right, you get some sleep, Princess Stinkypants!"

Which Disney movie was that again?
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Post by: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 08:08:01 pm
Ah sounds really nice.

Making pasta with atta flour.
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Post by: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 08:08:53 pm
Sounds like you have some decent new neighbours there :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 20 July, 2014, 08:16:47 pm
And the basis of an above-average Disney film...
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Post by: numbnuts on 20 July, 2014, 08:52:27 pm
Kicking myself I should have bought THIS (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Inspired-Cycle-Engineering-recumbent-trike-/261538066559?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item3ce4e2307f&nma=true&si=Fm4q65OZ2501Z3p6q9Huxd71ntQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557)
but I think is has to be over 10 years old, but it looks OK.
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Post by: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 09:38:43 pm
Staring at shiny carbon as our C2W window at work opens tomorrow morning.
Things like this: -
(http://www.planetx.co.uk/imgs/products/px/950_constW/CBPXSLP105_P1.jpg)

Of course, I can't actually ride the bikes I have at the moment :facepalm:
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Post by: Ruth on 20 July, 2014, 09:53:04 pm
You need it.  You know you do.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 10:01:03 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 09:38:43 pm
Staring at shiny carbon as our C2W window at work opens tomorrow morning.
Things like this: -
(http://www.planetx.co.uk/imgs/products/px/950_constW/CBPXSLP105_P1.jpg)

Of course, I can't actually ride the bikes I have at the moment :facepalm:

It's more fragile than you  :-*
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2014, 10:47:58 pm
The violent thunderstorm which I narrowly avoided while cycling today deposited over 17mm rain in about 2 hours. I arrived home about 2 minutes before it got serious. Part of me wishes I had still been in the park, just to see how quickly  the thousands of people gathered there could be dispersed. On balance I am glad I was home and dry thougH.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 10:55:29 pm
Eating mouldy bread....will I die?
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Post by: Ruth on 20 July, 2014, 11:22:12 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 10:55:29 pm
Eating mouldy bread....will I die?

Yes.  100% certainty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 11:27:03 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 10:01:03 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 09:38:43 pm
Staring at shiny carbon as our C2W window at work opens tomorrow morning.
Things like this: -
(http://www.planetx.co.uk/imgs/products/px/950_constW/CBPXSLP105_P1.jpg)

Of course, I can't actually ride the bikes I have at the moment :facepalm:

It's more fragile than you  :-*
It looks rather less broken than me though. More worried about whether it would dissolve in the Cumbrian climate ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 11:31:27 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 20 July, 2014, 11:22:12 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 10:55:29 pm
Eating mouldy bread....will I die?

Yes.  100% certainty.

Of course! ;D
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Post by: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 11:43:44 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 20 July, 2014, 11:22:12 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 10:55:29 pm
Eating mouldy bread....will I die?

Yes.  100% certainty.

 :-[ :-*

Reading some things on the net, it will cause imminent DETH.   It is only a few specks and its toast bread anyway so meh.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 11:45:46 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 11:27:03 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 10:01:03 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 09:38:43 pm
Staring at shiny carbon as our C2W window at work opens tomorrow morning.
Things like this: -
(http://www.planetx.co.uk/imgs/products/px/950_constW/CBPXSLP105_P1.jpg)

Of course, I can't actually ride the bikes I have at the moment :facepalm:

It's more fragile than you  :-*
It looks rather less broken than me though. More worried about whether it would dissolve in the Cumbrian climate ;)

Carbon doesn't rust.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 11:52:18 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 11:45:46 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 11:27:03 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 20 July, 2014, 10:01:03 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 09:38:43 pm
Staring at shiny carbon as our C2W window at work opens tomorrow morning.
Things like this: -
Of course, I can't actually ride the bikes I have at the moment :facepalm:

It's more fragile than you  :-*
It looks rather less broken than me though. More worried about whether it would dissolve in the Cumbrian climate ;)

Carbon doesn't rust.....

But as any fule know it dissolves in the rain ;D
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Post by: Polar Bear on 21 July, 2014, 05:51:54 am
Pouring with sweat after my early morning run.   A new pb for PB...   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 21 July, 2014, 08:49:15 am
Trying to summon up enthusiasm to complete a monthly sales forecast AND 2 doses of income tax return by the end of the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 21 July, 2014, 08:49:36 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 09:38:43 pm
Staring at shiny carbon as our C2W window at work opens tomorrow morning.
Things like this: -
(http://www.planetx.co.uk/imgs/products/px/950_constW/CBPXSLP105_P1.jpg)

Of course, I can't actually ride the bikes I have at the moment :facepalm:


They're advertising it in the Comic with full Ultegra 6800 at £999. There are several builds available at that price, but that's the best.

Edit to add: it's not the Comic, it's the Summer Cycling Plus, page 119, "Turn it up to 11". £999.99.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 21 July, 2014, 08:53:59 am
Quote from: TimC on 21 July, 2014, 08:49:36 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 09:38:43 pm
Staring at shiny carbon as our C2W window at work opens tomorrow morning.
Things like this: -
(http://www.planetx.co.uk/imgs/products/px/950_constW/CBPXSLP105_P1.jpg)

Of course, I can't actually ride the bikes I have at the moment :facepalm:


They're advertising it in the Comic with full Ultegra 6800 at £999. There are several builds available at that price, but that's the best.
I think it's 6700, but they are sold out in all sizes already.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 21 July, 2014, 09:09:19 am
Sat in a contractors office in Oman, the boss is at an embassy, my key contact is out of the office and the CAD guy has just disappeared for what I assume is a lunch break though with it being Ramadan that may not be the case.

Thumb twiddling here we go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 21 July, 2014, 09:10:54 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 21 July, 2014, 08:53:59 am
Quote from: TimC on 21 July, 2014, 08:49:36 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 09:38:43 pm
Staring at shiny carbon as our C2W window at work opens tomorrow morning.
Things like this: -
(http://www.planetx.co.uk/imgs/products/px/950_constW/CBPXSLP105_P1.jpg)

Of course, I can't actually ride the bikes I have at the moment :facepalm:


They're advertising it in the Comic with full Ultegra 6800 at £999. There are several builds available at that price, but that's the best.
I think it's 6700, but they are sold out in all sizes already.

Ah, see my edit above. It was 6800! The 6700 version currently offered uses a non-series chainset and brakes, so the 105 5700 build is probably just as good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 22 July, 2014, 07:43:52 am
Planning my route to the hairdresser's on Google Streetview.

In theory it's 1.9 miles and should take 11 minutes.

Ha.  We'll see about that!  I'm sure I can extend that by a couple of hours by the time I've got lost  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 July, 2014, 08:36:13 am
You could try following the route on streetview and look at all the landmarks on the corners.

Or go by bike! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 22 July, 2014, 08:51:43 am
Oh, it was a bike route I was planning.  If I could find ANY of my bike locks, I might even be able to ride it.

I can't walk it.  The Foot won't allow it  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 July, 2014, 09:37:37 am
Our daughter has just phoned, from Melbourne. She has settled in extremely well, finds the people very welcoming and generous and has seen a possum up a tree that had and anti-possum device fitted to its trunk. Oh, and a koala.

She is involved in some project researching the amount of sugar in canned fizzy drinks and the worst example she has found contains in one can more than the WHO recommended daily allowance.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 24 July, 2014, 11:03:27 am
Regretting being unable to attend the Didcot week end.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 July, 2014, 01:11:13 pm
The train ahead of us is on fire!
Guard says we may go back to Cardiff.
Bugger!
This could take some time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 24 July, 2014, 01:12:52 pm
Quote from: Basil on 24 July, 2014, 01:11:13 pm
The train ahead of us is on fire!

Considering the thread this is in, what have you been doing? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: delthebike on 24 July, 2014, 03:26:54 pm
Filling up my empty legs with fruit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 24 July, 2014, 04:26:07 pm
Filling myself with water - hot weather and diabetes really don't mix; staying hydrated is a major challenge and my blood sugars are bouncing all over the place  >:(

I've just come back from the post office - a mile round trip, if that, and I think I'll have to skip washing the clothes I'm wearing and just burn them instead  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 24 July, 2014, 06:59:19 pm
Quote from: TimC on 21 July, 2014, 09:10:54 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 21 July, 2014, 08:53:59 am
Quote from: TimC on 21 July, 2014, 08:49:36 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 20 July, 2014, 09:38:43 pm
Staring at shiny carbon as our C2W window at work opens tomorrow morning.
Things like this: -
(http://www.planetx.co.uk/imgs/products/px/950_constW/CBPXSLP105_P1.jpg)

Of course, I can't actually ride the bikes I have at the moment :facepalm:


They're advertising it in the Comic with full Ultegra 6800 at £999. There are several builds available at that price, but that's the best.
I think it's 6700, but they are sold out in all sizes already.

Ah, see my edit above. It was 6800! The 6700 version currently offered uses a non-series chainset and brakes, so the 105 5700 build is probably just as good.

Yes, they briefly sold the 6800 version for £999, before bumping the price up. Now they've introduced the "limited edition" lower spec version for the same price the 6800 one used to be. :-\ Though if the tyres and bar tape were purple, I'd probably be coveting it. ::-)

Personally, I'm eyeing up the SRAM rival one, for similar cyclescheme reasons (I fancy trying SRAM because I think the shifters might be more comfy than Shimano ones. Plus it comes with a 32t rear sprocket as standard!).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 25 July, 2014, 03:12:46 am
Not sleeping.

Stupid branes.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 July, 2014, 05:00:29 am
Wondering about what the tripod cat is up to.  Suspect he maybe ill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 25 July, 2014, 04:20:11 pm
Cooling down and rehydrating  in the artists village at womad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 25 July, 2014, 11:14:08 pm
Eating berries and yoghurt* in preparation for the FNRttC reccy.
Can't say I'm looking forward to it since it'll be a solo ride.

* Don't worry, I had sausages earlier  :)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 July, 2014, 11:55:58 pm
Hope it goes well!

I am waiting for the coffee cake to cook, so that there'll be space in the oven and the big cake tins available to make a batch of St Clements.  Chocobananananana is in.

*twiddles thumbs*

When I am RICH I shall have 2 ovens (the crappy 'double oven' doesn't count) and a kitchen big enough for 2 sets of cake tins.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 July, 2014, 01:59:02 am
Melting chocolate.

And bollocks to Paul and the sainted Mary.... the microwave is absolutely fine for the job.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 July, 2014, 09:12:04 am
The last time I stayed at your place you were baking at 2 in the morning. :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 July, 2014, 09:25:51 am
This morning's schedule:

cup of tea
dog walk
shower
get suited
drive to church
watch a wedding
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 26 July, 2014, 09:59:58 am
Wasting time shopping for kitchen clocks on the Internet.

I started out looking for bicycle clocks. 

Ended up thinking about this:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/183352915/the-smiths-record-clock-ask-from?ref=listing-5

Or this:

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/129283560/queen-vinyl-record-clock-bicycle-race-7?ref=sr_gallery_33&ga_search_query=bicycle+clock&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery

But these are nice:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/189561976/recycled-bike-chainring-and-45-record?ref=sr_gallery_26&ga_search_query=bicycle+gear+clock&ga_page=3&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 July, 2014, 10:18:33 am
Loading up the_car with telly, VCR player, the lawnmower that I killed yesterday, a naff plastic coldframe and lots of broken plant pots ready for a visit to the dump in Lampeter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 26 July, 2014, 11:45:13 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 25 July, 2014, 11:55:58 pm
Hope it goes well!



It did thanks  :thumbsup:.
The weather was the exact opposite of last time and, even at 05.30, Morecambe Bay was extremely attractive.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 26 July, 2014, 01:55:06 pm
Sitting by Peter Gabriel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 26 July, 2014, 02:06:23 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 26 July, 2014, 01:55:06 pm
Sitting by Peter Gabriel.

Is this the beginning of a dark side brickwall friendship?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 July, 2014, 05:39:32 pm
Digesting beef Wellington. There is a sweepstake for the total length of speeches. I plumped forces 42 min 42 sec.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 July, 2014, 07:24:32 pm
Way out. 25 main approx.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 26 July, 2014, 09:45:29 pm
Chasing a fly around the lounge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 26 July, 2014, 09:59:26 pm
Squashing weevils.

They're eating my flowers so I have to sneak out with a torch every 30 minutes and 'EXTERMINATE' them. I've been doing this for three weeks now!

They're just so bloomin' slow, it's taking forever.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 July, 2014, 10:20:09 pm
My 4 siblings have taken to the dance floor. Mrs. Wow and I have failed to emulate them, despite the crooner being Herman of Hermits fame.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrew Br on 26 July, 2014, 11:03:42 pm
Wondering why I don't feel sleepy enough to warrant going to bed yet.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 July, 2014, 12:19:25 pm
On the train to Glasgow, on the way to the Chris Hoy  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 July, 2014, 12:20:41 pm
Killing time at Crewe station awaiting my chariot for Embra.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2014, 09:03:56 pm
Loading tracks onto the Garmin, and generally feeling knackered. Thinking about the fact that this time tomorrow we will be in Harwich and about to board the ferry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 July, 2014, 09:20:18 pm
After some hard work in the garden,  I am rewarding myself with a bonfire.
Next to it I have set up a garden chair and a little table, on which I have placed two very large pancake rolls, two bottles of Old Speckled Hen, a glass, an opener, fags, my phone playing chunes and this nexus.
Slowly feeding the fire and getting tipsy.

Sometimes life is quite OK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 July, 2014, 09:25:17 pm
Quote from: Basil on 27 July, 2014, 09:20:18 pm
After some hard work in the garden,  I am rewarding myself with a bonfire.
Next to it I have set up a garden chair and a little table, on which I have placed two very large pancake rolls, two bottles of Old Speckled Hen, a glass, an opener, fags, my phone playing chunes and this nexus.
Slowly feeding the fire and getting tipsy.

Sometimes life is quite OK.

You're going to be eaten alive by mozzies.

Oh no - wait! The Bonfire. I see... cunning...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 27 July, 2014, 10:29:35 pm
Mulling over whether a cycle tour in the UK in November would be a sensible idea or not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jogler on 28 July, 2014, 03:25:56 pm
^^^^

That is deserving of it's own thread
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2014, 04:09:23 pm
Being disorganised when it would be better if I were organised. We have to catch a train in under 3 hours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 July, 2014, 10:06:42 pm
Playing chess with Lewis chess pieces.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2014, 10:28:47 pm
Eating Stena cake and drinking Stena coffee. We booked a cabin with a view and ended up in one with three extra beds and a view.. If they'd told me that we could have brought three extra people along.

We just witnessed possibly the most vicious public humiliation of a spouse that I think I have ever seen: "Do you work at being rude or does it come naturally?" said she, very loudly and right in the middle of a crowded restaurant. The poor bloke was visibly crushed. From what I could gather his crime was failing to hear something that had been said to him.

There is a party of about 90 cyclists who are participating in a 5-day tour organised by Bike Events.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 July, 2014, 12:05:51 am
I have just enjoyed a fantastic shower (these ferries' showers are marvellous) and will soon be off to the Land of Nod, which is about half way between Harwich and the Hook.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 29 July, 2014, 09:52:52 am
Waving at the trains passing the office, in case they contain a Wowbagger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 July, 2014, 11:55:50 am
We are cycling today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Thing2 on 29 July, 2014, 12:17:06 pm
Waiting to be grumpy at BA staff who have a little overbooking situation on their hands.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 29 July, 2014, 12:55:22 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 29 July, 2014, 11:55:50 am
We are cycling today.

So I should have looked at the cycle path that goes past the office?  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 29 July, 2014, 01:17:30 pm
Quote from: Thing2 on 29 July, 2014, 12:17:06 pm
Waiting to be grumpy at BA staff who have a little overbooking situation on their hands.  >:(

Ooh - be nice, and you can probably do quite well out of that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Thing2 on 30 July, 2014, 02:18:37 am
Quote from: Chris S on 29 July, 2014, 01:17:30 pm
Quote from: Thing2 on 29 July, 2014, 12:17:06 pm
Waiting to be grumpy at BA staff who have a little overbooking situation on their hands.  >:(

Ooh - be nice, and you can probably do quite well out of that.

We managed to get on our flight, eventually. Given we both need to be at work tomorrow, we were quite relieved. We were nice to the check in staff though! The American in front of us was exceedingly grumpy!
Now we just need to get home, eat, collect the tandem and start processing washing.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 30 July, 2014, 08:44:28 am
Sitting in the dentist waiting room before my root canal watching news about Gaza. 

Cripes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 30 July, 2014, 08:55:02 am
Sitting in the doctor's waiting room - kind of annoying as I'm not even ill but need to have my prescription modified so I can get the necessary odds and ends for my new blood glucose monitor  ::-) I shouldn't have to see a doctor to do that, but I do ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 July, 2014, 09:57:09 am
Using wifi in der trein. It's a bit troublesome but better than most UK trains.

It was a hell of a fight getting the tandem on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 30 July, 2014, 10:07:50 pm
Looking at Pompino frames, again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 30 July, 2014, 10:16:07 pm
There's someone selling a medium frame Pompino over on the CTC forum - just saying :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 30 July, 2014, 10:25:19 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 30 July, 2014, 10:16:07 pm
There's someone selling a medium frame Pompino over on the CTC forum - just saying :demon:

I saw that one - too blue. I only like the matt raw ones! ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 01 August, 2014, 01:49:07 pm
Printing and laminating stuff. A sure sign that there is a Scout camp starting at the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 01 August, 2014, 01:57:58 pm
Quote from: Vince on 01 August, 2014, 01:49:07 pm
Printing and laminating stuff. A sure sign that there is a Scout camp starting at the weekend.

Ooh. I've got one of they, but it's not me organising. Wherabouts is your camp? (vague recollection you're in NL)  I'm Coming To Tolmers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 01 August, 2014, 02:01:43 pm
The Cheshire Jamboree, wittily called the Chamboree.

So I'm actually printing someone else's stuff, which makes a change.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 01 August, 2014, 02:12:14 pm
Resting with a cup of tea after my walk, didn't fancy a ride today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 01 August, 2014, 10:34:14 pm
Lying in bed listening to the Tattoo fireworks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 02 August, 2014, 03:28:47 pm
Watching a rather good rain deluge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 August, 2014, 03:31:38 pm
Trying to write what I want to say at a deputation to the policy & strategy committee on Tuesday morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 August, 2014, 03:35:39 pm
Cleaning up my digital music library (adding album artwork, correcting diacriticals, etc.).  How have I ended up with no Wall of Voodoo CDs in my collection?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 02 August, 2014, 11:53:20 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 02 August, 2014, 03:35:39 pm
Cleaning up my digital music library (adding album artwork, correcting diacriticals, etc.).  How have I ended up with no Wall of Voodoo CDs in my collection?
Blimey, are they still going? I saw them back in, ooh must have been 1981, at the Lyceum, or perhaps The Hammersmith Palais.  Cracking cover of "Ring of Fire".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 August, 2014, 09:54:39 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 02 August, 2014, 11:53:20 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 02 August, 2014, 03:35:39 pm
Cleaning up my digital music library (adding album artwork, correcting diacriticals, etc.).  How have I ended up with no Wall of Voodoo CDs in my collection?
Blimey, are they still going? I saw them back in, ooh must have been 1981, at the Lyceum, or perhaps The Hammersmith Palais.  Cracking cover of "Ring of Fire".

Sadly, they are no longer a going concern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Voodoo#After_1988).  I was reminded of them recently because of a discussion of cover version of "Ring of Fire" (Social Distortion also get honourable mention (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BaksqH2YXQ)).  Having a quick read of wikipedia, I now realise I first heard Wall of Voodoo after they had split up.

[new topic] Meeting someone for lunch next Sunday so trying to find a Thames-side pub with decent vegetarian options.  I'm struggling.  (We did Mayflower last time; Cutty Sark scores poorly for veggie.)  Anyone know how The Angle (Rotherhithe) scores for food?  I've only ever drunk in that one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 04 August, 2014, 12:40:36 am
Quote from: Andrij on 03 August, 2014, 09:54:39 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 02 August, 2014, 11:53:20 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 02 August, 2014, 03:35:39 pm
Cleaning up my digital music library (adding album artwork, correcting diacriticals, etc.).  How have I ended up with no Wall of Voodoo CDs in my collection?
Blimey, are they still going? I saw them back in, ooh must have been 1981, at the Lyceum, or perhaps The Hammersmith Palais.  Cracking cover of "Ring of Fire".

Sadly, they are no longer a going concern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Voodoo#After_1988).  I was reminded of them recently because of a discussion of cover version of "Ring of Fire" (Social Distortion also get honourable mention (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BaksqH2YXQ)).  Having a quick read of wikipedia, I now realise I first heard Wall of Voodoo after they had split up.

[new topic] Meeting someone for lunch next Sunday so trying to find a Thames-side pub with decent vegetarian options.  I'm struggling.  (We did Mayflower last time; Cutty Sark scores poorly for veggie.)  Anyone know how The Angle (Rotherhithe) scores for food?  I've only ever drunk in that one.

It's a Sam Smiths house so probably a bit mediocre, though you might want to ask someone who knows rather than rely on my prejudices.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 August, 2014, 08:21:51 am
We've agreed drinks on the river, food a bit inland.  Problem solved. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruth on 04 August, 2014, 09:24:28 am
Listening to the men install my second bike locker. Apparently they don't have the right drill. It's in Leeds. So they want to come back another time.

A quick polite phone call by me to head office. The drill will be here soon and my locker installed at once.

I should bloody well think so too.

I'm sick of being nice about this stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 August, 2014, 06:58:55 pm
Mucking arround with iTunes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 August, 2014, 01:28:24 pm
Printing travel docs, then going to the physio-terrorist to see if he can sort out my sciatica.  Mrs T has told me, in no uncertain terms, that she is not going on holiday with me if I am hobbling around like a geriatric!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 05 August, 2014, 02:38:58 pm
Quote from: interzen on 30 July, 2014, 08:55:02 am
Sitting in the doctor's waiting room - kind of annoying as I'm not even ill but need to have my prescription modified so I can get the necessary odds and ends for my new blood glucose monitor  ::-) I shouldn't have to see a doctor to do that, but I do ...

Oh what meter ya got?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 August, 2014, 03:31:58 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 05 August, 2014, 01:28:24 pm
Printing travel docs, then going to the physio-terrorist to see if he can sort out my sciatica.  Mrs T has told me, in no uncertain terms, that she is not going on holiday with me if I am hobbling around like a geriatric!

Back now.

The good news is that the bits that hurt before now don't hurt.

The bad news is thatbnew bits now hurt!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 August, 2014, 02:07:13 pm
Trying to summon sufficient mojo to go for a ride in the last of the warm sunshine before the Weather arrives...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 August, 2014, 02:09:06 pm
Feeling pleased that I managed to make it out on the bike with the local club this morning. I was thinking of absent friends.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 August, 2014, 10:30:23 pm
Listening to the beat frequency of dozens of burglar alarms.  We had a power glitch about 5 minutes ago, and they all went off at once.  As it's not term time, there's nobody to turn them off.

Just stuck my SPL meter out of the window, and got a reading of ~90dBA   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 August, 2014, 11:15:00 pm
Aching & stiffening up.  I fetched a load of junk out of my loft, down a ladder, then down 8 flights of stairs & pedaled it to the recycling centre. 

My back did not enjoy this.  I can see myself having problems getting out of bed in the morning !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 August, 2014, 01:31:14 pm
Just home from a 24½ hour shift at the Belbroughton control. 
I think I'll have a little lie down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 August, 2014, 07:12:22 am
Re-appraising myself of how much it sucks to get the bus to work :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 August, 2014, 01:55:18 pm
Looking at the house up the road, and drooling. Yacf commune, anyone? :)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47327375.html

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 11 August, 2014, 09:04:48 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 11 August, 2014, 01:55:18 pm
Looking at the house up the road, and drooling. Yacf commune, anyone? :)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47327375.html

They not doing BOGOF then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 August, 2014, 12:15:18 am
Loitering within tent with Cubs. And thinking of many forumites who have contributed to the venture. Nikki has provided transport and more than her fair share of gumption. She's trialling the laser comp that I bought due to a tip on the classifieds board. It is being held to its pitch with better than oem pegs provided by interzen - who also gave the Cubs the camping lanterns we used to llight the way earlier. The alpkit mats were recommended by Kim. I am glamping it up with an airbed andpillow I borrowed from CrinklyUncle and CrinklyAuntie who have also lent us some chairs. We have a groundsheet provided by Peli and Woolly. And of course our palatial behemoth of a tent was donated by Ruthie in her latest house move clearout, and delivered to the Den by Mcshroom on his way to a FNRttC. It's like crowdsourcing...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 August, 2014, 12:20:25 am
Ah, you went and did a camping trip anyway?  Good stuff.  Wish I could be there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 August, 2014, 12:31:17 am
Yeah... we decided we could squeeze a couple or three nights in and opted for the car and keeping it simple. We'll have to reschedule the bike version for when people are free. You'll be pleased to hear that there's no peacock on this site. Sheep are pretty noisy tho...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 14 August, 2014, 07:40:35 am
excellent, the baby in the hotel room next door has just stopped screaming.  It's been going since 4.30 with no audible attempts from parent/s to help it.

Aaaaand there's my alarm.  Who needs sleep anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 14 August, 2014, 09:59:29 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 14 August, 2014, 12:15:18 am
Loitering within tent with Cubs.

Just had a week camping with the Scouts, but I'm still a tad jealous. Enjoy and hope the weather is kind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 14 August, 2014, 11:12:06 am
Going through the trauma of UCAS clearing with Pcolbeck junior who didn’t get the grades he needed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 August, 2014, 11:45:15 am
Wondering why cars are still a) made and b) bought in poo brown colour. It's not the 70's anymore, other colours are available ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 14 August, 2014, 11:51:55 am
Quote from: pcolbeck on 14 August, 2014, 11:12:06 am
Going through the trauma of UCAS clearing with Pcolbeck junior who didn’t get the grades he needed.

Ouch, what does he want to study?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 14 August, 2014, 12:05:08 pm
Quote from: matthew on 14 August, 2014, 11:51:55 am
Quote from: pcolbeck on 14 August, 2014, 11:12:06 am
Going through the trauma of UCAS clearing with Pcolbeck junior who didn’t get the grades he needed.

Ouch, what does he want to study?

Computer Science. He aimed high and needed AAA to get into York or AAB for Sheffield. He got BBC so both said no .....

Then unbelievably he just got an unsolicited Email from the computer department at York saying that whilst they wouldn’t offer him a place on the Computer Science course how did he fancy a place on their Interactive Media BSc course and if he did fancy it here's an unconditional offer !
The lad must have impressed the hell out of them at his interview as you need AAB for that course !
He hadn't considered this course before but to be honest its right up his street as he likes doing arty stuff as well as tech. He's over the moon and Mrs Pcolbeck is in floods of tears with the relief.
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Post by: tiermat on 14 August, 2014, 12:17:28 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 14 August, 2014, 12:05:08 pm
Quote from: matthew on 14 August, 2014, 11:51:55 am
Quote from: pcolbeck on 14 August, 2014, 11:12:06 am
Going through the trauma of UCAS clearing with Pcolbeck junior who didn’t get the grades he needed.

Ouch, what does he want to study?

Computer Science. He aimed high and needed AAA to get into York or AAB for Sheffield. He got BBC so both said no .....

Then unbelievably he just got an unsolicited Email from the computer department at York saying that whilst they wouldn’t offer him a place on the Computer Science course how did he fancy a place on their Interactive Media BSc course and if he did fancy it here's an unconditional offer !
The lad must have impressed the hell out of them at his interview as you need AAB for that course !
He hadn't considered this course before but to be honest its right up his street as he likes doing arty stuff as well as tech. He's over the moon and Mrs Pcolbeck is in floods of tears with the relief.

I would bite York's hand off.

Why?

CS has one of the highest drop out rates of any course.  Do the first semester of Interactive Media.  If he likes it, stay with the course, if he doesn't, apply to transfer, job done.

How do I know this? I was told the same, many years ago by the Uni (unofficially) but it was Maths in my case, not IM*.

*One of my biggest regrets in this world is that I didn't take them up, real life and the lure of filthy lucre got in way.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 August, 2014, 01:04:45 pm
He has indeed bitten their hand off :)
Now he just needs to pass his driving test so he can get there every day ....
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Post by: Kim on 14 August, 2014, 01:53:55 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 14 August, 2014, 11:45:15 am
Wondering why cars are still a) made and b) bought in poo brown colour. It's not the 70's anymore, other colours are available ...

As long as they're grey.
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Post by: clarion on 14 August, 2014, 03:01:44 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 14 August, 2014, 12:15:18 am
Loitering within tent with Cubs. And thinking of many forumites who have contributed to the venture. Nikki has provided transport and more than her fair share of gumption. She's trialling the laser comp that I bought due to a tip on the classifieds board. It is being held to its pitch with better than oem pegs provided by interzen - who also gave the Cubs the camping lanterns we used to llight the way earlier. The alpkit mats were recommended by Kim. I am glamping it up with an airbed andpillow I borrowed from CrinklyUncle and CrinklyAuntie who have also lent us some chairs. We have a groundsheet provided by Peli and Woolly. And of course our palatial behemoth of a tent was donated by Ruthie in her latest house move clearout, and delivered to the Den by Mcshroom on his way to a FNRttC. It's like crowdsourcing...
Yay camping!  And yay forumites!
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Post by: clarion on 14 August, 2014, 03:24:24 pm
I'm waiting for the rain to stop so we can go buy some train tickets.
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Post by: tiermat on 14 August, 2014, 03:26:33 pm
@Clarion, do they only sell train tickets when the sun is shining now? I hope not or that may cutail my train borne expolits...

As for what I am doing, I am clockwatching, roll on this time tomorrow, when I will be driving home to start my holibobs.
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Post by: Aidan on 14 August, 2014, 05:41:56 pm
I'm eating beans on toast for tea.

I love beans on toast
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Post by: clarion on 14 August, 2014, 09:13:20 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 14 August, 2014, 03:26:33 pm
@Clarion, do they only sell train tickets when the sun is shining now? I hope not or that may cutail my train borne expolits...

Nah, but it were silin dahn, and t'bairn'd want a laik whilst as I were buyin.
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Post by: benborp on 16 August, 2014, 01:53:57 am
I'm in a hotel. This is not my room. There is someone else in it. They snore. I'm tired, hungry and thirsty but cannot charge anything to the room. Charging to the room is the only means of gaining sustenance. My reservation for tomorrow has also been mistakenly cancelled. There is a club outside called ST1.
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Post by: T42 on 16 August, 2014, 09:22:53 am
Inlaw-Paw-sitting. Wife's out. I'd like to go clean my bike but the gent is 97 & not very nippy on his pins, could cowp over any sec, so I can't disappear into the workshop. Oh well, I did have a week away cycling while she dad-sat.
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Post by: interzen on 16 August, 2014, 10:21:45 am
Fiddling with the lighting/charging setup on the fixed 29er - I've had to move the headlight onto the handlebars so I can use my handlebar harness without putting a nasty sharp bend in the brake hoses. This in turns means rewiring things, which in turn means a) getting enough wire (about 12" worth) to actually connect the thing to the dynamo and b) trying to remember where I left my soldering iron so I can splice things together.

Very shortly I shall be heading out because it turns out that I don't have any heatshrink left  ::-)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 August, 2014, 03:56:12 pm
Using the interwebs to switch my energy providers.
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Post by: SteveC on 17 August, 2014, 08:16:35 pm
Sitting in a tent in the Black Forest drinking beer.  :smug:
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Post by: peliroja on 17 August, 2014, 08:54:16 pm
Wheezing.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 August, 2014, 05:36:21 pm
Sorting through the Anbaric Gubbins I will (probably) need in USAnia:

12' US mains extension lead, US -> UK adapter, UK-stylee 4-gang, mains -> USB wall wart, travel kettle
2 x phones, charger, charger adapter wossname to fit newer phone
4 x USB memory sticks
Barclays PINSentry card reader
Camera, USB lead
Car 12V to 2 x 12V socket + 2 x USB adapter
Generic USB extension cable
iPad Mini, USB <-> Lightning lead
iPod, car 12V to Apple 30-pin adapter, 3.5mm aux lead, headphones
Kindle, USB lead
Netbook, power supply, Bluetooth dongle, 500Gb USB 3.0 external disk, 4 port powered USB hub, USB trackball, network cable
Sat-nav, 12V car adapter, base1, USB to PC lead

Have I forgotten anything ;D

1 - Not actually anbaric but excites LHR security types if carried in hand baggage...
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Post by: Basil on 19 August, 2014, 05:55:58 pm
Finding that I must have something in my eye, or something, after rereading Si_Co's eulogy again.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 August, 2014, 09:16:47 pm
Watching Alistair Darling getting gubbed.
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Post by: Vince on 26 August, 2014, 02:21:49 pm
Applying a system update to my phone.

Will it ever work again?
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Post by: Vince on 26 August, 2014, 02:28:32 pm
Success....

Except the magic german shopping apps have re-appeared. I now need to delete them for the 4th or 5th time :(
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Post by: mcshroom on 26 August, 2014, 02:46:53 pm
Sitting a Fire Safety e-learning module as my employer insists on it. It won't let me click next until the person speaking (who I've muted) finishes speaking (basically he's reading the text on the screen) which is making this VERY slow. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 August, 2014, 02:48:43 pm
Not a lot
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 August, 2014, 10:34:06 am
Lying in bed being waited on. My leg is much more comfortable when I am horizontal.
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Post by: Canardly on 27 August, 2014, 06:03:57 pm
Changing tyres on the touring bike to 32c Marathons for winter.
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Post by: peliroja on 27 August, 2014, 06:24:26 pm
Being in Coventry, and wishing I wasn't.
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Post by: Chris S on 27 August, 2014, 06:27:05 pm
Working :(
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Post by: Basil on 27 August, 2014, 06:31:57 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 27 August, 2014, 06:24:26 pm
Being in Coventry, and wishing I wasn't.
Ah.  We can't talk to you then.  :-X
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 August, 2014, 01:19:51 am
Chilling.  It's 118° F (47.8° C) out there and The Luggage is staying in the Mudstang until tea-time...
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Post by: Jaded on 30 August, 2014, 01:22:31 am
Trying not to fart too loudly.
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Post by: SteveC on 30 August, 2014, 07:06:32 am
Sitting in a French Formula 1 'hotel' until it's time to drive to the supermarket, then the Tunnel, then the M25 (deep joy) and down the A303 past Stonehenge (even deeper joy, that took an hour from Solstice Services to the stones last year).
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Post by: Vince on 30 August, 2014, 07:12:55 am
Sitting on the toilet (lid down) in a hotel bathroom, reading the internets, because the rest of the family are asleep in Teh Room.
Earlier I went to the 24 hour Asdal trying to find the most bizarre purchase to make at 2:30 am. Decided that Cuprino wood preservative would work.
Insomnia, gives you so much more time each day.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 August, 2014, 07:18:35 am
Quote from: SteveC on 30 August, 2014, 07:06:32 am
Sitting in a French Formula 1 'hotel' until it's time to drive to the supermarket, then the Tunnel, then the M25 (deep joy) and down the A303 past Stonehenge (even deeper joy, that took an hour from Solstice Services to the stones last year).

Ditto. Sitting in the Ibis in Reims waiting for the Carrefour to open.....
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Post by: Kim on 30 August, 2014, 07:48:37 am
About to set off on a bit of spontaneous Welsh cycle-touring.
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Post by: Basil on 30 August, 2014, 10:54:40 am
Coo.  Where are you going?
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Post by: barakta on 30 August, 2014, 01:29:24 pm
Quote from: Kim on 30 August, 2014, 07:48:37 am
About to set off on a bit of spontaneous Welsh cycle-touring.

Eating ALL THE GARLIC cos normally I don't get to cos Kim hates the smell and I don't get hugs if I smell 'horrid' ;)

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Post by: numbnuts on 30 August, 2014, 01:33:24 pm
Having a cup of tea with a mince pie or two
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Post by: Canardly on 30 August, 2014, 02:01:58 pm
Trying to find an electrician that actually responds to requests for a quote.
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Post by: peliroja on 30 August, 2014, 02:04:21 pm
Considering how to deal with (the owners of) a disruptively barking dog that has just moved into the neighbourhood.
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Post by: mcshroom on 30 August, 2014, 02:28:30 pm
Just finished hitting wood and occasionally nails with a hammer panelling my garden fence. Now sitting down with a nice cup of tea :)
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Post by: tiermat on 30 August, 2014, 02:31:12 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 30 August, 2014, 02:01:58 pm
Trying to find an electrician that actually responds to requests for a quote.

Good luck with that!

I am making a crunble with the foraged apples and blackberries I got this morning, and chili oil from the chilis I got for mybirthday.
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Post by: peliroja on 30 August, 2014, 03:17:37 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 30 August, 2014, 02:04:21 pm
Considering how to deal with (the owners of) a disruptively barking dog that has just moved into the neighbourhood.
I went to see the dog. Lovely little border terrier, quite young, that had been left alone in the back yard all day. It stopped barking when I spoke to it gently and let it sniff my hand. It was totally stressed out and in need of company.

I then went to knock on the front door of the offending house. No one home. So I put a friendly letter through the door, offering the number of a good dog behaviourist who deals with separation anxiety, and offering companionship from our dog if they were interested. Let's hope they take it well.
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Post by: BrianI on 30 August, 2014, 05:14:34 pm
Just finished loading my  moth trap into the Moth Mobile, ready for a moth trapping session at my old college golf course!

/me dons Consultant Moth Man Hat  ;D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 August, 2014, 04:06:52 pm
Waiting to find out which gate Skeezyjet will be flying me from, and muttering to myself about security.
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Post by: Jaded on 01 September, 2014, 12:43:51 am
Lying in bed after a day doing buildy things, gutter cleary things, pizza things, pub quiz things  slow walk home things.

Days as these dreams are made of.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 September, 2014, 01:33:36 am
Melting.  The air-con is on full but is fighting a losing battle with a large west-facing window :(
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Post by: andrewc on 01 September, 2014, 12:44:22 pm
Sitting in a cafe on the Grote Markt in Ypres, digesting a big portion of stew & frites. Washed down with a Hommelbier.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 September, 2014, 01:29:41 pm
Washing. Lots of washing. And waiting for the Slater to come and look for the latest leak.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 September, 2014, 09:27:54 pm
Watching Guy Martin tanning leather using a bucket of dog poo and going  :sick:
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Post by: andrewc on 05 September, 2014, 11:44:34 am
Sitting outside a cafe in Hoegaarden, gorgeous sunny day.
Drinking a rather nice Egotripel.   :-)
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Post by: mcshroom on 05 September, 2014, 11:13:51 pm
Looking at road trikes on ebay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Racing-tricycle-Ken-Rogers-conversion-/151397338679?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item233ffc0e37
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Post by: Butterfly on 05 September, 2014, 11:37:11 pm
Trying to get to grips with my new kindle fire. So far I've downloaded facebook, various games and 2 of Steph's books which should keep me busy for a while! :)
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Post by: mcshroom on 07 September, 2014, 05:17:38 pm
Watching the man across the road from me trying to reverse a large caravan round the corner onto his drive. I think he's on his fourth attempt now.
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Post by: Chris S on 07 September, 2014, 08:38:24 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 07 September, 2014, 05:17:38 pm
Watching the man across the road from me trying to reverse a large caravan round the corner onto his drive. I think he's on his fourth attempt now.

So. Three hours later. Is he still at it?  ;D
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Post by: Andrij on 07 September, 2014, 08:42:05 pm
Wondering if this lurgy will clear before Wednesday, when I shall be jetting across the Pond.   :-\
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Post by: peliroja on 07 September, 2014, 09:14:05 pm
Being impressed that my sister ran a half marathon distance today.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 07 September, 2014, 09:19:56 pm
Impressive indeed.   Did she win?   ;)    :D
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Post by: Dibdib on 07 September, 2014, 09:21:45 pm
Wondering whether or not I can squeeze in two (thankfully short - one 50km and one 100km) DIYs between now and the end of the month. I'd quite like to tick off my first couple of AUK awards this year!
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Post by: peliroja on 07 September, 2014, 09:35:45 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 07 September, 2014, 09:19:56 pm
Impressive indeed.   Did she win?   ;)    :D
she was just training. She stopped briefly for tea and cake so I'd say she's a winner!
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Post by: Clare on 07 September, 2014, 10:34:06 pm
Aching and recovering with a glass or three of the red stuff.

Also watching Vernon doing his finances, it's been 2 hours so far!

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Post by: mcshroom on 07 September, 2014, 10:48:54 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 07 September, 2014, 08:38:24 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 07 September, 2014, 05:17:38 pm
Watching the man across the road from me trying to reverse a large caravan round the corner onto his drive. I think he's on his fourth attempt now.

So. Three hours later. Is he still at it?  ;D

Nah he got it in six or seven (about 20 minutes later), though he was getting very irritated after about the fifth failure :)
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Post by: andrewc on 08 September, 2014, 06:31:31 am
Lying in my tent in a misty Belgian field. Sipping tea while listening to the birds & the gentle drip of water from the leaves.
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Post by: ian on 08 September, 2014, 09:32:40 am
Being hoisted by own leguminous petards. I can't eat beans and I shouldn't eat beans. I may suffocate and it would truly be a mercy. The smell of my own decomposition would have nothing on this fragrant guffoageddon.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 September, 2014, 07:13:48 am
Listening to the unforecast rain bouncing off something in the car park.  It sounds like someone repeatedly throwing marbles into a tin bucket.
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Post by: ian on 09 September, 2014, 09:17:09 am
Deciding to use a different font. The best form of early morning procrastination. At least I can smell the coffee this morning. An altogether better form of beans.
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Post by: ian on 09 September, 2014, 05:38:57 pm
For those breathlessly hanging onto my procrastination, I've decided on a new day-to-day font. It's a big choice and I've not rushed into it. Open Sans and I have had some good times but I feel that in recent months we've started to eye each other with wariness. I no longer have a healthy relationship with my emails.

I've decided to go off piste and venture into the regimented uniformity of monospacing. Yep, despite it's lack of italics, I'm rolling with Inconsolata, a rather splendidly rendered humanist serif. I expect this to inject a bit more sensibility into my postings forthwith. No more attempts to make jokes in P&OBI that's for sure. I'll be high-minded, righteous, and tiresomely literal.

Windows, your font rendering engine still sucks at small font sizes unless they've been hinted by God himself and he gave up after putting the final touches on Comic Sans.
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Post by: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 02:43:00 pm
Sitting at work with a newly fitted plaster cast on my right arm. Typing isn't too bad, but using a mouse is tricky and I can't get used to left-handed mousing.

I'm stuck with it for 12 weeks and I'm fed up with it already.
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Post by: tiermat on 10 September, 2014, 02:49:05 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 02:43:00 pm
Sitting at work with a newly fitted plaster cast on my right arm. Typing isn't too bad, but using a mouse is tricky and I can't get used to left-handed mousing.

I'm stuck with it for 12 weeks and I'm fed up with it already.

I am guessing they found a fracture, then?
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Post by: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 02:52:46 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 10 September, 2014, 02:49:05 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 02:43:00 pm
Sitting at work with a newly fitted plaster cast on my right arm. Typing isn't too bad, but using a mouse is tricky and I can't get used to left-handed mousing.

I'm stuck with it for 12 weeks and I'm fed up with it already.

I am guessing they found a fracture, then?
Indeed they did - my GP's original diagnosis was confirmed via the magic of X-rays.
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Post by: Kim on 10 September, 2014, 03:07:54 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 02:43:00 pm
Sitting at work with a newly fitted plaster cast on my right arm. Typing isn't too bad, but using a mouse is tricky and I can't get used to left-handed mousing.

You might find a trackball or Wacom tablet easier, but in general I'd say that left-handed mousing was a skill worth cultivating.  It puts the mouse and keyboard in more comfortable positions (the numeric keypad otherwise pushing everything off to the left), and helps to wear-level the RSI on your wrists.

I use an unobtanium left-handed mouse to discourage myself from reverting to mousing with my right hand (though I do lean over and swap hands if I need pixel-perfect precision for something).
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Post by: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 03:12:56 pm
Quote from: Kim on 10 September, 2014, 03:07:54 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 02:43:00 pm
Sitting at work with a newly fitted plaster cast on my right arm. Typing isn't too bad, but using a mouse is tricky and I can't get used to left-handed mousing.

You might find a trackball or Wacom tablet easier, but in general I'd say that left-handed mousing was a skill worth cultivating.  It puts the mouse and keyboard in more comfortable positions (the numeric keypad otherwise pushing everything off to the left), and helps to wear-level the RSI on your wrists.
I'm thinking in terms of something like a FruitCo trackpad - that way I can use a wrist rest and let my fingers do the work. I never really got on with trackballs (and I was crap at Missile Command when I was a kid) and I don't think work would spring for a Wacom.

I need to have a look though the elephant's graveyard in the server room to see if there's anything I can make use of.
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Post by: Vince on 10 September, 2014, 03:28:14 pm
Left handed mousing can be made easier by swapping the buttons over, so index and middle fingers have the same functions.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 10 September, 2014, 03:29:08 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 03:12:56 pm

I'm thinking in terms of something like a FruitCo trackpad - that way I can use a wrist rest and let my fingers do the work.


I've got one of those somewhere. Gave me nasty RSI faster than anything else I've used. Just a bit too much hand movement with a static wrist.

GWS with the break.
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Post by: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 03:47:57 pm
Quote from: Vince on 10 September, 2014, 03:28:14 pm
Left handed mousing can be made easier by swapping the buttons over, so index and middle fingers have the same functions.
Did that.
The problem is that my workspace at work isn't really suitable for left-handed working, whereas it's a bit more practical in my home office subject to digging out a USB extension cable for the rodent. I've got a good range of movement in my fingers but my wrist is completely immobilised by the cast so I can't rest it in what feels like a 'natural' position.

It's going to take me some time to find a way of working which suits my current circumstances but it's still a bit annoying that I can't function 'properly'.
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Post by: Kim on 10 September, 2014, 04:54:22 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 03:12:56 pm
I'm thinking in terms of something like a FruitCo trackpad - that way I can use a wrist rest and let my fingers do the work.

Ah yes, those are quite good.  For trackpads.
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Post by: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 10:08:16 pm
Quote from: Kim on 10 September, 2014, 04:54:22 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 03:12:56 pm
I'm thinking in terms of something like a FruitCo trackpad - that way I can use a wrist rest and let my fingers do the work.

Ah yes, those are quite good.  For trackpads.
I've just ordered myself a Logitech T650 so I'll see how I get on with that - I'm not a fan of FruitCo, plus neither of my main boxen (work and home) have Bluetooth which pretty much rules out the 'Magic' trackpad anyway (that, and an ingrained hatred of Bluetooth and all its hellish spawn)

If I elevate my right arm slightly then I can type at something approaching my normal speed without my wrist complaining, which is good - elevation is provided courtesy of a treatise on graph theory. If I can get the pointy-clicky aspect of my workflow sorted out then I'll be a lot happier. Or at least happier than I currently am.
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Post by: Deano on 10 September, 2014, 10:12:21 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 02:43:00 pm
Sitting at work with a newly fitted plaster cast on my right arm. Typing isn't too bad, but using a mouse is tricky and I can't get used to left-handed mousing.

I'm stuck with it for 12 weeks and I'm fed up with it already.

Ouch! What's happened?
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Post by: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 10:22:00 pm
Quote from: Deano on 10 September, 2014, 10:12:21 pm
Quote from: interzen on 10 September, 2014, 02:43:00 pm
Sitting at work with a newly fitted plaster cast on my right arm. Typing isn't too bad, but using a mouse is tricky and I can't get used to left-handed mousing.

I'm stuck with it for 12 weeks and I'm fed up with it already.

Ouch! What's happened?
I'll give you the full story over a beer sometime, but the short form is that I was in a damn near head-on collision trying to avoid a dozy mare on a BSO who didn't see me (or so she claimed - I tried to avoid her and have the GPS track to prove it). I came off, landed badly and fractured the scaphoid in my right hand.

This bike:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10615533_10152291354531636_2596810342796983247_n.jpg?oh=f37e063b498f05105e904621b241fd53&oe=5484595E&__gda__=1417882427_69a82c6d5cc21a61c736faf0bfe1a4da)

was taken out by one of these:

(http://www.re-buy-cycle.co.uk/uploads/339/L/0.jpg)

 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 11 September, 2014, 02:32:40 am
Wondering why I can't, at 2.30 AM, get to bloody sleep . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 September, 2014, 07:00:28 am
We are back on granparent duty. This not helped by the fact that I twinged my back getting into bed and now I am in some pain, in my lower back on the left side, and at the top of my left thigh/groin area. I suspect that this might be a reaction to my poor posture since injuring my calf.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 September, 2014, 10:28:57 pm
Listening to Teagan Patterson sliding the Beluga across the motel car park and thinking that:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 12 September, 2014, 10:08:38 am
Wrapping handlebars for the third time  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 12 September, 2014, 01:46:42 pm
I've just grouted my nasal hair.... I didn't mean.

Goes off to check for grout in other not normally grouted areas.   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 12 September, 2014, 01:48:50 pm
Listening to a boring conference call scheduled for two hours which I have to make a one minute contribution at the end.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 12 September, 2014, 08:59:32 pm
Sitting in a scheme flat in Fulham listening to crap music.

From upstairs. Or it could be from downstairs, or the left or the right.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 September, 2014, 09:27:26 pm
Feeling queasy after seeing photos of Contador's knee injury.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 September, 2014, 09:30:53 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 12 September, 2014, 09:27:26 pm
Feeling queasy after seeing photos of Contador's knee injury.

A new one, or the one from the TdF?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 September, 2014, 09:34:07 pm
The TdF one. The Vuelta highlights just showed a gory close-up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 September, 2014, 02:04:05 pm
Visiting the FBI for lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 September, 2014, 11:06:15 pm
The above post refers, of course, to the Ferry Boat Inn, North Fambridge. I had a very good pork curry, Mrs. Wow had fish & chips, Dez had a burger. Maldon Gold was the beer of choice and it was excellent.

Thereafter we visited a windfarm for which we had campaigned some years ago, and St. Peter's on the Wall Saxon church. Dez took some rather impressive video with his quadcopter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 September, 2014, 05:52:26 am
Unwinding after a lovely wedding reception,  where I ran into sone folk I haven't seen since before I moved to the UK over 15years ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 14 September, 2014, 01:12:24 pm
Watching an enormous garden spider perambulate across the hall ceiling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 September, 2014, 04:13:11 pm
^ shuddering
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 September, 2014, 06:16:15 pm
Eating a rather delicious Thai veggie curry made with our homegrown chillies and feeling glad I didn't wimp out and do beans on toast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 September, 2014, 10:44:27 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 14 September, 2014, 01:12:24 pm
Watching an enormous garden spider perambulate across the hall ceiling.

On Friday I dropped in on Aunty Phyllis to read some post to her. I didn't notice the lovely garden spider's web across her gateway at face height. I was covered in sticky web and after a while I managed to get a lot of it out of my hair and the spider, a big fat female, came with it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 September, 2014, 11:50:14 pm
We've been evicting I've been getting barakta to evict large hairy spiders at an alarming rate.  It's times like this I wish I had a cat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 September, 2014, 07:08:24 pm
Dumped in the Man Creche while Mrs. B does her leaping about in four feet of water thing.
Don't worry about me, I promise not to cry before she picks me up in an hour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 19 September, 2014, 07:23:41 pm
Waiting for Kate Bush to come on stage
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 September, 2014, 08:46:15 pm
Waiting, at Newcastle, for a train to Carlisle. Well the actual train is here, just missing a crew!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 September, 2014, 08:49:23 pm
Wondering what to do with myself this evening, as I'm not doing the above.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 September, 2014, 08:21:20 am
Drinking coffee and contemplating the great garage clearout that I am about to embark upon. Where does all this rubbish come from ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 20 September, 2014, 11:38:05 am
Aching after a workout.

Due to having a couple of pounds of solidified calcium sulphate attached to my right arm I'm pretty much restricted to doing isometrics for the forseeable future1, but I've been making them count.

Hooo boy, I've been making them count.

1 - at least until my new turbo turns up and I'm given the OK to start bearing weight on the buggered wrist.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 September, 2014, 12:09:59 pm
Awaiting pre-wedding cake in a Wetherspoons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 20 September, 2014, 02:43:07 pm
Watching the Formula 1 qualifying in German.

(German commentators don't pause for team radio  ??? :facepalm:'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 20 September, 2014, 02:47:40 pm
Reading up on modern paraffin heaters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 20 September, 2014, 06:02:31 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 September, 2014, 12:09:59 pm
Awaiting pre-wedding cake in a Wetherspoons.
You seem to spend half your life at weddings!  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 September, 2014, 06:44:49 pm
Third this year and definitely the best! (Says he, confident the family won't read this).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 September, 2014, 07:23:08 pm
Trying my hardest to stay awake. Mostly winning.

Got 2 hours earlier, then awoken by Mrs T.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 20 September, 2014, 07:25:07 pm
Squinting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 September, 2014, 09:05:46 pm
Enjoying a final pint of a local brew (Dortmunder Gold from Great Lakes Brewery) prior to the first leg of my return to Blighty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 23 September, 2014, 09:29:34 pm
Weight training in front of the computer.

I've discovered that my cast will allow me to hold a dumbbell fairly firmly so I'm taking full advantage of the fact.
Obviously I'm lifting less weight than I would with my 'good' hand, but it's better than nothing under the current circumstances especially combined with isometrics.

It feels quite nice to be doing something approaching 'proper' exercise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 September, 2014, 09:46:46 pm
Panicking.
Half the mercan side of Mrs. B's family have descended upon her almost unannounced.  (They do that).  She's thought, "Fuck that", booked the rest of the week off and is driving them up to Brum tomorrow.  Argh!  I'm now rushing around going,  " Bed linen, bed linen, food, food, hoover, hoover.  Even Megan the dog is coming.  Let's hope Daf doesn't kill her.
They've just given me their credit card details so that I can book them train tickets to Durham from Brum.  Argh!  Refused!  That's OK, I'll use my account.  No really, that's fine.  Really, that's OK.  Just need to make sure you're leaving.

Fuck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 September, 2014, 09:52:36 pm
Have you notified the Country Girl?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 23 September, 2014, 10:06:07 pm
notify the country girl of what?

 :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 September, 2014, 10:17:53 pm
Quote from: Kim on 23 September, 2014, 09:52:36 pm
Have you notified the Country Girl?

The Country Girl?  I'm not even going to let them know it exists!  They'll get the Basil mahoosive spag bol and 94 bottles of Malbec.  That should do the trick.

They flew into Ireland.  (Mrs. B's mercan rellies now living in Co Clare). They panicked, took them to West Wales. Mrs. B panicked, is bringing them to Brum.  I've panicked have bought them tickets for Durham.  If they're lucky, Monkey Hanger BiL will take them to the Victoria Ground on Saturday. Serve them right.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 23 September, 2014, 10:20:01 pm
Trying to locate all my commuting gear ready for riding to work for the first time since my off tomorrow :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 September, 2014, 10:20:43 pm
Quote from: matthew on 23 September, 2014, 10:06:07 pm
notify the country girl of what?
  • of his expected absence,
  • that he may be there even more of the time,
  • or that he may be bringing visitors?



 :demon:
1 and 2 possibly.
3  Certainly not!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 September, 2014, 10:22:22 pm
I must admit I was thinking of an unexplained absence followed by an urgent need for a stiff drink...   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 23 September, 2014, 11:00:01 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 23 September, 2014, 10:20:01 pm
Trying to locate all my commuting gear ready for riding to work for the first time since my off tomorrow :smug:

Like  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 24 September, 2014, 08:12:32 am
Quote from: Basil on 23 September, 2014, 10:20:43 pm
Quote from: matthew on 23 September, 2014, 10:06:07 pm
notify the country girl of what?
  • of his expected absence,
  • that he may be there even more of the time,
  • or that he may be bringing visitors?



 :demon:
1 and 2 possibly.
3  Certainly not!

*Matthew tries to remember the rougher watering holes of Selly Oak and Selly Park which might be more suitable for scaring mercian cousins away*

However the Brook closed before I was a student, then remembers the Bristol Pear...  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 September, 2014, 02:43:15 pm
Ironing and watching Godzilla. Not got to yhe bit, yet where he beats the carp out of Mothra.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 September, 2014, 02:51:57 pm
Recovering from a surfeit of family.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 03 October, 2014, 08:04:37 pm
Drooling over my bargain find in the "Toy" section of a localish department store:

Airfix 1:12 scale 1930 4.5 Litre Bentley!  Didn't have a price sticker on it, asked store assistant to price it, and it came up as £27 on the 'puter!  RRP on this kit is £99   :smug:
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3934/15407541656_48b0ef5ae6_z.jpg)

 :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 03 October, 2014, 08:48:57 pm
And he scores!!!!! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 04 October, 2014, 05:22:29 am
Just waking myself up witha  bucket of coffee, then I'm off out on the fat  :thumbsup:

Then work  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 04 October, 2014, 06:00:51 am
Cancelled!

Just put all of my gear on and it's absolutely howling and pissing it down. Not got time to sort a filthy bike out this morning so I'll have to have wait until after work. Don't mind a storm when I'm out but I'm not intentionally going into it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 October, 2014, 11:40:32 am
Cerebrating my Euro Lottery win.  :D

I don't know why, as I really very rarely bother with the gubbishment's official Tax on Stupidity, but I bought a ticket on a whim last night.

I've won £5.60 £3.60.

Woohoo!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CommuteTooFar on 04 October, 2014, 11:51:36 am
Quote from: Basil on 04 October, 2014, 11:40:32 am
Cerebrating my Euro Lottery win.  :D

I don't know why, as I really very rarely bother with the gubbishment's official Tax on Stupidity, but I bought a ticket on a whim last night.

I've won £5.60 £3.60.

Woohoo!

Do you plan to retire?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 04 October, 2014, 11:59:42 am
Emptying the loft space.  A ton of crap ( including ten bin bags of cuddly toys would you believe!) which we put up there 8 years ago, have never looked at or used, and are now moving again.   I'm diverting a lot of it into the skip :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 October, 2014, 12:31:47 pm
Ah yes, the bags of 1980s cuddly toys.  We have those.  I'm not allowed to chuck them out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 October, 2014, 01:36:58 pm
Pondering the traditional game of Formula One Musical Chairs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 04 October, 2014, 08:12:37 pm
Clearing out my Man Draw.

Dead batteries, German Marks, Maltese Lira, a 12 year old hospital appointment card and two broken watches have all been disposed of.

Found the instruction book for my Marin and the former bendy bike, and an antique CTC lapel button.

No sign of the instructions of the toasted sandwich maker.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 04 October, 2014, 08:18:02 pm
Waiting for my flight to leave. Just been told not to use the toilet as the engineer is inspecting the hold . Bit like 'please don't flush the toilet when the train is in the station'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 October, 2014, 08:22:34 pm
Quote from: PaulF on 04 October, 2014, 08:18:02 pm
Waiting for my flight to leave. Just been told not to use the toilet as the engineer is inspecting the hold . Bit like 'please don't flush the toilet when the train is in the station'

'...except in Reading'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 04 October, 2014, 09:17:02 pm
Fighting with my new dynamo lighting set-up.  I have a terrible feeling I may have just crossed the streams  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 04 October, 2014, 09:20:41 pm
Are you dynamo front and back or just front?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 04 October, 2014, 09:22:40 pm
Just front
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 04 October, 2014, 09:28:15 pm
That's simpler :)

Kim was giving advice over here
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=85329.msg1748405#msg1748405

Possibly worth switching the cables over in the lego block just in case. I'd check which way round mine were but I can't find the light at the moment :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 04 October, 2014, 09:45:08 pm
The sad fact is that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing and am moving the mess out the way of the telly so I can watch House of Cards on netflix.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 04 October, 2014, 11:06:22 pm
Right sorry, just spent an hour digging out my light.

I've got it set up with the dynamo connectors on the right hand side of the wheel. The white cable goes into the side of the lego block marked with the earth signal, and I've taped over the two short cables on the bottom of the light to stop them touching and shorting out.

Other than that it was a case of plug it in, turn it on and spin the wheel just now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 04 October, 2014, 11:13:14 pm
Arse. Pooh Bollocks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 05 October, 2014, 09:18:52 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 04 October, 2014, 11:06:22 pm
Right sorry, just spent an hour digging out my light.

I've got it set up with the dynamo connectors on the right hand side of the wheel. The white cable goes into the side of the lego block marked with the earth signal, and I've taped over the two short cables on the bottom of the light to stop them touching and shorting out.

Other than that it was a case of plug it in, turn it on and spin the wheel just now.

Okay, thanks mcshroom  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 05 October, 2014, 12:02:00 pm
Rounding up various bits of rain gear, or at least trying to - if tomorrow's forecast is any indication I'm going to need it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 October, 2014, 01:15:14 pm
Crossing all available digits for Jules Bianchi :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 05 October, 2014, 05:47:21 pm
Screaming at myself as I have just realised that the model I have used for calculating the number of ports for a 173 site Ethernet roll-out with four different options for PoE to non PoE ratios and redundancy is wrong and I will have to do it again !!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 05 October, 2014, 05:51:53 pm
Well, if you have any 48-port gigabit PoE switches left lying around and need to bury your mistakes, I can probably take one off your hands.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 October, 2014, 05:55:38 pm
Becoming aware of the aromas emanating from the Kitchen and realising it's going to be at least two hours before tea's ready.

* checks clock*

FFS - I'll be asleep by then!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 05 October, 2014, 06:18:17 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 05 October, 2014, 05:51:53 pm
Well, if you have any 48-port gigabit PoE switches left lying around and need to bury your mistakes, I can probably take one off your hands.

Well if I finally get this right and if we win the contract there will be about 1000 of them in our warehouse in January :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 05 October, 2014, 06:26:39 pm
Well, if you were to 'lose' any, do make sure they can do Cisco pre-standard PoE as well as 802.3af.
The phones here at Feanor Towers are of a Certain Age: 7940 and 7960, and only do Cisco Pre-Standard.

The PoE coverage is a bit patchy.
Literally.
It's handled in the patch cabinet.
Some stuff is patched to the PoE switch.
The Phones are patched via cisco in-line power injectors to a non-PoE switch.
All a bit untidy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 05 October, 2014, 07:50:51 pm
Ripping (or rather re-ripping) zillions of CDs to .flac, so I can easily access them via my new Sonos Connect thingy wot I bought on friday.  When I originally ripped a load of my CDs, Audacity refused to play nice and access the database, with the result that many CDs were just "track 01.flac, track 02.flac, etc.  I've re-done them all in Nero, which does play very nicely, so now they all have album art and full tags.   It even has the whole works for "Hampshire bells" a locally produced CD featuring, unsurprisingly, the bells of Hampshire.  And bloody nice many of them are, and I've rung a good few of those on the disc, so I just treated myself to a rendition of London no3 surprise royal on St Michael's Southampton ..... a bit loud...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 06 October, 2014, 06:30:16 am
Lying in bed listening to wind & rain outside. It's cold & dark as well :-(
Who turned Winter on? It's too early!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 06 October, 2014, 06:57:08 am
It is certainly a bit wet!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 06 October, 2014, 09:20:33 am
Blame me. While I was broked and couldn't ride we had the driest summer I can remember. Less than two weeks back on the bike and I think we've had all the rain that should have arrived in July, August and September already. ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 06 October, 2014, 09:39:10 am
Feck, then we are in for some WEATHER, when I get back on the bike, hope you all live on high ground :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 06 October, 2014, 10:33:46 am
Being glad I am inside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 07 October, 2014, 01:13:24 pm
High tide, strong easterlies, high river flow, low pressure making for some impressive waves coming into the harbour just now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 October, 2014, 08:36:40 pm
Browsing www.saveur.com.

Despite what some might think (by my postings elsewhere) there are some really interesting serious food articles on there, along with the frivolous ones!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 October, 2014, 09:48:30 pm
Stressing.   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 08 October, 2014, 10:07:53 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 08 October, 2014, 09:48:30 pm
Stressing.   :facepalm:

Oh, dear  :( 

I'm just crawling around on the floor looking for a teeny pingfucket that's probably gone down the gap in the floorboards.

Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 08 October, 2014, 10:11:01 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 08 October, 2014, 10:07:53 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 08 October, 2014, 09:48:30 pm
Stressing.   :facepalm:

Oh, dear  :( 

I'm just crawling around on the floor looking for a teeny pingfucket that's probably gone down the gap in the floorboards.

Sigh.

Good luck both.  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 09 October, 2014, 08:20:05 am
Sat at my desk at work perusing YACF, rather than going and clocking in and starting work.  Motivation is low today....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 October, 2014, 08:24:21 am
Quote from: Wombat on 09 October, 2014, 08:20:05 am
Sat at my desk at work perusing YACF, rather than going and clocking in and starting work.  Motivation is low today....

Ditto, with added "Staring a C# code and not being able to work out why it doesn't work" still to come...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 October, 2014, 08:58:48 am
Quote from: Wombat on 09 October, 2014, 08:20:05 am
Sat at my desk at work perusing YACF, rather than going and clocking in and starting work.  Motivation is low today....

+2
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 October, 2014, 10:07:50 am
Waiting in a queueueueue for ISIHAC tickets.  Glad I rang first then went to web site as the latter is borked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si_Co on 10 October, 2014, 08:37:15 am
Faffing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 10 October, 2014, 08:41:30 am
Browsing tomorrows planned bike ride: 
http://www.cycle-route.com/routes/The_Big_Dunkeld_Day_Tripper-Cycle-Route-94.html

Looks a braw 45 miler!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 10 October, 2014, 04:27:25 pm
In agony with back pain  :'( listening to Phil Colins
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 October, 2014, 04:32:14 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 10 October, 2014, 04:27:25 pm
In agony with back pain  :'( listening to Phil Colins

And now in agony with earache?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 October, 2014, 04:45:52 pm
Reeling.

Booked a haircut for No2Daughter.

FuckingFortyFuckingOneFuckingQuid.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 10 October, 2014, 04:56:49 pm
Jeez. I feel faint just thinking about it.

A bit easier being a slaphead bloke though. I've probably spent less than fifty quid on clippers (and maybe a tenner on a couple of away-from-home haircuts) in the ten years since I started buzzing myself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 October, 2014, 06:15:24 pm
Barakta and I spent a fiver on a decent pair of scissors once.  They're put aside where I won't inadvertently use them for stabbing holes in things or stripping wire, and should cover our haircut needs for the foreseeable future.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 October, 2014, 06:22:43 pm
Quote from: Dibdib on 10 October, 2014, 04:56:49 pm
Jeez. I feel faint just thinking about it.

A bit easier being a slaphead bloke though. I've probably spent less than fifty quid on clippers (and maybe a tenner on a couple of away-from-home haircuts) in the ten years since I started buzzing myself.

Same here, but miss having long hair :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 October, 2014, 06:28:18 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 09 October, 2014, 10:07:50 am
Waiting in a queueueueue for ISIHAC tickets.  Glad I rang first then went to web site as the latter is borked.

Say hello to samantha for me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 October, 2014, 06:31:49 pm
Need to fettle the gears on the fw evans bike and replace/repair the tube on the rear of conversion, as well as check the tyre for debris.
.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 10 October, 2014, 08:07:03 pm
Quote from: fboab on 10 October, 2014, 04:45:52 pm
Reeling.

Booked a haircut for No2Daughter.

FuckingFortyFuckingOneFuckingQuid.

You think that's bad, my wife pays £88 (is there some weird multiplier acting here, some code of the hairdresser?)

Which is probably why I have no hair. That's apparently what 'haircuts cost.' OK, I've not had hair for a while but still.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 10 October, 2014, 08:16:35 pm
Quote from: fboab on 10 October, 2014, 04:45:52 pm
Reeling.

Booked a haircut for No2Daughter.

FuckingFortyFuckingOneFuckingQuid.
This is one reason why I haven't had mine cut since 2006.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 October, 2014, 08:21:17 pm
Bugger me.  My hair cuts cost £8.  Probably 4 times a year.  I sit down, the barber asks want I want doing, I tell him to make it shorter than it is now. 
After, he asks me if I'm a pensioner (£4.50) the git!  I am, but as I'm still working I wouldn't feel right claiming it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 October, 2014, 08:39:58 pm
Thinking that all the money I've saved by not having haircuts over the years would probably add up to a nice n+1. :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 10 October, 2014, 08:44:49 pm
Clippers.   Four times a year, #6 all over then #4 over the ears and down the sideburns.   Trim as necessary.   Do it myself in half an hour tops.

Must be getting old ...

<edit>

In fact, I'm going to have my Christmas cut this coming Sunday.   I'll happily run the clippers over anybody.   Just get your arse over here.    :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 October, 2014, 09:07:34 pm
You're not clipping my arse, PB.   :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 10 October, 2014, 09:15:11 pm
But Basil, you clearly said, "Back, sack and crack"!   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 October, 2014, 10:45:48 pm
Have found a local pub/carvery that does all you can eat breakfast for two and a half hours, and £4.50

Could be a good way to practice for the gutbuster challenge.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 10 October, 2014, 11:06:08 pm
Knowing your locality, that sounds dubious ... if not potentially lethal.

Um, which establishment?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 October, 2014, 11:13:11 pm
Picking through the thick end of a day of recorded TV to extract the juicy bits of the last three BTCC race meetings.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 October, 2014, 04:27:31 am
Quote from: jsabine on 10 October, 2014, 11:06:08 pm
Knowing your locality, that sounds dubious ... if not potentially lethal.

Um, which establishment?

Princess Alice but any crown carvery has that offer as well as all you can eat carvery.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 11 October, 2014, 05:42:33 am
Waiting for the Heathrow car park shuttle bus
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 October, 2014, 06:55:29 am
Quote from: PaulF on 11 October, 2014, 05:42:33 am
Waiting for the Heathrow car park shuttle bus

Coming or going?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 11 October, 2014, 08:50:19 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 11 October, 2014, 06:55:29 am
Quote from: PaulF on 11 October, 2014, 05:42:33 am
Waiting for the Heathrow car park shuttle bus

Coming or going?

Coming home :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 October, 2014, 04:01:13 pm
Cleaning.

Bedroom - tick!
Bathroom - tick!

Next up... kitchen.

Housework is sooooooo dull.  Improved by the Burning Hell playing rather loud, mind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 October, 2014, 04:15:50 pm
Having a stonking headache while barakta tidies up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 11 October, 2014, 06:56:58 pm
Having a stonking headache while Woolly walks the dog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 12 October, 2014, 02:39:47 am
Feeding sourdough and making sourdough pancakes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 12 October, 2014, 11:12:17 am
Summoning up the energy for a pootle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 12 October, 2014, 12:31:38 pm
Cooking a roast dinner for me and m'boy, and thinking about a short ride afterwards. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 12 October, 2014, 03:29:53 pm
Just done a bit more to my trike and now having a cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 12 October, 2014, 04:10:46 pm
Or, more accurately, what am I NOT doing right now? The washing up.

Just back from a gentle pootle into town for a coffee or two, so now I'm putting my feet up and watching trash TV.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 October, 2014, 04:15:46 pm
Operation birmingham garden tidy up. Have completely filled the green recycling wheelie bin.  It's not made a scrap of difference to the garden.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 12 October, 2014, 07:30:10 pm
Feeling proud of my little sister who completed the Yorkshire Marathon today.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 12 October, 2014, 07:33:32 pm
In a amazing time too :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 12 October, 2014, 08:49:51 pm
Quote from: Basil on 12 October, 2014, 04:15:46 pm
Operation birmingham garden tidy up. Have completely filled the green recycling wheelie bin.  It's not made a scrap of difference to the garden.   :(

FIRE...you know it makes sense.

This one comes with a slave labourer.
(http://www.grizzlycentral.com/forum/attachments/great-outdoors/6145d1248574752-what-coolest-tool-you-have-flamethrower09.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 October, 2014, 08:54:20 pm
Going back a page or so...

Re haircuts: the last time I went to the hairdresser's it cost me 2/-.

For the very young: 2/- is shorthand for "two shillings".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 October, 2014, 09:05:25 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 October, 2014, 08:54:20 pm
For the very young: 2/- is shorthand for "two shillings".

I'm only moderately young, and know that "shilling" is Old Person Speak for "old 5p".  Why you can't just say 10p, I don't know, we still wouldn't believe it.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 12 October, 2014, 09:09:18 pm
But there was more pennies to the pound.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 15 October, 2014, 07:07:53 pm
Watching Mrs P's delayed flight on http://www.flightradar24.com/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 17 October, 2014, 01:41:29 pm
Marking time...

Just over an hour and I am out of here for good...

Onwards and upwards...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si_Co on 17 October, 2014, 02:23:23 pm
Sitting at my desk drinking champagne.

We've been in business 12 months  :thumbsup:

Might have a wobble on on the way home  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 18 October, 2014, 02:22:46 pm
Procrastinating. Lots of things to do and seem to be doing none of them ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 18 October, 2014, 02:29:40 pm
Procrastinating too.
Vegging.
The transmission on the Van Nic is shot.
A replacement transmission is sitting in a few boxes.
I'm sitting here, sipping Sauvvy Blanc - it's the first weekend in about five that I've not had to work.
Not convinced that the VN will get the transmission it deserves.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 18 October, 2014, 03:04:36 pm
Coffee and another bread bake attempt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 October, 2014, 04:18:46 pm
Wondering how R4's Under Milk Wood has mystically turned into Weekend Woman's Hour.
And how the cup of coffee I had settled down with suddenly turned stone cold.

Bugger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 18 October, 2014, 04:28:16 pm
Waiting for Woolly to return from that London with our guests from Portland. With a dog on my lap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 18 October, 2014, 04:42:55 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 October, 2014, 09:05:25 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 October, 2014, 08:54:20 pm
For the very young: 2/- is shorthand for "two shillings".

I'm only moderately young, and know that "shilling" is Old Person Speak for "old 5p".  Why you can't just say 10p, I don't know, we still wouldn't believe it.   ;D

<Grumpy old git mode>

No no no no no!!!

A shilling is old Old Person Speak for 12d or twelve old pence.   5p is five new pence, that wot replaced 12d when that infernal decimation happened.

We used to get a whole 240 old pennies to the pound whereas we've been robbed of 140 of them pennies under the new system.   :D

</Grumpy old git mode>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 October, 2014, 05:06:04 pm
But "New Pence" are the plastic ones you use in primary school maths lessons.  Everyone knows that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 October, 2014, 06:11:31 pm
Quote from: Messrs Gaiman & Pratchett
NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One Shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Wichfinder Army if you know the original BRITISH monetary system:
Two farthings = One Ha'penny. Two ha'pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). One Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea.
The BRITISH resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 19 October, 2014, 12:26:42 pm
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 19 October, 2014, 12:30:21 pm
What I'm doing right now is waiting for a baby to wake up so I can get dressed. I sat down to feed him about 3 hours ago and he went to sleep on my lap about 2.5 hours ago. He started to wake up about an hour ago but seems to have thought better of it. My arm is completely dead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 19 October, 2014, 12:40:21 pm
At work.  :(


Finishing off a job application!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 October, 2014, 02:03:34 pm
Just got back from a ride on my trike (http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/free-happy-smileys-302.gif) (http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/skype-emoticons.html)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 October, 2014, 03:44:43 pm
Waiting for dinner to cook. The house smells lovely!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 October, 2014, 04:18:19 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 19 October, 2014, 03:44:43 pm
Waiting for dinner to cook. The house smells lovely!

Gosh, you must be hungry!
Personally, I think you'd be better off waiting for the dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 20 October, 2014, 08:59:32 pm
Drinking a bottle of King Goblin from Lidl @ £1.49 a 500ml  bottle. A 6.6%% brew, allegedly brewed on a full moon, which is very drinkable. Whychwood Brewery Witney Oxon. Very nice. Also tried for the first time, a bottle of Wychcraft a 4.5 hoppy brew from the same source, excellent value at £1.19 and which should be laid down for YACF week ends.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 20 October, 2014, 09:35:49 pm
Just finished watching House of Cards, the Kevin Spacey White House one.  It was so good, Frank Underwood even more evil than Francis Urquhart in the '80s original.  Hurry up with the new series already!  Compulsive viewing, nearly as much as Game of Thrones.  In fact it has much in common with Game of Thrones, Claire Underwood would be a credible Cersei.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 21 October, 2014, 03:31:31 pm
Trying to get a simply binary program running under a specific implementation of QEMU. QEMU wasn't meant for this task.

'mercans want me to go out to sillycon valley to sit in a room and type on a keyboard. I can do that from here :|
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 October, 2014, 10:52:52 pm
Reading the CTC's LEJOG Guide.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 23 October, 2014, 03:45:30 pm
(I loved my LEJOG mcshroom)

Recovering. Started as a perfectly normal day at 5am this morning, had quite a nice ride, quite mild out there. About 8am,  it wasn't quite so much of a normal day.

Just had some emergency abdominal surgery  :o So now I'm just lying in my strange half with it little world. And there is no TV...... And I can't get wi-fi to even watch netflix on my phone..... Maybe I'll just sleep for a while zzzzzzzzzz
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 23 October, 2014, 03:47:42 pm
Bloody hell Your Ladyship!

GWS  :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 23 October, 2014, 04:08:24 pm
Not good. GWS Lady C :)

Oh, and LEJOG rather morphed on to a two week tour home from Lairgs (via Durness and the West Coast of Scotland). Thinking of doing it in April :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 October, 2014, 06:42:38 pm
Gosh.
Gws old thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Marj on 23 October, 2014, 06:46:25 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 23 October, 2014, 04:08:24 pm
Not good. GWS Lady C :)

Oh, and LEJOG rather morphed on to a two week tour home from Lairgs (via Durness and the West Coast of Scotland). Thinking of doing it in April :D

When you do your LEJOG you are most welcome to spend the night here if you are in the area.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 October, 2014, 06:55:13 pm
Voting by postal ballot (USAnian).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 October, 2014, 07:10:09 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 23 October, 2014, 06:55:13 pm
Voting by postal ballot (USAnian).

Didn't have you down as the sort of chap that watched America's Got Talent.
 ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 October, 2014, 09:30:59 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 23 October, 2014, 03:45:30 pm
(I loved my LEJOG mcshroom)

Recovering. Started as a perfectly normal day at 5am this morning, had quite a nice ride, quite mild out there. About 8am,  it wasn't quite so much of a normal day.

Just had some emergency abdominal surgery  :o So now I'm just lying in my strange half with it little world. And there is no TV...... And I can't get wi-fi to even watch netflix on my phone..... Maybe I'll just sleep for a while zzzzzzzzzz

Oh cripes, hope you're better and escape soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 23 October, 2014, 09:46:06 pm
GWS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 23 October, 2014, 09:59:45 pm
Quote from: Basil on 23 October, 2014, 07:10:09 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 23 October, 2014, 06:55:13 pm
Voting by postal ballot (USAnian).

Didn't have you down as the sort of chap that watched America's Got Talent.
 ;)

 :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 October, 2014, 12:41:36 am
Having a headache.

Bah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 24 October, 2014, 08:50:26 am
Waiting for a consultant to come round so I can hopefully escape this temporary prison. Better be able to as I'm off to France in the morning!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 24 October, 2014, 09:05:05 am
Good luck. Hope you manage to affect an escape in time to flee the country :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 October, 2014, 01:45:47 pm
Contemplating the forthcoming Terribleness that is an afternoon spent rolling on the floor of the Great Hall with several hundred yards of Anbaric String and a .PDF manual on the fondleslab.

First move everything, some of it twice.

Bah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 October, 2014, 04:45:03 pm
2.5 hours later.  I have connected very little and Larrington Towers is full of cardboard and string.  Send someone with anbaric savvy...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 October, 2014, 07:39:15 pm
Having a rest having just dug out all the sealant round the shower, which is my 2nd least favourite job in DIY. Next I need to go and replace it all. Boo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 October, 2014, 10:30:23 pm
Aching.  All that rolling around on the floor is bad for one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 October, 2014, 09:14:49 pm
Trying to decide on a bike ride for tomorrow:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 October, 2014, 09:25:06 pm
Sounds to me like an excellent idea. When I am a cyclist again I want to do that sort of thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 October, 2014, 09:26:22 am
I am going to get a massage in a few mins, and thence to try to find a very low sided tray to see if that will stop the carpet being used as a latrine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 31 October, 2014, 10:04:23 am
Trying to finish off a business case that had to be in today and approve a business proposal while dying slowly from the andromeda strain. I think they mixed up the vials on the flu vaccine this year and used the real thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 October, 2014, 07:45:11 pm
Man crèche
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 31 October, 2014, 08:06:58 pm
Listening to dam fireworks and he's me thinking it was Halloween
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 November, 2014, 03:53:38 pm
Sitting with a bowl of recalcitrant sourdough starter on my lap while I try to incubate it back to life.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 01 November, 2014, 04:00:13 pm
Trying to write a dull OU assignment

Drinking a beer as I opened it to make beer bread and then found weevils in the flour. Wonder if I should put flour back in cupboard so I can use this excuse again?

Contemplating a nap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 November, 2014, 02:33:29 pm
Recovering from an hour of intensive physio on my back. Ouch. A hot bath beckons tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 November, 2014, 09:54:00 am
Enjoying the general excitement that occurs when someone spots a mouse in the office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 06 November, 2014, 11:54:54 am
Have you offered to take Pete into work?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 November, 2014, 11:56:25 am
Being a mattress for a slumbering grandson. It would be a more favourable assignment if he hadn't crapped in his nappy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 November, 2014, 01:26:22 pm
Quote from: matthew on 06 November, 2014, 11:54:54 am
Have you offered to take Pete into work?
I have. Many staff were in favour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 November, 2014, 02:27:36 pm
Taking a break from checking over 2600 Mega-Global Sounds Like A Big River Corporation of Seattle, USAnia-sourced freebie mp3s to see whether I already have them in the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia's iMedia iManagement iSolution iProduct.  Even with the application of SCIENCE it is taking a long time.

Bah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 06 November, 2014, 08:50:11 pm
Recovering from a tough day. Gave first aid to a girl who'd collapsed on my morning train, then came off my Brompton on the way home because I skidded on a squashed plastic bottle. Ouch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 06 November, 2014, 11:11:47 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 06 November, 2014, 08:50:11 pm
Recovering from a tough day. Gave first aid to a girl who'd collapsed on my morning train, then came off my Brompton on the way home because I skidded on a squashed plastic bottle. Ouch.

Hugs. I guess it wasn't your day . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 07 November, 2014, 06:29:29 am
Not sleeping….done that a lot recently. So instead, I have just written a gig report for an event which isn’t for two weeks….. I am sure the NME used to do that in the 80’s and 90’s as often what they wrote bore no resemblance to what I had seen.

Off to the doctors at 1pm to try and get my Blood Pressure, Diabetes and head sorted. Oh, and it doesn’t help that its two years today since my Mum died and to be honest, I don’t think I have really grieved, which concerns me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 November, 2014, 09:03:49 am
Quote from: essexian on 07 November, 2014, 06:29:29 am
Not sleeping….done that a lot recently. So instead, I have just written a gig report for an event which isn’t for two weeks….. I am sure the NME used to do that in the 80’s and 90’s as often what they wrote bore no resemblance to what I had seen.

I once read an article, by a former music journalist, that said they usually had 3 or 4 gigs A NIGHT to go to and report on, so they usually only got to see the first 2 or 3 songs then had to move on.  This lead to a situation whereby a gig report written without seeing the band could be as accurate as on from just seeing 2 or 3 songs.  So, journalists being generally lazy by nature, they would write them up before hand and make sure they only submitted them the day after the gig had happened.  This journalist had been caught out, though as he submitted a gig report one time for a gig that never happened due to a death in the band!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 07 November, 2014, 09:11:57 am
Sitting on a train with my fatbike. Going to meet up with mates of mine and doing some offroad. Lots of rain the last week so there will be plenty of mud and fun.
I  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 November, 2014, 09:16:12 am
Quote from: Gus on 07 November, 2014, 09:11:57 am
Sitting on a train with my fatbike. Going to meet up with mates of mine and doing some offroad. Lots of rain the last week so there will be plenty of mud and fun.
I  :D

Only one thing to say to that.....



GIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 07 November, 2014, 09:26:44 am
Quote from: tiermat on 07 November, 2014, 09:16:12 am
Quote from: Gus on 07 November, 2014, 09:11:57 am
Sitting on a train with my fatbike. Going to meet up with mates of mine and doing some offroad. Lots of rain the last week so there will be plenty of mud and fun.
I  :D

Only one thing to say to that.....



GIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well that depends on where he sits with his bike. I hope he is not on the job while on the train. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 07 November, 2014, 09:45:34 am
Quote from: woollypigs on 07 November, 2014, 09:26:44 am
Quote from: tiermat on 07 November, 2014, 09:16:12 am
Quote from: Gus on 07 November, 2014, 09:11:57 am
Sitting on a train with my fatbike. Going to meet up with mates of mine and doing some offroad. Lots of rain the last week so there will be plenty of mud and fun.
I  :D

Only one thing to say to that.....



GIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well that depends on where he sits with his bike. I hope he is not on the job while on the train. :)
I love being a git today and ftw I am off duty. But it would be fantastic just parking a train and tell passengers that I'm out riding my bike and will be back in an hour. So relax and enjoy the nature until I'm back :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 November, 2014, 09:49:16 am
Downloading VMware workstation. Then I will attempt to install it on my Arch Linux box.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 November, 2014, 09:49:46 am
Sneezing!

ACHOOOOOOOOOOO!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 07 November, 2014, 09:56:00 am
I'm aching.

I think I must have spent some time last night sleeping on my right arm, 'cos my wrist is giving me some real grief this morning - not pain per se, but that really annoying 'barely above the level of perception'-type toothache feeling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 07 November, 2014, 10:10:45 am
Quote from: peliroja on 06 November, 2014, 08:50:11 pm
Recovering from a tough day. Gave first aid to a girl who'd collapsed on my morning train, then came off my Brompton on the way home because I skidded on a squashed plastic bottle. Ouch.

Well done on doing the right thing for the girl ona train. GWS for the hurty bits
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 November, 2014, 10:22:29 am
Waiting for the Babbage-Engine to craunch the marmoset mp3 tags to ensure all is Consistent between iThings.  Extracting the required info takes up to 45 minutes per iThing :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 07 November, 2014, 10:32:19 am
Waiting for the solicitor to call and say that funds have been received and the keys released so that I can go and get the keys to my house. where's the tapping fingers emoticon?

ETA found one

(http://images.zaazu.com/img/waiting-bored-waiting-boy-smiley-emoticon-000413-medium.gif) (http://"http://zaazu.com")
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 November, 2014, 10:36:42 am
Quote from: matthew on 07 November, 2014, 10:32:19 am
Waiting for the solicitor to call and say that funds have been received and the keys released so that I can go and get the keys to my house. where's the tapping fingers emoticon?

ETA found one

(http://images.zaazu.com/img/waiting-bored-waiting-boy-smiley-emoticon-000413-medium.gif) (http://"http://zaazu.com")

Every house we have bought, we haven't got the keys until 4pm, at the earliest!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 07 November, 2014, 10:39:34 am
Quote from: tiermat on 07 November, 2014, 10:36:42 am
Quote from: matthew on 07 November, 2014, 10:32:19 am
Waiting for the solicitor to call and say that funds have been received and the keys released so that I can go and get the keys to my house. where's the tapping fingers emoticon?

ETA found one

(http://images.zaazu.com/img/waiting-bored-waiting-boy-smiley-emoticon-000413-medium.gif) (http://"http://zaazu.com")

Every house we have bought, we haven't got the keys until 4pm, at the earliest!

I hope it is better than that, as it is vacant possession there is a good chance it will be quicker

Just had the call, I can go get the keys
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 November, 2014, 10:48:41 am
Quote from: Vince on 07 November, 2014, 10:10:45 am
Quote from: peliroja on 06 November, 2014, 08:50:11 pm
Recovering from a tough day. Gave first aid to a girl who'd collapsed on my morning train, then came off my Brompton on the way home because I skidded on a squashed plastic bottle. Ouch.

Well done on doing the right thing for the girl ona train. GWS for the hurty bits
Thanks Vince. The aftermath affected me more than I'd realised. I was shaky all day. The girl wasn't breathing well, drifting in and out of consciousness. I keep reliving it in my mind. Working from home today, fire-fighting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 November, 2014, 10:50:02 am
Repeating myself.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 08 November, 2014, 03:45:19 pm
Running a post postman pat bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 November, 2014, 07:28:28 pm
Sitting in Liverpool Cathedral (Paddys Wigwam) waiting for a concert by the RLPO to start.
Strauss, Elgar & Faure.  Might go for a drink with friends later, though I'm a bit too smartly dressed for my usual pubs. Even wearing a tie!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 08 November, 2014, 07:49:26 pm
Making some ambient choonage with the aid of my new toys (a trio of MIDI controllers) and wondering if I can incorporate the sounds of the fireworks outside ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 November, 2014, 01:24:58 am
Wondering what timezone my body's in.   #FNRttC
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 November, 2014, 01:43:46 am
Being exhausted after a 20 hour day and wondering if I will need to evacuate the bowels before sleep. I am in my daughter's house so it is a long walk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 November, 2014, 08:14:40 pm
Pingu is blowing up the chimney balloon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 13 November, 2014, 09:29:53 pm
Sat in my own house, this means I now have a chair, looking at a pile of boxes and wondering how long it will take BT to connect the phone and broadband. Till then it is mobile only.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 November, 2014, 09:43:08 pm
Quote from: matthew on 13 November, 2014, 09:29:53 pm
Sat in my own house, this means I now have a chair, looking at a pile of boxes and wondering how long it will take BT to connect the phone and broadband. Till then it is mobile only.

Ob-xkcd:

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/moving.png) (http://xkcd.com/466/)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 November, 2014, 09:39:09 am
It's a beautiful morning.  I'm getting ready for my Friday brunch ride.   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 November, 2014, 04:11:43 pm
Wondering if I can manage to walk 24km cross-country in a day, with around 9 hours of daylight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 November, 2014, 07:22:47 pm
Wondering when my jaw will unlock. It's been four days now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 November, 2014, 07:28:42 pm
Sitting in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall waiting for tonight's concert to start. They've had the painters in. It's a bit bright!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 14 November, 2014, 08:55:17 pm
Summoning up the energy to limp up the stairs for a hot bath and the latest Arrivée. Party animal me. Camomile or ginger herbal tea?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 November, 2014, 08:59:20 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 14 November, 2014, 08:55:17 pm
Summoning up the energy to limp up the stairs for a hot bath and the latest Arrivée. Party animal me. Camomile or ginger herbal tea?

Ginger doesn't taste like pond water...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 14 November, 2014, 09:21:41 pm
Quote from: Kim on 14 November, 2014, 08:59:20 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 14 November, 2014, 08:55:17 pm
Summoning up the energy to limp up the stairs for a hot bath and the latest Arrivée. Party animal me. Camomile or ginger herbal tea?

Ginger doesn't taste like pond water...

^ wot she said  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 November, 2014, 10:26:43 pm
Or smell faintly of wee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 10:55:52 am
Freshly ground coffee, a Full English, Barenboim playing Mozart and the London Review of Books (http://www.lrb.co.uk/)

A good way to start the day..... :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 November, 2014, 11:34:12 am
Sounds very good, Andrew.

Today is a marmalade day because the weather is shite and I've got at least 2 batches of Seville oranges in the freezer. I'm off to Waitrose for some sugar. Anyone want anything?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 November, 2014, 11:35:34 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 14 November, 2014, 08:55:17 pm
Summoning up the energy to limp up the stairs for a hot bath and the latest Arrivée. Party animal me. Camomile or ginger herbal tea?

Neither is Tea so you'll end up being Pizened either way :demon:

Come to that, has Ruthie been in this morning?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 15 November, 2014, 11:39:47 am
Quote from: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 10:55:52 am
Freshly ground coffee, a Full English, Barenboim playing Mozart and the London Review of Books (http://www.lrb.co.uk/)

A good way to start the day..... :)

That is fiendishly civilised. It sounds like heaven. Freshly ground coffee, scrambled eggs and the Church Times here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 November, 2014, 11:43:14 am
Weapons-grade espresso and bacon sandwiches.

Uncultured, or what?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 11:49:04 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 15 November, 2014, 11:39:47 am
Quote from: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 10:55:52 am
Freshly ground coffee, a Full English, Barenboim playing Mozart and the London Review of Books (http://www.lrb.co.uk/)

A good way to start the day..... :)

That is fiendishly civilised. It sounds like heaven. Freshly ground coffee, scrambled eggs and the Church Times here.

It's getting me ready for the tidying & dusting I've been putting off for several months........ :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 15 November, 2014, 11:54:40 am
I GAWI these days to keep squalor at bay. Worth every penny. Can't really afford her TBH but I think of her as a mental health insurance policy. It takes her three hours a week to tackle what would take me two days a week to procrastinate and anotherday to do half as well as she does. And she's allowed in my son's room which I'm not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 15 November, 2014, 12:30:49 pm
Sounds an excellent plan, Ruthie.

Meanwhile I'm waiting for lunch to be ready before finishing loading car and setting off for our re-enactment group's 40th birthday party. We seem to be taking nearly as much stuff as we do when we go for a whole weekend.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 November, 2014, 02:23:38 pm
Settling in at the pub with a pint of Cwrw, ready for the match.  Looking forward to the free sausages and chips at half time.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 15 November, 2014, 02:37:34 pm
Dying in slow and creative ways. Gradual flu-like symptoms and gonadic sequelae mutated into a cough, the kind that feels like Michael Flatley has hired an entire cast of spiders to riverdance on the back of my throat. I could live with that but during one of several particularly excitable coughing spasms I tore a muscle in my lower abdomen and now coughing feels like I'm being stabbed in the guts by a navigationally challenged narwhal. Medical advice is a helpful 'try not to cough.'

So I'm trying not to cough. I'm not having a very aspirational Saturday thus far.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 November, 2014, 02:56:32 pm
Quote from: ian on 15 November, 2014, 02:37:34 pm
Dying in slow and creative ways.
Oh dear.  Gws.
Quote
Medical advice is a helpful 'try not to cough.'

So I'm trying not to cough. I'm not having a very aspirational Saturday thus far.

½ bottle of gin?  Stay unconscious all weekend?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 November, 2014, 03:01:11 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 14 November, 2014, 04:11:43 pm
Wondering if I can manage to walk 24km cross-country in a day, with around 9 hours of daylight.

Yes I can, and in fewer than 9 hours. Now working on second pint of isotonic recovery drink.  May  need a third to manage the last 10-15 minutes to walk home. I may wait for a bus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 15 November, 2014, 03:16:14 pm
Wasshappened to your bikes?  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 15 November, 2014, 03:19:21 pm
Quote from: Basil on 15 November, 2014, 02:56:32 pm
Quote from: ian on 15 November, 2014, 02:37:34 pm
Dying in slow and creative ways.
Oh dear.  Gws.
Quote
Medical advice is a helpful 'try not to cough.'

So I'm trying not to cough. I'm not having a very aspirational Saturday thus far.

½ bottle of gin?  Stay unconscious all weekend?  ;)

I'm medicating with coffee and ibuprofen at the moment. I did count 147 bottles of gin in our collection the other week, and I have a bottle of Ungava gin from the 'Canadian North' sitting on the dining room table (it's has a suitably medicinal hue). As I'm unsupervised because everyone else is out having fun, I may start serious self-medication later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 November, 2014, 03:32:55 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 15 November, 2014, 03:16:14 pm
Wasshappened to your bikes?  ???

Bikes are fine but none can handle the amount of mud in Epping Forest. Even walking was difficult in places. A few weeks ago I did a ride where I had to push the bike a lot. Lesson learned! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 November, 2014, 03:40:38 pm
Absolutely full of soddidge.  I'm going to attempt one last waffer thin chip.
Erp!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 15 November, 2014, 04:13:09 pm
Just about to have a hot bath after a too cold day at work. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 08:10:56 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 11:49:04 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 15 November, 2014, 11:39:47 am
Quote from: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 10:55:52 am
Freshly ground coffee, a Full English, Barenboim playing Mozart and the London Review of Books (http://www.lrb.co.uk/)

A good way to start the day..... :)

That is fiendishly civilised. It sounds like heaven. Freshly ground coffee, scrambled eggs and the Church Times here.

It's getting me ready for the tidying & dusting I've been putting off for several months........ :-[

I think I've just destroyed more ecosystems than your average multinational oil company.  Those dust-bunnies were evolving......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 15 November, 2014, 09:01:26 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 08:10:56 pm

I think I've just destroyed more ecosystems than your average multinational oil company.  Those dust-bunnies were evolving......

So long as life wasn't quite imitating art...  ;D

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1990-07-22/

http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/dustpuppy/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 November, 2014, 09:07:58 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 08:10:56 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 11:49:04 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 15 November, 2014, 11:39:47 am
Quote from: andrewc on 15 November, 2014, 10:55:52 am
Freshly ground coffee, a Full English, Barenboim playing Mozart and the London Review of Books (http://www.lrb.co.uk/)

A good way to start the day..... :)

That is fiendishly civilised. It sounds like heaven. Freshly ground coffee, scrambled eggs and the Church Times here.

It's getting me ready for the tidying & dusting I've been putting off for several months........ :-[

I think I've just destroyed more ecosystems than your average multinational oil company.  Those dust-bunnies were evolving......

I also nuked quite a lot of DBs today. I'm nesting in preparation for kitties we don't have yet. At least they won't come out all covered in cobwebs...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 November, 2014, 08:53:53 am
Quote from: Basil on 15 November, 2014, 03:40:38 pm
Absolutely full of soddidge.  I'm going to attempt one last waffer thin chip.
Erp!
Bliney, Basil, you didn't say that's what they got up to at half time in Welsh pubs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 November, 2014, 10:18:19 am
Waiting to go to church  O:-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 16 November, 2014, 12:19:27 pm
Sofa, coffee and internet bbc radio....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 November, 2014, 03:06:19 pm
Quote from: ian on 15 November, 2014, 02:37:34 pm
I'm being stabbed in the guts by a navigationally challenged narwhal.

A good thing I was temporarily coffeeless when I read this.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2014, 09:08:19 pm
Being as impatient as an impatient thing in a factory full of small children.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 November, 2014, 06:38:27 am
Contemplating my diary to see if I can take the somewhat dryer working from home option today....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 17 November, 2014, 08:59:16 am
Pretending I can't see the black dog that has been haunting me the last few days.  Just bugger off, will you?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 17 November, 2014, 09:18:42 am
Getting ready to sally forth to the fracture clinic for what I hope is the final time which, in turn, means driving across town. Blah!

Next step, physioterrorism ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 November, 2014, 12:56:28 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2014, 09:08:19 pm
Being as impatient as an impatient thing in a factory full of small children.
New kitties?

Wishing we hadn't eaten all the cake last week, or at least that there was new cake this week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 17 November, 2014, 12:59:08 pm
Perusing the OS maps layer on Bing Maps, with thoughts of where to get the new bike muddy  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 17 November, 2014, 12:59:34 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 November, 2014, 12:56:28 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2014, 09:08:19 pm
Being as impatient as an impatient thing in a factory full of small children.
New kitties?

Wishing we hadn't eaten all the cake last week, or at least that there was new cake this week.

I feel your cake pain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 17 November, 2014, 01:31:56 pm
Resting with a mince pie and tea after an hour on the turbo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 November, 2014, 06:44:55 pm
Proving to Wikidicks that Hawkwind's Robert Calvert died in 1988, no matter what the BBC might think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 November, 2014, 06:48:33 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 November, 2014, 12:56:28 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2014, 09:08:19 pm
Being as impatient as an impatient thing in a factory full of small children.
New kitties?


No new kitties, and nobody giving me instant gratification to my enquires, which is my problem...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 18 November, 2014, 05:08:40 pm
F5'ing on a parcel tracker site. It tells me that my new toy is still in Köln, Germany. It arrived there last night at 23:11 and has not moved since. Get on with it!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 November, 2014, 05:11:26 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 18 November, 2014, 05:08:40 pm
F5'ing on a parcel tracker site. It tells me that my new toy is still in Köln, Germany. It arrived there last night at 23:11 and has not moved since. Get on with it!

I had one recently which took longer to cover the handful of miles from Barking to Larrington Towers than to reach suburban Essex from Germany.  It'll arrive by Christmas :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 18 November, 2014, 05:18:04 pm
Doing a bit of tweaking on the El Mariachi (just routine stuff, so doesn't count as a true fettle) - this weekend imma ride my bicycle for the first time in nearly 3 months  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 18 November, 2014, 05:19:54 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 18 November, 2014, 05:11:26 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 18 November, 2014, 05:08:40 pm
F5'ing on a parcel tracker site. It tells me that my new toy is still in Köln, Germany. It arrived there last night at 23:11 and has not moved since. Get on with it!
It'll arrive by Christmas :demon:
Which year?

I find it fascinating to see these tracking things how they show a parcel ping ponging around. I had one while living London, hit Heathrow to do a trip to Manchester and Birmingham before arriving the following day. The nerve racking moment when you know they are in the air from the US and you don't know where they are going to pop up, Hamburg or Gatwick? My horror is that Parcel Farce is about to takeover the delivery from DropHideLose ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 November, 2014, 10:10:46 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 November, 2014, 06:48:33 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 November, 2014, 12:56:28 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2014, 09:08:19 pm
Being as impatient as an impatient thing in a factory full of small children.
New kitties?


No new kitties, and nobody giving me instant gratification to my enquires, which is my problem...

Finally got hold of someone who does home visits, hooray! Counts hours....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 19 November, 2014, 07:14:06 am
Quote from: woollypigs on 18 November, 2014, 05:08:40 pm
F5'ing on a parcel tracker site. It tells me that my new toy is still in Köln, Germany. It arrived there last night at 23:11 and has not moved since. Get on with it!
ohhh it's in Leeds packed for delivery ... does not do a happy dance just yet ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 November, 2014, 08:51:16 am
Awaiting a gig ticket pre-sale to start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 November, 2014, 10:03:31 am
Quote from: tiermat on 19 November, 2014, 08:51:16 am
Awaiting a gig ticket pre-sale to start.

Did that last week.  Then they delayed the start by twenty-seven hours.  Gits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 November, 2014, 10:13:36 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 19 November, 2014, 10:03:31 am
Quote from: tiermat on 19 November, 2014, 08:51:16 am
Awaiting a gig ticket pre-sale to start.

Did that last week.  Then they delayed the start by twenty-seven hours.  Gits.

Waited, the site crashed, kept trying, then decide I really really needed a dump.

Came back from the trap to find the site was working, so tickets ordered.  I am going to Sunderland on 25th May next year!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 19 November, 2014, 10:47:48 am
Trying to persuade my new (to me) phone to work. It's an S3 LTE which shows it's connected to a network but is unable to move data or make/receive a call. I'm going to guess the SIM card is too old I think.

This would be a lot easier with a wifi (or even 3G) signal in my office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 November, 2014, 11:31:32 am
Laughing. Just had an email from a guy who works in an architect's office (the firm is doing a bathroom adaptation for us). He has signed it with his full name and then BSc Hons at the end of it. We are wondering if we should add things to the end of our email signatures. I would add BSc (no Hons, I was only the 4th intake of the BSc course and there was no Hons), Manual Handling Risk Assessor with Distinction, Bronze Lifesaver, and then I would scan my 10m swimming badge and all my old girl guide badges and add those too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 19 November, 2014, 12:02:19 pm
Having a quick cuppa after handballing a fucktonne (metric lots) of rock salt and horticultural sand from one side of the compound to the other.

I am then off to run bike club.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 19 November, 2014, 12:17:46 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 November, 2014, 11:31:32 am
Laughing. Just had an email from a guy who works in an architect's office (the firm is doing a bathroom adaptation for us). He has signed it with his full name and then BSc Hons at the end of it. We are wondering if we should add things to the end of our email signatures. I would add BSc (no Hons, I was only the 4th intake of the BSc course and there was no Hons), Manual Handling Risk Assessor with Distinction, Bronze Lifesaver, and then I would scan my 10m swimming badge and all my old girl guide badges and add those too.

Your architect is Arnold Judas Rimmer BSc SSc* AICMFP  ;D

(* Bronze swimming certificate, silver swimming certificate)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 19 November, 2014, 12:20:20 pm
Wondering wtf gdb is showing me this:
(gdb) info locals
a = -1323752223
b = -1323752223
c = 1836311903
d = -2147483236

When it should be showing this:
(gdb) info locals
a = 0
b = 1
c = 1
d = 1

The endianess is correct . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 19 November, 2014, 01:24:13 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 November, 2014, 11:31:32 am
Laughing. Just had an email from a guy who works in an architect's office (the firm is doing a bathroom adaptation for us). He has signed it with his full name and then BSc Hons at the end of it. We are wondering if we should add things to the end of our email signatures. I would add BSc (no Hons, I was only the 4th intake of the BSc course and there was no Hons), Manual Handling Risk Assessor with Distinction, Bronze Lifesaver, and then I would scan my 10m swimming badge and all my old girl guide badges and add those too.

Well that shows he isn't an architect himself, then! Architects usually insist on showing their qualifications (which are a hell of a lot more than a BSc) so maybe if he's a lesser being (like wot I used to be) in an architects firm he feels the need to show he has some qualifications.  I used to be an architectural technician.  We always said that the architect makes it look pretty, we actually make it usable, and keep the rain out, and stop it falling down...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 November, 2014, 01:30:24 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 19 November, 2014, 01:24:13 pm
I used to be an architectural technician.  We always said that the architect makes it look pretty, we actually make it usable, and keep the rain out, and stop it falling down...

So you only learn about skyhooks as part of the full architecture qualification?   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 19 November, 2014, 01:35:37 pm
If they put their full quals ours would be BSc, MArch, MAPP but they generally just use RIBA (RIAS in Scotland).

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 November, 2014, 02:27:20 pm
My tame architect just says she's registered with the ARB and a member of RIBA on her webby SCIENCE.  I imagine FOREIGN qualifications would serve only to confuse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 November, 2014, 02:33:35 pm
I think EG should add the letters "YACF" after her name. That's all the qualifications anyone needs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 November, 2014, 08:52:50 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 19 November, 2014, 01:24:13 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 November, 2014, 11:31:32 am
Laughing. Just had an email from a guy who works in an architect's office (the firm is doing a bathroom adaptation for us). He has signed it with his full name and then BSc Hons at the end of it. We are wondering if we should add things to the end of our email signatures. I would add BSc (no Hons, I was only the 4th intake of the BSc course and there was no Hons), Manual Handling Risk Assessor with Distinction, Bronze Lifesaver, and then I would scan my 10m swimming badge and all my old girl guide badges and add those too.

Well that shows he isn't an architect himself, then! Architects usually insist on showing their qualifications (which are a hell of a lot more than a BSc) so maybe if he's a lesser being (like wot I used to be) in an architects firm he feels the need to show he has some qualifications.
Yeah, I assumed that's what it was. One of my colleagues is thinking about putting "office milk monitor" into his sig.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 21 November, 2014, 08:31:04 am
I think I shall henceforth be sigged as fuzzy (retd.) AAGE.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 21 November, 2014, 11:01:52 am
Quote from: tiermat on 19 November, 2014, 10:13:36 am

... so tickets ordered.  I am going to Sunderland on 25th May next year!

Me too!  Might see you there tiermat  :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 November, 2014, 11:05:26 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 21 November, 2014, 11:01:52 am
Quote from: tiermat on 19 November, 2014, 10:13:36 am

... so tickets ordered.  I am going to Sunderland on 25th May next year!

Me too!  Might see you there tiermat  :D :D :D :D

Cool! do you need a lift?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 November, 2014, 11:07:14 am
Meanwhile I am recovering from having a camera inserted in my one way street. Coffee and toast is making the recovery much more enjoyable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 21 November, 2014, 11:12:17 am
Quote from: Kim on 19 November, 2014, 01:30:24 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 19 November, 2014, 01:24:13 pm
I used to be an architectural technician.  We always said that the architect makes it look pretty, we actually make it usable, and keep the rain out, and stop it falling down...

So you only learn about skyhooks as part of the full architecture qualification?   ;D

One did wonder, at times!

Many schools of architecture (Including Clare's one many years ago) used to give very great importance to the history of architecture, and the artistic aspects, but it seemed many of them weren't paying attention during the "lets make it function as a usable building" lectures.  Especially when it came to maintaining the bloody things...  Us lowly architectural technicians obviously didn't miss too many opportunities to point out the shortcomings of our obviously much better paid superiors. 

To keep on topic, what I am doing now is avoiding the fact that I should be painting the living room wall, and also sorting out the new AV bracketry purchased for that wall.  I am also thinking how horrible my mouth tastes, having have a bloody great tooth removed yesterday, 'cos it was all abscessed and vile. Urgh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 21 November, 2014, 11:14:42 am
Quote from: tiermat on 21 November, 2014, 11:05:26 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 21 November, 2014, 11:01:52 am
Quote from: tiermat on 19 November, 2014, 10:13:36 am

... so tickets ordered.  I am going to Sunderland on 25th May next year!

Me too!  Might see you there tiermat  :D :D :D :D

Cool! do you need a lift?

Probably not, as I am going with friends who have cars.  Thanks for the offer  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 November, 2014, 08:15:27 pm
Fighting the urge to visit the corner shop to buy chocolate or similar.  I really want something sweet right now; don't need it, just want it.

Will attempt to drown the urge in the wine I opened for dinner...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 22 November, 2014, 08:17:44 pm
Dissolving my braincells with the aid of Sam Smith's Chocolate Stout.

Beer does not have any right to taste like alcoholic cocoa (not that I'm complaining, mind)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 November, 2014, 08:19:45 pm
That would do quite nicely right about now.  if only I had something like that in the larder.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 November, 2014, 09:07:43 am
Lying in bed listening to the church bells. Sounds rural and idyllic, but this is central Saarfend. We do have a badgers' sett though, but I can't hear that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 November, 2014, 09:10:52 am
Laundry and general cleaning and tidying duties.

Dull.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 November, 2014, 12:37:33 pm
Digging around on the interwebs trying to work out what the explosion I heard at 5:05 this morning was.  Thought it was a car crash or something.

https://twitter.com/sduob/status/536385540439175170 is all I've found so far.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: simonp on 23 November, 2014, 12:55:01 pm
Procrastinating. The motorbike is sans fuel tank as I've been doing its 24,000 mile service. The last tank-off task is balancing the carbs. This will need me to rig up an auxiliary fuel tank (yes, got that) but I need to go get some fuel to put in it. It's only a mile or so to the nearest petrol station.

I'd better get on and do it as I'll need the bike in the morning to get to work. If I put the tank back on with the job not done then I'll only have to take it off again later in the week to do it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 23 November, 2014, 12:55:17 pm
Bsc - bronze swimming certificate
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 November, 2014, 02:19:07 pm
Quote from: Kim on 23 November, 2014, 12:37:33 pm
Digging around on the interwebs trying to work out what the explosion I heard at 5:05 this morning was.  Thought it was a car crash or something.

https://twitter.com/sduob/status/536385540439175170 is all I've found so far.

Didn't hear anything over here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 November, 2014, 02:45:56 pm
Girding our loins to do battle at the local ghastly retail park so we can buy stuff for the new kitties...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 November, 2014, 02:52:32 pm
Quote from: Basil on 23 November, 2014, 02:19:07 pm
Quote from: Kim on 23 November, 2014, 12:37:33 pm
Digging around on the interwebs trying to work out what the explosion I heard at 5:05 this morning was.  Thought it was a car crash or something.

https://twitter.com/sduob/status/536385540439175170 is all I've found so far.

Didn't hear anything over here.

Some travellers have moved onto the old Selly Oak hospital site in the last couple of days.  Could the noise have been gas bottle sounding? 
Hope everyone's OK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 24 November, 2014, 01:17:26 pm
Re explostion, two guys arrested for internal mischief resulting in flat blowing up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 November, 2014, 01:22:03 pm
Tidying the office!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2014, 04:59:58 pm
Slathering my hands in hydrocortisone, having failed to fettle the washing machine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 November, 2014, 09:28:03 am
Waiting for a delivery (see above) and programming the flashing red light that indicates when someone's in the bathroom to be Even! More! Flashing! in the hope that it'll penetrate barakta's brain first thing in the morning, and avoid her getting shocked by discovering that I'm having a wee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 25 November, 2014, 09:43:12 am
Watching a powerpoint e-learning module on moving from Windows XP to Windows 7 and Office 2003 to Office 2010. I can't click next until the recorded voice reads the slide tells me how to use the system. It's not as if I've been using these at home for years :facepalm:

Added bugbear, the audio recording keeps changing volume and on the current section is distorted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 November, 2014, 09:53:34 am
Ironing!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 November, 2014, 10:19:50 pm
Sitting in the back room of The Lion Tavern drinking Pendle Pride and listening to Dylan on the jukebox...
I think I'm getting middle aged....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 November, 2014, 10:25:13 pm
Dissolving my synapses with the aid of BEER
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: benborp on 29 November, 2014, 10:35:48 pm
Lying in a cunningly previously made bed by preventing the Danish hotel staff from coming in and unmaking it during the day with the use of the do not disturb sign. Unfortunately I have just tripped over a bag of entirely unnecessary towels.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 November, 2014, 08:12:33 am
I am lying in bed with a slumbering Mrs. Wow next to me, catching up with forum news. Thinking about going back to sleep because I'm having trouble remembering what unbridled lust feels like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 November, 2014, 09:03:47 am
Cursing the stupid design of my coffebot that makes it almost impossible to fill without washing down the worktop.  I would imagine it to be well-nigh unusable by a southpaw.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 02 December, 2014, 03:04:59 pm
Reading a journal article about night rides. It has yet to mention how hills are easier in the dark when you have fewer photons pushing down on you, so I remain sceptical of the scholarly quality and scientific rigour  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 02 December, 2014, 03:41:11 pm
Quote from: nikki on 02 December, 2014, 03:04:59 pm
Reading a journal article about night rides. It has yet to mention how hills are easier in the dark when you have fewer photons pushing down on you, so I remain sceptical of the scholarly quality and scientific rigour  ;)

Which journal?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 02 December, 2014, 03:56:10 pm
Mobilities. Not open access, unfortunately http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2014.956417#.VH2-0b5d3Qf

About to start on the section entitled "The Beam and the Mobile Apprehension of Dark Space"; hoping for mention of badger-roasters :-)

(I'm actually enjoying the article a lot - thinking it might get a few citations in my MA dissertation!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 02 December, 2014, 05:45:31 pm
That looks like a really good article.  Nursing articles aren't nearly as interesting as that.

Mostly they aren't about bike rides though.

I'm fighting the paperwork mountain.  I was going out, but now my front door lock is broken and I wouldn't be able to get back in again.  Had to ring work and ask for a late start tomorrow, since the locksmith is unavailable till then.  Grrrr.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 December, 2014, 05:50:27 pm
Trying to thaw out - bit underdressed for the commute home :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 02 December, 2014, 05:51:35 pm
Yeah, it looks like being seriously cold tomorrow and tonight!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 December, 2014, 05:54:48 pm
Definitely some sparkly reflections just now. The studs might actually get some testing for the first time tomorrow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 December, 2014, 08:02:22 pm
Alternating coughing with sneezing.
And then, to mix it up, alternating sneezing with coughing.
I can't remember the last time I had a cold. I blame the gym ban - I'm not fit enough to fight off germs.

I sound like a fecking seal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 December, 2014, 08:06:03 pm
Quote from: fboab on 02 December, 2014, 08:02:22 pm
I sound like a fecking seal.

Shall I bring a ball and a stool over?

*hides*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 02 December, 2014, 08:41:28 pm
I have a cold too, winter is shit.

Currently walking round the streets near home- have been for an hour- our precious cat has been missing since lunchtime. He is never out long  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 December, 2014, 09:15:56 pm
I've had a mild drippy snot cold for so long now that I've lost track.  I'm frustrating barakta with my inconsistent hearing, and getting annoyed by the clicking in my left ear every time I breathe (especially when I'm trying to sleep, as it makes me hold my breath).

But still no sign of a chest infection, so I'm winning.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 December, 2014, 09:20:20 pm
Fettling sheet music into backing music for my choir. It's a slow process
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 02 December, 2014, 10:02:27 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgfzEm3CWU

The paperwork mountain has been fettled.

I am my own hero.  I am having a cup of tea.   :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 December, 2014, 10:27:49 am
For the last 2.5hrs - not sleeping.  This is sub-optimal as the local time is 05:30.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 03 December, 2014, 01:36:29 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 02 December, 2014, 05:54:48 pm
Definitely some sparkly reflections just now. The studs might actually get some testing for the first time tomorrow

Ugh, talk of snow tyres is depressing. The cycle paths round here were a bit sparkly last night, too. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 05 December, 2014, 10:27:28 am
Watching the live online stream of the graduation ceremony from the university of Bradford. And waiting to hear them read out my nephew's full name, which will no doubt cause much hilarity among his peers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 December, 2014, 02:12:23 pm
A metric shit-load of paperwork (signing contracts, completeing not one, but two security clearence forms and then passing on all my company details to an agency), then filing it all, never to be read again...

Oh and then calling the agency about one contract in X, to tell them I am still interested, but until Y in X can extract the digit and give me a start date I shall be heading to Z to do some work, at least I'll get paid...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 05 December, 2014, 02:18:52 pm
You little devil!

Life on the edge . . .    :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 December, 2014, 07:09:08 pm
Using wi-fi on my smartish phone, in my spare room, to control my central heating.  How cool is that!

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 05 December, 2014, 08:11:57 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 05 December, 2014, 07:09:08 pm
Using wi-fi on my smartish phone, in my spare room, to control my central heating.  How cool is that!

 :thumbsup:
As cool or as warm as you want it to be, presumably!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 December, 2014, 09:54:08 pm
Trying to work out whether my low-level lurgy is going to make riding 130km in too-cold-for-optimal-lung-performance temperatures a bad idea.

Well, clearly it's a bad idea.  What I'm trying to work out is whether I should do it anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 05 December, 2014, 10:00:38 pm
Sitting down with a nice cold drink after finishing my first Christmas concert of the season. It went ok and the audience enjoyed it, but there were quite a few rough edges which is a little annoying.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 05 December, 2014, 10:47:06 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 05 December, 2014, 10:00:38 pm
Sitting down with a nice cold drink after finishing my first Christmas concert of the season. It went ok and the audience enjoyed it, but there were quite a few rough edges which is a little annoying.

 :)   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 06 December, 2014, 04:56:20 pm
Listening to Harvest Moon and drinking really, really good coffee.  In my cosy living room.  Going out carol singing tonight  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 December, 2014, 08:34:32 pm
Straightening limbs kinked from hours spent slaving over a hot lapdog sorting hundreds of old photos and uploading most of them to flickr.  Everything from the beginning to end of page 3.  Roughly. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 December, 2014, 10:00:41 pm
Trying to track down the source of the annoy-o-tron chirping that's been bothering me for days.  Now think it's coming from outside the house.   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 07 December, 2014, 01:26:58 am
Smoke alarm with low battery (perhaps the spare hidden on the top shelf of the airing cupboard) is surely the standard answer, but I guess yours probably text you three months before they want new cells.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 07 December, 2014, 10:03:47 am
Summoning up the nerve to brave Aldi for grocery shopping.  Cupboards are bare at the moment!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 07 December, 2014, 10:20:15 am
Really, really wanting a coffee, but really, really not wanting to get out of bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 December, 2014, 10:50:31 am
Quote from: jsabine on 07 December, 2014, 01:26:58 am
Smoke alarm with low battery (perhaps the spare hidden on the top shelf of the airing cupboard) is surely the standard answer, but I guess yours probably text you three months before they want new cells.
POTD!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 12:56:37 pm
Quote from: jsabine on 07 December, 2014, 01:26:58 am
Smoke alarm with low battery (perhaps the spare hidden on the top shelf of the airing cupboard) is surely the standard answer, but I guess yours probably text you three months before they want new cells.

Obviously that's the first thing I checked.  The smoke alarms have low battery blinkenlights, and should set the fault light on the vibrator module in the bedroom if there's a low battery.  I'd also expect them to be a lot louder, and they're about 8 years too new, anyway.  Similarly the CO alarm in the kitchen has a much more obvious (and importantly, more frequent) low battery beep, and got a set of shiny new procells about a month ago.

I'm reasonably sure there isn't a forgotten old smoke alarm in a box somewhere (having had a cull when I installed the current system), but having done a lot of digging and battery replacement/removal on random gadgets, I'm running out of ideas for other things it might be.

None of this is helped by the chirping being just above the threshold of my hearing, and happening about once every 90s or so (when I hear it).  If I sit perfectly still I can just about work out whether it's coming from my left or my right, and doing that I've narrowed it down to somewhere in the front room, somewhere in the computer room above it, possibly the bottom of the stairs, but definitely not the under-stairs cupboard (which is crammed to capacity with random stuff).  I went and stood outside in the street for a bit last night, and it was audible and somewhere off to the side, but I couldn't narrow it down further due to the masking effect of idling taxis and drunken revellers.

Barakta can't hear it at all, but even if she could, her hearing is pretty non-directional.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 07 December, 2014, 01:08:25 pm
I have had a beeper going once that I and flatmates couldn't find. After many annoying and stressful days the neighbour came home from holiday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 01:10:54 pm
Yes, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that it's coming from outside the house.  There do appear to be people in the house next door, though, so either they're deafer than we are, or it's not coming from there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 07 December, 2014, 01:13:41 pm
Not one of the 'keep moggies out of my garden' noise making appliances, or some such?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 01:33:40 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 07 December, 2014, 01:13:41 pm
Not one of the 'keep moggies out of my garden' noise making appliances, or some such?

I doubt it, around here.

And I wouldn't be able to hear them anyway, as my ears only seem to go up to about 15kHz these days.  (Typical that by the time I get old enough not to be bothered by PAL line scan whistle, CRTs are already thoroughly obsolete.)

It sounds like some sort of low battery beep.  Probably a distant one.  I'm now thinking burglar alarms (maybe someone's turned off the power to one of the empty houses or something).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 07 December, 2014, 02:08:04 pm
Looking at the weather, being glad I didn't go out for a bike ride, and trying to muster up the enthusiasm to go to the gym for an indoor bike fix.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 07 December, 2014, 02:14:26 pm
Resting my feet before mopping the final bit of floor.  That pledge stuff for wood floors smells nice.  Lemony.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 07 December, 2014, 04:03:52 pm
Loft hatch, borrowed stepladder, head torch, possible wasps' nest, stinking cold.
What could possibly go wrong?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 07 December, 2014, 04:07:49 pm
Nikki is that you ?

(http://cdn.isciencetimes.com/data/images/full/2013/03/07/3479-100-000-killer-bees-attack.jpg)
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Post by: nikki on 07 December, 2014, 04:33:27 pm
Eeep!

Thankfully not!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 07 December, 2014, 04:34:36 pm
Dust off & nuke the place from orbit. It's the only way to be sure....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 07 December, 2014, 04:51:00 pm
The Christmas tree is up.  It looks a bit rubbish.  Not doing it again though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 December, 2014, 06:33:37 pm
Giggling at the Countryfile report about beavers...

Purile? Me? Oh yes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 07 December, 2014, 09:03:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 01:33:40 pm
I'm now thinking burglar alarms (maybe someone's turned off the power to one of the empty houses or something).

Maybe an "I've been triggered and the sounder has timed out, so I'll beep to notify you before you re-enter the property" beep? Alarm sounds distinctly possible.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 09:06:49 pm
Quote from: jsabine on 07 December, 2014, 09:03:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 01:33:40 pm
I'm now thinking burglar alarms (maybe someone's turned off the power to one of the empty houses or something).

Maybe an "I've been triggered and the sounder has timed out, so I'll beep to notify you before you re-enter the property" beep? Alarm sounds distinctly possible.

Ah, is that a thing?  Seems quite likely, given the Selly Oak tradition of ignored alarms...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 07 December, 2014, 09:25:23 pm
Beep...beep

Trapped road runner?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 07 December, 2014, 10:19:27 pm
I'm sorry . . .

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/shedbike/roadbeep_zps3154e2f9.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 10:20:48 pm
There must be an ACME product to solve this...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 07 December, 2014, 11:22:41 pm
Quote from: jsabine on 07 December, 2014, 01:26:58 am
Smoke alarm with low battery (perhaps the spare hidden on the top shelf of the airing cupboard) is surely the standard answer, but I guess yours probably text you three months before they want new cells.

Nah, they start at 2am as any fule kno.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 11:28:24 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 07 December, 2014, 11:22:41 pm
Quote from: jsabine on 07 December, 2014, 01:26:58 am
Smoke alarm with low battery (perhaps the spare hidden on the top shelf of the airing cupboard) is surely the standard answer, but I guess yours probably text you three months before they want new cells.

Nah, they start at 2am as any fule kno.

Quite.  Naive voltage sensing for smoke alarm batteries was one of Stan's finest moments.  Because the drop in temperature nearly always corresponds with people being asleep.

We had an interesting variation on this in my halls at university: an infestation of small aphid-like insects which appeared to snuggle up to the optical sensors for warmth, triggering random fire alarm roulette in the rooms of sleeping students.  Fortunately the building was struck by lightning in the final semester, which miraculously left all the electrical systems undamaged apart from the fire alarm, which cried out in terror for the life of its backup battery, then was permanently silenced.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 07 December, 2014, 11:30:18 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 10:20:48 pm
There must be an ACME product to solve this...
There is ...

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/29/91980377_3a0bad5071.jpg)
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Post by: mcshroom on 07 December, 2014, 11:31:38 pm
Don't forget the Kaboom! There needs to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 11:31:50 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 07 December, 2014, 11:30:18 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 10:20:48 pm
There must be an ACME product to solve this...
There is ...

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/29/91980377_3a0bad5071.jpg)

I've seen the catalogue.  The only things that will survive a detonation of that magnitude are  a) the mysterious chirping device  and  b) any road-runners in the vicinity
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 07 December, 2014, 11:35:43 pm
Do you think more people die in fires in places which once had smoke detectors than those that never had them?
Those feckin' beeps are so maddening that smoke detectors might actually save very few lives...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2014, 11:48:03 pm
Interesting question, but I'd guess probably not.  Smoke detectors are either fitted because they're legally required (in which case they're required to be maintained, and more often than not, mains-powered), or because the occupier reckons that they're worth having, in which case it probably comes down to round tuits wrt 9v flatteries and they do get replaced eventually.

I also note a general shift in favour of lifetime primary lithium cells for the standalone battery-powered models.  Which neatly avoids the "ah, I'll borrow one from the smoke alarm" issue, and makes the chirping a lot less frequent.  (As previously discussed, the electronics aren't guaranteed to be reliable after 10 years, so it doesn't matter that the battery isn't replaceable.  This is also much shorter than the half-life of the isotope used in ionisation detectors.)

I'm probably unusual in that my low tolerance for annoying beeping is combined with a general inclination to have a ready supply of procells in a drawer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 07 December, 2014, 11:53:37 pm
You also get systems like in my house where they are mains powered with a 9v cell as backup. Then if the cells are run down (by say, leaving the house electricity turned off for two years while selling it), they all keep doing periodic blips to tell you something's wrong.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 December, 2014, 12:00:36 am
Some slightly more verbose debugging would be nice, and avoid all this irritating bipping nonsense.  Ours are better than average in that they have specific blinkenlights to warn of fault conditions (including low battery), and communicate this to their peers (they're a wireless mesh network) so you don't miss it by being deaf or ignoring an unused room.  But it'd be nice to have a USB dongle or something that you could use to access the data and, indeed, anticipate low batteries with a text message three months in advance :)


But low-tech would do.  For the cost of an LDR and a couple of logic gates (or controller program memory equivalent) it could bip a couple of times, set a flag and STFU until daylight and then (crucially) keep beeping in spite of the battery voltage having gone back up.  Sorted.  You've even got an LDR you can then use as a test button with a torch.

Safety systems have to be reliably un-annoying enough that they don't just get disabled by the users.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 08 December, 2014, 11:02:51 am
Quote from: hellymedic on 07 December, 2014, 11:35:43 pm
Do you think more people die in fires in places which once had smoke detectors than those that never had them?
Those feckin' beeps are so maddening that smoke detectors might actually save very few lives...

There are quite frequently reports in local papers of this occurrence.
I really wish the manufacturers knew how counterproductive these beeps were.

Our alarm system was serviced today and the man put a lithium battery in the CO detector.
Which was nice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 08 December, 2014, 11:30:19 am
I tracked down an intermittent beep in the dining room last week. It was the buckle on a car seat that the little duck hasn't quite grown into yet. You haven't got one of those hiding in the garden have you?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 08 December, 2014, 05:12:02 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 07 December, 2014, 02:14:26 pm
Resting my feet before mopping the final bit of floor.  That pledge stuff for wood floors smells nice.  Lemony.

Is that "Pledge Multi Surface Wax"?  It also makes a great gloss coat for scale models!   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 08 December, 2014, 08:43:11 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 08 December, 2014, 05:12:02 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 07 December, 2014, 02:14:26 pm
Resting my feet before mopping the final bit of floor.  That pledge stuff for wood floors smells nice.  Lemony.

Is that "Pledge Multi Surface Wax"?  It also makes a great gloss coat for scale models!   :)

No, it's Pledge 5 in 1 wood floor cleaner  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 08 December, 2014, 08:44:52 pm
What 5 things does it do?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 08 December, 2014, 08:48:43 pm
Um, cleans, dusts, moisturises, smells nice, and something else.

It says 'cares' on the website.  That's pushing it a bit.  It doesn't care at all.  It appears to be completely indifferent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 December, 2014, 09:44:54 pm
"Not smell of vomit" is always a feature in wood floor products.  Except the ones that cause flashbacks to the first assembly of term, obviously.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 08 December, 2014, 09:49:57 pm
I sometimes wonder if they put stuff in cleaning fluid so that it changes colour on contact with your mop.  Because there is no way there was enough muck on my floors to make the water turn that colour.  Five bucket loads, like coal-water.  Yuck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 09 December, 2014, 01:34:35 am
Doesn't take alot of dirt to make the water go black.  Maybe try the two bucket method.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 December, 2014, 01:00:01 pm
One for your head, one for the mop?   ;D


In beepery news: I think it's stopped.  Or the snot's gone to my ears again.  I was however woken up early this morning by barakta's nose doing an uncanny imitation of the UPS alarm every time she breathed in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 December, 2014, 01:41:56 pm
I am drinking coffee, and wondering where to start on the TPoC's.

They need tackling as a matter of urgency, since we shall be having a puppy (and CrinklyUncle/Auntie) visit, an animation project and the arrival of festive greenery all happening this evening.  After the school run, in an hour or so.

More coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 December, 2014, 02:34:31 pm
More tea, here. I'm working on a day off again. Part-time working is a myth!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 December, 2014, 04:27:31 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 December, 2014, 01:00:01 pm
...  I was however woken up early this morning by barakta's nose doing an uncanny imitation of the UPS alarm every time she breathed in.

I was initially puzzled by this and was going to question, but finally figured it out.  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 09 December, 2014, 04:28:55 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 09 December, 2014, 04:27:31 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 December, 2014, 01:00:01 pm
...  I was however woken up early this morning by barakta's nose doing an uncanny imitation of the UPS alarm every time she breathed in.

I was initially puzzled by this and was going to question, but finally figured it out.  8)

It's obvious - Kim's nicked a delivery van! ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 December, 2014, 06:33:05 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 December, 2014, 01:00:01 pm
I was however woken up early this morning by barakta's nose doing an uncanny imitation of the UPS alarm every time she breathed in.

Is that who it was?  I accused both son and lodger this morning.
Blimey barakta, we could hear you over in Bournville!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 09 December, 2014, 06:48:57 pm
Getting acquainted with a bottle of Harviestoun Brewery's "Old Engine Oil"

Bloody lovely, it is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 09 December, 2014, 08:39:19 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 09 December, 2014, 01:41:56 pm
I am drinking coffee, and wondering where to start on the TPoC's.

They need tackling as a matter of urgency, since we shall be having a puppy (and CrinklyUncle/Auntie) visit, an animation project and the arrival of festive greenery all happening this evening.  After the school run, in an hour or so.

More coffee.

Yay puppy...oh and the auntie and uncle. :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 10 December, 2014, 10:53:18 am
Having a nice cup of coffee and listening to a bit of choral.  Shortly I shall wade into my son's room and sort through the fetid pile of stinking clothes on the floor to find out what size jeans he wears so I can buy him a new pair of nice jeans for Christmas.  Bless.  I'd die for him, he's lovely, but he's such a slob.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Riggers on 10 December, 2014, 11:01:21 am
Quote from: interzen on 09 December, 2014, 06:48:57 pm
Getting acquainted with a bottle of Harviestoun Brewery's "Old Engine Oil"

Bloody lovely, it is.

I've had that in the past, and concur!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 December, 2014, 03:06:34 pm
Re-enacting the Darth Maul/Qi Gon Jin battle using breadsticks as lightsabres.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 December, 2014, 04:23:49 pm
Waiting for the helldesk to phone me back and thinking I might just go home and leave it till tomorrow because ugh. Also, wondering why it's so much darker out of the windows on the other side of the building, and realising it's because the blind is pulled down.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 December, 2014, 10:29:15 am
Hiding from Wowbagger.
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 December, 2014, 01:45:11 pm
Feeling guilty about leaving the cat while I go to bobb's for the weekend. People are coming in to feed him and clean his litter tray, and I've made arrangements for the cat as well, but I still feel bad about it.

Riggers, if bobbers becomes Mcbobbers when he's in Scotland, what do I become when I go to Essex?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 13 December, 2014, 11:48:25 am
Cleaning magic smoke from the inside of the dehumidifier.

(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/20141213_120120_zps2dwthszb.jpg)

Next I shall be going out in search of a new relay.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 13 December, 2014, 12:15:18 pm
Recovering from slipping and sliding about on cobbles and flags during an dicey-icey dog walk!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 13 December, 2014, 03:43:03 pm
Sitting by the fire, with the candles lit and the Christmas lights on, feeling like a zillion poorly crustaceans after a ride with some lovely, lovely, lovely friends today.  I am so happy right now  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 December, 2014, 09:36:08 pm
Feeling a bit silly.
Earlier this evening, I popped out into the garden to see if I could spot any Geminids.  Nice starry night.  Got a bit cold and saw nothing.
So, just now, I got dressed up properly, complete with glass of wine, and settled in one of the garden chairs.  For a while I was enjoying the solitude, the darkness, the quiet and the wine.  But something didn't feel right.
It took me a couple of moment to realise that what was wrong was that I was just looking up at absolutely nothing.  No stars.  Total cloud cover.
Oh well, I finished my wine anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 December, 2014, 09:42:11 pm
*laffs*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 December, 2014, 03:04:13 am
Recovering from 9 hours of being my brother's kitchen bitch.  Two hundred wedding guests have been well fed (as have those of us working in the kitchen and serving). I shall sleep well tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 18 December, 2014, 09:40:17 am
Day off (all leave must be used by the end of the year -- it cannot be carried over).
So I have a list of things to do which is longer than a very long thing.
I maybe able to get out on the bike later (or possibly tomorrow) assuming the weather stops being quite so damp.
Or I may not.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 December, 2014, 09:44:57 am
Clock watching! I am heading home today. Mrs T knows, but TLD doesn't!!!

It will be a nice surprise for her. I am looking forward to 2 weeks at home, not really doing a lot...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 20 December, 2014, 06:51:25 pm
Just finished de-fettling a Wasp's Nest which had been there since summer.
<shudder>

Back in the summer, we became aware there was a wasp's nest in the voidspace between the roof and the interior plasterboard, at the velux window in the spare bedroom.
The low-level drone was quite audible, and we could see them going in and out somewhere in the flashing of the velux window.
Decided to leave it be until winter, when they have all buggered off.

Went to have a look this afternoon.
The plasterboard paintwork in the general area was slightly stained, as if some water had leaked in.
Mrs. F. gave it an experimental prod, and the 'plasterboard' crumbled to dust, revealing this:

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8652/15445394663_7f00c00510_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pwRFHZ)
Wasps_Nest (https://flic.kr/p/pwRFHZ) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/people/62966413@N04/), on Flickr

Some shrieking may have been involved.
( For scale, that hole is about a foot long on it's long axis. )
They had eaten through an inch and a half of fibreboard, and then 12 mm of gypsum plasterboard.
All that remained between them and the inside of the spare room was an egg-shell thin sheet of paint.
I'm guessing they found the paint not to their taste.

It's taken all afternoon to clean it all up.
Lots of nastiness falling all over my head.
The entire section of plasterboard had to be removed to gain access to clean it up.
It's now has been replaced.  Taping and skimming tomorrow.

Repairing the flashing to block the access before the summer also.



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 20 December, 2014, 08:43:17 pm
Waiting for the ferry. Two of my boys heading home for xmas. I haven't seen Alex for 12 months or Jake for 6 months. I'm excited :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 December, 2014, 06:58:32 pm
Getting ready for bed. 5:30 am start at work this coming week!   :o   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 21 December, 2014, 07:14:39 pm
Last Thursday was my killer day. Parcels galore. I had yesterday off and am off tomorrow too. It pays to be in with the scheduler, I've found! On the downside, I'm back in on Saturday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 December, 2014, 07:17:49 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 21 December, 2014, 07:14:39 pm
Last Thursday was my killer day. Parcels galore. I had yesterday off and am off tomorrow too. It pays to be in with the scheduler, I've found! On the downside, I'm back in on Saturday.

I'll chap your door when I leave for work in the morning then?  ;) 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 22 December, 2014, 01:46:27 am
Not sleeping: I listened to far too many Ramones tracks just before going to bed, so, as a come down, I'm now reading about income tax payment protocols for the self-employed...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 December, 2014, 07:47:24 pm
Falling asleep in front on my modelling bench....  Better put my airfix kit away before I fall asleep and end up with a 1:12 scale 1930 Bentley Blower 4.5L engine super adhesived to my forehead..... 
(my current build is a 1:12 scale Bentley kit I got for the grand sum of £27 a couple of months ago.  RRP £100!)   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 22 December, 2014, 11:51:31 pm
Watching the mouse in the kitchen scurrying around. :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 23 December, 2014, 03:54:19 am
Are you instructing the cat?

Taking drugs, lots of lovely drugs.  Oh indigestion awaits....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 24 December, 2014, 12:45:11 pm
Trying to make an article about normalised citation indicators in the evaluation of research outputs sound interesting. Actually just trying to write it, but the words keep wandering off and finding better things to do. They, at least, recognise the futile enormity of such a task. The only reason I'm stlll looking at the screen and trying to corral those words is that it's putting off doing my end-of-year expenses. O sweet procrastination. If I do them I can throw in the towel and finish for the year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 24 December, 2014, 12:52:38 pm
Sitting at work waiting for the word to go so that I can hit the pub.  I've got a Lego Spaceship (Spaceship!) kit under my desk that I would much rather be playing with...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 24 December, 2014, 12:56:39 pm
Chasing the roll of wrapping paper round the room Wrapping presents.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 24 December, 2014, 05:11:41 pm
Eating all the food at my parents' house. Wishing I had a bike with me as it's quite a nice evening and there are some good roads round here.  I haven't, though, so I'll just sit around eating more cake and mince pies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 December, 2014, 05:19:15 pm
Just about to pop out to watch the ISS pass.

17:22 if anyone reads this in time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 24 December, 2014, 05:24:26 pm
Read it at 1722, looked out the window, looked dark, stayed in because if I left peli would eat all the crips.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 24 December, 2014, 05:25:20 pm
Waiting to go to church starts at 7pm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 24 December, 2014, 05:30:19 pm
Quote from: Basil on 24 December, 2014, 05:19:15 pm
Just about to pop out to watch the ISS pass.

17:22 if anyone reads this in time.

Saw it.  Back inside to finish wrapping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 24 December, 2014, 06:18:52 pm
Gave up with the report. Did the expenses. Set the out-of-mothership message. Clambered up the hill for a swim at pool (have to make room for the turkey). Presents wrapped (my attempt to wrap a contrarily shaped bottle of G'vine gin turned out looking like a Christmas cracker, so let's pretend that I did it on purpose). Now I have to draw some cartoon gift tags.

Another of those getting old things, we're supposed to go out but neither of us can be bothered schlepping across town (though neither of us wants to say it first), knowing that getting back will be hell and will undoubtedly involve long, cold waits for trains that don't arrive and expensive taxis. When we could be sitting in the warm drinking snowballs. Yes, we have snowballs. And Babycham (bloody hard to find these days, had to explain it to the girl behind the counter in the Coop, mind you I had to explain vermouth, the stuff that goes in martinis, oh you mean Martini, OK OK game, set, and the match to the girl behind the counter, though she would have lost if they only had Noilly Prat or Cinzano).

Also have totally wound-up the inlaws (who descend with the ethnic enumeration engine and unrequired opinions tomorrow) that we're having a KFC for Christmas dinner 'like the Japanese.' Actually, I'm attempting to slow cook a turkey, so it might turn out to be a toss up between KFC or A&E if it goes wrong.

Well if you don't want to go, I don't mind, she says. No, no, if you don't want to go, I don't mind. I give this another ten minutes before we fold and stay in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 24 December, 2014, 06:37:24 pm
Resting my throbbing feet, drinking lemsip, and being very glad indeed that there is no work for four whole days now  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 24 December, 2014, 06:54:09 pm
Have as good a time as you can, Ruth!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 24 December, 2014, 10:00:58 pm
Quote from: Peter on 24 December, 2014, 06:54:09 pm
Have as good a time as you can, Ruth!

It's going to be really nice, just me and my boy, looking forward to it.  Now hanging chocolates on the Christmas tree, he still likes those little traditions even though he's a man now  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2014, 06:26:54 pm
Taking a break from the Doctor Who and Myhtbusters marathons to watch The Princess Bride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 25 December, 2014, 06:28:05 pm
Was trying to get my new Samsung tablet sorted out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 December, 2014, 06:34:15 pm
Yesterday Dr Larrington and I sorted Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.)'s no-name tablet.
Today I have mostly been failing to light a fire under his crappy laptop.
Tomorrow I will be installing his new amplifier.

I am beginning to sense a theme here.  And he's the telecommunications engineer...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2014, 06:35:08 pm
Digesting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2014, 06:36:52 pm
Thinking about food. We will be having roast pig with assorted vegetables in about 1n hour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 25 December, 2014, 08:40:32 pm
recovering in peace and tranquillity, the nephew (2) was very enamoured with the books his Granny got him and my showing him the work photos of civil engineering equipment (diggers). He got quite boisterous after his tea.

His sister (7) was equally loud and after Doctor Who was winding him up to greater heights.

Fortunately they went quiet in the car on the way home as I was sat between them cadging a lift rather than ride 7miles each way transporting presents.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 December, 2014, 08:58:21 pm
Watching Dr Who whilst digesting a humoungous dinner (served at 15.00). The cheese and biscuits will have to wait until tomorrow as sleep will win shortly, I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 26 December, 2014, 07:10:35 pm
Polishing off some curried Turkey, nom nom. I cant find any custard tho' but.......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 27 December, 2014, 11:57:43 am
Procrastinating.  I have a deadline and need a kick up the bum to get going.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 December, 2014, 12:22:30 pm
Going crazy due to the aroma of nicely cooked chicken and ham pie.   If Mlle PB doesn't get back soon I'll be eating her share too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 27 December, 2014, 12:25:42 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 27 December, 2014, 12:22:30 pm
Going crazy due to the aroma of nicely cooked chicken and ham pie.   If Mlle PB doesn't get back soon I'll be eating her share too.

Oooh, lovely.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 December, 2014, 12:52:05 pm
She returned.    :(   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 December, 2014, 11:14:17 pm
Seriously contemplating resurrecting the hybrid tomorrow and fitting the snow studs, so I can at least go for some sort of bike ride. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 29 December, 2014, 09:17:28 am
Sneezing and the washing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 December, 2014, 09:45:07 am
Wondering why my fondleslab zips along like a turbocharged cheetah in the mornings when last night it was taking anything up to a minute to load a page ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2014, 09:48:30 am
Because it behaves like a cheetah all the time, which means that it spends about 15 hours a day sleeping?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 29 December, 2014, 10:47:35 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 December, 2014, 09:45:07 am
Wondering why my fondleslab zips along like a turbocharged cheetah in the mornings when last night it was taking anything up to a minute to load a page ???
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/meisiekind-1.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/meisiekind-1.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2014, 11:12:45 am
Waiting for Pumpkin to do a poo so I can take it to the vet to get analysed. I have a feeling she's going to wait until we've gone out for the day, unlike the rest of the week...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 29 December, 2014, 11:49:29 am
Waiting for the shredder to cool down. A combination of catching up with mumble mumble weeks months of filing plus the annual clear out has proved too much for the poor thing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 29 December, 2014, 12:03:00 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 29 December, 2014, 11:49:29 am
Waiting for the shredder to cool down. A combination of catching up with mumble mumble weeks months of filing plus the annual clear out has proved too much for the poor thing
And it now appears to have died completely. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 29 December, 2014, 12:59:27 pm
I think that Aldi may have cross cut shredders in stock atm or very shortly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 December, 2014, 01:27:38 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 29 December, 2014, 11:49:29 am
Waiting for the shredder to cool down. A combination of catching up with mumble mumble weeks months of filing plus the annual clear out has proved too much for the poor thing

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1241.msg1756589#msg1756589 refers...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 29 December, 2014, 03:22:43 pm
New shredder obtained. Not sure how long we've had the previous one but I suspect about ten years (which considering it was the cheapest one I could find at the time is not at all bad).
New one is Staples own brand (as that was all they had).
We are Aldi-less in this neck of the woods until a long running planning application issue is sorted (but thanks for the suggestion, Canardly).

(pops over to OT Knowledge to ask question about lubrication (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=87179.0))
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2014, 11:43:15 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2014, 11:12:45 am
Waiting for Pumpkin to do a poo so I can take it to the vet to get analysed. I have a feeling she's going to wait until we've gone out for the day, unlike the rest of the week...

Still waiting for this poo....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 30 December, 2014, 11:50:00 am
Sat in the office to provide cover in case site call,

site haven't called in the last 9 months, why they would call this week is unclear. So here I am twiddling my thumbs, browsing the web and dreaming of n+1.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 30 December, 2014, 11:57:47 am
Cursing my cack-handedness :(. Managed to break the ribbon cable whilst trying to put a new Soundboard in my Bose
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 December, 2014, 03:08:13 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2014, 11:43:15 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2014, 11:12:45 am
Waiting for Pumpkin to do a poo so I can take it to the vet to get analysed. I have a feeling she's going to wait until we've gone out for the day, unlike the rest of the week...

Still waiting for this poo....

I hope she's ok
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 December, 2014, 03:09:49 pm
Still procrastinating.  Should be editing a book chapter but doing everything else possible.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 December, 2014, 03:11:54 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2014, 11:43:15 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2014, 11:12:45 am
Waiting for Pumpkin to do a poo so I can take it to the vet to get analysed. I have a feeling she's going to wait until we've gone out for the day, unlike the rest of the week...

Still waiting for this poo....

That was me, this morning, but instead of the cat, it was me...

Just as I started turtle-heading and gathering together the necessary (pie dish, sample bottle etc), TLD decides that is the perfect time to get me to listen to some random rubbish on her tablet, then she got very cross as I stormed off to the loo...

TMI, I know.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 30 December, 2014, 04:05:29 pm
Pie dish  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 December, 2014, 05:19:29 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 30 December, 2014, 04:05:29 pm
Pie dish  ???

The foil thing they give you for catching said chair leg in*. Looks exactly like the foil dish Pukka pies are served in.

*Stool sample, part of.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2014, 06:38:12 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 30 December, 2014, 03:08:13 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2014, 11:43:15 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2014, 11:12:45 am
Waiting for Pumpkin to do a poo so I can take it to the vet to get analysed. I have a feeling she's going to wait until we've gone out for the day, unlike the rest of the week...

Still waiting for this poo....

I hope she's ok

Poo was finally obtained and toddled off to the vet. Still waiting for her sister to do one, but then she's not the one with the poo issues. New food obtained and boiled chicken being reduced so am mentally preparing for the poocopalypse tomorrow.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 01 January, 2015, 09:39:47 am
Trying to work out whether I can be bothered going out on my bike today. Much as the yearly mileage of 0.0 is annoying, so is the weather - hopefully the rest of 2015 will see some days without heavy rain and 25mph winds!
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Post by: peliroja on 01 January, 2015, 10:43:31 am
Wondering how to quietly get into the kitchen to check the stewed apple simmering on the hob, just as the foster puppy has stopped crying in his crate.
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Post by: Ruthie on 01 January, 2015, 11:38:46 am
Putting off some important tasks by reading the bottom half of the internet.  But found this glorious gem:

Quote
As an American I have little idea what you said but I like the sound of it and support your right to say it.
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Post by: mcshroom on 01 January, 2015, 11:46:20 am
Cooling down after a turbo session, and trying not to think about the amount of housework that needs doing
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 January, 2015, 01:32:10 pm
Drinking Brown Drink and eating choccy biccies after waving at TG.
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Post by: lou boutin on 01 January, 2015, 06:18:08 pm
Setting up my birthday treat. Just bought myself a new laptop. Nothing fancy, but will make my life easier.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2015, 11:39:38 pm
Drinking a brown drink in the manner of M. le Maire. This is Montezuma's spiced mandarin flavour hot chocolate. Disgraceful as it seems, I'm perfectly capable of spooning significant quantities of said substance straight into me gob and not melting it in hot milk.
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Post by: BrianI on 02 January, 2015, 09:48:00 am
Finishing my morning coffee, then going to pop out to teh shed and get commuter bike fettled into action!
Quite fancy commuting into work for 2015! (a mere 2 miles each way!)   :thumbsup:
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Post by: mcshroom on 02 January, 2015, 09:50:41 am
Sounds good. :)

I'm getting my stuff together and charging my phone for a hopefully wind-assisted ride out to Carlisle.
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Post by: Ham on 02 January, 2015, 09:59:15 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 02 January, 2015, 09:50:41 am
Sounds good. :)

I'm getting my stuff together and charging my phone for a hopefully wind-assisted ride out to Carlisle.

How do you get your phone to pay?
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Post by: mcshroom on 02 January, 2015, 10:18:20 am
Violence is the only language they understand ;D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 January, 2015, 06:42:30 pm
Summoning gumption for the next round of shopping-putting-away, and watching a Small Cub snooze away the poorlies on the sofa.
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Post by: bumper on 02 January, 2015, 06:46:46 pm
Mulling over tomorrow mornings bike ride, which one to ride? Which route?


Livin' the dream.....
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Post by: Dibdib on 02 January, 2015, 08:43:55 pm
Waiting for the batteries in all my anbaric(TM Mr Larrington) bike bits to run flat, just so I can recharge them all. I've been topping them up quite a bit lately so I figured they could do with a full discharge before I ruin the batteries.

I've left them all on the bottom step, so they don't annoy me. As the "low power" indicator of the Hope lights is a flashing mode, my neighbours probably think I'm having a rave in my hallway.
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Post by: tiermat on 02 January, 2015, 10:04:30 pm
Refreshing my knowledge of Spanish by reacquating myself with Duolingo.

I have remembered a surprising amount...
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Post by: Ruthie on 03 January, 2015, 09:01:11 pm
Pondering.  How mad would it be to drive out to the middle of nowhere for 1am to try and spot the Quadrantids.  With a hat and a thermos, obv.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2015, 09:12:07 pm
Googles "Quadrantids". Shivers. Pours another beer. Raises glass to Ruthie!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: mcshroom on 03 January, 2015, 09:14:43 pm
Looks like clear skies, so not mad at all.

Then again, you're asking a forum where we deliberately ride bikes through the night, so sanity may be a relative concept. ;D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 January, 2015, 09:26:28 pm
1) Do you have to work tomorrow?
2) Is the car suitably prepped (and the tank full of petrol)?
3) Do you know where your satnav is (and is it working)?

If no, yes (yes), yes (yes) then not bonkers at all, IMO.  But take your ventolin in case.
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Post by: Basil on 03 January, 2015, 09:29:59 pm
Thanks Ruthie, I just popped out.  It's so foggy I can't find the garden.  :(
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Post by: Ruthie on 03 January, 2015, 09:38:43 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 03 January, 2015, 09:26:28 pm
1) Do you have to work tomorrow?
2) Is the car suitably prepped (and the tank full of petrol)?
3) Do you know where your satnav is (and is it working)?

If no, yes (yes), yes (yes) then not bonkers at all, IMO.  But take your ventolin in case.

Damn, forgot about the chest and the cold.  Not a good idea, perhaps.  The boy doesn't fancy it, anyway.
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Post by: mcshroom on 03 January, 2015, 09:43:12 pm
How about you do it all inside the car. Heat the car up, drive 10 miles out of town to somewhere dark, sit until the car starts cooling down and then drive back? Maybe not the same big sky experience, but you could still get some good views and keep your lungs warm
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Post by: Basil on 03 January, 2015, 09:43:56 pm
It is suggested that the brightness of a ¾ moon will not make for good viewing.

Fog has gone now BTW.  That was quick.
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Post by: Ruthie on 03 January, 2015, 10:01:52 pm
Jupiter is beautiful tonight.
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Post by: Ham on 08 January, 2015, 04:44:42 am
F5 Waiting to take Miss Ham F5 to the airport for her to disappear F5 around the world for a year and F5 contemplating whether this is my F5 opportunity to steal a march on Thing1 F5
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 08 January, 2015, 06:47:03 am
Struggling to get moving to work after only 45 minutes sleep last night. Was writing up an OU assignment and decided at the last minute half of it was completely wrong so spent the night rewriting and agonising over what to say. As it is I'm not sure it's any better than my original approach but it's handed in now.  :facepalm: ??? :-\
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Post by: Wombat on 08 January, 2015, 08:31:34 am
Cursing the appalling weather for making it impossible for me to get more piccies of the Hoegh Osaka on the way to work this morning.  Got a few last night, of it under tow, but I'm hoping for things to happen within sight of my 500mm lens at lunchtime, so I can have another go.  It just about fills the frame at 500mm, from Lee on Solent.
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Post by: mcshroom on 10 January, 2015, 09:46:07 am
Listening to the wind outside and failing to persuade myself to get out of bed
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Post by: SteveC on 10 January, 2015, 09:54:32 am
Not ParkRunning.  :( (Although even I would have finished the course by now!).
Too windy (the venue gets closed if the wind speed exceeds a certain limit, bits of Elizabethan house falling on people does tend to put a dampener on things).
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 January, 2015, 08:59:47 pm
Digesting rather good gorgonzola and walnut pasta and watcing Rocky with Ruthie....
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Post by: Gattopardo on 11 January, 2015, 04:48:06 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 10 January, 2015, 08:59:47 pm
Digesting rather good gorgonzola and walnut pasta and watcing Rocky with Ruthie....

Sounds like fun.

Awake, drinking coffee.  Going to use a breadmaker and make some bread as there is none in the freezer.  Decided to add a dash of sourdough starter and a dash of chilli oil.  Currently the dried yeast is sitting waiting to become frothy.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 11 January, 2015, 06:02:22 am
Have added some stoneground wholemeal flour that was given to me as the flour doesn't seem to rise properly when used in a breadmaker.  So added 100g of that and some dried yeast that doesn't seem so lively.  Will see what happens on a rapid bake setting.

EDIt Used allison dried active yeast in the bread maker and should have used fast bake stuff....seem to have made a thing...but am hungry....
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Post by: Chris S on 12 January, 2015, 06:17:35 pm
* Achooo *

Feelig sorry for byself...

* Cough *
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Post by: lou boutin on 12 January, 2015, 07:50:29 pm
Croaking, coughing and sneezing.  Completely zapped from previous treatment so this is not helping.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 January, 2015, 11:14:48 pm
Being hypnotised by the "Disk Activity" pane in Windows Resource Monitor.  Just what is iTunes up to over and above determining audio volume, and why does it appear to be doing it every twenty minutes?
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Post by: Kim on 13 January, 2015, 12:49:37 am
Staring at code wondering what the good idea I had before I opened this file was and wondering if I should just go to bed[1] before I break something.


[1] Thus ensuring that I either remember what the good idea is just before I fall asleep, so I annoy barakta trying to dump a summary of it to non-volatile storage via a crappy touchscreen, or that I have one of those annoying coding dreams where you come up with a solution that's elegant, functional and turns out to be complete bollocks as soon as you wake up.
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Post by: L CC on 13 January, 2015, 07:51:30 am
Trying to decide if rivers of snot, a stonking headache and a general feeling of feeble is ill enough not to go to work.
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Post by: clarion on 13 January, 2015, 08:21:24 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 12 January, 2015, 11:14:48 pm
Being hypnotised by the "Disk Activity" pane in Windows Resource Monitor.  Just what is iTunes up to over and above determining audio volume, and why does it appear to be doing it every twenty minutes?
Reporting back to GCHQ & NSA
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 13 January, 2015, 09:56:06 am
Writing about CBT
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 January, 2015, 03:53:42 pm
It looks like it does a scan of every directory in the media library, presumably to check for new Stuffs or to report back to the RIAA how much of the old Stuffs you haven't bought from the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia's Company Store.
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Post by: Ham on 13 January, 2015, 04:09:15 pm
Pro crastinating. I am not your amateur crastinator, I have elevated the status and refined the artform.

Lessons given for reasonable cost, but you will have to wait until I can fit you in.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 January, 2015, 07:55:15 pm
Listening to the original version of Hawkwind's "Silver Machine".  After forty-odd years of being used to Lemmy's vocal track, it's well weird ???
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Post by: ian on 15 January, 2015, 10:30:57 pm
Sitting in El-Eh-Ex and not looking forward to saying goodbye to sunshine and warmth. Should have gone with plan A that would have seen me getting a flight to Hawaii rather than London. Bah to my wife and her stupid work commitments.
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Post by: citoyen on 15 January, 2015, 11:15:35 pm
Sitting in a dead car waiting for the RAC to arrive. Tried jump-starting it but to no avail. Fingers crossed it's just that I was doing it wrong rather than there being a more serious problem.

Sigh.
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Post by: interzen on 17 January, 2015, 02:55:24 pm
Giving the green Genesis frame a going over with baby wipes prior to doing the 'proper' photographs. Of course, Sod's Law is such that now that I've finished the cleaning and am ready to take stuff outside for snappage it has started snowing again ...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 January, 2015, 04:16:15 pm
Making onion soup, playing jelly splash, and thinking about getting ready for my Scottish Swimming session later.
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Post by: interzen on 17 January, 2015, 04:23:01 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 January, 2015, 04:16:15 pm
Making onion soup
I'm about to make another batch of kale and apple soup - it's a lot nicer than it sounds.
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Post by: matthew on 17 January, 2015, 04:44:34 pm
Just finished two coats of paint in the Kitchen, I just need to touch up the cutting in on the ceiling to hide the sloppy application of the previous colour and the skirting boards where I haven't been as accurate as I would like but that can wait till later / tomorrow.
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Post by: Andrij on 17 January, 2015, 05:41:47 pm
Tidying up.  I'm trying a new method, which I refer to as "finally throwing out all the crappe".
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 January, 2015, 06:08:58 pm
Contemplating Excel/MP3Tag SCIENCE such that I can automagically rediddle track numbers on double albums, box sets and so forth, that the DLNA Wossname might play them in the right order.

And getting a headache :(
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Post by: Vince on 17 January, 2015, 07:26:25 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 17 January, 2015, 05:41:47 pm
Tidying up.  I'm trying a new method, which I refer to as "finally throwing out all the crappe".
I would like to implement that plan. Just one problem... I'm not the owner of said crappe
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Post by: Wowbagger on 17 January, 2015, 08:57:20 pm
I am about to pour myself a recovery drink. We have been in charge of the grandchildren and they are hard work.

I rose at 7am, downed some breakfast and drove to Maidstone. There was a hard frost there (-2°C at 9am according to the car's thermometer, compared to +1°C in Southend at 7.30 am). I drove back with the GCs and arrived home at about 11.15. Our GCs are on the HSC* time zone, which means that they are ready for lunch at 11.30am. We had garlic bread followed by pollo ad astra pizza. Thereafter we went to the park, which was muddy. After walking for a while I took the GCs into the children's area (no dogs allowed) while Mrs. Wow waited with Morphy. He wasn't having any of that and started making Various Loud Sounds in protest at missing out. Mrs. Wow took him home and then walked back to help me.

I had both GCs on swings and was pushing them alternately for quite a long time. Some time before this, GS (aged 21 months) had found a puddle to jump into. I had read his mind and was just not quick enough to prevent him. He was up to his ankles in liquid mud. We had been supplied with only one pair of his shoes.

After a while we set off home just in time to meet Mrs. Wow. On arrival we had drinks and GD set about a colouring book purchased for precisely that purpose wheres GS played with Brio. It was a major achievement Mrs. Wow finding this. Our house is too large for us and functions perfectly well with three or four rooms not in daily use. Whereas most people have to deal with TPCs (© Crinklylion) we have two entire rooms devoted to them and it is in one of these that our children's old, unused, but much treasured toys reside.

Some time towards the end of the afternoon the topic of tea came up. We had bread and things to put on bread, but our daughter and her husband were returning around 5pm and fish & chips were mooted, followed by ice cream. The latter required a visit to Waitrose for a couple of tubs of Mackie's finest organic Scottish ice cream.

As is often the case, the presence of our daughter raised the tension levels by a few Newtons (is that how you measure tension?) and, with their increasing tiredness, the children became fractious, the GD especially so after the GS had found a kazoo amongst the valued items that Mrs. Wow had retrieved from the TPC room and he played it noisily whilst she coveted it equally noisily. Even the presence of a descant recorder as a poor substitute for a swanny whistle didn't cheer her up as much as you might have expected. Eventually they were changed into their night clothes and bundled into the car with a big pile of blankets while we collapsed with a sequence of cups of tea.

A short while after they had left, our daughter phoned us to say that they were both fast asleep in the back of the car and to report that within 50 yards of them leaving our house our GD had crumpled into floods of tears. "I miss Morphy!" she wailed.

I think we will count that day as a success - the first time we have looked after our grandchildren all day other than at their house.

*Hyperactive Small Child
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Post by: Basil on 18 January, 2015, 12:52:45 pm
Moving lighting and luggage from the tourer to the Marathon Winter shod Discovery.

Having come down pretty hard in Selly Oak this morning, I assume it will be a lot worse at 7:30 tomorrow morning.
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Post by: Basil on 19 January, 2015, 09:10:10 am
Quote from: Basil on 18 January, 2015, 12:52:45 pm
Moving lighting and luggage from the tourer to the Marathon Winter shod Discovery.

Having come down pretty hard in Selly Oak this morning, I assume it will be a lot worse at 7:30 tomorrow morning.

Well that was a complete waste of time.  I had to waste 10 mins this morning moving it all back again. 
It's nothing like as icy as I assumed it would be.

Yesterday's bruises coming up nicely.
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Post by: mcshroom on 19 January, 2015, 09:17:44 am
Why did you have to move it back? The ice tyres work on non-icy days - they just give you a bit more of a workout! ;D
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Post by: Basil on 19 January, 2015, 09:22:00 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 19 January, 2015, 09:17:44 am
Why did you have to move it back? The ice tyres work on non-icy days - they just give you a bit more of a workout! ;D

Bit hungover.  So I wasn't in the mood for a workout.  :-[
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Post by: L CC on 21 January, 2015, 01:17:51 pm
Some of this:
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Post by: matthew on 21 January, 2015, 01:41:19 pm
Just reported the blocked highways ditch to the local authority, with a little luck the road won't be running water when I go to ride home and the ice risk for later commutes will be reduced.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 January, 2015, 01:56:37 pm
Sorting out MPLS WAN connectivity with AT&T in the US for one of our customers.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 22 January, 2015, 06:21:13 am
Sticking stuff in the bread maker and seeing what happens as it is a bit experimental as I think I got the measurements wrong.  Opps.
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Post by: Wombat on 22 January, 2015, 08:17:37 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 17 January, 2015, 06:08:58 pm
Contemplating Excel/MP3Tag SCIENCE such that I can automagically rediddle track numbers on double albums, box sets and so forth, that the DLNA Wossname might play them in the right order.

And getting a headache :(

Is there an idiots guide to this, somewhere?  Much to my surprise, one of our recently purchased double albums understood this with no effort, and sorted itself out when ripped to flac with Nero.  However, confusion was caused by the "not that rare" circumstance that the track numbers on the CD label didn't match the actual numbers on the CD.  The CD is questino was a Monteverdi madrigals one that is a very recent release.

I would love it if my car media thingy (part of the Garmin "Personal Infotainment Device, or PID") would actually pay any attentino to track listings on my 17 CD set of Bach organ works.  It keeps flitting from Leipzig Chorales to another collection and back again.   Manually numbering the filenames in the correct order makes no impression on its free form approach (no, its not on "shuffle!").
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Post by: pcolbeck on 22 January, 2015, 09:12:33 am
If you're using Windows then Mp3tag is a great free program for rewriting the meta-data and file names.

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
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Post by: numbnuts on 22 January, 2015, 09:17:43 am
Trying not to slouch as my back hurts
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 January, 2015, 06:13:19 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 22 January, 2015, 09:12:33 am
If you're using Windows then Mp3tag is a great free program for rewriting the meta-data and file names.

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

+1.  It can read and write umpteen different tag formats and import tag definitions from text files and all sorts of other clever Stuffs.  Though the "import from text file" doesn't like certain unusual characters in path or file names, or Creedence Clearwater Revival ???
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Post by: Basil on 23 January, 2015, 04:36:03 pm
Whilst sitting in the window of coffee shop waiting for Mrs B, I've just had to pop out and give £2 to a Big Issue seller and ask her if she could move 2 feet to her left.
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Post by: Andrij on 23 January, 2015, 04:46:57 pm
Quote from: Basil on 23 January, 2015, 04:36:03 pm
Whilst sitting in the window of coffee shop waiting for Mrs B, I've just had to pop out and give £2 to a Big Issue seller and ask her if she could move 2 feet to her left.

Sure you didn't mean to post this in First World Problems?
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Post by: jsabine on 23 January, 2015, 09:55:17 pm
Quote from: Basil on 23 January, 2015, 04:36:03 pm
Whilst sitting in the window of coffee shop waiting for Mrs B, I've just had to pop out and give £2 to a Big Issue seller and ask her if she could move 2 feet to her left.

What did you want her to do with the feet once she'd moved them?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 January, 2015, 07:42:56 pm
Packing for a week in Milan at a conference. A week of lectures with titles such as "Building simplified, automated and scalable DataCenter networks with Overlays".
We do get to go out on the raz on Wednesday night though.
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Post by: Dibdib on 25 January, 2015, 08:27:00 am
Sipping some coffee which honestly is far nicer than I can appreciate first thing in the morning, waiting for my brain to wake up and trying to decide which bike to take out today.

The forecast looks bone dry, which is tempting me to bring the "nice" bike out of hibernation as a little treat.
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Post by: Wombat on 25 January, 2015, 12:06:18 pm
Quote from: Basil on 23 January, 2015, 04:36:03 pm
Whilst sitting in the window of coffee shop waiting for Mrs B, I've just had to pop out and give £2 to a Big Issue seller and ask her if she could move 2 feet to her left.

its sod's law, innit.  Whenever I am stood around (or sat around) waiting for someone who will arrive from a specific direction, someone always goes and stands in the way, so I move across a bit to keep the view open, and they move too...  I struggle to recognise people in crowded situations, especially in poor light, so can get a bit stressed when waiting for someone, especially if I don't know them really well.

Whenever I am meeting a group or someone in a pub, I always ask them to wave at me when they see me come in, as I may not easily see them, especially if its a warm humid atmosphere in there and my glasses have just steamed up...
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Post by: Ham on 25 January, 2015, 12:13:27 pm
Voulez vous chauffez avec moi? (boulloir sounded too much like an invitation to be a kettle)

Wow might possibly

 ;)
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Post by: Vince on 25 January, 2015, 02:00:55 pm
Breaking the habit of a lifetime and settling down to watch Bristol City play some club from That London.

However, the last 30 minutes of waffling commentators may drive me off to do something useful before a ball gets kicked in anger.
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Post by: Wombat on 25 January, 2015, 03:43:08 pm
Feeling a bit sad, as after being surprised by Mrs W informing me there was a deer in our garden, and taking some pics of it, we then realised it was a very poorly deer indeed.  We phoned the RSPCA, and a man came, and sadly the deer is no more... I helped by holding its head with the noose thingy, whilst he shot it.  We then managed to persuade it into a very large bag.  I know it was "the right thing to do" but it still makes me very sad.   :'( :'( :'(
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Post by: spesh on 25 January, 2015, 04:43:25 pm
Printing off the manual for the Tektro Lyra brakes on my neighbour's bike, so that I can have a go at adjusting them so that excessive lever pull isn't required*.

Or failing that, add the pads to the list of parts on the bike that, in my view, are FUBAR and need replacing.


* In lieu of what my Google-Fu tells me is the preferred adjustment method, which is to take them off, throw them in the recycling bin, and fit a set of Avid BB7s instead. :demon:

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Post by: Basil on 25 January, 2015, 05:03:36 pm
I am currently having a pint in the pub in Llandysul with a bloke who spent 34 years in Winson Green prison in Birmingham.

(click to show/hide)
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Post by: nikki on 25 January, 2015, 08:53:29 pm
Working hard to maintain the karmic balance of the universe by wearing novelty fluffy reindeer slippers as I write a formal constitution document for an organisation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 January, 2015, 09:24:24 pm
Relaxing after our third experience of fostering a dog for a local rescue organisation. It is rewarding, and exhausting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 January, 2015, 10:39:37 pm
Mrs. Wow and I have just submitted our tax returns and I have paid my income tax. Mrs. Wow doesn't have to pay any. Encouragingly, I could work out how much I owed and it tallied to the penny to the amount HMRC demanded.

The one small fly in the ointment is that we have yet to submit the partnership tax return. For that, we need a specialist piece of software for which I spent the princely sum of £17.94 on 3rd Jan. I didn't see the important bit in the email that said I had 336 hours (2 weeks in real money) in which to download this, so the link to it has now expired.

I think I am going to partake of a little alcohol. I think I'll have a beer to celebrate the tax return and a single malt to celebrate Burns Night.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 January, 2015, 02:52:16 pm
Trying not to fall asleep in a 9 1/2 hour lecture. This is a whole new level of death by PowerPoint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 January, 2015, 02:55:08 pm
Nine and a half hour lectures are outlawed by various bits of Human Rights legislation.  Dob those responsible in to Amnesty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 January, 2015, 03:14:24 pm
Coffee break coming up !!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 28 January, 2015, 03:50:06 pm
I haz a new ringtone to signify 08437 numbers calling my mobile...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO7HY7Nz398



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 28 January, 2015, 10:09:11 pm
Trying not to watch the American version of the Apprentice. There is something about Donald Trump that makes me want to rub excrement into the Shredded Wheat that he uses as a toupee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 February, 2015, 08:00:53 pm
Adding some code to the alarm clock so it plays Sonny & Cher when it goes off on February 2nd.

There's a possibility that I've cocked up an 'if' statement and it'll play that every day, of course...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 February, 2015, 10:23:02 pm
Quote from: Kim on 02 February, 2015, 08:00:53 pm
Adding some code to the alarm clock so it plays Sonny & Cher when it goes off on February 2nd.

There's a possibility that I've cocked up an 'if' statement and it'll play that every day, of course...

 ;D


I've just finished 'typing' up a text in polytonic Greek.  This involved inserting each character into the document.  What a PITA.  Hope the recipient appreciates it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 03 February, 2015, 04:09:51 pm
This week I am mostly preparing for our run of Aladdin (http://www.derbylive.co.uk/whats-on/aladdin), which kicks off tomorrow night for 5 performances.

We're extremely lucky to have a real director and staff, and the use of the beautiful Guildhall Theatre in Derby. We've sold almost 90% of all the tickets, and any profit goes to charity (we've managed to borrow most of the backdrops and costumes, and everyone involved has done so in their own time and foc).

Some of the cast have done some acting, but most have done little/nothing before. With 2 previous pantos behind me I'm now one of the more experienced!

It's hard work (I've taken this week off work because I know from experience how draining they are), but this is the bit that we've all worked for, so I'm just really excited now. We've got a dress rehearsal tonight and then we start the run tomorrow.

This year I am Abanazar (https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2557/4176751504_c6e3e467a5.jpg)! I had no idea how much fun being the villain would be, and I have a brilliant costume.

There is nothing like stepping out on stage in front of an audience, and I count scuba diving and parachute jumps in my comparison. The sheer, raw nerves of those last moments as you wait for your cue, that second when you conquer your nerves and take that step, then the rush as the words come flowing out and you realise the entire audience is hanging on every word, willing you to tell them the story, and to make it good!
 
Other bonuses include making some wonderful friends. It's a funny thing to do with 20 or so strangers, but it creates a team spirit that I haven't experienced anywhere else (note I've never played team sports that I didn't absolutely have to, and I haven't been in the forces/services: armed or otherwise, so it may be that my sample isn't much of one). Some of us are a bit odd, but there are some I've come to admire hugely. And there are some that are not just very good at this, but they can also be relied upon in a pinch: we have no one to give us a line if we dry - we have to sort ourselves out -  and there are some people I know I can depend on when that happens.

I'm in complete luvvy mode right now. I'm not thinking about Sunday, when life will seem much less colourful again; I'm focusing on the present, as our director tells us "The minute you start thinking about what's coming, you're no longer acting. Acting is being in the moment", so that's what I'm doing right now.

 :) :( (my attempt at Thalia and Melpomene)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 03 February, 2015, 06:28:37 pm
Break a leg!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 03 February, 2015, 10:21:20 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 03 February, 2015, 06:28:37 pm
Break a leg!

Cheers.

Brilliant dress rehearsal tonight. All we need now is an audience!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 03 February, 2015, 11:04:14 pm
Some tickets still available - shame it is too far away from us :)
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Post by: Paul on 03 February, 2015, 11:31:31 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 03 February, 2015, 11:04:14 pm
Some tickets still available - shame it is too far away from us :)

If we take it on tour I promise to let everyone know  ;D
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 03 February, 2015, 11:42:03 pm

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 February, 2015, 08:35:47 am
I have been exchanging texts about my funeral with my younger daughter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 04 February, 2015, 12:31:52 pm
Hopefully not setting the date, yet?  ;D ;D

They'll ignore your music choices anyway.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 February, 2015, 12:48:14 pm
Interviewing prospective consultants over the phone before we decide to get them in front of HR or not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 February, 2015, 02:25:22 pm
Feeling rather pleased with myself that I remembered to check the Six Nations fixtures as soon as they were available this year.
Consequently, I have tomorrow afternoon booked off and will be on a train heading rapidly S.W. at lunch time.  There is no way I would want to be on a train heading to Cardiff on Friday morning.

Looking forward to the free sausages and chips in the pub at half time.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 04 February, 2015, 04:38:00 pm
Quote from: Kim on 02 February, 2015, 08:00:53 pm
Adding some code to the alarm clock so it plays Sonny & Cher when it goes off on February 2nd.

There's a possibility that I've cocked up an 'if' statement and it'll play that every day, of course...

Strange. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_y5qri00o) Takes all sorts, I suppose. Hope it worked ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 February, 2015, 08:06:28 pm
Thinking that the house feels very quiet and empty. Woolly and the pup are spending tonight on a micro-adventure, wild camping up on the moors.

Jealous! But I have five interviews to conduct in the morning...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 04 February, 2015, 10:30:18 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 February, 2015, 08:35:47 am
I have been exchanging texts about my funeral with my younger daughter.

Let me know when it is, I'll request the day off work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 06 February, 2015, 04:01:21 pm
Exporting my WIndows 8.1VM as an OVF from VMware Woksation on Arch Linux on my laptop. I will then import it to VMware Workstation 11 on Ubuntu 14.10 on my desktop. If it works OK I will then reformat my laptop and install Ubuntu 14.10 on that and reimport my Windows 8.1 VM.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 February, 2015, 04:07:34 pm
Thinking about Teethgrinder.
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Post by: Paul on 06 February, 2015, 04:44:50 pm
More of this (http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Review-Derby-City-Council-panto-Aladdin-best/story-25984541-detail/story.html) and this (http://artsbeatblog.com/2015/02/05/review-aladdin-by-derby-city-council/)!

It's going really well. 3 more shows (one tonight, then a matinee and an evening performance tomorrow). Then I can have my life back. But I'll miss it too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jakob W on 08 February, 2015, 10:08:09 am
Quote from: Kim on 02 February, 2015, 08:00:53 pm
Adding some code to the alarm clock so it plays Sonny & Cher when it goes off on February 2nd.

There's a possibility that I've cocked up an 'if' statement and it'll play that every day, of course...

Belatedly: Is this an off-the shelf alarm clock, or a homebrew special?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 08 February, 2015, 11:38:51 am
Raccoon glueing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 08 February, 2015, 01:30:57 pm
I've been put off riding by the fog, so while it's (hopefully) lifting, I'm trying to work out what audaxes I can fit in this spring.

Bit disappointed that one I wanted to ride is already full up. Should have done this earlier ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 08 February, 2015, 01:51:39 pm
Quote from: Jakob W on 08 February, 2015, 10:08:09 am
Quote from: Kim on 02 February, 2015, 08:00:53 pm
Adding some code to the alarm clock so it plays Sonny & Cher when it goes off on February 2nd.

There's a possibility that I've cocked up an 'if' statement and it'll play that every day, of course...

Belatedly: Is this an off-the shelf alarm clock, or a homebrew special?

IF alarm clock value equal to off-the-shelf
THEN owner (Kim) equal to FALSE
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 February, 2015, 01:54:06 pm
Quote from: nikki on 08 February, 2015, 11:38:51 am
Raccoon glueing.

I daren't ask...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 February, 2015, 02:16:17 pm
Quote from: jsabine on 08 February, 2015, 01:51:39 pm
Quote from: Jakob W on 08 February, 2015, 10:08:09 am
Quote from: Kim on 02 February, 2015, 08:00:53 pm
Adding some code to the alarm clock so it plays Sonny & Cher when it goes off on February 2nd.

There's a possibility that I've cocked up an 'if' statement and it'll play that every day, of course...

Belatedly: Is this an off-the shelf alarm clock, or a homebrew special?

IF alarm clock value equal to off-the-shelf
THEN owner (Kim) equal to FALSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ykErxyCyI
http://youtu.be/I5ykErxyCyI

Apologies for the crudity of the video, and pay no attention to the missing second - it had just powered up and NTP was stepping the clock.

But yeah, chief design criteria being that it be really really easy to kill the alarm in a hurry.  Hence the Big Red Button™.  The 80s bond villain aesthetic just flowed from that...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 February, 2015, 03:31:37 pm
Quote from: nikki on 08 February, 2015, 11:38:51 am
Raccoon glueing.

Only on YACF (and, maybe some other, more *ahem* specialist fora) would a post like that not even raise an eyebrow! :)

Meanwhile, back at the bat cave, sorry I mean dragon's lair, I have been packing the car with a bike and sundry bike related clothing, ready to spend some time exploring Swansea by bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 08 February, 2015, 06:57:22 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 08 February, 2015, 03:31:37 pm
Quote from: nikki on 08 February, 2015, 11:38:51 am
Raccoon glueing.

Only on YACF (and, maybe some other, more *ahem* specialist fora) would a post like that not even raise an eyebrow! :)

There's not really a lot to say, is there?

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Post by: Andrij on 08 February, 2015, 07:01:21 pm
Umm... Uhh...   ???
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Post by: Kim on 08 February, 2015, 07:05:47 pm
Are you sure you're not making wowbadgers?
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Post by: nikki on 08 February, 2015, 07:47:25 pm
Heh!


The photos taken closest to my first post were these:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7439/16288743809_0050b6200f.jpg)

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8615/16473257391_08b5631881.jpg)

I'm a bit rubbish at 'normal' cards and today was a young 'un's birthday. His parents had told him they'd booked a clown (he hates clowns), but really they'd sorted an animal lady and her menagerie. Raccoons are a bit of a thing in that family and the lady didn't seem to mind when I took a few photos of Socrates and some PVA ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 February, 2015, 06:15:50 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 04 February, 2015, 10:30:18 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 February, 2015, 08:35:47 am
I have been exchanging texts about my funeral with my younger daughter.

Let me know when it is, I'll request the day off work.

Hopefully not for a while.

She texted me the other morning saying she had woken up crying after a dream in which she was reading my eulogy and wanted to know if I was OK. I explained that I was still breathing and had just gone for a crap, which I believe are activities not normally pursued by the deceased.

She told me she said nice things about me to which I replied "Excellent! I shall look forward to it."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 February, 2015, 01:40:19 pm
On an xc heading to Mordor. A guard-vanned non-dangly-spaced one, not that we have bikes with us. Just spent a while notmoving Iin Derby and now underway once more.

*wonders how Rower40 and crew are doing*

*waves in case they see!*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 15 February, 2015, 03:40:59 pm
In Costa in Whitehaven with a large coffee on a mid-ride break. Unfortunately all the other cafés are shut or doing valentines day soecials. Nice day for a ride though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 February, 2015, 10:01:10 am
Dumping a Mysql database, changing the config of said DB engine then restoring the DB.

Yes, it is as exciting as it sounds!

It is only made bearable by being able to listen to my choice of music sans headphones as there is nobody else in this office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 26 February, 2015, 05:35:34 pm
Wondering why the BBC and a load of people in hi-vis are in the road outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 26 February, 2015, 06:02:51 pm
Sitting in an empty lecture theatre waiting for a talk on getting into the engineering industry post graduation.

The trains here were such that I could be ludicrously early or five minutes late.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 26 February, 2015, 09:50:33 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 26 February, 2015, 06:02:51 pm
Sitting in an empty lecture theatre waiting for a talk on getting into the engineering industry post graduation.

The trains here were such that I could be ludicrously early or five minutes late.

What type of engineering and which bit of the industry?

Asks an Engineer at an international engineering consultancy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 27 February, 2015, 06:51:57 am
I'm currently doing BSc. Engineering via the Open University with half a plan to do a MSc. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sussex afterwards (if I can afford it - working full time at the moment alongside studying which won't work for doing the MSc.).

I'm not entirely sure what I want to do once I'm actually an engineer but aeronautic/aerospace/spacespace definitely intrigue me.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 28 February, 2015, 06:51:56 am
Back in bed with a cup of tea, after dropping someone off at the station.

There was a bloke riding zig-zags all the way down the A167 when I was driving home on a pink and purple BMX with no lights.  Nearly ran him over.  I was going to tell him he was a week early for the Yorkshire Gallop, but didn't have the heart as he was having such a nice time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oakhambike on 28 February, 2015, 08:12:38 am
Ditto re: early station drop off
Having cup of tea and contemplating going out for ride but is wet and windy out there - 'would this stop TG?' I ask myself
But will follow Ruthie example and am going back to bed with said cup of tea
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 28 February, 2015, 08:27:34 am
Trying to crank my eyelids into the nominally open position. Woke up at 2:45, didn't drop off again until 5:30, spent most of the time in between trying not to cough or sneeze so as not to wake the missus.  Turned out later that she'd been awake most of the time so I could have.

Two pints of tea and a coffee later I'm still anæsthetized.

(Note erudite use of æ: take that, bloody Webster!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 February, 2015, 09:43:36 pm
Listening to the wind, and being *really* glad I'm not out on my bike (and I thought the weather this afternoon was bad enough...).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 February, 2015, 10:08:38 pm
Just been watching Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last" with full orchestral accompaniment from the RLPO.
Now drinking a pint of Imperial Russian Stout (7.5%)  from Liverpool Organic. Very good, but at £4 per pint it should be!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 28 February, 2015, 10:10:49 pm
Sounds like a cracking night out Andrew!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 February, 2015, 10:21:27 pm
Was supposed to be meeting friends for a drink but she didn't like the first half of the set (Rhapsody In Blue) so we'd end up arguing. She's gone for a meal with hubby. I bumped into some old neighbours who I didn't recognise (seen him once in the last 15 years!)
Am no debating a solo pub crawl....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: reddo on 28 February, 2015, 10:53:07 pm
Happily relaxing after taking my hubby out for his first proper ride on his new bike. He's ridden twice in the past 30 years. Today was a gentle skills day with a coach friend and a nice pootle around Rushmere. (MTB).

I am so proud of my hubby.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 28 February, 2015, 10:54:25 pm
Aw  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 March, 2015, 08:50:01 pm
I'm sitting under 2 fleecy blankets, with one of them up over my head, and I'm still feeling cold.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 03 March, 2015, 09:43:41 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 28 February, 2015, 10:21:27 pm
Was supposed to be meeting friends for a drink but she didn't like the first half of the set (Rhapsody In Blue) so we'd end up arguing. She's gone for a meal with hubby. I bumped into some old neighbours who I didn't recognise (seen him once in the last 15 years!)
Am no debating a solo pub crawl....

One of my faves.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 03 March, 2015, 11:22:07 pm
Trying not to feel like crap.  Tea and paracetamol.  Self-diagnosis is gastritis from months of naproxen and forgetting the omeprazole for the last couple of days.

But boy, do I feel ill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 03 March, 2015, 11:28:45 pm
Sitting in the lab waiting for results so I can report them and go home to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 04 March, 2015, 08:36:08 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 03 March, 2015, 11:22:07 pm
Trying not to feel like crap.  Tea and paracetamol.  Self-diagnosis is gastritis from months of naproxen and forgetting the omeprazole for the last couple of days.

But boy, do I feel ill.

Aww, gentle hugs, Ruthie!  GWS!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 04 March, 2015, 06:07:03 pm
Scranning a jam slice under a tree in Hutton Rudby. Lovely evening out here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 March, 2015, 06:47:12 pm
Thinking about a tour.
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Post by: Feanor on 05 March, 2015, 03:38:34 pm
Drinking beer and eating salted pastiller at Sola airport, Stavanger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 March, 2015, 06:19:36 pm
Waiting for a 700kg delivery of firewood, which will now arrive in the dark (just phoned them and it is still coming).  Then it has to be carried (thank $DEITY it's in 10kg nets, so 35 trips) from the road to the back garden, stacked and covered, because it's bound to rain if I leave it tomorrow and anyway, it will partly block the road.  And I'v e been in all day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 06 March, 2015, 08:53:56 pm
Rogers got wood ?......;-)

Inna bar.......drinking 7.5% stout,   After an entire bottle of indifferent Merlot.
What could possibly go wrong.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 06 March, 2015, 09:50:32 pm
Wondering why there are valve caps in my dressing gown pocket.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 March, 2015, 09:50:57 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 06 March, 2015, 09:50:32 pm
Wondering why there are valve caps in my dressing gown pocket.

Because there isn't any tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 06 March, 2015, 10:53:47 pm
At home, drinking what the Irish call Whiskey.......

Watching lots of 80's videos on Youtube.....  so far mostly Bronski Beat.,  Tubeway Army & New Order......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 06 March, 2015, 11:09:22 pm
The 80's videos led to this filthy degeneracy......... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uERD1heDU_Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uERD1heDU_Q) which always puts a big  smile on my face...

OK, I'm biased because he's a local lad, but the couple of times I met him he seemed a nice bloke. Well worth catching if he's playing locally.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Graeme on 06 March, 2015, 11:15:35 pm
Just finished watching Jazz Singer for the very first time. Hilarious.
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Post by: rafletcher on 07 March, 2015, 01:19:41 pm
Listening to X-Ray Spex's "Germ Free Adolescents". Class
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Post by: rafletcher on 07 March, 2015, 04:56:57 pm
And now watching the hare in the field behind us clean itself after it's nap in the sun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 07 March, 2015, 07:10:48 pm
Sitting on my doorstep waiting for mcshroom  to get here with the keys. The ones I left in his car. Which is miles away. Because we got a train back to Darlo, forgetting that my house/car keys were in the car. Which is at Aldbrough  St John.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 08 March, 2015, 09:14:44 pm
Trying to grink whilst listening to Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone. My head hurts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 March, 2015, 09:40:08 pm
Sitting in the garden.  With a whisky and the sky. 
The whisky is OK, but the sky is stunning.  Orion is now noticeably buggering off to the west.  Orion is one of my favourite constellations, but it buggering off to the west is a sure sign of spring.  Jupiter is high overhead.  Shining like a searchlight.  I'm pretty sure if you could find a proper dark skys site, Jupiter could cast a shadow on a moonless night like tonight.

Have you seen the stars tonight?
Would you like to come on A deck
And look at them with me?

Don't know why I put that.  Thinking about it, those have to be the most stupid lyrics of all time on several levels.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 March, 2015, 11:42:26 am
Sitting in a cafe while the authorities check our office which has been evacuated following a bomb threat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 March, 2015, 11:44:15 am
Sorting out TPoCs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 09 March, 2015, 12:02:46 pm
Hiding from the rain under a bridge on NCN8
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 March, 2015, 12:27:32 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 09 March, 2015, 12:02:46 pm
Hiding from the rain under a bridge on NCN8

You might be waiting some time! A bit like me, waiting for the Autoglass man to come and replace my windscreen.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 March, 2015, 02:22:09 pm
Still evacuated. Hoping my lunch hasn't been destroyed in a controlled explosion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 March, 2015, 03:04:19 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 March, 2015, 11:42:26 am
Sitting in a cafe while the authorities check our office which has been evacuated following a bomb threat.

I wonder if this lot (http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/man-attacked-by-thugs-in-tweed-jackets-and-ties-1-3713228) is to blame.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 10 March, 2015, 01:23:01 pm
Staring at Lord Hereford's Knob
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 March, 2015, 01:33:54 pm
Ordering expensive thermal and CO alarms, to netjbex with our existing expensive smoke alarms.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 10 March, 2015, 01:43:00 pm
Waiting for the vet to come & vaccinate our dogs. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 10 March, 2015, 09:28:23 pm
Quote from: Basil on 08 March, 2015, 09:40:08 pm
Sitting in the garden.  With a whisky and the sky. 
The whisky is OK, but the sky is stunning.  Orion is now noticeably buggering off to the west.  Orion is one of my favourite constellations, but it buggering off to the west is a sure sign of spring.

A project for you, Basil: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zymwq6f
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 March, 2015, 09:56:38 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 13 March, 2015, 03:34:25 pm
Playing bike and camping kit sokoban, following the excavation of the gas meter for its annual inspection.

Interestingly, the gas man remembered me: It seems that he one of the ones that quoted for the new boiler three years ago, and remembered the "young woman who seemed to know how everything worked".

So there you go.  Forget speed dating, get yourself a manometer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 13 March, 2015, 03:43:41 pm
Just finished hanging up a sparrow dormitory nesting box.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 13 March, 2015, 03:48:21 pm
Teaching the dog French
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 March, 2015, 03:56:26 pm
Re-ripping my collection of Canuckistani Post-Rock CDs to FLAC.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 14 March, 2015, 08:20:06 am
Twiddling my thumbs a bit, having been too efficient at getting ready to leave for a Brighton Ride.

It's lovely and sunny out, if a little brisk, it should be a fine ride. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 March, 2015, 09:29:05 am
Blowing my nose a lot. Bloody lurgy.  >:(

Also catching up on a slight DIY Admin backlog that I've been failing to catch up on all week because work is a bit full on at the moment.

Also waiting for the temperature to get above 2c before venturing into the garage to do some much needed fettling. Those who commented about the state of the tandem ("It would be considerably lighter if you gave it a wash, Chris") at last weeks Audax at Gt Dunmow will be reassured to know that a thorough clean is on the ToDo list  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 14 March, 2015, 11:17:48 am
Waiting for my train home from Wales to set off. Then it's 4 trains and sixannahalf hours and I'll be home :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 March, 2015, 12:14:47 pm
Waiting to see if the percussive maintenance on my dishwasher will have positive results.  Sounding good so far, but too early to tell, really.

*makes coffee*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 March, 2015, 09:31:21 pm
It worked.

Anyway, right now I have just finished listening to Wire's Pink Flag and have now loaded Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails.
Sorry, I refuse to join the What are you listening to thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 March, 2015, 09:42:46 pm
Quote from: Basil on 14 March, 2015, 09:31:21 pm
It worked.

Anyway, right now I have just finished listening to Wire's Pink Flag and have now loaded Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails.
Sorry, I refuse to join the What are you listening to thread.

HTH (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27.msg1829671#msg1829671)   :demon: ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 March, 2015, 09:44:29 pm
Eh?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 March, 2015, 09:45:52 pm
Penny drops. 

GIT!

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 March, 2015, 11:55:09 am
Just as I was thinking it might be safe to leave the kittehs alone in Fortress Bedroom for half an hour while I went out in search of something more interesting for lunch than last night's leftover takeaway, the heavens open.
Cold chow mein anna a cup of Earl Grey for me then.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 21 March, 2015, 02:08:11 pm
Fettling with mcshroom  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 March, 2015, 11:55:46 pm
Watching Sleepy Hollow (2013 TV series) and thinking that since all their problems inevitably turn out to be horseman related, the residents of the eponymous town could have everything sorted out by the end of the week if only they'd install cattle grids.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 23 March, 2015, 05:37:08 am
Don't tell Canardly of your dark thoughts...   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 23 March, 2015, 09:23:09 am
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/how-does-a-sheep-cross-a-cattle-grid-video/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 25 March, 2015, 01:50:11 pm
Lunch at the Arran distillery.   No whisky being imbibed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 27 March, 2015, 11:20:08 am
A bit of singing practice while waiting for a courier to turn up with a new bike.

/me drums fingers
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 March, 2015, 02:59:44 pm
Watching out of the window1 as three of those huge munching machines - the sort that look like massive prehistoric jaws - slowly munch away the Five Ways Shopping Centre.

1 I'm an Uncivil Servant.  This is what we do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 March, 2015, 03:07:59 pm
Chillin' with ma homies :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 29 March, 2015, 11:44:27 am
Wondering whether I can sneak around the raindrops and cycle to the Horiman Museum. Because, like every weekend these days, there's no bloody trains.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 29 March, 2015, 01:38:45 pm
Re-fitting the boiler flue, which involved expandy foam. (http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/humour.html#foam)  It really is horrendous stuff to deal with. No matter how much you try, you can't avoid getting it on your hands and now I'm a sticky mess.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 March, 2015, 02:24:25 pm
Washing, thinking about ironing, more washing, tidying, more housework, ripping CDs and DVDs, more housework and the, maybe have a sit down with a cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 March, 2015, 02:38:50 pm
Watching the flying rubbish and horizontal rain and thinking it's a good afternoon for some fettling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 29 March, 2015, 02:44:46 pm
Quote from: Kim on 29 March, 2015, 02:38:50 pm
Watching the flying rubbish and horizontal rain and thinking it's a good afternoon for some fettling.
That, pretty much.
Except that I got the bulk of the fettling done yesterday instead  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 29 March, 2015, 02:49:00 pm
Quote from: Kim on 29 March, 2015, 02:38:50 pm
Watching the flying rubbish and horizontal rain and thinking it's a good afternoon for some fettling.

+1
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 29 March, 2015, 06:38:34 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 29 March, 2015, 01:38:45 pm
Re-fitting the boiler flue, which involved expandy foam. (http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/humour.html#foam)  It really is horrendous stuff to deal with. No matter how much you try, you can't avoid getting it on your hands and now I'm a sticky mess.

For reasons best known to someone else, the people that lived in this house before thought it was a good idea to fill the small gap between house and porch with that stuff. It's a bugger to remove.

In other news, I did a very poor job of dodging raindrops. The wind was mostly behind me fortunately, so I flew, with worrisome literality at times.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 29 March, 2015, 09:14:44 pm
Reading "Cycle" magazine
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 29 March, 2015, 09:40:39 pm
Quote from: Basil on 27 March, 2015, 02:59:44 pm
Watching out of the window1 as three of those huge munching machines - the sort that look like massive prehistoric jaws - slowly munch away the Five Ways Shopping Centre.

And another piece of the Birmingham I knew as a PSO goes...  :-\ It won't be long before the only landmark left in Birmingham that I'll recognise will be the Great Hall and "Old Joe" on the university campus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 30 March, 2015, 09:35:33 pm
Just finished a Michelin starred birthday meal in Paley Street

What a civilised Monday evening
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PAC on 30 March, 2015, 09:37:01 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 30 March, 2015, 09:35:33 pm
Just finished a Michelin starred birthday meal in Paley Street

What a civilised Monday evening
Happy Birthday :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 31 March, 2015, 09:54:18 am
Sat at home, sick, wrapped in an old sleeping bag and watching Netflix. And sulking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 31 March, 2015, 10:09:38 am
Watching TOGAF youtube videos.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzWAH?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 31 March, 2015, 05:50:58 pm
In 92 Degrees Coffee, waiting for my single origin pour over.
When did laptops become compulsory for drinking coffee? I'm the only customer without one!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 April, 2015, 06:21:33 pm
Reporting a water leak where I received an SUV soaking about an hour ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 02 April, 2015, 06:28:14 pm
Trying to fix an error status 0xc00012f on a puter. It seems reluctant to all suggestions.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Karla on 03 April, 2015, 04:57:58 pm
Booking driving lessons

If anyone sees something flying out the window, it's probably my soul  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 03 April, 2015, 08:39:14 pm
Recovering from a day spent decorating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 04 April, 2015, 02:47:59 pm
In ABZ departure lounge, sitting out a 3 hour delay on our sleazyjet flight to GVA.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 04 April, 2015, 07:21:01 pm
Lying on the sofa after this morning's club ride and an afternoon wandering around town.

The problem is, I'm too comfortable (and lazy) to get up and get some dinner.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 April, 2015, 07:24:11 pm
Waiting for a well-earned curry to be delivered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 April, 2015, 04:08:31 am
Waiting for a well-earned curry to be delivered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 05 April, 2015, 09:01:06 am
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 April, 2015, 03:37:43 pm
After a day and a half of laying a laminate flooring in the hall/passageway I'm happy to say I've now got the hang of it.  Which is useless as I've just finished.  Still, I'm very pleased with the results of my efforts, particularly with the gittish bits in door thresholds and the like.
Friday and Saturday were spent doing a mamouth shop and then 2 tonnes of gravel/chippings barrowed from the builders bags, spread, raked and levelled.
Next this afternoon, the bloody lawn mower.

I can't wait to get back to work for a rest!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 07 April, 2015, 09:14:00 am
Cleaning up after a rather spectacular nose bleed  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 April, 2015, 09:49:21 am
Jibbling audio files to include the year of release/recording into the folder name.  It is slow going, but quick enough to keep ahead of the job which backs 'em up, which is getting confused.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 April, 2015, 12:48:16 pm
Having a massive headache.  Probably dehydration, as I slept for about 13 hours after yesteray's headwind-a-thon revealed quite how much I'm lacking in fitness.

The only thing that doesn't hurt is my knee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 12 April, 2015, 01:47:39 pm
Looking at my newly truncated Thomson Elite seatpost and feeling sad, but needs must and all that ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 April, 2015, 02:25:57 pm
Dripping blood from various arms and legs after a bout of gardening tidying damage limitation in the Bournville back garden.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 12 April, 2015, 02:46:37 pm
By my standards I have worked like a slave this week getting loads of DIY tasks done in the house and garden. The last task was putting the covers onto the duvets. I now have 5 hours to relax before heading out to EMA to pick up the family.

I am very glad that the recycling collection was on Friday. The number of empties would have given the completely wrong impression.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 12 April, 2015, 02:55:53 pm
digesting, steak, roast spuds, roast parsnip, asparagus and carrots followed by rhubarb mousse.
So far this weekend I have done:
the food shop
laundry
ironing
made rhubarb mousse (see above digesting comment, it's good)
cleaning in the house
hovering the house
busked at Reading station for an hour with the Brass Band
church this morning included cantor for the gloria.

Looking at the sun outside I ought to either attack the gardening, go for a walk or go cycling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 13 April, 2015, 12:14:28 pm
Quote from: matthew on 12 April, 2015, 02:55:53 pm
digesting, steak, roast spuds, roast parsnip, asparagus and carrots followed by rhubarb mousse.
So far this weekend I have done:
the food shop
laundry
ironing
made rhubarb mousse (see above digesting comment, it's good)
cleaning in the house
hovering the house
busked at Reading station for an hour with the Brass Band
church this morning included cantor for the gloria.

Looking at the sun outside I ought to either attack the gardening, go for a walk or go cycling.

'Kinell matthew- was that the Wingardiam Leviosa charm? Obviously got the wrist flick off to a tee :thumbsup:

ETA bold on the relevant bit :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 14 April, 2015, 03:17:06 pm
Watching the guy from Autoglass wreck my car, sorry I mean fit a new screen, all because of a damaged rain sensor mounting plate!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 14 April, 2015, 06:53:47 pm
I was lazing on the garden lounger until a pang of guilt, or the very dregs of my protestant work ethic kicked in. I then had to do some shed tetris to extract my garden shredder. I then dismantled the cutter head, rather straightforwardly to a point, and bagged it ready for sharpening. I couldn't remove the horizontal cutter blades, as I'd need a huuuuge screwdriver to do so, but the vertical mangler thingy came straight off. The blades aren't as mangled as I thought, but the edges are hardly keen. It was being reluctant to shred larger branches well within its normal capacity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 14 April, 2015, 07:16:07 pm
Window (well, tab, anyway) shopping for a bike I don't need with money I don't have.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 14 April, 2015, 08:38:28 pm
Wondering how many relatives the huuuuuge spider I met earlier in the garage has.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 14 April, 2015, 08:59:59 pm
Sitting in a hotel room having just arrived in parts foreign for a conference and pondering whether I should show my face downstairs in the restaurant and bar and pre-empt sociability or whether to just order room service, pilfer the minibar, and then take a bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 15 April, 2015, 11:09:07 am
Gathering the materials for a pith helmet cover.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 April, 2015, 11:10:19 am
Quote from: ian on 14 April, 2015, 08:59:59 pm
Sitting in a hotel room having just arrived in parts foreign for a conference and pondering whether I should show my face downstairs in the restaurant and bar and pre-empt sociability or whether to just order room service, pilfer the minibar, and then take a bath.

You can get lots of tips from watching Lost in Translation :).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 April, 2015, 11:30:46 am
Experiencing the kind of unholy Kimmish glee that comes from successfully running a long piece of CAT6 up the stairs and finding anbarons will pass successfully from one end to the other.  Until the moment that the little plastic wossname over the network port on the old lapdancer snapped off.  Bah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 April, 2015, 12:00:42 pm
Pondering the fact that I may have just volunteered for a month in Coventry ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 17 April, 2015, 12:23:52 pm
Have just cut the plaque de doublage in slightly the wrong place on my stud wall.  Luckily it'll fit somewhere else and maybe I can still use it as a template if I adjust the measure a little.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 April, 2015, 12:30:42 pm
Just set my out of office for return on 12th May, Australia here I come!

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 17 April, 2015, 01:02:53 pm
Waiting to find out if I have passed the reference check for my new home.  I'm really keen to move but can't book anything like removal vans until the thing is confirmed.

Every day I don't hear makes me worry irrationally.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 17 April, 2015, 01:09:02 pm
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 17 April, 2015, 01:02:53 pm
Every day I don't hear makes me worry irrationally.
Having a housing reference refused was one of the worst things that happened to me last year in a year of bad things. Good luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 April, 2015, 01:09:13 pm
There's nothing irrational about worrying that rental agency weasels are going to screw you over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 April, 2015, 01:36:01 pm
( ;D at Kim's new .sig).

Plus the only misplaced nail went partway through the now-unused modem-BT socket cable...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 April, 2015, 02:43:49 pm
Being exhausted after walking the dog 100 yards and back.  Think I'll have a lie down before cooking early dinner for Mrs. B's return.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 17 April, 2015, 03:28:02 pm
Sitting in Warsaw airport waiting for a flight to Vienna so I can get on a plane to Belgrade.
Not the most logical route and not the one we'd planned. But when there's only 45 minutes between arrival and departure, the first flight is an hour late and they don't hold the second, despite selling through tickets (and we weren't the only ones affected).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 April, 2015, 04:08:33 pm
Quote from: Basil on 17 April, 2015, 02:43:49 pm
Being exhausted after walking the dog 100 yards and back.  Think I'll have a lie down before cooking early dinner for Mrs. B's return.

Oops.  Just realised in time.  It's Mrs. B's aqua zumba (or whatever it is) evening.  She won't want to eat before that.

Excellent.  Longer snooze for me, and then I get to be dropped off at the pub for two hours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 April, 2015, 02:32:45 pm
I was looking forward to going to the pub this afternoon... but it turns out I'm not after all :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 18 April, 2015, 04:14:38 pm
after an hour and a half on my hands and knees there are no longer any dandelion flower heads in among the moss that passes for my lawn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 April, 2015, 04:34:10 pm
Wondering how the oil got on the inside of my elbow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 18 April, 2015, 04:58:03 pm
Just checked a whacking great insect bite on my thigh: 2" patch of strong inflammation spreading down from site with weaker diffusion below.  Happened 2 days ago, about an hour after fixing a flat in the forest: bit right through the shorts. Probably a horse-fly, they're good at it.

Wanted to do a 200k jaunt tomorrow, wondering now if I should.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 April, 2015, 06:47:23 pm
Juggling F1 qualifying, R'ing TFM, a glass of orange juice and a big bowl of nuts.

There goes another cashew down the side of the sofa chiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 19 April, 2015, 11:43:44 am
Quote from: fboab on 14 April, 2015, 07:16:07 pm
Window (well, tab, anyway) shopping for a bike I don't need with money I Don 't have.
Heading for a demo ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 April, 2015, 07:37:10 pm
Quote from: fboab on 19 April, 2015, 11:43:44 am
Quote from: fboab on 14 April, 2015, 07:16:07 pm
Window (well, tab, anyway) shopping for a bike I don't need with money I Don 't have.
Heading for a demo ride.

 :thumbsup:

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8712/17176379736_b0c60c8470_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/saPrhd)20150419_134036 (https://flic.kr/p/saPrhd) by Pelotonhound (https://www.flickr.com/people/40735552@N05/), on Flickr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 April, 2015, 08:29:56 am
Currently recovering from doing our VAT declaration.  Then heading out to the LBS to have a gander at bikes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 25 April, 2015, 05:24:24 pm
Having a small glass of something grape based, chilled and refreshing having spent an hour or so on HMS Midddleton (http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/our-organisation/the-fighting-arms/surface-fleet/minehunters/hunt-class/hms-middleton) this afternoon where, amongst other things, I was given, and took, the opportunity to drive its  30mm gun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1RnHiEDNQ8). :o
Mercifully, for all those in the Pool of London this afternoon, there were no rounds in it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 25 April, 2015, 06:21:41 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 25 April, 2015, 05:24:24 pm
Having a small glass of something grape based, chilled and refreshing having spent an hour or so on HMS Midddleton (http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/our-organisation/the-fighting-arms/surface-fleet/minehunters/hunt-class/hms-middleton) this afternoon where, amongst other things, I was given, and took, the opportunity to drive its  30mm gun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1RnHiEDNQ8). :o
Mercifully, for all those in the Pool of London this afternoon, there were no rounds in it.

Reminds me, should post my pics of HMS Defender taken yesterday (shored based, sadly).


Also, I'm adding another cathedral to my list.  As of this afternoon, I have sung in four of London's cathedrals.  IIRC, that leaves three.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 April, 2015, 11:48:02 pm
Taking a break from e-book jibbling.  It is a pity that Calibre cannot jibble titles on a Kindle as I would like to give all the books in a given series for e.g. Inspector Rebus or that other copper a consistent naming/numbering scheme so I can see which one's next without having to look it up on fucking Wikinaccurate >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 April, 2015, 10:24:38 am
I have that problem too, Mr L. Have resorted to finding the publishing notes page to find the date first published, which is a pain in the arse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2015, 02:45:40 pm
Also an author's back catalogue tends to get e-bookificated in one big lump so everything written before e-bookery comes with a publication date of for e.g. Sep 2009.

Bah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 April, 2015, 03:19:37 pm
Freezer archaeology. Found Lord Lucan sat on Shergar meat, sossiges and chook portions from October 2011!!!

They have been consigned to the bin, along with some elderberries from 18months ago and a load of still lemonade and apple juice. We now have only half a freezer of food, instead of full freezer, but at least you can find stuff in there!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 April, 2015, 03:19:46 pm
I think I might be reading the results of scans rather than kosher ebooks (I already have the print copies before the culture police cry foul) judging by the number of transcription errors.... they have the correct dates at any rate. Still a pain tho.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 April, 2015, 03:22:57 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 26 April, 2015, 03:19:37 pm
Freezer archaeology.

You've just reminded me, I 'organised' all my frozen packets of 'fresh' herbs out of the sachets and into little plastic boxes, but have not yet empties the drawer to get rid of all the loose basil leaves etc kicking around the bottom of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2015, 03:31:24 pm
My freezer has a glacier in it.  How does one comprehensively liberate an upright freezer from the clutches of the Ice Monster without flooding the kitchen?  I can get the worst bits off with a cold chisel ha ha but would like to rid the thing of all frozen H2O except the stuff that goes in my orange juice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 April, 2015, 03:34:02 pm
Buy a new one and make it a frost-free....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2015, 03:44:20 pm
Nothing wrong with the old one except that it's nineteen years old and probably hasn't been defrosted since it was delivered...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 April, 2015, 03:46:31 pm
Currently, loving the fact that when you want another beer in my Llandysul local on a Sunday afternoon, you have to hold the bar girl's baby while she serves you.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 26 April, 2015, 03:47:49 pm
I'm thinking of having another cup of tea
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 26 April, 2015, 05:45:28 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2015, 03:31:24 pm
How does one comprehensively liberate an upright freezer from the clutches of the Ice Monster without flooding the kitchen? 

|Expend physical effort to transport the freezer to the garden or patio and do the deed there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rachel t on 27 April, 2015, 08:28:41 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2015, 03:44:20 pm
Nothing wrong with the old one except that it's nineteen years old and probably hasn't been defrosted since it was delivered...

Grab a pile of towels and keep wringing them out, defrosting freezer is a thankful task
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 April, 2015, 07:18:55 pm
Looking for barakta's hearing aid.   :-\


ETA:
Quote from: IRC
<the_kitchen> ping computer_room found it in my head
<computer_room> Pinging...
<kim> !

 :facepalm: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 April, 2015, 04:13:42 pm
Inflating every airbed in the house. :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 April, 2015, 04:31:28 pm
Nothing very much because our systems are down again. And agreeing with a colleague that I will go pick up a death certificate in exchange for a peculiar biscuit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Dibdib on 30 April, 2015, 06:40:44 pm
Not quite right now, but a short time ago: giving blood. Uneventful, for once!

Not quite right now, but in a moment: opening a blue parcel with a British Cycling logo, which contains my shiny new (and hopefully correctly sized) Ride Leader kit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 April, 2015, 07:35:17 pm
Considering buying some washable spray paint with which to highlight the massive dog turds some selfish fucker doesn't bother picking up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 30 April, 2015, 07:39:31 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 April, 2015, 07:35:17 pm
Considering buying some washable spray paint with which to highlight the massive dog turds some selfish fucker doesn't bother picking up.

Draw CDCs around them for added Win  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 April, 2015, 08:20:45 pm
I saw a CDC-shaped massive dog turd a while ago...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 April, 2015, 08:43:03 pm
I put a picture of one in the CDC thread a while ago.
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Post by: Kim on 30 April, 2015, 08:47:51 pm
Maybe it was the same dog...
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Post by: Ruthie on 30 April, 2015, 11:22:42 pm
An evening of admin.

I seem to have procrastinated marvellously.

 :-\
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Post by: Kim on 30 April, 2015, 11:27:24 pm
Sitting in the dark.
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Post by: Andrij on 01 May, 2015, 07:54:02 am
Quote from: Kim on 30 April, 2015, 11:27:24 pm
Sitting in the dark.

Didn't fancy whistling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyhGtKAkNTo)?
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Post by: Canardly on 01 May, 2015, 11:11:30 am
Applying antiseptic cream to a finger stabbed by electrician's screwdriver. Don't ask!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 01 May, 2015, 12:33:29 pm
Enjoying a three hour flight delay at Gatwick. Be nice if they'd told me before I left home.

Oh and Gatwick, your offer of free wifi is I'm sure nice since EE's mobile data seems to route via Saturn, but (a) the palaver of creating an account and (b) having to confirm the account via email. Now I'm no expert on this internet malarkey, but I won't I need the free wifi in order to get the email that activates my free wifi?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 May, 2015, 01:08:41 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 01 May, 2015, 11:11:30 am
Applying antiseptic cream to a finger stabbed by electrician's screwdriver. Don't ask!

Are you having lighting trouble too?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 01 May, 2015, 01:10:39 pm
Quote from: ian on 01 May, 2015, 12:33:29 pm
won't I need the free wifi in order to get the email that activates my free wifi?

I guess they assume you have some 3/4G device that can access your email...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 May, 2015, 07:13:28 pm
Suffering from nettle tingling fingers.  Tiny little two inch proto nettles. I didn't think they'd have it in them, but golly, the little blighters had some serious delayed action bite.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 May, 2015, 08:12:13 pm
Sheltering from London's airborne arboreal spermatozoa  (and killing time waiting for someone) in a pub. Thankfully the Coal Hole is an OK pub.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 03 May, 2015, 08:41:11 pm
Wondering if I have anything of sufficient value to sell to get dental implants, thanks to Waitrose Salad Nicoise with an unfortunate inconsistency in the olive pitting.
*sigh*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 May, 2015, 07:46:38 am
Riding the diabetic roller-coaster and waiting for the god-damned headache to bugger off. Fuck the world.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 04 May, 2015, 09:24:20 am
The washing, baking custards tarts and now to get on with the paella
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 May, 2015, 10:45:04 am
Having a break from some much needed housework.    When I'm feeling tired & down it's the first thing to be neglected , and I've been feeling that a lot recently.

There is an unbelievable amount of dust !   I'm having to run the hoover extension over the top of all my books to get the crap off  :(

Taking off & nuking the place from orbit would be easier.
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Post by: Domestique on 04 May, 2015, 12:41:11 pm
Working   :)
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Post by: bumper on 07 May, 2015, 07:06:52 pm
cleaning another dollop if stinky, sticky dog shit off my tyres >:(

lazy, dirty bastards!
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Post by: Basil on 07 May, 2015, 08:07:18 pm
Creating a mahoosive spag bol to eat with the lodger.  We normally lead seperare lives in the kitchen, but with #1 son away in the US, I thought it would be a nice gesture if we ate together.
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Post by: Ruthie on 07 May, 2015, 09:12:34 pm
Summoning up the gumption to get these painful throbbing feet up the wooden hill to bedfordshire.
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Post by: Clare on 08 May, 2015, 09:33:00 am
Listening to Billy Bragg and wondering how the fuck it came to this.

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Post by: tiermat on 08 May, 2015, 09:45:33 am
Hurting, due to a bad cold and sore throat, plus trying to get my work laptop to connect to the work VPN.  It worked last week, but steadfastly refuses to work today :(
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 May, 2015, 10:12:52 am
Trying to stay awake until Nigel Bedford Farage gets punted off the White Cliffs.  I think he's either already pissed or still pissed from last night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 May, 2015, 12:53:33 pm
Quote from: bumper on 07 May, 2015, 07:06:52 pm
cleaning another dollop if stinky, sticky dog shit off my tyres >:(

lazy, dirty bastards!
I bought a can of that spray paint for temporary football pitches stuff, with which to draw attention to the mountainous piles of dog shit someone doesn't pick up round our way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 May, 2015, 01:15:22 pm
Wondering why a DC3 is flying around Brum City Centre.  Not a WWII plane.  Is that all they could get?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 08 May, 2015, 02:17:26 pm
Weeping quietly at my desk and pondering the next five years.
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Post by: tiermat on 08 May, 2015, 03:09:05 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 08 May, 2015, 09:45:33 am
Hurting, due to a bad cold and sore throat, plus trying to get my work laptop to connect to the work VPN.  It worked last week, but steadfastly refuses to work today :(

All down to a certificate issue, I knew they shouldn't have changed my log in name...

Otherwise I am sneezing and coughing up a lung. #damnedcold
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Post by: ian on 08 May, 2015, 06:44:43 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 May, 2015, 12:53:33 pm
Quote from: bumper on 07 May, 2015, 07:06:52 pm
cleaning another dollop if stinky, sticky dog shit off my tyres >:(

lazy, dirty bastards!
I bought a can of that spray paint for temporary football pitches stuff, with which to draw attention to the mountainous piles of dog shit someone doesn't pick up round our way.

I might borrow it, I have to walk by a monstrous pile of the stuff on the lane/footpath to the pool, where someone obviously empties their dog(s) on a daily basis. It might just be coincidence that it's mostly outside the house with the two German shepherds (dogs, not actual shepherds, that would be worse).
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Post by: L CC on 08 May, 2015, 06:47:41 pm
Returning chez Mr Smith as the car is (technical term) fucked.

Another DNS weekend.

FFS
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Post by: mike on 08 May, 2015, 07:21:42 pm
Sitting in a pub with a pint, coz i'm early for dinner with 3 multiple Olympic champions.  Funny old world.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 10 May, 2015, 11:47:24 am
Trying to attack the Teetering Piles of CrapTM but difficult to know where to start. Maybe I should just get a skip and start over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 May, 2015, 12:31:12 pm
Pick one room (or one area of one room, or one cupboard, or one drawer - depending on how much time you have).

Sort it until everything in that room/area/cupboard/drawer is sorted.  Get rid of (bin/tip/charity shop) everything that you are getting rid of ASAP.  If you find things to be dealt with (winning lottery ticket, overdue tax return, unanswered declaration of undying love from whichever-famous-star-you-are-besotted-with) make a (possibly mental) to do list of these things to do and do them as soon as you've finished fettling the room/area/cupbooad/drawer but not before or you will never finish because you will continously distract yourself with more 'urgent' things that can't be that urgent if they've spent months in a TPoC.  Do not transfer the TPoC to somewhere else where you will have to do it all again.

Best tip - get someone else to help as they will have emotional distance and not being involved makes ruthlessness much easier.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 May, 2015, 01:13:53 pm
There was a useful article on dealing with TPoC's in the obgraun last week, some of it was woo, but the Step 3 - get rid of the 'just in case' items rings true..
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/01/do-something-decluttering
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Post by: bumper on 10 May, 2015, 01:15:46 pm
watching the old timers on the VE day celebrations :thumbsup:

some of the stories bring a few tears to the eyes 
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 10 May, 2015, 01:23:59 pm
Oh yeah, keeping things just in case is definitely my forte. Old radio control dohickeys that haven't been used are kept just in case I want to cannabalise them to make a thing. Old uni and even college notes kept just in case when all I do is google stuff anyway.

I have just earmarked two boxes of notes to bin. I will keep my final writeup of my dissertation and my research project and the rest can go dammit. Along with the cheap radio control tat. The decent helicopter I'll keep as once Ive tidied I'll actually have room to play with it.

I'm a terrible hoarder but I'm getting better gradually.

I'm going to get some stuff sorted and then rope in someone with a car to help me tip trip it all.
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Post by: Kim on 10 May, 2015, 04:42:02 pm
The problem with chucking the just in case collection is that by doing so you pretty much guarantee that some item from it will be exactly what you need to solve a given problem within a week or so.

There's also a critical mass factor to just in case collections: A handful of widgets is mostly clutter, whereas a complete set of widgets in all the common sizes and a variety of colours means you rarely go widgetless.  This Doesn't Help.
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Post by: Torslanda on 10 May, 2015, 04:54:12 pm
Sitting on the sofa while a snoring cat tries to kick me off it . . .
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 10 May, 2015, 09:35:18 pm
Oh yeah, I just know that whenever I chuck out a $random tat I will want it very quickly afterwards no matter how many years it's sat gathering dust but I'm running out of room.

Nuts to it, chuck it and if I really need it later (rather than just think I need it) just replace it. We've charity shops aplenty and eBay and Amazon and etc.
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Post by: Kim on 12 May, 2015, 04:14:13 pm
Having an asthma attack.  Gardening may have been perpetrated.
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Post by: Feanor on 12 May, 2015, 08:20:25 pm
Messing about with a time estimate spreadsheet for the Mull of Kintyre 600.
Trying to estimate how much sleep I can get at Oban and still make the next intermediate control in time!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 12 May, 2015, 09:02:38 pm
Hoping that this will be the last body-clock-disoriented day, trying to find activities that keep me occupied for the next hour.
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Post by: Basil on 14 May, 2015, 12:25:38 am
Watching UA27 which has #1 son on board.  He's spent a couple of weeks with Mrs. B's mercan rellies. 
Seems to have taken off OK and is wandering around.  If I wake up at 6ish, I can watch him land at BHX.

Fx:  Phone rings.
Mrs. B. "Are you going to meet him at the airport?"
Me.   :facepalm: "He's 30 years old!  There'll be younger people on the flight who own companies"  ::-).  "He can catch the train like I always did"
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 May, 2015, 07:41:49 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 May, 2015, 12:53:33 pm
Quote from: bumper on 07 May, 2015, 07:06:52 pm
cleaning another dollop if stinky, sticky dog shit off my tyres >:(

lazy, dirty bastards!
I bought a can of that spray paint for temporary football pitches stuff, with which to draw attention to the mountainous piles of dog shit someone doesn't pick up round our way.
Two small turds and one enormous one done so far.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 14 May, 2015, 04:32:22 pm
Writing about mcshroom in the third person onna work form.
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Post by: Ham on 14 May, 2015, 05:41:19 pm
Trying to age a new one of these
(http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0715/3283/products/barmah-hat-kangeroo-hickory_large.jpg?v=1427362711)

To the equivalent of three weeks Australian sun and rain in a matter of hours. This is the sort of thing you might find yourself doing if you lose the genuine article on the return journey and don't want to 'fess up as this will be yet another thing you have lost carelessly. You will be happy that you were able to secure the identical item in the UK, but disappointed in its rather effective resistance to instant ageing, including being left out in the rain.

Oh well.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 May, 2015, 06:52:24 pm
Quote from: Basil on 14 May, 2015, 12:25:38 am
Watching UA27 which has #1 son on board.  He's spent a couple of weeks with Mrs. B's mercan rellies. 
Seems to have taken off OK and is wandering around.  If I wake up at 6ish, I can watch him land at BHX.

Fx:  Phone rings.
Mrs. B. "Are you going to meet him at the airport?"
Me.   :facepalm: "He's 30 years old!  There'll be younger people on the flight who own companies"  ::-).  "He can catch the train like I always did"

Basil, you idiot!  His flight is on Thursday.  The flight you watched arrive at 6 this morning took off on Wednesday.  :facepalm:
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Post by: interzen on 14 May, 2015, 08:28:45 pm
Fielding stupid questions from lusers on fleaBay  ::-)
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Post by: Ruthie on 14 May, 2015, 10:10:54 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 May, 2015, 07:41:49 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 May, 2015, 12:53:33 pm
Quote from: bumper on 07 May, 2015, 07:06:52 pm
cleaning another dollop if stinky, sticky dog shit off my tyres >:(

lazy, dirty bastards!
I bought a can of that spray paint for temporary football pitches stuff, with which to draw attention to the mountainous piles of dog shit someone doesn't pick up round our way.
Two small turds and one enormous one done so far.

Someone's been doing that round here too. Dayglo dog turds all over the place. Fine, it makes it easier for small children (and me) avoid standing in it. Bit odd thobut .
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 May, 2015, 07:46:42 am
I am hoping to shame the owners into picking it up. And if that doesn't work, well, they're easier  to avoid. There is lots of supported accommodation round here, so lots of wheelchair users, who I am sure don't want to track dog shit through their houses on their wheels.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 15 May, 2015, 09:03:04 am
On our 300 a couple of weeks back we had a right cackle when a couple of youngsters deliberately rode their mountain bikes through a great pyramid of horse droppings on a cycle track.  Wonderfully gleeful they were, too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 15 May, 2015, 09:28:37 am
Quote from: Ham on 14 May, 2015, 05:41:19 pm
Trying to age a new one of these
(http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0715/3283/products/barmah-hat-kangeroo-hickory_large.jpg?v=1427362711)

To the equivalent of three weeks Australian sun and rain in a matter of hours. This is the sort of thing you might find yourself doing if you lose the genuine article on the return journey and don't want to 'fess up as this will be yet another thing you have lost carelessly. You will be happy that you were able to secure the identical item in the UK, but disappointed in its rather effective resistance to instant ageing, including being left out in the rain.

Oh well.

Try to get it really sweaty, then kick it around on the dusty ground for a bit.  Scratch the surfaces repeatedly with your fingernails, screw it up and sit on it.  Mine still doesn't look too bad after all that happening to it after a number of years, naturally, but you can tell its not new.  I called mine Skippy, for rather too obvious reasons.  Mrs W, thinking the "Goodness Gracious me" interpretation of Skippy was far better (it was) has re-christened it "Skipinder".  Brilliant hat!  I've got zero hair, so some form of head protection is vital in hot places, but it keeps off the rain, too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 15 May, 2015, 09:30:45 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 May, 2015, 07:46:42 am
I am hoping to shame the owners into picking it up. And if that doesn't work, well, they're easier  to avoid. There is lots of supported accommodation round here, so lots of wheelchair users, who I am sure don't want to track dog shit through their houses on their wheels.

I thinking of writing in big letters along the pavement PICK UP YOUR DOG SHIT. There seems to be a belief that you let mutt mostly shit on the lane or at the side of the path it doesn't count. Especially once things warm up, it makes for a unpleasantly fragrant stroll. And eventually the schoolkids will step in it and leaving pooey footprints everywhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 May, 2015, 10:11:56 am
Rather than unsightly paint, why not make up some little flags that you can stick in the offending turds with nice motivational messages for the offending dog-emptiers?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 May, 2015, 11:30:17 am
This just shows how far we've come as a civiliasation.  As recently as the late 80s, it was considered perfectly reasonable to leave dog poo lying around until it turned white, as long as you made a bit of an effort to direct it to the side of the path.

These days the dog poo is collected in plastic bags and chucked in a hedge, and the path is littered with cars.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 15 May, 2015, 11:46:57 am
It doesn't impress me when they pick it up and leave the bag hanging in the trees.


There's still tiny bits of the turd dried between my tread, the dog must have been eating fucking no nails!

the new phrase is 'sticks like shit to a tyre'.


A few months ago, I caught someone letting their dog shit on my front garden. Doesnt sound too strange, except the dog had jumped 3ft up and over my wall. I ran out of the house and gave them a bollocking, cheeky bastard asked for bag to pick it up :facepalm:
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Post by: bumper on 15 May, 2015, 06:16:44 pm
It must be getting worse. There's just been a news item about poo.

It's something to stamp out, not in :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: interzen on 15 May, 2015, 06:25:01 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 15 May, 2015, 10:11:56 am
Rather than unsightly paint, why not make up some little flags that you can stick in the offending turds with nice motivational messages for the offending dog-emptiers?
Hasn't someone in Embra done something like this, or am I misremembering?

Either way, someone in the village has taken to using a stencil consisting of a HBFO arrow and the words 'PICK IT UP!' underneath - the arrow points at the offending mound of dog stew, natch. Presumably they use that temporary paint as a couple of showers and it has washed away. Unlike the turd.
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Post by: Basil on 15 May, 2015, 06:48:55 pm
Stirchley park in Brum.
https://twitter.com/elliedarvill/status/598062666201100288?s=09
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 May, 2015, 01:09:52 pm
Two of the three sprayed turds have been removed. Victory in our time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 16 May, 2015, 01:27:57 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 May, 2015, 01:09:52 pm
Two of the three sprayed turds have been removed. Victory in our time.

poower to the people!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 May, 2015, 03:58:03 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 May, 2015, 01:09:52 pm
Two of the three sprayed turds have been removed. Victory in our time.

Where's that Riggers? We need a photoshopped Kirsten Churchill with a cigar anna V-sign. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 16 May, 2015, 08:10:07 pm
Watching paint dry.   No, seriously.   

I've been painting skirting boards for the new bathroom project today and have just been to see if they are dry enough to bring indoors.   I've decided to leave them out in the back yard for the night.   Forecast is dry.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 May, 2015, 08:12:06 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 16 May, 2015, 08:10:07 pm
Watching paint dry.   No, seriously.   

Don't knock it. I had a job doing this (and some other things) for about 6 years when I was much much younger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 16 May, 2015, 08:32:53 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 15 May, 2015, 10:11:56 am
Rather than unsightly paint, why not make up some little flags that you can stick in the offending turds with nice motivational messages for the offending dog-emptiers?

I saw that on a visit to Saltaire a few years ago. Someone had made a little flag using a cocktail stick and a piece of paper, stuck it in the turd and written "Shame on you, clean up your poo". :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 16 May, 2015, 08:34:29 pm
Some years ago when things like video recorders still existed, a friend of mine took the Michael and bought me a video of the same.   It went on for 30 minutes.

That was around the last time I did any decorating which was in the last century!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 May, 2015, 08:35:11 pm
What I'm doing right now is, posting the 20,000th post on this thread.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 May, 2015, 11:36:36 am
I'm procrastinating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 May, 2015, 11:48:24 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 17 May, 2015, 11:36:36 am
I'm procrastinating.

Why not leave that for tomorrow?
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Post by: Jaded on 17 May, 2015, 10:06:19 pm
Winning the pub quiz
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 May, 2015, 10:21:11 pm
Farting, mostly  ::-).
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Post by: Lady Cavendish on 23 May, 2015, 04:04:50 pm
Admiring my wedding dress i have just brought home :)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 May, 2015, 07:23:24 pm
Watching Frozen.
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Post by: L CC on 25 May, 2015, 07:34:46 am
Feeling all my sore bits tentatively and wondering if I dare get out a mirror and have a look.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 May, 2015, 10:31:56 am
Coming up to the second half-hour of a 15-minute break from cleaning my bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 May, 2015, 11:50:15 am
Breaking my "no bread" diet with a 2" thick bacon butty in Bold St Coffee.
Artisanal bread obviously, to go with the single estate Columbian.
I had to wait for a seat as well. Some businesses are still doing OK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 26 May, 2015, 10:03:40 am
Standing by to go subterranean in order to sort out a pool cover retraction issue.

 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 26 May, 2015, 01:28:00 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 26 May, 2015, 10:03:40 am
Standing by to go subterranean in order to sort out a pool cover retraction issue.

Mind you don't meet Scott Tracy coming the other way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 26 May, 2015, 11:16:32 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 26 May, 2015, 01:28:00 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 26 May, 2015, 10:03:40 am
Standing by to go subterranean in order to sort out a pool cover retraction issue.

Mind you don't meet Scott Tracy coming the other way.

F.A.B.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 26 May, 2015, 11:21:32 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 26 May, 2015, 10:03:40 am
Standing by to go subterranean in order to sort out a pool cover retraction issue.

There was 18" of water in the void under the inspection cover (big cover opening into a 2 meter square, 1.5 meter deep equipment void below pool level- the pool cover is an auto on/ off jobbie which lives below a pivoted section of pool floor). The cover wasn't fully winding in and was getting caught as the floor closed down. Having pumped the water out I discovered there isn't a manual overide (unless the axle of the gert big sprocket that is on the end of the cover reel is supposed to accecpt a hand crank handle, which we can't find). Guess it is a job for an engineer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 29 May, 2015, 04:24:03 pm
Reconsidering my rash plan to go out on a bicycle, given the way the hail was bouncing off the cars, and rattling down the chimney. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 May, 2015, 04:49:14 pm
Waiting for the garage to finish washing my car and thinking so much for getting home early on a Friday. Hahaha.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 May, 2015, 04:57:00 pm
Procrasti-fettling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 May, 2015, 10:40:04 pm
Going to bed early because there's an audax o'clock start tomorrow.  The ride goes into the land of no vowels and no trains, so I've packed some extra cable ties and painkillers, just in case.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 May, 2015, 10:53:45 pm
Fretting about a missing cat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 May, 2015, 11:07:32 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 May, 2015, 10:53:45 pm
Fretting about a missing cat.

Not fretting any more, though she turned up 3 hours later than ever, the wee minx.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 30 May, 2015, 01:40:58 pm
Trying lots of Joomla web gallery extensions to find one I like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 May, 2015, 05:42:20 pm
Pretending to watch the foopball.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 31 May, 2015, 02:39:25 pm
Putting off going out and changing the housing of my rear D/R cable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 May, 2015, 03:17:41 pm
Laughing at the cat who nearly fell off his platform while chasing his tail.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 June, 2015, 10:37:02 am
Sitting in a train at Liverpool Lime St, with a loaded touring bike in the next compartment :-)
For once I got to the station in plenty of time & without being a sweaty, panicking mess.
This probably means I've forgotten something important.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 01 June, 2015, 11:03:13 am
Listening to THE SIRENS

Monthly test of flood and other disaster warning system in NL. Very reminiscent of the people being called underground in The Time Macine
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 June, 2015, 11:09:09 am
Listening to Arrested DEvelopment and trying to work out why The Foreman doesn't like working with Docker.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 June, 2015, 03:33:54 pm
Fuming, that's what I'm doing.

Trying to get my traps together to go off to Troyes tomorrow for a 600k while waiting for the doc to show up for the Inlaw Paw's monthly check-up but we don't know when the bugger's going to appear but the bloody dogs need out to pee and they can't until he's been and they're restive as hell and meantime I need to alter the IP's online tax return and his machine takes an hour to fire up and the wife's machine hung at lunchtime and it's been CHKDSKing since and she's fuming because she's got a shitload of work in; meantime folk keep showing up at the phyzzy's next door and every time I hear a car door I'm alert for the bloody doc and the wife keeps calling through every time there's new message and I can't remember what I wanted to do next except jack in the whole bloody shebang.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 June, 2015, 10:29:08 pm
Sitting in a baking hot French campsite, with a mug of cool white & someone playing  soulful Sax nearby.
All I need now is for Beatrice Dalle to turn up & my happiness will be complete...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 08 June, 2015, 01:56:46 pm
Gardening in the rain.  On my holiday at home.  I'm really enjoying it!  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 June, 2015, 07:19:40 pm
Drinking beer while waiting for the peas to boil. Then it's dinner time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 June, 2015, 11:45:13 pm
Cuddling a happy, wriggling, waggy-tailed puppy who should be asleep in his bed! He leaves for his new home on Wednesday, after almost two months in foster with us. It's going to be a tough day!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: closetleftie on 09 June, 2015, 03:57:03 pm
Sitting on this forum recovering after pretty damn near killing someone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 09 June, 2015, 04:04:52 pm
Quote from: closetleftie on 09 June, 2015, 03:57:03 pm
Sitting on this forum recovering after pretty damn near killing someone.

You okay cl?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 09 June, 2015, 04:11:33 pm
Oh, that doesn't sound great :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 June, 2015, 05:30:18 pm
That doesn't sound good, CL. You okay?  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 June, 2015, 12:23:45 pm
Sitting inna cafe digesting a huge pizza. Think I've hit Dordogne-shire. Owner & most customers are English.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 10 June, 2015, 12:36:24 pm
Enjoying my  new back yard.  I was going to go for a bike ride, and the weather's fantastic, but I love seeing the new visitors - so far three species of bee and a green dragonfly, who just seemed to want to sunbathe on one of the containers  :D  It's lovely just watching the flowers grow. 

I hope that's what they're doing  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 June, 2015, 02:00:09 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 10 June, 2015, 12:23:45 pm
Sitting inna cafe digesting a huge pizza. Think I've hit Dordogne-shire. Owner & most customers are English.

If you get as far as Perigueux stick your head round the door of the Star Inn and say 'hi' to Mike and Bev from me, if they remember me.  They once lent me a bike for a summer (about 20 years ago!) so that I could get to work in the bar whilst living on a campsite 3 miles out of town :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 10 June, 2015, 04:28:54 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 10 June, 2015, 02:00:09 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 10 June, 2015, 12:23:45 pm
Sitting inna cafe digesting a huge pizza. Think I've hit Dordogne-shire. Owner & most customers are English.

If you get as far as Perigueux stick your head round the door of the Star Inn and say 'hi' to Mike and Bev from me, if they remember me.  They once lent me a bike for a summer (about 20 years ago!) so that I could get to work in the bar whilst living on a campsite 3 miles out of town :D

Brantome*, more English being spoken than anywhere since St Malo.

Spell checker had that as Bra Time !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 10 June, 2015, 04:39:12 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 10 June, 2015, 12:36:24 pm
Enjoying my  new back yard.  I was going to go for a bike ride, and the weather's fantastic, but I love seeing the new visitors - so far three species of bee and a green dragonfly, who just seemed to want to sunbathe on one of the containers  :D  It's lovely just watching the flowers grow. 

I hope that's what they're doing  :-\

I was whacked on the helmet by a 4"(ish) blue dragonfly on our ride on Sunday. Poor devil, can't imagine it did him any good. Quite a crack. Must inspect hat for damage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 12 June, 2015, 11:16:36 am
Packing up my office. After 3 years of working in a condemned office Portakabin building, I get a desk in a shiny new Portakabin office on Monday :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 12 June, 2015, 12:58:54 pm
Having lunch in Southmead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 June, 2015, 03:02:25 pm
Sipping a cold beer in a shady bar in Sarlat-la-Caneda.   8)

Place is a tourist trap, but a rather pretty one.

Today's market stalls are selling tat & trinkets, last time I was here it was the proper local food market.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 June, 2015, 07:00:58 pm
Sitting in a pizzeria in Souillac. Thunder, lighting & heavyrain and I haven't got the tent up yet!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 16 June, 2015, 11:05:43 am
Sitting in a cafe in Estaing sheltering from the rain. Wondering about a 2nd coffee and trying to avoid the lure of the specialist knife shop next door.... I don't need a Lagiuole and I've got too many Opinels.

Lots of pilgrims here as well, scallop shells on the back of rucksacks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 June, 2015, 04:46:33 pm
Fighting a losing battle with post-600 meh.

I've tried eating, but that still leaves me hungry.

I've tried sleeping, but that still leaves me sleepy.

I've tried working, but that was a hopeless ask.

I've tried catching up on some DIYs, and I'm still processing the same one I started at 10 this morning!

Think I'll just forget about today.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 19 June, 2015, 02:48:23 pm
Retiring.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 19 June, 2015, 04:24:20 pm
Quote from: Juan Martín on 19 June, 2015, 02:48:23 pm
Retiring.  :thumbsup:

Well done you!

Proper retirement or retiring to go into something less..... well, less?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 19 June, 2015, 04:41:56 pm
My current thoughts are that this is a proper retirement but I have made a concious decision not to make any decisions. Apart from that one. It might turn into something less if after a few months I feel I want something more. And I think that we can all relate to that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 19 June, 2015, 07:55:33 pm
Quote from: Juan Martín on 19 June, 2015, 04:41:56 pm
My current thoughts are that this is a proper retirement but I have made a concious decision not to make any decisions. Apart from that one. It might turn into something less if after a few months I feel I want something more. And I think that we can all relate to that.

Oh yes.

My retirement was just over a year ago now and I knew that I only wanted to retire form the rat race that was the criminal justice system. A year of earning less for feck all stress has been a breath of fresh air.

Good luck with wherever the future takes you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Juan Martín on 19 June, 2015, 09:34:19 pm
Thanks fuzzy  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 June, 2015, 05:22:19 pm
Debating whether or not to participate in tonight's* Midsummer Madness ride.  The rain, coming down rather heavily at the moment, should stop well before the start.  That said, the forecast is for solid cloud until around 09:00, well after sunrise.  Rather anti-climatic for a solstice ride.

* For the pedants: "tomorrow morning's"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 21 June, 2015, 08:22:08 pm
Barbie. Beer. Barney Kessel. Perfection.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 June, 2015, 12:59:14 pm
Suffering with D&V.

Not good, I was supposed to be in Sheffield @ 07:30 this morning, but couldn't get out of bed until 09:30...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 June, 2015, 01:50:14 pm
Sitting in bright sunshine & 30C temperatures in a cafe in Aiguines, digesting a menu de jour. got to pay the bill now and get on with the corniche Sublime
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 23 June, 2015, 01:51:08 pm
Am I allowed to say 'Git'?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 June, 2015, 01:51:14 pm
Producing copious amounts of manky snot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 23 June, 2015, 02:59:57 pm
Recovering from last week's torn achilles tendon (which has meant I've had to cancel participation in this year's
Semaine Federale in Albi).  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 23 June, 2015, 09:25:22 pm
Sitting in a hotel, listening to the bass line from the school prom happening downstairs, waiting for MrsC to Skype and wondering whether wandering downstairs to the bar (not the one with the prom) would be a good idea afterwards. Trouble is, there's no decent beer and I've already had two Kronenbourgs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 23 June, 2015, 10:43:22 pm
I missed the sunset 15 mins ago.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 24 June, 2015, 10:23:52 pm
Recovering from randomly chucking stuff into bags packing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 June, 2015, 01:10:02 pm
Fixing IP routing issues.

It feels great to be back in the saddle, as it were!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 25 June, 2015, 03:39:46 pm
Staring at the rain falling outside and feeling a little annoyed I trusted yr.no's prediction of no rain over the Met Office's forecast.

I have a mudguardless bike and a gilet rather than a full waterproof, I think I'll be getting wet in an hour or so. :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 June, 2015, 03:48:48 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 25 June, 2015, 01:10:02 pm
Fixing IP routing issues.

It feels great to be back in the saddle, as it were!

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 int null0

No more routing issues now, you know precisely where all the packets will go :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 June, 2015, 04:13:11 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 25 June, 2015, 03:48:48 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 25 June, 2015, 01:10:02 pm
Fixing IP routing issues.

It feels great to be back in the saddle, as it were!

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 int null0

No more routing issues now, you know precisely where all the packets will go :)

HEY! That's the routing table betwix my ears and my brain! ;)

Also done this afternoon shown a firewall engineer just what NTP is, by beating him around the head assited fix another networking issue and, just now, slopey shouldered a Tomcat issue.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si on 25 June, 2015, 04:42:02 pm
Just got in from giving a community association a load of free bikes for their members to use. 
<that would be a big, self-satisfied, smug smile on my face>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 26 June, 2015, 09:57:12 am
Trying to undo the back of my Garmin heart attack monitor to replace the battery. 3 screws have given in, but the 4th is made of sterner stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 June, 2015, 01:10:43 pm
Watching IT trying to fix my laptop while it reboots for the twelfth time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 June, 2015, 01:16:25 pm
Tidying, washing, putting stuff in the attic and generally sorting the house out. All jobs that have been neglected for so long, but we couldn't ignore any longer, getting into the office had become like competing in a Tough Mudder!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 June, 2015, 01:40:18 pm
Fettling my prog that analyses GPXes of past Audaxes so as to plug probable average speeds into an unridden GPX, according to slope & distance, and thence to the corresponding route sheet. It's a bit too optimistic so far - I'll never average 31 kph from Brest to Guipavas in this world.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 June, 2015, 02:22:48 pm
Feeling happy! I have found the last item on my scavenger list list of "lost" items.

My second Ortlieb was hiding in the garage, under a pile of other panniers!

I *may* have too much bike stuff...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 June, 2015, 02:49:01 pm
Ooh - did you spot a spare islawheel (and possibly an isla-rack) in there?  I was looking for it recently with no joy, when a vague memory surfaced of being full-handed and saying "I'll pick that up another time!"...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 June, 2015, 03:02:02 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 June, 2015, 02:49:01 pm
Ooh - did you spot a spare islawheel (and possibly an isla-rack) in there?  I was looking for it recently with no joy, when a vague memory surfaced of being full-handed and saying "I'll pick that up another time!"...

Yes to both.  Sorry be being so so crap and not getting them back to you!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 June, 2015, 03:07:27 pm
In the meantime, the first wash load is now in the dryer (rain is intermittent so can't hang it out, plus it's too humis so it wouldn't dry anyway).

Second wash load on and I am just about to a) go and sort out a second load and b) nip into the shed whilst I am out in the garden and find a set of fix wheels (or at least the front one) so that I can build up the new project.  Then I might just try to find a spare Aheadset that I know I have lying around, somewhere.

I have also paid my wages, so no wandering around in tatters this month! Me? I'm a busy buzzy bee

I'll leave you with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb0p8ls0rMc
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 June, 2015, 03:18:28 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 26 June, 2015, 03:02:02 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 26 June, 2015, 02:49:01 pm
Ooh - did you spot a spare islawheel (and possibly an isla-rack) in there?  I was looking for it recently with no joy, when a vague memory surfaced of being full-handed and saying "I'll pick that up another time!"...

Yes to both.  Sorry be being so so crap and not getting them back to you!

Nae fret.  Will have to go for a pint at some point when Stuffs are a bit less manic!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 June, 2015, 03:19:35 pm
Now that sounds like deviously cunning plan, Crinkles!

If I had had more spoons I would have come to the Rally last weekend. But I didn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 27 June, 2015, 02:39:20 pm
Chilling in the sunshine on a deck in rural France. Land rover is rubbed down and the roof insulated.

Mug of tea cheese sandwich and on with the next bit...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 June, 2015, 09:39:16 pm
Trying to hit my step target for the day. I am 1500 steps short, TLD is in bed, so I am having to walk back and forward between the lounge and dining room!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 27 June, 2015, 10:12:53 pm
Drinking mint tea in my pretty back yard with a sleeveless dress on.  Love these long warm evenings.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 June, 2015, 10:15:04 pm
Listening to Bournville sploding.


The annual firework display at the Bournville Fête worse than Deth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 28 June, 2015, 03:12:35 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 27 June, 2015, 09:39:16 pm
Trying to hit my step target for the day. I am 1500 steps short, TLD is in bed, so I am having to walk back and forward between the lounge and dining room!

Should've snook out to the offie...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 28 June, 2015, 03:21:30 pm
Sitting on the deck (again) with the eleventy third mug of tea, today, in 30 plus degree heat. Waiting for the paint to dry on the Land Rover, knowing that there is at least 8 hours required between coats.

Oh, well! That's work over for the day, have to slum it in the pool I suppose . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 01 July, 2015, 01:46:12 pm
Slumming it in the corporate lizards area at Henley. Hard to think that in 6 weeks time,I will be somewhere in Brittany trying to stop myself falling asleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 01 July, 2015, 07:02:39 pm
Worrying about my hernia operation in the morning tomorrow. I am totally terrified  :-[  :'( . the last hernia operation I had was a keyhole one and I was able bodied .this time it is being done the old way and I could end up in retention ect . I have been told 6 weeks recovery .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nikki on 01 July, 2015, 08:09:43 pm
Best wishes for the op, cycleman. Try not to worry too much. Maybe re-imagine it as really wild camping or something - it can't be any more uncomfortable than some of your nights in underpasses, surely!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 01 July, 2015, 09:43:07 pm
It is not the op itself but the recovery that scares me most. Mrs cm has a suffers from panic attacks and finds day to day hard going. She also is impossible to wake once she is asleep so at night I am on my own. None of this is her fault and I expect it will all work out in the end but I am feeling uncomfortable in the tummy which I hope will not keep me from sleeping tonight  . plus I am allergic to pain and and a complete wimp . I definitely prefer wild camping even in the rain to this  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 01 July, 2015, 11:09:43 pm
Best wishes cm hope it all goes well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 02 July, 2015, 06:21:58 am
Thanks clare and Nikki  :) . I got about 4 hours sleep in the end  ::-) . for what I am about to receive .................. ! .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 02 July, 2015, 10:40:55 am
Waiting in the ward . I am scheduled for this afternoon  .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 July, 2015, 10:45:06 am
Good Luck, hope it all goes well :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 02 July, 2015, 11:41:59 am
Wishing you peace and a successful outcome CM.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 02 July, 2015, 01:13:54 pm
Just been told a hour to go  gulp!  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Moultonaught on 02 July, 2015, 01:37:11 pm
good luck and best wishes CM  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 02 July, 2015, 04:09:43 pm
Thanks all of you  :thumbsup: . however I am still waiting for the operation  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 02 July, 2015, 04:13:50 pm
Hope all goes well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 02 July, 2015, 09:08:13 pm
It has been done !.I am laying in a bed in ward 10  and trying to doze off  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 03 July, 2015, 09:21:32 am
Now on a catheter in  :'( and I nearly fainted on a bowel o clock trip   ??? . bah ! .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 03 July, 2015, 09:21:17 pm
GWS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 03 July, 2015, 10:47:50 pm
The cathier is in for the week :'( and I expect to not get out of the hospital till after the weekend now .  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 03 July, 2015, 10:50:07 pm
Quote from: cycleman on 01 July, 2015, 07:02:39 pm
Worrying about my hernia operation in the morning tomorrow. I am totally terrified  :-[  :'( . the last hernia operation I had was a keyhole one and I was able bodied .this time it is being done the old way and I could end up in retention ect . I have been told 6 weeks recovery .
Don't worry!

I've had one done each way, and whilst the keyhole one was easier, the conventional one was no problem, either.  Yes, there's a bigger zipped up bit in you, and you have to avoid straining those bits for a bit longer, but its really no major hassle.  Bellringing two weeks afterwards is not advised, for example... DAHIKT...

Yes, its six weeks of not straining yourself, but I was walking about, but gingerly for the first day or so. You'll be fine!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 03 July, 2015, 10:55:00 pm
Quote from: cycleman on 03 July, 2015, 10:47:50 pm
The cathier is in for the week :'( and I expect to not get out of the hospital till after the weekend now .  ::-)

Aw that's disappointing cm. All be over before too long,  and at least the op's over with now x
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 04 July, 2015, 12:37:48 pm
Installing 193 updates to win 7  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 04 July, 2015, 01:22:45 pm
Thanks wombat, this ward is like a oven today .I don't have widescreen tv just a nice view of the hospital roof's and a flock of seagulls  ::-) .they seem to be out of tune !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 04 July, 2015, 03:23:25 pm
Installing 113 important updates to Win 8.1, and this is after installing the previous 83 important ones....  I'm still slightly puzzled why they have offered me Win 10 on the laptop, but not this desktop PC.  they each have their own kosher versions of Win 8.1.

Aha, I've had a thought.  The bastards are possibly not offering it to owners of OEM versions of Win 8.1.  How kind of them...  but surely the laptop, which was bought ready installed, must also have an OEM version, I must check its number.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 04 July, 2015, 03:30:18 pm
Watching le Tour!  Obviously  ::-)   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 July, 2015, 05:50:07 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 04 July, 2015, 03:23:25 pm
Aha, I've had a thought.  The bastards are possibly not offering it to owners of OEM versions of Win 8.1.  How kind of them...  but surely the laptop, which was bought ready installed, must also have an OEM version, I must check its number.

My laptop came with 8 installed (I went up to 8.1 straight away) while the desktop has 8.1 installed by me from a kosher retail disk.  Both have been offered the upgrade to 10, as has Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.) on his Win 7 laptop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 04 July, 2015, 06:49:11 pm
Le tour ,who won? .no TV here
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 04 July, 2015, 06:59:21 pm
Quote from: cycleman on 04 July, 2015, 06:49:11 pm
Le tour ,who won? .no TV here

Ullrich won.

I am trying to fettle Crusty's India bike.  It came back to me, like a returning swallow.

The headset is finger-tight.  Do I have a spanner to fit it?  No, I do not.  How very surprising.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 04 July, 2015, 09:44:10 pm
Mole grip's maybe  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 July, 2015, 02:23:24 pm
Ironing, watching leTour.

I appear to have done something to  the roads over there.

I probably ought not to have had beans last night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 05 July, 2015, 02:37:41 pm
Sitting half-melted in front of a fan & watching the TdF from Dutchland, where there are blessed folk in rain jackets; while my legs slowly stiffen after my sterling efforts this morning. Trying to keep awake. Think I'll give up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 05 July, 2015, 04:39:17 pm
Thought I was watching the tour but have discovered I was asleep when the Mrs. knocked on the door . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 06 July, 2015, 08:54:23 pm
Wondering where my wedding ring is. I hope it's in the top drawer of my tool box as i removed it and my watch whilst dealing with a particularly filthy transmission job. Find out in the morning, hey ho . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 July, 2015, 03:30:43 pm
Gathering stuff for a weekend camping. I am going to see if I am still too big for the Zephyros 1. However, it will be a warm weekend with no rain forecast so I'm not anticipating any problems. There is a 24 hour Tesco within a couple of hundred yards of the camp site. I probably don't even need to take a tent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 09 July, 2015, 04:01:48 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 09 July, 2015, 03:30:43 pm
Gathering stuff for a weekend camping. I am going to see if I am still too big for the Zephyros 1. However, it will be a warm weekend with no rain forecast so I'm not anticipating any problems. There is a 24 hour Tesco within a couple of hundred yards of the camp site. I probably don't even need to take a tent.

Ooh, where you going?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 July, 2015, 04:52:16 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 09 July, 2015, 04:01:48 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 09 July, 2015, 03:30:43 pm
Gathering stuff for a weekend camping. I am going to see if I am still too big for the Zephyros 1. However, it will be a warm weekend with no rain forecast so I'm not anticipating any problems. There is a 24 hour Tesco within a couple of hundred yards of the camp site. I probably don't even need to take a tent.

Ooh, where you going?

Whitstable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 July, 2015, 05:48:13 pm
Wheelbuilding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 09 July, 2015, 06:01:51 pm
Oh, that Whitstable!   :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 July, 2015, 06:04:31 pm
Is there another Whitstable?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 09 July, 2015, 06:06:34 pm
Actually, no, but when you said 'wheelbuilding' I automatically thought 'oh it must be the skillshare weekend already!  Whitstable must be why I decided against it!'

but, actually, I had it wrong, as usual.

As you were.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 09 July, 2015, 06:23:55 pm
Sat in my tent listening to tms.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 09 July, 2015, 09:25:09 pm
Putting GPX tracks on my Etrex in preparation for this weekend's audax adventures.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 10 July, 2015, 08:05:28 am
Quote from: matthew on 09 July, 2015, 06:23:55 pm
Sat in my tent listening to tms.
It doesn't get much better than that!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 July, 2015, 08:59:09 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 09 July, 2015, 09:25:09 pm
Putting GPX tracks on my Etrex in preparation for this weekend's audax adventures.

As a result of this, I found some really old GPS tracklogs on there that I didn't know I still had, so I'm uploading them to Strava and reliving the memories of rides from several years ago (and marvelling at just how flat some of those rides around York were). Now I have proof of the epic slowness of my first ever 200k! :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 10 July, 2015, 08:59:51 am
Quote from: Vince on 10 July, 2015, 08:05:28 am
Quote from: matthew on 09 July, 2015, 06:23:55 pm
Sat in my tent listening to tms.
It doesn't get much better than that!

Oh, I don't know. Not listening to TMS would be an easy improvement.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 10 July, 2015, 09:35:22 pm
Enjoying my my first day back at home ☺
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 11 July, 2015, 06:44:31 am
Enjoying the first cup of coffee in a week, and that it's weekend  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 July, 2015, 07:04:53 am
Getting ready to go to Cardiff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 11 July, 2015, 07:58:51 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 10 July, 2015, 08:59:09 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 09 July, 2015, 09:25:09 pm
Putting GPX tracks on my Etrex in preparation for this weekend's audax adventures.

As a result of this, I found some really old GPS tracklogs on there that I didn't know I still had, so I'm uploading them to Strava and reliving the memories of rides from several years ago (and marvelling at just how flat some of those rides around York were). Now I have proof of the epic slowness of my first ever 200k! :D
Bet it didn't record the weather conditions though ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 11 July, 2015, 01:11:57 pm
Just finished one of the two documents I should have done on Friday, when I got distracted by tennis and TdF. On with the second. Hang on ... it is that time...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 11 July, 2015, 03:53:05 pm
Knitting (working on my polka dot jersey for the Ravelry TDF knitalong) and watching Le Tour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 11 July, 2015, 04:13:22 pm
Managed to finish the second before the last climb
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 July, 2015, 04:08:03 pm
Committing n-1
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 12 July, 2015, 04:38:18 pm
Surely it counts as n-1.5 cos it was a tandem... And a folding bike is only n=0.5 so....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 July, 2015, 05:17:31 pm
n-2/2, perhaps.

n-1.5 would be a trike, obviously.

Either way, it means the electricity meter is temporarily accessible, there more room for bikes, and I'll need an alternative strategy for drying tents in future.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2015, 05:20:14 pm
Quote from: Vince on 10 July, 2015, 08:05:28 am
Quote from: matthew on 09 July, 2015, 06:23:55 pm
Sat in my tent listening to tms.
It doesn't get much better than that!

Certainly beats sitting in a tent listening to PMS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 July, 2015, 08:37:05 pm
Being in absolute floods.   :-[

Pinkerton!  You are a complete and utter git shit!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 July, 2015, 04:12:08 am
Not sleeping.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 14 July, 2015, 07:22:15 am
Waiting for the usual headache to clear.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 14 July, 2015, 11:36:35 am
Sitting at home, doubled over with back pain having twanged it whilst lifting an empty fish tank at work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 15 July, 2015, 07:45:13 pm
Drinking my second ever pint of Copper Dragon. The first was in the same establishment last night. It's rather good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 July, 2015, 07:55:57 pm
Building a playlist.

Unfortunately it is for general consumption, so the addition of Rancid, Fear Factory etc etc is most definitely frowned upon :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 18 July, 2015, 10:06:46 pm
Inna wine bar......

The youngish doorman is rocking the Machman / Hitler Jugend look.

Black trousers, black shirt, black tie, colourful armband....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 19 July, 2015, 12:01:57 am
Someone somewhere once said they had style.

Fucking clueless but they had style........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 19 July, 2015, 09:21:47 am
Transferring some really old files from floppy disk to my laptop. I'm not sure I really *need* my 15-year-old A level coursework, but storage is cheap these days!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 July, 2015, 01:28:56 pm
Sat at work :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 19 July, 2015, 01:44:12 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 19 July, 2015, 01:28:56 pm
Sat at work :(

At work.  Sitting also but not for long.  :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 19 July, 2015, 01:51:23 pm
Bingeing on chocolate.  That should help.  Bloody need it.  Bloody consultants doing operations all bloody weekend.  Bloody anaesthetists doing regional blocks to optimise bloody pain relief. 

If bloody Jeremy Hunt was at work today he could've kept me in bloody coffee.  If he has enough skill for that. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 19 July, 2015, 02:38:57 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 19 July, 2015, 01:51:23 pm
Bingeing on chocolate.  That should help.  Bloody need it.  Bloody consultants doing operations all bloody weekend.  Bloody anaesthetists doing regional blocks to optimise bloody pain relief. 

If bloody Jeremy Hunt was at work today he could've kept me in bloody coffee.  If he has enough skill for that.

HOMEOPATHIC COFFEE.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 July, 2015, 09:19:25 pm
Winning the pub quiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 20 July, 2015, 09:42:42 am
Returning to work after a week of shagged back enforced not being at work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 July, 2015, 11:36:37 am
Re-arranging the office (at home) so we can get a single bed mattress in.

Next step is to move a load of stuff into boxes then up into the attic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 21 July, 2015, 09:55:38 pm
Being satisfied that I'm finished puking, and can go to bed without a bucket.

Bloody allergies  ::-).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 July, 2015, 08:31:53 am
Onna train, to That London for a long weekend shepherding an aged parental around the sights & bright lights.  Kenwood House today, out to Canterbury cathedral tomorrow followed by Richard II at the Globe.
Hampton Court on Sunday. 
Hopefully she won't be too slow & I won't be too impatient .....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 24 July, 2015, 01:06:51 pm
Delaying my shopping trip in the vane hope the rain will stop, but I'll have to give up on that soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 July, 2015, 03:08:51 pm
Killing time and brain cells at the Doric Arch, Euston with a pleasant brew called Slap In The Face.

Isn't it time the Virgin brand changed its name to Whore?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 July, 2015, 03:12:55 pm
Killing time and waiting for gin o'clock
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 July, 2015, 03:49:33 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 July, 2015, 03:08:51 pm
Killing time and brain cells at the Doric Arch, Euston with a pleasant brew called Slap In The Face.


Dammit Andrij! I walked past there about 30 minutes ago.   I could have introduced you to my mother & sister (why should I be the only one to suffer....)

Currently in an over warm travelsplodge, kneading my shoulder into shape after carrying 2 people's bags around.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 July, 2015, 05:11:50 pm
Drying out after going to collect my motor-car from the doctor's.  Those supposedly showerproof AUK jackets as as showerproof as a colander.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 July, 2015, 07:11:07 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 24 July, 2015, 05:11:50 pm
Drying out after going to collect my motor-car from the doctor's.  Those supposedly showerproof AUK jackets as as showerproof as a colander.

Dunno about where you are, but in fairness - this is rather more than a shower!

* points out of window *
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 July, 2015, 08:06:25 pm
It was, in fairness, raining pretty hard but my T-shaped shirt was soggier than a fortnight-old digestive before I'd finished locking the front door.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 24 July, 2015, 08:46:32 pm
Looking out the window, watching a river flow down the hill. I think I'm staying in, it's all a bit God-washing-the-sinners-off-the-earth out there, and as I'm bad as they come I'm not offering up any opportunities for divine cleansing. Summer, where forth art thou? You forsake me. Hard to believe a couple of days ago I was sitting outside a cafe in Lyon at an ambient 38 degrees Celsius. That's summer. This country is a big pickled weather turd. I'm wearing shorts goddamnit.

OK, plan b. Beer* and cheesy music. Katy Perry kissed a girl apparently. Well so did I. Big deal.

*my first attempt at homebrew, La-Lager, named after my cat because she mocked my attempts at sterility by leaping in the barrel, fortunately before the proto-beer went in (bad cat thread passim). If I go blind my wife will blame my perusal of the internet. Oh it's all hot chicks in cardigans and sensible shoes these days. You can't go blind from that.

Flo Rida indeed. It'd be fucking well warmer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 25 July, 2015, 08:56:34 pm
Trying to work out where I've hidden my 8mm Allen key
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 July, 2015, 10:55:40 am
Normally, I have two pairs of office trousers at work.  One for wearing, the other for being at the cleaners.
Last Thursday I took the current pair home to clean them.  But I forgot to bring in a new pair this morning.  A quick look in my cupboard revealed NO TROUSERS, so obviously I forgot to bring a new pair in last time as well.
I am currently sitting in ¾ Hummvees in a shirt and tie office.  I didn’t put the shirt and tie and office shoes on either as that would have looked ridiculous.  Luckily I had a plain coloured sweatshirt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 28 July, 2015, 11:03:17 am
Cabling up new dynamo wheel/IQ-Cyo/eWerk/battery pack/rear light. Tiresome.

Knocked off for lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 29 July, 2015, 05:31:00 pm
Looking at a webcam feed of a Japanese camp site, thinking 'My lad is asleep out there somewhere'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 29 July, 2015, 05:35:10 pm
Quote from: Vince on 29 July, 2015, 05:31:00 pm
Looking at a webcam feed of a Japanese camp site, thinking 'My lad is asleep out there somewhere'.
World Scout Jamboree?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 July, 2015, 05:47:14 pm
I wouldn't put it past the Japanese to have webcam feeds of their campsites, thobut.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 29 July, 2015, 07:43:08 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 29 July, 2015, 05:35:10 pm
Quote from: Vince on 29 July, 2015, 05:31:00 pm
Looking at a webcam feed of a Japanese camp site, thinking 'My lad is asleep out there somewhere'.
World Scout Jamboree?
Indeed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 30 July, 2015, 08:46:22 am
Lying on a sun lounger with a little umbrella on a beach in 36 degree heat. Ever so stressful I tell you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 30 July, 2015, 01:34:06 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 30 July, 2015, 08:46:22 am
Lying on a sun lounger with a little umbrella on a beach in 36 degree heat. Ever so stressful I tell you.

Is that a practical little umbrella or a garnish?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 30 July, 2015, 07:47:11 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 30 July, 2015, 08:46:22 am
Lying on a sun lounger with a little umbrella on a beach in 36 degree heat. Ever so stressful I tell you.

I don't know how you can bear it, you poor soul.

I'm trying to find my mojo to take the bike out for an hour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 July, 2015, 08:01:42 pm
Ruthie, you're looking in the wrong place.  Your mojo is just down the road.  You'll need to use your bike to get there.   :)

hth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 31 July, 2015, 05:51:39 pm
Packing away after cleaning the car as it looks like a flock of seagulls have been using it for target practice today. Well at least it is clean for once.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 03 August, 2015, 09:56:44 pm
Filing. Also changed energy suppliers which brings the Direct Debit down by £16/month

All go here tonight!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 03 August, 2015, 10:00:01 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 03 August, 2015, 09:56:44 pm
Filing. Also changed energy suppliers which brings the Direct Debit down by £16/month

All go here tonight!

That's a brilliant saving!  I love the feeling you get when the filing and paperwork mountain is conquered.  It tends to happen when I can't get the cupboard door shut on it any more.  And saving money on utilities = wallowing in  :smug:

Love it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 03 August, 2015, 10:04:01 pm
I think it shows that I should have done this a few months ago rather than putting it off. The paperwork seems to be coming out of every available draw and cupboard box. I think My shredder is going to get a good workout tomorrow :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 August, 2015, 05:45:42 am
I bought a shredder more than a year ago with the intention of tackling the paper mountain that takes up about three large crates in the kitchen.

It lies, unused, in its box.  One of the crates it was purchased to tackle sits on top of it :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 04 August, 2015, 08:14:12 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 03 August, 2015, 10:00:01 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 03 August, 2015, 09:56:44 pm
Filing. Also changed energy suppliers which brings the Direct Debit down by £16/month

All go here tonight!

That's a brilliant saving!  I love the feeling you get when the filing and paperwork mountain is conquered.  It tends to happen when I can't get the cupboard door shut on it any more.  And saving money on utilities = wallowing in  :smug:

Love it.

And there was me imagining mcshroom hunched over a bench vice with a fine flat file fettling a cycle component to size.  Oh, THAT sort of filing...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 August, 2015, 12:43:30 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 04 August, 2015, 08:14:12 am
And there was me imagining mcshroom hunched over a bench vice with a fine flat file fettling a cycle component to size.  Oh, THAT sort of filing...

They're about equally tedious, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 16 August, 2015, 10:18:23 pm
Winning the pub quiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 17 August, 2015, 09:20:11 am
Working in the canteen because I don't want to go into the office.  The canteen is easier to work in and less stressful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 August, 2015, 09:56:57 am
Quote from: lou boutin on 17 August, 2015, 09:20:11 am
Working in the canteen because I don't want to go into the office.  The canteen is easier to work in and less stressful.

What have they got you doing?  Clearing tables?  Peeling spuds?  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 17 August, 2015, 01:32:15 pm
Quote from: Basil on 17 August, 2015, 09:56:57 am
Quote from: lou boutin on 17 August, 2015, 09:20:11 am
Working in the canteen because I don't want to go into the office.  The canteen is easier to work in and less stressful.

What have they got you doing?  Clearing tables?  Peeling spuds?  ;)

Nearly, but as its quiet today I'm sat in the corner with my laptop writing training sessions and just about to start work on some papers now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 17 August, 2015, 02:14:38 pm
Sitting at Carlisle station in the sun waiting for my final train home from Inverness. Looks like I finish with a Class 37 and a guards van :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 28 August, 2015, 08:26:32 am
Having a day off.

About to depart for trains to Oakham and then ride back to Rugby iva Tugby where there is apparently a cyclists cafe.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 September, 2015, 07:38:59 pm
Sipping BEER outside the Euston Tap.
My Eurostar was 20 minutes late due to people on the line near Calais, but I've still got 30 mins before my train back to Liverpool.   I may have to have another pint  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 September, 2015, 07:59:11 pm
Sitting down after finishing staining my garden fence, and trying to write a menu for the week before I go shopping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 01 September, 2015, 08:43:58 pm
Drinking coffee and eating nice chocolate - together!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: redshift on 01 September, 2015, 09:18:43 pm
Sitting in the bar at Plas Menai people-watching.  The people are mostly young and getting drunk.  Even when I was that young, I'm not sure I was that young, if you see what I mean?   Very shortly I shall be sidling off and leaving them to it like the lightweight I am...  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 September, 2015, 05:20:16 am
Having just got back from cycling 80km I'm debating whether to sleep or cook breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 September, 2015, 03:43:32 pm
Listening to stereo air ambulances land next to my head. The band is going to have to play louder. Though I think the tweety cockatoo is winning. Ah park life.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 05 September, 2015, 04:14:29 pm
not a lot
in the pause between mowing the lawns and getting ready for tonight's gig...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 September, 2015, 05:39:51 pm
Me too. I'm in the pause between mowing the lawn and, well, continuing to mow the lawn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 September, 2015, 07:29:19 pm
Feeling that special combination of smug and knackered after completing a job PROFESSIONALS wouldn't do, viz. replacing a sink in a granite worktop, involving substantial adjustment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 September, 2015, 08:26:48 pm
It's not a cockatoo apparently. It was a parakeet. I've never going to go undercover in the RSPB.

And it shat on me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 06 September, 2015, 06:48:18 pm
I'm scoffing rescue pastille a but they are not rescuing me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 06 September, 2015, 07:35:23 pm
Enjoying the aroma of supper which is nearly ready to nom.

Spicy pork meatballs in mushroom sauce if you're interested.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 06 September, 2015, 11:43:13 pm
Been playing games with the boys. last night was Munchkin. Tonight was Epic Spell Wars II. Good fun - not a pure game of chance but enough randomness to make it fun for all, and enough skill to make it feel that you were in control.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 September, 2015, 08:41:14 am
Realising that it is two months since I visited this thread. I must have better things to do that read about other people doing stuff!  :D

I am preparing to go for a bike ride. The weather is sufficiently good that I am wearing sandals - I think for the first time this year. The forecast is sufficiently good that I am wearing only shorts and top and I am not taking a warm jacket or a waterproof.

How is that for overconfidence?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 10 September, 2015, 11:27:49 am
I'm trying to decide whether it's worth drugging myself up with pain killers to mow the lawn, baring in mind driving was painful yesterday I'm opting for 'probably not a good idea'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 September, 2015, 11:38:12 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 10 September, 2015, 08:41:14 am
Realising that it is two months since I visited this thread. I must have better things to do that read about other people doing stuff!  :D

I am preparing to go for a bike ride. The weather is sufficiently good that I am wearing sandals - I think for the first time this year. The forecast is sufficiently good that I am wearing only shorts and top and I am not taking a warm jacket or a waterproof.

How is that for overconfidence?

 :facepalm:
*Brings washing in*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 September, 2015, 02:57:30 pm
(Looks out of window)

Being astonished.  For the first time since Sunday there is blue sky out there!  However:

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5774/21287023265_2204e7a8b9_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/yr4yov)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 11 September, 2015, 08:51:04 am
Prepping the bikes for a spin up the road to Belper to watch the sprint on the TOB today.

And a pub lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 11 September, 2015, 09:33:00 am
My grandma was from Belper. She's now dead but I don't think that's the fault of being from Belper. Belper was always funny as a child because belping in the local dialect was synonymous with burping.

When we ran out of fifty pences for the TV we had to make our own entertainment. This was about as good as it got.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 12 September, 2015, 03:05:01 pm
I suppose belping might be a result of burping and belching at the same time?

What I have seen of Belper I quite like.

We had a really brilliant day. Lovely ride there, delicious lunch here (http://www.nourishatno44.co.uk/index.html)(I had a Hangover Benedict, without the hangover: poached eggs on bacon on black pudding on toasted bun, smothered in hollandaise sauce. Delicious). Then we mooched around the market (bought: a jar of lime tree and broad bean blossom honey (http://www.littlefriendshoney.co.uk/#!what-we-sell/cqeh) and an 8s chain), followed by a pint sitting outside the Black Swan on the market square. Then we just had time to watch the first dozen or so riders coming through before we had to come back and get the boys from school.

And now I'm about to go and get the ingredients for lunch tomorrow (pan con tomate with tortilla, followed by a big beef and prune tagine).

I'm having an ace long weekend. Hope you all are too.

 :)

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 12 September, 2015, 04:15:01 pm
Mulling over whether or not to go to event organized by local club tomorrow. We're due storms this evening, heavy rain overnight & showers tomorrow so the roads will be pigging, the bike's clean and the entire circuit is on roads I use for training. Meh. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 September, 2015, 03:18:14 pm
I've just annoyed a queue  of people at Lime St station by collecting tickets for 4 individual journeys from the automatic ticket thingy.
It took a while & ive got lots of orange cardboard.

That's Long Itch & Dufton sorted
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 September, 2015, 03:45:19 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 13 September, 2015, 03:18:14 pm
I've just annoyed a queue  of people at Lime St station by collecting tickets for 4 individual journeys from the automatic ticket thingy.
It took a while & ive got lots of orange cardboard.

That's Long Itch & Dufton sorted

That's fine.  Just don't do it at 8 am on a Monday morning. 
I often have to collect tickets that I've ordered at (for) work.1. I tend to pop by the local station at night on the way home from the pub.  No hassle.
I don't often commute by train, but if I do, there is always some git starting again for the third time in their attempt to retrieve pre booked tickets with a queue of fuming commuters building behind as the next train pulls in and then out again.

1 Nuneaton this week.  Deep joy.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 September, 2015, 05:23:25 pm
Watching a bunch of Italian PSOs polishing an already impossibly shiny bicycle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 September, 2015, 06:31:10 pm
Drinking bourbon and listening to the first game of the football season.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 September, 2015, 09:04:34 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 13 September, 2015, 06:31:10 pm
Drinking bourbon and listening to the first game of the football season.

Ugh.  This game called for much more bourbon than I currently possess.  At least my team plays consistently.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 September, 2015, 03:58:00 pm
Quote from: Basil on 13 September, 2015, 03:45:19 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 13 September, 2015, 03:18:14 pm
I've just annoyed a queue  of people at Lime St station by collecting tickets for 4 individual journeys from the automatic ticket thingy.
It took a while & ive got lots of orange cardboard.

That's Long Itch & Dufton sorted

That's fine.  Just don't do it at 8 am on a Monday morning. 
I often have to collect tickets that I've ordered at (for) work.1. I tend to pop by the local station at night on the way home from the pub.  No hassle.
I don't often commute by train, but if I do, there is always some git starting again for the third time in their attempt to retrieve pre booked tickets with a queue of fuming commuters building behind as the next train pulls in and then out again.

1 Nuneaton this week.  Deep joy.  >:(

On the odd occasion I have to collect tickets, I try to do it at Mordor Central, where the ticket machines are operated by Virgin Trains, and are capable of dispensing large quantities of orange cardboard in a reasonable time.  The London Midland operated ticket machines at the local stations are run by babbage-engines full of jam, with all the printing reliability you'd expect from a budget Epson inkjet.  While chatting about bikes while it prints with the ticket office guy at Silly Oak is fine on a quiet afternoon, simply turning up at a non-commuter time doesn't stop a dozen students appearing out of nowhere with an urgent need to get to Mordor International as soon as you finish entering your collection code on the one working ticket machine.

Mostly I try to order tickets far enough in advance that they'll post them free of charge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 17 September, 2015, 07:12:43 pm
Shopping for a cheap energy tariff.

Sigh.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 September, 2015, 07:35:02 pm
Trying to kill the sniffles with doses of Vitamin C.  There may also be some Vitamin V involved. :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 September, 2015, 07:41:54 pm
Listening to the timer on the cooker ticking away for my roasted vegetables.    And wondering why said vegetables were partially frozen .... hopefully I've just knocked the thermostat to the wrong setting  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oaky on 25 September, 2015, 12:10:32 pm
R U R' U' R' F R F'

Repeatedly.

I don't think mrs_o is amused.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 25 September, 2015, 01:23:17 pm
Eating a school dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 03:09:27 pm
Considering nicking my own car for the evening*.





*I gave it to the garage this morning so they can service it while I'm on holiday, but it'll just be parked out the front and I have a spare key :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 04:12:04 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 03:09:27 pm
Considering nicking my own car for the evening*.





*I gave it to the garage this morning so they can service it while I'm on holiday, but it'll just be parked out the front and I have a spare key :)

You haven't got time to prank.  Go and pack something at once  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 04:13:41 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 04:12:04 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 03:09:27 pm
Considering nicking my own car for the evening*.





*I gave it to the garage this morning so they can service it while I'm on holiday, but it'll just be parked out the front and I have a spare key :)

You haven't got time to prank.  Go and pack something at once  :P
I have to finish work first :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 04:16:10 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 04:13:41 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 04:12:04 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 03:09:27 pm
Considering nicking my own car for the evening*.





*I gave it to the garage this morning so they can service it while I'm on holiday, but it'll just be parked out the front and I have a spare key :)

You haven't got time to prank.  Go and pack something at once  :P
I have to finish work first :(

Oh, bless.

I finished work last night.  Today has been spent doing preparation for going away.  I am now horribly injured.  I shall tell you all tomorrow. 

I'd have been safer at work.

It was all weirdly hilariously weird though  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 September, 2015, 04:49:07 pm
Pondering how to kill a Several of hours between leaving here and returning the motor-car to its owners of record at 4 pm.  Cracking jokes at the expense of the US Border people is probably a non-starter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 07:06:25 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 04:16:10 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 04:13:41 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 04:12:04 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 03:09:27 pm
Considering nicking my own car for the evening*.





*I gave it to the garage this morning so they can service it while I'm on holiday, but it'll just be parked out the front and I have a spare key :)

You haven't got time to prank.  Go and pack something at once  :P
I have to finish work first :(

Oh, bless.

I finished work last night.  Today has been spent doing preparation for going away.  I am now horribly injured.  I shall tell you all tomorrow. 

I'd have been safer at work.

It was all weirdly hilariously weird though  ;)

Let's set the alarm and watch the Harvest Lunar Eclipse on Sunday morning?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 25 September, 2015, 07:37:51 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 17 September, 2015, 07:12:43 pm
Shopping for a cheap energy tariff.

Sigh.

Ruthie, you can save more by using less!  I know its stating the obvious, but a lot of people don't realise where they are wasting it.  Its my job to help folk use less energy, so I'm moderately experienced at it (somewhere I've even got a certificate wot says I'm officially qualified in energy advice, although I have no idea where it is...).

By all means get the best tariff for you, but you can probably make more difference by modifying what you use.  can be difficult in a rented all electric place with a rubbish landlord, mind you, but even landlords tend to cave in when environmental health give them a notice to say their property has a critical hazard of excess cold.  A wonderfully complex thing is the Housing Health and Safety Rating System, I'm qualified in that too, but I haven't done an assessment for years.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 08:24:13 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 07:06:25 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 04:16:10 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 04:13:41 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 04:12:04 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 03:09:27 pm
Considering nicking my own car for the evening*.


*I gave it to the garage this morning so they can service it while I'm on holiday, but it'll just be parked out the front and I have a spare key :)

You haven't got time to prank.  Go and pack something at once  :P
I have to finish work first :(

Oh, bless.

I finished work last night.  Today has been spent doing preparation for going away.  I am now horribly injured.  I shall tell you all tomorrow. 

I'd have been safer at work.

It was all weirdly hilariously weird though  ;)

Let's set the alarm and watch the Harvest Lunar Eclipse on Sunday morning?
This one? - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-supermoon-2015-what-time-and-how-to-see-the-moons-most-spectacular-night-in-30-years-10517019.html
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 09:20:48 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 08:24:13 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 07:06:25 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 04:16:10 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 04:13:41 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 04:12:04 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 25 September, 2015, 03:09:27 pm
Considering nicking my own car for the evening*.


*I gave it to the garage this morning so they can service it while I'm on holiday, but it'll just be parked out the front and I have a spare key :)

You haven't got time to prank.  Go and pack something at once  :P
I have to finish work first :(

Oh, bless.

I finished work last night.  Today has been spent doing preparation for going away.  I am now horribly injured.  I shall tell you all tomorrow. 

I'd have been safer at work.

It was all weirdly hilariously weird though  ;)

Let's set the alarm and watch the Harvest Lunar Eclipse on Sunday morning?
This one? - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-supermoon-2015-what-time-and-how-to-see-the-moons-most-spectacular-night-in-30-years-10517019.html

Yes!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 September, 2015, 09:45:03 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 25 September, 2015, 07:37:51 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 17 September, 2015, 07:12:43 pm
Shopping for a cheap energy tariff.

Sigh.

Ruthie, you can save more by using less!  I know its stating the obvious, but a lot of people don't realise where they are wasting it.  Its my job to help folk use less energy, so I'm moderately experienced at it (somewhere I've even got a certificate wot says I'm officially qualified in energy advice, although I have no idea where it is...).

By all means get the best tariff for you, but you can probably make more difference by modifying what you use.  can be difficult in a rented all electric place with a rubbish landlord, mind you, but even landlords tend to cave in when environmental health give them a notice to say their property has a critical hazard of excess cold.  A wonderfully complex thing is the Housing Health and Safety Rating System, I'm qualified in that too, but I haven't done an assessment for years.

Wombat  that's so kind  :)

I'm afraid my landlord has now bullied me to the point that I daren't report anything at all barring the house actually falling down,  and maybe not even then  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 September, 2015, 04:42:18 pm
Yawning

(Yawns)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 28 September, 2015, 08:42:18 pm
Just watched the most enormous Moon rise above the sea/headland whilst drinking hot chocolate,  with that Mcshroom,  and now lying in my tent listening to the waves break on the beach.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 28 September, 2015, 08:57:46 pm
Well I'm not jealous at all ... 

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 28 September, 2015, 09:11:50 pm
I'm doing similar,  though in my tent rather tha n Ruthie's

Also looking up food stops for tomorrow's ride to Scourie :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 September, 2015, 08:32:54 pm
Watching Bake Off. The tension!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 September, 2015, 08:34:40 pm
Watching the internet watch bake off.  The boredom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 September, 2015, 08:44:45 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 September, 2015, 08:32:54 pm
Watching Bake Off. The tension!

Ah.  That's why Mrs. B seemed more interested in getting off the phone than having a chat.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 30 September, 2015, 09:02:08 pm
Lying in my tent listening to the waves on the shore at Achmelvich Beach.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 September, 2015, 09:04:53 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 30 September, 2015, 09:02:08 pm
Lying in my tent listening to the waves on the shore at Achmelvich Beach.  :)

Git!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 September, 2015, 09:06:53 pm
Sorry, I meant "enjoy"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 September, 2015, 09:16:39 pm
Quote from: Basil on 30 September, 2015, 08:44:45 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 September, 2015, 08:32:54 pm
Watching Bake Off. The tension!

Ah.  That's why Mrs. B seemed more interested in getting off the phone than having a chat.   ::-)
There was soufflé!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 30 September, 2015, 10:28:41 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 September, 2015, 08:32:54 pm
Watching Bake Off. The tension!

I was supposed to watch that. For the first time. But I forgot. Oh well. Friend was on it. Actually, that might have been the weekend. It might have been a different programme. I'm not very good at this.

He does bake a jolly nice cake for a skinny bloke.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 October, 2015, 02:53:57 am
Wondering why, when TFM says "8-10 minutes" to stop blinken, the blinkenlight on the new NAS has been doing so for about half an hour :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 01 October, 2015, 07:41:11 am
Waiting for the Inlaw Paw's ding-dong to sound for me to go through and haul him out of bed.  Poor bloke used to be a gymnast of the pommel-horse and rings variety and now he can't get up on his own any more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 01 October, 2015, 05:26:15 pm
Drinking coffee on board the Stornoway ferry
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 October, 2015, 05:32:05 pm
Putting my phone on divert to my manager.  Setting my Out Of Orifice.
See ya Tuesday, suckers.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 October, 2015, 08:21:37 pm
Hurting!

A mad 20 minutes on the turbo whilst everyone else is out. Intervals based on wattage, maxed out at 310 for a minute. Not pro level but good enough, for now.

Ouch!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 01 October, 2015, 10:59:35 pm
Sitting in $school car park awaiting the return of the eldest from his theatre trip. It's 22:57, they were supposed to be back by 22:00

FFS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 01 October, 2015, 11:15:50 pm
Fighting with the garmin. Its maps are still French. Or they were.
And I have a compulsory kit list for the weekend, to whit:
Quote
It is mandatory that you bring the following kit:

•   Enough fluid for 15 miles of riding (at least one large bottle)
•   Pump
•   Spare inner tubes (even if you run tubeless)
•   Basic toolkit
•   Space blanket or bivvy back (orange plastic ones are fine)
•   Emergency whistle
•   Windproof and waterproof jacket/gillet
•   Spare food
•   Mobile phone
•   Spare money for Barrowburn cafe!  Those cakes can be awfully tempting.
•   OS Map OL16 “The Cheviot Hills” 1:25,000
Garmins are apparently an acceptable substitute for the last item.
I also have packed Teh Fear but it seems that's optional.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 October, 2015, 12:10:25 am
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 October, 2015, 12:15:20 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 01 October, 2015, 10:59:35 pm
Sitting in $school car park awaiting the return of the eldest from his theatre trip. It's 22:57, they were supposed to be back by 22:00

FFS.

No point in going on a theatre trip if there isn't a little extracurricular debauchery, though, is there?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 October, 2015, 10:00:02 am
Sitting in the car in $industrial estate waiting for the tip to open so I can dump my mouldy plasterboard and hence drive to visit aged parent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 02 October, 2015, 10:48:27 pm
Quote from: fboab on 01 October, 2015, 11:15:50 pm
Fighting with the garmin. Its maps are still French. Or they were.
And I have a compulsory kit list for the weekend, to whit:
Quote
It is mandatory that you bring the following kit:

•   Enough fluid for 15 miles of riding (at least one large bottle)
•   Pump
•   Spare inner tubes (even if you run tubeless)
•   Basic toolkit
•   Space blanket or bivvy back (orange plastic ones are fine)
•   Emergency whistle
•   Windproof and waterproof jacket/gillet
•   Spare food
•   Mobile phone
•   Spare money for Barrowburn cafe!  Those cakes can be awfully tempting.
•   OS Map OL16 “The Cheviot Hills” 1:25,000
Garmins are apparently an acceptable substitute for the last item.
I also have packed Teh Fear but it seems that's optional.

What's that for then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 October, 2015, 07:35:44 am

(Eyes thirty-three year old miniature of Hennessey with something approaching Lust)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 October, 2015, 07:38:10 am
Careful, old thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 October, 2015, 07:44:40 am
It's on a high shelf.  I'd need to stand on a chair to reach it and would fall off and crack my skull on the coffee table long before getting my grubby little paw around its small but perfectly formed neck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 03 October, 2015, 11:33:25 pm
Sitting and shivering with a worsening throat, wondering if I'll be able to go for a bike ride in the morning. Don't think it's Long Itch Lurgy (this time last week I was pissed in a field nicely relaxed) unless it's been incubating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 October, 2015, 07:45:00 am
Hurting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 04 October, 2015, 08:40:38 pm
Waiting for the sleaford mods.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 04 October, 2015, 08:50:57 pm
It's a freak show here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 October, 2015, 02:38:52 pm
Pondering if I can turn the heating on. The thermometer indicates 16.9 degrees Celsius which would be fine if it were a summer day on Neptune. I've buried myself in clothes but my paws are cold.

What is the verdict, dear internet? Freeze or nudge the thermostat up to Bermuda Shorts?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 October, 2015, 02:48:34 pm
I'd say that's a yes (16C is the point where I get lingering asthma, so I'm biased).  Cold hands and feet are normal during winter.  Adding clothing just makes the rest of your body sweaty.  I use the HTFU principle, combined with spending a lot of time sitting on alternate hands.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 October, 2015, 04:48:03 pm
I was trying to hold out till the last week in October (well, I'm planning to scarper all next week to nice warm hotel room in that well known tropical hotspot, Germany, so I only had to hold for a few more days).

I have failed and opted to turn on the portable radiator in my office. My toes were going numb and threatening independence.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 October, 2015, 06:20:19 pm
According to my cheap Chinese gift from the damp surveyor I have 17.1 °C and 70%RH. I imagine I will be putting the heating on sometime this week....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 October, 2015, 06:37:40 pm
Working.

Just like have been since 09:00, and don't think I'll be finished before 22:00 :(

At least this role is an hourly paid one...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 05 October, 2015, 07:51:34 pm
Drinking coffee in front of a wood fire :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 October, 2015, 08:30:32 pm
In our office at work we had 30 degrees and 20% RH last week. Yes, I've been moaning, along with most of the building's inhabitants, as staff are getting ill as a result.

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 05 October, 2015, 06:20:19 pm
According to my cheap Chinese gift from the damp surveyor I have 17.1 °C and 70%RH. I imagine I will be putting the heating on sometime this week....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 October, 2015, 08:45:57 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 05 October, 2015, 08:30:32 pm
In our office at work we had 30 degrees and 20% RH last week. Yes, I've been moaning, along with most of the building's inhabitants, as staff are getting ill as a result.

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 05 October, 2015, 06:20:19 pm
According to my cheap Chinese gift from the damp surveyor I have 17.1 °C and 70%RH. I imagine I will be putting the heating on sometime this week....

If we had an average we could all be quite comfortable....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 05 October, 2015, 09:06:38 pm
Good luck sorting it out! I keep avoiding the damp patches on our living room walls. Luckily it's in a corner I rarely have need to look at...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 October, 2015, 09:10:15 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 05 October, 2015, 06:37:40 pm
Working.

Just like have been since 09:00, and don't think I'll be finished before 22:00 :(

At least this role is an hourly paid one...

Still here, due to one disk filling up, so the backup had to be started again, but on a different disc.

The file transfer is painfully slow, too :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 08 October, 2015, 12:49:36 am
Watching barakta argue with people who use terms like "social justice warrior" unironically.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 October, 2015, 12:56:12 am
Quote from: Kim on 08 October, 2015, 12:49:36 am
Watching barakta argue with people who use terms like "social justice warrior" unironically.

Name & shame.  In the "Super-Twat" thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 08 October, 2015, 11:23:53 am
Sat waiting to see whether I have pulmonary embolisms. FML.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 October, 2015, 12:46:10 pm
Quote from: Lady Cavendish on 08 October, 2015, 11:23:53 am
Sat waiting to see whether I have pulmonary embolisms. FML.
I hope you're waiting in a medical facility rather than at home surfing YACF.

Oh, and I hope you're ok.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 08 October, 2015, 01:06:51 pm
Yes. One with morphine on tap  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 10 October, 2015, 02:39:21 pm
I'm sitting thinking if I had only known, I would have invited Andrij under some entirely spurious excuse so that I  could ply him with alcohol and could communicate  (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=45576.msg1930546#msg1930546) with a ... surprise visitor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 10 October, 2015, 05:17:40 pm
Drinking coffee with Ruthie in Fort William :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 10 October, 2015, 06:39:36 pm
Trying to find a charger for a sony a200 dslr to see if it actually works....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 October, 2015, 06:53:15 pm
Quote from: Ham on 10 October, 2015, 02:39:21 pm
I'm sitting thinking if I had only known, I would have invited Andrij under some entirely spurious excuse so that I  could ply him with alcohol and could communicate  (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=45576.msg1930546#msg1930546) with a ... surprise visitor.

Don't ponder too much, I was unavailable 14:00-18:00.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 11 October, 2015, 12:18:07 am
Contemplating a large malt to dull the throbbing, having earlier sliced a mm layer off left index fingertip, while chopping kindling :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 October, 2015, 07:09:33 am
^^^Ouch. Have two, one last night and one this morning.

As for me, I'm savouring the aftertaste of my coffee and wishing it had been longer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 11 October, 2015, 09:52:04 am
'Spoons breakfast in Fort William with mcshroom
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 11 October, 2015, 04:39:19 pm
Watching paint dry


Before I put on the second coat
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 11 October, 2015, 04:48:10 pm
Listening to the rugby on the radio and recovering from a busy morning:

Only musician at church so had to accompany the hymns alone.
No vicar so I had to lead the singing of the gloria
I had the task of giving the 'sermon', more of an extended children's talk.
Plus my normal of arriving to put out the chairs and help set up before the service.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 October, 2015, 04:51:28 pm
A bit of 'hack n slash' damage limitation in the Brum garden.  My heart's not really in it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 October, 2015, 05:12:22 pm
Waiting for photographs to upload to flickr.  This may will take a while...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 October, 2015, 05:53:54 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 11 October, 2015, 05:12:22 pm
Waiting for photographs to upload to flickr.  This may will take a while...

{pours 2nd drink}
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 11 October, 2015, 11:42:13 pm
Quote from: Basil on 11 October, 2015, 04:51:28 pm
A bit of 'hack n slash' damage limitation in the Brum garden.  My heart's not really in it.

Call in an air strike. It's the only way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 October, 2015, 12:32:30 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 11 October, 2015, 11:42:13 pm
Quote from: Basil on 11 October, 2015, 04:51:28 pm
A bit of 'hack n slash' damage limitation in the Brum garden.  My heart's not really in it.

Call in an air strike. It's the only way.

Agent Orange ftw.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 12 October, 2015, 05:24:52 am
What depth of Ready Mix do you need to prevent re-growth?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 12 October, 2015, 03:32:32 pm
Contemplates the joys associated with picking a new image hosting site, uploading everything again and editing the links in the relevant posts on YACF.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 12 October, 2015, 03:37:38 pm
Quote from: Vince on 12 October, 2015, 05:24:52 am
What depth of Ready Mix do you need to prevent re-growth?

I read that as

Quote from: Vince on 12 October, 2015, 05:24:52 am
What depth of Ready Brek do you need to prevent re-growth?

Not that much I reckon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 12 October, 2015, 03:39:54 pm
Wrangling Windows software, in particular Dynamics CRM 2011, whislt suffering with what feels like bad manflu.

I could, really, do without this today :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 October, 2015, 03:12:41 pm
Tax return.

It was either that or cleaning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 October, 2015, 03:42:32 pm
Wondering why Bigasoft Total Video Converter is so slow at converting video totally to, er, other video ???

One day someone will invent a video conversion program which is fast, comprehensible, converts anything into anything else and doesn't quadruple the file size while it's doing it..

ETA: it just went "bong", so it must have finished.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 October, 2015, 03:48:27 pm
Trying to fix someone else's fuck up....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 13 October, 2015, 07:56:12 pm
That would be work then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 13 October, 2015, 07:59:47 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 13 October, 2015, 07:56:12 pm
That would be work then?

Oh yes.

Gave Scrum Master access to our Puppet server.

Puppet stops working.

SM denies logging in.

Files have gone missing, causing problems.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 13 October, 2015, 10:25:40 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 13 October, 2015, 03:42:32 pm
Wondering why Bigasoft Total Video Converter is so slow at converting video totally to, er, other video ???

One day someone will invent a video conversion program which is fast, comprehensible, converts anything into anything else and doesn't quadruple the file size while it's doing it..

ETA: it just went "bong", so it must have finished.

Video transcoding, especially in software, is one of the few remaining things that involves enough math to cause a umpteen core processor to work up a sweat. Don't knock it, one of my first jobs was animating DNA transcription and translation, which mostly involved a couple of hours of dibbling and pressing render and going home for the night. The next day it would have finished rendering and I'd realise that I'd dibbled where I should have dabbled. A mistake took about eight hours to re-render. The atmosphere of the office curdled with language most foetid.

By and large, a lot of stuff doesn't need transcoding these days, it's already h.264. Of course, if you're lovingly curating an archive of 1970's porn, don't let me stop you. Hobbies, we all need them.

I'm doing a last minute presentational. This is the dirty coal face of thought leadership. I'm going to need to work on that metaphor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 October, 2015, 08:17:14 am
Plex Media Server on my NAS of Little Brane doesn't speak things like .avi, .divx, .wmv, .mov ect. ect. so you have to transcode them; likewise the anbaric distascope in the Grand Bedchamber wants .mpg and nothing else will do.  I do not understand what any of these extensions mean, BTW, except that the .mov files came off my mate John's ancient digital camera in video mode

In the red corner an AMD A8 at 3.4GHz running Handbrake, in the blue corner an Intel Core i7-4790K at 4.5 GHz running Bigasoft.  It looks like the former is quicker...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 14 October, 2015, 05:42:31 pm
Wondering if I can stretch my cycling budget to include a La Pavoni espresso machine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 14 October, 2015, 08:12:00 pm
Enquiring if British Gas will upgrade my roof insulation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 14 October, 2015, 08:22:08 pm
Scouring my photo archive for pics of bridges I might not have posted yet
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Morat on 14 October, 2015, 09:44:49 pm
Sitting on the sofa pretending to watch the apprentice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 14 October, 2015, 11:45:14 pm
Toying with an idea of a cycle tour next year.  Looking at a very rough route I see I could pass through both Grimbergen and Chimay.   :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 15 October, 2015, 07:00:22 pm
Making sunflower and pumpkin seed bread.  It's on its second rise at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 October, 2015, 07:56:23 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 14 October, 2015, 11:45:14 pm
Toying with an idea of a cycle tour next year.  Looking at a very rough route I see I could pass through both Grimbergen and Chimay.   :demon:

Ooh, look - Rochefort is not too far from one of my planned stops.  Perhaps I should just make it a Belgian Beer Tour...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 16 October, 2015, 08:39:38 am
Quote from: Andrij on 15 October, 2015, 07:56:23 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 14 October, 2015, 11:45:14 pm
Toying with an idea of a cycle tour next year.  Looking at a very rough route I see I could pass through both Grimbergen and Chimay.   :demon:

Ooh, look - Rochefort is not too far from one of my planned stops.  Perhaps I should just make it a Belgian Beer Tour...

I thought that was the plan from the off?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 16 October, 2015, 09:30:45 am
I'm just about to start further work in a Principle Fellowship application.  I hate doing these things.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 October, 2015, 10:33:55 am
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 16 October, 2015, 08:39:38 am
Quote from: Andrij on 15 October, 2015, 07:56:23 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 14 October, 2015, 11:45:14 pm
Toying with an idea of a cycle tour next year.  Looking at a very rough route I see I could pass through both Grimbergen and Chimay.   :demon:

Ooh, look - Rochefort is not too far from one of my planned stops.  Perhaps I should just make it a Belgian Beer Tour...

I thought that was the plan from the off?

This may come as a surprise to some, but it actually wasn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 16 October, 2015, 11:42:35 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 October, 2015, 08:17:14 am
Plex Media Server on my NAS of Little Brane doesn't speak things like .avi, .divx, .wmv, .mov ect. ect. so you have to transcode them; likewise the anbaric distascope in the Grand Bedchamber wants .mpg and nothing else will do.  I do not understand what any of these extensions mean, BTW, except that the .mov files came off my mate John's ancient digital camera in video mode

In the red corner an AMD A8 at 3.4GHz running Handbrake, in the blue corner an Intel Core i7-4790K at 4.5 GHz running Bigasoft.  It looks like the former is quicker...

Actually, I don't think you do. Go to the library settings, advanced, and change from "Movie scanner" to "Video file scanner" or some such and it will find the little buggers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 October, 2015, 01:18:57 pm
Quote from: Ham on 16 October, 2015, 11:42:35 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 October, 2015, 08:17:14 am
Plex Media Server on my NAS of Little Brane doesn't speak things like .avi, .divx, .wmv, .mov ect. ect. so you have to transcode them; likewise the anbaric distascope in the Grand Bedchamber wants .mpg and nothing else will do.  I do not understand what any of these extensions mean, BTW, except that the .mov files came off my mate John's ancient digital camera in video mode

In the red corner an AMD A8 at 3.4GHz running Handbrake, in the blue corner an Intel Core i7-4790K at 4.5 GHz running Bigasoft.  It looks like the former is quicker...

Actually, I don't think you do. Go to the library settings, advanced, and change from "Movie scanner" to "Video file scanner" or some such and it will find the little buggers.

It finds the files OK and even gets most1 of the details right but when you try to play them it dishes up a message along the lines of "my Branez are not powerful enough to transcode this" and sulks.  The processor in the NAS is some sort of feeble ARM thing powered by hamsters.

1: No, machine, that is series one of "Fargo", not "Lovesick The Series", whatever one of those might be.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 October, 2015, 05:07:35 pm

If this is nature's way of telling me to buy a bottle of whisky it can please to go away >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 16 October, 2015, 08:54:40 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 16 October, 2015, 05:07:35 pm
  • Coughing
  • Aching
  • Shivering

If this is nature's way of telling me to buy a bottle of whisky it can please to go away >:(

Unlikely.  IME a bottle of whisky will add at least I two days to the duration of one's lurgy.

Pick up the phone Mr.  L  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 16 October, 2015, 10:52:25 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 16 October, 2015, 05:07:35 pm
  • Coughing
  • Aching
  • Shivering

If this is nature's way of telling me to buy a bottle of whisky it can please to go away >:(

Steady old son.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 17 October, 2015, 09:44:59 pm
Enjoying an evening full of pink feather boas and moist knickers  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 October, 2015, 09:50:58 pm
Sounds, er, good?

Anyway, I am currently sitting in the kitchen, armed with a bottle of red, giving space to Mrs. B and her bestest old chum after our dinner.
I'll rejoin the pair of them after they've had a good girly catch up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 18 October, 2015, 12:45:21 am
Winding down after a wedding gig. Bed once I've finished this pint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 18 October, 2015, 09:21:25 am
Shouting at the wireless.  Lazy article about cycling innit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: iddu on 18 October, 2015, 06:46:35 pm
Quote from: iddu on 17 October, 2015, 09:44:59 pm
Enjoying an evening full of pink feather boas and moist knickers  :P

Quote from: Basil on 17 October, 2015, 09:50:58 pm
Sounds, er, good?
:

Stocking up on brownie points; a surprise trip for herself to see the evergreen Harry Webb.  Weren't many teenagers in the audience  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 October, 2015, 07:07:12 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 14 October, 2015, 11:45:14 pm
Toying with an idea of a cycle tour next year.  Looking at a very rough route I see I could pass through both Grimbergen and Chimay.   :demon:

Do you need any help with that?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 October, 2015, 09:41:08 pm
Feasting on this afternoon's Rugby.  Did someone forget to tell the Sweaties they were only there to make up the numbers?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 October, 2015, 09:17:38 am
Breathing out.  Just done this month's VAT declaration.  Need an hour to recover now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 October, 2015, 07:55:59 pm
Trying to tidy up the bedroom & wardrobe.  Plastic crates overflowing with stuff I hardly ever wear.  I can feel a trip to Oxfam with a couple of full bin bags coming on.

And how many pairs of shoes & boots ?   I've turned into Imelda Bloody Marcos!   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 24 October, 2015, 08:19:14 pm
I've just finished watching 'When Cats Attack'. I'm sure Milyy was taking notes just in case I make her wear the pirate Halloween outfit I've been threatening her with.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 25 October, 2015, 07:49:34 am
Waiting for breakfast to start at my b&b.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 25 October, 2015, 08:50:36 am
Contemplating today's 'to do' list in my head. Rapidly coming to the conclusion it won't fit there, so I'll have to continue on a spreadsheet (or similar).

Things which definitely will be done include:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 25 October, 2015, 09:26:27 am
Just got in from a cold early ride, and drinking some nice coffee. DIY awaits :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 25 October, 2015, 12:35:59 pm
Laying a floor.  It'll come to a grinding halt soon, when I run out of the special nails.  They are available in France at 3x the price (delivered to France) of the UK stockists.  They'll be here in a day or two I am told :thumbsup:.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 25 October, 2015, 01:16:40 pm
Awaiting the arrival of Ruthie & the Lions at the pubbe...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 October, 2015, 07:28:05 pm
Watching a film with a vomit scene. It's therapy  :thumbsup:.

It's also got Denzel Washington and a girl with her bubs out. I'll donate £5 to your favourite charity if you identify that film in one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 27 October, 2015, 07:32:24 pm
Deja Vu?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 October, 2015, 07:33:01 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 27 October, 2015, 07:32:24 pm
Deja Vu?

Nooooo!!!

Try again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 27 October, 2015, 07:36:53 pm
Flight?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 October, 2015, 07:39:09 pm
Yeeeesss!!

Name your charity :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 27 October, 2015, 07:40:14 pm
Oxfam please :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 October, 2015, 07:43:57 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 27 October, 2015, 07:40:14 pm
Oxfam please :)

Done  :thumbsup:

Now I have to watch the vomit scene, dammit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 27 October, 2015, 07:49:07 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 27 October, 2015, 07:43:57 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 27 October, 2015, 07:40:14 pm
Oxfam please :)

Done  :thumbsup:

Now I have to watch the vomit scene, dammit.

Oh, excellent.  Thanks Chris  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 October, 2015, 07:52:09 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 27 October, 2015, 07:49:07 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 27 October, 2015, 07:43:57 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 27 October, 2015, 07:40:14 pm
Oxfam please :)

Done  :thumbsup:

Now I have to watch the vomit scene, dammit.

OK. I survived. There ends this evening's therapy session.  :thumbsup:

Oh, excellent.  Thanks Chris  :D
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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 28 October, 2015, 03:22:03 pm
Sitting on a bench in the rain trying to muster up enough energy to walk home.  Few more minutes I think.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 28 October, 2015, 06:46:53 pm
Filling in time before going to see Milton Jones at our local theatre.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 28 October, 2015, 09:14:22 pm
Watching a youtube video of a cyclist chasing a sheep out of Wasdale head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jlr_y7LZoo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: madcow on 28 October, 2015, 11:15:24 pm
Just about to go to bed in  Oosterhout, NL. Wishing I  was at Old Trafford to see the mighty Boro beat Van Gaal's losers. I had tickets but thought that it was being played last night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 October, 2015, 12:49:33 pm
I'm playing hunt the corrections in a PhD I've examined.  Why can't PhD students provide you with a narrative about how they have addressed your recommendations.  Don't they know they are not supposed to P off the examiners?  We always tell them that a grid of responses to recomendations is crucial when we do the Doctoral Training with them.  Some obviously didn't listen.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 29 October, 2015, 02:39:42 pm
Baking a ginger cake  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 October, 2015, 09:31:44 am
I'm enjoying my last day of working part time.  Monday I return full time.  The work I do is not in the least bit challenging, the department I work in is very badly managed, there is no respect in the department or the organisation fro employees and the department aura is toxic. But today I am enjoying my last day.  I'm reading The French Lieutenant's Woman and I'm going to spend sometime using information from a course I did earlier this week to re-write (yet again) my CV. Yesterday, a few work friends and I had dinner in the pub last night and we laughed so much our stomachs hurt. We need to do it more often.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 30 October, 2015, 10:13:42 am
Deleting a website and hoping my back up is good to replace it!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 30 October, 2015, 10:33:29 am
Quote from: lou boutin on 30 October, 2015, 09:31:44 am
I'm enjoying my last day of working part time.  Monday I return full time.  The work I do is not in the least bit challenging, the department I work in is very badly managed, there is no respect in the department or the organisation fro employees and the department aura is toxic. But today I am enjoying my last day.  I'm reading The French Lieutenant's Woman and I'm going to spend sometime using information from a course I did earlier this week to re-write (yet again) my CV. Yesterday, a few work friends and I had dinner in the pub last night and we laughed so much our stomachs hurt. We need to do it more often.

That sounds as positive as it could be!   And that's a great book.  You can't beat a good laugh with friends  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 October, 2015, 10:46:48 am
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 October, 2015, 10:47:21 am
Booking a posh B&B (4 poster bed FTW!) and a posh dinner for tomorrow night, we are childless (that night only)so intend to take advantage of it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 30 October, 2015, 11:41:48 am
Undeleting a few job agency emails received over the last couple of days  :-\  The design staff have just been culled by 30%, so no doubt some of us projects folk will follow (all contractors). Happy Friday! The oil price drop has finally filtered through.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 October, 2015, 11:43:10 am
Supping TEA while watching the world go by through the window of Hertfordshire's Finest Hotel,  prior to getting dressed and potentially going onna bear hunt...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 30 October, 2015, 11:50:02 am
Of course, if you avoided getting dressed you could go onna bare hunt  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 30 October, 2015, 12:25:23 pm
Quote from: Vince on 30 October, 2015, 10:13:42 am
Deleting a website and hoping my back up is good to replace it!!

Aaaaand relax.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 November, 2015, 04:30:25 pm
Preparing for a bit of butchery. I have a whole lamb being delivered soon, and it will need chopping down before it can go in the freezer. First time, ever, for me doing this so wish me luck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 November, 2015, 09:00:28 pm
cooling down from the gym by dancing round the kitchen in my underwear using the sloe gin we bottled yesterday as maracas. Yeah Yeah TTIUWP. Here you go.
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 03 November, 2015, 12:34:45 am
Currently at work and about to go to bed (sleeping night shift, obviously) - taking a look at the Tapatalk app since it pinged me saying you lot were talking about things. Have a feeling I might actually remember to use the forum now!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 04 November, 2015, 01:13:27 am
Trying to remember if I popped upside 20 Dihydrocodeine earlier and debating to neck another metric Fuckton, just to be sure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 04 November, 2015, 06:57:38 pm
Waiting in Hartburn for spam fritter n chips  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 November, 2015, 09:44:14 pm
Wondering how much knuckle makes carrot cake no longer vegetarian. And looking for plasters.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 07 November, 2015, 11:33:19 am
Being filthy, aka sanding the kitchen floor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 07 November, 2015, 11:42:59 am
Watching the rain hammer against the window and thinking poor old Steve is out in that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 07 November, 2015, 12:24:51 pm
Ironing & wondering whether or not to venture out now that the rain has stopped.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 November, 2015, 12:36:12 pm
Peering at a copy of the Birmingham Greenways (http://www.birminghamcyclinggreenways.co.uk/) map.  Or "Birmingham Green - Or Maybe Yellow - ways" as it ought to be titled, given the low-contrast colourscheme.   :facepalm:

Still, kudos for differentiating "off-road cyclepath" from "off-road cyclepath with crap surface" - something most maps are sorely lacking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 07 November, 2015, 01:59:18 pm
Thinking about going out and clearing up all the dog shit in the jungle garden, and hoping it'll rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 November, 2015, 05:19:06 pm
Twiddling my thumbs while the Babbage-Engine converts a recording of "Back To The Future" into a format that Plex can play from the NAS.  I shall then have the plezh of doing parts II and III, and may well have to fire up the big box to get it finished in time for tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 November, 2015, 07:03:14 pm
Coughing so much I'm being sick.  I'm really struggling to breathe and sounding like Darth Vader. My inhaler isn't working so contemplating calling the out of hours doctors but resisting. My friend was accused very loudly of being constipated and wasting their time when she had a ruptured hernia. 

I'm currently alternating between cough medicine given to me by the chemist, weak tea tea and breathing exercises.  This seems to be helping as I've not been sick for over an hour or nearly wet myself. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 November, 2015, 07:08:46 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 07 November, 2015, 07:03:14 pm
Coughing so much I'm being sick.  I'm really struggling to breathe and sounding like Darth Vader. My inhaler isn't working so contemplating calling the out of hours doctors but resisting. My friend was accused very loudly of being constipated and wasting their time when she had a ruptured hernia.

Any medic who grudges an asthmatic who thinks they might need a nebuliser / steriods / etc the attention needs a severe LARTing.  They've always been pretty good about such things, and if the air quality where you are is anything like it is here tonight, then you won't be the only one.

<FX: Fireworks bombardment>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 November, 2015, 07:13:40 pm
Thanks Kim, there are quite a few fireworks going off at the moment. I've removed myself to a now steamy bathroom.  But if this doesn't pass I will ring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 November, 2015, 07:18:32 pm
I got unexpectedly (for certain values of unexpectedly) quite wheezy earlier, but it responded well to slabutamol thankfully.

Usually I have a persistent chest infection by bonfire night (usually kicks in just in time for the Halloween Whitby night ride), so I'm winning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 07 November, 2015, 11:35:42 pm
Necking half a bottle of Dihydrocodeine, sweetened with a hand full of Tramodol, in a desperate effort to get some respite for the 19 1/2 year old migraine. If it don't ease the pain it might just send me far enough into La-la land that I am not so bothered about  it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 08 November, 2015, 01:34:01 am
I'm breathing far more easily, although still some coughing an a bit of wheezing. But I can definitely fill my lungs and exhale now. I have a sore throat from the coughing though but that will pass. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 08 November, 2015, 11:57:11 am
Currently on Mull lying in my tent, praying that my pegs hold :o

The rain is zooming by at approximately 300mph. On the plus side, there's a flock of redwings about 2 feet from my door. They're pretty and look funny when they try to stand up in the wind.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 November, 2015, 12:44:36 pm
It is quite windy out there! You're brave, Scottish camping in November...
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Post by: bumper on 08 November, 2015, 12:49:43 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 08 November, 2015, 12:44:36 pm
You're brave, Scottish camping in November...

remind of that next week when I've got the flu :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 08 November, 2015, 05:44:23 pm
Sitting in a car park in Cheadle, awaiting the return of fboab from the Eureka 200 audax.

The rain is cascading down in sheets, the wind is swirling round, and the roads are rivers in which vast islands of dead leaves are floating.

Perfect audax weather then ☺
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Post by: Polar Bear on 08 November, 2015, 05:55:56 pm
Quote from: Deano on 04 November, 2015, 06:57:38 pm
Waiting in Hartburn for spam fritter n chips  :P

And did they give you heartburn?   
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Post by: Katie on 09 November, 2015, 11:24:17 pm
Procrastinating from the studying I'm meant to be doing. Contemplating going to sleep instead.
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Post by: Deano on 09 November, 2015, 11:25:57 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 08 November, 2015, 05:55:56 pm
Quote from: Deano on 04 November, 2015, 06:57:38 pm
Waiting in Hartburn for spam fritter n chips  :P

And did they give you heartburn?   

Phew! Cheers, PB, I was waiting days for someone to pick up on that ;)
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Post by: Ham on 13 November, 2015, 10:20:36 am
Right now I'm participating in a significant meeting (in which I have to contribute) whilst assembling and installing software my New! Shiny! turbo trainer.

I know where my priorities lie.
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Post by: IanN on 13 November, 2015, 03:54:06 pm
At a conference in London called 'Health through peace' organised through the MEDACT charity. On my own time, and a bit of a departure from the day job.

Had enough of nuclear Armageddon. I think I'll lighten the mood with something about the arms trade.

I think the appropriate term at this moment is " I medically need a beer"
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Post by: ian on 16 November, 2015, 07:29:17 pm
I'm teaching myself computer animation. Not well. Pixar can relax for a few more weeks. The rest of the world, I'd worry.

So far I can make a stick figure looked like it's receiving a 600 volt a/c shock. Which would be fine if that were my intent. I think the Roobarb and Custard look is back in.
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Post by: Chris S on 16 November, 2015, 07:41:04 pm
Quote from: ian on 16 November, 2015, 07:29:17 pm
I'm teaching myself computer animation. Not well. Pixar can relax for a few more weeks. The rest of the world, I'd worry.

So far I can make a stick figure looked like it's receiving a 600 volt a/c shock. Which would be fine if that were my intent. I think the Roobarb and Custard look is back in.

I spent a while playing with POV-ray. It's hours of my life I'll never get back. Leave it to Pixar et al.
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Post by: ian on 16 November, 2015, 09:16:28 pm
Synfig Studio which has a vertiginous learning curve. I will not be discouraged by my entire lack of artistic ability. My life is an adventure in foolhardy tenacity.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 November, 2015, 10:24:32 pm
I introduced 30 Small People to the joys of stop motion today.  Quite pleasingly, I bumped into one of 'em later on (as I was taking my own Small Person to his karate class) and they said 'that was the best computers lesson EVAH!'.
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Post by: Chris S on 16 November, 2015, 10:38:19 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 16 November, 2015, 10:24:32 pm
I introduced 30 Small People to the joys of stop motion today.  Quite pleasingly, I bumped into one of 'em later on (as I was taking my own Small Person to his karate class) and they said 'that was the best computers lesson EVAH!'.

Is that because it contained Shaun/Gromit/Morph/Chaz content of some description? A dinosaur or two maybe?

IMLE, stop motion rarely contains Dull Stuff. It's generally about Attack Skeletons, Monsters and Zombies. How can that lot ever fail to engage?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 November, 2015, 10:44:37 pm
Actually, it was display board backing paper and some crepe paper nicked from the art cupboard, some kapok and some sequins.  Water cycle, to tie in with Science.  Not a dino/alien/robot/monster in sight!

Mind, I have managed to get a class excited about improvised animation on a mathematical theme with the contents of the maths cupboard before now.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 November, 2015, 07:58:52 pm
Watching a French bloke on C4 news and thinking his tie looks like it's made from chocolate.
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Post by: Torslanda on 18 November, 2015, 10:24:01 pm
Sitting watching 'Lewis' with two tiny kitteh asleep by my feet. they've had their mad half hour and retired to snoozles...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 November, 2015, 01:54:21 am
Puzzling as to how various music collections on the Babbage Boxes have become so hopelessly out of sync ???
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Post by: Ruthie on 20 November, 2015, 11:15:06 am
Working out how to move house when I haven't got enough boxes.  Good job I'm  not going too far!
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Post by: Ham on 20 November, 2015, 11:52:42 am
Having to apologise for misreading someone's name. Enda is an Irish boy's name. Edna isn't.

I suppose he's used to it.
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Post by: tiermat on 20 November, 2015, 11:53:59 am
Trying to keep Mrs T calm.  She has a dental appt, in about 20 mins, which WILL need her to have a jab.

She doesn't take well to such things, so she might well be in bed for the rest of the day!
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Post by: Kim on 20 November, 2015, 11:58:24 am
Quote from: tiermat on 20 November, 2015, 11:53:59 am
Trying to keep Mrs T calm.  She has a dental appt, in about 20 mins, which WILL need her to have a jab.

She doesn't take well to such things, so she might well be in bed for the rest of the day!

She has my sympathy.  Last time I had to have a local for dental treatment they gave me three doses and I still felt the pain.  I walked home, went to bed and slept for about 24 hours.

(Fortunately, the dentist in question did an excellent job of fixing the tooth.)
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Post by: andrewc on 21 November, 2015, 11:23:51 am
Drinking coffee & contemplating a fry up.    We were promised gale force winds today, but they appear to have got it wrong.  It's lovely & sunny out there & the trees are barely moving.   I may go for a short pootle  :)
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Post by: Chris S on 21 November, 2015, 11:47:22 am
Quote from: andrewc on 21 November, 2015, 11:23:51 am
Drinking coffee & contemplating a fry up.    We were promised gale force winds today, but they appear to have got it wrong.  It's lovely & sunny out there & the trees are barely moving.   I may go for a short pootle  :)

You're clearly <---- over there.

-----> Over here, 'tis blowing a gale, which is driving the horizontal sleet straight into the faces of the passers-by. * snigger *
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Post by: Andrij on 21 November, 2015, 12:30:59 pm
Fettling my commuter/anywhere-anytime bike in preparation for ... taking it to a LBS. 
- removal of dust;
- removal of old grime beneath the dust;
- new rear brake blocks; and
- re-attaching saddle and pedals (bike hasn't been ridden since before RunRun!).

Once that's sorted I'll book it in for a general servicing, with specific attention to:
- replacing lower jockey wheel of rear dérailleur; and
- truing rear wheel.

Should have done this all ages ago.  :facepalm:
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Post by: Wombat on 21 November, 2015, 01:12:40 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 20 November, 2015, 11:15:06 am
Working out how to move house when I haven't got enough boxes.  Good job I'm  not going too far!

I once moved house about 1/4 mile, and much of it was carried round ('cos we were seriously skint at the time).  The neighbours got used to the sight of us staggering past carrying items of furniture between us over a period of a week (we did have that luxury).  The big mistake I made was that I thought it would be best to carry the cat round to the new house, so he wouldn't be scared.  Big mistake, of course he then knew the way back to the old place, and several times we were greeted by a knock at the door from the new residents of the old place, with a struggling big, strong cat in their arms.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 November, 2015, 05:36:31 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 20 November, 2015, 11:15:06 am
Working out how to move house when I haven't got enough boxes.  Good job I'm  not going too far!

I'd suggest doing what we did when Miss von Brandenburg moved a short distance at Easter 2003, but Mr Cheap Potatoes, and his seemingly-infinite pile of cardboard boxes, is at the wrong end of the country.
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Post by: Kim on 21 November, 2015, 05:38:40 pm
I suggest doing what barakta and I have been doing since we moved in here, which is hoarding decent sized cardboard boxes for the next move.  They take up space, but seem to operate as a talisman against spurious evictions.
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Post by: tiermat on 21 November, 2015, 05:53:20 pm
In no real order :

Sneezing
Watching rubbish on TV
Warming myself in front of a real fire
Testing the validity of an offsite backup of Netflix's Jessica Jones
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 November, 2015, 06:25:59 pm
Contemplating putting the heating on.
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Post by: mcshroom on 22 November, 2015, 08:34:47 pm
Considering fitting the studs to the tourer :-\
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Post by: Ruthie on 22 November, 2015, 08:44:35 pm
Wishing the curtains were up at the window.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 November, 2015, 09:49:09 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 22 November, 2015, 08:34:47 pm
Considering fitting the studs to the tourer :-\

Thinking I should really have done that on the commuter this afternoon.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 November, 2015, 09:58:57 pm
Feeling very confused after waking up, almost an hour ago, from a very deep in-front-of-the-computer sleep. I am so confused that I think I might have to have some whisky.
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Post by: Chris S on 22 November, 2015, 10:34:16 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 22 November, 2015, 09:58:57 pm
Feeling very confused after waking up, almost an hour ago, from a very deep in-front-of-the-computer sleep. I am so confused that I think I might have to have some whisky.

Hehe - funny you should mention "confusion on waking". A couple of nights ago, I passed out fell asleep watching a film. Waking up on the settee, I glanced at the clock on the wall and saw "quarter to three", so I muttered under my breath and went to bed. Sometime later I woke again, needing a pee, and was startled to find it was only quarter to twelve. In the absence of a flux capacitor, I can only surmise that I had originally woken at nine fifteen, not quarter to three.  ::-)
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 November, 2015, 09:35:13 pm
Scaring myself witless watching stuff on to I know I shouldn't watch because it scares me.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 November, 2015, 01:40:14 am
Quote from: lou boutin on 23 November, 2015, 09:35:13 pm
Scaring myself witless watching stuff on to I know I shouldn't watch because it scares me.

Ah.  The X-Factor.
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Post by: tiermat on 24 November, 2015, 03:12:59 pm
Waiting for idiots to fix something on a server*, so I can get on to it and fix another thing, then do RCA on why it all went pear-shaped in the first instance.  Guess I have a late night ahead of me.

*I could fix it, but they revoked my acess a couple of months ago when they spat the dummy out as I had the bare-faced cheek to show just how bad they are!
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Post by: ian on 24 November, 2015, 03:32:29 pm
On holiday, so we went and did fifty lengths of the Olympic pool in Stratford. No records were broken. I miss swimming in a 50 metre pool.

Defeated all that exercise with a giant slice of cake. Next I will fly somewhere where the temperature is currently 23 degrees. Celsius. And it's not bloody raining. Probably jinxed it now.
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Post by: Ruthie on 27 November, 2015, 10:11:45 pm
Just finished watching the video reconstruction of Elaine Bromiley's death.  It still makes me feel sick and I must have seen it a dozen times now.  I'll be having nightmares again.

It's important to learn from these things though.
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Post by: DDCyclist on 27 November, 2015, 10:36:33 pm
Discussing a hedgehog rescue with Mrs C.

She's visiting her mum in Cornwall and has just found one in the garden. MIL does not like hedgehogs. I'm trying to convince her to put some tinned dog or cat food down for it and see if it's still around tomorrow. She should also avoid moving it away from its chosen environment as MIL often finds hogs in her garden. There must be something they like there. If it must be moved talk to a local rescue centre first as they'll know some good places to move it to.

Mrs C thinks it should be hibernating. I think it's probably a little too early for that.

I don't think this will end well unless the hedgehog is moved. MIL has a history of picking them up on a shovel and lobbing them over a high hedge. Despicable woman.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 November, 2015, 10:45:05 pm
WTF is wrong with hedgehogs? She doesn't have to sleep with the things in her bed ???
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Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2015, 10:48:17 pm
The hedgehog can never be buggered at all?
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 27 November, 2015, 10:50:40 pm
How mean. Poor little hedgelehog.
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Post by: Thing2 on 27 November, 2015, 10:57:34 pm
Enjoying a mid afternoon hot chocolate and wondering whether we can be bothered to head back out to the snow for another couple of runs, or whether we should order another beer and call it quits for the day.
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Post by: Basil on 27 November, 2015, 11:04:09 pm
I've just collected Mrs. B from a do in Carmarthen.  Poured her onto the sofa where she is now watching last week's Strictly on her tablet.  Poured myself a large g&T and am wondering why I have to wear ear phones when I watch stuff but she's allowed not to.  :-\
I expect she'll move onto the results show when this noise finishes.  That going to be several g&ts then.   :demon:
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Post by: DDCyclist on 27 November, 2015, 11:06:18 pm
We'd love to have him in our little group of gardens with fields next door. We have lots of slugs too. Unfortunately we've also got a sunken driveway and car park they can fall into. The only way out is under a gate and onto a very badly lit road. I'd rather he stayed where he is or is moved to somewhere suggested by a local rescue centre.

Taken just after 9 o'clock so not too early for him to be rooting around:

(http://www.rachaelrowe.com/eBayImages/mugs/HH210949.jpg)
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Post by: DDCyclist on 27 November, 2015, 11:09:14 pm
Quote from: Basil on 27 November, 2015, 11:04:09 pm
I've just collected Mrs. B from a do in Carmarthen.  Poured her onto the sofa where she is now watching last week's Strictly on her tablet.  Poured myself a large g&T and am wondering why I have to wear ear phones when I watch stuff but she's allowed not to.  :-\
I expect she'll move onto the results show when this noise finishes.  That going to be several g&ts then.   :demon:

I often wonder why Mrs C gets annoyed when I put headphones on because she's rustling the Sunday paper so much I can't hear the TV.  ???
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Post by: Basil on 27 November, 2015, 11:57:43 pm
Quote from: Basil on 27 November, 2015, 11:04:09 pm
I've just collected Mrs. B from a do in Carmarthen.  Poured her onto the sofa where she is now watching last week's Strictly on her tablet.  Poured myself a large g&T and am wondering why I have to wear ear phones when I watch stuff but she's allowed not to.  :-\
I expect she'll move onto the results show when this noise finishes.  That going to be several g&ts then.   :demon:

Yup. Thought so .  Straight into the results show.   :facepalm:

*cuts another slice of lime*  :D
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Post by: DDCyclist on 28 November, 2015, 01:16:05 pm
Mrs C tells me the hog has disappeared this morning - presumably gone back to his nest. Hopefully that'll be one of his last night-time strolls for this year.

She wasn't allowed to put any food out for him. MIL doesn't want to encourage them. When told they're now on the endangered list she declared that to be a good thing. It'll even better when they're all gone. Apparently.

Is it any wonder we don't get along ...
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Post by: Jurek on 28 November, 2015, 03:40:05 pm
Sitting here watching the light fade over a grey north Kent coast before I venture out to see the Whitstable xmas lights being switched on.
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Post by: DDCyclist on 28 November, 2015, 05:31:51 pm
Updating the documentation for Little Lane - adding knowledge about occupiers of adjoining fields.

Distributing a draft map of a walk around the village for comment.
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Post by: Basil on 28 November, 2015, 05:43:43 pm
Dealing with the remaining glut of small, not particularly interesting apples.  Mrs. B and I have set up a production line.
I'm in charge of the initial peeling and carrying of my bowl of apples when full to the kitchen and dropping them into the bucket of water there.
Mrs. B is in charge of slicing and blanching1
I am also in charge of patting dry and laying out on sheets in the freezer.

1 this is concurrent with the jarring up of the huge amount of chutney she has made.  Multi tasking kitchen goddess.
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Post by: numbnuts on 28 November, 2015, 05:55:21 pm
Trying to justify spending £250 on fishing suit, trolley and seatbox.
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Post by: Basil on 28 November, 2015, 06:06:53 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 28 November, 2015, 05:55:21 pm
Trying to justify spending £250 on fishing suit, trolley and seatbox.

I'm not into fishing and have never tried it.   Therefore I can only equate this with cycling.

Assuming your rods and bits are the bike, I see this as kit, locks, lights etc.  £250 seems very reasonable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 28 November, 2015, 08:28:51 pm
Half set of decent golf clubs? An hours membership of Wentworth?
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 November, 2015, 09:02:29 pm
Rendering Jonathan Demme's 1998 magnum opus "Storefront Hitchcock" into a form the Plex wossname can understand.  It is taking a long time chiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 November, 2015, 09:05:57 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 28 November, 2015, 08:28:51 pm
Half set of decent golf clubs?

Why would you need a whole set?  An 8 iron is more than sufficient to remove the head or destroy the brain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 28 November, 2015, 11:09:28 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 28 November, 2015, 05:55:21 pm
Trying to justify spending £250 on fishing suit, trolley and seatbox.
Cos you want it - seems reason enough for me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 November, 2015, 11:19:10 pm
Will it pay for itself in free fish?  (Like the way that saving hundreds on bus fares justifies spending thousands on bikes?)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 November, 2015, 11:23:22 pm
Is it time for a Desmond Tutu quote?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 28 November, 2015, 11:32:20 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 November, 2015, 09:05:57 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 28 November, 2015, 08:28:51 pm
Half set of decent golf clubs?

Why would you need a whole set?  An 8 iron is more than sufficient to remove the head or destroy the brain.
Surely a "mashie niblick" is the weapon of choice. What ever one of those is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 November, 2015, 09:21:51 pm
Watching barakta mop tea out of her keyboard...
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Post by: Redlight on 30 November, 2015, 10:03:22 pm
Reading the reports of pollution levels in Beijing and worrying because my wife is out there this week
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 30 November, 2015, 10:13:12 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 November, 2015, 11:19:10 pm
Will it pay for itself in free fish?  (Like the way that saving hundreds on bus fares justifies spending thousands on bikes?)
Spending thousands on cycletherapy saves thousands on psychotherapy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 December, 2015, 09:01:00 pm
Watching HardlyPoo Untied on my tablet in the pub.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 05 December, 2015, 09:04:27 am
Waiting to set off for a Fairies' club run.
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Post by: DDCyclist on 05 December, 2015, 12:58:18 pm
Trying to find out how to unclipp the kick panel on my dishwsher. I figure if I can do that it'll be easy to pull the dishwasher out and get behind it to prop up the waste pipe, from the kitchen sink, that runs behind it and continues around the back of a corner unit and further along the wall.

In this house waste water (and whatever else that's in it) doesn't flow uphill.
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Post by: Chris S on 05 December, 2015, 02:32:01 pm
Sweating  :-\.
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Post by: DDCyclist on 05 December, 2015, 02:36:06 pm
Hmm.

This is beginning to look like one of those jobs that's going to take longer than I intended ...

(http://www.rachaelrowe.com/eBayImages/mugs/BloodyKitchen.jpg)

Time for a mug of coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 December, 2015, 03:02:12 pm
I'm mining the pile of electronics crap that's accumulated in the corner.  So far I've struck rich veins of dust, cable ties and 4-pin JST connectors.

Also, I'm not quite sure how I ended up with quite so many MPEG2 encoder cards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 05 December, 2015, 04:06:39 pm
Woohoo!

I found a piece of wood that's just the right length to prop up the waste pipe in the corner. Everything in it is flowing the right way, and staying inside the pipe so I haven't disturbed any joints too much. The outside of the washing machine has been cleaned, as well as the hole it goes into. It's back in the aforementioned hole and running a service wash (no we don't take laundry in - I mean a high temperature wash to clean the machine's innards and tubes).

I'm having a break while Mrs C sorts out the stuff that goes in the cupboard next to the washing machine - mainly an absurd number of tins of sweetcorn and a similarly absurd number of tins of chickpeas (because "they were cheap" according to Mrs C).

When she's done that I'll clean the hole for the dishwasher and refit that.

On the down-side I noticed the washing machine bearings were starting to rumble last week. We've been debating whether to buy new bearings and fit them myself, get someone in to fit new bearings, or just replace the machine. While it was out of its hole I noticed a the front panel (below the door) is showing signs of impending death due to corrosion. I think we've got our answer.

 :( for the money we'll spend, but
 ;D for not having to replace a set of washing machine bearings.



 
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Post by: Canardly on 05 December, 2015, 04:07:50 pm
Buying a small tin of red mahogany wood dye.
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Post by: DDCyclist on 05 December, 2015, 06:35:53 pm
Kitchen reassembled just in time to move the table, that was blocking access to the oven, for tea (cod and chips) to go into it on our usual schedule.  :)
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Post by: fuzzy on 06 December, 2015, 03:47:14 pm
Due to recent getting on my tittiness at work, jobhunting.
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Post by: Torslanda on 06 December, 2015, 03:57:55 pm
That's rather disappointing. Kids, staff, support or bureaucracy . . . ?
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Post by: fuzzy on 06 December, 2015, 11:35:47 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 06 December, 2015, 03:57:55 pm
That's rather disappointing. Kids, staff, support or bureaucracy . . . ?

The last 3.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 07 December, 2015, 08:02:33 am
Matt. It's time. You know you want to . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 December, 2015, 08:05:47 am
Shuttling back and forth between the Great Hall and the Chips Room for:
It'll be over by Christmas.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 07 December, 2015, 04:12:51 pm
Getting ready to go sailing.
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Post by: clarion on 07 December, 2015, 04:27:03 pm
Fuzzy, hope summat good comes along.
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Post by: fuzzy on 08 December, 2015, 04:19:55 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 07 December, 2015, 08:02:33 am
Matt. It's time. You know you want to . . .

if only John. You are living my dream. My town has barely enough going on at the moment to keep me in part time sales droid mode let alone dastardly Lord and Master mode ::-)

Quote from: clarion on 07 December, 2015, 04:27:03 pm
Fuzzy, hope summat good comes along.

I has a ninterview Thursday A.M.

Now to work out the legend for needing to be in late........
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 December, 2015, 03:43:55 pm
I did have plans for today, but it appears the cat had other ideas.... (me being a cat bed)
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Post by: peliroja on 12 December, 2015, 05:01:15 pm
Keeping an eye on the local floods via twitter and https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/map

Colne had 47.8mm of rain today. Some folk in Cotton Tree, near my parents, are being advised to leave their houses by the Environment Agency. Carleton, a mile from us, had 41.9mm today and all roads to it apart from Skipton Old Road are cut off completely. We are feeling lucky we chose to live at the top of a reight steep hill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 12 December, 2015, 05:20:13 pm
Attacking the paperwork mountain.  Fire's on, music's on, tea's on.  It's rather cosy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 12 December, 2015, 08:03:00 pm
Working on the laptop while the main computer downloads a new version of its operating system (seeing I managed to screw up the update). This isn't too bad except when I try to use the main trackpad and wonder why the cursor isn't moving. Only 'about 14 hours and 49n minutes' remaining. Of course, if I'd got round to organising the fast broadband we've had in the village since September...

But I'm looking through cookery books so it's not all bad.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 12 December, 2015, 09:34:13 pm
Finished downloading my blood glucose meter prior to my appointment in ten days

Now doing a Glen Garioch while watching the Bridge III
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 13 December, 2015, 02:20:29 pm
Working out a way of making a new shelf in my TV cabinet out of spare laminate boards so I can fit my CD player in the unit
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 13 December, 2015, 02:47:20 pm
Evaluating individual applications for HEA accreditation for our institutional accreditation scheme.  I'm quite enjoying it..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 13 December, 2015, 09:11:03 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 12 December, 2015, 05:20:13 pm
Attacking the (a)paperwork mountain.  (b)Fire's on, music's on, tea's on.  It's rather cosy!

Worth just putting a directly into b?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 13 December, 2015, 11:03:46 pm
Walking home. Tiredly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 13 December, 2015, 11:08:32 pm
I'm too tired to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 13 December, 2015, 11:30:13 pm
Trying to calm down so I can go to sleep. This evening was our choir's big Christmas concert in front of a sold out Civic Hall and the adrenaline's still flowing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 14 December, 2015, 10:41:16 am
Today I am mostly deleting emails from sender's who's names begin with the letters S, T and U.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 14 December, 2015, 05:07:45 pm
Unpacking from my sailing trip.   It was good.  We had winds up to force 10 off Dover and reached 12 knots down a wave.  Not bad for 33 footer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 December, 2015, 06:50:34 pm
Wondering what the fuck that noise was just now ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 December, 2015, 07:08:28 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 December, 2015, 06:50:34 pm
Wondering what the fuck that noise was just now ???

Me too.  It sounded like a large children bouncing down the road.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 December, 2015, 07:10:24 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 December, 2015, 06:50:34 pm
Wondering what the fuck that noise was just now ???

Sorry about that. Stubbed my toe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 December, 2015, 07:14:32 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 14 December, 2015, 07:10:24 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 December, 2015, 06:50:34 pm
Wondering what the fuck that noise was just now ???

Sorry about that. Stubbed my toe.

Our IRC bot learned about that a couple of yonks ago...

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19:12:31 <kim> something?
19:12:32 <iain> i guess something is making a noise like a student stubbing their toe outside our house
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 14 December, 2015, 07:31:29 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 December, 2015, 06:50:34 pm
Wondering what the fuck that noise was just now ???

<Spike Milligan> How do you look for a BANG that's finished? </Spike Milligan>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 14 December, 2015, 08:07:18 pm
Keeping half an eye on supper which is nearly ready.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 December, 2015, 08:27:23 pm
Picking dinner out of my teeth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 15 December, 2015, 10:42:24 am
Blatantly watching BBC on one screen and ignoring my e-mails on the other.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 15 December, 2015, 11:00:56 am
Waiting for a Brit to shit himself, when a Russian lights the blue touch paper and runs away
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 December, 2015, 12:43:09 pm
Waiting for some meter men to turn up and leave us in the dark with the empty room noise and no tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 December, 2015, 03:34:31 pm
Snotting for Britain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 15 December, 2015, 03:37:27 pm
 Eating bread with plenty of honey.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 December, 2015, 03:53:58 pm
Rebooting things, while barakta consumes tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 15 December, 2015, 04:45:34 pm
Rebranding the school as 'The Last Minute Saloon'  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 December, 2015, 05:14:20 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 December, 2015, 06:50:34 pm
Wondering what the fuck that noise was just now ???

Turns out it was a waterproof Bluetooth speaker relinquishing its tenuous grip on reality the bathroom wall and tumbling into the tub :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 15 December, 2015, 07:54:59 pm
Waiting for them to find the keys for the Soyuz hatch.

*** Did anyone remember to pick them up off the table back on Earth? ***

Looks like they found them.
They must have fallen down between the driver's seat and the gearstick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 16 December, 2015, 02:37:31 pm
Wondering about the small (about baked bean or slightly smaller) sized hard, painless (at the moment) lump that has appeared on my 'junk'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 16 December, 2015, 05:14:00 pm
I was a Lert now I am in Ert
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2015, 07:13:42 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 16 December, 2015, 02:37:31 pm
Wondering about the small (about baked bean or slightly smaller) sized hard, painless (at the moment) lump that has appeared on my 'junk'.

That's what medical professionals get paid to do...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 17 December, 2015, 08:34:47 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2015, 07:13:42 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 16 December, 2015, 02:37:31 pm
Wondering about the small (about baked bean or slightly smaller) sized hard, painless (at the moment) lump that has appeared on my 'junk'.

That's what medical professionals get paid to do...

Are you saying I'm in the wrong job?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 17 December, 2015, 09:32:42 am
I was going to say 'Show it to someone' but that's obviously open to misinterpretation . . .  ;D

Seriously. Get to the doctor's with it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 17 December, 2015, 09:36:00 am
I am about to type the letter         

No, another time maybe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 December, 2015, 01:40:22 pm
Watching a man from a van with "DVLA" written on it apply a wheel clamp to the car parked outside.

Bloodycyclists, not paying any road tax...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 December, 2015, 02:13:25 pm
Watching a couple of dodgy looking blokes removing the wheel clamp with an angle grinder.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: menthel on 17 December, 2015, 02:14:54 pm
Contemplating leaving work and going to Dirtyburger in Vauxhall.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 December, 2015, 02:20:37 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 December, 2015, 02:13:25 pm
Watching a couple of dodgy looking blokes removing the wheel clamp with an angle grinder.

Muttering darkly at the DVLA for not allowing me to report the above without knowing the make of the vehicle (I have the registration number, and a side-on photo of the angle-grinding being perpetrated).  Do I look like a car-spotter?

One more uninsured car, I suppose.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 17 December, 2015, 02:34:50 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 December, 2015, 02:20:37 pm
Quote from: Kim on 17 December, 2015, 02:13:25 pm
Watching a couple of dodgy looking blokes removing the wheel clamp with an angle grinder.

Muttering darkly at the DVLA for not allowing me to report the above without knowing the make of the vehicle (I have the registration number, and a side-on photo of the angle-grinding being perpetrated).  Do I look like a car-spotter?

One more uninsured car, I suppose.  >:(

Post the photo here. Someone will know the make and model - probably even the exact variant. Or report it to your local plods. They might take a bigger interest. Worthwhile if it gets a determined uninsured driver off the roads.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 December, 2015, 02:55:34 pm
I got it by the time-honoured method of bunging the registration number into google, and image searching the model suggested by a third party site as a sanity check.  Have filled in the DVLA's online form and offered them a copy of the photo.  Don't really want to post the photo online, in case it compromises its evidence value.

I'd have called 999 if I'd thought the police would have got here in time.  Not sure I can be bothered going through non-emergency channels (which inevitably involve arsing about with telephones) for a vehicle they already know to be untaxed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: menthel on 17 December, 2015, 03:04:30 pm
Quote from: menthel on 17 December, 2015, 02:14:54 pm
Contemplating leaving work and going to Dirtyburger in Vauxhall.

Now digesting aforementioned burger. Tasty but a tad too greasy. Onion fries were very tasty. Bill was daft for what it was.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 December, 2015, 07:23:14 pm
Contemplating riding 100km on Saturday in the same clothes I finished PBP2015 in. Same clothes. August - December.

What. The. Fuck!?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 17 December, 2015, 07:57:50 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 17 December, 2015, 07:23:14 pm
Contemplating riding 100km on Saturday in the same clothes I finished PBP2015 in. Same clothes. August - December.

What. The. Fuck!?

Overtaking drivers will leave you plenty of space.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 17 December, 2015, 08:12:03 pm
Quote from: DDCyclist on 17 December, 2015, 07:57:50 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 17 December, 2015, 07:23:14 pm
Contemplating riding 100km on Saturday in the same clothes I finished PBP2015 in. Same clothes. August - December.

What. The. Fuck!?

Overtaking drivers will leave you plenty of space.

LOL! I have washed them since, right?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 17 December, 2015, 08:31:27 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 17 December, 2015, 08:12:03 pm
Quote from: DDCyclist on 17 December, 2015, 07:57:50 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 17 December, 2015, 07:23:14 pm
Contemplating riding 100km on Saturday in the same clothes I finished PBP2015 in. Same clothes. August - December.

What. The. Fuck!?

Overtaking drivers will leave you plenty of space.

LOL! I have washed them since, right?

My bad.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 18 December, 2015, 12:21:30 am
Cussing the Laptop keyboard for allowinbg me to thinbk "Oh it's probably Ninge stuck unbder a fvew keys. i should be able to fvettle it okay.'
rest inb pieces, fvook!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 18 December, 2015, 02:36:45 pm
not a great deal today, at least not productively

Works Christmas outing last night.

Wife's birthday meal out tonight (but don't tell her, it's a surprise)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2015, 02:49:36 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 18 December, 2015, 02:36:45 pm
not a great deal today, at least not productively

Works Christmas outing last night.

Wife's birthday meal out tonight (but don't tell her, it's a surprise)

If you wanted a real surprise, then you'd tell us where and when...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 18 December, 2015, 03:05:24 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2015, 02:49:36 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 18 December, 2015, 02:36:45 pm
not a great deal today, at least not productively

Works Christmas outing last night.

Wife's birthday meal out tonight (but don't tell her, it's a surprise)

If you wanted a real surprise, then you'd tell us where and when...

I may be hungover, I ain't stoopid
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 18 December, 2015, 09:39:07 pm
Packing.

Off to Breckenridge, CO at Audax-O'clock tomorrow morning.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 December, 2015, 11:00:26 am
I bought my über-cool stoner rock god sunglasses in Breckenridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 December, 2015, 10:01:14 am
Standing in a queue in a coffee shop. We've been evacuated due to a fire in our buildings basement.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 21 December, 2015, 10:02:11 am
Hope that is not too serious Andrew.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 December, 2015, 10:17:05 am
Fire Brigade looking very relaxed, so nothing too serious.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2015, 11:14:01 am
Are they queuing too?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 21 December, 2015, 12:17:01 pm
Cancelling a missing debit card.

Its absence was noticed on Friday when we were preparing to go Christmas Shopping in Salisbury on Saturday. I have no reason to suspect it's stolen rather than just lost so we stayed at home while I ransacked searched the house and Mrs C offered helpful suggestions like "have you looked in/under/behind the ........ ? Yes? Well look again" as if something might magically appear somewhere that already been searched.

We had a very pleasant day in Salisbury, yesterday, with much smaller crowds than I anticipated.

I made some last minute checks, this morning, then abandoned all hope of finding the card. I now  suspect that it slipped out of my pocket when I was out walking somewhere. It'll be in the middle of a muddy field. I think I might even know which muddy field but it's raining so I'm not going out to look for it.

It's now cancelled. No strange/unexpected transactions on the account.

I'll be surprised if the cancelled card does not appear - in the most obvious place that has already been checked 20 times - by the end of the day. ::-)

On the +ve side, a lot of tidying up we've been meaning to do for days weeks months years is now done.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 21 December, 2015, 09:27:06 pm
Watching Return of the Jedi and looking forward to an N+1 day tomorrow :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 22 December, 2015, 12:38:41 am
Not sleeping. I'm nervous about tomorrow morning's today's job interview
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 22 December, 2015, 12:39:36 am
Good luck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 December, 2015, 12:42:33 am
Good luck with the interview, if not the sleep.

I'm also not sleeping.  I'm waiting for barakta to finish swearing at Microsoft products and come to bed (she's teaching tomorrow in January and has left her homework to the last minute).  Also vaguely hoping that the clicking that my left ear's been making every time I breath since about 2pm will stop so I can actually get to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 22 December, 2015, 06:46:53 am
Good luck, fboab.

I am getting ready to head out for a bike ride.  Looking at the forecast, and hearing to the sounds of weather around here, I'm kind hoping my riding parter chickens out and cancels today's 'fun'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 December, 2015, 01:21:52 pm
Waiting, not so patiently, for O2's Retention monkeys idiots, to give me a PAC.  They first of all told me that Hutchinson aren't going to take over, then told me that nothing would change and it'll take a long time before the take over happens.  OK, which is it, then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 22 December, 2015, 01:39:50 pm
Heading for Flamborough. Head.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 22 December, 2015, 03:50:16 pm
Fboab I hope the interview went/goes well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 December, 2015, 04:02:41 pm
Changing my settings to show avatars and signatures.  Leaving “Office Stealth Mode” for a couple of weeks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 December, 2015, 04:12:50 pm
Trying to find a DVD player so we can watch a film in the office tomorrow.

Last day of term is movie day, though one we think we can justify watching on work time: -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 22 December, 2015, 04:43:06 pm
I'm just watching it now on youtube. Why do you need a dvd player . . . ?

Music from Kraftwerk. Radioactivity, natch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 December, 2015, 05:31:55 pm
Because youtube is blocked at work so I need to bring in a DVD copy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 22 December, 2015, 05:40:18 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 22 December, 2015, 05:31:55 pm
Because youtube is blocked at work so I need to bring in  DVD copy
. . .

Hadn't thought of that. I suppose that's one of the benefits of being in charge . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 22 December, 2015, 05:45:28 pm
Through to round 2... \o/

Right now, I'm being driven home and looking at the rental market in the environs of my prospective new employer...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 December, 2015, 06:17:49 pm
Fingers crossed :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 December, 2015, 06:56:58 pm
Good luck with the jobbage fboab
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 22 December, 2015, 06:57:34 pm
Congratulations for getting though round one. Good luck with round two :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 23 December, 2015, 09:38:10 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 22 December, 2015, 04:12:50 pm
Trying to find a DVD player so we can watch a film in the office tomorrow.

Last day of term is movie day, though one we think we can justify watching on work time: -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

Oops. Looks like I burnt the wrong video to the DVD overnight. I wonder if they'd be interested in watching the Adventure Show Special on the Highlands, Glens and Western Isles? :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 23 December, 2015, 10:40:21 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 23 December, 2015, 09:38:10 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 22 December, 2015, 04:12:50 pm
Trying to find a DVD player so we can watch a film in the office tomorrow.

Last day of term is movie day, though one we think we can justify watching on work time: -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

Oops. Looks like I burnt the wrong video to the DVD overnight. I wonder if they'd be interested in watching the Adventure Show Special on the Highlands, Glens and Western Isles? :facepalm:

LOL  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 23 December, 2015, 12:48:00 pm
Clockwatching.
Just over 4 hrs to go.
Then no more me here until Jan 11th.
But because a cab didn't turn up this morning, causing someone to miss his flight to Copenhagen, I have a feeling I may still be here after 5  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 23 December, 2015, 01:01:27 pm
Every email I sends gets a 'back in January 2016' out-of-office so I'm coasting into the holidays. I could just stop but I remembered I was supposed to write an article for 7th Jan and I can't imagine I'll be any more motivated to do it when I return in January. On the plus side, absolutely no meetings. I may create an Alice vs. Christmas card. Martinis give her superpowers. True fact.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 23 December, 2015, 03:26:39 pm
Quote from: matthew on 23 December, 2015, 10:40:21 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 23 December, 2015, 09:38:10 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 22 December, 2015, 04:12:50 pm
Trying to find a DVD player so we can watch a film in the office tomorrow.

Last day of term is movie day, though one we think we can justify watching on work time: -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

Oops. Looks like I burnt the wrong video to the DVD overnight. I wonder if they'd be interested in watching the Adventure Show Special on the Highlands, Glens and Western Isles? :facepalm:

LOL  ;D  ;D

Now I'm really confused. The DVD was brand new out of a packet, and I chose the right MP4 file to convert. I can't understand why it burnt the Adventure Show instead ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 23 December, 2015, 03:42:09 pm
Well done fboab.

I interviewed for a maintenance dude job at a care home yesterday. Moar pennies but 8 days less holibobs than current job.

I can live with the less holibobs as the moar pennies, even taking into account the stealing of 8 days unpaid leave is still me in the black.

The one thing now that is making me wonder is the commute. Just a tad longer than currently BUT on a busy road which I suspect will have me feeling a bit vulnerable in the winter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 23 December, 2015, 05:05:28 pm
Ive just remortgaged my buy to let.  Another job done on the to do list.  Tomorrow's to do is to put up the Christmas tree, the day after is to do Christmas and the day after that is to take down the Christmas tree. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 24 December, 2015, 07:56:08 am
Taking down the Christmas tree is on todays school to do list- all 15 bloody feet of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 24 December, 2015, 09:08:45 am
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 23 December, 2015, 03:42:09 pm
Well done fboab.

I interviewed for a maintenance dude job at a care home yesterday. Moar pennies but 8 days less holibobs than current job.

I can live with the less holibobs as the moar pennies, even taking into account the stealing of 8 days unpaid leave is still me in the black.

The one thing now that is making me wonder is the commute. Just a tad longer than currently BUT on a busy road which I suspect will have me feeling a bit vulnerable in the winter.

Factor in holibobs when YOU WANT them rather than when guvnerz sez . . . ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2015, 09:20:11 am
Making tea/porridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 24 December, 2015, 09:27:15 am
Wondering whether to go to Tesco or Lidl for some last-minute shopping. Tesco is closer and has more checkouts, but isn't called Tossco for nowt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 24 December, 2015, 09:31:13 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 24 December, 2015, 09:08:45 am
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 23 December, 2015, 03:42:09 pm
Well done fboab.

I interviewed for a maintenance dude job at a care home yesterday. Moar pennies but 8 days less holibobs than current job.

I can live with the less holibobs as the moar pennies, even taking into account the stealing of 8 days unpaid leave is still me in the black.

The one thing now that is making me wonder is the commute. Just a tad longer than currently BUT on a busy road which I suspect will have me feeling a bit vulnerable in the winter.

Factor in holibobs when YOU WANT them rather than when guvnerz sez . . . ?

That is the thing about the school. I get he time off when I want it- mostly. Occasionally they have to say no to a day off if we are short handed but my boss is very flexible.

The only reason I started job hunting in the first place was general selfish twateshness by a minority of staff who don't think about the work required to get a hall set up for 50 staff to do training etc. It all happens by magic.

Perhaps they think I am the schools version of Dobby the House Elf?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 24 December, 2015, 10:02:14 am
Baking a chocolate cake  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 24 December, 2015, 11:22:39 am
Driving home for penis Christmas.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 24 December, 2015, 01:54:18 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 23 December, 2015, 03:42:09 pm
Well done fboab.

I interviewed for a maintenance dude job at a care home yesterday. Moar pennies but 8 days less holibobs than current job.

I can live with the less holibobs as the moar pennies, even taking into account the stealing of 8 days unpaid leave is still me in the black.

The one thing now that is making me wonder is the commute. Just a tad longer than currently BUT on a busy road which I suspect will have me feeling a bit vulnerable in the winter.

Have just called the home and thanked them for their interest but declined the job.

It isn't until I contemplate driving to work that I realise how important cycling to work is to me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 24 December, 2015, 02:09:49 pm
Testing out the foot pedals for certain keyboard/mouse commands (page up, page down and right click of mouse currently)... Better without shoes, still somewhat annoying..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 December, 2015, 02:28:36 pm
Sitting in an empty office twiddling my thumbs.   Bastard manager has gone on leave & no one has given us the nod to sign off early  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 24 December, 2015, 03:03:58 pm
*nods "sign off early" to andrewc*

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 24 December, 2015, 03:05:36 pm
Called a unilateral halt to work proceedings at lunch time (to be honest, that might have been yesterday lunchtime), went to swim 100 lengths (gotta make room), fed a curry to the slow cooker, will now design my wife's customary Christmas card and count off those long hours till my Christmas Pudding martini. Cunningly I got the tax-dodgers at Amazon to wrap all the presents. Laziness FTW.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 24 December, 2015, 03:07:57 pm
Taking a break from admin with a cuppa.  I have at least another couple of hours work to do today.
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Post by: DDCyclist on 24 December, 2015, 04:05:57 pm
Taking a break from housework. I've just hoovered Dysoned the stairs. Now having a cuppa and contemplating loading the dishwasher.

Mrs C has just removed a cake from the oven and taken it out of the tin far too soon. It was a cake, now it's fragments of a cake. We'll be able to put it back together once it's cooled, but there'll be a few bits missing. :P :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 24 December, 2015, 04:25:32 pm
Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 24 December, 2015, 09:27:15 am
Wondering whether to go to Tesco or Lidl for some last-minute shopping. Tesco is closer and has more checkouts, but isn't called Tossco for nowt.
Walked to Tesco on the basis of the BBC weather forecast. Tossco wasn't too bad, except all the Lindor chocolates had gone. Walking back I got caught in a sudden rain squall a few mins from home. Chuntered unseasonal things about BBC weather forecasts.
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Post by: lou boutin on 24 December, 2015, 05:05:37 pm
Drinking tea after finally putting up the Christmas tree.
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Post by: ElyDave on 24 December, 2015, 05:18:44 pm
Started my Christmas function of serving as a cocktail barman for the extended family
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Post by: matthew on 24 December, 2015, 05:37:25 pm
just made a dozen leek, ricotta and gruyere tarts as starters for the big family gathering at my sister's on saturday.  :P

site being closed so I couldn't work today even if they wanted me to. The hoot yesterday was everyone expecting a tanoy announcement at 12 o'clock to say clear off and instead got a tannoy announcement to warn of an alarm test.  ;D
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Post by: numbnuts on 24 December, 2015, 05:47:44 pm
Waiting to go to Church "oh come all ye faithful"  ;D
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Post by: Ruthie on 24 December, 2015, 07:25:34 pm
Hoping they let me go home soon so I can start wrapping my Christmas presents  ???
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Post by: andrewc on 24 December, 2015, 09:44:46 pm
Supping a Bardolino, listening to Rosalyn Tureck playing the Goldberg Variations & thinking that I ought to be wrapping Christmas presents.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 25 December, 2015, 08:30:56 am
Giggling at my youngest step-daughter who woke me at 6.45 because Santa had been. She was rather frustrated because she'd tried to wake up Kerina her 2year old who had responded with 'no mommy more minutes (sleep) please'.  Apparently Kerina has now made an appearance.
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Post by: SteveC on 25 December, 2015, 09:59:11 am
Sitting here wondering when it will be acceptable to open something alcoholic...
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Post by: DDCyclist on 25 December, 2015, 10:13:04 am
About an hour ago.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 25 December, 2015, 11:04:31 am
Being amazed at seeing a blackcap on the feeder in the garden.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 December, 2015, 11:39:24 am
Installing update 6 of 21.  That's after the 22 earlier this morning and the 224 overnight.  And the ten yesterday afternoon.  Serves me right for only having an ancient version of W7 to hand.
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Post by: peliroja on 26 December, 2015, 12:45:55 pm
Worrying about the floods while perched in safety at the top of our hill in Skipton. Skipton (https://twitter.com/search?f=images&vertical=default&q=skipton&src=sprv) is cut off and the rivers and the canal are rising by the minute. A house has collapsed in Haworth (https://twitter.com/54north/status/680695762720845825). Ilkley cut off. Severe flood warnings for Whalley (https://twitter.com/search?q=whalley&src=typd), flash flooding in Hebden Bridge (https://twitter.com/search?q=hebden%20bridge%20flood&src=typd)...

Awful.
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Post by: robgul on 26 December, 2015, 01:04:03 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 26 December, 2015, 12:45:55 pm
Worrying about the floods while perched in safety at the top of our hill in Skipton. Skipton (https://twitter.com/search?f=images&vertical=default&q=skipton&src=sprv) is cut off and the rivers and the canal are rising by the minute. A house has collapsed in Haworth (https://twitter.com/54north/status/680695762720845825). Ilkley cut off. Severe flood warnings for Whalley (https://twitter.com/search?q=whalley&src=typd), flash flooding in Hebden Bridge (https://twitter.com/search?q=hebden%20bridge%20flood&src=typd)...

Awful.

My eldest daughter lives not far away in Ribchester ... some low-lying homes evacuated - hopefully, hers will escape flooding - the Ribble is at the end of her road but the opposing bank is about 5 metres lower so if it bursts then immediate flooding should be to farmland in the valley.  There's a BBC News clip with the pub at the other end of the village flooded, slightly worse than when I was there a couple of weeks ago. Fingers crossed.

Rob
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Post by: L CC on 26 December, 2015, 02:03:09 pm
Decanting.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20151226_132720.jpg)
and then, erm, testing.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20151226_134326.jpg)
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Post by: peliroja on 26 December, 2015, 02:31:24 pm
Quote from: robgul on 26 December, 2015, 01:04:03 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 26 December, 2015, 12:45:55 pm
Worrying about the floods while perched in safety at the top of our hill in Skipton. Skipton (https://twitter.com/search?f=images&vertical=default&q=skipton&src=sprv) is cut off and the rivers and the canal are rising by the minute. A house has collapsed in Haworth (https://twitter.com/54north/status/680695762720845825). Ilkley cut off. Severe flood warnings for Whalley (https://twitter.com/search?q=whalley&src=typd), flash flooding in Hebden Bridge (https://twitter.com/search?q=hebden%20bridge%20flood&src=typd)...

Awful.

My eldest daughter lives not far away in Ribchester ... some low-lying homes evacuated - hopefully, hers will escape flooding - the Ribble is at the end of her road but the opposing bank is about 5 metres lower so if it bursts then immediate flooding should be to farmland in the valley.  There's a BBC News clip with the pub at the other end of the village flooded, slightly worse than when I was there a couple of weeks ago. Fingers crossed.

Rob
Hope she's OK, Rob. A friend of ours had a foot of water at the front of his house - thankfully it didn't make it through the PVC door. Our council is out with the sandbags and evacuated residents are being moved to the Town Hall. The council offices look like they might flood, which would be Not Good.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 26 December, 2015, 04:01:05 pm
Quote from: fboab on 26 December, 2015, 02:03:09 pm
Decanting.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20151226_132720.jpg)
and then, erm, testing.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20151226_134326.jpg)
Top tip. Put the gin soaked sloes on your muslei (sp?). All that fruit, it's got to be healthy.
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Post by: L CC on 26 December, 2015, 06:58:03 pm
We were thinking crumble. And then not driving.
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Post by: Peter on 26 December, 2015, 07:01:19 pm
How fast did you drink it, according to the Garmin?
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Post by: ian on 26 December, 2015, 07:06:06 pm
Torturing the in-laws with poptastic modern music.

Turn it what? Sorry, I can't hear you. My house. My rules.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jamesld8 on 26 December, 2015, 07:20:16 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 26 December, 2015, 04:01:05 pm
Quote from: fboab on 26 December, 2015, 02:03:09 pm
Decanting.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20151226_132720.jpg)
and then, erm, testing.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20151226_134326.jpg)
Top tip. Put the gin soaked sloes on your muslei (sp?). All that fruit, it's got to be healthy.

Never get as far as the decanting bit  ::-) all six bottles go by end (eerr hmm)January from an Xmas start  :facepalm: Drunk straight off the sloes from outset
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 27 December, 2015, 04:16:05 pm
Eating cake on a train.
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Post by: Basil on 27 December, 2015, 04:25:04 pm
I've just completed the Walk of Shame to the bottle bank on the complex next door.
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Post by: lou boutin on 27 December, 2015, 04:42:15 pm
Watching Horrible Histories and historical master chef.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 December, 2015, 04:46:52 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 27 December, 2015, 04:16:05 pm
Eating cake on a train.

Cakes on a Train?  Sounds like a film title to me...
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 27 December, 2015, 06:11:04 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 27 December, 2015, 04:46:52 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 27 December, 2015, 04:16:05 pm
Eating cake on a train.

Cakes on a Train?  Sounds like a film title to me...

There have been stranger titles..
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2015, 06:42:55 pm
Made a start on this, this morning. Stripping the gypsum skim coat off the top of the lime plaster.
Did 2 hours by the time I'd had enough. Will get the whole wall done eventually. With a bit of luck before the 5th.... if not we've got until the end of Feb.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5630/23893225062_533f635f22_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Cpn2of)2015-12-27_12-00-08 (https://flic.kr/p/Cpn2of) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: mcshroom on 27 December, 2015, 08:51:30 pm
Sitting in Scotch Corner Services drinking a large coffee :)
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Post by: Jurek on 28 December, 2015, 04:44:03 pm
Sitting in Someone Else's conservatory, looking at the lights of Southend twinkling across the Thames Estuary, wondering whether it is too early to open a Veuve.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 December, 2015, 04:59:25 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 28 December, 2015, 04:44:03 pm
Sitting in Someone Else's conservatory, looking at the lights of Southend twinkling across the Thames Estuary, wondering whether it is too early to open a Veuve.

If you can see lights across the water, it can't be 'early'.  Go on, open that first bottle of the evening.
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Post by: Jurek on 28 December, 2015, 05:05:06 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 28 December, 2015, 04:59:25 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 28 December, 2015, 04:44:03 pm
Sitting in Someone Else's conservatory, looking at the lights of Southend twinkling across the Thames Estuary, wondering whether it is too early to open a Veuve.

If you can see lights across the water, it can't be 'early'.  Go on, open that first bottle of the evening.
Pop!
Cheers
:D
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Post by: tiermat on 30 December, 2015, 07:15:22 pm
Planning a route.

From Blanes to Sant Feliu de Guixol, for next year.

It's a bit of a departure from other times as I plan to fly into BCN, get the train up to as close to the start point as I can, then follow a ready made route, in this case the Pirinexus.
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Post by: Ham on 30 December, 2015, 07:30:28 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: lou boutin on 30 December, 2015, 08:17:28 pm
Signing up to weight watchers and hoping I will lose weight . Apparently if I don't lose 10lb in 10 weeks I can have my money back.  I want to lose 21lb (although people seem to think I'm going overboard with that figure, I don't!!!!)
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Post by: jsabine on 31 December, 2015, 01:30:56 am
Quote from: Jurek on 28 December, 2015, 04:44:03 pm
too early to open a Veuve.

I am not entirely convinced I recognise the existence of such a concept.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 31 December, 2015, 11:07:30 am
I'm baking bread for tonight’s sandwiches
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 31 December, 2015, 11:09:42 am
Quote from: lou boutin on 30 December, 2015, 08:17:28 pm
Signing up to weight watchers and hoping I will lose weight . Apparently if I don't lose 10lb in 10 weeks I can have my money back.  I want to lose 21lb (although people seem to think I'm going overboard with that figure, I don't!!!!)

Can weightwatchers do anything for you that YACF can't on 'ealth 'n' fitness (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=8.0) - F.O.C? 
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Post by: lou boutin on 31 December, 2015, 12:57:10 pm
Thanks I'll have a look around and join the weight loss thread, as for weight watchers, I know they are not the best but having a plan helps me and the app helps me track.
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Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2015, 02:56:20 pm
Sitting in the office feeling bored.     No instructions from management regarding clearing off early again  >:(
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Post by: Basil on 31 December, 2015, 04:19:37 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 31 December, 2015, 02:56:20 pm
Sitting in the office feeling bored.     No instructions from management regarding clearing off early again  >:(
No instructions not to, then?   ;)
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Post by: Ruthie on 31 December, 2015, 04:22:48 pm
Having my coffee break.  One trauma case,  one emergency,  one c-section.  Then I can clean some operating theatres.

Hey-ho :-)
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Post by: peliroja on 31 December, 2015, 04:26:49 pm
You're amazing, Ruthie! Thanks, and enjoy your break.
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Post by: Ruthie on 31 December, 2015, 07:14:16 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 31 December, 2015, 04:26:49 pm
You're amazing, Ruthie! Thanks, and enjoy your break.



Don't get me wrong Peli - I won't be doing it all myself  ;D
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Post by: lou boutin on 31 December, 2015, 07:39:46 pm
Watching Facebook as various friends update their statuses to 'engaged'  ;D
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Post by: Andrij on 31 December, 2015, 07:45:20 pm
Thinking I should probably get my act together if I'm gonna head out this evening.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 31 December, 2015, 08:02:06 pm
Cursing.  mllePB wants to go out for a beer or two but I'd rather stay at home in the warm and away from the noisy, crowded pubs and drunken rowdy pissheads.

Bah effing humbug.     :(
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Post by: mcshroom on 31 December, 2015, 08:30:39 pm
Working through my Christmas present sweet collection. Yum ;D
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Post by: L CC on 31 December, 2015, 08:46:27 pm
Preparing for The Period Of Austerity... By eating and drinking EVERYTHING
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Post by: Chris S on 31 December, 2015, 09:10:09 pm
Quote from: fboab on 31 December, 2015, 08:46:27 pm
Preparing for The Period Of Austerity... By eating and drinking EVERYTHING

And now she's on the floor, behind the settee.  ;D

 :-*

(I think fboab's hiding from the opera wot is on the telly).
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 31 December, 2015, 09:21:19 pm
Eating Christmas chocolate (I've still got some left! :o).

If I eat it now, it won't be there to tempt me any longer. I'm sure there's logic in there somewhere.

Next up: wine!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 December, 2015, 09:53:22 pm
Just finished pizza. Looks like pudding may be waiting til the bells.
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Post by: Basil on 31 December, 2015, 10:27:57 pm
I have three things on the table beside me.  A knife, a small glass of Talisker and a block of Welsh blue cheese.  (Biscuits?  Who needs biscuits?)
Later I'll see how the Laphroaig holds up in a similar scenario.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: runsoncake on 01 January, 2016, 12:05:02 am
Raising a glass to 2016 !!!

Cheers  :) ;)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 January, 2016, 12:19:35 am
Smoking my first fag of 2016 while waiting for the first cup of tea of 2016 to mash.
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Post by: Torslanda on 01 January, 2016, 12:46:42 am
Watching Thunderbird 6.

I'm 7 again!
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Post by: peliroja on 01 January, 2016, 12:51:11 am
Trying to distract the dog from the fireworks with nineties trance, coconut oil and silly dancing.

That looks strange written down.
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Post by: Clare on 01 January, 2016, 12:52:06 am
Quote from: Basil on 31 December, 2015, 10:27:57 pm
I have three things on the table beside me.  A knife, a small glass of Talisker and a block of Welsh blue cheese.  (Biscuits?  Who needs biscuits?)
Later I'll see how the Laphroaig holds up in a similar scenario.

Do let us know how the dunking blue cheese in whisky experiment goes.

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Post by: Basil on 01 January, 2016, 12:56:19 am
Wondering what happened to all the cheese.
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Post by: Basil on 01 January, 2016, 01:00:26 am
Wow!  Looking at stars.  I haven't seen stars in weeks.  And IT'S ACTUALLY COLD.  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 01 January, 2016, 09:46:32 am
Putting off going out into the garden to replace broken fence posts by reading the internets.
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Post by: Ruthie on 01 January, 2016, 09:49:16 am
Drinking coffee and listening to the radio.

Just lovely.
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Post by: Andrij on 02 January, 2016, 09:24:46 am
At the instigation of a friend, considering signing up for a sportive. :o  Specifically, the CARTEN100 (https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/141183/CARTEN100---2016). 
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Post by: Kim on 02 January, 2016, 12:29:03 pm
Breathing.  Not very well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 January, 2016, 12:33:19 pm
Getting into the right state of mind to Probe the Innards of the washing machine.

Ommmm!
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Post by: Kim on 02 January, 2016, 12:34:35 pm
Be careful, those things contain unstable wormholes.  And slime.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 January, 2016, 12:37:50 pm
I've had the drain filter out a Several of times recently and found it remarkably unhorrid - I was expecting the sort of hairball one would associate with a moggy the size of Kitten Kong.  But I now need to prod the internals of the drain pump, hence the putting-it-off-as-long-as-possible nature of the whole wossname.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 January, 2016, 12:41:31 pm
I once brought a washing machine back to full working order by removing an implausibly small pair of Y-fronts from the drain pump under similar circumstances.  I've no idea where they came from.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 January, 2016, 12:49:11 pm
From the noises it make, I think that my drain pump contains something hard, like a button, small but important brake component or Ross Kemp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 January, 2016, 03:07:08 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 02 January, 2016, 12:49:11 pm
From the noises it make, I think that my drain pump contains something hard, like a button, small but important brake component or Ross Kemp.

Twenty-one USAnian cents, in the form of two dimes and a penny.  Re-inter duvet cover, sheet, pillow cases and dressing gowns and cross fingers.  Messrs L & G clearly do not mean for people with my limited flexibility to unmantle the pump assembly of their appliances and securing the not-quote floor with twenty-eight screws is taking the piss.  Especially when eight of them also hold on the feet and are rusted in place with screwdriver-bit-snapping steadfastness.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 02 January, 2016, 09:48:02 pm
Prevaricating over purchase of a new wheel.
Well, the rear one I'm pretty confident about.
The front hasn't worn out yet, but I'm wondering about a dynamo. Though I suspect its actually the other bike where I'd get most use from a dynamo, as a charger.
And, while I'm looking, I seem to have opened tabs on front racks, panniers, new batteries for the SatMap etc etc. That's really TOO MUCH MONEY to spend in one go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 02 January, 2016, 10:02:10 pm
Taken one of my 17th century* books from The Library to check some musical references.  Pleased to say my recollections were correct.


* Sadly, just a reprint of a reprint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 03 January, 2016, 09:42:46 am
Quote from: perpetual dan on 02 January, 2016, 09:48:02 pm
Prevaricating over purchase of a new wheel.
Well, the rear one I'm pretty confident about.
The front hasn't worn out yet, but I'm wondering about a dynamo. Though I suspect its actually the other bike where I'd get most use from a dynamo, as a charger.
And, while I'm looking, I seem to have opened tabs on front racks, panniers, new batteries for the SatMap etc etc. That's really TOO MUCH MONEY to spend in one go.

Sense has prevailed. New rear wheel ordered other stuff left as treats to be bought when needed rather then when I've got too much time to spend on the internet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 03 January, 2016, 09:45:11 am
Waiting to go to church and praying that the rain will stop
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 January, 2016, 10:14:34 am
Confucius say: man who wrestle crocodile washing machine into state of umop-ap!sdn must exercise great care.

(Aches)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 03 January, 2016, 04:03:50 pm
I've just finished doing my 5000 extra steps for the day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 03 January, 2016, 05:36:48 pm
De-decorating and sticking it all back in the loft for another x months. :thumbsup:   
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Post by: DDCyclist on 04 January, 2016, 11:10:45 am
Plotting the future of DIY/Professional improvements on my house.

The list1, so far, is:


So far "have a mug of coffee" seems to be the highest priority.

1. Errors and omissions excepted. The list is far from complete.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 04 January, 2016, 01:26:57 pm
Seething quietly...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 January, 2016, 02:44:31 pm
Waiting to go get my eyes tested.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 January, 2016, 02:51:57 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 04 January, 2016, 01:26:57 pm
Seething quietly...

Then I'll begin.

Oh damn, that was "Sitting comfortably".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Redlight on 04 January, 2016, 03:59:23 pm
On a deadline

With writer's block

And no cake left
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 04 January, 2016, 04:24:06 pm
We have half a Christmas cake if that's any help.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 04 January, 2016, 04:29:26 pm
Just started on the second stollen - and still have about half a Christmas cake.  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 04 January, 2016, 07:42:10 pm
Having a nice hot bath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 04 January, 2016, 08:09:30 pm
About to go to bed as I have a cold man flu  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 January, 2016, 02:17:47 pm
Procrastinating, as the alternative involves thee Ladder ov Doom :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 09 January, 2016, 02:52:11 pm
Watching the weather radar and waiting for a gap in the rain. Once it eases off we're off to the tip with an old mattress (already loaded in the car if it hasn't unfolded itself and shoved the back window out) and a couple of other bags of stuff.

If we can't be bothered to make a second trip with the large pile of cardboard, that can go out with the recycling on Tuesday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 January, 2016, 04:39:23 pm
(Lugs self off sofa)

MR LARRINGTON: Oh look!  The Stuffs I need to restore my Zippo to working order have arrived!
OMNES: Get up the f*****g ladder, you great ponce!

(Exit, pursued by The BEAR)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 09 January, 2016, 05:18:01 pm
Timed perfectly. Rain eased off just as we arrived at the tip, we got straight in and by the time we'd unloaded the car (about 10 minutes) a small queue of about 10 cars had already formed.

I'd say that was a perfect trip to the tip.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 January, 2016, 05:21:27 pm
Quote from: DDCyclist on 09 January, 2016, 05:18:01 pm
Timed perfectly. Rain eased off just as we arrived at the tip, we got straight in and by the time we'd unloaded the car (about 10 minutes) a small queue of about 10 cars had already formed.

I'd say that was a perfect trip to the tip.   :thumbsup:

Nahh, cos a perfect trip to the tip would also be a candidate for the I carried this on my bicycle (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=11163.msg1514987#msg1514987) thread.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 09 January, 2016, 05:28:30 pm
A-ha. An awesome idea for a challenge for our village fete.

A prize for the greatest distance you can carry a double mattress on a bicycle (no trailer - of course).  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 January, 2016, 05:32:52 pm
Paging Teethgrinder.  Teethgrinder to the I'll-get-to-it-once-the-HAMR-is-over answerphone, please.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 09 January, 2016, 05:37:03 pm
Having a nice cup of Russian Caravan while winding down from an erg workout and plotting routes for tomorrow. Target 100k just to prove I'm minimum audax capable
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 January, 2016, 06:31:17 pm
(Some time later...)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1662/23648611243_03678e7309_o.png) (https://flic.kr/p/C2KjdB)
After thee Ladder ov Doom (https://flic.kr/p/C2KjdB) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Enough space until the 2018 event, when I'll need to replace Larrington Towers with a bigger model.

Also been rooting around in the cupboard under the sink.  Who knew there was so much crap in there?  Car shampoo?  Six types of Stain Devil?  A gallon of Cillit Bang?  No Brass Polish chiz and now the Chips Room smells funny :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 09 January, 2016, 06:38:06 pm
If I didn't know better I'd think you'd been rummaging around in the cupboard under my sink. The give-away was that you didn't mention the humongous carrier bag collection.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 January, 2016, 06:52:43 pm
Quote from: DDCyclist on 09 January, 2016, 06:38:06 pm
If I didn't know better I'd think you'd been rummaging around in the cupboard under my sink. The give-away was that you didn't mention the humongous carrier bag collection.

Alas, The Man has brought about the diminution of my once-extensive carrier bag collection, with his oppressive, er, oppression of the divine right of BRITONS to drop bright orange non-biodegradable shite all over this once-great country of ours.  and what are the so-called eu doing about it nothing thats what ["Cont. 'spEak You're bRanes'" - Ed.]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 09 January, 2016, 07:20:41 pm
Ah, but we (or rather, Mrs C) saw the demise of the freeby carrier bag coming and made a concerted and very successful attempt to horde as many as possible before being forced to pay for them. Carrier bags would arrive at the joint hovel with only one item in them. In some cases carrier bags would arrive containing only ... carrier bags. She collected enough carrier bags to skew the national statistics on legitimate carrier bag usage.

I protested. But it was all to naught. Eventually the 5p charge arrived and Mrs C smugly reminded me "I told you so."

I have to admit she was right. We now have enough carrier bags to use as kitchen bin bags until, I estimate, Nov 27 2043. And they were all free. I just hope they weren't biodegradable ones. I hate cleaning those up when they disintegrate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 16 January, 2016, 09:01:34 am
Heat gunning the bike carrier
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 16 January, 2016, 10:19:30 am
Thawing out after marshalling at Parkrun
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 January, 2016, 10:21:45 am
As I shall be attending a ball at the club this evening I have just instructed the valet to prepare my attire.  The footman has been sent to the chemist to fetch suitable pain killers for my back so that I may indulge in a waltz or two, though a gavotte is still highly unlikely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 17 January, 2016, 01:56:00 am
Quote from: Si S on 16 January, 2016, 09:01:34 am
Heat gunning the bike carrier

WHAT!?

Are you de-icing the roof rack...?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 17 January, 2016, 06:26:49 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 17 January, 2016, 01:56:00 am
Quote from: Si S on 16 January, 2016, 09:01:34 am
Heat gunning the bike carrier

WHAT!?

Are you de-icing the roof rack...?

Spot on mate, the whole thing was a lump of ice and after burning out Laine's hairdryer a little while ago warming up heli tape thought I'd use a proper tool instead of her new one
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 17 January, 2016, 10:33:14 am
Quote from: Si S on 17 January, 2016, 06:26:49 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 17 January, 2016, 01:56:00 am
Quote from: Si S on 16 January, 2016, 09:01:34 am
Heat gunning the bike carrier

WHAT!?

Are you de-icing the roof rack...?

Spot on mate, the whole thing was a lump of ice and after burning out Laine's hairdryer a little while ago warming up heli tape thought I'd use a proper tool instead of her new one
Just so long as you don't put the heat gun back where she keeps the hair dryer...

AFAIC I'm debugging stuff I embuggered in the first half of the morning, but will soon be going down to cook lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 January, 2016, 07:52:20 pm
Looking at a huge pile of washing up, and finding no inspiration.

This afternoon I have been entertaining [voice from audience] That's a first! [/voice from audience] so there's plenty to do.

Tomorrow will be an early start to a very long day (and evening) so I should take care of everything now, but I'm suffering from a severe case of CBA.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: diapsaon0 on 17 January, 2016, 10:03:04 pm
Learning a new Mass setting and a Bach Prelude & Fugue.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 17 January, 2016, 10:13:28 pm
Which setting is it? :)

I've just spent the evening planning out music up to Easter for our choir.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 January, 2016, 11:01:37 pm
Oops.  I haven't done that in years.  I just absentmindedly walked back into the pub with a fag on.  I went back to my table and decided to clear the glasses that the guys who had just left, er, left.  So hands full of glasses, fag in mouth, I approach the bar. Luckily the bar maid just pissed herself laughing and then politely pointed out my error.
  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 20 January, 2016, 08:11:22 am
Trying to thaw out a hosepipe - of all things.

I've got a conservatory fitter visiting any time from 08:00 to show him my leaky box gutter. I'd like to fill said box gutter so I can demonstrate the leak.

I did not anticipate that the hose pipe (hanging up outside) would be frozen solid.  :facepalm:

It's now coiled up in the nice warm lounge (as am I) and will, hopefully, be thawed by the time he arrives.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 20 January, 2016, 11:46:55 am
Trying to look slightly sad to be leaving, after handing in my notice.

 ;D

Failing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 20 January, 2016, 11:52:49 am
Box gutter ok - leak appears to be splashing from a downpipe that runs into it getting behind the flashing and over the edge of the gutter.

Next job - wait for rain and watch what happens. I may need to move the downpipe. Or rather they may need to move the downpipe as they installed it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 22 January, 2016, 12:09:22 pm
Looking for a VGA cable. I know I've got at least one somewhere - but where? I've been sorting through boxes of spare cables, and I even have a spare monitor somewhere with - no doubt - a cable. I distinctly remember putting it away carefully when I found it in the room I was clearing a few weeks ago. Although it was in it's original box, with the original polystyrene moulded packing, I didn't want it squashed under other boxes.

Can I find it? Not a chance.

Oh well, that's another thing with a mysterious built in cloaking device ...  ::-)

Added: Found the monitor and cable. PC now running.  :thumbsup:

Good God. Was it really that slow? How did I ever cope?  ::-)

Just updating virus stuff then I'll get some serious weeding and copying done before I install one of the drives that have been rolling around, rinse, repeat (a few times).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: DDCyclist on 22 January, 2016, 05:23:22 pm
Nope. There's a load of automatic updates which are now installing. May as well let them do their stuff. The PC will probably be around for a few weeks and I won't want too much nagging.

Now on 3 of 133 ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 23 January, 2016, 08:49:55 pm
Watching a program I've stumbled on where two mountain bikers are touring round the Isle of Lewis on BBC Alba. Gaelic with subtitles

[edit] Called Kerry 's Kirsty: Rothan gu Robhanais - Looks like it's part of a series
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06w1n0r
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 January, 2016, 11:46:25 pm
Ignoring whoever's ringing the doorbell.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 23 January, 2016, 11:51:58 pm
That'll be Ginger
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 January, 2016, 11:54:45 pm
Either Ginger, a taxi/takeaway driver who can't read, or the neighbours being complicated.  As they only rang once and I can't hear any dog noise, but the zombie activity levels are high tonight, I'm guessing the former.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2016, 11:58:29 pm
Quote from: diapason on 17 January, 2016, 10:03:04 pm
Learning a new Mass setting and a Bach Prelude & Fugue.

Which prelude & fugue?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 24 January, 2016, 04:45:17 pm
I'm watching the Flintstones in Viv Rock Vegas.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 05 February, 2016, 07:15:46 am
Sitting on the train to work trying to wake up whilst watching the world gradually turn from monochrome to colour.

Looking forward to a cup of tea and some breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 February, 2016, 02:36:51 pm
Hiding in the home office (not The Home Office) whilst 5 proto-teen girls are watching a movie downstairs and making a LOT of noise!

Usefully this is giving me time to set up the RaspPis that arrived on Thursday.  First issue, NOOBs doesn't support the touchscreen (no drivers in image) so I am having to go through a full update path to sort it.  I origianlly thought I had bought two faulty touchscreens, then read the first part of the install instructions!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 06 February, 2016, 08:29:01 pm
Thinking aboout tomorrows routing whilst entertaining a nice gin-based number

I should be reviewind some personal development objectives, but CBA.  Next week when it sounds more like work
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SoreTween on 07 February, 2016, 09:47:55 pm
Listening to Pearls Girl at volumes that are not good for my hearing but entirely appropriate to not having done same in a long while and it being Monday in 2 hrs 13.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 February, 2016, 07:58:46 am
Learn regexp, in Ruby.

Rubular(www.rubular.com) is a great resource for this, thankfully, as it doesn't seem to follow anything I know about "normal" regexp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 19 February, 2016, 09:26:12 pm
Procrastinating while I really should be changing tyres and fitting new brake pads for tomorrow's audax :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 19 February, 2016, 09:38:34 pm
Ooh which Audax?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 19 February, 2016, 09:43:30 pm
The Mini North West Paddle Passage - http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-47/

The weather forecast isn't helping me get in the mood :-\ - http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gcw3nb4ge#?fcTime=1455926400
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: vantage on 24 February, 2016, 07:57:53 pm
Reading my new book.
"Roads Were Not Built For Cars"  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 24 February, 2016, 08:19:51 pm
It is good isn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 24 February, 2016, 08:48:36 pm
trying to work out how to use my new Garmin Edge 800

I've managed to get to On, and start recording, which is not bad so far
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 02 March, 2016, 11:16:26 pm
Waiting for the washing machine to finish so I can put some cycling gear on the radiator for tomorrow and then go to bed.

/me yawns and drums fingers
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 March, 2016, 06:51:59 pm
Getting pissed with Steph in the Wellington.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 09 March, 2016, 07:45:31 pm
 :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 March, 2016, 08:02:00 pm
Oh god, this could turn out messy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 09 March, 2016, 08:53:38 pm
ccontemplating falling asleep after one beer.  I may not even make it to the open bottle of wine.

And it's only Wednesday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 March, 2016, 10:33:39 pm
Slumping in my chair feeling bloated.......

A planned meal with a friend,   2 pints beforehand then off to the curry house, and Oh!  We've each brought a bottle of wine (BYOB)

Chicken Shashlik, Keema Naan, Dal Gosht & Pillau Rice.  I'm just about ready to pop !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 March, 2016, 08:47:09 pm
Sitting here wondering why I've never bothered switching energy supplier before.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 March, 2016, 09:57:45 pm
Watching my laptop download windows 10. 

Yawn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 12 March, 2016, 10:01:31 pm
Drinking homebrew and eating peanuts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 13 March, 2016, 07:47:50 am
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lduna6p819mdac5/20160312_194738.jpg?dl=0

At a bitch fight with the kids


(Last night)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 13 March, 2016, 07:53:04 am
Trying to think of a good reason not to go on the Newport Nova Raiders reliability ride this morning…the kits ready, the bike is in the car, the route loaded and the weather almost perfect. So, sigh, looks like I will have to do it (I do really want to do it but there is a hill just outside Newport…the only hill just outside Newport, I really hate).

I know, I can’t go as our Unicorns horn needs polishing.

Oh, sadly CBH has pointed out that Unicorns horns are self-polishing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 March, 2016, 10:16:47 am
Taking a break from watching terrible films.  See A&E for further details soon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 March, 2016, 03:18:51 pm
Resting after the first ride of the year. I could really do with a snooze but I have to go and find a plane to Norway later :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: vantage on 14 March, 2016, 09:19:25 am
Quote from: Canardly on 24 February, 2016, 08:19:51 pm
It is good isn't it?

So far so good. Certainly an eye opener.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 15 March, 2016, 11:21:04 am
Thinking oops I appear to have bought another guitar. A couple of glasses of wine, eBay and a low ball "best offer" I really didn't think the vendor would accept but they have. Could happen to anybody, couldn't it?
Still a 2015 Epiphone Les Paul Studio in faded red with some better pick-ups (Irongear including a P90 in the neck) plus the original pick-ups and a Gator hard case for £170, that's not too bad surely. Who am I fooling Mrs Pcolbeck will kill me ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 16 March, 2016, 06:14:56 pm
Watching Mrs P's flight on flightradar24.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 March, 2016, 01:08:31 pm
Practising being retired.
 I'm not working today or Monday but return for two last days on Tuesday and Wednesday.
I've stayed in Brum rather than return to Wales for the weekend as home visits won't be so urgent after next week.

Gosh!  There's so much to learn.
Today, I am practising going to the post office exactly at lunchtime.  On Monday I'll practice the most irritating time to visit the bank.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 March, 2016, 01:39:09 pm
After that try doing two lots of shopping at the same time which have to be paid for separately.  In between psying for the first lot and starting to bag up the second, practice putting you debit card back in your wallet, carefully reading the till receipt and each and every voucher for extra Nectar points or 0.02p off your next purchase of something you've never bought and never will, putting  them in your wallet too and putting  the wallet at the very bottom of one of six bags chosen at random.  Bonus points if you decide halfway through the second tranche that you don't like the colour of an item and could you swap it for the green one?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 18 March, 2016, 01:54:37 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 18 March, 2016, 01:39:09 pm
After that try doing two lots of shopping at the same time which have to be paid for separately.  In between psying for the first lot and starting to bag up the second, practice putting you debit card back in your wallet, carefully reading the till receipt and each and every voucher for extra Nectar points or 0.02p off your next purchase of something you've never bought and never will, putting  them in your wallet too and putting  the wallet at the very bottom of one of six bags chosen at random.  Bonus points if you decide halfway through the second tranche that you don't like the colour of an item and could you swap it for the green one?

This, of course, must be done Saturday mornings.  Why waste your weekdays shopping when you can do it on a weekend and meet all those people who are busy at work during the week?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 March, 2016, 01:58:12 pm
Great!  All good tips.  Thanks peeps.   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 18 March, 2016, 02:05:00 pm
Use the express queue at the supermarket, engage the till attendant in conversation about your ailments and the state of your socks, then count out the exact change onto the counter using coins no larger than 20p. Then complain that the beans were supposed to be on offer*, but they've charged you 99p instead of 79p.

*You'll have scoured the shelves beforehand, looking for out-of-date offers where the signs hadn't yet been taken down, hoping for just such an opportunity.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 March, 2016, 02:06:23 pm
Don't forget to catch a rush hour train out to Shenstone or somewhere to go for a bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 18 March, 2016, 02:29:04 pm
Of course while you are scouring those shelves for the out of date offer, you need to park your trolley exactly perpendicular and central to the aisle you are in so that no-one else can pass up or down the on either side.

Then be ready to make disapproving tutting noises if anyone has the temerity to ask you to move it and let them through.

Added bonus points for moaning about 'young people always being in too much of a hurry these days' while you do it ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: vantage on 18 March, 2016, 02:43:50 pm
Go to a cashier staffed checkout and let him/her scan absolutely everything letting it all pile up at the back of the bagging area and then pay. Only after paying as above (in small change from the penny jar at home) pack everything in an explicit order making sure that nothing is out of place in the bag. Make sure the walking stick falls over forcing you to bend down mumbling "Oooh by'eck that's a bit tender love" as you pick up said stick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 18 March, 2016, 02:52:43 pm
Then if you're driving back from the shop, remember that the speed limit is 40 mph. That's for any road, anywhere. Forget about those big circular signs with strange numbers like 50, and especially 30 or 20. 40 mph is the one true speed for any conditions!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: vantage on 19 March, 2016, 08:50:20 am
Currently packing to go for a short camping break in Wales with the missus and her son in a handmedown tent that needed a pole replacing  which hasnt been tried yet and which will probably leak like a cheese grater and getting there in her car which sprang up a shit load of warning lights during the week. I've also discovered a leak in our blow up mattress. She has the patch kit though. So can't fix it till we get there.
Should be interesting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 March, 2016, 12:56:50 pm
Babysitting untested backup scripts.

PSA:  Anyone not backed up their data today?  You're all going to die!  You see, sometimes the disk fairy comes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 19 March, 2016, 09:29:45 pm
I'm feeling pleased with myself, because I've just solved a long-standing puzzle from work.

Our software makes some calculations.
The equations it uses are in the help file, but there is no explanation of where the equations come from.
It does not state the starting assumptions, or provide any derivation of the equations.
The original authors are long singe gone, so it's become something of a mystery.
This has been the case since I joined the company 2 years ago.

We all know in an arm-waving sense what the equations are doing.
We just can't back it up with any robust maths.

I've spent a week working it out from first principles, starting from the core petrophysics, figuring out what in fact the equations are really solving, and then doing the maths.
The first part was the hard part, trying to second-guess what petrophysical assumptions were being made, so I can write out some starting point equations.
Once I had these nailed, the maths is straightforward.

I have finally managed to derive the actual equations we are using, and justify them with robust maths.

I'm going to have a glass of grog now.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 March, 2016, 09:49:58 pm
My brane hurts just thinking about that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 22 March, 2016, 05:59:00 pm
Trying to get used to the idea that:

a) I am home on a weeknight
b) My "out of office" responder is set
c) I'm now on holibobs for a week
d) work can go *%*£ itself

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 March, 2016, 12:59:46 am
Watching things get timey-wimey.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 27 March, 2016, 02:44:34 pm
Being grateful that I don't have an angry chicken in my bathroom... (admittedly en-rabbit-hutched)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 March, 2016, 10:18:06 pm
Giving my pancreas a work out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 28 March, 2016, 09:12:19 am
Contemplating what to cook for lunch.  Something à la Prudhomme, I think: ground white pepper, black & Cayenne ditto, paprika & thyme; onion, garlic, sweet red peppers, ½ a green cayenne pod & celery all chopped finely. The lot sautéed, then something like cod fillets & prawns tossed in.

Sounds about right.  Sautéed spuds or rice to go with - thin spuds sautéed until brown and a wee bit crisp should go nicely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 28 March, 2016, 10:15:26 am
Only on yacf could the previous four replies appear in sequence and people at home nod sagely rather than saying 'What. The. Actual. Foi . . . ?'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 March, 2016, 02:19:51 pm
Digesting lunch and watching "Disney's favourite songs". It's easter Monday, so some Disney is obligatory!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 28 March, 2016, 02:23:17 pm
listening to the wind continue to howl outside, though hopefully tis easing off a bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 28 March, 2016, 02:47:01 pm
Stripped down my Tourer and given it the best clean I've done for a long time. Now sitting on the sofa drinking tea before changing the chainrings, cassette chain, bar tape and reassembling
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 March, 2016, 06:11:51 pm
On a northern bus-on-rails, heading home, full on chips and fresh air after a trip to the seaside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 March, 2016, 07:03:02 pm
Mmmmm.... chiiiiips :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 28 March, 2016, 07:09:33 pm
Feeling hungry at the mere mention of chips...   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 March, 2016, 07:16:52 pm
Crinkles.  You've just made me pop my head round the door of the Chinese takeaway bit in the pub and order two pancake rolls.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 28 March, 2016, 07:34:01 pm
I'm attempting to upload a video of the work choir practicing an Irish Blessing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 March, 2016, 07:37:39 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 March, 2016, 07:16:52 pm
Crinkles.  You've just made me pop my head round the door of the Chinese takeaway bit in the pub and order two pancake rolls.

Your pub has an en-suite Chinese takeaway?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 March, 2016, 08:27:42 pm
Yes it does. How cool is that?   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 28 March, 2016, 08:37:46 pm
I'm excited as I've uploaded my video to YouTube and published it via Twitter and FsceBook.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 28 March, 2016, 08:41:01 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 March, 2016, 08:37:46 pm
I'm excited as I've uploaded my video to YouTube and published it via Twitter and FsceBook.  :thumbsup:

We demand a linky!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 28 March, 2016, 08:45:06 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 28 March, 2016, 08:41:01 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 March, 2016, 08:37:46 pm
I'm excited as I've uploaded my video to YouTube and published it via Twitter and FsceBook.  :thumbsup:

We demand a linky!

It's the University's City (Wellbeing) Choir singing An Irish Blessing. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ssxwX1o8meg 

I'm not in it :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 28 March, 2016, 08:48:06 pm
Aww that's lovely!  A very sweet sound.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 March, 2016, 08:49:41 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 28 March, 2016, 06:11:51 pm
On a northern bus-on-rails, heading home, full on chips and fresh air after a trip to the seaside.

I had cheesy chips at the seaside today. :thumbsup:

Currently, I'm trying to retrieve the first bit of my ride there from my Garmin, because it seems to have been corrupted and it's not on Strava so it didn't happen. :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 28 March, 2016, 08:50:44 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 28 March, 2016, 08:48:06 pm
Aww that's lovely!  A very sweet sound.

We were few in number because many me,beers were on holiday. Sadly we've also lost a few of our most experienced members as they have left the Uni for pastures new.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 30 March, 2016, 08:21:00 am
Buying next year's winter coat online in the sales.  And checking out the ethical policies of the companies I'm thinking of buying from.  It's a bit time consuming this middle-class-but-skint-guilt thing.

Really I'd like to keep wearing the navy wool coat I got secondhand from my sadly deceased m-in-l, but it's literally disintegrating and won't do another winter.  To be fair, it's done three winters for me and goodness knows how many for her, so it's allowed to rest in peace.  But that means getting a new one.

Anyway, Hobbs do at least have an ethical policy, and while it would be better to pay Hobbs prices for things made in the UK so we could give garment workers here properly paid jobs (no doubt decreasing profit for shareholders, boo-hoo), they don't use child labour, they don't used forced labour, and they don't make their garment workers work more than 48 hours a week (!).  Plus their manufacturers have to pay a living wage.  I suspect a living wage might not be very much - although to be fair I don't know where their factories are.

Anyway, what do you think? (https://www.hobbs.co.uk/product/display?productID=0214-3120-9044L00&productvarid=0214-3120-9044L00-CAMEL-10&refpage=search/results)



(It's only £100.00 elsewhere, I'm not paying £200.00).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 March, 2016, 08:32:15 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 30 March, 2016, 08:21:00 am
Buying next year's winter coat online in the sales.  And checking out the ethical policies of the companies I'm thinking of buying from.  It's a bit time consuming this middle-class-but-skint-guilt thing.

Really I'd like to keep wearing the navy wool coat I got secondhand from my sadly deceased m-in-l, but it's literally disintegrating and won't do another winter.  To be fair, it's done three winters for me and goodness knows how many for her, so it's allowed to rest in peace.  But that means getting a new one.

Anyway, Hobbs do at least have an ethical policy, and while it would be better to pay Hobbs prices for things made in the UK so we could give garment workers here properly paid jobs (no doubt decreasing profit for shareholders, boo-hoo), they don't use child labour, they don't used forced labour, and they don't make their garment workers work more than 48 hours a week (!).  Plus their manufacturers have to pay a living wage.  I suspect a living wage might not be very much - although to be fair I don't know where their factories are.

Anyway, what do you think? (https://www.hobbs.co.uk/product/display?productID=0214-3120-9044L00&productvarid=0214-3120-9044L00-CAMEL-10&refpage=search/results)



(It's only £100.00 elsewhere, I'm not paying £200.00).

Very you!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 30 March, 2016, 10:48:34 am
Very elegant.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jakob W on 30 March, 2016, 04:29:07 pm
For £100? Well worth it - looks lovely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oscar's dad on 30 March, 2016, 08:01:24 pm
Drinking Malbec in Brewers Fayre on the outskirts of Hull. Rock 'n' Roll lifestyle in spades. I should add that I am alone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 30 March, 2016, 11:52:37 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 March, 2016, 07:37:39 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 March, 2016, 07:16:52 pm
Crinkles.  You've just made me pop my head round the door of the Chinese takeaway bit in the pub and order two pancake rolls.

Your pub has an en-suite Chinese takeaway?

It's fairly common to have a takeaway built into a pub - usually it's a reassigned bookies, mind. Kirriemuir's boozer has/had a great chippy next door:

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1278/4671725121_897d46ffc1_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/87PP7R)DSC_1008 (https://flic.kr/p/87PP7R) by David Martin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/), on Flickr

(I still own the t-shirt and jeans, both a lot more raggedy now)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 31 March, 2016, 12:08:16 am
Getting on the outside of some Wheat Beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 31 March, 2016, 09:54:54 am
Waiting for the pain killers to kick in so I can leave the house to go buy moar drugz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bumper on 01 April, 2016, 06:59:31 pm
I've just watched the local plod open my neighbours door, fascinating, expensive!

Neighbour is missing, nobody has a clue where he is. He's not turned in to work and his parents are in Spain. The girlfriend hasn't got a clue either and he's not answering his phone.

I've been given a crime number to report back if he comes home. He's a bit of a piss head and was reported to have been 'drugged' last night at a local known bar. I last saw him leave home yesterday afternoon, he's a bit of a cock but hope he's okay.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 April, 2016, 06:35:25 am
Trying to fall back asleep now that the latest handful* of pills is working.


* exaggeration
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 April, 2016, 09:05:23 am
Gearing up to make lunch for five.  We had invited kids+partners for Easter but my daughter's can't stand my son's "mind-numbing prattle" and asked to come a week later.  Wife said yes and only later sprang it on the cook bugger that, chef de cuisine if you please, so now I have a thick hour's chopping ahead.

Maybe I'll do Prent's auntie's cod creole with pilchards just to sicken them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: vantage on 03 April, 2016, 09:30:57 am
Yawning. It's too early.

Taking the girls to Astley Park in Chorley later with the oh where hopefully the new kids park I saw them building last year is finished...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 04 April, 2016, 04:03:59 pm
Browsing maps of Skye, planning a few bicycle rides for when I'm there for a week, in May!   :thumbsup:

 I'll be taking the mtbso, rather than the road bike, as I fancy some exploring off road!   :thumbsup:  Can't wait!
This ane sounds good, Broadford to Sunish

http://www.islandcycles-skye.co.uk/2012/01/mtb-route-bradford-to-sunish/ (http://www.islandcycles-skye.co.uk/2012/01/mtb-route-bradford-to-sunish/)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 04 April, 2016, 04:06:31 pm
If you get chance, Raasay is great to ride around for a day while you're there. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 April, 2016, 08:52:17 pm
Mr Smith is busy shaking nipples.  :o

(Out of a rim)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jon on 05 April, 2016, 08:54:46 pm
Just regreased my headset and installed new forks. Very proud of myself because I thought I was inept.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: eck on 05 April, 2016, 09:46:08 pm
Quote from: Deano on 30 March, 2016, 11:52:37 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 March, 2016, 07:37:39 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 March, 2016, 07:16:52 pm
Crinkles.  You've just made me pop my head round the door of the Chinese takeaway bit in the pub and order two pancake rolls.

Your pub has an en-suite Chinese takeaway?

It's fairly common to have a takeaway built into a pub - usually it's a reassigned bookies, mind. Kirriemuir's boozer has/had a great chippy next door:

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1278/4671725121_897d46ffc1_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/87PP7R)DSC_1008 (https://flic.kr/p/87PP7R) by David Martin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/), on Flickr

(I still own the t-shirt and jeans, both a lot more raggedy now)
Haha, just seen this Deano. Yes, the chippie is still there, as is the pub next door. They're a whole 200 yards from my hoose.
Anyway, your tent is still safely here, and I'm hoping to have a night in in it the wilds of my back garden soon, perhaps preceded by a visit to said pub and chippie. Just to help me get to sleep you understand?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 05 April, 2016, 10:00:27 pm
eck, sounds like you're a natural at this camping lark.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 April, 2016, 11:38:09 pm
Being impressed by PayPal and their stance on transgender issues.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0X21XR
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 06 April, 2016, 07:57:05 am
Yes and many other, like NBA where for years it has not been nice to be gay, like in football over here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 07 April, 2016, 02:54:43 pm
On the contract hunting treadmill, again.  This time it's a few months sooner than I expected...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 07 April, 2016, 08:45:02 pm
Dabbling with OpenFietsMap, QMapshack and my Etrex 20.

http://www.openfietsmap.nl/home (http://www.openfietsmap.nl/home)

https://bitbucket.org/maproom/qmapshack/wiki/Home (https://bitbucket.org/maproom/qmapshack/wiki/Home)

Basically I've now got open streetmap, routable maps, with countour lines, for the whole of GB & ireland on my 'puter, and gps!   :) All for nowt!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 09 April, 2016, 06:04:48 pm
Wearing ear defenders whilst using my kidneys to listen to Boy Wunja play the drums.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 10 April, 2016, 02:08:46 pm
Contemplating going for bike ride. Contemplating because despite sleeping till noon my head is filled with post-travel sludge and I think that I'm finally coming down with the cold that my wife had before I left, though it's at the minor tingly throat and occasional sneezing bout stage. So a bike ride will either clear my head or result in my sniffly demise later this evening. Possibly both.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 April, 2016, 02:22:34 pm
Listening to a hard drive making click-of-death noises interspersed with occasional bouts of activity, while watching a directory slowly fill with recovered data, and the syslog rapidly fill with read errors and timeouts.

Anyone not backed up their mother in law's data today, particularly the really important directories (identified by names that start "AAAA")?  You're doomed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 10 April, 2016, 03:11:42 pm
Thanks for reminding me, Kim!  Sunday is backup day, and I haven't done it yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 April, 2016, 08:24:54 pm
Waiting to watch Everest.  But Mrs B has something crap on Film 4 atm. 
*opens nuvver Old Speckled Hen*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 10 April, 2016, 08:29:50 pm
Mumble hours later and so far I've recovered about 45 gigabytes of what appears to be mostly iPlayer cache, easily re-downloadable podcasts, countless mysterious Mega-Global Fruit Co backup files, most of a Thunderbollocks profile and (hopefully) the majority of the eccentrically catalogued photographs.  It's still chugging away, intermittently causing my computer to hang...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 11 April, 2016, 07:43:49 pm
Quote from: Kim on 10 April, 2016, 02:22:34 pm
really important directories (identified by names that start "AAAA")

My former boss used to create spreadsheets which us minions had to fill in, the way bosses do.
They changed from time to time.
These lived in shared network drives.

So his protocol was to prepend @ at the front of the file-name, so it would appear at the top of a directory listing.

After a year or so, the directory was full of:
@@@@@@@_Use_Me_First_Truly_The_Final_Spreadsheet.xls

And 1000 variants thereof.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 April, 2016, 07:54:49 pm
Final score:  48 gig recovered, of which about 29 gig appears to be potentially important data (mostly endless amazingly shit photographs (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=94573.msg2013937#msg2013937), teaching resources and low-level DPA violations), rather than iTunes library, cache files and Windows cruft.  I'm ignoring the mystery NTFS partition that refuses to mount.

Filesystem is a mess, combination of the naming scheme above and nested directories of old backups.  I've ceremonially moved it all to barakta's home directory and made it somebody else's problem.

She's on the phone now breaking the good news...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 11 April, 2016, 08:03:20 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 April, 2016, 07:54:49 pm
I'm ignoring the mystery NTFS partition that refuses to mount.

It's probably a System Recovery partition, using a non-standard Partition ID.
The filesystem probably does not match the Partition ID.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_type

OEMs do this to prevent Windows from recognising it and mounting it.
So to hide it from the machine's Windows OS.

The actual filesystem on the partition is probably just FAT32.
But who cares.
No-one ever wanted to use the restore partition.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2016, 08:32:30 pm
Pingu's doing gubbinsment science with cat poo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 April, 2016, 08:54:20 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2016, 08:32:30 pm
Pingu's doing gubbinsment science with cat poo.

 :sick:

I'm currently being told to shut up.  Mrs B is watching a film.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 April, 2016, 09:04:16 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 11 April, 2016, 08:03:20 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 April, 2016, 07:54:49 pm
I'm ignoring the mystery NTFS partition that refuses to mount.

It's probably a System Recovery partition, using a non-standard Partition ID.
The filesystem probably does not match the Partition ID.

Seems plausible.  It's hidden under a clusterfuck of bad sectors, so I'm not wasting any more time on it.  We've got what we were after.

*files factoid away in back of brain for next time*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 11 April, 2016, 09:06:39 pm
Drinking decaff instant.

And wriggling my toes as they are covered in blisters.  Why do I always forget to put socks over my stockings when I wear those boots?

I just got home from a church meeting to find an estate car ambulance on the pavement outside my house.  Young lassie had had a seizure.  She had one poxy hospital blanket on and it's not warm out there.

I went inside for a couple of warmer blankies and a pillow but the proper ambulance came so I took them back in again.

Ironic that I had to ask for a lift home in a car, because of the blisters on my feet, when the meeting was about a Prayer Walk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 12 April, 2016, 01:25:38 pm
Contemplating that in approximately one hour's time I will have completed a 37.5 working week. No, I don't work shifts. No, I still have to work through till Friday night.

Contemplating further, Thursday week*, to help Get Through The Day Somehow



*flying to Catalonia, along with bike
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 13 April, 2016, 12:33:41 pm
Quote from: Basil on 11 April, 2016, 08:54:20 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2016, 08:32:30 pm
Pingu's doing gubbinsment science with cat poo.

 :sick:

Just the sampling, not the analysis or disposal :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 19 April, 2016, 01:24:15 am
Thinking I should probably try to get some sleep before sunrise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 April, 2016, 07:10:19 am
Wishing I hadn't taken down my draught screen now that spring is here. People (missus + dogs) keep leaving the bloody door open and it's freezing outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 April, 2016, 12:10:33 am
Wondering what I have forgotten to pack, instead of going to bed.

Having to go to a place of work tomorrow instead of "working from home" so packed tonight for a 6 day tour into 2 panniers, 8Kg including tools, maps etc.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 April, 2016, 06:00:56 pm
Sipping Windermere Pale Ale while waiting for my Keralan Fish Curry.

It's been a busy day so I'm chilling out before toddling off to hear a piano recital.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 April, 2016, 06:44:42 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 21 April, 2016, 06:00:56 pm
Sipping Windermere Pale Ale while waiting for my Keralan Fish Curry.

It's been a busy day so I'm chilling out before toddling off to hear a piano recital.

Dammit! No Sticky Toffee Pudding left!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 April, 2016, 07:09:54 pm
You've got room for STP after a curry ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 April, 2016, 07:24:49 pm
They made a mistake & brought me a small portion, I couldn't be bothered to complain.

Fruit crumble & coffee was an acceptable substitute.

They forgot to charge me for the curry & beer as well, I had to remind them !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 21 April, 2016, 07:28:34 pm
Sat here with a thermometer in my mouth feeling like crap -the good news is 98.4f so I'll still be here tomorrow ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 22 April, 2016, 04:04:05 pm
Trying to decide if I can finish off the donut mountain in the next 15 minutes, bad planning, MD forgot to factor in staff holidays...I already feel a little  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 22 April, 2016, 06:35:50 pm
Sorting out things for tonight's Whitstable FNRttC.

I've pumped up the tyres, and started fiddling with the light fittings.  Various batteries, lights and cameras are plugged into an assortment of chargers.  I've got enough food to feed most of the ride, so I need to pare that back to the bare minimum.

I've got a new Fly 12 camera and light, so I'll fix that to the bike.  I'll barely have two front lights, two GPXs, two cameras, and three rear lights, well aside from two spare sets of lights. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oscar's dad on 22 April, 2016, 06:54:31 pm
Oh, that's interesting, I've just Googled Fly12 cameras as I've not heard of them before. How do they compare with GoPro?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 April, 2016, 08:17:37 pm
Quote from: TimO on 22 April, 2016, 06:35:50 pm
Sorting out things for tonight's Whitstable FNRttC.

I've pumped up the tyres, and started fiddling with the light fittings.  Various batteries, lights and cameras are plugged into an assortment of chargers.  I've got enough food to feed most of the ride, so I need to pare that back to the bare minimum.

I've got a new Fly 12 camera and light, so I'll fix that to the bike.  I'll barely have two front lights, two GPXs, two cameras, and three rear lights, well aside from two spare sets of lights. ;D


^ This.  With slightly less redundancy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 April, 2016, 12:08:29 pm
Quote from: Oscar's dad on 22 April, 2016, 06:54:31 pm
Oh, that's interesting, I've just Googled Fly12 cameras as I've not heard of them before. How do they compare with GoPro?

Well, the only testing I've done with it, so far, has been a cycle part way to the start of the FNRttC, and then back home, in the dark and wet, which isn't an optimal test!

I can't really compare one to a GoPro from personal experience, since I've never had a GoPro.  I have been using a Fly6 for a long time.  For a very short time I used a RidEye on the front, and for a much longer time a Garmin Virb Elite.

First impressions are that it's a nice solid metal bodied camera.  The lamp seems good, although not as bright as many lights.  It's certainly more than adequate as a backup front lamp.  Rather hopelessly, the Android app is not yet available, so I've had to configure it using a USB cable, and change values on a file that are then reflected when you power the camera back on.

The image quality seems good, and the sensor was possibly more sensitive to dark conditions than than the Virb Elite.  I'll have to run both cameras for a while, and see how the footage compares.

Whilst the seatpost mounting for the Fly6 is OK, the Fly12 has a very solid metal GoPro compatible mount.  Since it's heavier than the Fly6, and the nature of where it needs to mounted, that's good.  One of the failings of the RidEye was that its mounting was utterly hopeless, and the camera wobbled around so much, it made the video almost useless (the other problem was a complete failure to make the camera water tolerant, which doesn't work well with the UK's climate).

The overall construction of the Fly12 is better and more solid than the Fly6, which suggests they've learnt a lot with the two generations of their first camera.  It would be nice to see a new Fly6 with a metal body and metal mounting, but I'm not too expectant over that.

One of the nice things about both cameras, is that they both know to keep the footage if a collision occurs.  In essence, if the camera is angled over significantly from the vertical for more than a few seconds, it records for a short period and then stops (30 minutes for the Fly12).  They also automagically overwrite the oldest footage, so you don't need to do that manually, which is a major hassle with the Garmin Virb, and have a good battery lifetime.

My Garmin Virb will just about keep going for 2½ hours on a well charged battery.  The Fly6 used to last for about 7 hours, although with age it seems to be a bit shorter now (and the battery is not replacable, unlike the Garmin Virb).  The Fly12 is quoted as lasting 10 hours for the camera alone, which would theoretically last me for an entire week of commuting.  I know the battery is used up a lot faster, if you use the light, but I don't expect to do that very often.

So, what I really like about it are:
I'll try and remember to post a longer review in the Reviews section, when I've used it for a bit longer.

The major nice feature of the Virb Elite over the Fly12, is that it has an integrated GPX, however that's not generally needed for a camera, and Garmin did a really poor job of synchronising the video and GPX, well actually they didn't bother at all, so it's a totally manual and fiddly process.  Garmin's code for the Virb is actually quite spectacularly poorly written for a major company.  I know several ways to predictably make it fail, and some of those are widely complained about.  After very very minimal testing by me, the Fly12 code seems well written, although it doesn't really have much in the way of on-camera controls, beyond Start and Stop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oscar's dad on 23 April, 2016, 12:45:48 pm
Useful, thanks Tim.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 April, 2016, 03:24:48 pm
Interval at the Royal Exchange in Manchester.
Don Warrington is a magnificent Lear.  And Miss Jones is nowhere in sight...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 28 April, 2016, 05:13:34 pm
Waiting for an engineer to finish waiting for a freezer to cool down so we can both go home. Oh well can't complain too much, managed to negotiate his attendance fee down by 50% from licenced to print money to mere daylight robbery
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 28 April, 2016, 05:36:43 pm
Waiting for the engineer to change the part he's just changed.....its going to be a long evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 28 April, 2016, 05:45:35 pm
On the waiting front, waiting for air con engineers to finish fitting a back up unit for the server room. The delivery of said unit was booked and paid for to be here by 11:00 a.m. True to form it turned up at 3:10, right in the middle of the pick up run when we have about 30 minibuses and 40- 50 taxis to collect the kids.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 April, 2016, 06:14:17 pm
Cuddling the hound on tbe sofa and waiting for the vegatables to roadt for tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 28 April, 2016, 07:55:32 pm
Thinking maybe I should have lit the woodburner after all..

Quote
Tomorrow is forecast to be WARMER than today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 April, 2016, 11:05:41 am
Trying to summon up the energy to go to the Post Office.  It's almost May; I should be able to wear flip-flops and a T-shaped shirt.  Not bundle myself up in a heavily-insulated overcoat and a woolly hat >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Deano on 29 April, 2016, 11:12:28 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 April, 2016, 11:05:41 am
Trying to summon up the energy to go to the Post Office.  It's almost May; I should be able to wear flip-flops and a T-shaped shirt.  Not bundle myself up in a heavily-insulated overcoat and a woolly hat >:(

Tell me about it. The rain's just turned to sleet here, and after the PO I'm meant to be heading up to Mickleton to collect some tickets.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 29 April, 2016, 11:15:05 am
Projectile-coughing  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 April, 2016, 11:27:22 am
Waiting for a delayed plane! Damned West Yorkshire weather!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 29 April, 2016, 11:28:42 am
Digesting my pre-ride pasta and drinking tea.  Natch, the sunshine has buggered off and the clouds are gathering.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oscar's dad on 29 April, 2016, 11:37:34 am
Working away in my Man Cave / home office / bike fettling facility cunning disguised as a garage. Whilst I do have the heater on its sunny outside (I am located in The People's Republic of Mid-Essex) and I hope it remains so for the weekend as we have 3 nights camping at a Cider and Sausage festival to enjoy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 April, 2016, 01:32:50 pm
Preparing to go to the vets. Found a little round bald patch on Tilly and want to get it checked out to make sure its not ringworm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 April, 2016, 04:01:30 pm
Checking the relative positions of sun and yardarm.  I've finally got round to buying a bottle of our local sea weed gin (http://www.damhile.co.uk/shop/seaweed)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 April, 2016, 05:23:30 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 29 April, 2016, 01:32:50 pm
Preparing to go to the vets. Found a little round bald patch on Tilly and want to get it checked out to make sure its not ringworm.

And it wasn't ringworm. Vet thinks its a little scar from a bite or something. She might have had it since we got her as you can only see it when she sits in a particular way. Might be from a nip from one of her litter mates.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 April, 2016, 09:11:56 pm
Quote from: Basil on 29 April, 2016, 04:01:30 pm
Checking the relative positions of sun and yardarm.  I've finally got round to buying a bottle of our local sea weed gin (http://www.damhile.co.uk/shop/seaweed)

And, how is it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 29 April, 2016, 09:45:50 pm
Sitting in the airport wondering if it's too early for a gin and tonic.

That seaweedy gin is quite nice. I have a bottle somewhere. Not with me at the moment of course.

I think after a couple of days of BBQ I'm mostly meat. I mean, seriously, a fourteen ounce steak. At least in California everything will be alfalfa sprouts and avocado. I'm scared to go to the loo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 April, 2016, 08:15:18 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 April, 2016, 09:11:56 pm
Quote from: Basil on 29 April, 2016, 04:01:30 pm
Checking the relative positions of sun and yardarm.  I've finally got round to buying a bottle of our local sea weed gin (http://www.damhile.co.uk/shop/seaweed)

And, how is it?

Hmm.  Let's say that the jury is still out. 
Not unpleasant.  But a bit odd.  I like sea weed, and the flavouring is gently subtle, but I'm not sure if it is what I want from a G&T.

Perhaps I shouldn't have bought a whole bottle first time.  It's either going to last a very long time, or it will be something I'll occasionally fancy as an alternative, in the same way one sometimes feels like a different tea or coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 30 April, 2016, 09:24:35 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 April, 2016, 11:05:41 am
Trying to summon up the energy to go to the Post Office.
This is what I'm supposed to be doing, what I'm actually doing is regretting finishing the daughter's boyfriend's Glenfiddich
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 02 May, 2016, 10:15:57 am
Finishing off breakfast with a cup of greek coffee,  watching the Hampton Pier Yacht club race their dinghies and hoping that MrsLurker feels up to a bike ride along the coast to Whitstable or Birchington. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 02 May, 2016, 10:44:38 am
Feeling smug because I fixed my cheapo Erbauer SDS drill.  They thought I'd just buy a new one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 May, 2016, 10:26:12 am
Having started a new job, today, I am awaiting not only a PC, but a desk to put it on!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Oscar's dad on 03 May, 2016, 10:28:34 am
Quote from: tiermat on 03 May, 2016, 10:26:12 am
Having started a new job, today, I am awaiting not only a PC, but a desk to put it on!

If you're getting a laptop you'll just need a lap!  Good luck withe the new job by the way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 03 May, 2016, 10:48:14 am
I am expecting a parcel from dpd.
I am watching the online tracking.
It's about ⅝ mile away with an ETA OF 12.55-13.55 and 50 other deliveries before ours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 May, 2016, 10:50:52 am
Ten minutes ago I was chasing up the Inlaw Paw's pension payment. They had a digit missing from the IBAN.

Right now I'm thinking about setting up our new NAS.  Only thinking, mind. And not much at that. I should be cycling but it's raining, and contrary to what me dear old da used to say I'm really afraid that I might melt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 May, 2016, 10:53:39 am
Quote from: hellymedic on 03 May, 2016, 10:48:14 am
It's about ⅝ mile away with an ETA OF 12.55-13.55 and 50 other deliveries before ours.

Ooer, what's the ALT code for five-eighths? Or is it an Apple MacThing?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 03 May, 2016, 11:42:23 am
Quote from: T42 on 03 May, 2016, 10:53:39 am
Quote from: hellymedic on 03 May, 2016, 10:48:14 am
It's about ⅝ mile away with an ETA OF 12.55-13.55 and 50 other deliveries before ours.

Ooer, what's the ALT code for five-eighths? Or is it an Apple MacThing?

Presume it's an AppleMac thing as I typed 5 / 8 and it produced ⅝. Still about 1km away but 30 deliveries ahead now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 May, 2016, 12:42:25 pm
It's unicode codepoint 215d, so not a Mac thing (though the automagic substitution hellymedic describes probably is).  I can type it by doing <ctrl>-<shift>-<U> followed by <2><1><5><D>, but I've no idea if that works with the Windows Alt and numpad thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 May, 2016, 01:01:26 pm
⅝

On a Nexus tablet.  I just long touched the 5 key until ⅝ appeared for selection.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 03 May, 2016, 01:15:48 pm
Parcel has been delivered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 03 May, 2016, 07:17:49 pm
Supping  Margaux in the BA lounge in Edinburgh airport. There are worse things.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 03 May, 2016, 07:26:51 pm
OK. Onto the LBV, and have my sights on the Otard,too.

Any thoughts I may have had of riding my Edinburgh bike (coming back to London with me) back home from London City have been quietly shelved.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 03 May, 2016, 10:11:47 pm
Quote from: Ham on 03 May, 2016, 07:26:51 pm
OK. Onto the LBV, and have my sights on the Otard,too.

Any thoughts I may have had of riding my Edinburgh bike (coming back to London with me) back home from London City have been quietly shelved.

Really?  Point bike north and pedal for 20 minutes, no hills.  If I had seen this earlier I could have met you and played guide dog.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 05 May, 2016, 07:01:31 am
Cringing at the bourgeois, pretentious bullshit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vxzns) that was on Four Extra just now. 

Perhaps I need to find another radio station to wake me up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 05 May, 2016, 08:09:41 am
Drinking tea and cursing the postie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 May, 2016, 09:28:52 am
Quote from: T42 on 05 May, 2016, 08:09:41 am
Drinking tea and cursing the postie.

Extra door 2 dustbins for you tomorrow T42!   :P

Me, I'm browsing the dark side recumbent trikes.  :o at the price though....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 May, 2016, 09:57:58 am
Absorbing Brown Drink prior to nipping over the road to write "Zac Goldfish is a hoofwanking bunglecunt" on my ballot paper1.

1: Lie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 05 May, 2016, 10:26:47 am
Redoing everything I did yesterday, because bug in software means Tutorial/Walkthrough needs to be done on slightly different variant target.

A slight consequence of the QA manager pissing off his staff so much that two left, hence I'm working on completely untested software all the time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 05 May, 2016, 04:33:05 pm
Brian, are you within striking distance of Marlow/ Maidenhead/ Windsor?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 May, 2016, 07:10:40 pm
Erm, Fifeshire, Scotland, Fuzzy. Cant afford a recumbent trike even third hand one :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 05 May, 2016, 07:18:23 pm
I am waiting for David's smelly piano player to go home so we can vote and I can do other things planned for the evening.

He is too clumsy for me to attempt to do anything while he's here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 05 May, 2016, 07:56:14 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 05 May, 2016, 07:10:40 pm
Erm, Fifeshire, Scotland, Fuzzy. Cant afford a recumbent trike even third hand one :-(

OK Brian, just wondered like as wehave ICE coming into the shop on Saturday to do a demo day.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 05 May, 2016, 08:30:48 pm
Working out how to sell BrianI a Windcheetah . . .  ;D

Ackcherlee. Sitting on the sofa having faffed like £"$K to get 3 bike carriers on the roof bars having fitted the roof bars with somewhat less faffage.

Not what you need after a 11 1/2 hour day which was in itself summed up by a kid asking "How much would I have to spend to get a bike for 200 quid?"

I shit you not!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 06 May, 2016, 12:32:31 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 05 May, 2016, 08:30:48 pm
Not what you need after a 11 1/2 hour day which was in itself summed up by a kid asking "How much would I have to spend to get a bike for 200 quid?"

I shit you not!

As any businessman knows, that will run him £300, at the very least.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 06 May, 2016, 08:33:36 am
Drinking tea. Preparing to go play with the traffic, after which I shall be transferring the schools bike fleet to its new home as mentioned elsewhere. Then some unmolishing of an old shed will occur. Crowbar and sledgehammer action FTW 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2016, 12:03:53 pm
Hiding in the garden from the horrible noises coming from Pingu Towers.
Also wondering if the thing flying around me is in fact 2 insects having a shag. Buf they're too small and won't stay still long enough for me to inspect them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 06 May, 2016, 12:22:03 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 05 May, 2016, 08:30:48 pm
Working out how to sell BrianI a Windcheetah . . .  ;D

Ackcherlee. Sitting on the sofa having faffed like £"$K to get 3 bike carriers on the roof bars having fitted the roof bars with somewhat less faffage.

Not what you need after a 11 1/2 hour day which was in itself summed up by a kid asking "How much would I have to spend to get a bike for 200 quid?"

I shit you not!
Mind you, I may be in a better position financially in a few months. I'm sure dad would want me to put any inheritance towards something fun, rather than something boring than a new bathroom...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 06 May, 2016, 12:38:21 pm
Recovering from a fettlage incident and delayed departure from the Bearodrome for the Long Itch weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 May, 2016, 01:20:29 pm
Recovering from a poorly-timed coughing fit that sent orange juice up my nose.  Now everything smells like Calpol  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 May, 2016, 01:57:41 pm
Cleaning the washing machine. Yeeuch.   :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 May, 2016, 02:44:22 pm
Being in Brum for the first time since late March.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 May, 2016, 10:11:14 pm
Pingu's away, so binge watching season 2 of The Fall.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 07 May, 2016, 10:30:09 pm
Listening to the Tom Robinson show with Nick Harper.
Embarrassed to say I had to Google to see if his dad was still alive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 08 May, 2016, 12:02:39 am
Got bored with that.  I'm now having a Patti Smith hour with a glass whisky.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 08 May, 2016, 01:29:42 pm
Trying to decide between :

1) chilling in the garden with cheese, biscuits and beer
2) falling asleep on the sofa
3) having a snooze, in bed.

After one of my marathon cooking spells, a BBQ followed by cooking breakfast /brunch this morning I am more than a little tired and achy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 May, 2016, 02:24:02 pm
The option involving BEER is invariably the correct one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 08 May, 2016, 02:24:51 pm
More or less the same as Tiermat, only in the end it was the missus wot dun the cooking while I practised the bansheejo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 08 May, 2016, 07:32:00 pm
Sat outside post BBQ with a glass of wine. In North Yorkshire in May !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 08 May, 2016, 07:45:24 pm
We've also had a BBQ, but no boozeahol with it as we're off to the pub quiz in the 'other' pub in the village shortly.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 12 May, 2016, 08:33:07 pm
Sat in a bar trying not to notice the strong smell of fags with Lenor. Don't know if it is e-cigs, flavoured tobacco or if somebody is actually smoking fabric conditioner.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 12 May, 2016, 09:34:36 pm
Just applied for my EHIC replacement.  Just in case... 


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 12 May, 2016, 11:56:25 pm
Downloading updated maps onto my Garmin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 13 May, 2016, 10:10:40 am
Toiling through my French naturalisation forms**. Address of domicile required from birth to present. Can't remember our house number in mid-70s Bushey.

**Slap that up your Brexit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 May, 2016, 10:31:00 am
Watching my first load in the new washing machine that was delivered at 9 this morning (wow.  Exactly when they said it would).
No sign of puddles yet, so I guess I've installed it fine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 13 May, 2016, 10:37:27 am
Drinking coffee and considering a bike ride.  I'm mad, me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jakob W on 13 May, 2016, 10:48:17 am
Quote from: T42 on 13 May, 2016, 10:10:40 am
Toiling through my French naturalisation forms**. Address of domicile required from birth to present.

I know the French love their bureaucracy, but sacre bleu! I find it bad enough remembering the last 5 (6 different addresses), never mind back to birth. (OTOH, how would they check if you left one out?)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2016, 11:08:36 am
Quote from: Basil on 13 May, 2016, 10:31:00 am
Watching my first load in the new washing machine that was delivered at 9 this morning (wow.  Exactly when they said it would).
No sign of puddles yet, so I guess I've installed it fine.

There's a more subtle failure mode for inept installation of hot-fill washing machines, where it turns woollen clothing to teddybear size on the delicate synthetics cycle.  If you actually use the "homeopathic super-delicate handwash only why are you even thinking of this" cycle it goes into meltdown and causes indoor rain.

DAHIKT
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 13 May, 2016, 02:26:10 pm
you mean you cross connected the hot and cold supply hoses. But they are colour coded Red and Blue for this very reason.....




 :facepalm: Matthew suddenly remembers potential deficiencies in colour vision that he doesn't have but may lead to this occurring.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 May, 2016, 02:28:30 pm
Bosch.  Single input cold water only ftw.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 13 May, 2016, 02:44:37 pm
Sitting in the house in cycling clothes.

Just can't get out the door  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 May, 2016, 05:09:34 pm
Single input cold washers are no guarantee of success - when we had the kitchen put in the plumbers were at home to Mr F**kup and plumbed it in to the hot.
What was the first wash I did?  A full load of merino.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 13 May, 2016, 05:15:26 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 13 May, 2016, 05:09:34 pm
Single input cold washers are no guarantee of success - when we had the kitchen put in the plumbers were at home to Mr F**kup and plumbed it in to the hot.
What was the first wash I did?  A full load of merino.
Which presumably came out of the machine as a half load of merino.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 13 May, 2016, 05:16:02 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 May, 2016, 02:44:37 pm
Sitting in the house in cycling clothes.

Just can't get out the door  :(

Don't sweat it. Have a cup of tea, put your feet up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 May, 2016, 07:19:13 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 13 May, 2016, 05:15:26 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 13 May, 2016, 05:09:34 pm
Single input cold washers are no guarantee of success - when we had the kitchen put in the plumbers were at home to Mr F**kup and plumbed it in to the hot.
What was the first wash I did?  A full load of merino.
Which presumably came out of the machine as a half load of merino.

Fortunately not, despite how hot it was. Icebreaker FTW, apparently.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 13 May, 2016, 11:00:38 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 13 May, 2016, 05:16:02 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 May, 2016, 02:44:37 pm
Sitting in the house in cycling clothes.

Just can't get out the door  :(

Don't sweat it. Have a cup of tea, put your feet up.

I  took your advice Tim and ended up fast asleep on the sofa wearing Speedplays  ;D

The gravelly throat and dodgy chest has kicked in now so I think it was good advice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 13 May, 2016, 11:04:14 pm
Replotting the GPX for tomorrow's audax. Not happy to find it's just got 6km longer and 500m hillier when the route follows the roads :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 14 May, 2016, 01:51:09 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 May, 2016, 11:00:38 pm
I  took your advice Tim and ended up fast asleep on the sofa wearing Speedplays  ;D

IRTA as Speedos and boggled.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 14 May, 2016, 07:39:56 am
Waiting for the Inlaw Paw's hooter to summon us so that we can haul him out of bed and make his breakfast. Thereafter the rest of the day's iron schedule may begin.

It gets bloody wearing at times.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 May, 2016, 03:13:14 pm
Another warm sunny day.
The entire holiday cottage complex next door has been rented out by a Welsh - Caribbean wedding party and I am currently sitting in the garden with a beer listening to a steel band playing 'The Green Green Grass of Home'. 
Hopefully there'll be a reciprocation of a male voice choir singing 'Redemption Song'.

 :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 May, 2016, 08:29:01 am
Quote from: matthew on 13 May, 2016, 02:26:10 pm
you mean you cross connected the hot and cold supply hoses. But they are colour coded Red and Blue for this very reason.....




 :facepalm: Matthew suddenly remembers potential deficiencies in colour vision that he doesn't have but may lead to this occurring.  :facepalm:
Ah, I can see those just fine, it's more subtle than that: Whoever installed the outlet taps fitted them to the wrong pipes.  Would you think to check? Neither would I until that incident.

I only spotted it when washing machine repair man was scratching his head and I noticed condensation on the hot feed hose.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 15 May, 2016, 08:35:28 am
Give you that, wrongly identified taps would beat me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 15 May, 2016, 05:36:59 pm
Quote from: Kim on 15 May, 2016, 08:29:01 am
Quote from: matthew on 13 May, 2016, 02:26:10 pm
you mean you cross connected the hot and cold supply hoses. But they are colour coded Red and Blue for this very reason.....




 :facepalm: Matthew suddenly remembers potential deficiencies in colour vision that he doesn't have but may lead to this occurring.  :facepalm:
Ah, I can see those just fine, it's more subtle than that: Whoever installed the outlet taps fitted them to the wrong pipes.  Would you think to check? Neither would I until that incident.

I only spotted it when washing machine repair man was scratching his head and I noticed condensation on the hot feed hose.

I've installed enough washing machines to *always* check. (TBF, given that in most places these days, there is only one feed, it's not that onerous ...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 16 May, 2016, 02:54:13 am
Admitting defeat at US hotel a/c. It's about 15 degrees outside. I don't need my room warming or cooling. Off on the control panel doesn't, it seems, mean off. Between that and the fan in the bathroom, I may as well be in a wind tunnel.

I'm going to bet the 'mile high nachos' aren't actually a mile high. They wouldn't fit in the lift for starters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 16 May, 2016, 03:30:19 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 May, 2016, 11:00:38 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 13 May, 2016, 05:16:02 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 May, 2016, 02:44:37 pm
Sitting in the house in cycling clothes.

Just can't get out the door  :(

Don't sweat it. Have a cup of tea, put your feet up.

I  took your advice Tim and ended up fast asleep on the sofa wearing Speedplays  ;D

The gravelly throat and dodgy chest has kicked in now so I think it was good advice.

You are Bonnie Tyler AICMFP
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 16 May, 2016, 05:54:44 pm
I'm off kayaking
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 16 May, 2016, 06:03:52 pm
What put you off?  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 16 May, 2016, 09:51:11 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 May, 2016, 11:00:38 pm

I  took your advice Tim and ended up fast asleep on the sofa wearing Speedplays  ;D


Your sofa wears Speedplays?  :o  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 16 May, 2016, 09:53:41 pm
Sitting on the sofa sneezing like a bastard.

Allergic to something in the bolognese . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 16 May, 2016, 09:54:15 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 16 May, 2016, 09:51:11 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 13 May, 2016, 11:00:38 pm

I  took your advice Tim and ended up fast asleep on the sofa wearing Speedplays  ;D


Your sofa wears Speedplays?  :o  :D

No, silly. The speedplays wear sofas! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 16 May, 2016, 10:07:55 pm
Ohhhhhh . . .  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 17 May, 2016, 03:56:13 am
I made the a/c burp warm air. A modest success. It's not often I can say the weather is nicer in the UK. Though I wish my wife wouldn't send me photos to prove it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 17 May, 2016, 07:26:56 am
Quote from: Canardly on 16 May, 2016, 06:03:52 pm
What put you off?  ::-)

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 May, 2016, 03:39:05 pm
Last day of my annual leave (not that it's been much of a holiday though....)

Mostly laundry and nuddy housework day today!   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 22 May, 2016, 04:54:58 pm
Worrying about the Inlaw Paw.  He had a good birthday lunch with us, but afterwards he had a hell of a time getting up the stairs. He usually shrugs it off, but this time he admitted that soon he won't be able to any more. I'll see about a stair-lift on Tuesday, tomorrow I'm in hospital all day with my own ills.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 24 May, 2016, 09:42:47 am
Trying Failing to resist scratching mosquito bites.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 May, 2016, 10:29:42 am
Printing out studies into physical exercise and IBD.  I have a doctor's appointment and want to push for replacing chemical intervention with exercise (i.e. MORE cycling!)

I know it makes sense....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 24 May, 2016, 02:21:15 pm
Refurbishing and carrying out a flat bar conversion on a Dawes Galaxy.

Mid 90s, 7 speed STX. Bought for 60 quid!  :o Jammy git . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 24 May, 2016, 02:26:12 pm
Seeing how far I can throw the snails out of my garden.  High isn't a problem, it's getting them far enough over the back alley to get into the trees.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 24 May, 2016, 04:20:12 pm
Catapult?

Or trebuchet if they're really huge . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 May, 2016, 04:33:04 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 24 May, 2016, 10:29:42 am
Printing out studies into physical exercise and IBD.  I have a doctor's appointment and want to push for replacing chemical intervention with exercise (i.e. MORE cycling!)

I know it makes sense....

Result! Doctor agreed to reduce my dosage (details of plan to follow once she has spoken to consultant) and for me to increase my exercise regime whilst we monitor the effects.

On the down side she is forcing me to go for a blood test tomorrow morning :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: menthel on 24 May, 2016, 06:11:15 pm
Today has been a tricky day. I have been for a cycle, had lunch with my wife, watched the finale to an excellent Giro stage, played my banjo, had a chat with my son and the cooked dinner. My time off between jobs is doing me good, shame I can't retire now!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 25 May, 2016, 08:05:21 am
Sitting on a train to that London en route to the Chelsea Flower Show
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 May, 2016, 08:06:16 am
Drinking tea and waiting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 25 May, 2016, 08:33:45 am
For what?  anything nice?

Of course you may just be waiting to see what the world presents to you by way of a day...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 May, 2016, 08:57:06 am
Waiting for the next cup of tea.

Nah, I'm really waiting for my cardiologist to have had time to set up my next stent op.

Think I'll have a cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 May, 2016, 04:57:55 am
Waiting outside Buck House for some cyclists. Liz is home, but I haven't been offered even a cuppa.

Sent from my GT-I8190N using Tapatalk

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 26 May, 2016, 07:08:25 am
Enjoying the view from Farthing Down.

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Post by: Ruthie on 26 May, 2016, 08:28:12 am
Quote from: Andrij on 26 May, 2016, 07:08:25 am
Enjoying the view from Farthing Down.

Sent from my GT-I8190N using Tapatalk

He is, y'know.  I saw the photos!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 26 May, 2016, 08:25:07 pm
Packing.  Getting the train to Mallaig tomorrow, then the ferry out to Eigg on Saturday, and, eventually, to Muck, Rum and Canna.  The Inner variant (Small Isles branch) of the annual Hebridean adventure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 26 May, 2016, 09:35:27 pm
Quote from: billplumtree on 26 May, 2016, 08:25:07 pm
Packing.  Getting the train to Mallaig tomorrow, then the ferry out to Eigg on Saturday, and, eventually, to Muck, Rum and Canna.  The Inner variant (Small Isles branch) of the annual Hebridean adventure.

Green with envy smiley.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 May, 2016, 11:30:54 am
Quote from: billplumtree on 26 May, 2016, 08:25:07 pm
Packing.  Getting the train to Mallaig tomorrow, then the ferry out to Eigg on Saturday, and, eventually, to Muck, Rum and Canna.  The Inner variant (Small Isles branch) of the annual Hebridean adventure.

Bill's off down the well again ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 May, 2016, 02:08:04 pm
Having a potential cock up on the holiday accommodation front stress out.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 May, 2016, 06:05:35 pm
Trying to work out how to fix all 3 cycle reservations to my bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 May, 2016, 04:37:17 pm
Watching the chimes of freedom flashing.
Glad to say the dog seems remarkably unfazed, even though a couple of the flash bangs seemed to be directly overhead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 30 May, 2016, 09:38:19 am
Having a helmet discussion (pointless I know) on bookface. The surprising thing is that it is in a cycling group!

FWIW, the original post starts with "Wear your helmet" and goes on to show pictures of the crash the poster had, yesterday including his injuries to his legs and hand. No pictures of his head, nor his helmet! He points to the windscreen damage as proof that the helmet saved him, but the windscreen looks like it has been hit by a shoulder, back or chest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 31 May, 2016, 09:46:42 am
Catching up on my work emails, and wondering why I'm not cycling as my brain adapts to coming back from holiday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 31 May, 2016, 12:08:35 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 April, 2016, 09:04:16 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 11 April, 2016, 08:03:20 pm
Quote from: Kim on 11 April, 2016, 07:54:49 pm
I'm ignoring the mystery NTFS partition that refuses to mount.

It's probably a System Recovery partition, using a non-standard Partition ID.
The filesystem probably does not match the Partition ID.

Seems plausible.  It's hidden under a clusterfuck of bad sectors, so I'm not wasting any more time on it.  We've got what we were after.

*files factoid away in back of brain for next time*
Similar to the 'pptx is just a zip file with a fancy name and defined structure' so renaming .pptx to .zip allows browsing and easy extraction of every image from the slide show.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 31 May, 2016, 12:09:55 pm
Babysitting some text extraction code - I'm text mining our entire curriculum to establish overlaps and related modules and dependencies across the entire degree stream.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 01 June, 2016, 08:23:41 pm
Cultivating a deep state of panic. Exams tomorrow and Friday and aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  :o

I've managed quite a bit of revision for tomorrow's exam but I've got a handbook I can take in and we're allowed to annotate it too but I'm in a huge state of indecision about what to put in without cluttering it and confusing myself.

And as for Friday's exam, well I did a mock paper today and have gone from averagely confident to hugely unso, I didn't even know where to start half the questions and there's very little time left now to fill in the gaps.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  :o :sick: :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 02 June, 2016, 06:00:23 pm
Waiting to see if they want to use my platelets.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 02 June, 2016, 07:54:15 pm
Watching Blue Planet. S1E4.

NARWHALS

FUCK YEAH

There may be some additional commentary coming from the sofa. Sorry David.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 03 June, 2016, 02:33:08 pm
Watching the original Star Trek.  It's the first time the Romulans were ever on telly, and it's brilliant.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 June, 2016, 02:18:38 pm
Just getting into St Malo on the little boat from Dinard.

The sun is trying to come our as well :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 04 June, 2016, 04:22:46 pm
Going back to the drawing-board.

One of my little brother's houses is in the South of France.  So, I thought, I could ride Mont Ventoux from there, it can't be that far can it?

620km.

France is quite big, isn't it.  Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 04 June, 2016, 07:11:20 pm
Sitting in the sun outside my tent on Rum, on yet another idyllic evening.  Enjoying the view over the bay back to Knoydart and eating fruit cocktail out of the tin
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 June, 2016, 09:19:46 pm
Have I mentioned recently that you are a Git of the highest order?

 :-*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 04 June, 2016, 10:04:03 pm
Riding the train of shame.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 04 June, 2016, 10:10:48 pm
Oh dear. Commiserations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 05 June, 2016, 12:14:32 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 04 June, 2016, 04:22:46 pm
Going back to the drawing-board.

One of my little brother's houses is in the South of France.  So, I thought, I could ride Mont Ventoux from there, it can't be that far can it?

620km.

France is quite big, isn't it.  Sigh.

Start with something easy -  build yourself a garage . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: billplumtree on 05 June, 2016, 09:34:03 am
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 June, 2016, 09:19:46 pm
Have I mentioned recently that you are a Git of the highest order?

It was the fruit cocktail, wasn't it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 05 June, 2016, 09:55:32 am
Sitting in a waiting room.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 05 June, 2016, 11:38:39 am
1) aching
B) Sneezing
iii) waiting for 12:00 so that I can eat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 06 June, 2016, 05:08:40 pm
Having my heart monitored.

Suzy said I look like a member of team Sky. I have decided not to investigate the kindness: sarcasm ratio of that statement.

(Warning: sucked-in lardy topless mamil content = 100%)

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 06 June, 2016, 05:32:16 pm
Have you got that for 24 hours?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 07 June, 2016, 03:37:42 am
Yep. It's on account of this (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=97169.0).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 07 June, 2016, 07:19:06 am
BTDT. Good luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 07 June, 2016, 07:29:44 am
Thank you. I'm relieved to report that, at 7am (and counting) I have finally had one of my turns, so the whole 24 hour thing won't have been a waste of time. Even if it just eliminates one avenue.

fboab - may I ask what your symptoms were and, if anything like mine, what the diagnosis/outcome was? Feel free to say no.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 07 June, 2016, 07:45:32 am
I hope the results are illuminating and lead to an effective treatment. It's no fun being crimped.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 07 June, 2016, 08:02:01 am
Quote from: Paul on 07 June, 2016, 07:29:44 am
fboab - may I ask what your symptoms were and, if anything like mine, what the diagnosis/outcome was? Feel free to say no.
Dizzy spells, fainting. ECG at GP showed elongated Q-T interval. Side effects of Lofepramine. GP gave me a drug with well documented side effect of lowering blood pressure when mine is already 110/55. ::-)
Off the drugs and all good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 07 June, 2016, 11:14:53 am
^^^Crikey. Congrats on still being with us.

I'm just recovering from doing the Inlaw Paw's 2015 declaration of revenue, and ours too.  The deadline is later if you do it on line, but the stress level is far higher than doing it on the old paper forms.  There's a feeling of irrevocable & impending doom every time you click OK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SoreTween on 08 June, 2016, 12:18:21 am
Listening to the rain. This is rain that has it's s h 1 t fully in order, knows what it is here to do and is ready to get on with it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 08 June, 2016, 03:59:24 pm
Watching a Spitfire being put through its paces over White Waltham. oh, yes, majestic Merlin roar :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 June, 2016, 11:14:13 am
Just gone under Tower Bridge on the Havengore
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 11 June, 2016, 11:28:41 am
About to head off to Green Park to catch the flypast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 June, 2016, 01:40:08 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 11 June, 2016, 11:28:41 am
About to head off to Green Park to catch the flypast.

Blimey.   Are you going to use a huge base ball mit or something?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 11 June, 2016, 02:10:04 pm
No, but Jaded's flotilla delayed my boat home, so much so that I was forced to take a train instead. :)

ETA: And the flypast has made me decide to book some leave for the Eastbourne  and Clacton airshows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 June, 2016, 03:03:01 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 11 June, 2016, 11:14:13 am
Just gone under Tower Bridge on the Havengore

May I introduce the word "GIT" at this juncture?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 June, 2016, 04:18:12 pm
Yes :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 June, 2016, 06:52:08 pm
Chilling in a rather posh, and expensive, hotel suite, waiting for dinner. I am starving!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 11 June, 2016, 08:00:38 pm

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_5956.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6093.jpg)

Others might appear elsewhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 June, 2016, 09:31:25 am
Someone is giving me "the look". The look that says "and what did the medics say to you, just a week ago".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 12 June, 2016, 06:07:11 pm
cursing loudly in my own head.

Kitchen is being refurbed at the mo, so I'm making my espresso on the little camping stove on the patio.  Coming back in, I managed to smack my left knee on the door frame.   :demon: >:( :demon: it effin hurts, and is now refusing to perform its bendy function properly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 June, 2016, 11:07:06 pm
I am sitting with my head covered in a substance bearing a remarkable similarity in appearance (although thankfully not, I believe, in scent) to camel poo then wrapped in cling film and covered with a fleecy warm hat.

The future's bright...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: αdαmsκι on 13 June, 2016, 03:50:54 am
Hiding from the Canadian rain in our tent and wondering what to do now we've finished the wine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 13 June, 2016, 09:48:31 am
Waiting for the nurse to come & bandage the Inlaw Paw's leaky legs.  Should have been here an hour ago. Phone's on voicemail. Bah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 June, 2016, 07:19:42 pm
Cleaning up after cutting some wood particle board with a rubbish old handsaw the downstairs neighbour dug out of his shed.  What a PITA.  Next time I shall phone a friend for proper tools.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 13 June, 2016, 10:30:07 pm
You have seen the SEEKRIT BUNKER, have you not? Just sayin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 13 June, 2016, 10:31:13 pm
Next time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 13 June, 2016, 10:56:38 pm
Listening to the cuckoo and the lambs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 14 June, 2016, 09:04:18 am
Finding it very hard to settle to anything, pending Thursday's decisive (I hope) visit to the cardiologist.
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Post by: Deano on 16 June, 2016, 02:51:37 pm
Just been to town to pick up some bits to go away camping - it's really quiet, is something going on? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 18 June, 2016, 12:00:39 pm
Killing time at the tourist office in [url,https://www.google.no/maps/place/Andenes,+8480+Andenes/@69.3142668,14.9807287,8z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x45dcc21e09ec829b:0x7b6be647f8a53da9!8m2!3d69.3160799!4d16.1202284]Andenes[/url], probably the most remote place I've ever visited.

On the way into town I met Oriol from Barcelona, with whom I'd ridden for a day and a half a few days ago. He'd been on the early ferry, but it had turned back because of the weather (wind and waves). The early afternoon one is cancelled, and the evening one might or might not be running. Oriol was seasick, so has been to the airport to see if he can fly to Tromso. Airport closed until 15:30.

Not a lot to do here without spending a fortune.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 June, 2016, 09:47:03 pm
I'm watching City in the Sky in amazement.  I just watched pilots in the flight simulator, practicing how they would handles loosing two engines.  It makes my last flight's 'brace position landing*' look like a minor hiccup.

* It wasn't bad in the larger scheme of things, the pilot came in too fast in very windy condition which meant we told to assume the emergency landing position, we landed on one wheel, bounced a bit, clunked down onto the wheels on the other side while we zig zagged down the runway as the whole cabin screamed. No one was hurt, we were just a bit shaken if not stirred.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 20 June, 2016, 01:22:23 pm
Blimey!  That's a bit more adventurous than you hope for Lou!

Were you all a bit sheepish when you came safely to a halt?

I'm watching the Women's Tour highlights while eating a very very ripe, very stinky gorgonzola, with oatcakes.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 20 June, 2016, 01:30:55 pm
Worrying about our merino. I didn't realise Woolly had put the machine on a boil wash before this one...  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 20 June, 2016, 02:37:11 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 20 June, 2016, 01:30:55 pm
Worrying about our merino. I didn't realise Woolly had put the machine on a boil wash before this one...  :-[

Uh oh. I foresee an imminent charitable donation. Primary school children on bikeability courses in Skipton need to keep warm in January too, y'know :).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 20 June, 2016, 02:47:20 pm
Ripping DVDs so they can go in the loft and not take up valuable storage space in the book cases.

Next project: Ripping vases and ornaments so they don't take up valuable space in the book cases.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 June, 2016, 09:51:43 am
Recovering after doing our VAT declaration.  It's always on the 21st of the month, so when others are chortling about midsummer I'm thinking oh shit not again.

Yeah, sure, I could do it in advance, but who the hell wants to pay the tax man a minute earlier than necessary?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 22 June, 2016, 09:12:29 am
Getting ready for a webinar. Which I'm presenting. While recovering from laryngitis. With a blocked nose that occasionally seems to back up so I end up making a noise that sounds like a walrus that's been punched right on the nose and isn't happy about it.

I think the walrus sections will be my best bits. I may make other distressed animal noises for variety.

On the plus side, the organisers have to get up at 4am. So it could be worse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 22 June, 2016, 09:51:10 am
^^^ Elephant seal is good:

https://youtu.be/FzHH2mrPA3I
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 June, 2016, 06:40:16 pm
It's the sea elephant, and a big fella too! 18 inches from tip to tail!
https://youtu.be/KHgkMSbnl0o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 24 June, 2016, 11:38:28 am
Printing my boarding pass for a flight to France.

If they'll let me in . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 24 June, 2016, 01:51:04 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 20 June, 2016, 01:22:23 pm
Blimey!  That's a bit more adventurous than you hope for Lou!

Were you all a bit sheepish when you came safely to a halt?

I'm watching the Women's Tour highlights while eating a very very ripe, very stinky gorgonzola, with oatcakes.

A tad, and a bit jumpy of the way back.  I hope the very very ripe, very stinky gorgonzola, with oatcakes were enjoyable!!

Today I am hiding from the world of politics by listening to ABBA, looking at the cats thread not looking at Facebook and stupid comments like 'I'm amazed how many people think they can see into the future just because the vote went against them' err you don't need to look in to the future just look at what is happen around you at the this very moment in time.  And actually, I think I might listen to the IFS predictions for the future over yours - no offense or anything!!! and 'I didn't vote out because I wanted out, I was voting a vote of no confidence in Cameron'  errm so why did you vote out in the referendum rather than another party in the next election.  Out means that many members of my department are likely to lose there jobs - today is a sombre day at work.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 24 June, 2016, 02:34:02 pm
Sticking to things. It's hot.
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Post by: Vince on 24 June, 2016, 03:26:20 pm
Looking at all our possessions and thinking 'they'll never fit on the van tomorrow'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 June, 2016, 06:10:40 pm
Slowly and painfully disproving the old adage 'A watched pot never boils'

Yes I've buttered up my timings again as I keep forgetting how long it takes the potato water to come back to the boil after adding enough spuds for a large family meal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 24 June, 2016, 09:15:50 pm
Quote from: Basil on 24 June, 2016, 06:10:40 pm
Slowly and painfully disproving the old adage 'A watched pot never boils'

Yes I've buttered up my timings again as I keep forgetting how long it takes the potato water to come back to the boil after adding enough spuds for a large family meal.
I think (but I don't know why, much less whether it's true) that you should add room temp veg to room temp water and bring them both to the boil.

But for reasons I don't understand, I conversely believe that frozen veg should be added to boiling water.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2016, 10:13:48 pm
Wondering now that I have booze and am a bit more flippant - should we eschew the Roomster (aka the popemobile) in favour of hiring a BFO van to maximise our French 'produce' haul to keep us going for the next few years?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 June, 2016, 10:20:42 pm
Gin
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2016, 10:25:39 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 June, 2016, 10:20:42 pm
Gin

Me too
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Post by: ian on 24 June, 2016, 10:45:52 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2016, 10:25:39 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 June, 2016, 10:20:42 pm
Gin

Me too

Synchronicity.

And waiting for my wife to get back from Heathrow were she is still on the plane waiting for a gate. She has pointed out that if her taxi driver even mentions a certain subject she's going to stab him through the eyes with her nail file. Drastic, but I kind of sympathise.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 June, 2016, 10:49:57 pm
Quote from: ian on 24 June, 2016, 10:45:52 pm
And waiting for my wife to get back from Heathrow were she is still on the plane waiting for a gate. She has pointed out that if her taxi driver even mentions a certain subject she's going to stab him through the eyes with her nail file. Drastic, but I kind of sympathise.

Hang on, how did she get a nail file through security?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2016, 10:53:39 pm
Last time I was in a taxi to the airport (several weeks ago now) I was asked the question and I nearly fell off the seat when he said in as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 24 June, 2016, 11:05:36 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2016, 10:25:39 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 June, 2016, 10:20:42 pm
Gin

Me too

About to meet too, it's been a hard week
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 24 June, 2016, 11:07:39 pm
Quote from: Kim on 24 June, 2016, 10:49:57 pm
Quote from: ian on 24 June, 2016, 10:45:52 pm
And waiting for my wife to get back from Heathrow were she is still on the plane waiting for a gate. She has pointed out that if her taxi driver even mentions a certain subject she's going to stab him through the eyes with her nail file. Drastic, but I kind of sympathise.

Hang on, how did she get a nail file through security?

She's a particularly well-manicured terrorist.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 June, 2016, 05:57:21 am
Drinking coffee.  mcshroom has just been waved off to go and ride the Lincoln (the nutter), and more coffee is now necessary.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 June, 2016, 08:20:03 am
Recovering from walking upstairs loaded with a cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 25 June, 2016, 08:24:41 am
Being grumpy and incredulous.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 June, 2016, 09:51:06 am
Quote from: ian on 24 June, 2016, 10:45:52 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2016, 10:25:39 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 24 June, 2016, 10:20:42 pm
Gin

Me too

Synchronicity.

Gynchronicity, more like.

(http://legslarry.org.uk/BikeStull/coat_48.png)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 June, 2016, 10:34:14 am
About to head off to Brum to see #1 son
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Post by: andrewc on 25 June, 2016, 12:42:44 pm
Updating my calendar.   32 tickets booked for the RLPO's next season , which will keep me entertained  until May!   This includes all the Beethoven symphonies in a 10 day period.  I splurged on better seats as well, rather than my usual rear circle cheapies.
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Post by: ElyDave on 25 June, 2016, 12:57:16 pm
Watching the text reporting on the Aus-Eng rugby, 8 mins to go and 6 points up :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 June, 2016, 01:18:52 pm
Drinking a different cup of tea and wondering why I like it when it doesn't really taste much of anything.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 25 June, 2016, 01:45:05 pm
Looking out the window at the rain and wondering if I should swap one of my bicycles for a canoe.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 June, 2016, 02:05:22 pm
Yes, do, it might stop the rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 25 June, 2016, 02:17:37 pm
Wondering if my laptop may melt. I'm rendering some video - I didn't realise the fan could run this fast!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 26 June, 2016, 12:26:28 pm
Waiting for someone from Ryanair to get off their arse and open the check in....
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Post by: numbnuts on 26 June, 2016, 01:33:53 pm
Baking  :P
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Post by: Basil on 26 June, 2016, 01:45:24 pm
Wandering back and forth to the clothing recycling bin at the end of our road. 

Look out for the refugee wearing Cake Stop bib longs.
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Post by: lou boutin on 26 June, 2016, 06:17:10 pm
In halls in Turing College, comfort eating a bag of M&Ms and dreading tomorrow.

Why do I agree to do these things.

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Post by: TheLurker on 26 June, 2016, 07:45:36 pm
Watching Jeff Lynne at Glasto. on the TV and feeling very old.
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Post by: T42 on 27 June, 2016, 10:48:18 am
Hunting up all the bumph we have to submit to underpin our own Brexit. 
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Post by: Jaded on 01 July, 2016, 07:03:21 am
About to go down to the War Memorial and blow a whistle.
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Post by: Vince on 02 July, 2016, 10:40:04 am
Checking the MOT history on second hand cars.

Except the one I quite like has the number plate hidden, so I will need to visit it to check.
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Post by: ian on 02 July, 2016, 01:36:27 pm
Watching it rain. Got up. Sunny. Had coffee and breakfast. Sunny. Got dressed and suntan lotioned up. Sunny. Got bike out. Sunny. Pumped up tyres. Sunny. Went to get my pannier. Sunny but a few clouds.

Rolled bike down the driveway. Torrential rain promptly falls from the sky.

Bah.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 July, 2016, 09:54:59 pm
Wondering what's going on across the road. Alerted by sirens and banging, saw firemen battering down the front door (an upset lady trying to open the door is removed). Chap dons BA and enters, then a huge fan starts blowing through the door. I notice Scottish gas networks are there as well. Gas leak or CO poisoning?
I'm not sure if that's the same house the lady with the guide dog lives in  :-\ all a bit concerning.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 July, 2016, 10:01:47 pm
Fan thing is going again now.
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Post by: T42 on 03 July, 2016, 03:46:51 pm
Watching the TdF.  If I were relying on it to stay awake I'd be asleep.
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Post by: Andrew on 03 July, 2016, 05:00:28 pm
Quote from: T42 on 03 July, 2016, 03:46:51 pm
Watching the TdF.  If I were relying on it to stay awake I'd be asleep.

I'm watching River Monsters.... I find it strangely compelling viewing.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 July, 2016, 06:51:06 pm
Quote from: Andrew on 03 July, 2016, 05:00:28 pm
Quote from: T42 on 03 July, 2016, 03:46:51 pm
Watching the TdF.  If I were relying on it to stay awake I'd be asleep.

I'm watching River Monsters.... I find it strangely compelling viewing.

It's a shame that someone saw fit to give all the episodes such bloody awful schlock horror titles as Jeremy Wade is an engaging presenter who appears to know his fishies.  Plus cutting episodes down from an hour (well, forty-four minutes) to half that was counter-productive.
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Post by: cycleman on 03 July, 2016, 07:32:06 pm
Soaking in the bath  :)
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Post by: Poki on 04 July, 2016, 12:08:18 pm
Watching GoT :)
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Post by: Basil on 04 July, 2016, 01:26:06 pm
Train spotting.
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Post by: Canardly on 04 July, 2016, 01:41:22 pm
Trying to summon the energy to do some gardening.
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Post by: Wombat on 04 July, 2016, 08:56:09 pm
Scanning countless zillions of photos for a colleague who is doing a photobook for her daughter's 30th birthday.  Its not exciting, but is occasionally brightened by seeing pictures of said colleague with her daughter about 25 years ago.  My scanner lid lifting fingers are getting cramp...
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Post by: Canardly on 04 July, 2016, 09:08:40 pm
Reading about things to come, with construction stats the worst for 7 years and property investment companies suspending activity due to investors wanting their cash back. Ho hum, now it starts.
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Post by: Andrij on 05 July, 2016, 07:15:26 pm
Praying I didn't break Ruthie on today's ride.   :-\
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Post by: Ruthie on 05 July, 2016, 07:33:54 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 05 July, 2016, 07:15:26 pm
Praying I didn't break Ruthie on today's ride.   :-\

I'm not broken!  I had a fabulous day!  Thanks Andrij  :D
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Post by: Basil on 07 July, 2016, 02:20:26 pm
Hoping my dentist is in a good mood.  I'm not helping matters by indulging in a pre visit bacon bap in a nearby café.  Bacon compacted between every tooth.  (Well, the few remaining teeth that actually have another tooth next to them)
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Post by: Canardly on 07 July, 2016, 09:13:24 pm
Ah the old bacon between the choppers ruse heh? Won't work, they will still get you!
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Post by: IanDG on 08 July, 2016, 07:16:21 am
Printing out address labels and preparing Brevet Cards.
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Post by: Basil on 08 July, 2016, 08:16:48 am
Being TWEETed at by what sounds like a sparrow perched on something right outside my open bedroom window.  Seems absolutely determined that I won't be having a lie in.
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Post by: Kim on 08 July, 2016, 01:14:19 pm
Yes, it's always the wrong kind of twitter that gets rate-limited...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 July, 2016, 09:51:44 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 02 July, 2016, 09:54:59 pm
Wondering what's going on across the road. Alerted by sirens and banging, saw firemen battering down the front door (an upset lady trying to open the door is removed). Chap dons BA and enters, then a huge fan starts blowing through the door. I notice Scottish gas networks are there as well. Gas leak or CO poisoning?
I'm not sure if that's the same house the lady with the guide dog lives in  :-\ all a bit concerning.

The fire engine was back there again this evening. Very much calmer this time,  am intrigued.
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Post by: Si S on 09 July, 2016, 09:58:17 am
Sitting in 'spoons patching up my missing bits of skin. Bah, damn diesel  >:(
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Post by: tiermat on 09 July, 2016, 10:07:01 am
Quote from: Si S on 09 July, 2016, 09:58:17 am
Sitting in 'spoons patching up my missing bits of skin. Bah, damn diesel  >:(

Ouch! How's the bike? :)
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Post by: Marj on 09 July, 2016, 10:07:11 am
Quote from: Si S on 09 July, 2016, 09:58:17 am
Sitting in 'spoons patching up my missing bits of skin. Bah, damn diesel  >:(

And there was I baking for my favourite cyclist, 12 chocolate muffins anyone? Bugger the cake, so long as you've not broken anything, love and hugs xxxx
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Post by: Si S on 09 July, 2016, 10:10:59 am
Quote from: tiermat on 09 July, 2016, 10:07:01 am
Quote from: Si S on 09 July, 2016, 09:58:17 am
Sitting in 'spoons patching up my missing bits of skin. Bah, damn diesel  >:(

Ouch! How's the bike? :)

Seems OK on the run down here, but not had a really good look, shredded the bar tape though
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Post by: Si S on 09 July, 2016, 10:14:25 am
Quote from: Marj on 09 July, 2016, 10:07:11 am
Quote from: Si S on 09 July, 2016, 09:58:17 am
Sitting in 'spoons patching up my missing bits of skin. Bah, damn diesel  >:(

And there was I baking for my favourite cyclist, 12 chocolate muffins anyone? Bugger the cake, so long as you've not broken anything, love and hugs xxxx

It was the prospect of you cake that made me try to carry on ;)

I can live with the road rash and not being able to unclip the right foot, not being able to pull the front brake is a bit more of a problem
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Post by: T42 on 09 July, 2016, 10:37:10 am
Stinking, that's what I'm doing. On a long ride I wouldn't care but after just 28 hours in hospital without a shower I'm as uncomfortable as hell.  But at least the dogs were sure it was me arriving home. Not allowed a shower until tomorrow afternoon, either.  Beurk.
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Post by: Basil on 09 July, 2016, 01:13:17 pm
Glad it went  well and that you're home again.
Enjoy the shower.
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Post by: Ruthie on 09 July, 2016, 02:15:44 pm
Sulking because I'm going to a wedding tonight and I need to get ready.  My outfit is basically fifty shades of beige with a bright red handbag as the signature piece.  Need to decide whether to just go with matching red lipstick and beige fingernails, or do the nails red as well.

That's a first world problem isn't it?

 ::-)

I hate dressing up for weddings.  Trying to look like you're supposed to look when you're going to a wedding.
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Post by: andrewc on 09 July, 2016, 02:24:03 pm
Eating a bowl of cheese, olives & tomatoes with oil & vinegar dressing, listening to John Coltrane,  wondering if it's time to get dressed yet..
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Post by: Ruthie on 09 July, 2016, 02:25:10 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 09 July, 2016, 02:24:03 pm
Eating a bowl of cheese, olives & tomatoes with oil & vinegar dressing, listening to John Coltrane,  wondering if it's time to get dressed yet..

Wanna swap?
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Post by: andrewc on 09 July, 2016, 02:34:21 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 09 July, 2016, 02:25:10 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 09 July, 2016, 02:24:03 pm
Eating a bowl of cheese, olives & tomatoes with oil & vinegar dressing, listening to John Coltrane,  wondering if it's time to get dressed yet..

Wanna swap?

You'd look daft going to a wedding in a stripey dressing gown   ,  and beige doesn't suit me  :D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 July, 2016, 03:16:27 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 09 July, 2016, 02:15:44 pm
Sulking because I'm going to a wedding tonight and I need to get ready.  My outfit is basically fifty shades of beige with a bright red handbag as the signature piece.  Need to decide whether to just go with matching red lipstick and beige fingernails, or do the nails red as well.

That's a first world problem isn't it?

 ::-)

I hate dressing up for weddings.  Trying to look like you're supposed to look when you're going to a wedding.

I get round that by hating going to weddings, full stop (or indeed anything that can be construed as a party).
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Post by: Wowbagger on 09 July, 2016, 03:31:38 pm
Attending to Phyllis, has just walked the length of the house with her zimmer frame for the first time since moving here.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 10 July, 2016, 09:57:42 am
Plastering. Waiting for it to firm up before the final polish.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 July, 2016, 10:00:47 am
Providing techsupp by text to one of 'my' TAs who is getting to grips with WordPress.
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Post by: Jaded on 10 July, 2016, 10:21:12 am
Standing in a field with a bacon roll
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Post by: Paul on 10 July, 2016, 10:22:03 am
Yesterday evening at the cycling grand prix in Derby. Almost 5 hours of track cycling, including appearances by Spain's Albert Torres Barceló and Sebastian Mora Vedri in their rainbow shirts, culminating in a thrilling 120 lap Madison race, for a piffling £5!

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: T42 on 10 July, 2016, 11:01:20 am
Thinking about lunch.
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Post by: ian on 10 July, 2016, 01:23:18 pm
Copying movies to my laptop as a prelude to a 12 hour flight. In economy. Normally I'd blag business, but I have to get a particular flight back to attend a wedding that same day and the business class fare was about £9k. Jeez, BA.

You people think Tidy Haired Thought Leadership™ is all canapes and sparkling wine. It's a lot tougher, even in the third division. Next week I fight Google and Microsoft for mastery of your minds. About thirty-five of them at the last count.

Hmm, underpants. I'm going to need underpants. I hate packing. I always forget something (I did once forget pants, you have no idea how much pants cost at the airport. No one needs designer label pants. Unless they've forgot to pack any pants, of course). Commando thought leadership. Now that's an idea. Think that the next time someone fires up Powerpoint and starts coughing up bullet points. They might not be wearing underwear.
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Post by: TheLurker on 10 July, 2016, 02:45:11 pm
Trying  to watch the TdF whilst the slug balancers are making a right din overhead. Oh, do bugger off Biggles!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 July, 2016, 02:49:01 pm
I always end up having to visit a branch of Wol-Mart to buy pants when I'm in USAnia.  Most often the one in Durango CO.  I'm not planning on going to Colorado at all this year, so my Big List of Things to Make and Do has "PANTS" written on it in 96-point bold italic Comic Sans, the Font of Champions.
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Post by: Jaded on 10 July, 2016, 05:14:33 pm
Just been listening to some rock legends.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 July, 2016, 09:29:55 am
Getting my breath back after unsticking my SHIFT key for the fifth time this morning.  Oh, and doing the company AGM report. :(

Sounds grand but the dogs have more capital than we.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 July, 2016, 02:04:16 pm
Quote from: T42 on 11 July, 2016, 09:29:55 am
Getting my breath back after unsticking my SHIFT key for the fifth time this morning.  Oh, and doing the company AGM report. :(

Sounds grand but the dogs have more capital than we.

But wouldn't you have loads of capitals if you kept the SHIFT key stuck?   ;D

IGMC
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 July, 2016, 03:14:47 pm
Waiting in Skype to be invited to join a meeting and wondering why the meeting organiser is ignoring me.

that would be the meeting that starts at 1600. Moron.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 11 July, 2016, 04:25:51 pm
Just picked my neighbour off the ground.  She's c.100 quite literally and still living alone, with help from a carer who does a couple of hours every morning.  For some reason she needed to get her washing in and water her plants and unfortunately fell in the attempt.  She seems ok though and fortunately her French neighbour has just gone round.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 11 July, 2016, 04:45:06 pm
Doctors now arrived :(
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 11 July, 2016, 05:13:13 pm
Just left, a precautionary visit it would appear. 
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Post by: T42 on 11 July, 2016, 05:27:29 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 11 July, 2016, 02:04:16 pm
Quote from: T42 on 11 July, 2016, 09:29:55 am
Getting my breath back after unsticking my SHIFT key for the fifth time this morning.  Oh, and doing the company AGM report. :(

Sounds grand but the dogs have more capital than we.

But wouldn't you have loads of capitals if you kept the SHIFT key stuck?   ;D

IGMC

Somebody shoot him, I'm too tired.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 July, 2016, 04:01:29 pm
Listening to TDF while rest of family attend a funeral (not of someone I know).

Commentary is a bit tedious. They are doing their best but it is less exciting than radio commentary for lawn bowls.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 17 July, 2016, 11:19:13 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 09 July, 2016, 03:16:27 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 09 July, 2016, 02:15:44 pm
Sulking because I'm going to a wedding tonight and I need to get ready.  My outfit is basically fifty shades of beige with a bright red handbag as the signature piece.  Need to decide whether to just go with matching red lipstick and beige fingernails, or do the nails red as well.

That's a first world problem isn't it?

 ::-)

I hate dressing up for weddings.  Trying to look like you're supposed to look when you're going to a wedding.

I get round that by hating going to weddings, full stop (or indeed anything that can be construed as a party).

I would usually join you in this but I've been invited to the most intriguing wedding in the woods and I get to wear bright colour wellies, so can do the black dress thing (my stand wedding outfit is black dress, black hat and a statement colour shoe/handbag combination).

I hope the wedding went well.
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Post by: numbnuts on 17 July, 2016, 12:27:10 pm
Quick coffee and then out geocaching
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Post by: Basil on 18 July, 2016, 07:33:14 pm
Sitting on the back balcony of my local (having an fag obv) looking out at the cricketing going on in the evening sun.  Lovely.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 18 July, 2016, 07:59:14 pm
Admiring the mahoosive hoard of yellow "champagne" raspberries that I have just harvested.   Never mind Tra$hco selling them in the south east, we had had yellows for at least a decade and they just keep on giving. 

The fruit is smaller than a red raspberry but has a much sweeter and pleasantly distinctive taste.   

Now, where's the cream ...   8)
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Post by: andrewc on 18 July, 2016, 10:19:55 pm
Sitting naked in my flat & listening to Radio 3.   It's 25C ,  sometimes I regret buying a valve amp for the hifi.   You could use it as a hot plate !
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Post by: Torslanda on 18 July, 2016, 10:40:55 pm
T. M. I.
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 July, 2016, 02:39:54 pm
I've walked to the chip shop and bough a mini fish for Milly and Diet Coke for me.  The chip shop is a few meters away. Then Milly and I sat on the bench by the lake while she ate her fish and I drank my coke.  :)
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Post by: trekker12 on 19 July, 2016, 02:45:35 pm
Eating a 99  :thumbsup:

It's bloomin freezing under this air conditioning vent but fortunately the ice cream van has just arrived!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 July, 2016, 03:14:55 pm
Trying to summon the energy to fetch the fan from the Grand Bedchamber while listening to DJ Random-1 make the PC's fan sound like a 707 with the wick turned up.  I bet both the NAS drives upstairs, which run pretty hot anyway, are chucking out temperature warnings like there's no tomorreau.

1: He's in a Seasick Steve mood today.
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 July, 2016, 05:22:19 pm
Listening to the debates relating to the second reading of the Higher Education and Research Bill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 July, 2016, 05:26:24 pm
Being hot.
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Post by: Kim on 19 July, 2016, 05:44:01 pm
Listening to the death throes of my air conditioner.
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Post by: Chris S on 20 July, 2016, 11:32:15 am
Enjoying a somewhat cooler breeze after a thunderstorm  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: trekker12 on 20 July, 2016, 04:04:41 pm
Still freezing under the air-con vent and moaning that the ice cream van hasn't made an appearance at work today
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Post by: lou boutin on 21 July, 2016, 04:43:18 pm
I'm on a day of enforced bed rest. I kind of over did it yesterday trying to walk around the pool. 
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Post by: Ruthie on 21 July, 2016, 04:45:22 pm
Wearing myself out by breathing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 July, 2016, 06:29:14 pm
Trying to decide:
1) where to cycle tomorrow; and
2) which bicycle to use.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 July, 2016, 11:41:20 pm
Winning the Pub Quiz  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Basil on 26 July, 2016, 10:07:46 pm
Having another pint with the bloke who spent 35 years in Winson Green nick.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 July, 2016, 10:34:36 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 July, 2016, 10:07:46 pm
Having another pint with the bloke who spent 35 years in Winson Green nick.

Ossifer or customer?

Actually, it probably doesn't make that much difference...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 July, 2016, 10:44:05 pm
 :D
An ossifer.  And your comment is entirely correct.

However, it makes a great opening gambit at dinner parties.  ;D
The responses range from  :-X to " Shit. Wtf did he do?"
 ;D
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Post by: lou boutin on 28 July, 2016, 07:11:32 pm
Watching Mermaid (Cher and Winona Ryder).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 July, 2016, 09:48:31 pm
Seems it's Open Mic night at the pub.  God, I've never heard such crap in all my life.  I'm going home. <Grump>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 29 July, 2016, 08:56:38 am
Planning a nice little overnight camping by bicycle trip for next weekend.
Ride the 25 miles from home to Pillars of Hercules Organic Farm / Cafe / Camp site http://www.pillars.co.uk/ (http://www.pillars.co.uk/) with tent etc in my still to be used in anger Skidii single wheeled trailer on the back of my rebuilt Dawes Horizon.
Camp overnight, all day breakfast at the organic cafe,
Then cycle all the 25 miles home again!   :thumbsup:

OK, so it's not an epic bike tour, but far enough for a decent test of the trailer!


And if my first trip is a success, there is nothing stopping me from doing this more often, I could always plan a trip around my day off through the week. Leave after work one day (luckily I tend to finish work for 2:30pm at the latest), cycle to a campsite, stay overnight, then return the next day on my day off. 
Perhaps next time I could venture farther afield, perhaps to the likes of Comrie Croft!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: lou boutin on 29 July, 2016, 06:02:56 pm
Eating veggie cottage pie and watching films on Netflix
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Post by: SpaceBadger on 30 July, 2016, 03:27:05 pm
Getting familiar with applying helicopter tape to frames. So far, me likey. Lots.
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Post by: lou boutin on 30 July, 2016, 04:57:18 pm
Having over done it today, I'm in bed. I fainted and scared the cat. 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 July, 2016, 05:34:58 pm
Oops. Take it easy missus!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 30 July, 2016, 07:27:09 pm
Quote from: Basil on 28 July, 2016, 09:48:31 pm
Seems it's Open Mic night at the pub.  God, I've never heard such crap in all my life.  I'm going home. <Grump>

What you complaining about? You've never heard me sing . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 30 July, 2016, 08:01:52 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 29 July, 2016, 06:02:56 pm
Eating veggie cottage pie and watching films on Netflix

The mind boggles.   


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Post by: lou boutin on 31 July, 2016, 09:53:09 am
Quote from: Polar Bear on 30 July, 2016, 08:01:52 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 29 July, 2016, 06:02:56 pm
Eating veggie cottage pie and watching films on Netflix

The mind boggles.

Lentils and veg in a veggie gravy with potatoes on top. Yummy ;-)

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 July, 2016, 05:34:58 pm
Oops. Take it easy missus!

Will do, but having done a bit of research it's a common side effect of having your hormones rapidly cut off. But if it persists I'll have a chat with the Dr. 

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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 31 July, 2016, 10:19:02 am
I have just finished a bonfire, of brushwood, not the vanities.

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Post by: Andrij on 31 July, 2016, 08:11:44 pm
Having fun with 17th and 18th century books.  Sadly, only a reprint and a photo-pdf, respectively.
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Post by: mcshroom on 31 July, 2016, 08:24:17 pm
Committing chemical biocide on my driveway
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Post by: Kim on 04 August, 2016, 12:25:03 pm
On hold to the NatWest fraud team, to determine whether they're the same NatWest fraud team that left a voicemail on our 'landline'.  Early indications suggest that they aren't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 04 August, 2016, 04:41:53 pm
I'm having a weepy day (hormones and post op blues) so I've taken to bed and watching films.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 August, 2016, 04:48:22 pm
Watching the rain and hoping it'll bugger off by tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 August, 2016, 07:56:18 pm
Watching BRITAIN'S Kris Meeke monstering all the FOREIGNS to win Rally Finland :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 August, 2016, 08:16:48 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 August, 2016, 12:25:03 pm
On hold to the NatWest fraud team, to determine whether they're the same NatWest fraud team that left a voicemail on our 'landline'.  Early indications suggest that they aren't.

Were they a scam or not Kim?
Hoping that it was a scam and that you didn't actually need a call from the fraud team.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 August, 2016, 08:29:00 pm
I got through, and nothing dodgy was going on with any of my cards.

After several hours and a couple more attempted calls (which I'd re-routed to the spam bin), a thought occurred to me, namely that banks are large bureaucratic organisations with a chronic inability to apply common sense.  So I pinged barakta (who is currently in dePreston trying not to herd bisexuals), who noted that her card had been declined for a Sainsbury's order earlier that afternoon, causing much stress until a hearing person with a working credit card could be deployed to sort it out.  I hypothesise that the two events are related.

She checked online banking, where nothing is amiss.

Which means either:

a) Her card is in the process of being defrauded, but the transactions haven't appeared on online banking yet.
or
b) Something about the Sainsbury's order (perhaps delivery of goods to dePreston) tripped their fraud detection system.

We'll find out on Monday when she has spoons and access to NGT.

 :-\
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 August, 2016, 08:41:42 pm
A couple of months ago Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.) had his card declined by Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles but it turned out to be some sort of technical nonse with Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles' Babbage-Engines.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 04 August, 2016, 09:04:33 pm
For this precise reason I no longer use the Sainsbugs near Heaton Park/M60 Jct.19 for diesel. I know when there is money in my business account, they never seem to be able to get TSB to authorise payment then demand cash. I gave up. Tesco may be EVIL but at least their software works which means my accountant is happy and doesn't have to ask 'where that cash went' . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 August, 2016, 07:38:28 pm
Digesting a gert big tasty tuna steak :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 05 August, 2016, 09:29:30 pm
Trying to find canned cassoulet at a sensible price.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 05 August, 2016, 10:12:39 pm
Want me to bring some back?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 05 August, 2016, 10:39:28 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 05 August, 2016, 09:29:30 pm
Trying to find canned cassoulet at a sensible price.
Tempted to eat some tinned stuff now
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 August, 2016, 02:26:53 am
Drinking tea, nomming chocolate digestives and watching hundreds of flag-waving berks taking selfies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 06 August, 2016, 08:18:39 am
Quote from: BrianI on 29 July, 2016, 08:56:38 am
Planning a nice little overnight camping by bicycle trip for next weekend.
Ride the 25 miles from home to Pillars of Hercules Organic Farm / Cafe / Camp site http://www.pillars.co.uk/ (http://www.pillars.co.uk/) with tent etc in my still to be used in anger Skidii single wheeled trailer on the back of my rebuilt Dawes Horizon.
Camp overnight, all day breakfast at the organic cafe,
Then cycle all the 25 miles home again!   :thumbsup:

OK, so it's not an epic bike tour, but far enough for a decent test of the trailer!


And if my first trip is a success, there is nothing stopping me from doing this more often, I could always plan a trip around my day off through the week. Leave after work one day (luckily I tend to finish work for 2:30pm at the latest), cycle to a campsite, stay overnight, then return the next day on my day off. 
Perhaps next time I could venture farther afield, perhaps to the likes of Comrie Croft!   :thumbsup:

Ho hum.  Yellow weather warning with 50 mph + gale force winds forecast for sunday/monday, which is the only space the camp site had free.  Much as a nice little overnight bike tour is just what the doctor ordered, I don't think I'll be going if the forecast comes true...   :-\ Not having much luck with holidays this year....  And no more annual leave till Jan next year.... 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 06 August, 2016, 08:19:03 am
Recovering from chasing my tail round Orange's web site for an hour trying to buy the missus a flashier phone. Bah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 August, 2016, 08:56:29 pm
I popped to the pub to watch the women's road race.   :facepalm:
OK.  I'll be back tomorrow.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: yellowsubmarine on 07 August, 2016, 04:52:11 am
i just woke up because yesterday i fell asleep quite early. so im awake now  ::-)

anyway, i decided to start my day now. so i´ll have breakfast, read my horoscope on astrosofa.com (http://www.astrosofa.com/horoscopes/daily) ( like i do every day, dont judge me :P )

and then a little work out  ;D

as its sunday, the rest of the day i´ll meet some friends and have a chilled day.

enjoy your day everyone!!  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 August, 2016, 10:50:43 am
I'm being lazy, hair mask, face mask etc and a drinking a lovely costa coffee brought to me by my lovely step-daughters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 August, 2016, 01:45:26 pm
So far I've painted a radiator and a bit of skirting, washed my bike for its hollybobs, changed a gear cable, made some bread dough. Now I'm having lunch while being a cat bed and wondering what to do next.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 August, 2016, 03:48:02 pm
2nd coat of paint done and a shower and I'm now ready to be a cat bed for the afternoon  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 07 August, 2016, 04:35:04 pm
Wondering
a. Is it too early for a snifter?
2. Am I the only one left alive awake in the house?
iii. Whether the smoked salmon we opened last Sunday is still edible?
$. How late is 'respectable' to awake the lady of the house?
z. Why I am experiencing a totally irrational fear of going for a bike ride. Again . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 August, 2016, 11:57:58 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 August, 2016, 08:29:00 pm
Which means either:

a) Her card is in the process of being defrauded, but the transactions haven't appeared on online banking yet.
or
b) Something about the Sainsbury's order (perhaps delivery of goods to dePreston) tripped their fraud detection system.

We'll find out on Monday when she has spoons and access to NGT.

For those waiting with bated breath, it was b) (or at least a cocked-up legitimate transaction immediately prior to it), which counts as an optimal outcome.

The 'landline' number has been removed from her records and her mobile inserted with a warning about SMS only, which I expect to be ignored in due course.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 08 August, 2016, 08:33:51 am
Wading through the formalities needed to register the missus's resignation from the management of our company, so that she can collect her pension. Labyrinth, complete with Minotaur if you put a foot wrong.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bledlow on 08 August, 2016, 03:12:25 pm
Proofreading and editing 52 pages of Japanese English. The bits translated by the firm that gave me the job are OK. They're pretty good English needing only a few minor tweaks. But the parts translated or written by the client, perhaps to save on translation costs . . .  :facepalm:

Ah well. 46  down, 6 to go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 09 August, 2016, 12:38:09 pm
Wheezing.

Not worrying the Bwlch-y-groes anytime soon...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 August, 2016, 02:01:07 pm
Counting down the minutes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 09 August, 2016, 07:04:59 pm
Not a lot and wishing it was bed time
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 10 August, 2016, 10:27:28 am
As I'm completely whacked after a stressful and emotional day yesterday so still in my dressing gown with my feet up on the sofa watching the food network
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 August, 2016, 11:02:02 am
Having finally received my Welsh old buggers bus pass, I am sitting at the bus stop in anticipation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 10 August, 2016, 11:31:47 am
Quote from: Basil on 10 August, 2016, 11:02:02 am
Having finally received my Welsh old buggers bus pass, I am sitting at the bus stop in anticipation.

Didn't they tell you?  That bus only comes along at 05:39 on Tuesdays.  Hope you've brought a flask and some sandwiches.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 August, 2016, 01:25:03 pm
Nah.  We've moved to the bright lights now.  There are 3 buses a day!  Woo-hoo!   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 August, 2016, 10:16:19 pm
Sending fboab a "\" character because she can't find it on her keyboard  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 12 August, 2016, 11:11:19 am
Quote from: Chris S on 11 August, 2016, 10:16:19 pm
Sending fboab a "\" character because she can't find it on her keyboard  :thumbsup:

That made me laugh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 12 August, 2016, 02:16:58 pm
Waiting in for a Royal Mail delivery that left the depot 10 miles away at 0805 this morning...  Yes, I know they have lots of places to deliver to, but just once, couldn't they not push it right to the end of the working day?

What am I waiting for that I don't want to leave sliding around in the back of the van for another week while they find it, a Zeiss Batis 85mm lens...  C'mon, I want to try it out, I need to use it in anger on Sunday for a dance event.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 12 August, 2016, 02:30:07 pm
Grinking a planning application. The only plus point is the opportunity to type 'unsightly erection' several times.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2016, 06:21:29 pm
See if you can get the odd monstrous carbuncle in as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 13 August, 2016, 08:29:43 am
Exercising restraint. Please can I have some gold stars for my excellence? It's been very hard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 14 August, 2016, 09:47:57 pm
(http://www.clipartkid.com/images/666/31-picture-of-gold-star-free-cliparts-that-you-can-download-to-you-IH2AZt-clipart.jpeg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 14 August, 2016, 09:53:15 pm
About to eat some home made banana and coconut ice cream. Frozen bananas whizzed with coconut cream. Yum.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 August, 2016, 10:19:48 pm
Embracing 'Boro life by reheating some leftover Parmo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 15 August, 2016, 08:31:35 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2016, 06:21:29 pm
See if you can get the odd monstrous carbuncle in as well.

Not my words, some ye olde restrictive covenant. I don't know what an 'unsightly erection' is, though my wife claims to know and seems eager to tell me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Redlight on 15 August, 2016, 12:39:06 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 11 August, 2016, 10:16:19 pm
Sending fboab a "\" character because she can't find it on her keyboard  :thumbsup:

When you've done that, can you send me a hashtag?  Can't find one anywhere on my Mac keyboard
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 August, 2016, 01:02:24 pm
Quote from: Redlight on 15 August, 2016, 12:39:06 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 11 August, 2016, 10:16:19 pm
Sending fboab a "\" character because she can't find it on her keyboard  :thumbsup:

When you've done that, can you send me a hashtag?  Can't find one anywhere on my Mac keyboard

*twitches*

Is 'hashtag' really the new word for 'hash'‽  I suppose it's less confusing than 'pound', as the leftpondians insist on calling it, or worse, 'octothorp'.
 
On a British Mac it's some modifier key or other (my brain is saying Alt, but it's been a while) combined with the 3.

ETA: http://wheresthehashkeyonamac.co.uk/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 August, 2016, 01:10:02 pm
Quote from: ian on 15 August, 2016, 08:31:35 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2016, 06:21:29 pm
See if you can get the odd monstrous carbuncle in as well.

Not my words, some ye olde restrictive covenant. I don't know what an 'unsightly erection' is, though my wife claims to know and seems eager to tell me.

I have a vague recollection of seeing it used to refer to a large steel frame built over a rebuilt lock on, IIRC, the Stratford-on-Avon canal.  Said frame was referred to as "Mr [bloke from the Waterways Recovery Group]'s unsightly erection in the park".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 15 August, 2016, 01:53:27 pm
Sitting on a deck chair, on a square of artificial grass, bounded by a white picket fence, in one of Liverpool's squares (Exchange Flags)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 15 August, 2016, 02:05:54 pm
Quote from: Kim on 15 August, 2016, 01:02:24 pm
Quote from: Redlight on 15 August, 2016, 12:39:06 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 11 August, 2016, 10:16:19 pm
Sending fboab a "\" character because she can't find it on her keyboard  :thumbsup:

When you've done that, can you send me a hashtag?  Can't find one anywhere on my Mac keyboard

*twitches*

Is 'hashtag' really the new word for 'hash'‽  I suppose it's less confusing than 'pound', as the leftpondians insist on calling it, or worse, 'octothorp'.
 
On a British Mac it's some modifier key or other (my brain is saying Alt, but it's been a while) combined with the 3.

ETA: http://wheresthehashkeyonamac.co.uk/

Haydn's 45th Sympohony in F hashtag minor. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01mv2zh)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 August, 2016, 06:25:11 pm
Not having wood pile envy, but pine cone pile envy!
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8271/29004293035_d2deb63885_o.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 15 August, 2016, 06:59:04 pm
As a pointlessly random fact, conifers (and most gymnosperms) have motile male gametes just like animals.

(This can be a problem as fertilisation can only occur in the presence of water and likely why flowering plants are now the dominant form of plant life on the planet).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 August, 2016, 08:02:35 pm
Quote from: ian on 15 August, 2016, 06:59:04 pm
As a pointlessly random fact, conifers (and most gymnosperms) have motile male gametes just like animals.

(This can be a problem as fertilisation can only occur in the presence of water and likely why flowering plants are now the dominant form of plant life on the planet).

What's the pine cone then? A female bit, male bit or fruit?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 15 August, 2016, 09:18:47 pm
Their female parts (generally the big cones like what you have there are female). Male cones are smaller.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 August, 2016, 09:40:29 pm
Pondering the fact that I haven't done a Friday Night ride to Somewhere - unless you count the Tan Hill ride I did.

Looking at options.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 16 August, 2016, 09:43:34 pm
Reprogramming the headwind...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 17 August, 2016, 07:09:05 pm
Sitting in the unsatisfactory and overpriced Premiere Inn at South Queensferry.
Considering a jaunt down to the Hawes Inn for noms and some isotonic refreshment in anticipation of tomorrow's ride.

Edit..
That's better.
Sitting outside agreeable Hawes Inn with proper beer listening to trains rumbling over the Forth Bridge high above me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 18 August, 2016, 05:08:44 pm
Reading up on benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 19 August, 2016, 08:57:35 am
Puzzling over a conversation with our Ukranian cleaner ( > 6 months)

<riiiing of doorbell>
"Hello"
    "Hi"
"How are you?"
    "Good"
"How is your English getting on?"
    "Cold"

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 19 August, 2016, 09:09:50 am
Looking out of the, rather impressive, bay window of a crumbling Welsh pile at the river valley below, absorbing tea and contemplating creating another masterpiece through the medium of the needle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 August, 2016, 10:30:20 am
Going stir crazy.  I have cabin fever.  I can't drive for another week. It's raining so I can't walk. I'm fed up of watching the food network, Netflix and the Olympics. I've read everything I wanted to read and have now resorting to chic lit, which I'm actually arguing with!!!!!! Arghhh
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 August, 2016, 11:55:20 am
Why can't you walk in the rain? Just askin' like...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 August, 2016, 12:47:31 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 19 August, 2016, 11:55:20 am
Why can't you walk in the rain? Just askin' like...

I've had major surgery and walking is a slow process, so I didn't want to get completely soaked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 August, 2016, 03:49:26 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 19 August, 2016, 12:47:31 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 19 August, 2016, 11:55:20 am
Why can't you walk in the rain? Just askin' like...

I've had major surgery and walking is a slow process, so I didn't want to get completely soaked.

Fair enough. Got a brolly?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 19 August, 2016, 03:57:52 pm
Get thee a Carradice cycling cape. Wall slowly and stay dry ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 August, 2016, 08:00:04 pm
We've had a little window of sunshine so I've been to the park and a found a dog to fuss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 20 August, 2016, 01:05:34 am
Watching Olympic Dodgeball
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 August, 2016, 08:11:12 am
Have just (sob) written a couple of cheques to the Trésor Public before the reminders start to get threatening.  Waiting absolutely as long as possible before paying up is the French national sport.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 August, 2016, 07:55:23 pm
Trying to explain to Mrs B why I have just returned from Newcastle Emlyn with this.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4420/36286821666_ca1183db21_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XhxrSj)IMG_20170802_124523 (https://flic.kr/p/XhxrSj) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr

I reckon that if I prepare lunch tomorrow and then use it, she'll forgive me.
 :D

Edit.  I no longer had a copy of the original hosted on Photofuckit, so I've had to take another shot.  Hence there are no longer unopened boxes of "moving in" stuff all over the place.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 20 August, 2016, 08:13:04 pm
That will be a stir fry then will it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 August, 2016, 08:16:45 pm
Something from the Chinese takeaway?   :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 August, 2016, 08:21:12 pm
You mean that's not to let her know when you need another cuppa?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 August, 2016, 08:22:27 pm
Oh, and the reason it looks like we're still moving in is because, after over a month, we are still moving in.  There's a room downstairs we call the Goods In room.  It's still full.  If there's something we can't find, it will be in there somewhere.  At current rate of progress, it will take about a year to find everything.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 August, 2016, 08:25:21 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 20 August, 2016, 08:21:12 pm
You mean that's not to let her know when you need another cuppa?

 :o
Hmm.  You've never met Mrs B, have you. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 20 August, 2016, 08:34:10 pm
Quote from: Basil on 20 August, 2016, 08:25:21 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 20 August, 2016, 08:21:12 pm
You mean that's not to let her know when you need another cuppa?

 :o
Hmm.  You've never met Mrs B, have you.

No, I haven't.  Let me try again...

You mean that's not for her to let you know she needs another cuppa?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 August, 2016, 11:06:38 pm
I've now got a mental image of Basil stripped to the waist & banging his gong.......  :-D

(https://vciclassicfilms.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/j-arthur-rank-gong.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 August, 2016, 11:12:40 pm
You calling me a ranker?
 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 August, 2016, 11:32:17 pm
Quote from: Basil on 20 August, 2016, 11:12:40 pm
You calling me a ranker?
 :-D

A chap with a sonorous dong..... :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 August, 2016, 01:32:07 am
Introducing J Basil Rank, on gong.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 August, 2016, 07:40:18 am
When the kids were small we used to shout "bong" up the stairs to summon them to meals. Hence the habit of coming in and asking "are we bong yet?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 21 August, 2016, 08:36:29 am
Quote from: andrewc on 20 August, 2016, 11:06:38 pm
I've now got a mental image of Basil stripped to the waist & banging his gong.......  :-D

(https://vciclassicfilms.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/j-arthur-rank-gong.jpg)

Apparently that gong was for display purposes only:

Quote from: wikipeida
The Gongman film logo sequence depicts a man striking a huge gong with a deep resonant sound. The gongs used in the films were props made of plaster or papier-mâché, with the sound of the gong done by James Blades on a Chinese instrument called a tam tam. During the sequence, the text "General Film Distributors", " J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors", "J. Arthur Rank presents" or "'The Rank Organisation" appeared over the gong


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongman)

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 22 August, 2016, 04:00:18 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 20 August, 2016, 11:06:38 pm
I've now got a mental image of Basil stripped to the waist & banging his gong.......  :-D

(https://vciclassicfilms.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/j-arthur-rank-gong.jpg)
And now, an image of Basil with corkscrew hair, satin flares and platform soles

'Get it on...'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 22 August, 2016, 06:45:44 pm
Waiting for the plumber who is supposed to be visiting between five and six in order to price plumbing element of kitchen works. Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 22 August, 2016, 09:13:15 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 22 August, 2016, 06:45:44 pm
Waiting for the plumber who is supposed to be visiting between five and six in order to price plumbing element of kitchen works. Sigh.

What you need is a project manager . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 August, 2016, 12:36:37 am
Worrying that the drunken zombies of Silly Oak have stepped things up a notch; I can hear banjo music...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 August, 2016, 09:05:10 am
Quote from: Kim on 23 August, 2016, 12:36:37 am
Worrying that the drunken zombies of Silly Oak have stepped things up a notch; I can hear banjo music...

Be afraid.  Be very afraid. (http://youtu.be/1tqxzWdKKu8)

Contemplating another day of detangling guide books, maps, Google, Excel and swearing in an attempt to determine the route of, er, Route 66 in this modern-type era of interstate highways, and what photo-worthy bridges exist along the way.

And laundry.  Perhaps this will be the first year of the 2010s when I don't have to visit Wol-Mart to buy more underwear while in Abroad, where the FOREIGNS come from.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 23 August, 2016, 03:34:57 pm
Digesting lunch, and considering a ride on my bicycle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 23 August, 2016, 03:40:48 pm
Drinking coffee and feeling sad, for two reasons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 23 August, 2016, 05:22:17 pm
I've just driven for the first time since my operation. Very sore now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 23 August, 2016, 08:23:26 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 22 August, 2016, 09:13:15 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 22 August, 2016, 06:45:44 pm
Waiting for the plumber who is supposed to be visiting between five and six in order to price plumbing element of kitchen works. Sigh.

What you need is a project manager . . .

Found out today that the builder concerned has walked (didnt want to sign a simple home owners JCT contract allegedly - I think other forces are at work. No phone call to me to let me know though. We don't do customer service in the UK do we? This after the first one walked because I wanted more pricing info. I am trying to support local businesses but finding it really hard going. Time to engage someone from out of town that I trust, thinks. I will prolly end up project managing this, which I did not want to do, having retired.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 24 August, 2016, 05:06:23 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 18 July, 2016, 07:59:14 pm
Admiring the mahoosive hoard of yellow "champagne" raspberries that I have just harvested.   Never mind Tra$hco selling them in the south east, we had had yellows for at least a decade and they just keep on giving. 

The fruit is smaller than a red raspberry but has a much sweeter and pleasantly distinctive taste.   

Now, where's the cream ...   8)
Ooh, I never did take you up on some of those plants, did I? (Makes mental note...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 25 August, 2016, 09:15:38 pm
Finally joining CAMRA.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 26 August, 2016, 01:15:00 pm
Desperately trying to stay awake so that I sleep tonight, despite nearly 24hours of travelling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 27 August, 2016, 08:12:53 am
Just been closing up shutters & windows to keep the heat out. 35°C promised for today; indoors should stay at around 25° - comfy.

A couple of weeks back someone I know in Belfast posted a "scorchio" message on FB when the temperature reached 23°.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 August, 2016, 01:10:49 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 26 August, 2016, 01:15:00 pm
Desperately trying to stay awake so that I sleep tonight, despite nearly 24hours of travelling.

This I failed at. Slept on the sofa of doom, then went to bed at 10. Woke at 11 this morning.
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Post by: Chris S on 27 August, 2016, 06:31:56 pm
Looking up campsites in Belgium, using Google translate. This one sounds ideal:

"There is also cattle which conducted in consultation and should be cared for."

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Ruthie on 27 August, 2016, 06:34:12 pm
Waiting for my takeaway to be delivered.  And doing some colouring-in.
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Post by: peliroja on 27 August, 2016, 08:16:40 pm
Eating delicious home made veggie shepherd's pie and listening to Gloria Estefan. 
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Post by: T42 on 28 August, 2016, 08:22:43 am
Trying to muster the oomph to go downstairs and either (a) make another cuppa or (b) finish cleaning my bike.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 August, 2016, 05:14:27 pm
Quote from: T42 on 27 August, 2016, 08:12:53 am
Just been closing up shutters & windows to keep the heat out. 35°C promised for today; indoors should stay at around 25° - comfy.

A couple of weeks back someone I know in Belfast posted a "scorchio" message on FB when the temperature reached 23°.

We saw 37C on the thermometer when we were driving up to Reims on Friday. Very glad indeed that we bought a car with air con, even though the only time is gets used is on 2 weeks holiday.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 August, 2016, 05:18:47 pm
Meanwhile, we're 25 miles from home and it's only 14C :(
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Post by: Ruthie on 28 August, 2016, 05:57:29 pm
Being full of sinful lust.

http://www.rubyshoo.com/product/276/New_In
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Post by: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 06:05:33 pm
Ruthie, those shoes are lush.  I love Rubtshoos, I also like irregular choice and waxing lyrical. In face I love shoes full stop. 
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Post by: Ruthie on 28 August, 2016, 06:06:26 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 06:05:33 pm
Ruthie, those shoes are lush.  I love Rubtshoos, I also like irregular choice and waxing lyrical. In face I love shoes full stop.

All of those.   I have a bag that matches those shoes.  It's like they were made for each other.  How am I supposed to say no?
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Post by: Ruthie on 28 August, 2016, 06:08:58 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 06:05:33 pm
Ruthie, those shoes are lush.  I love Rubtshoos, I also like irregular choice and waxing lyrical. In face I love shoes full stop.

Just googled waxing lyrical shoes.  No results  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 06:12:56 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 28 August, 2016, 06:08:58 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 06:05:33 pm
Ruthie, those shoes are lush.  I love Rubtshoos, I also like irregular choice and waxing lyrical. In face I love shoes full stop.

Just googled waxing lyrical shoes.  No results  :(

They were a part of Irregular Choice brand, but I could have confused the name. I will check and let you know.
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Post by: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 08:44:10 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 06:12:56 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 28 August, 2016, 06:08:58 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 06:05:33 pm
Ruthie, those shoes are lush.  I love Rubtshoos, I also like irregular choice and waxing lyrical. In face I love shoes full stop.

Just googled waxing lyrical shoes.  No results  :(

They were a part of Irregular Choice brand, but I could have confused the name. I will check and let you know.

Sorry it was Poetic Licence not Waxing Lyrical - close but no cigar!
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Post by: Ruthie on 28 August, 2016, 08:52:50 pm
Heh, I can see where you were coming from  ;D
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Post by: Ruthie on 28 August, 2016, 09:02:08 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 08:44:10 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 06:12:56 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 28 August, 2016, 06:08:58 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 06:05:33 pm
Ruthie, those shoes are lush.  I love Rubtshoos, I also like irregular choice and waxing lyrical. In face I love shoes full stop.

Just googled waxing lyrical shoes.  No results  :(

They were a part of Irregular Choice brand, but I could have confused the name. I will check and let you know.

Sorry it was Poetic Licence not Waxing Lyrical - close but no cigar!

Oh, my.  (http://www.shoestore.co.uk/index.php/catalog/product/view/id/27286/s/poetic-licence-end-of-story-shoe-boots-blue-floral/?gclid=CjwKEAjwl4q-BRDtzJmSk-uGunkSJACmCOY-owL6P_aZJByGOIAKMpgJczejr9rNs2ZccMFuNA-EkhoCCH3w_wcB#b)
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Post by: lou boutin on 28 August, 2016, 09:17:06 pm
 ;D  ;D  ;D  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 August, 2016, 11:59:26 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 28 August, 2016, 05:14:27 pm
Quote from: T42 on 27 August, 2016, 08:12:53 am
Just been closing up shutters & windows to keep the heat out. 35°C promised for today; indoors should stay at around 25° - comfy.

A couple of weeks back someone I know in Belfast posted a "scorchio" message on FB when the temperature reached 23°.

We saw 37C on the thermometer when we were driving up to Reims on Friday. Very glad indeed that we bought a car with air con, even though the only time is gets used is on 2 weeks holiday.

Today's high was "only" 93 deg. F but the humidity is appalling.

(Drips)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 01 September, 2016, 02:00:41 pm
Waiting, waiting, waiting to go in for surgery. Why is this sort of waiting so interminable?
I'm starving, just had an apple since last night.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 September, 2016, 03:16:41 pm
Cleaning.  Housework is so dull.  Very loud Ezra Furman helps a bit tho....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvfI6Q5WFT0
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 01 September, 2016, 03:36:06 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 01 September, 2016, 02:00:41 pm
Waiting, waiting, waiting to go in for surgery. Why is this sort of waiting so interminable?
I'm starving, just had an apple since last night.

Good luck.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 01 September, 2016, 05:43:26 pm
having finished a day from heck (not quite bad enough for day from hell) where I've spent half of it correcting other peoples mistakes, despite pointing out those mistakes a month ago and essentially being told to "eff off", I'm now just about to head off for a yoga class.

Tomorrow back to picking up the pieces left over from todays debacle which means I'm already behind before I start.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 September, 2016, 05:55:35 pm
Still cleaning....

https://youtu.be/j5vFWPmz68s
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 01 September, 2016, 06:20:26 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 01 September, 2016, 03:36:06 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 01 September, 2016, 02:00:41 pm
Waiting, waiting, waiting to go in for surgery. Why is this sort of waiting so interminable?
I'm starving, just had an apple since last night.

Good luck.
Ty

Out finally. Not sure I'm going home tonight. Arm ache s a bit despite total block that makes fingers numb so I guess this is going to really hurt once block has worn off.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 September, 2016, 06:25:51 pm
Make sure they give you all the good drugs!
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 01 September, 2016, 08:18:34 pm
Currently I have a nerve block in then just co-codamol
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 September, 2016, 09:57:12 pm
Hope that's sufficient. And gws!

Still cleaning... bathroom and kitchen done. Bedrooms done, although the Toyboxes of Doom are still staring balefully at me.

I'm going to have to actually contemplate confronting the living room TPoCs, aren't I?
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Post by: clarion on 02 September, 2016, 09:40:46 am
Heal well, mrc! :)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 September, 2016, 01:48:57 pm
Have tidied the bike shed - which is in the living room, natch.  It was already the tidiest corner of the living room, so I figured I'll start there and work round clockwise.  This may be a Strategy, since it means the the desk (arrghhh! Keep calm, deep breathing and Just Don't Think About It!!) is the last thing I'll get to... possibly sometime in 2017, since the dining table and the bookcases will precede it.  Next job - find a home for the assorted bike bits from the front windowsill.  Although I'm half wondering if I should leave them (stack of saddles, set or two of bars, assorted lighting gubbins etc) as they do help random wandering cyclists identify the Den...
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Post by: fuzzy on 02 September, 2016, 02:24:05 pm
Recovering from a 'Team Building' session.

Holding my tongue and staying calm is fucking exhausting.
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Post by: Andrij on 02 September, 2016, 09:29:31 pm
Checking maps before tonight's ride. 

Any interested London insomniacs get in touch before midnight.

(No, tonight is not the Overnight TPM, just doing a recce.)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 03 September, 2016, 07:06:30 am
Quote from: mrcharly on 01 September, 2016, 08:18:34 pm
Currently I have a nerve block in then just co-codamol
either the nerve block hasnt fully worn off or they damaged nerve in my hand because my Little Fingers still numb can't say I'm in much pain it's just a bit achy all day, the sort of ache that makes makes people grumpy. I don't really have any high pain threshold so I'm not being brave I remembered why I hate co-codamol, it makes me nauseous.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 03 September, 2016, 10:22:23 am
I'm at Waitrose, but I just saw some sort of cycling team van turn in to the hotel next door. Orica something (I'm not clued up on these things) - I guess they're here for the ToB tomorrow.
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Post by: iddu on 03 September, 2016, 09:43:55 pm
Watching the hen parties of Newcastle wander around in the rain.

You'll catch your death of cold in that  :o
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Post by: mcshroom on 03 September, 2016, 10:20:58 pm
Looking at the current SSAGO* website to see what the Organisation has done since I left the Exec 11 years ago.The club I re-started with two others now has more than 20 members, with a similar sized group at the other Sheffield Uni which we were helping to set up around the time I was graduating. Feeling weirdly smug, considering how little I have to do with it's current success :smug:

*Student Scout And Guide Organisation
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Post by: spesh on 03 September, 2016, 11:15:15 pm
Quote from: iddu on 03 September, 2016, 09:43:55 pm
Watching the hen parties of Newcastle wander around in the rain.

You'll catch your death of cold in that  :o

<Kaiser Chiefs> If it wasn't for chip fat they'd be frozen. </Kaiser Chiefs>  :demon:
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Post by: Ruthie on 03 September, 2016, 11:16:34 pm
It was much the same in Darlo tonight.  They must be made of space-age heat absorbing material or sumfing.
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Post by: lou boutin on 04 September, 2016, 10:16:55 am
 Just getting the bike ready for my first post operative pootle.
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Post by: Ruthie on 04 September, 2016, 10:20:26 am
Ooh have fun lou!
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Post by: Basil on 04 September, 2016, 01:57:51 pm
Watching the ToB on the Bike channel.   
I could get used to having a telly.   :D
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Post by: lou boutin on 04 September, 2016, 02:57:09 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 04 September, 2016, 10:20:26 am
Ooh have fun lou!

Thank you, I did. 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 September, 2016, 10:33:11 am
Waiting on a sodding tradesperson who was going to be here at 9am.  >:(

That could have been covered by flexible hours, but I don't have that many in hand. So I'll have to take a poxy morning off, without the benefit of the whole day off being as I have a meeting this afternoon.
 >:(
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Post by: L CC on 26 September, 2016, 10:53:08 am
Day off for recovery. My hands hurt. I've got a feeling that as soon as stairs are involved, so will my legs.

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Post by: lou boutin on 26 September, 2016, 07:39:04 pm
Drinking chocolate milk - it's a weight watcher friendly chocolate and soya milk, so helping me manage the menapausal too - honest!!!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 September, 2016, 01:41:22 pm
It's more what I'm not doing, viz.
1: This includes my tea mug
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Post by: matthew on 27 September, 2016, 04:53:55 pm
I have spent the day gardening, removed some bits from the front garden and then planted in some lavender and some bulbs.

The back garden has had one bed tidied up and some bulbs planted the other side bed has been partly cleared.

I had the assistance of family (mother and my nephew) complete with a car to take the waste to the local recycling centre which I couldn't have done as I don't have a trailer for my bike.
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Post by: Andrij on 16 October, 2016, 12:22:50 am
Sitting on the back porch,  listening to the crickets and enjoying a lovely sunset.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 16 October, 2016, 07:58:55 am
Mentally preparing to fit the last floorboard along the stone wall of my barn.  Like doing a jigsaw puzzle when you have to cut the last piece to shape yourself.  Then I will boil the kettle and have a 'bottoming out' ceremony.
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Post by: tiermat on 16 October, 2016, 09:41:38 am
Giving the bike shed (read garage) a, long overdue, tidy and clean. I have, so far, amassed 2 carloads of rubbish and evicted 10 spiders!
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Post by: andrewc on 16 October, 2016, 10:21:57 am
Wandering around Rome in bright sunshine  :o
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 16 October, 2016, 11:19:42 am
Digesting a yummy cooked breakfast and watching the film version of Maverick starring Mel Gibson. Tis silly fun.
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Post by: De Sisti on 16 October, 2016, 11:21:14 am
Taking a break from double bass practice. Couldn't be arsed going out on a morning bike ride.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 October, 2016, 03:17:23 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 October, 2016, 12:22:50 am
Sitting on the back porch,  listening to the crickets and enjoying a lovely sunset.

Using my Psychick Powers I divine that you are not, in fact, presently in east Londonton.
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Post by: Andrij on 17 October, 2016, 01:40:59 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 16 October, 2016, 03:17:23 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 October, 2016, 12:22:50 am
Sitting on the back porch,  listening to the crickets and enjoying a lovely sunset.

Using my Psychick Powers I divine that you are not, in fact, presently in east Londonton.

Are you implying this isn't my east Londonton back garden?

(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8555/30075833380_c2d50f20d6_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MPGvro)
DSC_0034.NEF (https://flic.kr/p/MPGvro) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr

Then you are absolutely correct.  :)
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Post by: andrewc on 18 October, 2016, 07:24:28 pm
Sitting outside a restaurant in Rome waiting for dinner.

It's obviously popular as they are turning people away  :P

I'm making do with bread & olives until my ravioli turns up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 October, 2016, 09:11:11 pm
Catching up with almost an entire day of recorded BTCC race meetings wot I missed because holibobs.
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Post by: fuzzy on 24 October, 2016, 01:05:56 pm
Sorting out our office so that when the carpenters work bench arrives tomorrow, we can haz a man cave :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 31 October, 2016, 08:30:20 am
Sat on a train, on my way to that London.
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Post by: Gus on 01 November, 2016, 04:54:35 pm
Printing
Exams tomorrow, and I've been studying 12-16 hours/day the last week.
and half way through 310 pages of printing  :sick:

And I need them for 2*10 minutes, then they are junk  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 November, 2016, 08:14:52 pm
Completing my absentee ballot (US).
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Post by: woollypigs on 01 November, 2016, 08:37:33 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 01 November, 2016, 08:14:52 pm
Completing my absentee ballot (US).
Hope it is online as I wouldn't trust the Royal Mail to get it there in time
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 01 November, 2016, 09:57:33 pm
Putting a few finishing touches on this:

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5644/30087573194_da5f231ba7_c.jpg)

1:25 1964 Ford Falcon Futura.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 November, 2016, 10:38:06 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 01 November, 2016, 08:37:33 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 01 November, 2016, 08:14:52 pm
Completing my absentee ballot (US).
Hope it is online as I wouldn't trust the Royal Mail to get it there in time

But I trust the  USPS. ;)

AFAIK, there is no online voting in the  US.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 01 November, 2016, 11:13:14 pm
Trying the new RStudio V 1.0 (finally to version 1 after ten years). It has cool stuff in.
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Post by: Pingu on 01 November, 2016, 11:14:38 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 01 November, 2016, 09:57:33 pm
Putting a few finishing touches on this:

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5644/30087573194_da5f231ba7_c.jpg)

1:25 1964 Ford Falcon Futura.

You've got a big garage.
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Post by: woollypigs on 02 November, 2016, 08:45:43 am
Quote from: Pingu on 01 November, 2016, 11:14:38 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 01 November, 2016, 09:57:33 pm
Putting a few finishing touches on this:

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5644/30087573194_da5f231ba7_c.jpg)

1:25 1964 Ford Falcon Futura.

You've got a big garage.
No, Brian is very small :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 November, 2016, 09:13:06 am
Configuring 10Gbps switches in a datacentre in Hong Kong over a laggy Teamviewer session from home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 November, 2016, 09:49:43 am
Sitting in a train on my way to meet Jane.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 November, 2016, 12:54:31 pm
Eating parkin.
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Post by: Vince on 02 November, 2016, 01:04:34 pm
Listening to Boy Wunja on UWE student radio
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Post by: Ruthie on 02 November, 2016, 01:36:47 pm
Watching a recording of this year's TdeF with the heating full on, pretending it's summer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 November, 2016, 03:41:55 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 02 November, 2016, 08:45:43 am
Quote from: Pingu on 01 November, 2016, 11:14:38 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 01 November, 2016, 09:57:33 pm
Putting a few finishing touches on this:

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5644/30087573194_da5f231ba7_c.jpg)

1:25 1964 Ford Falcon Futura.

You've got a big garage.
No, Brian is very small :)

Or far away.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 05 November, 2016, 11:39:44 am
Killing time in Darlo and wondering why it's full of police.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 05 November, 2016, 02:47:04 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 05 November, 2016, 11:39:44 am
Killing time in Darlo and wondering why it's full of police.

That'd be the EDL march.  You could've goaded some fascists while you were here.
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Post by: Deano on 05 November, 2016, 04:01:02 pm
Yeah. I hate Darlo Nazis.
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Post by: Ham on 08 November, 2016, 08:28:38 pm
Contemplating the awesomeness of split screen on a phone
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Post by: peliroja on 08 November, 2016, 09:24:11 pm
Looking at giant unicorn lamps on the internet to distract myself. From the state of the world! https://www.smokonow.com/products/gunil
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 November, 2016, 11:12:26 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 08 November, 2016, 09:24:11 pm
Looking at giant unicorn lamps on the internet to distract myself. From the state of the world! https://www.smokonow.com/products/gunil

Clicks.  Looks at rest of site. Disappears down the rabbit hole...
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Post by: tiermat on 09 November, 2016, 08:57:04 pm
Sat on yet another train. Sixth one this week!

At least tomorrow is telephone interview day (one at 09.30 and one at 12.00), then drive to Leeds to see Nathaniel Rateliffe and his bunch of hipsters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 10 November, 2016, 08:14:56 am
Listening to cars ploughing through the rain outside, finishing my tea and waiting for the IP's nurse to arrive.  Hot on her heels will come the phyzzy, and by the time he buggers off I'll be ready for another cuppa.

If it wasn't pissing down like a herd of synchronized cows I'd be miles away on me bike. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 November, 2016, 07:59:54 pm
Quote from: T42 on 10 November, 2016, 08:14:56 am

pissing down like a herd of synchronized cows...

This made I larf :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 November, 2016, 01:21:40 pm
Taking a short 'think break' from the well beyond my comfort zone diy I'm instructed to have completed before BiL arrives this evening.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 November, 2016, 08:37:52 pm
Just for a Wednesday change, sat on a train, on my way home, after 2 interviews. Should have been three but the third guy needed to be out of the office today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 November, 2016, 08:47:31 pm
In the pub, trying to make sense in Welsh.   It's not going well.

Bugger.
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Post by: Torslanda on 16 November, 2016, 08:54:34 pm
@Tiermat How rude . . .

@Basil Um, er . . . try MOAR BEER?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 November, 2016, 09:38:59 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 16 November, 2016, 08:54:34 pm
@Basil Um, er . . . try MOAR BEER?

Shouldn't that be MWY O GWRW?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 16 November, 2016, 09:43:13 pm
Probably. After a few more pints.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 November, 2016, 10:13:45 pm
Seems the CDs I've been using are North Welsh.  ffs  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 16 November, 2016, 10:16:32 pm
Quote from: Basil on 16 November, 2016, 10:13:45 pm
Seems the CDs I've been using are North Welsh.  ffs  :facepalm:
Gogs eh.  Mind you it's all Greek to me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 17 November, 2016, 12:27:22 am
Staring a picture of a 'Spa 631 Audax Special' frame and a picture of a 'Hewitt Chiltern' frame. I'm sure they're the same thing. At £250 the SPa frame is a tempting replacement for the Raleigh I broke last year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 17 November, 2016, 08:23:00 am
...which is now mended.

If you want it back I'll post it.

BTW I'm pretty sure you're right. Spa, Hewitt, Pearson all look like their frames come from the same supplier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 17 November, 2016, 08:34:54 am
Shivering on the train.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jakob W on 17 November, 2016, 09:09:45 am
From discussion on the CTC boards, the Spa and Hewitt frames are the same; Spa bought up a load of stock from Byercycles (? - someone going out of business anyhow) who used the same far Eastern supplier as Hewitt. They won't be restocking, so if they've got one in your size they are a genuine bargain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 17 November, 2016, 09:53:23 am
I just shepherded a dozy hornet out through my office window with a copy of the 2011 PBP results.  The weather got mild all of a sud, but I didn't think it'd got that mild.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 November, 2016, 01:41:46 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 17 November, 2016, 08:34:54 am
Shivering on the train.

Shivering while barakta is on the phone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 18 November, 2016, 06:23:57 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 17 November, 2016, 08:23:00 am
...which is now mended.

If you want it back I'll post it.

Actually, I'll have to have a think about that :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 18 November, 2016, 07:14:47 pm
Printing pictures for the RSPB Christmas quiz. I know it's three weeks away but looking at the calendar between now and then...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 18 November, 2016, 07:37:44 pm
Preparing to put some 'bone in' shin beef into a slow cooker.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 November, 2016, 10:27:00 am
Recovering from a medical flap with the Inlaw Paw that started at 5 am with fast, shallow, noisy breathing and ended with "probably nothing serious" about an hour ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 19 November, 2016, 10:16:36 pm
Enjoying the embers of the first fire of the year, which used up the last of the freebies we got when a neighbour had a leylandii felled and a sycamore trimmed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 25 November, 2016, 03:18:22 pm
Sat in the bar of a hotel, in Manchester, drinking a very poor London Pale Ale, passing the time until Si_s arrives to collect his tickets, then it's off to Red's for food and better beer (can't  be any worse than here!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 26 November, 2016, 01:30:03 pm
Sitting on my sofa dressed in cycling gear.  Getting out the door.  It's a problem.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jakob W on 26 November, 2016, 08:49:03 pm
Sat in the vestibule of a rammed Virgin train from that London to Brum (doing a Corbyn?). TBF it's quiet and fairly comfy (the couple of pints I had in the Euston Tap may be helping there), and I've got my book, so I'm not even contemplating stabby DETH for Branson.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 27 November, 2016, 03:20:05 pm
Having a good cry.  Caring for someone with dementia is draining.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 28 November, 2016, 03:51:54 pm
Drinking Italian coffee in an American diner that is staffed by Poles in Cardiff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 30 November, 2016, 09:15:43 am
Preparing to take No.1 Son to that JR2 for a bit of flip top head action (wisdom tooth extraction).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 30 November, 2016, 03:07:35 pm
Drinking excellent coffee in a Dutch cafe. They have board games for children. And a small chiddler is killing my brother at Battleship.This is a bloody civilised country this is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 December, 2016, 04:24:36 am
Hiccoughs.     :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 03 December, 2016, 05:15:37 am
Thinking of Ruthie in a Dutch coffee shop saying "isn't everyone laid back here"  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 05 December, 2016, 10:18:54 am
Dunning deadleg clients. Over 6000 euros outstanding from just one company that thinks that being 500 km away absolves them from forking out.

Next stop the bailiff, nyah, nyah, nyah <rubs hands>.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 10 December, 2016, 01:03:18 pm
Shaving off callouses and blisters from my hands. With a razor blade. It's a bit fiddly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 14 December, 2016, 12:26:24 am
Indulging in a you tube fest of ELO.

Utter delight ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 17 December, 2016, 08:21:57 pm
Quote from: Paul on 14 December, 2016, 12:26:24 am
Indulging in a you tube fest of ELO.

Utter delight ;D

I'm seriously considering nominating Roy Wood for an Honorary Degree.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 17 December, 2016, 08:40:38 pm
Not being at this year's works Christmas Do.

Wrapping presents and watching The Hobbit instead.  It's fantastic.  Hoping to be in bed by ten.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 18 December, 2016, 09:36:04 am
Quote from: Ruthie on 17 December, 2016, 08:40:38 pm
Not being at this year's works Christmas Do.

Wrapping presents and watching The Hobbit instead.  It's fantastic.  Hoping to be in bed by ten.

Looking at the Facebook pics from last night this was an excellent decision.  Spending all day getting hair, nails and frock right was rigeur by the looks of things and it looks like torture.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 18 December, 2016, 10:28:04 am
Not cycling.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 18 December, 2016, 10:33:37 am
Feeling pissed off I've caught a colleague's cold on the last day before the holidays. Wheezing like an old woman.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 18 December, 2016, 11:28:51 am
I have studying to do, so obviously I'm gonna bake instead. One chocolate-banana cake and one lemon drizzle cake coming up.

It's been ages since I last baked a cake so fingers crossed they come out ok.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 18 December, 2016, 02:46:21 pm
I'm baking too, two fruit cakes with a large slosh of brandy in it .....hic  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 18 December, 2016, 03:28:54 pm
Recovering with a cuppa and a mince pie or three, after a long walk across the hills  :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 18 December, 2016, 04:40:17 pm
Putting ice on a fat lip. I fainted and have a fish lip as a consequence. My mum didn't know what to do, so sat a teddy bear by me in case it helped.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 December, 2016, 09:15:21 pm
I'm watching Lenny Henry on TV. I'm finding it hard not be angry with him - I nominated him for an Honorary Doctorate last year, which he turned down. Mind you, he'd got bigger fish to fry as he became Chancellor of BCU a few months later.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 December, 2016, 05:52:08 pm
Fboab is fretting in the kitchen, over some "high value" cooking - she's making a pie with so many expensive ingredients, it has its own presence on the Stock Market.

I'm in charge of  The Timer, so if it gets cremated, it could be my fault.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 23 December, 2016, 08:01:55 pm
Just got home from work to find my lurgied son was too ill. To finish his Dominos pizza.

Result.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 24 December, 2016, 03:31:42 pm
Listening to Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, from under two miles away from King's Chapel. I hardly need the wireless...
It was a few years back now that Dad (RIP) read one of the lessons.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 24 December, 2016, 04:16:07 pm
16 1/2 hours left of a 72hr continuous work/on-call session and logging on and off the web between samples ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 24 December, 2016, 05:15:28 pm
Trying to iron the knots out of my back after wrapping the missus's prezzies.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 24 December, 2016, 05:54:53 pm
Packing the sleigh..

(http://www.desktopimages.org/pictures/2014/1220/1/th1_77143.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 24 December, 2016, 05:58:12 pm
Preparing my office the second bedroom for a guest due next week.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 December, 2016, 04:19:12 pm
Trying not to lacerate my tongue on the razor-sharp edges of the crater left in one of my molars after my first piece of Turkish Delight in 30+ years pulled out a filling as big as the Ritz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2016, 05:19:29 pm
Digesting
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 25 December, 2016, 05:30:31 pm
Awaking from a short nap. Lunch is still ongoing. Reckon we'll hit pudding at about 7pm.

There's a 40 year old Tawny Port in the cupboard. Im trying to think of a reason to get it out now. Mince pies would be ideal but I truly couldnt stomach any more food. We had smoked salmon shipped down direct from the smokery in Mallaig. Then baked salmon with a sundried tomato, parmesan, goats cheese crust (fuck yeah!) and fondant potatoes, then a cheese board. All washed down with a Petit Chablis and a 1994 Chateau Bel-Air-Something and several sumatra-heavy flat-whites.

I feel like Mr Creosote.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 December, 2016, 05:42:13 pm
Sitting down in front of the telly after lunch. 

A cook-from-frozen Sainsbo's turkey breast roast, pigs in blankies, Aunt Bessie did most of the rest, sprouts, carrots.  Forgot to get the crackers out of storage.

We had a Bruce Springsteen soundtrack and it was very nice indeed  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 25 December, 2016, 05:43:23 pm
Just about to shower having spent an hour or so painting my office the guest room.   Then an evening of food, wine and amusing audiobook with the best woman in the world.   :)   :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 December, 2016, 05:50:53 pm
Have just realised I haven't made any pudding arrangements!  :o

Trying to decide if I CBA whipping something up before I start dinner or if I should just be lazy and have a huge slice of home made stollen instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 December, 2016, 05:55:20 pm
Can't you rely on nobody having space for pudding until boxing day?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 25 December, 2016, 06:05:13 pm
Watching Woolly having a huge sneezing fit. The dog is very upset and thinks the world is ending. She just air-pawed desperately in his direction.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 December, 2016, 06:14:28 pm
Lying down on a couch, after too much food & booze.

Any remote intention of Dry January has been placed at risk by the amount of booze I've been gifted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 December, 2016, 07:59:00 pm
Quote from: Kim on 25 December, 2016, 05:55:20 pm
Can't you rely on nobody having space for pudding until boxing day?

Well there's only me & Pingu and he won't cry if I don't make pudding. We don't do the traditional thing of a huge lunch and then just keep eating so our dinner was only sensible sized. I'll manage with a huge slice of stollen and grazing on chocolate.
Need room for all the kriek I'm drinking just now anyway.... I'll make a fancy pudding later in the week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 December, 2016, 11:18:36 am
Thinking of stringing wire mesh across the cavity in my molar and joining SETI.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 26 December, 2016, 08:23:50 pm
Watching Despicable Me at my Mum's whilst drinking beer and grazing at nibbly snacks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aunt Maud on 26 December, 2016, 09:16:35 pm
Sitting out a hurricane. WoooOOOOOoooooOOOOOooooo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 December, 2016, 02:53:07 pm
Creating pie-mageddon.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 28 December, 2016, 03:02:16 pm
Doing some language practice on Duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com/), listening to a Librivox (https://librivox.org/) recording of A Princess of Mars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars), and having a mid-afternoon coffee break.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 28 December, 2016, 05:04:53 pm
Finally despatched the in-laws and sitting back with a cup of tea and b r e a t h e.

I need a real drink.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 28 December, 2016, 05:10:59 pm
Cooking quinoa and chickpea pilaf. Dropped lots of the organic quinoa on the floor in the process. Perhaps this should be in first world problems.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 28 December, 2016, 10:03:09 pm
Wondering how Wiggle will keep their promise of delivery tomorrow as my order has yet to be collected from them by the courier.  Good thing the order isn't urgent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aunt Maud on 29 December, 2016, 09:31:03 am
Been wading in the lake...........brrrrrrrr. Now thawing out in front of the fire.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 December, 2016, 09:13:14 pm
Watching Phil Taylor play darts.  I used to watch him when he was 36...now he's 56 and the oldest guy on the circuit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 29 December, 2016, 09:51:37 pm
Eyeing the weather forecast with suspicion: I've got the bike ready for a ride. Therefore there will be ice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 30 December, 2016, 09:54:58 am
In a similar vein I am not running.
I got all togged up and out the door but decided the pavements are still sufficiently slippery that it would have been a BAD THING
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 30 December, 2016, 09:57:50 am
Quote from: perpetual dan on 29 December, 2016, 09:51:37 pm
Eyeing the weather forecast with suspicion: I've got the bike ready for a ride. Therefore there will be ice.

It's still -1 and icy in he garden (when I popped out to give the birds some water). Mrs Dan came off her bike on ice on the way home from band practise last night (she, bike and instrument all OK). So, I think I'll stick at pottering about with the family today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 30 December, 2016, 02:34:35 pm
Listening to the new Panasonic bread make kneed some bread. Its my christmas pressie from Mrs Pcolbeck to replace the no brand second hand bread maker I have. I am hoping the reults will be less random than the old machine, this is its first test run.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 December, 2016, 10:43:10 am
And blimey what a difference. A proper loaf with the texture and crust of one from a bakery. I'm impressed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 31 December, 2016, 11:16:27 am
Formulating a plan to dispose of all the 'contraband' in the house.

Disposal will largely be through my digestive tract.

Belch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aunt Maud on 31 December, 2016, 11:52:37 am
Wondering where to build my new smoke house in the garden............................
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 31 December, 2016, 12:28:10 pm
Quote from: fboab on 31 December, 2016, 11:16:27 am
Formulating a plan to dispose of all the 'contraband' in the house.

Disposal will largely be through my digestive tract. ...

I'd have no chance, I'm behind on my "planned" eating schedule!  I haven't finished the Christmas Dinner beef yet, and still have half of the sausage and bacon from the pigs in blankets as well as enough sausage meat to make even more stuffing, not that I've finished the first batch!  I've also still got half my mince pies, ¾ of a Christmas Pudding, an entire Christmas Cake ... :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 31 December, 2016, 11:01:18 pm
Having watched The Cannonball Run, we're sitting down to The Blues Brothers.

Which seems an appropriate way to see the New Year in . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 31 December, 2016, 11:09:35 pm
Being rocked by the wind while the rain is hitting van. Pretty sure that me and Tilley will sleeping in the new year, as it is very hypnotic. No fireworks here so she will have very stress free evening compared to home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 01 January, 2017, 12:04:33 am
Drinking hot chocolate to the sound of fireworks outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 01 January, 2017, 12:05:19 am
Having a Toffee Vodka toast to the "Bright Future that 2017 will bring"

Happy NewYear to you and yours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: runsoncake on 01 January, 2017, 12:09:49 am
Toasting the arrival of 2017, for various reasons I hope it will be
an improvement on its predecessor

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 January, 2017, 12:17:19 am
Tea and biscuits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 January, 2017, 12:21:31 am
Wondering if everyone will be leaving soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 01 January, 2017, 12:24:49 am
Naa they are in for the year, better put the kettle on loads of tea would be needed
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 January, 2017, 12:26:56 am
Wondering whether the guests on Jools Holland's prog are the only ones the BBC could find who aren't dead.  Chaka Khan?  ABC?  The remains of UB40?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 01 January, 2017, 12:31:13 am
Well there is some new, young talent, I'm sure I saw Seasick Steve earlier.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 01 January, 2017, 12:33:53 am
;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pedaldog. on 01 January, 2017, 02:53:43 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 01 January, 2017, 12:17:19 am
Tea and biscuits.
Ob-nobs I hope!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 January, 2017, 07:08:08 am
Quote from: Pedaldog on 01 January, 2017, 02:53:43 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 01 January, 2017, 12:17:19 am
Tea and biscuits.
Ob-nobs I hope!

McVitie's Double Chocolate Digestives.  On special offer at Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 01 January, 2017, 09:03:55 am
Just going downstairs to make another cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 01 January, 2017, 09:09:02 am
Woke up at six fed and watered the mutt. Crawled back into sleeping bag. With the plan if rain cleared but the time we woke up again we would do a walk. Just tried to wake mutt up but she crawled deeper into the bag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 01 January, 2017, 09:22:57 am
^^^ I was up with our two at the back of midnight to keep them company while the neighbours had their annual firework shindig.  Our dogs weren't really worried but our last one was terrified of whizzbangs so I felt obliged to comfort the current muster.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 01 January, 2017, 09:46:18 am
Last guest rolled out around 2a.m.   Discovered peach schnapps.

Slept well, now snuggled up beneath the duvet with fondleslab and a pint of tea.

No initials signs of hangover.    :thumbsup:

It's raining.     :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 01 January, 2017, 10:20:59 am
Drinking a nice cup of tea and working up to getting on with some studying. Mild headache but considering the amount I drank last night I'm not bad at all.

Contemplating the weight loss and dry January threads.

Pondering a quick bike ride to start the new year but it's a bit wet out. Tomorrow's forecast is better so may just concentrate on the hard sums today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 January, 2017, 01:08:42 pm
Gone back to bed, lurgied. 2017 will have to wait.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 January, 2017, 04:23:00 pm
It's 16:20 and I'm still in jim jams & dressing gown.   Feeling a bit under the weather with a very stiff neck.  Todays planned chores abandoned.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 January, 2017, 07:05:29 pm
Spent the entire afternoon undecorating and taking down the Christmas tree and various other christmasy stuff.  Thank heavens dinner more or less cooked itself since a bit of work on it this morning.  Also thank heavens we have loads of plonk left over from our party.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 03 January, 2017, 07:12:42 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 02 January, 2017, 04:23:00 pm
It's 16:20 and I'm still in jim jams & dressing gown.   Feeling a bit under the weather with a very stiff neck.  Todays planned chores abandoned.
Get thisen a sports massage. GWS!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 January, 2017, 02:11:23 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 03 January, 2017, 07:12:42 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 02 January, 2017, 04:23:00 pm
It's 16:20 and I'm still in jim jams & dressing gown.   Feeling a bit under the weather with a very stiff neck.  Todays planned chores abandoned.
Get thisen a sports massage. GWS!

I'll probably give the physio who sorted it last time a call. He'll probably moan at me for not doing his exercises & charge me money.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 January, 2017, 09:15:48 pm
I'm having a massive fucking grump and not feeling good about it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 04 January, 2017, 09:17:27 pm
Hugs, Mrs P! I know the feeling.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 January, 2017, 11:23:15 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 04 January, 2017, 09:15:48 pm
and not feeling good about it.

No. Feel good about your grump.  Celebrate your grump.  Let your grump flow.
You know it's better than bottling it up.   :thumbsup:

Spare room, Pingu?   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 January, 2017, 11:29:25 pm
The grump was crushing me in its vice like grip. Bleuch.

Anyhow, stoked a kitteh and made trumpeting noises that were supposed to approximate the theme to The Flumps and it's gone away a bit. I need my bed...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 07 January, 2017, 08:09:45 am
Hope you're feeling better, Mrs P?

I'm off to my first parkrun. Sister coming with for moral support. Grey, wet and foggy. Nervous!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 07 January, 2017, 08:16:38 am
Nowt, that's what I'm doing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 January, 2017, 12:43:37 pm
Owwing a lot. Running a hilly parkrun in cold fog not having run properly for over five years is very silly. I am struggling to lower myself down to the loo.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 January, 2017, 05:14:04 pm
Quote from: peliroja on 08 January, 2017, 12:43:37 pm
Owwing a lot. Running a hilly parkrun in cold fog not having run properly for over five years is very silly. I am struggling to lower myself down to the loo.  :-[

Also suffering with 2nd day DOMS from squats. 2 weeks off body pump took its toll.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 08 January, 2017, 06:02:50 pm
Sympathies. A bath plus tiger balm helped briefly but I'm still in agony and have to crawl the stairs. Pilates tomorrow is going to be interesting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 January, 2017, 10:49:39 am
Eating donuts and awaiting the arrival of paperwork so that I can then head home, ready for adventures new!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 11 January, 2017, 12:01:07 pm
Yay! For continuity of employment & regular income...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 January, 2017, 12:15:13 pm
Contemplating felicide.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 11 January, 2017, 12:23:31 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 11 January, 2017, 10:49:39 am
Eating donuts and awaiting the arrival of paperwork so that I can then head home, ready for adventures new!

Still waiting, slow move the wheels of the machine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 11 January, 2017, 02:23:41 pm
Waiting in for Hermes
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Post by: T42 on 11 January, 2017, 02:35:01 pm
Avoiding filing a deskful of papers.  I did the top stratum yesterday but I'm having to go carefully now so so as not to chip the fossils or cause a cave-in.  Just about reached the K-T layer, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 11 January, 2017, 04:24:42 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 11 January, 2017, 12:15:13 pm
Contemplating felicide.
  • Cat sits by back door, optionally making pitiful noises
  • Mr Larrington drags his aching semi-corpse off the sofa
  • Cat runs away
  • Mr Larrington flops back down with noisy sigh
  • Cat reappears and nudges Mr Larrington's fondleslab repeatedly with its stupid empty head
  • Rinse, repeat

It could be worse. She could be shoulder deep in the hole in the front of your subwoofer and happily scratching away. At least I know where the little bits of black paper are coming from now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 January, 2017, 08:31:50 pm
Fortunately my sub-woofer is about fifteen miles away from said cat and Miss von Brandenburg, whose familiar it is, doesn't have one.

Any cat found shredding my sub-woofer would find itself being lunch for a full-size woofer in the form of a hungry Rottweiler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 January, 2017, 12:49:51 am
Waiting for the burglar alarm to stop to make it worth going to bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 15 January, 2017, 12:56:10 am
You. Need. Gun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 January, 2017, 01:02:33 am
Quote from: Jurek on 15 January, 2017, 12:56:10 am
You. Need. Gun.

Saving that for the perpetrators of sweary drunken rugball 'singing'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 15 January, 2017, 01:07:13 am
Nice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 15 January, 2017, 10:38:10 am
Quote from: Kim on 15 January, 2017, 12:49:51 am
Waiting for the burglar alarm to stop to make it worth going to bed.

Oh aye.  When we had our green-house-folding gale last week some idiot's car alarm kept going off.  Dunno if it was resetting itself automatically or if he was nipping out and resetting it every time, but it'd go for about 5 mins at a time and trigger again with every hefty gust. And you don't need a car alarm round here, he could have left it off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 January, 2017, 02:45:02 pm
I'm sure the average car user doesn't have a clue how to lock the car without arming the alarm, if it's even possible.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 15 January, 2017, 05:09:57 pm
The march of folly progress.  Back when I had a car alarm it had a separate switch.  OK, you had to remember to turn it on but that became second nature.

So many assumptions are made about our lack of common sense these days it's bloody insulting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 15 January, 2017, 05:25:13 pm
Quote from: Kim on 15 January, 2017, 02:45:02 pm
I'm sure the average car user doesn't have a clue how to lock the car without arming the alarm, if it's even possible.

Clearly demonstrated if you've been on a vehicle-carrying ferry recently. Despite the MANY signs on the car decks saying "Disable your Car's Alarm", it's an horrendous chorus of alarms once you get underway - even on a calm day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 January, 2017, 05:33:21 pm
Quote from: T42 on 15 January, 2017, 05:09:57 pm
So many assumptions are made about our lack of common sense these days it's bloody insulting.

I don't think the assumptions are unreasonable (in this case that if the alarm doesn't arm automatically with the door locks, people won't always remember to use it).  It's attempting to engineer around PEBKAC errors that tends to end badly.

(I also suspect the design engineer's idea of 'fail safe' differs from that of a sleep-deprived neighbour.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 January, 2017, 06:22:44 pm
I had to look up PEBCAC. 
Ah. Ok.   We called it PICNIC.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 16 January, 2017, 08:32:59 am
On a train to Mordor and beyond. Will I survive Dudley?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 16 January, 2017, 08:45:00 am
Waiting for a train to pink Panther country
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 January, 2017, 09:08:33 am
Quote from: Ham on 16 January, 2017, 08:32:59 am
On a train to Mordor and beyond. Will I survive Dudley?

You'll be fine.
To blend in, use a complainy voice and say Doodlye.   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 16 January, 2017, 10:55:14 am
Getting stuff ready for the accountant. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 16 January, 2017, 01:53:04 pm
Quote from: T42 on 15 January, 2017, 05:09:57 pm

So many assumptions are made about our lack of common sense these days it's bloody insulting.

Nope. Experience suggests that it is common sense to assume common sense is lacking in many........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 January, 2017, 01:27:33 pm
Turning some planks of wood, coach bolts, an m8 bokt with twiddly knobs on either end into a car interior bike holder upperer. Although I do need to remove seatpost to get sufficient headroom for loading bike this way (its a Meriva B with magic folding seats), but that's probably due to my bikes being of the farmers field gate size....

The mtbso has qr seatpost clamp, the tourer and road bike don't. So I'll have a look and see if i can find appropriately sized qr seatpost clamps.

Expect photies soon....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 17 January, 2017, 02:04:00 pm
Generally steel frames with 27.2 seatpost will use a 28.6mm clamp. Same size in alloy frame will be 31.8 and anything bigger uses 34.9.

All should be readily available.

We made this a few years ago...

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/shedbike/WP_000042.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 January, 2017, 05:40:17 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 17 January, 2017, 02:04:00 pm
Generally steel frames with 27.2 seatpost will use a 28.6mm clamp. Same size in alloy frame will be 31.8 and anything bigger uses 34.9.

All should be readily available.

We made this a few years ago...

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/shedbike/WP_000042.jpg)

Lol, yours looks nicer than mine. Just  a shame my car didn't have a few inches more headroom, as then I'd be able to leave seatpost in.  But a few £ on appropriate seatpost q/r is cheaper (and more environmentally friendly) then changing car!  By the time I got the bike holder upper finished, it was getting rather late. But I put the mtb in the car for a quick drive, for an hours mtbing before dusk. So no photies of it in use.

 Bike holder upperer works well, and at least it's easier to pack gear around an upright bike...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 18 January, 2017, 01:15:08 am
Not sleeping. Either of us. Worrying. Bloody f*cking Brexit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 18 January, 2017, 01:56:32 am
Ditto. Except for a different subject. Aged relatives/biopsy results/expecting the same shit result we've had three times in the last 10 yrs.

Life can really suck . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: peliroja on 18 January, 2017, 02:04:01 am
So sorry, T. Yes, it can. Hugs from me and Woolly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 18 January, 2017, 02:08:29 am
What really sucks right now is we don't get the results until tomorrow today, late morning.

Can I get it out of my head? Can I bollox . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 19 January, 2017, 04:08:03 pm
Pondering a new mtb, to replace my decathlon mtbso, which i've often found to be too big (it's an XL), and is in need of whole new drive train & wheels (and frame, see my post in what have you fettled today...

Something like a Trek Marlin 5....   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 19 January, 2017, 04:12:30 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 19 January, 2017, 04:08:03 pm
Pondering a new mtb, to replace my decathlon mtbso, which i've often found to be too big (it's an XL), and is in need of whole new drive train & wheels (and frame, see my post in what have you fettled today...

Something like a Trek Marlin 5....

I can prolly do you a good dal on a Marlin 5 (or at least some free stuffs to go withy it........)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 19 January, 2017, 04:15:50 pm
Ever considered a Charge Cooker Hi? I might have one
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 January, 2017, 04:22:36 pm
Trying to find barakta's birth certificate, in order to prove that she's a BRITON.  Has anyone seen it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 19 January, 2017, 04:24:31 pm
Not here sorry. But are you sure that she was born and not created, have you checked in her firmware might be written in there?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 January, 2017, 03:40:36 pm
Sat in the Station House, enjoying a pint and reviewing my first week in the new job.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 January, 2017, 04:13:44 pm
@tiermat.  Hope it went well and continues to do so.

What I am doing right now is considering whether to hit the override button on he heating control.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 January, 2017, 04:38:59 pm
Quote from: Basil on 20 January, 2017, 04:13:44 pm
@tiermat.  Hope it went well and continues to do so.


The beer or the job?

Both are good, one more stressful than the other, though. Which is which I will leave as an exercise for the reader! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 21 January, 2017, 03:20:06 pm
Contemplating what to wear to this evening's opera.  File also under #firstworldproblems.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 21 January, 2017, 03:43:31 pm
Watching two men failing to work a garage door out.

;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 21 January, 2017, 04:30:40 pm
Just fitted a velux.  The weather is testing it (it wasn't forecast to do that).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 January, 2017, 04:55:33 pm
Wishing I hadn't brought the chalet plague home with me  :sick:  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 January, 2017, 10:26:17 am
Procrastinating.  Soon I shall have to spend an age under a desk with a torch gripped between my teeth, and the carpet in the Estate Office has a habit of producing dust bunnies that are both sentient and armed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 January, 2017, 11:06:36 am
What Mr L needs, is a head torch.

I'm wondering if it's safe to break the nil by mouth edict yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 January, 2017, 11:55:20 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 January, 2017, 11:06:36 am
What Mr L needs, is a head torch.

I'm wondering if it's safe to break the nil by mouth edict yet.

Mr L has a head torch but it's a million years old and the 'lastic on the headband is as stretchy as reinforced concrete.  Fortunately the handlebar mount of a Hope Vision 4 is made of sterner stuff.

An hour and a half just to unplug and label everything chiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 23 January, 2017, 02:55:41 pm
Ploughing through pension-claim forms for me & Mrs T. In particular, ploughing through social security websites designed to make finding the supporting docs you need as hard as possible. Lots of guff about how to interpret them, but the useful links are all buried in obscure corners. N.B. sites in the plural: it's a conspiracy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 January, 2017, 07:05:47 pm
And Lo! by 17:10 Mr Larrington had eveything plugged back in and working and now has:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 January, 2017, 08:36:31 pm
Sitting in the pub at Cemetery Junction Reading.  Where I'll be for a few days1 while I help Old Mother B move into the sheltered accommodation flat she has bought.

1 The town.  Not the pub.   ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 25 January, 2017, 09:54:38 am
Should you find yourself wandering Marlowwards Basil- holler and I'll buy you an pint.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 January, 2017, 09:39:52 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 25 January, 2017, 09:54:38 am
Should you find yourself wandering Marlowwards Basil- holler and I'll buy you an pint.

Sorry Fuzzers.  One day.   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 January, 2017, 09:42:20 pm
Arranging for my computer to be able to run Windows so that I can do my tax return - the partnership one, which requires bespoke software for the SA800 form. I say that I am doing this, but I am a spectator whilst Dez does it all.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 25 January, 2017, 09:47:37 pm
Just been up in the loft to retrieve sleeping bags and walking boots for our weekend in Malham.   :thumbsup:

Our loft is incredibly well organised and properly insulated, floored and lit.   Everything is in labelled plastic storage boxes except for the bicycle shaped bicycle things.  :D   

It was an easy task.   8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 January, 2017, 11:28:29 pm
Nattering to my daughter. She is off work because it's Australia Day. Going for a barbie at 2pm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 January, 2017, 12:25:08 am
Just completed the final tax return. Whoopee!

Wasn't that David Cameron a nice man? He allows married couples to transfer 10% of their personal allowance to their spouse. Because of that, I reckon I ought to get all the tax back that I paid today!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 January, 2017, 12:31:44 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 January, 2017, 12:25:08 am
Wasn't that David Cameron a nice man? He allows married couples to transfer 10% of their personal allowance to their spouse. Because of that, I reckon I ought to get all the tax back that I paid today!

For values of 'allows' that mean "one partner wastes several hours on hold to HMRC and then gives up before reaching a human".  The only winner is the phone company.  (DAHIKT)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 26 January, 2017, 01:10:40 am
Peter, I never in a million years thought that you might write 'wasn't that David <SPIT> Cameron a nice man?' Even in jest...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 26 January, 2017, 07:19:36 am
That David Cameron is a colossal bellend.

Oh ...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 January, 2017, 11:33:28 am
Quote from: Kim on 26 January, 2017, 12:31:44 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 January, 2017, 12:25:08 am
Wasn't that David Cameron a nice man? He allows married couples to transfer 10% of their personal allowance to their spouse. Because of that, I reckon I ought to get all the tax back that I paid today!

For values of 'allows' that mean "one partner wastes several hours on hold to HMRC and then gives up before reaching a human".  The only winner is the phone company.  (DAHIKT)

Gawd yes. This morning I spent untold minutes of auditory agony listening to yet anther pension agency's hold music, a single repeating bar in 4:4 time, something like A-D-E7-A blasted out on an organ. :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 27 January, 2017, 10:36:45 am
Correction: C-G7-C-G7 played DAdada-DAdada_DAdada_DAdada da capo ad nauseam
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 January, 2017, 01:05:57 pm
Meeting Ryan Jones
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 27 January, 2017, 01:39:41 pm
trying not to fall asleep on my keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 27 January, 2017, 09:35:00 pm
Wondering why there is so little traffic on the forum tonight.

Could it really be that the most prolific posters are all marooned half way up a mountain hill in N. Yorks where the mobile signal is shite and 3G is only dreamed of . . . ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 January, 2017, 09:41:18 pm
I think that might have something to do with it, yes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 27 January, 2017, 10:02:40 pm
Drinking a tasty glass of whisky-shaped-drink from a mildy disconcerting glass.

(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f129/Ashaman42/IMG_20170127_215131588_zpsppqah9sw.jpg)

There should be a photo there unless I've muddled up the permissions.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 January, 2017, 10:07:59 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 27 January, 2017, 09:35:00 pm
Wondering why there is so little traffic on the forum tonight.

Could it really be that the most prolific posters are all marooned half way up a mountain hill in N. Yorks where the mobile signal is shite and 3G is only dreamed of . . . ?

Well, I could  witter on about totally uninspiring stuff, if that would help.

Oi!   Who said "No change there, then"?   :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 January, 2017, 10:39:59 pm
Oh yes, I forgot about that.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 January, 2017, 10:40:27 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 27 January, 2017, 10:02:40 pm
Drinking a tasty glass of whisky-shaped-drink from a mildy disconcerting glass.

(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f129/Ashaman42/IMG_20170127_215131588_zpsppqah9sw.jpg)

There should be a photo there unless I've muddled up the permissions.

*That* is a cool glass :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 January, 2017, 10:47:55 pm
No it's not.  It's hideous.    :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 27 January, 2017, 10:59:08 pm
What glass?

I'm also drinking whisky, described by swmbo as "smells like something to dress wounds with"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 January, 2017, 11:04:01 pm
Quote from: Basil on 27 January, 2017, 10:47:55 pm
No it's not.  It's hideous.    :o

From a geeky and geometrical POV, it's cool.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 27 January, 2017, 11:22:49 pm
What glass? Still can't see it
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 January, 2017, 12:00:09 am
Quote from: ElyDave on 27 January, 2017, 10:59:08 pm
What glass?

I'm also drinking whisky, described by swmbo as "smells like something to dress wounds with"

A Laphroig?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 28 January, 2017, 08:00:46 am
No, a Tomintoul

I also have a very nice Bruichladdich Port Charlotte and a Jura in the cupboard  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 January, 2017, 04:34:06 pm
Binge-watching Lindybeige (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9pgQfOXRsp4UKrI8q0zjXQ).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 January, 2017, 07:39:26 pm
Drowning in tonight's pub conversation.
" No.  That's for a 1957 Massey Ferguson,  you need to Google.. ......."
In English,  probably in respect to me.  Actually,  they needn't bother.   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 January, 2017, 07:41:04 pm
That's either sportsballists or motorcycles, isn't it?


ETA: Should have googled.   :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 January, 2017, 07:42:17 pm
 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 29 January, 2017, 08:39:50 pm
Quote from: Kim on 29 January, 2017, 07:41:04 pm
That's either sportsballists or motorcycles, isn't it?


ETA: Should have googled.   :-[

Tractors, but it could also be a RollsRoyce. One of my uni mates told me an anecdote of his dad's roller dealing down en France and being repaired with tractor bits, starter motor I think
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 30 January, 2017, 08:19:54 am
Procrastinating, that's what I'm at. Claiming pensions in France when you've been both salaried and free-lance, and have two or three complementary pensions as well is a rat's nest: they all want the same wretched papers. Each sheaf is about 15 layers thick. And I'm doing it for myself and Mrs T as well.  :facepalm: :demon: :-\ :sick:

Anyway, I'm doing SFA until I've had my 3rd cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 01 February, 2017, 11:08:21 pm
Reading Soros' newspaper articles dated June 2016 which have proved to be scarily accurate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 04 February, 2017, 07:19:17 am
Waiting with intrepidation for a lift to out with the muddy bike....over Kinder Scout  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 04 February, 2017, 07:54:56 am
About to start scraping tile adhesive off floorboards  :(  been at tile removal duty on and off for ages. Getting the tiles up is easy, getting the adhesive up is a real pain, has to be chipped away little bit by little bit.   Had planned to be out on bike today, but tiler is coming to lay the new floor on Monday and I'm running out of time. 

The tiler is laying the tiles with a layer between the boards and the tiles, so when we ever come to take them up itll be just a matter of lifting that layer.  Why couldnt the last person have done this!  ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 February, 2017, 10:13:43 am
If he fitting a layer won't that hide the old adhesive?

Today I'm thinking about going bathroom shopping   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 February, 2017, 04:46:50 pm
Packing boxes. God, I forgot just how stressful it is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 04 February, 2017, 05:01:40 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 04 February, 2017, 10:13:43 am
If he fitting a layer won't that hide the old adhesive?

Today I'm thinking about going bathroom shopping   :-\

No , the layers only a few mm thick and the adhesive is not even and a real mess, so needs to come off right down to bare floorboard to give the new layer and tiles an even surface.  I've been doing it all day, and every evening this week  :(  not far off done now though, one awkward tile and the stuff underneath tp come off, so one last push and Ill be done tonight!

We just had a new bathroom fitted. Its lovely, and the floor tiling is the last part of it.  The floor runs right through into the kitchen so its quite a size!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 05 February, 2017, 01:51:50 pm
Grabbing five minutes breather between finishing making bread and getting out into the cold grey garden.
This will probably (as all the tools are in the garage) involve looking at my bike and sighing as I can't see me riding it this week (as I didn't last week either).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 16 February, 2017, 04:32:02 pm
Just about to go for a wander around Madrid with my sister. I was up stupidly early for the flight & am a bit tired. Hotel is 20M from the Opera metro so not far to carry bags.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 16 February, 2017, 05:06:02 pm
Sitting here doing SFA while my legs slowly stiffen up after today's ride. Going downstairs for grub in 10 minutes will be well-deserved hell.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 16 February, 2017, 08:29:36 pm
Marking.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 February, 2017, 09:12:37 am
Hitting F5 every so often on DHL's webby SCIENCE to watch my Shiny Thing creep ever closer.  Wroclaw-Leipzig-East Midlands-Heathrow-Docklands so far, so I am expecting it to show up on the far side of Europe shortly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 17 February, 2017, 09:47:20 am
I had a new toy coming in from the US, that I reeeeaaaaallllllllllllllly wanted to play with. It landed in Manchester to then skip over to Amsterdam before hitting London. My beating heart and F5 got a good old hammering.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 February, 2017, 07:02:31 pm
Perhaps surprisingly, my Shiny Thing appeared on the doorstep without further European perambulations, though the jolly delivery chap nearly ran away because aparently the gardens of Larrington Towers are covered in bees.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 18 February, 2017, 08:06:09 am
Is Eddie Izzard coming to stay?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 18 February, 2017, 11:19:10 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 18 February, 2017, 08:06:09 am
Is Eddie Izzard coming to stay?
Very good😀
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 February, 2017, 03:33:17 pm
Smelling of smoke, no not because I have gone back to the demon weed, but because I am sparking up the grill for the first time this year.

Smoked chicken and pork are both on the go right now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 February, 2017, 07:34:10 pm
Feeling pleased with myself, that I've managed to turn round a pub wide conversation on benefit 'scroungers' into a conversation on rich and corporate tax avoiders.   :smug:

Well done me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 19 February, 2017, 08:16:53 pm
recovering from a day of spring cleaning, early because tomorrow we are getting new Windows and  front and back doors fitted  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 February, 2017, 08:18:20 pm
Quote from: cycleman on 19 February, 2017, 08:16:53 pm
recovering from a day of spring cleaning, early because tomorrow we are getting new Windows and  front and back doors fitted  :)

Sounds like you've picked the right day for it, weather-wise.


(Someone buy Basil a pint)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 19 February, 2017, 09:06:44 pm
Watching World cup track racing live from Columbia
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 February, 2017, 08:37:38 am
Procrastinating as usual, this being Monday morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 20 February, 2017, 08:50:11 am
Waiting for builders to arrive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 February, 2017, 10:14:01 am
Oh my builders have arrived.  Just before 8, as they do every morning.  Bastards.
It's me that's not getting on with the stuff I'm supposed to be getting on with.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 February, 2017, 10:21:01 am
It was last night, so not right now. Winning the pub quiz, by a margin, which was made all the better by there only being two of us in our team.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 20 February, 2017, 10:24:57 am
Quote from: Basil on 19 February, 2017, 07:34:10 pm
Feeling pleased with myself, that I've managed to turn round a pub wide conversation on benefit 'scroungers' into a conversation on rich and corporate tax avoiders.   :smug:

Well done me.

Good work Basil.   I try to do the same whenever possible.   :thumbsup:

It's usually my family.    :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 February, 2017, 11:01:26 am
Having done my morning's penance, i.e. digging out documents from a over quarter of a century ago to support Mrs. T's pension claim, filed copies of same, listened to several acres of hold muzak and squared away our supplementary health insurance, I am planning on a relaxed lunch and an afternoon's cycling if it's not raining. Sufficient unto the boll is the weevil thereof. Or summat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 March, 2017, 10:53:11 pm
Looking at stuff I can't really afford again.....   http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58182229.html


I was christened in that church.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 04 March, 2017, 09:52:50 am
Seems a nice spot. The person in the end of terrace possibly needs to get their flues lined if not done already.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 11 March, 2017, 07:38:51 pm
We're in Nottingham enjoying  ayearinthesaddle.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 11 March, 2017, 11:57:17 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 03 March, 2017, 10:53:11 pm
Looking at stuff I can't really afford again.....   


Ditto: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58235884.html

Cheap for a castle, loads of space for n+1s, nice area for cycling. Does need rather a lot of work, though, and would result in a totally impractical commute. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 12 March, 2017, 05:30:07 am
Disclaimers aplenty too - I'm inclined to be wary of any property where the estate agent tells me that the current owner believes it to be a dangerous structure. Mind you, I'm definitely intrigued by the rugs on the ceiling.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: IanDG on 12 March, 2017, 07:28:07 am
Drinking a second coffee before a bike ride
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 12 March, 2017, 08:36:46 am
Waiting for it to warm up enough for me not to go out in winter kit. Natch, as it warms up the wind rises.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 March, 2017, 09:30:13 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 11 March, 2017, 11:57:17 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 03 March, 2017, 10:53:11 pm
Looking at stuff I can't really afford again.....   


Ditto: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58235884.html

Cheap for a castle, loads of space for n+1s, nice area for cycling. Does need rather a lot of work, though, and would result in a totally impractical commute. :(

I'm loving the polythene on the ceiling in an effort to keep out the rain!
*Shudders*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 12 March, 2017, 10:14:08 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 12 March, 2017, 09:30:13 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 11 March, 2017, 11:57:17 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 03 March, 2017, 10:53:11 pm
Looking at stuff I can't really afford again.....   


Ditto: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58235884.html (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58235884.html)

Cheap for a castle, loads of space for n+1s, nice area for cycling. Does need rather a lot of work, though, and would result in a totally impractical commute. :(

I'm loving the polythene on the ceiling in an effort to keep out the rain!
*Shudders*


For some reason Mrs Pingu's renovation diary has put me off older properties..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 March, 2017, 05:49:15 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 12 March, 2017, 10:14:08 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 12 March, 2017, 09:30:13 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 11 March, 2017, 11:57:17 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 03 March, 2017, 10:53:11 pm
Looking at stuff I can't really afford again.....   


Ditto: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58235884.html (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58235884.html)

Cheap for a castle, loads of space for n+1s, nice area for cycling. Does need rather a lot of work, though, and would result in a totally impractical commute. :(

I'm loving the polythene on the ceiling in an effort to keep out the rain!
*Shudders*


For some reason Mrs Pingu's renovation diary has put me off older properties..

Don't blame you! OTOH new builds are just as shit for other reasons...  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 March, 2017, 05:54:30 pm
Eating the remains of a chicken curry left overs that I made on Friday.   Absolutely gorgeous.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 13 March, 2017, 04:11:04 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 11 March, 2017, 11:57:17 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 03 March, 2017, 10:53:11 pm
Looking at stuff I can't really afford again.....   


Ditto: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58235884.html

Cheap for a castle, loads of space for n+1s, nice area for cycling. Does need rather a lot of work, though, and would result in a totally impractical commute. :(

Would be an ace gaff which could be improved with the addition of a DIY observatory......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 March, 2017, 08:13:11 pm
Riding a vaporetto up & down the Grand Canal on a foggy Venetian night. I may stop for hot chocolate in Cafe Florian....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 March, 2017, 10:11:49 am
Sitting in Maidstone waiting for the sun to cross the equator.  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 24 March, 2017, 07:19:26 pm
In the 2nd row of the Liverpool Playhouse, waiting for Cyrano
(One of Beckett's lesser known plays..)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 26 March, 2017, 07:40:17 pm
Debating whether it's worth spending $15.50 on shipping a $16 T shirt from the US.

Why you no sell on this side of the Atlalantico, TwinSix?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 March, 2017, 10:36:43 am
Looking through a book with page numbers like this: ѿк҃α

And some people think Roman numerals are tricky.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 March, 2017, 12:35:11 pm
Sitting on the Geilo to Oslo train, being bored, wanting another cup of tea but trying to avoid the train lavs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 29 March, 2017, 10:41:46 pm
Sitting in Philadelphia International Airport and wanting a beer, but both bars in the terminal are full, full, full.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 April, 2017, 07:25:58 pm
Wondering what in the name of all that is holy possessed me to book the 0530 flight tomorrow instead of a later one  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 April, 2017, 09:31:11 pm
Not packing.  It's what I've been doing most of the day.

Now that night has fallen, and I have to be on the road by 09:00 tomorrow, I guess I should probably stop not packing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Morat on 10 April, 2017, 07:00:23 pm
Just finished listening to True Lies on R4 while my son eats his beans on toast.
Lovely and relaxing after a frustrating Monday at work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 11 April, 2017, 01:16:38 pm
Quaking in my boots.

I have just had to make an appointment at the vets for Thursday morning. Our cat Willow (food hoover and all around good egg) has just been diagnosed as diabetic.

On Thursday morning I have to learn how to give her insulin injections.

I am damn sure that one of us (me :-[ ) will be bleeding more than the other......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 April, 2017, 01:54:12 pm
Still recovering after Sunday's ride. Summat's not right.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2017, 06:18:27 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 11 April, 2017, 01:16:38 pm
Quaking in my boots.

I have just had to make an appointment at the vets for Thursday morning. Our cat Willow (food hoover and all around good egg) has just been diagnosed as diabetic.

On Thursday morning I have to learn how to give her insulin injections.

I am damn sure that one of us (me :-[ ) will be bleeding more than the other......

It's not that hard. You will stab yourself at least once though, and that was despite me being used to handling syringes in labs for several years. The needles are tiny thin. Best of luck getting Willow stable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 11 April, 2017, 06:36:54 pm
There's no way I'd survive giving Little Monster Cat an injection. She goes absolutely mental if we put the drop of Advantage (or whatever it is these days) on her neck. It takes days of subterfuge and a quick strike and she's learned the time of the month, so gets doubly evasive. I think she may actually be able to read our minds. No, you hold her and I'll do. No, no, you're better at it than me. So goes the conversation. It's a bloody nightmare. She had to be sedated just so the vet could look in her mouth. Her body can twist through 720 degrees and I swear she has at least 8 sets of claws. Or so it seems if she doesn't want to be held. She's apparently quite the contortionist. Unfortunately the circus don't want her. She scares the lions.

Bad Cat though, you can do anything to her, she just makes a racket that makes it sound like she's being dismembered by clumsy people with blunt knives. We had to clean her filthy paws the other night. Oh my god, what a racket. It's a good job we live in a detached house or someone would be calling the RSPCA. It's a damp piece of kitchen towel, for heaven's sake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2017, 06:45:02 pm
Our cats hate the smell of the flea stuff solvent. Ancient old Pippin, rest her little furry boots in peace, just sat quietly and let us stab her.
She was a *very* old lady though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 11 April, 2017, 07:28:28 pm
Reading this thread...

...and thinking about jogler :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 11 April, 2017, 10:25:44 pm
Quote from: Morat on 10 April, 2017, 07:00:23 pm
Just finished listening to True Lies on R4 while my son eats his beans on toast.
Lovely and relaxing after a frustrating Monday at work.
The Unbelievable Truth, Shirley?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 12 April, 2017, 07:28:00 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2017, 06:18:27 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 11 April, 2017, 01:16:38 pm
Quaking in my boots.

I have just had to make an appointment at the vets for Thursday morning. Our cat Willow (food hoover and all around good egg) has just been diagnosed as diabetic.

On Thursday morning I have to learn how to give her insulin injections.

I am damn sure that one of us (me :-[ ) will be bleeding more than the other......

It's not that hard. You will stab yourself at least once though, and that was despite me being used to handling syringes in labs for several years. The needles are tiny thin. Best of luck getting Willow stable.

Those needles are so fine you don't feel them, I did it five times a day for eighteen months before I got my pump.

I can't see how you're going to train the cat to give you its paw though, to do its paw prick blood glucose tests.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 12 April, 2017, 09:54:26 am
Wondering what this "retirement" lark is all about.  I'm busily editing photos and exporting them for a friend who is a spinet player for this evening, occasionally looking out the front window at the newly relaid driveway (done by proper contractors!) and admiring it, gathering all my stuff for a charitable event over the weekend in Sunny Shildon, thats rolling stock, play rolling stock for the kiddies so they don't play with my priceless stuff, laptop, large monitor, silly loud speaker, camera gear, clothes, documentation and dog alone knows what else...  I have to spend Thursday evening in the Premier Inn in Corby!  :sick: then to York, Shildon, York, Shildon, York, Shildon, York, Shildon, York, and back home Tuesday morning, knackered.

Then on to finding an alternative new home because of course "your offer is accepted" is not accompanied by any sense of honour, and they now seem to have accepted a higher offer made days afterwards.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 12 April, 2017, 10:28:10 am
Paper-pushing. It comes in in little envelopes with windows and goes out again in little envelopes without windows, accompanied by other pieces of paper that take bites out of our bank account.

That and drinking coffee, of a sort.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 12 April, 2017, 11:46:06 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2017, 06:45:02 pm
Our cats hate the smell of the flea stuff solvent. Ancient old Pippin, rest her little furry boots in peace, just sat quietly and let us stab her.
She was a *very* old lady though.

Yes, she can smell it as soon as we open it, so I have to do it outside and then leave it opened for a while until her guard drops. Then we wait till she's snoozing or being stroked and absently, in a single ninja move, squirt it on the back of her neck. You can't do it properly, she knows as soon we part her fur. Even the vet struggles. The last time he did it, it took him, the nurse, and my wife and I to hold her and it still went everywhere and we all got dewormed. If she knows, it's doomed. Ninja is the only way.

But once that droplet touches her skin. BANG! She goes absolutely mental. She's like a tasmanian devil on crystal meth. Fortunately, we've never had to bath her, I can't imagine that would go well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 April, 2017, 01:02:30 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 12 April, 2017, 07:28:00 am
I can't see how you're going to train the cat to give you its paw though, to do its paw prick blood glucose tests.

AIUI the procedure for monitoring glucose levels in a cat is even worse than that...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 April, 2017, 06:01:55 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 April, 2017, 01:02:30 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 12 April, 2017, 07:28:00 am
I can't see how you're going to train the cat to give you its paw though, to do its paw prick blood glucose tests.

AIUI the procedure for monitoring glucose levels in a cat is even worse than that...

We didn't do any. Just regular trips to the vet for the first few weeks to get it checked and then less regular once stabilised, with a set dose being administered at regular intervals.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 April, 2017, 12:47:44 pm
Thinking of shaving off the beard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 17 April, 2017, 02:01:05 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 17 April, 2017, 12:47:44 pm
Thinking of shaving off the beard.
Last time I did that, to my beard, not your's, I was ver', ver' drunk and in the company of two ver' drunk women.
I think the 'dare' word may've been used.
Initially, I returned from the bathroom having just done half of my face.
Because. Well, because I could.
Did I mention that alcohol may've been taken?
Oh my.
How we laughed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 17 April, 2017, 02:06:55 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 17 April, 2017, 02:01:05 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 17 April, 2017, 12:47:44 pm
Thinking of shaving off the beard.
Last time I did that, to my beard, not your's, I was ver', ver' drunk and in the company of two ver' drunk women.
I think the 'dare' word may've been used.
Initially, I returned from the bathroom having just done half of my face.
Because. Well, because I could.
Did I mention that alcohol may've been taken?
Oh my.
How we laughed.

I don't have nearly a good enough reason as yours!   ;D
Thinking it may just be time for a change.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 18 April, 2017, 04:54:26 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 12 April, 2017, 07:28:00 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2017, 06:18:27 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 11 April, 2017, 01:16:38 pm
Quaking in my boots.

I have just had to make an appointment at the vets for Thursday morning. Our cat Willow (food hoover and all around good egg) has just been diagnosed as diabetic.

On Thursday morning I have to learn how to give her insulin injections.

I am damn sure that one of us (me :-[ ) will be bleeding more than the other......

It's not that hard. You will stab yourself at least once though, and that was despite me being used to handling syringes in labs for several years. The needles are tiny thin. Best of luck getting Willow stable.

Those needles are so fine you don't feel them, I did it five times a day for eighteen months before I got my pump.

I can't see how you're going to train the cat to give you its paw though, to do its paw prick blood glucose tests.

Well, I am surviving, as is Willow. She takes it all in her stride providing another pair of hands in available to hold her still (ish).

Scooby the other cat however, decided to come out in sympathy. She stopped eating and drin king and spent three days at the vets on a drip. We have just got her to start eating (expensive cans of tuna in spring water). She has been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and needs a tablet twice a day. At the moment she is managebale. When she gets her strength back however...........

As for the bill, HOW MUCH!  :o And still rising.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 18 April, 2017, 06:43:38 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 18 April, 2017, 04:54:26 pm
She has been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and needs a tablet twice a day. At the moment she is managebale. When she gets her strength back however...........

Our Ginge has been on those for the past two and a half years. We give them to him in a small ball (roughly marble sized) of Shipham's (or Tesco) fish or meat paste. He loves these and we've never had a problem getting the tablets into him. YCMV of course.


Quote
As for the bill, HOW MUCH!  :o And still rising.
I know. Makes you realised what a bargain the NHS is!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 April, 2017, 06:46:26 pm
In their final years we had Pippin with diabetes + hyperthyroidism and Mojo with kidney failure + hyperthyroidism finally segueing into blindness. Talk about frequent flyer points....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 18 April, 2017, 06:56:58 pm
It's very common for older cats. Our previous cat had years of hyperthyroidism. It's how vets afford their regular skiing holidays.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 19 April, 2017, 07:32:19 am
Quote from: ian on 12 April, 2017, 11:46:06 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2017, 06:45:02 pm
Our cats hate the smell of the flea stuff solvent. Ancient old Pippin, rest her little furry boots in peace, just sat quietly and let us stab her.
She was a *very* old lady though.

Yes, she can smell it as soon as we open it, so I have to do it outside and then leave it opened for a while until her guard drops. Then we wait till she's snoozing or being stroked and absently, in a single ninja move, squirt it on the back of her neck. You can't do it properly, she knows as soon we part her fur. Even the vet struggles. The last time he did it, it took him, the nurse, and my wife and I to hold her and it still went everywhere and we all got dewormed. If she knows, it's doomed. Ninja is the only way.

But once that droplet touches her skin. BANG! She goes absolutely mental. She's like a tasmanian devil on crystal meth. Fortunately, we've never had to bath her, I can't imagine that would go well.

It occurred to me that one reason they dislike having drops put on their necks (had 3 cats) was because the fluid was cold and their necks are very sensitive.  So I started putting the phials in my pocket long enough for them to reach body temperature before administering.  It worked a treat and they never noticed they'd been done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 19 April, 2017, 09:09:06 am
Pah, Little Monster Cat knows whatever strategy I take. Best to wait till she's sleeping and then ninja strike! She skittered away like a drop of water in a hot pan when I got her neck last night.

Though Bad Cat wins. She passively let us squirt her. Sat there on the kitchen worktop. Gave it a moment. And then shook her head vigorously. Which distributed the droplet on her neck about the kitchen. It's amazing just how far 0.8ml of topical parasite treatment will go. The solvent, as we then discovered, is excellent for removing the surface varnish from expensive solid oak kitchen work surfaces.

I suppose we'll all be free of intestinal parasites for a while.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 19 April, 2017, 05:33:56 pm
Looking through the photos of the Purton ships' graveyard, where I have just been. Very peaceful too. I'm wondering why the last hulk is penned in in such a way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: m0rt on 19 April, 2017, 06:49:40 pm
On train between Derby and Crewe heading to Chester because Euston was closed. I would have been back in Hawarden an hour ago. As it is, I have another hour to go....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 25 April, 2017, 09:03:34 pm
All revved up and one day to go.

20 hours to departure to be precise, I'm still pondering whether the weather will make a Heathrow ride sensible.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 25 April, 2017, 10:04:37 pm
Weather will dictate if it's a feasible ride.  Knowing how far and where you have to go, it will never be sensible!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 28 April, 2017, 10:55:26 am
Quote from: CAMRAMan on 19 April, 2017, 05:33:56 pm
Looking through the photos of the Purton ships' graveyard, where I have just been. Very peaceful too. I'm wondering why the last hulk is penned in in such a way.

I was there last week. My assumption was to prevent further damage of the almost complete boat.

I'm not comfortable with terms like ships graveyard or wreck, when the boats have been 're-purposed' as an erosion defense. (See also Stone Point/Secret Water in Essex)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 April, 2017, 03:35:13 pm
Having ££ tea & cake at Tate Britain while nursing my sore feet.


The Michaelangelo/Sebastiano exhibition at the National Gallery, then strolled here for the
excellent Queer British Art thing.  When I've had a rest it's the Hockney.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jakob W on 29 April, 2017, 03:46:34 pm
Is it any good though? In my experience, tea/coffee and cake tends to be good to excellent at art galleries/stately homes/&c, and passable to execrable at science/transport museums (with the honourable​ exception of the Wellcome Collection); the ££ aspect can generally be assumed...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 April, 2017, 03:57:32 pm
The carrot cake was enjoyable, the English Breakfast was tea & they could have used a bigger pot
Only a cup & a half.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 29 April, 2017, 06:15:45 pm
Drinking beer at the Euston Tap  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 05 May, 2017, 07:56:11 pm
Waiting for the train home after my normal 8 hour work day turned into 12.

Looking forward to a beer or two when I get home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Morat on 06 May, 2017, 06:51:25 pm
Waiting for my son to finish supper before we start the bedtime routine. He can get changed by himself now, so it's a lot easier!
Other half is out riding a bike - I only have myself to blame :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 14 May, 2017, 12:34:05 am
Looking for places to stay and realising I ought to be in bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 May, 2017, 07:55:50 am
Getting ready to go to wemberley
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 14 May, 2017, 08:23:47 pm
Watching American Flyers.  The bikes were so much better-looking back then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 May, 2017, 08:54:35 am
Trying to get through to the doctors.

Also wishing this chest infection would just FRO.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 15 May, 2017, 09:11:23 am
Trying to work out why I can't download routes (call them courses if you wish) from Garmin Connect
to my Garmin Touring Plus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 15 May, 2017, 09:15:30 am
The machine is doing the washing and I've got nothing on
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 15 May, 2017, 10:32:33 am
Quote from: tiermat on 15 May, 2017, 08:54:35 am
Trying to get through to the doctors.

Also wishing this chest infection would just FRO.

Me too. Prescription for antibiotics but raised temperature and my first sick day in almost 5 years...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 15 May, 2017, 10:49:00 am
Just finished the Inlaw Paw's last tax return, going to drop it into the tax office this afternoon.

One for the "like a f*cking div" thread: thought I had until Friday, but noticed when I checked the address that it was due Wednesday. Missed deadline = automatic 10% penalty.  Almost a fecking div.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 15 May, 2017, 01:19:32 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 15 May, 2017, 10:32:33 am
Quote from: tiermat on 15 May, 2017, 08:54:35 am
Trying to get through to the doctors.

Also wishing this chest infection would just FRO.

Me too. Prescription for antibiotics but raised temperature and my first sick day in almost 5 years...

Took best part of an hour, but then took another hour, after I arrived at the surgery, to be seen. Same outcome as you. I hate this medication I am on, but trying to get my specialist to allow me to stop taking it is akin to pissing in the wind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 May, 2017, 12:01:47 pm
I've just moved all the very heavy hifi kit off the rack, and am now dusting & cleaning the rack & the area behind it.  I've not done this for several years  :-[


The filth.... :sick: [size=78%] [/size]
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 21 May, 2017, 01:44:16 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 21 May, 2017, 12:01:47 pm
I've just moved all the very heavy hifi kit off the rack, and am now dusting & cleaning the rack & the area behind it.  I've not done this for several years  :-[


The filth.... :sick: [size=78%] [/size]

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19971203  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 May, 2017, 09:47:46 pm
Listening to Jim Al-Khalili's 'The life Scientific' which is my favourite R4 prog.1
Tim O'Brien today.

1No it isn't.  The News Quiz is my favourite R4 prog.#

ETA. More or Less is also my favourite R4 prog.
This is getting confusing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 26 May, 2017, 01:00:10 pm
Trying to persuade myself that clicking on 'spend' for a bass guitar kit is a really bad idea...

...At least until I have a shed to put the stuff that shouldn't be in the garage into and then the work bench into the garage where it should be*.

* the Crapocaster was built on a workmate which only adds to my indecision.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 May, 2017, 02:51:27 pm
Trying to do a spot of gardening.  All I've managed is to mow the lawn and a bit of weeding damage limitation in the flowerbeds.  I have to keep coming inside.  It's just too hot.  (Not that I'm grumbling about that, mind.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 26 May, 2017, 03:35:15 pm
Procrastinating.  I should be mowing the lawns, but, as a wise man hereabouts once said, "It's just too hot."  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: runsoncake on 27 May, 2017, 01:26:20 pm
Watching Dyfi Osprey Project nest cam and wondering where the sunshine has disappeared to
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 May, 2017, 03:55:56 pm
Listening to rapidly approaching thunder, and hurriedly shutting down servers.

#noUPS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 27 May, 2017, 04:05:34 pm
Watching the bonfire ashes quietly go out in the drizzle.
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Post by: ElyDave on 27 May, 2017, 04:15:59 pm
whiling away a long weekend in Baku.

When we planned this job, the client didn't tell us that Monday is a public holiday here.  I asked if I could join my colleagiue offshore over the weekend, but apparently no-can-do. 

So today has been, yoga, breakfast, work catch up 1, wander around the old city a bit, lunch, work catch up 2, run, shower and now head to the bar for a glass of wine and a bit of a read followed by work catch up 3.

Repeat tomorrow and Monday
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 May, 2017, 05:28:30 pm
I did the same last year, ended up out there on a public holiday...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 29 May, 2017, 12:26:40 pm
Swotting for a work course tomorrow. In packets of a chapter at a time interspersed with spodding teh interwebs and maybe watching Groundhog Day on Netflix.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 June, 2017, 01:33:12 pm
Well, actually,  I'm sitting drinking tea.  You can see what I'm supposed to be doing.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4297/35503027083_c9875d182f_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/W6hi3B)20170602_132553 (https://flic.kr/p/W6hi3B) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andytheflyer on 02 June, 2017, 04:42:01 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 27 May, 2017, 04:15:59 pm
whiling away a long weekend in Baku.

When we planned this job, the client didn't tell us that Monday is a public holiday here.  I asked if I could join my colleagiue offshore over the weekend, but apparently no-can-do. 

So today has been, yoga, breakfast, work catch up 1, wander around the old city a bit, lunch, work catch up 2, run, shower and now head to the bar for a glass of wine and a bit of a read followed by work catch up 3.

Repeat tomorrow and Monday

That used to be a particular bugbear of mine on overseas work trips.  5pm Friday all the locals go home, with a "See you Monday (or Tuesday etc.)".  Particularly if you didn't speak the language - e.g Yerevan, Yalta, Sofia, Novogorod etc.  There's only so much hanging around I can tolerate......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 02 June, 2017, 05:06:41 pm
Waiting to go to the Southampton Naked Bike ride 6:30 tonight  :-[
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Post by: T42 on 04 June, 2017, 09:54:00 am
Relaxing after doing our tax return.  We're getting a rebate, hee hee ha ha ho ho.
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Post by: fuzzy on 09 June, 2017, 02:41:33 pm
Packing for my holibobs to Victoria Falls and the Cheetah sanctuary :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 June, 2017, 03:59:03 pm
May I just take this opportunity to pronounce you Officially A Git, fuzzy ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 June, 2017, 12:15:11 am
Watching barakta practising her tidy-haired thought leadership.  She knows about <Alt>-number-<Enter> and everything.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 14 June, 2017, 05:32:03 pm
Worrying.

We have sold our house, and any day expecting the "when are you moving out?" email.  We have allegedly been buying a house for the same period of time, but the seller is a twat (yes, YOU, Mr Bowers, of Brynllwyn, Pantyffridd) and didn't actually fill in his forms, and threw his toys out of the pram when I suggested he do so, so I made another epic expensive journey to Wales to follow up some further leads, and made an offer of the full asking price on a property.  They'd previously had an offer for well under, which was refused.  I therefore expect my offer to be accepted.  However, the original person has come back and now offered the full price, so its all in doubt.  As far as I'm concerned, I was the first person to offer the full price, and am keen to complete quickly (the property is empty and they need to get shot of it) so therefore the cheapskate person can bugger off. 

I have to wait till the agent has spoken to the vendors tomorrow, meanwhile I don't know if we're going to be homeless, or not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 14 June, 2017, 07:16:17 pm
Quote from: Wombat on 14 June, 2017, 05:32:03 pm
I have to wait till the agent has spoken to the vendors tomorrow, meanwhile I don't know if we're going to be homeless, or not.

Thank you for reminding me why I rent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 15 June, 2017, 09:10:30 am
I couldn't afford to rent! Certainly where I live now, I'd be paying £1000 pcm or so, and as a pensioner, that's just not going to work, and I wouldn't be able to build a workshop and do stuff like my garden railway, in a rented property.  My main issue at the moment is if I have to go into rented because of being screwed around by unscrupulous agents and sellers (is there another kind?) then that'll be some of my funds for buying a place, down the pan. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 15 June, 2017, 06:15:19 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 09 June, 2017, 03:59:03 pm
May I just take this opportunity to pronounce you Officially A Git, fuzzy ;D

Thank you kind Sir  8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 15 June, 2017, 06:38:09 pm
waiting for yet another f@!"ing airplaine
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 15 June, 2017, 07:49:46 pm
Hope we are going to get lots of pics Fuzzy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 15 June, 2017, 10:10:54 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 15 June, 2017, 06:38:09 pm
waiting for yet another f@!"ing airplaine

I made the mistake of saying I was done travelling till September. The gods were evidently listening as I now have three trips lined up. Arse. On the plus side, they wanted to me to go to Dubai. In August. But I'm on holiday, so never mind, I don't even have to bother with an excuse. It's there in my calendar. I'm famed for Dubai (and middle-east) dodging. I do want to go to Iran though (pesky sanctions).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 16 June, 2017, 07:52:52 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 15 June, 2017, 07:49:46 pm
Hope we are going to get lots of pics Fuzzy.

I will certainly try!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 16 June, 2017, 08:36:44 pm
Fettling my luggage for the trip tomorrow. Nothing like waiting til the night before to discover that the hitherto-unused luggage doesn't fit the bike and that - even if you can make it do so - it doesn't seem likely that it will hold everything you think you might need.
 ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 16 June, 2017, 10:07:47 pm
Drinking beer. Making pizza (or waiting for vegetables to roast for the topping). Listening to Chvrches. And doing this. While explaining clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats to people who don't know what DNA is (from which I'm taking a break on the grounds of 'DNA, isn't that what dinosaurs had?')
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 16 June, 2017, 11:00:31 pm
Rounding up STUFFs for a trip to The Lakes tomorrow.

There maybe a need for Factorfuckoff suncream, lest The Girls return as orange as 'Boroians.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 June, 2017, 12:40:43 am
Watching loads of LEL and Dun Run videos.  In an effort  to re-ignite my mojo
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 June, 2017, 07:57:43 am
Ordering lutherie stuff before riding up to Lembach to meet El Presidente for a toddle into the Pfalz in search of espresso et al. This being Monday, practically every such joint in the smaller towns here is shut.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 19 June, 2017, 06:22:13 pm
Sitting half naked in the draught of a gert big fan.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 19 June, 2017, 08:21:03 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 19 June, 2017, 06:22:13 pm
Sitting half naked in the draught of a gert big fan.
Sitting naked :o in the draught of a fan.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 June, 2017, 09:18:09 pm
Videoing a band.
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Post by: Canardly on 19 June, 2017, 09:27:27 pm
Sweating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 20 June, 2017, 06:59:07 am
Being very glad that the air con is working on today's train to work as just the walk to the station had me melting.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 20 June, 2017, 08:03:06 am
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 20 June, 2017, 06:59:07 am
Being very glad that the air con is working on today's train to work as just the walk to the station had me melting.

That was my feeling, yesterday evening, after a day in a non-airconed office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 20 June, 2017, 08:10:33 am
Cooler today with my window open and less offensive light into my eyes through the blindless window. 

Blind is on order
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 20 June, 2017, 09:55:16 pm
Watching satellites passing overhead.

 Listening to aircraft flying over at 30,000 feet.

Absinthe may have been involved...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 June, 2017, 09:56:50 am
Maketh1 the heart grow fonder?

1: Pronounthed like an Igor would.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 June, 2017, 10:00:10 am
Well, all I've managed so far today is build a pot of coffee and take a shower.   That has left me totally exhausted.
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Post by: TheLurker on 21 June, 2017, 05:11:00 pm
Sitting in the garden.  Melting.
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Post by: fuzzy on 23 June, 2017, 12:38:53 pm
Trying to get my head back into being at work mode after my African holibobs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 23 June, 2017, 02:29:14 pm
Trying to concentrate on work, which is currently writing instructions for some third-party baremetal libraries to be cross-compiled for hardware that doesn't exist, so I can't even check the instructions - I'm reduced to reading cascading makefiles to check for errors in the instructions.

I was up until 2am playing Civ with the kids last night  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 June, 2017, 10:18:52 pm
Watching good honest rock and roll from the Foo fighters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 24 June, 2017, 10:33:40 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 20 June, 2017, 09:55:16 pm
Watching satellites passing overhead.

 Listening to aircraft flying over at 30,000 feet.

Absinthe may have been involved...

How are the ears?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 24 June, 2017, 10:35:20 pm
Sitting on a sofa, waiting for the tonic to cool and eating cheesey poofs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 25 June, 2017, 10:46:24 am
preparering for the last  examination in this semester   :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 25 June, 2017, 11:39:30 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 24 June, 2017, 10:33:40 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 20 June, 2017, 09:55:16 pm
Watching satellites passing overhead.

 Listening to aircraft flying over at 30,000 feet.

Absinthe may have been involved...

How are the ears?

The ears are fine thanks. At home we live in a river valley and within a mile or so we have the M60, M62 and a railway. It is never quiet and there is so much light pollution.

Contrast that with a back garden in the Limousin, you are over a kilo from the nearest streetlamp, the skies are clear enough to watch satellites passing overhead and you can hear late night jets flying over at 30,000 or more . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 25 June, 2017, 11:47:01 am
Trying to decide if I'm up to another pootle. Trouble is I want to ride the Sabbath, which is in summer mode, and the summer has gone Mancunian.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 June, 2017, 01:01:34 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 25 June, 2017, 11:39:30 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 24 June, 2017, 10:33:40 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 20 June, 2017, 09:55:16 pm
Watching satellites passing overhead.

 Listening to aircraft flying over at 30,000 feet.

Absinthe may have been involved...

How are the ears?

The ears are fine thanks. At home we live in a river valley and within a mile or so we have the M60, M62 and a railway. It is never quiet and there is so much light pollution.

Contrast that with a back garden in the Limousin, you are over a kilo from the nearest streetlamp, the skies are clear enough to watch satellites passing overhead and you can hear late night jets flying over at 30,000 or more . . .

More a comment on famous people getting drunk on abesinthe and cutting off ears.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 June, 2017, 01:38:49 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 25 June, 2017, 11:39:30 am
Contrast that with a back garden in the Limousin, you are over a kilo from the nearest streetlamp, the skies are clear enough to watch satellites passing overhead and you can hear late night jets flying over at 30,000 or more . . .

Ho ho ho.  I'm currently sitting in my office* in an Alsacien country village with the window open, and the local shithead squad has just gone blattering up the road on light motorbikes tuned for decibels.  At night the churchly wallahs blast untold kilowatts past their unremarkable spire and into the firmament, and the folk next door have an automatic outside light that comes on if a fly farts.** Thanks to the streetlights the sky has a permanent orange cast, which will probably only change when our city fathers change to el cheapo white LEDs and keep us awake all night.  In 2001 I built a 12" Dobson which now gathers dust indoors because the light pollution makes it not worth the labour of carrying outside.

*have to stop calling it that now I'm retired.  Cosy 3m50 x 2m room adjoining our bedroom, containing a 3m-long desk, couple of computers, a few books & files and one extremely comfy chair.  "Study"?

**don't they?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 25 June, 2017, 03:13:16 pm
Fighting with otel booking. TWO BREAKFASTS. GIVE ME THE OPTION FOR ANOTHER FUCKING BREAKFAST.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 June, 2017, 03:19:24 pm
Quote from: fboab on 25 June, 2017, 03:13:16 pm
Fighting with otel booking. TWO BREAKFASTS. GIVE ME THE OPTION FOR ANOTHER FUCKING BREAKFAST.

Steal someone elses  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 25 June, 2017, 06:55:14 pm
Sending CV to slave trader.  I'm too bloody old for this. *sigh*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 07 July, 2017, 10:45:52 pm
Watching TdF highlights.  But it's on S4C.  In Welsh. 
Oh well.  It's good practice.    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 07 July, 2017, 11:00:11 pm
sitting on the sofa having annoyed SWMBO by arriving home, or so it seems
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 07 July, 2017, 11:38:47 pm
Spent two-and-a-half hours listening to my local mp talking utter bollox about poverty, renewables, sustainability and climate change.

Apparently somebody on a zero hours contract is more secure in their job than an mp.

Let's hope for another election, soon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 08 July, 2017, 08:18:42 am
Sitting in a field waiting for the lions.
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Post by: Ruthie on 10 July, 2017, 07:03:31 pm
Drinking coffee in a café on the Ring of Kerry while mcshroom tries to make his wheel circular in n spite of two broken spokes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 11 July, 2017, 07:05:50 pm
Sitting in the shelter of the washing up block hoping the rain will stop :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 July, 2017, 07:09:08 pm
Quote from: cycleman on 11 July, 2017, 07:05:50 pm
Sitting in the shelter of the washing up block hoping the rain will stop :)

Not really any shortage of rain coming from this direction.  You might get a gap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 12 July, 2017, 08:17:17 am
It rained all night but the sun is shining now.  15 mph winds from the north though  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 July, 2017, 09:38:24 pm
Loitering within tent :)
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Post by: andrewc on 13 July, 2017, 09:53:45 pm
Reading the latest "Laundry Files" with a glass of red , while I really should be prepping for tomorrows trip to Rutland.   No rain yet, but the sky is looking very dark.  It's been hectic at work so I need to chill a bit.
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Post by: Ruthie on 13 July, 2017, 10:03:23 pm
Relaxing within tent after a fabulous hot shower. Just a 20km pootle  tonight but by golly Wicklow is beautiful.

Mcshroom's gone off to wash the dishes. Excellent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 13 July, 2017, 10:09:12 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 13 July, 2017, 09:53:45 pm
   No rain yet, but the sky is looking very dark. 


I typed too soon  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 13 July, 2017, 10:13:43 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 13 July, 2017, 10:09:12 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 13 July, 2017, 09:53:45 pm
   No rain yet, but the sky is looking very dark. 


I typed too soon  :(

It's getting it over with before tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 14 July, 2017, 12:11:48 am
not sleeping.
 
As a consequence, random internetting, started reading about Quakerism and their book Quaker Faith and Practice.  Might download a copy tomorrow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 July, 2017, 12:25:59 am
Listening to the wind.
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Post by: T42 on 14 July, 2017, 09:35:34 am
Right now I'm sitting here wondering what happened to half the morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 14 July, 2017, 10:02:18 am
Checking my Tescos bill this morning and trying to work out how on earth I spent nearly half of the £102 I spent on cat food...... oh yeah, that's right, we feed our 5 plus half the bleeping neighbourhood cats as well.  :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 14 July, 2017, 11:42:05 am
Quote from: T42 on 14 July, 2017, 09:35:34 am
Right now I'm sitting here wondering what happened to half the morning.

not just half the morning, the entire bloody week
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 18 July, 2017, 07:54:52 pm
Attacking the TPOC which is my desk. I have 'misplaced' something which needs attention NOW.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 July, 2017, 09:00:37 pm
Trying hard not to Manspread in the balcony seats at the Royal Northern College of Music.  There's less legroom than a cattle class flight.  A good opening from Lucy Wainwright Roche, main act is The Indigo Girls. I'm hoping they'll finish at a reasonable time, missing the last train to Liverpool would be expensive..
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Post by: Jaded on 21 July, 2017, 08:54:47 am
Waiting to take off at Brize.
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Post by: Jaded on 28 July, 2017, 10:18:57 pm
In the Artists Village, listening to excited artists about their sets, about to go see Tom Middleton.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 01 August, 2017, 08:57:15 pm
Sitting in a hotel room in Apsley Guise (Hush Hush Village- home of The Codebreakers (where the Codebreakers of Bletchley Park rode their cycles to to go to bed)) as I am on a Bike Fit course hosted by Trek and being taught by this (http://www.mlphysio.co.uk/about-1/) guy. I am fighting off a cold so have had lots of vitamin c and have just eaten a very dirty hot curry and chilli sauce Pot Noodle so the schnozzle is leaking like a good un. I am also eyeing a small decanter of complimentary brandy and wondering if it's fabled medicinal properties would help despit the fact that I can't abide brandy :sick:
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Post by: numbnuts on 02 August, 2017, 07:25:16 am
Just about to take my car to have a new front bumper fitted and remove £400 from my wallet   :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aidan on 02 August, 2017, 07:29:34 am
I'm on the train heading back to Loughton to get my car
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 06 August, 2017, 08:13:02 pm
Plotting out potential DIY by GPS routes. For variety I'm thinking of catching the train to Arnside and riding hove via Shap

Also trying to work out if there's any sensible route into Dumfries from the North East ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 August, 2017, 10:18:09 pm
Marinating my foot in hydrocortisone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 07 August, 2017, 08:38:07 am
Watching planes
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Post by: numbnuts on 07 August, 2017, 09:22:26 am
The machine is doing the washing, but I'm supervising
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 August, 2017, 07:23:48 pm
Frying things.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 07 August, 2017, 08:16:15 pm
Swearing at on line forms again  >:(
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Post by: loadsabikes on 09 August, 2017, 01:16:45 pm
Re packing my rucksack for the n'th time ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 August, 2017, 02:30:29 pm
Watching barakta do the minicom number dance with the student loans company.

Will they answer it?  Will they bollocks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 August, 2017, 11:37:52 pm
Loitering within tent. And wishing the noisy feckers a couple of pitches over would go to bed.
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Post by: mcshroom on 12 August, 2017, 08:48:32 am
Trying not to breathe too deeply as every time I do I end up coughing up phlegm and irritating my sore throat.

So much for the 200 to Newcastle I was going to ride today :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 12 August, 2017, 08:49:44 am
Awww get well soon lovely xx
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 12 August, 2017, 08:52:02 am
I'm drinking coffee and watching Frasier play chess, and thinking how much I enjoyed chess lessons with mcshroom  8)
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Post by: T42 on 12 August, 2017, 09:13:12 am
Wondering why folk have to phone when I've just got a fresh cuppa and talk until it's past its best. :(
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Post by: tiermat on 12 August, 2017, 09:36:47 am
Just watching TV while TLD gets ready for her football tournament, today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 13 August, 2017, 09:15:03 am
Pondering which bike to take with me to Skye  for my weeks stay...

Roadie audax bike. Nice, but no luggage carrying capability for carrying packed lunches, wildlife watching gear etc.

MTB. Nice for off road stuff, but no real luggage capability for spotting scope tripod etc.

So that'll be my recently rebuilt Dawes Horizon then!  :thumbsup 

If I'm doing anything really off road, i'll be on Shank's Pony!  :)

If everyone could just cross their fingers, toes and etceteras for decent weather, that'll be grand!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 August, 2017, 10:05:04 am
Watching tents dry.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 13 August, 2017, 10:47:17 am
Resting then it's back to the grindstone.

(https://usadultliteracy.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/grindstone.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 14 August, 2017, 02:22:19 pm
Contemplating biting insects.
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Post by: T42 on 14 August, 2017, 02:38:14 pm
My route sheet proggie just crashed while injecting likely speeds into a new route, and I'm trying to remember what the error code was. Natch, it had to crash on a 790-km route with 36 points/km that takes frickin ages to process...

Division by zero it was. Bugger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mike on 14 August, 2017, 03:26:17 pm
sitting in a hotel room in Pretoria. 

I may have chosen poorly when booking, it's very nice inside but I needed something from a shop down the road and the receptionist wouldn't let me walk down there alone and made me leave my wallet and phone behind when we went.  Strange place, South Africa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 14 August, 2017, 03:43:09 pm
Juggling work, household chores, getting my new phone up and running and preparing for FIcL's move from north Wales to Rugby at the end of the week. 

< SIGH >
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 15 August, 2017, 08:44:05 am
Quote from: Jaded on 14 August, 2017, 02:22:19 pm
Contemplating biting insects.

Why would you want to bite insects?  Any particular ones, or just whatever happens to be in reach?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 August, 2017, 10:26:09 am
Quote from: Jaded on 14 August, 2017, 02:22:19 pm
Contemplating biting insects.

What have they done to deserve that?

For my part, or one of them at any rate, I am wondering if n + 1 also applies to good-quality German upright pianos from the late 19th/early 20th century.

PS: Jaded's sentence is a perfect example of a gerundive, for those who are interested in such things. Bravo!
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Post by: tiermat on 15 August, 2017, 10:55:25 am
Laid out on the sofa, after a restless night full of vomit.

I stopped taking my methotrexate 3 weeks ago and I am not sure if the problems I have been having are due to that or if I am having a crohn's flare up :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 15 August, 2017, 11:32:07 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 15 August, 2017, 10:26:09 am
For my part, or one of them at any rate, I am wondering if n + 1 also applies to good-quality German upright pianos from the late 19th/early 20th century.

Depends on your floor.

One of my nephews is a marine architect who has to design in extra reinforcement under pianos, and gets remarkably p'd off when the interior decorators decide that it'd look much better over there, dahling.  So apparently that wonderful piano-riding scene in The Legend of 1900 is not technically accurate: it would have been bolted to the floor.

Must watch that again.

As to what I am doing, I'm wondering what to have for lunch.  I will not be biting insects.

I hope.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 15 August, 2017, 06:00:51 pm
Quote from: mike on 14 August, 2017, 03:26:17 pm
sitting in a hotel room in Pretoria. 

I may have chosen poorly when booking, it's very nice inside but I needed something from a shop down the road and the receptionist wouldn't let me walk down there alone and made me leave my wallet and phone behind when we went.  Strange place, South Africa.

Crime is pretty high, unfortunately, there are places you can stroll and a lot more places you can't. We stayed quite close to a pleasant restaurant district in Jo'burg but the hotel were very adamant they drove us there and back, despite it being a five minute walk that didn't look especially dangerous (and I've wandered around a lot of African and developing world cities with little more than the usual 'hey boss' hassles as a local tries to relieve me of some dollars). The fact that every house in SA has walls topped with razor wire and big signs promising 'armed response' ought to say something. I had dinner with a colleague and his family in Pretoria in a fortified house. They had two huge dogs and a selection of large calibre weaponry on display. Surrey, it ain't. In Pretoria, I usually stay in the Sheraton by the park with the Union Buildings in it. That area is mostly fine to stroll around in. In Jo'burg, taxi drivers usually ask in a non-negotiable way if it's 'ok to take the highway' rather than drive through certain parts of downtown.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 15 August, 2017, 06:52:20 pm
For the first time, switching energy suppliers, or attempting to. Good god, it's awful. It's like those infernal jam-filled baggage engines that offer you the multi-screen smorgasbord of unappetisingly priced and utterly indigestible ticket options.

Life is too short, but I guess that what the stinkfest that is Centrica is hoping. I hate them even more for making me waste my evening doing this. In fact, I'm not going to bother because I'm on holiday and I'm going to drink some beer in the bath with some tunes and a good book (we all have a hobby and this is mine). Shit like that can wait until I'm back at work. To be honest, I don't care how much it costs, I just want a supplier that isn't a sack of contempt-spouting spunkweasels. If my dreams were clouds, I'd just get wet even more often.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 15 August, 2017, 07:46:37 pm
Sticking a pizza in the oven as an aid to recovery from the drive from Totnes.
The distance between my brother's house and mine is only 116 miles.  But unfortunately due to sea, the drive is 214.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 18 August, 2017, 04:03:30 pm
Aching like a bitch, due to having moved house. Worst bit is that I know that this is only the start, I have at least 4 more days of pain before the new house is even remotely sorted out!
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Post by: Jaded on 18 August, 2017, 09:24:52 pm
Hopefully we are finished with the insects...

Now biting a burger that was ordered on an iPad at the Departure Gate. Tech fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 19 August, 2017, 09:02:43 am
Feeling glad I bought a refurbished laptop!

I'm now on the Isle of Skye for the week, staying at Ullinish.

I had a nice walk out to Oronsay last night (wasn't sure of the tides, so didn't risk the tidal causeway out to the island)
Got back to the studio flat. Used darktable / hugin / gimp to quickly process some of the photos. 

Now I'm watching the rain browsing os mapping online, planning where to cycle to today! I think I'll be heading for the Coral Beaches north of Dunvegan.  :thumbsup:

Did I remember to pack a usb cable for hooking up the extrex 20 to the laptop though?  ???

-- edit -- Yes I did, yay!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 19 August, 2017, 09:20:11 am
No, not envious of you at all Brian. Nope. Not at all.

Git.
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Post by: Kim on 19 August, 2017, 09:21:57 am
Getting ready to take part in a bicycle race  :o
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 August, 2017, 09:40:00 am
 :o indeed!

We are eating brioche and drinking hot chocolate in the Den, since we spectacularly failed to get ourselves to France as we had hoped to do this week.  Trains to the Gironde are painfully expensive, I have discovered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 19 August, 2017, 09:44:20 am
Quote from: Kim on 19 August, 2017, 09:21:57 am
Getting ready to take part in a bicycle race  :o

Isn't cycle racing dangerously close to 'gym' classification?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 August, 2017, 09:55:05 am
Quote from: Polar Bear on 19 August, 2017, 09:44:20 am
Quote from: Kim on 19 August, 2017, 09:21:57 am
Getting ready to take part in a bicycle race  :o

Isn't cycle racing dangerously close to 'gym' classification?

I know.   :-[

I'm hoping to not fall off my bike, mostly.  Choosing to wear a red jersey on the basis that they go faster might have been a tactical error in that respect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 19 August, 2017, 10:13:27 am
Just enjoy it like I used to enjoy running marathons.  I was never in it to win it!    :o
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Post by: Ruthie on 19 August, 2017, 10:36:40 am
Wow, hope you enjoy it Kim!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 August, 2017, 06:04:10 pm
I didn't fall off, and I think my lungs might forgive me eventually.  That's a win in my book.

Bloodyhell those fast boys are FAST. (https://twitter.com/kimble4/status/898978396599971840)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 August, 2017, 07:57:37 pm
Listening to John Coltrane & Miles Davis , cooking Osso Buco & drinking the cooking wine.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 19 August, 2017, 08:50:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 19 August, 2017, 06:04:10 pm
I didn't fall off, and I think my lungs might forgive me eventually.  That's a win in my book.

Bloodyhell those fast boys are FAST. (https://twitter.com/kimble4/status/898978396599971840)

Racing on the velodrome? Hardcore. (I had a couple of goes in the velodrome a while back but failed the accreditation thing and have no desire to try again. It's a terrifying place. :o)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 August, 2017, 10:09:24 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 19 August, 2017, 08:50:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 19 August, 2017, 06:04:10 pm
I didn't fall off, and I think my lungs might forgive me eventually.  That's a win in my book.

Bloodyhell those fast boys are FAST. (https://twitter.com/kimble4/status/898978396599971840)

Racing on the velodrome? Hardcore. (I had a couple of goes in the velodrome a while back but failed the accreditation thing and have no desire to try again. It's a terrifying place. :o)

Indeed.  A group of us had a go a couple of years ago (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=89675.msg1854959#msg1854959), during which I decided that the experience would be greatly enhanced by a sensible bike with more appropriate gearing and a seat[1].  As the BHPC had opened up just such an opportunity to non-members it seemed rude not to.

I conclude that given a lowracer I can achieve an almost respectable speed[2], with some reduction in TEH FEAR on account of familiarity with the bike.  I still don't have the lungs for racing, thobut.


[1] Not helped by them failing to advertise the existence of a secret stash of women's saddles for the track bikes.
[2] ETA: Results just in (http://forum.bhpc.org.uk/2017-round-9-derby-velodrome-sat-19th-august_topic6486_post61014.html#61014)
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Post by: andrewc on 19 August, 2017, 10:21:22 pm
For a neophyte 3rd & 4th looks pretty impressive  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 August, 2017, 10:32:16 pm
Yes, it turns out that unfaired lowracers are faster than handcycles and track bikes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 August, 2017, 03:27:31 pm
Sat on the second floor balcony of a 16th century house in Pezenas where Mollier once stayed drinking a glass of the local rouge.
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Post by: lou boutin on 20 August, 2017, 08:18:46 pm
Watching Harry Potter on ITV
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 20 August, 2017, 08:26:54 pm
Quote from: Ruthie on 19 August, 2017, 09:20:11 am
No, not envious of you at all Brian. Nope. Not at all.

Git.

Thanks!  ;D

While my trip to the Fairy Pools today was a muddy wash out, I fair enjoyed my couple of hours on Talisker Bay  ;D  Once I figure out how to upload an mp3 to youtube, I'll put up some audio recordings I made with my sound recorder!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 August, 2017, 09:03:22 pm
Talisker, eh? Well, what I'm doing is being glad I'm sat down, as in an idle moment I googled what I'm drinking. I've had it a while, fair enough, but still. https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/23029/talisker-1957-bot1970s-gordon-macphail

And, if anyone is interested, nectar of the gods. There's still another good drop in the bottle. I think I'll save it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 August, 2017, 08:26:40 am
Watching a group of blokes unload a wagon full of our lives. Yes we have, finally, moved in to our new home!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 August, 2017, 10:06:36 am
Quote from: Ham on 20 August, 2017, 09:03:22 pm
Talisker, eh? Well, what I'm doing is being glad I'm sat down, as in an idle moment I googled what I'm drinking. I've had it a while, fair enough, but still. https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/23029/talisker-1957-bot1970s-gordon-macphail

And, if anyone is interested, nectar of the gods. There's still another good drop in the bottle. I think I'll save it.

I don't know what the fuss is about. Whisky doesn't age in the bottle.

As to what I'm doing, I'm sitting still so that the damage from yesterday's ride doesn't hurt any more than it has to.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Quisling on 21 August, 2017, 10:12:11 am
Trying to write a report on the success or otherwise of an energy performance contract.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 21 August, 2017, 11:39:32 am
Quote from: T42 on 21 August, 2017, 10:06:36 am
Quote from: Ham on 20 August, 2017, 09:03:22 pm
Talisker, eh? Well, what I'm doing is being glad I'm sat down, as in an idle moment I googled what I'm drinking. I've had it a while, fair enough, but still. https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/23029/talisker-1957-bot1970s-gordon-macphail

And, if anyone is interested, nectar of the gods. There's still another good drop in the bottle. I think I'll save it.

I don't know what the fuss is about. Whisky doesn't age in the bottle.

As to what I'm doing, I'm sitting still so that the damage from yesterday's ride doesn't hurt any more than it has to.

Nope, but equally it doesn't bottle age, so this is in effect a 20-ish year old whisky; when I bought it the price was commensurate with a very special bottle of that age. As to the current price? Well, it is unique (obv) and most entirely excellent. As to being sufficiently different to warrant that price? nah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: David Martin on 21 August, 2017, 05:10:07 pm
Quote from: BrianI on 19 August, 2017, 09:02:43 am
Feeling glad I bought a refurbished laptop!

I'm now on the Isle of Skye for the week, staying at Ullinish.

I had a nice walk out to Oronsay last night (wasn't sure of the tides, so didn't risk the tidal causeway out to the island)
Got back to the studio flat. Used darktable / hugin / gimp to quickly process some of the photos. 



That is an impressive walk from Skye. Last time I walked to Oronsay it was from Colonsay (and we were paranoid about the tides so went a bit early and got a bit damp.)

ETA: I didn't realise there were two Oronsay islands. Both accessed by a tidal causeway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 August, 2017, 10:32:29 am
Getting kit organized for a bike ride from my accommodation in Ullinish to Portree via some forest gravel tracks! (as recommended by the hubby of the owners of the accommodation) - he has a garage full of fat bikes and gravel bikes, and he fair admired my 8 year old dawes horizon in gravel mode with 42mm schwalbe land cruisers!

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 24 August, 2017, 09:28:51 pm
Just saying "Good Night" to Skye, before traveling home tomorrow  :'(

A nice weeks holiday, even if a bit lonely at times  :-[
Drove to Elgol today. Stunning location, even if hoaching with tourists!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 25 August, 2017, 08:53:08 am
Finishing an epic battle with Concur (note to self, don't leave your conference bookings to the last minute, then you might be able to stay in a hotel near the venue, idiot).

As those who battle Concur knows, it's always epic. I know how Godzilla felt after he fought King Ghidorah and then having done that, rather than have a chance to put his monster feet up, Mecha-Ghidorah arrives from the future for round two. A monster's work is never done sigh. At least Godzilla got to stomp downtown Tokyo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 26 August, 2017, 12:49:38 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 12 August, 2017, 08:48:32 am
Trying not to breathe too deeply as every time I do I end up coughing up phlegm and irritating my sore throat.

So much for the 200 to Newcastle I was going to ride today :(

... and I've just set it off again two weeks later  ::-)

I thought I was over the chest infection, but obviously not. I'm not as bad as last time, but I'm still not well enough for trying this ride, as I discovered 25km in near Workington this evening. That's two dead DIY brevets now; I think I'd better give it a couple more weeks before I try something like that again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 26 August, 2017, 11:15:00 am
While I had a fun week on Skye with my Dawes Horizon in gravel bike mode, I'm just going to start getting her cleaned up, and put back into touring mode, refitting the 32mm Marathon Greenguards and Mudguards.

Those 42mm Schwalbe Land Cruisers were certainly plush to ride. 

So perhaps I should think about investing in some slightly wider touring tyres.. Something like 37mm marathon supreme?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 26 August, 2017, 03:49:42 pm
Lying on the sofa listening to the anamatronic dinosaurs in the park just across the river. They play the same noises every few seconds, and are here for the next two weeks. I'm wondering how long it will take before I'll be unable to get the noises out of my head ever again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 27 August, 2017, 04:46:49 am
Anything but write the most difficult condolences letter I've ever had to do. Hey, what's so great about sleeping anyhow?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 27 August, 2017, 08:37:57 am
Minging round the place fed up after a bad night left me too knackered to think of riding or doing much of anything else. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 29 August, 2017, 09:42:45 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 26 August, 2017, 03:49:42 pm
Lying on the sofa listening to the anamatronic dinosaurs in the park just across the river. They play the same noises every few seconds, and are here for the next two weeks. I'm wondering how long it will take before I'll be unable to get the noises out of my head ever again.

It looks like I'm not the only one annoyed (http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15499699.Dinosaurs_attraction_is_T_oo_loud_for_West_End_residents/) - at least it's getting turned down, apparently.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 30 August, 2017, 06:45:27 pm
Sitting in my tent. In the middle of a massive thunderstorm .


Campsite is horrible dry sandy soil. It was very humid & I could heR thunder in the distance. I'd made a brew& put a pan of rice on when I heard a whooping noise. Then the rain started. Within seconds everything in the porch was covered in spattered mud . I shoved the stove outside & zipped up.  Lightning flashes, thunder & puddles near the tent where water is running of the flysheet.


Finally remembered the stove & think I've burnt the rice...
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Post by: Ruthie on 30 August, 2017, 06:54:49 pm
Oh, bugger
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 August, 2017, 06:56:08 pm
Between that and the bollard, I can only assume that this is the sort of thing that happens when you forget the tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 30 August, 2017, 07:03:42 pm
I have found something called Aldi Westminster blend. Almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea.
It was that or Earl Grey  :sick:


Problem is the tea, the rice & my mouth are all crunchy..
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 August, 2017, 05:23:09 am
Waiting for feeble USAnian anbarism to boil the kettle :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 September, 2017, 01:11:57 pm
Having lunch at Sainsbury's cafė in Oxford - trial bike comnute for SO (who works for Oxford Utd, so about 5.miles from the station).

Edit: bike now locked up at the station using a Kryptonite mini-D lock and the Sheldon method, and with a cable for the front wheel too.  Hopefully it will still be there on Monday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 01 September, 2017, 03:06:18 pm
Digesting an excellent lunch, taken at our favourite Thai restaurant which, alas, is not doing too well and might not be there much longer. Not for lack of our custom, though. Their salt & pepper prawns are bloody wonderful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 02 September, 2017, 09:40:06 am
Looking like the last two days of my 3 weeks annual leave will be tucked up in bed with mammalian man flu  :sick

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 02 September, 2017, 10:52:16 am
Settling down to a few hours of paperwork.    :(

Did manage to go cycling yesterday afternoon though.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 September, 2017, 09:11:35 pm
Watching  Wales footing ball on S4C with the sound turned down  and listening to the T20 final on 5LX
There is whisky. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 September, 2017, 09:40:08 pm
Quote from: Basil on 02 September, 2017, 09:11:35 pm
Watching  Wales footing ball on S4C with the sound turned down  and listening to the T20 final on 5LX
There is whisky.

1.  Hòorah
2. Bugger
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 02 September, 2017, 10:23:57 pm
Large amounts of relaxing after a full day yoga workshop, day two tomorrow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 September, 2017, 07:48:46 am
Lying in my tent on a Dutch campsite. It's a bright Autumn morning .   Brrrrrr....


Breakfast has been etted. Now time to pack up & get riding somewhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 03 September, 2017, 08:25:59 am
Hooray! Have you had one ☝️ f those enormous Dutch doughnuts yet?

*googles Oliebollen?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 September, 2017, 10:34:19 am
 No, but thanks for the tip  :P


A lovely sunny day & im riding through woods on a cycle path, not a car on site, just cyclists & horse riders
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 03 September, 2017, 11:05:38 am
Sitting in my cycling gear trying to find some enthusiasm, it's not been going well for the last 3 hours  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 September, 2017, 02:04:42 pm
Wondering where my morning coffee is going to come from >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 September, 2017, 03:00:20 pm
Funny that, I'm just about to go & make some. Instanter, in fact.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 September, 2017, 03:51:59 pm
Sitting outside a Dutch cafe pondering a 2nd Gulpener...
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Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 03 September, 2017, 03:56:24 pm
I'm the Makers Fair in Eindhoven.  Lots of steam punks with a space rocket. Real miniature steam trains too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 September, 2017, 12:33:57 pm
Sitting outside a Dutch bar with 0.5L Heineken. They've no food "we had a big party at the weekend "
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Post by: woollypigs on 04 September, 2017, 12:41:40 pm
Liquid lunch, well, that is a big part of the food pyramid.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 September, 2017, 12:52:29 pm
I've got some bread, cheese (with caraway seed) & yogurt in the panniers. Just need to find a quiet, scenic bench.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 September, 2017, 01:16:46 pm
Wondering where TF I put all my homologation stuff from PBP 2015 and when TF I last saw it. Buggery hell.

Oh, and drinking a cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 04 September, 2017, 02:13:54 pm
Settling down for a lovely nap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 September, 2017, 05:06:54 pm
Listening to that Pingu makes noises from the loft that sound like he's twatting the dead PC with a stick. Got home from holiday last night to find the thing (used as our Squeezebox server) was off. When he turned it back on it went 'bang'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 September, 2017, 10:01:55 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 04 September, 2017, 05:06:54 pm
Listening to that Pingu makes noises from the loft that sound like he's twatting the dead PC with a stick. Got home from holiday last night to find the thing (used as our Squeezebox server) was off. When he turned it back on it went 'bang'.

True story:  I once brought a school-friend's family computer back to life[1] in similar circumstances by delivering a firm thump in the direction of the power supply.  It worked flawlessly for a couple more years, at which point it fell foul of Gates's Law.

I think it's a bit like Welsh sunburn.  You only get to experience karma like that once per lifetime.


[1] We'd performed a hard drive swap, culminating in "It's worse than that, it's dead, Kim."
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 September, 2017, 10:05:15 pm
My family used to have a (2nd hand) telly that started going on the fritz. It could be brought back to life with a good hard smack on the top of the case. For a few months. Then it died and no amount of my Dad's electrical ministrations could resurrect it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 September, 2017, 10:27:22 pm
A good thump is a standard diagnostic technique for dry solder joints.  Of course, now we live in The Future and all the solder joints are dry.  Humbug.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 04 September, 2017, 10:49:02 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 04 September, 2017, 05:06:54 pm
Listening to that Pingu makes noises from the loft that sound like he's twatting the dead PC with a stick. Got home from holiday last night to find the thing (used as our Squeezebox server) was off. When he turned it back on it went 'bang'.

It went flash, bang and there was a smell of burning. On inspection the burny smell seems to be coming from the psu. I can't see anything obviously frazzled.

Sigh  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 08 September, 2017, 09:19:46 pm
I am relaxing. Utterly.

As of early hours Thurday morning I've handed in the final (hopefully) assignment of the final (hopefully) module of an OU BEng degree. It's been six years study alongside fulltime work and the last couple years have been tough tough tough.

I'll fully admit some of the struggle has been too much time relaxing leading to some tough deadline dashing but that relaxation has been with the awareness that I ought not to be. Now I can legitimately relax and it feel sooooo good.

Of course I've been putting a load of other stuff off cos of studying so I need to crack on soon but this weekend I'm doing nothing at all  :thumbsup:

The teetering piles of crap can wait a few more days.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 08 September, 2017, 11:28:35 pm
Stuck in a bar in fucking Royton with too loud music and too expensive drinks. Wanting to be anywhere fucking else.

Friday nights. I never got them in my 20s...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 09 September, 2017, 03:49:35 am
Wondering if it's a short break in Arran we're having or going on a polar expedition
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 September, 2017, 05:07:00 pm
Quote from: Si S on 09 September, 2017, 03:49:35 am
Wondering if it's a short break in Arran we're having or going on a polar expedition

Probably need less kit for a polar expedition.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 September, 2017, 02:50:01 am
Contemplating dinner.  I'll wager it'll be the Mexican, coz it's always the Mexican on the first Saturday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 10 September, 2017, 10:06:07 pm
Waiting for a cauliflower to roast. They take a while. I should have started it sooner because I'm hungry like a hippo that's not had its tea. Drinking a gin and tonic to take the edge off (Nautilus, apparently, made with algae by those wacky Portuguese it says on the label, and not half bad). Bad Cat is waiting by the kitchen cupboard because she knows the smell of curry means poppadoms. I have a feeling that there's no lime pickle left. One of us will be disappointed. You are all possibly wondering how I manage to sustain this high level of drama. It's tough, but I manage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 10 September, 2017, 10:27:21 pm
I'm just wondering why you're still waiting for dinner at 10pm?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: woollypigs on 10 September, 2017, 10:58:55 pm
He is waiting becasue cauliflowers take a while to roast :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 10 September, 2017, 11:17:44 pm
By now, I'd be having roast cauliflower tomorrow and cheese and biscuits tonight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 11 September, 2017, 09:28:54 am
Having lectures about pregnancy and nutrition.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 11 September, 2017, 09:42:00 am
Quote from: ElyDave on 10 September, 2017, 10:27:21 pm
I'm just wondering why you're still waiting for dinner at 10pm?

For reasons, I rarely eat my tea before 10pm. The other night I was out for a meal-and-theatre thing and it was weird to have food at 6pm. I'm not hungry at that time. I'm not sure how people eat before 9pm, it doesn't feel right. Breakfast at about 11am, some fruit in the afternoon, and a big nosh about 10.30pm is my daily routine.

There was, and those of you who follow my exciting thrill-packed life will be reassured to know, lime pickle in the cupboard after all. Disaster was averted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 11 September, 2017, 06:07:07 pm
Just starting a free online course from the Met Office / Future Learn, "Learn About Weather" ! (£39.99 one off fee if you want a paper certificate at the end, and permanent access to the course materials)

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learn-about-weather/
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 12 September, 2017, 04:14:05 pm
Fuming.   Trying to avoid the rant thread right now as I'd probably go into rant hyperdrive, so I'll just summarise it as "fucking stupid people in Wales who can't tell the truth about selling me their house".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 September, 2017, 06:28:15 pm
Quote from: ian on 11 September, 2017, 09:42:00 am
For reasons, I rarely eat my tea before 10pm. The other night I was out for a meal-and-theatre thing and it was weird to have food at 6pm. I'm not hungry at that time. I'm not sure how people eat before 9pm, it doesn't feel right. Breakfast at about 11am, some fruit in the afternoon, and a big nosh about 10.30pm is my daily routine. ...

If you have breakfast at 5am, eating at 10pm would feel a bit stranger!

I rarely eat much in the evenings anyway, mostly just breakfast at early o'clock and then lunch at 12pm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 12 September, 2017, 06:29:48 pm
I've just come out of the clean room, all sweaty from the plastic gloves and silly hairnet.  Someone needs to start making these things in Goretex !
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 16 September, 2017, 12:10:09 pm
Praying. To anyone that will listen. At the same time as being on a work conference call arranged by a Big Knob coz everyone wants to work on weekends, don't we?

We're all looking at a shared screen. I failed to notice the "owner" of the meeting had passed control to someone else to share their screen, and I've just sent that person an instant message telling them what I thought of the Big Knob, in somewhat uncomplimentary terms. He's currently sharing a spreadsheet, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE hand back control to someone else before checking your messages.

ETA: Phew
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 September, 2017, 12:56:50 pm
Not putting a new bottom bracket on my Orbea, as I can't get the old one out - even with the help of burly neighbour to provide extra oomph.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 16 September, 2017, 06:27:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 September, 2017, 12:56:50 pm
Not putting a new bottom bracket on my Orbea, as I can't get the old one out - even with the help of burly neighbour to provide extra oomph.
Turning it the right way? Undoing the adjustable cup first?

(Don't ask how I know these simple pitfalls)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 September, 2017, 06:35:07 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 16 September, 2017, 06:27:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 September, 2017, 12:56:50 pm
Not putting a new bottom bracket on my Orbea, as I can't get the old one out - even with the help of burly neighbour to provide extra oomph.
Turning it the right way? Undoing the adjustable cup first?

(Don't ask how I know these simple pitfalls)

Before putting tool to bike I checked online to make sure I doing things properly.  Non-drive side, counter-clockwise - won't budge.  Also tired drive side, clockwise - nadda.
Perhaps a bigger tool (he-he-he) would help.  What sucks is one hand is needed to hold tool in place (can't put a skewer through, no bolts long enough).  I may try holding tool in place with one hand, and striking handle of said tool with a hammer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 16 September, 2017, 06:45:44 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 September, 2017, 06:35:07 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 16 September, 2017, 06:27:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 September, 2017, 12:56:50 pm
Not putting a new bottom bracket on my Orbea, as I can't get the old one out - even with the help of burly neighbour to provide extra oomph.
Turning it the right way? Undoing the adjustable cup first?

(Don't ask how I know these simple pitfalls)

Before putting tool to bike I checked online to make sure I doing things properly.  Non-drive side, counter-clockwise - won't budge.  Also tired drive side, clockwise - nadda.
Perhaps a bigger tool (he-he-he) would help.  What sucks is one hand is needed to hold tool in place (can't put a skewer through, no bolts long enough).  I may try holding tool in place with one hand, and striking handle of said tool with a hammer.

Definitely bolt the tool on.  I'm guessing a crank bolt is too short.  If it's a Shimano pattern spline BB, I have a meaty tool, bolts and suitable washers to hold it all together, plus a handy length of scaffold tube to provide extra leverage to the standard issue half inch socket set bar. If life wasn't so hectic right now I could meet up.  Let me know if that would help.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 16 September, 2017, 06:51:16 pm
Thank you for the offer, I shall keep it in mind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 September, 2017, 06:53:29 pm
Fettling an vegetarian dish involving butternut squash, aubergines and puy lentils. I suspect it would benefit from the presence of bacon or black pudding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 16 September, 2017, 06:54:38 pm
Checking through a long list of people that I need to send a missive through.  And, trying not to forget that somehow I haven't booked our space at Wing yet!   Mind you, we haven't decided whether we're staying until Monday or not!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 16 September, 2017, 07:24:09 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 16 September, 2017, 06:45:44 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 September, 2017, 06:35:07 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 16 September, 2017, 06:27:19 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 16 September, 2017, 12:56:50 pm
Not putting a new bottom bracket on my Orbea, as I can't get the old one out - even with the help of burly neighbour to provide extra oomph.
Turning it the right way? Undoing the adjustable cup first?

(Don't ask how I know these simple pitfalls)

Before putting tool to bike I checked online to make sure I doing things properly.  Non-drive side, counter-clockwise - won't budge.  Also tired drive side, clockwise - nadda.
Perhaps a bigger tool (he-he-he) would help.  What sucks is one hand is needed to hold tool in place (can't put a skewer through, no bolts long enough).  I may try holding tool in place with one hand, and striking handle of said tool with a hammer.

Definitely bolt the tool on.  I'm guessing a crank bolt is too short.  If it's a Shimano pattern spline BB, I have a meaty tool, bolts and suitable washers to hold it all together, plus a handy length of scaffold tube to provide extra leverage to the standard issue half inch socket set bar. If life wasn't so hectic right now I could meet up.  Let me know if that would help.

I've also got a meaty tool (fnarr), 18 inch breaker bar, and for foot length of scaff pipe, and think I'm a bit closer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 17 September, 2017, 10:59:05 am
Waiting until it's time to have a gander the duck I have roasting downstairs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 17 September, 2017, 12:27:39 pm
Debating doing nothing. I was going to go for a swim in the olympic-sized pool but there's no trains today*, so that would mean a bus and two trains and the alternatives attractions of cycling down the A22 are overrated. May go to the local pool instead and then loaf because it's Sunday and that's what Sunday's are for. I may grill a cheese sandwich first. Little Monster Cat hasn't even bothered getting up for her breakfast yet, I had to poke her to check she wasn't actually dead. Cats do lazy Sundays well. Well should learn from them.

*week 706 of the project to replace the footbridge. Humongous crane down there, I have no idea how they got that down the narrow, over-parked streets, that must have been a job-and-a-half. Or a lot of people will be wanting new wing mirrors.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: itsbruce on 17 September, 2017, 12:45:31 pm
Watching a charmingly narrated video about coaster brakes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNF38oB6IYk).  Tubalcain (https://www.youtube.com/user/mrpete222) is a lovely old gent and I think I will be watching quite a few of his "machine shop" videos.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 17 September, 2017, 02:11:10 pm
Digesting. Wake me when it's over.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 18 September, 2017, 08:40:37 pm
Ooo I could weep.


My fault for making a mega batch of horseradish & beetroot sauce.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 18 September, 2017, 09:10:46 pm
Yum!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 September, 2017, 02:44:22 pm
Just done the dog-shit detail.  Why two Labradors fed twice a day should produce three lots of shit each is beyond me, but if you don't pick it up for a day or three which, 'cos weather, we didn't, you get a couple of coal-shovelfuls at least. However, the boudin harvest has now been brought in and tossed out the back of the barn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 22 September, 2017, 12:20:28 pm
Getting embroiled in yet another FB helmet nazi discussion. I love the way that, whenever I do this, I get the exact same comment "how come your profile picture shows you wearing a helmet?". Fuck you, it's none of your business. OK, then, it's because I made the informed choice to wear one that day. No where in my risk assessment did "because someone on Facebook told me to".

Why do I bother?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 22 September, 2017, 12:30:56 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 22 September, 2017, 12:20:28 pm
Getting embroiled in yet another FB helmet nazi discussion. I love the way that, whenever I do this, I get the exact same comment "how come your profile picture shows you wearing a helmet?". Fuck you, it's none of your business. OK, then, it's because I made the informed choice to wear one that day. No where in my risk assessment did "because someone on Facebook told me to".

Why do I bother?

Because you are glutton for punishment?  :demon:

Arguing on the internet with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon - it'll just shit all over the board and strut around like it's won the game.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 September, 2017, 12:07:00 pm
Bravely resisting temptation in Walker Slater...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 23 September, 2017, 07:11:13 pm
I'm re-upholstering my exercise bench, which seemed an ideal item for Zev to sharpen her claws on, even though she has several cat scratching posts and boards.

After an hour spent removing 120 staples, I'm having a brief rest, cup of tea and Internet browse, before investigating fitting the replacement material (and wondering if I've got enough padding).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 September, 2017, 07:13:14 pm
Hiding from that tv show.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 September, 2017, 09:08:06 pm
Quote from: Basil on 23 September, 2017, 07:13:14 pm
Hiding from that tv show.

Hell, there are SO many candidates!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2017, 10:12:39 pm
Quote from: TimO on 23 September, 2017, 07:11:13 pm
I'm re-upholstering my exercise bench, which seemed an ideal item for Zev to sharpen her claws on, even though she has several cat scratching posts and boards.

After an hour spent removing 120 staples, I'm having a brief rest, cup of tea and Internet browse, before investigating fitting the replacement material (and wondering if I've got enough padding).
Now what you should have done was to install the new padding and fabric on top of the old. Bugger pulling 120 staples....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 23 September, 2017, 10:54:01 pm
Laying in my tent at wing and listening to the snoring from the next tent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 September, 2017, 03:13:52 pm
Nibbling the chocolate off a Fry's Peppermint Cream.  Which, as any fule kno, is the only correct way to consume said confection.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimO on 24 September, 2017, 08:37:43 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2017, 10:12:39 pm
Quote from: TimO on 23 September, 2017, 07:11:13 pm
... After an hour spent removing 120 staples, I'm having a brief rest, cup of tea and Internet browse, before investigating fitting the replacement material (and wondering if I've got enough padding).
Now what you should have done was to install the new padding and fabric on top of the old. Bugger pulling 120 staples....

I reused the old padding, with the addition of some more.  I don't think my professionalism (hah!) would have let me leave the entire old lot of padding and covering inside.  It may also have made things a bit too bulky, and with a high risk of "staple clash", which could have been annoying.

I did use something like 150 new staples, so next time I'll be swearing at myself. :D

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/stuff/small.php?size=350&file=P9240870_crop_adj.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: telstarbox on 25 September, 2017, 07:02:17 pm
On holiday in the Med (great food, weather and scenery, thumbs up) with some fairly miserable relatives (not so thumbs up).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aunt Maud on 25 September, 2017, 07:51:21 pm
Recovering from a trip to A&E.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 September, 2017, 10:02:48 pm
Quote from: Aunt Maud on 25 September, 2017, 07:51:21 pm
Recovering from a trip to A&E.
Oh dear. Are you ok? No saws involved I hope.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aunt Maud on 26 September, 2017, 07:48:52 am
There was a saw involved, but it was the sawdust wot did it.

So, I've got ear defenders on, mask and safety goggles and I'm outside cutting lath with the wind blowing away from me. Table saw hits a knot, piece flies up, bounces off cheek and under the tiny gap in glasses and embeds itself in my eye. OUCH!!

Doctor said its not there anymore, but It hurts a lot.

At least I've got the ceiling lath finished and I was going to put the scratch coat on today, so that it's all plastered before I go digging at mums. That won't happen now, as I can hardly see out of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 September, 2017, 10:46:11 am
Drinking disgusting decaff while the old silicone seal round the shower cabinet dissolves. Looking forward to a bloody horrible afternoon putting new stuff on; I can never get the bugger smooooooooth.  And as Margie observes at the end of Fargo, it's a beautiful day. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 26 September, 2017, 02:04:44 pm
Wet vinyl glove?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 September, 2017, 06:14:50 pm
Quote from: Aunt Maud on 26 September, 2017, 07:48:52 am
There was a saw involved, but it was the sawdust wot did it.

So, I've got ear defenders on, mask and safety goggles and I'm outside cutting lath with the wind blowing away from me. Table saw hits a knot, piece flies up, bounces off cheek and under the tiny gap in glasses and embeds itself in my eye. OUCH!!

Doctor said its not there anymore, but It hurts a lot.

At least I've got the ceiling lath finished and I was going to put the scratch coat on today, so that it's all plastered before I go digging at mums. That won't happen now, as I can hardly see out of it.

Oh dear, hope it's better soon!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 26 September, 2017, 07:36:40 pm
Quote from: matthew on 23 September, 2017, 10:54:01 pm
Laying in my tent at wing and listening to the snoring from the next tent.
 
Must have been Apollo ! , as I don't snore  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 28 September, 2017, 10:07:10 pm
Sitting in a pub I haven't been in for years listening to a local band sing Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rollin' Stone'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 October, 2017, 10:13:11 am
Just got our declarations of French nationality away to the Préfecture again.  They sent them back almost a year ago, demanding a certificate of French nationality for our son. That took 9 months to obtain.  Since then we've been getting various other docs together, getting up-to-date originals for stuff whereof we only had photocopies or downloaded PDFs, etc. Every time we've contacted an official organism it's been "OK, it'll go out to you in 10 days" and we get it in 3 weeks.

Feeling utterly wrung out right now. And expecting, of course, the whole shebang to be returned in a week or two with a request for further documents.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 October, 2017, 07:35:15 pm
Not being on a conference call to Brazil cos their app didn't work. Sitting in bed (it's cold in here) eating my dinner waiting to see if I'm going to get a mobile call from them instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 10 October, 2017, 08:10:53 pm
trying to fall asleep in Baku
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 10 October, 2017, 09:49:43 pm
Frantically connecting my iPhone to the hotel room bluetooth because I don't want to hear those noises from the room next door.

Has Baku erected a bigger flagpole yet? Sounds like someone is trying to do just that next door.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 11 October, 2017, 04:53:26 am
I think they were trying last night, someone banging away at something anyhow
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 October, 2017, 08:07:26 am
Wondering if it's worth popping a couple of paracetamol pills cuz the bursitis in my left foot is getting gnarly again.

...

Shit, yes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 15 October, 2017, 07:36:13 pm
Tying my wheelie bin to the fence with an old innertube before tomorrow's hurricane hits
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 October, 2017, 08:30:24 pm
Failing to spend a £1 coin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 15 October, 2017, 08:32:54 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 15 October, 2017, 07:36:13 pm
Tying my wheelie bin to the fence with an old innertube before tomorrow's hurricane hits

So, you lose the wheelie bin, inner tube AND the fence?

Good luck!

Peter
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 15 October, 2017, 08:44:48 pm
Prepring a presentation for my astronomy societies upcoming public event (Leonids meteor shower watching (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids))
My presentation is on astronomy for beginners.

You only need two things for astronomy........
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 15 October, 2017, 09:00:42 pm
Quote from: Peter on 15 October, 2017, 08:32:54 pm
Quote from: mcshroom on 15 October, 2017, 07:36:13 pm
Tying my wheelie bin to the fence with an old innertube before tomorrow's hurricane hits

So, you lose the wheelie bin, inner tube AND the fence?

Good luck!

Peter

It's only going to gust up to the mid-60s mph here. I'm sure Ophelia won't take othe fence :)

Tomorrow's commute could be interesting though
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 15 October, 2017, 09:03:39 pm
Take care!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 16 October, 2017, 07:55:06 am
Trying to restore everything that "Refresh Firefox" stripped out.  God-damned apprentice sorcerers didn't include an "undo" option.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 17 October, 2017, 07:59:50 pm
Installing High Sierra. About 36 minutes remaining. Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 October, 2017, 01:54:03 am
Waiting to board at JFK and wondering if I should have had that 2nd beer...at leat my seat is near the loo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 22 October, 2017, 10:53:59 am
Pondering what to rename my photography webpages to, seeing as it seems I have a namesake on the internet (who unlike me is an associate member of the Royal Photographic Society!)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 22 October, 2017, 11:08:18 am
Photo Postie Express ?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 22 October, 2017, 11:28:38 am
I, Brian?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 22 October, 2017, 01:03:07 pm
Just got home from the airport.  Bloody hell, it's freezing over here!      Overcrowded trains back from Manchester, but there is fresh coffee so all is good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 23 October, 2017, 07:44:45 pm
Grinning and drinking prosecco because I got the results of my final OU module today and despite my fears I have passed it and can put an end to six years of study.

Got a little more of a wait till I get my full degree classification but I think I'm going to be happy with the final result.

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 October, 2017, 07:45:58 pm
Well done :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 23 October, 2017, 10:24:53 pm
Congranulations.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 23 October, 2017, 10:44:57 pm
Cheers both.

I also had a nice glass of Lagavulin but now I really ought to go to bed rather than keep refreshing the OU site in the hope that my full grades will appear. Fingers crossed I hear in the 24 hours that some fellow students have heard rumoured rather than the official up to ten working days that the website tells me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 23 October, 2017, 10:45:51 pm
Inspired by CrinklyLion, I'm trying to make my phone less shit.

This is very boring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 October, 2017, 12:11:47 am
The SmallestCub's battery life (which was already pretty decent) is seeming frankly astonishing, if that helps...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 October, 2017, 12:25:26 am
This does seem to be an improvement, if only by the reduced storage use by not having all the google and Motorola bloatware.  Also, I don't need Twilight any more, which breaks less stuff.

Whether it makes the Electric Highway app less sluggish remains to be seen.

ETA: It's still sluggish, but slightly less so.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Aunt Maud on 24 October, 2017, 10:05:24 am
Ordering the eye wateringly expensive timber for the lantern to go on Mum and Dads' spangly new extension roof.

Best not fuck it up.

<Big grin> 4 days of joinery, I love it. </Big grin>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 24 October, 2017, 06:42:41 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 23 October, 2017, 07:44:45 pm
Grinning and drinking prosecco because I got the results of my final OU module today and despite my fears I have passed it and can put an end to six years of study.

Got a little more of a wait till I get my full degree classification but I think I'm going to be happy with the final result.

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Yeah, I'm definitely happy. I got a First!!  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 24 October, 2017, 07:13:32 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 24 October, 2017, 06:42:41 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 23 October, 2017, 07:44:45 pm
Grinning and drinking prosecco because I got the results of my final OU module today and despite my fears I have passed it and can put an end to six years of study.

Got a little more of a wait till I get my full degree classification but I think I'm going to be happy with the final result.

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Yeah, I'm definitely happy. I got a First!!  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Congratulations! :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 24 October, 2017, 09:50:20 pm
Ooh, very well done. Congratulations.!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 October, 2017, 10:45:10 pm
Bloody swot.   ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 October, 2017, 10:53:40 pm
Trying to stay awake.

As I'm heading out of town a day earlier than planned, everything I intended to do tomorrow must be done tonight.

But all I want to do right now is go to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 25 October, 2017, 06:26:19 am
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 24 October, 2017, 06:42:41 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 23 October, 2017, 07:44:45 pm
Grinning and drinking prosecco because I got the results of my final OU module today and despite my fears I have passed it and can put an end to six years of study.

Got a little more of a wait till I get my full degree classification but I think I'm going to be happy with the final result.

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Yeah, I'm definitely happy. I got a First!!  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Well done, lots of hard work went into that, it doesn't happen by accident.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 25 October, 2017, 06:47:21 am
 Congrats Ashaman42.   Effort and commitment bring their well earned reward.    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 25 October, 2017, 06:48:04 am
NOT sleeping.    :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 25 October, 2017, 07:40:27 am
Dealing with the consequences of two coffees
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 October, 2017, 08:28:02 am
Strange you should say that: I've just had two mugs of strong Orange Pekoe and I'm feeling as if it had been coffee instead.  Still, it'll help me up the first hill.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 25 October, 2017, 08:30:06 am
For me it wasn't so much going up a hill as climbing down off a mountain.

Fortunately though, I did not slide down the scree.

Caaake?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 27 October, 2017, 02:22:20 pm
Restringing a Mandola, should probably sort the intonation as well
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 27 October, 2017, 04:33:31 pm
Revalidating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 27 October, 2017, 05:03:36 pm
Well, it's 6 pm and I'm still digesting lunch...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 November, 2017, 04:45:16 pm
Drinking Saperavi (http://tbilvino.com.ge/index.php?page=alias-11&hl=en_US) and listening to Table Songs by the Rustavi Choir (https://www.amazon.com/Table-Songs-Georgian-Folk/dp/B000008Q7O). 
I've had worse afternoons.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 08 November, 2017, 04:54:55 pm
Interesting, is the Georgian wine getting closer to European tastes these days? 7 years ago it was still quite distinctive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 08 November, 2017, 05:15:48 pm
Quote from: Ham on 08 November, 2017, 04:54:55 pm
Interesting, is the Georgian wine getting closer to European tastes these days? 7 years ago it was still quite distinctive.

It's a 2010.  Distinctive, but not overly foreign.  As my drinking companion has stated only a few minutes ago, "This wine needs time to breath, but it definitely grows on you - I'll certainly buy more."  FTR, her taste buds are definitely European, as opposed to my Colonial ones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 09 November, 2017, 09:51:43 am
Feeling the slow tingle of my cold, which rather than simply exit the building, seems to have made the move downstairs from my nose to my throat. Now it hurts when I speak and I'm starting to croak. Which would be fine, except I have not one but two presentations to give today and tomorrow.

This from the frontlines of Tidy Haired Thought Leadership™.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 09 November, 2017, 01:51:52 pm
Congratulations on the first, Ashaman-the-first
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 09 November, 2017, 04:17:35 pm
numbing my mind with a day of staring at numbers, that get multiplied by other numbers and then put through a convoluted EU derived process to allocate another number which then has to be compared to yet another number on an annual basis, this difference between the last two determining how much of the allocated number needs to be bought or sold as a commodity.

This is the wonder of an EU cap and trade scheme in CO2, which is supposed to drive down our overall emissions, but seems to simply keep people like me employed counting beans.

At least having finished the bean counting today, I can use all of tomorrow to try and understand my conclusions.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 November, 2017, 05:24:37 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 09 November, 2017, 04:17:35 pm
This is the wonder of an EU cap and trade scheme in CO2, which is supposed to drive down our overall emissions, but seems to simply keep people like me employed counting beans.

I thought beans were linked to methane emissions rather than CO2?   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 09 November, 2017, 05:27:56 pm
Quote from: Kim on 09 November, 2017, 05:24:37 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 09 November, 2017, 04:17:35 pm
This is the wonder of an EU cap and trade scheme in CO2, which is supposed to drive down our overall emissions, but seems to simply keep people like me employed counting beans.

I thought beans were linked to methane emissions rather than CO2?   ;D
That's an entirely different emissions reduction scheme   :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 November, 2017, 06:53:54 am
Early train to London for an arty day. Breakfast at St Martin’s in the Field , National Portrait Gallery for Cezanne, National Gallery for Degas & Van Eyck/Pre Raphaelites then over to the Courtauld for Soutine.
Hope it isn’t too wet as I’ve forgotten my brolly!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 11 November, 2017, 08:12:12 am
London museums tend to have roofs, so you should be OK. ;)

Enjoy your trip!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 November, 2017, 11:20:23 am
Creeping back into the Internet programming world - PHP, MySQL and all that yatz - with a view to rebuilding my routing site, which died the death when Cloudmade changed the marketing model for their routing library, as in they wanted money for it. Shame, it was better than Google's equiv, which I'm going to have to fall back on, squelch. It's going to be a bit gnarly since Google's API is very different from Cloudmade's. But fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 November, 2017, 02:36:44 pm
Feeling smug, because I just cut the grass for what is surely the last time this side of Chrimbo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 11 November, 2017, 03:00:01 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 11 November, 2017, 02:36:44 pm
Feeling smug, because I just cut the grass for what is surely the last time this side of Chrimbo.

I doubt it, climate change an all that.  I did mine last week, but expecting plenty more where that came from
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 11 November, 2017, 03:04:50 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 11 November, 2017, 03:00:01 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 11 November, 2017, 02:36:44 pm
Feeling smug, because I just cut the grass for what is surely the last time this side of Chrimbo.

I doubt it, climate change an all that.  I did mine last week, but expecting plenty more where that came from

I'm hoping living 100m up the North facing side of the North York moors will mitigate most of that. Maybe  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 11 November, 2017, 03:16:15 pm
The last two lawn cuts had me thinking, "Well that's it for this year."
Looks like it's still growing though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 11 November, 2017, 03:20:17 pm
We have not cut the lawn this year.  Nature is winning!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 November, 2017, 06:12:08 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 11 November, 2017, 03:04:50 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 11 November, 2017, 03:00:01 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 11 November, 2017, 02:36:44 pm
Feeling smug, because I just cut the grass for what is surely the last time this side of Chrimbo.

I doubt it, climate change an all that.  I did mine last week, but expecting plenty more where that came from

I'm hoping living 100m up the North facing side of the North York moors will mitigate most of that. Maybe  :-\

Maybe you can entice some sheep to visit?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 12 November, 2017, 02:47:35 pm
(https://coreybradshaw.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/wolfsheep.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 13 November, 2017, 08:58:55 am
Quote from: Polar Bear on 11 November, 2017, 03:20:17 pm
We have not cut the lawn this year.  Nature is winning!   :thumbsup:

Lawn? What lawn? Anyone for nettle tea?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 November, 2017, 01:16:43 am
Eating Thanksgiving dinner leftovers.  Friends made a bit too much food, so we all took some home.  After the ride I'm hungry again.

I'm not looking forward to tomorrow's (today's) early start.  I think I may manage three hours of sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 24 November, 2017, 09:22:40 am
Still knackered after yesterday's ride, I've already forgotten what I'm doing right now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Graeme on 29 November, 2017, 02:03:50 pm
On my way into Hull... Housemartins on the walkman.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 29 November, 2017, 02:33:06 pm
Drinking tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 November, 2017, 02:48:02 pm
Being cold at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 December, 2017, 10:08:25 am
Mucking out Geordie's byre. Clearing off the short L extension of my desk, incl. a tower of 5 or 6 paper trays going back decades. Just torn up a copy of a 1995 tax return. Unearthed half a dozen very nice Moleskin-style notebooks with about 3 pages used in each.

And chasing the dogs with the handheld vacuum-cleaner in between.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 December, 2017, 08:54:56 pm
I’m on a very delayed train back from London. The quiet coach is full of pissed women having a singalong.. an hour & a half to go :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 December, 2017, 10:05:07 pm
Monitoring a backup, after SOMETHING made it repeatedly cough and die with an XML validation error.  Could have been Microsith, could have been Macrium, certainly wasn't me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 02 December, 2017, 11:13:03 pm
Quote from: T42 on 02 December, 2017, 10:08:25 am
Mucking out Geordie's byre. Clearing off the short L extension of my desk, incl. a tower of 5 or 6 paper trays going back decades. Just torn up a copy of a 1995 tax return. Unearthed half a dozen very nice Moleskin-style notebooks with about 3 pages used in each.

And chasing the dogs with the handheld vacuum-cleaner in between.

If you don't need the moleskins...

Just sayin'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 December, 2017, 11:32:31 am
Sorry, Mrs T42 is a stationery addict.  Not so many actual Moleskines, either, but one rather nice A4 Leuchtturm with two pages used, dated 1997.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 03 December, 2017, 02:46:37 pm
Cleaning up after a fire. Neighbours with hoses, firefighters and everything.

Dylan (mine: 8 years) and a 'friend' (not mine: 11) decided to make a flamethrower with a lighter and an aerosol. They are both okay. Shaken and penitent, but unharmed. 'Friend' won't be allowed around here again soon.

The evergreen trees out front didn't come out of it so well. However, seeing as I was partway through a long term deforestation of them, it's worked out quite well.

The fire was put out before it could do any damage to anything else.

I feel as though we may have used up one of our lives.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2017, 04:22:45 pm
Last time I found some children with an improvised flamethrower, I directed them to some BNP (or equivalent local fash) posters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 December, 2017, 08:35:11 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 December, 2017, 04:22:45 pm
Last time I found some children with an improvised flamethrower, I directed them to some BNP (or equivalent local fash) posters.
:-D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 December, 2017, 09:56:01 am
Swotting for our French nationality interview in mid-January.  You can sample nationality tests on-line at https://www.pourlesetrangers.fr, although registration only works via FB.  Not doing badly so far: 96% right. I usually fall down on questions such as "when did women in France get the right to vote, 1789, 1930 or 1945?", OTOH I did know that Brigitte Bardot was not a female boxing champ.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 04 December, 2017, 10:12:41 am
Quote from: T42 on 04 December, 2017, 09:56:01 am
Swotting for our French nationality interview in mid-January.  You can sample nationality tests on-line at https://www.pourlesetrangers.fr, although registration only works via FB.  Not doing badly so far: 96% right. I usually fall down on questions such as "when did women in France get the right to vote, 1789, 1930 or 1945?", OTOH I did know that Brigitte Bardot was not a female boxing champ.

1944

So if the only possible answers were 1789, 1930 or 1945, the test is wrong.

http://mjp.univ-perp.fr/france/co1944-2.htm (http://mjp.univ-perp.fr/france/co1944-2.htm)
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Post by: jsabine on 04 December, 2017, 10:23:26 am
Declaration by de Gaulle and the Committee of National Liberation in 1944, from Algiers; first exercised in 1945; included in the Constitution of 1946.

1945 isn't a bad average to take.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: barakta on 04 December, 2017, 11:29:26 am
Trying to write CV bullshit for employment adviser 'email' appointment at 1pm.

It's ALL bullshit. I hate this 'fakey selling self with bullshit language' crap. I'm terrible at it. I can't read/parse it. I don't CARE. I would immediately ignore anyone who spoke to me like this as a bullshit merchant.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 December, 2017, 02:15:48 pm
Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 04 December, 2017, 10:12:41 am
Quote from: T42 on 04 December, 2017, 09:56:01 am
Swotting for our French nationality interview in mid-January.  You can sample nationality tests on-line at https://www.pourlesetrangers.fr, although registration only works via FB.  Not doing badly so far: 96% right. I usually fall down on questions such as "when did women in France get the right to vote, 1789, 1930 or 1945?", OTOH I did know that Brigitte Bardot was not a female boxing champ.

1944

So if the only possible answers were 1789, 1930 or 1945, the test is wrong.

http://mjp.univ-perp.fr/france/co1944-2.htm (http://mjp.univ-perp.fr/france/co1944-2.htm)

Another version of the same question has 1944 as the right answer. But according to yet another question, men and women have had equal rights here since 1805. Duh.

They were definitely wrong in stating that French was made the official language of France by François I in the 20th century. France's last king absquatulated in 1870 - unless of course they were thinking of King François Mitterand, who decreed French to be the language of all the French in 1992 and stuck out His Royal Tongue at Corsicans, Bretons, Catalans, Alsaciens and similar canaille.

After 120 questions I'm still running at >90% correct. Trouble is that they're set in groups of 20, and on The Day all my weak points could be in the same paper. There's a hell of a lot about the Declaration of the Rights of Man, various constitutions, the Revolution, and enough dates to give a small city the runs - basically, anything that French kids learn at school over 15 years.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 December, 2017, 05:37:23 pm
Browsing Combi Boiler costs.

My umpteen year old Vokera Linea 24 has a water drip from somewhere, and when I run the hot taps, the radiators get hot.  That, plus the hot water goes hot then cold then hot then cold.  Not ideal on a cold morning! 

Half expecting the British Gas engineer to write it off as Beyond Economic Repair due to its age, or advise me to get my entire system powerflushed / replaced.  . I reckon the boiler must have been 8 or 9 years old when I moved into my illegible bachelor pad, 8 years ago. 

However if they do write it off, I certainly won't be getting a new boiler through British Gas, I'd rather use a local independent gas central heating engineer rather than paying through the nose through British Gas.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 05 December, 2017, 07:44:50 pm
I'm eating dinner at the River Bar Steakhouse in Cambridge with Junior #2, who has just done an entrance exam and interview for Trinity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 07 December, 2017, 05:01:22 am
Not sleeping. Stupid wind (outside, rather than of my own making!).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 December, 2017, 01:56:58 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 07 December, 2017, 05:01:22 am
Not sleeping. Stupid wind (outside, rather than of my own making!).

It's not a proper storm until you get a trampoline...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 07 December, 2017, 02:41:37 pm
Sulking in my tents for lack of °C.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 07 December, 2017, 02:54:46 pm
Sitting in a work "workshop/" in a room 4m x 3m.  Ten people. The person just behind me is coughing his guts out.  Gee, thanks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 December, 2017, 11:01:09 am
Putting off sub-desk grovelling and cable manipulation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 December, 2017, 11:03:29 am
Being a bed for a poorly looking cat :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 December, 2017, 07:13:59 pm
Listening to more drunken singing on yet another train.  Glasgow rangers fans, mostly good natured bar a half hearted “ fuck the pope”  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 December, 2017, 08:45:24 pm
Oh FFS.  Now someone’s throwing up all over the carriage  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 December, 2017, 09:38:27 pm
At least it's not a hen party?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 09 December, 2017, 09:42:57 pm
I got a half pint of Moet Chandon in the 'first class' section of the midnight Vicky-V to Brighton train the other evening (I put it in quotes because they only way you'd know it was first class is from the signs). A service best classed as lively, especially this time of year. This was mostly to annoy the bonkers lady who was railing against the privilege and the fact she should be in first class because she had cancer, you know. It's all a bit odd, as she had a seat in first class (the train was full.)

I didn't have a first class ticket, but I sit there anyway. I figure it's more an attitude. Mind you, who just happens to be carrying a couple of bottles of vintage champagne and plastic cups. That's prepared. And no she didn't get anyway. Oh, the look on her face as we swigged champagne. I got off at East Croydon, no idea if they moved on to cocktails and a ten course meal.

Oh and I got a glass of red vino from the chap next to me. Good stuff too. Maybe she had a point. After a night of cocktails and cabaret, knocking back all that additional booze in a twenty minute journey certainly put a sparkle in my eyes and tied my shoelaces together. Long night, asked my terminal taxi driver as I tried to construct intricate sentences from words and stuff.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 December, 2017, 10:00:24 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 09 December, 2017, 08:45:24 pm
Oh FFS.  Now someone’s throwing up all over the carriage  :sick:

Wow - at only 8:45? Are you near Newcastle?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 09 December, 2017, 10:02:49 pm
Enjoying day 2 of Norovirus.

Looking forward to when my farts stop gushing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 December, 2017, 10:08:49 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 09 December, 2017, 10:00:24 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 09 December, 2017, 08:45:24 pm
Oh FFS.  Now someone’s throwing up all over the carriage  :sick:

Wow - at only 8:45? Are you near Newcastle?


He got off at Wigan......


The Rangers fans got worse,  lots of "fenian bastards" & shouting.   This was just amongst themselves.....    Asian family in the seats next to me were looking nervous, one of the dickheads insisted on fist bumping their early teens daughter as he went passed, but nothing more than that, they were quite polite to the adults.   I lost them at Preston when we changed trains.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 10 December, 2017, 01:51:56 pm
^^^ Reminds me of the bloke who drowsed a bit during the sermon and swore he heard the minister talking about how St. Paul took a pistol to the Fenians.

Anyhow, I have just come in from shovelling shsnow. It's the only time of year when I'm glad I sold off a chunk of land to a physiotherapist to build his gracless white torsionatorium on: it cut our frontage by 50% so I only had to shovel ~20 metres of thick and wet. Pavement's nicely salted now* and I didn't pop my back or have a heart attack, hoo fucking ray.

* yes, yes, environment etc but the council do it too. They expressly forbade wood ash and in any case myriad animals piss in the fields.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 12 December, 2017, 04:33:22 pm
Recovering from moving half a ton of logs from the front where they were delivered this morning round the back and into neat stacks in the stables.  Just made it before it got dark.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 December, 2017, 11:41:13 pm
Feeling crap with the first lurgy of the season.  Irritating tickly cough, runny nose & feeling tired.  :(   Brandy is probably not the best medication, but its certainly the most pleasant....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 December, 2017, 07:47:58 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 19 December, 2017, 11:41:13 pm
Feeling crap with the first lurgy of the season.  Irritating tickly cough, runny nose & feeling tired.  :(   Brandy is probably not the best medication, but its certainly the most pleasant....


Phoned in sick & spent most of the day in bed having repetitive dreams about work stuff. I've had nothing to eat apart from a few mugs of tea with honey & lemon  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: telstarbox on 24 December, 2017, 05:37:26 pm
Been instructed to go the pub by my other half while she finishes the wrapping - which suits me fine :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 December, 2017, 10:05:42 am
Listening to the radio and drinking coffee. It’s good!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 December, 2017, 10:11:47 am
Also drinking coffee - cheers, Ruthie! - after a stroll round the village. Streets deserted apart from the odd car every 5 minutes, since most folk here do the prezzies bit at midnight and then gorb until 3 am. We never did fancy that - did it once in the 70s, us going to French friends for their feast and then they coming to us for another spread at lunchtime. Not much fun, more a test of endurance.

Looking forward to lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 December, 2017, 11:23:17 am
We were going to go for a short blast on the bikes this morning but sadly the westher forecast was a lie and it's raining. So I'm listening to a cat purring at Pingu and wondering when I can get away with lighting the fire....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 December, 2017, 11:26:15 am
I made breakfast for the boy, which he ate, then he asked to do presents tonight when I get home from work. He needed some more sleep. Happy with that, 6Music is on top form this morning, so I did some dancing in the kitchen with the headphones on. Excellent. I made some nibbles to take to work and it’ll be time to set off in a minute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 25 December, 2017, 02:28:01 pm
Browsing after a lunch of croissant, cream cheese and smoked salmon. A couple of hours reading (weather is crap and getting worse) before starting the prep for the main meal of roast (breast and leg) of goose.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 December, 2017, 04:16:15 pm
Digesting a significant proportion of the EU pigs-in-blankets mountain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 25 December, 2017, 04:33:30 pm
I am surveying the many isotopes of pig which are almost ready...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 December, 2017, 04:37:27 pm
Cursing at a new Dremel chuck which seems to have missed lubrication at the factory and is seized into a solid lump. ICBA going over to the workshop for the penetrating oil.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 25 December, 2017, 04:46:38 pm
Reverting to my childhood and hiding away with a book. That's what I did most Christmas afternoons once I could read.
In this case it's because MrsC has the telly on downstairs and I lack her ability to multitask where the TV is concerned. She's translating something from German with Harry Potter in the background!

But the house is filling with interesting goose-related smells. Dinner is planned for around seven (I think). The kitchen is not my department on Christmas Day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 December, 2017, 09:34:43 pm
Drinking instant decaf coffee and watching High Society. It’s just great.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ruthie on 25 December, 2017, 09:50:48 pm
Blimey. I just realised that’s Artie Shaw playing with Louis Armstrong.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 25 December, 2017, 10:36:40 pm
Went back to the childhood home and cooked dinner with mum, we were joined by one sister and her kids. Came home after they took their two home for bed. I've just finished cleaning my oven!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 December, 2017, 01:49:57 pm
Asset stripping the turkey carcass (we're one day further along this Christmas than most people).  Filling separate Tupperware boxes with either white or brown meat.  Later I'll be pressure cooking the remains for stock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 December, 2017, 02:16:01 pm
Watching the rain from Fort Larrington's newly-toasty conservatory - bought Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.) a small but powerful anbaric heater for same as a Crimblegift.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 27 December, 2017, 09:04:45 pm
Sitting in front of the fire and shivering. It's -1oC outside and I've just got home to a house that hasn't been heated for up to a week. Brrrrr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Redlight on 27 December, 2017, 09:44:21 pm
Booking next year's sumer holiday  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SoreTween on 28 December, 2017, 02:59:09 pm
Just finished my 2016-17 tax return.  Now all I've got to do is pay the bill by the end of Jan, a bill which despite being a significant sum is a warm cuddle in front of the fire compared to last years.
Better start selling organs for next years then, they tend to alternate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 28 December, 2017, 03:25:24 pm
Trying to decide on which brand of ‘smart’ thermostatic radiator valves to invest in. More accurately, failing to find a reason to buy into one of the trendy newer brands because their more uptoday tech and more tech savey designers are all wedded to sever side smarts and thin client end devices. Not a model I’m prepared to accept on something as expensive as a full house of TVRs and associated controllers. So looking like the Evohome.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 December, 2017, 03:45:35 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 28 December, 2017, 03:25:24 pm
Trying to decide on which brand of ‘smart’ thermostatic radiator valves to invest in. More accurately, failing to find a reason to buy into one of the trendy newer brands because their more uptoday tech and more tech savey designers are all wedded to sever side smarts and thin client end devices. Not a model I’m prepared to accept on let as expensive as a full house of TVRs and associated controllers.

Not to mention that the last thing a heating system needs is another single point of failure.   :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 29 December, 2017, 04:33:38 pm
Waiting for the shredder to cool down, again.
We've had our (almost) annual tidy up of the filing cabinet. This time MrsC has gone at it with a vengeance with the result that I've been slowly shredding a stack of paper which started off over a foot high.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 December, 2017, 04:40:51 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 29 December, 2017, 04:33:38 pm
Waiting for the shredder to cool down, again.

Turns out that bodging a computer fan onto a cheap shredder only takes a couple of multiples of the time it needs to cool down, and it's then good for continuous operation.  Will liberally distribute paper dust around the room, thobut.

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_4285.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 29 December, 2017, 05:39:42 pm
Lack of handy fans rather precludes that option at the moment!
But, seeing I've just shredded something from 2003 this isn't something which will become a serious issue. Just need to tidy up slightly more frequently.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 29 December, 2017, 05:46:01 pm
Although molishing a fan onto the shredder would be more fun than waiting for it to cool down, yet again...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 December, 2017, 05:48:54 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 29 December, 2017, 05:46:01 pm
Although molishing a fan onto the shredder would be more fun than waiting for it to cool down, yet again...

Exactly.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 29 December, 2017, 06:07:36 pm
Could you do the shredding outside in the cold?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 29 December, 2017, 11:28:01 pm
Wondering if I can/should squeeze in 140km worth of cycling before the end of the year.

I've reached my target of 9,600km, and should have been able to hit 10,000km.  But for various reasons I'm still 140km short.  I already have 50km on the cards for Saturday, but I'd also like to do some other things.  Right now, i'm not sure I can be bothered to find the time (and route(s)) for the final 90km.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 30 December, 2017, 08:01:26 am
Quote from: Kim on 29 December, 2017, 04:40:51 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 29 December, 2017, 04:33:38 pm
Waiting for the shredder to cool down, again.

Turns out that bodging a computer fan onto a cheap shredder only takes a couple of multiples of the time it needs to cool down, and it's then good for continuous operation.  Will liberally distribute paper dust around the room, thobut.

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_4285.sized.jpg)

This (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aluminium-Flexible-Ducting-Metres-100mm/dp/B0058HTGL4) and a handy window.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 30 December, 2017, 01:09:42 pm
Unfortunately, in a bid to prevent clogging and unexpected combustion, I opted to rig the fan to blow room air into the case, rather than sucking paper dust from the hopper past the mechanism.

I do open the window and tactically position a desk fan for mammoth shredding sessions, thobut.

Seriously though, you'd think someone would make a shredder with decent cooling.  It's not rocket science.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 30 December, 2017, 01:37:58 pm
They exist, but cost several times what yours (and ours) cost. They also handle staples, paperclips & credit cards.

That reminds me ===> see under "fecking div" in a couple of minutes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 30 December, 2017, 01:42:17 pm
Mine will cope with CDs and credit cards.
And it does paper really well.
Just not an entire filing cabinet drawer full in one go.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 30 December, 2017, 02:29:41 pm
Procrastinating. I *should* go out and ride 52km to finish the Festive 500, but the weather's foul and I just can't be bothered. Forecast is for it to dry up around 6, so it'll either be an evening ride or I'll just leave it until tomorrow. I'm not really into making myself hate cycling just for a little badge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 30 December, 2017, 02:45:40 pm
Mourning the loss of my resplendent beard after bowing to spousal pressure to trim it back a bit. It’s go. From 5 inches to 5mm.  My face is cold.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 30 December, 2017, 03:18:18 pm
Switching energy supplier as I'm at the end of my current deal. I've got about £6.50 a month better and a £50 referral bonus so not too bad for a few minutes work. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2017, 03:39:29 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 30 December, 2017, 02:45:40 pm
Mourning the loss of my resplendent beard after bowing to spousal pressure to trim it back a bit. It’s go. From 5 inches to 5mm.  My face is cold.

I cannot but think that this is a terrible mistake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 30 December, 2017, 04:26:21 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2017, 03:39:29 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 30 December, 2017, 02:45:40 pm
Mourning the loss of my resplendent beard after bowing to spousal pressure to trim it back a bit. It’s go. From 5 inches to 5mm.  My face is cold.

I cannot but think that this is a terrible mistake.
at this moment I tend to agree with you, but Dr Beardy (Mrs) is very pleased with me, so this must be weighed against the missing facial hair.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 January, 2018, 12:43:33 am
Kernel upgrade  *salutes*
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 05 January, 2018, 09:17:57 am
Relaxing with a cuppa after bringing the week's firewood over from the barn.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 05 January, 2018, 10:30:38 am
Desperately trying to shake off the black dog #SAD
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 January, 2018, 12:15:33 pm
Being reminded by T42 that I also need to bring in a weekend's worth of wood while there is apparently a lull in the rain here in Llan-dismal.   Looks like a cold weekend coming.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 05 January, 2018, 12:46:37 pm
Quote from: Basil on 05 January, 2018, 12:15:33 pm
Being reminded by T42 that I also need to bring in a weekend's worth of wood while there is apparently a lull in the rain here in Llan-dismal.   Looks like a cold weekend coming.

After getting in the wood, the lull here lasted just long enough for me to think "bike", but now it's hammering down again. The garden's a mudbath.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 January, 2018, 09:57:11 am
Waiting for Crapita (and barakta's deafblind[1] interpreter) to turn up...


[1] Or something similarly inappropriate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: numbnuts on 18 January, 2018, 11:56:46 am
Making mince pies  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Legs on 18 January, 2018, 12:35:45 pm
Day 2 post-vasectomy, trying to work from home, sitting in bed trying to stop my buttocks going numb.  At this rate I may as well be sitting in the office...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 18 January, 2018, 01:07:44 pm
Relaxing after a reading a bunch of French constitutional stuff. Kinda dry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 18 January, 2018, 04:48:54 pm
Quote from: Legs on 18 January, 2018, 12:35:45 pm
Day 2 post-vasectomy, trying to work from home, sitting in bed trying to stop my buttocks going numb.  At this rate I may as well be sitting in the office...

That's what you get for using two blue bricks!*




WHAT?



*'Does it hurt?' 'Only if you get your thumbs caught!'


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Steph on 21 January, 2018, 09:56:58 am
Looking out of my Surrey/Sussex borders front window as the snow gets heavier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 21 January, 2018, 11:21:56 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 18 January, 2018, 04:48:54 pm
Quote from: Legs on 18 January, 2018, 12:35:45 pm
Day 2 post-vasectomy, trying to work from home, sitting in bed trying to stop my buttocks going numb.  At this rate I may as well be sitting in the office...

That's what you get for using two blue bricks!*




WHAT?



*'Does it hurt?' 'Only if you get your thumbs caught!'
my second vasectomy, yes, second, went horribly wrong and I ended up back in hospital for five days. I’d managed to get myself to the doctors surgery and on explaining the symptoms he responded in a very bored well what do you expect voice that I should drop my trousers. He espyed the offending article, ordered my to lie down and called an ambulance. 🤕

The offender consultant who had inflicted the injury upon me was ever so attentive over those 5 days!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 January, 2018, 01:16:46 pm
Trying to decide between a siesta and a tramp round the village. Siesta's ahead in the polls.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 24 January, 2018, 12:49:36 pm
My vasectomy sort of went wrong - the anesthetic  didn't work at all on one side, which they didn't find out until they clamped the tube . . .

I was back at work the next morning (and I cycled the 2.5miles in to the office, but didn't really sit on the saddle).

What am I doing now? Full of nerves waiting for telephone interview, that will be followed by a timed test. Crap I hate exams.

[edit] interview over. Timed test now. bricking myself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 24 January, 2018, 05:23:42 pm
How'd it go?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 24 January, 2018, 07:32:39 pm
Two-part test. First one was short; I've already had feedback, they were happy enough with that.

I have 48 hours to complete second part. So, realistically, until tomorrow night. Shame it corresponds with having a metric sh!ton of work to complete.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 27 January, 2018, 07:05:34 pm
Cold. Bah. Got on a plane yesterday evening in NYC feeling peachy. Got off this morning in London feeling like grot with a nasty sore, swollen throat. Pairs perfectly with jetlag.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 January, 2018, 07:19:41 pm
Me too, except this one had been threatening all week but decided to go into full grot mode just in time for the flight home, cocking up my sinuses into the process. Am a bit deaf now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 28 January, 2018, 06:47:48 pm
This one came out of nowhere. I was fine at JFK, having a drink with a colleague, then I got on the plane and sat in my seat and suddenly my throat started to tickle and by time I deplaned it was full on. Taking a couple of ibuprofen pills felt like swallowing two bowling bowls that had been wrapped in barbed wire.

Same thing happened flying back from San Diego last year. Got on plane feeling as fine as a man who's just quaffed a couple of Stone IPAs can be, and then spent the entire long flight feeling worse and worse. And for bonus points, some massive snafu on the M25 at rush hour meant it took an additional two-and-half hours to get home. And despite my looking and sounding like an extra from The Walking Dead the taxi driver talked at me for the entire journey.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 January, 2018, 08:36:14 pm
I have submitted a tax return and paid The Bastards just over £300.

I am helping my dear wife fill in her return.

My nasty infections grot is beginning to subside. I am not coughing nearly as much as I was.

I have beer but no vasectomy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 28 January, 2018, 09:00:54 pm
Musing summer adventures.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 January, 2018, 09:02:34 pm
Breathing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 29 January, 2018, 08:13:53 am
Staring another Monday in the teeth and wondering why it affects me, since I'm retired.  I do have to talk to the tax office but there's no point in calling them on a Monday since they'll be swamped.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 29 January, 2018, 11:15:14 am
Have just booked a holiday away for 2 weeks over Easter. North Devon. Now trying to decide what to do that will amuse me and not piss off Dr Beardy (Mrs) into the bargain
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 29 January, 2018, 02:59:16 pm
Sniffling my way through a zillion documents and graphics and changing 'country' to 'country/territory.' I'm sure once I've done our learned council will decide 'country/region' is preferred.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 07 February, 2018, 07:13:27 pm
Sitting in a cinema waiting for a live broadcast of “Tosca” from the Royal Opera House.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 07 February, 2018, 09:41:40 pm
Strange stuff can happen at the opera (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFx7hEt940c)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 07 February, 2018, 11:28:33 pm
No such excitement, and not a dinner jacket in sight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geraldc on 07 February, 2018, 11:54:37 pm
Looking at harmonicas on Amazon. Not sure about investing in bitcoin, but I'm pretty certain that the price of Hohner Marine band harmonicas has gone up massively. I'm pretty sure I didn't spend anywhere near 30 quid for mine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 11 February, 2018, 07:38:09 am
On an hairyplane loading at Heathrow, wondering if there is any way wheelie bags could be uninvented. This would be a great asset to traveling humanity.

ETA. Here's an idea for BA to drive revenue. Sell the right to have people of limited girth occupy the next seat. And then, you could sell negative proximity to squalling babies. This is going to be a real fun five hours. Which way is the rant thread?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 February, 2018, 07:51:35 am
They do: it's called First Class. Well, not the limited girth but the seats are wider.

Anyway, wot I am doing is drinking my second cuppa after breakfast and watching the snow change to sleet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 11 February, 2018, 05:07:28 pm
Wondering why we are watching the ‘sport’ of ice dancing on the TV.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SoreTween on 11 February, 2018, 06:46:53 pm
Quote from: Ham on 11 February, 2018, 07:38:09 am
ETA. Here's an idea for BA to drive revenue. Sell the right to have people of limited girth occupy the next seat. And then, you could sell negative proximity to squalling babies. This is going to be a real fun five hours. Which way is the rant thread?
I had a lucky escape on Tuesday. I was checked in to 8A and on arriving at the row there was a couple in B & C, both skinny and so am I.  But on the lap of the young lady in B is one of those noise, vomit, noise, stinking emission and noise factories young couples are so fond of producing.
Fortunately as I'd stepped on board I'd heard a member of the team saying the fight was only half full so I just kept on  walking to the noisy rows and flipped the switch on my QC15 to LOUD.
Better for everyone.

(Eating a meal in an Italian Chinese restaurant)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 13 February, 2018, 01:59:24 pm
Sitting around recovering from having a stranger lube her finger, probe my nethers and exterminate a couple of polyps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 13 February, 2018, 02:19:57 pm
An old chum of mine told us once about his colonoscopy experience at the US Naval base in Norfolk, Virginia.  As the probe went in, the proctologist let out a hearty cry of "Up periscope!"

I trust your rectal visitor was a little more genteel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 13 February, 2018, 03:08:00 pm
I had both ends explored during the same session, but as I was a private patient I was rendered unconscious so have no knowledge of the procedures, whether they did them simultaneously or sequentially and if the latter, which was carried out first and which subsequently, nor if they used the same equipment for both orifices or if different.

I do know that it all turned out to be for naught, which was a good outcome as far as I was concerned.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 14 February, 2018, 08:01:37 am
Glad of that.

What a dour occupation, though, to be shoving probes up people's posteriors 5 days a week.  I mentioned something of the sort to a urologist once, and he exclaimed "oh, but it's fascinating!"  To each his own.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: clarion on 14 February, 2018, 01:59:33 pm
Looking up Tariffs and Market Forces Factor for the local Hospital Trust.

Boooooooring!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 14 February, 2018, 02:43:50 pm
Reading through every piece of EU Legislation and guidance on the importation of equipment pre-charged with F-Gases, in order to devise a verification and reporting tool for use in two weeks

Joy of Joys
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 14 February, 2018, 11:33:44 pm
Passing time while wait for my buddies to arrive and whisk me off to Gatwick airport for and early flight to Berlin. They’re due here at 02;30 so I figured there was no point in going to bed
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 15 February, 2018, 11:16:29 am
Contemplating lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 15 February, 2018, 11:19:31 am
Procrastinating and looking for motivation...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 February, 2018, 12:00:02 am
Listening to the drunken zombies fail to launch a recycling bin into a trans-Mars injection orbit.  At least, that what it sounds like they were doing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 02 March, 2018, 01:06:50 pm
Trying to find my stopcock (and failing, so far). :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 02 March, 2018, 01:33:31 pm
my weekly work of (semi-)fiction that is my timesheet.  Now an hour late, I'll blame SNO
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 March, 2018, 02:14:20 pm
Trying to fit a nifty pair of cycling glasses + accessories back into the §"$%&/( box.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 03 March, 2018, 12:42:31 pm
Shopping with Dr Beardy (Mrs) and Ms Beardy the younger. I’ve lost them. Again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 03 March, 2018, 04:10:08 pm
Congrats, any pointers for the less able among us?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 03 March, 2018, 04:28:43 pm
They found me in time to pay ☹️
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 03 March, 2018, 06:06:07 pm
Watching milk float racing Formula E on TV
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 March, 2018, 09:09:15 am
Savouring the aftertaste of a double cappuccino and wondering if my coronary arteries will stand a second one.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 04 March, 2018, 10:48:51 am
Quote from: T42 on 04 March, 2018, 09:09:15 am
Savouring the aftertaste of a double cappuccino and wondering if my coronary arteries will stand a second one.

I've had a quadruple espresso, only once. :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 04 March, 2018, 01:57:16 pm
Quote from: Vince on 03 March, 2018, 06:06:07 pm
Watching milk float racing Formula E on TV

Can you imagine the state of the payload if milk floats could accelerate from 0-100km/hr in 3 seconds?  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 March, 2018, 02:56:15 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 04 March, 2018, 01:57:16 pm
Quote from: Vince on 03 March, 2018, 06:06:07 pm
Watching milk float racing Formula E on TV

Can you imagine the state of the payload if milk floats could accelerate from 0-100km/hr in 3 seconds?  :o

And this is why they should never have stopped making Scrapheap Challenge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 06 March, 2018, 06:39:29 pm
Savouring the beer tinged scent of having set Out of Office for three weeks, Cuba bound tomorrow.

Message ends+++
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 07 March, 2018, 09:03:33 am
Procrastinating. Got to get papers together for the Tax Orifice and it's a bore.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: telstarbox on 07 March, 2018, 02:23:33 pm
Weighing up whether it's worth riding a 200km at the weekend in forecast "light rain" all day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 07 March, 2018, 03:01:22 pm
Nothing in particular, actually nothing at all. This is a consequence having too much to do across too many different projects and not being able to decide which is the most important and should this get my attention first. Well, that and insufficient 'tuits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 09 March, 2018, 11:18:36 am
Waiting for British Gas to come fix my bathroom radiator. Excitement guaranteed. Of course, it's a 8-2pm slot, so they'll come at 1.59pm. Or on past form, call at 1.59pm and ask to reschedule the appointment because of 'busy.'

Dealing with a water bill that warns me 'my consumption is more than normal' and that we 'may have a leak.' Probably because the numbskulls estimated the last bill using the randomization function. Of course, I can't find the old bills (probably fed them to the shredder). Call them. Set up an account, they say, which I do, and two hours later I'm still waiting for the confirmation email. It's never simple this utilities malarkey. It's either that or go outside to figure out how to get the meter cover off with the contents of my singular Ikea-supplied tool kit and see if it's giddily twirling through the numbers without my help. All my own fault for not simply telling them to come and read it properly, I mean, I'm sorry if I'm burdening them.

This is how I spend a day off (alas the mothership owes me so much time, I just don't bother on Fridays). Le sigh. On the plus side, we're going to explore the forgotten bowels of Euston station later and then having lashings of beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 09 March, 2018, 12:25:22 pm
OK, the lid of meter just levers off with a screwdriver. Idiot point to me.

They can't read the meter though, the error was only x2 the actual amount of water used, which explains the x3 bill. Idiot points to them (x3).

Of course, the little trace wheel was moving even though we're using no water and I turned the stopcock off, so possibly something is leaking a little somewhere between the meter and the house.

Still waiting for BG.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 09 March, 2018, 01:16:43 pm
Drinking my post-prandial cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 March, 2018, 09:35:37 pm
Sitting down & trying not to move too quickly.   I'm just back from a local Lebanese Eatery & feeling a bit like Mr Creosote.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 14 March, 2018, 09:48:15 pm
Did you forego the wafferr thin mint . . . ?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 14 March, 2018, 10:08:37 pm
Working. Le sigh. A week of travelling thought leadership looms.

For those hanging on every gripping word of my utility company travails, the very amiable Darren from British Gas fixed my bathroom radiator and confirmed they'd be able to fit a smartmeter in my cupboard (unless the fitter is really fat, he qualified) and the people from waterworks are going to pop around and diagnose my potential leak and correct my bill.

Pretty soon my life will become so exciting that any escaping news will be fatal to normal humans.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 15 March, 2018, 08:09:08 am
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. But will presently phone the vet to come and vaccinate the dogs. Can't be arsed harnessing them into the back of the car, sitting for half an hour with other animals and their quadrupeds, and cleaning dog snot off the seats later.  We've got medical insurance for them so it can bloody well earn its keep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 17 March, 2018, 08:45:30 am
Drinking coffee and eating croissants at Mordor (Camden Food Co.) whilst waiting for the Plymouth train.  No bikes so no hanging space anxiety.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 17 March, 2018, 04:44:42 pm
^^^ That sounds nice. We stopped off for a croissant at the bakery in the next village, to fortify ourselves for the walk back, and they had run out. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 17 March, 2018, 04:56:00 pm
Watching Ireland deservedly win the grand slam, poor from england yet again
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 18 March, 2018, 03:14:56 pm
This morning under clear sunny skies we watched the St. Ives lifeboat tow in a small fishing boat.  The sea was choppy and they had to anchor The boat offshore.   

The sun has now given way to cloudy skies and I'm now watching the driving snow and choppy seas as the tide comes in. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 18 March, 2018, 07:07:45 pm
Feeling crap  :(    I woke up last night with a streaming nose, and it's carried on through the day.  Sneezing as well.


I've just ventured out into the cold & returned with  boxes of tissues, Lem-sip capsules & medicinal Jura.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 18 March, 2018, 07:50:15 pm
Idly browsing for purple anodised bike bits, again. :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 19 March, 2018, 07:42:16 am
Sitting in the car waiting for my physio appt at 8.45! Dr Beardy (Mrs) HAS to be in the office by 7:30 but the hour I’ve got spare is to little to go anywhere, do something useful and come back again. Especially at this time in a morning when what masquerades as the rush hour for this part of the country will be in full swing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 March, 2018, 07:59:40 am
Thinking about going for a dander in the sunshine, across the fields to the next village; there, maybe, to pick up a croissant to nibble with my 11 o'clock coffee.

Happy Monday, everyone!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 19 March, 2018, 08:09:42 am
I've just cancelled Monday..... well okay I have no power to do so but as my Team Leader is in New Zealand and as its currently only 7c in my office this morning, I thought I would give it a try......

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 March, 2018, 09:19:03 am
Well, outdoors it's still sub-zero so I haven't gone yet.  All the croissants would be gone by the time I got there, anyway.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 22 March, 2018, 09:33:45 pm
Enjoying the subdued subterranean grandeur of New York's Penn station, the Big Apple's answer to Birmingham New Street (the original and beautiful Penn station came down during the decade of Grand Uglification and was replaced with the less than endearing Madison Square Gardens and Penn Plaza). Grand Central is, on the other hand, pretty awesome. Though waiting there isn't especially useful if the train is coming in from Philadelphia.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 23 March, 2018, 09:21:28 am
Recovering from a bout of catch-as-catch-can wrestling, a.k.a. restraining dog A while vet vaccinates dog B and then swapping dogs. All to the accompaniment of parrot (C) intoning "no....." in a despairing voice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 23 March, 2018, 10:19:25 am
Watching the clock. 7 hours 11 minutes then I leave this job.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 23 March, 2018, 11:14:22 am
Writing this while avoiding the various levels of crap I should be trying to sort out before I go on holidays at the end of today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 23 March, 2018, 02:47:30 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 23 March, 2018, 10:19:25 am
Watching the clock. 7 hours 11 minutes then I leave this job.
2h 43m
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 23 March, 2018, 06:13:08 pm
Well according to Dr Beardy (Mrs) I'm trying to solve all of BTs problems before my holiday (which officially started 1hr 12m ago)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 24 March, 2018, 01:15:14 pm
Stuck opposite a right pair of middle aged brexidiot Daily Hate readers with over three hours between Taunton and Mordor.

To make matters worse she is wearing that cheap perfume which smells vile and you can taste it.

What have I done to deserve this I wonder?

 :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 24 March, 2018, 01:31:44 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 24 March, 2018, 01:15:14 pm
To make matters worse she is wearing that cheap perfume which smells vile and you can taste it.

What the Germans call Nuttendiesel - whore-diesel. Whorehouse diesel sounds better.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 24 March, 2018, 01:50:19 pm
Indeed.

It's making my throat dry now and my eyes water.

Only 1 3/4 hours to go.    :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 24 March, 2018, 03:41:53 pm
When I worked in Stuttgart we had a woman in Marketing who wore Dior Poison.  You could tell if she'd been in a room two hours after she left it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 24 March, 2018, 03:53:21 pm
And breathe ... :   thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 24 March, 2018, 05:16:32 pm
Then you get home and the missus sniffs and says "who have you been with?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 24 March, 2018, 11:00:42 pm
Trying to decide if an 80s night (for a friends 50th) is a joyful trip down memory lane or a painful reminder of an awkward youth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 March, 2018, 11:33:15 pm
I went to an eighties night.  It was awful. 
I thought they meant eighties music.  Not the age of the punters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 March, 2018, 08:56:50 am
Hunting through camera menus for date/time setting. Some of them do it automatically, others need to be told that summer time is in force, others ignore it so you have to adjust it yourself.  Maybe I should set them all to UTC & to hell with it.

Other than that I'm waiting for the temperature to get up to non-life-threatening levels, and hoping that by the time it has there'll still be the odd patisserie open.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 25 March, 2018, 11:57:48 am
Quote from: T42 on 24 March, 2018, 05:16:32 pm
Then you get home and the missus sniffs and says "who have you been with?"

mllePB was with me for the entire endurance.  I think if I smelled of whorediesel she'd be justified on so many levels in kicking me out.

A former client liked her perfume though to be fair it was a very pleasant and expensive smelling one. She is a 'toucher' and I did worry that I might have picked up the fragrance but nothing was said.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2018, 01:05:13 pm
*boggles*

Barakta regularly comes home smelling of Other People's Stuff due to using trains, sleeping in beds, borrowing shampoo, being smoked at or whatever.  I just tell her when she smells (her nose is rubbish and she isn't always aware of it herself) and to go and have a bath.  It's not like I don't come home reeking of Eau de Audaxer from time to time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 30 March, 2018, 10:08:03 pm
1) Packing.  This is slightly unusual as I tend to leave such activities until a few hours before departure.  At the time of writing, I have over half a day until I leave.  :thumbsup:

2) Worrying.  Tomorrow evening I start an intense week (and a bit) of singing.  This afternoon I noticed my throat was feeling a bit sore.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 31 March, 2018, 08:30:06 am
Drinking my third mug of tea and eating a croissant prior to going for a ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 31 March, 2018, 08:35:28 am
Snotting.  Yes, the bear has caught a bug.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 31 March, 2018, 08:39:39 am
Trying to decide if I really want to ride in that wind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 31 March, 2018, 09:26:51 am
Trying to encourage myself out the door for a ride in that wind, after working out how to sing this for this evening's Vigil service: -
(http://forthinpraise.co.uk/mag_files/icel_alleluia.png)

This notation is stupid, and the way they've separated it out makes it even harder to read. Give me either Gregorian or proper musical notation any day.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 31 March, 2018, 09:38:40 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 31 March, 2018, 09:26:51 am
Trying to encourage myself out the door for a ride in that wind, after working out how to sing this for this evening's Vigil service: -
(http://forthinpraise.co.uk/mag_files/icel_alleluia.png)

This notation is stupid, and the way they've separated it out makes it even harder to read. Give me either Gregorian or proper musical notation any day.

That pretty much exactly depicts my objection to church music - the inability to pick a note and stick to it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 March, 2018, 09:54:37 am
Quote from: Butterfly on 31 March, 2018, 09:38:40 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 31 March, 2018, 09:26:51 am
Trying to encourage myself out the door for a ride in that wind, after working out how to sing this for this evening's Vigil service: -
(http://forthinpraise.co.uk/mag_files/icel_alleluia.png)

This notation is stupid, and the way they've separated it out makes it even harder to read. Give me either Gregorian or proper musical notation any day.

That pretty much exactly depicts my objection to church music - the inability to pick a note and stick to it.

AKA "Houston's Disease".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 31 March, 2018, 10:47:20 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 31 March, 2018, 09:26:51 am
Trying to encourage myself out the door for a ride in that wind, after working out how to sing this for this evening's Vigil service: -
(http://forthinpraise.co.uk/mag_files/icel_alleluia.png)

This notation is stupid, and the way they've separated it out makes it even harder to read. Give me either Gregorian or proper musical notation any day.

That is horrid.  I think you need some of this (https://cdn1.thehunt.com/app/public/system/zine_images/148234/zine_view_thumb/621dc760bbc609036d11f419d37c95e9.jpg) and a pencil.  O:-)

ETA:  And another vote for proper notation.  :thumbsup:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/887/26291121537_743bbd14e2_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/G4fSsV)
Плотїю-фрагмент (https://flic.kr/p/G4fSsV)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 31 March, 2018, 03:23:08 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 31 March, 2018, 09:38:40 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 31 March, 2018, 09:26:51 am
Trying to encourage myself out the door for a ride in that wind, after working out how to sing this for this evening's Vigil service: -
(http://forthinpraise.co.uk/mag_files/icel_alleluia.png)

This notation is stupid, and the way they've separated it out makes it even harder to read. Give me either Gregorian or proper musical notation any day.

That pretty much exactly depicts my objection to church music - the inability to pick a note and stick to it.

The Inlaw Paw did: same one for every hymn he ever sang, all the way through.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 31 March, 2018, 03:25:08 pm
Meanwhile, yrs trly is basking in the afterglow of effort and chocolate bickies while his quads solidify.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 31 March, 2018, 08:29:51 pm
Quote from: T42 on 31 March, 2018, 03:23:08 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 31 March, 2018, 09:38:40 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 31 March, 2018, 09:26:51 am
Trying to encourage myself out the door for a ride in that wind, after working out how to sing this for this evening's Vigil service: -
(http://forthinpraise.co.uk/mag_files/icel_alleluia.png)

This notation is stupid, and the way they've separated it out makes it even harder to read. Give me either Gregorian or proper musical notation any day.

That pretty much exactly depicts my objection to church music - the inability to pick a note and stick to it.

The Inlaw Paw did: same one for every hymn he ever sang, all the way through.

He could have joined forces with my mother who sings at the pace she thinks it should be sung, regardless of how dirgy the pianist/organist plays. Mind you, when she played the piano, everyone had to keep up or she won. :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Thing2 on 31 March, 2018, 08:35:21 pm
A couple of our friends had a full church wedding, which was over and done by (including sermon - 7 seconds, and signing the register) in 25 minutes. That was impressive, but the 7 verses of all things bright and beautiful were taken at light speed - no one could keep up!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 31 March, 2018, 09:47:54 pm
Well it went ok. I don't have to do that silly line again for another 385 days
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 01 April, 2018, 06:26:36 pm
'Enjoying' a Welsh spring evening from the safety of my friend's kitchen.  Looking at the extended forecast, my decision to not attempt to squeeze in any cycling during my free periods this week appears to be justified.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 April, 2018, 07:54:24 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 01 April, 2018, 06:26:36 pm
'Enjoying' a Welsh spring evening from the safety of my friend's kitchen.  Looking at the extended forecast, my decision to not attempt to squeeze in any cycling during my free periods this week appears to be justified.

Pretty gruesome currently in Llandismal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2018, 08:27:28 pm
Quote from: ian on 22 March, 2018, 09:33:45 pm
Enjoying the subdued subterranean grandeur of New York's Penn station, the Big Apple's answer to Birmingham New Street (the original and beautiful Penn station came down during the decade of Grand Uglification and was replaced with the less than endearing Madison Square Gardens and Penn Plaza). Grand Central is, on the other hand, pretty awesome. Though waiting there isn't especially useful if the train is coming in from Philadelphia.
We've talked about this before, I do believe...
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 02 April, 2015, 01:08:52 pm
Mordor Central has a bigger, slightly uglier, sibling and their name is New York Penn.

Honestly,  I felt right at home ;-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 01 April, 2018, 09:29:42 pm
If I ever visit New York, it's on my must see list.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 April, 2018, 09:35:52 am
Vaguely wondering if it's worth going for a trudge round the village in the hope that my gammy ankle won't play up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 02 April, 2018, 05:46:13 pm
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 01 April, 2018, 08:27:28 pm
Quote from: ian on 22 March, 2018, 09:33:45 pm
Enjoying the subdued subterranean grandeur of New York's Penn station, the Big Apple's answer to Birmingham New Street (the original and beautiful Penn station came down during the decade of Grand Uglification and was replaced with the less than endearing Madison Square Gardens and Penn Plaza). Grand Central is, on the other hand, pretty awesome. Though waiting there isn't especially useful if the train is coming in from Philadelphia.
We've talked about this before, I do believe...
Quote from: CrinklyLion on 02 April, 2015, 01:08:52 pm
Mordor Central has a bigger, slightly uglier, sibling and their name is New York Penn.

Honestly,  I felt right at home ;-)

It did feel familiar.

They are talking about replacing Penn Station and Madison Square Garden (have been for some time) though whether it happens is doubtful considering the sums they've spent on other infrastructure post 9-11 and Sandy and underinvestment in Amtrak. Anyway, Grand Central is a lot nicer. The US still has many rather grand train stations (30th Street in Philadelphia, Union in DC and LA, etc.) Apropos of nothing, we did a tour of the lingering underground bits of Euston station the other months, which was interesting and we got to freak people out on the Victoria underground platforms by dispatching our disembodied voices through the overhead ventilation grills (we were lurking in the ventilation shaft). I should point out that this behaviour is not officially sanctioned by TfL.

Anyway, back to New York, my wife, bless her, decide to emerge in the New Jersey Transit section of the warren. And not tell me this (sensibly I was waiting on the Amtrak concourse). Helpfully, rather than tell me about the NJ Transit signs on the walls around her she supplied helpful navigational aids like 'I can see a Dunkin Donuts.' I don't think there's anywhere in the urban US where you can't see a Dunkin Donuts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 04 April, 2018, 03:56:05 pm
Planning a four city trip by plane, train, and automobile.

In the mothership's Concur-SAP travel booking system.

I'm currently optioning the movie rights to what promises to be an epic emotional tragedy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 08 April, 2018, 01:57:54 pm
Watching Paris-Roubaix, cycling's Roman holiday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 19 April, 2018, 07:52:18 am
Surprisingly acceptable coffee and croissants at Northampton bus station whilst I have 30 minutes to waste.   :)

On my way to another funeral.   :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 19 April, 2018, 09:34:36 am
I wish the fucker in the BMW playing with his phone in the car ahead of this bus would put it away.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 April, 2018, 12:25:27 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 19 April, 2018, 09:34:36 am
I wish the fucker in the BMW playing with his phone in the car ahead of this bus would put it away.

Send him a CDC over Bluetooth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 19 April, 2018, 02:09:17 pm
Just identifying some moths I found in my moth trap this morning.


11 Common Quaker
3 Early Grey
3 Hebrew Character
1 Garden Carpet

And a partridge in a pear tree!  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 April, 2018, 09:43:54 am
Deciding whether to go to the MX-5 owners' club spring rally.  It's cold and drizzly, so probably not worth a 190 mile round trip dodging Sunday drivers (I hate driving on Sundays, it brings all the drunk and partially-sighted onto the roads, the sort that do a constant 45mph whether the limit is 30 or 60)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 29 April, 2018, 10:17:23 am
Quote from: Kim on 19 April, 2018, 12:25:27 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 19 April, 2018, 09:34:36 am
I wish the fucker in the BMW playing with his phone in the car ahead of this bus would put it away.

Send him a CDC over Bluetooth.

I'll store that one for next time.   :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 29 April, 2018, 03:03:56 pm
Warming up after ride in cold northerly wind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 29 April, 2018, 03:25:06 pm
Just about to start loading the car to take stuffs to the caravan.
First time we will have been there since October. Hope it's survived OK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 30 April, 2018, 04:31:33 pm
Watching Mrs B flying home on Flightradar.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 03 May, 2018, 06:00:14 am
Being awake...

It has reached that part of my 12 week cycle whereby I am zombied at 9PM, but wide awake at 05:00...

Doesn't bode well for the next few days, I think a lot of caffeine will be needed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 03 May, 2018, 10:49:11 am
considering whether or not to run screaming from the room due to the increasingly challenging GDPR deliveries and the total lack of buy in by certain parts of the organisation!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 03 May, 2018, 11:10:25 pm
Sitting outside in 30 degree plus warmth with an ice-cold post-work all-expenses-paid brewski. Life is hard. I do still have a blocked nose.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 May, 2018, 08:35:11 am
Trying to decide whether to go for a ride (15°C, wind 20 kph gusting 45) or go to doc (knackered from sleep loss due to pain of gastritis/oesophagitis).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 04 May, 2018, 09:55:14 am
Sitting on a stationary train waiting for it to leave Ipswich station, bound for Peterborough then Leeds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 May, 2018, 10:40:12 am
Wondering whether Yodel will deliver my Shiny Thing before I have to leave for Fort Larrington.

Edit: yes.  Yes, they did.  Thank you, Mr Cheery Welshman  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 04 May, 2018, 11:24:59 am
Enjoying the garden, and the weather whilst watching TdY on the laptop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 May, 2018, 03:23:36 pm
Sitting on a bench at Liverpool Lime St, waiting for the train to London so I can get a train to Portsmouth & ferry to France.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 04 May, 2018, 05:53:05 pm
Reply #22001.

Sitting looking at a Wilier Gran Turismo and kind of wishing someone else would come along and finish its conversion to Ultegra R8000.

Wondering why anyone at Shimano Inc. thought that the shape of an R8000 rear mech was in any way aesthetically pleasing?

and

YOYOYOY did they have to bugger about quite so much with cable attachment?

and

Life's too bloody short to be pissing about with internally routed cables when the exit hole in the frame is around 3mm in diameter.

If this is the future then I'm going fixed . . . *



*I'm not - but this job is making it seem attractive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 04 May, 2018, 06:01:47 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 04 May, 2018, 03:23:36 pm
Sitting on a bench at Liverpool Lime St, waiting for the train to London so I can get a train to Portsmouth & ferry to France.

**Firmly bolting the stable door etc.**

There is a direct train to Portsmouth from Manchester Piccadilly. It's a roughly similar time to the M/C-London-Portsmouth (as it seems to stop at everyone's garden gate IIRC) but doesn't involve VoyagerLinos. When I wuz contemplating a Normandy Escape a couple of years ago it seemed like a viable alternative to trying to get from $Mainline station to station in that London that they have now...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 May, 2018, 06:54:38 pm
I shall bear that in mind for next time. I’ve no problems with the Liverpool to London run. There is usually bike space & not the dangly kind. I’d happily miss having to ride to Waterloo & having to deal with SouthWesterns bike rules though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 04 May, 2018, 08:42:14 pm
Lots of pics I hope, not at all envious.  :smug: <<<< Note is Green! An alternative that showed up the year we went to Normandy due to train machinations was direct to Brighton and then trundle along south coast rail to P'mouth.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 04 May, 2018, 08:47:14 pm
drinking prosecco while trying to do this week's expenses

I blame the wife - prosecco, not expenses
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 May, 2018, 09:26:09 pm
I made the same mistake as last time, got off at Portsmouth Harbour instead of Portsmouth & Southsea.
Currently in the ferry terminal which is full of Scouts.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 04 May, 2018, 09:56:57 pm
You are better off getting off at the harbour, that way you get a flat push out of the station and no turnstiles to negotiate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 04 May, 2018, 11:33:30 pm
Sitting in my fathers living room with a restorative beer after an argument about my political naivety. 🤕
At fifty eight you’d have thought that I would have learnt by now! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 May, 2018, 09:03:13 am
Quote from: Canardly on 04 May, 2018, 08:42:14 pm
Lots of pics I hope, not at all envious.  :smug: <<<< Note is Green! An alternative that showed up the year we went to Normandy due to train machinations was direct to Brighton and then trundle along south coast rail to P'mouth.


Le Havre Loop https://trackmytour.com/C96kt (https://trackmytour.com/C96kt)


I’ll be posting some pics here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 07 May, 2018, 10:51:26 am
Sulking in my geriatric tent after fucking up my guitar neck.  :'(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 May, 2018, 07:56:25 am
Waiting for Monet’s garden to open, it’s an absolutely beautiful morning as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 13 May, 2018, 12:10:35 pm
Kicking myself for not recognising the engine rumble of the Lancaster bomber that has just flown overhead at low level. Only caught  rear end view which quickly disappeared.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 16 May, 2018, 09:40:00 am
I'm sitting in my office/remote command centre for the first time in three weeks (after a bout of travel) trying to remember what precisely I am paid to do when I sit in my office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 20 May, 2018, 12:52:17 pm
Writing my "Father of the bride" speech for this months important wedding taking place next Saturday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bludger on 20 May, 2018, 05:57:36 pm
Watching breaking free and lying on my bed because I have five new stitches in my leg :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 20 May, 2018, 07:12:55 pm
Sitting in the garden enjoying the evening sunshine with a birthday drink  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 May, 2018, 10:17:33 pm
Happy birthday, matey.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 May, 2018, 10:44:43 am
Many happy reruns.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 21 May, 2018, 06:18:42 pm
Cheers guys  :thumbsup: I have had a nice quiet birthday this year . :)
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andytheflyer on 21 May, 2018, 09:13:11 pm
Watching a sparrowhawk reccy-ing my garden for some unfortunate fledglings.  Fortunately the first crop of blackbirds departed last week, the second crop is still in the nest and the new sparrows had all hidden themselves, along with the 3 new rabbits.

I get very paternal about my fledglings after feeding their parents all winter and no interloping raptor is going to predate on them - even if it's got its own fledglings to feed.  It can go and eat someone else's offspring.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 24 May, 2018, 04:09:22 am
Not sleeping.  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 24 May, 2018, 07:58:40 am
Listening to cars swish by on the wet road outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 24 May, 2018, 08:26:14 am
Pulling my self together in preparation for the second leg on our journey to Dartmoor for ms Beardy the elder’s nuptials.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 24 May, 2018, 04:25:29 pm
Now having a sneaky 20 minutes in my room over the pub, avoiding the chaotic over filled1room that is my daughters sitting room.

1. Physically there are currently 8 others there, but there are some BIG egos and it’s all just a bit too much for my delicate psyche.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 May, 2018, 04:46:41 pm
Cleaning up after the builder's "thorough clean up".   ::-)

He won't be back till Tuesday  :thumbsup: and will just need to skim and finish.

Wonder what he'll say when I tell him I've no money left.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 24 May, 2018, 05:30:31 pm
Taking a stroll through our Posts of the Day.
It’s a lovely way to spend time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 24 May, 2018, 06:13:05 pm
Waiting for a shy bird to nibble at my seed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 01 June, 2018, 08:54:05 pm
Waiting for some kitchen units to be delivered from the factory up north. They will arrive at 10pm. This is the third delivery we have had from this company (minimum £75 del charge) over a period of time and on each occasion it has been past 9:30pm. I can only assume that we are conveniently placed for the return run. Its a good job the units are half decent or I would be going elsewhere in future as this is the least satisfactory aspect of their package.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 01 June, 2018, 11:01:40 pm
Watching the Chicago river flow by and pondering that greatest of life's mysteries, namely 'is it too early to get a beer?'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 01 June, 2018, 11:04:10 pm
It's 5 o'clock somewhere . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 02 June, 2018, 12:40:30 am
Units were delivered at 10:15pm which I feel is a tad unreasonable and a bit of a piss take tbh. (They are nice units tho')
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 June, 2018, 07:43:42 am
Trying to buy a cheap, plain steel no-spill cat/dog bowl (a) with extra rubber bits cemented on, (b) suitable for use as guitar resonator, and (c) in France. You'd be surprised how hard it is.

Lots available from the Celestial Hemisphere, delivery at a month's remove. Right now it's feeling that that'd be faster than searching.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 02 June, 2018, 08:22:01 pm
Watching PBP videos in an attempt to engender some motivation to get fit for next year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 03 June, 2018, 03:56:55 pm
Sitting in the kitchen of the Scouts HQ - Pennine Division.

It's attached to my old school and used to be the de la Salle Christian Brothers' residence.*

Such is the guilt instilled in me so long ago I'm expecting to be told off for sitting on the kitchen counter top at any moment.





*A kind of terrorist organisation staffed by psychopaths and child molesters masquerading as teachers under holy orders...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 03 June, 2018, 06:40:43 pm
DON'T SIT ON THE WORK TOP  , GET OFF IT NOW. ............ ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 03 June, 2018, 06:50:05 pm
Cooking sausages for use in sausage sandwiches after more beer than recommended in a lovely pub beer garden. Shame the kitchen had closed.

And drinking another beer whilst cooking.

All is right in the world right now.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 03 June, 2018, 09:39:35 pm
Killing time before going to the airport. Not enough time to do anything useful but enough to feel like I should be doing something.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 June, 2018, 09:34:42 am
Not really doing anything to speak of. Mulling over driving to a DIY shop ~25km away but can't really be bothered - nothing's urgent. Could do a bit on my CB guitar, I suppose...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 June, 2018, 10:39:13 pm
Sat in a hotel in Manchester reading a book and watching a guy three tables away pitching to two guys who look realy disinterested.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 05 June, 2018, 08:02:07 am
Much the same as yesterday at this time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 05 June, 2018, 08:10:16 am
Weathering the wave of anxiety and existential panic and trying to decide if tea or coffee would be the better cure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 June, 2018, 09:32:16 am
Quote from: Beardy on 05 June, 2018, 08:10:16 am
Weathering the wave of anxiety and existential panic and trying to decide if tea or coffee would be the better cure.

Beer solved both my conundrums above. It also helped with the wait at the airport.

(While I don't normally like Hiltons, I will say the lobby bar in the Palmer House is impressive. Which it should be considering how much they charged me for a beer.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 05 June, 2018, 11:11:03 am
Quote from: ian on 03 June, 2018, 09:39:35 pm
Killing time before going to the airport. Not enough time to do anything useful but enough to feel like I should be doing something.

Same but railway.  5 joyful hours of ECML to Edinburgh today.

Just need to file an incident report, water the plants and perhaps have a coffee before then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 June, 2018, 01:56:18 pm
I am being drop no 79 while my new !! shiny!!1! welding rig is still at drop 78......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 07 June, 2018, 11:31:15 pm
Well I was getting progressively drunker and listening to happy music. But I've been clicking random songs next off Youtube and it's trending sadder.

Along with a bit of Facebook pottering and just stumbled across the still active page of a friend from Canada who died a few years ago.

I am definitely now sad.

And in an empty house.

Moop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 08 June, 2018, 08:01:41 am
About to bugger off to Haguenau to see the gastropodologist about my sluggish oesophagus. Or something like that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 08 June, 2018, 07:11:18 pm
reading the manual for my new camera and thinking "how many f%&$ing settings?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 08 June, 2018, 08:34:08 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 08 June, 2018, 07:11:18 pm
reading the manual for my new camera and thinking "how many f%&$ing settings?"

Try this to get you going. Worked well with my OMD EM10- MkII

https://robinwong.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-robin-wongs-om-d-camera-cheat-sheet.html
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 09 June, 2018, 07:22:56 am
very helpful, thanks  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 09 June, 2018, 09:28:38 am
Useful page, I'd go with his first point of getting used to the "access all areas" menu as your main point of reference.

My preference is to shoot in RAW+jpg fine  all the time, then you really don't have to worry about most of the myriad settings he gets into, you can always post-process the RAW as if you had the right setting from the start. The only thing I'd add is that you then need to have photo management that effectively copes with having a RAW+sidecar file, my preference through long term usage is Adobe Lightroom (NOT the "cloud" version) but that has a cost attached, especially as I don't think you can buy a one off license any more (but I may be wrong). There are likely other options, too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 10 June, 2018, 04:33:51 pm
Lawn. Sun. Deckchair.  View. Gin & Tonic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 11 June, 2018, 09:14:37 am
Trying to get my mind to focus on what I should be doing rather than the nice weather outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 11 June, 2018, 09:19:38 am
Quote from: pcolbeck on 08 June, 2018, 08:34:08 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 08 June, 2018, 07:11:18 pm
reading the manual for my new camera and thinking "how many f%&$ing settings?"

Try this to get you going. Worked well with my OMD EM10- MkII

https://robinwong.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-robin-wongs-om-d-camera-cheat-sheet.html

ow do you rate the OMD?

I'm considering either the OMD or the 6000 series Sony as a replacement for my aging Sony a350.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 June, 2018, 10:02:42 am
Sneezing.  A lot.  And aching.  Bah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 June, 2018, 03:30:41 pm
Enjoying proper broadband speeds again.  It had slowed to about 2.5M download with 20M upload.  BT engineer remade some joints in the local cab & I'm getting 66M again.  Hopefully the instances of it dying completely will have been fixed as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 11 June, 2018, 09:39:15 pm
Drinking a glass of beer. On a school night!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 12 June, 2018, 09:19:05 am
Applying for visas. What's my fax number again? Fax. Good god, I'm booking a trip back to 1988.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: fuzzy on 12 June, 2018, 10:50:29 am
Planning my next phone call to the national purveyor of overpriced retirement living apartments (n-poorla) an entity whose name resembles that of a former cigar smoking brandy drinking political leader or a dog based insurance co.

n-poorla has a number of unresolved issues as far as we are concerned and we have phoned and e mailed a named individual within the organisation several times. Not even an aknowledgement.

I have tried to get contact details for the CEO but the walls went up. I did get e mail details for a senior P.A. and that may be the next route.

Today, I have just seen the portacabin offices beeing packed up for removal. The end is nigh which is a releief but we don't want them dissapearing without resolving the problems, at least one of which we were told the replacement materials were on order for.

I shall phone this afternoon to ask why we aren't being responded to and to suggest that, if we have become a pain in the arse, the best way to get us to STFU is to respond to communication, not ignore it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 12 June, 2018, 12:32:51 pm
Nothing much, involving a dog bowl, a cat bowl, two sink strainers, a bunch of wood and much profanity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 June, 2018, 07:27:01 am
Contemplating the horror that is the Tube at this time of day.  I don't wanna go!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 June, 2018, 07:51:07 am
Contemplating the horror that is work at pretty much any time of day.  I don't wanna go!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 13 June, 2018, 08:37:04 am
Trying (without much success) to ignore the CRANE that has just arrived outside my office window. It's got some craney things to do and it's all very exciting. Well, a lot more exciting that the escalation slide deck I'm supposed to be doing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 13 June, 2018, 09:01:46 am
Contemplating the horror that is indecision. I mean, do I go for a ride or fiddle about in the workshop or drive off somewhere with the missus for a coffee?  Retirement is hell.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 13 June, 2018, 09:09:29 am
Getting ready for a home ed trip to the Safari park. The home ed level of planning (turn up when you like, see you there) and home ed time keeping (10-11 = half turning up at 11.30) is making me a bit worried we will miss everyone else. Hopefully Nye's complete disinterest in animals will be swayed by the size of the elephants. Or we might end up taking the short cut out of the park to get to the rides, which he will like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 16 June, 2018, 01:15:27 pm
Making stone soup.
I'm sterilising 3 interesting looking rocks by boiling them in a huge pot before adding them to the aquarium I'm in the process of setting up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 18 June, 2018, 08:08:23 am
I’m watching my work laptop apparently do nothing while I try and decide if it is actually doing something towards the rebuild it’s supposed to be doing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 18 June, 2018, 11:51:13 am
Contemplating going to my Dad's to retrieve my air rifle. They did a load of work on the drive that serves three houses next door to us and it appears to have disturbed some rats which we saw wandering around our lawn under the bird feeders yesterday evening. The cat is now too elderly to deal with them and the dog too clumsy and bouncy so it's up to me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 18 June, 2018, 12:38:58 pm
Also contemplating: postprandial snooze or not?

On the whole I think yes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 18 June, 2018, 03:49:26 pm
I’m watching my work laptop apparently do nothing again while I try and decide if it is actually doing something towards the rebuild it’s supposed to be doing. It wasn’t this morning, so I’m not hopeful now.

There is a certain amount of circular carry on the the current situation. The reason I’m having to rebuild my PC is because the Software Centre is borked and I can’t download any new software. But the operations system is software, and guess where that comes from.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 19 June, 2018, 08:30:06 am
I’ll bet NO ONE can guess what I doing right now. 😡
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 19 June, 2018, 08:36:42 am
Being watched by your laptop?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 June, 2018, 08:59:03 am
Casting about for some thin, shiny steel to use as a tailpiece on my current CBG build.  In the kitchen we have a whippy steel spatula which would be perfect, given a little torture with, saw, pliers and pointy things, but it's Mrs T's favourite and there'd be wigs on the green if I nicked it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 20 June, 2018, 09:41:50 am
Just repaired some stair noses so the carpet can be put down. Never had a stair carpet before.  :o

(Mind you, one of the four houses I’ve owned was a bungalow...)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 June, 2018, 10:38:19 am
Quote from: Jaded on 20 June, 2018, 09:41:50 am
Just repaired some stair noses so the carpet can be put down. Never had a stair carpet before.  :o

A friend of ours used to work for a women's magazine in London. One of the articles she found in the archives dated from the post-WW2 shortages: "Knit Your Own Stair-Carpet".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 21 June, 2018, 09:47:58 am
Sitting in a consultation room waiting for counsel and solicitor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 June, 2018, 10:20:35 am
11 o'clock cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 June, 2018, 10:16:36 pm
In lying naked on my bed in a cheap Paris hotel room. It’s a warm night & there is no aircon so I’ve got the window open. This opens onto a central well with a little yard at the bottom. It works as a very good sound amplifier, I’ve been able to hear my mother & sister talking 3 floors above me.  Tonight someone is snoring loudly (even by YACF standards), the amplified effect is like something from an Attenborough documentary, a herd of Walrus or something.  You know it’s a good hotel when they provide packets of earplugs in the bathroom.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 26 June, 2018, 04:21:43 pm
I'm pondering whether you really should be able to the metal stuff inside the power cable to the multiplug on my hotel room desk (and why does seeing it make me want to touch it?_. It doesn't seem to be plugged in anywhere, the cable just disappears through a hole someone has bashed through the wall under the desk. My phone is charging. I'll probably leave the kettle untested.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 June, 2018, 08:17:57 pm
On the train from Euston back to Liverpool, quietly gibbering.  Steering Mum & Sis through the automated check in & security screening at Gare du Nord is going to haunt my dreams... that’s without something in Alison’s case triggering a manual search  :facepalm:



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 June, 2018, 09:05:02 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 26 June, 2018, 08:17:57 pm
On the train from Euston back to Liverpool, quietly gibbering.  Steering Mum & Sis through the automated check in & security screening at Gare du Nord is going to haunt my dreams... that’s without something in Alison’s case triggering a manual search  :facepalm:

Sounds like you've had a nice relaxing weekend, all things considered, then...   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 26 June, 2018, 11:02:23 pm
That will teach you, to enjoy yourself.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 June, 2018, 11:37:01 pm
And to top it all I've just got home & found I forgot to put the rubbish out before I left.  Festering food remains in this heat  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 27 June, 2018, 07:35:42 am
Having a leisurely cuppa after breakfast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 27 June, 2018, 07:37:51 am
Having a second bowl of porridge. One wasn't enough.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 27 June, 2018, 04:58:08 pm
I still want to touch that exposed wire. It's oddly compulsive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 27 June, 2018, 10:13:48 pm
Sitting at home after 3 glasses of wine and a can of brew dog. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mcshroom on 27 June, 2018, 11:33:10 pm
Wishing this hotel had either air con, or windows that opened more than an inch before the safety device stopped them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 28 June, 2018, 07:52:47 am
Finishing off the umpteen rebuild of my Work PC and hoping that the upgraded OS will work more gracefully than the last iteration.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 28 June, 2018, 11:14:26 am
Quote from: mcshroom on 27 June, 2018, 11:33:10 pm
Wishing this hotel had either air con, or windows that opened more than an inch before the safety device stopped them.

If I forsake the endearing and enduring appeal of electrocution, I can fling myself out of the hotel window with grim abandon. And if I survive that, the chaotic traffic will surely kill me. And if I survive that, feral dogs must surely eat me, limb by limb. And if I prove unappetising, I saw catzilla last night. Holy fuck, it was a size of a small family hatchback and made out of the parts other cats didn't want. I don't know what it eats and I don't want to be around when it eats it.

Oh and I bang my head on a sticky-out cabinet of blinking lights six times a day. Health and safety? Pah, it's for wusses.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 10 July, 2018, 10:33:58 am
Procrastinating along with a bit more procrastination for good measure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 10 July, 2018, 10:57:29 am
Grumping, groaning and bellyaching about being stuck here with a buggered leg while it's perfect cycling weather outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 10 July, 2018, 11:13:24 am
Thinking of buggering off out of the office to pop up the road and try to espy the RAF100 flypast as they trundle off down to That London
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 11 July, 2018, 10:30:35 am
waiting patiently in my Marseilles hotel room for a BP tanker to turn up in port for me to audit.

I've just recreated that scene in apocalypse now where our hero is resting on the bed waiting for the fray.

Without any real fray of course, and with aircon in my case.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 11 July, 2018, 10:38:16 am
Quote from: ElyDave on 11 July, 2018, 10:30:35 am
waiting patiently in my Marseilles hotel room for a BP tanker to turn up in port for me to audit.

I've just recreated that scene in apocalypse now where our hero is resting on the bed waiting for the fray.

Without any real fray of course, and with aircon in my case.
How does one audit a ship. Yep, that's a ship. Ok next job. ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 11 July, 2018, 11:33:55 am
I’m in Vietnam so it’s just like that scene in Apocalypse Now. With a/c, a minibar, and room service. I’ve checked the trees for Charlie. I guess he went home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 11 July, 2018, 12:12:11 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 11 July, 2018, 10:38:16 am
Quote from: ElyDave on 11 July, 2018, 10:30:35 am
waiting patiently in my Marseilles hotel room for a BP tanker to turn up in port for me to audit.

I've just recreated that scene in apocalypse now where our hero is resting on the bed waiting for the fray.

Without any real fray of course, and with aircon in my case.
How does one audit a ship. Yep, that's a ship. Ok next job. ;)

Environmental audit, hopefully it's not leaking
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 11 July, 2018, 12:59:29 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 11 July, 2018, 12:12:11 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 11 July, 2018, 10:38:16 am
Quote from: ElyDave on 11 July, 2018, 10:30:35 am
waiting patiently in my Marseilles hotel room for a BP tanker to turn up in port for me to audit.

I've just recreated that scene in apocalypse now where our hero is resting on the bed waiting for the fray.

Without any real fray of course, and with aircon in my case.
How does one audit a ship. Yep, that's a ship. Ok next job. ;)

Environmental audit, hopefully it's not leaking

<ObligClarkeandDawe>

So long as the front hasn't fallen off...  :demon: ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 11 July, 2018, 01:17:51 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 11 July, 2018, 12:12:11 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 11 July, 2018, 10:38:16 am
Quote from: ElyDave on 11 July, 2018, 10:30:35 am
waiting patiently in my Marseilles hotel room for a BP tanker to turn up in port for me to audit.

I've just recreated that scene in apocalypse now where our hero is resting on the bed waiting for the fray.

Without any real fray of course, and with aircon in my case.
How does one audit a ship. Yep, that's a ship. Ok next job. ;)

Environmental audit, hopefully it's not leaking
Well that should be fairly straightforward then, because in my experience boats with holes in them have a habit of sinking. So if its not sunk, job done. Ok, ok, I know  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 July, 2018, 04:39:45 pm
Leaking out or leaking in?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 12 July, 2018, 04:48:47 pm
either would be bad.

In this case though, neither.  It was actually very shipshape.

All Indian crew as well, so bloody good food, if just on the edge of my tolerance for heat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 13 July, 2018, 11:03:51 pm
Just awaiting a pint having listened to UB40 slick their way through a mixed catalogue
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 17 July, 2018, 10:17:14 pm
Enjoying a large dolop of single malt in an attempt to calm my nerves.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 18 July, 2018, 09:01:39 am
Nothing much. Was awakened at the bottom of the sleep curve by Mrs T getting up to see to the dogs and I'm still clawing my way up the slope. Think I'll take a stroll while it's still cool.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 July, 2018, 12:28:14 pm
Puking.  I've never puked so much.  I think it's norovirus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 July, 2018, 08:38:27 pm
And...peace is restored in my guts.  Definitely norovirus due to its rapid course, there's a current outbreak in the west.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jakob W on 18 July, 2018, 08:52:43 pm
Well, at least the timings work out well - 48 hours quarantine after symptoms leaves you with the weekend to yourself and back to work on Monday...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 18 July, 2018, 08:56:16 pm
Sitting with a glass of brew dog IPA having done a turbo session. About to make an omelette.  Just heard I have to go into work tomorrow!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 July, 2018, 09:00:56 pm
I am about to play some Bach preludes & fugues.

And a couple of inventions.

And a bit of French suite no 5 in G.

I may be some time...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 19 July, 2018, 09:37:22 pm
Wondering whether the miniature bottle of absinthe I've had kicking around since about 2000 is ok to drink.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 July, 2018, 11:42:00 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 19 July, 2018, 09:37:22 pm
Wondering whether the miniature bottle of absinthe I've had kicking around since about 2000 is ok to drink.

No pathogens would dare grow in that - I'm sure it's fine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 July, 2018, 11:54:16 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 19 July, 2018, 11:42:00 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 19 July, 2018, 09:37:22 pm
Wondering whether the miniature bottle of absinthe I've had kicking around since about 2000 is ok to drink.

No pathogens would dare grow in that - I'm sure it's fine.

Probably still got absinthe in it, thobut  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 19 July, 2018, 11:58:15 pm
Quote from: Kim on 19 July, 2018, 11:54:16 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 19 July, 2018, 11:42:00 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 19 July, 2018, 09:37:22 pm
Wondering whether the miniature bottle of absinthe I've had kicking around since about 2000 is ok to drink.

No pathogens would dare grow in that - I'm sure it's fine.

Probably still got absinthe in it, thobut  :hand:

and?  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 July, 2018, 08:37:31 am
And it'll kill you in gallon doses.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 20 July, 2018, 10:41:57 am
I'll take that risk . . .  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 July, 2018, 10:57:36 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 19 July, 2018, 09:37:22 pm
Wondering whether the miniature bottle of absinthe I've had kicking around since about 2000 is ok to drink.

Every so often I eye up the miniature of Hennessey on the top shelf, bought new from the distillery in 1982, and wonder the same thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 July, 2018, 05:31:56 pm
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder....


I had a bottle of this once, it was OK ....


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MIutaacbL.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 July, 2018, 07:40:52 am
Quote from: andrewc on 20 July, 2018, 05:31:56 pm
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder....

Almost. IIRC it was Dowson who said "Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 July, 2018, 06:13:05 pm
A friend has just Whatsapped me a load of photos from Samarkand.
Now feeling jealous.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 21 July, 2018, 08:51:04 pm
It appears to be BEER o clock. I am on my way to the pub.  :smug:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 22 July, 2018, 09:38:09 am
Trying to decide what to do with my day.  I have to collect a parcel from the parcel depot, I have an online course to finish and then a whole week of leave afterwards.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 22 July, 2018, 10:18:28 am
Drinking a cuppa in between bouts of de-rusting a router collet I haven't used for about 18 years.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 22 July, 2018, 10:56:55 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 20 July, 2018, 10:57:36 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 19 July, 2018, 09:37:22 pm
Wondering whether the miniature bottle of absinthe I've had kicking around since about 2000 is ok to drink.

Every so often I eye up the miniature of Hennessey on the top shelf, bought new from the distillery in 1982, and wonder the same thing.
Steady old son.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 23 July, 2018, 02:22:33 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 11 July, 2018, 01:17:51 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 11 July, 2018, 12:12:11 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 11 July, 2018, 10:38:16 am
Quote from: ElyDave on 11 July, 2018, 10:30:35 am
waiting patiently in my Marseilles hotel room for a BP tanker to turn up in port for me to audit.

I've just recreated that scene in apocalypse now where our hero is resting on the bed waiting for the fray.

Without any real fray of course, and with aircon in my case.
How does one audit a ship. Yep, that's a ship. Ok next job. ;)

Environmental audit, hopefully it's not leaking
Well that should be fairly straightforward then, because in my experience boats with holes in them have a habit of sinking. So if its not sunk, job done. Ok, ok, I know  ::-)
You'd think, wouldn't you?

We once paid for a barge to be craned out for a survey. It was afloat, looked fine in the water (we had been aboard). Bilge pumps weren't running. It didn't even smell damp, just had the usual barge smell of diesel and barge grease.

When it was craned out, there were multiple holes in the hull. Water poured out. About 2.5k in costs down the drain (surveyor fees, crane fees, costs of getting surveyors to Netherlands).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 July, 2018, 07:31:59 pm
Not flying to Cairo cos the plane is b0rked.
Drinking bubbly stuff in the lounge waiting for the last flight back to Furrybootoon.
Happy I get to watch the last week of the tour  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 23 July, 2018, 08:33:10 pm
watching the new series of university challenge - hooray, tour and UC in the same week

With a Cambridge college to boot
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 23 July, 2018, 08:36:43 pm
Waiting for the thunder.

It's hot and immensely humid, it's just started raining those big fat drops. Where is the thunder?!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 July, 2018, 10:51:49 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 23 July, 2018, 08:33:10 pm
watching the new series of university challenge - hooray, tour and UC in the same week

With a Cambridge college to boot

B*ugger, failed to notice that :'(  UC, obv.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 July, 2018, 11:11:31 pm
Quote from: T42 on 21 July, 2018, 07:40:52 am
Quote from: andrewc on 20 July, 2018, 05:31:56 pm
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder....

Almost. IIRC it was Dowson who said "Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVmSK_Xr1yo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVmSK_Xr1yo)          Waldemar Januszczak demonstrates the correct way to drink absinthe

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 24 July, 2018, 09:54:33 am
Waiting for glue to cure enough to remove the clamps and resisting the temptation to have another coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 July, 2018, 11:01:39 am
Feeling knackered.  Something I ate yesterday had me on the loo all night & I'm a bit fragile.   I blame that egg may buttie at lunchtime.    Not in work today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 July, 2018, 12:40:53 pm
Bad place to put an egg, that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 July, 2018, 01:00:45 pm
Watching (in Welsh) the sheep shearing competition at the Royal Welsh  while I wait for Le Tour to start.
Fascinating and hilarious.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 26 July, 2018, 03:50:24 pm
Feeling a bit shit to be honest. My temp is 39.5 C which in this weather really isn’t fun. Still, I’ve s I’ve a day off work on the back of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jakob W on 26 July, 2018, 05:02:34 pm
Is it responding to paracetamol, and how are you feeling otherwise? My OH had a stubbornly high temperature that wouldn't shift a while back and ended up in hospital for a fortnight - sepsis.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 26 July, 2018, 05:38:35 pm
Commuting home on the 4th day of 6 weeks of Rail-Replacement bus.
Each morning, I’ve been the only passenger; this evening, there are 3 of us!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 26 July, 2018, 06:47:27 pm
Quote from: Jakob W on 26 July, 2018, 05:02:34 pm
Is it responding to paracetamol, and how are you feeling otherwise? My OH had a stubbornly high temperature that wouldn't shift a while back and ended up in hospital for a fortnight - sepsis.
it is responding to paracetamol thank you and now that Dr Beardy (Mrs) is home from work I am being administered to.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 27 July, 2018, 07:29:40 am
Standing outside in the rain
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 27 July, 2018, 01:31:32 pm
Watching LNER's and TPE's websites to work out if Mrs T is going to be able to make it from NTR to EDB today...

If I was a betting man I would say no....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 July, 2018, 02:03:53 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 27 July, 2018, 01:31:32 pm
Watching LNER's and TPE's websites to work out if Mrs T is going to be able to make it from NTR to EDB today...

If I was a betting man I would say no....

Similar, for getting to York for the FNRttC purposes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 27 July, 2018, 02:13:45 pm
Quote from: Kim on 27 July, 2018, 02:03:53 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 27 July, 2018, 01:31:32 pm
Watching LNER's and TPE's websites to work out if Mrs T is going to be able to make it from NTR to EDB today...

If I was a betting man I would say no....

Similar, for getting to York for the FNRttC purposes.
+1
I think going South is more possible than if I were coming North?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 July, 2018, 02:20:42 pm
Looks like everything's vanishing into a black hole at Doncaster from this side, though the knock-on effect is still relatively minor here in CrossCountryland.  Kings Cross is probably having a riot by now.

The prospect of a Friday Night Ride Back To Birmingham from somewhere random doesn't appeal[1], so I'm not getting on a train unless it has a reasonable chance of going the distance.

ETA: It's all looking quite exciting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-leeds-44896636


[1] After all, one does not simply ride into Mordor.  Certainly not if it's thunderbolt and lightning in the East Midlands.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 July, 2018, 10:31:45 pm
In the end my train was cancelled in the time it took to ride to the station, and the only alternative option seemed to be to jump on a train to Manchester and hope for connections that were currently b0rked.  Bah!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 27 July, 2018, 11:16:47 pm
Y'know, for a country that's obsessed with the weather, it doesn't take much weather to fuck everything up, does it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rower40 on 30 July, 2018, 03:21:44 pm
Yebbut wrong kind of weather.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 02 August, 2018, 09:46:10 pm
Its awfully hot here again. Beginning to regret 300 mm of loft insulation. Prickly heat et al.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 August, 2018, 09:53:48 pm
It's too hot here and this isn't even the hot end of the country....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 03 August, 2018, 08:53:00 pm
Doing? I am being.

A chilled chinon, a hot Barbie

At one with the world.

Aummmm
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 03 August, 2018, 09:03:46 pm
Getting more and more fucked off with National express and ouibus as some how managed to book the wrong dates and can't alter them or cancel the ticket.

FFS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 03 August, 2018, 09:37:13 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 02 August, 2018, 09:46:10 pm
Its awfully hot here again. Beginning to regret 300 mm of loft insulation. Prickly heat et al.
It would probably be worse without it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 03 August, 2018, 09:59:09 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 03 August, 2018, 09:03:46 pm
Getting more and more fucked off with National express and ouibus as some how managed to book the wrong dates and can't alter them or cancel the ticket.

FFS

There's something ineffably sad about the juxtaposition of that post with mine, I do hope it gets better, Gatto.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 03 August, 2018, 10:06:30 pm
Quote from: Ham on 03 August, 2018, 09:59:09 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 03 August, 2018, 09:03:46 pm
Getting more and more fucked off with National express and ouibus as some how managed to book the wrong dates and can't alter them or cancel the ticket.

FFS

There's something ineffably sad about the juxtaposition of that post with mine, I do hope it gets better, Gatto.

At the mo, it feels like everything I touch goes to poo.  Oh and lots and lots of avoidance.

The worst bit is that it is of my own making and really should be that I should learn to say no.  Or just be more self centered. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 04 August, 2018, 08:07:19 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 03 August, 2018, 09:03:46 pm
Getting more and more fucked off with National express and ouibus as some how managed to book the wrong dates and can't alter them or cancel the ticket.

FFS

Sell that journey to someone else and start again?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 04 August, 2018, 12:16:43 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 04 August, 2018, 08:07:19 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 03 August, 2018, 09:03:46 pm
Getting more and more fucked off with National express and ouibus as some how managed to book the wrong dates and can't alter them or cancel the ticket.

FFS

Sell that journey to someone else and start again?

Where would you sell a journey?

Also would have the option to buy a journey
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 August, 2018, 02:02:04 pm

I’m in a pub with a sign saying “thieves operate in this area “, they certainly do. The barmaid gave me change from £5 after I gave her a tenner..

Oh, very sorry sir as I pointed out the error
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 August, 2018, 07:23:34 pm
Sitting in the Royal Albert Hall waiting for tonight’s Prom to start.
In the stalls by the left side of the stage wearing shorts & a pink, white & blue striped t shirt. It’s too hot for formal dress.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 August, 2018, 07:28:29 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 04 August, 2018, 07:23:34 pm
Sitting in the Royal Albert Hall waiting for tonight’s Prom to start.
In the stalls by the left side of the stage wearing shorts & a pink, white & blue striped t shirt. It’s too hot for formal dress.

It's the Proms, casual is the order of the day.  Enjoy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 05 August, 2018, 04:44:08 pm
Damn, I’m too early for my train back to Liverpool. I’ll have to kill some time at the Euston Tap  :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 06 August, 2018, 10:07:26 am
Mulling over whether to put a lazy Fender-style head on my current build or attempt a scarf joint in this heat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 08 August, 2018, 08:57:52 am
Sitting in Waitrose waiting for the European Championships time trial to start. It’s raining but I’ve got a good view from here!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 08 August, 2018, 09:13:37 am
Not a lot. I'm sat at my soon not to be my desk in the office, watching the youngsters worry about all the things that worried me until last week some time. The jungle drums are beating and the volume of emails demanding my attention seems to have dropped off a cliff.

I know I'm irrelevant in the grand scheme, but it still hurts when others become aware of it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 09 August, 2018, 04:57:02 am
Approaching morning, from the wrong end.

Have been up all night tending a rather large smoker full of pork shoulder and brisket.

It had better be good as it is to serve to colleagues at our summer party. No pressure, then!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 09 August, 2018, 12:29:10 pm
Started rewrapping handlebars on the tourer. Can I find the replacement tape? Can I b....xxxx. Had to order some. Sigh.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 August, 2018, 01:49:08 pm
Being alternately over and underwhelmed at the National Eisteddfod in Cardiff. I popped down on the bus because
a) I can
b) old buggers bus pass
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bludger on 09 August, 2018, 01:56:15 pm
I'm giving my notice to my boss in 5 minutes. Wish me luck YACF!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 09 August, 2018, 02:13:25 pm
G'luck.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 09 August, 2018, 02:13:56 pm
Quote from: bludger on 09 August, 2018, 01:56:15 pm
I'm giving my notice to my boss in 5 minutes. Wish me luck YACF!
good luck
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 09 August, 2018, 02:16:26 pm
Quote from: bludger on 09 August, 2018, 01:56:15 pm
I'm giving my notice to my boss in 5 minutes. Wish me luck YACF!

Good luck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bludger on 09 August, 2018, 03:31:55 pm
All done 8) very amicable and I will be leaving early September. And with a healthy gap between that day and the start of the new gig to get some proper cycling in  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 10 August, 2018, 05:48:28 pm
Just stopped at a McD for a wee on route to Yorkshire to visit parents and collect Dr Beardy (Mrs).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 12 August, 2018, 07:46:58 pm
Indulging myself with Star Wars Episode IV (the second best episode), and A glass of Tobermory.  Son is fast asleep and wife and daughter in Corfu.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 August, 2018, 08:48:21 pm
Watching a child across the road learning to ride a bike: She's been riding up and down the stretch of pavement for a while now, and the (single?) bolt attaching the port stabiliser appears to have loosened, to the effect that it pivots up out of the way whenever she leans to that side.  After a series of unplanned dismounts she's successfully modified her starting-off strategy to compensate (leaning to the right to maintain tricycle steering dynamics), and seems to be in bicycle mode once she gets some speed up, so with any luck she'll have cracked it by the time the starboard one comes off...


ETA: Her mum's gone and spoiled it by callingyelling them into the house.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 15 August, 2018, 08:31:42 am
Just about to get changed & go cycling, in the hope that a certain sausage-sandwich kiosk 70 km from here will be operating today, this being a public hol.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 15 August, 2018, 10:32:05 am
Wallowing in nostalgia
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 15 August, 2018, 12:48:07 pm
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 15 August, 2018, 01:35:48 pm
Not writing a course on our VLE because I am writing gobbledygook instead of providing information in a sensible, organised and informative manner.  However, by sitting here typing on the forum, everyone things I am course writing!!!  I figure that I given them enough of my time, they can give me a lunch break for a change.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 15 August, 2018, 02:00:18 pm
Quote from: Ham on 15 August, 2018, 12:48:07 pm
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
I'll set them up and you knck them down :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 15 August, 2018, 02:32:28 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 15 August, 2018, 01:35:48 pm
Not writing a course on our VLE because I am writing gobbledygook instead of providing information in a sensible, organised and informative manner.  However, by sitting here typing on the forum, everyone things I am course writing!!!  I figure that I given them enough of my time, they can give me a lunch break for a change.

VLE? In my lingo it's Vapour Liquid Equilibrium, very useful for strengthening intoxicating substances
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 15 August, 2018, 03:11:17 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 15 August, 2018, 02:32:28 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 15 August, 2018, 01:35:48 pm
Not writing a course on our VLE because I am writing gobbledygook instead of providing information in a sensible, organised and informative manner.  However, by sitting here typing on the forum, everyone things I am course writing!!!  I figure that I given them enough of my time, they can give me a lunch break for a change.

VLE? In my lingo it's Vapour Liquid Equilibrium, very useful for strengthening intoxicating substances

sssh don't tell anyone that I am drinking on the job!!  Hic! :-[

For me VLE is virtual Learning Environment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 15 August, 2018, 03:38:34 pm
Just finished jerking off. What? What else would you call preparing several kilo of chicken, Jamaican style, to marinade in preparation for a BBQ on Saturday?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 15 August, 2018, 04:02:57 pm
Recovering from today's trot. CBA trogging 70k for a banger sannie, settled for a chicken one at 40 and a chunk of chocolate pear cake for afters. Nom.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 15 August, 2018, 06:34:42 pm
Quote from: Kim on 14 August, 2018, 08:48:21 pm
Watching a child across the road learning to ride a bike:

[...]

This evening's reprise:

Someone appears to have fixed the stabiliser.

A standoff has been going on for some 20 minutes now in which $child (at one end of this stretch of pavement) refuses to yield the bike to $other_child, who has been having a spectacular tantrum at the halfway point, while $parent nags from the front door.

Parent has now resorted to walking to the end of the road and lifting $child, who has remained attached to the bike, and is now waddling back towards home carrying both as a unit.  Never before has an under-5 needed foot retention so badly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 15 August, 2018, 08:44:48 pm
Quote from: Ham on 15 August, 2018, 03:38:34 pm
Just finished jerking off. What? What else would you call preparing several kilo of chicken, Jamaican style, to marinade in preparation for a BBQ on Saturday?

That's fowl   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 18 August, 2018, 09:16:45 am
Getting jiggy with a piggy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 August, 2018, 11:39:38 am
Avoiding starting the packing process for this year's Leftpondian anabasis, because it'll make me all cross and I won't enjoy it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 August, 2018, 01:41:00 pm
Waiting for "visitors". Coffee, cake & inane chitchat while a 3-year-old looks round for things to destroy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 19 August, 2018, 03:29:23 pm
trying not to fall asleep,
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 19 August, 2018, 03:46:13 pm
Trying to remember what it is that I’d decided I needed to to today, while coming to terms that today is my last Sunday that will be followed by a Monday morning start to a working week.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 August, 2018, 04:48:45 pm
Quote from: T42 on 19 August, 2018, 01:41:00 pm
Waiting for "visitors". Coffee, cake & inane chitchat while a 3-year-old looks round for things to destroy.

And thank God that's over. How to make a two-hour visit feel like half a day year. I'm glad neither of our kids wanted offspring. I've seen good cyclists age 6 months after looking after their kids' brats for a week, and now I know why.  This one was scared stiff of the dogs so we had to shut the poor beasts up in a bedroom, but she loved the parrot and plagued the life out of it, jumping up and down in front of the cage. I should have let her put a finger in, he's got a beak like a pair of bolt-cutters.  She also sang us the alphabet something like 16 times.

Gone now.

And [...] the silence surged softly backward,   
   When the plunging hoofs were gone.


Ah, peace.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 August, 2018, 07:24:51 pm
Aching after too much Rushing About.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 19 August, 2018, 08:11:21 pm
Drinking a cooling beer & sweating.  Warm, overcast & humid  :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 19 August, 2018, 08:31:42 pm
Quote from: T42 on 19 August, 2018, 04:48:45 pm
Quote from: T42 on 19 August, 2018, 01:41:00 pm
Waiting for "visitors". Coffee, cake & inane chitchat while a 3-year-old looks round for things to destroy.

And thank God that's over. How to make a two-hour visit feel like half a day year. I'm glad neither of our kids wanted offspring. I've seen good cyclists age 6 months after looking after their kids' brats for a week, and now I know why.  This one was scared stiff of the dogs so we had to shut the poor beasts up in a bedroom, but she loved the parrot and plagued the life out of it, jumping up and down in front of the cage. I should have let her put a finger in, he's got a beak like a pair of bolt-cutters.  She also sang us the alphabet something like 16 times.

Gone now.

And [...] the silence surged softly backward,   
   When the plunging hoofs were gone.


Ah, peace.

L'enfer, c'est les enfants des autres.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 August, 2018, 08:57:49 pm
Looking after a friend's cat. He's two and full of life, energy and playfulness. Last weekend he met MrLB. I don't think the cat liked him as he did a wee on the papers he'd brought home, threw up in his shoes and randomly bit him 3 times in the first hour.

Over the last week we've set some ground rules. Jumping on the table, fireplace or kitchen surfaces are met with 'paws on the floors please', when he jumps down he gets a munchie. He's been fascinated by the fireplace today and after several threats to jump up, I decided to pick him up and show him the fireplace. He immediately knocked over a wooden elephant. Said elephant is now lying down and the cat is no longer fascinated with the fireplace!!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 August, 2018, 08:59:26 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 19 August, 2018, 08:57:49 pm
Looking after a friend's cat. He's two and full of life, energy and playfulness. Last weekend he met MrLB. I don't think the cat liked him as he did a week on the papers he'd brought home, threw up in his shoes and randomly bit him 3 times in the first hour.
Sounds like true love to me...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 19 August, 2018, 09:01:46 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 19 August, 2018, 08:59:26 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 19 August, 2018, 08:57:49 pm
Looking after a friend's cat. He's two and full of life, energy and playfulness. Last weekend he met MrLB. I don't think the cat liked him as he did a week on the papers he'd brought home, threw up in his shoes and randomly bit him 3 times in the first hour.
Sounds like true love to me...

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 August, 2018, 08:03:10 pm
Sitting in a bar in Zurich watching slightly illegal cycling Swiss style. Three bikes, two lights. The front one has the front light, the back one the rear light. It is so obvious I wonder I even mention it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jakob W on 20 August, 2018, 08:07:52 pm
By normal Swiss standards that would count as raging anarchy, but Zurich does have a bit of a bohemian underbelly...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 22 August, 2018, 09:08:45 am
Trying to work up the enthusiasm to turn on my work laptop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: slowfen on 22 August, 2018, 09:36:05 am
avoiding housework
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 22 August, 2018, 09:38:39 am
Mulling over what to do next: go over to the workshop & work out how to accommodate new table saw, go & buy timber, clean bike :( or have another coffee and go on mulling it over, or just go on mulling it over sans coffee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 22 August, 2018, 09:42:43 am
you could carry on mulling it over while deciding what to do
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 22 August, 2018, 12:18:44 pm
That's exactly what I did, then had lunch. Now, what to do...?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 22 August, 2018, 01:27:21 pm
cogitate a bit more, while you digest?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 August, 2018, 08:26:14 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 22 August, 2018, 09:08:45 am
Trying to work up the enthusiasm to turn on my work laptop.


One of my colleagues had problems with his work laptop today.  With the encouragement of our offshore helpdesk he found a tiny hole in the bottom & pushed something with a pin.  Result , one totally dead laptop and the offshore team saying they could only make it a priority 3 , so a 3 day resolution  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 23 August, 2018, 08:34:06 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 23 August, 2018, 08:26:14 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 22 August, 2018, 09:08:45 am
Trying to work up the enthusiasm to turn on my work laptop.


One of my colleagues had problems with his work laptop today.  With the encouragement of our offshore helpdesk he found a tiny hole in the bottom & pushed something with a pin.  Result , one totally dead laptop and the offshore team saying they could only make it a priority 3 , so a 3 day resolution  :facepalm:
And of course, his/her boss won’t be in any way sympathetic or helpful.

My laptop decided it needed to reboot for an update this morning when I logged on, and I was shouting at it that it didn’t need to bother 😃🤣 However, it would seem that the Windows 10 Rebuilds hat have caused me so much grief in the past have actually delivered something of value because it on;y took 10 minutes from first power, to working system including a reboot. I’m still glad that tomorrow morning will be the last I will ever HAVE to use Windows. 🤓
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Post by: andrewc on 24 August, 2018, 11:01:36 am
Oh god yes. My 10 year old iMac is quicker to start up & shut down  than my decently specced work laptop.
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Post by: Morat on 24 August, 2018, 02:05:20 pm
Eating smoked mackerel for lunch in an attempt to lose weight (and possibly friends).
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Post by: ElyDave on 24 August, 2018, 03:36:01 pm
trying to use up my Friday afternoon before attempting to remove a ST BB for inspection, and then replace.

The siren call of the shed is ringing in my ears
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Post by: mike on 24 August, 2018, 03:54:13 pm
wondering why someone scheduled a video conference call for 4.30 on a friday, when the sun's out and I could be on a bike...
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Post by: T42 on 24 August, 2018, 04:12:51 pm
Futilely searching for a half-decent combination square that won't cost my eye-teeth.
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Post by: SteveC on 24 August, 2018, 04:23:27 pm
I usually post in this thread that I'm procrastinating about packing the car for some trip or other.
This time, the car is already packed and I'm at a bit of a loose end (which in someways is nice).
All that is worrying me is that we still have at least four more bags (including the booze for the weekend) to get into the car which is already full.
If you hear swearing coming from Somerset early tomorrow morning, that will probably be me!
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Post by: lou boutin on 25 August, 2018, 07:56:39 am
I'm watching The Breakfast Club.  I remember reading somewhere that Molly Ringwold has found some of the scenes disturbing in the light of the #MeToo movement. I think I agree.
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Post by: T42 on 25 August, 2018, 08:15:50 am
Waiting for FedEx.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 25 August, 2018, 02:43:00 pm
Waiting for a plane (in that most exotic of locations, Stornoway Airport).
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Post by: lou boutin on 25 August, 2018, 03:19:09 pm
Trying to figure out how to stop a very very frustrated cat from attacking me.  I currently look like I self harm.  The cat is staying with me while my friend moves house and has been here for two weeks now.  He can't go out but wants to and thinks I'm a bad human for not letting him out. 
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Post by: andrewc on 29 August, 2018, 06:56:30 pm
Lying in my tent, listening to the rain,
And wishing I hadn’t pitched quite so far from the toilet block  :-X
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Post by: Gattopardo on 29 August, 2018, 07:17:31 pm
Is it too early to drink?
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Post by: Canardly on 29 August, 2018, 08:24:39 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 29 August, 2018, 06:56:30 pm
Lying in my tent, listening to the rain,
And wishing I hadn’t pitched quite so far from the toilet block  :-X
This is the only certfied environmentally friendly use of a plastic bottle.
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Post by: Kim on 29 August, 2018, 08:37:32 pm
Breathing.  And intermittently glaring at wasps.
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Post by: ElyDave on 29 August, 2018, 08:42:10 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 29 August, 2018, 07:17:31 pm
Is it too early to drink?

Not where I am.

New gin this evening
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Post by: Canardly on 29 August, 2018, 08:53:18 pm
Marvelling at how quickly autumn taps on the window after the August bank holiday.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 29 August, 2018, 09:00:14 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 29 August, 2018, 08:42:10 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 29 August, 2018, 07:17:31 pm
Is it too early to drink?

Not where I am.

New gin this evening

Suspect it is more of a should I.
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Post by: Kim on 29 August, 2018, 10:21:21 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 29 August, 2018, 08:53:18 pm
Marvelling at how quickly autumn taps on the window after during the August bank holiday.

FTFY
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 30 August, 2018, 08:58:58 am
Sitting in a beautiful backstreet coffee shop in Lewes before I go to the court. Just not eaten possibly the worst full English of my life. Not being racist but even the egg yolk was white!
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Post by: T42 on 30 August, 2018, 09:08:25 am
Having a break from the workshop & wondering if another coffee would be too many.
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Post by: Aunt Maud on 30 August, 2018, 09:17:40 am
Psyching myself up to do more welding on The Ugabug-chugabug.
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Post by: Kim on 30 August, 2018, 09:25:26 am
Quote from: Kim on 29 August, 2018, 08:37:32 pm
Breathing.  And intermittently glaring at wasps.

Full time work this breathing lark...  at least the wasps have gone.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 30 August, 2018, 10:36:11 am
Quote from: chrisbainbridge on 30 August, 2018, 08:58:58 am
Sitting in a beautiful backstreet coffee shop in Lewes before I go to the court. Just not eaten possibly the worst full English of my life. Not being racist but even the egg yolk was white!
My great grandfather was governor of Lewes prison.  So if it all goes Horribly Wrong you can be comforted by that piece of trivia.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 August, 2018, 04:53:23 pm
Contemplating the weather.  I should have taken a picture of those mountains yesterday afternoon when it was 19 degrees and sunny.

Bah!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 August, 2018, 05:06:52 pm
Thinking of throwing the automated network deployment and management system I am working on out of the 7th floor window.
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Post by: T42 on 31 August, 2018, 07:03:21 am
Just had breakfast, and in half an hour I'm going for pizza.
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Post by: ElyDave on 31 August, 2018, 09:10:22 am
just booked flights for my upcoming trip to Norway, as usual it's a case of "How effin' much?".

There is a need for a bit of doublethink here in just disconnecting your brain from normal pricing and switching to Norway. 
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Post by: Aunt Maud on 31 August, 2018, 09:12:54 am
Psyching myself up to do more welding on The Ugabug-chugabug.
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Post by: tiermat on 31 August, 2018, 09:15:19 am
Wondering why people, consistently, don't listen to requirements and add their biases.

It's not just on here (though it does happen a fair bit here), I get it at work, too.  The worst bit is the work ones are most deffo from people who should know better!
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Post by: Paul on 31 August, 2018, 09:29:21 am
Quote from: Aunt Maud on 31 August, 2018, 09:12:54 am
Psyching myself up to do more welding on The Ugabug-chugabug.
Has there been actual welding between posts?
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Post by: andrewc on 31 August, 2018, 11:21:14 am
Sitting outside de Gouden Leeuw in Grave. Sipping Affligem while waiting for Schnitzel met friet.
 8)
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Post by: Ham on 31 August, 2018, 01:32:04 pm
Wishing I were sitting outside de Gouden Leeuw etc.
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Post by: Aunt Maud on 31 August, 2018, 04:15:43 pm
Quote from: Paul on 31 August, 2018, 09:29:21 am
Quote from: Aunt Maud on 31 August, 2018, 09:12:54 am
Psyching myself up to do more welding on The Ugabug-chugabug.
Has there been actual welding between posts?

Indeed there has been welding and painting, but it's not over yet coz tomorrow I'll be...........

Psyching myself up to do more welding on The Ugabug-chugabug.
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Post by: Torslanda on 31 August, 2018, 05:08:28 pm
Bill Smith - the guy leading the Bluebird K7 rebuild (http://www.bluebirdproject.com/#) - has said many times that wherever possible they would repair the original panels but draw the line when the panel became more patch than hole...
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Post by: Andrij on 02 September, 2018, 06:07:42 pm
Not Packing

On Tuesday I begin a trip to the Colonies (not all, just two of them), and shall be away for a several of weeks.  This will cover the end of Summer and start of Fall - actual weather changes, not just dates on the calendar.  I shall be partaking in manual labour (thank you, family), attending a conference, meeting $RespectedAuthorities, as well as a little bit of 'relaxing' (including some cycling!).  So, I just need to be ready for hot to cool; grubby to suited & booted.  This requires more thought and planning than I can muster at the moment.  Hmm... maybe this could have gone into the Grumble Thread, or #FWP.

If you're looking for a sure bet, put your money on "Andrij doesn't get much sleep Monday night".
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Post by: Beardy on 06 September, 2018, 04:50:41 pm
Drinking more than is probably good for me at my mother’s wake. I’m not sure she would have approved, but I’m pretty sure she’d have understood.
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Post by: bludger on 06 September, 2018, 05:41:47 pm
Just had my last day. Got a cracking haul of presents including posh chocs and £70 in halfrauds vouchers. Result!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 September, 2018, 05:50:02 pm
Hoping that the development guys in San Jose will contact me for a Webex to fix the appliance that is driving me potty.
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Post by: ElyDave on 06 September, 2018, 07:10:35 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 06 September, 2018, 04:50:41 pm
Drinking more than is probably good for me at my mother’s wake. I’m not sure she would have approved, but I’m pretty sure she’d have understood.

I think that's entirely reasonably
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Post by: Beardy on 06 September, 2018, 07:29:36 pm
I’m very pleased with my children and their significant others who have all stepped up and taken care of me. 
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Post by: Jurek on 06 September, 2018, 07:49:58 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 06 September, 2018, 07:29:36 pm
I’m very pleased with my children and their significant others who have all stepped up and taken care of me.
I'm of an age where that sort of thing is deeply appreciated.
Stick with them.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 September, 2018, 08:47:49 pm
Enjoy the booze and your family. Hope it doesn't hurt too much more in the morning.
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Post by: ElyDave on 06 September, 2018, 09:00:35 pm
grumbling internally, don't ask
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Post by: andrewc on 07 September, 2018, 03:06:41 pm
Suffering. So far 61Km into a cold, battering headwind & another 9 to the ferry port at Hoek van Holland. Where I’ll have about 2-3 hours to kill before boarding.
My arse hurts, my hands & wrists hurt. I’ve finished the munchie bars & my last apple.


Why am I still smiling?  :-D
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Post by: lou boutin on 08 September, 2018, 08:53:13 am
Sending hugs Beardy.

1) nursing a caffeine deprivation headache. - I'm cutting down to one coffee a day. It was okay during hot weather but I seem to have a headache each morning now.  I think it might be that during the summer I was drinking 3lts of water a day, now I'm drinking about 1.8lts

2) catching up on Coebrity Masterchef and laughing at the British Airway head chef's frustration at the celebs in his kitchen.

3) trying to decide how to colour my hair. I've bleached my grey steak back in so the grey can growth trough behind it.  I'm thinking of using chalks to add in colours.  I fancy blue.

4) trying to find the motivation to get out of bed.  I've been awake since 5am.

5) about to stat day one of low carb, low sugar 800 calories away for 8 weeks.  I did this before (finished a couple of weeks ago) and lost 1 stone.  THis tome I don't need to lose a stone, but would like to lose 4-6lbs. So will keep going until I get to target. 
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Post by: andrewc on 08 September, 2018, 10:27:38 am
On a stupidly overcrowded CrossCountry train from Cambridge to Birmingham. Loads of people standing. I had to squeeze my (reserved) bike on. The couple who tried to get on with a tandem at Ely had no chance.
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Post by: Beardy on 08 September, 2018, 10:29:35 am
Upsetting Dr Beardy (Mrs). Apparently the fact that my opinion will be ignored and/or over ruled is not a reason to not enthusiastically engage in nor voice an opinion on what shade of white (?) I will be painting the house. Hey ho

And thank you all for your kind thoughts and comments. They’ve helped me immensely.
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Post by: Kim on 08 September, 2018, 10:42:04 am
Quote from: andrewc on 08 September, 2018, 10:27:38 am
On a stupidly overcrowded CrossCountry train from Cambridge to Birmingham. Loads of people standing. I had to squeeze my (reserved) bike on. The couple who tried to get on with a tandem at Ely had no chance.

Hate that train...
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Post by: andrewc on 08 September, 2018, 11:00:38 am
I’ve got a reserved seat, but it’s in the next carriage from my bike & kit. Just left Peterboghorror & even more people got on, can’t be safe to have this many people standing.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 08 September, 2018, 11:00:50 am
We are on a privatised train between Vienna and Salzburg. The advantage is that it cost us less than €18 each compared to €54 on ÖBB. The disadvantage is that it smells like a pendolino.

Furthermore, and moreover, there are distinct “his n hers” bogs, which seems a little unnecessary on a train. “His” has a urinal as well as a pan. Austrian overengineering at its finest.
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Post by: Jakob W on 08 September, 2018, 12:04:46 pm
Quote from: Kim on 08 September, 2018, 10:42:04 am
Quote from: andrewc on 08 September, 2018, 10:27:38 am
On a stupidly overcrowded CrossCountry train from Cambridge to Birmingham. Loads of people standing. I had to squeeze my (reserved) bike on. The couple who tried to get on with a tandem at Ely had no chance.

Hate that train...

I have enough of an aversion to CrossCountry that I will take the train to Liverpool Street and cross town to get a train to Brum rather than get the Cambridge-Brum train. Usually works out significantly cheaper, as well, as CrossCountry advance fares seem to be nonexistent (or do they just all sell out weeks in advance?).
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Post by: Kim on 08 September, 2018, 12:30:03 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 08 September, 2018, 11:00:50 am
Furthermore, and moreover, there are distinct “his n hers” bogs, which seems a little unnecessary on a train. “His” has a urinal as well as a pan. Austrian overengineering at its finest.

One man's overengineering is the next woman's not having to sit in the last man's piss.
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Post by: andrewc on 08 September, 2018, 12:59:09 pm
Now on a London North Western From Mordor to Lime St. Ahhhh that’s better...
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Post by: Beardy on 08 September, 2018, 01:22:07 pm
Quote from: Kim on 08 September, 2018, 12:30:03 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 08 September, 2018, 11:00:50 am
Furthermore, and moreover, there are distinct “his n hers” bogs, which seems a little unnecessary on a train. “His” has a urinal as well as a pan. Austrian overengineering at its finest.

One man's overengineering is the next woman's not having to sit in the last man's piss.
i thought that’s what a shewee was for.

R&DfC
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Post by: Kim on 08 September, 2018, 02:59:35 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 08 September, 2018, 01:22:07 pm
Quote from: Kim on 08 September, 2018, 12:30:03 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 08 September, 2018, 11:00:50 am
Furthermore, and moreover, there are distinct “his n hers” bogs, which seems a little unnecessary on a train. “His” has a urinal as well as a pan. Austrian overengineering at its finest.

One man's overengineering is the next woman's not having to sit in the last man's piss.
i thought that’s what a shewee was for.

Train toilets are one of the canonical use-cases.
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Post by: Beardy on 09 September, 2018, 02:22:14 pm
Digesting roast beef, Yorkshire puddings et al, followed by sticky toffee pud. The two pints of Ghost Ship used to lubricate said victuals might precipitate a snooze.
Contented sigh! 
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Post by: telstarbox on 09 September, 2018, 02:25:39 pm
You've just reminded me I've got a Ghost Ship in the fridge. Might open it now.
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Post by: T42 on 09 September, 2018, 02:27:42 pm
Savouring my own garlicky breath and thinking "that's the stuff".
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Post by: andrewc on 09 September, 2018, 02:58:45 pm
Feeling crap. I appear to have come back from my Dutch Jollydays with a stinking cold.
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Post by: T42 on 09 September, 2018, 03:56:58 pm
This was the first sign of the notorious "Dutch flu" which decimated the UK in 2019...
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Post by: Beardy on 09 September, 2018, 07:30:55 pm
Quote from: T42 on 09 September, 2018, 03:56:58 pm
This was the first sign of the notorious "Dutch flu" which decimated the UK in 2019...
Damn foreign germs coming over here and taking work from hard working British germs....
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Post by: andrewc on 09 September, 2018, 07:53:25 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 09 September, 2018, 07:30:55 pm
Quote from: T42 on 09 September, 2018, 03:56:58 pm
This was the first sign of the notorious "Dutch flu" which decimated the UK in 2019...
Damn foreign germs coming over here and taking work from hard working British germs....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch7N7KCn778
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Post by: Beardy on 09 September, 2018, 08:56:24 pm
That programme used to give me nightmares. 
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Post by: Kim on 09 September, 2018, 08:57:49 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 09 September, 2018, 08:56:24 pm
That programme used to give me nightmares.

Yeah, the idea that if the plague didn't wipe us out, we'd end up in an episode of The Good Life...
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Post by: andrewc on 09 September, 2018, 09:45:13 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/09/spanish-flu-pandemic-centenary-first-world-war


Hopefully just a coincidence....
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Post by: T42 on 10 September, 2018, 09:00:58 am
Just rubbed copious amounts of ketoprofen into a quad that suddenly went stiff & sore when I was going downstairs and still hurts an hour later. :(
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 11 September, 2018, 10:53:14 am
Waiting to board an Aer lingus flight to Boston
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Post by: Beardy on 11 September, 2018, 12:10:25 pm
Staring across the Orwell at Felixstowe docks and sulking a little because the barman wouldn’t take my order for a sossige samwich at five to twelve; 'can’t do food til twelve'.  >:( Judging by the lacklustre flavour of the coffee it might have been a lucky escape.  :-\
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Post by: Redjeep! on 11 September, 2018, 10:30:27 pm
Lying on the sofa. Right knee still aching after a cartilage operation last week.

A pint of craft IPA in my right hand is doing it's best to quell the pain.
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Post by: Speshact on 11 September, 2018, 11:18:55 pm
Failing to quite finalise www.themarvellouscraggs.co.uk, though if anyone from YACF does come along to London's Cinema Museum in Kennington this Friday evening I'm sure it will all run as smoothly as can be...
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Post by: Andrij on 12 September, 2018, 02:35:09 am
Quote from: Kim on 09 September, 2018, 08:57:49 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 09 September, 2018, 08:56:24 pm
That programme used to give me nightmares.

Yeah, the idea that if the plague didn't wipe us out, we'd end up in an episode of The Good Life...

Surviving the apocalypse with Felicity Kendal?  How do I sign up?
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Post by: Andrij on 12 September, 2018, 12:54:57 pm
Currently catching up with Mr Larrington's Automatic Diary.  I've fallen nearly a week behind!
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Post by: Kim on 12 September, 2018, 01:19:56 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 September, 2018, 12:54:57 pm
Currently catching up with Mr Larrington's Automatic Diary.  I've fallen nearly a week behind!

Are you DHL?
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Post by: Andrij on 12 September, 2018, 01:39:49 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 September, 2018, 01:19:56 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 12 September, 2018, 12:54:57 pm
Currently catching up with Mr Larrington's Automatic Diary.  I've fallen nearly a week behind!

Are you DHL?

That's probably a reference to something I have yet to read (I keep getting interrupted).
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Post by: spesh on 12 September, 2018, 01:45:52 pm
I don't recall Mr Larrington saying anything about DHL's tardiness in this year's travelblog, I think Kim is referring to grumbles/rants passim by forumites who have been expecting deliveries.
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Post by: andrewc on 12 September, 2018, 02:00:16 pm
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=109166.0

"DHL say the Soup Dragon may reach Reno tomorrow; since they can't actually state with any certainty whether it's in Cincinnati or Las Vegas we are taking this with a large dose of NaCl."
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Post by: spesh on 12 September, 2018, 02:02:08 pm
I sit corrected.
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Post by: T42 on 13 September, 2018, 10:54:39 am
Taking my ease and my tea while the glue dries.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 September, 2018, 08:13:02 pm
Fallen through a timewarp to the 80s apparently, but with WiFi. The Mercure Altringham is a hotel like I have not encountered in decadeds.
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Post by: Torslanda on 13 September, 2018, 08:21:05 pm
Bowdon is a vortex all of its own.

Haven't been there since the late 80s, not at all surprised to hear that nothing's changed...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 September, 2018, 08:29:26 pm
I am half expecting them to bring the sweet trolly round for me to select a desert from.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 September, 2018, 09:57:12 pm
Oh god I feel gulty for asking them for a coffee at the hideously late time of 9.45
I entered the resteraunt at 8.15 and had a starter and the cheese  board. There were six other dinners and three wAIting staff but that overwhelmed them.
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Post by: Torslanda on 13 September, 2018, 10:22:39 pm
'Is it on the trolley?'
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 13 September, 2018, 10:42:53 pm
Listening to Mrs CET trying to fill in a passport application.  She is dyslexic and I can always find the wrong answer to a badly worded question.  Recipe for disaster.
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Post by: Greenbank on 15 September, 2018, 02:17:04 pm
Throwing away more stuff.

Last few weeks have been Le Grand Shred (bank statements from 1992!)

Today was the turn of the garden shed as I've just rented a Storeshed over the road. Space for my commuter and the Mrs GB and MiniGB's bikes. Easier access and more secure too.

An old cheap pine shelving unit awaits being attacked with a saw (to remove the bottom two shelves to give space for wheels) so I can have a bit of storage in there too.

SO MUCH UNNECESSARY STUFF BEING KEPT!

[EDIT] Found 3 Zefal HPX pumps (two size 3, one size 4) plus two other minipumps (to go with the 3 elsewhere in a box).

Good news is I found a pair of M520 pedals which can replace the set on the Wilier which are very rusty.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 September, 2018, 04:10:41 pm
Feels good having a purge, dunnit?
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Post by: rafletcher on 15 September, 2018, 04:38:11 pm
WIting for an Amazon delivery. Their helpful “track your shipment” shows it’s “out for delivery, due by 9pm”  ::-). DPD all is forgiven.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 September, 2018, 05:16:24 pm
Listening to our brand new neighbours sanding their bedroom floor. Judging by the fact that a)it's not loud enough to be shaking the walls and b) the noise stops every 3 or 4 seconds I'd say they are using a DIY sander rather than having hired a proper floor sander. Surely they'd have finished hours ago otherwise.
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Post by: T42 on 15 September, 2018, 05:26:37 pm
If so, they'll probably be hiring a proper sander to fix it.

Meanwhile, I'm wondering what invisible something I have in the tip of my right index finger to make it hurt like that.  If me da were here he'd be telling me it'll turn into a pig's foot.
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Post by: Manotea on 15 September, 2018, 05:33:52 pm
About to drill two holes in a pristine wall in order to hang a mirror, by order of The Management.

My fear is that by the time I'm finished I'll actually have drilled three or four holes. Nobody will notice but I'll know......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 September, 2018, 06:05:04 pm
Quote from: Manotea on 15 September, 2018, 05:33:52 pm
About to drill two holes in a pristine wall in order to hang a mirror, by order of The Management.

My fear is that by the time I'm finished I'll actually have drilled three or four holes. Nobody will notice but I'll know......
BTDTGTTS
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 16 September, 2018, 05:14:30 pm
Recovering. Since Friday I have fretted my first guitar neck, dressed the frets, oiled and waxed it, finished the body, fitted the neck, carved wiring channels, wired it, put on the tuners & string trees, made a bridge, strung it and waxed off a few scratches, finishing five minutes before daughter + partner arrived, the guitar being a birthday present for the latter. After lunch I took him over to the workshop and set it up to suit him, then made a string-lifter to fit over the zeroth fret so that he could play slide. Then stood around grinning while he played for two solid hours.

Trouble is that he's a good guitarist but some of the stuff he likes, in particular descending bass slides played in quick succession, sounds a bit like the noises I made throwing up on Tuesday night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 16 September, 2018, 08:46:54 pm
Getting tearful over Grayson Perry’s last programme about rituals. Superb.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 21 September, 2018, 09:19:33 pm
Listening to Ruelle (through the speakers, she's not in my house, though she's always welcome to come around) and watching my wife pack for a trip to Canadia while supping a Wiper & True Kaleidoscope pale ale (available in Waitrose, buy it, it's got beernommy). You're not helping is what she periodically shouts my way. Which I'm not. I'm supervising pizza dough. I did explain my preference for daughter naming and she agrees that October is a brill name and Emmaline is fine, provided it rhymes with Caroline. She's also sure Pankhurst is a liner and not a leener, so it probably stupid BBC meddling with pronunciation (just where are the group's pronunciation nazis today?). She pulled that no face at Meredith. She also yelled I don't care what she's called, you're not impregnating me. Really, those were the words she used and I think the rest of the valley can confirm. That sound you hear are the nails being hammered into the coffin of romance. Even if she's to be called October apparently. Bugger, I'm going to have to write an entire book with a character called October now. Honestly, if I could write a book in thirty seconds, I would. Writing a book is just not an efficient way of manufacturing an October.

Apropos of nothing, this reminds me that my wife's friend, as we celebrated the birth of her daughter with booze, confided that post-extraction her vagina felt as wide as the Blackwall tunnel. Then, bleary-eyed, she belatedly noted you're not Clare [my wife] are you? No, I'm not and never was and really the bar wasn't that dark. I probably should stop forwarding Blackwall Tunnel traffic reports. Well, that's what she tells me.

I need a story for October now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 22 September, 2018, 11:27:37 am
Something Wicked This Way Comes has October in it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 22 September, 2018, 09:27:11 pm
Sitting on sofa and looking at bits of a coffee machine on the floor.

God I can get side tracked...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 22 September, 2018, 09:29:35 pm
I decided October lives in her dead parents' old house in the Quiet Corner. She's quite definitely having a bad night in. Wicked it will be. I think she'll be OK.

I'm having a better night in, temporarily freed of marital shackles I'm drinking all the beer that doesn't have a post-it note that says NO! on it. Which meant going to the shops because she's labelled every single can. Sometimes sharing sucks. Really, I'm going to find her stock of post-its and bin them. She's a serious labeller. You know the girl at school who wrote her name on everything, from her pencil case to her PE stuff? I married her. I expect to find she's stuck a post-it note to my back.

Bread is being made. I predict the most awesome grilled cheese sandwiches. I've figured out a way to exponentiate cheese. You take the bread, slice it, and soak each slice in cheese sauce. Then assemble a sandwich with your cheese impregnated bread slices filled with generous (don't you dare be modest) amounts of grated cheese, onion, and paprika, squish it all together and fry the hell of out it and flip. The middle should, of course, be properly molten. If not, fry it some more until everything is toasty. The result is basically awesome spelled out with cheese.

I think I just drooled on my keyboard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 September, 2018, 11:06:30 pm
Your wife is me and I claim my five pounds (and it appears we share the same name too).
Your cheese sandwhich sounds like an Elvis waiting to happen.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 23 September, 2018, 12:12:21 am
I thought an 'Elvis' was a bananananananana/PBJ sandwich, fried in butter.

Hungry now! [grams] 'WHOOSH! SIZZZZZZZZZLE! YUUMMMMMM....!'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 23 September, 2018, 05:50:56 am
Getting ready to leave the house at 6:30, to get to Hammerfest in about 12 hours with three flights
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 23 September, 2018, 10:40:23 am
Applying tea & buns to Mrs. T, who has just run a half-marathon in the rain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 23 September, 2018, 11:15:43 am
Making mint jelly. Then some curry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 23 September, 2018, 11:39:42 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 22 September, 2018, 11:06:30 pm
Your wife is me and I claim my five pounds (and it appears we share the same name too).
Your cheese sandwhich sounds like an Elvis waiting to happen.

It was quite the most awesome of sandwiches and indeed, I felt the presence of Elvis. The trick is to make a really dense cheese sauce so you don't end up with entirely soggy bread, it has to fry till it's crispy on the outsides, but be moist enough that there's time for the cheese innards to properly melt and the onion to sweeten. Went lovely with a Mad Squirrel Opaque IPA.

Awesome aside, I'm probably not going to eat any more cheese today.

My wife sent me a distress message from her destination. What awful travelling horror has befallen her! Air Canada had NO tonic water, that's what. I think she may have DMed Trudeaux on Twitter.

Today promises to be pleasingly dull. I should do something like go ride my bike. But you know. Rain. Rain. Rain. More rain. And I presume the noise that sounds like someone is doing something distressful to a donkey on an industrial scale down in the valley means there are no trains. Yup.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 23 September, 2018, 12:01:07 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 23 September, 2018, 12:12:21 am
I thought an 'Elvis' was a bananananananana/PBJ sandwich, fried in butter.

Hungry now! [grams] 'WHOOSH! SIZZZZZZZZZLE! YUUMMMMMM....!'

A friend of mine had the Luther at Churchkey in DC. Fried chicken in a glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut with inappropriately appropriate trimmings. A bite was enough. I occasionally like chicken and waffle which it's obviously a riff on, and I  enjoy pancakes with all the breakfast trimmings when I'm in the mood stateside (we can't do it right in Britain), but glazed doughnut is a bit much.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 27 September, 2018, 08:19:12 pm
Yesterday and today (and on-off the previous two weeks) I have been playing 3D-Tetris, as Mother has decided to move into a smaller home (and one without stairs).  We paid proper movers to handle the big/heavy stuff, but because $REASONS there are many things which we've moved - or still need to move - ourselves.

I am also rejoicing in the fact that my back has survived through the worst of the moving.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 27 September, 2018, 10:58:29 pm
Sitting up and watching crap TV while I wait for my lift to arrive to Heathrow at 02:15. A boys weekend in Kiev awaits.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 01 October, 2018, 09:50:22 am
Clumping round the house in a pair of new walking boots, trying to decide if they fit properly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 01 October, 2018, 09:57:50 am
Waiting for a UPS van to arrive with my replacement HRM strap (not entirely urgent as Garmin does wrist based HR but I don't want the faff of having to rearrange delivery/collection).
Because of that, holding off getting the soot bike out of the bike bunker in order to fit new pedals (old ones are rusty and found a spare set of M520s in the grand clearout).
Because of those, holding off going for a 2-3h bimble around Richmond Park to help get fit and unfat.

To pass the time I'm faffing at home and playing Golf Clash to help my daughter progress in the game. (Although it may be because I like playing games too.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 01 October, 2018, 11:26:15 am
Waiting for the aeroplane that will take us back to London.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 01 October, 2018, 09:31:37 pm
Arriving home after flying back to London. Five a.m. starts don't suit my temperament. That dread moment when I opened my eyes and saw the alarm clock had illuminated (I have one those daylight things), swearing that I'd only just gone to bed (a double episode of Fringe and DDHed something-or-other from Northern Monk meant that was essentially true). It always seems like a better idea the night before. I left the house to the sound of a cat throwing up and a plaintive cry from my wife. I don't know where she learned those words (my wife, the cat sounded like she was trying call forth Cthulu). Sorry, dear, but my taxi was outside.

Got a taxi ride in a posh Tesla thing from Schiphol down to the Leiden. I couldn't figure out how to open the door. Honestly, I like door handles. My car, admittedly, still has windows you have to roll down by hand. Despite a sat-nav system that seemed to occupy the entire dashboard, we still got lost. An inability to follow clear directions has always been Elon Musk's downfall too. You can't get in a gull-wing car without feeling like you've stepped into a mildly better future than the one we will get. I once drove a DeLorean around a Walmart carpark in NJ. I did ask, apparently the owner wasn't convinced it would do 88mph without a mechanical calamity. Probably hard to get a replacement flux capacitor these days. That, incidentally, was my first ever driving lesson. I may not have pointed that out until I was in the driving seat. Americans assume that babies simply drive out of the womb (and, if my experience is to be believed, directly onto the Garden State Parkway).

Starving now because I've only a yoghurty thing all day (that's what happens when you spend the time allotted for lunch circling Leiden in a Tesla). Of course, my wife is out and won't be back till late (wait till she learns they've replaced the trains with a bus service after 11pm – oh, those words again), so I can't even eat. I feel this justifies a school-night G&T.

Yes, my life is actually this exciting. I don't know how I bear it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 October, 2018, 01:05:31 pm
My grate frend Mr Gracey has a Tesla Model 3.  That giant free-floating tablet thing it sports in lieu of a dashboard would drive me into a big stabby rage in minutes, and it comes worryingly close to the driver's kneecap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 02 October, 2018, 01:12:28 pm
At some point we'll outgrow the engineers who watched Star Trek: The Next Generation as children and hopefully all this touchscreen nonsense will stop.  No doubt to be replaced by something worse.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 02 October, 2018, 01:31:59 pm
We travelled too and from Heathrow in my friends Lexus which has a built in Satnav and this, along with all the other cars ancillaries, is controlled by a big twiddly pushy knob in the centre consol. So it would seem that the Japanese are already ahead of the curve on that one. As usual.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 02 October, 2018, 01:40:17 pm
A Tesla does seem like the sort of car invented for boys. (Not that I think girls can't have them of course, I just like to think they have more sense.)

I have a twelve year old Ford Ka which is basically a glorified supermarket trolley with an engine. I'm obviously not up on the modern car thang. I do like the cars that park themselves on the grounds that I never learned how to park a car (it's the US, you stop and get out, job done).

Anyway, it's all voice control innit. You get in, tell it where to go. Rephrase it more politely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 October, 2018, 11:32:54 am
Installing a full copy of Texlive on my laptop. To be followed by the latest version of LyX.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 October, 2018, 12:26:22 pm
Well, I should be getting ready to go cycling, but I've got a bad attack of ICBA syndrome.  I'll see after I finish my current cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 October, 2018, 09:14:05 pm
Drinking beer (a Mondo Dennis Hopp'r IPA), booming some tunez (new speakers go a lot louder, good job I have a detached house), waiting for pizza dough to prove and tomatoes to slow roast, and finishing up some work (an infographic on AI and honestly I just want to draw a Terminator mashing things because SkyNet and Wargames are everything we need to know about AI) for ze Frankfurter Book Fair (at which I won't possibly be running off to the other hall kidnap a literary agent, no sir). I'm supposed to write a presentation but my brain has gone musher than peas. Writing presentations is the main reason for airports to exist. Handily, they seem to be where I spend half my life.

In other news, someone has finally noted that I've spent the last two years writing to our finance team in the style of HP Lovecraft. Damn them and their eldritch spreadsheets. I need to think of a prize for her. It proves there's actual life on those noisome, fathomless subdecks, something we have questioned for some time. Possibly a rescue mission.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 06 October, 2018, 07:20:22 pm
Sitting in a cinema in Liverpool, wishing I was at the Met in NY for Aida, rather than just watching a live broadcast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 06 October, 2018, 07:35:35 pm
Quote from: ian on 05 October, 2018, 09:14:05 pm
Drinking beer (a Mondo Dennis Hopp'r IPA), booming some tunez (new speakers go a lot louder, good job I have a detached house), waiting for pizza dough to prove and tomatoes to slow roast, and finishing up some work (an infographic on AI and honestly I just want to draw a Terminator mashing things because SkyNet and Wargames are everything we need to know about AI) for ze Frankfurter Book Fair (at which I won't possibly be running off to the other hall kidnap a literary agent, no sir). I'm supposed to write a presentation but my brain has gone musher than peas. Writing presentations is the main reason for airports to exist. Handily, they seem to be where I spend half my life.

In other news, someone has finally noted that I've spent the last two years writing to our finance team in the style of HP Lovecraft. Damn them and their eldritch spreadsheets. I need to think of a prize for her. It proves there's actual life on those noisome, fathomless subdecks, something we have questioned for some time. Possibly a rescue mission.

Hmm, I'm putting off reviewing someone elses slides this weekend on the basis of most of a day ferrying small person around to band practise, ballet practise with shopping and running while I wait. 

I'm supposed to be delivering training in about 15 days based on slides other people are writing, which I haven't seen yet adn have not been discussed with me for content.   I have next Saturday flying to Saudi to review stuff.  Wing it? I'm practically an albatross.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 07 October, 2018, 11:05:49 am
Quote from: andrewc on 06 October, 2018, 07:20:22 pm
Sitting in a cinema in Liverpool, wishing I was at the Met in NY for Aida, rather than just watching a live broadcast.
Dr Beardy (Mrs) raved about this when I picked her up after the show. On the plus side, the advances in broadcasting tech mean that many more of you can watch a production that most would not be able to get to and the extra revenues allow the venues to actually break-even, even on lavish productions like this. On the double plus side, it means that Dr Beardy (Mrs) can attend these productions with her friend rather than taking me to suffer, as she would if we made a trip to New York.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 07 October, 2018, 11:17:05 am
Quote from: Beardy on 07 October, 2018, 11:05:49 am
Quote from: andrewc on 06 October, 2018, 07:20:22 pm
Sitting in a cinema in Liverpool, wishing I was at the Met in NY for Aida, rather than just watching a live broadcast.
Dr Beardy (Mrs) raved about this when I picked her up after the show. On the plus side, the advances in broadcasting tech mean that many more of you can watch a production that most would not be able to get to and the extra revenues allow the venues to actually break-even, even on lavish productions like this. On the double plus side, it means that Dr Beardy (Mrs) can attend these productions with her friend rather than taking me to suffer, as she would if we made a trip to New York.  :-D


It misses the atmosphere of the live show, but on the other hand you get a better view of the proceedings than from any seat I'm ever likely to pay for .   I just wish they'd sort the tech out a bit more.  Every broadcast show I've seen has had some minor glitches.  The intervals take you backstage & you see the stagehands & techs moving the huge sets around which is fascinating, it must take as much practice & rehearsal as the actual performance. 


A great show.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 October, 2018, 08:04:24 pm
Trying to build a VM that uses a small amount of  RAM to be a simple DNS server as it turns out you cant have VMware vCenter without all the ESXi servers and vCenter being resolvable both forwards and reveres by DNS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 07 October, 2018, 08:52:37 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 07 October, 2018, 08:04:24 pm
Trying to build a VM that uses a small amount of  to be a simple DNS server asit turns out you cant have VMware vCenter without all the ESXi servers and vCenter being resolvable both forwards and reveres by DNS.
Speak English  man!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 07 October, 2018, 09:01:32 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 07 October, 2018, 08:04:24 pm
Trying to build a VM that uses a small amount of  to be a simple DNS server asit turns out you cant have VMware vCenter without all the ESXi servers and vCenter being resolvable both forwards and reveres by DNS.

Never bothered with vCenter. I've always just used the vSphere Client from a laptop/desktop to twiddle with the ESXi boxes (this includes my home ESXi server).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 October, 2018, 09:23:41 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 07 October, 2018, 09:01:32 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 07 October, 2018, 08:04:24 pm
Trying to build a VM that uses a small amount of  to be a simple DNS server asit turns out you cant have VMware vCenter without all the ESXi servers and vCenter being resolvable both forwards and reveres by DNS.

Never bothered with vCenter. I've always just used the vSphere Client from a laptop/desktop to twiddle with the ESXi boxes (this includes my home ESXi server).

Ah but most of my enterprise customers use vCenter. Plus I need to play around with Cisco ACI integration with vCenter - this is my actual goal not vCenter for vCenters sake. I need to get Ansible and Postman creating network configs in the Cisco kit and that being pushed to the vMware DVS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 October, 2018, 09:51:29 pm
Quote from: Basil on 07 October, 2018, 08:52:37 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 07 October, 2018, 08:04:24 pm
Trying to build a VM that uses a small amount of  to be a simple DNS server asit turns out you cant have VMware vCenter without all the ESXi servers and vCenter being resolvable both forwards and reveres by DNS.
Speak English  man!

He can't keep track of all his imaginary computers, so he's molishing another imaginary computer to help with the problem.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 07 October, 2018, 10:47:11 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 07 October, 2018, 11:05:49 am
Quote from: andrewc on 06 October, 2018, 07:20:22 pm
Sitting in a cinema in Liverpool, wishing I was at the Met in NY for Aida, rather than just watching a live broadcast.
Dr Beardy (Mrs) raved about this when I picked her up after the show. On the plus side, the advances in broadcasting tech mean that many more of you can watch a production that most would not be able to get to and the extra revenues allow the venues to actually break-even, even on lavish productions like this. On the double plus side, it means that Dr Beardy (Mrs) can attend these productions with her friend rather than taking me to suffer, as she would if we made a trip to New York.  ;D

I can't do opera, so I have to hand my wife to someone who can. I've tried on a non-voluntary basis. I've learned to tolerate classical music in all forms while not pulling that face. I can manage ballet (mostly without making a I don't think she's wearing knickers comment). I'm the official stand-in for her Sadler's Wells season ticket. Something that went unmentioned during our marriage vows.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 08 October, 2018, 01:47:13 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 October, 2018, 09:51:29 pm
Quote from: Basil on 07 October, 2018, 08:52:37 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 07 October, 2018, 08:04:24 pm
Trying to build a VM that uses a small amount of  to be a simple DNS server asit turns out you cant have VMware vCenter without all the ESXi servers and vCenter being resolvable both forwards and reveres by DNS.
Speak English  man!

He can't keep track of all his imaginary computers, so he's molishing another imaginary computer to help with the problem.

Brilliant Kim !  ;D

Its even worse as I am running nested virtualisation. The ESXi servers are actually VMs on VMware Workstation. So any VM on ESXi is an imaginary computer running on an imaginary computer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 08 October, 2018, 08:17:53 pm
waiting to dial into an american conference call and ask some questions which might get some colleagues in the UK out of a hole. for some reason they set it for 4pm east coast when most of us will be in the UK.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 08 October, 2018, 10:08:31 pm
Quote from: matthew on 08 October, 2018, 08:17:53 pm
waiting to dial into an american conference call and ask some questions which might get some colleagues in the UK out of a hole. for some reason they set it for 4pm east coast when most of us will be in the UK.

My usual response to such requests is that if you need me to join, reschedule for a time I'm available and during Uk office hours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 09 October, 2018, 04:09:51 am
Packing for my return to Ole Blighty. 

I hate packing. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 09 October, 2018, 06:20:33 am
Quote from: ian on 08 October, 2018, 10:08:31 pm
Quote from: matthew on 08 October, 2018, 08:17:53 pm
waiting to dial into an american conference call and ask some questions which might get some colleagues in the UK out of a hole. for some reason they set it for 4pm east coast when most of us will be in the UK.

My usual response to such requests is that if you need me to join, reschedule for a time I'm available and during Uk office hours.

Yes, this, very much

Apart from when I was calling the Antipodes and accepted it was just crap for everyone
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 09 October, 2018, 03:41:31 pm
Just had two husky chaps in my bedroom....


Delivering one of John Lewis's  finest solid oak bed frames & a new Hypnos mattress.   The look on their faces when they realised I was on the 4th floor & there is no lift*.......there was much grunting & groaning. Very efficient, took the old mattress & divan away & bolted the new frame together in short time.
 
* I did warn them at the store, and tipped the blokes a tenner each. I think they earned it  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rr on 09 October, 2018, 06:07:01 pm
I've just inspected Mr Larrington's former place of work which is being converted into flats.

Sent from my moto x4 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 09 October, 2018, 10:30:30 pm
Wondering how I might recover some of the surplus of the duvet which is currently hanging off Dr Beardy (Mrs)’s side of the bed, without waking her up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 October, 2018, 11:43:24 pm
We keep an emergency backup duvet handy at the foot of the bed for such eventualities.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 10 October, 2018, 10:24:00 am
Having a cuppa after a strenuous planing/sanding/swearing/sneezing/chiselling/fitting/gluing-up session.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 10 October, 2018, 10:47:05 pm
Quote from: ian on 08 October, 2018, 10:08:31 pm
Quote from: matthew on 08 October, 2018, 08:17:53 pm
waiting to dial into an american conference call and ask some questions which might get some colleagues in the UK out of a hole. for some reason they set it for 4pm east coast when most of us will be in the UK.

My usual response to such requests is that if you need me to join, reschedule for a time I'm available and during Uk office hours.

Agreed, however this was the first time in 11 years and the people on the call were the best in my field in the company. I had no right to expect to contribute but was able to learn a lot as well as back up the uk regulatory arena that the American's aren't familiar with.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 11 October, 2018, 03:33:57 am
Wishing I could get to sleep and now wondering if it's worth trying . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 11 October, 2018, 04:08:24 am
Quote from: andrewc on 09 October, 2018, 03:41:31 pm
Just had two husky chaps in my bedroom....
Delivering one of John Lewis's  finest solid oak bed frames & a new Hypnos mattress.   

Regarding new matresses, I sang the praises of a Tempurfoam mattress as a replacement, Mrs Scum was not convinced at all.
Cue delivery and first sleepies - Mrs Scum hit the pillow and immediately started sleeping like you would see a cartoon character.
Cue eight hours later and she was still fast asleep in exactly the same position.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 11 October, 2018, 09:12:49 am
a good matress is definitely worth spending on, definitely an area where cheap is a false economy
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 11 October, 2018, 09:47:11 am
I tried one of the foam ones in the shop, but didn't like the way I sank into it & had to struggle getting off the thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 11 October, 2018, 10:33:29 am
Slept on a foam mattress in an appartment we rented in Annecy last year.

Hated it, every morning I work up and it felt like I'd weed myself in the night. Obviously I hadn't but it was a very odd feel to it when it had been slept in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 11 October, 2018, 04:36:18 pm
Sitting on the train home from London.  Awful week with very late nights and nearly mornings.  My introvert really kicks in when i am tired.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 October, 2018, 04:38:03 pm
Downloading the GPX of today's ride and listening to Sir Malcom Sargent conducting Má Vlast.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 11 October, 2018, 04:58:22 pm
Quote from: T42 on 11 October, 2018, 04:38:03 pm
Downloading the GPX of today's ride and listening to Sir Malcom Sargent conducting Má Vlast.
Can you actually hear someone conducting an orchestra? ‘ ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 11 October, 2018, 05:02:20 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 11 October, 2018, 04:58:22 pm
Can you actually hear someone conducting an orchestra? ‘ ;D

I've made a couple of orchestral recordings in my yoof, using the binaural pair above the conductor's head technique, and the answer is - perhaps surprisingly - yes.  Conductors should be screened for keys / loose change / etc. before being allowed anywhere near a microphone...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 13 October, 2018, 07:39:44 pm
Contemplating given in to a cold. I've been dodging it for a while. Last weekend my wife had an epic sniffler. So I fled to Frankfurt and spent the week shaking the hands, being hugged, and kissed (occasionally all three) by a large number of people of whom I'm sure 50% had some kind of nasty. Even the precautionary measure of raising my blood gin levels to 90% doesn't seem to have saved me. Swollen throat. Check. Loosening of the mucus in the noseholes. Check. Fudgy brain? Check.

Fuck it. I'm going to drink some beer. If I'm going to feel like shit in the morning I might as well enjoy the night before.

In other news, my wife has taken her mother to Venice for the weekend (and left me to cat-sit). I seem to be getting a lot of texts that begin with oh, FFS, now she's... I have pointed out her mother probably can't swim.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 October, 2018, 07:44:27 pm
Drinking ale by candlelight in my local.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 13 October, 2018, 07:47:21 pm
Quote from: Basil on 13 October, 2018, 07:44:27 pm
Drinking ale by candlelight in my local.
Getting in some pre-Brexit practice?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 13 October, 2018, 08:33:08 pm
That'll be fermented rat blood. Tim Martin will be claiming to everyone who will listen (six drunks and a dog) that it's a lot better than that euro-beer.

I remember once getting completely snowed in at a local tavern (in Coventry, just not that one). Huge snowstorm, eight-foot drifts, like someone had blown up the marshmallow man. What does a man do, but order another beer and three dozen chicken wings. Come the apocalypse! Of course, by the time the ploughs came through, it was 10am and we were so drunk it took another five hours before any of us could drive. Time that might profitably have been used digging out my car, which took another hour. It's a good job I've never had a real job where you have to turn up and stuff. I'd be awful.

I'm doing drugs and alcohol now. Just like rock and roll. Stuff your Lemsip, I'm on ibuprofen and a can of Robots vs. Clowns count. Good god, I'd see that movie. Reminds me that as students, we'd make cocktails that included Night Nurse and nutmeg. That is what happens when you share a house with pharmacologists and nurses.

ETA. I used to be a molecular geneticist. Really, why didn't I cure the common cold?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 13 October, 2018, 08:49:20 pm
Quote from: ian on 13 October, 2018, 07:39:44 pm
In other news, my wife has taken her mother to Venice for the weekend (and left me to cat-sit). I seem to be getting a lot of texts that begin with oh, FFS, now she's... I have pointed out her mother probably can't swim.

I read this to my wife. She said “Is this the man that writes about “bad cat”?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 13 October, 2018, 09:09:30 pm
Shush, both Bad Cat and LMC are quiescent*. They seemingly don't share my taste in music (currently Meg Myers' Take Me to the Disco).

I have to keep my MiL entertained when they get back as my wife has to run off to learn to tap dance (I've stopped asking, it's better to nod and mutter that's nice, dear). Now MiL doesn't know about the entire Alexa thing, so well, what if I wasn't there and the house started talking? It might admittedly result in a heart attack. I explained this to my wife, who looked at me pointedly and said well, you're getting rid of the body.

*words like quiescent and labile are how you spot scientists in general population.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 13 October, 2018, 11:59:07 pm
...and this is the wife who stillettoed your shin when you surprised her with a 'Hi, Honey!' somewhere in the mid-West, yes...?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 14 October, 2018, 09:59:46 am
Having arrived at Riyadh, at 3am this morning rather than 9pm last night, courtesy of Air France, I'm sitting in the hotel recovering while my other colleague is at the refinery.

I don't think me on a refinery with 2 hours sleep would have fully supported the risk assessment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 14 October, 2018, 11:50:55 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 13 October, 2018, 11:59:07 pm
...and this is the wife who stillettoed your shin when you surprised her with a 'Hi, Honey!' somewhere in the mid-West, yes...?

Well, that might have happened more than a few times and in more than a few places, both geographically and anatomically. I'm sure, deep down, she appreciated my surprise appearance. Sometimes she has trouble expressing her emotions in ways that don't endanger my testicles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 14 October, 2018, 12:46:55 pm
Quote from: ian on 14 October, 2018, 11:50:55 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 13 October, 2018, 11:59:07 pm
...and this is the wife who stillettoed your shin when you surprised her with a 'Hi, Honey!' somewhere in the mid-West, yes...?

Well, that might have happened more than a few times and in more than a few places, both geographically and anatomically. I'm sure, deep down, she appreciated my surprise appearance. Sometimes she has trouble expressing her emotions in ways that don't endanger my testicles.
T.M.I. !!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 October, 2018, 12:49:06 pm
Arming myself with broom and shovel before setting of to meet everyone else at the square.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 14 October, 2018, 02:45:59 pm
Quote from: Basil on 14 October, 2018, 12:49:06 pm
Arming myself with broom and shovel before setting of to meet everyone else at the square.

The climate-change version of torches and pitchforks...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 October, 2018, 11:25:08 am
Sitting in a cafe being forced to eat bacunz rolls and cake while I wait for Pingu to ride home and get the car to rescue my b0rked bike.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 20 October, 2018, 11:40:09 am
wot you dun to it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 October, 2018, 12:05:13 pm
Bang.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1962/30504919687_fb7427f7dc_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/NtBFRa)Oh bugger! (https://flic.kr/p/NtBFRa) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 October, 2018, 12:06:28 pm
Could probably have got home on that but it would have been long, slow and boring and into a cold headwind.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 23 October, 2018, 11:09:42 am
Waiting for a tuit of sufficient force1 to descend on me so that I can get on with tidying2 out the girls old bedroom. Dr Beardy (Mrs) seems to have plans for me to decorate it as well.

1. Or for DrBEARDY (Mrs) to descend the wooden hill3 and tell me to get the f***4 on with it.

2. When I say tidy, Dr Beardy (Mrs) means dispose of the contents therein and replace with new as required.

3. Dr Beardy (Mrs) is Woking at home this week on account of the students having a ‘reading’ week. She currently uses our bedroom as a study, but has designs on me converting the boys old room into a purpose built study.

4. Moth of a fishwife Dr Beardy (Mrs) has. It quite makes me blush.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 23 October, 2018, 04:01:03 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 23 October, 2018, 11:09:42 am
Waiting for a tuit of sufficient force1 to descend on me so that I can get on with tidying2 out the girls old bedroom. Dr Beardy (Mrs) seems to have plans for me to decorate it as well.

1. Or for DrBEARDY (Mrs) to descend the wooden hill3 and tell me to get the f***4 on with it.

2. When I say tidy, Dr Beardy (Mrs) means dispose of the contents therein and replace with new as required.

3. Dr Beardy (Mrs) is Woking at home this week on account of the students having a ‘reading’ week. She currently uses our bedroom as a study, but has designs on me converting the boys old room into a purpose built study.

4. Moth of a fishwife Dr Beardy (Mrs) has. It quite makes me blush.
Is Dr Beardy (Mrs) a Doc of Lepidoptery? Enquiring minds ect ect.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 23 October, 2018, 04:14:28 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 23 October, 2018, 04:01:03 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 23 October, 2018, 11:09:42 am
Waiting for a tuit of sufficient force1 to descend on me so that I can get on with tidying2 out the girls old bedroom. Dr Beardy (Mrs) seems to have plans for me to decorate it as well.

1. Or for DrBEARDY (Mrs) to descend the wooden hill3 and tell me to get the f***4 on with it.

2. When I say tidy, Dr Beardy (Mrs) means dispose of the contents therein and replace with new as required.

3. Dr Beardy (Mrs) is Woking at home this week on account of the students having a ‘reading’ week. She currently uses our bedroom as a study, but has designs on me converting the boys old room into a purpose built study.

4. Moth of a fishwife Dr Beardy (Mrs) has. It quite makes me blush.
Is Dr Beardy (Mrs) a Doc of Lepidoptery? Enquiring minds ect ect.
No, but she is married to a dyslexic idiot who doesn’t proof read.  ;D

She’s actually a Doc of sociology and specialises in death studies pertaining to,children’s awareness. I’d much rather she was into moths!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 24 October, 2018, 09:24:44 pm
Watching the film 'The Hundred Foot Journey' - again - and finding it inspirational...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 October, 2018, 09:44:11 am
Looking at this thread prior to going over to the workshop to make some more sawdust.  Noticed the other day that my old Audax warhorse has got a nice thick layer on it. Curiously, I'm not bothered.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 25 October, 2018, 12:19:06 pm
Feeling sorry for myself after throwing up for no apparent reason. I should be putting a second coat of preserver on the fence, but I’m not really feeling quite up to it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 October, 2018, 12:22:09 pm
Just finished mowing the lawn for what I hope will be the last time this year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 October, 2018, 12:25:39 pm
Quote from: Basil on 25 October, 2018, 12:22:09 pm
Just finished mowing the lawn for what I hope will be the last time this year.

I did that the other day.  A whole new crop of late-season weeds had appeared.

Resisted the urge to over-indulge in what my dad referred to as "destructive gardening" while coppicing the growth at the base of the remaining BloodySycamore.  If I had the tools and slightly less sense of self-preservation I'd fell the bloody thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 October, 2018, 10:26:43 pm
Wev are listening to an Ozric Tentacles (new to me) album from 1993 and I am thinking how tremendously plastic and cheesy it sounds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 27 October, 2018, 10:56:41 pm
Quote from: Kim on 25 October, 2018, 12:25:39 pm
Quote from: Basil on 25 October, 2018, 12:22:09 pm
Just finished mowing the lawn for what I hope will be the last time this year.

I did that the other day.  A whole new crop of late-season weeds had appeared.

Resisted the urge to over-indulge in what my dad referred to as "destructive gardening" while coppicing the growth at the base of the remaining BloodySycamore.  If I had the tools and slightly less sense of self-preservation I'd fell the bloody thing.

The coppiced wood, if kept til next summer will be good barbequeue fuel. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 28 October, 2018, 07:34:44 am
Recovering from a night out. I went to see an Abba Trubute band in the local Town Hall.  I hadn't been in the Town Hall since my late teens. It was a giggle, the band were great, but my ears are ringing still. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 28 October, 2018, 07:49:07 am
Savouring my second breakfast cuppa while the clock tells me that it's sooner than I think. Maybe I'll have a third.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 28 October, 2018, 07:52:43 am
Ironing.

Rock and roll!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 October, 2018, 10:13:11 am
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 October, 2018, 07:34:44 am
Recovering from a night out. I went to see an Abba Trubute band in the local Town Hall.  I hadn't been in the Town Hall since my late teens. It was a giggle, the band were great, but my ears are ringing still.

Dancing queen?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 October, 2018, 06:39:57 pm
Nomming beer & peanuts during the interval. “Die Walkure” broadcast from the ROH. Good stuff  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 28 October, 2018, 06:57:49 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 28 October, 2018, 10:13:11 am
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 October, 2018, 07:34:44 am
Recovering from a night out. I went to see an Abba Trubute band in the local Town Hall.  I hadn't been in the Town Hall since my late teens. It was a giggle, the band were great, but my ears are ringing still.

Dancing queen?

very much so   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 October, 2018, 07:58:15 pm
Grinking GWR about the dysfunctional bike facilities on Class 800 trains.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 10 November, 2018, 09:32:33 pm
Sitting thru the Festival of Remembrance and quietly seething.

I feel like the traditional service has been hijacked and repackaged as government propaganda.

In 'honouring the fallen' they've somehow completely missed the message and instead are encouraging people to emulate them instead...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 November, 2018, 01:42:25 pm
Looking at the beautiful weather and wondering why ICBA getting changed & going for a ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 17 November, 2018, 10:34:00 pm
Sitting in a pub on my own drinking a pint of Tribute and playing games on my iPad. And when I say on my own, I mean it literally, I’m the only person in the pub. The landlord is in the kitchen baking tomorrow lunchtimes puddings, but there are no other customers.

Ok, so Dr Beardy (Mrs) Is upstairs in bed as we do have a room here for the night, and I think the landlords bf is also upstairs in their rooms, but even so I’m surprised just how dead it is given it’s a Saturday night. It’s odd to think that places like this still exist, and it’s even stranger to think that Ms Beardy the elder (now Mrs E) actually lives here given her previously stated loathing of anything that did not resemble THAT LONDON
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 17 November, 2018, 11:03:45 pm
I was a little behind on my ironing.  Just finished 24 shirts , 2 pairs of trousers & a  few other bits & bobs.  Now relaxing with a glass of white burgundy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 November, 2018, 11:06:19 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 17 November, 2018, 11:03:45 pm
Now relaxing with a glass of white burgundy.

Not too close to the pile of clean shirts, I hope...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 17 November, 2018, 11:19:36 pm
Now eating s free piece of chocolate cake I blagged by complaining about the cruelty of allowing baking aromas free reign of the pub.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 November, 2018, 11:20:24 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 17 November, 2018, 11:19:36 pm
Now eating s free piece of chocolate cake I blagged by complaining about the cruelty of allowing baking aromas free reign of the pub.  ;D

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 18 November, 2018, 12:12:01 am
Quote from: Kim on 17 November, 2018, 11:06:19 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 17 November, 2018, 11:03:45 pm
Now relaxing with a glass of white burgundy.

Not too close to the pile of clean shirts, I hope...


White, doesn't matter so much.  And the clean shirts are in the wardrobe anyway. I don't usually drink in there......
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 18 November, 2018, 03:09:15 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 17 November, 2018, 11:03:45 pm
I was a little behind on my ironing.  Just finished 24 shirts , 2 pairs of trousers & a  few other bits & bobs.  Now relaxing with a glass of white burgundy.

You are far too keen. I once ironed over 30 shirts for my dad when I'd been away for a bit. My mum doesn't iron .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 18 November, 2018, 03:16:36 pm
Been trying to find out how to set the sliding table of my table saw level with the rest of it - there's a 0.8 mm difference. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 18 November, 2018, 06:57:10 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 17 November, 2018, 11:19:36 pm
Now eating s free piece of chocolate cake I blagged...
You are a cyclist AICMFP. 
Well done that cyclist.  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andytheflyer on 18 November, 2018, 09:04:11 pm
Quote from: T42 on 18 November, 2018, 03:16:36 pm
Been trying to find out how to set the sliding table of my table saw level with the rest of it - there's a 0.8 mm difference. :(

There will be some bolts somewhere!

I bought a second-hand 10" SIP table saw a few weeks ago for not a lot, and proceeded to dismantle it to see what sort of condition it was in - good as it turned out.  It's taken me about 3  weeks to fully fettle it: making a dolly on castors so I can move it around easily, getting the extensions the same height as the cast ali table, the fence to slide and clamp freely, and sit square to the guide rail and parallel to the blade, getting the blade true to the mitre slots, and adjusting the verticality of the blade.  Then I had to source ali strip the same width as the mitre slots (5/8 as it turned out) and make a cross cut sled, a mitre sled and a mitre gauge.  I waxed the table and the slots and sliding parts and it all works very smoothly now.

Been putting it to use making a mini router table - it's all just the same as making model aeroplanes, just that the tools are bigger!

It's been a bit of a journey, but it now cuts beautifully, and square.  What a revelation - should have bought one years ago. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 November, 2018, 09:38:36 am
Quote from: andytheflyer on 18 November, 2018, 09:04:11 pm
I bought a second-hand 10" SIP table saw a few weeks ago for not a lot, and proceeded to dismantle it to see what sort of condition it was in - good as it turned out.  It's taken me about 3  weeks to fully fettle it: making a dolly on castors so I can move it around easily, getting the extensions the same height as the cast ali table, the fence to slide and clamp freely, and sit square to the guide rail and parallel to the blade, getting the blade true to the mitre slots, and adjusting the verticality of the blade.  Then I had to source ali strip the same width as the mitre slots (5/8 as it turned out) and make a cross cut sled, a mitre sled and a mitre gauge.  I waxed the table and the slots and sliding parts and it all works very smoothly now.

Been putting it to use making a mini router table - it's all just the same as making model aeroplanes, just that the tools are bigger!

It's been a bit of a journey, but it now cuts beautifully, and square.  What a revelation - should have bought one years ago. 

Now I'm jealous. Mine's a Bosch PTS 10, and decidedly lightweight.  Back before my bad crash in 2002 I had a 300-kilo Lurem that included saw, planer, jointer, mortiser and spindle shaper, but I sold it a few years later because I couldn't heave flitches of oak around any more. Just moving the beast on its castors was painful.

Still, the Bosch has a 1400W motor, and handles the wood I need for guitars quite easily. It's just the lack of adjustment possibilities and Bosch's obvious attitude of "it's just a hobby saw, what do you expect, you poor fool?" that gets up my nose. Not to mention the "you're an idiot who's going to try and cut his arm off" that's apparent in the vast, awkward-to-remove blade guard that makes it difficult to see what you're cutting.

Aye well. At least it works.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andytheflyer on 19 November, 2018, 01:27:09 pm
Quote from: T42 on 19 November, 2018, 09:38:36 am
Now I'm jealous. Mine's a Bosch PTS 10, and decidedly lightweight. 

That's quite a good saw for the money - better equipped than the old SIP.  I read a few YT reviews and the inaccuracies/frustrations you probably have are also there in the SIP, but you've been used to a much better saw and you make things to a very high standard.

The SIP is my first (and probably my last!) table saw.  I wouldn't have bought a new one as I couldn't justify the cost, so I looked for one on eBay that I thought I could turn into something useful.  The SIP attracted me because a) it has a cast ali main table (the side extensions are thin steel) and b) it was only 10 miles away!  I thought it was worth a gamble.

Many of the reviews I read of cheap table saws complained about the quality of the fence and the mitre gauge etc, and that lack of blade adjustment, but given a cast table (rather than ali plate) I reckoned I stood a chance of getting it fettled with patience and time (I am now retired), and since the mitre fences were missing I needed to make my own anyway.  The Lurker OTP reckoned that because I build model aeroplanes I must have patience and an attention to detail, so this was a project I could cope with.  My late dad would have been pleased to hear that - he was a woodworking perfectionist.

Had to have a couple of goes at getting the blade co-planar with the mitre slots, but managed that in the end (the bolts are damn-near inaccessible) and now it's cutting square.  I only have about £80 in it, so I'm very pleased with it. The wax trick makes a big difference to usability too.  Next job is to improve the dust collection.

Don't think I can get near your level of craftsmanship though!  But have you tried building model aeroplanes?  If you don't build them square, they don't fly - so it's a very quick test of your skills, that first flight!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 23 November, 2018, 10:43:18 am
After two and a half days taking marketing photos at a software user group conference for a friend (long days, but lots of free beer!) I’m now back in the Beardy Bastion and I’m doing some recreational document formatting for Dr Beardy (Mrs). Multi authored documents can become a bit of a mess and Dr Beardy (Mrs) is not capable of the mental visual and spacial manipulations required to untangle it all.

She might have a big hat of cleverness, but she can’t park a car for toffee.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 23 November, 2018, 10:01:41 pm
Drinking a beer from the mini bar in a Viennese hotel room. It’s been a long day & I can’t be bothered looking for a suitable dive.


Up at daft o’clock for the slow train to Manchester Airport. Total scrum at security & my shoulder bag got pinged for a manual search & swab test. Onto the plane & an uneventful flight but Jet2’s inflight announcements are cringeworthy. Through Immigration at Vienna quick enough, fast train to the city & a short walk to the hotel. Room is fine, but as it’s their cheapest the (private) shower & toilet are down the corridor.  Horrors! It’s one of those weird loos with a shelf  :sick:


Make a cup of tea then out for a walk, have a gawp at Stephansdom from the outside & the main shopping area, like Bond St on steroids, lots of expensive shiny stuff.


Soup & Schnitzel at restaurant down a side st, then onto the Musikverein, Absolutely beautiful hall, and Mitsudo Uchida playing divine Schubert.


Weather is cool, grey & windy. My back is hurting again  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 November, 2018, 09:45:46 pm
Watching BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year.
These people are disgustingly talented.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 26 November, 2018, 08:58:29 pm
Chundering bitterly about being tired and having taught 9.30 to 5 today, I'm teaching again 1 to 5 tomorrow and 9 to 12 on Wednesday. Then on Thursday I have a full day of back to back meetings.  Not quite sure when I'm going to have time to do the work I need to do this week :-(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 27 November, 2018, 12:01:09 am
 Back home sipping Glenmorangie.


Saturday I got up & had a large buffet breakfast before walking to the Stephansdom for a look around. After that the rest of the day was spent in the Albertina.  They had a large Monet exhibition, which took up a lot of my time, then onto the permanent collection & staterooms.  Goulash for dinner at a place next to the hotel.


Sunday I forgot to set my alarm so was a bit late getting up.  This meant I was late getting to the Breugel exhibition https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/01/pieter-bruegel-the-elder-review-kunsthistorisches-museum-vienna   My ticket said 10:10 & I arrived at 10:50, this got me a disapproving look.  THe exhibition was superb, but frustrating & annoying.  You had to shuffle around the room trying to get a good look at each painting or print.  Breugel is all about the tiny detail, so its several minutes in front of each.  And the noise, a sprung wooden floor , creaking & groaning like a thousand souls in torment...


After this I spent the rest of the day looking at more superb pictures, inc Durer, Rembrandt & Vermeer.    A plate of ribs at the same restaurant I ate at on Friday , then more music at the Musikverein, the Wiener Brahms Trio, whom for some numbers had 6 players.....


Monday was wet, so I mooched around the central shopping area..  I thought that Vienna is cheaper than most big European cities for food, drink & accommodation , but you could spend a lot of money here. 


So much I didn't see, so I'll have to do another trip,  but highly recommended as a place to visit.


My photos are here [size=78%]https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewclark/albums/72157702549648541 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewclark/albums/72157702549648541)[/size] 


Hotel was https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g190454-d235666-Reviews-Hotel_Austria-Vienna.html

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 27 November, 2018, 06:39:45 am
Thanks Andrew, I'd like to visit Vienna sometime, done Innsbruck and Salzburg areas, but not that far east.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Joe.B on 27 November, 2018, 08:35:39 pm
An hour ago I went into a pub in ulversron, sort of place with flag stones on the floor, lots of real ale, no food except pork scratchings and a few locals. Sit in a quiet corner, 5 min later a chap comes in, buys a pint, sits in my quiet corner and starts tuning his mandolin. 5 min later this repeats with another bloke and another mandolin. 5 min later a woman with a penny whistle, then a couple of squeeze boxes, then another mandolin.  I'm now sat amongst a 7 piece folk band, only came in for the one but I'm quite enjoying it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 28 November, 2018, 01:17:51 pm
Sitting quietly, waiting for that exquisite sensation of pain as the feeling returns to the upper jaw after having three teeth extracted.

Currently at the stage where the upper lip feels like it's been scrubbed with a brillo pad. At least it's stopped bleeding - for now...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 28 November, 2018, 02:11:58 pm
Courtesy of a Grauniad article, wasting time on this site https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/vrcresearch/london-medieval-murder-map. Why are murders seven hundred years ago so fascinating?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 28 November, 2018, 03:00:54 pm
Try this: https://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/highlights.html

Scots broadsides from 19th cent & earlier.  Also a good time-waster.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 28 November, 2018, 03:11:49 pm
Sitting and trying to get comfortable.
I’ve ‘cricked’ my neck and no matter how I hold my head it aches and every time I move it hurts. The addition of a cold means I’ve lots of opportunity for coughing and sneezing to add a certain random excitement to my pain.
I’m feeling very sorry for myself.  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 28 November, 2018, 07:46:26 pm
I'm sulking  :hand:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 28 November, 2018, 08:55:32 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 November, 2018, 07:46:26 pm
I'm sulking  :hand:

Me too. Ibuprofen is helping.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 28 November, 2018, 10:11:00 pm
I reccomend opiates, doing wonders for me right now
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 November, 2018, 11:26:21 pm
Better living through chemistry?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 29 November, 2018, 08:04:12 am
Drinking tea and cogitating. MrsT is off on a 21k run, so I'm pondering the relative merits of buggering off on my bike or staying here till she gets back just in case she comes to grief. Or of course, I come to grief while she's 10k away in the other direction.

Think I'll stay here & make shavings.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 November, 2018, 07:11:53 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 28 November, 2018, 08:55:32 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 28 November, 2018, 07:46:26 pm
I'm sulking  :hand:

Me too. Ibuprofen is helping.

I'm still sulking, I might try ibuprofen and an early night to see if that helps.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 29 November, 2018, 08:04:43 pm
The day after and the ibuprofen is helping. Sort of.

Methinks the dentist might make a good gardener. Three roots extracted all three sockets torn.

Now gargling with J&B Rare.*






*May contain traces of 'lie'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 November, 2018, 08:44:45 pm
Ouch!!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 30 November, 2018, 12:42:48 pm
I’m having a great sick day. I really am sick. Woke in the small hours with a splitting headache and a churning in my intestines.

Things came to a head at around 7am with much D followed by* equal amounts of V. By 9am the fireworks were over and - feeling like chewed string - I got a bit of sleep.

(*happily. The simultaneous stuff is a logistical nightmare!)

I’m knackered, but pain-free. I’ve had tea and toast and am spending some quality time on here in a way that I rarely get to do these days. What a great forum this still is.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 30 November, 2018, 12:46:07 pm
Quote from: Joe.B on 27 November, 2018, 08:35:39 pm
An hour ago I went into a pub in ulversron, sort of place with flag stones on the floor, lots of real ale, no food except pork scratchings and a few locals. Sit in a quiet corner, 5 min later a chap comes in, buys a pint, sits in my quiet corner and starts tuning his mandolin. 5 min later this repeats with another bloke and another mandolin. 5 min later a woman with a penny whistle, then a couple of squeeze boxes, then another mandolin.  I'm now sat amongst a 7 piece folk band, only came in for the one but I'm quite enjoying it.

That sounds wonderful. Were they good? Did they pass you a tambourine?
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Post by: T42 on 30 November, 2018, 01:52:27 pm
Gagging in a yellow cloud of dog fart, me. Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread, etc. Milton had Labradors?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andytheflyer on 01 December, 2018, 07:55:14 pm
Quote from: T42 on 30 November, 2018, 01:52:27 pm
Gagging in a yellow cloud of dog fart, me. Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread, etc. Milton had Labradors?
Ah, sorry about that.  Wondered where he'd gone.  Could you send him back to me pls?
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Post by: Ham on 02 December, 2018, 07:22:27 am
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/47035692_1955431894533005_270812479880167424_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=6ded1144ddc7e1d4c75071f57978bbec&oe=5CA45602)
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Post by: T42 on 02 December, 2018, 09:04:47 am
Yeah. Judging by the old adage "food in, fart out" ours never stop eating. Our two spend a lot of time in the jungle garden, and since the things you find in a real country garden aren't limited to daffodils, heart's ease and flox I reckon that's probably right. Labs' appetites have no off-switch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 02 December, 2018, 09:20:11 am
Quote from: Paul on 30 November, 2018, 12:42:48 pm
I’m having a great sick day. I really am sick. Woke in the small hours with a splitting headache and a churning in my intestines.

Things came to a head at around 7am with much D followed by* equal amounts of V. By 9am the fireworks were over and - feeling like chewed string - I got a bit of sleep.

(*happily. The simultaneous stuff is a logistical nightmare!)

I’m knackered, but pain-free. I’ve had tea and toast and am spending some quality time on here in a way that I rarely get to do these days. What a great forum this still is.

I hope you feel better now Paul.


I'm down with the sniffles, which I hope will not develop into anything else.  The last time I had a cold, it turned into a chest infection which in turn became sepsis.  I do not have time for being ill over the next couple of weeks as I have three full days of teaching, several University committees, a University Christmas Lecture (panto/lecture mashup) which we do two performances of, one of my students have their mock viva (she a fab student, so just need to run through potential questions and do some confidence boosting) and a Ph.D. Viva Voce to chair.  So today is about lots of fluids, vit. C, some cold care medication and a bit of work and a lot of rest.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2018, 11:44:04 am
Remembering I have the day off (and the rest of the week, I have to dispose of some days as I can only carry over five), but I should do some preparation for an interview next week. Which sounds like work to me. Oh and Christmas presents – I need to make something for my wife (this bit of cheapskatery ends up taking far more time and effort). Plus, tackle the woeful state of my remote command center, which has filled with boxes (when I buy something, I just can't throw the boxes away, I think it's a psychological problem – what if I need to rebox my wireless speakers, or my walking boots, or... or...) and the growing scramble of electronica that either needs to be disposed off or moved up the attic (because like boxes, I can't throw away electronic items that are clearly deprecated but still work, I mean, what if... if...). On the plus side, if I cleared up my office, I would once more be able to access my command centre sofa.

It's all, as I am sure you now understand, shaping up to be a very exciting day off.

Tomorrow I go visit my parents, which I may need to steel myself for. I should probably book some train tickets too. There's bound to be a rant in that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2018, 01:12:25 pm
1310. Sent an email. Read the newspaper. Drank three cups of coffee. Put a replacement battery (a mysterious LR1, is there an infinite number of battery types?) in a torch.

Not making much progress on my day off.

I think I'll go for a swim. I was going to go order a turkey from the local butcher but they're closed on Wednesdays. Oh well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 05 December, 2018, 01:24:57 pm
Is it Wednesday? I thought it was still Saturday. No, right enough, the only way I can get the car into Leroy Merlin's car park on a Saturday is with a shoe-horn and KY jelly and it was OK today so it can't be.

Anyway, right now I'm doing SFA.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2018, 03:52:32 pm
1550. I thought I'd replace the bulb in the light in the end of the driveway where was noticeably not on yesterday evening (10,000 hours my arse). It was going quite well until I tried to put the screws back in. One, almost predictably, dropped into the undergrowth and was never seen again. Sigh. I have no idea about screws. Where do you even buy them? What kind of screw is it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 05 December, 2018, 04:34:58 pm
Take the other one to the screw shop and say "can I have one of those?"
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2018, 05:19:47 pm
That's my plan for tomorrow morning. I just resent the imposition of such excitement on my days off.

I did tidy one corner of my office and moved some of the boxes to the garage where they'll be a problem for another decade. We really should clear out the garage, says my wife. Be my guest. She's right (of course), it's full of dying Ikea furniture and randomalia, and now, my precious box collection. Oh, and some bicycles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SoreTween on 16 December, 2018, 02:22:15 pm
Quote from: SoreTween on 28 December, 2017, 02:59:09 pm
Just finished my 2016-17 tax return.  Now all I've got to do is pay the bill by the end of Jan, a bill which despite being a significant sum is a warm cuddle in front of the fire compared to last years.
Better start selling organs for next years then, they tend to alternate.

Finished my 2017-18 tax return and I was right ^^^.  Absolutely no consolation whatever.  This years bill is less warm cuddle in front of the fire, more the full treatment with red hot fire irons.
Yeeeeeouch!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 16 December, 2018, 03:39:51 pm
Just been out to salt the footpath in front of the house, since the snow got rained on and turned to slush that could freeze tonight. Law in France says that the householder does it, and takes responsibility for pratfalls if it's not done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 18 December, 2018, 11:59:04 am
Procrastinating. Cleaning the bathroom is my next job, and it’s not one I particularly enjoy. And it’ll only need doing again in a few days.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 21 December, 2018, 12:41:06 pm
Listening to a hive-mind curated Xmas playlist.

It's a little different (I mentioned it to Deano on Wednesday, he actually knew some of the more esoteric ones!) Yes HMHB are there, see:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCBY0Z3yGRvXEt7Y8SGO105NhNtZVDKfQ
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 21 December, 2018, 01:36:01 pm
Sitting in the office & feeling crap.  The first of the seasonal colds has made a timely appearance.  Tired, scratchy throat, snuffling.   Roll on 16:30 so I can go home & crawl into bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2018, 01:48:43 pm
Taking a breather from shifting and stacking a delivery of more bleedin' wood.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 21 December, 2018, 01:54:57 pm
Trying to find my work phone, which my wife has squirrelled away. It might be in the 'cupboard next to the vacuum cleaner.'
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 21 December, 2018, 02:03:37 pm
Waiting for my last Christmas delivery, being of cheeses. And considering rotating the tree 30 degrees before decorating it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 21 December, 2018, 02:09:02 pm
Waiting for MrsC to finish listening to the Archers before we toddle off down the road to the pub1

1: to empty the charity pin-badge collection box, honest2

2: we may just have to have a drink to be sociable I suppose
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 21 December, 2018, 02:16:21 pm
Quote from: rafletcher on 21 December, 2018, 02:03:37 pm
Waiting for my last Christmas delivery, being of cheeses. And considering rotating the tree 30 degrees before decorating it.

Redundant anyway, as the mothership seems to have bolloxed my VPN password so I don't get as far as the SMS code. SOP if you leave the office for more than one day. Either that or they moved the VPN address without telling anyone, which is SOP for Fridays.

I'd reset my password, of course, but you may already be ahead of me by guessing that the only way to reset your password is to be on an authenticated network which means either physically being aboard the mothership or on the VPN...

Oh well, I'm only notionally working, everyone else seems to have departed.

I could phone them and have them reset the password. But that would likely just break everything else (like email, which is fine despite having the same password that the VPN claims is invalid) and take well into 2019 to resolve.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 21 December, 2018, 03:47:58 pm
MrsC decided she wasn't happy with the lights on the Christmas tree, so ordered some more of those interwebby things.
We now have 50m of cable wrapped round a six foot tree!

And it's not easy putting the lights on after all the other decorations.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 28 December, 2018, 10:30:27 am
Decluttering. A standard hobby in this household between Christmas and New Year.
I am getting rid of a load of magazines (not that sort!) which I've been carting around from dwelling to dwelling for decades. When you find three year old copies which haven't even been opened, it's time to say goodbye.

Still a bit of a wrench though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2018, 11:35:21 am
Wondering why my cat would choose to lie on my shins. They can't be that comfortable...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 December, 2018, 03:45:15 pm
Knitting a hat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 29 December, 2018, 03:58:05 pm
Eating a mince pie.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 December, 2018, 07:12:06 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 29 December, 2018, 03:45:15 pm
Knitting a hat.

Giving up knitting a hat as I've managed to twist the knitting 4 times - yes 4 times.  I've decided to find a flat pattern instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 30 December, 2018, 12:33:39 pm
Removing a dead pidgeon from my extension roof. I lead an exciting life.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 December, 2018, 02:53:31 pm
Giggling at my shopping trip. I only intended to keep my friend company. I'm now home avec blouse, dress, shape wear, new underwear, handbag and a cat!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2018, 02:55:26 pm
A cat!
Do tell!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 30 December, 2018, 05:12:12 pm
Relaxing with a cuppa after working on a guitar since 8 am this morning, with a break at lunchtime to carve a duck. Been running on nerves & coffee otherwise. Feeling rather knackered now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 30 December, 2018, 06:12:48 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 30 December, 2018, 02:53:31 pm
Giggling at my shopping trip. I only intended to keep my friend company. I'm now home avec blouse, dress, shape wear, new underwear, handbag and a cat!
We went shopping for new bedding, walked past an art shop and bought a picture. Then found we could not fit it in the car and had to get a taxi for the picture whilst I drive home. Now hung it in the hallway and it has totally changed the look of the hall.
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Post by: Basil on 30 December, 2018, 07:57:44 pm
Quote from: chrisbainbridge on 30 December, 2018, 06:12:48 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 30 December, 2018, 02:53:31 pm
Giggling at my shopping trip. I only intended to keep my friend company. I'm now home avec blouse, dress, shape wear, new underwear, handbag and a cat!
We went shopping for new bedding, walked past an art shop and bought a picture. Then found we could not fit it in the car and had to get a taxi for the picture whilst I drive home. Now hung it in the hallway and it has totally changed the look of the hall.

Whatever you do, don't pop into Llandysul for a pint of milk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 December, 2018, 08:48:19 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2018, 02:55:26 pm
A cat!
Do tell!

The cat is now reunited with its owner :-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 30 December, 2018, 08:50:31 pm
Quote from: Basil on 30 December, 2018, 07:57:44 pm
Quote from: chrisbainbridge on 30 December, 2018, 06:12:48 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 30 December, 2018, 02:53:31 pm
Giggling at my shopping trip. I only intended to keep my friend company. I'm now home avec blouse, dress, shape wear, new underwear, handbag and a cat!
We went shopping for new bedding, walked past an art shop and bought a picture. Then found we could not fit it in the car and had to get a taxi for the picture whilst I drive home. Now hung it in the hallway and it has totally changed the look of the hall.

Whatever you do, don't pop into Llandysul for a pint of milk.

I once went to Asda to get a pint of milk for the office and left with a pint of milk and a new coat.  My  office mates thought it hilarious. 
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Post by: Canardly on 30 December, 2018, 11:03:06 pm
Basil tends to buy houses when shopping for milk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 30 December, 2018, 11:06:43 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 30 December, 2018, 02:53:31 pm
Giggling at my shopping trip. I only intended to keep my friend company. I'm now home avec blouse, dress, shape wear, new underwear, handbag and a cat!

What is shape wear?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 30 December, 2018, 11:12:31 pm
Sitting on the sofa annoying the two cats, by moving slightly so that their little paws aren't touching me.  This makes them resettle and want a little fuss.  There are visitors at the moment so they are hiding when the visitors are here.

Played a little xbox, tomb raider and then single player zombie killing.  Then decided to watch the ultimate christmas movie....Die hard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 31 December, 2018, 07:30:12 am
Having breakfast before the last delivery of 2018!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 31 December, 2018, 07:33:13 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 30 December, 2018, 11:06:43 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 30 December, 2018, 02:53:31 pm
Giggling at my shopping trip. I only intended to keep my friend company. I'm now home avec blouse, dress, shape wear, new underwear, handbag and a cat!

What is shape wear?

My understanding is THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kgmPae2NQQ) . . .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 31 December, 2018, 09:08:22 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 31 December, 2018, 07:33:13 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 30 December, 2018, 11:06:43 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 30 December, 2018, 02:53:31 pm
Giggling at my shopping trip. I only intended to keep my friend company. I'm now home avec blouse, dress, shape wear, new underwear, handbag and a cat!

What is shape wear?

My understanding is THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kgmPae2NQQ) . . .


That is right. I have put on a bit of weight over christmas.  Diet starts today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 31 December, 2018, 09:19:41 am
I am watching Bangkok Airport whilst sitting in bed drinking coffee.  Basically I am scaring myself silly about all the things that can go wrong when flying.  I know that most of it wont happen when you arrive on time and do not lose your ticket, passport or boarding pass, and you do not get drunk either in the airport or onboard the plane.  Hopefully these wont be an issue for me (barring travel issues to Birmingham international)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 31 December, 2018, 09:33:01 am
Check out TheFlightChannel on YouTube if you really want to be scared silly about flying.

As for me, I'm watching the rain. Last ride of 2017 was on New Year's Eve, but this year looks like a write-off.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 31 December, 2018, 05:10:48 pm
Or just ask about my flight horror stories. I've flipped over, emergency descended, slid off runways, you name it. I have colleagues who refuse to get on the same plane. It's their mistake because I'm deathproof.

For reasons, we're actually not hiding this NYE, and are going out to the local pub. Which will either be awful or great, but apparently we're on the 'guest list' so have to go (says wife, though the guest list is merely people the landlord recognizes).
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Post by: lou boutin on 31 December, 2018, 06:10:54 pm
Oh eck!

Happy New Year everyone
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 31 December, 2018, 08:33:41 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 31 December, 2018, 09:08:22 am
Quote from: Torslanda on 31 December, 2018, 07:33:13 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 30 December, 2018, 11:06:43 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 30 December, 2018, 02:53:31 pm
Giggling at my shopping trip. I only intended to keep my friend company. I'm now home avec blouse, dress, shape wear, new underwear, handbag and a cat!

What is shape wear?

My understanding is THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kgmPae2NQQ) . . .


That is right. I have put on a bit of weight over christmas.  Diet starts today.

Newspeak for Foundation Garments of old - tight Lycra to placate somebody.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 31 December, 2018, 09:18:41 pm
I'm at home, ironing. I have my 6yr old nephew upstair for a sleep over because his parents are hosting ~25 for a NYE party complete with a roast diner and a keg of beer. As my sister put it, the meal is only to put solids in the stomach and delay the drunkenness.

Must thank next door for the firework display earlier as it was much appreciated by my nephew.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 01 January, 2019, 11:11:59 am
Starting the first shopping list of 2019.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 January, 2019, 02:06:18 pm
Undecorating the Christmas tree. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robgul on 01 January, 2019, 03:41:29 pm
Quote from: Basil on 01 January, 2019, 02:06:18 pm
Undecorating the Christmas tree.

That's a bit premature isn't it ? - surely Jan 5 or 6 (people argue over the date) is the day .... although we spent one Christmas in Boston, USA and the bloke in the next apartment checked out his tree at 1000 on Boxing Day.

Rob
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: telstarbox on 01 January, 2019, 04:09:13 pm
We do ours on 1 Jan as well (in the afternoon, we're not monsters).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 01 January, 2019, 04:39:18 pm
Quote from: robgul on 01 January, 2019, 03:41:29 pm
Quote from: Basil on 01 January, 2019, 02:06:18 pm
Undecorating the Christmas tree.

That's a bit premature isn't it ? - surely Jan 5 or 6 (people argue over the date) is the day .... although we spent one Christmas in Boston, USA and the bloke in the next apartment checked out his tree at 1000 on Boxing Day.

Rob

We don't do tradition.  So logically,  decs come down when we've had enough of them. We leave it until after N.Y.E. as we usually invite folks round for drinks.
My Laphroaig and Talisker remained hidden.  :-X
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Post by: Torslanda on 01 January, 2019, 04:52:03 pm
Sitting at home having made up with #1 cat*. We've been away for Xmas and the cats have been fed by a neighbour - they're both hardy outdoor types - but the guilt being heaped on is palpable.


*#2 cat hasn't appeared but it won't be long.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 01 January, 2019, 06:11:57 pm
Removing Christmas lights from the Windows and taking down most of the decorations.  I will leave one or two decorating up until the 5th
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 02 January, 2019, 07:32:24 am
The 5th being a Saaturday, that's probably when ours will happen
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 January, 2019, 09:39:56 am
We're just going to remove a few baubles a day, from about Saturday through to the end of January. Don't see any point in making it a time-consuming chore.

Back when we had real trees I used to slit open a 130-litre garden waste bag, lay it out flat on the floor and put the tree in the middle. The bag then got scrunched up round the base and hidden with tinsel etc. When we started removing the decorations we'd flatten out the bag again to catch the needles then demolish the remains with secateurs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 02 January, 2019, 11:41:14 am
I’ve nearly worked up enough energy to start work on the garage tidy.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 02 January, 2019, 12:40:03 pm
Looking at new sofas.....HOW MUCH???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Blazer on 02 January, 2019, 12:57:58 pm
Sorting out layers of clothing in preparation for my trip out tonight.

It will be the direct route to the pub for me and Hummers to meet up with whoever else will be out on the Portsmouth Wednesday Night pub ride.

It's been a while...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 03 January, 2019, 02:35:19 pm
Sitting on the sofa. Ostensily 'looking after' the youngest as Mrs. Torslanda has gone to her friend's funeral.

Youngest is very happily entertaining himself with Minecraft, Lego etc. whilst I seem to have become a warm for two cats. Oh, well. Back to work tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 03 January, 2019, 02:43:10 pm
We're staying at the Christchurch West Premier Inn, aka the Bailey Bridge.

Christmas paraphernalia was all removed this morning.

Which is a bit early. They usually wait till Twelfth Night.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 03 January, 2019, 02:58:11 pm
Funny you should say that, it was all gone from Premier Inn, Sittingbourne on Tuesday morning.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 06 January, 2019, 03:02:32 pm
Sitting in my office (at home) although I have no intention of working. I'm here because it has the nicest view and the best light (sadly it's the smallest room in the house). I can see the lake and the wild fowl and I can see people walking past, some with kids and feeding the ducks, others are walking their dogs.  I've just eaten a bowl of home made tomato soup, I have my sad light on, I'm burning a lovely Yank-smell-ee candle and strains of Beethoven are playing away in the back ground.  I was reading a book on critical theory can't be asrsed to be truthful.  I'm feeling ill, so might just spend a couple of hours just being here and in the moment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 06 January, 2019, 03:48:07 pm
Hope you feel better soon, lou!

I am sitting in my kitchen as always.

The washing machine whirrs as it tackles the laundry from our short coastal break. The microwave has converted the astringent unpalatable plums into bowel balm.

Big Tom has been stalking the pigeons; he can move with some alacrity from his observation post behind the cat flap when the need/desire arises!

Sainsbury's delivery is due soon; they have substituted 3 four pint bottles of milk for the unavailable 2 pint bottles.

One of my wall clocks has developed The Slows despite a recent battery change. I saw it stall at one sticking point but it no longer sticks there. Am undecided as to whether to replace it or try to fix this £1 investment from Woolworth's in 2000...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 January, 2019, 08:43:03 pm
Taking a break from trying to persuade Currys webshite to sell me a vacuum cleaner.  It has got it into its stupid head-branez that the nearest store I can collect it from is in Coleraine, and no amount of entering my postcode will convince it that there are shops closer to Larrington Towers than Norn Iron.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 January, 2019, 10:05:15 pm
Haz you tried a different browser? Or clearing cookies / incognito mode?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 07 January, 2019, 08:40:42 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 06 January, 2019, 08:43:03 pm
Taking a break from trying to persuade Currys webshite to sell me a vacuum cleaner.  It has got it into its stupid head-branez that the nearest store I can collect it from is in Coleraine, and no amount of entering my postcode will convince it that there are shops closer to Larrington Towers than Norn Iron.

Sometimes it is necessary to step outside into the daylight (hollow fucking laughter) and go into a store and interact with people. If only to prove to yourself that they're actually still utter dickheads not worthy of your attention.

Alternatively, can't your gamekeeper do it...?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 January, 2019, 09:58:35 pm
I did persuade it eventually, by using a Proper Computer, though for no readily apparent reason it couldn't be collected from the Chingford branch.  Anyway, I now haz a Henry and the wanky Dyson is returning to The Pit whence it came.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 10 January, 2019, 11:27:30 am
being mesmerised by the activity of my new 3D printer. it says's it's going to take nearly three hours. I think I should have tried something smaller for my first print :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 10 January, 2019, 02:44:28 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 07 January, 2019, 09:58:35 pm
I did persuade it eventually, by using a Proper Computer, though for no readily apparent reason it couldn't be collected from the Chingford branch.  Anyway, I now haz a Henry and the wanky Dyson is returning to The Pit whence it came.

Is a wanky Dyson the sort of thing that gets pulled from CES (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46809807)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 13 January, 2019, 09:11:25 am
Just spent ten minutes wrestling with the Battery Clip From Hell.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andytheflyer on 13 January, 2019, 10:21:42 am
Just preparing to boil up this year's final (of 4) 1.5kg batch of marmalade.  This is the 'special' batch, family and good friends only.

Coarse cut, 25% Demerara sugar (to make it dark), and the 'special' ingredient.

This year it's Famous Grouse.

It'll make about 14 half-pound jars, idea for pressies.

Ed:  I may have overdone the Grouse bit, given the aroma in the kitchen, and it's making the dog sneeze.  Is it even possible to have too much Grouse?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 13 January, 2019, 12:04:49 pm
I am trying a few quiche recipe.  I will let you know what it is like.  The difference is base rather than inner ingredients. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 13 January, 2019, 05:45:36 pm
Sitting in a hot bath after a ten and a half mile walk over the Downs.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 19 January, 2019, 07:26:27 pm
Finished two different lots of sauerkraut and just cooking the beetroot soup.  With the curried apple and celery soup made yesterday I should have about 50 helpings in the freezer to keep us going for the next month or two for lunch
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 19 January, 2019, 08:29:54 pm
Reading this, cooking a sausage and bean casserole, drinking a Gipsy Hill Swamper, and being the DJ for some very loud music. Cats have sensibly located themselves upstairs and left me to it (wife has taken additional precautions and decamped to San Francisco). Also being a bit tired because I walked 10 miles and did fifty Olympic pool lengths (I meant to do thirty, but I was in the zone). I put the hammer down for the last 10 lengths. OK, admittedly my front crawl combines all the speed of doggy paddle with the elegance of drowning. I'm surprised no one dived in to rescue me. Probably should have, the pool was bloody freezing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 21 January, 2019, 05:32:58 am
I'm sitting in bed, drinking coffee and trying to get warm again after getting up to see the Blue Blood Wolf Super Moon ( I think it is a blue moon - I might be wrong)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 21 January, 2019, 05:39:21 am
Actually that makes no sense what so ever - it's the 21st day of the year and moon cycles are 28 days, so there is no way that it's a blue moon.  Goodness knows where I dreamed that one up from. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 21 January, 2019, 07:58:22 am
It is blue Monday though. Apparently it’s the saddest day of the year.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jakob W on 21 January, 2019, 08:12:33 am
Well, Blue Monday is a made-up thing for travel agents &c. to sell you more stuff, so things can in fact get worse. OTOH, if it is true, I suppose it's all downhill from here...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 21 January, 2019, 07:02:40 pm
Well it was blue something today. The air was blue in my office when I managed to send a mundane email meant for a colleague, to virtually everyone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 22 January, 2019, 08:05:58 am
Trying to decide if I shall fast today as part of a 5/2 attempt to reduce my bulk or if to just have breakfast. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 25 January, 2019, 11:43:47 am
Sitting on hold to BT. Broadband contract renewal time.

Just wondering how many times I will get shifted to someone else once I get to speak to a real person.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 25 January, 2019, 01:24:14 pm
Quote from: Vince on 25 January, 2019, 11:43:47 am
Sitting on hold to BT. Broadband contract renewal time.

Just wondering how many times I will get shifted to someone else once I get to speak to a real person.

Do you ring up to get a better deal? I'd normally just do the renewal on-line but I'm wondering if I should see if there's some dosh to be saved by speaking to a person.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 25 January, 2019, 04:35:47 pm
nursing my numb mouth and thinking whether to continue the anasthaesia with red or white this evening
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Vince on 25 January, 2019, 09:23:32 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 25 January, 2019, 01:24:14 pm
Quote from: Vince on 25 January, 2019, 11:43:47 am
Sitting on hold to BT. Broadband contract renewal time.

Just wondering how many times I will get shifted to someone else once I get to speak to a real person.

Do you ring up to get a better deal? I'd normally just do the renewal on-line but I'm wondering if I should see if there's some dosh to be saved by speaking to a person.
Yes. They have a 'Loyalty Team'.
I pointed out that other suppliers were offering a better deal/performance and negotiated £8 off the monthly cost.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 January, 2019, 09:28:27 pm
Giggling.  Wowbagger just made a cultural reference.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 January, 2019, 10:12:35 pm
Trying to teach Welsh people to say Slàinte.

Too many whiskys helps.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 26 January, 2019, 05:48:06 pm
Having dyed my hair blue/green, I am watching QI whilst trying to decide what to have for dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 January, 2019, 10:18:56 pm
We’ killed 3 bottles of red & the first bottle of Highland Park. There is a second bottle...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 January, 2019, 11:21:32 pm
2nd bottle gone.  I’d not like the audience to think we have an over fondness for the water of life. Both bottles were enthusiastically sampled last night .Dragon Legend vs Viking Honour.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 January, 2019, 11:49:09 pm
Mixing the grape & the grain?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 27 January, 2019, 09:13:49 am
I'm still recovering from club AGM & dinner last night. Copious creole food - wonderful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 January, 2019, 01:02:48 pm
I'm at Cisco Live in Barcelona along with 16,000 other computer network nerds.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 29 January, 2019, 02:21:28 pm
Applying for a job with Larry and Sergey's team
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 29 January, 2019, 03:26:11 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 29 January, 2019, 01:02:48 pm
I'm at Cisco Live in Barcelona along with 16,000 other computer network nerds.

Be still my giddy heart!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 30 January, 2019, 08:11:55 am
Quote from: ian on 29 January, 2019, 03:26:11 pm
Quote from: pcolbeck on 29 January, 2019, 01:02:48 pm
I'm at Cisco Live in Barcelona along with 16,000 other computer network nerds.

Be still my giddy heart!

The "Building datacentre VXLAN control planes with BGP and EVPN" presentation yesterday was riviting. Today is all about intent based networking which I am sure will be a barrel of laughs :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 02 February, 2019, 12:55:10 am
Not going to bed when I know that I should, not least because I’m tired.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 February, 2019, 08:44:54 am
Waiting for the temperature to rise by 0.00366% so that I can go for a ride without infringing the coronary commandments. I wonder if the anomalous expansion of water plays a part?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 03 February, 2019, 08:43:07 am
Cold induced coronary artery vasospasm is very real.  A deep breath in the severe cold whilst exercising gets freezing air down the trachea and into the bronchi producing reflex coronary artery vasospasm.

I thought this was medical hype until about 6 years ago (age 54) when i went up a hill in sub zero temperatures before warming up.   i suddenly realised what crushing central chest pain was!

Stoped the bike and put a scarf over my mouth to prewar the breath and it settled in a moment o but I was properly scared and never doubted it again
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 03 February, 2019, 09:06:00 am
Looking across the bath to the fields and oak tree.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2019, 09:13:54 am
Quote from: chrisbainbridge on 03 February, 2019, 08:43:07 am
Cold induced coronary artery vasospasm is very real.  A deep breath in the severe cold whilst exercising gets freezing air down the trachea and into the bronchi producing reflex coronary artery vasospasm.

I thought this was medical hype until about 6 years ago (age 54) when i went up a hill in sub zero temperatures before warming up.   i suddenly realised what crushing central chest pain was!

Stoped the bike and put a scarf over my mouth to prewar the breath and it settled in a moment o but I was properly scared and never doubted it again

Crikey! This is the thing I have been suffering from. I never had it until I started using a CPAP machine in July, and the air didn't have to be particularly cold. I have had all sorts of cardio investigations, the results of which I know I have some narrowing of one of my coronary arteries. I'm now on statins and aspirin, and have also lost over 2 stone in weight. I haven't had an attack for quite a while, but I had several between July and a month or two ago. I suspect that the weight loss has had a significant effect because I'm only in my second week on the extra medication but the attacks reduced in intensity pretty much as soon as I started to lose weight (early October). Thanks for putting a name to my condition!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 February, 2019, 09:24:58 am
Quote from: chrisbainbridge on 03 February, 2019, 08:43:07 am
Cold induced coronary artery vasospasm is very real.  A deep breath in the severe cold whilst exercising gets freezing air down the trachea and into the bronchi producing reflex coronary artery vasospasm.

I thought this was medical hype until about 6 years ago (age 54) when i went up a hill in sub zero temperatures before warming up.   i suddenly realised what crushing central chest pain was!

Stoped the bike and put a scarf over my mouth to prewar the breath and it settled in a moment o but I was properly scared and never doubted it again

Oh yes. I usually do a loop or two round the village and the couple of k false flat to the next village before tackling the first hill, and I usually follow the cardiologists "not below 5°C" stricture, although sometimes I do a bit of rounding. But definitely none of the sub-zero stuff I did 15 years ago - apart from coronary considerations, I've had too many offs on ice to welcome another.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 February, 2019, 09:28:06 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2019, 09:13:54 am
I have had all sorts of cardio investigations, the results of which I know I have some narrowing of one of my coronary arteries.

"Some narrowing" - if only.  I function these days with blood supply to the heart reduced by 50%.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 03 February, 2019, 09:37:28 am
Waiting for the temperature to rise before venturing out for a group ride. Falling off stings a bit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 03 February, 2019, 10:04:51 am
Warming up. I have spent less than fifteen minutes in the garage and garden and that was enough.
Oh well, little and often...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2019, 10:45:14 am
Quote from: T42 on 03 February, 2019, 09:28:06 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2019, 09:13:54 am
I have had all sorts of cardio investigations, the results of which I know I have some narrowing of one of my coronary arteries.

"Some narrowing" - if only.  I function these days with blood supply to the heart reduced by 50%.

Mine's reduced by 50 to 60% apparently. Described in the letter as "moderate" and requiring no further intervention at this stage.

Let's play cardiovascular top trumps!  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 03 February, 2019, 11:19:08 am
Nuddy zwifting in the living room. Windows open ( blinds shut!) Fan on and I'm already hot and bothered 5 minutes in....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 03 February, 2019, 11:22:09 am
Cooking a whole pack of bacon for our brunch. And willing it to cook fasterer.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 February, 2019, 12:56:53 pm
Post-lunch cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 February, 2019, 03:21:04 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2019, 10:45:14 am
Let's play cardiovascular top trumps!  ;D

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 03 February, 2019, 11:22:09 am
Cooking a whole pack of bacon for our brunch. And willing it to cook fasterer.

I'm not sure that's quite what he had in mind...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 February, 2019, 03:24:29 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 February, 2019, 03:21:04 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2019, 10:45:14 am
Let's play cardiovascular top trumps!  :-D

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 03 February, 2019, 11:22:09 am
Cooking a whole pack of bacon for our brunch. And willing it to cook fasterer.

I'm not sure that's quite what he had in mind...


 :-D :-D   Kim wins the Internet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2019, 04:33:08 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 03 February, 2019, 03:24:29 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 February, 2019, 03:21:04 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2019, 10:45:14 am
Let's play cardiovascular top trumps!  :-D

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 03 February, 2019, 11:22:09 am
Cooking a whole pack of bacon for our brunch. And willing it to cook fasterer.

I'm not sure that's quite what he had in mind...


 :-D :-D   Kim wins the Internet.

How can she win what which she already owns?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 03 February, 2019, 06:38:09 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2019, 04:33:08 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 03 February, 2019, 03:24:29 pm
Quote from: Kim on 03 February, 2019, 03:21:04 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2019, 10:45:14 am
Let's play cardiovascular top trumps!  :-D

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 03 February, 2019, 11:22:09 am
Cooking a whole pack of bacon for our brunch. And willing it to cook fasterer.

I'm not sure that's quite what he had in mind...


 :-D :-D   Kim wins the Internet.

How can she win what which she already owns?
It’s a win win situation
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 February, 2019, 10:07:39 am
Waiting for a  BT engineer coming to the flat to fix / upgrade my crap broadband.  Oh God , it's actually someone I know!  Where's the duster & hoover ?  :jurek:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 February, 2019, 10:54:06 am
Just stashed everything after weekly shopping expedition. Cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 February, 2019, 04:05:32 pm
Passing through Mordor.

These things happen when you get on the wrong train in Glasgow.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 04 February, 2019, 04:10:06 pm
At least you're passing through.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 04 February, 2019, 04:31:05 pm
Trying to get none epoxy fume loaded air into me after using two part wood filler in the littlest room.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 04 February, 2019, 04:51:21 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 04 February, 2019, 04:31:05 pm
Trying to get none epoxy fume loaded air into me after using two part wood filler in the littlest room.
Can't you get kaolin and morphine any more then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 04 February, 2019, 05:11:38 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 04 February, 2019, 04:51:21 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 04 February, 2019, 04:31:05 pm
Trying to get none epoxy fume loaded air into me after using two part wood filler in the littlest room.
Can't you get kaolin and morphine any more then?
I couldn’t possibly comment on that, but I find that morphine in particular is very poor at hiding a screw. It just doesn’t set hard enough.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 February, 2019, 05:49:29 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 04 February, 2019, 04:05:32 pm
Passing through Mordor.

These things happen when you get on the wrong train in Glasgow.  :facepalm:

Quote from: Beardy on 04 February, 2019, 04:31:05 pm
Trying to get none epoxy fume loaded air into me after using two part wood filler in the littlest room.

Well at least you're not passing through Mordor Central...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 February, 2019, 06:15:31 pm
1) Having the awful realisation that I need new curtains & curtain poles.  The existing curtains are so faded they are only good for dust sheets.

2) Coming to the even more awful conclusion that I can't put off redecorating this flat for much longer.  At least I won't need to buy dust sheets.



Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 05 February, 2019, 10:39:33 pm
Being miserable.

I went to Glasgow and all I got was a stinking cold.1


1 Lie.  I got other things as well, but they are pleasant.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 06 February, 2019, 09:37:20 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 04 February, 2019, 04:51:21 pm
Can't you get kaolin and morphine any more then?

OT, but it seems Kaolin is only available on prescription.  We used to have a big tin of it when I was (much) younger. I still remember the feeling as the poultice was applied to the boil on my elbow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andytheflyer on 06 February, 2019, 01:38:16 pm
Quote from: rafletcher on 06 February, 2019, 09:37:20 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 04 February, 2019, 04:51:21 pm
Can't you get kaolin and morphine any more then?

OT, but it seems Kaolin is only available on prescription.

Next time you are near St Austell, you can pick up a good few kg for nowt.  It's the clay weathering product of the feldspar mineral in granite - it's an alumino-silicate compound.  Loads of it goes into cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, pottery (aka China Clay), paint, etc.  You could eat it without harm, although I wouldn't!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Palinurus on 06 February, 2019, 01:42:47 pm
Measuring the viscosity of a sample of solder paste.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 06 February, 2019, 01:55:01 pm
Quote from: andytheflyer on 06 February, 2019, 01:38:16 pm
Quote from: rafletcher on 06 February, 2019, 09:37:20 am
Quote from: Tim Hall on 04 February, 2019, 04:51:21 pm
Can't you get kaolin and morphine any more then?

OT, but it seems Kaolin is only available on prescription.

Next time you are near St Austell, you can pick up a good few kg for nowt.  It's the clay weathering product of the feldspar mineral in granite - it's an alumino-silicate compound.  Loads of it goes into cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, pottery (aka China Clay), paint, etc.  You could eat it without harm, although I wouldn't!

I believe it can be used to treat diarrhoea - tho perhaps a bit drastic!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 February, 2019, 09:00:57 pm
That's what the kaolin & morphine was for. Kaolin to bung up and morphine to reduce motility (as you will all know from Trainspotting, of course).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: PaulF on 16 February, 2019, 08:54:38 am
Working out how to play the Trumpton theme on guitar and mandolin. Thanks RadMac
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 16 February, 2019, 09:07:17 am
Listening to the Trumpton theme on  YouTube.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 19 February, 2019, 10:02:21 am
Currently regretting the removal of the bath when we had the bathroom done. A ‘lazy shower’ isn’t as appealing as a ‘lazy bath’.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 February, 2019, 01:23:52 pm
Conversely, we had a bath fitted when we redid the bathroom n years ago and have regretted it ever since.  We have an excellent shower, the bath has only been used once by a human and twice by the dogs, and we could have got a weights bench into the space it takes up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 19 February, 2019, 01:24:33 pm
Regretting choices made.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 February, 2019, 07:12:30 pm
Sitting in the foyer at Bridgewater Hall, waiting for tonight’s Joan Baez gig.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 February, 2019, 07:17:50 pm
How was she?  Still got voice?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 25 February, 2019, 07:25:04 pm
I’ll let you know in 2 1/2 hours. I’ve only got a few LPs, but it seemed criminal to pass up the chance to see her.  The audience is mostly of a certain age*.......


* it’s younger than the audiences at the Liverpool Jazz Festival where I was all weekend though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 February, 2019, 09:27:41 am
https://youtu.be/bzySGlbNvaI (https://youtu.be/bzySGlbNvaI)


She had a throat/chest infection. Very impressed with the NHS treatment & not being asked for money up front.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 February, 2019, 10:07:41 pm
Cleaning my fridge.  We know how to have a wild Tuesday in Liverpool ....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 February, 2019, 10:29:53 pm
I really ought to clean the lower half of the fridge.  I did the top half last week in the process of changing the thermostat (which, impressively, does appear to have worked).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 27 February, 2019, 07:58:00 am
Contemplating my packing list for the boys trip to Talin which promises to be a bit chilly. We are leaving at pre-audex o’clock tomorrow morning1. Communication between Dr Beardy and myself is becoming more strained with each passing hour, as is usual when I go away for the weekend2 and by the time she goes to bed this evening3 she’ll probably be hard pressed to say goodbye to me.

1. 2am is really tonight in my opinion.
2. I often wonder why I bother, but then getting her to even go to Yorkshire for a weekend and visit her parents is a major undertaking.
3. I’ll be staying up due to the un<deity> hour. See 1 above.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 February, 2019, 10:14:26 am
Waiting for Data Logger Dave to come and meddle with the electricity supply again, hopefully with a view to increasing the number of voles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 07 March, 2019, 06:07:53 pm
Trying to work out who I can volunteer to go through the manway and under the plenum floor of a Rapid Gravity Filter. There is a pile of sand that shouldn't be there so someone needs to determine if there is a broken nozzle or a failed joint in the floor above.

Obviously it is not a task I particularly want to do but I may have to.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 March, 2019, 09:28:05 am
Laughing out loud at the reviews of Frosty Jack's on ratebeer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 09 March, 2019, 09:39:49 am
Thinking that it's too wet and windy to walk the 10 metres to the workshop so I'll just stay here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: telstarbox on 09 March, 2019, 11:23:51 am
The washing up, soundtracked by Madonna's back catalogue ✨
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 09 March, 2019, 12:09:11 pm
Quote from: matthew on 07 March, 2019, 06:07:53 pm
Trying to work out who I can volunteer to go through the manway and under the plenum floor of a Rapid Gravity Filter. There is a pile of sand that shouldn't be there so someone needs to determine if there is a broken nozzle or a failed joint in the floor above.

Obviously it is not a task I particularly want to do but I may have to.

I'd have done it for the danger money!

As for me, today, working to a Brexit induced deadline 20 days shorter than normal for mandatory emissions reporting that needs to be verified by yours truly and team
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 09 March, 2019, 09:54:11 pm
No danger money just a simple nc3 confined space entry. I may still end up going in on tuesday.

As for now, baby sitting my niece and nephew who are happily in bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 March, 2019, 08:21:39 pm
Observing with interest the supply of voles[1] to KimBarakta-HQ.

I opened the door earlier with a view to going to the postal oriface[2], to be met by the sight of  a) rain that wasn't happening when I looked out the upstairs window a minute or so earlier and  b) assorted linemen for the county, dressed in orange hi-vis, clutching some sturdy rubber gloves and peering at map of Silly Oak.

"Hello Kim," says one, who I recognised from one of the previous data logger installations, "we're swapping connections in the link boxes to see if we can balance out the load better.  Don't suppose you can keep an eye on things this evening, could you?  Cos if I ring you tomorrow and it's still rubbish we can just try something else rather than bothering with a data logger..."

In the time it took me to wrangle my bike out the door they'd lifted the manhole cover and were peering at some Extremely Large Fuses™.


[1] Which has gone from 208 voles when I started this post to 222annabit voles now, so I can safely conclude that it's still rubbish even without mucking about in GNUplot.
[2] ALC types will be pleased to hear I've finished auditing the accounts well within the deadline.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 March, 2019, 09:31:14 am
I was having that 'called in sick today but now I feel a bit of a fraud feeling', but now that I've just had a shower and am sitting down having a good sweat with the heating off I don't feel that way any more.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 19 March, 2019, 09:37:29 am
Reading the vitriol spread all over the newspaper front pages.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 19 March, 2019, 09:58:30 am
Quote from: Kim on 18 March, 2019, 08:21:39 pm

 ALC types will be pleased to hear I've finished auditing the accounts well within the deadline

That was quick!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 19 March, 2019, 12:19:30 pm
Quote from: Butterfly on 19 March, 2019, 09:58:30 am
Quote from: Kim on 18 March, 2019, 08:21:39 pm

 ALC types will be pleased to hear I've finished auditing the accounts well within the deadline

That was quick!

I was Not In The Mood for the FNRttC after a long and depressing afternoon in the hospital, so some tedious arithmetic was just the thing...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 March, 2019, 02:40:24 pm
Just going to fix my 5th puncture since 2nd Feb. 3 different wheels and 3 different tyres, one front and 4 back.  Latest one was in a brand new GP4000s II.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 19 March, 2019, 06:31:01 pm
Trying to maintain a sense of perspective while discussing the state of the nation with my right wing father. His inability to accept anything outside his world view. 😠
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 22 March, 2019, 08:38:29 am
Having just been let blood and had the piss taken out of me, am now waiting for the vet to arrive and vaccinate the dogs.

Cue dog-wrestling music.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 March, 2019, 08:45:14 am
Feeling full of ache after last night's gym. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 22 March, 2019, 09:47:30 pm
Swearing at RNGesus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 22 March, 2019, 09:48:20 pm
Quote from: Basil on 22 March, 2019, 08:45:14 am
Feeling full of ache after last night's gym.

Did you take a wrong turn on the way to the pub?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 22 March, 2019, 10:23:01 pm
Quote from: Kim on 22 March, 2019, 09:48:20 pm
Quote from: Basil on 22 March, 2019, 08:45:14 am
Feeling full of ache after last night's gym.

Did you take a wrong turn on the way to the pub?

No. But straight to the pub after the gym was probably a wrong thing.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 23 March, 2019, 07:27:21 am
Having coffee, before I jump in the shower.  Planning on catching the 9.26 to the Smoke. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 23 March, 2019, 07:39:11 am
Digesting breakfast and considering another cuppa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 23 March, 2019, 08:20:10 am
Waiting for a train. Think I'll be a bit later than Reg through Cambridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 March, 2019, 07:21:51 pm
Quote from: Kim on 18 March, 2019, 08:21:39 pm
Observing with interest the supply of voles[1] to KimBarakta-HQ.

I opened the door earlier with a view to going to the postal oriface[2], to be met by the sight of  a) rain that wasn't happening when I looked out the upstairs window a minute or so earlier and  b) assorted linemen for the county, dressed in orange hi-vis, clutching some sturdy rubber gloves and peering at map of Silly Oak.

"Hello Kim," says one, who I recognised from one of the previous data logger installations, "we're swapping connections in the link boxes to see if we can balance out the load better.  Don't suppose you can keep an eye on things this evening, could you?  Cos if I ring you tomorrow and it's still rubbish we can just try something else rather than bothering with a data logger..."

Needless to say this didn't work, so they've upped the ante and brought in the Big Hole Gang[1]:

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/electricity/2019_03_25_17_40_52.sized.jpg)

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/electricity/2019_03_25_16_37_31.sized.jpg)

See that propane torch?  That's what I call a no-nonsense approach to applying heat-shrink.

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/electricity/2019_03_25_17_40_40.sized.jpg)

They've moved our cut-out to a different phase, on the basis of redistributing load (or that the voltage is always higher[2], or something).

Has it worked?  Bit early to tell...

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/electricity/Screenshot_at_2019_03_25_19_10_41.sized.png)

Data Logger Dave will be back tomorrow, apparently.  And presumably someone's going to fill the hole in before the BloodyStudents fill it with pizza boxes and half-finished cans of vodbull.


[1] Altogether now:  They're the BHG, the BHG, they're great at making craters, and drinking lots of tea...
[2] In the grass-is-always-greener sense.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 25 March, 2019, 08:11:18 pm
Something make me think of Bernard Cribbins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShvgXZQBTs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShvgXZQBTs)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 March, 2019, 08:23:23 am
Only your man there isn't wearing his plastic bowler.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 26 March, 2019, 02:07:25 pm
Interesting soil colours you have in that part of this sceptred isle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 27 March, 2019, 09:14:01 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 26 March, 2019, 02:07:25 pm
Interesting soil colours you have in that part of this sceptred isle.

They've put all the different coloured soil back in the hole in the wrong order too!

As further testament to their lack of jigsaw-puzzling skills, they've given up on the b0rked[1] paving slabs and have left the job unfinished, pending some new ones.  Which I give about a week before ending up in the same condition.


Meanwhile, the supply of voles is looking much more healthy; it hasn't dropped below the point where the bathroom lightbulb develops strobe-o-vision since they swapped phases:

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/electricity/Screenshot_at_2019_03_27_21_07_05.sized.png)


[1] By people driving builders' vans, skip lorries and some of the larger wankpanzers over them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andytheflyer on 28 March, 2019, 07:48:46 am
Quote from: Beardy on 26 March, 2019, 02:07:25 pm
Interesting soil colours you have in that part of this sceptred isle.

AIUI, Kim lives in the Midlands, where the most widespread geological unit is the Permian, so mainly red sandstones and mudstones.  So the soils tend to be red because of the iron content of the rocks the soils derive from.  The Permian was mostly a hot desert, or shallow sea, near to the land edge.  Think Arabian Gulf today.  If she lived in, say, Oxfordshire, the soils would not be red because the major rock types don't include the Permian.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 March, 2019, 10:49:22 am
Procrastinating before starting on a stack of Visio diagrams.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 March, 2019, 12:13:27 pm
Quote from: Kim on 27 March, 2019, 09:14:01 pm
As further testament to their lack of jigsaw-puzzling skills, they've given up on the b0rked[1] paving slabs and have left the job unfinished, pending some new ones.  Which I give about a week before ending up in the same condition.

And they've just finished installing them.  Place your bets, the clock starts now...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 March, 2019, 08:23:21 pm
Wondering why, when Googling using .co.uk from Germany, despite having my search location set to UK and using 'display from UK' it still gives me all the shopping results in Euros :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 31 March, 2019, 07:33:48 pm
Feeling sorry for myself as I have a cold, have lost my voice and feel rotten.  Despite this, I have had lots of work to do which I didn't want to do because I am feeling ill.  So I ranted for a bit on twitter about working at least 60 hours each week, but still getting funny looks when I leave a 5 to get to my mum's care home during visiting hours (before going home and working again).  Having used that as a procrastination tool, I finally got on with my work.  I've now finished so now getting on with my homework (i am learning Spanish) apparently a husky voice means I pronounce my Spanish word better.  However, I am still grumpy because I am doing the 5:2 diet and today is a 2 day and I want to eat chocolate but can't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: davelodwig on 31 March, 2019, 08:37:45 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 28 March, 2019, 08:23:21 pm
Wondering why, when Googling using .co.uk from Germany, despite having my search location set to UK and using 'display from UK' it still gives me all the shopping results in Euros :(

Because of the way their infrastructure works, the sites are essentially all the same, the url is just a portal onto their network, it then spreads the work around and geolocates to figure out what it thinks you should see. It's often annoying when the computer thinks it's fixing your mistake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 01 April, 2019, 09:50:49 am
Contemplating a set of EMG pickups and trying to figure out which of the 8 or so different wiring diagrams they supply applies to the hardware, whose precise designation doesn't appear against any of them.  ??? :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 01 April, 2019, 12:08:13 pm
Listening to the neighbours but one having their driveway replaced which has involved constant pneumatic drilling since about 8am (well, I presume that's what is happening, I've not been out to look).

If I wanted to listen to streets being dug up, I'd go to the office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 April, 2019, 02:05:14 pm
I am digesting some uncomfortable news, ie. That my role is redundant and I have no chance of getting the role that nearest replaces it.

Bugger
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 April, 2019, 02:34:22 pm
As you say, bugger.

That was my 1974 Christmas present too: "we want you to document then entire project, then we'll make you redundant. You've got three months".

Although now I come to think about it that was also the good news I had in spring of 1983. I came back from a business trip to find bailiffs going round the company putting little stickers on every piece of equipment and entering it into a ledger. Still, after that I went free-lance and trebled my income.

Bon courage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 02 April, 2019, 03:57:05 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 02 April, 2019, 02:05:14 pm
I am digesting some uncomfortable news, ie. That my role is redundant and I have no chance of getting the role that nearest replaces it.

Bugger

OH SHIT!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 02 April, 2019, 04:17:48 pm
I have just received the documentation.  Whilst the "Without Prejudice" offer is significant (like we can go to the US in summer, not at Xmas as previously expected significant) I still do not think it is sufficient to cover the situation I am in, i.e. they think I am unable to fulfill the new role as I am off work (and have been previously suicidal) due to work stress.  Yes, stress caused by the job, the one they are making me redundant from.  Stress levels, currently? More than a little high...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Si S on 03 April, 2019, 02:27:30 pm
That's truly shit tiermat and the timing seems a little more than co-incidental, go get some legal advice.

Keep going mate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 04 April, 2019, 09:12:55 am
Agree, could be constructive dismissal.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 April, 2019, 02:06:26 pm
Waiting for the idiot who keeps ringing barakta's phone from a private number to try again so I can determine whether they're a hospital or a spammer, and lecture them about the Accessible Information Standard or tell them to get to fuck, respectively.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 04 April, 2019, 02:35:27 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 April, 2019, 02:06:26 pm
Waiting for the idiot who keeps ringing barakta's phone from a private number to try again so I can determine whether they're a hospital or a spammer, and lecture them about the Accessible Information Standard or tell them to get to fuck, respectively.

GGGRRRRRUUUUUMBLE!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 04 April, 2019, 03:40:39 pm
That's pretty crap, Tiermat, hope things work out.

Over here, I'm contemplating the choice of catching up with three weeks of work mail, or yacf.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Andrij on 04 April, 2019, 06:22:52 pm
Disappointing people across the globe.

Today I received an email informing me that people "in 3 countries have visited" my profile on academia.edu - a site on which I am only a consumer, not a contributor.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 04 April, 2019, 11:55:48 pm
Awaiting David's return from Guildford.
I did tell him there were fast and slow trains 'twixt Waterloo & Guildford and I think I managed to advise him of a rapid outward service.

If he had applied a little thought, he could have been home sooner...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 April, 2019, 12:54:22 am
Barakta needs to decontaminate herself after exposure to smokers before we can go to bed, so I've powered up three generations of eTrexen and am waiting to see how they handle the week number overflow.

ETA: They all handled it, even the Legend that would only get a signal if left outside.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 06 April, 2019, 02:33:23 pm
Well, I didn’t think I’d need to BOOK the ferry! Now on standby for the 15:15 over the sea to Skye.

The think is, had I booked the ferry, I would have booked on the 16:00 in any case because, you know, contingency.

Remarkably, I am NOT in the dog house 🤭
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 06 April, 2019, 03:22:59 pm
Roughing out a bass guitar design.  I have various chunks of mahogany, pearwood and a bit of rather tatty ash available but both mahogany & pearwood are in 20mm-thick boards so I'm going to have to make a sandwich, e.g. 10mm of ash between two layers of mahogany for the body. Etc.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 06 April, 2019, 04:39:17 pm
Quote from: T42 on 06 April, 2019, 03:22:59 pm
Roughing out a bass guitar design.  I have various chunks of mahogany, pearwood and a bit of rather tatty ash available but both mahogany & pearwood are in 20mm-thick boards so I'm going to have to make a sandwich, e.g. 10mm of ash between two layers of mahogany for the body. Etc.

It's a good job it's tatty and not notty, otherwise you'd only be able to make a guitar for a diddy man.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 06 April, 2019, 04:48:30 pm
Quote from: T42 on 06 April, 2019, 03:22:59 pm
Roughing out a bass guitar design.  I have various chunks of mahogany, pearwood and a bit of rather tatty ash available but both mahogany & pearwood are in 20mm-thick boards so I'm going to have to make a sandwich, e.g. 10mm of ash between two layers of mahogany for the body. Etc.

What's it going to look like, painted, or just laquered to show the grain?  I'd love to be able to play bass.

As for me, grumbling about my back, caused an early exit from todays 100 at 65km.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 06 April, 2019, 05:30:17 pm
Drinking Bucks Fizz.  Well Prosecco with blood-orange juice. Mmm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 06 April, 2019, 05:53:56 pm
I can't believe I'm saying this. Watching Sharknado. My life is.... Complete. Or something.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 06 April, 2019, 06:31:42 pm
Quote from: Ham on 06 April, 2019, 05:53:56 pm
I can't believe I'm saying this. Watching Sharknado. My life is.... Complete. Or something.

Followed by sharknado 2, 3...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 April, 2019, 06:35:15 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 06 April, 2019, 06:31:42 pm
Quote from: Ham on 06 April, 2019, 05:53:56 pm
I can't believe I'm saying this. Watching Sharknado. My life is.... Complete. Or something.

Followed by sharknado 2, 3...

See the film thread for why that's a terrible idea.  The first one is silly enough to be entertaining.  The others are well into "I watched it so you don't have to".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 06 April, 2019, 07:04:19 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 April, 2019, 06:35:15 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 06 April, 2019, 06:31:42 pm
Quote from: Ham on 06 April, 2019, 05:53:56 pm
I can't believe I'm saying this. Watching Sharknado. My life is.... Complete. Or something.

Followed by sharknado 2, 3...

See the film thread for why that's a terrible idea.  The first one is silly enough to be entertaining.  The others are well into "I watched it so you don't have to".

I didn't say it was a good idea...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 06 April, 2019, 07:36:05 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 April, 2019, 06:35:15 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 06 April, 2019, 06:31:42 pm
Quote from: Ham on 06 April, 2019, 05:53:56 pm
I can't believe I'm saying this. Watching Sharknado. My life is.... Complete. Or something.

Followed by sharknado 2, 3...

See the film thread for why that's a terrible idea.  The first one is silly enough to be entertaining.  The others are well into "I watched it so you don't have to".

Without that, I don't think I would have bothered, I confess I larfed. Loud.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 April, 2019, 01:23:33 pm
Watching a very dark version of Sabrina the Teenaged Witch
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 07 April, 2019, 02:09:08 pm
Waiting for partner to come down for breakfast...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 07 April, 2019, 03:28:35 pm
Drinking tea and eating an oatcake. Not simultaneously, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 07 April, 2019, 07:11:43 pm
Watching the last ferry of the day recede into the distance.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 April, 2019, 07:15:44 pm
Still watching a dark version of Sabrina, coughing a lot and losing my voice again.  I only got my voice back on Friday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 07 April, 2019, 07:26:31 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 07 April, 2019, 07:15:44 pm
Still watching a dark version of Sabrina, coughing a lot and losing my voice again.  I only got my voice back on Friday.
Which version is that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 07 April, 2019, 07:30:00 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 07 April, 2019, 07:26:31 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 07 April, 2019, 07:15:44 pm
Still watching a dark version of Sabrina, coughing a lot and losing my voice again.  I only got my voice back on Friday.
Which version is that.

Sounds like Lou's watching the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix, which started running late last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_Adventures_of_Sabrina_(TV_series)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 07 April, 2019, 07:53:16 pm
I am most upset that Salem doesn't speak in this version.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 April, 2019, 07:57:56 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 07 April, 2019, 07:53:16 pm
I am most upset that Salem doesn't speak in this version.

He doesn't?  Bah!  What's the point in that?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 07 April, 2019, 08:05:18 pm
Quote from: Kim on 07 April, 2019, 07:57:56 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 07 April, 2019, 07:53:16 pm
I am most upset that Salem doesn't speak in this version.

He doesn't?  Bah!  What's the point in that?

It's probably for the best.

Given the darker, Satanic tone of this reboot, Salem would most likely be voiced by, at best, James Earl Jones or at worst, made to sound like a Scandinavian death metal vocalist.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 07 April, 2019, 09:14:26 pm
I wondered if it was that one. I enjoyed it, though as I’ve not seen any other version of the stories i don’t have a benchmark of darkness for it. I was bored last week and started watching Teen Wolf expecting an American Pie type of thing. It turned out it’s quite a bit darker than that. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Katie on 13 April, 2019, 08:07:59 am
Sitting at a roller derby tournament waiting for people to show up…
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 13 April, 2019, 08:30:20 am
Waiting for the morning tea to brew.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 April, 2019, 11:46:44 am
Listening to the Euston busker and thinking he should learn more songs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 13 April, 2019, 12:50:58 pm
Wondering why the new garage doors which I measured countless times don't fit.

 :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 13 April, 2019, 01:08:17 pm
Digesting lunch and motivating myself to go out and fix new clips for the external gas pipe, then plant some potatoes. Plus try yet again to get my recalcitrant rear tubeless wheel to properly seal.  ::-)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 13 April, 2019, 01:31:02 pm
Quote from: essexian on 13 April, 2019, 12:50:58 pm
Wondering why the new garage doors which I measured countless times don't fit.

 :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

Check your measuring kit. When I moved here, we bought a spirit level whose 'yardstick' markings GROSSLY differed from those on our tape measures.

Otherwise, there's an issue with the maker/supplier...  ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 13 April, 2019, 04:06:49 pm
Or the garage might have shrunk.  That seems to be a thing they do.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 14 April, 2019, 04:37:26 pm
Just finished watching Paris-Roubaix. Best I've seen for years.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 14 April, 2019, 04:57:33 pm
Sitting drinking brew dog IPA having ridden 115km this morning and then made pickled blueberries, pickled  pineapple and a batch of sauerkraut. The kimchi and hola Curtido can wait until tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 15 April, 2019, 11:35:50 am
Quote from: Kim on 13 April, 2019, 04:06:49 pm
Or the garage might have shrunk.  That seems to be a thing they do.

Not far wrong..... it seems the frame is not square and the new garage door (plus every piece of wood I brought yesterday) is warped.

Some swearing was required but the new doors are now fitted! A 10 minute job took 14 hours!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 15 April, 2019, 02:26:52 pm
A five-minute job/patient is a diagnosis best made in retrospect...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hellymedic on 16 April, 2019, 11:39:29 am
Looking at the box of audio and other wires & cables I've disentangled after David presented them to me for attention.
Cat walked in just after I'd rescued two mice.
Ball dropped out of one mouse after it hit the counter.
I don't suppose we'll reuse this ancient device...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 April, 2019, 02:35:50 pm
One release to get out by 5pm.

No, wait, they also want to prototype built and checked by the end of the day. Why can't I just build it, they ask? Because it has never been done before, ffs.

Now my bosses boss wants 2 page powerpoint on how I'm going to deliver product x, sent to him within an hour, with estimates.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 April, 2019, 10:21:40 am
Marveling at the wonder that is phone and data services all the way through the channel tunnel
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 April, 2019, 10:13:07 am
Hoovering my sock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 18 April, 2019, 10:36:38 am
A perfectly reasonable thing to do.


I have finally given up on my old KB - it had started inserting spaces all on its own - and after a frantic search I have replaced it with the one I used to use with my laptop. Don't like it much - it's too flat, the plastic has a greasy feel and the layout is squashed together so I keep hitting the wrong arrow keys. :(

The funny thing is that every time I hit a space now habit has my thumb flicking at the side of the space bar to pop it back up again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 18 April, 2019, 11:53:05 am
Practicing my Spanish - omg I so bad at not only pronouncing the words, but I also get them in the wrong order.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 18 April, 2019, 02:35:14 pm
Becoming increasingly bored at work. Stress free is one thing, bugger all to do quite another.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 19 April, 2019, 08:53:45 am
Quote from: lou boutin on 18 April, 2019, 11:53:05 am
Practicing my Spanish - omg I so bad at not only pronouncing the words, but I also get them in the wrong order.

I tried a Rosetta Stone Spanish package ~10 years ago, but my computer of the day cut off the first sound that came over the mike - perro came over as erro - so it kept giving me zilch for pronunciation. I jacked it in.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 19 April, 2019, 11:40:29 am
Sitting in the sunshine on the lawn, enjoying the peace (thankfully no jet washing of patios, nor strumming or mowing of lawns) and birdsong. Lovely.  Only blot is with an easterly breeze we get the noise from the bypass, but it’s still pleasant to be outside and in cut-offs and a tee shirt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 19 April, 2019, 05:46:31 pm
Same agin after a 30 mile ride, now drinking poor mans Buck’s Fizz - Prosecco and orange juice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 April, 2019, 05:48:23 pm
Being pleased that my curtains seem to have survived being washed. (One of them had been used as a cat marking point)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 19 April, 2019, 05:55:36 pm
Re-hydrating after running 13k from my hotel to the Pyramids at Giza, and then running back.

The cloud cover cleared making the mid-day run home a wee bit of a struggle.
I'm a bit cooked on the head and possibly have mild heat stroke!

The back roads route was 'interesting', and the navigation was tricky using the breadcrumb trail on the watch, but it worked fine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 April, 2019, 09:40:47 pm
Nutter!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 25 April, 2019, 09:56:20 pm
I'm surprised his pace wasn't kept up by the feral dogs.

Tonight I'm contemplating whether or not to get a replacement battery for my 2011-ish Macbook Air which still worked but I don't actually need (it won't power-up any more since my wife drained the ailing battery doing her stupid Les Mills exercises). Sadly, after a day of Concur and meetings with mothership legal, I can just can't be bothered going upstairs to note the serial number so I can check how ish the 2011-ish actually is. From the instructions, it seems possible that even a minimally technically competent numbskull like me might be able to change it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 April, 2019, 08:30:33 am
Procrastinating: today I need to fill & send in a batch of veterinary insurance bumph for the dog's latest non-crisis, go get a few bits of domestic hardware, and put a new chainring on the Trek.  What I really feel like doing is none of the above so I don't feel like starting any of them.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wombat on 26 April, 2019, 09:22:06 am
Procrastinating because I am supposed to be cleaning a railway locomotive today, and the enthusiasm is a bit lacking.  Luckily she isn't a particularly large loco, a mere 20 tonnes or so, but as I last cleaned her some months ago and she has done precisely 0 miles since then (and I put a tarpaulin over her a while back), I'm hoping she isn't too bad.  She needs to look clean for Sierra Leone Independence Day tomorrow, as we are having an event at the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, and two senior guys from the Sierra Leone Railway museum are visiting.  Needless to say, Wales has changed its weather back to standard, for their visit. 

So if anyone fancies a bit of industrial housework...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 April, 2019, 01:24:34 pm
Well, I did the dog-insurance bit. At least I thought I did: the claims-posting website hides the results from prying eyes.  It's a bit worrying that for four claims I only got one email acknowledgement back and it doesn't give any details.

I'll maybe slope over to the hardware shop now. Or not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 April, 2019, 04:06:32 pm
Disappearing down a rabbit hole.

On long rides I've been getting sore feet so thought I'd get some shoes with stiff soles (not that easy as I have weird shaped feet).
Then after a bit of googling different pedals were suggested.

Argh! Too many options.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 28 April, 2019, 05:58:50 pm
Pondering over the multitude of energy suppliers, and if I really want to go back to BG to save £20 a month. (There are cheaper options, but the “best of the rest” is a variable tariff and I don’t want to be switching more than annually).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 May, 2019, 01:59:22 pm
Basking in the afterglow of letting a telemarketer go through her spiel then saying smugly "sorry, madame, we closed the company three years ago".

I suppose we could have changed the phone number but telling everyone we know would have been a pain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 03 May, 2019, 09:53:22 pm
Trying to wind down a bit.  I started working at 7am this morning and finished at about 9.30 this evening.  I had a couple of hours out at lunchtime, I had to travel to an opticians appointment (but did a bit of work on the train there.  So I have done about 12 hours today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 04 May, 2019, 09:32:59 am
Thinking about getting out of bed but a quick look out of the window at the sky makes me wonder if it’s worth it. Dr Beardy is also working1, though the fact that she is doing so on the computer in the bedroom is a complication in the getting out of bed equation.

1. It’s marking season, and thus academics up and down the land are absent from family life.   
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 May, 2019, 02:14:32 pm
Hog-tied here: bike's clean but it's pissing down and cold. Workshop temperature is ~7°C so don't feel like working wood and anyway I'm waiting for critical bits to arrive. Missus is knackered from a half-marathon yesterday and doesn't feel like going out anywhere. Bah.

Mañana.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 09 May, 2019, 07:18:29 pm
Reminding myself, once again, that uPNP is much like UK solar power - promises a lot, but in the end it's just shit.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 09 May, 2019, 07:48:18 pm
Quote from: Chris S on 09 May, 2019, 07:18:29 pm
Reminding myself, once again, that uPNP is much like UK solar power - promises a lot, but in the end it's just shit.

That seems a little unfair to solar power.  There are typically several whole days a year where solar power delivers as promised.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 11 May, 2019, 08:59:48 am
Just dropped one of our dogs off at the vet's to have a bleeding skin tumour removed from his face.  The worrying thing is that another has appeared about 5 cm away from it, and he's having trouble peeing.  The implication is that it's all the same thing and he's riddled with it.

We'll be going back mid-afternoon to pick him up again, but we'll not have a biopsy result until next week.   Glum. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 12 May, 2019, 08:21:55 am
Just sent the bill for the above to the insurance company.  Noticed over the vet's shoulder that so far they've had >14,000€ out of us.  That'd be for the current two dogs and their predecessor. Total insurance premiums for these two over the years tot up to > 10000. Add the two together and there's a half-decent car there. :o

Cars aren't as much fun, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 May, 2019, 05:11:32 pm
Hope he's ok.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 24 May, 2019, 07:43:05 pm
Booking a trip to Spain.

It started as a cycling trip, flying to Girona and completing the PiriNexus.

I then changed my mind and decided that I'd like to include Madrid.

Which sort of discounted cycling.

Thus now I fly to BCN, spend one night there, get the train the next morning to Madrid, spend 2 days there then returning to Madrid for 2 days before heading home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 May, 2019, 08:10:55 pm
Sounds terrible!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 24 May, 2019, 10:41:24 pm
Killing time at Euston before the FNRttC.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 24 May, 2019, 10:42:01 pm
Sitting on a train heading towards a FNRTTC. It's been a while...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 May, 2019, 09:35:05 am
Searching Google for FNRTTC.

OK, gotcha. LLF
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 26 May, 2019, 02:47:42 pm
Sitting on the dock dangling my legs over the river Wat hing the reeds blowing in the breeze while Dr Beardy (Mrs) and her sister peruse expensive tat in the various emporia that make up the retail experience that is Snape Maltings. With a bit of luck they’ll invite me to have a cup of tea and a bun with them for which my S-n-L will spring for in recompense for me buying them all Sunday lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 May, 2019, 03:19:36 pm
We drove past Snape Maltings on Thursday after a visit to Minsmere.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 27 May, 2019, 10:41:34 am
Inhaling the wondrous aroma emanating from the kitchen and trying not to salivate on my jumper.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 29 May, 2019, 08:14:42 am
Drinking a cuppa before heading out for a day of farm machinery at the Suffolk Show
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 30 May, 2019, 04:44:20 pm
Been watching the bluetits fledging from our nest box.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 08 June, 2019, 11:56:40 pm
sitting in a Denver hotel room feeling very tired, I left home in the UK at 5am BST and it is currently 5pm local time here. Bright sun and I feel the need to sleep.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 09 June, 2019, 07:11:56 am
Quote from: matthew on 08 June, 2019, 11:56:40 pm
sitting in a Denver hotel room feeling very tired, I left home in the UK at 5am BST and it is currently 5pm local time here. Bright sun and I feel the need to sleep.

It was in a Denver hotel room, in a similar state of jet lag, that I first watched Alien.  The semi-delirium brought on by sleep deprivation (which had nothing on PBP but didn't have the cycling to push it back) turned it into a deeply mystic experience, even though they did slap in 5 minutes of adverts between Nostromo blowing up and Siggy Weaver hopping into bed with the cat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 June, 2019, 12:19:04 pm
Quote from: matthew on 08 June, 2019, 11:56:40 pm
sitting in a Denver hotel room feeling very tired, I left home in the UK at 5am BST and it is currently 5pm local time here. Bright sun and I feel the need to sleep.

Isn't it de rigeur under these circumstances to watch "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead"?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 10 June, 2019, 09:30:20 am
It could be worse, I was once stuck in a Durango hotel room during a snowstorm and ran out of things to read other than the Book of Moroni (handily secreted à la Gideon in the beside drawer).

That said, a copy of this read to the tune of a well-stocked hotel bar makes for much hilarity. You'll never take the Mormons seriously again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 10 June, 2019, 02:44:16 pm
In one hotel where we fetched up in Rennes a Gideon bible was the only means of air-conditioning. We used it to prop the window open.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 10 June, 2019, 05:27:17 pm
Spraying air freshener. The Asbestos Palace reeked of diabolically eggy bottoms when I came back from the pool. I assumed something awry with the drains so spent a while tipping bleach down them, but the smell lingered undispersed in the hallway. Tentatively sniffed the dishwasher, washing machine, downstairs loo – seemed fine. What the hell could it be?

Ah, what's located under the stairs...

Anyway, thanks Bad Cat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bludger on 10 June, 2019, 05:30:03 pm
Did 4 hours of delivering in the rain. Currently cowering in my uni's common room because I'm too wet to willingly jump back on the bike and ride home. Made £60 which is pretty good going but feeling like work!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Torslanda on 12 June, 2019, 11:12:53 am
Marvelling at the generosity of human nature.

Quote
Hi John

I've been having a clear out in the man cave and decided ICBA to flog all these bits individually, thought that you could make use of them

A charity donation if you feel you must but really I'm happy for you to take them gratis.

Cheers

[NAME REDACTED]

Suddenly it's awfully dusty in here, or it might be brake cleaner fumes...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 June, 2019, 12:20:44 pm
Drooling and aching, and waiting for the massive headache to set in.

Yes, I've been to the denthith.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 12 June, 2019, 12:27:50 pm
aching and snorting, and intermittently coughing
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 June, 2019, 10:55:53 am
Yawning in an unexpectedly sunny LHR T5 waiting to get into a metal tube to take me to Furryboottoon,there to change for Sumburgh.

Edit: a delayed-by-an-hour metal tube :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 June, 2019, 08:01:17 pm
<waves to Mr L as he disappears past>
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 June, 2019, 08:19:15 pm
I did wave out of the window of the flying vibrator as we headed for points north, but it was raining.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 24 June, 2019, 06:09:20 pm
listening vicariously to next door's radio.  Sounds like the R4 weather forecast, it's bloody muggy here
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 24 June, 2019, 09:42:52 pm
Sweating.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 June, 2019, 08:18:52 am
Checking my blood-pressure; it looks like some miscreant has pinched a chunk of it since I got back from yesterday's ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 27 June, 2019, 09:35:18 pm
Watching the women's footballer's cup of footballing in the pub.
I'm surprised it's on.
A.  Not rugby
B. Ingerlund
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 28 June, 2019, 03:23:24 am
Sitting with my foot in a bowl of cold water trying and failing to reduce the pain to a level where I can sleep.

Thats about ten days without proper sleep.... Sounds like an audax but without the bus shelters.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gus on 28 June, 2019, 07:00:58 am
Enjoying a mug og coffee, while
Sitting in the garden, listening to the
Blackbirds and chaffinchs.
Life feels great om such a morning 😊😊
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 28 June, 2019, 08:44:46 am
Draining my second cuppa while basking in the coolth of a mere 25°C.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 28 June, 2019, 11:22:43 am
2 coffees in, and 2 large teas, I'm still staring at the thick end of a 14hour+ day.

But I can hear the birds singing and see the trees wafting out of my offcie window
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 28 June, 2019, 11:40:28 am
I'm thinking I should have left the mothership's summer party before 1am this morning, then I would have been in bed before 2.30am. I did sleep in an extra hour but  Y A W N.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 28 June, 2019, 12:04:11 pm
Just pouring my ninth mug of tea after a night of not sleeping well due to mega hayfever.

Mega snot and spending the entire night with my mouth open because neither nostril worked at all have left me rather thirsty.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bludger on 28 June, 2019, 12:08:35 pm
Mounted the new cross tyres tubelessly, had 4 cups of coffee, slowly packing my delivery bag to ride in to That London for a day of dropping off other people's food for cash.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 28 June, 2019, 01:10:36 pm
Quote from: ian on 28 June, 2019, 11:40:28 am
I'm thinking I should have left the mothership's summer party before 1am this morning, then I would have been in bed before 2.30am. I did sleep in an extra hour but  Y A W N.

It's also didn't help that I came in for a meeting at 10am with our section's MD and he's like, hey, I invited two our new board members to sit in, now dance monkey, dance.

And my brain kept saying show them how excited you are by yawning. Go on, big mouth yawn, show them some tonsil. I hate my brain.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 28 June, 2019, 01:15:49 pm
^^^ Man stiil has tonsils. Mine were wheeked out while I was yet of a tender age. It was the Thing to Do back then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 June, 2019, 01:16:44 pm
Quote from: T42 on 28 June, 2019, 01:15:49 pm
^^^ Man stiil has tonsils. Mine were wheeked out while I was yet of a tender age. It was the Thing to Do back then.

Apparently you don't even get ice cream with tonsilectomies any more...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 28 June, 2019, 01:31:32 pm
Quote from: T42 on 28 June, 2019, 01:15:49 pm
^^^ Man stiil has tonsils. Mine were wheeked out while I was yet of a tender age. It was the Thing to Do back then.

Almost impossible to get an NHS tonsillectomy these days.  It's a Category 2 intervention/procedure (in the NHS England Evidence Based Intervention Guidance (https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ebi-statutory-guidance-v2.pdf)) which require individual Prior Approval.  Lots of hoops for GPs/hospitals to jump through.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 28 June, 2019, 01:54:15 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 June, 2019, 01:16:44 pm
Quote from: T42 on 28 June, 2019, 01:15:49 pm
^^^ Man stiil has tonsils. Mine were wheeked out while I was yet of a tender age. It was the Thing to Do back then.

Apparently you don't even get ice cream with tonsilectomies any more...

Huh. They offered me rice pudding.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 28 June, 2019, 01:57:12 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 28 June, 2019, 01:31:32 pm
Quote from: T42 on 28 June, 2019, 01:15:49 pm
^^^ Man stiil has tonsils. Mine were wheeked out while I was yet of a tender age. It was the Thing to Do back then.

Almost impossible to get an NHS tonsillectomy these days.  It's a Category 2 intervention/procedure (in the NHS England Evidence Based Intervention Guidance (https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ebi-statutory-guidance-v2.pdf)) which require individual Prior Approval.  Lots of hoops for GPs/hospitals to jump through.

I know someone who's been failing to get one for years because they keep having to move area and the hoop-jumping resets.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Regulator on 28 June, 2019, 02:29:03 pm
Quote from: Kim on 28 June, 2019, 01:57:12 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 28 June, 2019, 01:31:32 pm
Quote from: T42 on 28 June, 2019, 01:15:49 pm
^^^ Man stiil has tonsils. Mine were wheeked out while I was yet of a tender age. It was the Thing to Do back then.

Almost impossible to get an NHS tonsillectomy these days.  It's a Category 2 intervention/procedure (in the NHS England Evidence Based Intervention Guidance (https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ebi-statutory-guidance-v2.pdf)) which require individual Prior Approval.  Lots of hoops for GPs/hospitals to jump through.

I know someone who's been failing to get one for years because they keep having to move area and the hoop-jumping resets.

Yep - plus there's no definitively set national criteria (the EBI guidance is a vague fudge on this procedure) which means we have ended - yet again - with an NHS postcode lottery.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 June, 2019, 04:20:01 pm
Quote from: ian on 28 June, 2019, 01:10:36 pm
Quote from: ian on 28 June, 2019, 11:40:28 am
I'm thinking I should have left the mothership's summer party before 1am this morning, then I would have been in bed before 2.30am. I did sleep in an extra hour but  Y A W N.

It's also didn't help that I came in for a meeting at 10am with our section's MD and he's like, hey, I invited two our new board members to sit in, now dance monkey, dance.

And my brain kept saying show them how excited you are by yawning. Go on, big mouth yawn, show them some tonsil. I hate my brain.

What manner of imbecile organises a jbex party on a skool night?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: jsabine on 28 June, 2019, 10:26:58 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 28 June, 2019, 04:20:01 pm
Quote from: ian on 28 June, 2019, 01:10:36 pm
Quote from: ian on 28 June, 2019, 11:40:28 am
I'm thinking I should have left the mothership's summer party before 1am this morning, then I would have been in bed before 2.30am. I did sleep in an extra hour but  Y A W N.

It's also didn't help that I came in for a meeting at 10am with our section's MD and he's like, hey, I invited two our new board members to sit in, now dance monkey, dance.

And my brain kept saying show them how excited you are by yawning. Go on, big mouth yawn, show them some tonsil. I hate my brain.

What manner of imbecile organises a jbex party on a skool night?

Seems reasonable enough to me - at least then you get to have your hangover on work time.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 June, 2019, 01:38:46 pm
24-hour pedal car race.  So far this has involved ghetto bike-fit (add closed-cell foam until you can reach the pedals), learning how to steer (it's a bit like riding Auntie Helen's Versatile, if it were composed of about 60% gaffer tape); camping between some noisy Belgians and a scouts' football match; debugging the timing system (I'm one of the three people on site who claim to know anything about Crossmgr/ImpInj); and lots of sunblock.  I expect to be let loose in the car at about 4pm.  Assuming neither I, the tyres or the track have melted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 29 June, 2019, 02:01:34 pm
Quote from: Kim on 29 June, 2019, 01:38:46 pm
24-hour pedal car race.  So far this has involved ghetto bike-fit (add closed-cell foam until you can reach the pedals), learning how to steer (it's a bit like riding Auntie Helen's Versatile, if it were composed of about 60% gaffer tape); camping between some noisy Belgians and a scouts' football match; debugging the timing system (I'm one of the three people on site who claim to know anything about Crossmgr/ImpInj); and lots of sunblock.  I expect to be let loose in the car at about 4pm.  Assuming neither I, the tyres or the track have melted.

Where are you doing that?

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil W on 29 June, 2019, 02:26:29 pm
Hiding from the sun having got out on the bike early before the shaded lanes were no longer in shade or cool.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 29 June, 2019, 02:31:26 pm
Quote from: Gattopardo on 29 June, 2019, 02:01:34 pm
Quote from: Kim on 29 June, 2019, 01:38:46 pm
24-hour pedal car race.  So far this has involved ghetto bike-fit (add closed-cell foam until you can reach the pedals), learning how to steer (it's a bit like riding Auntie Helen's Versatile, if it were composed of about 60% gaffer tape); camping between some noisy Belgians and a scouts' football match; debugging the timing system (I'm one of the three people on site who claim to know anything about Crossmgr/ImpInj); and lots of sunblock.  I expect to be let loose in the car at about 4pm.  Assuming neither I, the tyres or the track have melted.

Where are you doing that?
Shenington.

I hasten to add that I thought this was a silly idea *before* I knew that it was going to be scorchio.  Chairman Al and Chris H press-ganged me into it a few weeks ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 29 June, 2019, 02:45:05 pm
waiting, poised like a coiled spring, until someone else sends me something, I'll then do something with it and send it back.
Repeat several times with different somethings until midnight tomorrow.

Cycled into town and back for shopping this morning, it was already hot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 30 June, 2019, 05:06:35 pm
Sprawling á la limp rag and waiting for the outside temperature to fall below room temperature.  Just now it's 28° indoors and 37° out so it'll take a while.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 01 July, 2019, 09:34:28 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 28 June, 2019, 04:20:01 pm
Quote from: ian on 28 June, 2019, 01:10:36 pm
Quote from: ian on 28 June, 2019, 11:40:28 am
I'm thinking I should have left the mothership's summer party before 1am this morning, then I would have been in bed before 2.30am. I did sleep in an extra hour but  Y A W N.

It's also didn't help that I came in for a meeting at 10am with our section's MD and he's like, hey, I invited two our new board members to sit in, now dance monkey, dance.

And my brain kept saying show them how excited you are by yawning. Go on, big mouth yawn, show them some tonsil. I hate my brain.

What manner of imbecile organises a jbex party on a skool night?

It's always thus (I can't complain, free booze and food, webex is better when you've a glass of sparkles in hand). Friday was, however, a long day which got longer when I discovered my wife had booked me in for an extended period of Sondheim in the evening.

I confess I've normally avoided the mothership parties on account of being a desocialized home worker with attenuated communication skills, but I got bullied into this by one of the tall posh girls. Other than getting up on following Friday morning, it was quite enjoyable.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 02 July, 2019, 04:31:14 am
Sitting on a chair in my bedroom with my left foot in a bowl of cold water while an electric fan provides some warmth thinking I am sure there was a public information film like this.....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 02 July, 2019, 10:34:16 am
Feeling extremely meh!   Woke up with a stiff neck,  headache, sniffly nose & general feeling of knackerdness.   Of course my in tray at work overfloweth...  :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 July, 2019, 11:20:09 am
Seriously thinking about lunch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 July, 2019, 05:54:11 pm
Drinking beer in the Euston Tap, Boomtown Rats on the PA.
Rat Trap, one of the first albums I bought & one of the first gigs I went too. (Liverpool Empire in nineteen seventy mumble)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 20 July, 2019, 06:46:05 pm
Ah. Liverpool Empire. It was always bloody freezing cold there for the set up. Also 197mumble.
Maybe I was unlucky and only went there in mid winter.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 29 July, 2019, 10:04:28 am
Recovering from a 10 minute walk to the GP surgery and back.  :facepalm: Pretty much only way to book an appointment is to go in person! Otherwise anytime you phone, and get through the multiple choice questionnaire, the reply is "our phone lines are busy, please phone back".

Hopefully should be recovered for my appointment at 11:50am!   :-[ To think, just last month I did a 200km Audax. Now it's taking me to walk a mere 1/4 mile to the gp surgery...   >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 July, 2019, 10:08:01 am
Waiting in the babers
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 29 July, 2019, 11:11:12 am
I am on leave so so far today I have....cleaned the garage, rehung a shelf which looked a bit wonky, arranged for some unwanted items to be collected by BHF, mowed the lawns and put all the recycling in the car for a trip to the skip....sorry recycling centre.

Later I have two bikes to clean with the hope that my foot will let me do some miles later in the week, some new wheels (brought 12 weeks ago!) to install and finally the hedgehog poo to pressure wash away.

Sometimes I think being off work is more knackering than working!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 July, 2019, 02:03:45 pm
I am on leave, so sitting in the Castle Gardens in Bridgnorth, wearing a big floppy hat (much to the delight of my 5-year-old step-granddaughter's delight) eating icecream.
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Post by: De Sisti on 29 July, 2019, 03:05:18 pm
At home recovering from recent (17 Jul) knee replacement operation. Having the sutures removed tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: essexian on 29 July, 2019, 03:24:18 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 29 July, 2019, 02:03:45 pm
I am on leave, so sitting in the Castle Gardens in Bridgnorth, wearing a big floppy hat (much to the delight of my 5-year-old step-granddaughter's delight) eating icecream.

Sounds lovely!

Do go on the cliff railway if you get a chance. Its most excellent.

A couple of years back it was for sale..... I tried to talk CBH into letting me buy it but she put her foot down with a firm hand and said no.... Something about the fact that I don't play with the model railway I already have.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 29 July, 2019, 08:31:07 pm
I have been on the railway a few times, but normally we walk.  I should take the little one on there one day, she would love it. 

I remember it being for sale :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 03 September, 2019, 09:21:08 pm
Lying in my tent near Aberdaron, trying to listen to the Proms over the wind & rain outside.  A flask of single malt at hand.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 September, 2019, 05:11:03 am
Trying to summon the energy to go to bed even though it's only 10 pm.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 September, 2019, 04:00:46 pm
Hiding in my office to avoid the deadly boredom of company, not to mention the lingering stink of cigarettes.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 04 September, 2019, 04:54:09 pm
Après Sartre - l'enfer est l'odeur des autres?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 September, 2019, 05:04:38 pm
Même sans l'odeur...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 04 September, 2019, 05:40:52 pm
C'est vrai!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 04 September, 2019, 08:19:22 pm
Lying in my tent near Blaenau Ffestiniog listening to the rain batter the shaking tent.  They insisted I tie a big label to the tent & it’s flapping around in the wind. Crap radio reception so no Proms.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Zed43 on 04 September, 2019, 08:44:17 pm
Watching The Great British Soap Opera.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 04 September, 2019, 09:05:00 pm
Sittinn in our caravan in west Wales, being buffeted by the wind in a rather scary fashion.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 04 September, 2019, 09:26:21 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 04 September, 2019, 09:05:00 pm
Sittinn in our caravan in west Wales, being buffeted by the wind in a rather scary fashion.

Good heavens, are you still here?  Sucker for punishment,  eh? 
I'm waiting to hear if the honey farm is worth a visit or not.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 September, 2019, 09:33:09 pm
Having a ride in a car powered by dinojuice.
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Post by: T42 on 05 September, 2019, 08:05:45 am
Ah, Bisto?

Meanwhile, I am trying to screw up the energy to stand and, having stood, to get changed and go for a ride.  Trouble is that my chair is ever so comfortable after the big pre-ride breakfast I ate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 05 September, 2019, 08:39:38 am
Quote from: Basil on 04 September, 2019, 09:26:21 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 04 September, 2019, 09:05:00 pm
Sittinn in our caravan in west Wales, being buffeted by the wind in a rather scary fashion.

Good heavens, are you still here?  Sucker for punishment,  eh? 
I'm waiting to hear if the honey farm is worth a visit or not.
Yep, still here. Full fortnight away which has been a rare thing is this household of late.
Honey farm is scheduled for tomorrow, probably (seeing it's only about five minutes away).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 September, 2019, 09:30:28 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 September, 2019, 09:33:09 pm
Having a ride in a car powered by dinojuice.

An expression that always brings to mind

(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/7b/f0/77/7bf077400e87f185988efa27b5538ebd--fred-flinstone-wilma-flintstone.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 07 September, 2019, 09:37:28 am
Sitting with a heat pack on my left sacroiliac, drinking tea and cursing fate, as personified by the duff 20-kg microwave I personhandled into the boot of the car last Thursday week, at MrsT's insistence.

I can't get it out again until my back's healed, and I'm damned if I'm going to risk it before Christmas.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 14 September, 2019, 07:54:51 pm
Wondering whether the chap I overheard on the way home from the shops declaring that he was going to put a grand on Man City actually went through with it, or his wife/girlfriend - who sounded less than enthused - talked some sense into him.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 14 September, 2019, 08:09:19 pm
icing a very sore ankle, due to a tractor pulling out on me and then squeezing me into a kerb.  Rear wheel of the trailer clipped my leg causing friction burns and a twisted ankle.  Road rash on right hand as well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 September, 2019, 08:11:22 pm
Digesting rare lamb chops & salad, sipping chilled rose, listening to Lorin Maazel conducting the Vienna Phil in Sibelius 2. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 September, 2019, 08:27:54 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 14 September, 2019, 08:09:19 pm
icing a very sore ankle, due to a tractor pulling out on me and then squeezing me into a kerb.  Rear wheel of the trailer clipped my leg causing friction burns and a twisted ankle.  Road rash on right hand as well.

Oh no, not again! :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Phil W on 14 September, 2019, 08:30:16 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 14 September, 2019, 08:09:19 pm
icing a very sore ankle, due to a tractor pulling out on me and then squeezing me into a kerb.  Rear wheel of the trailer clipped my leg causing friction burns and a twisted ankle.  Road rash on right hand as well.

Did they stop?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 14 September, 2019, 08:33:16 pm
it was a choice of try and go behind, potentially into traffic, or hug the kerb and slam on the anchors.

To their credit, a lot of folks stopped to check I was OK and ask if they could help.  Buggeration was it was an online TT league ride and I was on for a massive PB to that point.

I think the driver saw me sprawled in the verge, but yes, she did stop.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 17 September, 2019, 07:05:19 pm
In a restaurant, wondering what the"lekkebekje" will turn out to be.

It's a special, sand indications are that it will be fish (from the sauce) . Time and taste will tell.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 September, 2019, 06:42:43 pm
Praying the bus comes soon, I really don't want to do taxi driver conversation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 September, 2019, 06:45:40 pm
Hooray!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 24 September, 2019, 03:20:30 pm
I'm lining the streets of Harrogate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 September, 2019, 03:04:33 am
Gazing glumly into the top of a mug of coffee as I wait for Mrs B to come downstairs.  At 3.30am I drive her to collect her chum and then take them to Cardiff airport.
Aren't I  nice?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 September, 2019, 03:08:01 am
Yes
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 28 September, 2019, 03:09:12 am
Go to bed!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 28 September, 2019, 03:14:45 am
 ;D
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Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 28 September, 2019, 03:36:02 am
Waiting for my airport transfer and expecting a lot of security checks...
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Post by: ElyDave on 28 September, 2019, 06:45:50 am
Watching the pumas maul the sea eagles
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Post by: ian on 29 September, 2019, 06:55:06 pm
Just finished the ironing.

Oh yes, read it and weep.

This being the fault of my wife, who's chuckling it up. I had to facetime her to prove it. And she cackled like something proper evil. I'm seeing her true face. She washed a batch of my trousers, seemingly on purpose. Normally, I'd take them one of those special shops that wash your clothes, iron them, and make them smell nice before putting them into a nice plastic bag. Which I then roll up and stuff into a bike pannier. But she washed them herself and they turned out all creased.

I've been putting this off for weeks (months, I actually went and bought some new trousers in the interim) but today was the day. Unearthing the iron from the bottom of the cupboard was like an Indiana Jones adventure, enlivened by another habit of my spouse, and that's tidying the house by simply moving the mess out of sight, which means opening any cupboard is fraught, because that's where she had been cramming the mess. And why do we have 32 rolls of kitchen towel? What kind of catastrophe is going to need that level of soakage? There's also about 100,000,000 M&S bags for life in there. Anyway, iron retrieved, promising 'turbo glide' which sounded more exciting than ironing should be. Then I had to find the ironing board but I knew that was in the IT-shame cupboard under the stairs, I knew this because it fell on me every time I open the door. Unfortunately, it had spontaneous disassembled.

Somehow it all came together and I turbo-glided my way through six pairs of trousers. That sounds a bit wrong, but I did. It wasn't all as bad as I remembered from the last time I ironed anything, and I think I had to get married that time. Some thumping tunes and heavy use of the steam setting until the kitchen looked and sounded like a rock concert.

Don't say this boy don't know how to have fun.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SoreTween on 01 October, 2019, 05:41:15 pm
Just finished my VAT returns, the ones for the quarter that ended yesterday :o  I've never been that organised before and I very much doubt it'll happen again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 03 October, 2019, 03:04:10 pm
Feeling seriously ill after a one hour tussle with modern dentistry.  :sick: (Removal of an old crown, and preparation of the stump for the new one). Considering a nap.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 October, 2019, 04:26:45 pm
Quote from: MikeFromLFE on 03 October, 2019, 03:04:10 pm
Feeling seriously ill after a one hour tussle with modern dentistry.  :sick: (Removal of an old crown, and preparation of the stump for the new one). Considering a nap.

Dental anaesthetics have always (well, since I've been an adult) had that effect on me.  Not helped by the fact that I tend to need quite a lot of it to achieve a fairly poor result.  I generally plan to sleep them off for the subsequent 24 hours, and if I feel less terrible, it's a bonus.

(The other advantage of being asleep is you tend not to try to eat anything.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: bludger on 03 October, 2019, 04:33:43 pm
I've decided that I've got bruised ribs. I got them last Friday night, and did a 200 with them on Sunday. Pain from deep breaths and using my right arm has hung around since then. So I'm lying around on my arse hoping the recovery speeds up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 03 October, 2019, 10:23:11 pm
I have been through Didcot twice this week, so I'm having a bit of a calm down and finding new tunes to purchase on the internets. I avoided unnecessary Didcot exposure by taking the Marylebone route to Oxford in the mornings. Chockful of Chinese, all headed to Bicester Shopping Village. I must say, I don't really understand travelling several thousand miles to visit a retail park to buy goods that will mostly be labelled 'made in China' but I'm more often than not at a variance with the rest of the world.

Reminds me, how is Marylebone supposed to be pronounced anyway? TfL doesn't seem agreed either. Mar-le-bone or Maryl-lee-bone. Ms Bakerloo line seems to prefer the former, but she's been trapped down there for years, so may have gone a bit wonky. I don't trust the train spirits, no matter how well-spoken they are. Seriously, you take the spook lady announcer from the Jubilee line out of her tunnel and she just yells 'FINCHLEY PARK!' at strangers. That was a terrible date. I've not been back to Chicken Cottage since.

Dentists, by the way, one you're suitably anaesthetised, pull on alien masks and interfere with you.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 08 October, 2019, 02:26:08 pm
We are juicing some of the apples (mostly Egremont Russets seeing as how you asked).

Mrs M is peeling them (I know, I know), and I'm operating the machine, because I'm a real man, and it's a centrifuge, and stuff. (Actually it's a puny food processor, but it does the job quite well).

She's got down to the tiny windfalls, and I've told her it's not really worth peeling them / juicing them at all - Mrs M says "Leave me alone, I'm happy"

If that's the face of happiness - we're doomed I tell you. We're all doomed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 October, 2019, 09:10:49 pm
Watching Hardllpoo Untied flooring to Stockport, which for some reason is being shown live in the pub.
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Post by: Kim on 09 October, 2019, 09:40:39 pm
Making up some BHPC race results.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 17 October, 2019, 05:27:32 pm
Quote from: MikeFromLFE on 03 October, 2019, 03:04:10 pm
Feeling seriously ill after a one hour tussle with modern dentistry.  :sick: (Removal of an old crown, and preparation of the stump for the new one). Considering a nap.
Once again - Feeling seriously ill after a one hour tussle with modern dentistry.  :sick: I've had a nap - the temporary crown was giving me severe pain, and there wasn't enough of a lump left to attempt root canal stuff - so out it came. In little pieces.
Mrs M is making me watch fricking Pointless.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 17 October, 2019, 09:15:42 pm
Cringing  :-[ while listening to the sound of my own voice, while watching a video presentation on photo editing software I've put together for my local photography club's Member's Night... 
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Post by: ElyDave on 18 October, 2019, 12:42:32 am
decompressing after getting home at midnight

I'll head to bed in ten mins or so
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 18 October, 2019, 09:44:07 am
Sitting in Frankfurt airport contemplating that a 15% barrel-aged stout perhaps wasn't the best way to kick-off yesterday evening's festivities, but it did taste nice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 18 October, 2019, 01:13:45 pm
Sounds like Andechser.
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Post by: Kim on 18 October, 2019, 01:17:01 pm
Waiting for backup scripts and watching the first all-female spacewalk.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 19 October, 2019, 07:33:17 pm
Hiding in the pub with several other Strictly refugees.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 20 October, 2019, 08:57:24 am
Quote from: Basil on 19 October, 2019, 07:33:17 pm
Hiding in the pub with several other Strictly refugees.
You're looking at it wrong.  For nearly 3 months you have can have a completely guilt free hour or two in the pub every Saturday while MrsBasil gets her jollies enjoying the sparkly frocks, dansy-dansy and, if MrsLurker is any guide,  the fit young men as well.  :)

Me? I get to have some uninterrupted quality time at my building board when I am expected to be totally quiet*.  Thank $deity for "Strictly" say I.

Lurk.

*There's nothing** worse than being asked to answer some question of great domestic moment while you are trying to carry out some delicate balsa or tissue related operation when totally focused concentration is required so knowing that such questions are guaranteed not to be forthcoming for up to 2 hours is utter bliss.

**Obv. there are things far, far worse but when one is trying not to stuff up a delicate build step one's sense of perspective is a little ... skewed. :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 October, 2019, 10:34:41 am
Been trying to explain to MrsT why I really and truly need a new router when I already have three.  "Half-inch collet" doesn't seem to convince.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 20 October, 2019, 11:03:23 am
Quote from: T42 on 20 October, 2019, 10:34:41 am
Been trying to explain to MrsT why I really and truly need a new router when I already have three.  "Half-inch collet" doesn't seem to convince.
Has se perhaps suggested that you get rid of one or more of your existing collection to make room for a new router?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 20 October, 2019, 11:04:37 am
I’m crying into my morning coffee, have already cried into my morning cuppa and my porridge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 October, 2019, 02:08:28 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 20 October, 2019, 11:03:23 am
Quote from: T42 on 20 October, 2019, 10:34:41 am
Been trying to explain to MrsT why I really and truly need a new router when I already have three.  "Half-inch collet" doesn't seem to convince.
Has se perhaps suggested that you get rid of one or more of your existing collection to make room for a new router?

Too late now. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Syd on 20 October, 2019, 02:56:54 pm
Hitting refresh once again on Fedex tracking wondering why the heck my shipment is still stuck in customs at Standsted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 October, 2019, 03:51:28 pm
Maybe it came via Norn Iron.
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Post by: bhoot on 22 October, 2019, 04:10:14 pm
Emailing my MP again....

Update...it was totally ineffective as expected but I feel better that I tried.
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Post by: Basil on 22 October, 2019, 04:13:58 pm
Due to another Mrs B cunning plan, sugar soaping and washing a several of doors.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 22 October, 2019, 04:43:48 pm
Hurting. Just back from first ride in over a week.
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Post by: Basil on 23 October, 2019, 03:55:25 pm
Waiting for a tradesperson.  Will I never learn?
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Post by: fuzzy on 09 November, 2019, 09:12:26 pm
setting a 50 question quiz for my Astronomical Societies christmas meeting. My brane hurts.
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Post by: Basil on 09 November, 2019, 09:50:42 pm
Playing Jenja with a fe-uge pile of twiglets.
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Post by: bludger on 09 November, 2019, 10:34:34 pm
Sewing up cycle clothes while listening to Dracula. Living the life!
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 10 November, 2019, 07:22:46 pm
Putting off studying system state registers, instructions and concurrency.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 01:28:28 pm
Putting off packing for our holiday.
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Post by: rafletcher on 16 November, 2019, 02:17:05 pm
Feeling pleased after fixing the sticking shed door, and the sticking side gate (both torrential rainfall related issues), rescuing a Robin from the shed, clearing the shed gutter, securing the blue tit nesting box into the tree, catching the mouse the cat had brought in, setting up the bird feeders for the winter and using the acrylic paint my wife brought home from school to paint the parts of my numberplate screws that were in the black but were themselves white and yellow. Oh, and laying the fire for this evening, then making BLT’s for lunch.  O:-)
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Post by: Jaded on 16 November, 2019, 02:46:19 pm
Just sat in Westminster Abbey waiting for the installation of the new Dean of Westminster
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 02:53:17 pm
Is there a holy progress bar?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 16 November, 2019, 05:03:18 pm
It’s reached 100%!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 16 November, 2019, 05:16:50 pm
Waiting for post-cycling rigor mortis to set in. Well, about to close down this box and hobble downstairs for preprandial amuse-gueules. Rigor can set in just as well down there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 16 November, 2019, 05:17:10 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 16 November, 2019, 05:03:18 pm
It’s reached 100%!

In order to complete installation, Stained Glass Windows needs to reboot your church.

                      Reboot Church                        Ask me again in 1 hour
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 16 November, 2019, 06:08:44 pm
Setting mousetraps in the lounge and kitchen. I caught one mouse in the kitchen this morning. Just seen another in the lounge, don’t know how long it’s been in here. Wish the damned cat would eat them  >:(

Ah ha! Caught it  :D. Humanely of course. Off to the (neighbours) garden with it  8) 8)

Actually I think this one is a shrew.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49074241058_4001b43962_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hLwj9s)Shrew (https://flic.kr/p/2hLwj9s) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
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Post by: Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 06:16:21 pm
Hoots mon!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 06:22:36 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 06:16:21 pm
Hoots mon!

Yes, its nose isn't nearly pointy enough to be a shrew.
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/mammals/common-shrew
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 16 November, 2019, 06:23:59 pm
What’s amazing is that when they’re moving they look 6-7cm long, and stopped and feeding about 2-3cm. And the one this morning was getting under the door when I caught it (in a tea towel) and that gap can’t be more than 8mm!! 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 16 November, 2019, 06:25:29 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 06:22:36 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 06:16:21 pm
Hoots mon!

Yes, its nose isn't nearly pointy enough to be a shrew.
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/mammals/common-shrew

Yep, got confused. It’s got (visible) ears so a (field) mouse, not a shrew.
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Post by: Kim on 16 November, 2019, 06:49:24 pm
Quote from: rafletcher on 16 November, 2019, 06:23:59 pm
What’s amazing is that when they’re moving they look 6-7cm long, and stopped and feeding about 2-3cm. And the one this morning was getting under the door when I caught it (in a tea towel) and that gap can’t be more than 8mm!!

I've seen mice squeeze under doors that were a struggle to pass a cat5 cable under.  That's what, 6mm?  Plus a bit so the cable doesn't immediately get shredded.

(Cat5 cable appears ineffective at deterring meece.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 11:48:58 pm
Quote from: spesh on 16 November, 2019, 05:17:10 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 16 November, 2019, 05:03:18 pm
It’s reached 100%!

In order to complete installation, Stained Glass Windows needs to reboot your church.

                      Reboot Church                        Ask me again in 1 hour

Arf  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 17 November, 2019, 12:07:02 am
Yes!

Although the Hockney window beat any by Gates!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 17 November, 2019, 08:34:59 am
Quote from: rafletcher on 16 November, 2019, 06:08:44 pm
Setting mousetraps in the lounge and kitchen. I caught one mouse in the kitchen this morning. Just seen another in the lounge, don’t know how long it’s been in here. Wish the damned cat would eat them  >:(

Ah ha! Caught it  :D. Humanely of course. Off to the (neighbours) garden with it  8) 8)

Actually I think this one is a shrew.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49074241058_4001b43962_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hLwj9s)Shrew (https://flic.kr/p/2hLwj9s) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr

Heh.  The other evening MrsT shook out the blanket we put over the parrot at night and sent a mouse flying across the kitchen.  Poor wee bugger made a 4-point landing and ran off under a cupboard.

I must have a look for traps like yours. We used poison when we had a mass invasion >10 years ago, but we were between dogs at the time. Don't want poisonous dead mice lying around for a gluttonous Lab to find.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 17 November, 2019, 08:47:05 am
Do you think the French will do non-lethal traps?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 November, 2019, 10:30:52 am
Wondering where my cup of tea went. I had no recollection of drinking it, but, knowing which type of mug I used, and also knowing that we have only 4 like that and they are all accounted for, somebody did.

I have just poured myself another, in a clean mug. You can't be too careful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 November, 2019, 10:32:33 am
Waiting for the workman to turn up and tile our bathroom.  Apparently he's going to be late because his boss promised to obtain tiles then didn't, and the shops don't open until 10.  I'm also betting that his mate will have failed to return his tile cutter in a timely manner...


ETA: He bought a shiny new tile cutter, but no grout...   :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 17 November, 2019, 01:17:43 pm
Quote from: rafletcher on 17 November, 2019, 08:47:05 am
Do you think the French will do non-lethal traps?  ;D

When did you start working for the Daily Mail? ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 November, 2019, 09:43:14 am
Yawning prodigiously while waiting for the postman.  Miss von Brandenburg had her copy of the limited vinyl edition of the mighty Amplifier's magnum opus The Octopus delivered on Friday so I have had to get up early as there are many stairs betwixt bed and front door even if the doorbell succeeds in waking me up chiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: CAMRAMan on 18 November, 2019, 10:09:46 am
Looking at a book I've been threatening to re-read for years. Now I actually have some enforced leisure time, I might just pick it up.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 November, 2019, 10:18:42 am
I think the mail room at Ampcorp Industries are posting people's Octopuses in alphabetical order and have Miss von Brandenburg filed under "B".

(Applies matchsticks to eyelids)
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Post by: ian on 19 November, 2019, 08:13:23 pm
Scranton. It's like a mildly exotic Didcot.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 20 November, 2019, 09:51:01 am
Quote from: ian on 19 November, 2019, 08:13:23 pm
Scranton. It's like a mildly exotic Didcot.

It's still there ?   I remember it flying away in my early teens...   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 November, 2019, 01:24:04 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 20 November, 2019, 09:51:01 am
Quote from: ian on 19 November, 2019, 08:13:23 pm
Scranton. It's like a mildly exotic Didcot.

It's still there ?   I remember it flying away in my early teens...   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight

Making it a mildly exotic divot?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 22 November, 2019, 10:00:08 am
Just back from picking up our 20-year-old A4 from its Contrôle Technique.  Was determined to junk it if anything major was wrong - it's only worth around 700€ - but they had no quibbles so it's free to chug around for another 2 years.  Glad of that: I don't fancy hauling dogs to the vet's in the A5.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 28 November, 2019, 09:52:27 pm
It’s my little sisters birthday, so a couple of bottles of red & one of fizz were consumed.
I’m now inna pubbe, with a pint of decent stout to decompress.  Families can be hard work.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: telstarbox on 30 November, 2019, 05:50:44 pm
Made a vegan sticky toffee pudding and it's finishing in the oven now. Rachmaninov on the sound system as well. Luxury all round.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 30 November, 2019, 05:59:18 pm
Spent the day helping out setting up the CX course at Knockburn Loch for tomorrow's CX event.  A cold day! Shoved about one million stakes in the hard ground, and run enough plastic barrier tape between them to run to the moon and back.

Back tomorrow for marshalling duties.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 01 December, 2019, 03:25:41 pm
Contemplating what I might have forgotten, in the hour before some dozen people descend on Ham Hall, to do the dirty to turkey etc

Worryingly everything seems to be running on task at the moment. That increases the likelihood that the people will end up being an hour or more late. I think a beer is in order.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 December, 2019, 07:42:08 am
Waiting for the man from BT to install some piece of internet gubbins while wondering whether Nice Man Mike from Andrews & Arnold really meant "Monday" or "December 4" in the e-mail confirming the date ???

Which discrepancy I only noticed at 11 pm yesterday chiz.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 December, 2019, 07:55:29 am
Advancing the date on my watch to 2nd December. Thx Mr. L for the nudge.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 December, 2019, 11:32:15 am
Yesterday's utter vacuum of BT technicians has led me to the conclusion that Nice Man Mike at A&A did mean the 4th.  Since I get charged seventy quid if they show up and there's no-one in, I am already preparing my invoice, just in case.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 December, 2019, 03:05:20 pm
Eating a fresh oatcake with !butter melting into it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 03 December, 2019, 03:13:21 pm
Quote from: T42 on 03 December, 2019, 03:05:20 pm
.... !butter melting into it.

Not butter, and you're proud of it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2019, 03:52:30 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 03 December, 2019, 11:32:15 am
vacuum of BT technicians

New collective noun?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 03 December, 2019, 04:01:11 pm
Quote from: Ham on 03 December, 2019, 03:13:21 pm
Quote from: T42 on 03 December, 2019, 03:05:20 pm
.... !butter melting into it.

Not butter, and you're proud of it?

"Proud"?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 03 December, 2019, 11:15:41 pm
Breaking the bestest plates/bowl. Oh woe. Wiggling another plate under them, they committed a suicidal leap to the tiled floor. Ka-boom. All four of them.

Scramble plan Obscured Guilt.

I can

(a) dispose of evidence at bottom of bin, disavow all knowledge of said plates. What plates? I've not seen them for ages.

(b) blame a cat.

(c) order take-outs and rave about how much I like soup until identical replacements can be sourced and hope she doesn't notice. I have no idea where they came from. Possibly a shop.

(d) Leave the country, have plastic surgery and assume a new identity.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 December, 2019, 07:50:35 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 02 December, 2019, 07:42:08 am
Waiting for the man from BT to install some piece of internet gubbins while wondering whether Nice Man Mike from Andrews & Arnold really meant "Monday" or "December 4" in the e-mail confirming the date ???

Which discrepancy I only noticed at 11 pm yesterday chiz.

This ^^^^ again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 December, 2019, 07:59:09 am
Quote from: ian on 03 December, 2019, 11:15:41 pm
Breaking the bestest plates/bowl. Oh woe. Wiggling another plate under them, they committed a suicidal leap to the tiled floor. Ka-boom. All four of them.

Scramble plan Obscured Guilt.

I can

(a) dispose of evidence at bottom of bin, disavow all knowledge of said plates. What plates? I've not seen them for ages.

(b) blame a cat.

(c) order take-outs and rave about how much I like soup until identical replacements can be sourced and hope she doesn't notice. I have no idea where they came from. Possibly a shop.

(d) Leave the country, have plastic surgery and assume a new identity.

Or adopt MrsT's approach and say "WTF, they're only things".
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 04 December, 2019, 10:48:35 am
To be fair, I wouldn't have dislodged them if the cupboards weren't already overfull of plates and stuff (inlaws keep bringing stuff they don't want, which we don't want either, nor need for that matter, but out of politeness my wife doesn't dispose of in the fashion preferred by the Greeks). Alas, I broke the ones we do routinely use so I foretell a trip to the Scandic wastelands of Croydon Ikea at some point in our future. Possibly on my way home tonight though that combines the delights of CS7 and the urban ville of Toots-le-Mitcham. Oh be still my beating heart.

Anyway, in the end, as she was late home and I hid under the bedclothes. Message this morning declares YOU BROKE ALL THE PLATES! If only my breakage wasn't so strategic we'd have more cupboard space.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 December, 2019, 11:22:13 am
MrsT dropped most of a tea-set when our block was hit by lightning soon after we moved to Paris. That was gratifying; it was a ghastly wedding-present.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 December, 2019, 12:41:43 pm
Quote from: ian on 04 December, 2019, 10:48:35 am
To be fair, I wouldn't have dislodged them if the cupboards weren't already overfull of plates and stuff (inlaws keep bringing stuff they don't want, which we don't want either, nor need for that matter, but out of politeness my wife doesn't dispose of in the fashion preferred by the Greeks).

I think that's a generational thing.  Mrs Barakta's-Mum comes from a time when housing was cheap and Household Things were expensive, and consequently has an urge to buy us bedding that we don't need or have space for, and is ultimately worth about 10 hours rent.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 04 December, 2019, 01:19:57 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 December, 2019, 12:41:43 pm
Quote from: ian on 04 December, 2019, 10:48:35 am
To be fair, I wouldn't have dislodged them if the cupboards weren't already overfull of plates and stuff (inlaws keep bringing stuff they don't want, which we don't want either, nor need for that matter, but out of politeness my wife doesn't dispose of in the fashion preferred by the Greeks).

I think that's a generational thing.  Mrs Barakta's-Mum comes from a time when housing was cheap and Household Things were expensive, and consequently has an urge to buy us bedding that we don't need or have space for, and is ultimately worth about 10 hours rent.

Some of it's from her grandparents and I guess it was traditional to hang onto that stuff, whereas we're the pop to Ikea generation and buy four plates for £12.50 generation. Plus there's only two of us. My wife's mother is convinced she's going to go ga-ga like her mother (no unlikely, but it'll be hard to tell) so she's disposing of stuff by leaving it our house. Also random sums of money deposited in our bank account. The last one was so you can buy a vacuum cleaner. We have a vacuum cleaner. We don't have an actual cleaner (because she's unwell).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 December, 2019, 01:41:07 pm
Woo-hoo!  I haz wizzo internets!  Thank you, Nice Man Errol from Openreach.

It then took me twice as long as it took NME to install his kit to diagnose why the doorbell had stopped working.  Partly because NME had put a nail through the wire 'twixt push and bonger, but mostly because the blue wire on the mains cable had come adrift from the transformer.  At least I remembered to unplug it before faffage commenced.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 December, 2019, 05:16:27 pm
Kudos for having a doorbell with a transformer, rather than any of this newfangled of-course-it-doesn't-work-it's-wireless or internet-of-shit rubbish.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 04 December, 2019, 05:40:01 pm
I've always fancied having an Edwardian-style mechanical bell-pull system.

Until I saw how much they can cost...  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 December, 2019, 05:42:51 pm
Friend of mine moved into a house and discovered the Edwardian-style bell-pull operated an impressive mercury switch from the days before health & safety.  Bonus.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 December, 2019, 01:10:21 pm
Eating.
One of our customers just dropped off 144 stroopwafels. O my.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 December, 2019, 07:17:13 pm
Are you certain that wasn't 100? Maybe?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2019, 10:50:31 pm
Contemplating cordless vacuum cleaners. Is there any more strident symptom of disappointment in being an adult than buying a vacuum cleaner? Remember when you were on the cusp of your teenage years, thinking of all the stuff you'd be able to do when you were an adult, the fun you would have? Whatever you want! Sex. Vodka. Chocolate cake for breakfast. Vodka, sex, and chocolate cake for breakfast. A smorgasbord of decadence. The all-you-can-eat buffet of sensual pleasures.

This is what it comes down to. Being a grown-up. Buying a vacuum cleaner. Other than the case studies of gorily misplaced amour that occasionally grace the back pages of esteemed medical journals, there's nothing exciting about vacuum cleaners. No one dies and thinks, oh god, if only I'd bought more vacuum cleaners. The emptiness at the heart of my life. Probably sucked out by a big existential vacuum cleaner.

I have a chunker Dyson somewhere but that's a faff of power leads and oh it's a Dyson and he can fuck off and then fuck off some more. We drove past his estate in the Cotswolds at the weekend and I leaned out of the car window and dopplered WANKERRRRRRRRR! over the wall. Well, I didn't because decorum dear, but I wanted to, I really did. See, that's the sort of stuff you should be able to do as an adult and, let's face it, wouldn't that be a lot more fun than buying a vacuum cleaner. Unless you shoved the hose up his arse and hit the mighty suck button. That said, then he'd have to thank the EU, were it not for their cruel limits on suckability, his entrails would be cyclonically reeled out of him. Then he would have his very own grisly intestine bobbin. He'd probably have to try and reinsert it. If so, I hope something important snaps off in the process.

OK, I've evidently not bought a vacuum cleaner in the modern age, but really, there's one (ok, lots) called Shark. Don't call a vacuum cleaner Shark. It doesn't make it any cooler. It's a vacuum cleaner. In fish terms, it's probably down there with haddock.

All this is because our cleaner is sick and apparently, so I'm told, hiring another cleaner in the meantime is like announcing that you expect her to die. Modern life, it's a poorly mapped minefield of social mores that you've been asked to navigate while wearing snowshoes on your feet and a bucket on your head.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 December, 2019, 10:21:27 am
"Cordless" and "Wireless" are the twin banes of the New Elizabethan era, and they probably cause cancer too.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 06 December, 2019, 04:44:39 pm
No one wants to fight with vacuum cleaner cables, they just get tangled around the random stuff that inhabits my house (mostly soft toy otters, occasional live cats, and gin bottles). It's the same with lawnmowers, a task that was never much fun in the first place is rendered even less fun by trying not to run over the cable and electrofry yourself and then having to bodge the cable back to together with tape in a thoroughly non-H&S-approved fashion. I don't want to be hanged in a frightening house cleaning incident that will likely be incorrectly classified somewhere towards the end of the autoeroticism spectrum.

If the powers-that-be hadn't hushed up Tesla's wireless electrickery my house would be a lot better.

I tried to delegate the vacuum purchase to my wife, though she simply pointed out why, I'm not going to be using it, am I? in a manner that suggested the question mark was an optimistic addition on my part. Then reminded me how useful it will be the next time I drop all the plates.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 December, 2019, 05:00:14 pm
Nobody wants to fight with batteries or small petrol engines, either, thobut.

Dirty house surrounded by jungle.  It's the only way to be sure.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 06 December, 2019, 05:18:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 December, 2019, 05:42:51 pm
Friend of mine moved into a house and discovered the Edwardian-style bell-pull operated an impressive mercury switch from the days before health & safety.  Bonus.
Late to this party, but somewhere, in amongst my Dymo TM labelled drawers, I have a mercury tilt switch which used to activate the under-bonnet lights of my first car when the bonnet was lifted.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 06 December, 2019, 05:21:44 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 December, 2019, 05:00:14 pm
Nobody wants to fight with batteries or small petrol engines, either, thobut.

Dirty house surrounded by jungle.  It's the only way to be sure.

Alternatively, those with lawns could keep goats or geese - not only will they keeping the grass trimmed - they'll also provide a measure of security and if the election results in what one considers a doomsday scenario in accordance with personal ideological conditioning, they will be a handy source of protein.  :demon:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: spesh on 06 December, 2019, 05:26:36 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 06 December, 2019, 05:18:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 December, 2019, 05:42:51 pm
Friend of mine moved into a house and discovered the Edwardian-style bell-pull operated an impressive mercury switch from the days before health & safety.  Bonus.
Late to this party, but somewhere, in amongst my Dymo TM labelled drawers, I have a mercury tilt switch which used to activate the under-bonnet lights of my first car when the bonnet was lifted.

Unless I'm in line to make a post in the "Today I learned..." thread, that doesn't sound like something that came as original factory-fitted equipment.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 06 December, 2019, 05:50:48 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 December, 2019, 05:00:14 pm
Nobody wants to fight with batteries or small petrol engines, either, thobut.

Dirty house surrounded by jungle.  It's the only way to be sure.

Batteries are fine till they demand being charged, then it's more cable-o-geddon. I'd like a goat though, got to be cheaper than gardeners.

Liquid mercury is fine, I've swirled it with my finger, and not died. OK, I have died, but that was unrelated. It's the vapour, but at room temperature that's not much of an issue. One the world's largest supplies of mercury is actually my mouth. Basically, they put the entire mercury output of the late 70s in there.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 06 December, 2019, 06:29:08 pm
Quote from: spesh on 06 December, 2019, 05:26:36 pm
Quote from: Jurek on 06 December, 2019, 05:18:14 pm
Quote from: Kim on 04 December, 2019, 05:42:51 pm
Friend of mine moved into a house and discovered the Edwardian-style bell-pull operated an impressive mercury switch from the days before health & safety.  Bonus.
Late to this party, but somewhere, in amongst my Dymo TM labelled drawers, I have a mercury tilt switch which used to activate the under-bonnet lights of my first car when the bonnet was lifted.

Unless I'm in line to make a post in the "Today I learned..." thread, that doesn't sound like something that came as original factory-fitted equipment.
D'you know I honestly am struggling to remember, but it was a 1972 car with electric windows on all four doors - quite advanced for the day. Vauxhall Viscount 3.3
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 06 December, 2019, 08:01:14 pm
"mercury tilt switch" combined with "car" sounds like the type of string that should trigger Echelon .... :jurek:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 08 December, 2019, 03:19:31 pm
Lying down feeling tired after clearing some overgrown rose bushes & small trees in my parents front garden.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 11 December, 2019, 01:47:43 pm
Out for Christmas lunch on my own. Suddenly got a free afternoon and our local really good restaurant had a table for 1.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 20 December, 2019, 05:55:10 pm
Coming down from the annual trip to the attic to retrieve the Christmas tat so my wife can decorate the house. I finally, after twenty years, won the argument about real vs. faux trees, and we have a faux even though I heard her mutter 'naff.' Also got the garden centre to knock off 25%*. I think I only won because the remaining real trees looked a bit sad and we couldn't be bothered spending the afternoon driving around the outer fringes of London looking for alternatives. Sometimes we buy a tree on Christmas eve at 4pm (we wait until they look like they're closing). We did that the other year and they wouldn't even offer a discount. I mean, seriously, you're closing up on Christmas eve and you want to hang onto your Christmas tree stock? I'm no expert, but I think that the tree market is about to suffer a precipitous decline.

I won't be entirely surprised if a real tree turns up. I only ever win arguments temporarily.

*she shouldn't complain, my father used to go shopping for a tree at night with a saw.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 December, 2019, 04:46:00 pm
Have spent the afternoon playing with a set of lock picks - best Christmas present for years.  :o department: as an absolute novice, I managed to pick the café lock I've been using for years in under a minute.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 25 December, 2019, 05:25:06 pm
Digesting a very nice (if I do say so myself) Christmas dinner. Got the timings a bit wrong and dished up about 90 minutes later than planned. But it's just us today and we weren't wed to any particular time.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 December, 2019, 05:38:46 pm
Putting off making dinner
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 25 December, 2019, 05:59:19 pm
Getting ready to carve...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2019, 06:02:35 pm
Wondering how many hours until I can get away with going bed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 25 December, 2019, 06:34:38 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 25 December, 2019, 05:59:19 pm
Getting ready to carve...

You are Denis Nilsen  AICMFP!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 25 December, 2019, 06:43:42 pm
Waiting.
The pause just before all the last minute stuff needs to be done for dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 December, 2019, 07:08:38 pm
Waiting another 15 mins before putting the duck on. The roast potatoes always take longer than it says on the packet but I never remember this...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jaded on 25 December, 2019, 08:05:54 pm
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 25 December, 2019, 06:34:38 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 25 December, 2019, 05:59:19 pm
Getting ready to carve...

You are Denis Nilsen  AICMFP!

I can never deal with the digits properly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 25 December, 2019, 09:12:03 pm
Relaxing in my new dressing gown, in front of a dying fire, with a glass of red wine after a calm and successful Christmas Day with my wife, her son and his partner. And a bonus, despite my novel (to me) cooking method, the skin on the leg of pork crackled up nicely.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 December, 2019, 09:19:12 am
Just done today's obligatory 'likes' on FB and am thinking of doing something strenuous, such as the Graun crossword.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 26 December, 2019, 09:38:13 am
Putting off doing the ironing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 December, 2019, 11:27:42 am
I haz Tasks, viz. swearing at a picture hook, faffing with Lt. Col. Larrington (retd)’s iPad, taking him shopping and dismembering a body.  No, of a goose.  All of which will have to wait until I have absorbed caffeine.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 December, 2019, 11:52:40 am
Asset stripping the turkey.  There will be turkey and ham pie tonight.  And after the pressure cooker has burbled the remains of the carcass, there will one hell of a turkey stock.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 26 December, 2019, 05:17:22 pm
Perusing online sales and facing the need to decide what i want.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 December, 2019, 06:25:23 pm
Booking holidays
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 30 December, 2019, 08:18:25 am
Waiting for 8.30 so I can phone the dentist for an emergency appointment.  :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 30 December, 2019, 09:46:37 am
Putting off calling the district nurse to come and take a blood sample tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2019, 11:34:26 am
Making coffee in preparation for the Graun crossword.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 10 January, 2020, 10:28:54 am
Waiting to hear from the vet if our dog has cancer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 10 January, 2020, 04:13:49 pm
Still waiting.  Large tumour between liver & spleen is certain, malignity isn't. Last call from vet they were just going to operate to see.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 10 January, 2020, 07:18:12 pm
Trying to discern a change in the moon’s brightness as the eclipse occurs.
 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 10 January, 2020, 07:52:32 pm
Getting sicker and doing the achy-breaky shivers. Every cough comes from somewhere deep inside and seems to consist of a full-size earthmover pushing a pile of sharp gravel up my trachea. It must be, sigh, the weekend.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 January, 2020, 07:54:02 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 10 January, 2020, 07:18:12 pm
Trying to discern a change in the moon’s brightness as the eclipse occurs.
 

I just had a look. If it has happened, we missed it.

In other stuff, I am "cooking" dinner. In truth, it was cooked quite a long time ago and then frozen. What I thought was two tubs of lovely beef stew from last week turned out to be something else: certainly beef stew but of unknown vintage, and with hardly any solids in it. However, there was a clearly identifiable piece of courgette, which I definitely didn't put in last week. I have added 3 tins of different type of bean and a load of pearl barley and lentils. Also dumplings.

I don't know what happened to the rest of last week's. Dez put it in a freezer. I just don't know which one. And he clearly didn't label it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 13 January, 2020, 11:10:17 am
Still sick. I think everything has hurt now, even my hair. Is that even a thing? It seems entirely unreasonable. Coughed so vigorously that my abdomen feels like I've been worked over by the angry elephant boxing team. The spells of febrile swearing and shivering chills eventually lost definition and merged into the shivering sweats were I was simultaneously too hot and too cold and shaking off sweat like a wet dog.

This morning my body is teasing me with hints of nausea. Good luck with that, I've had precisely one small spoon of soup since Friday.

Feel minorly better this morning, pretending to do some work mostly because I can't bear to spend another day lying down. Currently reviewing that option.
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Post by: andrewc on 13 January, 2020, 01:14:47 pm
That sounds nastier than what I've got.  I'm still feeling knackered & hawking up blobs of green slime from the stygian depths, and my ribs hurt whenever I cough, but my appetite has mostly been OK.    It's the night time coughing when it feels like my throat is closing up that is the worst.
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Post by: ian on 13 January, 2020, 05:21:10 pm
It's the nocturnal snot tennis game that I 'like' to play. Lie on one side, feel it slowly ooze to block one nostril. Roll over and let the process reverse. Lie on your back and let both block with the bonus that the moment you fall asleep (admittedly unlikely) you'll let loose an enormous neighbour-waking snore that sounds like a hippo farting in a mud-pit. You'll awake in a panic and inadvertently snort half that snot (which will still leave plenty) and choke.

Dragging breaths through a throat that makes a noise like demonic imps eating a Crunchie also doesn't help.

Things seem to be subsiding into a general lethargic malaise. I have an inkling of a desire for a crisp sandwich. That would make a change to my weekend diet of ibuprofen, ibuprofen, and more ibuprofen. Am I the only person in the world that doesn't have opiates?
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Post by: ElyDave on 13 January, 2020, 08:05:32 pm
warming up, that was blustery out there
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Post by: ian on 14 January, 2020, 10:20:49 am
Today I am zombie, the most stupid of the supernatural creatures, entirely reliant on people stumbling into a dark room with only one door.

(Don't believe any of that running nonsense. Zombies don't run. Despite the evident similarities, those are joggers and not the raging undead.)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 14 January, 2020, 12:36:51 pm
After a bad night coughing I logged onto my work PC intending to book myself off sick...... and got dragged onto 2 conference calls  :facepalm:        Luckily my immediate manager was on both so when I told him I was signing off for a bit he wasn't too surprised...


A nice call as well from someone I've worked with on a couple of projects but never met.  She's leaving with a 2 year pay off at the end of next week & called me to rub it in say goodbye.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 16 January, 2020, 09:28:16 pm
I've never booked myself off sick, seems like unnecessary paperwork, my boss won't know how to approve it because Americans aren't allowed to be sick (it's almost that bad). I just come and go, I like to think of myself as more of a tide than an employee.

Other than a horrid spasmy hypersensitive throat and the occasional outburst of residual nasal ectoplasm, things seemed to be settling down.

I am feeling odd though. I'm tidying my office. And before that I sorted all my pension statements into the three necessary piles as a prelude to handing them to a grown-up to make sense of. This isn't me. I never tidy my office. And I certainly never file paperwork. I have been replaced.
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Post by: andrewc on 16 January, 2020, 10:02:10 pm
It's stupidly the same Mark Of Shame to take a day, as to take a week , so I won't go back until Monday.  I slept OK last night but went shopping earlier & felt crap when I got home, so obviously not cured.   I may need to pop into the office though as I have all of my parcels delivered there, and the longer I leave them the  more chance there is of some Light Fingered Larry walking off with them.    I need to print some personal stuff off as well & don't have a printer at home.   A visit to Rymans may be on the cards for tomorrow.
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Post by: hellymedic on 16 January, 2020, 10:20:05 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 10 January, 2020, 07:18:12 pm
Trying to discern a change in the moon’s brightness as the eclipse occurs.
 

It was VERY subtle; just a little lackof brightness in the bottom right-hand corner...
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Post by: T42 on 17 January, 2020, 10:06:23 am
Yawning. Too much coffee yesterday, with the usual effects.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 17 January, 2020, 10:15:48 am
En route to yet another funeral.  Saying goodbye to friends and family, many too young to die imo, is becoming an overwhelming part of my life.

I am so relieved that I made time to go and visit him just a few weeks ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 January, 2020, 12:45:34 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 17 January, 2020, 10:15:48 am
En route to yet another funeral.  Saying goodbye to friends and family, many too young to die imo, is becoming an overwhelming part of my life.

I am so relieved that I made time to go and visit him just a few weeks ago.

Condolences.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 17 January, 2020, 03:46:48 pm
Child containment for the third time this week.
Daughter in laws mother has been in hospital so she's over there, so we've been doing the school run and making sure all three grandchildren stay in the cellar until dad gets home.
(It's either the cellar or endless episodes some Tank Engine thing)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 20 January, 2020, 10:53:38 pm
Reading a book in a hotel in Bath, as Miss Dan the Elder has her first uni interview tomorrow.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 January, 2020, 10:20:08 am
Looking at the date and thinking that if we still had our company I'd have been doing a VAT declaration just now.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Rowan on 21 January, 2020, 10:31:22 am
Quote from: T42 on 21 January, 2020, 10:20:08 am
Looking at the date and thinking that if we still had our company I'd have been doing a VAT declaration just now.
It would be another week before I would have been pressing the panic button on that one.


as for what I am doing right now - wasting time, I need to get out onto the road and clock up some miles but I really can't be bothered, I should be making an effort, it's dry, no wind, +7c, and the bikes ready to go .... but think I will have more coffee and biscuits instead

I will enjoy it when I get going, just getting goings my problem
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 21 January, 2020, 11:05:29 am
I did 30-odd in 5°C with a wind-chill of around 10°C yesterday and it wasn't much fun. Today it's colder and the wind is stronger so I'm staying in the warm.  Anyway, it's lunchtime.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 22 January, 2020, 11:21:19 am
Having started work early with a call with Hong Kong, I'm currently wondering when I'm going to escape a near-on constant stream of meetings to manage to get a shower.


Signed,

Smelly of Wanstead.
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Post by: geraldc on 22 January, 2020, 11:49:39 am
I just received an email from this company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Bond_Dickinson), and I spent a good few minutes chuckling at the name, and then had to look them up to see how on earth they arrived at the name.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 January, 2020, 02:03:08 pm
The namesh Bond... Womble Bond!
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 January, 2020, 02:39:25 pm
eating a small bowl of nuts
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Post by: ian on 22 January, 2020, 04:24:53 pm
Quote from: Ham on 22 January, 2020, 11:21:19 am
Having started work early with a call with Hong Kong, I'm currently wondering when I'm going to escape a near-on constant stream of meetings to manage to get a shower.


Signed,

Smelly of Wanstead.

The mothership showers don't work because of the new lido. Fortunately, I get the train in, so only arrive home aromatic.
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Post by: T42 on 23 January, 2020, 10:57:30 am
Just waved goodbye to 1200€: vet's bill for removing dog's spleen.
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Post by: andrewc on 23 January, 2020, 11:00:33 am
Thinking about going back to bed.   Yesterday's feeling of recovery must have been a flash in the pan.    I've just had to email the GP asking for a "fit note" :-( 


Messaging a friend & he's had similar symptoms for 6 weeks!
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Post by: ian on 23 January, 2020, 11:08:31 am
Still a bit of a hypersensitivity cough and nose grot, but I'm mostly recovered. Still a bit knackered in an evening (that might be normal) and have a strange craving for gravy.
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Post by: T42 on 23 January, 2020, 05:10:17 pm
You just reminded me that I ate the last bridie last night. Damn.
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Post by: ElyDave on 23 January, 2020, 09:00:35 pm
GCSE Physics revision with my daughter, they really don't explain some things very well in the textbooks.  I was surprised how quickly my memory of electromagnetism came back though.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 24 January, 2020, 07:37:31 pm
On the train to York, to look round a university with Miss Dan the Elder.

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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 January, 2020, 11:17:36 am
Just split the logs from the rather large eucalyptus we cut down last week (it was a beautiful tree for years, but it was definitely dead).  Very hard work.  Eucalyptus twists as it grows, so there is no nice straight grain to cleave along.  You basically whack it hard with a splitting maul and hope it cracks.  Also, it has to be split within a week of cutting or it twists even more, meaning it has to be sawn or split by machine.  Some of the "rounds" were 18" across.

All in the wood store now.  I'll stack it in the corner of the conservatory in the summer and it will be kiln-dried by next autumn!
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Post by: T42 on 29 January, 2020, 02:22:09 pm
Just brought up six basketfuls of firewood from the cellar and lit the fires.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 29 January, 2020, 03:06:45 pm
Quote from: T42 on 29 January, 2020, 02:22:09 pm
Just brought up six basketfuls of firewood from the cellar and lit the fires.
I've just brought in the wood, but I haven't lit the fire yet.
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 07 February, 2020, 09:35:33 am
Sitting in the immunology clinic for an hour after my pollen desensitisation injection so that if I have an anaphylactic reaction they have an opportunity to resuscitate me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 February, 2020, 10:01:31 am
Quote from: chrisbainbridge on 07 February, 2020, 09:35:33 am
Sitting in the immunology clinic for an hour after my pollen desensitisation injection so that if I have an anaphylactic reaction they have an opportunity to resuscitate me.

<Googles> interesting.....
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 07 February, 2020, 10:02:47 pm
Thankfully no anaphylaxis. Just slightly sore arm.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 11 February, 2020, 09:29:41 pm
Lying on the sofa feeling wiped out. Fondly remembering the days when bed was a futon on the living room floor and not so far to walk.

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Post by: andrewc on 11 February, 2020, 09:39:51 pm
Sounds about right.   I went to the GP for a check up & another sick note (asked me if I've been to China recently).  Had some blood taken, went home via a cafe & the Co-Op.  Had to have a nap at 16:00 & didn't get up until 20:00.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 20 February, 2020, 10:43:57 pm
Watching Mrs P's delayed flight on Flightradar24 whilst drinking Bravoure and listening to Jim White.
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Post by: T42 on 21 February, 2020, 09:31:53 am
Having only slept about half the night, SFA.
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Post by: rafletcher on 21 February, 2020, 12:42:45 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 20 February, 2020, 10:43:57 pm
listening to Jim White.

Don't know his music, but loved Searching for the wrong eyed Jesus.
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Post by: robgul on 21 February, 2020, 04:13:30 pm
Sitting here in the house pondering the fact that about 75% of our worldly goods are in a van as part of the move to another house on Monday.    The move gives us a bit more space, fewer staircases but only slightly more bike/workshop space .... but is a way of investing an inheritance that should have a better return that the measly interest rates.

The journey to the new place will be pretty tedious . . . . it's 1.46km as the crow flies  ;D

Rob
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Post by: hellymedic on 21 February, 2020, 04:49:13 pm
My last house move was a similar distance.
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Post by: Ham on 21 February, 2020, 06:06:03 pm
I'll see your 1.46Km and raise (?) you 347m

Doesn't stop the stress, thobut.
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Post by: orienteer on 21 February, 2020, 10:42:45 pm
Last move, 43 years ago, was 15m across the road.

Four Japanese women carried most of the stuff: wife, her two nieces staying with us at the time, and her cousin who was living in London. Later my brother turned up on his bike to help me carry the heavy items.

The proximity enabled me to rewire the house before we moved in. It was an executor's sale, so empty.

Our buyer is still there too!
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Post by: perpetual dan on 03 March, 2020, 09:50:08 pm
Waiting outside a venue I've been to many times for Miss Dan the Elder to come out.

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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 April, 2020, 09:17:32 am
Standing in an epic queue for Sainsbury's.  Have moved 10m in 15 mins.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 10 April, 2020, 11:11:19 am
Baking cheese and black pepper muffins. They smell amazing.
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Post by: rafletcher on 10 April, 2020, 11:54:24 am
Sitting in the garden, fortunately.
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Post by: Basil on 10 April, 2020, 11:55:58 am
Ordering dog food.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 April, 2020, 11:59:04 am
Waiting for a call from our shopping volunteer so tha tI can drive out and she can put the shopping in the boot of the car.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 10 April, 2020, 12:21:08 pm
Waiting for the varnish to dry on a new door, then I will do the other side, wait for that to dry and hang it.

We bought half a dozen from Wickes and it's the last one.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 April, 2020, 12:22:11 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 10 April, 2020, 09:17:32 am
Standing in an epic queue for Sainsbury's.  Have moved 10m in 15 mins.

Took me 1h 50m from joining the queueueueue to getting through the door yesterday.  The last thing I needed to see after half an hour was my Kindle telling me it wanted more electricity but happily it failed to run out of voles before sausage-based nirvana was achieved.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 10 April, 2020, 12:22:52 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 07:12:46 pm
Quote from: hairyhippy on 07 November, 2008, 06:48:48 pm
Trying to get the hang of socks.



They're not that difficult.  Your feet go in the open end and you pull them up.  There you go - easy!   ;)

 Then you turn them round cos you put the heels on top.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 10 April, 2020, 12:26:19 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 10 April, 2020, 12:22:11 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 10 April, 2020, 09:17:32 am
Standing in an epic queue for Sainsbury's.  Have moved 10m in 15 mins.

Took me 1h 50m from joining the queueueueue to getting through the door yesterday.  The last thing I needed to see after half an hour was my Kindle telling me it wanted more electricity but happily it failed to run out of voles before sausage-based nirvana was achieved.

Queues were like border control when you get several flights coming in at once yesterday.

In fact probably all the border control queues have relocated to supermarkets in our shrinking static world.
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Post by: Canardly on 10 April, 2020, 01:06:06 pm
The shops are closed for one day therefore everyone must buy ten days supplies. (if people are not socialising why do they need all this stuff?)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 April, 2020, 02:28:41 pm
Basking in the garden, like a lizard
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Post by: telstarbox on 10 April, 2020, 02:33:30 pm
If people aren't going to pubs and restaurants they'll need more food at home?
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 April, 2020, 02:40:47 pm
Wondering whether the ridiculous queue at Tesco has subsided at all (I went a couple of hours ago, saw it and turned straight back!).
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Post by: T42 on 10 April, 2020, 03:12:18 pm
Eating oatcakes and drinking tea.
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Post by: rafletcher on 10 April, 2020, 03:15:07 pm
Sitting in the garden (still) drinking tea and eating toasted hot cross buns with jam.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 10 April, 2020, 03:20:14 pm
Reheating the leftovers of yesterday's soup to have with the cheesy muffins I made earlier.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 10 April, 2020, 03:43:59 pm
Waiting for kettle so I can drink coffee and eat cake after hanging a door.
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Post by: matthew on 10 April, 2020, 06:22:21 pm
As if I haven't had enough video conferences for work and online church services I now have one for family. It's Dads birthday and parents wedding anniversary while we all have to physically distance.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 10 April, 2020, 06:32:07 pm
Playing Factorio and drinking whisky whilst my partner has a Zoom Friday Night drinks with her workmates.

And looking forward to pizza for dinner.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Chris S on 10 April, 2020, 08:53:58 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 10 April, 2020, 06:32:07 pm
Playing Factorio and drinking whisky whilst my partner has a Zoom Friday Night drinks with her workmates.

Ooh - another factory builder. I'm currently wiling away hours of lockdown on Satisfactory. Basically Factorio in first person, with added verticality.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 10 April, 2020, 11:21:55 pm
I've considered Satisfactory. I'll grab it when it's cheaper. I'm currently about four hundred hours into my second Seablock run. It's bananas. And great.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jurek on 14 April, 2020, 07:57:25 pm
Listening to my much neglected collection of Drum n' Bass.
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Post by: Ham on 20 April, 2020, 07:42:15 pm
I know I'm wicked and will be eternally damned for laughing, Mrs Ham's quilting group is just starting their first videoconference meeting. Ten minutes in, we are moving past the hello stage and onto the mute stage, along with Gallery View addon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 20 April, 2020, 07:59:40 pm
Catching up on Top Grear whilst my wife has a Zoom book group.
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Post by: Basil on 20 April, 2020, 11:03:48 pm
If I ever want to speak to my wife again, it may have to be via zoom. She's never off it.
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Post by: ian on 21 April, 2020, 08:59:04 am
It's like mothership life has bled into the rest of my life. All I hear is Hazel, Hazel, I think you're on mute. No, it's the button that looks like a microphone. Has anyone seen Rebecca. I think she accepted. Etc.

My wife has an office upstairs, including a sofa. Unfortunately, it's buried under piles of clothes and shoes and in a forever process of about-to-tied, so she does it from the sofa downstairs.

My office, on the mezzanine next to the living room, doesn't have a door. I need to dig out the big headphones.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 21 April, 2020, 09:29:48 am
Quote from: ian on 21 April, 2020, 08:59:04 am

My office, on the mezzanine next to the living room, doesn't have a door. I need to dig out the big headphones.

Yep, I dug out the long-haul noise cancelling ones. Bliss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 21 April, 2020, 10:15:00 am
I did, ever the pursuer of trends, purchase a pair of giant headphones in the airport some years back. Then I found they were so big made my head look stupid and I'm not young enough to pull off that look.

I've no idea, of course, where they went. It's not like they were teeny. I could just tape a Sonos to each side of my head, they're about the same size.
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Post by: matthew on 29 April, 2020, 06:55:38 pm
Waiting to join an All member scout webinar. They are talking about 10,000 on one call. How badly do you think this could go?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 30 April, 2020, 10:27:48 am
I've been on a conference call workshop for the last hour, I still don't know which deal/contract it is supposed to be about.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 31 May, 2020, 09:31:52 pm
Wondering whether a Paddington Stare beats a Care Bear Stare, or vice-versa.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Salvatore on 22 June, 2020, 03:22:52 pm
Waiting for live streaming of Uncle Brian's funeral to start.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 June, 2020, 03:36:53 pm
Wasting my life in front of a computer.
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Post by: Feanor on 05 July, 2020, 05:49:01 pm
Spent the day listening in on a historic radio station.

Today is Alexanderson Day, when the historic Alexanderson VLF transmitter at Grimeton in Sweden (call sign SAQ) transmits a message to the world.
The Alexanderson transmitter is remarkable in that it is the last operational VLF (Very Low Frequency) electro-mechanical transmitter.
It has no valves or semiconductors; it uses a mechanical rotating alternator to produces the 17.2KHz VLF RF current.
This appeals to my latent Steampunk tendancies!

The Very Low Frequency is chosen for it's long distance propogation; this was Sweden's only link with the outside world during war years.
SAQ's transmissions can be recieved in North America.

https://alexander.n.se/the-radio-station-saq-grimeton/the-alexanderson-transmitter/?lang=en
Using a home-made VLF reciever, today's message was:

CQ CQ CQ DE SAQ SAQ SAQ
THIS IS GRIMETON RADIO/SAQ IN A TRANSMISSION USING THE ALEXANDERSON 200KW ALTERNATOR ON 17.2KHZ.=
IN VIEW OF THE PRESENT PANDEMIC COVID-19 WE WANT TO PAY TRIBUTE TO ALL PARTIES CONCERNED WITHIN HEALTHCARE KNOWING THEIR EFFORTS WILL PAY EFFECT EVENTUALLY.=
SIGNED: WORLD HERITAGE GRIMETON RADIO STATION AND THE ALEXANDER-GRIMETON VETERANRADIOS VAENNER ASSOCIATION <Message Ends>=
FOR QSL INFO PLEASE READ OUR WEBSITE:
WWW.ALEXANDER.N.SE=<Message Ends>
DE SAQ SAQ SAQ <Closing Down>

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50079676756_c00a634e60_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jinr9G)
VLF Rx site (https://flic.kr/p/2jinr9G) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
The VLF Rx station

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50079928702_77debaf019_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jioJ3A)
CQCQCQ-DE-SAQSAQSAQ (https://flic.kr/p/2jioJ3A) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
Spectral plot showing SAQ at 17.2KHz

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50079674986_e209205810_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jinqCb)
SAQ-Audacity (https://flic.kr/p/2jinqCb) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
The processed audio in Audacity. This is SAQ signing off.
My Morse is not good enough to catch it all real-time, so I recorded it and used Audacity to pause and re-play sections.
You can also see the Morse graphically on-screen.
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Post by: geoff on 05 July, 2020, 08:53:52 pm
With a group of colleagues... working through the tome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Albums_You_Must_Hear_Before_You_Die

Last few days, really enjoyed this one: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27.msg2514973.msg#2514973

Tonight we've got New Boots and Panties

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Post by: Feanor on 06 July, 2020, 10:43:12 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 05 July, 2020, 05:49:01 pm
Spent the day listening in on a historic radio station.

Today is Alexanderson Day, when the historic Alexanderson VLF transmitter at Grimeton in Sweden (call sign SAQ) transmits a message to the world.
The Alexanderson transmitter is remarkable in that it is the last operational VLF (Very Low Frequency) electro-mechanical transmitter.
It has no valves or semiconductors; it uses a mechanical rotating alternator to produces the 17.2KHz VLF RF current.
This appeals to my latent Steampunk tendancies!

The live video of them starting up the alternator is really something to behold:

https://youtu.be/I47HNbxNQcw
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 July, 2020, 11:40:07 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 06 July, 2020, 10:43:12 pm
The live video of them starting up the alternator is really something to behold:

https://youtu.be/I47HNbxNQcw

Steampunk as fuck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 07 July, 2020, 07:40:06 am
The Swedes do industrial heritage very well
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Post by: Tim Hall on 07 July, 2020, 12:16:32 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 July, 2020, 11:40:07 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 06 July, 2020, 10:43:12 pm
The live video of them starting up the alternator is really something to behold:

https://youtu.be/I47HNbxNQcw

Steampunk as fuck!
But nearly didn't have any steam, as they didn't turn the water on at the start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 07 July, 2020, 12:59:38 pm
Also, you have to feel for that poor little radio mic.  Sounds shit at the start of the video, then you realise what it has to put up with...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 07 July, 2020, 02:42:09 pm
Yes, not a electrically quiet environment!
I like the blue flashes coming from the exposed contactors as they open and close, switching the high-power RF on and off in response to key-up/key-down!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 07 July, 2020, 04:09:25 pm
I was fairly impressed by the camera operator, walking backwards, not tripping over anything and getting fried instantly and UTTERLY to DETH.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 07 July, 2020, 09:15:08 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 07 July, 2020, 07:40:06 am
The Swedes do industrial heritage very well

And the Danish, too.
Dieselhouse.

They have a Burmeister & Wain diesel engine, which was built in 1932 and remained the world's largest for more than 30 years, stands 12.5 meters tall and 24.5 meters wide and weighs 1,400 tons. It produces 22,500 HP and supplied Copenhagen with electricity. It remained in use during peak demand until the 1970s.

http://dieselhouse.dk/en/

They crank it up a couple of times a month for 5 to 10 minutes.
(That's going to play hell with the Diesel Particulate Filter!)

Here's a random youtube video of them cranking it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6mP4z-W39M
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 24 July, 2020, 09:29:19 pm
Having eschewed alcohol for bleeding ages, OK, about 3 weeks, I intend to drink whisky until it hurts tonight.
Chin chin.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 24 July, 2020, 10:11:15 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 07 July, 2020, 09:15:08 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 07 July, 2020, 07:40:06 am
The Swedes do industrial heritage very well

And the Danish, too.
Dieselhouse.

They have a Burmeister & Wain diesel engine, which was built in 1932 and remained the world's largest for more than 30 years, stands 12.5 meters tall and 24.5 meters wide and weighs 1,400 tons. It produces 22,500 HP and supplied Copenhagen with electricity. It remained in use during peak demand until the 1970s.

http://dieselhouse.dk/en/

They crank it up a couple of times a month for 5 to 10 minutes.
(That's going to play hell with the Diesel Particulate Filter!)

Here's a random youtube video of them cranking it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6mP4z-W39M

I was also thinking of a site I've audited which took a water powered cereal mill, kept all of the old buildings and turned it into a snus factory, initially just on the whim of one investor who decided he wanted to!

It's a great example of adapting your industrial heritage, they still generate hydro power from their dam, and the original wooden mill buildings are the new tobacco warehouse.  The offices are in some of the more modern (1930's) buildings
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: nicknack on 25 July, 2020, 12:09:54 am
Peering at Jupiter and Saturn through a telescope having just watched another episode of The Man In The High Castle.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 July, 2020, 08:19:51 am
Eating a croissant and drinking a cup of tea.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 25 July, 2020, 09:25:22 am
Waiting for Tesco to deliver so we can go shopping.   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 July, 2020, 10:40:30 am
I was going to make some cinnamon buns and paint some woodwork but a little warm furry body has decided I should be her bed instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 July, 2020, 10:47:51 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 25 July, 2020, 10:40:30 am
I was going to make some cinnamon buns and paint some woodwork but a little warm furry body has decided I should be her bed instead.

Hah. I have been doing the Fandango of Gory Death around two furry dogsbodies and eight splayed-out paws while endeavouring with pointy whirling things to screw a batten in exactly the right place on our hall wall to secure panelling to.  Every time I turned around to pick up the next pointy thing the configuration had changed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: tiermat on 01 August, 2020, 09:23:38 pm
Watching hockey, or more precisely CHI vs EDM in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Feels odd to be watching hockey in summer but I'll get used to it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 August, 2020, 10:05:42 am
Thinking that I'd be better off on the bike than vegging out here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: telstarbox on 02 August, 2020, 07:27:35 pm
I'm trapped under a cat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 August, 2020, 08:35:03 pm
Overdosing on televised motorsport.  F1, touring cars and TV's Guy Martin twatting around in a tractor.  Mega :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 02 August, 2020, 08:50:32 pm
Looking at handlebar bags and drybag harnesses and Klickfit mounts and tents. And pondering my options.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 03 August, 2020, 02:48:49 pm
listening to builders

I have a call at 1600, wonder if they'll knock off by then in great british tradition?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 04 August, 2020, 10:02:02 pm
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 02 August, 2020, 08:50:32 pm
Looking at handlebar bags

If you're interested in an ortlieb, pm me
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 05 August, 2020, 02:05:04 pm
Not what I should be doing. Dr Beardy has produced a list for me every day this week, with I have dutifully completed. My reward for being efficient is a longer list which I have so far today managed to avoid. I’ll have to show willing soon though...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 August, 2020, 02:14:40 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 05 August, 2020, 02:05:04 pm
Not what I should be doing. Dr Beardy has produced a list for me every day this week, with I have dutifully completed. My reward for being efficient is a longer list which I have so far today managed to avoid. I’ll have to show willing soon though...

Oh dear. You've not realised that you should never complete the list?  That action will always generate another.
/secret man stuff
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 05 August, 2020, 03:09:27 pm
Not only should you never complete the list but occasionally do something "off list".  I have made fresh baguettes and lemon drizzle cake for our evening picnic with friends.  I didn't need to but it helps if you know what I mean.    ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 05 August, 2020, 04:12:58 pm
There is, in fact, an optimum list execution speed θ, where θ < speed of arrival of items onto the list and greater than zero. Maximum effect is achieved by introducing a variable component to θ, thereby forestalling the predictive end of the sequence. Another important attribute is always to schedule jobs that will automatically generate other jobs to θ2. These are the Dangerous Ones. EG "just touch up a few patches on a wall paintwork" will ALWAYS lead to decorating the entire room. Which leads to another room.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 05 August, 2020, 04:28:12 pm
I have my list, she has her list

I do stuff from her list, and occaisionally sneak in things from my list through underhand means
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Tim Hall on 05 August, 2020, 04:30:52 pm
Quote from: Ham on 05 August, 2020, 04:12:58 pm
There is, in fact, an optimum list execution speed θ, where θ < speed of arrival of items onto the list and greater than zero. Maximum effect is achieved by introducing a variable component to θ, thereby forestalling the predictive end of the sequence. Another important attribute is always to schedule jobs that will automatically generate other jobs to θ2. These are the Dangerous Ones. EG "just touch up a few patches on a wall paintwork" will ALWAYS lead to decorating the entire room. Which leads to another room.
Another example is going to do some simple shopping, for example buying a pint of milk and end up buying a house. Or so I've heard.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 05 August, 2020, 08:42:54 pm
Always add invade Poland to lists.


Title: Re: What are you doing right now? Or should I buy another old bike...
Post by: Gattopardo on 05 August, 2020, 08:50:20 pm
Wandering around found a special CNC road bike in a cash converters type place for 40euro.  Offered 25 as that is what I had in my pocket and was told too low. http://www.thevelocollective.com/vintage-gem-1982-c-n-c-special/ for an idea what it looks like.  So I'm thinking of buying it but can't get to the uk easily and trying to figure out why I want it.

The one I have seen has mafac center pull brakes and a leather saddle...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 09 August, 2020, 09:25:45 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 05 July, 2020, 05:49:01 pm
Spent the day listening in on a historic radio station.

Today is Alexanderson Day, when the historic Alexanderson VLF transmitter at Grimeton in Sweden (call sign SAQ) transmits a message to the world.
The Alexanderson transmitter is remarkable in that it is the last operational VLF (Very Low Frequency) electro-mechanical transmitter.
It has no valves or semiconductors; it uses a mechanical rotating alternator to produces the 17.2KHz VLF RF current.
This appeals to my latent Steampunk tendancies!

Just in - a QSL card from Grimeton/SAQ acknowledging receipt of my reception report back in July. A nice touch. They got a record 630 reception reports from around the world, which is pretty good for such an obscure niche morse code transmission on a frequency that mostly requires hand built home-made equipment to receive.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50207903312_490384ba30_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2juGCro)
SAQ-QSL (https://flic.kr/p/2juGCro) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2020, 12:52:55 pm
Prodding F5.  A lot.  Come on, Porcelfarce, you've had my item in your London East depot for more than five hours now >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 August, 2020, 04:36:25 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2020, 12:52:55 pm
Prodding F5.  A lot.  Come on, Porcelfarce, you've had my item in your London East depot for more than five hours now >:(

RM had Pingu's delivery at our delivery office 10mins walk away at 6am and then emailed after lunch to say they couldn't attempt delivery. Which was doubly annoying given we could just walk there and get them but we don't have a card and b) they are new bike wheels we need to go out for a bike ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2020, 05:16:35 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 12 August, 2020, 04:36:25 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2020, 12:52:55 pm
Prodding F5.  A lot.  Come on, Porcelfarce, you've had my item in your London East depot for more than five hours now >:(

RM had Pingu's delivery at our delivery office 10mins walk away at 6am and then emailed after lunch to say they couldn't attempt delivery. Which was doubly annoying given we could just walk there and get them but we don't have a card and b) they are new bike wheels we need to go out for a bike ride.

Not a dickey-bird out of Porcelfarce themselves; the tracking page is still showing “Received at delivery depot” which is next door to Beckton sewage works about ten miles away, and has been since hours 07:47.  They haven’t even pretended to try to deliver it yet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 12 August, 2020, 06:19:21 pm
Watching it utterly precipitate down.  And enjoying the respite from the heat.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2020, 07:48:35 pm
Porcelfarce are still showing it as being in Beckton.  Which is odd, because as of 90 seconds ago, it's in my kitchen ???
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: orienteer on 12 August, 2020, 10:39:51 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2020, 07:48:35 pm
Porcelfarce are still showing it as being in Beckton.  Which is odd, because as of 90 seconds ago, it's in my kitchen ???

Your postcode has been moved to Beckton  ;D

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 12 August, 2020, 11:02:34 pm
Quote from: orienteer on 12 August, 2020, 10:39:51 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2020, 07:48:35 pm
Porcelfarce are still showing it as being in Beckton.  Which is odd, because as of 90 seconds ago, it's in my kitchen ???

Your postcode has been moved to Beckton  ;D



As long as his kitchen hasn't been moved to Becton - it smells.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 August, 2020, 05:32:14 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 12 August, 2020, 04:36:25 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2020, 12:52:55 pm
Prodding F5.  A lot.  Come on, Porcelfarce, you've had my item in your London East depot for more than five hours now >:(

RM had Pingu's delivery at our delivery office 10mins walk away at 6am and then emailed after lunch to say they couldn't attempt delivery. Which was doubly annoying given we could just walk there and get them but we don't have a card and b) they are new bike wheels we need to go out for a bike ride.

Well that was a long and frustrating day, again. We stayed in today waiting for these blinking wheels to turn up (turns out the delivery office was closed for post flood repairs y'day). Not a sausage appeared on the tracking page and finally after we'd both been grumping all afternoon they appear at 5pm. Finally.

So now I'm waiting for Pingu to wrestle a tyre on his shiny new wheel and come and make me a celebratory drink.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 14 August, 2020, 03:25:13 pm
Listening to my very small collection of Julian Bream Lute LPs and thinking what a very sad day it is. 
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 14 August, 2020, 04:06:51 pm
Quote from: TheLurker on 14 August, 2020, 03:25:13 pm
Listening to my very small collection of Julian Bream Lute LPs and thinking what a very sad day it is.

RIP.  To be honest, I thought he had died quite a long time ago.  A very agreeable, unassuming chap.

Saw him years ago in Paris and listened to his recordings many times.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 14 August, 2020, 04:18:39 pm
Quote from: T42
Saw him years ago in Paris and listened to his recordings many times.
Only heard him live the once, in Cardiff the thick end of 30 years ago, and that was a guitar rather than lute.  Worth every penny.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 14 August, 2020, 04:31:47 pm
Deciding to either have a coffee or a beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 14 August, 2020, 04:32:35 pm
Boiling water, after having spent an hour removing elderberries from their stalks with a fork.  Homebrew time again  :D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 14 August, 2020, 05:00:55 pm
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble... Go easy on the eye of newt, Dave.

Meanwhile, I am inhaling the aroma of soda bread baking and thinking gourmandizing thoughts.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 14 August, 2020, 05:04:58 pm
Sitting out the back of my local with a beer for the first time in erm, 5 months is it?
To be honest, the beer is not great.   :-\
Don't think I'll be back for a while.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 16 August, 2020, 10:40:04 pm
531 Mercier bike....should i buy it?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 17 August, 2020, 01:58:30 am
Not sleeping. Not feeling sleepy either.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 August, 2020, 10:26:17 am
Watching some builders on the road taking a wall down using some vibrating tool with no ear protection and sighing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 17 August, 2020, 10:34:55 am
Gathering strength before attacking lunch prep. Lots of chopping to do.

Before that, holding a straight piece of wood against the wall in the hall and looking ruefully at the bulges and hollows.  Some jobs just shouldn't be started.  I really wanted to make a zither. :(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 17 August, 2020, 10:48:37 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 August, 2020, 10:26:17 am
Watching some builders on the road taking a wall down using some vibrating tool with no ear protection and sighing.

Imagine my reaction when walking out of Ely railway station to see a bloke in a hole, with a small petrol powered engine next to him, and another bloke bending over filling it with petrol with a fag in his mouth whilst it was still running!

Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 17 August, 2020, 11:22:50 am
Quote from: ElyDave on 17 August, 2020, 10:48:37 am
Imagine my reaction when walking out of Ely railway station to see a bloke in a hole, with a small petrol powered engine next to him, and another bloke bending over filling it with petrol with a fag in his mouth whilst it was still running!

I believe that's how SIL burned her boat down.   :-\
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 17 August, 2020, 11:53:27 am
Quote from: T42 on 17 August, 2020, 10:34:55 am
Gathering strength before attacking lunch prep. Lots of chopping to do.

Before that, holding a straight piece of wood against the wall in the hall and looking ruefully at the bulges and hollows.  Some jobs just shouldn't be started.  I really wanted to make a zither. :(

Straight edge or plasterers scrim.

EDIT read why...steam the wood to the shape of the wall.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 17 August, 2020, 11:59:20 am
Quote from: Gattopardo on 16 August, 2020, 10:40:04 pm
531 Mercier bike....should i buy it?

So is that a yes ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 17 August, 2020, 08:49:01 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 17 August, 2020, 10:48:37 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 August, 2020, 10:26:17 am
Watching some builders on the road taking a wall down using some vibrating tool with no ear protection and sighing.

Imagine my reaction when walking out of Ely railway station to see a bloke in a hole, with a small petrol powered engine next to him, and another bloke bending over filling it with petrol with a fag in his mouth whilst it was still running!

Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me

They're all men, aren't they?

This is why they'll go extinct and females will reproduce parthenogenically. Eventually. My money in on next Wednesday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 August, 2020, 10:03:14 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 August, 2020, 10:26:17 am
Watching some builders on the road taking a wall down using some vibrating tool with no ear protection and sighing.

Later on, a bloke turned up with a digger (I refuse to use the brand name, the manky Tory apologists). Said digger was being operated over the heads of two other builders. Nary a hard hat in sight.
Oh and when they reversed the truck towards the rest of the wall to receive the digging debris, they hit the wall, despite being guided in.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 18 August, 2020, 07:07:04 am
Maybe they were the demolition crew
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 October, 2020, 07:53:36 pm
Our street has had a powercut since 1630 so I'm sitting in the dark.  SSE are rummaging around in the substation.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 09 October, 2020, 08:22:14 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 09 October, 2020, 07:53:36 pm
Our street has had a powercut since 1630 so I'm sitting in the dark.  SSE are rummaging around in the substation.

I've no doubt, but pull up your trousers before you embarrass someone else.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 October, 2020, 01:16:21 pm
Researching the post-Roaring Jack discography of said beat combo's late front man Alistair Hulett.  Seems he recorded three albums with Dave “El Diablo” Swarbrick off of that Fairport Convention, four solo discs and one with The Malkies.  Whoever they are.  Probably not second-division villains out of Ian Rankin novels.  Anything to avoid going to Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 24 October, 2020, 11:05:00 pm
Playing with my VLF rx kit again.

Today is United Nations day.
The UN came into being on the 24th October,1945, it's aim "to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation".
That's going well, then.

To mark UN day, the World Heritage site Grimeton Radio (callsign SAQ) at Varberg, Sweden sends out a message to the world in Morse Code, using the last remaining electromechanical VLF transmitter in the world.

This year's message was composed by Anders Tegnell, Chief Epidemiologist of the Public Health Agency of Sweden.

CQ CQ CQ DE SAQ SAQ SAQ =
THIS IS GRIMETON RADIO / SAQ IN A TRANSMISSION USING THE ALEXANDERSON 200KW ALTERNATOR ON 17.2KHZ =
THE GLOBAL COVID-19 PANDEMIC CHALLENGES PEOPLE AND NATIONS TO MINIMIZE THE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETIES, AND TO UPHOLD THE ADVANCEMENTS IN PUBLIC HEALTH MADE IN RECENT DECADES.
GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBEING IS A PREREQUISITE FOR A PEACEFUL AND SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, AND HEALTH EQUITY CAN NOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT PEACE AND HUMAN SECURITY.=
SIGNED: ANDERS TEGNELL, CHIEF EPIDEMIOLOGIST PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF SWEDEN IN COOPERATION WITH WORLD HERITAGE GRIMETON RADIO STATION AND THE ALEXANDER GRIMETON VETERANRADIOS VAENNER ASSOCIATION =
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: LoidLiu on 30 October, 2020, 02:15:14 pm
Listen to a stupid audiobook ignoring tones of work that is supposed to be done by Monday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 31 October, 2020, 08:01:55 am
Eating fruit salad, drinking coffee, looking out at the Maunsell forts and wind turbines all the while offering up a quiet prayer of thanks to $deity that I am not at work for a whole fortnight.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 November, 2020, 02:53:48 pm
I know we're not supposed to be here. But we are.

(https://flic.kr/p/2k3GkBQ)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 November, 2020, 02:54:20 pm
Oh. That didn't work, then.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 05 November, 2020, 03:06:42 pm
Quote from: Basil on 05 November, 2020, 02:53:48 pm
I know we're not supposed to be here. But we are.

(https://flic.kr/p/2k3GkBQ)

Try this:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50569974602_11eaf167f1_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2k3GkBQ)20201105_133628 (https://flic.kr/p/2k3GkBQ) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Greenbank on 05 November, 2020, 03:11:00 pm
Watching a steady stream of cars doing U-turns in the road outside my window.

They've all driven past two separate "ROAD AHEAD CLOSED" signs (with suitable diversions on them) but, being classic SW London, they've obviously decided that those signs probably won't apply to them and have pushed on through.

That is until they find the road impassable due to it having been dug up by Thames Water for emergency repairs.

Looking forward to the various private school buses that use this route too, they're due in an hour or so...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robgul on 05 November, 2020, 03:29:37 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 05 November, 2020, 03:11:00 pm
Watching a steady stream of cars doing U-turns in the road outside my window.

They've all driven past two separate "ROAD AHEAD CLOSED" signs (with suitable diversions on them) but, being classic SW London, they've obviously decided that those signs probably won't apply to them and have pushed on through.

That is until they find the road impassable due to it having been dug up by Thames Water for emergency repairs.

Looking forward to the various private school buses that use this route too, they're due in an hour or so...

Ditto situation except that it's a gas main they're renewing here - best bit was a ready-mix truck that had to reverse almost 400 metres bleeping merrily as he went  ;D     At the moment there is a 7.5 ton truck with one of those very large tree-chipping trailers across the road, facing the wrong way to exit .... reversing that should be interesting.

When I carried my bike through the sea of mud around the hole this morning the men assured me that it would finished by the end of tomorrow.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 November, 2020, 04:22:57 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 November, 2020, 03:06:42 pm
Quote from: Basil on 05 November, 2020, 02:53:48 pm
I know we're not supposed to be here. But we are.

(https://flic.kr/p/2k3GkBQ)

Try this:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50569974602_11eaf167f1_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2k3GkBQ)20201105_133628 (https://flic.kr/p/2k3GkBQ) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr

Thanks kim.  I never can get Flickr to work from my mobile.

Oh. Sorry about the finger.  :-[
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 05 November, 2020, 04:43:16 pm
Penbryn?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 November, 2020, 05:15:32 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 05 November, 2020, 04:43:16 pm
Penbryn?

Well done.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Butterfly on 07 November, 2020, 04:39:58 pm
Completing assessments about employment, character, teamworking and stuff which are entirely guesswork as none of them relate to having spent 30 years as a nanny. I've no idea how I cope with stuff like most of it, how you deal with a boss in whose house you live is rather different to the way you would deal with a boss who you only see at a weekly meeting. Explaining my skills (keeping children alive, personal care, organisation of the terminally disorganised and lego construction) as relating to any job that doesn't require personal care is difficult. I don't want to do care work, or work in people's houses, but I need to find a way to convince people that I have some transferable skills. I just need to work out what they are.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 08 November, 2020, 05:07:44 pm
Sounds to me like developed interpersonnel, organisational and diplomacy skills. You must have had demanding/difficult clients.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: hatler on 08 November, 2020, 05:11:43 pm
Your powers of persuasion should be massive.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: The_Mikey on 08 November, 2020, 07:23:14 pm
Daydreaming about bicycles.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 20 November, 2020, 07:13:42 pm
Sitting listening to Beethoven 5 with a glass of 94 Taylor’s port, the paper and the fire on.

Life does not get much better. Might listen to some Mozart piano next.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 21 November, 2020, 05:48:41 pm
Sitting in my study watching Wales- Georgia.  It's only available on S4C so I don't understand a lot of what the commentators are saying.  Probably a good thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TimC on 21 November, 2020, 06:25:24 pm
It's on Amazon Prime.
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Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2020, 12:04:49 pm
Watching some scaffolders playing Worst Ladder (https://xkcd.com/2375/) across the road.

ETA: They've driven off.  Highlights so far include one of them balancing on a telescopic ladder while telescoping it.  Then carrying the (evidently quite heavy) safety gate thing up one-handed, pausing halfway for the person below to reach up and pull his trousers up, before swinging the gate in an arc to get within reach of the person at the top, failing to account for the effect of our-favourite-telco's drop-wire[1] on the planned trajectory.

No prizes for guessing what PPE is in use.


[1] Surprisingly, it didn't.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 31 January, 2021, 03:01:37 pm
Enjoying live cyclo-cross on the BBC website.
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Post by: Beardy on 18 February, 2021, 08:28:48 pm
Trying to ignore Pooch Perfect which has got to be the quite the daftest idea for a television programme ever. But teh good doctor does like to see me mutter at such programmes.
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Post by: fuzzy on 18 February, 2021, 08:37:19 pm
Watching the NASA live feed of Mars 2020/ perseverance
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 February, 2021, 08:46:00 pm
Writing a letter.
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 February, 2021, 08:41:09 am
Exploring flickr settings.  I have taken to snapping with my phone camera.  I have a phone that has pro camera settings.  I once had a DSLR camera and just could not get the hang of it, mainly because it scared me.  I am less scared and happier to experiment with my phone - mainly because there are lower expectations of the outcome.  I have accumulated a lot of photos so want somewhere to put the ones that I like.
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Post by: T42 on 19 February, 2021, 01:44:47 pm
Getting to grips with 3D representation of GPS tracks, cribbing from code I wrote ~18 years ago for sewerage modelling.  Brain was more agile then, along with the rest of me. No real motive for doing it, other than fun.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 20 February, 2021, 12:08:04 am


Quote from: T42 on 19 February, 2021, 01:44:47 pm
Getting to grips with 3D representation of GPS tracks, cribbing from code I wrote ~18 years ago for sewerage modelling.  Brain was more agile then, along with the rest of me. No real motive for doing it, other than fun.

Surely that's the best motive of all!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 20 February, 2021, 10:41:07 am
Quote from: Ashaman42 on 20 February, 2021, 12:08:04 am


Quote from: T42 on 19 February, 2021, 01:44:47 pm
Getting to grips with 3D representation of GPS tracks, cribbing from code I wrote ~18 years ago for sewerage modelling.  Brain was more agile then, along with the rest of me. No real motive for doing it, other than fun.

Surely that's the best motive of all!

That was the whole motivation for my career.  Even when I was managing development I used to get in a few hours of software demiurgy after all the botherers had gone home.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 20 February, 2021, 11:32:38 am
Not getting on with stuff, instead waiting for Mrs Ham to return from an emotional meeting with sister, BiL's cancer appears to have taken off again, not that it was ever in remission, just being treated. Not a time to leave someone alone.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 23 February, 2021, 05:46:42 pm
Singing the just one Cornetto song to the tune of the very optimistic ice-cream van up the road.
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Post by: spesh on 23 February, 2021, 07:09:23 pm
Quote from: ian on 23 February, 2021, 05:46:42 pm
Singing the just one Cornetto song to the tune of the very optimistic ice-cream van up the road.

I was subjected to The Happy Wanderer by my local ice cream van yesterday. Probably the earliest in the year that I've heard it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: campagman on 23 February, 2021, 08:59:35 pm
I have heard Ice Cream vans too. A bit odd for winter but there are lots of odd things happening now.
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Post by: Paul on 24 February, 2021, 03:44:02 am
Not sleeping  :(
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 24 February, 2021, 07:58:23 am
Quote from: campagman on 23 February, 2021, 08:59:35 pm
I have heard Ice Cream vans too. A bit odd for winter but there are lots of odd things happening now.

We get them year-round. I'm never quite sure whether they're selling ice cream or drugs, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 24 February, 2021, 08:37:28 am
Don't have them here - just as well, I'm an addict.  We do get pizza vans occasionally.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 24 February, 2021, 08:58:18 am
Wondering how I managed to upset the good doctor by answering her, possibly rhetorical, question with a bit of light hearted banter.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 24 February, 2021, 12:39:32 pm
Just come off the phone from rearranging my Aortic Aneurysm screening ultrasound appointment. Very nice & helpful lady - now being done on Saturday.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 24 February, 2021, 01:00:50 pm
Drinking tea and thinking of... well, not very much, actually. Status quo.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 25 February, 2021, 02:20:31 pm
I am just back from a little pootle.  Yes, I did it, I got on the bike again. 

I didn't sleep much last night (lots of pain), so I spent most of the night listening to youtube videos of ice cracking on lakes in Norway (which is strangely relaxing/reassuring) and drinking camomile tea.  I finally got up at 5 am and made coffee, had a bath and then got ready for a 9 am hospital appointment.  It was a 40-minute drive to the hospital.  After my 10 minute consultation, I popped into the local town to get a takeaway coffee.  I stopped on my way home to take some photos of the river, and then I went to the supermarket.  When I got home, the swans were back.  I thought they had left as I had not seen them since the end of last week.  As the weather was sunny I wanted to be outside. So I could either walk or cycle, so got back on the bike for the first time in.......  I wasn't out long, I kept to the flat, but it felt good.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 February, 2021, 04:45:58 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: barakta on 25 February, 2021, 07:24:38 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 24 February, 2021, 07:58:23 am
Quote from: campagman on 23 February, 2021, 08:59:35 pm
I have heard Ice Cream vans too. A bit odd for winter but there are lots of odd things happening now.

We get them year-round. I'm never quite sure whether they're selling ice cream or drugs, though.

My Paisley cousins' ice cream van also sold all sorts of other sweets and snacks as well as running what was probably an illegal cheap VHS hire service... I wonder if they're still running, will have to ask.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 February, 2021, 07:26:13 pm
Not had an ice-cream van yet, but I did hear the "Ayyyouy  Ohwwhyyyyyou!" lorry doing the rounds for the first time in ages.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 25 February, 2021, 07:30:07 pm
Quote from: Kim on 25 February, 2021, 07:26:13 pm
Not had an ice-cream van yet, but I did here the "Ayyyouy  Ohwwhyyyyyou!" lorry doing the rounds for the first time in ages.

No trumpet?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 25 February, 2021, 07:32:47 pm
Quote from: Basil on 25 February, 2021, 07:30:07 pm
Quote from: Kim on 25 February, 2021, 07:26:13 pm
Not had an ice-cream van yet, but I did here the "Ayyyouy  Ohwwhyyyyyou!" lorry doing the rounds for the first time in ages.

No trumpet?

I suppose you could call it that :)
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Post by: lou boutin on 26 February, 2021, 09:41:50 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 25 February, 2021, 04:45:58 pm
:thumbsup:
Thank you
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Post by: Beardy on 27 February, 2021, 12:36:44 am
Sitting on the sofa pinned here by the cat drunkenly wondering how I’m going to get my next beer without disturbing her.
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Post by: Pingu on 27 February, 2021, 12:49:19 am
Quote from: Beardy on 27 February, 2021, 12:36:44 am
Sitting on the sofa pinned here by the cat drunkenly wondering how I’m going to get my next beer without disturbing her.

Ruddy Norah, that's a biggy  :o
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 March, 2021, 05:41:35 pm
Being happy cos it's proxy Friday :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 04 March, 2021, 09:41:21 am
Sitting in a car park outside a maternity unit, having carried out ambulance taxi duties, contemplating the circle of life as I was last in this situation 31 years ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 04 March, 2021, 02:22:26 pm
Quote from: Ham on 04 March, 2021, 09:41:21 am
Sitting in a car park outside a maternity unit, having carried out ambulance taxi duties, contemplating the circle of life as I was last in this situation 31 years ago.
Were you not at the ‘bed’ side 31 years ago?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 14 March, 2021, 04:16:27 pm
Having one of those days. Church running video streaming then breakfast. Followed by our walk and. Ow sat in front of the fire drinking a superb Rutherford glen we bought in Napa valley, eating cheese and homemade pickles. About to have coffee and a chocolate orange!  May have a rum and cinnamon soaked strawberry crumble later. All whilst reading books. Bliss.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ham on 14 March, 2021, 04:44:18 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 04 March, 2021, 02:22:26 pm
Quote from: Ham on 04 March, 2021, 09:41:21 am
Sitting in a car park outside a maternity unit, having carried out ambulance taxi duties, contemplating the circle of life as I was last in this situation 31 years ago.
Were you not at the ‘bed’ side 31 years ago?

As it goes, no. At the time I was neighbour to Best Mate and the now Mrs Ham. They were trying to fit in to their Polo as I was going off to work, this presented some challenges so chauffeured in my beemer. BM died of cancer four months later, I became better friends with Mrs Ham some three years after that. So, I had a few things to think about.
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Post by: tiermat on 22 March, 2021, 05:18:36 pm
Waiting...

For UPS to turn up. Maybe Godot has taken over parcel collection duties?
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 23 March, 2021, 11:12:25 am
sitting in the court waiting room whilst barristers are having a chat.  Hence my commenting on multiple threads during work time!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 23 March, 2021, 11:48:07 am
Deny everything. They can't prove it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 March, 2021, 12:00:06 pm
Try “Some big boys did it then ran away” or “I had no idea they were from $FOREIGN_INTELLIGENCE_AGENCY”.  If they believe the latter you’ll be Home Secretary within four years.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 23 March, 2021, 12:03:00 pm
Dementia can be a useful tactic.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 23 March, 2021, 01:27:25 pm
It settled so I am now on the train.
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Post by: T42 on 23 March, 2021, 03:35:48 pm
Wishing I'd used a bigger teacup but ICBA trudging to the far end of the house to put the kettle on again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 31 March, 2021, 10:37:12 am
Listening to Radio Builder.  Not by choice.  :(

Also it seems to be a buildery thing, particularly the younger ones, to sing along in that high falsetto voice.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: BrianI on 05 April, 2021, 09:53:30 pm
Backing up some old DVDs of photos dating back 2004 to 2007, and mourning my fitness when I was able to go for nice long walks along the likes of Glen Artney and Loch Turret Hills and the like...  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: lou boutin on 06 April, 2021, 12:49:27 pm
I am watching an episode of Crown Court from the 1970s on YouTube.  It reminds me of being at my Nan's house when I was a child.  She loved Crown Court and we used to go into the best parlour (where the TV was) at lunchtime to watch.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 April, 2021, 09:11:54 pm
Recovering from a 380 mile round trip to see my mum in hospital.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 April, 2021, 10:33:45 pm
Quote from: Basil on 06 April, 2021, 09:11:54 pm
Recovering from a 380 mile round trip to see my mum in hospital.

That sounds suboptimal for all concerned, sending supportive waves.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: pcolbeck on 08 April, 2021, 02:44:57 pm
Looking at the lovely Craycort cast iron grill and stainless steel half circle that's just been delivered to upgrade my Weber kettle BBQ.
Also contemplating that I've probably jinxed the weather for the next six months by the simple act of making this purchase.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 17 April, 2021, 02:34:11 pm
I love a good funeral, me.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 17 April, 2021, 02:37:06 pm
Brass band playing the Hovis tune. Lovely.
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Post by: T42 on 18 April, 2021, 10:41:48 am
Hungering for lunch here. Choice of kebab, veal or a tarte flambée.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 April, 2021, 10:49:01 am
Wondering whether the next few hours would be better spent in:

Edit: Opted for Doing Things
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 18 April, 2021, 01:48:52 pm
Savouring the aftertaste of raw shallots and ras el hanout.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 18 April, 2021, 02:41:40 pm
Sneezing, mostly.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 May, 2021, 10:48:44 am
Sitting in my cycling gear watching the rain hosing down outside.
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Post by: canny colin on 02 May, 2021, 11:21:54 am
Shifting furniture to my daughters new to her Cottage  &  its dead Sunny  : :P
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 02 May, 2021, 11:22:39 am
Sitting in my non cycling gear watching the sun shining outside.

Oh well.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 02 May, 2021, 11:41:17 am
Watching the (unforecast) rain whilst waiting to repair a stone chip on my car.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 02 May, 2021, 11:59:19 am
Just back from a walk round the fields, about to head for the kitchen to put the oven on for lunch.  Our fridge is getting a bit geriatric and the meat I bought a week back was singing hosannas this morning, so it'll be a tarte flambée instead.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SteveC on 02 May, 2021, 03:27:02 pm
Recovering from a Zoom committee meeting which lasted from 10.15 to 13.00.
And I got out for a run before that started  :smug:
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Post by: Regulator on 03 May, 2021, 08:50:22 am
Cuddling the dog and having a third cup of coffee. 
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Post by: De Sisti on 03 May, 2021, 09:24:53 am
Deciding on whether to mow the lawn before the (expected) rain, or wait until later in the week.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 03 May, 2021, 01:47:22 pm
Sitting with feet up and a glass of beer, having cut the grass*. It may yet rain.



*And planted out some French beans and tweaked the neighbour's gate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 03 May, 2021, 01:53:40 pm
Watching the traditional bank holiday weather.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 May, 2021, 07:00:34 pm
Contemplating ferreting about in the drawer to find Thick Woolly Socks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 09 May, 2021, 02:46:58 pm
Watching the Giro in Welsh.
It doesn't seem to be on any other free-sat channel.   :-\
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 May, 2021, 06:49:01 pm
Quest, Basil.
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Post by: Basil on 09 May, 2021, 08:37:39 pm
Oh?  Thanks.  I'll look for that tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 09 May, 2021, 10:10:22 pm
Quote from: Basil on 09 May, 2021, 02:46:58 pm
Watching the Giro in Welsh.
It doesn't seem to be on any other free-sat channel.   :-\

Quest has highlights on Freeview.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 09 May, 2021, 11:00:56 pm
Drinking a small Balvennie getting ready for bed having driven back from Winchester after niece’s confirmation in the cathedral.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robgul on 11 May, 2021, 11:44:48 am
Just completed a basic service on a customer's bike at my newly set-up cycle repair and servicing micro-enterprise . . . just like old times when I ran an LBS  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 23 May, 2021, 09:05:57 am
Writing a resignation email.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 May, 2021, 09:07:09 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 23 May, 2021, 09:05:57 am
Writing a resignation email.

Is this cause for celebration?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 May, 2021, 10:41:59 am
Getting the figures together for our 2020 tax return. :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 26 May, 2021, 10:51:10 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 May, 2021, 09:07:09 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 23 May, 2021, 09:05:57 am
Writing a resignation email.

Is this cause for celebration?

In a minor way, yes!  :thumbsup: Possibly the only good news I've had in the past 18 months or so...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 May, 2021, 02:57:57 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 26 May, 2021, 10:51:10 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 May, 2021, 09:07:09 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 23 May, 2021, 09:05:57 am
Writing a resignation email.

Is this cause for celebration?

In a minor way, yes!  :thumbsup: Possibly the only good news I've had in the past 18 months or so...

Hope whatever follows is better.

---o0o---

Meanwhile, I have given up Excelling for the day. Flesh & bludde can stand no more.  Good news is that we'll be paying less tax next year. Bad news is that it's pro rata (= for the rats in Latin).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 26 May, 2021, 03:30:25 pm
Waiting to ride home.

Waiting because I'm still utterly stuffed with fish and chips I ate 90 minutes ago.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 May, 2021, 06:09:00 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 26 May, 2021, 10:51:10 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 May, 2021, 09:07:09 am
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 23 May, 2021, 09:05:57 am
Writing a resignation email.

Is this cause for celebration?

In a minor way, yes!  :thumbsup: Possibly the only good news I've had in the past 18 months or so...

Good! Thought I'd better check before offering congratulations  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FifeingEejit on 26 May, 2021, 06:38:30 pm
Checking that my plan to switch from turbo to on road tonight is a good idea.

Followed by contemplating how long after the pack of jaffa cakes I've just consumed it's sensible to set off

Sent from my BKL-L09 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 27 May, 2021, 04:19:23 pm
Relaxing after finishing our annual tax return.  God knows what doing it like five years or so from now will be like - I'll probably be gaga (assuming I'm not already).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 May, 2021, 07:08:53 pm
In Amazingstoke waiting for SO to have her jab.  100 mile round trip, closest venue available this month.  Bastard lying Tories.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 30 May, 2021, 01:36:06 pm
Sitting on a sofa, indoors and looking at the sunny outside.

Don't want to go out as there are too many people outside in buildings that don't use mask or distance.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Ashaman42 on 31 May, 2021, 03:01:21 pm
Sitting on our swing seat in the garden. Drinking a nice cold beer after a walk round the park. I'll light the BBQ in a little bit.

Aching a bit after yesterday's long ride but only a little.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 31 May, 2021, 03:08:44 pm
Working, as is traditional on the late May bank holiday. Ah well, it's too hot outside anyway and it's not as if we're allowed to go anywhere interesting (i.e. beyond the city boundaries).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 31 May, 2021, 06:15:30 pm
Drinking Pimms.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: FifeingEejit on 31 May, 2021, 11:33:02 pm
Apartently it was Victoria day today, which is a Dundee holiday, and all the medics are off. But for some reason it's not one of the 8 designated public holidays for the rest of us.

Must be in Aiberbrothock time or somefit.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 07 July, 2021, 11:27:41 am
Taking the train to Bristol in order to ride home again.

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Paul on 07 July, 2021, 11:36:45 am
Biscuit experiments.

I was unhappy with the ratio of biscuit to filling in these biscuits (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/305956053?selectedUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcontent.api.tesco.com%2Fv2%2Fmedia%2Fghs%2F9429705e-8538-42b9-b4c9-f3650328040f%2Fsnapshotimagehandler_652468299.jpeg%3Fh%3D540%26w%3D540), so I removed one biscuit from two and sandwiched the two remaining biscuits (the ones with the filling on) together.

I really need to get back to the office.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 07 July, 2021, 11:56:56 am
Quote from: Paul on 07 July, 2021, 11:36:45 am
Biscuit experiments.

I was unhappy with the ratio of biscuit to filling in these biscuits (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/305956053?selectedUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcontent.api.tesco.com%2Fv2%2Fmedia%2Fghs%2F9429705e-8538-42b9-b4c9-f3650328040f%2Fsnapshotimagehandler_652468299.jpeg%3Fh%3D540%26w%3D540), so I removed one biscuit from two and sandwiched the two remaining biscuits (the ones with the filling on) together.

I really need to get back to the office.

If you dunk your bourbon creams in Ovaltine you'll find that there is just the right amount of filling and that a state of sheer bliss and contentment will come over you.

At least that's what happens with proper original bourbon creams and Ovaltine ... 
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Post by: robgul on 07 July, 2021, 03:02:29 pm
Quote from: Paul on 07 July, 2021, 11:36:45 am
Biscuit experiments.

I was unhappy with the ratio of biscuit to filling in these biscuits (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/305956053?selectedUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcontent.api.tesco.com%2Fv2%2Fmedia%2Fghs%2F9429705e-8538-42b9-b4c9-f3650328040f%2Fsnapshotimagehandler_652468299.jpeg%3Fh%3D540%26w%3D540), so I removed one biscuit from two and sandwiched the two remaining biscuits (the ones with the filling on) together.

I really need to get back to the office.

TESCO own brand - what do you expect? - upgrade to Waitrose and all will be fine and dandy!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 07 July, 2021, 03:57:07 pm
Eating cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: orienteer on 07 July, 2021, 08:47:33 pm
Not watching football.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 07 July, 2021, 08:48:55 pm
There's football?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 July, 2021, 09:30:56 pm
Pay no attention to these silly rumours.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 08 July, 2021, 07:51:16 am
Deliberately not looking at the rain and thinking about making another cuppa.  MrsT's out for a run in it.

ETA as soon as I wet the tea - two cups - she came in the gate.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 July, 2021, 10:47:21 am
Putting off the sub-desk grovelling which is required to replace one of the SSDs in the Big Babbage-Engine upstairs.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 July, 2021, 11:41:03 am
Not watching the Tour de France so I can ffwd through as many of the shitverts as possible once I start.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: SpaceBadger on 10 July, 2021, 03:12:24 pm
Watching the Tour. Same as yesterday, the day before, the day before that...

(And dicking about on my computer looking for garage storage.)
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Post by: Basil on 11 July, 2021, 08:14:07 am
Sitting watching the river flow.
And waiting for the dog to lay a dog-egg.
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Post by: Regulator on 11 July, 2021, 08:58:05 am
Sitting on the deck of a cruise ship moored in Portland harbour. 
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 11 July, 2021, 11:17:17 am
Checking in online to fly to Madeira tomorrow.  Bike and running shoes packed
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Post by: Regulator on 13 July, 2021, 01:23:21 pm
We are moored in Liverpool.  No sign of Andrew C though…
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 14 July, 2021, 03:28:18 pm
Lying in the sunshine digesting a wonderful plate of grilled sardines with a local white wine.
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Post by: SteveC on 17 July, 2021, 04:15:19 pm
Not a lot.
We have friends coming round for a barbecue this evening. It's too early to start cooking (two dishes need to be done in the oven and then finished on the charcoal). It's too late and too hot to start anything else substantive.
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Post by: Basil on 17 July, 2021, 04:24:35 pm
I was sitting around waiting for it to be dinner time, until I realised that it's dinner time whenever I want.
*wanders off to boil eggs for the ham salad*
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Post by: T42 on 17 July, 2021, 05:08:15 pm
Thinking about dinner and getting hungry.
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Post by: rafletcher on 17 July, 2021, 05:09:09 pm
Anticipating a Pimms. Too hot to do much else.
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Post by: T42 on 17 July, 2021, 05:10:12 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 17 July, 2021, 04:15:19 pm
Not a lot.
We have friends coming round for a barbecue this evening. It's too early to start cooking (two dishes need to be done in the oven and then finished on the charcoal). It's too late and too hot to start anything else substantive.

I rode through several clouds of barbecue aroma today, which in France means merguez.  Made me need lunch (chicken sannie + éclair).
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 July, 2021, 06:11:20 pm
Thinking I'm a neep for having planned to make pizza on the hottest weekend of the year.
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Post by: BrianI on 19 July, 2021, 01:48:08 pm
Wishing the 4000mAh Lipo 2S battery would hurry up and charge on my Shiny New FTX Mauler 4x4 rock crawler, so I can go for a play!  :thumbsup: 
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Post by: TheLurker on 19 July, 2021, 08:42:07 pm
Melting
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 July, 2021, 09:53:35 pm
Listening to the swifts :)
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 19 July, 2021, 10:01:36 pm
Laying in a cool bath watching bike adventure videos and daydreaming of adventures.
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Post by: TheLurker on 20 July, 2021, 06:52:55 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 19 July, 2021, 09:53:35 pm
Listening to the swifts :)
We've seen only a half dozen or so swallows this year.  We normally see noticeable numbers of them and house martins as well as a few swifts.  However, the skylarks seem to be singing a bit later than most years.  Heard the 1st one on the 16th of Feb. and the songs have only just started tailing off in the last week.  Normally expect them to have stopped by the beginning of July.
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Post by: TimC on 20 July, 2021, 03:59:04 pm
Hiding in the shed-studio while a FOGB thunderstorm creeps past. Looks like we'll get away with it, but I wouldn't want to be in the Sudbury-Braintree area.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2021, 04:05:28 pm
Sitting starkers in front of a computer.
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Post by: ravenbait on 20 July, 2021, 04:12:12 pm
Trying to work with the window open, while a dozen baby starlings engage in gang warfare over some fatballs right outside it.

I know this is my own fault for hanging the fatball feeder there, but do they have to be so noisy?

Sam
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Post by: rafletcher on 20 July, 2021, 04:12:25 pm
Quote from: TheLurker on 20 July, 2021, 06:52:55 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 19 July, 2021, 09:53:35 pm
Listening to the swifts :)
We've seen only a half dozen or so swallows this year.  We normally see noticeable numbers of them and house martins as well as a few swifts.  However, the skylarks seem to be singing a bit later than most years.  Heard the 1st one on the 16th of Feb. and the songs have only just started tailing off in the last week.  Normally expect them to have stopped by the beginning of July.

Whereas we’ve (in leafy Bucks) seen more than the usual complement of swift’s this year.
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Post by: Regulator on 20 July, 2021, 04:16:00 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2021, 04:05:28 pm
Sitting starkers in front of a computer.


*Ahem*  You need to turn the camera off...
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Post by: T42 on 24 July, 2021, 04:39:57 pm
Watching assholes demonstrate in Paris against the "loss of liberty" implied by the "pass sanitaire".  It's all very half-hearted - well, it's hot - and not a patch on the gilet jaune riots we had a couple of years ago.
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Post by: Basil on 03 August, 2021, 09:03:57 am
Sitting on the  bench by the river, watching young trout breaking the surface for insects, while waiting the delivery of a dog-egg.
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Post by: ravenbait on 03 August, 2021, 02:55:22 pm
Melting into a puddle of bright red gloop after a sweltering lunchtime run. Blech.

Sam
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2021, 06:46:31 pm
How many pairs of pants is too many? I've just got rid of 9 pairs and I still have 42 in the drawer.

The big problem now is socks. Cos I've got normal weight ankle socks, super short summer holiday type socks and massive thick 'it's freezing in my office' socks that take up half the drawer. At least the pants don't take up much space, despite me being a proponent of arse covering pants.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2021, 07:07:42 pm
In other related news, I have far too many 'going out' tops for someone who isn't a party animal.
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Post by: Kim on 09 August, 2021, 09:24:35 pm
42 is The Answer.  But it seems like too many.  You should donate some to barakta, who seems to destroy pants at an alarming rate.

Meanwhile, my pants seem to last forever.  Possibly because I wear then them right way round.  Possibly because they're three sizes too big.

Regardless, they should always cover your arse.  Otherwise, what's the point?
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Post by: ian on 09 August, 2021, 09:28:36 pm
Looking goddamned sexy, that's the point.

That's my excuse for old pants, and I'm sticking with it.
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Post by: Nuncio on 20 August, 2021, 07:53:13 pm
Indukging in shameless nostalgia by searching out and reading some of the PBP 2011 threads. I started my one-and-only 10 years ago today.
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Post by: Basil on 28 August, 2021, 12:23:11 pm
Basking in heat at what is possibly the loveliest cricket ground in Wales, watching the 2nds play their last match of the season.
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Post by: T42 on 29 August, 2021, 08:44:48 am
Looking at the low grey sky and wondering if a cold 2-hour toddle on the bike would be worth the two hours of TLC the bike would need if the rain doesn't stay up there. Trouble is that if I don't get out the next chance will be Thursday.  :(
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Post by: cookiemonster on 29 August, 2021, 10:00:25 am
Catching up on TV and You Tube sites that I follow.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 August, 2021, 01:41:59 pm
Just mowed the lawn hopefully for the last time as I'm setting up a robot mower this afternoon.
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Post by: Basil on 04 September, 2021, 08:35:41 am
Hurrah!  A Sunny morning at last. Leap out of bed and drive to Penbryn beach and the Plwmp Tart for breakfast.
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 04 September, 2021, 12:26:58 pm
Just got back from a bike ride with a new person.  Lots (for me) of that will they kill me as I am unfit fear but we had an excellent 50km ride, chatted most of the way and a great coffee stop.  He may have been slowing down for me but he did not make it obvious!
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Post by: Feanor on 23 September, 2021, 03:58:05 pm
Running in the cabling for new mains-powered interlinked smoke, heat, and CO alarms.
To comply with the new retrospective building regs, this is going to require a total of seven devices due to the layout of this place.
Two are direct replacements for existing ones which are over 10 years old, and I didn't want to mix-and-match manufacturers over the installation.

In an older property which has been extended several times, this is a total PITA.
All the void spaces are inaccessible, or filled with rubble or old insulation, or blocked by dwangs.
Struggling to get the fish tape more than a couple of metres at a time.
The necessitates cutting small access hatches in the ceiling plasterboard, which is simple enough, but my arms are now pumped from working above head-height all afternoon.

Mostly done now.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2021, 08:19:34 pm
Oh yes that reminds me, I need to check that when the kitties have gone out. Test one, see if they all wail. Or not.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2021, 08:20:39 pm
And learning what a dwang is.
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Post by: Kim on 23 September, 2021, 08:27:27 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2021, 08:20:39 pm
And learning what a dwang is.

Uncoincidentally, I'm also learning what a dwang is.  Mildly surprised it's not a term of approval by teh yoof.
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Post by: matthew on 23 September, 2021, 10:56:39 pm
Relaxing after scouts this evening. Ropes webbed across the hut at eaves height and the challenge to get from one end of the hut to the other without touching the floor. Cake at the far end to act as incentive.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 September, 2021, 12:16:02 am
Quote from: Kim on 23 September, 2021, 08:27:27 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2021, 08:20:39 pm
And learning what a dwang is.

Uncoincidentally, I'm also learning what a dwang is.  Mildly surprised it's not a term of approval by teh yoof.

Didn’t one collapse on Betelgeuse VII?

[“No. No, one did not.” – Ed.]
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Post by: T42 on 24 September, 2021, 07:46:22 am
Drinking a final cuppa to help my breakfast tagliatelle down before going for a ride.
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Post by: T42 on 24 September, 2021, 07:59:52 am
And now springing to the rowlocks. Toodle-pip, ô office-dwellers! My dog, it's nice to be retired.
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Post by: Regulator on 24 September, 2021, 08:02:18 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2021, 08:19:34 pm
Oh yes that reminds me, I need to check that when the kitties have gone out. Test one, see if they all wail. Or not.


Very Scottish term that.   Also found in areas of the Scottish diaspora (e.g. NZ and some bits of Oz).
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Post by: Feanor on 24 September, 2021, 04:06:14 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 23 September, 2021, 03:58:05 pm
Running in the cabling for new mains-powered interlinked smoke, heat, and CO alarms.
To comply with the new retrospective building regs, this is going to require a total of seven devices due to the layout of this place.

Bloody hell!
You *really* don't want to burn the toast.

The place goes off like the Starship Nostromo!
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Post by: T42 on 24 September, 2021, 04:55:26 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 24 September, 2021, 08:02:18 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2021, 08:19:34 pm
Oh yes that reminds me, I need to check that when the kitties have gone out. Test one, see if they all wail. Or not.


Very Scottish term that.   Also found in areas of the Scottish diaspora (e.g. NZ and some bits of Oz).

Not to mention Norn Iron, as in "who helped themselves to the fecking kitty?"
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Post by: Kim on 24 September, 2021, 05:51:10 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 24 September, 2021, 04:06:14 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 23 September, 2021, 03:58:05 pm
Running in the cabling for new mains-powered interlinked smoke, heat, and CO alarms.
To comply with the new retrospective building regs, this is going to require a total of seven devices due to the layout of this place.

Bloody hell!
You *really* don't want to burn the toast.

The place goes off like the Starship Nostromo!

It's the only way to be sure.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: ElyDave on 25 September, 2021, 07:36:54 pm
watching queen in Budapest whilst drinking a nice trappist ale and fiddling with my uke
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 September, 2021, 07:41:20 pm
PLAY “FREE BIRD”!
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 25 September, 2021, 07:59:12 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 25 September, 2021, 07:36:54 pm
watching queen in Budapest whilst drinking a nice trappist ale and fiddling with my uke

I used to do that many years ago, before I got an actual violin (though I did have to improvise a bow from sticks and string). Not recommended as the bridge is too flat so it's chords or nothing. ;D
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Post by: Basil on 25 September, 2021, 08:20:02 pm
I'm at a 'happening' at my local.  Not a bad blues band out in the garden.  Oh, and I've just bought 1 ton of logs for £76 in the auction.  Bloody hell, £76 A ton.  That will do very nicely.
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Post by: ElyDave on 25 September, 2021, 08:25:27 pm
Quote from: Basil on 25 September, 2021, 08:20:02 pm
I'm at a 'happening' at my local.  Not a bad blues band out in the garden.  Oh, and I've just bought 1 ton of logs for £76 in the auction.  Bloody hell, £76 A ton.  That will do very nicely.

good night out on all fronts!

WE used to get supplied, many moons ago by Boris, the Polish guy who'd pull up his flat bed Sherpa and chuck nicley cut beech logs into your garden for about £20 a load, roughly a cubic m
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Post by: Pingu on 25 September, 2021, 09:35:27 pm
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 25 September, 2021, 07:59:12 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 25 September, 2021, 07:36:54 pm
watching queen in Budapest whilst drinking a nice trappist ale and fiddling with my uke

I used to do that many years ago, before I got an actual violin (though I did have to improvise a bow from sticks and string). Not recommended as the bridge is too flat so it's chords or nothing. ;D

You are Jónsi AICMFP.
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Post by: Basil on 11 October, 2021, 07:30:31 pm
Bleeding radiators.

No, this is not me getting grumpy with radiators.   ::-)
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Post by: Regulator on 12 October, 2021, 07:10:33 am
Quote from: T42 on 24 September, 2021, 04:55:26 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 24 September, 2021, 08:02:18 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2021, 08:19:34 pm
Oh yes that reminds me, I need to check that when the kitties have gone out. Test one, see if they all wail. Or not.


Very Scottish term that.   Also found in areas of the Scottish diaspora (e.g. NZ and some bits of Oz).

Not to mention Norn Iron, as in "who helped themselves to the fecking kitty?"

Whoops!  I quoted the wrong bit.  I was referring to the 'dwang' comment.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 October, 2021, 09:19:00 am
Recovering after fishing a huge pile of the previous occupant's long hair out of the bath plughole. Not the greatest idea I've ever had straight after eating breakfast.  :sick:
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 October, 2021, 11:27:35 am
This Hairy Unit endorses Mr Muscle drain cleaner in lieu of ferreting around in U-bends.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 October, 2021, 11:47:45 am
This Hairy Unit endorses the use of a spare bicycle spoke for hooking surplus hair from plug-holes. Then Mr. Muscle, should it prove necessary.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 October, 2021, 04:48:00 pm
I did indeed use a spoke to remove all the hair, followed by a wodge of soda crystals and half a kettle of boiling water.
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Post by: Kim on 12 October, 2021, 10:31:10 pm
This hairy unit is going to pre-empt whichever ostensibly sensible hairy unit is going to recommend GAMI by grumbling about the leaks she had to fix last time a man meddled with her plumbing.
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Post by: Pingu on 12 October, 2021, 11:42:22 pm
Oo-er
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Post by: T42 on 13 October, 2021, 08:47:39 am
"Hair"?  Wait, it's coming back to me...  only it ain't.
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Post by: ian on 13 October, 2021, 09:50:36 am
My wife use to have short expensive hair, now it's long and cheaper and a bloody nightmare because it's everywhere.

Or a yeti got in.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 13 October, 2021, 10:14:53 am
Coughing
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Post by: FifeingEejit on 13 October, 2021, 11:05:26 am
Holding my chin below a dodgy tooth and thinking "oww" (paraphrase)

Sent from my BKL-L09 using Tapatalk

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Post by: De Sisti on 13 October, 2021, 11:18:48 am
Short break from double bass practice.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 October, 2021, 11:24:09 am
Wondering what has caused my internal plumbing to go awry and suspecting last night’s lamb bhuna of the crime.
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Post by: ian on 13 October, 2021, 04:53:48 pm
Booking travel. How does it all work? Help, I don't remember. Planes. Hotels. And now proof of vaccination.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 16 October, 2021, 05:43:30 pm
Googling 'birds with hands' then hitting the image button.

I recommend it. You will not be disappointed
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Post by: ElyDave on 16 October, 2021, 08:40:42 pm
finding out that steel guitar strings are much harder on the fingertips than nylon ukulele strings
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Post by: T42 on 17 October, 2021, 09:03:03 am
Quote from: ElyDave on 16 October, 2021, 08:40:42 pm
finding out that steel guitar strings are much harder on the fingertips than nylon ukulele strings

Deep Purple probably got the name of their band by looking at theirs.  Mine nearly went black. 
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Post by: T42 on 17 October, 2021, 09:03:43 am
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 16 October, 2021, 05:43:30 pm
Googling 'birds with hands' then hitting the image button.

I recommend it. You will not be disappointed

Cheers HF!
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 17 October, 2021, 09:11:46 am
No problem  :thumbsup:

(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1e/08/1e/1e081e9269341c87d6d138596e447969--coffee-time-tea-time.jpg)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 October, 2021, 05:26:01 pm
Don't let TV's *** Boulting see those; he won’t know which way to turn!
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Post by: T42 on 18 October, 2021, 08:07:32 am
Damn, now I want a cuppa.
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Post by: Salvatore on 31 October, 2021, 09:34:21 am
Listening to Australian cricket podcasts.
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Post by: matthew on 31 October, 2021, 11:15:03 am
Quote from: Salvatore on 31 October, 2021, 09:34:21 am
Listening to Australian cricket podcasts.

LOL I wonder how much they are looking forward to the ashes for revenge.
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Post by: Beardy on 31 October, 2021, 05:13:01 pm
Waiting for the youngsters to knock on the door and demand sweets with menace.  :(
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Post by: SteveC on 31 October, 2021, 06:10:54 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 31 October, 2021, 05:13:01 pm
Waiting for the youngsters to knock on the door and demand sweets with menace.  :(
Thanks for reminding me. I've just popped out and put our pumpkin lantern on the gatepost.
I suspect we are too late for the kids next door, though who are the only ones likely to come round.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 October, 2021, 06:59:59 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 31 October, 2021, 05:13:01 pm
Waiting for the youngsters to knock on the door and demand sweets with menace.  :(

I have instructed the butler to prime the minefields, cry Havoc! and let slip the Dogs of War.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 31 October, 2021, 07:02:26 pm
I've been hiding upstairs.

There are 6 kids in the house, absolutely off their faces on the sugar they've just gorged.
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Post by: SteveC on 31 October, 2021, 07:07:46 pm
I'd barely got back in the house when the first knock happened.
Not seen the kids before, but keeping on the right side of their mum is probably a good idea, seeing she's the landlady of the pub we use in the village.
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Post by: SteveC on 31 October, 2021, 08:09:05 pm
And we've had more visits than any other year. At least six or seven families.
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Post by: woollypigs on 31 October, 2021, 10:26:04 pm
Saw some kids out and about, some dresses up as things from movies the various regulators clearly don't want them too see.

Not old enough to be allow to watch, but ok to dress up as. Funny old world.
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Post by: barakta on 31 October, 2021, 10:39:13 pm
We had a plan in case kids across the road turned up cos they're quite nice and living in studentville there aren't many other kids houses to trick or treat at. We didn't decorate or do pumpkins tho, and no one turned up.

I do like the convention of only trick or treating at houses with some kind of lit decoration at the door, seems a good way of opting in only and not scaring/bothering others.

In my home village the teens had a habit of terrorizing the old folks who lived on 3 rows of houses in the village (many had been born in those houses when it was mill houses)... The local police and some volunteers would have to patrol to get rid of any shitheads who ignored requests not to harass the old folk. We didn't go trick or treating cos of this and my parents thinking it was a horrid North American tradition. Instead we'd go to one person's house and play Halloween games there instead. I guess it limited the ridiculous sugar intake.
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Post by: T42 on 01 November, 2021, 07:46:41 am
Quote from: Beardy on 31 October, 2021, 05:13:01 pm
Waiting for the youngsters to knock on the door and demand sweets with menace.  :(

Give 'em raw sprouts.

---o0o---

Meanwhile, I am digesting rusks with scant fake butter, having spent a couple of hours last night simultaneously throwing up and crapping like a fire hose.  Life can be so rewarding at times.
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Post by: Salvatore on 01 November, 2021, 08:53:31 am
Quote from: matthew on 31 October, 2021, 11:15:03 am
Quote from: Salvatore on 31 October, 2021, 09:34:21 am
Listening to Australian cricket podcasts.

LOL I wonder how much they are looking forward to the ashes for revenge.

Whoever was speaking predicted the official line would be that they are 2 entirely different formats, and the T20 thrashing would have no bearing on the Ashes, but really the Australian players may be mentally scarred.

Today I am mostly listen to Indian cricket podcasts.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 December, 2021, 12:31:52 pm
Grinking SHOTC about their increasingly watered-down own brand products.  FFS, charge 20p more, don't make the stuff inedible.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 05 December, 2021, 03:38:59 pm
At Magdalen College for a carol service.  There is a white deer in the park.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 December, 2021, 06:33:32 pm
I was attempting to select a pair of Meindl shoes for walking, given they have a reputation for fitting wide feet, however their model ranges are utterly confusing and I've completely lost the will to carry on.
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Post by: Kim on 05 December, 2021, 07:16:36 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 05 December, 2021, 06:33:32 pm
I've completely lost the will to carry on.

I think that's called "shoe shopping"
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Post by: Pingu on 05 December, 2021, 08:26:35 pm
Quote from: Kim on 05 December, 2021, 07:16:36 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 05 December, 2021, 06:33:32 pm
I've completely lost the will to carry on.

I think that's called "shoe shopping"
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Post by: ian on 05 December, 2021, 08:54:33 pm
Indeed, my favourite Meindl boots seem to exist in about eight types that appear mostly identical other than price. I think the only difference in the replacement pair was that they are shiny rather than nubuck which was fine since I wanted and expected shiny leather when I bought the first pair several years ago.
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Post by: Snakehips on 05 December, 2021, 09:05:52 pm
Listening to the Jethro Tull Christmas Album on Spotify. Anybody with me?
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Post by: Snakehips on 05 December, 2021, 09:09:37 pm
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 16 October, 2021, 05:43:30 pm
Googling 'birds with hands' then hitting the image button.
I recommend it. You will not be disappointed
'This is why I pay for the internet.' Love it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 December, 2021, 11:06:34 pm
Quote from: Snakehips on 05 December, 2021, 09:05:52 pm
Listening to the Jethro Tull Christmas Album on Spotify. Anybody with me?

Oh bollox, don't get Pingu started.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 06 December, 2021, 12:56:17 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 05 December, 2021, 11:06:34 pm
Quote from: Snakehips on 05 December, 2021, 09:05:52 pm
Listening to the Jethro Tull Christmas Album on Spotify. Anybody with me?

Oh bollox, don't get Pingu started.

That's a Shitmas Day treat  :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 06 December, 2021, 02:20:33 pm
SFA, that's what I'm doing.  Ought to be out in the workshop but it's too cold.  Don't got no oughts, anyway, I'm retired.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Feanor on 07 December, 2021, 05:28:16 pm
Ripping an actual physical CD.
Supplied with a language course, to be used on a PC with no CR-ROM drive.

So to my older PC which does have such a drive.
It's been so long since I did that, the physical drive in the PC was gummed shut and needed to be gently prised open.
And windows has been re-installed since last time too, so had to re-install EAC.
And then add the LAME MP3 encoder.
And then un-block the LAME exe which windows had kindly blocked for me.

Finally. A pile of MP3s to copy onto the target PC.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 December, 2021, 06:37:53 pm
Sitting with a cat on my lap that must not be disturbed listening to the toilet failing to stop flushing and needing a bit of a pee.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Peter on 13 December, 2021, 06:46:43 pm
When you finally get up to the bathroom to change your clothes (and bathe the scratches) check if the rising ball arm gets stuck on the side of the siphon on the way back up - ours does (and we haven't even got a cat).  Good luck!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 25 December, 2021, 08:48:31 am
I appear to have turned into the kind of mother who gets up at 6 to prepare vegetables on Christmas day.
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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Canardly on 25 December, 2021, 09:30:10 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 13 December, 2021, 06:37:53 pm
Sitting with a cat on my lap that must not be disturbed listening to the toilet failing to stop flushing and needing a bit of a pee.
Our push button bottom fed siphons tend to do this. If one of these just repush the button and it will break the siphon.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 December, 2021, 10:41:00 am
Mmm sprouts
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 December, 2021, 10:43:46 am
The sprouts got their revenge here, accompanied by Foul Norse Swearing.  Professor Larrington now has an ElastoplastTM on her finger.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 December, 2021, 11:32:31 am
Hah!  I put the cheesecake I made the other day on the top shelf of the fridge to consolidate.  Opened the door next morning expecting the wonderful aroma thereof to come wafting down, but instead found myself with my nose practically into a lightly-clad dish of left-over sprouts.

Much as I enjoy sprouts, :sick:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 December, 2021, 06:26:42 pm
Having my first beer of the night and researching our next oven while I wait for the next item in the dinner plan to need attention.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 18 May, 2022, 01:47:58 pm
I am currently being force fed 'Radio Builder'.  More specifically, 'Radio Scaffolder'.
About 6 houses away, but very ,very loud.  Plus the constant noise of their ratchet tools. Which is probably why the radio is so loud.
Must be hell for the poor sods next-door.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 May, 2022, 03:33:40 pm
Putting off sub-desk grovelling.  New PC in Estate Office needs to come downstairs for addition of parts.  More than once, coz I want to get the disks working prior to faffing with Sound and Vision.  Oooh oooh electric blue.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 June, 2022, 12:39:31 pm
This morning I chauffeured my Good Pal Penelope to Currys so that she could buy a cooker. It's the first new cooker she has ever bought, despite being into her 75th year. She didn't really want to buy it but her son was a bit ham-fisted when he last visited from Finland and somehow broke some knobs on the old one she was given about 40 years ago. Pen has a large murmuration of relatives descending upon her next month from different parts of the globe and feels that it is important that she has a working cooker.

After her Currys transaction I treated her to a coffee in a rather good coffee shop named Anke's. We shared a slice of rhubarb cake.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 29 June, 2022, 12:43:20 pm
Silently fuming, and contemplating my next action
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 July, 2022, 12:20:29 pm
Waiting for UPS to deliver my parcel so I can go to Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.  A four-hour window is a bit of a Rubbish when:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 August, 2022, 04:20:34 pm
Looking for undershorts. Something without the elastic that sits right under the sore bit after a long ride.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Jayjay on 05 August, 2022, 09:13:13 pm
frustrating texting with EE assistant because the voicemail won't work any more on my mobile phone  >:(
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: TheLurker on 06 August, 2022, 09:08:39 am
Drinking coffee, trying to ignore the pain in my hips, trying to summon up the wherewithal to get properly washed & dressed .
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 August, 2022, 09:46:38 am
Sitting around at the start of LEL and occasionally waving a languid arm to direct riders to registration.

And meeting Feanor otp.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Gattopardo on 09 August, 2022, 01:42:39 am
Sitting in bed, watching TV and deciding if I should make a sandwich (ham and grated emmental with whole grain mustard).  Maybe have a beer.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 August, 2022, 04:18:12 pm
Sitting with the dog, watching the sun on the waves at Seaton Carew.
A small seaside town squeezed between those well known beauty spots, Middlesbrough and Hartlepool.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 26 August, 2022, 08:12:59 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 August, 2022, 04:18:12 pm
Sitting with the dog, watching the sun on the waves at Seaton Carew.
A small seaside town squeezed between those well known beauty spots, Middlesbrough and Hartlepool.   ;D
Can you smell my former workplace?


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 August, 2022, 08:34:55 pm
Quote from: fboab on 26 August, 2022, 08:12:59 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 August, 2022, 04:18:12 pm
Sitting with the dog, watching the sun on the waves at Seaton Carew.
A small seaside town squeezed between those well known beauty spots, Middlesbrough and Hartlepool.   ;D
Can you smell my former workplace?

Possibly.  Where was that.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: matthew on 26 August, 2022, 09:08:10 pm
Sat in field near kettering, looking at a cloudy sky with a telescope at Greenbelt.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 26 August, 2022, 11:22:14 pm
Travelling home from the last mothership party of the summer. Thinking I should have booked a hotel.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: andrewc on 26 August, 2022, 11:42:05 pm
Ah! Inner city living.  The sound of smashing glass & drunk chaps threatening each other....
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 27 August, 2022, 08:26:00 am
Sitting here reading this when I should be up a ladder driving screws.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: geoff on 28 August, 2022, 11:49:14 am
Contemplating applying the, *bling* new bar tape wot I was given for my birthday. Its apparently made from "PU" (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220828/33ecef8cca71f61ef352c106efb9e92a.jpg)

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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: perpetual dan on 30 August, 2022, 09:33:01 pm
On a sleeper train and expecting a passport check at Passau. Which was a surprise.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ElyDave on 30 August, 2022, 10:24:00 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 August, 2022, 08:34:55 pm
Quote from: fboab on 26 August, 2022, 08:12:59 pm
Quote from: Basil on 26 August, 2022, 04:18:12 pm
Sitting with the dog, watching the sun on the waves at Seaton Carew.
A small seaside town squeezed between those well known beauty spots, Middlesbrough and Hartlepool.   ;D
Can you smell my former workplace?

Possibly.  Where was that.
Doesn't  matter around there ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 31 August, 2022, 10:24:24 am
Savouring the aftertaste of a cappuccino and wishing I had another.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 05 September, 2022, 10:46:19 am
Watching ANZ578 on Flightradar.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Clare on 05 September, 2022, 11:31:44 am
aaaaand it's parked.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 September, 2022, 11:17:02 pm
Waiting for my dinner. Checks wife’s flight. Due 0017. Then she has to get through Gatwick and taxi home.

At least they’ve put a thunderstorm on for me. Need cheese.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 05 September, 2022, 11:43:44 pm
Now diverted. Oh she’ll be incandescent. More so given they seem to know where it’s been diverted to.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 06 September, 2022, 07:57:35 am
The cheese'll melt.

Meanwhile, I'm procrastinating.  Coffee then barn door or sit doing nowt for another half an hour?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 06 September, 2022, 08:14:03 am
She used some language most unbecoming for a lady from Sarfend when she arrived at London Gatwick Paris. Turned up at home in the middle of the night, mumbling something about her taxi not bothering to turn up at 3.30 am. While I'm not exactly surprised, I don't want to be that taxi company later today.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rafletcher on 06 September, 2022, 09:36:40 am
Watching a presenation by our company President. Amazingly (given we're a Japanese company) it would appear the Q&A (with other group company presidents of course) hasn't been scripted. Which is a shame as it might actually have been informative (FCVO informative).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 September, 2022, 11:08:07 am
Outpatients waiting area 1, round 2.  Getting rather sick of daytime telly noise.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 September, 2022, 11:25:07 am
Quote from: Kim on 06 September, 2022, 11:08:07 am
Outpatients waiting area 1, round 2.  Getting rather sick of daytime telly noise.

That is the worst thing about NHS waiting rooms.  The bloody telly.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 September, 2022, 12:51:40 pm
An hour and a half for a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to sellotape a paperclip to barakta's leg.  Badly.

As outpatients experiences go, that counts as 'not great, but not terrible'.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 06 September, 2022, 01:28:15 pm
Quote from: ian on 06 September, 2022, 08:14:03 am
She used some language most unbecoming for a lady from Sarfend when she arrived at London Gatwick Paris. Turned up at home in the middle of the night, mumbling something about her taxi not bothering to turn up at 3.30 am. While I'm not exactly surprised, I don't want to be that taxi company later today.

That was a storm I heard downstairs in the remote command centre. Really, I'm not sure that was the anatomically feasible advice on where to put their taxis.

It was shit though, her driver left her a message to say he was fed up waiting and going home, call the taxi office (which was closed). Considering airport runs come at a significant premium (£50 for a twenty-minute driver precisely because there's no guarantee) I'd agree with her parking advice. If you're providing an airport taxi service, thems the breaks.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 06 September, 2022, 01:38:20 pm
Quote from: Basil on 06 September, 2022, 11:25:07 am
Quote from: Kim on 06 September, 2022, 11:08:07 am
Outpatients waiting area 1, round 2.  Getting rather sick of daytime telly noise.

That is the worst thing about NHS waiting rooms.  The bloody telly.

Actually, I hate the seating.  Considering how long you spend there it would be nice to actually get a moderately comfy perch as oppose to a pile of broken bricks to sit on.

As for the TV:  I cannot see it and I'm likely to be listening to something through my Aeropex headphones which I have downloaded onto my fondleslab.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 06 September, 2022, 01:53:12 pm
The last time I sat in the GP waiting room the TV was showing adverts for Funeral Directors.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 September, 2022, 01:54:51 pm
In hospital seating news, at least they've finally managed to clean the last of the schmoo off the headrests[1] of every other seat[2] in the radiology waiting area.  You had to sit perched forward to stop your hair sticking to it.

And no, it wasn't soluble in hand sanitiser gel, or whatever it is the equipment cleaning wipes are soaked in.  A bored HCA and I tried last September.


[1] The supremely uncomfortable high-backed ones that are optimised for people with mobility impairments to get in and out of, rather than the rock hard ones you get in general outpatients areas.
[2] Legacy of COVID distancing signage.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 September, 2022, 02:04:49 pm
Quote from: Polar Bear on 06 September, 2022, 01:38:20 pm
As for the TV:  I cannot see it and I'm likely to be listening to something through my Aeropex headphones which I have downloaded onto my fondleslab.

First rule of hospital TVs is that if you can see the screen, the subtitles will be turned off.

The second rule is that the sound level will be carefully adjusted to be a few dB above background waiting room noise, so that it effectively drowns out any nurses whispering a mispronunciation of your name, while failing to achieve sufficient SNR to enable you to fully follow the programme.

The third rule is that you're not missing much.  It's either interviews with emergency services about historical incidents, anti-welfare-benefits propaganda, or something about decorating houses on a budget using MDF and/or tqt antique junk.  Interspersed with either trailers for more of the above, or - if it's a commercial channel - adverts for Vorderloans and funeral plans.


For a while Radiology had theirs showing a (mostly) silent animation explaining the history and principles of various imaging techniques, playing on a loop.  I thought that was rather good.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 06 September, 2022, 03:09:02 pm
To be honest I am very lucky that all of my hospital visits in the last decade have been to accompany or to visit save for a recent blood test which was essentially a queueing process so no issue on listening out for my name.   

It's a very long time since I have been sitting alone waiting for a call so I am fortunate but my point about the chairs still stands.  They are bloody awful.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 September, 2022, 05:26:44 pm
The ROH also has a system of moving you to a secondary waiting area[1] near the conslutation rooms, which has approximately 1 chair per room.  (Which isn't enough anyway, as many patients are accompanied.)  If we discount the wheelchair users, who come with their own seating, I'd say about 50% of patients have an impairment that means they Really Need To Sit Down, trending to about 90% for the hip and knee clinics.  Plus there's the occasional wobbly relative, especially amongst the hip replacement demographic.

Seating is routinely re-allocated on the fly using a cross between musical chairs and a joint[2] version of scissors-paper-stone[3].  Which - with my compsci hat on - I note, is as good a cache invalidation algorithm as any.  But that doesn't make the standing around any more fun.


[1] Which may just be a corridor.
[2] In the bones sense.  That orthopods thought having something called a "joint list" (in the combined sense) was a good idea is a matter for the grammar thread.
[3] Hip-knee-ankle?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 September, 2022, 06:53:44 pm
Quote from: Kim on 06 September, 2022, 12:51:40 pm
An hour and a half for a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to sellotape a paperclip to barakta's leg.  Badly.

Intrigued...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 September, 2022, 08:01:35 pm
Paperclips show up on x-rays[1].  So you can work out which bit of skin the interesting bones are under, with a view to scribbling "aim ultrasonic placebo here →" on it.


[1] As do retroreflective markings on running trousers, as we discovered previously.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 September, 2022, 08:04:55 pm
Ah.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 06 September, 2022, 08:15:26 pm
Probability of the ultrasonic placebo rep making contact before the marker pen wears off left as an exercise for the reader.  I've already beefed it up with a non-NHS-issue sharpie in anticipation...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 26 September, 2022, 10:51:05 am
Wondering why the church bells are ringing full on batshit ferocious.
Have the Normans landed?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 26 September, 2022, 02:26:26 pm
Maybe they're trying to chase the bats out of the belfry.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: The_Mikey on 26 September, 2022, 03:33:48 pm
Currently packing an e-bay sale into a box whilst listening to CGTN radio on a SDR.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 September, 2022, 04:33:36 pm
Thumb-twiddling while a 2TB SSD reformats.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 26 September, 2022, 11:27:27 pm
Watching NASA attempt some Bruce Willis shit.  In I-can't-believe-it's-not-NTSC potatovision (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RA8Tfa6Sck).
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 September, 2022, 11:30:13 pm
Thumb-twiddling while a 2TB SSD repopulates.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 17 December, 2022, 07:50:42 pm
Hiding in the pub with all the other Strictly widowers.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 17 December, 2022, 08:15:38 pm
Lying on my bed waiting for mate to come round.Going out to party.  Been planned for 2 months. But really I want to go to bed.

Fucking flu.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Slave To The Viking on 18 December, 2022, 12:35:34 am
Watching a Top of the Pops from 1993, drinking a G&T, dipping crisps in houmous.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: rogerzilla on 23 December, 2022, 08:52:14 am
Went to Sainsbury's before work.  Busy and getting busier.  Got the essentials but they are out of lots of stuff like Twiglets, TUC biscuits, all chocolate biscuits except the skanky ones, etc.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 23 December, 2022, 10:10:12 am
Halfway through cleaning eBrute, stopped for coffee/croissant. Currently screwing up courage to go out to the workshop again.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 23 December, 2022, 10:14:03 am
Realising that I am the only one in this office today, and hence I can dry my very wet commute clothing wherever I like.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: robgul on 23 December, 2022, 10:46:35 am
Writing to HMRC to chase up the transfer of my wife's SA allowance to me.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 23 December, 2022, 11:20:25 am
Finished cleaning bike. Thinking about having a bowl of ramen with the remains of yesterday's salt & pepper chicken.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 23 December, 2022, 04:22:50 pm
Getting ready to open the box that contains the air-fryer (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08YJJT1R8?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1)* I just bought and peruse the instruction manual.

*£79.99. As endorsed by the BBC Good Food reviews writer Anja Gilbert, @15:10  in this clip.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0018hjr (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0018hjr)


Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2022, 05:28:52 pm
That'll be your xmas dinner then?
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: De Sisti on 23 December, 2022, 05:31:15 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2022, 05:28:52 pm
That'll be your xmas dinner then?
Yes, indeed.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Beardy on 17 January, 2023, 11:04:49 am
I’m following the little van icon on the ‘track my delivery’ web page. I don’t even have to hit the refresh button as the page is auto updating.

I’m like a little kid on Christmas Eve  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 30 January, 2023, 10:37:26 am
Quote from: Beardy on 17 January, 2023, 11:04:49 am
I’m following the little van icon on the ‘track my delivery’ web page. I don’t even have to hit the refresh button as the page is auto updating.

I’m like a little kid on Christmas Eve  ;D

That's what I'm doing now.  Between 11:11 and 12:11 sez Chronopost, with idiotic precision.  No little vans to follow, though.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 30 January, 2023, 10:44:54 am
Progressing.
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Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Bluebottle on 01 February, 2023, 09:42:56 am
Currently trying to figure out what the school day of spawn-the-elder is meant to be given that her school is partly on strike and school comms permanently broken.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 01 February, 2023, 11:37:01 am
Waiting for hunger to outweigh reluctance to cook.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 03 February, 2023, 10:39:52 pm
Sitting up in bed. Spodding my phone and eating a a fee-yuge bar of orange flavoured aero.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2023, 10:52:38 pm
Thinking about tomorrow.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 February, 2023, 11:15:42 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2023, 10:52:38 pm
Thinking about tomorrow.

Don’t stop.  It'll soon be here.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: cycleman on 04 February, 2023, 07:56:45 am
Tomorrow never comes  ::-) :)
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Polar Bear on 04 February, 2023, 08:22:51 am
Quote from: Beardy on 17 January, 2023, 11:04:49 am
I’m following the little van icon on the ‘track my delivery’ web page. I don’t even have to hit the refresh button as the page is auto updating.

I’m like a little kid on Christmas Eve  ;D

I recall doing this some time ago in expectant anticipation of a Parcel Farce delivery.  The little van seemed to have broken down just around the corner from my home as it was apparently there for over two hours.  I went for a walk and discovered that the van was definitely not there even though it claimed to be on "live tracker".

My package was not delivered that day or the next.

I concluded that the term "live tracker" has a superfluous and clearly silent "v" embedded within it.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Kim on 04 February, 2023, 01:00:25 pm
A moment's consideration of the data protection implications is all you need to realise those live trackers have the same function as 'WAIT' lights on pedestrian crossings and progress bars on Microsoft products.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 04 February, 2023, 05:00:00 pm
Stiffening up instead of getting up & walking round. Done 101k, don't wanna move.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: L CC on 05 February, 2023, 12:39:55 pm
Watching East Midlands Classic Powerlifting Championships (Women's)

Why yes, that is No1Daughter deadlifting 110kg for her first round.

Like a BOSS.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 05 February, 2023, 07:46:58 pm
Resisting the urge to respond to a thread on NextDoor in which people are discussing a recent fire ball meteor spotted here last week.
Listen peeps, it WASN'T the comet.  No, really, it wasn't.
One bloke has tried, but has been totally ignored.
"No it was a comet, it's been in the papers and everything"
 :facepalm:
"It didn't seem very green, which was disappointing"
 :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 February, 2023, 10:38:34 am
Trying not to get dragged into arguing with flat earthers on youtube.

I don't seek them out, they just insist on commenting on interesting science videos.

Idiocy from the last one, summarized "Tides are created by all the ships moving about, they make the seas slosh around."

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 11 February, 2023, 07:04:12 pm
Watching Mrs P's flight on FR24 with a prog rock soundtrack.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Pingu on 15 February, 2023, 09:36:09 pm
And again...
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 February, 2023, 01:54:49 pm
Eeeuuurgh!  Don' wanna go out there into the Big Room!  's all cold an' horrid an' I won't enjoy it!
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 April, 2023, 07:17:03 pm
Watching Gary Does Solar vids on Youtube
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 April, 2023, 06:23:06 pm
Obsessing over hexagonal tiles with geometric patterns on them laid out in a funky way.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 13 April, 2023, 06:54:27 pm
Having spent a while today asset stripping the Easter turkey, I'm awaiting the turkey and ham pie to cook. 
Family forming an orderly queue.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: JefO on 13 April, 2023, 10:01:37 pm
Procrastinating
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 April, 2023, 01:07:54 am
Wondering where the blazes Louis the cat has disappeared to ???
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Post by: robgul on 14 April, 2023, 07:41:10 am
Quote from: JefO on 13 April, 2023, 10:01:37 pm
Procrastinating

Don't worry - you can always put that off util tomorrow . . . .
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Post by: T42 on 14 April, 2023, 08:01:29 am
Digesting my breakfast of tagliatelle before heading off on a ride.
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Post by: JefO on 14 April, 2023, 06:26:27 pm
Quote from: robgul on 14 April, 2023, 07:41:10 am
Quote from: JefO on 13 April, 2023, 10:01:37 pm
Procrastinating

Don't worry - you can always put that off util tomorrow . . . .

I've started so I don't know if I will finish
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Post by: JellyLegs on 14 April, 2023, 07:02:14 pm
Planning a garage clear out and storage reorganisation now I have sold the old roof box on fleabay and can see the floor again.
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Post by: SteveC on 14 April, 2023, 08:06:30 pm
Writing the questions for our next village quiz.
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Post by: sam on 02 May, 2023, 10:02:27 pm
The usual. Trying to think of a better way of saying something.
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Post by: T42 on 12 May, 2023, 11:17:44 am
Just had a cup of coffee with the sweep.  The same chap has been doing our chimneys twice a year since 1989 - 34 years out of the 43 he's been a sweep.  Horrible job: our house has two chimneys with ports for the brushes up in the loft and traps for evacuating the débris down in the cellar, with 3 flights of stairs between.  He should be retiring this year, but he's not sure if he will.  I'll be sorry to see him go if he does, for he's a pleasant chap: the dogs always loved him and even the parrot deigned to say hello. 
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Post by: rogerzilla on 08 July, 2023, 05:16:45 am
In the Spoons at Gatwick.  It's 5.15am and most people are on lager.
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Post by: Clare on 08 July, 2023, 06:42:02 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 08 July, 2023, 05:16:45 am
In the Spoons at Gatwick.  It's 5.15am and most people are on lager.

Whereas you've gone straight for the vodka + Redbull?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 08 July, 2023, 01:06:11 pm
Quote from: Clare on 08 July, 2023, 06:42:02 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 08 July, 2023, 05:16:45 am
In the Spoons at Gatwick.  It's 5.15am and most people are on lager.

Whereas you've gone straight for the vodka + Redbull?
Just orange juice and coffee.  The middle-aged coven on the next table was having wine and chips.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 08 July, 2023, 01:17:52 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 08 July, 2023, 01:06:11 pm
Quote from: Clare on 08 July, 2023, 06:42:02 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 08 July, 2023, 05:16:45 am
In the Spoons at Gatwick.  It's 5.15am and most people are on lager.

Whereas you've gone straight for the vodka + Redbull?
Just orange juice and coffee.  The middle-aged coven on the next table was having wine and chips.
One of the blokes at work used to manaager one of the airside Spoons at Gatwick, before The Covids. Unbelievable turnover figures. He went through some hoops to  get Local Beer, made by Local People sold there.
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Post by: Kim on 27 July, 2023, 12:32:30 pm
Optiquack homework, which is to say screenshotting an assortment of windows with different fonts and colours and making a collage at the right DPI for my ageing fondleslab to do a passable impression of my computer screen during the appointment.  I will also be bringing a folding ruler, as supplied by road-runner OTP.

+0.75 for intermediate vision my arse.  I've no idea what it needs to be, but it's definitely negative...
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Post by: T42 on 27 July, 2023, 01:58:17 pm
Thinking of going for a ride since I haven't been out for a week.  OTOH the road's still wet and I don't want to get the bike dirty.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 July, 2023, 02:10:16 pm
Trying to decide which saw blade to use. Whichever one I choose will, natch, be the wrong one.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2023, 02:38:39 pm
Drinking a coffee and spodding on here prior to going to see My Good Friend Penelope. I'm hoping to get out before the rain starts again. I feel disinclined to set off on a bike when it's raining.
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Post by: T42 on 27 July, 2023, 02:52:50 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2023, 02:38:39 pm
Drinking a coffee and spodding on here prior to going to see My Good Friend Penelope. I'm hoping to get out before the rain starts again. I feel disinclined to set off on a bike when it's raining.

Yeah, same here.  I've ridden through 24 hours of heavy rain in the past but setting off when it's raining is something I've only done on an Audax.

Everything's dry here now but if I go for a ride I'll probably get angina because I've drunk too much coffee. :(

One of my favourite cycling pictures:

(https://pbase.com/image/152969741.jpg)
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Post by: Pingu on 27 July, 2023, 11:10:10 pm
Quote from: T42 on 27 July, 2023, 02:52:50 pm
One of my favourite cycling pictures:

(https://pbase.com/image/152969741.jpg)

 We've all been there :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 27 July, 2023, 11:34:32 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 27 July, 2023, 11:10:10 pm
We've all been there :thumbsup:

I think it was the week before last where I dived for the pavement and the relative shelter of a tree, from which to watch it hammer it down.  As I cleared the rain off my glasses, I became aware of the BMX bandit doing exactly the same thing under the next tree up the road.  We exchanged remarks about the weather using a kind of universal mime / semaphore.
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Post by: Pingu on 29 July, 2023, 11:37:44 pm
Mrs P and I (and a couple of others on the holiday) spent a couple of hours waiting for a deluge to stop under the roof of a former petrol station on Corsica a number of years ago. Upon resumption of cycling we met some of the faster holibobs people coming in the opposite direction saying the road was shut and we were getting alternative accommodation that night. Luckily that included the support vehicle and all our clean clothes and stuff. The really fast and hardy people had managed to get to the intended hotel before the road was shut and spent the evening meal in their manky cycling clothes  :)
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Post by: Paul on 30 July, 2023, 04:21:10 pm
Typing about the fact that I've just finished* tightening the screws on the handles of some pans. One of them has been loose for a few weeks (or, given the way my memory works now; months/years).

But one loose handle isn't really enough to justify the trip to the garage for the screwdriver that will reach the screw. So when I recently (fcvo recently - see memory, above) noticed that another one was a little loose, and then noticed today that a third was ready to be nipped up, I went for it.

Very satisfying. They have all passed the jiggle test.

Aren't (some) pans brilliant? They don't ask for much and - aside from washing them and tightening the screws every 5 years or so - they just carry on holding food while it gets hot.

(*I've often thought that this thread should be called the What have you just been doing? thread on account of me being a bore like that)
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Post by: Feanor on 12 August, 2023, 08:56:35 pm
Making a start to ripping many CDs to FLAC into a media library (a shared network drive) so I can stream them via the various Sonos things without using any cloudy spotty crap.
After a bit of initial faff setting up EAC to use the FLAC encoder, it all Just Works.
The Sonos devices see the media library, display the cover art, and play the .flac files without complaint.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53112054095_b175f2557c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oVkahB)
EAC ripping to FLAC (https://flic.kr/p/2oVkahB) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
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Post by: Pingu on 12 August, 2023, 09:33:41 pm
I remember doing that. Load CD. Get tracks and cover image. Various chugging noises from CD player. Eject CD. Rinse and repeat for days on end.
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Post by: ian on 12 August, 2023, 09:49:32 pm
Nostalgic, I did this when I got my first ever iPod. It was never any measure of fun, but I felt like I was striding between the eras again. Behold, the age of digital.

I gave up buying CDs some years back, now Apple hold my soul in escrow in exchange for lossless, spatial audio* in Dolby Z or somesuch which streams nicely to my Sonos (actually from my phone, via Apple Play, I don't get on with the voice thing after The Christian Rock Experience). Not as awesome as pressing the 'metal' button on a cassette deck, but it'll do.

*while it has some capacity as a gimmick, I confess it's pretty awesome if you dance around the living room in AirPods. Clothes are optional but check for errant dinner guests before embarking on this course of sonic self-entertainment.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 12 August, 2023, 09:57:54 pm
One day, I will rip my CDs so that I can stream them. I think I first tried in about 2005, then gave up, technology moved on, and I don't have the files any more. I still have the CDs, which haven't been played in many years.

Which reminds me, I don't think we even have a CD player any more. :facepalm:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 12 August, 2023, 10:12:11 pm
We still have a cassette player in the Ford Ka (even at age eighteen, there was no excuse for Ford not fitting a CD-player) that delights any millennials or gen-zeds we get in the back seat. Of course, once we have explained we then have to kill them. Quite honestly, have these people not seen a horror movie either?
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Post by: Feanor on 12 August, 2023, 10:57:14 pm
Quote from: ian on 12 August, 2023, 09:49:32 pm
Clothes are optional but check for errant dinner guests before embarking on this course of sonic self-entertainment.

Back in the first weeks of lockdown, the National Theatre offered up some of it's content for free.
I watched Ian McKellen on Stage - a wonderful production.
He seamlessly shifted from open discussion with the audience into character, be it Gandalf, or one the cats from TS Elliot.

The following morning, at early o'clock just out of bed I found myself parading around the main room here, which is mostly glass, and could unkindly be called a used car showroom. I was wearing nothing but a pair of red underpants, holding a copy of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats aloft, eventually standing theatrically on the sofa reading 'Gus the theatre cat' in the manner of the man himself, when I noticed the Gardner and his sidekick looking in...
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Post by: T42 on 13 August, 2023, 10:26:15 am
Quote from: ian on 12 August, 2023, 10:12:11 pm
We still have a cassette player in the Ford Ka (even at age eighteen, there was no excuse for Ford not fitting a CD-player) that delights any millennials or gen-zeds we get in the back seat. Of course, once we have explained we then have to kill them. Quite honestly, have these people not seen a horror movie either?

We probably still have a cassette of Queen's 'A Night at the Opera' in the glove box even though our car's "Infotainement Centre" only has a CD deck and a USB input. Glove-box denizens tend to get moved en bloc from one car to the next. Sometimes I'm surprised there isn't a crank in the boot.

Anyway, what I am doing right now is stinking.  Not long back from a hot & humid 5k plod and ICBA changing.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 13 August, 2023, 11:56:40 pm
Drinking a glass of red, having just send photos of our skinny dip to my pal Sherry. We do like to record these things for posteriority.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 August, 2023, 12:13:24 pm
Gasping like a stranded fish, sweating buckets and cooling off on the sofa with the fan set to 11.  But two of the three door hinges are attached at both ends :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 15 August, 2023, 09:29:25 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 15 August, 2023, 12:13:24 pm
Gasping like a stranded fish, sweating buckets and cooling off on the sofa with the fan set to 11.  But two of the three door hinges are attached at both ends :thumbsup:


It's now you notice that it's upside down....
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 August, 2023, 12:04:48 am
At least five simple ways to tell it was the right way up and facing in the right direction :P
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Post by: Canardly on 16 August, 2023, 08:13:32 am
That's why making traditional canoes can be interesting.
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Post by: T42 on 16 August, 2023, 04:09:49 pm
Just finished parcelling up prezzies for MrsT's birthday tomorrow and cursing the 'quality' of Easy-Tear™ prezzie paper.

Remembering the last time I was in a traditional hardware shop - Patterson's of Ann St. in Belfast - to buy a new lock for my mum's front door.  The shop assistant fetched it from the back and parcelled it up in brown paper torn off a roll, cut it with precision and made a neat rectangular package in about a minute, then tied it with string and added a loop to carry it by.  No Sellotape, just dexterity and string. 1983 that would have been.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 August, 2023, 09:04:01 pm
Not taping thirty year old (and hence not sticky) sticky labels onto Post-It™ notes and then sticking said notes into Ye Guide Bok, because it’s too hot and sticky in the kitchen to do more than one sheet before going to lie down in front of the fan.
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Post by: Morat on 23 August, 2023, 06:04:45 pm
Just finished another WFH day, one year exactly into my new(ish) job.
Tempus Fugit and all that
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Post by: Feanor on 23 August, 2023, 11:22:45 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 12 August, 2023, 08:56:35 pm
Making a start to ripping many CDs to FLAC into a media library (a shared network drive) so I can stream them via the various Sonos things without using any cloudy spotty crap.
After a bit of initial faff setting up EAC to use the FLAC encoder, it all Just Works.
The Sonos devices see the media library, display the cover art, and play the .flac files without complaint.

One of the disks I was ripping had this as the cover art...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/LifeInSlowMotion.jpg)

Seemed familiar from my recent trip to South America...

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52679079316_4bd91508dd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2og53Yd)
20221128_144321 (https://flic.kr/p/2og53Yd) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 August, 2023, 11:50:05 pm
Yours is better.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 29 August, 2023, 10:33:20 am
On a train at Saunderton.  I can see the Smalldean Lane hill from here.  The horror.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 29 August, 2023, 10:34:56 am
Quote from: Feanor on 23 August, 2023, 11:22:45 pm
One of the disks I was ripping had this as the cover art...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/LifeInSlowMotion.jpg)
This is yacf, not Fesshole.
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Post by: T42 on 23 September, 2023, 10:35:50 am
Picking croissant crumbs off my T-shaped shirt.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 23 September, 2023, 11:57:20 am
About to eat some falafel in town.

Just been to Waitrose to restore my hatred of humanity.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 September, 2023, 11:59:08 am
Sitting in front of my computer, nice cup of tea to hand, and thinking about putting another layer on because it's cooler in here than it was - a mere 19°C.
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Post by: rafletcher on 23 September, 2023, 12:06:33 pm
Relaxing before lunch having “defrosted” the shed back-up freezer. More like de-iced as my technique these days is to whack off as much as possible of the accumulated ice using a wooden steak mallet.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 September, 2023, 02:00:43 pm
Wondering whether to have another cup of brown drink or go to Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles while:
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 25 September, 2023, 08:15:56 am
Waiting for the roofer man to come and fettle our auvent and unfettle our bank balance.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 25 September, 2023, 08:27:59 am
Recovering from its-not-covid, caught last week. Getting back on the bike today for an easy ride to the shops.
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Post by: T42 on 29 September, 2023, 07:40:04 am
Listening to the scrape and clatter of roofers fettling the auvent above my office window.  They got here before 8 am and their boss reckoned they'd wrap it up by lunchtime.

Sounds a bit like the noises the dentist's tools make when you're looking at the ceiling with your mouth open.
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Post by: sam on 29 September, 2023, 07:54:19 am
Contemplating cleaning the fridge shelves before replacing them and turning it back on.

Freezer has been flooding for months. I'd scrape the ice every few days and carry on.

Having figured the drainage pipe might be frozen or blocked with debris – the bone dry drip pan was a clue – yesterday we finally got around to emptying it and turning it off. After 7 or 8 hours we were rewarded with the wonderful sound of water splashing into the pan. Not sure why it froze up in the first place. Rather than face the despair of Amazon reviews and ratings, we've invested in a proper thermometer.

(https://i.imgur.com/sTibqkS.jpg)
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Post by: T42 on 29 September, 2023, 11:15:07 am
Roofers gone, now contemplating the bust of Homer lunch. We spent most of the morning elsewhere, with croissants & coffee.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 29 September, 2023, 12:35:20 pm
Enjoying the satisfaction of a morning well spent: met three other chaps at the Co-op Bank and have, hopefully, successfully transferred signatories of the local Green Party's account that hasn't been accessed for several years, despite it containing over £1600. Went with them for a coffee and a tea cake at a high street hostelry, and then had a blood test.
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Post by: Pingu on 29 September, 2023, 02:21:05 pm
I didn't know teacake was that dangerous.
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Post by: robgul on 29 September, 2023, 03:14:34 pm
Took my painfull knee to the doctor - after a bit of feeling and flexing of said knee his diagnosis:  "It's just worn out, what do you expect at 76 - I'll give you a steroid injection which will make it less annoying"

On a positive note, cycling isn't too much of a problem - bit walking more than about half a mile and it becomes painfull and a bit swollen.
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Post by: graculus on 05 October, 2023, 07:23:32 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 29 September, 2023, 12:35:20 pm
Enjoying the satisfaction of a morning well spent: met three other chaps at the Co-op Bank and have, hopefully, successfully transferred signatories of the local Green Party's account that hasn't been accessed for several years, despite it containing over £1600. Went with them for a coffee and a tea cake at a high street hostelry, and then had a blood test.
That's interesting. When were were looking to set up a new account for our local party I didn't try the Co-op as I couldn't see how we would have fitted in their allowable organisations:
https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/business/products/current-accounts/community-directplus/ (https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/business/products/current-accounts/community-directplus/)
ie registered charities, community interest companies, community benefit societies, co-operatives and credit unions.
Or were the regulations different when your account was set up?
Currently waiting for a decision on our application to Metrobank (Timing: We haz it), I need to be lining up possible alternatives if they turn us down.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 October, 2023, 11:02:38 am
Avoid the Coop. They are now an american bank and I've hit all sorts of problems making payments with coop cards, transferring money etc.

Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: ian on 06 October, 2023, 09:56:32 pm
Working. But I'm on holiday next week, which explains it. Out-of-office is now on.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Basil on 06 December, 2023, 07:22:59 pm
Recovering from clearing a delivery of 400 kg of logs from my drive, and stacking them neatly in the garage.
My dry stone walling (dry wood walling) skills are improving.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: T42 on 07 December, 2023, 10:22:26 am
Quote from: Basil on 06 December, 2023, 07:22:59 pm
Recovering from clearing a delivery of 400 kg of logs from my drive, and stacking them neatly in the garage.
My dry stone walling (dry wood walling) skills are improving.

Valiant effort, sir!  The bloke who delivers ours also stacks them in the barn, but 2 or 3 times a week we have to wheelbarrow a load over to the house and dump it in the cellar, then heave up 3 x 10 kg baskets each every day to feed our two voracious fires.  Well, that's as was: lately I've taken to hauling 6 x 5kg loads as crabbed age advances.

Right now I'm trying to think up a bunch of cheap cooking kit to put onto my Amazon wish list to still the anguished cries of "there's nothing on your wish list" from my family.
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Post by: Morat on 07 December, 2023, 10:33:44 am
Sitting on Webex, waiting for people to show up to a meeting. I reckon they probaby won't....
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 12:41:36 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 29 September, 2023, 12:35:20 pm
Enjoying the satisfaction of a morning well spent: met three other chaps at the Co-op Bank and have, hopefully, successfully transferred signatories of the local Green Party's account that hasn't been accessed for several years, despite it containing over £1600. Went with them for a coffee and a tea cake at a high street hostelry, and then had a blood test.

I spoke too soon. Here we are, almost 3 months later, and nothing has happened. It's complaints time.

I actually came here to say that I am about to go out for a funeral. Our Mus Dir who was killed by an off-duty copper on a zebra crossing on October 25th. I'll be bloody glad when it's over. To make matters worse, we are singing Rutter.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 04:17:12 pm
Why are high church funerals so utterly awful? They make a grim situation even worse. This was high C of E. Colin was their church organist. And really, what is communion all about? I find all religions odd, but that's utterly weird.
Title: Re: What are you doing right now?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 January, 2024, 12:38:05 pm
Successfully putting Professor Larrington off doing her tax return.  She's currently searching for skating Harriets for the King Bill Quiz.